Now that airplanes have wifi, and EVERYONE brings their own screens with them, the seat back IFE is obsolete. They should just remove them entirely. Just give me a damn charger port, and if you want to sling some crappy entertainment my way, that's fine too, but the screen in the seat back just isn't needed anymore.
If they want to make the screen actually useful, maybe put Android Auto and Apple CarPlay into it, and let it be a second screen for my phone while it charges.
With in-flight wifi on its way to becoming ubiquitous, and everyone already has a screen with them at all times, the airlines should just remove IFE's completely. There is no reason for them to exist anymore. Give us good wifi and a charger port at every seat, and we're good to go. All of us.
But if there is going to be an IFE, at least outfit it with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, so we can use it as a heads-up screen while we charge our phones.
Cue the predictable tired old rants of slashbots who haven't figured out that it isn't 1997 anymore. They don't get much more penguin-headed than me, and I'm typing this message on a computer running Windows. Guess what, people: WE WON. Linux runs the whole world except for the conventional desktop. Look at it this way: if Microsoft hasn't taken over the rest of the world by now, it's not going to. At the same time, if Linux hasn't captured the conventional desktop by now, it's not going to. In other words, it's safe to use a Windows desktop now if it's less friction for you. You don't have to be ashamed, you don't have to be afraid that you're contributing to the downfall of computing. Linux owns 100% of supercomputing, the lion's share of the cloud and mobile, it runs the Internet, it's the embedded OS of choice, and it dominates the IoT. Don't worry about the desktop -- it simply isn't important anymore.
That having been said, I'm not sure why one would want to run Windows on a Raspberry Pi, since as others have pointed out, it fails to provide the #1 benefit of running Windows: the vast library of x86 Windows software.
Anyone watching the likes of PewDiePie is a drooling zombie who probably also wastes a lot of time on Facebook. The rest of us are enriching ourselves with how-to videos, learning new skills, scouring the site for videos where we can discover fascinating things about our favorite subjects.
My only regret is that YouTube is way too much power concentrated in one space.
The view is that culture peaked when you hit your 20's no matter what your age is, everything else past that is either repetitive or just lazy and shotty.
F that. Culture peaked in the 1950's, and I was born in 1971.
If you REALLY want to see the Internet economy collapse... just wait until YouTube decides to open up an option to deliver porn. Then the entire Internet economy will become non-viable and things will collapse fast.
Throughout the entire second half of the 20th Century, we were promised "picture phones" -- you'd be able to SEE the person you were talking to! Self-driving cars are going to be the same way. It's going to take 50 years for it to truly arrive in a usable fashion, and when it does, it's not going to look anything like they predicted.
I'm going to spend some karma points and just come out and say it: Fuck SJW's. I hope Corey Ehmke gets hit by a bus, and lives, and then gets slow stomach cancer and spends the next few years in excruciating pain before finally rotting in hell.
Seriously... what if I don't *want* to have a long life? There are a lot of old people out there who are bored, lonely, and too healthy to have any hope of dying anytime soon. That's a worse fate than having a decent life and then dying before it starts to suck. I'm 47 now, and everything is fantastic -- family, career, home, etc. Ideally, I would like to die at 52, but I'd like to have unlimited 5-year extensions available. I don't want to find myself sitting around at 80 with nothing to do and wishing I was dead. I'd rather *be* dead.
You keep on parroting that party line, commie. Obama's failed economy was the direct result of his over-regulation, and Trump's strong economy is the direct result of his deregulation. But go ahead and focus on "muh feelz" if it makes you feel better.
Combine the grocery delivery with their self-driving cars. When the delivery arrives, I disable the computer and steal the car. Now I get a free car for the price of a few food items! It's foolproof!
Exactly. IRC was around long before Slack and it'll be around long after Slack is gone. I can't believe they're actually getting people to pay for IRC.
There is a lot of anti-CoC sentiment right now, and a lot of projects are writing ad hoc "Code of Merit" type statements. I suspect one will eventually rise to the top and become common. And so FOSS will become us-vs-them politics just like everything else. We might even end up with two separate open source communities, a right one and a left one. Geez.
Linus should fork the kernel and team up with RMS to finally officially unite the kernel with the GNU project. Then the Linux Foundation which has fallen to social justice communists would be left out in the cold, while GNU with its official kernel (perhaps "GNU Freax") would run away with the world.
Why are they only complaining about the autonomous "robot" lawnmowers? A lawnmower pushed or piloted by a human is going to bisect that hedgehog just as much as one driven by a computer. Anyone who's ever piloted a riding mower through tall grass knows that you're not going to see an object in the grass -- whether it's a small animal or an inanimate object (kids toys etc) -- until after the blades have busted it up.
I think that somewhere around 100% of the time, when someone does a search, they know whether they want to search their computer or the Internet. No one asked for "unified" search. We want to search our computers (and it has to f.....g *work*) *or* we want to search the web. Never both. If I click "search" on my computer, I want to find something on my computer. Usually I know it's there but I don't remember where I put it. If I want to search the web I'll bring up DuckDuckGo. There are NO practical use cases for "unified" search.
The people who now oversee the Linux kernel are going to put a stop to this processor because it discriminates against people who don't have soldering irons.
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Now that airplanes have wifi, and EVERYONE brings their own screens with them, the seat back IFE is obsolete. They should just remove them entirely. Just give me a damn charger port, and if you want to sling some crappy entertainment my way, that's fine too, but the screen in the seat back just isn't needed anymore.
If they want to make the screen actually useful, maybe put Android Auto and Apple CarPlay into it, and let it be a second screen for my phone while it charges.
How much talent does it take to sell diabetes-inducing sugar water anyway? "Automation" is is another word for "contractors in India".
With in-flight wifi on its way to becoming ubiquitous, and everyone already has a screen with them at all times, the airlines should just remove IFE's completely. There is no reason for them to exist anymore. Give us good wifi and a charger port at every seat, and we're good to go. All of us.
But if there is going to be an IFE, at least outfit it with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, so we can use it as a heads-up screen while we charge our phones.
Cue the predictable tired old rants of slashbots who haven't figured out that it isn't 1997 anymore. They don't get much more penguin-headed than me, and I'm typing this message on a computer running Windows. Guess what, people: WE WON. Linux runs the whole world except for the conventional desktop. Look at it this way: if Microsoft hasn't taken over the rest of the world by now, it's not going to. At the same time, if Linux hasn't captured the conventional desktop by now, it's not going to. In other words, it's safe to use a Windows desktop now if it's less friction for you. You don't have to be ashamed, you don't have to be afraid that you're contributing to the downfall of computing. Linux owns 100% of supercomputing, the lion's share of the cloud and mobile, it runs the Internet, it's the embedded OS of choice, and it dominates the IoT. Don't worry about the desktop -- it simply isn't important anymore.
That having been said, I'm not sure why one would want to run Windows on a Raspberry Pi, since as others have pointed out, it fails to provide the #1 benefit of running Windows: the vast library of x86 Windows software.
Anyone watching the likes of PewDiePie is a drooling zombie who probably also wastes a lot of time on Facebook. The rest of us are enriching ourselves with how-to videos, learning new skills, scouring the site for videos where we can discover fascinating things about our favorite subjects.
My only regret is that YouTube is way too much power concentrated in one space.
F that. Culture peaked in the 1950's, and I was born in 1971.
If you REALLY want to see the Internet economy collapse ... just wait until YouTube decides to open up an option to deliver porn. Then the entire Internet economy will become non-viable and things will collapse fast.
We have that already. It's called a railroad.
Throughout the entire second half of the 20th Century, we were promised "picture phones" -- you'd be able to SEE the person you were talking to! Self-driving cars are going to be the same way. It's going to take 50 years for it to truly arrive in a usable fashion, and when it does, it's not going to look anything like they predicted.
Buzzfeed? Seriously? Is this the same Buzzfeed that had such extreme confidence in predicting the results of the 2016 election -- with 0% accuracy?
Accusations of xenophobia is where leftists go when they're out of intellectual ammo.
I'm going to spend some karma points and just come out and say it: Fuck SJW's. I hope Corey Ehmke gets hit by a bus, and lives, and then gets slow stomach cancer and spends the next few years in excruciating pain before finally rotting in hell.
Butthurt much, NPC?
Seriously ... what if I don't *want* to have a long life? There are a lot of old people out there who are bored, lonely, and too healthy to have any hope of dying anytime soon. That's a worse fate than having a decent life and then dying before it starts to suck. I'm 47 now, and everything is fantastic -- family, career, home, etc. Ideally, I would like to die at 52, but I'd like to have unlimited 5-year extensions available. I don't want to find myself sitting around at 80 with nothing to do and wishing I was dead. I'd rather *be* dead.
You keep on parroting that party line, commie. Obama's failed economy was the direct result of his over-regulation, and Trump's strong economy is the direct result of his deregulation. But go ahead and focus on "muh feelz" if it makes you feel better.
Combine the grocery delivery with their self-driving cars. When the delivery arrives, I disable the computer and steal the car. Now I get a free car for the price of a few food items! It's foolproof!
Exactly. IRC was around long before Slack and it'll be around long after Slack is gone. I can't believe they're actually getting people to pay for IRC.
...worked real well for Radio Shack.
There is a lot of anti-CoC sentiment right now, and a lot of projects are writing ad hoc "Code of Merit" type statements. I suspect one will eventually rise to the top and become common. And so FOSS will become us-vs-them politics just like everything else. We might even end up with two separate open source communities, a right one and a left one. Geez.
Linus should fork the kernel and team up with RMS to finally officially unite the kernel with the GNU project. Then the Linux Foundation which has fallen to social justice communists would be left out in the cold, while GNU with its official kernel (perhaps "GNU Freax") would run away with the world.
Why are they only complaining about the autonomous "robot" lawnmowers? A lawnmower pushed or piloted by a human is going to bisect that hedgehog just as much as one driven by a computer. Anyone who's ever piloted a riding mower through tall grass knows that you're not going to see an object in the grass -- whether it's a small animal or an inanimate object (kids toys etc) -- until after the blades have busted it up.
I use Instagram because it doesn't have the toxicity of F*c*book. If Instagram turns into F*c*book I'll stop using it, and so will most other people.
I think that somewhere around 100% of the time, when someone does a search, they know whether they want to search their computer or the Internet. No one asked for "unified" search. We want to search our computers (and it has to f.....g *work*) *or* we want to search the web. Never both. If I click "search" on my computer, I want to find something on my computer. Usually I know it's there but I don't remember where I put it. If I want to search the web I'll bring up DuckDuckGo. There are NO practical use cases for "unified" search.
The people who now oversee the Linux kernel are going to put a stop to this processor because it discriminates against people who don't have soldering irons.
I wish I had mod points today. You've nailed it.