You know that cash value changes over time. Its value does not depend on gold reserves anymore. In the case of a zombie apocalypse or stock market crash, cash paper might become as valuable as toilet paper. Do you remember this African country, Zimbabwe? Its paper money became useless, so useless they had trillion dollar bills printed. So it is not a good idea to keep cash forever.
Phones are probably used for distribution and creation of paedofilia content. Cars do not have memory like a phone does - OK, depend on what you do. So having a back door on the phones is more important. Imagine all of the things that can be traced back in time. All of the inmoral things that could be uncovered, including sexting that can be categorized as paedofilia even if that happened years ago. Or is that you are not thinking of the children?
I doubt the requirement for Line Of Sight is convenient enough. You will definitely lose reception if you move outside of the room, or even the hotspot. Also, I fear that broadcasting light waves may be drain batteries faster than the 2.4GHz wireless standards. The article, that is not great, does not show many details from the handset point of view.
How about KISS? It is hard these days to get an OS that is only an OS, and a web browser that is only a web browser. The OS should let me run software, and the web browser should show me a document stored somewhere else.
Regarding stories, they could only be created through the mobile interface last time I tried. It is not that the desktop application had a lot of features, it is that the web browser replacement is not on par with the mobile application. Stories did not show correctly on Apple devices without the application installed.
The way I see it is: Google Photos is designed for taking photos with the *sarcasm* great mobile phone cameras on the Nexus phones */sarcasm*, and not any of the other cameras people might have bought.
The Wiki is out of date with regards installation instructions. I am not sure about Debian based installations, but I read somewhere else that the RPM package provides an install script that lets you install anywhere you want. You can then use something like I do at work, use "module" to differentiate which version you want to run. Not too graphical for most earthlings, but a good way to have different versions installed.
Let me see some of the definitions by Merriam-Webster:
one attached to another by affection or esteem
acquaintance, or somebody that is not a close friend
one that is not hostile
a favored companion
I am sure there are lots of people giving new definitions, like "Facebook Friend". To me, that "Facebook Friend" definition is setting a low bar for what friendship is. This "friend" is somebody you might not have shared anything with. He/she might have known you so many years in the past but time has passed and if you were in the same room together, you would not know what to talk about as he/she is a stranger. Maybe some idle chat, maybe you can remeniscence some old time you spent together. The 10 to 40 year old gap is empty and wide. Where were you when your "friends" needed you?
You do not really want to go back to vendor APIs like twenty years ago. It did not save 3DFX then, it may not save AMD GPU division now. You really need to get Vulkan working, and you need to get GNU/Linux drivers performance and numbers of bugs to a reasonable level.
Hey, it is not cheating, it is not compliance checking, so it is not like lying like VAG or Bosch. I understand that this is a synthetic benchmark that favours Intel CPUs. However, there are a variety of benchmarks out there. For example, Oracle posted some benchmarks where Sparc CPUs run faster than Intel CPUs, for a given application. Curiously enough, Oracle did not bother benchmarking agains AMD CPUs.
I was one of the ones burned by low reliability on early OCZ SSD drives. I know they were bought by Toshiba, so things might have changed. However, most SSD are so fast these days for a desktop that I rather trade some of the speed for known reliability. Unfortunately, it is hard to get a metric for reliability that you can trust.
Dutch legislation is not really relevant, I would say. If most software is coming from the US, including OS from Microsoft, Apple and Google, how are you supposed to enforce adequate encription if the US mandates weaker versions? Is it going to be the GNU/Linux on the Dutch Desktop during 2016?
Google Play had this Year's End promotion thing, and you could get Minecraft Story Mode for 0.99EUR. However, that was only episode 1 out of 5. There was no indication how much it costs to get the complete package from the storefront. There were only some user comments in the store pointing out it was around 30.00EUR. If you want to watch the whole story, you need to pay for the complete package, I am afraid.
And that is probably be never. With so many devices launching around the same time, it is likely that the first big one will get all the attention. If anything goes wrong with it, everyone else will have a hard time to convince the people that VR is cool again.
The main trouble I see is that a high spec computer is needed for Oculus Rift (thus leaving most laptop users out). The headset even needs 3 or 4 USB plugs. Sony somehow thinks the PS4, with most games running at 30fps, is beefy enough for the task. I suspect that VR on the console needs to lower the complexity of the VR games a lot, something I am not sure most console gamers would appreciate. Note that I have not experienced Samsung version of VR that is out there, I wonder how they fare these days.
Although I believe Jacques is rubbing the right spots, he is not giving any specific example. As usual, let me state that "the cloud" just means somebody else's servers. So let me give you some examples I know of hardware or software locked to a given server:
The Cardo SHO-1 handsfree set for motorcycles uses a website that you need to register for. The kind of information that is stored in the website is minimal, but you still need to fill in data. The online components are firmware version check and social kind of thing that helps you set a group for set to set communications. Note that the set does not directly connect to the internet.
My Panasonic Plasma TV does require a Panasonic account in order to watch TV, but it does require one for access to the application store. One of the reason that an account is needed is for traceability: there are probably paid applications there.
My Nexus 7 tablet needs a Google account in order to access the application store. I haven't tried, but I suppose you can live without access to the store, a la Cyanogenmod way.
The video on demand application I pay a subscription for requires an account, and as it is streaming, it uses somebody else's servers. There are movies that you can "buy",e.g. the Star Wars movies, but I do not trust the service will live long enough. Or that any given movie needs to be viewed more than twice these days.
I have an extensive Steam library for games. If Steam goes tits up, then I lose access to those games. This is a calculated risk I run with my entertainment software. Some of the games require Games For Windows Live (that does not work anymore), or uPlay, or some half baked service that only works for one or two games. Last game I played, Tales from the Borderlands, asked me to create a new account for Telltale Games in order to show me stats that previous games were given for free. I told them no ten times, twice per chapter.
Any work related files I work with has a very strong vendor lock-in, but the software itself does not use somebody else's servers as far as I know. I suppose that is somebody else's problem right now - I am given the tool I need to use, and I am instructed in how to do so. Sorry I cannot be any more specific, NDAs and the like are in effect.
I use an empty Facebook account just for login purposes on a few sites where I troll. Zero friends is what my spam troll alternate persona deserves. I will not upload photos to a service where I lose ownership of them.
At the end of the day, it is just a matter of risk assesment. Joe six-pack might follow the right path some of the times. An educated Slashdot reader shall fare far way better than that.
This method is destructive, as you are removing the pages from the book. However, it gets you an adequate scan without the need of controlled ambient light or running transformations from a photo such that the page seems to be flat. Any other method is complicated, so expect to invest a lot of time.
I fear they are stuck with H264 for the time being due to HW support. After all, Netflix can be installed on almost any video related appliance you can buy today, new and old! And that includes old BD players and Nintendo 3DS.
As the AC told, this is an Ubuntu reskin (desktop compositing is different). But it is not just that, it tries to be a MacOsX wannabe. Another one out there. I just dislike how everybody tries to try things for the dumb masses...
One thing I read is that there are spin-off movies planned. According to Wikipedia, you get "Rogue One" between episodes 7 and 8. It is up in the air if these money grabs, I mean spin-off movies, are going to be better or worse than the Holiday Special.
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You know that cash value changes over time. Its value does not depend on gold reserves anymore. In the case of a zombie apocalypse or stock market crash, cash paper might become as valuable as toilet paper. Do you remember this African country, Zimbabwe? Its paper money became useless, so useless they had trillion dollar bills printed. So it is not a good idea to keep cash forever.
Phones are probably used for distribution and creation of paedofilia content. Cars do not have memory like a phone does - OK, depend on what you do. So having a back door on the phones is more important. Imagine all of the things that can be traced back in time. All of the inmoral things that could be uncovered, including sexting that can be categorized as paedofilia even if that happened years ago.
Or is that you are not thinking of the children?
I doubt the requirement for Line Of Sight is convenient enough. You will definitely lose reception if you move outside of the room, or even the hotspot. Also, I fear that broadcasting light waves may be drain batteries faster than the 2.4GHz wireless standards. The article, that is not great, does not show many details from the handset point of view.
How about KISS? It is hard these days to get an OS that is only an OS, and a web browser that is only a web browser. The OS should let me run software, and the web browser should show me a document stored somewhere else.
TVs are not the dumb boxes of ye olde times, specially the high end ones. However, they are not smart on what they do.
The way I see it is: Google Photos is designed for taking photos with the *sarcasm* great mobile phone cameras on the Nexus phones */sarcasm*, and not any of the other cameras people might have bought.
By the way, the editor of the story should have pointed to http://www.libreoffice.org/ !
I am sure there are lots of people giving new definitions, like "Facebook Friend". To me, that "Facebook Friend" definition is setting a low bar for what friendship is. This "friend" is somebody you might not have shared anything with. He/she might have known you so many years in the past but time has passed and if you were in the same room together, you would not know what to talk about as he/she is a stranger. Maybe some idle chat, maybe you can remeniscence some old time you spent together. The 10 to 40 year old gap is empty and wide. Where were you when your "friends" needed you?
You do not really want to go back to vendor APIs like twenty years ago. It did not save 3DFX then, it may not save AMD GPU division now. You really need to get Vulkan working, and you need to get GNU/Linux drivers performance and numbers of bugs to a reasonable level.
I think I have heard that before from Stuntman Mike.
Hey, it is not cheating, it is not compliance checking, so it is not like lying like VAG or Bosch. I understand that this is a synthetic benchmark that favours Intel CPUs. However, there are a variety of benchmarks out there. For example, Oracle posted some benchmarks where Sparc CPUs run faster than Intel CPUs, for a given application. Curiously enough, Oracle did not bother benchmarking agains AMD CPUs.
I was one of the ones burned by low reliability on early OCZ SSD drives. I know they were bought by Toshiba, so things might have changed. However, most SSD are so fast these days for a desktop that I rather trade some of the speed for known reliability. Unfortunately, it is hard to get a metric for reliability that you can trust.
Do not tell that to Nexus S owners. Still, it is good that at least Google keeps promising long term support.
I know it is because of the rest of the world. However, what makes Firefox special these days? Mozilla is copying Apple and Google then.
Dutch legislation is not really relevant, I would say. If most software is coming from the US, including OS from Microsoft, Apple and Google, how are you supposed to enforce adequate encription if the US mandates weaker versions? Is it going to be the GNU/Linux on the Dutch Desktop during 2016?
Google Play had this Year's End promotion thing, and you could get Minecraft Story Mode for 0.99EUR. However, that was only episode 1 out of 5. There was no indication how much it costs to get the complete package from the storefront. There were only some user comments in the store pointing out it was around 30.00EUR. If you want to watch the whole story, you need to pay for the complete package, I am afraid.
The main trouble I see is that a high spec computer is needed for Oculus Rift (thus leaving most laptop users out). The headset even needs 3 or 4 USB plugs. Sony somehow thinks the PS4, with most games running at 30fps, is beefy enough for the task. I suspect that VR on the console needs to lower the complexity of the VR games a lot, something I am not sure most console gamers would appreciate. Note that I have not experienced Samsung version of VR that is out there, I wonder how they fare these days.
At the end of the day, it is just a matter of risk assesment. Joe six-pack might follow the right path some of the times. An educated Slashdot reader shall fare far way better than that.
This method is destructive, as you are removing the pages from the book. However, it gets you an adequate scan without the need of controlled ambient light or running transformations from a photo such that the page seems to be flat. Any other method is complicated, so expect to invest a lot of time.
I fear they are stuck with H264 for the time being due to HW support. After all, Netflix can be installed on almost any video related appliance you can buy today, new and old! And that includes old BD players and Nintendo 3DS.
As the AC told, this is an Ubuntu reskin (desktop compositing is different). But it is not just that, it tries to be a MacOsX wannabe. Another one out there. I just dislike how everybody tries to try things for the dumb masses...
CPU are just not built like 16 years ago! Anyhow, not sure how useful such an old machine is, it probably is single core.
This one also goes for other connected things: automobiles, routers, mobile phones...
Kids are definitely insecure as of today.
One thing I read is that there are spin-off movies planned. According to Wikipedia, you get "Rogue One" between episodes 7 and 8. It is up in the air if these money grabs, I mean spin-off movies, are going to be better or worse than the Holiday Special.