That is nearly accurate, except that *every* professional would appreciate a USB port and a Gigabit Ethernet port. They may not always use them, but they are just essential for a lot of different jobs. On the SD card I half agree: I like it, I use it a lot, but it is getting less common.
Of course the elephant in the room is that both USB port and SD port can be used for (cheap) storage extensions. And Apple absolutely wants to prevent that. So I think that is the real reason: form and money over function.
How can anybody know the security of the Google Pixel? It has only been out for a few weeks, there is no track record for long term support, and limited experience with hardware / software flaws. Of course you can claim that it is "as secure", but we do not have to believe it.
That is it right there: paradigms. Older programmers have a lot of experience, a lot of knowledge, a lot of skills, but they may not be aware of shifts in paradigms, what that means, why it is relevant, and why you may or may not want to follow.
That being said, any experienced programmer should be able to figure it out. If not, maybe they are just old, not experienced.
And I have to say the "Linux community" is not doing Linux any favour. The responses are unfortunately rather predictable: half agree with my experience, the other half calls me an idiot. I used to defend the style as "matter of fact", when actually it is sometimes just rude.
Somehow I doubt it. I have tried Linux on laptops many times, and it was always painful. Laptops are much more complex and specialised machines than desktops built from standard components, and as a result you get difficulties with suspend, with WiFi, with the display, with the camera... it is just too much to try to fix unless you really enjoy that kind of work.
Now I have a Chromebook, and that is the first "Linux" laptop that really works. You can even run Ubuntu on it, although it does struggle with the HiDPI display.
By that logic, Black Cab drivers would also be employees. They have set prices, have to drive a black cab, and if they keep refusing customers, they would also be in trouble. The only difference is that the prices are set unreasonably high, so nobody wants to disturb the system so fleecing customers.
What do you mean, Google Analytics has no known purpose? Google wants to know which websites your are visiting, the website maintainer wants to know who visits the web page and how. It is a perfect win-win situation (or win-win-lose).
For what? For a news article on slashdot for something that happened "this summer"? I guess it is a slow new day. There you have it, the culprit remains abstract.
Bingo. It does not matter when they started selling it, but when they stopped. And 3 years is pretty good compared to Android (many phones never have an up to date version available), but it is not an acceptable duration of support. Progress has slowed significantly, and most IT departments now assume a device to last for 5 years. Personally I have used older, but that does require significant compromise.
Indeed: search and Gmail have been around for a long time.
Android and ChromeOS are well established, too, but they are really just a way to push the Google Play store. Even Nexus phone are very quickly dumped as unsupported, so not much love there.
And then there is the whole area of messengers and other personal apps, where Google has a terrible track record. I would put any interactive device into the same category: bound to be abandoned soon.
Passwords suck. Even with SSO, even with a password manager, even with salting and hashing, passwords suck, and will always suck.
You need an authentication token. *One* authentication token. Microsoft can do it, Google can do it, Facebook can do it (but of course they are not compatible).
Yes, those are all appropriate observations, but how would a smart phone app change that, or even any technology? These are cultural and social problems, and they need cultural and social answers.
Asking for a smart phone app to solve drug problems in the Mid West is like asking a Star Wars toy to deliver peace in the Middle East. The framing of the question is wrong.
Are you joking? Coffee is supposed to be hot, a phone is not supposed to explode. (And McDondald's got in trouble because their coffee was hotter than usual, and they had ignored the risk involved.)
Samsung has not responded well to this problem, and they will pay the price.
So far, after about one week, the risk is about 1:100 000.
BuT: Samsung says only 0.1% of phones are affected, so 35 in 2500 affected phones. That is more than 1:100. Does that risk continue? If so, after a year the chance that your phone has exploded is higher than the chance that it still works.
Basically those deffect cells have to be consider as time bombs, and if that is the case, the recall is not nearly urgent enough.
The Hover Board is the only other device with a similar high likelihood of going spectacularly wrong.
I am not impressed with the Google devices. I have both the Nexus 7 (2012) and the Nexus 4. At least the Nexus 4 is still a nice phone, but the Nexus 7 is just obsolete now. Both are out of support and out of security updates. Both devices look quite small nowadays: with phablets approaching 6" screens, a 7" tablet is kind of useless.
And recently Google has turned up the price. The Chromebook is great, but overpriced, and the Pixel C is kind of ok, and also overpriced. So my prediction for the new tablet: kind of nice, but overpriced. And in two years they will stop supporting it.
I absolutely agree. They tend to be very good with great announcements, and often they do make a lot of sense. But following through is another matter - and it very rarely happens.
Now at least I think Chrome is pretty safe, and will not be discontinued anytime soon. But it was always CPU heavy, and probably will always be.
A public wifi login page is by definition insecure, so there should be a warning. And you should never enter any sensitive information, which also means that any password for a public wifi better not be an important one.
Here we have still unencrypted pages that ask for the single sign on login information. And IT say that's ok, because the HTML POST request is sent off over https...
Yes, but the grandparent is right: while some manufacturers make smaller phones, they are usually stripped down versions. The Moto G is not exactly small - the Moto E is, but it is also anemic. The same applies to the Galaxy S mini series. Sony is the only manufacturer producing small phones with decent spec: the Compact Z series was legendary. Of course they cannot pack the same components in a smaller case, so compromises are necessary. Sony balanced that really well in my eyes. (Shame they discontinued the Z series - X does not quite seem to reach the same top performance range).
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That is nearly accurate, except that *every* professional would appreciate a USB port and a Gigabit Ethernet port. They may not always use them, but they are just essential for a lot of different jobs. On the SD card I half agree: I like it, I use it a lot, but it is getting less common.
Of course the elephant in the room is that both USB port and SD port can be used for (cheap) storage extensions. And Apple absolutely wants to prevent that. So I think that is the real reason: form and money over function.
How can anybody know the security of the Google Pixel? It has only been out for a few weeks, there is no track record for long term support, and limited experience with hardware / software flaws. Of course you can claim that it is "as secure", but we do not have to believe it.
That is it right there: paradigms. Older programmers have a lot of experience, a lot of knowledge, a lot of skills, but they may not be aware of shifts in paradigms, what that means, why it is relevant, and why you may or may not want to follow.
That being said, any experienced programmer should be able to figure it out. If not, maybe they are just old, not experienced.
Neither. But I have learned that how you say it can be more important than what you say.
And I have to say the "Linux community" is not doing Linux any favour. The responses are unfortunately rather predictable: half agree with my experience, the other half calls me an idiot. I used to defend the style as "matter of fact", when actually it is sometimes just rude.
Somehow I doubt it. I have tried Linux on laptops many times, and it was always painful. Laptops are much more complex and specialised machines than desktops built from standard components, and as a result you get difficulties with suspend, with WiFi, with the display, with the camera... it is just too much to try to fix unless you really enjoy that kind of work.
Now I have a Chromebook, and that is the first "Linux" laptop that really works. You can even run Ubuntu on it, although it does struggle with the HiDPI display.
By that logic, Black Cab drivers would also be employees. They have set prices, have to drive a black cab, and if they keep refusing customers, they would also be in trouble. The only difference is that the prices are set unreasonably high, so nobody wants to disturb the system so fleecing customers.
That seems to be the case, but how does my luggage going missing help against the police being racist?
What do you mean, Google Analytics has no known purpose? Google wants to know which websites your are visiting, the website maintainer wants to know who visits the web page and how. It is a perfect win-win situation (or win-win-lose).
Yes, and how much are users paying for the top search engine?
Exactly. If you are not paying for it, chances are that you are the product.
For what? For a news article on slashdot for something that happened "this summer"? I guess it is a slow new day. There you have it, the culprit remains abstract.
Bingo. It does not matter when they started selling it, but when they stopped. And 3 years is pretty good compared to Android (many phones never have an up to date version available), but it is not an acceptable duration of support. Progress has slowed significantly, and most IT departments now assume a device to last for 5 years. Personally I have used older, but that does require significant compromise.
Indeed: search and Gmail have been around for a long time.
Android and ChromeOS are well established, too, but they are really just a way to push the Google Play store. Even Nexus phone are very quickly dumped as unsupported, so not much love there.
And then there is the whole area of messengers and other personal apps, where Google has a terrible track record. I would put any interactive device into the same category: bound to be abandoned soon.
Passwords suck. Even with SSO, even with a password manager, even with salting and hashing, passwords suck, and will always suck.
You need an authentication token. *One* authentication token. Microsoft can do it, Google can do it, Facebook can do it (but of course they are not compatible).
Millions of little websites still use passwords.
> Why is it that, in the media, everything Trump does is "bad".
Because he is a bully. He may be a good bully, even the best. But in my book, that is still bad, and it should be called bad.
Yes, those are all appropriate observations, but how would a smart phone app change that, or even any technology? These are cultural and social problems, and they need cultural and social answers.
Asking for a smart phone app to solve drug problems in the Mid West is like asking a Star Wars toy to deliver peace in the Middle East. The framing of the question is wrong.
Are you joking? Coffee is supposed to be hot, a phone is not supposed to explode. (And McDondald's got in trouble because their coffee was hotter than usual, and they had ignored the risk involved.)
Samsung has not responded well to this problem, and they will pay the price.
To press the iHome on the iPhone, you have to use proper iGloves, approved by Apple. Now in any Apple store...
Use maths.
So far, after about one week, the risk is about 1:100 000.
BuT: Samsung says only 0.1% of phones are affected, so 35 in 2500 affected phones. That is more than 1:100. Does that risk continue? If so, after a year the chance that your phone has exploded is higher than the chance that it still works.
Basically those deffect cells have to be consider as time bombs, and if that is the case, the recall is not nearly urgent enough.
The Hover Board is the only other device with a similar high likelihood of going spectacularly wrong.
I am not impressed with the Google devices. I have both the Nexus 7 (2012) and the Nexus 4. At least the Nexus 4 is still a nice phone, but the Nexus 7 is just obsolete now. Both are out of support and out of security updates. Both devices look quite small nowadays: with phablets approaching 6" screens, a 7" tablet is kind of useless.
And recently Google has turned up the price. The Chromebook is great, but overpriced, and the Pixel C is kind of ok, and also overpriced. So my prediction for the new tablet: kind of nice, but overpriced. And in two years they will stop supporting it.
I absolutely agree. They tend to be very good with great announcements, and often they do make a lot of sense. But following through is another matter - and it very rarely happens.
Now at least I think Chrome is pretty safe, and will not be discontinued anytime soon. But it was always CPU heavy, and probably will always be.
A public wifi login page is by definition insecure, so there should be a warning. And you should never enter any sensitive information, which also means that any password for a public wifi better not be an important one.
Here we have still unencrypted pages that ask for the single sign on login information. And IT say that's ok, because the HTML POST request is sent off over https...
I assume Google Chrome would think otherwise.
Yes, but the grandparent is right: while some manufacturers make smaller phones, they are usually stripped down versions. The Moto G is not exactly small - the Moto E is, but it is also anemic. The same applies to the Galaxy S mini series. Sony is the only manufacturer producing small phones with decent spec: the Compact Z series was legendary. Of course they cannot pack the same components in a smaller case, so compromises are necessary. Sony balanced that really well in my eyes. (Shame they discontinued the Z series - X does not quite seem to reach the same top performance range).
> Note the difference between the words "hacker" and "cracker", the so called IT technical writers have been getting wrong for well over 20 years.
Nice point. But if you claim that everybody else is using words wrong, you do not understand how natural language works.