Don't have the ability to understand how to encrypt your emails and want someone to manage it for you because technology is all so hard but you still want to use it? Suck it up and learn, or pay someone to do it for you and stop whining about your own ignorance.
So as far as your concerned, the right to privacy only exists for those technical enough to defend themselves? Fuck everyone else, right? The swathes of the population that aren't programmers / IT professionals that quite reasonably have no idea how to do something that is still niche & a pain in the arse even for those who do understand it, they don't matter?
Different tools for different jobs. It's a peculiarity of computing that we seem to believe that there is only one way to do things, and that all tasks must be handled by the same solution. Oh no, desktops have dropped to 4th place, clearly we can extrapolate that they will be nonexistant soon! Sometimes things are obsoleted, sometimes they are added to. There's a bunch of tasks where the lack of hover or multi-button, or the lack of accuracy of a touchscreen is a significant disadvantage.
It would be refreshing if we didn't always try to use a hammer when sometimes you need a screwdriver.
That's a very narrow niche app for a desktop, non-touchscreen computer,
Systems without a touchscreen or a digitizer shouldn't exist.
Wait, what? I feel like I must be misunderstanding, but why the hell shouldn't a non-touchscreen computer exist? How suddenly did the mouse&keyboard become such inferior tech... I think I have never seen a touchscreen laptop used practically. A tablet is one thing, the device is already in your hands. A device with a raised screen and dedicated input devices, the touchscreen is at best an option and at worst a distracting pain to interact with.
Hollow out Nokia until its just a shell valuable only for its IP, transfer everything else worth keeping into Microsoft proper and discard the rest. Wouldn't be surprised if the "Nokia" brand gets sold onto to some Asian / Indian outfit in a few years hence.
They only bought the phone business, not the name and not the IP. They have a licence for them for a while, but certainly not something they can actually sell.
Code recycling is one thing, but not understanding what that code does when you put it into a production app or not following best practices is another.
No developer completely understands everything that happens on a system, that's impossible. You do your best and you verify as well as you can that it's acting as you expect. Because where else do you stop..? You can't verify every library that you use, otherwise why bother using them, you might as well write your own. You can't verify the system itself because it's far too big.
Not that I'm saying things couldn't be written better, but programming is not a "correct / incorrect" binary choice, any nontrivial system has problems.
One of the consequences is that men are extremely sensitive to being criticized by women
This is something that is simply not true of all men so why make statements like that? Do you really expect people to actively defend your cause if you are openly hostile to them just because of they are of the same gender as the people you have a problem with? That's a terrible start to conflict resolution.
Disagree, at least from the points you make. The "best" format is the one that is the most useful to you, technical reasons be damned. If I use ODF but no-one else does because MS Office doesn't properly support it, I'm crippling my ability to share documents around purely for ideological reasons.
Well since the entire cabinet is now using it, they all use it, so it will be appropriate for sharing.
If any refuse you again then take their number and report them. They are obliged by their licence to take you anywhere less than 12 miles if they stop for you.
But what of it?. Does it offend you that some people prefer a more economical device? That not everyone feels spending $700 a year on a phone is a priority?
It's a weird compulsion to have their tribe be first. The reason I always find most amusing is "Apple make all the profit from smartphones", like that's a positive thing. It's like, er, guys, you know they are making all that profit from *you*? That if they make so much money it suggests their product is overpriced?
Considering how many Android users tend to be the "build your own PC" crowd who are hardcore gadget people, the specs bloat appeals to them.
Oh... bullshit. There were almost 6 times as many Android devices sold last quarter than iOS. How are we still propagating the "Android is for geeks" line?
Meanwhile, Apple is selling a smartphone with a tiny less-than-HD screen, a processor that toddles along at a whisker over 1 GHz and a tiny 1400 MaH battery, and they're doing quite nicely for themselves.
Depends on how you look at it, in the States yes, but worldwide no, and Apple are rather in danger of getting left behind when horesepower does matter. Android isn't standing still, optimisations like ART may well give another speed bump. Apple make nice devices, but they're not immune to performance, and that'll get acknowledged eventually in the same way that we were told for years how the Power architecture was just as good as x86... until they switched.
So the extreme wings of Christianity has groups like the KKK, and you very much should fear them if you're Jewish. By your logic any Christian should be also feared.
Do you think the streets of France are awash with Muslim-on-Christian violence?
You know something. If I changed religion my race would be the same. If I became a communist or a tea party member I would still be the same race. Difficult concept I know.
Fine, brilliant, I used the wrong word. Replace with "islamophobia", "prejudice" or "bigotry". Pick your favourite. They all come from the same place of ignorance & tribalism.
Just ignoring your random racism for a moment, just because there's a *request* does not mean it will be honoured. The balance between public right to know and your privacy is still involved, and ultimately it's the Information Commissioner that gets to decide.
Yeah, and I agree that way round would be awesome, but these devices don't run on magic. If you want that sort of core functionality on your wrist then you are talking about a large heavy device to hold enough battery to make sense. Cellphone functionality is power hungry, and that's the thing the watch doesn't have.
Yes yes very good. How's being clever going for you?
Since that this "tracking bracelet" requires a GPS from the phone you're carrying and the network connection from the phone your're carrying... it's of course nothing to do with a dumb screen on your wrist.
Not really sure why you seem to think that proof needs to be from the doubters. The Kickstarter are asking for money on trust, so it's up to them to provide a decent argument as to why they are genuine, not the other way round.
I'm not sure this is a change in permissions so much as a change in how they are displayed. I'm a developer and there's been no change for *us*, the separate permissions are still necessary. They have grouped them presumably to make them easier to understand for the end-user.
and you can get 'pong' pretty much everywhere. Same with 'Tetris'
*Sigh*. Yes. Simple games that are easy to replicate. My point is that old games are still wanted, and in demand. Obviously I have no 30 year old games with complicated mechanics and huge numbers of art assets to use as examples, but in 30 years we will have those and no amount of technology is going to make those things easily replicatable.
And I'm glad they've thought about this. Though how much we can believe that will happen in the carcrash that is typical for a collapsing business, it's harder to say. How will they distribute the updates if all the assets are seized? Who will do the work necessary on their back catalogue of 1000s if the employees aren't paid and have left?
I quite like pong. It's a good party game. And we still watch old films... games are at a stage now that we can consider them legitimate, lasting pieces of entertainment, I have no doubt that they are starting to solidify. Tetris is 30 years old, it's still fun.
I doubt it. Missing recordings cannot be recovered from. DRM can be cracked, generally trivially.
I wouldn't be so blase. Perhaps right now, but not always. And just because DRM can be hacked, doesn't mean it has been hacked for the thing that you want. *And* I don't see a widespread failure in Steam DRM, so why would we assume that it can be cracked so trivially?
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Don't have the ability to understand how to encrypt your emails and want someone to manage it for you because technology is all so hard but you still want to use it? Suck it up and learn, or pay someone to do it for you and stop whining about your own ignorance.
So as far as your concerned, the right to privacy only exists for those technical enough to defend themselves? Fuck everyone else, right? The swathes of the population that aren't programmers / IT professionals that quite reasonably have no idea how to do something that is still niche & a pain in the arse even for those who do understand it, they don't matter?
Different tools for different jobs. It's a peculiarity of computing that we seem to believe that there is only one way to do things, and that all tasks must be handled by the same solution. Oh no, desktops have dropped to 4th place, clearly we can extrapolate that they will be nonexistant soon! Sometimes things are obsoleted, sometimes they are added to. There's a bunch of tasks where the lack of hover or multi-button, or the lack of accuracy of a touchscreen is a significant disadvantage.
It would be refreshing if we didn't always try to use a hammer when sometimes you need a screwdriver.
Systems without a touchscreen or a digitizer shouldn't exist.
Wait, what? I feel like I must be misunderstanding, but why the hell shouldn't a non-touchscreen computer exist? How suddenly did the mouse&keyboard become such inferior tech... I think I have never seen a touchscreen laptop used practically. A tablet is one thing, the device is already in your hands. A device with a raised screen and dedicated input devices, the touchscreen is at best an option and at worst a distracting pain to interact with.
Yeah, me too. Currently using Todo.txt for Android, which is alright, while writing my own based on the Palm staple...
Well that depends on what they bought. Google bought the patents and the name. Microsoft did not.
Hollow out Nokia until its just a shell valuable only for its IP, transfer everything else worth keeping into Microsoft proper and discard the rest. Wouldn't be surprised if the "Nokia" brand gets sold onto to some Asian / Indian outfit in a few years hence.
They only bought the phone business, not the name and not the IP. They have a licence for them for a while, but certainly not something they can actually sell.
Code recycling is one thing, but not understanding what that code does when you put it into a production app or not following best practices is another.
No developer completely understands everything that happens on a system, that's impossible. You do your best and you verify as well as you can that it's acting as you expect. Because where else do you stop..? You can't verify every library that you use, otherwise why bother using them, you might as well write your own. You can't verify the system itself because it's far too big.
Not that I'm saying things couldn't be written better, but programming is not a "correct / incorrect" binary choice, any nontrivial system has problems.
One of the consequences is that men are extremely sensitive to being criticized by women
This is something that is simply not true of all men so why make statements like that? Do you really expect people to actively defend your cause if you are openly hostile to them just because of they are of the same gender as the people you have a problem with? That's a terrible start to conflict resolution.
Genius comment. I salute you.
Disagree, at least from the points you make. The "best" format is the one that is the most useful to you, technical reasons be damned. If I use ODF but no-one else does because MS Office doesn't properly support it, I'm crippling my ability to share documents around purely for ideological reasons.
Well since the entire cabinet is now using it, they all use it, so it will be appropriate for sharing.
If any refuse you again then take their number and report them. They are obliged by their licence to take you anywhere less than 12 miles if they stop for you.
But what of it?. Does it offend you that some people prefer a more economical device? That not everyone feels spending $700 a year on a phone is a priority?
It's a weird compulsion to have their tribe be first. The reason I always find most amusing is "Apple make all the profit from smartphones", like that's a positive thing. It's like, er, guys, you know they are making all that profit from *you*? That if they make so much money it suggests their product is overpriced?
Considering how many Android users tend to be the "build your own PC" crowd who are hardcore gadget people, the specs bloat appeals to them.
Oh... bullshit. There were almost 6 times as many Android devices sold last quarter than iOS. How are we still propagating the "Android is for geeks" line?
Meanwhile, Apple is selling a smartphone with a tiny less-than-HD screen, a processor that toddles along at a whisker over 1 GHz and a tiny 1400 MaH battery, and they're doing quite nicely for themselves.
Depends on how you look at it, in the States yes, but worldwide no, and Apple are rather in danger of getting left behind when horesepower does matter. Android isn't standing still, optimisations like ART may well give another speed bump. Apple make nice devices, but they're not immune to performance, and that'll get acknowledged eventually in the same way that we were told for years how the Power architecture was just as good as x86... until they switched.
So the extreme wings of Christianity has groups like the KKK, and you very much should fear them if you're Jewish. By your logic any Christian should be also feared.
Do you think the streets of France are awash with Muslim-on-Christian violence?
You know something. If I changed religion my race would be the same. If I became a communist or a tea party member I would still be the same race. Difficult concept I know.
Fine, brilliant, I used the wrong word. Replace with "islamophobia", "prejudice" or "bigotry". Pick your favourite. They all come from the same place of ignorance & tribalism.
a lot of the requests
Just ignoring your random racism for a moment, just because there's a *request* does not mean it will be honoured. The balance between public right to know and your privacy is still involved, and ultimately it's the Information Commissioner that gets to decide.
Yeah, and I agree that way round would be awesome, but these devices don't run on magic. If you want that sort of core functionality on your wrist then you are talking about a large heavy device to hold enough battery to make sense. Cellphone functionality is power hungry, and that's the thing the watch doesn't have.
Yes yes very good. How's being clever going for you?
Since that this "tracking bracelet" requires a GPS from the phone you're carrying and the network connection from the phone your're carrying... it's of course nothing to do with a dumb screen on your wrist.
Not really sure why you seem to think that proof needs to be from the doubters. The Kickstarter are asking for money on trust, so it's up to them to provide a decent argument as to why they are genuine, not the other way round.
I'm not sure this is a change in permissions so much as a change in how they are displayed. I'm a developer and there's been no change for *us*, the separate permissions are still necessary. They have grouped them presumably to make them easier to understand for the end-user.
and you can get 'pong' pretty much everywhere. Same with 'Tetris'
*Sigh*. Yes. Simple games that are easy to replicate. My point is that old games are still wanted, and in demand. Obviously I have no 30 year old games with complicated mechanics and huge numbers of art assets to use as examples, but in 30 years we will have those and no amount of technology is going to make those things easily replicatable.
And I'm glad they've thought about this. Though how much we can believe that will happen in the carcrash that is typical for a collapsing business, it's harder to say. How will they distribute the updates if all the assets are seized? Who will do the work necessary on their back catalogue of 1000s if the employees aren't paid and have left?
I quite like pong. It's a good party game. And we still watch old films... games are at a stage now that we can consider them legitimate, lasting pieces of entertainment, I have no doubt that they are starting to solidify. Tetris is 30 years old, it's still fun.
Ah, well if an AC says it wasn't a problem, surely it wasn't...
I doubt it. Missing recordings cannot be recovered from. DRM can be cracked, generally trivially.
I wouldn't be so blase. Perhaps right now, but not always. And just because DRM can be hacked, doesn't mean it has been hacked for the thing that you want. *And* I don't see a widespread failure in Steam DRM, so why would we assume that it can be cracked so trivially?
This sounds like Y2K all over again...
What, that legitimate problem lots of people worked on successfully to avoid before it could have major consequences? Yeah, I agree.