More hardware switches, knobs, sliders, buttons, real keyboards.
And less slow as hell unresponsive fragile touch screens.
At work we now havee those awful touchscreen elevator controls. You have to enter the floor number and it tells you what elevator to take (there are 6).
Problem is the interface is sluggish, doesn't record half the keypresses, and those morons had the great idea to put a 0-9 keypad on the screen, while there are only 11 floors! Wow! There is more than enough space to put eleven BIG buttons on the screen, but instead you have to push 1 twice to go to the eleventh floor. Half the times you end up calling the 111th floor, or else the 1st floor.
It seems like today the only solution is touchscreens everywhere, even when it's dangerous (like in a car).
And most electronic devices these days take AGES to boot up.
I miss the time when powering up the receiver and the tape deck and pressing play as fast as humanly possible was working every time. Now you have to wait for the poor machines who can't keep up with a puny human.
That's different from the old model of the mainframe approach, when you have one big mainframe and if it goes down, the whole system goes down
In the case of the mainframe the redundancy is build in. You don't have to use 100's of mainframes because they almost never go down. I've been working on mainframes for the last 20 years, and I can count on one hand the number of times the mainframe was down in a production environment in that period.
I don't need no infotainment in my car. Give me an AM/FM radio with a USB port to plug a thumbdrive with all my songs and that's all.
And please, could we have our climate control knobs back? Independant from the radio?
I'll probably be on the market for a new car in 2-3 years, but I'm afraid I won't find any car that will fit my requirements... I don't want an IOT car. Can I rip the antenna out?
I feel like I should browse the Classic Cars ads instead of going to dealerships.
The Chevrolet Bolt is not a cheap vehicle, this sub-compact costs almost twice as much as a 7 passenger SUV (43,195$ versus 22,295$ for a Dodge Journey).
It's more than 3 times the cost of a Civic sedan (16,690 $).
(All prices in canadian dollars before taxes and dealer prep.)
The real problem with electric cars right now is that they're very, very expensive compared to their gas burning equivalent.
Find me an electric car that fills my needs:
- 6 passengers (we have 4 kids) - Less than 30,000 CAN$ (we paid 22,000 CAN$ for our current vehicle, brand new, in 2015) - At least 500km range (we go camping 2-3 times a month) - This range must be while towing a small pop-up camper - We often don't have electricity at our camp site, or it's very limited (one 110volt 15 amps socket, and 15 amps is sometime optimistic). - We rent an apparment, there's no way the landlord will invest in upgrading the 40 years old electric system to have a 220volts charging socket
Sadly, I don't see an electric vehicle in my future for the next 10 years.
If I'm paying for the phone and the monthly bill, and the phone is registered to my name, I can install whaterver snooping software I want on it.
Not that I would, because for one if my kids want a cellphone they can work and earn enough to pay for it themselves, and two I believe that treating them like real human beings and respecting their privacy is the right thing to do.
I'm not saying an ember screen is sexier than an iPhone app
Sometimes and amber screen is all you need. We're not talking about games here, most of the times the client needs a tool. A tools doesn't needs to be pretty and sexy, it needs to be reliable, durable, and fast.
We have and old COBOL CICS application with a DB2 database behind it, and recently we've shown the users a web application that could replace it. Their answer? Don't touch our current application. It's fast, reliable, and we have all the information and features we need. You should see them use it, barely watching the screen as they type and tab from one field to the other. On the web app they need to use the mouse, scroll up and down, click on buttons, and the pages takes 1 or 2 seconds to display, while the mainframe version is near instantaneous. And since I've been working here (6 years) this application never crashed, not once.
I'm currently working on a batch application at the same company, with programs dating back to the mid 80's, some of them haven't been touched in the last 15 years. And this batch runs 365 days a year, without any problem.
Hell we have daily reports that comes from programs written in assembly language, from the 70's, and they are critical for the company. In one of those programs the last modification dates back to when I was in kindergarten. And I'm in my mid 40's... Again mission critical stuff for a bank.
5. You live in a household with more than 1 person. Having to pair/unpair connect/disconnect multiple phones and tablets to our soundbar and car stereo is a nightmare. Often when I power up the soundbar it automatically connects to a device somewhere in the house, and then I have to ask everybody or even search the entire house to find the phone/tablet/ipod that is powered up and try to turn off bluetooth on it. Impossible if this device is locked and the owner is not there...
So now for our car stereo we use a good old headphone cable. Works everytime, instantly.
It's already stupid to try to track someone by IP. My IP address represents my wifi router. We're a family of six, with something like 15 devices connected to it, not counting visitors.
I had a motorcycle accident in 2013, and since I was recording all my commuting I had a video proof. Insurence guy saw the video, and found the car driver at fault (it was very clear).
Not doing DST means that where I live the sunrise will be at 4AM in the middle of summer. Meaning that the sky will begin to light up at 3AM.
This means that instead of having more light in the evening, when everyone is still awake (sunset at 9PM), we have sunlight too early when nobody can use it.
Maybe those who are complaining about DST live closer to the equator and it's useless for them, but at higher latitudes it's really usefull.
Given the fact that there are several different versions of the bible in circulation, and the fact that the content of the christian versions have been decided by a bunch of comittees (who chose to include some part and omit others), you can already be suspicious of the content of this book.
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I had folder sizes with MacOs 8 on a 33 MHz (0.033 GHz!) 68040 processor with 8 MB of RAM... on a 350 MB IDE hard drive.
It took 1 or 2 seconds to show the folder size.
The operating system refresh, Android P, will emphasize Google's Assistant
Well I guess this means that I'll never buy an Android P phone then.
More hardware switches, knobs, sliders, buttons, real keyboards.
And less slow as hell unresponsive fragile touch screens.
At work we now havee those awful touchscreen elevator controls. You have to enter the floor number and it tells you what elevator to take (there are 6).
Problem is the interface is sluggish, doesn't record half the keypresses, and those morons had the great idea to put a 0-9 keypad on the screen, while there are only 11 floors! Wow! There is more than enough space to put eleven BIG buttons on the screen, but instead you have to push 1 twice to go to the eleventh floor. Half the times you end up calling the 111th floor, or else the 1st floor.
It seems like today the only solution is touchscreens everywhere, even when it's dangerous (like in a car).
And most electronic devices these days take AGES to boot up.
I miss the time when powering up the receiver and the tape deck and pressing play as fast as humanly possible was working every time. Now you have to wait for the poor machines who can't keep up with a puny human.
It will probably be more "dropping your valuable item on your front porch in view of everyone - by Amazon"
Yet Another Streasming Service.
That I won't subscribe to.
With Netflix and Youtube, I already have more interesting content than what I could watch in a lifetime.
That's different from the old model of the mainframe approach, when you have one big mainframe and if it goes down, the whole system goes down
In the case of the mainframe the redundancy is build in. You don't have to use 100's of mainframes because they almost never go down. I've been working on mainframes for the last 20 years, and I can count on one hand the number of times the mainframe was down in a production environment in that period.
I don't need no infotainment in my car. Give me an AM/FM radio with a USB port to plug a thumbdrive with all my songs and that's all.
And please, could we have our climate control knobs back? Independant from the radio?
I'll probably be on the market for a new car in 2-3 years, but I'm afraid I won't find any car that will fit my requirements... I don't want an IOT car. Can I rip the antenna out?
I feel like I should browse the Classic Cars ads instead of going to dealerships.
The Chevrolet Bolt is not a cheap vehicle, this sub-compact costs almost twice as much as a 7 passenger SUV (43,195$ versus 22,295$ for a Dodge Journey).
It's more than 3 times the cost of a Civic sedan (16,690 $).
(All prices in canadian dollars before taxes and dealer prep.)
The real problem with electric cars right now is that they're very, very expensive compared to their gas burning equivalent.
Find me an electric car that fills my needs:
- 6 passengers (we have 4 kids)
- Less than 30,000 CAN$ (we paid 22,000 CAN$ for our current vehicle, brand new, in 2015)
- At least 500km range (we go camping 2-3 times a month)
- This range must be while towing a small pop-up camper
- We often don't have electricity at our camp site, or it's very limited (one 110volt 15 amps socket, and 15 amps is sometime optimistic).
- We rent an apparment, there's no way the landlord will invest in upgrading the 40 years old electric system to have a 220volts charging socket
Sadly, I don't see an electric vehicle in my future for the next 10 years.
If I'm paying for the phone and the monthly bill, and the phone is registered to my name, I can install whaterver snooping software I want on it.
Not that I would, because for one if my kids want a cellphone they can work and earn enough to pay for it themselves, and two I believe that treating them like real human beings and respecting their privacy is the right thing to do.
I'm not saying an ember screen is sexier than an iPhone app
Sometimes and amber screen is all you need. We're not talking about games here, most of the times the client needs a tool. A tools doesn't needs to be pretty and sexy, it needs to be reliable, durable, and fast.
We have and old COBOL CICS application with a DB2 database behind it, and recently we've shown the users a web application that could replace it. Their answer? Don't touch our current application. It's fast, reliable, and we have all the information and features we need. You should see them use it, barely watching the screen as they type and tab from one field to the other. On the web app they need to use the mouse, scroll up and down, click on buttons, and the pages takes 1 or 2 seconds to display, while the mainframe version is near instantaneous. And since I've been working here (6 years) this application never crashed, not once.
I'm currently working on a batch application at the same company, with programs dating back to the mid 80's, some of them haven't been touched in the last 15 years. And this batch runs 365 days a year, without any problem.
Hell we have daily reports that comes from programs written in assembly language, from the 70's, and they are critical for the company. In one of those programs the last modification dates back to when I was in kindergarten. And I'm in my mid 40's... Again mission critical stuff for a bank.
I love window borders, title bars, scroll bars, and I want text boxes and clickable buttons to look like they're not part of the background please.
Design over function is never good for a tool. But if you want your OS to look like a toy, go ahead.
I'm very late to the party, but AFAIK only Infinity has steer by wire, and on only one car model.
5. You live in a household with more than 1 person. Having to pair/unpair connect/disconnect multiple phones and tablets to our soundbar and car stereo is a nightmare. Often when I power up the soundbar it automatically connects to a device somewhere in the house, and then I have to ask everybody or even search the entire house to find the phone/tablet/ipod that is powered up and try to turn off bluetooth on it. Impossible if this device is locked and the owner is not there...
So now for our car stereo we use a good old headphone cable. Works everytime, instantly.
I'm more of a second post guy, by to each their own.
I don't see ads anyway...
And that way they couldn't track me or anyone.
It's already stupid to try to track someone by IP. My IP address represents my wifi router. We're a family of six, with something like 15 devices connected to it, not counting visitors.
Are there any ISP out there who rotate or shuffle IP adresses?
It should be easy to do periodically.
I remember that in the early days of cable modem internet my IP address was changing from time to time.
Now it seems much more stable.
I work for a 50,000+ employees company, and we're currently completing our Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrade...
So Windows 10? Maybe in 5 or 6 years?
Great Idea.
I had a motorcycle accident in 2013, and since I was recording all my commuting I had a video proof. Insurence guy saw the video, and found the car driver at fault (it was very clear).
Not doing DST means that where I live the sunrise will be at 4AM in the middle of summer. Meaning that the sky will begin to light up at 3AM.
This means that instead of having more light in the evening, when everyone is still awake (sunset at 9PM), we have sunlight too early when nobody can use it.
Maybe those who are complaining about DST live closer to the equator and it's useless for them, but at higher latitudes it's really usefull.
So, in winter we'll have 6 hours days?
"We googled it and we couldn't find any evidence of wrongdoing on our part, your honor"
It's trivial to build and program your own drone for cheap, with an arduino or raspberry pi.
Do you really think that those criminal won't do it?
The LG G5 has a removeable battery and it's only 0.2mm thicker than the iPhone 7.
We can't really compare them for overall size and weight since the screen on the G5 is way bigger than on the iPhone 7.
But it still proves that you can have a removeable battery in a phone and keep it thin.
Given the fact that there are several different versions of the bible in circulation, and the fact that the content of the christian versions have been decided by a bunch of comittees (who chose to include some part and omit others), you can already be suspicious of the content of this book.
Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...