WebOS itself was pretty great. The problem is Palm handled the release of its phones very poorly.
For example, the first edition of the Palm Pre was a Sprint exclusive. The second release, the Palm Pre 2, was a Verizon exclusive. That's a huge "screw you" to people who want to upgrade since they have to switch providers too.
Also, the tech in the phones failed to keep up with competitors like Apple and HTC.
A great concept that had a lot of potential, destroyed by bad management.
This mirrors my girlfriend's experience. She was buying cheap prepaid Android phones before we met and ALWAYS having problems with them.
I gave her my previous iPhone 5 and she was trouble free for nearly two years until the phone developed some issues (at that point it was nearly FIVE years old), then we got her an iPhone 6. No problems at all since.
"You get what you pay for" definitely applies when it comes to phones. Premium phones are better built, have better manufacturer support and last far longer.
The solution to that was to take backroads instead of the Interstates.
For some reason Google Maps routes EVERYONE on the Interstates, so they get completely clogged up with traffic. If you look at the map yourself you'll see tons of backroads that'll take you out of the area, which have far less traffic.
That was my experience in South Carolina, of course, yours may vary.:)
Soon there will be so many streaming services that if you want to be able to watch everything you're going to pay more money than the cable subscription you canceled.
What the heck is the point? We're back to square one: It's too damn expensive, might as well pirate the content.
Save the moral arguments; it doesn't matter. There's a point where the cost involved becomes prohibitive, and people still want to see the content. Make of that what you will.
You can use pretty much every component in a stolen iPhone except for the logic board and touchID sensor (which is paired with the logic board).
So stolen phones are still valuable because you can sell the parts, especially the screens which are the most common component to need replacement since there's so many klutzes out there.
On one hand, pairing the screen and other components with the logic board in a way that only the manufacturer can, like the Touch ID sensor, would solve this problem. On the other, servicing our own devices will become even harder if they do this.
It's a trade-off. It's good that features like activation lock have reduced theft so much though.
MST is unencrypted, and unidirectional. There is no challenge+response, so it would be trivial to create a listening device and hide it near the terminal to steal the signal.
Why can't manufacturers just get NFC universally implemented already? Or at the very least, chip readers? Hell they don't even have chip readers at gas pumps yet and they extended the deadline even further, so we probably won't see them until next decade, if even then.
These are financial transactions we're talking about here. Security should be paramount.
Same here. Been using an IBM Model M since 1999. Sadly not the same M, as the keyboard decoder died in my last one, but when I got the keyboards in the late 90s I decided to snatch up a few spares because I knew they'd become harder to find with time.
The IBM Model F and M were specifically designed to mimic the feel and sound of IBM Selectric typewriters, since those were pretty much THE STANDARD for typewriters in offices at the time.
This way when employees would move from their Selectric to a computer, the keyboard would have a familiar feel and sound.
So yeah, the wonderful feel of these keyboards goes back to the 1960s when IBM perfected the Selectric.
Unicomp has been making brand new Model Ms for years, using the same tooling that was originally used by IBM to make them.
What makes the Model F better, other than the historical angle? And if it's just the historical reasons, why bother with a $300 remake instead of the real thing, when you can just buy a new Model M from Unicomp for a lot less money and get the same feel with identical inauthenticity?
If you're confused reading this, welcome to the club.:)
Isn't there a point though, where the body can't get rid of heat fast enough and your body temperature starts to rise, causing hyperthermia and heat stroke?
The laws of physics say that if it's 129F and your body temperature is 98.6F, the heat transfer will be INTO your body. At what point is evaporative cooling via sweat no longer enough? There is a physical limit; there has to be.
Look at his record of the things he's done so far. ALL of them favor big ISPs, and NONE of them favor the consumer.
The man is completely bought. He has absolutely no business heading the FCC, which is all about regulating communications and the PUBLIC airwaves.
I don't understand why so many people in this country, especially those who aren't wealthy, continue to support politicians that not only don't work for the people, but are so BLATANTLY and OBVIOUSLY corrupted by big corporate money and influence.
You'd think they could have instead used "ssuggest.samsung.com" or similar, rather than registering an entirely separate domain for what is essentially a minor feature on a phone.
The nice thing about DNS is that it was designed PRECISELY TO BE USED THIS WAY, being able to establish a hierarchy so that an entity can organize all their hostnames/services in one hierarchy.
Unless you're jailbroken there is little reason to not install the latest version of iOS. And if you're jailbroken you can disable the automatic updates.
Why in particular are you staying on an older version?
iMessage can become as advanced as it wants; the fundamental issue is that it's not a cross-platform app. Its extra features are only available on iOS devices and Macs.
I use mostly Telegram with my friends because it runs on everything. Even though I love my iPhone I recognize that without cross-platform support, some of its features will always be limited. Apple should open up iMessage to other platforms, then we might see some greater adoption of its fancier features.
Most censorship comes from *AUTHORITARIANS*. From both sides of the aisle. By their very nature authoritarians want to control what you can do, and that includes what you can read. Regardless of which way someone leans politically, if they are more libertarian they will be against censorship, and/or pretty much telling people how to live their lives. If they are authoritarian, they will want to meddle, and that includes censorship.
Authoritarian left, authoritarian right; they BOTH suck. No matter how you lean politically the most important thing is to remember that we shouldn't be telling people how to live their lives.
Stupidity like this is why card issuers are simply going to have to make EMV mandatory. Same deal with gas stations; yes I realize EMV readers are expensive but it's cost of doing business. Deal with it and upgrade your shit.
If another country started to demand people's social media passwords, full access to phones, etc. as a possible condition to enter, I certainly wouldn't want to go there. Who wants to be treated like a criminal when they're on vacation trying to relax and have a good time?
People take their privacy seriously. The word has gotten around that the US is poking more and more into people's data when they visit. There's plenty of other beautiful places to visit in the world, so obviously tourism to the US will go down.
Treat visitors as guests and not suspiciously, damnit.
I'm sure a lot of criminals who don't have the gall to assault a regular truck may be able to justify going after a self-driving truck, since there are no people onboard to leave behind as witnesses.
A driverless truck carrying millions of dollars worth of goods out on a lonely desert road? It'll be like a sitting (well, rolling) duck. They're going to have to have some clever defensive mechanisms installed to prevent an all out field day for thieves.
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Actually it was. Pay attention to actual feminists, not the Tumblrinas who find every tiny fault in everything.
WebOS itself was pretty great. The problem is Palm handled the release of its phones very poorly.
For example, the first edition of the Palm Pre was a Sprint exclusive. The second release, the Palm Pre 2, was a Verizon exclusive. That's a huge "screw you" to people who want to upgrade since they have to switch providers too.
Also, the tech in the phones failed to keep up with competitors like Apple and HTC.
A great concept that had a lot of potential, destroyed by bad management.
PalmOS, and later WebOS, is what made Palm devices unique. If it's just another Android phone maker, big deal?
Unless it's something new and groundbreaking it will stay in relative obscurity as just another Android phone maker.
This is true.
Hell, even Apple offers less expensive iPhones now (like the SE) that people can buy if they can't afford the latest and greatest.
This mirrors my girlfriend's experience. She was buying cheap prepaid Android phones before we met and ALWAYS having problems with them.
I gave her my previous iPhone 5 and she was trouble free for nearly two years until the phone developed some issues (at that point it was nearly FIVE years old), then we got her an iPhone 6. No problems at all since.
"You get what you pay for" definitely applies when it comes to phones. Premium phones are better built, have better manufacturer support and last far longer.
The solution to that was to take backroads instead of the Interstates.
For some reason Google Maps routes EVERYONE on the Interstates, so they get completely clogged up with traffic. If you look at the map yourself you'll see tons of backroads that'll take you out of the area, which have far less traffic.
That was my experience in South Carolina, of course, yours may vary. :)
Soon there will be so many streaming services that if you want to be able to watch everything you're going to pay more money than the cable subscription you canceled.
What the heck is the point? We're back to square one: It's too damn expensive, might as well pirate the content.
Save the moral arguments; it doesn't matter. There's a point where the cost involved becomes prohibitive, and people still want to see the content. Make of that what you will.
>I thought they patched away error 53 for unpaired Touch ID.
They did, but TouchID still doesn't work afterwards.
You can use pretty much every component in a stolen iPhone except for the logic board and touchID sensor (which is paired with the logic board).
So stolen phones are still valuable because you can sell the parts, especially the screens which are the most common component to need replacement since there's so many klutzes out there.
On one hand, pairing the screen and other components with the logic board in a way that only the manufacturer can, like the Touch ID sensor, would solve this problem. On the other, servicing our own devices will become even harder if they do this.
It's a trade-off. It's good that features like activation lock have reduced theft so much though.
MST is unencrypted, and unidirectional. There is no challenge+response, so it would be trivial to create a listening device and hide it near the terminal to steal the signal.
Why can't manufacturers just get NFC universally implemented already? Or at the very least, chip readers? Hell they don't even have chip readers at gas pumps yet and they extended the deadline even further, so we probably won't see them until next decade, if even then.
These are financial transactions we're talking about here. Security should be paramount.
>How the fuck is this news? Why should I or anyone else give a fuck that this stupid shit got arrested?
So why did you click on the post, and why did you go through the effort to post this rant?
Seems you care more than you thought. :)
Same here. Been using an IBM Model M since 1999. Sadly not the same M, as the keyboard decoder died in my last one, but when I got the keyboards in the late 90s I decided to snatch up a few spares because I knew they'd become harder to find with time.
The IBM Model F and M were specifically designed to mimic the feel and sound of IBM Selectric typewriters, since those were pretty much THE STANDARD for typewriters in offices at the time.
This way when employees would move from their Selectric to a computer, the keyboard would have a familiar feel and sound.
So yeah, the wonderful feel of these keyboards goes back to the 1960s when IBM perfected the Selectric.
Unicomp has been making brand new Model Ms for years, using the same tooling that was originally used by IBM to make them.
What makes the Model F better, other than the historical angle? And if it's just the historical reasons, why bother with a $300 remake instead of the real thing, when you can just buy a new Model M from Unicomp for a lot less money and get the same feel with identical inauthenticity?
If you're confused reading this, welcome to the club. :)
Isn't there a point though, where the body can't get rid of heat fast enough and your body temperature starts to rise, causing hyperthermia and heat stroke?
The laws of physics say that if it's 129F and your body temperature is 98.6F, the heat transfer will be INTO your body. At what point is evaporative cooling via sweat no longer enough? There is a physical limit; there has to be.
This is something I've always wondered myself.
Why are companies expected to grow at such a high rate? What's wrong with reliable, regular profit every quarter?
Look at his record of the things he's done so far. ALL of them favor big ISPs, and NONE of them favor the consumer.
The man is completely bought. He has absolutely no business heading the FCC, which is all about regulating communications and the PUBLIC airwaves.
I don't understand why so many people in this country, especially those who aren't wealthy, continue to support politicians that not only don't work for the people, but are so BLATANTLY and OBVIOUSLY corrupted by big corporate money and influence.
You'd think they could have instead used "ssuggest.samsung.com" or similar, rather than registering an entirely separate domain for what is essentially a minor feature on a phone.
The nice thing about DNS is that it was designed PRECISELY TO BE USED THIS WAY, being able to establish a hierarchy so that an entity can organize all their hostnames/services in one hierarchy.
Unless you're jailbroken there is little reason to not install the latest version of iOS. And if you're jailbroken you can disable the automatic updates.
Why in particular are you staying on an older version?
iMessage can become as advanced as it wants; the fundamental issue is that it's not a cross-platform app. Its extra features are only available on iOS devices and Macs.
I use mostly Telegram with my friends because it runs on everything. Even though I love my iPhone I recognize that without cross-platform support, some of its features will always be limited. Apple should open up iMessage to other platforms, then we might see some greater adoption of its fancier features.
That ever since the 80s, those copper lines simply plug into a digital phone switch anyway?
No. Wrong!
Most censorship comes from *AUTHORITARIANS*. From both sides of the aisle. By their very nature authoritarians want to control what you can do, and that includes what you can read. Regardless of which way someone leans politically, if they are more libertarian they will be against censorship, and/or pretty much telling people how to live their lives. If they are authoritarian, they will want to meddle, and that includes censorship.
Authoritarian left, authoritarian right; they BOTH suck. No matter how you lean politically the most important thing is to remember that we shouldn't be telling people how to live their lives.
Stupidity like this is why card issuers are simply going to have to make EMV mandatory. Same deal with gas stations; yes I realize EMV readers are expensive but it's cost of doing business. Deal with it and upgrade your shit.
If another country started to demand people's social media passwords, full access to phones, etc. as a possible condition to enter, I certainly wouldn't want to go there. Who wants to be treated like a criminal when they're on vacation trying to relax and have a good time?
People take their privacy seriously. The word has gotten around that the US is poking more and more into people's data when they visit. There's plenty of other beautiful places to visit in the world, so obviously tourism to the US will go down.
Treat visitors as guests and not suspiciously, damnit.
I'm sure a lot of criminals who don't have the gall to assault a regular truck may be able to justify going after a self-driving truck, since there are no people onboard to leave behind as witnesses.
A driverless truck carrying millions of dollars worth of goods out on a lonely desert road? It'll be like a sitting (well, rolling) duck. They're going to have to have some clever defensive mechanisms installed to prevent an all out field day for thieves.