Snapchat, an application that emphasizes on short lived messages. No wonder search warrants will be a hit and miss! Unless you resort to the typical trick of wiretapping, that is, have another copy of the messages go to an interested party unbeknown to you.
I foresee the US government asking for these messages to be to sent to the NSA as bad as requesting a backdoor to all non-military devices that use encryption. You surely heard about politicians asking for backdoors already, haven't you?
If computing is going to evolve far way faster in the next ten years than on the previous ten, can Microsoft cope with that? For many people and companies, the usage pattern of Microsoft software has been Windows XP and Office 2003 for approximately the last ten years (with some offset).
Adobe set a worrying pattern here that I think Microsoft wants to follow: Software as a Service. That is, monthly or yearly fees for licenses. And the reason is that, for some people, some software do everything you need. A similar thing happens with the CPUs - upgrade cycles are becoming longer.
The problem with infotainment is that it probably will not get upgraded for ten years or so. A valid comparison is Windows XP lifecycle, twelve years. Just imagine how much computers can evolve over twelve years, and how old fashioned your infotainment kit will be, like a Windows XP pre-SP1.
As these systems will not get upgraded for a long time, they also need to be very robust with a good track of it. Nobody wants to reboot a car subsystem, ehem, unlike Ford Sync.
Seems similar to the various services Google provides. Except for the part that nobody uses them.
To me, social media seems a good thing to do if people put interesting stuff they do. But as there are no more heroes in this life we are living right now, I do not follow anybody, and thus have no need for a Facebook account. Except for getting spam.
I though Netflix already works with Chromecast. So let me focus on other cases. I am worried that the Chromebit might not have enough muscle to play anything but H264 level 4.1 (Max level used in Blurays), as many other HW decoders have been doing in the past. Forget about higher H264 levels, or even H265 (not sure if there will be discrimination here). And I will not get into the discussion about 10b per channel video that is so popular with fansubbed anime these days. With no specs available, I am not convinced the Chromebit is much better than a Chromecast, unless you want to use ChromeOs. If I were to chose, I would rather use a tablet than a TV for navigating the internet.
If it does not do transcoding, what is the advantage regarding a smartphone plus a Chromecast? Or a Smartphone plus an HDMI dongle?
I still fail to see the advantage of ChromeOs.
I am sure it is sold to parents that do no know how differentiate a NDS from a 3DS (some brick and mortar shops still have a NDS section), and to the people that connected the WiiU to Internet.
This is how large companies work today: sell me the same shit again and again. When is the 4K version of Star Wars coming out? I want it sooo badly.
I am sure my nephew has seen his share of Flash games that are clones of Mario games. And some of these games come from shady developers, I am sure of it.
Thankfully he is now more interested in Minecraft.
You forget that Chrome on Windows had this feature of messing Windows internal tics. It made Chrome work faster at the expense of eating battery life on the laptops.
It looks like the OP is in a bad situation anyhow. If a single person can take down a company - beware what an unsolicited virus/malware can do!
Where I work, people work as usual until he/she leaves the job. If any problem arises (sabotaging the company, copying over trade secrets, etc), we call the lawyers.
Yes, I am called Barack Obama. Can't you see that in these forge... authentic papers? I just travel economy, as that is the most cost-sensitive solution!
There are two services that are also kept alive:
a) Bluetooth / other wireless link in order to be able to power up the console with the wireless gamepad, plus whatever authentication these gamepads might have. TVs do use IR, a technology that is proven cheaper and that draws very little power.
b) USB charging, so that your gamepads are fully charged next time you want to play
c) HDMI-CEC link, a link that works with 1ms bit times
And in the case of the Xbox One, you need to add:
d) HDMI pass-through
e) Kinect voice recognition
The problem is HW support. Video is so computing intensive that modern CPUs have trouble keeping the bandwidth. Even if you could run video encoding or decoding on a CPU, it probably is more efficient to run on HW.
So, that is the reason why people stick to an old format for a long long time. H264 and MP3 are not going to disappear next week.
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I foresee the US government asking for these messages to be to sent to the NSA as bad as requesting a backdoor to all non-military devices that use encryption. You surely heard about politicians asking for backdoors already, haven't you?
Adobe set a worrying pattern here that I think Microsoft wants to follow: Software as a Service. That is, monthly or yearly fees for licenses. And the reason is that, for some people, some software do everything you need. A similar thing happens with the CPUs - upgrade cycles are becoming longer.
Another Dice post...
As these systems will not get upgraded for a long time, they also need to be very robust with a good track of it. Nobody wants to reboot a car subsystem, ehem, unlike Ford Sync.
Sent from a place where there is no Netflix service.
To me, social media seems a good thing to do if people put interesting stuff they do. But as there are no more heroes in this life we are living right now, I do not follow anybody, and thus have no need for a Facebook account. Except for getting spam.
I though Netflix already works with Chromecast. So let me focus on other cases. I am worried that the Chromebit might not have enough muscle to play anything but H264 level 4.1 (Max level used in Blurays), as many other HW decoders have been doing in the past. Forget about higher H264 levels, or even H265 (not sure if there will be discrimination here). And I will not get into the discussion about 10b per channel video that is so popular with fansubbed anime these days.
With no specs available, I am not convinced the Chromebit is much better than a Chromecast, unless you want to use ChromeOs. If I were to chose, I would rather use a tablet than a TV for navigating the internet.
If it does not do transcoding, what is the advantage regarding a smartphone plus a Chromecast? Or a Smartphone plus an HDMI dongle? I still fail to see the advantage of ChromeOs.
I am sure it is sold to parents that do no know how differentiate a NDS from a 3DS (some brick and mortar shops still have a NDS section), and to the people that connected the WiiU to Internet. This is how large companies work today: sell me the same shit again and again. When is the 4K version of Star Wars coming out? I want it sooo badly.
I am sure my nephew has seen his share of Flash games that are clones of Mario games. And some of these games come from shady developers, I am sure of it. Thankfully he is now more interested in Minecraft.
You forget that Chrome on Windows had this feature of messing Windows internal tics. It made Chrome work faster at the expense of eating battery life on the laptops.
It looks like the OP is in a bad situation anyhow. If a single person can take down a company - beware what an unsolicited virus/malware can do! Where I work, people work as usual until he/she leaves the job. If any problem arises (sabotaging the company, copying over trade secrets, etc), we call the lawyers.
Yes, I am called Barack Obama. Can't you see that in these forge... authentic papers? I just travel economy, as that is the most cost-sensitive solution!
a) Bluetooth / other wireless link in order to be able to power up the console with the wireless gamepad, plus whatever authentication these gamepads might have. TVs do use IR, a technology that is proven cheaper and that draws very little power.
b) USB charging, so that your gamepads are fully charged next time you want to play
c) HDMI-CEC link, a link that works with 1ms bit times
And in the case of the Xbox One, you need to add:
d) HDMI pass-through
e) Kinect voice recognition
General public already know what is a "cocktail", and they enjoy them very much.
The problem is HW support. Video is so computing intensive that modern CPUs have trouble keeping the bandwidth. Even if you could run video encoding or decoding on a CPU, it probably is more efficient to run on HW. So, that is the reason why people stick to an old format for a long long time. H264 and MP3 are not going to disappear next week.