Enjoy the ads, which take up half your viewing time and assume you are an idiot. I would not say I am "grateful" for our online marketing overlords, per se, but at least there's a slim chance that streaming ads are relevant.
They make OTA DVRs, you know, so you can record your programming and watch it afterwards, skipping through the ads.
These are days which they will spend complaining about service, and some will be shopping around for other providers. If a significant fraction jump ship, the ISP is going to get a sudden motivation boost to start reading up on basic security practices that are essential in a highly connected world.
This is India we're talking about. The ISP is probably the local telephone company which is run by the government. And disparaging the government will get you disappeared. In a country of 1.4+ billion people, no one would notice. (India and China are basically neck and neck for most populous country, and the "leader" switches frequently).
And if they knocked an entire village offline, that means a 2-day trek to check their email again, and kids are stuck without educational materials, so go work in the fields.
It's already plainly obvious that Idjit Patel is going to kill off those rules come hell or high water.
So what's the point of having a discussion? I doubt any of the 'tech leaders' want to waste their time with political theatre, having a bunch of politicians pat their heads and go "There there, it'll be ok."
The point of the discussion is to make the government look good. That's it. That way they can say "Look, we consulted with these people! The rules are going away!"
I'm sort of on the fence about this. I'm in favor of net neutrality. But when my local ISP blocks the GOP's fundraising websites because "You gotta pay to play" I can live with that.
Hahahahahaha!
You think "political donations" will not have rules about "must be treated fairly"? They'll write themselves the nice exception that ISPs must fast lane all political websites just like politicians are exempt from plenty of other rules that affect the proles, like telemarketing and anti-spam.
Most of HP's multi-function printers with Scan To Network only support SMB1. When will they issue a firmware update that adds support for SMB2?
Use "Scan to email" instead. Scan to Network just seemed to be a waste of time, filling a folder with scan_**** files as people scanned them and left them there instead of deleting it. Scan to email is similar, but it just emails you the PDFs
now why is it I can't safely cross a street when I've got right of way? I got hit about 5 years ago carrying my bike across a street with the little blue guy telling me to cross. It was a cross walk seldom used by pedestrians since I had ridden out pretty far on my bike and was gonna go back the way I came. It didn't cross the woman who hit me's mind that somebody would ever cross there, so when the light turned red she just kept going...
Well, you may have the right of way, which only helps you if you file a lawsuit. So just because you have right of way, doesn't mean you should take the right - it's still better to be wronged than dead right, after all.
It's why we look both ways before crossing the street - even on one-way streets because you do have idiot drivers going the wrong way, or more often nowadays, cyclists (who never seem to understand that on a one-way street, most people won't actually be looking for oncoming traffic the other way).
After all, a driver could also be on the phone and thus not paying attention to the road as well. It's why we have distracted driving laws. Just because a driver is triply wrong (no right of way, using the phone, etc) doesn't mean you won't spend days or months in the hospital.
Heck, I've nearly been backed into (you'd think a driver would look... backwards when they reverse, right?) so close my bag actually hit the car (I had jumped out of the way). And there are drivers who "race the light" even though not only has it long extinguished, but opposing traffic is starting to move and pedestrians are in the intersection.
Back when I was a kid, my Dad was thinking about adding a second phone line in the kitchen. He called up The Phone Company and they wanted to charge a lot of money. But he knew a guy who would do it for a six-pack of Schaefer. But, of course, back then it was "illegal" for anyone other than The Phone Company to mess with the phone wires. So this guy wired everything up so it could be easily removed/hidden, just in case The Phone Company had to come out to your house.
Years later, my Mom wanted to get DSL. The local provider came out, tried to check all the phone lines, and found one that he couldn't figure out. That was the hidden one.
Yes, that would be the early 80s or so when AT&T thought no one could touch their cable, and they owned all the wiring, including the one inside your house. And no one could hook anything up that was not AT&T approved (hence, the old acoustic couplers on modems). But since the 80s, the courts have said no, you have to allow users to connect their equipment direct to lines, etc. It's why the telephone box on your house is called a "demarc" - it demarcates where the phone company's responsibility ends and yours begins - if you have a problem, you connect the problematic device to the demarc. If it works, then it's your wiring and you pay to fix it. If it's still there, the phone company has to fix it.
It was also the time the courts said AT&T could no longer dictate what gets hooked to their network, so modems lost the acoustic coupler and we had things like answering machines and a wildly increased selection of phones.
On the rare occasions I see ads, they're almost always for things I already know about. Who the fuck buys a Coke because they saw a commercial for it? Literally everyone in America knows who they are, there is no reason why they need to advertise anymore except for new products. Likewise for any other big brand - sure, maybe Disney needs to advertise their latest movie, because it's new, but what is the point of Ford reminding everyone "hey, that F-150 that's been a staple of the American truck market for most people's entire lives is still around"?
Guess what? You noticed the ad. You just served the purpose of it.
And that's the point.
An ad can be done to sell you a particular product. It can also be done to tell you about a particular product - knowing something exists, even if you don't need it now, may be valuable knowledge later (how many FOSS projects die only because no one knows about them? Too many/. articles go "well geez, if someone had told me about it..." when some project gets cancelled).
Other times, an ad creates "brand awareness". It's not there to sell you something (directly), it's there to just reinforce branding. Why do more people drink Coke instead of Pepsi? Barring slight taste differences, most people cannot tell the two apart unless they're really trying The point is to simply plant a seed in your mind about Coke. That's it. So perhaps when you're at the drink aisle, you'd pick up the Coke bottle.
Heck, now that I think about it, I can't remember seeing a Pepsi ad recently. (I don't drink either).
Me? Never. I had to ask someone for assistance when I had an occasion where I needed to
But for other people, you obviously don't go out very much - they take selfies so often, you wonder why they don't just use video mode. Or why front facing cameras continue to take a back seat to the rear facing one, because people seem to take photos only using the front facing one.
Everything being electronic does make me uneasy re what happens when the puter shits itself -- safety and ability to drive. Conventional cars are already ludicrously expensive to fix when electronics go bad. Hell, I had to spend $600 having the "motherboard" in a fridge replaced.
Most new cars on the road are completely computer controlled. The computer tells which spark plugs to spark, knows where the engine is in its cycle, etc. If the electrical system dies, so does the engine (the battery can die, though, if the alternator is working fine, but once you stop the car, it's dead).
Every instrument in the dashboard is also electronic. Sure it has needles and such, but there's a servo behind it.
About the only thing with direct linkages are the brakes - the parking brake lever to the rears, and the brake pedal to the master cylinder. (I said parking brake - most of those are no longer "e-brakes" and are not designed for emergency use).
Throttles are servo-controlled nowadays (as are the kick-down switches now implemented as rate of change of the accelerator pedal rather than where the pedal is located, so "stomping it" can take place anywhere in the pedal's travel).
Electronic ignition was also the first test of a RTOS - since spark timing is a hard real time task.
There are typically two main computers in a modern car - the ECU which controls the powertrain only (being a hard real time task), and a Body Computer which handles the essentials elsewhere - from your electronic keys (which unlock the ECU), door locks, windows, alarm/immobilizer, dash gauges, etc. There are ancillary computers as well - your ABS is usually a separate unit, as is the airbags. Those are considered so critical that they're a separate computer rather than just another process on the body computer. (In the case of the airbags, they have capacitors that will store up charge to keep the airbag computer powered up during an accident and provide firing charges to the airbags in case the accident causes immediate electrical system failure).
Note that things like door locks and door handles are also mechanical - the "power" part of it is an actuator that is designed to be mechanically overridden - no computer can lock the door and have the door remain locked.without actively commanding the lock to lock.
Steve Jobs hated paying dividends (profit which is supposed to go to stockholders). Apple stopped paying dividends when Jobs was re-hired in 1995, and started paying them again shortly after his death in 2012. The $200+ billion in cash Apple has in the bank almost exactly equals how much it should have paid out in dividends during Jobs' reign. So I suspect what happened is the board complied with Jobs' wish not to pay dividends to stockholders, but only on the condition that they bank it so they could decide how to use it later (including possibly paying it out to future stockholders).
So basically it's pocket change because they didn't pay their owners for close to 20 years. I'd have a lot of money in the bank too if I didn't have to make payments on my home and car loan for 20 years. (Though to be fair, Google doesn't pay dividends either.)
There's nothing wrong with not paying dividends. There is no law saying a company must pay dividends to shareholders anywhere.
Paying a dividend means you reduce the amount of working capital you have. For some companies, they don't need that much cash on hand. For others, it's necessary for cashflow.
Anyhow, most of Apple's investors are in the US, while most of Apple's money is outside the US. To pay a dividend would require importing that money in, and losing 35% of it off the top, so shareholders either have to contend with a company losing 35% to Uncle Sam just to pay a dividend, or holding the money offshore and letting it grow.
Giving dividends is usually a sign of a company out of ideas - rather than investing the profits in future growth opportunities, they decide to just return it to shareholders because they have nothing better to do with it.
And really, Nokia's money is coming from those billions stashed outside the US. It's $2B less dollars that could be taxed ($700M would've gone to Uncle Sam) should Apple bring it in.
Moving to 64-bit doesn't exactly improve security when you don't even have enough RAM installed in the phone to even reach the 32-bit memory limit in the first place.
64-bit on ARM was never about memory. It was about speed - AArch64 had to divest itself of a lot of AArch32 legacy crap that was holding it back. Like conditional execution of instructions, a mainstay of ARM since the very beginning. (It unfortunately does not work in today's world of superscalar architectures where there may be a dozen instructions in flight - imagine having to do a branch predictor for every single instruction).
By dropping a lot of legacy stuff, AArch64 can run code significantly faster - the 2x speedups weren't a joke on ARMv8 running 64-bit code over 32-bit code. (Most of the legacy stuff dropped doesn't significantly bloat the code, so you're not doubling the number of instructions to go 64-bit).
And memory is all virtual - ASLR and other techniques work just fine even if you don't have more than 4 gigs of RAM. Only the lowest of the low-level code ever deals with physical RAM addresses anymore - every modern OS is like this.
This one didn't even earn their billions, they married into them.
Nope. She married Steve in 1991, before he was a billionaire.
Except Steve was still a multi-millionaire at that point.
Granted, she didn't marry into billions, but Steve did have a LOT of millions to toss around. Most of it went into saving Pixar at the time.
And to be honest, to go from 1991 to 2010, that's a pretty good marriage. Most don't last as long, so you know she wasn't in it for just the money, especially with the complexities of Steve's life up to that point.
Yes, Flash in it's current closed-source state is riddled with security holes and vulnerabilities. However if it got open-sourced then one of the first things people would be able to do for the first time ever is pour over the source - find all those security holes - and fucking FIX them
That's probably why it won't be open-sourced. Adobe is simply too embarrassed about the code.
You see, Flash Player was free. It was never a revenue generating product (their producer software was the product they were selling). They just wanted to write a run time to make it possible so users of the producer can have others play with the output.
The whole "security flaw" thing ate into the plans - because it means Flash Player requires active development, and dedicating people to work on a product that generates no direct revenue, so it really costs them money.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the most shoddy piece of code ever because it was developed on the cheap since it was a "free" product. And they're not willing to admit it, and open-sourcing would require someone to actually fix up the code state from "this thing actually can be compiled?!" to "OK, it's not the best code in the world, but it won't reflect horribly on us".
But who in their right mind takes an unpaid internship after graduation? That's not an internship, that's being taken advantage of by a weak job market. There's nothing worth studying there. It's a blight that needs to be stamped out. A way of having an employee without paying them, which at least in my country used to be very, very illegal.
In Canada, it's illegal to take on an employee for free - they must get something out of it. So-called "unpaid internships" do happen, but the intern MUST be getting an education out of it. If they're being the office coffee fetcher, they can (and have) legally sued.for compensation as the educational value of running to the local coffeeshop is suspect at best.
In other words, if you want to take on an unpaid intern, you must provide them with work that meaningfully educates them. They must learn something that will provide them with the requisite skills the job will entail. This is mostly because the medical field is rife with this, so as long as they're getting a medical education out of it, it's fine.
It's resulted in companies like HootSuite having to pay fair wages to the interns - coffee fetching, and even "doing real work" do not qualify unless there is an education component.
The company I work for is more conservative despite being a high-tech company. They pay everyone - even co-ops and interns. Far easier to play by the rules and really, if you can't afford to pay them even the lowest of wages for an extended job interview, there really isn't a job to be had.
Our council has installed flashing red lights embedded into the road right on the kerbside specifically to target screen zombies. It still doesn't help. The problem is absolutely people concentrating on their devices instead of the potential danger around them. I ride a motorbike and I almost hit these people every_single_day. I've actually broken my horn button from using it so much to get these fuckwits to pay attention.
The mayor of a local suburban city nearly mowed down a pedestrian who just stepped out onto the street in the middle between two cars. Without stopping, and then chewed out the mayor for nearly hitting her. She was on her phone and of course, never looked both ways to make sure her path was clear.
The mayor wrote up an "apology" on Facebook that garnered a lot of attention.
This was the middle of the street - an intersection with a crosswalk was only a few more steps away.
What I don't get is what is so damned interesting on the phone that one completely forgets the rules their parents taught them when they were young, like looking both ways before crossing the street. I mean, this is something so basic. Considering the potential risk - injury is extremely common. People have knocked out their teeth from walking into lampposts, benches and other sidewalk furniture. People have fallen down street elevator holes (they walk right into the raised door and fall into the basement), or into water fountains.
So what is so damn interesting that it's worth risking minor injuries that are quite preventable? Or major injury - I can't imagine anything on the screen being so interesting that would justify even spending a day in a hospital.
Yes, I've tried it - I wanted to look up something on my phone and I just couldn't do it and walk without the fear of running into something or someone. I stepped aside and finished looking up the information - there wasn't anything on it I could justify spending hours at a doctor's office getting fixed up for - it was cheaper time-wise to step aside, spend 30 seconds with the phone in relative safety, then resume walking to my destination. Quicker too, since if I got injured, it could be hours at a doctors office, or days at a hospital, or 30 seconds simply stopped safely out of the way.
If someone steals phones, lets the battery drain in Faraday cage bag, then parts them out, they will still make some decent cash. A 100% Apple touch screen still goes for a C-note or two. A finger print scanner or other items are not cheap either. Android stuff can go into a parts bag and be useful here and there.
The problem is "decent operation". Once you're into this, the costs go up significantly, and the price for an Apple screen isn't that high (if you have protection, it's $50, and many street sellers do it for very low cost).
A single person on the street isn't likely to be that - you'd have to recruit an army of them. And once it happens, the exposure goes way up and annoying law-enforcement type people start poking their heads around.
Draining the battery does no good, either - Apple phones will re-lock if you try to reflash the OS - part of the activation process is to enter in the owner's apple ID and password. (This has hurt the resale value if people forget to unlock the phone prior to sale).
Heck, most people already are wary of buying stolen phones. I remember a few years back a kid was trying to sell 4-5 phones, most likely stolen. Kid was still there hours later trying to fence them, and all that happened in the end was he threw them against a wall and smashed them, wasting a whole day trying to sell it so he might as well have fun with it.
Well, I'm sure the people involved can go and complain to the Dutch government and file lawsuits against the police for hacking and all that, then.
Of course, I think the primary purpose is to disrupt the markets more than catch people - the people involved generally are in countries that won't have extradition treaties anyways. And if they are based in the usual Europe/North America first world country, well, they can always report the hacking to their local police who I'm sure will be more than happy to investigate.
In the end, you know the people won't complain - it's like a drug addict going to the police that some drug dealer ripped him off sort of deal.
Other than that, MS AV is the least taxing on the system, but also lags behind on recognition rates. The former matters, the latter doesn't.
No, it only lags behind on so-called "heuristic" or "machine learning" or "artificial intelligence" recognition tests. These tests don't use known virus signatures, they use programs designed to mimic virus activity. The hope is that your AV solution will catch one of these "bad programs" doing its thing and quarantine it, so potential future threats are blocked.
Everyone passes on the signature tests, that's expected.
But the "unknown virus" test is also the most controversial, because guess what? They're the ones that can ruin your day. Everyone (except maybe Microsoft) has released a dud update that kills some essential Windows file and thus rendering the host PC unbootable or unusable. This happens because the heuristic test thought some windows standard file was behaving in a virus-like manner. I was attacked by one at work - basically IT got suddenly overwhelmed by people complaining their PCs were very slow that day. Disabling the anti-virus fixed it so IT had to roll back an update, but by that time, half a day was gone on everyone.
And those also lead to false positives - someone wondered why a game stopped working on their PC - took them a while to realize an update flagged the game executable as a virus. Of course, the definition page listed it as a "This is when the antivirus thinks the program is a potential virus" virus.
Chances are, by the time you come around one of these threats, either you're doing normal things and will only get it after it's well known, or you're doing stuff that's risky online anyways in which case it doesn't matter because one will always slip through.
Recognition rates of heuristic/AI/machine learning templates don't mean diddly squat. It just meant among the contrived programs they wrote to test it, it detect them. Who knows against a real target that's unknown?
Well, to be completely accurate Apple bugs the hell out of you until you upgrade. I have an old iPhone that I use to run a small radio station, and thanks to wifi sync I go months without ever looking at it in the equipment closet. But once there's a new version of the OS, that alert will pop up every chance it gets, whether I want to upgrade right now or not. And the upgrade choices on the alert are usually "Upgrade Now" or "Upgrade Tonight"
Nope. I've got several devices on iOS7 that could upgrade to iOS8/9/10 just fine. I get no alert to upgrade at all. iTunes does prompt if you want to upgrade, but you can click "Never for this version" and it stays quiet.
It doesn't bug me to upgrade at all. Unless it's a recent change, I never get bugged to upgrade at all.
What exactly did Samsung sell that helped them achieve this? Did they have the bulk of Qualcomm's fab orders? I saw somewhere that flash memory was one driver. While memories - both flash and DRAM do have volumes, they are also commodity priced, so that wouldn't exactly help them in terms of margins. Does Qualcomm's chips have higher margins than Intel's?
Intel might want to consider upping the ante on their Custom business, fabbing things for Qualcomm, Apple & others. They do have process advantages, and could bring key benefits to those chips as a result, like reduced power consumption.
I think Qualcomm is using TSMC and other maybe GlobalFoundries - Samsung doesn't really offer a fab business. Samsung however does make their own SoCs - and all of Samsung's phones outside North America use their Exynos processors.
Apple also uses them for part of the SoCs used in the iPhone and iPad, though they did lose out to TSMC at one point, but I suspect Apple still uses them - they have a fairly big fab in Texas because of it.
And yes, Samsung flash and DRAM memory is a huge part of their business - supporting SSDs and billions of phones worldwide. This stuff is commodity priced, but they do have customers like Apple that place huge orders for it.
This is definitely not true. Where I work we have a few senior devs who dropped out, I don't know the reasons why but they are good at their jobs. Another moved on to Google of all places. Not sure what % of people there don't have a degree but he was head-hunted so if you are good enough even they will hire you without a degree.
Quite likely those people dropped out because they got a job offer and have kept employment for a long duration.
Those are really the only kind of dropouts that employers may overlook - those that dropped out because they formed their own company and making it (Microsoft, Facebook), and those who dropped out because they got a job offer and were so competent, they have retained continuous employment and thus their skill is what employers are looking for..
Those who drop out because they can't hack it (or other reason) generally do not have the skills employers are looking for. If you dropped out and have little to no work experience and start looking for a job, you're not going to find much.
Either you're good enough you don't need the employment, or you got employed while in school, in which case dropping out isn't a big deal, or you finish your education and look for work. If you drop out thinking you're a hot shot and school is boring, well, employers don't think that way.
And even if you went from school to direct employment, it isn't a bad idea to finish your degree anyways (which can be done quite easily nowadays).
That's the difference. Don't drop out unless you have that employment letter in hand - and only if the employer really wants you so bad they're not willing to wait for graduation.
FWIW, you can generally use Helvetica (1957) or Ariel (1982) fonts (even on Microsoft products). But if you want an "open" font,... your options are limited.
Only DejaVu Sans (2004) would probably be the only font that fit the appropriate required timeframe, but it isn't the most popular default today on open source only distributions which are LiberationSans(2010), FreeSans (2010) Open Sans (2011). In addition to the Carlito font which is their replacement for Calibri (which by definition places it even later in time than Calibri.
Depends how "open" you want it. Microsoft's Core Fonts for the Web were released way back in the late 90s and Microsoft stopped distribution in 2002. They are not open fonts, as they are still copyrighted and come with licensing terms, but are openly distributable if you agree to certain conditions (i.e., files are kept as shipped - same filename, same packaging), so they are still available, at least the last versions Microsoft released under those terms.
In fact, because of those terms, the Open-Source crowd has made tons of neat utilities to download and install them on Linux. Or your distribution's non-free may already have it, kept in nice.exe format files that an open-source utility unpacks to get at the ttf file inside. (There's no requirement to actually RUN the installer).
They aren't "free" or "open", but they are publicly available on every OS that can understand TrueType ttf format.
Yep, this is what happens when developers insist on using the only tools they know instead of investing the time and effort required to learn and use the most appropriate tools for the actual job at hand.
So, as I understand it, instead of biting the bullet and simply creating an actual native app, web developers created an entire new framework more or less consisting of an entire browser (and one not known for being easy on resources to begin with) and it's Javascript interpreter, all so they could continue to use Javascript and pretend the whole thing is a "native" application.
I don't mind it, people will write inefficient code anyways on whatever platform they use. It's not hard to write a native app that consumes 100% CPU and gigs of RAM, and I wouldn't expect the native version of the Slack app to be any better.
The problem is it's inefficient in general. It doesn't matter if you just use the web browser version of Slack or the "app" version of Slack - they both are resource hogs. I only went with the app version because I didn't want Firefox to be so sluggish and more crash worthy - better to have an isolated app crash than the entire Firefox crashing.
You can write nice apps - like I said, Discord is the same - you can use the web page, or the app (which I think is also an embedded web browser). And it consumes 0% CPU in general. Yes, the memory usage is higher than a true native app, but in general it's doesn't appear to poll and plays nicely with my PC
It's just the Slack web app itself is inefficient on resources.
And I'd rather the developers use tools they know well than try to code in an environment they don't. Too many WTF's are created when developers code for a platform they are inexperienced with.
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They make OTA DVRs, you know, so you can record your programming and watch it afterwards, skipping through the ads.
I've never seen a Google ad in recent history.
I've seen lots of popups and pop unders though, all by ad networks owned by Google's parent, Alphabet. (DoubleClick, anyone?)
This is India we're talking about. The ISP is probably the local telephone company which is run by the government. And disparaging the government will get you disappeared. In a country of 1.4+ billion people, no one would notice. (India and China are basically neck and neck for most populous country, and the "leader" switches frequently).
And if they knocked an entire village offline, that means a 2-day trek to check their email again, and kids are stuck without educational materials, so go work in the fields.
The point of the discussion is to make the government look good. That's it. That way they can say "Look, we consulted with these people! The rules are going away!"
Hahahahahaha!
You think "political donations" will not have rules about "must be treated fairly"? They'll write themselves the nice exception that ISPs must fast lane all political websites just like politicians are exempt from plenty of other rules that affect the proles, like telemarketing and anti-spam.
Use "Scan to email" instead. Scan to Network just seemed to be a waste of time, filling a folder with scan_**** files as people scanned them and left them there instead of deleting it. Scan to email is similar, but it just emails you the PDFs
Well, you may have the right of way, which only helps you if you file a lawsuit. So just because you have right of way, doesn't mean you should take the right - it's still better to be wronged than dead right, after all.
It's why we look both ways before crossing the street - even on one-way streets because you do have idiot drivers going the wrong way, or more often nowadays, cyclists (who never seem to understand that on a one-way street, most people won't actually be looking for oncoming traffic the other way).
After all, a driver could also be on the phone and thus not paying attention to the road as well. It's why we have distracted driving laws. Just because a driver is triply wrong (no right of way, using the phone, etc) doesn't mean you won't spend days or months in the hospital.
Heck, I've nearly been backed into (you'd think a driver would look ... backwards when they reverse, right?) so close my bag actually hit the car (I had jumped out of the way). And there are drivers who "race the light" even though not only has it long extinguished, but opposing traffic is starting to move and pedestrians are in the intersection.
Yes, that would be the early 80s or so when AT&T thought no one could touch their cable, and they owned all the wiring, including the one inside your house. And no one could hook anything up that was not AT&T approved (hence, the old acoustic couplers on modems). But since the 80s, the courts have said no, you have to allow users to connect their equipment direct to lines, etc. It's why the telephone box on your house is called a "demarc" - it demarcates where the phone company's responsibility ends and yours begins - if you have a problem, you connect the problematic device to the demarc. If it works, then it's your wiring and you pay to fix it. If it's still there, the phone company has to fix it.
It was also the time the courts said AT&T could no longer dictate what gets hooked to their network, so modems lost the acoustic coupler and we had things like answering machines and a wildly increased selection of phones.
Guess what? You noticed the ad. You just served the purpose of it.
And that's the point.
An ad can be done to sell you a particular product. It can also be done to tell you about a particular product - knowing something exists, even if you don't need it now, may be valuable knowledge later (how many FOSS projects die only because no one knows about them? Too many /. articles go "well geez, if someone had told me about it..." when some project gets cancelled).
Other times, an ad creates "brand awareness". It's not there to sell you something (directly), it's there to just reinforce branding. Why do more people drink Coke instead of Pepsi? Barring slight taste differences, most people cannot tell the two apart unless they're really trying The point is to simply plant a seed in your mind about Coke. That's it. So perhaps when you're at the drink aisle, you'd pick up the Coke bottle.
Heck, now that I think about it, I can't remember seeing a Pepsi ad recently. (I don't drink either).
Me? Never. I had to ask someone for assistance when I had an occasion where I needed to
But for other people, you obviously don't go out very much - they take selfies so often, you wonder why they don't just use video mode. Or why front facing cameras continue to take a back seat to the rear facing one, because people seem to take photos only using the front facing one.
Most new cars on the road are completely computer controlled. The computer tells which spark plugs to spark, knows where the engine is in its cycle, etc. If the electrical system dies, so does the engine (the battery can die, though, if the alternator is working fine, but once you stop the car, it's dead).
Every instrument in the dashboard is also electronic. Sure it has needles and such, but there's a servo behind it.
About the only thing with direct linkages are the brakes - the parking brake lever to the rears, and the brake pedal to the master cylinder. (I said parking brake - most of those are no longer "e-brakes" and are not designed for emergency use).
Throttles are servo-controlled nowadays (as are the kick-down switches now implemented as rate of change of the accelerator pedal rather than where the pedal is located, so "stomping it" can take place anywhere in the pedal's travel).
Electronic ignition was also the first test of a RTOS - since spark timing is a hard real time task.
There are typically two main computers in a modern car - the ECU which controls the powertrain only (being a hard real time task), and a Body Computer which handles the essentials elsewhere - from your electronic keys (which unlock the ECU), door locks, windows, alarm/immobilizer, dash gauges, etc. There are ancillary computers as well - your ABS is usually a separate unit, as is the airbags. Those are considered so critical that they're a separate computer rather than just another process on the body computer. (In the case of the airbags, they have capacitors that will store up charge to keep the airbag computer powered up during an accident and provide firing charges to the airbags in case the accident causes immediate electrical system failure).
Note that things like door locks and door handles are also mechanical - the "power" part of it is an actuator that is designed to be mechanically overridden - no computer can lock the door and have the door remain locked.without actively commanding the lock to lock.
There's nothing wrong with not paying dividends. There is no law saying a company must pay dividends to shareholders anywhere.
Paying a dividend means you reduce the amount of working capital you have. For some companies, they don't need that much cash on hand. For others, it's necessary for cashflow.
Anyhow, most of Apple's investors are in the US, while most of Apple's money is outside the US. To pay a dividend would require importing that money in, and losing 35% of it off the top, so shareholders either have to contend with a company losing 35% to Uncle Sam just to pay a dividend, or holding the money offshore and letting it grow.
Giving dividends is usually a sign of a company out of ideas - rather than investing the profits in future growth opportunities, they decide to just return it to shareholders because they have nothing better to do with it.
And really, Nokia's money is coming from those billions stashed outside the US. It's $2B less dollars that could be taxed ($700M would've gone to Uncle Sam) should Apple bring it in.
64-bit on ARM was never about memory. It was about speed - AArch64 had to divest itself of a lot of AArch32 legacy crap that was holding it back. Like conditional execution of instructions, a mainstay of ARM since the very beginning. (It unfortunately does not work in today's world of superscalar architectures where there may be a dozen instructions in flight - imagine having to do a branch predictor for every single instruction).
By dropping a lot of legacy stuff, AArch64 can run code significantly faster - the 2x speedups weren't a joke on ARMv8 running 64-bit code over 32-bit code. (Most of the legacy stuff dropped doesn't significantly bloat the code, so you're not doubling the number of instructions to go 64-bit).
And memory is all virtual - ASLR and other techniques work just fine even if you don't have more than 4 gigs of RAM. Only the lowest of the low-level code ever deals with physical RAM addresses anymore - every modern OS is like this.
Except Steve was still a multi-millionaire at that point.
Granted, she didn't marry into billions, but Steve did have a LOT of millions to toss around. Most of it went into saving Pixar at the time.
And to be honest, to go from 1991 to 2010, that's a pretty good marriage. Most don't last as long, so you know she wasn't in it for just the money, especially with the complexities of Steve's life up to that point.
That's probably why it won't be open-sourced. Adobe is simply too embarrassed about the code.
You see, Flash Player was free. It was never a revenue generating product (their producer software was the product they were selling). They just wanted to write a run time to make it possible so users of the producer can have others play with the output.
The whole "security flaw" thing ate into the plans - because it means Flash Player requires active development, and dedicating people to work on a product that generates no direct revenue, so it really costs them money.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the most shoddy piece of code ever because it was developed on the cheap since it was a "free" product. And they're not willing to admit it, and open-sourcing would require someone to actually fix up the code state from "this thing actually can be compiled?!" to "OK, it's not the best code in the world, but it won't reflect horribly on us".
In Canada, it's illegal to take on an employee for free - they must get something out of it. So-called "unpaid internships" do happen, but the intern MUST be getting an education out of it. If they're being the office coffee fetcher, they can (and have) legally sued.for compensation as the educational value of running to the local coffeeshop is suspect at best.
In other words, if you want to take on an unpaid intern, you must provide them with work that meaningfully educates them. They must learn something that will provide them with the requisite skills the job will entail. This is mostly because the medical field is rife with this, so as long as they're getting a medical education out of it, it's fine.
It's resulted in companies like HootSuite having to pay fair wages to the interns - coffee fetching, and even "doing real work" do not qualify unless there is an education component.
The company I work for is more conservative despite being a high-tech company. They pay everyone - even co-ops and interns. Far easier to play by the rules and really, if you can't afford to pay them even the lowest of wages for an extended job interview, there really isn't a job to be had.
The mayor of a local suburban city nearly mowed down a pedestrian who just stepped out onto the street in the middle between two cars. Without stopping, and then chewed out the mayor for nearly hitting her. She was on her phone and of course, never looked both ways to make sure her path was clear.
The mayor wrote up an "apology" on Facebook that garnered a lot of attention.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This was the middle of the street - an intersection with a crosswalk was only a few more steps away.
What I don't get is what is so damned interesting on the phone that one completely forgets the rules their parents taught them when they were young, like looking both ways before crossing the street. I mean, this is something so basic. Considering the potential risk - injury is extremely common. People have knocked out their teeth from walking into lampposts, benches and other sidewalk furniture. People have fallen down street elevator holes (they walk right into the raised door and fall into the basement), or into water fountains.
So what is so damn interesting that it's worth risking minor injuries that are quite preventable? Or major injury - I can't imagine anything on the screen being so interesting that would justify even spending a day in a hospital.
Yes, I've tried it - I wanted to look up something on my phone and I just couldn't do it and walk without the fear of running into something or someone. I stepped aside and finished looking up the information - there wasn't anything on it I could justify spending hours at a doctor's office getting fixed up for - it was cheaper time-wise to step aside, spend 30 seconds with the phone in relative safety, then resume walking to my destination. Quicker too, since if I got injured, it could be hours at a doctors office, or days at a hospital, or 30 seconds simply stopped safely out of the way.
The problem is "decent operation". Once you're into this, the costs go up significantly, and the price for an Apple screen isn't that high (if you have protection, it's $50, and many street sellers do it for very low cost).
A single person on the street isn't likely to be that - you'd have to recruit an army of them. And once it happens, the exposure goes way up and annoying law-enforcement type people start poking their heads around.
Draining the battery does no good, either - Apple phones will re-lock if you try to reflash the OS - part of the activation process is to enter in the owner's apple ID and password. (This has hurt the resale value if people forget to unlock the phone prior to sale).
Heck, most people already are wary of buying stolen phones. I remember a few years back a kid was trying to sell 4-5 phones, most likely stolen. Kid was still there hours later trying to fence them, and all that happened in the end was he threw them against a wall and smashed them, wasting a whole day trying to sell it so he might as well have fun with it.
Well, I'm sure the people involved can go and complain to the Dutch government and file lawsuits against the police for hacking and all that, then.
Of course, I think the primary purpose is to disrupt the markets more than catch people - the people involved generally are in countries that won't have extradition treaties anyways. And if they are based in the usual Europe/North America first world country, well, they can always report the hacking to their local police who I'm sure will be more than happy to investigate.
In the end, you know the people won't complain - it's like a drug addict going to the police that some drug dealer ripped him off sort of deal.
No, it only lags behind on so-called "heuristic" or "machine learning" or "artificial intelligence" recognition tests. These tests don't use known virus signatures, they use programs designed to mimic virus activity. The hope is that your AV solution will catch one of these "bad programs" doing its thing and quarantine it, so potential future threats are blocked.
Everyone passes on the signature tests, that's expected.
But the "unknown virus" test is also the most controversial, because guess what? They're the ones that can ruin your day. Everyone (except maybe Microsoft) has released a dud update that kills some essential Windows file and thus rendering the host PC unbootable or unusable. This happens because the heuristic test thought some windows standard file was behaving in a virus-like manner. I was attacked by one at work - basically IT got suddenly overwhelmed by people complaining their PCs were very slow that day. Disabling the anti-virus fixed it so IT had to roll back an update, but by that time, half a day was gone on everyone.
And those also lead to false positives - someone wondered why a game stopped working on their PC - took them a while to realize an update flagged the game executable as a virus. Of course, the definition page listed it as a "This is when the antivirus thinks the program is a potential virus" virus.
Chances are, by the time you come around one of these threats, either you're doing normal things and will only get it after it's well known, or you're doing stuff that's risky online anyways in which case it doesn't matter because one will always slip through.
Recognition rates of heuristic/AI/machine learning templates don't mean diddly squat. It just meant among the contrived programs they wrote to test it, it detect them. Who knows against a real target that's unknown?
Nope. I've got several devices on iOS7 that could upgrade to iOS8/9/10 just fine. I get no alert to upgrade at all. iTunes does prompt if you want to upgrade, but you can click "Never for this version" and it stays quiet.
It doesn't bug me to upgrade at all. Unless it's a recent change, I never get bugged to upgrade at all.
I think Qualcomm is using TSMC and other maybe GlobalFoundries - Samsung doesn't really offer a fab business. Samsung however does make their own SoCs - and all of Samsung's phones outside North America use their Exynos processors.
Apple also uses them for part of the SoCs used in the iPhone and iPad, though they did lose out to TSMC at one point, but I suspect Apple still uses them - they have a fairly big fab in Texas because of it.
And yes, Samsung flash and DRAM memory is a huge part of their business - supporting SSDs and billions of phones worldwide. This stuff is commodity priced, but they do have customers like Apple that place huge orders for it.
Quite likely those people dropped out because they got a job offer and have kept employment for a long duration.
Those are really the only kind of dropouts that employers may overlook - those that dropped out because they formed their own company and making it (Microsoft, Facebook), and those who dropped out because they got a job offer and were so competent, they have retained continuous employment and thus their skill is what employers are looking for..
Those who drop out because they can't hack it (or other reason) generally do not have the skills employers are looking for. If you dropped out and have little to no work experience and start looking for a job, you're not going to find much.
Either you're good enough you don't need the employment, or you got employed while in school, in which case dropping out isn't a big deal, or you finish your education and look for work. If you drop out thinking you're a hot shot and school is boring, well, employers don't think that way.
And even if you went from school to direct employment, it isn't a bad idea to finish your degree anyways (which can be done quite easily nowadays).
That's the difference. Don't drop out unless you have that employment letter in hand - and only if the employer really wants you so bad they're not willing to wait for graduation.
Depends how "open" you want it. Microsoft's Core Fonts for the Web were released way back in the late 90s and Microsoft stopped distribution in 2002. They are not open fonts, as they are still copyrighted and come with licensing terms, but are openly distributable if you agree to certain conditions (i.e., files are kept as shipped - same filename, same packaging), so they are still available, at least the last versions Microsoft released under those terms.
In fact, because of those terms, the Open-Source crowd has made tons of neat utilities to download and install them on Linux. Or your distribution's non-free may already have it, kept in nice .exe format files that an open-source utility unpacks to get at the ttf file inside. (There's no requirement to actually RUN the installer).
They aren't "free" or "open", but they are publicly available on every OS that can understand TrueType ttf format.