I have three Samsung S5's (me, my wife, and one more when she broke hers) and they can have the battery replaced as simple as pie. Yet the second they update Android and apps, they run slower than piss. A quad-core flagship phone that came out FOUR YEARS AGO. It eats the battery alive within a few hours and takes seconds to load Gmail.
When I bought a new used S5 for my wife, it ran fine. And then it connected to the internet and updated. And ran slow as shit ever since.
And all these apologists run around screaming "but they're SPECIAL batteries made of Magic(TM) so they decay faster!" (1. Tell that to my chromebook with the equally thin flat battery. 2. OS updates don't AGE THE BATTERY.)
Meanwhile, my laptops DON'T have replaced batteries, and get used way more than my phone, and magically, my 6+ year old laptop still runs as fast as when I bought it.
Who would have thought that corporations who sell luxury products with long-life times would throttle their phones to make you buy a newer luxury product? It's like I'm riding my Dad's Sears lawnmower again where the steering wheel bearing was designed to fail so it became "harder and harder to turn" until you just gave up and bought a new one. My Dad said "fuck that" and welded a new bearing holder to the steering shaft and it never had another problem.
The problem is, you can't do that with a phone because (Slashdotters USED to care about) it's not freakin' open source!
If only there was a device that could--can't think of a good new verb for it--lets say, "move" water from places we do have, and then it could travel through some kind of cylindrical containing device that held the water molecules in, and pushed this liquid medium through the hollow cylinder to the place where its needed.
How do they move oil? I can't think of it. But it's like, they send oil thousands of miles.
Too bad I'm pretty sure it only works for oil and not for water because nobody makes any goddamn money from saving lives.
It plays MP3s, FLAC, OGG, etc. It has modular plugin API for obscure things like NES music. It supports global hotkeys. Skins.
And uses 16MB of RAM and 0% CPU to play an MP3. AS IT !@#$'ING SHOULD.
I haven't tried the newest version yet. But every "winamp clone" I've tried (on Linux included) was actually far more CPU and RAM usage and missed actual useful features like global hotkeys.
Although, in the last few years, I've really started to use YouTube (+Ublock) as a music player since it has literally everything ever.
When I was a kid (NOT THAT LONG AGO), I distinctly remember the HUNDREDS of lightning-bugs glowing. The night would pulse with flickering dots. We would run around and catch them and put them into jars and keep them overnight as lanterns.
Now, like, 10-15 years later, I have not seen more than a few dozen. It's just occasional blips. It doesn't matter where I go. It doesn't matter if I go home to my family's house where it was originally. I barely see them at all. If I tried to put them in a jar, I'd probably struggle to get more than twenty.
...if there's ANYTHING we could encourage businesses to COMPETE and measure their virtual dicks by, it should be HELPING PEOPLE.
And not feel good "we trained people to stop being racist" with no scientific verified results. I mean REAL people being REALLY helped. Raw stats. Number of people given free/affordable homes. Number of people given jobs and highschool/college education. FREE MENTAL HEALTH for the homeless.
If anything we should be encouraging through "Slacktivsm" and outrage culture, it's actually demanding companies help the homeless with their billions in profits.
The company that thinks it's okay to censor US citizens, and now Chinese citizens, build weapons for the US government, track every citizen on the planet, also has no problem covering up leaks of... tracking every citizen on the planet?
Tim "Don't-be-Evil is was the stupidest rule ever." Cook
Because, you know, all those ethics courses managers take (the people who make all the decisions) are working out great!
That's one of the silliest things of today. Sexual harassment surveys. Domestic abuse billboards and NFL commercials. "Code of conduct" seminars.
It's GREAT to want to make the world a better place. However, what we're lacking is ANY SCIENTIFIC PROOF whatsoever that doing these things actually solves the problem they're trying to solve.
In fact, there WAS a study that showed the opposite. That women who were told of all the "unconscious" ways that men oppress women, the women were less likely to engage and integrate into the workplace because they were "primed" and constantly looking for harassment and were more likely to assume it was harassment even when it wasn't. Likewise, the men in the study after going to these seminars? Simply __stopped interacting with women__. [1]
Which is GREAT way to get women to powerful positions in STEM. Take all the guys currently in power, and make sure they never interact and see hardworking, intelligent women and give them raises.
You see how "feeling like your helping" doesn't actually equate to "helping"? Kind of like how like 90% of all the funds for Bono's 1985 Live Aid charity concert to help stop Ethopia famine, ended up FUNDING AN WARLORD'S ARMY.
If "ethics" courses worked, then why the hell is basically every major business scandal the result of managers... who already take ethics courses? #VWDidNothingWrong
The same people who think it's okay to censor the opinions of US citizens... thinks it's okay to censor the opinions of Chinese dissenters....SURPRISED?
That awkward moment when your ideology is literally the same one they use in China to crush journalists.
Uhh, shouldn't we be more impressed that the evidence they normally delete is going to be livestreamed instead?
Like a girl who accidentally (ha! "accidentally!") flashes her nipple on Twitch, and it's on the web FOREVER.
Granted, it's not necessarily online. But it's at least one step harder to delete incriminating videos when you need TWO or more people "in on it." When a cop can just shut his camera off (why tf was that ever an option?) then do something illegal, a livestreamed, hypothetically, requires the consent of whoever is at base watching the livestream.
So this is potentially a good thing. AND, it may be even better because this may allow us to enact FURTHER changes 10 years from now once this is standard, to force say, "citizen / watchdogs", to be allowed to watch the sensitive content live.
Also --> If there's a COP AROUND YOU, you're ALREADY BEING WATCHED. Does the damn camera change much? (And we already have traffic cameras that are always on.)
I'm not saying I'm for a "surveillance state", but that this isn't really any additional surveillance, and, it may even enact accountability in the long run because it's harder to delete a livestream.
> You don't really have that convenience on any mobile platform, really, but especially not on our platform."
That strategy worked out great for the Nintendo 64! Let's see how it works out for them...
Takeda said, "When we made Nintendo 64, we thought it was logical that if you want to make advanced games, it becomes technically more difficult. We were wrong. We now understand it's the cruising speed that matters, not the momentary flash of peak power."[2]
Yeah! The BEST most insightful thing to using a phone whose SOLE feature is apps that extend it... is to NOT use apps.
The BEST way to not get viruses from the internet isn't to make secure browsers, but instead, visit ZERO websites. I've been using Internet Explorer 5 for over a decade with no viruses!
Nothing super threatening--you have to opt-in. Nobody known was affected. And Microsoft will have a patch out within like, two weeks.
I mean, it's good to know about this stuff to watch for trends. But this will have zero effect on anyone's lives, nor Microsoft's stock. Like a murderer, goes on trial, and goes to jail. You can talk about trends maybe, but the murderer is already in jail. He's not a direct threat to any of us. So it's not like "tonight at 10. this thing in your house WILL KILL YOUR CHILDREN if you don't know about it."
"The feature is also triggered if the vehicle stops for a prolonged or unusual period of time. Riders will receive a notification asking them if everything is alright, and based on their response, the app will present a series of options, including a call to 911. "
1) Congrats, you made a "detect hookers" app.
2) If I can reach my phone and interact with it, I'm not having a !@#%'ing emergency. Hell, half the phones on the market have an emergency button combination you can turn on.
3) Considering Uber is so evil Microsoft is playing catch up, I really doubt these features have anything to do with drivers. They'll straight up hire rapists. So the real question is, what actual benefit are they trying to get from this?
Fun fact: If you think you're the only one (or your side) is the only one that doesn't do that same thing... you're wrong.
The left and right do the exact same thing. It's biology. Overlook the failures of your own group, while highlighting the failures of the "outgroup." The only difference is, which "group" do you think you're apart of?
(Kind of like how bible thumpers in the 90's deemed themselves to be the moral arbiters of Hollywood and video games, and now the left are doing the exact same thing except instead of "sinner" it's "misogynst," "racist," and "Nazi". But abstractly it's the same thing. Attempting to ostracizing a member seen as a "threat" to the group.)
Problem: Because school is designed by, and for, idiots, with no regard for biology or psychology. Every child is treated like a rote learning "I can absorb information while sitting in a chair while you spout off dry lists of facts while you scold me for not rigidly adhering to your desire for me to remain quiet and motionless."
There are plenty of ways to learn. Learning by doing (people who learn WAY more in the labs than the classes). People who learn through physical memorization (this magical thing called "dancer") and more.
If your kids aren't learning it's two reasons: 1 - Shitty parents. 2 - Shitty teaching. Kids are BIOLOGICALLY designed to be knowledge sponges--that's the entire purpose of growing up. So if you're not getting the desired result, it's because you designed "the system" wrong.
William Edwards Deming said "95% of line-level worker problems, are the direct result of top-level management decisions."
So here we are, trying to blame cellphones for being too distracting. But the question is, why the hell is school so boring that kids WANT to learn from their phones instead?
Ever been in a technical lab? Huge equipment, wires running everywhere. Cool sounds going off. Microscopes that let you see literally down to the atomic level. You think anyone (or at least the majority of kids) give two shits about a YouTube video or text message, when they could be, say, climbing on a tank? And learning how a tank works and hearing the engine roar to life?
I apologize for my misunderstanding. But we're still talking...satellites right?
It's still got to go to "orbit" (even if orbit is "near earth") and pass a round trip (possibly through multiple satellites too). You can't go around physics. Even the speed of light has a latency.
This article says, per the company itself, "could be" as low as 30 milliseconds. Which means it won't be anywhere near that--just like your internet speeds are nothing compared to what your ISP says it "could be".
And what kind of latency will we be hitting at peak hours? I don't know. My only point is that it's certainly an issue that should be investigated and discussed.
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I fucking told you so. (TM)
I have three Samsung S5's (me, my wife, and one more when she broke hers) and they can have the battery replaced as simple as pie. Yet the second they update Android and apps, they run slower than piss. A quad-core flagship phone that came out FOUR YEARS AGO. It eats the battery alive within a few hours and takes seconds to load Gmail.
When I bought a new used S5 for my wife, it ran fine. And then it connected to the internet and updated. And ran slow as shit ever since.
And all these apologists run around screaming "but they're SPECIAL batteries made of Magic(TM) so they decay faster!" (1. Tell that to my chromebook with the equally thin flat battery. 2. OS updates don't AGE THE BATTERY.)
Meanwhile, my laptops DON'T have replaced batteries, and get used way more than my phone, and magically, my 6+ year old laptop still runs as fast as when I bought it.
Who would have thought that corporations who sell luxury products with long-life times would throttle their phones to make you buy a newer luxury product? It's like I'm riding my Dad's Sears lawnmower again where the steering wheel bearing was designed to fail so it became "harder and harder to turn" until you just gave up and bought a new one. My Dad said "fuck that" and welded a new bearing holder to the steering shaft and it never had another problem.
The problem is, you can't do that with a phone because (Slashdotters USED to care about) it's not freakin' open source!
I wonder if people feel the same way about Microsoft's various "additions".
If anything is obvious it is that whatever process led to the creation of the greatest operating system ever written, that process, needs to change!
Everyone knows that when you've got the top product, company, or team, you need to pull a 180.
If only there was a device that could--can't think of a good new verb for it--lets say, "move" water from places we do have, and then it could travel through some kind of cylindrical containing device that held the water molecules in, and pushed this liquid medium through the hollow cylinder to the place where its needed.
How do they move oil? I can't think of it. But it's like, they send oil thousands of miles.
Too bad I'm pretty sure it only works for oil and not for water because nobody makes any goddamn money from saving lives.
I seriously still use Winamp to this day.
https://i.imgur.com/ZjA2AcC.pn...
It plays MP3s, FLAC, OGG, etc. It has modular plugin API for obscure things like NES music. It supports global hotkeys. Skins.
And uses 16MB of RAM and 0% CPU to play an MP3. AS IT !@#$'ING SHOULD.
I haven't tried the newest version yet. But every "winamp clone" I've tried (on Linux included) was actually far more CPU and RAM usage and missed actual useful features like global hotkeys.
Although, in the last few years, I've really started to use YouTube (+Ublock) as a music player since it has literally everything ever.
I've mentioned this before to family and friends.
When I was a kid (NOT THAT LONG AGO), I distinctly remember the HUNDREDS of lightning-bugs glowing. The night would pulse with flickering dots. We would run around and catch them and put them into jars and keep them overnight as lanterns.
Now, like, 10-15 years later, I have not seen more than a few dozen. It's just occasional blips. It doesn't matter where I go. It doesn't matter if I go home to my family's house where it was originally. I barely see them at all. If I tried to put them in a jar, I'd probably struggle to get more than twenty.
Step 2: Android
Have... have you never heard of government housing?
...if there's ANYTHING we could encourage businesses to COMPETE and measure their virtual dicks by, it should be HELPING PEOPLE.
And not feel good "we trained people to stop being racist" with no scientific verified results. I mean REAL people being REALLY helped. Raw stats. Number of people given free /affordable homes. Number of people given jobs and highschool/college education. FREE MENTAL HEALTH for the homeless.
If anything we should be encouraging through "Slacktivsm" and outrage culture, it's actually demanding companies help the homeless with their billions in profits.
The company that thinks it's okay to censor US citizens, and now Chinese citizens, build weapons for the US government, track every citizen on the planet, also has no problem covering up leaks of... tracking every citizen on the planet?
Tim "Don't-be-Evil is was the stupidest rule ever." Cook
Color me surprised.
Because, you know, all those ethics courses managers take (the people who make all the decisions) are working out great!
That's one of the silliest things of today. Sexual harassment surveys. Domestic abuse billboards and NFL commercials. "Code of conduct" seminars.
It's GREAT to want to make the world a better place. However, what we're lacking is ANY SCIENTIFIC PROOF whatsoever that doing these things actually solves the problem they're trying to solve.
In fact, there WAS a study that showed the opposite. That women who were told of all the "unconscious" ways that men oppress women, the women were less likely to engage and integrate into the workplace because they were "primed" and constantly looking for harassment and were more likely to assume it was harassment even when it wasn't. Likewise, the men in the study after going to these seminars? Simply __stopped interacting with women__. [1]
Which is GREAT way to get women to powerful positions in STEM. Take all the guys currently in power, and make sure they never interact and see hardworking, intelligent women and give them raises.
You see how "feeling like your helping" doesn't actually equate to "helping"? Kind of like how like 90% of all the funds for Bono's 1985 Live Aid charity concert to help stop Ethopia famine, ended up FUNDING AN WARLORD'S ARMY.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us...
[2] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Li...
If "ethics" courses worked, then why the hell is basically every major business scandal the result of managers... who already take ethics courses? #VWDidNothingWrong
The same people who think it's okay to censor the opinions of US citizens... thinks it's okay to censor the opinions of Chinese dissenters. ...SURPRISED?
That awkward moment when your ideology is literally the same one they use in China to crush journalists.
Uhh, shouldn't we be more impressed that the evidence they normally delete is going to be livestreamed instead?
Like a girl who accidentally (ha! "accidentally!") flashes her nipple on Twitch, and it's on the web FOREVER.
Granted, it's not necessarily online. But it's at least one step harder to delete incriminating videos when you need TWO or more people "in on it." When a cop can just shut his camera off (why tf was that ever an option?) then do something illegal, a livestreamed, hypothetically, requires the consent of whoever is at base watching the livestream.
So this is potentially a good thing. AND, it may be even better because this may allow us to enact FURTHER changes 10 years from now once this is standard, to force say, "citizen / watchdogs", to be allowed to watch the sensitive content live.
Also --> If there's a COP AROUND YOU, you're ALREADY BEING WATCHED. Does the damn camera change much? (And we already have traffic cameras that are always on.)
I'm not saying I'm for a "surveillance state", but that this isn't really any additional surveillance, and, it may even enact accountability in the long run because it's harder to delete a livestream.
More like, finally the government can directly control our brains to save us from ourselves.
> You don't really have that convenience on any mobile platform, really, but especially not on our platform."
That strategy worked out great for the Nintendo 64! Let's see how it works out for them...
Takeda said, "When we made Nintendo 64, we thought it was logical that if you want to make advanced games, it becomes technically more difficult. We were wrong. We now understand it's the cruising speed that matters, not the momentary flash of peak power."[2]
Yeah! The BEST most insightful thing to using a phone whose SOLE feature is apps that extend it... is to NOT use apps.
The BEST way to not get viruses from the internet isn't to make secure browsers, but instead, visit ZERO websites. I've been using Internet Explorer 5 for over a decade with no viruses!
can they also stop Kaijus?
Nothing super threatening--you have to opt-in. Nobody known was affected. And Microsoft will have a patch out within like, two weeks.
I mean, it's good to know about this stuff to watch for trends. But this will have zero effect on anyone's lives, nor Microsoft's stock. Like a murderer, goes on trial, and goes to jail. You can talk about trends maybe, but the murderer is already in jail. He's not a direct threat to any of us. So it's not like "tonight at 10. this thing in your house WILL KILL YOUR CHILDREN if you don't know about it."
So you're saying... Trump is a Democrat and we should support him, since he's against the GOP?
"The feature is also triggered if the vehicle stops for a prolonged or unusual period of time. Riders will receive a notification asking them if everything is alright, and based on their response, the app will present a series of options, including a call to 911. "
1) Congrats, you made a "detect hookers" app.
2) If I can reach my phone and interact with it, I'm not having a !@#%'ing emergency. Hell, half the phones on the market have an emergency button combination you can turn on.
3) Considering Uber is so evil Microsoft is playing catch up, I really doubt these features have anything to do with drivers. They'll straight up hire rapists. So the real question is, what actual benefit are they trying to get from this?
Fun fact: If you think you're the only one (or your side) is the only one that doesn't do that same thing... you're wrong.
The left and right do the exact same thing. It's biology. Overlook the failures of your own group, while highlighting the failures of the "outgroup." The only difference is, which "group" do you think you're apart of?
(Kind of like how bible thumpers in the 90's deemed themselves to be the moral arbiters of Hollywood and video games, and now the left are doing the exact same thing except instead of "sinner" it's "misogynst," "racist," and "Nazi". But abstractly it's the same thing. Attempting to ostracizing a member seen as a "threat" to the group.)
Symptom: Kids are on their phones.
Problem: Because school is designed by, and for, idiots, with no regard for biology or psychology. Every child is treated like a rote learning "I can absorb information while sitting in a chair while you spout off dry lists of facts while you scold me for not rigidly adhering to your desire for me to remain quiet and motionless."
There are plenty of ways to learn. Learning by doing (people who learn WAY more in the labs than the classes). People who learn through physical memorization (this magical thing called "dancer") and more.
If your kids aren't learning it's two reasons: 1 - Shitty parents. 2 - Shitty teaching. Kids are BIOLOGICALLY designed to be knowledge sponges--that's the entire purpose of growing up. So if you're not getting the desired result, it's because you designed "the system" wrong.
William Edwards Deming said "95% of line-level worker problems, are the direct result of top-level management decisions."
So here we are, trying to blame cellphones for being too distracting. But the question is, why the hell is school so boring that kids WANT to learn from their phones instead?
Ever been in a technical lab? Huge equipment, wires running everywhere. Cool sounds going off. Microscopes that let you see literally down to the atomic level. You think anyone (or at least the majority of kids) give two shits about a YouTube video or text message, when they could be, say, climbing on a tank? And learning how a tank works and hearing the engine roar to life?
That global warming is destroying our planets!
The destruction wrought by white men knows no bounds!
I apologize for my misunderstanding. But we're still talking...satellites right?
It's still got to go to "orbit" (even if orbit is "near earth") and pass a round trip (possibly through multiple satellites too). You can't go around physics. Even the speed of light has a latency.
This article says, per the company itself, "could be" as low as 30 milliseconds. Which means it won't be anywhere near that--just like your internet speeds are nothing compared to what your ISP says it "could be".
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
And what kind of latency will we be hitting at peak hours? I don't know. My only point is that it's certainly an issue that should be investigated and discussed.
Don't forget that satellites, by design, have huge lag. So enjoy playing games at 650ms minimum latency.
It's almost like you have to beam something to space and back, and convert the signal multiple times across multiple hops.