When the Wii began offering SNES games, nobody called it a "SNES emulator." This is exactly what PS4 is doing, they're adding PS2 games onto the marketplace for PS4 (which may or may not be using an emulator, who knows/cares). But you cannot insert PS2 discs and expect it to work.
Slashdot is notoriously against changes in UI/UX. Look at all the hate against almost *every* modern UI in all comments.
And before you give me the "Metro is shit! Flat icons are shit! Fuck Unity!" arguments, show me *one* place where the general Slashdot consensus on a updated UI/UX (within the last 5 years) was actually positive and then I'll listen, because there aren't any. It's all "how do I make it look like Windows 2000?", and "why do you keep changing things to make it look better?"
And people wonder why Linux (mostly) looks like ass, and why Firefox has a button for every single small thing (and became the monster it is).
Uh, isn't the weight the plane + fuel + baggage + passengers? 3 of those are clearly easily gathered (fuel, plane, baggage) automatically. Only the 'passengers' part isn't, but I'm assuming they just use averages (they don't weight us when we get on) via # of people * average weight.
So yea, why the fuck isn't this automatically calculated and prepared? What part of this requires a human who is bad at math and able to make mistakes on simple data input?
I think you're probably right. I think the real reason is just maintainability. I think by reducing the code, it will make it easier to maintain as well as try to find performance gains in general. Technically they can find it without removing the code, but it's much easier with a smaller code base. I'm also assuming their funding / team size has decreased in the recent years (I have no idea if it did), and this might be related?
At the very least, it's a good way to get morale of developers up when you start removing what is considered "legacy" or "bloated" code, regardless of whether people use it a lot or not. It's rewarding to clean it up and makes them think of new things too.
As for Firefox's trade-off between complexity and usability, I don't really agree with your opinion here. I find Firefox very difficult to use these days, and their debugger console is a total mess (especially when it was Firebug before, and now it isn't) especially when you compare it to Chrome's.
They're in a shitty spot. Their once very-fast-market-dominating browser has become very slow in recent years, and lost a lot of reputation with non-technical people.
So what can they do, leave the browser (and their ever declining market share) as-is, and have a slow (but very customizable) browser, or start cutting out features to try and create a more manageable product which is hopefully also faster to try and compete with Chrome.
This entire situation is a really good example of what exactly the trade-off is between features, and experience. Apple, as a company, leans very much towards experience and thus their products (iOS is a good example) are much more controlled. Android goes in the opposite direction, but at a cost. Mozilla went to the very far extreme, putting in every feature everyone wanted, and the result is this.
There's a balance, but striking that balance now won't help Firefox differentiate themselves (as you've noted), it will just be a me-too product. So what can they do? I don't know.
So my previous post about how this won't work is actually wrong. I've been on the actual twitch channel, and the instructions are as follows:
Instructions
Avaliable commands:
Letters
Most special keys
'space'
'enter'
'backspace'
'system_reset'
So how it actually works is that everyone types 1 letter (or I suppose it takes the first letter you've typed) and it uses that. So to type 'sudo rm -rf/' it would require people to type those exact letters in that sequence. Considering there will probably be many people there at once, some of whom don't want that typed, it will be significantly harder to troll.
No, but the pokedex being filled out is one of the requirements to "beating" Twitch plays Pokemon. If you release the Pokemon, your Pokedex still stays intact, which is not the case with rm -rf/. While it may inhibit them from beating the Elite 4 in the interim, they can always go catch more, which I suppose is sort of akin to rm -rf / except that you don't lose your experience and current place in the quests and such.
Yes, there is no way this is going to work. The reason Twitch plays Pokemon is so popular is because one person can't really mess it up. Sure, there were hours of Ash being stuck in the wall because everyone was saying go in the wrong direction, but that's totally different than deleting the entire pokedex (which would be equivalent to sudo rm -rf) and having to start completely over.
I tend to agree. What bothers me about 6.0 (I have a Nexus 5 with it) is that doze often will also stop notifications from other apps that check data, such as Whatsapp or BBM. It doesn't always happen, but often enough that when I unlock it I'll end up getting maybe 10 notifications that were all waiting.
So while I do appreciate Google's attempt to solve battery issues with 'doze', I feel like they should instead just concentrate on fixing the issue in a more general way instead of just "let's shut down everything if you aren't touching your phone." Google play services causes a lot of wake-locks, especially with Bluetooth and WiFi, as one very simple example.
That's the price of the openness. You support fragmentation in Linux distros, but hate the fragmentation in Android distros? It's the same thing, and you're free to wipe and root your tablet and install your own version.
That being said, this is about Google's Nexus devices, which are vanilla and have a perfect track record of getting updates.
Daily battery life was nothing short of astounding and ranks among the best any modern smartphone can offer. The larger battery certainly helps and it’s likely that optimizations within Android 6.0 Marshmallow are doing quite a bit of work here too. I was able to get over 6 and a half hours of screen on time here with normal web browsing, chatting and video watching during a full day. This is among the best battery life you’ll find on any smartphone regardless of the specs, you’re looking at something truly magical here.
Second, as discussed extensively on reddit, it's way too early to draw any conclusions about the battery. Nobody has had the phone for more than a few days.
I'd love these California dwelling CEOs to come up to Canada (or even, *gasp* Buffalo) in the middle of February and see how their "self-driving" cars do. Winter is a 6 month reality here and I'm not very interested in a "self-driving" car that works or less than half the year.
There are both good and bad things about the new Nexus 5X.
Good things: improved CPU/GPU, good camera (but no OIS, although they say they can't because it's 1.55um pixels), good battery, fingerprint reader, USB type-C.
Okay things: similar screen, same amount of RAM, same amount of storage (I assume hatred for 16gb), no SD storage as before.
Negative things: no OIS (as above), no wireless charging (a deal breaker, for many).
Overall seems like a pretty decent device given the price, but there is room they could have improved.
From the comments it's clear that people think this is a terrible idea, and on a somewhat pro-Linux site that's to be expected. But it should be noted that this kit was way more popular than Adafruit though and they sold out rather quickly with people still asking for it.
It may just be that some people like coding against Windows and are more comfortable with it than Linux.
I disagree, I think it's a very smart idea. Regardless of whether QNX is superior or not technically, it no longer matters. They've lost because people want to use what is popular (and has apps), and Android and iOS are it.
If they can take Android, which is open source, and create their own fork of it which is proven to be much more secure yet can still use the Android app eco-system, it could very well be a big hit when combined with good QWERTY phones.
As such, I agree with the OP, they should have done it a long time ago, and I think it's too late now.
DISCLAIMER: I've had a BB Z10 and Q10 since they came out, and love the keyboard, but I also have a Nexus 5 which I use almost exclusively because of all the problems I have with the BB phones.
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If they're going to test it properly, they should take a phone from 10 years ago as-is and try to use it on today's networks.
Because chances are, as many have pointed out, a big problem is congestion and the cell phone companies screwing us, not the device itself.
Me neither. Looks like we've all eaten GMO crops OMGZ.
Give me a fucking break.
When the Wii began offering SNES games, nobody called it a "SNES emulator." This is exactly what PS4 is doing, they're adding PS2 games onto the marketplace for PS4 (which may or may not be using an emulator, who knows/cares). But you cannot insert PS2 discs and expect it to work.
Slashdot is notoriously against changes in UI/UX. Look at all the hate against almost *every* modern UI in all comments.
And before you give me the "Metro is shit! Flat icons are shit! Fuck Unity!" arguments, show me *one* place where the general Slashdot consensus on a updated UI/UX (within the last 5 years) was actually positive and then I'll listen, because there aren't any. It's all "how do I make it look like Windows 2000?", and "why do you keep changing things to make it look better?"
And people wonder why Linux (mostly) looks like ass, and why Firefox has a button for every single small thing (and became the monster it is).
There's these magical boxes they sell in stores, they call them "weigh scales." Now, I know your fat-ass has never used one before, but they do exist.
Uh, isn't the weight the plane + fuel + baggage + passengers? 3 of those are clearly easily gathered (fuel, plane, baggage) automatically. Only the 'passengers' part isn't, but I'm assuming they just use averages (they don't weight us when we get on) via # of people * average weight.
So yea, why the fuck isn't this automatically calculated and prepared? What part of this requires a human who is bad at math and able to make mistakes on simple data input?
I think you're probably right. I think the real reason is just maintainability. I think by reducing the code, it will make it easier to maintain as well as try to find performance gains in general. Technically they can find it without removing the code, but it's much easier with a smaller code base. I'm also assuming their funding / team size has decreased in the recent years (I have no idea if it did), and this might be related?
At the very least, it's a good way to get morale of developers up when you start removing what is considered "legacy" or "bloated" code, regardless of whether people use it a lot or not. It's rewarding to clean it up and makes them think of new things too.
As for Firefox's trade-off between complexity and usability, I don't really agree with your opinion here. I find Firefox very difficult to use these days, and their debugger console is a total mess (especially when it was Firebug before, and now it isn't) especially when you compare it to Chrome's.
They're in a shitty spot. Their once very-fast-market-dominating browser has become very slow in recent years, and lost a lot of reputation with non-technical people.
So what can they do, leave the browser (and their ever declining market share) as-is, and have a slow (but very customizable) browser, or start cutting out features to try and create a more manageable product which is hopefully also faster to try and compete with Chrome.
This entire situation is a really good example of what exactly the trade-off is between features, and experience. Apple, as a company, leans very much towards experience and thus their products (iOS is a good example) are much more controlled. Android goes in the opposite direction, but at a cost. Mozilla went to the very far extreme, putting in every feature everyone wanted, and the result is this.
There's a balance, but striking that balance now won't help Firefox differentiate themselves (as you've noted), it will just be a me-too product. So what can they do? I don't know.
A perfect product never ships.
New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 to their online subscription based service only.
Marketing. It's working.
So my previous post about how this won't work is actually wrong. I've been on the actual twitch channel, and the instructions are as follows:
Instructions
Avaliable commands:
So how it actually works is that everyone types 1 letter (or I suppose it takes the first letter you've typed) and it uses that. So to type 'sudo rm -rf /' it would require people to type those exact letters in that sequence. Considering there will probably be many people there at once, some of whom don't want that typed, it will be significantly harder to troll.
No, but the pokedex being filled out is one of the requirements to "beating" Twitch plays Pokemon. If you release the Pokemon, your Pokedex still stays intact, which is not the case with rm -rf /. While it may inhibit them from beating the Elite 4 in the interim, they can always go catch more, which I suppose is sort of akin to rm -rf / except that you don't lose your experience and current place in the quests and such.
Yes, there is no way this is going to work. The reason Twitch plays Pokemon is so popular is because one person can't really mess it up. Sure, there were hours of Ash being stuck in the wall because everyone was saying go in the wrong direction, but that's totally different than deleting the entire pokedex (which would be equivalent to sudo rm -rf) and having to start completely over.
I agree. But Google doesn't seem to want to admit this, or deal with it.
I tend to agree. What bothers me about 6.0 (I have a Nexus 5 with it) is that doze often will also stop notifications from other apps that check data, such as Whatsapp or BBM. It doesn't always happen, but often enough that when I unlock it I'll end up getting maybe 10 notifications that were all waiting.
So while I do appreciate Google's attempt to solve battery issues with 'doze', I feel like they should instead just concentrate on fixing the issue in a more general way instead of just "let's shut down everything if you aren't touching your phone." Google play services causes a lot of wake-locks, especially with Bluetooth and WiFi, as one very simple example.
That's the price of the openness. You support fragmentation in Linux distros, but hate the fragmentation in Android distros? It's the same thing, and you're free to wipe and root your tablet and install your own version.
That being said, this is about Google's Nexus devices, which are vanilla and have a perfect track record of getting updates.
First, the actual comment from TFA was:
Daily battery life was nothing short of astounding and ranks among the best any modern smartphone can offer. The larger battery certainly helps and it’s likely that optimizations within Android 6.0 Marshmallow are doing quite a bit of work here too. I was able to get over 6 and a half hours of screen on time here with normal web browsing, chatting and video watching during a full day. This is among the best battery life you’ll find on any smartphone regardless of the specs, you’re looking at something truly magical here.
Second, as discussed extensively on reddit, it's way too early to draw any conclusions about the battery. Nobody has had the phone for more than a few days.
Doesn't that directly contradict "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
"Pretty fucking hard."
I'd love these California dwelling CEOs to come up to Canada (or even, *gasp* Buffalo) in the middle of February and see how their "self-driving" cars do. Winter is a 6 month reality here and I'm not very interested in a "self-driving" car that works or less than half the year.
There are both good and bad things about the new Nexus 5X.
Good things: improved CPU/GPU, good camera (but no OIS, although they say they can't because it's 1.55um pixels), good battery, fingerprint reader, USB type-C.
Okay things: similar screen, same amount of RAM, same amount of storage (I assume hatred for 16gb), no SD storage as before.
Negative things: no OIS (as above), no wireless charging (a deal breaker, for many).
Overall seems like a pretty decent device given the price, but there is room they could have improved.
From the comments it's clear that people think this is a terrible idea, and on a somewhat pro-Linux site that's to be expected. But it should be noted that this kit was way more popular than Adafruit though and they sold out rather quickly with people still asking for it.
It may just be that some people like coding against Windows and are more comfortable with it than Linux.
I disagree, I think it's a very smart idea. Regardless of whether QNX is superior or not technically, it no longer matters. They've lost because people want to use what is popular (and has apps), and Android and iOS are it.
If they can take Android, which is open source, and create their own fork of it which is proven to be much more secure yet can still use the Android app eco-system, it could very well be a big hit when combined with good QWERTY phones.
As such, I agree with the OP, they should have done it a long time ago, and I think it's too late now.
DISCLAIMER: I've had a BB Z10 and Q10 since they came out, and love the keyboard, but I also have a Nexus 5 which I use almost exclusively because of all the problems I have with the BB phones.
Are you sure the new IPs weren't found in some oil, maybe buried under the ground in the middle east? The US could liberate them, along with the oil.