Also, what happens when the battery runs down. I still have to carry my cards because I can't be left reliant on a working phone for buying anything / getting home.
"I did an optional software upgrade to my nearly 5 year old phone and now it's very slow. I could have read reviews of the update, weighed the added features, new security model, etc with the performance degradation. But I didn't, I upgraded and now whine about it constantly online."
It's not optional. Because most people do upgrade, app developers set their minimum version to the latest and after not very long you can't use your apps anymore because the old versions are being blocked at the server. You cannot realistically resist. This is an actual problem with the iPhone ecosystem, and it's great for Apple because it keeps the hardware upgrades rolling in.
I was also thinking that all his suggestions sound like the classic old double decker buses of London, werent a main issue(beside the buses getting old) of why they were replaced that so many people got hurt(especially when you had been out drinking) when hopping in and out of them
Is that why there are currently hundreds of new Routemaster buses currently running in London? Hard to say that the concept is too dangerous - we have lots of them now and there's been no catastrophe.
Well. That's fine if you're able bodied but what if you're in a wheelchair, have a pushchair, a disability, carrying heavy shopping? Public transport means all the public not just the ones able to nimbly hop from moving platform to moving platform.
1. the bus driver is a human being with all sorts of ability to make judgements about the fragility of the passengers, and when he might think it's a good idea to wait a bit longer before driving off. 2. This is already a thing: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multi... (yes that is a new bus design and they drive with the back doors open). You have to make your own judgement whether to jump on or off, or you can just wait until the stop. And they're *much* more convenient, every traffic jam / light becomes a busstop.
Huh? SMS Backup+ works fine with any IMAP server. I'm using it with my own server and have not had any problems. All of my SMSs show up in my mail client as I'd expect.
No disagreement here on the intention and the possible outcome, only the timing. They needed competent management *and* those coders, and to have started sooner.
Difficult to see how it could have been worse... Atleast they got out with the rest of (non-phone) Nokia surviving and the freedom to manufacture phones again after a short delay, but apart from that it's hard to say how it could have gone worse.
I'm not sure how it could have been much better though, I can't see a good way forward from that position using any of the other options available at the time.
I'm not saying that these things couldn't have ever been successful, but at the point he was brought on iOS was established and Android well on its way to world domination, and at the point Elop joined it was just too late. In theory MS had more resources to throw - in practice they didn't of course, but at the time there were other Windows Phone manufacturers and it was more likely to succeed than Meego, that didn't even exist yet, atleast. They might have survived as an Android manufacturer, but ask Sony or HTC how much money there is in that business... They should have moved 2 years earlier, but didn't and sealed their fate.
and it runs Android apps just fine, thank you very much.
Not generally considered a good sign if you have to be 'compatible' with another ecosystem. N808 was still based off Symbian which is almost completely impenetrable to app developers - by the time Meego etc were coming it out it was too late, they were to far behind.
Nokia was dead already, their incompetent board had ensured that by not moving when the clear threat of Android and iOS emerged. At the point Elop joined they really had only two options: take a punt on Windows (which had a chance of working) or slip into certain irrelevance with their own operating system that was too late, or become yet another Android manufacturer.
It's popular to blame the whole thing on Elop, but it was the board of Nokia in the previous years that put the company in the dire situation where it needed something drastic.
Are there actually THAT many people that HAVE to see it on release day.....and can't wait for a later, more convenient day, or maybe just do like I do...and wait for it to come out on BLuRay...rent and watch in the comfort of their own home...?
Sure, why not? I can see friends getting together, it's not particularly expensive split between 4. I don't usually go to the cinema at opening, but it was super exciting to see Star Wars at the first midnight showing.
And obviously there's value in seeing a film at the same time as general culture, we are social creatures and seeing something while the world is experiencing something is being part of the world around you. Waiting months for DVD means you don't get to have any conversations about the film with friends, have to avoid spoilers in media or opinion pieces about the film...
Microsoft has, willingly or unwillingly as been a government "partner" since Windows 7 (perhaps earlier).
That or the impending catastrophic failure of the Bitcoin experiment... Perhaps they don't want to be caught up when the value collapses or the technical system breaks, both of which seem on the horizon.
Hey Buddy, I'd like to buy your software with my bitcoins, but the smallest coin I have is $413USD.... How the hell do you make change with the smallest integer amount of a bit coin is $413.16???? That is the problem with bitcoins... they can't be subdivided and there just aren't enough of them for each person on earth to have even ONE.
I mean there are so many flaws in the Bitcoin concept you really don't have to make new ones up that are obviously false...
Sure but the gold standard did not prevent economic crashes, eg in the 30s, and coming off the standard at that time helped. And there's a need to change the amount in circulation up and down to match what's going on in the economy.
As an aside, I rather think that using the vast quantities of energy to keep mining is a bad use of resources. At a time we're trying to be more efficient, creating a system that deliberately inefficient seems is dumb.
What's the differene between building a mine and the European Central Bank's current policy?
Fiat inflation - you heard it here first.
Control. The amount of mineable gold isn't particularly controllable, and the need to affect the amount of money in circulation is a constant effort. eg, when Quantitative Easing was introduced to increase the money supply and ease the recession, that is easy to do with fiat. Also, in the future that money will be removed from the system in the same way to prevent inflation.
Gold is great until you need more of it, which you always do, because economies grow (all being well) and extra money is needed to support that. The other problem would be getting too much of it too quickly (ie building a mine) and ending up with a glut inflation. Fiat currencies are the only way to have a quantity of money that matches the size of the economy. I know we all want to believe that there's some quantity of precious metal somewhere that backs our cash, it's comforting, but real economies don't work well like that.
Oh riiiight. So they can't be bothered to continue current support even though it means NO EFFORT on their part.
You've just contradicted yourself in the same sentence. Support == effort. If you had done any client-side development you'd know that this stuff isn't free, and eventually you need to stem the tide of variation.
1. One (or maybe two) person needs to notice this type of crime to reverse all the charges. Once they;ve identified a dodgy actor the whole account is stopped. 2. If the amount is so small that you dont notice chances are you're not on the edge 3. It takes one phone call and the charge is immediately reversed. 4. The amount you can take contactless is limited to relatively small, I think it's less than £20. 5. (most importantly) This system is already in widespread use. You're not critiquing a probable future disaster, you're decideing something is broken that already is in use by millions of people for years, and *is not showing the problems that you imagine*.
None of your concerns are wrong exactly, but they're all already mitigated in practise.
Banks, store owners, governments... pretty much anybody who isn't on the paying end of RFID.
Count of hands... who here did NOT see this coming?
The bank / store owners eat the payment errors, not the user. If they think it's a good idea and will take the risk then presumably they think it is secure enough.
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Also, what happens when the battery runs down. I still have to carry my cards because I can't be left reliant on a working phone for buying anything / getting home.
Still no wireless charging support, and still not waterproof? WTF, Apple?!?
Less space than a nomad, too. Lame.
Apple seems to be stuck in a rut - the products are all very similar in functionality. Form factor seems to be the only significant difference.
They are a bit like the auto industry at this point.
At this point, is this a bad thing? Stability in platform is good after a while, it gives us a chance to refine.
"I did an optional software upgrade to my nearly 5 year old phone and now it's very slow. I could have read reviews of the update, weighed the added features, new security model, etc with the performance degradation. But I didn't, I upgraded and now whine about it constantly online."
It's not optional. Because most people do upgrade, app developers set their minimum version to the latest and after not very long you can't use your apps anymore because the old versions are being blocked at the server. You cannot realistically resist. This is an actual problem with the iPhone ecosystem, and it's great for Apple because it keeps the hardware upgrades rolling in.
I was also thinking that all his suggestions sound like the classic old double decker buses of London, werent a main issue(beside the buses getting old) of why they were replaced that so many people got hurt(especially when you had been out drinking) when hopping in and out of them
Is that why there are currently hundreds of new Routemaster buses currently running in London? Hard to say that the concept is too dangerous - we have lots of them now and there's been no catastrophe.
Well. That's fine if you're able bodied but what if you're in a wheelchair, have a pushchair, a disability, carrying heavy shopping? Public transport means all the public not just the ones able to nimbly hop from moving platform to moving platform.
1. the bus driver is a human being with all sorts of ability to make judgements about the fragility of the passengers, and when he might think it's a good idea to wait a bit longer before driving off.
2. This is already a thing: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multi... (yes that is a new bus design and they drive with the back doors open). You have to make your own judgement whether to jump on or off, or you can just wait until the stop. And they're *much* more convenient, every traffic jam / light becomes a busstop.
Huh? SMS Backup+ works fine with any IMAP server. I'm using it with my own server and have not had any problems. All of my SMSs show up in my mail client as I'd expect.
Oh - my mistake!
I've always used the SMS Backup+ from f-droid to manage SMS/MMS.
I use that too, it's great. Though no good if you're avoiding Google's servers (like the original poster)
No disagreement here on the intention and the possible outcome, only the timing. They needed competent management *and* those coders, and to have started sooner.
Difficult to see how it could have been worse... Atleast they got out with the rest of (non-phone) Nokia surviving and the freedom to manufacture phones again after a short delay, but apart from that it's hard to say how it could have gone worse.
I'm not sure how it could have been much better though, I can't see a good way forward from that position using any of the other options available at the time.
I think you need to learn how to count.
Oh, you're so fucking clever!
I'm not saying that these things couldn't have ever been successful, but at the point he was brought on iOS was established and Android well on its way to world domination, and at the point Elop joined it was just too late. In theory MS had more resources to throw - in practice they didn't of course, but at the time there were other Windows Phone manufacturers and it was more likely to succeed than Meego, that didn't even exist yet, atleast. They might have survived as an Android manufacturer, but ask Sony or HTC how much money there is in that business... They should have moved 2 years earlier, but didn't and sealed their fate.
and it runs Android apps just fine, thank you very much.
Not generally considered a good sign if you have to be 'compatible' with another ecosystem. N808 was still based off Symbian which is almost completely impenetrable to app developers - by the time Meego etc were coming it out it was too late, they were to far behind.
Nokia was dead already, their incompetent board had ensured that by not moving when the clear threat of Android and iOS emerged. At the point Elop joined they really had only two options: take a punt on Windows (which had a chance of working) or slip into certain irrelevance with their own operating system that was too late, or become yet another Android manufacturer.
It's popular to blame the whole thing on Elop, but it was the board of Nokia in the previous years that put the company in the dire situation where it needed something drastic.
http://mynokiablog.com/2015/06...
Are there actually THAT many people that HAVE to see it on release day.....and can't wait for a later, more convenient day, or maybe just do like I do...and wait for it to come out on BLuRay...rent and watch in the comfort of their own home...?
Sure, why not? I can see friends getting together, it's not particularly expensive split between 4. I don't usually go to the cinema at opening, but it was super exciting to see Star Wars at the first midnight showing.
And obviously there's value in seeing a film at the same time as general culture, we are social creatures and seeing something while the world is experiencing something is being part of the world around you. Waiting months for DVD means you don't get to have any conversations about the film with friends, have to avoid spoilers in media or opinion pieces about the film...
Microsoft has, willingly or unwillingly as been a government "partner" since Windows 7 (perhaps earlier).
That or the impending catastrophic failure of the Bitcoin experiment... Perhaps they don't want to be caught up when the value collapses or the technical system breaks, both of which seem on the horizon.
Hey Buddy, I'd like to buy your software with my bitcoins, but the smallest coin I have is $413USD.... How the hell do you make change with the smallest integer amount of a bit coin is $413.16???? That is the problem with bitcoins... they can't be subdivided and there just aren't enough of them for each person on earth to have even ONE.
I mean there are so many flaws in the Bitcoin concept you really don't have to make new ones up that are obviously false...
16.04 is about to be released. Why not using it instead of 14.04?
Because it is not, in actual fact, released.
Sure but the gold standard did not prevent economic crashes, eg in the 30s, and coming off the standard at that time helped. And there's a need to change the amount in circulation up and down to match what's going on in the economy.
As an aside, I rather think that using the vast quantities of energy to keep mining is a bad use of resources. At a time we're trying to be more efficient, creating a system that deliberately inefficient seems is dumb.
What's the differene between building a mine and the European Central Bank's current policy?
Fiat inflation - you heard it here first.
Control. The amount of mineable gold isn't particularly controllable, and the need to affect the amount of money in circulation is a constant effort. eg, when Quantitative Easing was introduced to increase the money supply and ease the recession, that is easy to do with fiat. Also, in the future that money will be removed from the system in the same way to prevent inflation.
Try doing that with bars of gold.
I don't need any of your fiat currency .
Gold is great until you need more of it, which you always do, because economies grow (all being well) and extra money is needed to support that. The other problem would be getting too much of it too quickly (ie building a mine) and ending up with a glut inflation. Fiat currencies are the only way to have a quantity of money that matches the size of the economy. I know we all want to believe that there's some quantity of precious metal somewhere that backs our cash, it's comforting, but real economies don't work well like that.
Oh riiiight. So they can't be bothered to continue current support even though it means NO EFFORT on their part.
You've just contradicted yourself in the same sentence. Support == effort. If you had done any client-side development you'd know that this stuff isn't free, and eventually you need to stem the tide of variation.
I found something better: http://www.dx.com/p/gl-inet-wi...
Dual Ethernet. $22. OpenWRT. I like the PI, but it needs better networking options.
Does that have GPIO pins? An active helpful user community? Hell, even the ability to connect to some form of video out? No? Well then.
Yeah, this is why it's the stupidest fraud possible. It *will* get noticed and the person is easy to track down.
1. One (or maybe two) person needs to notice this type of crime to reverse all the charges. Once they;ve identified a dodgy actor the whole account is stopped.
2. If the amount is so small that you dont notice chances are you're not on the edge
3. It takes one phone call and the charge is immediately reversed.
4. The amount you can take contactless is limited to relatively small, I think it's less than £20.
5. (most importantly) This system is already in widespread use. You're not critiquing a probable future disaster, you're decideing something is broken that already is in use by millions of people for years, and *is not showing the problems that you imagine*.
None of your concerns are wrong exactly, but they're all already mitigated in practise.
Banks, store owners, governments... pretty much anybody who isn't on the paying end of RFID.
Count of hands... who here did NOT see this coming?
The bank / store owners eat the payment errors, not the user. If they think it's a good idea and will take the risk then presumably they think it is secure enough.