This is probably woefully out of date... back in the 3GS days if you did a backup via itunes, and selected encrypted, as far as I know it created a full image of the phone, apps, random settings, cache files, everything. If that is still around - read somewhere that itunes is going music only - it might work.
What is the point of Qualcomm posting this? If they listed things they themselves "invented" then I can sort of understand, but this is just smells of teenage angst, jealousy, and desperation.
We all know Apple's new chips will spank Qualcomm once again, and this is not how your PR department responds? Sigh.
While I agree with MS that full cross-platform play should be a thing, lets be clear about MS's intentions. They're loosing badly to Sony on console sales, and well, Windows Store is a tiny spec compared to Steam. They weren't making any noise about this last generation when they were much closer (maybe even leading, I haven't kept up with the numbers) in market share.
Kinda like Internet Explorer was just fine as was when it had the market share, but once it started getting dumped by people MS realized that maybe web standards/interoperability were a "thing they should do".
They also know full well that this would be much harder for Sony to pull off than it is for them as Xbox & Win10 share quite a bit. Maybe Valve can ask MS to provide support for all this (and Direct X 12) for older version of Windows before they come on-board.
First you tell me the amazing news that there is free television in the air all around us, I just need this "antenna" thing. Now, I was pleasantly 'surprised to learn that' there is sometimes free television on this youtube thing as well. Golly!
Now I'm all excited for the next 'but wait, there's more!' article. Don't disappoint me/., and please tell me where to send a self addressed and stamped envelope to receive a free brochure and dvd.
There is also a handy dropdown that lists all your tabs. if you remember your tab is just out of view, scroll ove to it. If you know its eay back, or just have no idea, open the dropdown.
IMHO much better to deal with than a half dozen tabs with the same icon, but no idea what the page title is.
What happened, I thought we were all end-of-life curmudgeons, not 15 year olds just entering the workforce.
Every single person ever keeps a "blacklist" of people they will not work with. There are many reasons one could find themselves on said list, many real, many petty. Maybe a person... - were a client that didn't pay up for work done - were a subcontractor that didn't do the work - were constantly going on about their child/dog/cat - drank too much during office hours - smelled - their food smelled - kept going on about something political, no matter the spectrum - you just don't like their face - they stole your lunch money - have an annoyING valley-girl/boy vocAL afflectiON
If you're freelancing, you just don't deal with them. If you're in a team/corporate environment, you avoid them. Welcome to life. Can't wait till you discover that you get free television channels by using an antenna (in most parts of the US). Get off my lawn and all that.
Superbowl commercials have been a *thing* for a long while now. It's been the carrot dangled in front of non-sport watching spouses and friends for a good decade, or two.
My understanding is that, yes, Android does have a mechanism for apps to back their data up (and restore that data to a new device, etc), but it is not a system wide "full" backup of the device. In essence, it's the "nearly" part that is annoying.
I would like both, a full device backup snapshot - the os, the temp files, the apps, etc, and, the app specific backups as well.
So everyone is shitting on Marissa Mayer, but remember she's kept the sinking ship that is Yahoo around many more years than I ever expect it survive. Sure, it should have been put out of it's misery long ago, but to drag it out this long is a feat.
How may of you complaining about her running it to the ground ever used a Yahoo service? In a post-google-search world (aka, not when the alternative was alta vista or ask jeeves)?
I know. Next you'll be telling me people don't like the fact I forward-on any word file I get as a stripped down plain text file. None of that fancy unicode business either, use proper English I say.
This is to me really neat. That a radar based missile system is good enough to track something as small and "low-signature-ish" as a drone.
Disclaimers: a) assuming said "ally" didn't fire off a dozen missiles and finally got lucky b) the drone is a small one, not one of the large flying wing type things.
I completely agree, but the problem is that we only have ourselves to blame. The only "newspapers" making money are the tabloids. Same with online clicks and views, it's the trash people click on. If the majority of people wanted long-form impartial investigative journalism, that is what we'd end up with next to breath-mints at the checkout line.
Collectively, we, are getting exactly what we deserve and want. Does capitalism as an entity want us to consume immaterial garbage, you bet it does, but again, at the end of the day we are collectively bending over and asking for more.
Wow, people still posts these replies? Because, if there is ONE thing windows is known for over the years, it is a complete guarantee of consistency. That what happens on one machine happens on millions of others.
As a counterpoint, my work machine would reset html and pdf file associations back to edge on a weekly basis. Had to edit the registry to get rid of the behaviour.
Maybe it will be management that will be automated and for once we can all receive clear, though out, complete, realistic specs./ha ha who am I kidding.
Really, someone on/. does not understand why a jpg image stored on a local drive loads 'instantly' vs. a collection of scripts and code that needs to be "compiled" before displaying.
I'm not expecting everyone to be a rocket scientist on here, but come on, think about the difference between the two for even a minute.
I'm on a 2007 iMac. Firefox (and everything else) takes a while to start up, but once it's up and in memory, opening tabs, switching between them, etc is pretty much instant.
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This is probably woefully out of date... back in the 3GS days if you did a backup via itunes, and selected encrypted, as far as I know it created a full image of the phone, apps, random settings, cache files, everything. If that is still around - read somewhere that itunes is going music only - it might work.
What is the point of Qualcomm posting this? If they listed things they themselves "invented" then I can sort of understand, but this is just smells of teenage angst, jealousy, and desperation.
We all know Apple's new chips will spank Qualcomm once again, and this is not how your PR department responds? Sigh.
Oh, look, Google got bored of something again and dumped it. /something grumble google reader
While I agree with MS that full cross-platform play should be a thing, lets be clear about MS's intentions. They're loosing badly to Sony on console sales, and well, Windows Store is a tiny spec compared to Steam. They weren't making any noise about this last generation when they were much closer (maybe even leading, I haven't kept up with the numbers) in market share.
Kinda like Internet Explorer was just fine as was when it had the market share, but once it started getting dumped by people MS realized that maybe web standards/interoperability were a "thing they should do".
They also know full well that this would be much harder for Sony to pull off than it is for them as Xbox & Win10 share quite a bit. Maybe Valve can ask MS to provide support for all this (and Direct X 12) for older version of Windows before they come on-board.
They're websites, just with the browser functionality (url bar, back button, etc) hidden, and some deeper access to device functions.
I think it's actually exactly what Apple had in mind with the first iPhone, before the store and everything.
First you tell me the amazing news that there is free television in the air all around us, I just need this "antenna" thing. Now, I was pleasantly 'surprised to learn that' there is sometimes free television on this youtube thing as well. Golly!
Now I'm all excited for the next 'but wait, there's more!' article. Don't disappoint me /., and please tell me where to send a self addressed and stamped envelope to receive a free brochure and dvd.
There is also a handy dropdown that lists all your tabs. if you remember your tab is just out of view, scroll ove to it. If you know its eay back, or just have no idea, open the dropdown.
IMHO much better to deal with than a half dozen tabs with the same icon, but no idea what the page title is.
What kind of astro-turf crap is this. Does all this greatness come for three easy payments of $49.99?
How many of those choices are real choices, not just entrenched gender norms and/or real-or-imagined peer pressure.
Not trying to contradict you, just pointing out that there is a lot 'behind the scenes' of free choice.
Completely agree anon. List was for illustrative purposes only.
Just trying to illustrate that there is a range, and unfortunately some people are damn damn petty.
What happened, I thought we were all end-of-life curmudgeons, not 15 year olds just entering the workforce.
Every single person ever keeps a "blacklist" of people they will not work with. There are many reasons one could find themselves on said list, many real, many petty. Maybe a person...
- were a client that didn't pay up for work done
- were a subcontractor that didn't do the work
- were constantly going on about their child/dog/cat
- drank too much during office hours
- smelled
- their food smelled
- kept going on about something political, no matter the spectrum
- you just don't like their face
- they stole your lunch money
- have an annoyING valley-girl/boy vocAL afflectiON
If you're freelancing, you just don't deal with them. If you're in a team/corporate environment, you avoid them. Welcome to life. Can't wait till you discover that you get free television channels by using an antenna (in most parts of the US). Get off my lawn and all that.
Superbowl commercials have been a *thing* for a long while now. It's been the carrot dangled in front of non-sport watching spouses and friends for a good decade, or two.
My understanding is that, yes, Android does have a mechanism for apps to back their data up (and restore that data to a new device, etc), but it is not a system wide "full" backup of the device. In essence, it's the "nearly" part that is annoying.
I would like both, a full device backup snapshot - the os, the temp files, the apps, etc, and, the app specific backups as well.
So everyone is shitting on Marissa Mayer, but remember she's kept the sinking ship that is Yahoo around many more years than I ever expect it survive. Sure, it should have been put out of it's misery long ago, but to drag it out this long is a feat.
How may of you complaining about her running it to the ground ever used a Yahoo service? In a post-google-search world (aka, not when the alternative was alta vista or ask jeeves)?
So, um, maybe Google could actually roll this out to android first so that users have a proper full device backup. Just an idea?
Also, Yay, now both Microsoft & Google get all may data.
mid-level manager 1: I love what google is doing with this material design, they cribbed some of our metro stuff but took it to a whole new level.
mid-level manager 2: true dat, but I prefer the soft and smooth translucency Apple has in iOS and macOS.
mid-level manager 1: hmmm...
mid-level manager 2: hmmmm...
mid-level manager 3: why not both?!
mid-level manager 1: but won't we be accused of just copying their stuff?
mid-level manager 2: just throw in some bull about holo-lens and synergy, and everyone will be distracted thinking about drawing dongs in 3d.
mid-level manager 1: genius!
Sorry to say, but the old-folks, no matter how many generations back you go were just as lazy and indifferent about this stuff as we are now.
Now it's terrorists, then it was Communists, Nazis, the British, the Romans, you name it, everyone was willing to gloss over an awful lot.
I know. Next you'll be telling me people don't like the fact I forward-on any word file I get as a stripped down plain text file. None of that fancy unicode business either, use proper English I say.
This is to me really neat. That a radar based missile system is good enough to track something as small and "low-signature-ish" as a drone.
Disclaimers:
a) assuming said "ally" didn't fire off a dozen missiles and finally got lucky
b) the drone is a small one, not one of the large flying wing type things.
I completely agree, but the problem is that we only have ourselves to blame. The only "newspapers" making money are the tabloids. Same with online clicks and views, it's the trash people click on. If the majority of people wanted long-form impartial investigative journalism, that is what we'd end up with next to breath-mints at the checkout line.
Collectively, we, are getting exactly what we deserve and want. Does capitalism as an entity want us to consume immaterial garbage, you bet it does, but again, at the end of the day we are collectively bending over and asking for more.
How would either of those stop you from clicking and following through an email link your sysadmin specifically said is safe?
Wow, people still posts these replies? Because, if there is ONE thing windows is known for over the years, it is a complete guarantee of consistency. That what happens on one machine happens on millions of others.
As a counterpoint, my work machine would reset html and pdf file associations back to edge on a weekly basis. Had to edit the registry to get rid of the behaviour.
Maybe it will be management that will be automated and for once we can all receive clear, though out, complete, realistic specs. /ha ha who am I kidding.
Really, someone on /. does not understand why a jpg image stored on a local drive loads 'instantly' vs. a collection of scripts and code that needs to be "compiled" before displaying.
I'm not expecting everyone to be a rocket scientist on here, but come on, think about the difference between the two for even a minute.
I second this.
I'm on a 2007 iMac. Firefox (and everything else) takes a while to start up, but once it's up and in memory, opening tabs, switching between them, etc is pretty much instant.