Yeah, I'm running a battery that's 3x the capacity of stock and even that doesn't get me a full day. Hey, I have a little unix machine in my pocket - I want it doing things, so I don't have to.
Would it have killed them to make it backwards compatible with the hardware that already exists?
It would have killed the market, yeah. I don't want a new card that uses the same interface as the old card - I want faster card interfaces. You can't just plug a SAS SSD into an MFM controller and expect to get high-speed data transfers. Technology moves on. Nobody is refusing to release SDHC cards that can use some hidden potential of the eMMC interfaces.
Pro-tip: ask potential employees to give you all their social media passwords. If they do so, don't hire them. If they tell you to go fuck yourself, ask them to pick their parking space.
Now when there's too much sunlight we can have Teslas not recognise traffic lights, and drive straight through intersections causing T-bone accidents and pileups.
It's a shame their programmers who work on this full time will never think of this problem and add detection and maps/GPS augmentation. You should probably call them up and offer your advice.
Can end users even buy a new, off-the-shelf 32-bit system these days, except for specialized devices like embedded systems?
While 32-bit embedded is certainly a huge market, the use for 32-bit Ubuntu isn't new off-the-shelf systems, it's grandma's old XP machine that needs rescuing. Embedded gear is more likely to run a lite debian.
But, perhaps Ubuntu isn't the right choice for Grandma at this point. Probably more people would go for Mint anyway (they're more likely to be impacted by Ubuntu's decision). My 'senior' mother is running CentOS 7 with XFCE and, not knowing anything about computers, doesn't see how it's any different than Windows.
Ubuntu focusing on 64-bit probably won't affect many people at all. It might even give Mint new relevance if they maintain a 32-bit port.
TMobile has lower prices in densely populated urban centers.
If you live in the 2/3 of the country where Verizon is sometimes sketchy but TMobile is at best fifty miles away, it doesn't even qualify as 'usable', much less 'best'.
Speaking of which, if anybody can recommend a phone that works on Verizon with Cyanogenmod and has an SD card slot and removable battery, it's time for me to upgrade. Something that doesn't overheat rapidly like my current Galaxy would be great.
Don't be so certain about generics like 'Japanese' - I had a terrible experience with a Pontiac, but a new Subaru blew through its head gaskets at 65k, just peddling kids around town and driving normally on the Interstate. The previous Subaru blew through its head gaskets at 100k. The Subaru before that went 160k with no engine problems at all.
The quality is falling as they try to get these things to be fancier and more automatic.
the (largely broken) social contract between employee and employer that says when you work hard and play by the rules in America you'll succeed in life.
There is no social contract - that's just "Divine Right of Kings" nonsense warmed over. Sure, people wish there were such a thing, but nobody I've spoken with has ever been able to produce such a document.
We need to stop with such fantasies if we ever hope to bring all people up to a comfortable standard of living - facing reality is mandatory for real progress.
Uber will raise the minimum standards until there are too few drivers, then introduce their autonomous cars to "fill the gaps". Then they'll raise the standards again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
It's 2016 now... let's check back in 2020 and see if this has happened.
Ferengi may be shrewd, but they're interested in maximizing profit . CBS are a bunch of Klingons, trying to claim credit for Shakespeare and ultimately poisoning themselves through stupidity.
But can anyone give me one reason why the authorities shouldn't find the person responsible for implementing these insecure systems and promptly put them in a pillory?
Because he's a rich white CIO and has plenty of money and corporate power behind him to make sure he faces no consequences?
Oh, sorry, that might have been four reasons, not one.
Now, then, who's gonna do one damn thing about the system that perpetuates such circumstances? I'll be out back listening to the crickets.
It's all risk-management, not risk avoidance. I give FB some information. They provide me some tools.
I'm guessing you maximize for personal privacy. I use FB to organize groups, rallies, protests, and get legislation passed that protects the privacy of millions of people.
And, yeah, FB knows what I look like, what kinds of food I prefer, and what my VPN's IP address is, in exchange. But I'm willing to make that trade for the greater good.
They're not just taking a single display off the market, they're taking a whole connection technology off the market.
Eh? The new device will have a Thunderbolt connector with a GPU on the end of it. It'll be the newer version of Thunderbolt, but who expects technology to stand still?
By moving the GPU to the display, it opens up the opportunity to have an iPhone control it. Don't be surprised if there's a 60GHz antenna/chip in the new display too.
I'm not in the Apple hardware market, but there are many people who will love it.
I was pretty excited to see this, for my homeschooler, but, yeah, wow, $199 per month is more than I can swing for our homeschool budget. In States where the money follows the child, this would work out fine, but here we still have to pay the school tax but get none of it in rebate.
PrivDog, Chomodo, hacks, and issuing certs to malware, Comodo is one company I'd steer clear from in any case.
Shit, Namecheap still uses them for their resold SSL certs. If Namecheap doesn't have another option next time I need to renew one, I'm going elsewhere. That would be a pain, but I'm officially done with Comodo after this - seven strikes and I'm stupid for not calling you out on three.
To any sane person, if they need a warrant to come through your door to seize the data, they need a warrant to seize the data over the wire.
But, whenever civil liberties and State power come into conflict, the House wins. Those "protections" are only there to keep you feeling like you're not at risk from the government, but don't push them.
And please present your Internet License, Subject # 134-33-2219.
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Yeah, I'm running a battery that's 3x the capacity of stock and even that doesn't get me a full day. Hey, I have a little unix machine in my pocket - I want it doing things, so I don't have to.
Would it have killed them to make it backwards compatible with the hardware that already exists?
It would have killed the market, yeah. I don't want a new card that uses the same interface as the old card - I want faster card interfaces. You can't just plug a SAS SSD into an MFM controller and expect to get high-speed data transfers. Technology moves on. Nobody is refusing to release SDHC cards that can use some hidden potential of the eMMC interfaces.
is that an American thing?
It's an awful-company thing.
Pro-tip: ask potential employees to give you all their social media passwords. If they do so, don't hire them. If they tell you to go fuck yourself, ask them to pick their parking space.
Fuck Facebook, and fuck their intrusive monetization plans. We'll do just fine without it, thanks.
Which article are you incensed about? Not TFA, it would seem.
Now when there's too much sunlight we can have Teslas not recognise traffic lights, and drive straight through intersections causing T-bone accidents and pileups.
It's a shame their programmers who work on this full time will never think of this problem and add detection and maps/GPS augmentation. You should probably call them up and offer your advice.
Can end users even buy a new, off-the-shelf 32-bit system these days, except for specialized devices like embedded systems?
While 32-bit embedded is certainly a huge market, the use for 32-bit Ubuntu isn't new off-the-shelf systems, it's grandma's old XP machine that needs rescuing. Embedded gear is more likely to run a lite debian.
But, perhaps Ubuntu isn't the right choice for Grandma at this point. Probably more people would go for Mint anyway (they're more likely to be impacted by Ubuntu's decision). My 'senior' mother is running CentOS 7 with XFCE and, not knowing anything about computers, doesn't see how it's any different than Windows.
Ubuntu focusing on 64-bit probably won't affect many people at all. It might even give Mint new relevance if they maintain a 32-bit port.
TMobile is just better
TMobile has lower prices in densely populated urban centers.
If you live in the 2/3 of the country where Verizon is sometimes sketchy but TMobile is at best fifty miles away, it doesn't even qualify as 'usable', much less 'best'.
Speaking of which, if anybody can recommend a phone that works on Verizon with Cyanogenmod and has an SD card slot and removable battery, it's time for me to upgrade. Something that doesn't overheat rapidly like my current Galaxy would be great.
TP-Link is not known for smart decisions. They were the first to interpret the new FCC regs as a big F-U to the open source community:
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
It's a shame - I have one of their devices serving my guest network pretty much flawlessly (using openwrt, of course). Never again.
Camry. The Official Old Person's car.
eh, I had an '85 in college. I still got laid in it. Chicks dig guys who can get to work.
If you want to be a badass, get a Ducati.
Don't be so certain about generics like 'Japanese' - I had a terrible experience with a Pontiac, but a new Subaru blew through its head gaskets at 65k, just peddling kids around town and driving normally on the Interstate. The previous Subaru blew through its head gaskets at 100k. The Subaru before that went 160k with no engine problems at all.
The quality is falling as they try to get these things to be fancier and more automatic.
the (largely broken) social contract between employee and employer that says when you work hard and play by the rules in America you'll succeed in life.
There is no social contract - that's just "Divine Right of Kings" nonsense warmed over. Sure, people wish there were such a thing, but nobody I've spoken with has ever been able to produce such a document.
We need to stop with such fantasies if we ever hope to bring all people up to a comfortable standard of living - facing reality is mandatory for real progress.
Uber will raise the minimum standards until there are too few drivers, then introduce their autonomous cars to "fill the gaps". Then they'll raise the standards again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
It's 2016 now ... let's check back in 2020 and see if this has happened.
Just MMS them a malformed mp4.
Ferengi may be shrewd, but they're interested in maximizing profit . CBS are a bunch of Klingons, trying to claim credit for Shakespeare and ultimately poisoning themselves through stupidity.
Gas, Captain. They're full of it.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say there aren't really two million people with terrorist links in that database.
Probably be four degrees of Kevin Bacon. With six degrees, they could just lock anybody up. Wait, I should stop giving them ideas.
But can anyone give me one reason why the authorities shouldn't find the person responsible for implementing these insecure systems and promptly put them in a pillory?
Because he's a rich white CIO and has plenty of money and corporate power behind him to make sure he faces no consequences?
Oh, sorry, that might have been four reasons, not one.
Now, then, who's gonna do one damn thing about the system that perpetuates such circumstances? I'll be out back listening to the crickets.
which restricts someones rights in anyway
C'mon, you know that since Wickard, at least, the rule has been that if there is money involved you have no Constitutional rights.
Because, y'know, the Framers only expected the Constitution to apply to people who are starving to death.
From what I've seen, most of the /. hive-mind is perfectly content with this arrangement.
PS: anybody know why my arm keeps going numb?
Yes, and keep it down - your mom is trying to sleep.
I find it faster to google for Never10 and run it than to launch Regedit and find the keys. (Both do the same thing.)
A 'pardon' suggests that you've done something wrong but are being let of lightly because we are just that nice.
No, a pardon suggests you've done something illegal but nothing wrong.
Illegality is a very, very, poor indicator of wrongness.
It's all risk-management, not risk avoidance. I give FB some information. They provide me some tools.
I'm guessing you maximize for personal privacy. I use FB to organize groups, rallies, protests, and get legislation passed that protects the privacy of millions of people.
And, yeah, FB knows what I look like, what kinds of food I prefer, and what my VPN's IP address is, in exchange. But I'm willing to make that trade for the greater good.
YMMV.
They're not just taking a single display off the market, they're taking a whole connection technology off the market.
Eh? The new device will have a Thunderbolt connector with a GPU on the end of it. It'll be the newer version of Thunderbolt, but who expects technology to stand still?
By moving the GPU to the display, it opens up the opportunity to have an iPhone control it. Don't be surprised if there's a 60GHz antenna/chip in the new display too.
I'm not in the Apple hardware market, but there are many people who will love it.
I was pretty excited to see this, for my homeschooler, but, yeah, wow, $199 per month is more than I can swing for our homeschool budget. In States where the money follows the child, this would work out fine, but here we still have to pay the school tax but get none of it in rebate.
PrivDog, Chomodo, hacks, and issuing certs to malware, Comodo is one company I'd steer clear from in any case.
Shit, Namecheap still uses them for their resold SSL certs. If Namecheap doesn't have another option next time I need to renew one, I'm going elsewhere. That would be a pain, but I'm officially done with Comodo after this - seven strikes and I'm stupid for not calling you out on three.
To any sane person, if they need a warrant to come through your door to seize the data, they need a warrant to seize the data over the wire.
But, whenever civil liberties and State power come into conflict, the House wins. Those "protections" are only there to keep you feeling like you're not at risk from the government, but don't push them.
And please present your Internet License, Subject # 134-33-2219.