It's great to hear iOS and Android fan club members deciding for me what market I'm in.
There will always be a market segment with highly skilled techies / hackers who prefer to carry around a phone that has superior battery life and superior quality calls as opposed to one that is running a platform highly targeted by malicious parties for its ease of hackability. All that ram and storage is a great place to hide things. It's a much more difficult proposition to carry out the types of attacks seen today on modern smartphones on a phone such as the Nokia 215.
I am so glad Microsoft has been willing to continue produce the series 40/30 line of feature phones. Keep it up
All the recent media hype on how manufacturers are "hardening" their devices is a joke. Of course they're going to continue to let "approved" entities spy on you.
We'll start seeing devices built on an open platform running community developed OSS in the next couple of years..
Advertisement / marketing organizations that want the status quo to remain should not press the issue. Some simple facts are going to come out of any meaningful conversation on the topic:
1) we don't want your cookies. we didn't ask for them, and we don't like them.
2) we'll be happy to pay a small fee to not see your ads, and you won't see any of that $.
By the time the technology is productized and delivered to the consumer in the US it's going to be some bastardized architecture that delivers "just good enough" service. Telecom is not in the business of delivering more value for less money, so expect the added benefits you get to be proportional to the additional amount consumers will be paying.
Maybe LTO the spec will be superseded and taken over by a next gen cartridge technology, but the medium is still cheaper than disk today.
This is going to change in 10-20 years, but you're still going to have legacy systems sticking around after that for 10 years.
Today, for keeping petabytes of data secure/resilient long term tape is the cheaper solution.
That's simply not correct. You're talking about China's official exports to the US, which undergo at least *some* routine scrutiny v.s. direct from Joe Blo somewhere doing individual shipments via mail. People can claim these are the same, and I'm sure many do. That type of reasoning doesn't do well in say for example... the sciences... where preciseness is usually a factor in making decisions.
These types of "deals" are always some type of trade-off. How much is your time worth? Go with a tried and true distributor and reputable seller off amazon. If you can't afford something at the normal asking price to the point your are willing to dabble with nefarious entities from China, then maybe you should wait and save up for when you can... or don't and convince yourself you got a great deal from "someone" in China.
Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University in California. Over the past 20 years, Dweck has conducted dozens of studies about praise’s impact on students’ self-esteem and academic achievement
Where?What was really learned by Dweck looking at only students in the US, or the state of CA? Perhaps the results are due to the "you're awesome" bubble we raise our kids in today in the US.
These allegations are of no surprise to those of us who have been customers of these companies for years now.
They all do this. To think that a company like verizon or at&t doesn't participate in this is silly. They don't even have the physical infrastructure required to give all the customers they've signed up today all their money's worth. They stay behind the curve of customer demand to go fast on upgrades to infrastructure.. it's part of their business model.
I agree with this sentiment. Isn't it the case that the space "tourism" industry was propped up in the vacuum that was left by the government programs?
The argument was made way back then that this was the best option for continuing to push the types of research and development needed to see space travel grow in the future. Reasonable.
Of course.. how far back in time can I expect a person who writes for Wired to remember?
Kudos for re-iterating this point and not caring about all the passive aggressive (or just straight up aggressive) comments that are going to be hurled at this article by the apple fandom.
Apple makes a GREAT PC, the fit and finish can't be beat. Although, asus and some other manufacturers are sure trying to close that gap.
Apple ships their awesome PC hardware with their proprietary OS, OSX... Although OSX has its origins born completely outside of apple by Jobs after he was pushed out of the company in the 80's
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It's great to hear iOS and Android fan club members deciding for me what market I'm in. There will always be a market segment with highly skilled techies / hackers who prefer to carry around a phone that has superior battery life and superior quality calls as opposed to one that is running a platform highly targeted by malicious parties for its ease of hackability. All that ram and storage is a great place to hide things. It's a much more difficult proposition to carry out the types of attacks seen today on modern smartphones on a phone such as the Nokia 215. I am so glad Microsoft has been willing to continue produce the series 40/30 line of feature phones. Keep it up
All the recent media hype on how manufacturers are "hardening" their devices is a joke. Of course they're going to continue to let "approved" entities spy on you. We'll start seeing devices built on an open platform running community developed OSS in the next couple of years..
Yes, pay way more and get a flagship android or iOS based device, where you are completely insulated from malicious attacks.
This is why you don't buy shady things from China directly. There's a reason why coolpad's products aren't on the US export list.
In a fire safe, in a concealed, steal reinforced, concrete bunker.
Advertisement / marketing organizations that want the status quo to remain should not press the issue. Some simple facts are going to come out of any meaningful conversation on the topic: 1) we don't want your cookies. we didn't ask for them, and we don't like them. 2) we'll be happy to pay a small fee to not see your ads, and you won't see any of that $.
By the time the technology is productized and delivered to the consumer in the US it's going to be some bastardized architecture that delivers "just good enough" service. Telecom is not in the business of delivering more value for less money, so expect the added benefits you get to be proportional to the additional amount consumers will be paying.
The modular design is cool. It's going to come in handy ...
Maybe LTO the spec will be superseded and taken over by a next gen cartridge technology, but the medium is still cheaper than disk today. This is going to change in 10-20 years, but you're still going to have legacy systems sticking around after that for 10 years. Today, for keeping petabytes of data secure/resilient long term tape is the cheaper solution.
That's simply not correct. You're talking about China's official exports to the US, which undergo at least *some* routine scrutiny v.s. direct from Joe Blo somewhere doing individual shipments via mail. People can claim these are the same, and I'm sure many do. That type of reasoning doesn't do well in say for example ... the sciences ... where preciseness is usually a factor in making decisions.
These types of "deals" are always some type of trade-off. How much is your time worth? Go with a tried and true distributor and reputable seller off amazon. If you can't afford something at the normal asking price to the point your are willing to dabble with nefarious entities from China, then maybe you should wait and save up for when you can ... or don't and convince yourself you got a great deal from "someone" in China.
Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University in California. Over the past 20 years, Dweck has conducted dozens of studies about praise’s impact on students’ self-esteem and academic achievement
Where?What was really learned by Dweck looking at only students in the US, or the state of CA? Perhaps the results are due to the "you're awesome" bubble we raise our kids in today in the US.
These allegations are of no surprise to those of us who have been customers of these companies for years now. They all do this. To think that a company like verizon or at&t doesn't participate in this is silly. They don't even have the physical infrastructure required to give all the customers they've signed up today all their money's worth. They stay behind the curve of customer demand to go fast on upgrades to infrastructure .. it's part of their business model.
I agree with this sentiment. Isn't it the case that the space "tourism" industry was propped up in the vacuum that was left by the government programs? The argument was made way back then that this was the best option for continuing to push the types of research and development needed to see space travel grow in the future. Reasonable. Of course .. how far back in time can I expect a person who writes for Wired to remember?
"These people already have housing assistance, now they want INTERNET????"
Kudos for re-iterating this point and not caring about all the passive aggressive (or just straight up aggressive) comments that are going to be hurled at this article by the apple fandom. Apple makes a GREAT PC, the fit and finish can't be beat. Although, asus and some other manufacturers are sure trying to close that gap. Apple ships their awesome PC hardware with their proprietary OS, OSX ... Although OSX has its origins born completely outside of apple by Jobs after he was pushed out of the company in the 80's