No sense of reality? Our local elementary school run Linux PCs with LibreOffice. These PCs are actually used for teaching and the transition from Windows went rather smoothly. It helps that there is a computer guy available to administrate the machines and offer basic training the the teachers.
Employees : We discovered that terrorists use PS4s to plan attacks and we have no mean of monitoring them. Boss : But, it is just like regular chat, and we have packet sniffers, and... Employees : No, no, no. They use strong encryption that only real PS4s can decode. We need PS4s in every office. Boss : Ok, but your proposal is too cheap, so every one of you will get a PS4.
... later...
Boss : What are you doing, are you playing (looks at the box besides the console) Call of Duty ? Employee : Yes, hum.. no, I am conducting surveillance. Just look at the chat, they are talking about bombs and guns, I think we are up do something. Boss : Great work, is there anything you need. Employee : Yes, if possible, I would like a PS4 for home, so I can, you know, get more efficient tracking terrorists. Boss : Of course, it is a pleasure to see such devotion to our homeland security. I'll make sure you'll get that promotion.
To unify things like Japanese emoji, Wingdings, Webdings,... that previously used proprietary codepages and saw enough use to be included into Unicode. For the Japanese, not including emoji would have been a deal breaker for using standard Unicode in text messages.
I don't think so. There are plenty of "evil" people at the lower levels too, and they tend to be more than happy to abuse the system. The difference is that the damage they can do is limited. And while they may have more will to climb the ladder than others, it is compensated by the fact that their ascension may come to an abrupt stop as their real intentions are discovered.
I don't think that the divorce rate is a good indicator for worsening relationships. I think it is more of a consequence of improvement in the standards of living and women empowerment. Before that, couples stayed together because they had to. To oversimplify, women needed men to make a living and men needed women to take care of the housework and kids. Now, both men an women can make a living by themselves, housework is less time consuming and there are more options for single parents to take care of kids. So when things go wrong, couples simply break up instead of continuing a bad relationship. Kid rebellion has always been, that's a normal part of getting to adulthood. But at least now, we avoid hitting them in response.
Things are changing, that's for sure but I think that on average interpersonal relationships have improved too.
We just need a story about how pedophiles can hack the network and use it to abuse little girls and soon enough people will be up in arms. It doesn't even have to be true.
I would like to see more tactile feedback. And I am not talking about the iPhone version of the "taptic engine" which is just an oversized vibration motor. By tactile feedback I mean actually feeling objects on the screen, like the keys on a virtual keyboard. I want to be able to do basic actions by touch only, without looking at the screen, like with physical buttons.
For real audiophiles, it may not be a bad thing. iPhone audio jacks are less than ideal for driving high-end headphones. The reason is that on smartphones, audio jack outputs have plenty of compromises to make : they must be light, cheap, have an impedance that works for both headphones and line output and avoid using too much power. A digital connection to a proper headphone amp would be probably be better if you really want high quality.
I agree that if you just want convenience and decent quality, it sucks. In fact it sucks in most cases but for the top end may be ok.
That's outdated confidential data, these tend to disappear easily. It wasn't different in the old days. The thousand year books are either exceptional or widely published. This is BTW one the reasons the patent system was created. Books still exist. And we even make paper specially designed to last a very, very long time.
You are right, I don't know how it works, but neither do you, otherwise you wouldn't be posting comments on Slashdot. That the CIA would want to smear Snowden totally makes sense, it's a deduction anyone can make. However, for a serious newspaper, I expect an article backed by facts, like actual communication from the CIA, not ramblings by people who once worked for the CIA. I don't disagree with the idea behind the article, I just say that from a journalistic standpoint, it is of poor quality.
The CIA's former acting director, Michael Morell... Former CIA chief James Woolsey... These people are not from the CIA anymore, they have no right to talk on the behalf of the CIA and what they say are personal opinions, nothing more.
An important aspect of the big screen TV is the social aspect. Watching a movie or sports together, playing a multiplayer single-screen game like Smash Bros, this is better done with a big screen in the middle of the living room.
Being profit driven is not a bad thing. Making profit is the duty of any private company, because a company that is not profitable will eventually bankrupt and this is good for no one. This is especially essential for companies with good engineers, because these are the ones that should stay alive.
What you are talking about is optimizing for short-term profits. This is bad, and in fact, it is not even seeking profit, it is sucking the company dry, leaving just an empty shell behind. And that's important that good companies have healthy finances to avoid being taken over by these vampires.
At this stage, NASA should just funnel money to SpaceX as fast as they can.
This would turn SpaceX into a NASA clone. People at SpaceX aren't fundamentally smarter than those from NASA. Their advantage is that, as a private company, they are profit-driven, which prompts for cheaper and more reliable design. Good for routine missions. NASA is more about research and development, that's two different approaches. Flooding SpaceX with money and asking them to do the same job as NASA is a recipe for disaster IMHO as it will go opposite to where SpaceX is good.
Big shopping events like sales or black friday do not make much sense in the information age. Back then it was a way to manage supply. Now, everything is stream based, predictions are made to make sure that shops get the right amount of supplies. The result is that instead of a predictable pattern that resulted in special events, we are now left with random noise. Shops now try to capitalize on the outdated shopping event concept by crafting special offers for it but people start noticing that it completely artificial (no real good deals) and lose interest.
2001 is different, it is science fiction and it depicts a semi-plausible future. Star Wars is a space opera. It is closer to high fantasy, in space. It happens "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away", scientific accuracy isn't even considered, and there is even magic (ok, "the force").
Some japanese "eroge", hentai games or whatever you want to call these actually have very good plots. Good enough to stand on their own without the porn.
Don't buy a console like you would buy a PC. Consoles are not general purposes machines, they are appliances to play games. So you should focus on the game experience rather than the back end (hardware and OS). Sure, the back end has an influence but it is just a mean to an end. In your case, it's easy : Gran Turismo is a Playstation exclusive, and the other two are multi-platform, so that's PS4. As for reliability, just because the PS2 had a notoriously failure-prone optical drive means nothing about the PS4. It's like not buying a WiiU because of the problems in the cartridge loading mechanism of the NES. As for the XBox, the 360 had the infamous RROD problem. In the end, noone is perfect and it doesn't seem that the track record of either manufacturer justifies choosing one over the other.
The apple logo on the macbook is an ad. Don't tell me that users need a lit up logo, especially since they normally don't get to see it as it is in the back and only lights up when the screen is on.
Progress bars are really hard to do right. And they are becoming more and more so now that systems become more complex. And I'm not just talking about time prediction, just having the progress bar updated regularly with relevant progress info is difficult. So when it is too complicated to make a good progress bar, OS designers chose not to display it instead of having a fake one. Fake progress bars are one that relies on perceptual tricks to make you believe it knows how long it would take while having no idea at all about the actual progress. It is typically done by slowing down gradually.
The "slashdot" name was deliberately chosen to be confusing : "http: slash slash slash dot dot org". That's the joke. Is Apple music player a joke too?
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No sense of reality?
Our local elementary school run Linux PCs with LibreOffice. These PCs are actually used for teaching and the transition from Windows went rather smoothly.
It helps that there is a computer guy available to administrate the machines and offer basic training the the teachers.
Employees : We discovered that terrorists use PS4s to plan attacks and we have no mean of monitoring them.
Boss : But, it is just like regular chat, and we have packet sniffers, and...
Employees : No, no, no. They use strong encryption that only real PS4s can decode. We need PS4s in every office.
Boss : Ok, but your proposal is too cheap, so every one of you will get a PS4.
... later...
Boss : What are you doing, are you playing (looks at the box besides the console) Call of Duty ?
Employee : Yes, hum.. no, I am conducting surveillance. Just look at the chat, they are talking about bombs and guns, I think we are up do something.
Boss : Great work, is there anything you need.
Employee : Yes, if possible, I would like a PS4 for home, so I can, you know, get more efficient tracking terrorists.
Boss : Of course, it is a pleasure to see such devotion to our homeland security. I'll make sure you'll get that promotion.
To unify things like Japanese emoji, Wingdings, Webdings, ... that previously used proprietary codepages and saw enough use to be included into Unicode.
For the Japanese, not including emoji would have been a deal breaker for using standard Unicode in text messages.
I don't think so. There are plenty of "evil" people at the lower levels too, and they tend to be more than happy to abuse the system.
The difference is that the damage they can do is limited. And while they may have more will to climb the ladder than others, it is compensated by the fact that their ascension may come to an abrupt stop as their real intentions are discovered.
I don't think that the divorce rate is a good indicator for worsening relationships. I think it is more of a consequence of improvement in the standards of living and women empowerment.
Before that, couples stayed together because they had to. To oversimplify, women needed men to make a living and men needed women to take care of the housework and kids. Now, both men an women can make a living by themselves, housework is less time consuming and there are more options for single parents to take care of kids. So when things go wrong, couples simply break up instead of continuing a bad relationship.
Kid rebellion has always been, that's a normal part of getting to adulthood. But at least now, we avoid hitting them in response.
Things are changing, that's for sure but I think that on average interpersonal relationships have improved too.
We just need a story about how pedophiles can hack the network and use it to abuse little girls and soon enough people will be up in arms.
It doesn't even have to be true.
I would like to see more tactile feedback. And I am not talking about the iPhone version of the "taptic engine" which is just an oversized vibration motor.
By tactile feedback I mean actually feeling objects on the screen, like the keys on a virtual keyboard. I want to be able to do basic actions by touch only, without looking at the screen, like with physical buttons.
For real audiophiles, it may not be a bad thing. iPhone audio jacks are less than ideal for driving high-end headphones. The reason is that on smartphones, audio jack outputs have plenty of compromises to make : they must be light, cheap, have an impedance that works for both headphones and line output and avoid using too much power.
A digital connection to a proper headphone amp would be probably be better if you really want high quality.
I agree that if you just want convenience and decent quality, it sucks. In fact it sucks in most cases but for the top end may be ok.
Color not as expected.
Ordered white/gold dress, received blue/back one...
That's outdated confidential data, these tend to disappear easily. It wasn't different in the old days. The thousand year books are either exceptional or widely published. This is BTW one the reasons the patent system was created.
Books still exist. And we even make paper specially designed to last a very, very long time.
You are right, I don't know how it works, but neither do you, otherwise you wouldn't be posting comments on Slashdot.
That the CIA would want to smear Snowden totally makes sense, it's a deduction anyone can make. However, for a serious newspaper, I expect an article backed by facts, like actual communication from the CIA, not ramblings by people who once worked for the CIA. I don't disagree with the idea behind the article, I just say that from a journalistic standpoint, it is of poor quality.
The CIA's former acting director, Michael Morell... Former CIA chief James Woolsey...
These people are not from the CIA anymore, they have no right to talk on the behalf of the CIA and what they say are personal opinions, nothing more.
An important aspect of the big screen TV is the social aspect.
Watching a movie or sports together, playing a multiplayer single-screen game like Smash Bros, this is better done with a big screen in the middle of the living room.
You can backup your settings, update the offending software, plenty of things...
Being profit driven is not a bad thing. Making profit is the duty of any private company, because a company that is not profitable will eventually bankrupt and this is good for no one.
This is especially essential for companies with good engineers, because these are the ones that should stay alive.
What you are talking about is optimizing for short-term profits. This is bad, and in fact, it is not even seeking profit, it is sucking the company dry, leaving just an empty shell behind. And that's important that good companies have healthy finances to avoid being taken over by these vampires.
At this stage, NASA should just funnel money to SpaceX as fast as they can.
This would turn SpaceX into a NASA clone.
People at SpaceX aren't fundamentally smarter than those from NASA. Their advantage is that, as a private company, they are profit-driven, which prompts for cheaper and more reliable design. Good for routine missions. NASA is more about research and development, that's two different approaches.
Flooding SpaceX with money and asking them to do the same job as NASA is a recipe for disaster IMHO as it will go opposite to where SpaceX is good.
The Internet of things is not hearing the sound of thousands of scroll wheels...
Big shopping events like sales or black friday do not make much sense in the information age.
Back then it was a way to manage supply. Now, everything is stream based, predictions are made to make sure that shops get the right amount of supplies. The result is that instead of a predictable pattern that resulted in special events, we are now left with random noise.
Shops now try to capitalize on the outdated shopping event concept by crafting special offers for it but people start noticing that it completely artificial (no real good deals) and lose interest.
Because it is fucking smart maketing.
2001 is different, it is science fiction and it depicts a semi-plausible future.
Star Wars is a space opera. It is closer to high fantasy, in space. It happens "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away", scientific accuracy isn't even considered, and there is even magic (ok, "the force").
Some japanese "eroge", hentai games or whatever you want to call these actually have very good plots. Good enough to stand on their own without the porn.
Don't buy a console like you would buy a PC.
Consoles are not general purposes machines, they are appliances to play games. So you should focus on the game experience rather than the back end (hardware and OS). Sure, the back end has an influence but it is just a mean to an end. In your case, it's easy : Gran Turismo is a Playstation exclusive, and the other two are multi-platform, so that's PS4.
As for reliability, just because the PS2 had a notoriously failure-prone optical drive means nothing about the PS4. It's like not buying a WiiU because of the problems in the cartridge loading mechanism of the NES. As for the XBox, the 360 had the infamous RROD problem. In the end, noone is perfect and it doesn't seem that the track record of either manufacturer justifies choosing one over the other.
The apple logo on the macbook is an ad. Don't tell me that users need a lit up logo, especially since they normally don't get to see it as it is in the back and only lights up when the screen is on.
Progress bars are really hard to do right. And they are becoming more and more so now that systems become more complex. And I'm not just talking about time prediction, just having the progress bar updated regularly with relevant progress info is difficult.
So when it is too complicated to make a good progress bar, OS designers chose not to display it instead of having a fake one. Fake progress bars are one that relies on perceptual tricks to make you believe it knows how long it would take while having no idea at all about the actual progress. It is typically done by slowing down gradually.
The "slashdot" name was deliberately chosen to be confusing : "http: slash slash slash dot dot org". That's the joke.
Is Apple music player a joke too?