I think that Microsoft is longingly looking at Apple's iOS App Store, knowing that they're getting something like a 20% cut of all revenue that's generated from application sales. They probably also want to use this to force independent application developers to put their applications in the Windows Store as well or risk not having access to this new hardware.
They would probably be willing to sell their branded tablet with a razor thin profit margin if they knew that they would be making that money back on the backend every time they sold an app or processed an in app purchase. The walled garden approach (while annoying) also cuts down on casual piracy and malware installations as well.
Of course, an obnoxious feature like this would probably end up getting hacked within days of release if for no other reason than developer spite towards Microsoft. They would be better off leaving a "allow third-party applications" checkbox buried in the security settings screen like Android has. That should be enough to keep most end users from accidentally downloading malware, while giving power users the ability to install their "legacy" applications.
Come on... anyone who's watched Futurama knows that you send waves of waves of your own men against the kill bots until they reach their programmed maximum kill count and shut down!
I upgraded from a Hayes 2400 baud modem to a Hayes 28.8k external modem in 1995. I'd imagine that it cost around $200 at the time, but I'm not sure since my parents got it for me.
My next PC same bundled with a Lucent WinModem around 1997. Those modems were hated for some reason, but I was able to upgrade that sucker from 28.8 to 33.6 to K56 Flex to V.90 56K just by updating the drivers a few times over the next 2 years. That seemed pretty awesome to me.
And get our McAfee bundled malware/adware preinstalled on your PC before you even connect it to the Internet!
Come on guys, it's a huge timesaver! We're so advanced that we'll start hitting you up with ads for the full paid version of our software before you've even finished updating your drivers.
What would they use to compare the video to prevent reposting? I doubt that just a snippet of the first few seconds would work, as someone could just trim that off the video and repost it.
1) Facebook is now blocking revenge porn! Yay! 2) Facebook will now have a giant database of tagged revenge porn videos in it's database for comparison purposes, just waiting to be hacked. Shit.
Yeah, most management people just do not have the discipline to shut up and let people give their scrum status and then ask questions later
A 30 second statement of the defects I worked on that day usually turn into a 5 minute discussion of what the defect actually is and why it's important to fix it and why it might have an impact on the release schedule... blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, the hundreds of Adobe Flash security holes were what finally doomed Flash. When the browser providers started disabling obsolete and insecure flash plugins, it basically forced content providers to switch to HTML5 to insure that people could watch it.
No, we should donate it to Hollywood so they can film the destruction of it BY aliens!
Recent movies like Life and Gravity have shows that they're getting really good at destroying NASA stuff in CGI, but imagine what they could do with the real thing!
Yeah, they better give these refurbs a new model name or they're going to cause problems in security lines. The "Samsung Galaxy Note 6 S", perhaps? The S is for Safe. Or Super. Or Something.
Personally, the only version of Linux that is really user friendly enough for an newbie or an end user right now is Android.
Sure, most Linux distros now have a pretty GUI for everyday use and basic configuration changes, but there are still too many instances where you need to hand edit configuration files or do additional configuration from the command line if something doesn't work right. I know that your average Slashdot reader isn't afraid of the command line, but most end users and newbies are.
Samsung is kind of a special case, as they are a huge company and probably manufacture their own batteries. I think that most phone manufacturers outsource that job to a third-party battery supplier. They give the the battery manufacturer the specs, and it's their job to build it.
How many honest politicians are really exist when it comes to this issue at this point? Most of them are getting large bribe... er... "campaign contributions" from the big telco and cable companies. They're profiting off of the status quo as much as telcos are.
The problem is that they only helped broadband adoption in a handful of areas. There are still major urban metros (like Seattle) that still have crummy broadband options.
We really need more community broadband projects! Let the cities figure out the issue themselves instead of being beholden to Big Cable and Big Telco for access.
Yeah, it might be hard to get an app developer to join the Bixby bandwagon, especially if they already have an investment in one of the other voice assistant services out there like Siri, Cortana, Alexa, or Google Assistant. Samsung is late to the party here.
Yeah, it would be counting every Audi A4 ever made and proclaiming that it's the best selling car ever because the combined total was more than the 2013 Honda Accord. Not really.
If the Raspberry Pi is the second most popular computer (dubious claim considering that there are several models of it), and the Commodore 64 is the third most popular computer, what is considered to be the most popular computer of all time? My hunch would be the Apple II, but I wouldn't be surprised if iMac was on the top 5 list.
Older versions of Linux have been having problems with Ryzen procesors as well, but at least Canonical isn't deliberately bricking customers using that software.
On the flip side, some smart engineer is going to figure out how to re-enable those disabled cores through a firmware hack or some other trick. At that point, you'll be able to get the equivalent of a $400 CPU for $150.
By "trouble", you mean having to decrease their CPU prices slightly more than expected over the next few quarters, sure. AMD can only dream of having profit margins that equal Intel's right now.
Sci-Fi movies tend be more expensive to produce than dramas or documentaries because of their special effects budgets as well. That's probably why they tend to suffer from "squealitis" than other genres, because the big movie houses are afraid to gamble a 100 million dollars on an untested concept.
That's why we should be rooting for more original movie content from the likes of Netflix and Amazon. They seem to be be making riskier bets with their content, and making far more of them. Sure, some of them suck, but they have both had a few good hits recently.
Yeah, it seems that iOS and Android updates tend to cause more issues than they fix, especially if you have an older iPhone or Android phone that the vendor doesn't care about anymore.
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I think that Microsoft is longingly looking at Apple's iOS App Store, knowing that they're getting something like a 20% cut of all revenue that's generated from application sales. They probably also want to use this to force independent application developers to put their applications in the Windows Store as well or risk not having access to this new hardware.
They would probably be willing to sell their branded tablet with a razor thin profit margin if they knew that they would be making that money back on the backend every time they sold an app or processed an in app purchase. The walled garden approach (while annoying) also cuts down on casual piracy and malware installations as well.
Of course, an obnoxious feature like this would probably end up getting hacked within days of release if for no other reason than developer spite towards Microsoft. They would be better off leaving a "allow third-party applications" checkbox buried in the security settings screen like Android has. That should be enough to keep most end users from accidentally downloading malware, while giving power users the ability to install their "legacy" applications.
Come on... anyone who's watched Futurama knows that you send waves of waves of your own men against the kill bots until they reach their programmed maximum kill count and shut down!
Some of us do have girlfriends and even wives that somehow put up with us. I think that the big paychecks from our tech jobs help with that.
I upgraded from a Hayes 2400 baud modem to a Hayes 28.8k external modem in 1995. I'd imagine that it cost around $200 at the time, but I'm not sure since my parents got it for me.
My next PC same bundled with a Lucent WinModem around 1997. Those modems were hated for some reason, but I was able to upgrade that sucker from 28.8 to 33.6 to K56 Flex to V.90 56K just by updating the drivers a few times over the next 2 years. That seemed pretty awesome to me.
And get our McAfee bundled malware/adware preinstalled on your PC before you even connect it to the Internet!
Come on guys, it's a huge timesaver! We're so advanced that we'll start hitting you up with ads for the full paid version of our software before you've even finished updating your drivers.
What would they use to compare the video to prevent reposting? I doubt that just a snippet of the first few seconds would work, as someone could just trim that off the video and repost it.
Yeah, I'm looking at it like this:
1) Facebook is now blocking revenge porn! Yay!
2) Facebook will now have a giant database of tagged revenge porn videos in it's database for comparison purposes, just waiting to be hacked. Shit.
Yeah, most management people just do not have the discipline to shut up and let people give their scrum status and then ask questions later
A 30 second statement of the defects I worked on that day usually turn into a 5 minute discussion of what the defect actually is and why it's important to fix it and why it might have an impact on the release schedule... blah, blah, blah.
So, what programming language do you teach to 5 year old kids and super models? Scratch? Python?
Yeah, the hundreds of Adobe Flash security holes were what finally doomed Flash. When the browser providers started disabling obsolete and insecure flash plugins, it basically forced content providers to switch to HTML5 to insure that people could watch it.
No, we should donate it to Hollywood so they can film the destruction of it BY aliens!
Recent movies like Life and Gravity have shows that they're getting really good at destroying NASA stuff in CGI, but imagine what they could do with the real thing!
Yeah, they better give these refurbs a new model name or they're going to cause problems in security lines. The "Samsung Galaxy Note 6 S", perhaps? The S is for Safe. Or Super. Or Something.
Personally, the only version of Linux that is really user friendly enough for an newbie or an end user right now is Android.
Sure, most Linux distros now have a pretty GUI for everyday use and basic configuration changes, but there are still too many instances where you need to hand edit configuration files or do additional configuration from the command line if something doesn't work right. I know that your average Slashdot reader isn't afraid of the command line, but most end users and newbies are.
Samsung is kind of a special case, as they are a huge company and probably manufacture their own batteries. I think that most phone manufacturers outsource that job to a third-party battery supplier. They give the the battery manufacturer the specs, and it's their job to build it.
How many honest politicians are really exist when it comes to this issue at this point? Most of them are getting large bribe... er... "campaign contributions" from the big telco and cable companies. They're profiting off of the status quo as much as telcos are.
The problem is that they only helped broadband adoption in a handful of areas. There are still major urban metros (like Seattle) that still have crummy broadband options.
We really need more community broadband projects! Let the cities figure out the issue themselves instead of being beholden to Big Cable and Big Telco for access.
Yeah, it might be hard to get an app developer to join the Bixby bandwagon, especially if they already have an investment in one of the other voice assistant services out there like Siri, Cortana, Alexa, or Google Assistant. Samsung is late to the party here.
Of popcorn with that sucker.
Props if you know where that idea came from.
Yeah, it would be counting every Audi A4 ever made and proclaiming that it's the best selling car ever because the combined total was more than the 2013 Honda Accord. Not really.
If the Raspberry Pi is the second most popular computer (dubious claim considering that there are several models of it), and the Commodore 64 is the third most popular computer, what is considered to be the most popular computer of all time? My hunch would be the Apple II, but I wouldn't be surprised if iMac was on the top 5 list.
Older versions of Linux have been having problems with Ryzen procesors as well, but at least Canonical isn't deliberately bricking customers using that software.
On the flip side, some smart engineer is going to figure out how to re-enable those disabled cores through a firmware hack or some other trick. At that point, you'll be able to get the equivalent of a $400 CPU for $150.
By "trouble", you mean having to decrease their CPU prices slightly more than expected over the next few quarters, sure. AMD can only dream of having profit margins that equal Intel's right now.
Sci-Fi movies tend be more expensive to produce than dramas or documentaries because of their special effects budgets as well. That's probably why they tend to suffer from "squealitis" than other genres, because the big movie houses are afraid to gamble a 100 million dollars on an untested concept.
That's why we should be rooting for more original movie content from the likes of Netflix and Amazon. They seem to be be making riskier bets with their content, and making far more of them. Sure, some of them suck, but they have both had a few good hits recently.
Yeah, it seems that iOS and Android updates tend to cause more issues than they fix, especially if you have an older iPhone or Android phone that the vendor doesn't care about anymore.