macOS and iOS effectively are merged already. iOS was born a fork of macOS. Non-UI code is basically portable between the two without any changes, modulo a few frameworks that only exist on one or the other for hardware reasons, and the UI code is similar, but slightly different because one is a windowed system for big screens with pointers and one is a full-screen system for small touch screens. Source: I've been an iOS developer for seven years, and had Mac OS X experience prior.
Not if you take into account shipping to the US. If you want to sell in Africa, you'll produce in Africa, but if you want to sell in the US, you'll produce in the US. (And yes, you frequently need to ship the raw materials from somewhere, but producing at either the material source or the selling destination is cheaper than involving a third intermediary location for production.)
The companies can tell Trump that his idea to have a rating system is brilliant, and they'll get right on that. Then, a week later they can tell him that they've implemented it and even labeled every game out there already, then Trump can brag about his amazing fix to this problem and how no one else could have gotten it done.
And EVs are charged using electricity from coal which is a lot dirtier than ICE so the environmental argument fails too.
This is an outright lie. Here in California, we have exactly one coal-fired plant, providing 55 MW, or 0.2% of our usage. For the US as a whole, less than 30% of our electricity is from coal.
And thus we learned that the true meaning of Christmas is not in buying whatever mass-produced junk is trendy at the moment, but in joining together in anger on the internet.
It is very rare for a company designing a new product to search the patent database for ideas to license, and equally rare for inventors to go out and market their inventions to established companies.
That's partly because if you did search for it, the other side can claim you found their patents, and thus your infringement was now "willful", which results in triple damages. Since you'll be sued either way, it's safer to go in blind. Tech companies specifically instruct their employees not to search for patents for this reason.
I assume the ultimate motivation for this project was as a backup plan in case of a disastrously adverse ruling in Oracle v. Google that would have led to Google deciding to excise any connection between Android and Java. It's probably since taken on a life of its own, as these things tend to do. (Also, I wonder if the names Fuchsia & Magenta are references to the ill-fated Pink OS that started life as a ground-up Mac OS rewrite at Apple and morphed into the Taligent corporation?)
In fact, I am not sure why go to such great lengths to obtain UDID when device MAC address is readily available (and must be for variety of software to work) and globally unique.
MAC Address is no longer available since iOS 7. You can request it, but you'll get the same fake value of 02:00:00:00:00:00 on every iPhone. UDID is not available, either.
There's IDFV, the Identifier For Vendors, which is different for each vendor on the phone, and gets reset if you remove all the apps from that vendor on the phone. (That is, two apps from Google will see the same IDFV, but a different one from the one Facebook sees.)
Then there's IDFA, the Identifier for Advertisers, which the user can reset at any time via system settings, and which Apple will reject your app for if they catch you using it for anything other than ad-tracking.
The end result is that there is no longer any stable cross-app identifier that survives app uninstalls and user attempts to avoid tracking, by explicit design.
Whether this can be turned into a viable business model is of course a separate question, but acting like Google is blameless by just TAKING that data and reusing it without permission is -- well, Google is certainly morally suspect at a minimum here. If businesses like this can't make money gathering such data, who will gather the data?
That's easy, Google. They already take the perspective that if you perform a search and the answer isn't available online, it's Google's problem and not the user's, so they've put substantial effort into collecting and curating data about things into their Knowledge Graph so they can present answers directly to the user.
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"Daylight saving" is also primarily an Americanism, with most of Europe referring to the local equivalent as "summer time".
Overlord / Minion
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
He was almost right, but he left off the words "per person" at the end.
Level 3 DC fast-chargers are $50k-$100k each.
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Oh, the current administration has a pretty high opinion of something German, just not anything that's been legal in Germany since 1945...
macOS and iOS effectively are merged already. iOS was born a fork of macOS. Non-UI code is basically portable between the two without any changes, modulo a few frameworks that only exist on one or the other for hardware reasons, and the UI code is similar, but slightly different because one is a windowed system for big screens with pointers and one is a full-screen system for small touch screens. Source: I've been an iOS developer for seven years, and had Mac OS X experience prior.
Yeah, c'mon, it's not like cops need an excuse to kill people. They can do it all they want already!
Not if you take into account shipping to the US. If you want to sell in Africa, you'll produce in Africa, but if you want to sell in the US, you'll produce in the US. (And yes, you frequently need to ship the raw materials from somewhere, but producing at either the material source or the selling destination is cheaper than involving a third intermediary location for production.)
The companies can tell Trump that his idea to have a rating system is brilliant, and they'll get right on that. Then, a week later they can tell him that they've implemented it and even labeled every game out there already, then Trump can brag about his amazing fix to this problem and how no one else could have gotten it done.
Hereâ(TM)s a riddle for you: If you owned every last Bitcoin, how much would they be worth? Zero.
No man. All machine. All cop. The future of law enforcement.
And EVs are charged using electricity from coal which is a lot dirtier than ICE so the environmental argument fails too.
This is an outright lie. Here in California, we have exactly one coal-fired plant, providing 55 MW, or 0.2% of our usage. For the US as a whole, less than 30% of our electricity is from coal.
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Perhaps a Black Alert to tell the public when unarmed black men are endangered by the police?
If that's implemented, it'll just result in everyone's phones loudly buzzing continuously until the batteries run out.
And thus we learned that the true meaning of Christmas is not in buying whatever mass-produced junk is trendy at the moment, but in joining together in anger on the internet.
So, Confido was a Confidence Game? The name even means "I trust" in several Romance languages...
No preview on mobile. :(
And then there's "it's 2017 and we've never heard of UTF-8" bugs.
Thereâ(TM)s âoeyou forgot to check array bounds hereâ bugs, and then thereâ(TM)s âoeyour entire design is fundamentally fucked and insecureâ bugsâ¦
It is very rare for a company designing a new product to search the patent database for ideas to license, and equally rare for inventors to go out and market their inventions to established companies.
That's partly because if you did search for it, the other side can claim you found their patents, and thus your infringement was now "willful", which results in triple damages. Since you'll be sued either way, it's safer to go in blind. Tech companies specifically instruct their employees not to search for patents for this reason.
There's enough coal in the USA to power the country for a century.
And there's enough wind in the USA to power the country forever.
Paypal's logo looks like the butt of someone wearing blue jeans. Pandora's does not.
I assume the ultimate motivation for this project was as a backup plan in case of a disastrously adverse ruling in Oracle v. Google that would have led to Google deciding to excise any connection between Android and Java. It's probably since taken on a life of its own, as these things tend to do. (Also, I wonder if the names Fuchsia & Magenta are references to the ill-fated Pink OS that started life as a ground-up Mac OS rewrite at Apple and morphed into the Taligent corporation?)
Additionally, if your system deals with dates or human names, whatever limitations you think are reasonable are, in fact, wrong.
In fact, I am not sure why go to such great lengths to obtain UDID when device MAC address is readily available (and must be for variety of software to work) and globally unique.
MAC Address is no longer available since iOS 7. You can request it, but you'll get the same fake value of 02:00:00:00:00:00 on every iPhone. UDID is not available, either.
There's IDFV, the Identifier For Vendors, which is different for each vendor on the phone, and gets reset if you remove all the apps from that vendor on the phone. (That is, two apps from Google will see the same IDFV, but a different one from the one Facebook sees.)
Then there's IDFA, the Identifier for Advertisers, which the user can reset at any time via system settings, and which Apple will reject your app for if they catch you using it for anything other than ad-tracking.
The end result is that there is no longer any stable cross-app identifier that survives app uninstalls and user attempts to avoid tracking, by explicit design.
Whether this can be turned into a viable business model is of course a separate question, but acting like Google is blameless by just TAKING that data and reusing it without permission is -- well, Google is certainly morally suspect at a minimum here. If businesses like this can't make money gathering such data, who will gather the data?
That's easy, Google. They already take the perspective that if you perform a search and the answer isn't available online, it's Google's problem and not the user's, so they've put substantial effort into collecting and curating data about things into their Knowledge Graph so they can present answers directly to the user.