But more to the point, wth does bitcoin have to do with gold?
It's the same idea. People think gold standard is great because it's a relatively fixed amount of mineral to peg your currency against which gives it a fixed volume of currency. Bitcoin has the same property but created mathematically / limited by processing power available.
One of the problems of course is that having a fixed amount of currency limits the size of your economy, which is a bad thing. But the gold standard is an easy concept to understand, so people like it.
It's not as if the hardware can't support most if not all the features.
That's interesting. Android crowd complains about lack of updates. iOS crowd complains about how slow their phones get after a few years of forced updates.
Absolutely - it's a problem either way. For me the problem isn't that I don't get the shiny newest features on my phone (I didn't buy it in the first place with those features so if I do get it later then that's a bonus, not a right), it's the lack of security and bugfixes. Android seems to have very little mechanism for security fixes other than "run the latest version". Microsoft managed to keep releasing patches for old OS versions, so if Android is going to be a serious OS then it needs to do the same.
OK, I'll give you the permission descriptions - that's annoying, but SD card support is still in the OS (and continues to get better in new releases). You can't claim they're killing a feature just because they haven't released a subsequent product that contains it. The other things also come down to security fixes - and that's a damned-if-they-do-damned-if-they-don't problem.
Latitude still exists as part of Google+ (I know, ew, but things change). And yes some stuff we like gets cancelled. Such is the internet.
And by the time Daydream's certification requirements, specs, API, etc. is available for OEMs and they have a chance to release products for it, Google will drop it and move on to some other shit.
To be fair, though Google are fairly harsh about killing off their own products, they've been pretty consistent about supporting and developing Android stuff atleast.
It's likely that the gyros in most current phones are not accurate enough for VR to work acceptably. They were never specced out for something so sensitive.
Don't be pedantic. "You", in this case, is clearly plural.
And such instructions are pointless because no person can act for the plurality.
Yes you shouldn't buy such a product, but the original post suggests this is all you need to do. Speaking out, making sure the company is aware of *why* people are unhappy is also part of the solution. If you don't do that they will imagine all sorts of other reasons why they aren't selling.
That's all you have to do, and these stupid lame assholes will get fired, and their replacements will know enough not to take away useful features.
If you buy one, you are part of the problem. If you don't buy one, you are part of the solution.
Yes your one missed theoretical sale will definitely be noticed and acted on. We've seen this before, manufacturers follow each other around like sheep - there's not nearly the amount of variety in the Android lineup that you would expect given the freedom of the platform. (where's my phone with a keyboard? where's my phone with a decent battery? Where's my compact phone with a small screen?)
Absolutely don't buy one. But make a noise too, otherwise you can easily expect other good phones to be hobbled by this "feature", and you won't get a choice in the matter. The market does not fix all ills by itself.
We only run into this problem because we have a portion of our population who will sue anyone over anything bad that happens.
No, it's almost nothing to do with settlement costs, and if you looked into the figures you'd see that rather than just parrotting what you want to believe.
I am sorry, I wasn't aware you were being forced to buy Apples products. I can certainly see why you are so upset with the change and not being given the option to buy someone else product instead.
So all criticism is null because there's competition? Presumably you don't read reviews then, since you shouldn't have any feelings because the product you are presented with you should be happy with just existing?
Who wants to go through the hassle of switching platform? And since phones have a limited lifetime they are effectively being forced at some point in the near future to either inconvenience themselves by switching, or inconvenience themselves by taking an inferior product. Stop apologising for Apple.
If Britain loses open access to the EU, how long do you think SoftBank will stay in the UK? SoftBank had made noises about doubling the ARM workforce in the UK in the years after purchase. But with the uncertainty of Brexit, they might want to open a second branch on the Continent where they can maintain EU access.
Most of ARM's business is done with the far east and States, Samsung, Apple, Qualcomm, etc. ARM was one of the few companies shares that was not hit by the result of the referendum. Now if you want to talk employee access, then that might be more of an issue if a full EU split happens, but trade itself for them is probably not going to be particularly affected.
Since the damaged object was a solar panel, I suspect it might have been exposed to, y'know, the sun? In which case it would not be very cold.
Yes yes very clever. There is this thing called "shade" that means the temperature is all over the shop during normal operation. Solar panels in space have to survive between -100 & 125 Celsius.
what is this obsession with making things thin, the space it saves is almost irrelevant and tactile feed back is a wonderful thing.
No idea, and the company themselves don't really push that it's just a factor of what they're building - ie if they put a real keyboard in it it couldn't be a drawing-tablet with a pen also. It's an obsession of the article headline writer. Something far more interesting I think about it is that you can put paper over it and write on that, with the pen input also copied digitally.
Can't stop progress. New features require new hardware after some time (years, in your case). Your complaint is rather odd.
What's the point of adding features to a device up to the point it becomes too slow to practically use for anything? When you want the latest and greatest that requires a new device, fair enough, you have to buy one, but that doesn't mean that your old device has to be upgraded into uselessness because there are theoretically new features in the world.
Yes - thankyou! I'm just going to link to this post every time someone thinks they're being really clever by pointing out yet another small device that beats RPi in some specific way. The RPi is a massive compromise, but a very well understood, documented and flexible thing.
"but if you're visiting a foreign country you have no rights"
And as a society we accept this?
Why?
Good question - but I think it's because we're don't often actually have to deal with it personally. Most people who are hit by it are 'foreign' and therefore don't immediately matter.
IIRC you can't be refused entry if you are returning to your home country. You can be arrested and go straight to jail, but they can't turn you away.
You're right. So what? What if you aren't returning home? International travel is a core part of life for many people, jobs and family span countries. When you're visiting your partner's parents for Christmas, or doing a crucial deal with a client, that all easily happens in a country that isn't your own.
Never, ever give out your passwords to any "law enforcement" (the reason for the quotes will be clear)
Very easy to say, but when you're risking your family's holiday over it, or your job, or your Christmas, or one time per year that you get to spend time with your parents. Principles are great and all, but if you're visiting a foreign country you have no rights, and the cost for you to piss them off is ridiculously large where the border official has no risk at all. The system needs new rules, and we take pressure off when we say "oh just don't give out your password, it's easy".
After all, there is a vast difference between a shipment (sending the product to a warehouse or store) and a sale (customer actually purchasing the product).
Yeah, this is a commonly quoted 'defence' whenever someone gets sad that Apple are being outsold by . It might be true on occasion that shipment figures are bigger than sales but in general, where do you think these phones are being shipped *to*? Why would anyone buy then if they weren't pretty sure they could sell them on? Shipments equal sales over a reasonable period of time, because if they don't you have a valuable warehouse costing someone a whole boatload of money as the inventory depreciates.
To me Nokia was far sadder, it went from the top slot in the smartphone industry to virtually bankrupt in the space of one obviously malicious CEO. Whereas Yahoo was vapour valuation to less vapour in one obviously incompetent CEO.
And incompetent board. Don't forget the leadership before Elop was horrendously lacking. Sure Elop might well have been a Trojan Horse, but the only reason he could do what he did was because Nokia were in such a pisspoor state by the time he arrived. They'd squandered their lead and were so far behind the times, it's plausible that Windows Phone was their only option. A terrible one, but the chances of Meego having any chance in 2010 after iOS and Android had been running riot for 3 years was pretty slim. They were selling lots of phones but their trajectory was down.
These always struck me as a fad waiting to die, but I'm not trying to be the usual Slashdot curmudgeon, so I'll ask: what are the killer features of a smart watch?
I mean, there aren't any. And that's OK. There aren't any killer features to tablets either, but we have them too. They are marginally useful, and I have one. If I lost it I would probably replace it eventually, but it's not like I have a backup like I do my smartphone...
For what it's worth, it is marginally useful to me: 1. When the phone rings, it buzzes on my wrist, which is far more reliable to notice than a vibrate / ring happening in my pocket while walking. I'm more likely to notice / catch the call while it's still ringing, and I can see if it's anyone I care about, or just another recruiter before reaching for my pocket. 2. When I get a message, often it doesn't need a response, so I can see it on my wrist without again faffing with the phone, unlocking it, etc. 3. Citymapper has very good turn-by-turn navigation on the watch, that is again much easier to glance at to see where your next change is and how far, etc. 4. The face is always on, and therefore much better for things like countdown timers when doing something active like cooking.
It's more about many many very little conveniences, which make it worth putting on in the morning for me, and buying if I have some spare cash for a toy. There aren't any killer features, but that's alright, there's still a place for them, not everything has to be 'disruptive'.
The Resolution Foundation found that under-35s earned 8,000 pound ($10,600) less in their twenties than Generation X workers. If wages for millennials follow the same path as Generation X...
It sucks to reach adulthood during a deep recession. Not sure it makes sense to use that as a predictor of the future though.
Come on, it wasn't a long article:
it also concluded that generational pay progress had ground to a halt even before the financial crisis struck in 2007/8.
The problem started before the recession, that's just made it worse.
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But more to the point, wth does bitcoin have to do with gold?
It's the same idea. People think gold standard is great because it's a relatively fixed amount of mineral to peg your currency against which gives it a fixed volume of currency. Bitcoin has the same property but created mathematically / limited by processing power available.
One of the problems of course is that having a fixed amount of currency limits the size of your economy, which is a bad thing. But the gold standard is an easy concept to understand, so people like it.
You may think that, got very little to do with what has happened though.
http://www.xkcd.com/1732/
It's not as if the hardware can't support most if not all the features.
That's interesting. Android crowd complains about lack of updates. iOS crowd complains about how slow their phones get after a few years of forced updates.
Absolutely - it's a problem either way. For me the problem isn't that I don't get the shiny newest features on my phone (I didn't buy it in the first place with those features so if I do get it later then that's a bonus, not a right), it's the lack of security and bugfixes. Android seems to have very little mechanism for security fixes other than "run the latest version". Microsoft managed to keep releasing patches for old OS versions, so if Android is going to be a serious OS then it needs to do the same.
OK, I'll give you the permission descriptions - that's annoying, but SD card support is still in the OS (and continues to get better in new releases). You can't claim they're killing a feature just because they haven't released a subsequent product that contains it. The other things also come down to security fixes - and that's a damned-if-they-do-damned-if-they-don't problem.
Latitude still exists as part of Google+ (I know, ew, but things change). And yes some stuff we like gets cancelled. Such is the internet.
And by the time Daydream's certification requirements, specs, API, etc. is available for OEMs and they have a chance to release products for it, Google will drop it and move on to some other shit.
To be fair, though Google are fairly harsh about killing off their own products, they've been pretty consistent about supporting and developing Android stuff atleast.
It's likely that the gyros in most current phones are not accurate enough for VR to work acceptably. They were never specced out for something so sensitive.
Don't be pedantic. "You", in this case, is clearly plural.
And such instructions are pointless because no person can act for the plurality.
Yes you shouldn't buy such a product, but the original post suggests this is all you need to do. Speaking out, making sure the company is aware of *why* people are unhappy is also part of the solution. If you don't do that they will imagine all sorts of other reasons why they aren't selling.
That's all you have to do, and these stupid lame assholes will get fired, and their replacements will know enough not to take away useful features.
If you buy one, you are part of the problem.
If you don't buy one, you are part of the solution.
Yes your one missed theoretical sale will definitely be noticed and acted on. We've seen this before, manufacturers follow each other around like sheep - there's not nearly the amount of variety in the Android lineup that you would expect given the freedom of the platform. (where's my phone with a keyboard? where's my phone with a decent battery? Where's my compact phone with a small screen?)
Absolutely don't buy one. But make a noise too, otherwise you can easily expect other good phones to be hobbled by this "feature", and you won't get a choice in the matter. The market does not fix all ills by itself.
We only run into this problem because we have a portion of our population who will sue anyone over anything bad that happens.
No, it's almost nothing to do with settlement costs, and if you looked into the figures you'd see that rather than just parrotting what you want to believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I am sorry, I wasn't aware you were being forced to buy Apples products. I can certainly see why you are so upset with the change and not being given the option to buy someone else product instead.
So all criticism is null because there's competition? Presumably you don't read reviews then, since you shouldn't have any feelings because the product you are presented with you should be happy with just existing?
Who wants to go through the hassle of switching platform? And since phones have a limited lifetime they are effectively being forced at some point in the near future to either inconvenience themselves by switching, or inconvenience themselves by taking an inferior product. Stop apologising for Apple.
So you can I told them the password and they did not enter into my ipad the right way.
Yeah, you just try this... Good luck!
If Britain loses open access to the EU, how long do you think SoftBank will stay in the UK? SoftBank had made noises about doubling the ARM workforce in the UK in the years after purchase. But with the uncertainty of Brexit, they might want to open a second branch on the Continent where they can maintain EU access.
Most of ARM's business is done with the far east and States, Samsung, Apple, Qualcomm, etc. ARM was one of the few companies shares that was not hit by the result of the referendum. Now if you want to talk employee access, then that might be more of an issue if a full EU split happens, but trade itself for them is probably not going to be particularly affected.
its cold up there
Since the damaged object was a solar panel, I suspect it might have been exposed to, y'know, the sun? In which case it would not be very cold.
Yes yes very clever. There is this thing called "shade" that means the temperature is all over the shop during normal operation. Solar panels in space have to survive between -100 & 125 Celsius.
what is this obsession with making things thin, the space it saves is almost irrelevant and tactile feed back is a wonderful thing.
No idea, and the company themselves don't really push that it's just a factor of what they're building - ie if they put a real keyboard in it it couldn't be a drawing-tablet with a pen also. It's an obsession of the article headline writer. Something far more interesting I think about it is that you can put paper over it and write on that, with the pen input also copied digitally.
Can't stop progress. New features require new hardware after some time (years, in your case). Your complaint is rather odd.
What's the point of adding features to a device up to the point it becomes too slow to practically use for anything? When you want the latest and greatest that requires a new device, fair enough, you have to buy one, but that doesn't mean that your old device has to be upgraded into uselessness because there are theoretically new features in the world.
Yes - thankyou! I'm just going to link to this post every time someone thinks they're being really clever by pointing out yet another small device that beats RPi in some specific way. The RPi is a massive compromise, but a very well understood, documented and flexible thing.
"but if you're visiting a foreign country you have no rights"
And as a society we accept this?
Why?
Good question - but I think it's because we're don't often actually have to deal with it personally. Most people who are hit by it are 'foreign' and therefore don't immediately matter.
This case was about Canadians trying to enter Canada.
Indeed - but do you think that's relevant? Like, would the officials treat foreign travellers better?
IIRC you can't be refused entry if you are returning to your home country. You can be arrested and go straight to jail, but they can't turn you away.
You're right. So what? What if you aren't returning home? International travel is a core part of life for many people, jobs and family span countries. When you're visiting your partner's parents for Christmas, or doing a crucial deal with a client, that all easily happens in a country that isn't your own.
Never, ever give out your passwords to any "law enforcement" (the reason for the quotes will be clear)
Very easy to say, but when you're risking your family's holiday over it, or your job, or your Christmas, or one time per year that you get to spend time with your parents. Principles are great and all, but if you're visiting a foreign country you have no rights, and the cost for you to piss them off is ridiculously large where the border official has no risk at all. The system needs new rules, and we take pressure off when we say "oh just don't give out your password, it's easy".
I always liked him. He was one of the few Star Trek admirals who played it as a reasonable competent person, usually they were dicks...
Parent post and TFA made equal amount of sense.
After all, there is a vast difference between a shipment (sending the product to a warehouse or store) and a sale (customer actually purchasing the product).
Yeah, this is a commonly quoted 'defence' whenever someone gets sad that Apple are being outsold by . It might be true on occasion that shipment figures are bigger than sales but in general, where do you think these phones are being shipped *to*? Why would anyone buy then if they weren't pretty sure they could sell them on? Shipments equal sales over a reasonable period of time, because if they don't you have a valuable warehouse costing someone a whole boatload of money as the inventory depreciates.
To me Nokia was far sadder, it went from the top slot in the smartphone industry to virtually bankrupt in the space of one obviously malicious CEO. Whereas Yahoo was vapour valuation to less vapour in one obviously incompetent CEO.
And incompetent board. Don't forget the leadership before Elop was horrendously lacking. Sure Elop might well have been a Trojan Horse, but the only reason he could do what he did was because Nokia were in such a pisspoor state by the time he arrived. They'd squandered their lead and were so far behind the times, it's plausible that Windows Phone was their only option. A terrible one, but the chances of Meego having any chance in 2010 after iOS and Android had been running riot for 3 years was pretty slim. They were selling lots of phones but their trajectory was down.
These always struck me as a fad waiting to die, but I'm not trying to be the usual Slashdot curmudgeon, so I'll ask: what are the killer features of a smart watch?
I mean, there aren't any. And that's OK. There aren't any killer features to tablets either, but we have them too. They are marginally useful, and I have one. If I lost it I would probably replace it eventually, but it's not like I have a backup like I do my smartphone...
For what it's worth, it is marginally useful to me:
1. When the phone rings, it buzzes on my wrist, which is far more reliable to notice than a vibrate / ring happening in my pocket while walking. I'm more likely to notice / catch the call while it's still ringing, and I can see if it's anyone I care about, or just another recruiter before reaching for my pocket.
2. When I get a message, often it doesn't need a response, so I can see it on my wrist without again faffing with the phone, unlocking it, etc.
3. Citymapper has very good turn-by-turn navigation on the watch, that is again much easier to glance at to see where your next change is and how far, etc.
4. The face is always on, and therefore much better for things like countdown timers when doing something active like cooking.
It's more about many many very little conveniences, which make it worth putting on in the morning for me, and buying if I have some spare cash for a toy. There aren't any killer features, but that's alright, there's still a place for them, not everything has to be 'disruptive'.
The Resolution Foundation found that under-35s earned 8,000 pound ($10,600) less in their twenties than Generation X workers. If wages for millennials follow the same path as Generation X...
It sucks to reach adulthood during a deep recession. Not sure it makes sense to use that as a predictor of the future though.
Come on, it wasn't a long article:
it also concluded that generational pay progress had ground to a halt even before the financial crisis struck in 2007/8.
The problem started before the recession, that's just made it worse.