Maybe you are an ultra organized person, but if you have a family dongles get lost. Four family members with four devices means you need at least eight dongles so there are enough around. Also, you must be expecting to buy one a month because kids will lose them; you can damage control by teaching them responsibility but they will get lost. No fucking thanks.
Then you take each and every headphone they have stick the dongle on that and tape up the connection. Dongles are only an annoyance if you treat them as a separate thing. If you treat it as something that always was a part of the cable, it's no longer a dongle, just a part of the cable.
Likewise leave it in your car, too.
I've looked at my phones and had to blow pocket lint out of the headphone ports. Years worth - apparently I never used them as much as I thought I would've. But I also know that's fine for me, so eliminating the jack is a worthwhile compromise, given my actual use case shows it just gathers lint and dirt and dust.
True, but since there are times when you really need charging to be as rapid as possible I'd rather have every normal charging spot act at maximum speed - even for a bedside sometimes you want a quick charge while taking a nap. So I have the 13W charging blocks plugged into a few common charging places around the house.
Actually, Apple devices support up to 13W wireless charging too - and in a pure speed test, yes, wired is faster, but 13W wireless chargers weren't much slower. Then came the 5W chargers followed by the 5W wireless, and the cheapo wireless chargers that literally did take forever to charge.
Unfortunately, a good chunk of those cheap wireless chargers are of the super-slow variety - if you want speed, you must spend quite a bit more for the wireless chargers that can charge faster.
There's something to be said for a removable SIM for people who would like to quickly change services.
So do it. Use the eSIM for your home network that you are most of the time, and leave the SIM tray empty for the times you travel.
Problem solved. This is for 99% of people who only need a second SIM when they travel - their home carrier will be provisioned onto the eSIM because most people don't change carriers daily. When they travel, they pop in the new local SIM into the SIM tray and use that. When they go into a new country, pop the SIM tray out, replace the SIM, and put it back in.
The only reason China doesn't support eSIM is because they probably require everyone to license SIMs. Since eSIMs can bypass this legal requirement (can't have unauthorized cell service!) it isn't allowed.
Some other countries also require you to show ID when you buy SIM cards. Somewhat of a pain when traveling to those countries.
64 bit on a watch? Does this thing access more than 2 GiB of addressable memory?
And ECG. There's no way in hell this thing is remotely certified (it's bloody hard to get a good reading from the wrist under ideal conditions never mind on a watch without wet silver chloride electrodes). That makes is not just useless but actively deceptive. Fitbit couldn't even manage heart rate (via pulse ox like tech which is way easier that far distal) without a class action lawsuit.
No, it's got an ARM processor, and 64-bit ARM is vastly faster than 32-bit ARM due to various optimizations available that 32-bit ARM is incapable of. (conditional instruction execution is no longer present on AArch64 because it hamstrings out of order execution when instructions depend on each other) and other such things. And by "vastly faster", we're easily talking 2x or more.
And the monitoring stuff likely came about because "apple watch saves lives" started becoming a thing. There are plenty of reports of people being alerted to heart conditions by Apple Watch and getting checked out by a doctor, only to discover than they were hours away from a massive heart attack or other heart condition.
So while the ECG and such may not be precise enough to be a replacement for a real machine at a hospital, it may prove to be sufficient for Apple Watch to say "Please see a doctor NOW for potential heart condition". It's one of those things where even if it misses a few people, it may alert a few more to heart conditions they never knew they had.
"Equifax security officials briefed the then-chief executive, Richard Smith, at a fall 2015 meeting" - wait, what? Equifax has security officials?
Yes, for security of their "proprietary" information. Not of the stuff in their primary database (i.e., your information). Their marketing plans, their payrolls, etc. That's what they were protecting.
I'm currently using an iPhone 5, so I guess I'm on Year 6. Only two apps that I regularly use won't get updates anymore. Everything, otherwise, still runs fine. Don't really see a need to upgrade. It takes OK pictures. Battery life is fine. I can browse the web and read email when I need to. I might upgrade to the iPhone SE or XR at some point but I don't see the need to right now.
I'm still using an iphone 4S. A phone I got when Steve Jobs was still alive (a common joke is it's the "for Steve" phone - hence 4S)
I haven't upgraded because every time I tried, it was hard to get. I ignored the 5 (no point upgrading yearly), was interested in a 5S but Apple sold out when I got there so I didn't bother (I got my 4S by walking into the Apple store on launch day with zero lineups. OK I waited 5 minutes). The 6/6S didn't have much appeal so I never bothered and it's been like that ever since. Though I think I need to upgrade merely because the software is unsupported (it was a good run for far longer than necessary).
For as long as people are willing to buy discs. I suspect we may soon see a resurgence in sales as streaming wars insanity picks up stream. Oh f**k I'm not going to pay x a month for that other service just for y.. I'll just get it on disc.
Physical media sales are dropping, fast. UHD Blu-Ray is expected to be the last physical format developed - and even interest in it is minor. Blu-Ray and UHD Blu-Ray sales are small compared to DVD sales.
People are not buying physical media - they're going for digital downloads and streaming services - it's generally more convenient for them (not having to search a big physical disc library) and is available everywhere (not having to move it around) as well as just not having to have the space for all those discs.
Videophiles are pretty much buying up the discs when they can so they can rip them onto media servers, but that's about all. Everyone's giving up physical for the convenience of digital streaming. The growth of streaming services and stagnation of physical sales are proof.
Quite likely within 5 years, discs would be like 3D movies today - you can see them, but they will be non-existent unless you import them from other countries.
DRM strikes again, and everyone who lost movies deserves it!
Except it has nothing to do with DRM.
She could've downloaded the movie, and had she done so, she could still watch the movie. Once you have a movie downloaded, Apple (so far) hasn't removed your rights to that content.
The only problem is that she was streaming the content - and Apple lost streaming rights to that content.
It's like every month when Netflix loses content - when Netflix loses the content, you can't stream it from Netflix no matter how much membership fees you paid.
It's really the only reason you have to have iTunes around - it makes it easy to download and store your purchases. And yes, iPhone apps should be backed up too, so even when they're removed (by the developer or Apple) you can still get access to it. Apple even maintains a special version of iTunes for th at.
Just an FYI, but the programs in question *ARE* OpenVPN based.
The problem is not OpenVPN. It's everything around it. Configuring a VPN can be tricky or trivial, depending on how many parameters one needs to type in exactly. Some VPN providers have step by step walkthroughs that show every dialog, and every piece of information you need to enter and where to enter it. And of course, there's the one-click installer that does it all for you so you don't have to bother. Because face it - the people who normally use VPNs can't configure worth crap - you can walk them through and they'll make a typo and not notice it and it doesn't work.
And when it comes to corporate settings, things get screwier. We use a SSL VPN as an alternative system - it works on port 443 (SSL) which lets employees generally connect back on even the most restrictive of firewalls. (If you can't make an HTTPS connection, there are more serious issues).
Tablets are nice for reading and doing light work but for anything that requires real heavy-weight work, the PC reigns king.
And how much "heavy weight work" does an average family do?
What tablets and smartphones did was reduce PC usage. It never quite eliminated it. (And even Steve Jobs admitted it - in the post-PC era, there would still be PCs becaues they're like trucks - and there are plenty of tasks a truck can do that a car can't).
But instead of having to have a PC for everyone, usage slipped a fair bit. You still have to have a family PC for homework and probably Mom or Dad brings home a work laptop to work from home, but for light web browsing, and of course the inevitable netflix and facebook and all that stuff, the kids will just use their smartphones and tablets and be done with it. (Sharing photos on social media is much easier on a smartphone/tablet than on a PC).
We'll always have PCs. The reality is, we don't need as many PCs as we used to since many tasks that were once done by PCs (e.g., web browsing, reading, netflix) have moved off of them and onto more specialized devices like phones, tablets, or set top boxes.
Tariffs are good at protecting an existing business, but you have to have a business to protect for a tariff to work.
No, tariffs are lousy at protecting existing business, unless the competition is unfairly cheating. If you use a tariff to protect business, all you're doing is giving CEOs another yacht because why compete? If they can now raise prices because of the tariffs, they will.
It's why tariff relief is generally only given to countries found to be dumping.
Ask any homebuyer how the 20% tariffs on Canadian wood is helping them. All it's done is resulted in US wood producers raising their prices to make extra profit, at the expense of homebuilders and other businesses who use that wood.
It even lead to one of the strangest rants by Trump when he complained about high wood prices - as it was Trump who imposed the tariffs and forced wood to be more expensive. The other option is stall out the economy - if wood gets too expensive, then people don't make houses and the economy slows down.
Tariffs are only good when a competitor is dumping trying to bankrupt your local industry. Like Saudi Arabia tried to do by dumping tons of oil on the market causing oil prices to plummet so they could buy up oil wells and refineries. In that case a tariff would've helped protect those industries from being bought out.
Powerful people don't use mass transit, therefore there is no priority on mass transit.
Partly true, but in the past there were plenty of places that had streetcars as public transit. The problem was, streetcars competed with well, cars, so the powerful car lobby pretty much lobbied to get streetcar tracks ripped up so people would buy cars.
Naturally, as streetcars got more difficult to use, people bought cars and drove.
There was a time when basically everyone used "public transit" because only the very rich could own a car. Yes, cheaper cars helped, but people can be hard to change (especially since driving wasn't much faster than public transit anyways)
Don't forget, a hefty chunk of Qualcomm's - and pretty much all of Apple's - designs are not original, but instead are based on IP from ARM, a British company (although recently bought out by SoftBank).
Qualcomm's Kyro ARM cores are based on modified ARM designs. Apple's ARM cores have been pretty independent of ARM's designs. That's why Apple's SoCs can post the benchmarks they do. (They are extremely fast - even the old A10X chips still outrun the latest Samsung chips, which outrun even the SnapDragon 845).
The only reason Apple is slower is because Apple hasn't put a million CPU cores on it (i think they're up to 3 cores, while everyone else is posting 4 to 8 cores).
Apple hired a TON of ASIC designers many years ago (back when the Mac used PowerPC chips - the company Apple acquired made a much improved version of the PowerPC chip right when Apple transitioned to x86. Apple liked it so much they acquired them and a few years later came out with the world's first 64-bit ARM design in production.)
... belongs behind ssh or, at least, behind http access and SSL. If I catch you doing otherwise for anything other than FOSS software I'll smack you. Hard.
And it probably is. The thing is, the website owners are using git to version control and deploy their website (not a bad idea). So they develop their web site, push it to the central git repo, and whenever they need to go live, they just do a "git pull" on the webserver and it'll pull down the latest version of the website.
Problem is, they forget about the hidden.git directory git makes that stores all sorts of useful information and with a little persistence, allow you access to the raw source code since you can access the individual git objects. (Or maybe even clone it using git).
You can run something like a Linode instance pretty cheaply and get more IPs. I've run a highly restricted exit node in the past (low bandwidth, select ports), and I've had the same problems with you if I try to use my Linode as a web proxy. My most recent problem has been with Shut Up and Sit Down RSS feeds, which are blocking my host:-\
And that's just because no matter how noble the cause, idiots will just ruin it. You don't need a list of Tor exit nodes because if you run a reasonably popular website, you'll find out quite rapidly what they are and auto-blacklist t hem.
It's why CDNs like CloudFlare block Tor - the abuse from Tor exit nodes ensures that whatever trigger you use, it'll be triggered and you'll end up blocking it. It's not like it's done deliberately - you don't have to seek out new Tor exit nodes. They just make themselves known.
I'd even venture to say if you want to allow Tor traffic, you have to whitelist them specifically It's not that Tor is bad, it's just that it's got a bunch of bad actors that really do ruin it for those who need it.
And you can't just switch to wireless if your TiVo box only has dialup as an option. Not everybody goes out and buys an expensive replacement when they already have a perfectly good piece of equipment that does the job well.
The only boxes that have dialup are Series 2 and Series 3 boxes. (Series 1 have been discontinued - TiVo gave everyone with one of those $75). TiVo is making available a $25 wireless adapter that works with both kinds of TiVos (it plugs into the USB port) so all TiVos in the system that are dialup only or could use dialup are able to connect to WiFi. (If they aren't connected by Ethernet).
The only person that's stuck is someone who does not have any sort of internet access (you could get WiFi routers that do dialup internet) - even dialup only TiVos supported the wireless adapter for a decade or more now.
Mistakes happen where people work. Show me a person that makes no mistakes and I show you a person that does not work.
What sets good and mediocre companies apart is how they deal with the mistakes that happen and how they mitigate them.
Remember that next time something happens and the public calls for blood.
Because people want to blame the person "at fault", whether it's a driver of train or a plane or something that could've caused the accident
The problem is people want revenge - they want to know the person who "did it" and fire their ass. It's perfectly human nature to want revenge. Problem is, the government is beholden to such sentiment - the people want blood, the government must give them the blood otherwise it feels like a coverup. No amount of fault finding will placate victims and their relatives other than knowing the guy responsible was fired.
Enlightened companies know to not blame the individual but to enact processes and safeguards to ensure that the situation won't happen again. (Because firing the person responsible means the mistake wasn't learned - just that the person who made it and possibly knows how ot prevent it is now gone from the company). And there are many processes to help identify the root cause of a problem.
But people still want the head of the perpetrator.
I like the ideal of the POTUS being able to go around the media and talk right to the people with out it being filtered a third party.
Too bad the White House must use Twitter. They can't set up any sort of "diary" or "web log" thing because the White House doesn't ahve a web site or other communications medium where people can talk back and forth directly to the president.
It's a pity such technology doesn't exist.
In other words, the White House can set up their down damn blog where the president can post whatever the heck they want. Safe from censorship (it's THEIR web site), archived (because everything public should be), and completely unfiltered.
It's the 21st century. He doesn't need any third party company to say his piece or potentially "censor" him. he can create his own forum.
It is not acceptable for Google that some browsing bypasses Google search engine when people directly type in URLs.
Remember the great dot-com shootout in the early 00's? Back when people wanted very special.com addresses because that's how people found you, by stumbling about composing URLs?
Sites like sex.com, pets.com, books.com etc. etc. - those domains sold for $$$$$ back in the day. Nowadays it matters a lot less,because everyone Googles rather than tries random URLs. Doesn't hurt that half of the URLs you try will lead to a malware site these days.
I find it amusing that with both companies being at a one trillion market cap, AAPL has a P/E ratio of 20, while AMZN has nearly an order of magnitude higher P/E at 185.
Problem is, AAPL is dying! (Been dying for what, over 40 years now?). Of course, Amazon, having made very little profit, is going to take over the world. (If you look at their annual reports, making profit isn't actually a priority for Amazon - they intend to grow revenues even at the expense of profits.)
Also, picking "the right ship for the job" such that your cargo comes as close as possible to completely filling the hold to the top, to limit the amount of possible shifting.
Can't. You might not know this, but ships sail in water, and water around the wrold is quite different. How full you can load a ship depends on the waters it's going to sail in - different salt content, etc. really affect the loading of the ship.
While loading is calculated by computer nowadays, Plimsoll Lines help anyone looking at the ship determine the loading at a glance. And the modern lines even make variances for the seasons (summer and winter waters differ in density). Depending on the seasons and where you're going, there can be a huge amount of head space you cannot fill just to avoid overloading the ship.
You can do that, but 99% of the time Chinese people will use pinyin entry instead. That is much quicker than going by strokes.
Anyway you do it, text entry in Chinese is slower than English (but it is faster to read), hence the demand for voice entry.
And still slower when both hands are busy holding the phone. It's an interesting juggle as they try to move their hands to reach areas of the keyboard.
If they can wire in an electrode to my brain that makes me feel tactile feedback this would be awesome. Oh yeah, and it has to work.
Apple's "taptic" engine works quite well. I was using their touchpad and it's amazing how much they "click" even though the touchpad doesn't actually move anymore. Push down and you feel it click, let go and it clicks back.
If anything, that might work for tactile feedback if done right.
Skype handles file transfers better than Discord. In Skype you can just drag and drop the file, but in Discord, it opens a browser and downloads it that way. Brutal. Otherwise, Discord works.
That's because Skype is a full blooded app (at least on non-Linux platforms). So it's able to do a lot. Discord is a website with a elektron/node.js thing using Chromium. Likely due to integrity processing, the Discord app can't download a thing (Windows has a "low integrity mode" for browser processes - this locks down a browser into a sandbox to which interactions are limited - access to filesystems is limited to a temp subdirectory and access to other windows is limited. To handle file downloads, IE and Edge trigger a normal integrity process to pop up a file save dialog (which cannot be interacted with by a low-integrity process - eliminating drive-by downloads, so only the user can control it) and for that process to move the downloaded file to the final location since the browser can't do it).
So the discord app needs help, and it triggers the default browser to help it. Chromium/Chrome, IE and Edge are the only browsers to use this sandbox mode - Firefox doesn't.
I'm slightly confused as to the popularity of this sort of voice chat. For phonetic alphabets it's far faster to read messages than hear them spoken, even if you talk like you're written by Aaron Sorkin. Writing can also be nigh as fast as talking for anyone quick enough.
Is simplified chinese still such a burden that talking is easier and more convenient, or is it some other thing that makes this popular?
Well, I think it's a combination of things. First off, remember screen size is a status symbol. If you're holding your phone using two hands (and I've seen it happen), it's pretty damn hard to type. Plus, you compose characters - either by drawing strokes or picking strokes to generate the character. Again, this requires a fair bit of dexterity when one's hands are otherwise doing something else (e.g., holding the phone).
Second, voice mail chat seems extremely common - I've seen people basically MMS each other audio - they say a few lines, hit send, wait for a response, listen to it, reply, etc. I don't know if voice minutes cost serious money or something, but they seem to enjoy leaving people 5 second voice messages rather than speaking directly with them. I'm guessing it's harder for people to find a conversation that happened a week ago but still able to bring up topics that happened a day ago.
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Then you take each and every headphone they have stick the dongle on that and tape up the connection. Dongles are only an annoyance if you treat them as a separate thing. If you treat it as something that always was a part of the cable, it's no longer a dongle, just a part of the cable.
Likewise leave it in your car, too.
I've looked at my phones and had to blow pocket lint out of the headphone ports. Years worth - apparently I never used them as much as I thought I would've. But I also know that's fine for me, so eliminating the jack is a worthwhile compromise, given my actual use case shows it just gathers lint and dirt and dust.
Actually, Apple devices support up to 13W wireless charging too - and in a pure speed test, yes, wired is faster, but 13W wireless chargers weren't much slower. Then came the 5W chargers followed by the 5W wireless, and the cheapo wireless chargers that literally did take forever to charge.
Unfortunately, a good chunk of those cheap wireless chargers are of the super-slow variety - if you want speed, you must spend quite a bit more for the wireless chargers that can charge faster.
So do it. Use the eSIM for your home network that you are most of the time, and leave the SIM tray empty for the times you travel.
Problem solved. This is for 99% of people who only need a second SIM when they travel - their home carrier will be provisioned onto the eSIM because most people don't change carriers daily. When they travel, they pop in the new local SIM into the SIM tray and use that. When they go into a new country, pop the SIM tray out, replace the SIM, and put it back in.
The only reason China doesn't support eSIM is because they probably require everyone to license SIMs. Since eSIMs can bypass this legal requirement (can't have unauthorized cell service!) it isn't allowed.
Some other countries also require you to show ID when you buy SIM cards. Somewhat of a pain when traveling to those countries.
No, it's got an ARM processor, and 64-bit ARM is vastly faster than 32-bit ARM due to various optimizations available that 32-bit ARM is incapable of. (conditional instruction execution is no longer present on AArch64 because it hamstrings out of order execution when instructions depend on each other) and other such things. And by "vastly faster", we're easily talking 2x or more.
And the monitoring stuff likely came about because "apple watch saves lives" started becoming a thing. There are plenty of reports of people being alerted to heart conditions by Apple Watch and getting checked out by a doctor, only to discover than they were hours away from a massive heart attack or other heart condition.
So while the ECG and such may not be precise enough to be a replacement for a real machine at a hospital, it may prove to be sufficient for Apple Watch to say "Please see a doctor NOW for potential heart condition". It's one of those things where even if it misses a few people, it may alert a few more to heart conditions they never knew they had.
"Equifax security officials briefed the then-chief executive, Richard Smith, at a fall 2015 meeting" - wait, what? Equifax has security officials?
Yes, for security of their "proprietary" information. Not of the stuff in their primary database (i.e., your information). Their marketing plans, their payrolls, etc. That's what they were protecting.
I'm still using an iphone 4S. A phone I got when Steve Jobs was still alive (a common joke is it's the "for Steve" phone - hence 4S)
I haven't upgraded because every time I tried, it was hard to get. I ignored the 5 (no point upgrading yearly), was interested in a 5S but Apple sold out when I got there so I didn't bother (I got my 4S by walking into the Apple store on launch day with zero lineups. OK I waited 5 minutes). The 6/6S didn't have much appeal so I never bothered and it's been like that ever since. Though I think I need to upgrade merely because the software is unsupported (it was a good run for far longer than necessary).
Physical media sales are dropping, fast. UHD Blu-Ray is expected to be the last physical format developed - and even interest in it is minor. Blu-Ray and UHD Blu-Ray sales are small compared to DVD sales.
People are not buying physical media - they're going for digital downloads and streaming services - it's generally more convenient for them (not having to search a big physical disc library) and is available everywhere (not having to move it around) as well as just not having to have the space for all those discs.
Videophiles are pretty much buying up the discs when they can so they can rip them onto media servers, but that's about all. Everyone's giving up physical for the convenience of digital streaming. The growth of streaming services and stagnation of physical sales are proof.
Quite likely within 5 years, discs would be like 3D movies today - you can see them, but they will be non-existent unless you import them from other countries.
Except it has nothing to do with DRM.
She could've downloaded the movie, and had she done so, she could still watch the movie. Once you have a movie downloaded, Apple (so far) hasn't removed your rights to that content.
The only problem is that she was streaming the content - and Apple lost streaming rights to that content.
It's like every month when Netflix loses content - when Netflix loses the content, you can't stream it from Netflix no matter how much membership fees you paid.
It's really the only reason you have to have iTunes around - it makes it easy to download and store your purchases. And yes, iPhone apps should be backed up too, so even when they're removed (by the developer or Apple) you can still get access to it. Apple even maintains a special version of iTunes for th at.
The problem is not OpenVPN. It's everything around it. Configuring a VPN can be tricky or trivial, depending on how many parameters one needs to type in exactly. Some VPN providers have step by step walkthroughs that show every dialog, and every piece of information you need to enter and where to enter it. And of course, there's the one-click installer that does it all for you so you don't have to bother. Because face it - the people who normally use VPNs can't configure worth crap - you can walk them through and they'll make a typo and not notice it and it doesn't work.
And when it comes to corporate settings, things get screwier. We use a SSL VPN as an alternative system - it works on port 443 (SSL) which lets employees generally connect back on even the most restrictive of firewalls. (If you can't make an HTTPS connection, there are more serious issues).
And how much "heavy weight work" does an average family do?
What tablets and smartphones did was reduce PC usage. It never quite eliminated it. (And even Steve Jobs admitted it - in the post-PC era, there would still be PCs becaues they're like trucks - and there are plenty of tasks a truck can do that a car can't).
But instead of having to have a PC for everyone, usage slipped a fair bit. You still have to have a family PC for homework and probably Mom or Dad brings home a work laptop to work from home, but for light web browsing, and of course the inevitable netflix and facebook and all that stuff, the kids will just use their smartphones and tablets and be done with it. (Sharing photos on social media is much easier on a smartphone/tablet than on a PC).
We'll always have PCs. The reality is, we don't need as many PCs as we used to since many tasks that were once done by PCs (e.g., web browsing, reading, netflix) have moved off of them and onto more specialized devices like phones, tablets, or set top boxes.
No, tariffs are lousy at protecting existing business, unless the competition is unfairly cheating. If you use a tariff to protect business, all you're doing is giving CEOs another yacht because why compete? If they can now raise prices because of the tariffs, they will.
It's why tariff relief is generally only given to countries found to be dumping.
Ask any homebuyer how the 20% tariffs on Canadian wood is helping them. All it's done is resulted in US wood producers raising their prices to make extra profit, at the expense of homebuilders and other businesses who use that wood.
It even lead to one of the strangest rants by Trump when he complained about high wood prices - as it was Trump who imposed the tariffs and forced wood to be more expensive. The other option is stall out the economy - if wood gets too expensive, then people don't make houses and the economy slows down.
Tariffs are only good when a competitor is dumping trying to bankrupt your local industry. Like Saudi Arabia tried to do by dumping tons of oil on the market causing oil prices to plummet so they could buy up oil wells and refineries. In that case a tariff would've helped protect those industries from being bought out.
Partly true, but in the past there were plenty of places that had streetcars as public transit. The problem was, streetcars competed with well, cars, so the powerful car lobby pretty much lobbied to get streetcar tracks ripped up so people would buy cars.
Naturally, as streetcars got more difficult to use, people bought cars and drove.
There was a time when basically everyone used "public transit" because only the very rich could own a car. Yes, cheaper cars helped, but people can be hard to change (especially since driving wasn't much faster than public transit anyways)
Qualcomm's Kyro ARM cores are based on modified ARM designs. Apple's ARM cores have been pretty independent of ARM's designs. That's why Apple's SoCs can post the benchmarks they do. (They are extremely fast - even the old A10X chips still outrun the latest Samsung chips, which outrun even the SnapDragon 845).
The only reason Apple is slower is because Apple hasn't put a million CPU cores on it (i think they're up to 3 cores, while everyone else is posting 4 to 8 cores).
Apple hired a TON of ASIC designers many years ago (back when the Mac used PowerPC chips - the company Apple acquired made a much improved version of the PowerPC chip right when Apple transitioned to x86. Apple liked it so much they acquired them and a few years later came out with the world's first 64-bit ARM design in production.)
And it probably is. The thing is, the website owners are using git to version control and deploy their website (not a bad idea). So they develop their web site, push it to the central git repo, and whenever they need to go live, they just do a "git pull" on the webserver and it'll pull down the latest version of the website.
Problem is, they forget about the hidden .git directory git makes that stores all sorts of useful information and with a little persistence, allow you access to the raw source code since you can access the individual git objects. (Or maybe even clone it using git).
And that's just because no matter how noble the cause, idiots will just ruin it. You don't need a list of Tor exit nodes because if you run a reasonably popular website, you'll find out quite rapidly what they are and auto-blacklist t hem.
It's why CDNs like CloudFlare block Tor - the abuse from Tor exit nodes ensures that whatever trigger you use, it'll be triggered and you'll end up blocking it. It's not like it's done deliberately - you don't have to seek out new Tor exit nodes. They just make themselves known.
I'd even venture to say if you want to allow Tor traffic, you have to whitelist them specifically It's not that Tor is bad, it's just that it's got a bunch of bad actors that really do ruin it for those who need it.
The only boxes that have dialup are Series 2 and Series 3 boxes. (Series 1 have been discontinued - TiVo gave everyone with one of those $75). TiVo is making available a $25 wireless adapter that works with both kinds of TiVos (it plugs into the USB port) so all TiVos in the system that are dialup only or could use dialup are able to connect to WiFi. (If they aren't connected by Ethernet).
The only person that's stuck is someone who does not have any sort of internet access (you could get WiFi routers that do dialup internet) - even dialup only TiVos supported the wireless adapter for a decade or more now.
Remember that next time something happens and the public calls for blood.
Because people want to blame the person "at fault", whether it's a driver of train or a plane or something that could've caused the accident
The problem is people want revenge - they want to know the person who "did it" and fire their ass. It's perfectly human nature to want revenge. Problem is, the government is beholden to such sentiment - the people want blood, the government must give them the blood otherwise it feels like a coverup. No amount of fault finding will placate victims and their relatives other than knowing the guy responsible was fired.
Enlightened companies know to not blame the individual but to enact processes and safeguards to ensure that the situation won't happen again. (Because firing the person responsible means the mistake wasn't learned - just that the person who made it and possibly knows how ot prevent it is now gone from the company). And there are many processes to help identify the root cause of a problem.
But people still want the head of the perpetrator.
Too bad the White House must use Twitter. They can't set up any sort of "diary" or "web log" thing because the White House doesn't ahve a web site or other communications medium where people can talk back and forth directly to the president.
It's a pity such technology doesn't exist.
In other words, the White House can set up their down damn blog where the president can post whatever the heck they want. Safe from censorship (it's THEIR web site), archived (because everything public should be), and completely unfiltered.
It's the 21st century. He doesn't need any third party company to say his piece or potentially "censor" him. he can create his own forum.
Heck, if you can run your own email server...
Remember the great dot-com shootout in the early 00's? Back when people wanted very special .com addresses because that's how people found you, by stumbling about composing URLs?
Sites like sex.com, pets.com, books.com etc. etc. - those domains sold for $$$$$ back in the day. Nowadays it matters a lot less,because everyone Googles rather than tries random URLs. Doesn't hurt that half of the URLs you try will lead to a malware site these days.
Problem is, AAPL is dying! (Been dying for what, over 40 years now?). Of course, Amazon, having made very little profit, is going to take over the world. (If you look at their annual reports, making profit isn't actually a priority for Amazon - they intend to grow revenues even at the expense of profits.)
Can't. You might not know this, but ships sail in water, and water around the wrold is quite different. How full you can load a ship depends on the waters it's going to sail in - different salt content, etc. really affect the loading of the ship.
While loading is calculated by computer nowadays, Plimsoll Lines help anyone looking at the ship determine the loading at a glance. And the modern lines even make variances for the seasons (summer and winter waters differ in density). Depending on the seasons and where you're going, there can be a huge amount of head space you cannot fill just to avoid overloading the ship.
And still slower when both hands are busy holding the phone. It's an interesting juggle as they try to move their hands to reach areas of the keyboard.
If they can wire in an electrode to my brain that makes me feel tactile feedback this would be awesome. Oh yeah, and it has to work.
Apple's "taptic" engine works quite well. I was using their touchpad and it's amazing how much they "click" even though the touchpad doesn't actually move anymore. Push down and you feel it click, let go and it clicks back.
If anything, that might work for tactile feedback if done right.
That's because Skype is a full blooded app (at least on non-Linux platforms). So it's able to do a lot. Discord is a website with a elektron/node.js thing using Chromium. Likely due to integrity processing, the Discord app can't download a thing (Windows has a "low integrity mode" for browser processes - this locks down a browser into a sandbox to which interactions are limited - access to filesystems is limited to a temp subdirectory and access to other windows is limited. To handle file downloads, IE and Edge trigger a normal integrity process to pop up a file save dialog (which cannot be interacted with by a low-integrity process - eliminating drive-by downloads, so only the user can control it) and for that process to move the downloaded file to the final location since the browser can't do it).
So the discord app needs help, and it triggers the default browser to help it. Chromium/Chrome, IE and Edge are the only browsers to use this sandbox mode - Firefox doesn't.
Well, I think it's a combination of things. First off, remember screen size is a status symbol. If you're holding your phone using two hands (and I've seen it happen), it's pretty damn hard to type. Plus, you compose characters - either by drawing strokes or picking strokes to generate the character. Again, this requires a fair bit of dexterity when one's hands are otherwise doing something else (e.g., holding the phone).
Second, voice mail chat seems extremely common - I've seen people basically MMS each other audio - they say a few lines, hit send, wait for a response, listen to it, reply, etc. I don't know if voice minutes cost serious money or something, but they seem to enjoy leaving people 5 second voice messages rather than speaking directly with them. I'm guessing it's harder for people to find a conversation that happened a week ago but still able to bring up topics that happened a day ago.