It is only a matter of time until economy class gets always-on advertisements without ability to turn off, mute, or skip on infotainment.
That's got to square with another optimization taking place - the removal of infotainment equipment in cattle class. After all, each one of those things costs a lot of money and is pretty crappy, so what airlines have done is... replace it with an app.
At which point you have to use your phone or tablet (or rent one!) to do anything the infotainment system used to do.
Makes the seats a lot cheaper as well. Plus the opportunity to upsell them on the WiFi.
The whole point of buying a video game console was to not have to worry about different "tiers" of quality and performance like you have to with PCs.
With the recent generation pulling this "PS4/Xbox-Lite" crap where games run at worse performance on the cheaper consoles, it makes me wonder why should I even purchase a console when a desktop will be infinitely better in terms of cost, performance, and longevity? That ignores the fact that I could easily set on up to run in the living room.
Why not? The Xbox One S is great if all you have is a 1080p TV, which the vast majority of players do. So the graphics are attuned for 1080p.
If you're lucky and upgraded TVs recently to 4K, you can pick up a more expensive Xbox One X which gives you enhanced 4K graphics on games that support it (and Microsoft is pushing it heavily with the "Xbox One X Enhanced" branding on games that do support it).
But the deal is that the majority of people who have HDTVs and not 4K TVs get a generally good gaming experience with a cheaper unit that's pushing less pixels. Those who have upgraded their TVs ought to get the more expensive console which has the ability to use those extra pixels for extra pretty graphics.
They're not really "lite" consoles, more like consoles adjusted to suit the demographics. 1080p HDTVs pretty much form the vast majority of displays out there. 4K TV adoption has only really picked up in the past couple of years, so having a console able to play existing games with enhanced graphics on those TVs seems like a no brainer as well.
Even this next generation set of consoles will have the same issue - the vast majority of people will have 1080p TVs, but they'll need to satisfy the growing legion of those with 4K TVs. Chances are in a few years after release, the 1080p console will get discontinued and the entire line will be 4K.
`There are no "crap" consoles - the Xbox line either performs like the original Xbox One, or you get an Xbox One X which performs better if you have the hardware to use it.
However, this helmet technology might be a worthy upgrade for construction worker use.
Not really. Bike and motorcycle helmets protect the wearer because they often go flying off their vehicles and hit the pavement. (And cyclists should wear helmets - too many preventable concussions and other disabilities have occurred because the cyclist didn't have a helmet. At the very least, it wouldn't have made things worse).
Construction hard hats generally get impacted by objects hitting it - either the worker is moving around and bumps into something, or something falls on it. Very little lateral forces are applied that twist the helmet around, which is unlike say a rider or cyclist sliding on the road where the helmet may try to spin or undergo signidicant lateral impacts.
(They do make lateral impact hard hats for the few industries that need them, but most of the time the protection needed comes from being hit from the top).
I thought the sales problem is how the xbox one is lagging in technology. Making it difficult for the next generation of games to come to play.
Not really, since the Xbox One X pretty much has trumped the PS4 Pro in that department. It's why no one claims the graphics throne anymore (other than some PS4 fanboys now backtracking about "it's not about the graphics"). In fact, the usual complaint is how the Xbox One X graphics are hobbled by the PS4 Pro - if the latter runs at 4k30, the Xbox port runs at 4k30 even if will do just fine at 4k60.
Seriously, does anyone even want this? Microsoft already faced huge backlash over trying to make XBox One online only. I thought it was obvious that consumers want at least the ability to play offline. The Disc-free console will be a break when Live is unavailable, which does happen occasionally. I guess this is better only that it's not the only option available.
No, you can always play offline if it's the primary console.
The main reason is cost - the drive is expensive, and it turns out a lot of people don't care about physical discs anymore - they are all digital downloads.
You're right back in 2013 that people cared, but it's obvious over the past 6 years digital sales grew, physical sales plummeted and used sales are basically no one cares about them anymore. Even Sony's seeing brisk digital sales.
This is compounded by the fact a lot of day 1 patches are at least as big as the disc itself, negating any potential savings in download time.
I doubt any evidence will convince him - there is already a preponderance of evidence that the earth is spherical. The Netflix documentary on flat-earthers showed this well.
A few more technically minded flat-earthers decided to show that the earth was flat by very accurately measuring the distance between the top and bottom of two vertical towers. As you would expect they found that the tops were slightly further apart than the bases. However, instead of being convinced that there was a problem with the flat earth hypothesis they decided that their experiment must be wrong.
If they cannot be convinced by their own data that they themselves collected and which refute their beliefs then this is not a problem that can be solved by a rational, evidence-based approach.
Heck, a bunch of them bought a Ring Laser Gyroscope, which is a precision device we use to measure rate of angular change (gyros measure rates of angle change). They're extraordinarily precise devices, with no moving parts.
Guess what? It measured the rotation of the earth! (the Earth rotates 360 degrees roughtly every 24 hours, or about 15 degrees per hour).
Conclusion - their brand new gyroscope was bad. It just happens to be bad by the amount the Earth rotates.
Then there are the "flat earth pilots" - the pilots who believe in flat earth theory. You would've thought one of them would've flown off the Earth Plate by now - since many claim to be commercial pilots flying transport aircraft. Or even just executive business jets. These people are only really claimed to exist - no one actually steps forward saying they're flat earth pilots. Must be hard to reconcile the fact that all the fancy equipment in the plane, from the GPS to the flight management system, all base their calculations on a spherical Earth.
have you ever heard of Louis Rossman of Rossman group? https://www.youtube.com/user/r... Or ever heard of Jessa Jones from Ipad Rehab? https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ooh look a video about apple having goods seized by customs??? you sir and probably just a silly troll or a pathetic apple fan boy
Because they failed to do proper trademark redaction. Louis Rossman, while a great technician, is really a charlatan in the end because he gets business by making over the top claims. iFixit used to do this plenty of times but stopped recently, as they are not dependent on "clicks" or "views" to spread their word and thus don't actually need hyperbole.
The problem was simple - Rossman took a bunch of Apple batteries, had some Chinese factory refurbish them, then send them back. The factory offered to scratch off the Apple logo (because they were no longer official Apple batteries) or even just cover it up. Rossman refused that service, under the mistaken belief that those batteries were still Official Apple Batteries.
Apple took notice and had customs block the shipment - because they were not official Apple batteries. They were Chinese remanufactured batteries that had some Apple original parts on them. This is a definition of trademark infringement.
All they had to do was cover the Apple logo up with their own logo - since the battery was no longer official Apple, it wouldn't hurt to have the Rossman group logo on there.
Of course, there's also the matter of safety - should those Rossman batteries explode, if they were marked as Apple batteries, I'm sure customs blockages would be the least of Louis' problems
The annoying thing with streaming is that the quality varies depending on available bandwidth, and the available bandwidth fluctuates often especially on consumer connections... I'd rather download the whole movie at a decent quality, and then watch it, or watch it offline when i'm without connectivity (eg while flying).
No, the annoying thing with streaming is you're renting your "owned" copy. At any time the copy can disappear off the streaming site (and it's happened many times).
Short of outright theft, Disney and company can't take back my Blu-Rays and DVDs of movies I bought so I can continue to watch them. Not so much if you bought those movies off some other service.
Physical sales means they can't simply remove the content you've paid for.
After all those billions spent, I am still waiting for my first relevant ad. I either see ads for products I have no interest in at all, or ads for products I have already looked at.
Perhaps you should check your settings. Google has ad options, one of which is "non personalized ads" where they will show you only generic ads. You can set it to show the ads Google thinks are most relevant to you instead.
I set mine to be generic to keep down the creepy factor of having my searches show up in the ads.
UBI won't work. Period. Why? Look at how rich kids, who have never had to work a day in their lives, being handed everything gratis, act: entitled, spoiled, lazy ('work' would be a totally alien concept to them), despotic. Now imagine a low-rent version of that. That's what the fist generation raised in a world of UBI would be like. We'd ruin the country, we'd ruin entire generations of kids. Nope, nope, nope.
No, and communism actually proves that doesn't happen. Yes, communism.
First off, UBI provides just the basics. The basics (food, shelter) aren't terrific - and while there will probably be people who don't mind living like that, ask anyone on welfare today that they'd like to move out of their squalor, if the system wasn't so biased against them (clawbacks and such making it if you work, you don't get anywhere). This is where UBI differs since it doesn't clawback and it turns out, people want to work. Sure it might be nice to sit around all day watching TV, but it turns out the vast majority of people can't live like that - they'll go stir crazy.
Plus, like I said, basics. People want more.; Perhaps you like living in a single room apartment, with shared living spaces and kitchen and bathrooms, but work a little bit to upgrade yourself to a private apartment with all that to yourself is a huge upgrade. Or maybe you want to live in a standalone house with a white picket fence. Your UBI freebie money won't be enough to pay the rent for that, let alone own it.
And you probably want a car, or some sort of enhanced transportation options.
Spoiled rich kids do all sorts of crazy things, but they've got the resources to do so. They don't have to work, because everything they could want, they can have. But if you want that private kitchen and bathroom you've got to work for it, and it turns out, people actually do.
And why I said communism proves it? It's the biggest downfall of the system - with the central planning giving everyone the same thing, they're squelching the human desire for more. When you and everyone else has the same apartment, you can bet someone wants one that's bigger, on a higher or lower floor, or has air conditioning, or whatever. It's human nature. And that's where discontent sets in.
thousands of people representing multiple large organizations came together to produce a closed source standard everyone hates.
How does the IEEE allow the WiFi Alliance to keep developing these things in secret?
Because they don't have anything to do with one another.
The IEEE's purpose is to create the standard for wireless networking, aka the 802.11 standards set. It initially specified an encryption system called WEP as part of it, but given its vulnerabilities, it dropped it and the IEEE decided to not have any encryption in the standard.
The Wi-Fi Alliance is an industry group created to ensure interoperability of equipment. It's entirely possible to create hardware compliant with the standard but which cannot talk to each other, so to prevent this, they created the term "Wi-Fi" and a certification that ensures all Wi-Fi certified equipment will talk to each other.
As part of that, they created the WPA security standards (again an interoperability issue) as well as test to ensure hardware will talk to each other.
But primarily they are an industry group meant to promote wireless networking. The IEEE doesn't care what people do with the standard - as far as they're concerned, people are free to use or ignore their wireless networking standards and specifications. The Wi-Fi Alliance works to promote that standard (it benefits them when people buy Wi-Fi equipped hardware).
And yes, both the IEEE and Wi-Fi Alliance, as standards groups, suffer from the same problem - politics. A lot of companies get together to hammer out the standards and a lot of horse trading goes on to ensure your patent and my patent get included, etc. etc. etc.
I know it is inconvenient, but these sites should not be connected to the Internet.
Except airgaps have vulnerabilities, or has Stuxnet not taught you anything?
Even isolated networks need updating - and that's where a breach of containment can take place. If your goal is to destroy protections or equipment versus exfiltrate information, that's all you need - just hop from the laptop that was internet connected to the USB drive being used to update the production network and there you go.
And because airgapped networks are a PITA to update, the software running on them is almost hilariously out of date, so finding a vulnerability so you can hop onto the network on USB insertion is laughably easy.
Unless you're a super large organization with dedicated staff who do nothing but maintain the airgapped network (like say, the military) airgapping is not a panacea.
And finally, like all factories, executives will also want some sort of feedback - production numbers and stuff. So there will need to be some sort of facility where production updates can happen in near real-time. Or perhaps some technician overseeing several facilities would like to know if some piece of equipment is failing more often than normal, or if something is approaching its end of life and needs replacement, or even better, if some common failure mode is starting to present itself. All of which are complicated if said tech has to visit every facility in question.
Banks are a rip-off. Poor people and banks have no common ground.
The days of a "simple savings account" are long over. There are fees for everything - just go to a bank's website and try figuring out their account plans. If you ever thought your mobile carrier's plans were complex, bank account plans are even more so.
The cheapest of the cheap accounts (the ones with practically no monthly fee) only give you a pathetic amount of withdrawals - sometimes you can "earn" more if your company does a direct deposit, but every time you withdraw money, be it from an ATM, teller, debit, it counts against your account and soon you'll be paying $2 per transaction.
Kids may be able to get "free" accounts but once they graduate, they generally have to "upgrade" to big-boy adult plans.
As much as we'd like it not to be, "bank fees" ends up being a budget line item - something people can spend $100 or more on per month, just for the privilege of having a bank account. If you can't spare that, you do stuff in cash.
The only bright spot is a credit union - those typically have fees far lower and if you qualify for them, maybe even free.
I suspect MS will eventually drop that under some pretext. Because supporting Win10 forever without selling licenses won't bring revenue.
Maybe some bullshit about new hardware being not compatible, they are already doing that with Windows 7.
Well, every new PC running Windows needs a new license, so I don't see how Microsoft will not get new license sales. I mean, PCs get cycled in and out all the time, and generally speaking, the new PC comes with a new Windows license already paid for. So even if MIcrosoft supported Windows 10 forever, as long as new PCs are sold, they get their money. And old PCs means licenses they no longer have to support.
Sure there's probably a few people with retail copies of Windows 10 that have the ability to migrate between PCs, but those sales are puny compared to OEM PC sales.
Then again, it would be simple and easy and efficient.....so, at the same time, I think I"ll wish for a pony too.
Think about it this way - for the vast majority of Americans, the IRS already knows about you and how much tax you owe. They get all that information from your employer(s), your banks, etc. Turns out they pretty much do your tax return for you. Hell, even if you buy and sell shares they get that information as well.
So you doing your tax return is redundant - there is no reason for it since the IRS has already done it. They could just as well present their calculations to you and say "If you agree, just sign here and pay the amount owing (or to release your refund)".
Of course, the tax industry would hate that, since they built up empires on ensuring people are forced to do taxes so they'd get business every year. And yes, many countries already do this as well - they realize that they already have every document you have, and every deduction you claim they know about.
So you have to sideload this app by either first rooting your iphone, or by applying for a developer account and using that hack. Unlike android this app can not access any other apps data like my keepass file, only api approved data like photos contacts etc.
You call it a walled garden, I call it proper security.
Sure IOS does not support MAME, but I would rather have a secure platform for online trading and banking than another device to run TacScan.
You can have MAME on iOS, lots of people do it. You don't need a developer account or an enterprise certificate, either, as long as you have Mac and physical access to the iOS device (fully unlocked).
As long as you can use XCode, you can load anything you can build on to your iOS device.
Of course, if some random person asks to see your phone and plugs it into their computer, that's an extremely suspicious move...
You can fool any phone's fingerprint sensor with a simple rip of a fingerprint. So what would be so special about this one? This isn't anything special, except the media needing some nice story which seems sensational, even though it isn't. So nothing to see we already didn't know.. And I'm pretty sure it didn't take him 3 minutes to do it.
Easy, because this phone has the sensor underneath the screen. So instead of most Android phones having the sensor on the back of the phone, you can place your thumb on the screen and it'll read the fingerprint and unlock it right there.
The technology behind the through screen fingerprint reader was supposed to be more advanced than the fingerprint pads on existing phones and immune to common fingerprint spoofing techniques.
Aren't pretty much all of these permanently tied to an account so they'd be useless to the thieves anyway?
It's cute that you think that these are equipped with secure enclaves and such like a cellular phone rather than a hard reset like your garden variety WiFi router or IoT device.
Security is something to add in v4 so that you capture a an additional round of upgrades after the early adopters and first wave mass adopters get burned by having multi-hundred-dollar pieces of equipment wander off.
You don't need a secure enclave to lock them out. These devices requires you to create an account with the manufacturer, so Ring/Nest/etc will have a record of both the serial number and who owns it.
When they're hard reset, the serial number doesn't change. All they need to do is prevent re-registration of the same camera again on their system.
The problem is a lot of prisons are for-profit. While the rightful goal of jail is to rehabilitate prisoners so they can be productive members of society (and thus become taxpayers and raise families and more taxpayers) this is not the case for profit based prisons.
Here the goal is to house as many prisoners as possible, so their goal is to keep recidivism rates high - you get let out of jail, you'll get arrested doing something and go back in, and $$$$ goes to the CEO's bank account for that.
That's the real problem, and why they implement such things in order to keep prisoners angry and hateful. Because it doesn't help the prison CEO if they become productive tax paying members of society.
And yes, it costs money to house a prisoner. That's why we want them out of prison and into good stable jobs paying taxes. It's why sane systems have early release for good behavior and such. (And why profit prisons implement punitive punishments meant to keep prisoners at least to the end of their term, if not longer).
Things are being removed from C++, but that's not the point here. You don't have to remove large slabs of the language, you just have to choose not to use them. The craziness that is C++ locales, for example, need not concern you because you won't use it.
Modern C++ is mostly about not using implementation inheritance, which is the one thing that bitter experience has shown makes C++ software brittle. But you can't remove it from the language because all of that 1990s era hierarchical tarpit code wouldn't work then.
The problem is without compiler enforcement, someone might slip some of these features into the codebase.
The compiler needs to have a bunch of feature switches you can disable (which is easy to do in a modern IDE or a makefile CFLAGS variable) so if someone even dares use a verboten feature for your project, the build will fail
Otherwise the lack of some discipline can lead to problems down the road.
And you can have sensible compiler defaults - it may be part of the language, but marked as "this is not recommended for use", which the compiler will error out on (but can be manually enabled using those feature switches) so old codebases can still use them, new code bases aren't using them, and it's effectively no longer part of the language as it's highly discouraged from use.
Because Netflix will still work.. but Airplay wonÃ(TM)t. People will blame Apple for that, public pressure will grow for Apple to cave. I just donÃ(TM)t think that many people use AirPlay for this to work as well as Netflix wants with Bluetooth speakers, smart TVs, consoles etc in mix.
Actually, AirPlay support is up to individual apps themselves. It's a really common requested feature as well - if you offer a streaming audio or video app, and don't offer AIrPlay, people will complain bitterly to your support line about the lack of AirPlay.
Apple has nothing to do with this, other than perhaps blocking apps from doing an inventory of your AV equipment (new data gathering opportunity - see what equipment you own and sell that information to the manufacturers - "Netflix says Sony TVs are most popular, followed by Samsung"). And Apple would be right, because well, it's not a great leap to go from "inventory of your AV equipment" to "Rob Me App - gets a list of all your expensive AV gear to see if you're a mark worth stealing from".
Frankly, every wireless chipset (not just GSM version xyz) has been one shitty implementation after another. Since we're putting these things in everything from pocket computers to infrastructure, we need to start having stringent chipset testing to ensure they cannot be exploited. I there are few (if any) wireless chipsets that can actually stand up to fuzzing let alone a reverse engineering attack.
We really need a certification body that actually tests chipsets to ensure that at the very least they won't fault/reboot (indicative of being exploitable) when they are fuzzed. Frankly, I would think to have the highest level of certification from this body that your code would have be formally verified. Considering they are a small isolated system, this isn't a Herculean task.
Actually, it's a fairly difficult problem because you're talking real time systems verification and dozens of threads that can interact with each other, only a tiny combination of which if a packet of type Z arrives and within 1.2 ms a packet of type Y comes in, there's an exploitable window of 50 ms where if you send a packet of type A, the modem drops.
It's a heavily multitasked system of which there's at least a couple of processors mandatory (a DSP and a control processor) all trying to handle dozens of events that can happen.
And it's possible - think of a high speed download taking place alongside a call, the signal is fading out and the radio has to do a handoff procedure to get onto the next cell it can see, but because the road you're on is at the cell boundaries, just as soon as it's done one handoff, it needs to restart it to handle the new cell.
These edge cases cause all sorts of thread timing issues which can expose vulnerabilities, or even smash the stack.
Many years ago, I worked on a cellphone design. We discovered through user testing that the subway would routinely crash the modem firmware (when it goes into a tunnel suddenly and then exits it) All we could do is simply ask for firmware updates and providing them with logs of the modem and keep re-trying the scenario.
Though Netflix's service has deteriorated, and the DVD inventory is getting pretty poor. For example, only one or two seasons of a 8-season TV show. Even worse, a show that was most popular in its time, Cheers, is not even available on DVD from Netflix. Cheers!?!?!? Delivery time is up to two days in each direction now because distribution centers have been shut down. To me it looks as if Netflix is just soaking the DVD customers for all they can.
Well, you have to admit that Netflix is simply seeing what's happening - physical media sales are down, disc sales are down, and the trend is not getting any better. A lot of people have moved onto streaming, and the 2.7M physical subscribers have too, cutting down their plans to the minimum.
Couple this with many DVDs being MOD (manufactured on demand) because the print runs are too small, and Netflix simply can't get those (MODs are basically a burned DVD). Heck, even modern shows often only now get a DVD release, when they used to get DVD and Blu-Ray, so you can't even get it in high-def anymore.
And nevermind when a disc gets damaged - back in the day it would've been easy to go to the store and pick up a replacement, but with current trends, that's not possible - once a disc is damaged, it's gone. Netflix simply can't get another copy of it as they've been sold out for years.
There is no where Netflix can go for physical media than down - discs just aren't selling, and what little discs are available, Netflix can only buy a few copies - too many and they'll never be rented, too few and damage would prematurely remove the title from circulation.
The problem is, and every large game company exploits this, is the fact that people play video games. People like video games. And eventually, a good chunk of those players get the idea that they want to do the next step and make video games.
The lucky ones stay independent - they get a book, do a few exercises, then realize they need a regular Day Job(tm) and do the games thing on the side.
The unlucky ones start applying for "dream video game" jobs at the companies whose games they play. And those companies know the people coming in are endless (endless supply). This results in low pay, over exploitation (I've seen rules where it was mandatory 60 hour workweeks, Monday through Saturday).
And health benefits? Well, perhaps you can be the poor guy who had TWO heart attacks before 30.
And quotas, always the quotas.
Once you've had enough and quit, or expire, well, you're out, and there will be a new guy occupying your seat while it's still warm.
The result is really, one should take a job doing "boring" development, do your 40 hours a week banging out accounting code or whatever, then work on video games on the side. The pay will be higher, the benefits better (although just doing 40 hours a week instead of 60, Mon-Fri instead of Mon-Sat, and no 120+hr crunch months will definitely be a huge benefit in and of itself), just it's not as flashy. But hey, it leaves time to have a hobby, or a life.
However I think these fairly regular announcements of the death of desktop computing are... hyperbolic "outrage bait"
There will always be a place for desktop machines.. PC gaming / VR, Music and video production/editing, development, 3d modeling/ graphic design, all these things are going to keep PCs on desktops for a long time yet IMHO
Hell, even Steve Jobs never announced the death of the PC. It may be the "Post PC" era, but he never said they were going to die.
He likened the PC to trucks - versatile machines that can do everything, but have limitations of their own, while smartphones and tablets represent other vehicles on the road - able to do their tasks generally with far more efficiency. But as you can see, we have trucks on the road still, because of their utility.
There will al ways be regular "desktop" computers. The utility is there. But they are complimented by supplementary devices which can do some tasks with greater ease or efficiency. Why watch some YouTube video on a small window on your desktop when you can send it to your TV through your smart streaming device?
Or I've seen people work on their spreadsheets or whatever, and when an email comes in, simply pick up their phone and answer it there rather than switch out of their application.
Even Jobs knew there were far too many useful things a full computer could do that he never said they'd disappear, only they'd be supplemented.
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That's got to square with another optimization taking place - the removal of infotainment equipment in cattle class. After all, each one of those things costs a lot of money and is pretty crappy, so what airlines have done is... replace it with an app.
At which point you have to use your phone or tablet (or rent one!) to do anything the infotainment system used to do.
Makes the seats a lot cheaper as well. Plus the opportunity to upsell them on the WiFi.
Why not? The Xbox One S is great if all you have is a 1080p TV, which the vast majority of players do. So the graphics are attuned for 1080p.
If you're lucky and upgraded TVs recently to 4K, you can pick up a more expensive Xbox One X which gives you enhanced 4K graphics on games that support it (and Microsoft is pushing it heavily with the "Xbox One X Enhanced" branding on games that do support it).
But the deal is that the majority of people who have HDTVs and not 4K TVs get a generally good gaming experience with a cheaper unit that's pushing less pixels. Those who have upgraded their TVs ought to get the more expensive console which has the ability to use those extra pixels for extra pretty graphics.
They're not really "lite" consoles, more like consoles adjusted to suit the demographics. 1080p HDTVs pretty much form the vast majority of displays out there. 4K TV adoption has only really picked up in the past couple of years, so having a console able to play existing games with enhanced graphics on those TVs seems like a no brainer as well.
Even this next generation set of consoles will have the same issue - the vast majority of people will have 1080p TVs, but they'll need to satisfy the growing legion of those with 4K TVs. Chances are in a few years after release, the 1080p console will get discontinued and the entire line will be 4K.
`There are no "crap" consoles - the Xbox line either performs like the original Xbox One, or you get an Xbox One X which performs better if you have the hardware to use it.
Not really. Bike and motorcycle helmets protect the wearer because they often go flying off their vehicles and hit the pavement. (And cyclists should wear helmets - too many preventable concussions and other disabilities have occurred because the cyclist didn't have a helmet. At the very least, it wouldn't have made things worse).
Construction hard hats generally get impacted by objects hitting it - either the worker is moving around and bumps into something, or something falls on it. Very little lateral forces are applied that twist the helmet around, which is unlike say a rider or cyclist sliding on the road where the helmet may try to spin or undergo signidicant lateral impacts.
(They do make lateral impact hard hats for the few industries that need them, but most of the time the protection needed comes from being hit from the top).
Except that the vast majority of Earth's surface is covered by water, and most of that water's surface is uninhabited
Not really, since the Xbox One X pretty much has trumped the PS4 Pro in that department. It's why no one claims the graphics throne anymore (other than some PS4 fanboys now backtracking about "it's not about the graphics"). In fact, the usual complaint is how the Xbox One X graphics are hobbled by the PS4 Pro - if the latter runs at 4k30, the Xbox port runs at 4k30 even if will do just fine at 4k60.
No, you can always play offline if it's the primary console.
The main reason is cost - the drive is expensive, and it turns out a lot of people don't care about physical discs anymore - they are all digital downloads.
You're right back in 2013 that people cared, but it's obvious over the past 6 years digital sales grew, physical sales plummeted and used sales are basically no one cares about them anymore. Even Sony's seeing brisk digital sales.
This is compounded by the fact a lot of day 1 patches are at least as big as the disc itself, negating any potential savings in download time.
Heck, a bunch of them bought a Ring Laser Gyroscope, which is a precision device we use to measure rate of angular change (gyros measure rates of angle change). They're extraordinarily precise devices, with no moving parts.
Guess what? It measured the rotation of the earth! (the Earth rotates 360 degrees roughtly every 24 hours, or about 15 degrees per hour).
Conclusion - their brand new gyroscope was bad. It just happens to be bad by the amount the Earth rotates.
Then there are the "flat earth pilots" - the pilots who believe in flat earth theory. You would've thought one of them would've flown off the Earth Plate by now - since many claim to be commercial pilots flying transport aircraft. Or even just executive business jets. These people are only really claimed to exist - no one actually steps forward saying they're flat earth pilots. Must be hard to reconcile the fact that all the fancy equipment in the plane, from the GPS to the flight management system, all base their calculations on a spherical Earth.
Because they failed to do proper trademark redaction. Louis Rossman, while a great technician, is really a charlatan in the end because he gets business by making over the top claims. iFixit used to do this plenty of times but stopped recently, as they are not dependent on "clicks" or "views" to spread their word and thus don't actually need hyperbole.
The problem was simple - Rossman took a bunch of Apple batteries, had some Chinese factory refurbish them, then send them back. The factory offered to scratch off the Apple logo (because they were no longer official Apple batteries) or even just cover it up. Rossman refused that service, under the mistaken belief that those batteries were still Official Apple Batteries.
Apple took notice and had customs block the shipment - because they were not official Apple batteries. They were Chinese remanufactured batteries that had some Apple original parts on them. This is a definition of trademark infringement.
All they had to do was cover the Apple logo up with their own logo - since the battery was no longer official Apple, it wouldn't hurt to have the Rossman group logo on there.
Of course, there's also the matter of safety - should those Rossman batteries explode, if they were marked as Apple batteries, I'm sure customs blockages would be the least of Louis' problems
No, the annoying thing with streaming is you're renting your "owned" copy. At any time the copy can disappear off the streaming site (and it's happened many times).
Short of outright theft, Disney and company can't take back my Blu-Rays and DVDs of movies I bought so I can continue to watch them. Not so much if you bought those movies off some other service.
Physical sales means they can't simply remove the content you've paid for.
Perhaps you should check your settings. Google has ad options, one of which is "non personalized ads" where they will show you only generic ads. You can set it to show the ads Google thinks are most relevant to you instead.
I set mine to be generic to keep down the creepy factor of having my searches show up in the ads.
No, and communism actually proves that doesn't happen. Yes, communism.
First off, UBI provides just the basics. The basics (food, shelter) aren't terrific - and while there will probably be people who don't mind living like that, ask anyone on welfare today that they'd like to move out of their squalor, if the system wasn't so biased against them (clawbacks and such making it if you work, you don't get anywhere). This is where UBI differs since it doesn't clawback and it turns out, people want to work. Sure it might be nice to sit around all day watching TV, but it turns out the vast majority of people can't live like that - they'll go stir crazy.
Plus, like I said, basics. People want more.; Perhaps you like living in a single room apartment, with shared living spaces and kitchen and bathrooms, but work a little bit to upgrade yourself to a private apartment with all that to yourself is a huge upgrade. Or maybe you want to live in a standalone house with a white picket fence. Your UBI freebie money won't be enough to pay the rent for that, let alone own it.
And you probably want a car, or some sort of enhanced transportation options.
Spoiled rich kids do all sorts of crazy things, but they've got the resources to do so. They don't have to work, because everything they could want, they can have. But if you want that private kitchen and bathroom you've got to work for it, and it turns out, people actually do.
And why I said communism proves it? It's the biggest downfall of the system - with the central planning giving everyone the same thing, they're squelching the human desire for more. When you and everyone else has the same apartment, you can bet someone wants one that's bigger, on a higher or lower floor, or has air conditioning, or whatever. It's human nature. And that's where discontent sets in.
Because they don't have anything to do with one another.
The IEEE's purpose is to create the standard for wireless networking, aka the 802.11 standards set. It initially specified an encryption system called WEP as part of it, but given its vulnerabilities, it dropped it and the IEEE decided to not have any encryption in the standard.
The Wi-Fi Alliance is an industry group created to ensure interoperability of equipment. It's entirely possible to create hardware compliant with the standard but which cannot talk to each other, so to prevent this, they created the term "Wi-Fi" and a certification that ensures all Wi-Fi certified equipment will talk to each other.
As part of that, they created the WPA security standards (again an interoperability issue) as well as test to ensure hardware will talk to each other.
But primarily they are an industry group meant to promote wireless networking. The IEEE doesn't care what people do with the standard - as far as they're concerned, people are free to use or ignore their wireless networking standards and specifications. The Wi-Fi Alliance works to promote that standard (it benefits them when people buy Wi-Fi equipped hardware).
And yes, both the IEEE and Wi-Fi Alliance, as standards groups, suffer from the same problem - politics. A lot of companies get together to hammer out the standards and a lot of horse trading goes on to ensure your patent and my patent get included, etc. etc. etc.
Except airgaps have vulnerabilities, or has Stuxnet not taught you anything?
Even isolated networks need updating - and that's where a breach of containment can take place. If your goal is to destroy protections or equipment versus exfiltrate information, that's all you need - just hop from the laptop that was internet connected to the USB drive being used to update the production network and there you go.
And because airgapped networks are a PITA to update, the software running on them is almost hilariously out of date, so finding a vulnerability so you can hop onto the network on USB insertion is laughably easy.
Unless you're a super large organization with dedicated staff who do nothing but maintain the airgapped network (like say, the military) airgapping is not a panacea.
And finally, like all factories, executives will also want some sort of feedback - production numbers and stuff. So there will need to be some sort of facility where production updates can happen in near real-time. Or perhaps some technician overseeing several facilities would like to know if some piece of equipment is failing more often than normal, or if something is approaching its end of life and needs replacement, or even better, if some common failure mode is starting to present itself. All of which are complicated if said tech has to visit every facility in question.
The days of a "simple savings account" are long over. There are fees for everything - just go to a bank's website and try figuring out their account plans. If you ever thought your mobile carrier's plans were complex, bank account plans are even more so.
The cheapest of the cheap accounts (the ones with practically no monthly fee) only give you a pathetic amount of withdrawals - sometimes you can "earn" more if your company does a direct deposit, but every time you withdraw money, be it from an ATM, teller, debit, it counts against your account and soon you'll be paying $2 per transaction.
Kids may be able to get "free" accounts but once they graduate, they generally have to "upgrade" to big-boy adult plans.
As much as we'd like it not to be, "bank fees" ends up being a budget line item - something people can spend $100 or more on per month, just for the privilege of having a bank account. If you can't spare that, you do stuff in cash.
The only bright spot is a credit union - those typically have fees far lower and if you qualify for them, maybe even free.
Well, every new PC running Windows needs a new license, so I don't see how Microsoft will not get new license sales. I mean, PCs get cycled in and out all the time, and generally speaking, the new PC comes with a new Windows license already paid for. So even if MIcrosoft supported Windows 10 forever, as long as new PCs are sold, they get their money. And old PCs means licenses they no longer have to support.
Sure there's probably a few people with retail copies of Windows 10 that have the ability to migrate between PCs, but those sales are puny compared to OEM PC sales.
Think about it this way - for the vast majority of Americans, the IRS already knows about you and how much tax you owe. They get all that information from your employer(s), your banks, etc. Turns out they pretty much do your tax return for you. Hell, even if you buy and sell shares they get that information as well.
So you doing your tax return is redundant - there is no reason for it since the IRS has already done it. They could just as well present their calculations to you and say "If you agree, just sign here and pay the amount owing (or to release your refund)".
Of course, the tax industry would hate that, since they built up empires on ensuring people are forced to do taxes so they'd get business every year. And yes, many countries already do this as well - they realize that they already have every document you have, and every deduction you claim they know about.
You can have MAME on iOS, lots of people do it. You don't need a developer account or an enterprise certificate, either, as long as you have Mac and physical access to the iOS device (fully unlocked).
As long as you can use XCode, you can load anything you can build on to your iOS device.
Of course, if some random person asks to see your phone and plugs it into their computer, that's an extremely suspicious move...
Easy, because this phone has the sensor underneath the screen. So instead of most Android phones having the sensor on the back of the phone, you can place your thumb on the screen and it'll read the fingerprint and unlock it right there.
The technology behind the through screen fingerprint reader was supposed to be more advanced than the fingerprint pads on existing phones and immune to common fingerprint spoofing techniques.
You don't need a secure enclave to lock them out. These devices requires you to create an account with the manufacturer, so Ring/Nest/etc will have a record of both the serial number and who owns it.
When they're hard reset, the serial number doesn't change. All they need to do is prevent re-registration of the same camera again on their system.
The problem is a lot of prisons are for-profit. While the rightful goal of jail is to rehabilitate prisoners so they can be productive members of society (and thus become taxpayers and raise families and more taxpayers) this is not the case for profit based prisons.
Here the goal is to house as many prisoners as possible, so their goal is to keep recidivism rates high - you get let out of jail, you'll get arrested doing something and go back in, and $$$$ goes to the CEO's bank account for that.
That's the real problem, and why they implement such things in order to keep prisoners angry and hateful. Because it doesn't help the prison CEO if they become productive tax paying members of society.
And yes, it costs money to house a prisoner. That's why we want them out of prison and into good stable jobs paying taxes. It's why sane systems have early release for good behavior and such. (And why profit prisons implement punitive punishments meant to keep prisoners at least to the end of their term, if not longer).
The problem is without compiler enforcement, someone might slip some of these features into the codebase.
The compiler needs to have a bunch of feature switches you can disable (which is easy to do in a modern IDE or a makefile CFLAGS variable) so if someone even dares use a verboten feature for your project, the build will fail
Otherwise the lack of some discipline can lead to problems down the road.
And you can have sensible compiler defaults - it may be part of the language, but marked as "this is not recommended for use", which the compiler will error out on (but can be manually enabled using those feature switches) so old codebases can still use them, new code bases aren't using them, and it's effectively no longer part of the language as it's highly discouraged from use.
Actually, AirPlay support is up to individual apps themselves. It's a really common requested feature as well - if you offer a streaming audio or video app, and don't offer AIrPlay, people will complain bitterly to your support line about the lack of AirPlay.
Apple has nothing to do with this, other than perhaps blocking apps from doing an inventory of your AV equipment (new data gathering opportunity - see what equipment you own and sell that information to the manufacturers - "Netflix says Sony TVs are most popular, followed by Samsung"). And Apple would be right, because well, it's not a great leap to go from "inventory of your AV equipment" to "Rob Me App - gets a list of all your expensive AV gear to see if you're a mark worth stealing from".
Actually, it's a fairly difficult problem because you're talking real time systems verification and dozens of threads that can interact with each other, only a tiny combination of which if a packet of type Z arrives and within 1.2 ms a packet of type Y comes in, there's an exploitable window of 50 ms where if you send a packet of type A, the modem drops.
It's a heavily multitasked system of which there's at least a couple of processors mandatory (a DSP and a control processor) all trying to handle dozens of events that can happen.
And it's possible - think of a high speed download taking place alongside a call, the signal is fading out and the radio has to do a handoff procedure to get onto the next cell it can see, but because the road you're on is at the cell boundaries, just as soon as it's done one handoff, it needs to restart it to handle the new cell.
These edge cases cause all sorts of thread timing issues which can expose vulnerabilities, or even smash the stack.
Many years ago, I worked on a cellphone design. We discovered through user testing that the subway would routinely crash the modem firmware (when it goes into a tunnel suddenly and then exits it) All we could do is simply ask for firmware updates and providing them with logs of the modem and keep re-trying the scenario.
Well, you have to admit that Netflix is simply seeing what's happening - physical media sales are down, disc sales are down, and the trend is not getting any better. A lot of people have moved onto streaming, and the 2.7M physical subscribers have too, cutting down their plans to the minimum.
Couple this with many DVDs being MOD (manufactured on demand) because the print runs are too small, and Netflix simply can't get those (MODs are basically a burned DVD). Heck, even modern shows often only now get a DVD release, when they used to get DVD and Blu-Ray, so you can't even get it in high-def anymore.
And nevermind when a disc gets damaged - back in the day it would've been easy to go to the store and pick up a replacement, but with current trends, that's not possible - once a disc is damaged, it's gone. Netflix simply can't get another copy of it as they've been sold out for years.
There is no where Netflix can go for physical media than down - discs just aren't selling, and what little discs are available, Netflix can only buy a few copies - too many and they'll never be rented, too few and damage would prematurely remove the title from circulation.
The problem is, and every large game company exploits this, is the fact that people play video games. People like video games. And eventually, a good chunk of those players get the idea that they want to do the next step and make video games.
The lucky ones stay independent - they get a book, do a few exercises, then realize they need a regular Day Job(tm) and do the games thing on the side.
The unlucky ones start applying for "dream video game" jobs at the companies whose games they play. And those companies know the people coming in are endless (endless supply). This results in low pay, over exploitation (I've seen rules where it was mandatory 60 hour workweeks, Monday through Saturday).
And health benefits? Well, perhaps you can be the poor guy who had TWO heart attacks before 30.
And quotas, always the quotas.
Once you've had enough and quit, or expire, well, you're out, and there will be a new guy occupying your seat while it's still warm.
The result is really, one should take a job doing "boring" development, do your 40 hours a week banging out accounting code or whatever, then work on video games on the side. The pay will be higher, the benefits better (although just doing 40 hours a week instead of 60, Mon-Fri instead of Mon-Sat, and no 120+hr crunch months will definitely be a huge benefit in and of itself), just it's not as flashy. But hey, it leaves time to have a hobby, or a life.
Hell, even Steve Jobs never announced the death of the PC. It may be the "Post PC" era, but he never said they were going to die.
He likened the PC to trucks - versatile machines that can do everything, but have limitations of their own, while smartphones and tablets represent other vehicles on the road - able to do their tasks generally with far more efficiency. But as you can see, we have trucks on the road still, because of their utility.
There will al ways be regular "desktop" computers. The utility is there. But they are complimented by supplementary devices which can do some tasks with greater ease or efficiency. Why watch some YouTube video on a small window on your desktop when you can send it to your TV through your smart streaming device?
Or I've seen people work on their spreadsheets or whatever, and when an email comes in, simply pick up their phone and answer it there rather than switch out of their application.
Even Jobs knew there were far too many useful things a full computer could do that he never said they'd disappear, only they'd be supplemented.