I think that Googles entire goal with this is to break manufacturers monopoly on handsets and get android under more central control as no one will be running samsung-android or htc-android on these things
Eh, I wouldn't underestimate manufacturers' ability to attempt to control them. As long as the bus allows it, all Samsung has to do is sell Samsung-branded modules that only work (or only fully work) with other Samsung-branded modules.
Think about the heyday of the PC market - sure, you had vendors selling complete systems, but you could also buy individual components to upgrade, and even build complete systems from scratch yourself. If this tech allows the mobile phone market to follow the pattern of the explosion of the "IBM-compatible" PC market, it could lead to real customer choice and innovation, as long as the general public avoids too much vendor lock-in.
Further, the Android app market already has to deal with the large variation in devices, software versions, screen sizes, etc.; so I don't think this would change it that much. PC software has pretty much always had to list minimum hardware requirements, so I don't see this as being much different, with apps requiring minimums for Android version, memory, processor power, etc.
Right - if we find out that these are happening much MORE often than previously thought, and yet damage is rare, then it seems like they're LESS of a risk than previously thought. Sort of like finding out that when you swim at the beach, sharks are close by more often than you realized - meaning the risk of them attacking you is lower. If anything this indicates that the Earth's natural asteroid defenses are more robust than previously realized.
Besides, I remember reading that kiloton-scale atmospheric asteroid detonations happened once every month or two, but this indicates it's less often than that, so they're actually LESS common than I thought. I could have misremembered that stat, though.
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<clippy> It looks like you're trying to operate a drone! How can I help? -Shoot civilians -Spy on Americans -Crash into triathlete -Do a barrel roll -Search for help online </clippy>
Answering anonymous troll, I know, but the reason the US uses Imperial units is simply cultural momentum. We're used to these units and have learned them intuitively. Metric is taught in schools, used in science, and everyone with an education knows it and the approximate conversion factors (2.54, 3.3, 1.6, 2.2, 9/5+32, etc.), and maybe someday there'll be a switch - but the mathematical convenience is just not worth the cultural effort required right now.
He's talking about practical ability, not innate. Human beings have the ability to juggle. Not everyone can juggle - it is a learned skill. As the internet has helpfully demonstrated, not all human beings have learned the skill of reasoning.
I'd like to see those data combined with information about other social changes, specifically percentage of households where both spouses work, plus the prevalence of housekeepers. My subjective perception is that it's more common now for households to have two incomes, and more common in the past to have had a housekeeper to help with household chores. I'd like to know if there's any truth to that, since it would imply a huge reduction in the amount of leisure time in a typical household, even if individuals worked fewer hours per year than they used to.
Back on topic - many major sports have "easier" variants: baseball has softball, kickball, t-ball; (American) football has touch and flag versions; etc. We already have Frisbee golf - why not other variants to attract more casual players? If golf courses are seeing fewer people play, then it makes a certain amount of business sense.
Also, isn't this what a lot of casual players essentially do by taking a "mulligan"? A larger hole would basically be standardizing the "mulligan distance."
I used to have a standing desk at work until I took an arrow to the knee.
Seriously, I understand the benefits, but I just can't sit still for long periods of time anyway (RLS), so it's not like I'm stationary. You can take my office chair when you can pry it from my cold, dead... well you get the idea.
No, I was replying specifically to the compromised/vulnerable confusion regarding affected versions of OpenSSL, not to the clearly hyperbolic and incorrect statement that indicated that all SSL-based communications were vulnerable.
It's "Pedantic Man", not "Basic Fact-checker Man". Different line of work.
" just about every SSL-encrypted internet communication over the last two years has been compromised."
No, it really hasn't.
It's accurate to say that just about every Open-SSL encrypted session for servers that were using NEW versions of OpenSSL (not all those ones out there still stuck on 0.9.8(whatever) that never had the bug) were potentially vulnerable to attack.
That's bad, but it's a universe away from "every SSL session is compromized!!!" because that's not really true.
They were vulnerable to attack, that is to say, the security was compromised. He didn't say they were hacked, stolen, eavesdropped, or surreptitiously recorded.
compromise: to expose or make vulnerable to danger, suspicion, scandal, etc.; jeopardize: a military oversight that compromised the nation's defenses.
I've noticed that a lot of TV sci-fi confuses "compromise" with "breach"; as in hull, shields, defenses, etc.
Thank you for the correction. I made a few grammatical errors and chose a wrong word. Those errors don't may my post, opinion, or the provided facts invalid.
(this is US-centric obviously) So the IRS and income tax have restored economic power to... cotton growers in the south? I'm not sure I follow your point. Maybe you're trying to claim the modern slaveholders are big business, but I think the traditional slaveowners were more like small family businesses and estates. I don't think the real "big-business" tycoons came until after slavery was abolished.
A modern instrument may sound better right away she says, but an old Italian may be able to produce more colors of sound that only become apparent after months of use, she says.
The phrase "confirmation bias" springs immediately to mind. People hear what they want to hear, and the knowledge that they're playing on a three-century-old, million-dollar violin gives them certain expectations.
If that were the case, then you'd expect them to think the older, more valuable one sounded better right away, not the newer, less special one; so this seems to be a statement against confirmation bias.
Most people just want to be able to download an object from the internet and print it out.
Missing a part for that new 'some assembly required' doodad that you bought? Hit their website and print it out.
Cheap plastic part snapped under abusive strain? Print out a new one.
Exactly. I have a battery with a broken latching mechanism. A replacement battery is $50. I could print a replacement plastic part for pennies if I had a model for it.
Here's your killer app: an online database of battery covers for remote controls. No more duct tape holding your batteries in!
Then you'll have a backup plan for failure scenarios, and most certainly will not allow the OS access to the internet. Or you're crazy/suicidal and are fine with the consequences.
There are people in this discussion suggesting that someone who doesn't want to comply with such rules can go **** themselves and just give up on entering the US market. Well, guess what? They probably would. The burden imposed by this kind of requirement would almost certainly be prohibitive in cost. A vendor such as Microsoft would therefore do better to sacrifice the entire US market if it meant avoiding both an eternal unfunded mandate to support everything they ever sold and giving up their trade secrets to all their competitors.
It's more likely that they'd make Windows subscription-only, charging by the month or year, with a feature that causes your product to stop working if you don't renew your subscription. Which for an OS is crazy, but that's the incentive this requirement would create. Microsoft might even prefer this business model, but would never think they could get away with it, unless there was a rule that essentially mandated it. And perpetual free support would pretty much mandate perpetually charging for a product.
How this would relate to XP EOL is that they wouldn't renew any licenses for an OS past it's expiration date, and when the terms of your license agreement explicitly state you can't use the product, they can't be forced to support it any more.
No, he's saying that if you want to do assignment in the if clause, use
if ((variable=value))...
so the inner parentheses explicitly return the value of the assignment (showing the compiler that you meant to do that). As for
if (consant == variable)
he's just saying it looks bad and is harder for human readers to intuitively understand. See this random blog post that I just found for some commentary that echoes the GP's sentiment. I tend to agree - readability is more important in this case.
Can I Sream.It is a must-have smartphone app (or website). Anyone who makes one of these streaming boxes should just license a version that searches the catalogs of whatever services you've installed on the box. That alone would make all of these boxes tremendously more useful - it's really the missing key to this puzzle. That and more content, although a lot of progress has been made on this front - compare with Netflix's initial pitiful streaming selections.
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I think that Googles entire goal with this is to break manufacturers monopoly on handsets and get android under more central control as no one will be running samsung-android or htc-android on these things
Eh, I wouldn't underestimate manufacturers' ability to attempt to control them. As long as the bus allows it, all Samsung has to do is sell Samsung-branded modules that only work (or only fully work) with other Samsung-branded modules.
Think about the heyday of the PC market - sure, you had vendors selling complete systems, but you could also buy individual components to upgrade, and even build complete systems from scratch yourself. If this tech allows the mobile phone market to follow the pattern of the explosion of the "IBM-compatible" PC market, it could lead to real customer choice and innovation, as long as the general public avoids too much vendor lock-in.
Further, the Android app market already has to deal with the large variation in devices, software versions, screen sizes, etc.; so I don't think this would change it that much. PC software has pretty much always had to list minimum hardware requirements, so I don't see this as being much different, with apps requiring minimums for Android version, memory, processor power, etc.
Right - if we find out that these are happening much MORE often than previously thought, and yet damage is rare, then it seems like they're LESS of a risk than previously thought. Sort of like finding out that when you swim at the beach, sharks are close by more often than you realized - meaning the risk of them attacking you is lower. If anything this indicates that the Earth's natural asteroid defenses are more robust than previously realized.
Besides, I remember reading that kiloton-scale atmospheric asteroid detonations happened once every month or two, but this indicates it's less often than that, so they're actually LESS common than I thought. I could have misremembered that stat, though.
<clippy>
It looks like you're trying to operate a drone! How can I help?
-Shoot civilians
-Spy on Americans
-Crash into triathlete
-Do a barrel roll
-Search for help online
</clippy>
Answering anonymous troll, I know, but the reason the US uses Imperial units is simply cultural momentum. We're used to these units and have learned them intuitively. Metric is taught in schools, used in science, and everyone with an education knows it and the approximate conversion factors (2.54, 3.3, 1.6, 2.2, 9/5+32, etc.), and maybe someday there'll be a switch - but the mathematical convenience is just not worth the cultural effort required right now.
Also, commercial airliners won't deploy landing gear while traveling at 700 km/h. It would be under 400, most likely closer to 250 on final approach.
He's talking about practical ability, not innate. Human beings have the ability to juggle. Not everyone can juggle - it is a learned skill. As the internet has helpfully demonstrated, not all human beings have learned the skill of reasoning.
I'd like to see those data combined with information about other social changes, specifically percentage of households where both spouses work, plus the prevalence of housekeepers. My subjective perception is that it's more common now for households to have two incomes, and more common in the past to have had a housekeeper to help with household chores. I'd like to know if there's any truth to that, since it would imply a huge reduction in the amount of leisure time in a typical household, even if individuals worked fewer hours per year than they used to.
Back on topic - many major sports have "easier" variants: baseball has softball, kickball, t-ball; (American) football has touch and flag versions; etc. We already have Frisbee golf - why not other variants to attract more casual players? If golf courses are seeing fewer people play, then it makes a certain amount of business sense.
Also, isn't this what a lot of casual players essentially do by taking a "mulligan"? A larger hole would basically be standardizing the "mulligan distance."
Propellant for the potato guns.
I used to have a standing desk at work until I took an arrow to the knee.
Seriously, I understand the benefits, but I just can't sit still for long periods of time anyway (RLS), so it's not like I'm stationary. You can take my office chair when you can pry it from my cold, dead... well you get the idea.
In case someone were wondering, Iapetus' equatorial surface gravity is about 2.3% that of Earth's, or 1/43rd as strong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_(moon)
I see... So we can expect a Microsoft Chromebook with Microsoft-only enhancements that get users trapped into the MS ecosystem? Cunning.
But but but... I thought Chromebooks weren't "real" laptops and were useless because they didn't have Windows or Office!
You missed his point completely.
No, I was replying specifically to the compromised/vulnerable confusion regarding affected versions of OpenSSL, not to the clearly hyperbolic and incorrect statement that indicated that all SSL-based communications were vulnerable.
It's "Pedantic Man", not "Basic Fact-checker Man". Different line of work.
" just about every SSL-encrypted internet communication over the last two years has been compromised."
No, it really hasn't.
It's accurate to say that just about every Open-SSL encrypted session for servers that were using NEW versions of OpenSSL (not all those ones out there still stuck on 0.9.8(whatever) that never had the bug) were potentially vulnerable to attack.
That's bad, but it's a universe away from "every SSL session is compromized!!!" because that's not really true.
They were vulnerable to attack, that is to say, the security was compromised. He didn't say they were hacked, stolen, eavesdropped, or surreptitiously recorded.
compromise: to expose or make vulnerable to danger, suspicion, scandal, etc.; jeopardize: a military oversight that compromised the nation's defenses.
I've noticed that a lot of TV sci-fi confuses "compromise" with "breach"; as in hull, shields, defenses, etc.
It's rare that I can't tell if a Slashdot comment is earnestness or sarcasm. Well done, sir.
Thank you for the correction. I made a few grammatical errors and chose a wrong word. Those errors don't may my post, opinion, or the provided facts invalid.
I see what you did their.
(this is US-centric obviously)
So the IRS and income tax have restored economic power to... cotton growers in the south? I'm not sure I follow your point. Maybe you're trying to claim the modern slaveholders are big business, but I think the traditional slaveowners were more like small family businesses and estates. I don't think the real "big-business" tycoons came until after slavery was abolished.
Could you elaborate?
A modern instrument may sound better right away she says, but an old Italian may be able to produce more colors of sound that only become apparent after months of use, she says.
The phrase "confirmation bias" springs immediately to mind. People hear what they want to hear, and the knowledge that they're playing on a three-century-old, million-dollar violin gives them certain expectations.
If that were the case, then you'd expect them to think the older, more valuable one sounded better right away, not the newer, less special one; so this seems to be a statement against confirmation bias.
Most people just want to be able to download an object from the internet and print it out.
Missing a part for that new 'some assembly required' doodad that you bought? Hit their website and print it out.
Cheap plastic part snapped under abusive strain? Print out a new one.
Exactly. I have a battery with a broken latching mechanism. A replacement battery is $50. I could print a replacement plastic part for pennies if I had a model for it.
Here's your killer app: an online database of battery covers for remote controls. No more duct tape holding your batteries in!
You need the parametrics if you have an extrusion lasting more than four hours.
Then you'll have a backup plan for failure scenarios, and most certainly will not allow the OS access to the internet. Or you're crazy/suicidal and are fine with the consequences.
There are people in this discussion suggesting that someone who doesn't want to comply with such rules can go **** themselves and just give up on entering the US market. Well, guess what? They probably would. The burden imposed by this kind of requirement would almost certainly be prohibitive in cost. A vendor such as Microsoft would therefore do better to sacrifice the entire US market if it meant avoiding both an eternal unfunded mandate to support everything they ever sold and giving up their trade secrets to all their competitors.
It's more likely that they'd make Windows subscription-only, charging by the month or year, with a feature that causes your product to stop working if you don't renew your subscription. Which for an OS is crazy, but that's the incentive this requirement would create. Microsoft might even prefer this business model, but would never think they could get away with it, unless there was a rule that essentially mandated it. And perpetual free support would pretty much mandate perpetually charging for a product.
How this would relate to XP EOL is that they wouldn't renew any licenses for an OS past it's expiration date, and when the terms of your license agreement explicitly state you can't use the product, they can't be forced to support it any more.
No, he's saying that if you want to do assignment in the if clause, use
if ((variable=value)) ...
so the inner parentheses explicitly return the value of the assignment (showing the compiler that you meant to do that). As for
if (consant == variable)
he's just saying it looks bad and is harder for human readers to intuitively understand. See this random blog post that I just found for some commentary that echoes the GP's sentiment. I tend to agree - readability is more important in this case.
Can I Sream.It is a must-have smartphone app (or website). Anyone who makes one of these streaming boxes should just license a version that searches the catalogs of whatever services you've installed on the box. That alone would make all of these boxes tremendously more useful - it's really the missing key to this puzzle. That and more content, although a lot of progress has been made on this front - compare with Netflix's initial pitiful streaming selections.
I know Roku supports centralized search for some of their "channels" (apps).
I bet it's due to a single equals sign.
if (password_retry = account_password) {...