I mean, sure, Apple is probably intransigent. Nothing new there, it's the company that removed an universal standard from it's phone and dared to call the move "corageous". But so what? We're supposed to take sides of banks, the most evil businesses in the world? Let them screw themselves over.
Truth is, banks are only moving to contactless payments because people are adopting it now. Banks never cared about the benefit of it's costumers, they've been delaying tech and development of new systems for centuries now for their own profit. Only because they are poised to lose money now that they are taking action. So f*ck them. They don't get to have the high moral ground on this one.
I hope Apple manages to shut them off the platform. People who are not willing to get locked inside Apple's walled garden won't buy into the system anyways.
Most popular video hosting service? Wow... guess I'm out of touch with the whole video hosting service thing. I did some research sometime ago and came up with names like YouTube (obviously), Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Break.com, Crackle, Viddler and stuff from other countries like NicoNicoDouga and Youku. But AllmyVideos? Never even heard of it.
Not sure why Reuters had to go there to ask that question...
For those who don't know the size of Samsung, the company could completely shut down and stop making phones altogether, it'd still wouldn't go down. They have their hands on everything from domestic appliances, to major eletronics like TVs, corporate stuff like printers, a huge part of the electronics industry is dependant on component production from Samsung, a huge part of OLED panels are made by them, and they have clients like Apple, Dell, Sony and HP.
The company will definitely survive. What these workers should be worried though is about reestructuring and factories getting closed down, with mass downsizing. Highly dependant on Samsung discovering what the culprit for the Note 7 is. My best guesses are going for either battery manufacturing, or software design...
Regardless though, the damage is already done. Best case scenario, people who bought Note 7 will mostly buy Galaxy S7s, so switch in production, and plans for Note 8 (or whatever comes next) starts right away. It's still an entire line of phones that won't be made anymore, tons of R&D losses, and whatnot. Well, that is unless Samsung is bold enough to make another version of the Note 7 and try to go with it... but it won't sell like the original would.
Worst case scenario, people who bought Note 7 migrates to other brands or platforms, the culprit in defect is something that demands full redesign for the product and the industrial process, Note line is discarded to start from scratch, and the next models from the company gets delayed to solve issues. Then you could have a scenario with tons and tons of people getting fired, entire factories closing down and whatnot.
I know that pilling up on Facebook is the new trend now, but just so people know, that number can't be much different from several news portals, blogs and other social networks that are being used as news sources nowadays. Facebook shouldn't be considered a source for reliable news, but several other portals also shouldn't in the very same way.
Arguably, traditional media is just on the same page, as they'll often use Internet sources for their news too nowadays.
So, in the end, the recommendation stays the same. Consult multiple independent sources first, and take everything you read with a grain of salt.
PCs have plateaued for a while now, and it lacks an unified marketing strategy, that's why. You see, for smartphones you either have Android or iOS. iOS is a single platform with a single line of phones that is always planning what's next and has a following that can only be described as rabid right now. But even Android has a more or less unified upgrade strategy, planned or not. The stuff that came out for Android this year was mid range phones getting high end specs, a mod-like strategy that kinda backfired, making bloated skins less bloated, among a few other things.
PCs on the other hand are a vastly more confusing world with too many brands, too many upgrade strategies, and too many variables to consider. It has gone past the Paradox of Choice thing for years now, in a way that advancements in tech are trampled over by the sheer convenience of having a PC that already does what you want it to do.
But there's a immediate easy path for PC manufacturers to go right now if they want to recover some ground. Improvements on energy efficiency, heat dissipation, graphics cards and a bunch of other things just enabled desktop PCs to be built in smaller packages while keeping most of their power, and laptops to be very close in performance to beefy desktops.
I guess technology could mature a bit more, or to put it in another way, the latest tech could be out there for a little bit longer with prices coming down, and then at least for me personally, it would make perfect sense to upgrade my 3 year old desktop to something smaller and less power hungry.
I've kept it so far because it works for everything I need, it never gave me any trouble, and up 'till last year I didn't see any major improvements that would justify a huge investment in a full upgrade. But with Pascal, cheaper RAM, cheaper SSD, smaller form factors like laptops that looks and feels like ultrabooks while carrying gaming laptop guts, and tabletops or small PCs that can play the latest games... it's becoming interesting again.
PCs could really use a more uniform marketing strategy though. It has always been kinda sluggish. One company tries something different, see if it catches up, and then other companies starts copying the model. This takes months to years to consolidate, and that's the part where smartphones wins.
FOIA request will be properly responded to, just in time for the release of the Slippery Upwards Slope of Calm Transparency Demands game that is coming as a sequel.
ooooh, I didn't know or didn't remember about that. Explains a whole lot of stuff that has been happening. Nokia has been talking about new Android phones for quite a while now, it made me think why they haven't released it just yet.
That exclusivity period might explain it. Also why Microsoft is abandoning the Lumia brand.
Guess it's a good thing to have Microsoft changing directions next year, and Nokia coming back to the market. We'll see how that goes.
One can only hope that Sony also figures out that the disconnect between sensor sales and their own smartphone division demands a complete revamping of the entire smartphone line. It's time Sony. You can do better than this.
Being overly negative here, but this might just be how VR dies...
Honestly, I think VR was overestimated by too many companies, but this was the chance of it going big. It's a hard concept to sell, and I still consider it a highly niche thing, but I wouldn't mind having games and content produced for it, and the concept getting successful to a point that I could actually afford it.:P The problem is that if big companies starts hitting the brakes now, waiting to see how the market will react to VR, it's just too soon and underdeveloped.
VR seems to be a slow moving thing that would take a lot of time reaching all the people it could potentially sell to. Big companies should be looking at this as a long term investment that might give results in the long run, not a year from launch date. I'd imagine it would take at least a couple of years or more after the first units were released for the potential market to even get in contact with it, let alone for worthwhile exclusive content to be released for it.
I gotta admit that I was never a huge VR proponent... AR just looks more attractive to me as an idea. But I was hoping that with these many companies involved, we'd perhaps have more push and attempts on digging hard on the idea. If Samsung is taking a step back, other companies might follow suit, we'd end up in a standstill, and then there will be no more VR for a very long time because of that burn.
Let's see of what Google has to show tomorrow reverses things.
It wasn't enough for logic and a bunch of engineers and whatnot to put this idiocy to the ground, I guess they needed to make a public test that will obviously fail hard and never go beyond the prototype phase.
I hope this finally leaves dumb politicians and a bunch of people with too money to spare before doing proper research with enough proof not to waste more money and time with this.
People could literally contribute more by putting that money into LED lights for their homes or tested and tried real solutions like solar panels on their roofs.
I'm not saying we shouldn't try new things, but nothing about the Solar Roadways idea is new, and nothing about it is worth testing. There is no new concept there. There is no component of it or idea that has not been considered before and discarded due to infeasibility. This is the glass sword idea. It might look cool to some, but there are just so many reasons why you'd never do it that it's plain stupid to even try.
There's just too many people defending the idea because "we have to try to see if it works" or something. Try to eat your own poop to see if it's tasty. Oh, you don't want to? Why? Have you ever even tried it? Perhaps it's great and you don't know!
I dunno about you guys in the US, but for Brazil, this would possibly make me consider buying again from Amazon.
I've got scammed and ripped off by both Fedex and UPS here in Brazil. It's not a problem for US citizens to worry about, but both companies charge some crazy unjustified service taxes for everything they bring here. I can't imagine an Amazon based delivery service being any worse. Though it'll probably take a long time, if it ever happens, that Amazon would bring something like that here... Brazil has even worse challenges to any company trying to replace the national postal service here.
I was expecting this to happen sooner or later, and now we'll see the media reaction to it.
There are just too many factors concerning possible smartphone explosions in this generation (faulty USB Type C cables, more power going into charging making any shoddy accessory a potential cause for thermal runaways)... and now that the press knows these stories sell, they'll bank on them more heavily creating a warped sense that these things started happening now.
Reports so far have been incredibly superficial, with no previous investigation and not many details about investigations whether the allegations are true or not.
Just weird to see how things changed this fast in the past few months.
Am I missing something here? Why is there a need to declare the original meme as a hate symbol when pretty much every meme under the sun has also been co-opted by some community to make racist or homophobic jokes? I'm not familiar with this ADL organization, but someone better warn them that if these are the standards they are going to use to declare something as a hate symbol, it's just better that they speed up the process and label all Internet memes and popular iconography as hate symbols altogether.
The only thing I wanna see is if this will result in a class action lawsuit like what happened in Sony's case back... in the 90s was it? It'll say something about the current state of forgiveness for huge screw ups in this day and age of broken games and gamers being used as beta or alpha testers of new releases.
This doesn't seem to be competing with Raspberry Pi at all... no GPIO ports, 3 times or more the price. Of course it'll be better, albeit for a different purpose. If you are going to compare to something, wouldn't it make far more sense to throw it against an Atom Cherry Trail CPU in something like a Kangaroo PC or something like the Gole1? Or even Intel Compute Stick?
Diesel, energy usage... this really has no end, right? You start wondering if your home appliances, electronics and whatnot are really all that efficient, or if in fact it's just all the testing procedures that are rigged instead.
News of Lenovo screwing up with their BIOS not long ago was exactly what made me not buy some of the first Yoga hybrids of the line... After a whole lot of news talking about malware, spyware and now this, I'm glad I didn't.
I dunno what Lenovo is trying to do with their stuff, but I'm staying away. At this point it's becoming pretty obvious that Lenovo has become some sort of experimental lab for horrible practices towards consumers. If it was one isolated case and they corrected their ways on the next product, fine.
But at this point it has become downright unforgivable. I don't want anything to do with their products, and I'm also not recommending it to anyone. The most damning part is that news like these never make it to the general press. People are buying Lenovo laptops and hybrids without knowing these things.
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Stop posting all the crap this guy talks. It's like old rancid meme, no one wants to hear about it anymore.
I mean, sure, Apple is probably intransigent. Nothing new there, it's the company that removed an universal standard from it's phone and dared to call the move "corageous".
But so what? We're supposed to take sides of banks, the most evil businesses in the world?
Let them screw themselves over.
Truth is, banks are only moving to contactless payments because people are adopting it now. Banks never cared about the benefit of it's costumers, they've been delaying tech and development of new systems for centuries now for their own profit.
Only because they are poised to lose money now that they are taking action. So f*ck them. They don't get to have the high moral ground on this one.
I hope Apple manages to shut them off the platform. People who are not willing to get locked inside Apple's walled garden won't buy into the system anyways.
Most popular video hosting service? Wow... guess I'm out of touch with the whole video hosting service thing.
I did some research sometime ago and came up with names like YouTube (obviously), Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Break.com, Crackle, Viddler and stuff from other countries like NicoNicoDouga and Youku. But AllmyVideos? Never even heard of it.
Not sure why Reuters had to go there to ask that question...
For those who don't know the size of Samsung, the company could completely shut down and stop making phones altogether, it'd still wouldn't go down.
They have their hands on everything from domestic appliances, to major eletronics like TVs, corporate stuff like printers, a huge part of the electronics industry is dependant on component production from Samsung, a huge part of OLED panels are made by them, and they have clients like Apple, Dell, Sony and HP.
The company will definitely survive. What these workers should be worried though is about reestructuring and factories getting closed down, with mass downsizing.
Highly dependant on Samsung discovering what the culprit for the Note 7 is. My best guesses are going for either battery manufacturing, or software design...
Regardless though, the damage is already done. Best case scenario, people who bought Note 7 will mostly buy Galaxy S7s, so switch in production, and plans for Note 8 (or whatever comes next) starts right away. It's still an entire line of phones that won't be made anymore, tons of R&D losses, and whatnot. Well, that is unless Samsung is bold enough to make another version of the Note 7 and try to go with it... but it won't sell like the original would.
Worst case scenario, people who bought Note 7 migrates to other brands or platforms, the culprit in defect is something that demands full redesign for the product and the industrial process, Note line is discarded to start from scratch, and the next models from the company gets delayed to solve issues. Then you could have a scenario with tons and tons of people getting fired, entire factories closing down and whatnot.
I know that pilling up on Facebook is the new trend now, but just so people know, that number can't be much different from several news portals, blogs and other social networks that are being used as news sources nowadays.
Facebook shouldn't be considered a source for reliable news, but several other portals also shouldn't in the very same way.
Arguably, traditional media is just on the same page, as they'll often use Internet sources for their news too nowadays.
So, in the end, the recommendation stays the same. Consult multiple independent sources first, and take everything you read with a grain of salt.
PCs have plateaued for a while now, and it lacks an unified marketing strategy, that's why.
You see, for smartphones you either have Android or iOS. iOS is a single platform with a single line of phones that is always planning what's next and has a following that can only be described as rabid right now.
But even Android has a more or less unified upgrade strategy, planned or not. The stuff that came out for Android this year was mid range phones getting high end specs, a mod-like strategy that kinda backfired, making bloated skins less bloated, among a few other things.
PCs on the other hand are a vastly more confusing world with too many brands, too many upgrade strategies, and too many variables to consider. It has gone past the Paradox of Choice thing for years now, in a way that advancements in tech are trampled over by the sheer convenience of having a PC that already does what you want it to do.
But there's a immediate easy path for PC manufacturers to go right now if they want to recover some ground. Improvements on energy efficiency, heat dissipation, graphics cards and a bunch of other things just enabled desktop PCs to be built in smaller packages while keeping most of their power, and laptops to be very close in performance to beefy desktops.
I guess technology could mature a bit more, or to put it in another way, the latest tech could be out there for a little bit longer with prices coming down, and then at least for me personally, it would make perfect sense to upgrade my 3 year old desktop to something smaller and less power hungry.
I've kept it so far because it works for everything I need, it never gave me any trouble, and up 'till last year I didn't see any major improvements that would justify a huge investment in a full upgrade. But with Pascal, cheaper RAM, cheaper SSD, smaller form factors like laptops that looks and feels like ultrabooks while carrying gaming laptop guts, and tabletops or small PCs that can play the latest games... it's becoming interesting again.
PCs could really use a more uniform marketing strategy though. It has always been kinda sluggish. One company tries something different, see if it catches up, and then other companies starts copying the model. This takes months to years to consolidate, and that's the part where smartphones wins.
FOIA request will be properly responded to, just in time for the release of the Slippery Upwards Slope of Calm Transparency Demands game that is coming as a sequel.
ooooh, I didn't know or didn't remember about that. Explains a whole lot of stuff that has been happening.
Nokia has been talking about new Android phones for quite a while now, it made me think why they haven't released it just yet.
That exclusivity period might explain it. Also why Microsoft is abandoning the Lumia brand.
Guess it's a good thing to have Microsoft changing directions next year, and Nokia coming back to the market.
We'll see how that goes.
I've read or watched this sci-fi before.
One can only hope that Sony also figures out that the disconnect between sensor sales and their own smartphone division demands a complete revamping of the entire smartphone line. It's time Sony. You can do better than this.
They better sell it fast before the next scandal surfaces...
Wild guess, but this here might be why the change took this long, and was this half-assed. :P
A match forged in the deepest levels of Hell I guess?
4chan board of directors: Martin Shkreli, Palmer Luckey, ...
That's one less thing to explode then I guess. :P
Stale jokes aside, that's one less brand for me to choose from then.
Being overly negative here, but this might just be how VR dies...
Honestly, I think VR was overestimated by too many companies, but this was the chance of it going big. :P
It's a hard concept to sell, and I still consider it a highly niche thing, but I wouldn't mind having games and content produced for it, and the concept getting successful to a point that I could actually afford it.
The problem is that if big companies starts hitting the brakes now, waiting to see how the market will react to VR, it's just too soon and underdeveloped.
VR seems to be a slow moving thing that would take a lot of time reaching all the people it could potentially sell to. Big companies should be looking at this as a long term investment that might give results in the long run, not a year from launch date.
I'd imagine it would take at least a couple of years or more after the first units were released for the potential market to even get in contact with it, let alone for worthwhile exclusive content to be released for it.
I gotta admit that I was never a huge VR proponent... AR just looks more attractive to me as an idea.
But I was hoping that with these many companies involved, we'd perhaps have more push and attempts on digging hard on the idea. If Samsung is taking a step back, other companies might follow suit, we'd end up in a standstill, and then there will be no more VR for a very long time because of that burn.
Let's see of what Google has to show tomorrow reverses things.
It wasn't enough for logic and a bunch of engineers and whatnot to put this idiocy to the ground, I guess they needed to make a public test that will obviously fail hard and never go beyond the prototype phase.
I hope this finally leaves dumb politicians and a bunch of people with too money to spare before doing proper research with enough proof not to waste more money and time with this.
People could literally contribute more by putting that money into LED lights for their homes or tested and tried real solutions like solar panels on their roofs.
I'm not saying we shouldn't try new things, but nothing about the Solar Roadways idea is new, and nothing about it is worth testing. There is no new concept there. There is no component of it or idea that has not been considered before and discarded due to infeasibility. This is the glass sword idea. It might look cool to some, but there are just so many reasons why you'd never do it that it's plain stupid to even try.
There's just too many people defending the idea because "we have to try to see if it works" or something. Try to eat your own poop to see if it's tasty. Oh, you don't want to? Why? Have you ever even tried it? Perhaps it's great and you don't know!
I dunno about you guys in the US, but for Brazil, this would possibly make me consider buying again from Amazon.
I've got scammed and ripped off by both Fedex and UPS here in Brazil. It's not a problem for US citizens to worry about, but both companies charge some crazy unjustified service taxes for everything they bring here. I can't imagine an Amazon based delivery service being any worse. Though it'll probably take a long time, if it ever happens, that Amazon would bring something like that here... Brazil has even worse challenges to any company trying to replace the national postal service here.
I was expecting this to happen sooner or later, and now we'll see the media reaction to it.
There are just too many factors concerning possible smartphone explosions in this generation (faulty USB Type C cables, more power going into charging making any shoddy accessory a potential cause for thermal runaways)... and now that the press knows these stories sell, they'll bank on them more heavily creating a warped sense that these things started happening now.
Reports so far have been incredibly superficial, with no previous investigation and not many details about investigations whether the allegations are true or not.
Just weird to see how things changed this fast in the past few months.
Am I missing something here? Why is there a need to declare the original meme as a hate symbol when pretty much every meme under the sun has also been co-opted by some community to make racist or homophobic jokes?
I'm not familiar with this ADL organization, but someone better warn them that if these are the standards they are going to use to declare something as a hate symbol, it's just better that they speed up the process and label all Internet memes and popular iconography as hate symbols altogether.
That's at least one thing Yahoo has over so many news websites, entertainment networks portals, and CRUNCHYROLL I'M LOOKING AT YOU.
The only thing I wanna see is if this will result in a class action lawsuit like what happened in Sony's case back... in the 90s was it?
It'll say something about the current state of forgiveness for huge screw ups in this day and age of broken games and gamers being used as beta or alpha testers of new releases.
Santa Claus spread chemtrails in the sky with which the easter bunny got stoned and confused causing the routers to crash!
Hey, it's not impossible!
This doesn't seem to be competing with Raspberry Pi at all... no GPIO ports, 3 times or more the price. Of course it'll be better, albeit for a different purpose.
If you are going to compare to something, wouldn't it make far more sense to throw it against an Atom Cherry Trail CPU in something like a Kangaroo PC or something like the Gole1? Or even Intel Compute Stick?
Diesel, energy usage... this really has no end, right?
You start wondering if your home appliances, electronics and whatnot are really all that efficient, or if in fact it's just all the testing procedures that are rigged instead.
News of Lenovo screwing up with their BIOS not long ago was exactly what made me not buy some of the first Yoga hybrids of the line...
After a whole lot of news talking about malware, spyware and now this, I'm glad I didn't.
I dunno what Lenovo is trying to do with their stuff, but I'm staying away. At this point it's becoming pretty obvious that Lenovo has become some sort of experimental lab for horrible practices towards consumers. If it was one isolated case and they corrected their ways on the next product, fine.
But at this point it has become downright unforgivable. I don't want anything to do with their products, and I'm also not recommending it to anyone.
The most damning part is that news like these never make it to the general press. People are buying Lenovo laptops and hybrids without knowing these things.