"We donâ(TM)t need all those other ports, Apple says. We are living in a wireless world now, where we can connect most of our peripherals without cords."
That statement alone should give some clue as to how out of touch Apple are with reality.
I'm reminded of that every time I have to haul around an external optical drive for another enlightened Mac user.
Accounts would sign in to Microsoft Live or whatever they call it now. Linux clients (and possibly servers) would mysteriously not work quite as well as before, when the new updates intentionally use Java features known to not work well on non-MS platforms. Servers might just be consolidated to "authorized" providers such as XBox Live. The PC version might be crippled to get "feature parity" with the console versions?
That has to be one of the worst xkcd comics I've seen in a long time. The left picture shows a white and gold dress against a blue backdrop, and the right picture shows a blue and gold dress against a yellow backdrop. In neither picture does the "gold" look remotely like anything that could be called black.
I think a lot of this confusion is coming from the fact that the white balance of the picture is such that the blue fabric looks like evening light scattering off a white surface (a very light blue), so our eyes are interpreting that as the "white" point, and correcting everything else in the picture to match. So we have a way overexposed very dark object made to look like a slightly underexposed light object.
Why not? Honestly, why would a motivated enough studio not do such a thing? Remember the BMG rootkit fiasco. The only problem for them was that they were caught.
Does anyone else just want to sit down with the genius who decided to put a Java runtime into a standard for home video and have a long, fireside chat?
Possibly involving the poker and some of the larger blocks of firewood?
Even with the backlight turned right down? I have never seen this happen to such a degree that makes a redshifter ineffective, though I don't own a Kindle so perhaps it's specific to those.
On desktops and laptops I use redshift-gtk. It sits in the background and gradually adjusts the gamma of your screen based on your longitude/latitude and the time of day. There is an icon in the system tray that you can click to manually turn it off to see the difference or if you briefly have a need to see colour-accurate content.
I don't recall what one I have used for Android, though I have used Nightfilter in the past that works well (though manual).
Anyone reading screens at night should already have an automatic redshifter installed, unless you explicitly need to stay awake for some reason. I use them for all my desktops, laptops and tablets.
The difference on your eyes is, pun intended, night and day.
I have seen far too much of that sentiment. That someone with right-of-way is entitled to plough through whatever hazards may be present and consequences be damned. I have sat in a car and actually hear the driver, after taking part in a near-miss event at an intersection, say that it's okay because they would win if it ever went to court.
Little consolation indeed, if you have to go carless for four weeks while it's being panelbeaten back into shape, or six months in hospital.
If this sort of mentality ever finds you, a good counter-principle is this: You never have the right of way until everyone else gives it to you.
Look, if you really want the alleged convenience of basic appliances connected to the Internet then you're playing tic-tac-toe with power-hungry governments and greedy companies.
That might have been true a couple of years ago, but now that it's common knowledge that your device is probably spying on you, people are suddenly interested in how to make their devices NOT spy on them.
Here's what I use at present. I consider all of the highly useful.
Status-4-evar because no desktop browser should be without a status bar Tab Mix Plus for its excellent session handling and handling of unread tabs. Tree Style Tab for its correct placement of tabs on widescreen monitors (on the left, not at the top) and its absolutely wonderful hierarchical tree of tabs. One of the many YouTube video downloaders Flashblock for obvious reasons Adblock, for when ads get to invasive. Disable CTRL-Q Shortcut because 'q' is too close to 'w' on my keyboard.
I'm just going to paste someone else's comment here to address this good question:
by radarskiy (2874255) on 04:56 PM February 13th, 2015 (#49044679)
a) Vaccines make the chance of contracting the disease very low, but not exactly zero. b) Carries of the diseases increase the opportunity of the disease to mutate into a form that the vaccine doesn't protect. c) Some people are allergic to the vaccine and must depend on everyone around them being vaccinated.
LCD touchscreens for a vehicle where the operator is supposed to have his/her eyes on the road is just stupid. Any feature that lets another party remotely disable it/will/ eventually be abused. An automatic update system will eventually download an update that has somehow missed one step of testing and result in unpredicted probably dangerous behaviour. And don't get me started on the folly of self-driving cars.
There are however some "modern" features that I actually like:
Parking aids. I'm talking basic sonars and cameras here, not self-parking mechanisms. No computer required. Although admittedly a fresnel lens stuck to the back window helps a lot too.
Engine computers. Massive power-to-weight ratio improvements and fuel savings have been realized in recent times by otherwise-dumb computers constantly measuring and adjusting engine properties such as air/fuel mix and injection rate. I don't enjoy wasting fuel.
Are you referring to Hybrid in the sense of electric motors and batteries that are charged by regenerative braking? That's something I don't have any experience with but I'm not aware of any downside to them.
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"We donâ(TM)t need all those other ports, Apple says. We are living in a wireless world now, where we can connect most of our peripherals without cords."
That statement alone should give some clue as to how out of touch Apple are with reality.
I'm reminded of that every time I have to haul around an external optical drive for another enlightened Mac user.
What Geniuses.
I weep for the desktop...
So, with 79% of the vote unspoken for, a third party could have really cleaned up had one been organised enough.
Accounts would sign in to Microsoft Live or whatever they call it now.
Linux clients (and possibly servers) would mysteriously not work quite as well as before, when the new updates intentionally use Java features known to not work well on non-MS platforms.
Servers might just be consolidated to "authorized" providers such as XBox Live.
The PC version might be crippled to get "feature parity" with the console versions?
I'm curious:
Is there anyone here who does not, upon sitting at another person's computer, immediately un-hide file extensions if they are hidden?
Further, has anyone here ever had a user object to having their file extensions un-hidden?
I suspect the answer to both is "no".
That has to be one of the worst xkcd comics I've seen in a long time. The left picture shows a white and gold dress against a blue backdrop, and the right picture shows a blue and gold dress against a yellow backdrop. In neither picture does the "gold" look remotely like anything that could be called black.
I think a lot of this confusion is coming from the fact that the white balance of the picture is such that the blue fabric looks like evening light scattering off a white surface (a very light blue), so our eyes are interpreting that as the "white" point, and correcting everything else in the picture to match. So we have a way overexposed very dark object made to look like a slightly underexposed light object.
Why not? Honestly, why would a motivated enough studio not do such a thing? Remember the BMG rootkit fiasco. The only problem for them was that they were caught.
Does anyone else just want to sit down with the genius who decided to put a Java runtime into a standard for home video and have a long, fireside chat?
Possibly involving the poker and some of the larger blocks of firewood?
Just in case you weren't aware, the full text of that beatitude is:
"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth".
That does not sound like a cautionary tale.
To quote Queeg:
Chess
Even with the backlight turned right down? I have never seen this happen to such a degree that makes a redshifter ineffective, though I don't own a Kindle so perhaps it's specific to those.
On desktops and laptops I use redshift-gtk. It sits in the background and gradually adjusts the gamma of your screen based on your longitude/latitude and the time of day. There is an icon in the system tray that you can click to manually turn it off to see the difference or if you briefly have a need to see colour-accurate content.
I don't recall what one I have used for Android, though I have used Nightfilter in the past that works well (though manual).
What are you doing about it?
If you say "nothing" then as a citizen you are a major part of the problem.
Anyone reading screens at night should already have an automatic redshifter installed, unless you explicitly need to stay awake for some reason. I use them for all my desktops, laptops and tablets.
The difference on your eyes is, pun intended, night and day.
Terrorist group wants to legitimize their snooping activities.
News at 11
I have seen far too much of that sentiment. That someone with right-of-way is entitled to plough through whatever hazards may be present and consequences be damned. I have sat in a car and actually hear the driver, after taking part in a near-miss event at an intersection, say that it's okay because they would win if it ever went to court.
Little consolation indeed, if you have to go carless for four weeks while it's being panelbeaten back into shape, or six months in hospital.
If this sort of mentality ever finds you, a good counter-principle is this:
You never have the right of way until everyone else gives it to you.
That is all.
Look, if you really want the alleged convenience of basic appliances connected to the Internet then you're playing tic-tac-toe with power-hungry governments and greedy companies.
The only way to win is to not play.
That might have been true a couple of years ago, but now that it's common knowledge that your device is probably spying on you, people are suddenly interested in how to make their devices NOT spy on them.
This. A thousand times this.
Here's what I use at present. I consider all of the highly useful.
Status-4-evar because no desktop browser should be without a status bar
Tab Mix Plus for its excellent session handling and handling of unread tabs.
Tree Style Tab for its correct placement of tabs on widescreen monitors (on the left, not at the top) and its absolutely wonderful hierarchical tree of tabs.
One of the many YouTube video downloaders
Flashblock for obvious reasons
Adblock, for when ads get to invasive.
Disable CTRL-Q Shortcut because 'q' is too close to 'w' on my keyboard.
I'm just going to paste someone else's comment here to address this good question:
by radarskiy (2874255) on 04:56 PM February 13th, 2015 (#49044679)
a) Vaccines make the chance of contracting the disease very low, but not exactly zero.
b) Carries of the diseases increase the opportunity of the disease to mutate into a form that the vaccine doesn't protect.
c) Some people are allergic to the vaccine and must depend on everyone around them being vaccinated.
I agree with you on nearly every count.
LCD touchscreens for a vehicle where the operator is supposed to have his/her eyes on the road is just stupid. Any feature that lets another party remotely disable it /will/ eventually be abused. An automatic update system will eventually download an update that has somehow missed one step of testing and result in unpredicted probably dangerous behaviour. And don't get me started on the folly of self-driving cars.
There are however some "modern" features that I actually like:
Parking aids. I'm talking basic sonars and cameras here, not self-parking mechanisms. No computer required. Although admittedly a fresnel lens stuck to the back window helps a lot too.
Engine computers. Massive power-to-weight ratio improvements and fuel savings have been realized in recent times by otherwise-dumb computers constantly measuring and adjusting engine properties such as air/fuel mix and injection rate. I don't enjoy wasting fuel.
Are you referring to Hybrid in the sense of electric motors and batteries that are charged by regenerative braking? That's something I don't have any experience with but I'm not aware of any downside to them.
That sounds particular insidious. Can you please give the brand of the TV so we know what to avoid?
Thanks.