What? No. 8GB is standard. 32GB is $600 more - almost the full price of the base model.
This is correct- for the cost of an "upgrade" to 32GB you could buy 2 or 3 fully-loaded Samsung or Lenovo tablets, which would come with Micro SD card slots and normal, industry-standard headphone jacks.
Sorry Apple, I've already switched to a Samsung Tab A 10.1, and I'm not going back. The problem is that your gear is devoid of of standard features like memory card slots, headphone jacks, and affordable prices.
Apple's pricing has always been high, but these new models push the pricing into stratospheric-stupid territory.
Yes, and I remember when computers were going to usher in the "Age of The Paperless Office"....the result was that paper usage went up about 500% because suddenly anyone and everyone could print whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted...and boy, did they ever.
Canon, Xerox, and Boise Cascade pretty much defoliated the Amazon rainforest to keep up with demand for that sweet, sweet paper.
My old Motorola StarTAC flip phone (circa ~1998) could be set up to "accept a call and answer automatically" without ringing or indicating that it was doing anything. It wouldn't make so much as a beep...it would just answer and let you listen in.
It basically gave you an on-demand, remotely-controllable audio bug that could be accessed from anywhere in the world that had cell service.
Do you really think that current, modern phones don't have that capability?
Of course your phone is insecure....you're running software you don't understand on a device you don't understand, using networks you don't understand. Why anyone would think they could do this "securely" is beyond me.
So sure- some of you install a firewall and anti-virus program and think that that's going to fix all those aforementioned problems. It won't.
The fact is that there's a very, very good chance that your phone is running something you don't want, never asked for, and can't detect let alone control. Half the apps in the Apple store have skanky shit going on inside them, the Android stores (Google Play, etc) aren't much better.
Now we also know that a lot of gadgets come with purpose-made malware in them, including phones, chargers, USB hubs, HDMI adapters, screen-casting gadgets, USB drives, charging cables, video systems, Blu-Ray players, etc etc etc.
Why anyone would think that they have a handle on what their electronics are doing is always amazing to me. You don't know what your gear is doing. You just don't.
Would it be too much to ask for a brief summary or explanation of what a "snap" is for people who aren't familiar with this technology? From what I can see, it's like Docker containers, but how are "snaps" different? Perusing the "snap" site didn't make it any clearer.
My last ipad started dying, so I've already switched to a Galaxy Tab A. Same or better specs, at half the cost. ($205 online)
2GB RAM, 32GB storage (the T580 international version) 10.1" 1900 x 1280 screen (a bit bigger than the ipad) Bluetooth, NFC, etc etc And it comes with a normal micro-USB port, a normal headphone jack, and a memory-expansion micro-SD card slot (filled with a 64GB chip).
All that for $200 (plus $15 for a 64GB sd card). A basic iPad Air with 32GB is going to be nearly double that.
All in all, better than the ipad for less money, plus it's expandable and you can charge it from any USB port- no proprietary Apple cable required.
The only downside is that there's no equivalent for the Zagg Rugged Book keyboard/case. It's the best keyboard/case combination in the world at any price as far as I'm concerned. Super rugged case, awesome keyboard, simply the best I've ever seen hands down.
Am I the only one amused that a piece is actually talking in gasped horror at 'megabytes' of data exposed? It just isn't a scale that you hear used much in outrage much anymore.
Yep. 89 megabytes is maybe two cat pictures and a Microsoft Word document with the "Hello" in it.
"A recovered 98MB file underscores the risks of doing things that will destroy your reputation and marriage."
There's a lot of truth in that.
I find it easy not to fuck up my marriage with affairs simply by not having affairs. It's so easy not to have an affair, and yet apparently it's beyond the ability of so many people.
LOL, the amount of sheer stupidity in that one bit could fill books.
Half of those things are totally at odd with the other half, but don't you worry your pretty little head over it, okay? Sean Hannity will be along soon to tell you what to think. Or is that Jeanine Pirro's job?
This is, I believe, due in large part to the "stack ranking" method of management that they inflicted on their employees for so long.
They screwed the good people, kept the brown-nosing losers, and years later, here we are. Shit software from a dysfunctional company that couldn't find its way out of a phone booth with a squad of Army Rangers to show them the way.
I saw so many good people get screwed by stack ranking that it seriously made me question if a competitor had come up with the idea and implemented it at Microsoft in order to cripple them.
But I suspect that. like a lot of corporate failures, stack ranking was a 100% self-inflicted wound.
"Either tests do not exist at all for this code (and I've been told that yes, it's permitted to integrate code without tests, though I would hope this isn't the norm)"
Oh my, so so so so much to unpack in that one sentence.
The fact that this bug got shipped should tell you a lot, and none of it's good.
The sad but undeniable fact is that political trolls are here to stay, on every platform and for every agenda.
Influencing elections has been going on since forever, but now it's easier and much more economical to do, plus the scope/scale of the effects are vastly greater. It used to be impossible to reach 50 million people with a given message, but now with Facebook and Twitter and all the other social media platforms, it's both practical and cheap.
They saw how blissfully easy it was to disrupt the 2016 elections and truth be told, they got a lot of bang for their buck. There are a lot of Americans who are eager to follow anyone and anything that reinforces their current worldview, and who are also eager to accept new ideas or viewpoints that conveniently reinforce and amplify their existing prejudices and hatreds.
The whole "false flag" thing is back, bigger and better than ever- note how the Russians funded groups who were diametrically opposed to each other, attempting to stage rallies both for and against various issues on the same days and in the same locales in the hopes of fomenting division and violence.
And it worked. It was all basically just a covert advertising campaign, and it worked way better than they ever dreamed it would. Face it- advertising works, or they wouldn't spend billions of dollars every year doing it.
So yeah, it worked, and it succeeded like magic against a populace who was unfamiliar with the technique and also not inclined to critical thinking.
They're here to stay, so get used to fake people and groups touting their "grassroots" agendas. They'll get better and better at hiding their tracks and before long it'll be well nigh impossible to tell the real from the fake, which is exactly what they want.
If you expect people to work overtime as a normal thing or insist on "crunch" overtime, then your company is broken.
That's one of the the things I like about the current place I'm working at...they have a company ethic that says overtime is not normal or expected, and they also state that if overtime is an accepted part of the work flow or company culture, then the company is broken. And they're right.
I wouldn't work one minute of overtime ("crunch" or not) unless a) I wanted to and b) they paid me triple time for it.
If you dumbfucks can't plan a project without it running into my off hours, then you'd should get better planners, coders, or managers. But don't think for one moment that I'm going to piss away my life so you dickheads can ship your glitzy bullshit product on time.
Remember, kids- no one on their deathbed ever wished that they'd spent more time at the office.
You should know that Qualcomm's upcoming chipset for 60GHz wireless networks will "support new 60GHz Wi-Fi Sensing applications like proximity and presence detection, gesture recognitions, room mapping with precise location and improved facial feature detection."
Well if they can sneak into my home and secretly retrofit all my gear to use that chip, then they deserve to be able to watch me fondle my wife, make breakfast, and leave pithy comments on Slashdot.
"Thermostats know the temperature of your house, and smart cameras and sensors know when someone's walking around your home. Smart assistants know what you're asking for, and smart doorbells know who's coming and going. And thanks to the cloud, that data is available to you from anywhere"
Yes, and it's also available to the police, criminals, and anyone else who wants it bad enough.
This is exactly why all of my home automation gear (dated, but still working) is non-cloud, non-connected devices that are unable to call out or store stuff off site.
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What? No. 8GB is standard. 32GB is $600 more - almost the full price of the base model.
This is correct- for the cost of an "upgrade" to 32GB you could buy 2 or 3 fully-loaded Samsung or Lenovo tablets, which would come with Micro SD card slots and normal, industry-standard headphone jacks.
Sorry Apple, I've already switched to a Samsung Tab A 10.1, and I'm not going back. The problem is that your gear is devoid of of standard features like memory card slots, headphone jacks, and affordable prices.
Apple's pricing has always been high, but these new models push the pricing into stratospheric-stupid territory.
Old guy, you might want to update your anecdotes to make them relevant and factual.
No. And get off my lawn, sonny.
And this is only the beginning....eventually Xiaomi will bury Apple in terms of sales.
They have had this policy for a while: https://medium.com/@getongab/g...
Yeah, and I have a "policy" that I don't break the speed limit...except when I do, and that's pretty much whenever the fuck I want to.
So yeah, let's have a policy. Hell, have two policies if you want, or a dozen. They mean nothing without enforcement.
Yes, and I remember when computers were going to usher in the "Age of The Paperless Office"....the result was that paper usage went up about 500% because suddenly anyone and everyone could print whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted...and boy, did they ever.
Canon, Xerox, and Boise Cascade pretty much defoliated the Amazon rainforest to keep up with demand for that sweet, sweet paper.
My old Motorola StarTAC flip phone (circa ~1998) could be set up to "accept a call and answer automatically" without ringing or indicating that it was doing anything. It wouldn't make so much as a beep...it would just answer and let you listen in.
It basically gave you an on-demand, remotely-controllable audio bug that could be accessed from anywhere in the world that had cell service.
Do you really think that current, modern phones don't have that capability?
Of course your phone is insecure....you're running software you don't understand on a device you don't understand, using networks you don't understand. Why anyone would think they could do this "securely" is beyond me.
So sure- some of you install a firewall and anti-virus program and think that that's going to fix all those aforementioned problems. It won't.
The fact is that there's a very, very good chance that your phone is running something you don't want, never asked for, and can't detect let alone control. Half the apps in the Apple store have skanky shit going on inside them, the Android stores (Google Play, etc) aren't much better.
Now we also know that a lot of gadgets come with purpose-made malware in them, including phones, chargers, USB hubs, HDMI adapters, screen-casting gadgets, USB drives, charging cables, video systems, Blu-Ray players, etc etc etc.
Why anyone would think that they have a handle on what their electronics are doing is always amazing to me. You don't know what your gear is doing. You just don't.
Would it be too much to ask for a brief summary or explanation of what a "snap" is for people who aren't familiar with this technology? From what I can see, it's like Docker containers, but how are "snaps" different? Perusing the "snap" site didn't make it any clearer.
Too little, too late.
My last ipad started dying, so I've already switched to a Galaxy Tab A. Same or better specs, at half the cost. ($205 online)
2GB RAM, 32GB storage (the T580 international version)
10.1" 1900 x 1280 screen (a bit bigger than the ipad)
Bluetooth, NFC, etc etc
And it comes with a normal micro-USB port, a normal headphone jack, and a memory-expansion micro-SD card slot (filled with a 64GB chip).
All that for $200 (plus $15 for a 64GB sd card). A basic iPad Air with 32GB is going to be nearly double that.
All in all, better than the ipad for less money, plus it's expandable and you can charge it from any USB port- no proprietary Apple cable required.
The only downside is that there's no equivalent for the Zagg Rugged Book keyboard/case. It's the best keyboard/case combination in the world at any price as far as I'm concerned. Super rugged case, awesome keyboard, simply the best I've ever seen hands down.
Am I the only one amused that a piece is actually talking in gasped horror at 'megabytes' of data exposed? It just isn't a scale that you hear used much in outrage much anymore.
Yep. 89 megabytes is maybe two cat pictures and a Microsoft Word document with the "Hello" in it.
u r old.
I'm curious- what do you do with all the time you save not typing those "extra" characters?
I'd like some of whatever you're taking, but in a smaller dose.
Or maybe it should read:
"A recovered 98MB file underscores the risks of doing things that will destroy your reputation and marriage."
There's a lot of truth in that.
I find it easy not to fuck up my marriage with affairs simply by not having affairs. It's so easy not to have an affair, and yet apparently it's beyond the ability of so many people.
"By limiting passwords to just eight characters, Descrypt makes it nearly impossible to use strong passwords."
No, it makes it completely impossible to use strong passwords.
Password strength is due in part to the address space, and an 8 character password has far less address space than, say, a 30 character password.
All other things being equal, an 8 character password is always going to be easier to crack than a 30 character password.
"left wing nazi fascist"
LOL, the amount of sheer stupidity in that one bit could fill books.
Half of those things are totally at odd with the other half, but don't you worry your pretty little head over it, okay? Sean Hannity will be along soon to tell you what to think. Or is that Jeanine Pirro's job?
I've been saying for years that the goal is to turn Windows into a monthly subscription service, and it looks like I was right.
Office365, for example. A lot of people use it at $10 a month, and that number is only going to go up.
Windows SE (Subscription Edition) isn't far behind.
This is, I believe, due in large part to the "stack ranking" method of management that they inflicted on their employees for so long.
They screwed the good people, kept the brown-nosing losers, and years later, here we are. Shit software from a dysfunctional company that couldn't find its way out of a phone booth with a squad of Army Rangers to show them the way.
I saw so many good people get screwed by stack ranking that it seriously made me question if a competitor had come up with the idea and implemented it at Microsoft in order to cripple them.
But I suspect that. like a lot of corporate failures, stack ranking was a 100% self-inflicted wound.
"Either tests do not exist at all for this code (and I've been told that yes, it's permitted to integrate code without tests, though I would hope this isn't the norm)"
Oh my, so so so so much to unpack in that one sentence.
The fact that this bug got shipped should tell you a lot, and none of it's good.
The sad but undeniable fact is that political trolls are here to stay, on every platform and for every agenda.
Influencing elections has been going on since forever, but now it's easier and much more economical to do, plus the scope/scale of the effects are vastly greater. It used to be impossible to reach 50 million people with a given message, but now with Facebook and Twitter and all the other social media platforms, it's both practical and cheap.
They saw how blissfully easy it was to disrupt the 2016 elections and truth be told, they got a lot of bang for their buck. There are a lot of Americans who are eager to follow anyone and anything that reinforces their current worldview, and who are also eager to accept new ideas or viewpoints that conveniently reinforce and amplify their existing prejudices and hatreds.
The whole "false flag" thing is back, bigger and better than ever- note how the Russians funded groups who were diametrically opposed to each other, attempting to stage rallies both for and against various issues on the same days and in the same locales in the hopes of fomenting division and violence.
And it worked. It was all basically just a covert advertising campaign, and it worked way better than they ever dreamed it would. Face it- advertising works, or they wouldn't spend billions of dollars every year doing it.
So yeah, it worked, and it succeeded like magic against a populace who was unfamiliar with the technique and also not inclined to critical thinking.
They're here to stay, so get used to fake people and groups touting their "grassroots" agendas. They'll get better and better at hiding their tracks and before long it'll be well nigh impossible to tell the real from the fake, which is exactly what they want.
Lol, fuck your "crunch" overtime.
If you expect people to work overtime as a normal thing or insist on "crunch" overtime, then your company is broken.
That's one of the the things I like about the current place I'm working at...they have a company ethic that says overtime is not normal or expected, and they also state that if overtime is an accepted part of the work flow or company culture, then the company is broken. And they're right.
I wouldn't work one minute of overtime ("crunch" or not) unless a) I wanted to and b) they paid me triple time for it.
If you dumbfucks can't plan a project without it running into my off hours, then you'd should get better planners, coders, or managers. But don't think for one moment that I'm going to piss away my life so you dickheads can ship your glitzy bullshit product on time.
Remember, kids- no one on their deathbed ever wished that they'd spent more time at the office.
You should know that Qualcomm's upcoming chipset for 60GHz wireless networks will "support new 60GHz Wi-Fi Sensing applications like proximity and presence detection, gesture recognitions, room mapping with precise location and improved facial feature detection."
Well if they can sneak into my home and secretly retrofit all my gear to use that chip, then they deserve to be able to watch me fondle my wife, make breakfast, and leave pithy comments on Slashdot.
"Thermostats know the temperature of your house, and smart cameras and sensors know when someone's walking around your home. Smart assistants know what you're asking for, and smart doorbells know who's coming and going. And thanks to the cloud, that data is available to you from anywhere"
Yes, and it's also available to the police, criminals, and anyone else who wants it bad enough.
This is exactly why all of my home automation gear (dated, but still working) is non-cloud, non-connected devices that are unable to call out or store stuff off site.
The answer is No because OSS is primarily for command-line-using neckbeards anyway.
Found the guy who couldn't figure out the CLI!
No, the answer is "no" because professional UI/UX designers are a joke. Anyone can do what they do, just most people don't want to bother.
The same goes for heart surgeons, architects, and astronauts, right?
There's no real training needed, you just muddle on and fake your way through the interviews, correct?
The answer is "yes". Open-Source developer teams should hire professional UI/UX designers.
Next question, please.