A lot of mass market software makes more sense as subscription than purchase. For example, customers are not willing to pay a big sum upfront, experience degrades without maintanance and people balk at paying for upgrades while creating bad publicity based on old version, old versions plain do not work on new hardware/OS. A more important thing to demand from a vendor is take out capability for your data, so that you can switch to another vendor if dissatisfied. This will also facilitate development of open source or one time purchase alternatives for those who can't or don't want to rent.
Chromebooks have Play Store (and sideloading APKs/Linux with some hackery irrelevant to an average user). These laptops have Microsoft Store, not sure about developer sideloads. Seems up to which app/game selection you prefer?
Except I stop paying if the vendor doesn't provide a low cost update to current hardware+software and do my own thing. Ideally hardware is provided free of charge with rental.
I kind of agree that at this price point you shouldn't be nickled and dimed. But as for ownership rather than service, it depends on nature of the thing. I don't see CarPlay being durable without ongoing hardware and software support. My previous car had a cassette player. I would rather have paid an annual fee for music playback and have VW incentivised to help me upgrade it to iPod cable and then Bluetooth - or stop paying and come up with my own solution if they flaked out. Ownership is for when I am sure I will want the same item, exactly as it is as including natural aging, long term.
Presumably you understand that you are buying a BMW and how much you will be wasting upfront and on maintenance/fuel costs. And that you can have "CarPlay" for $10 one time investment.. Let's not even go into Apple tax. If money is not an object for you, what do you care either way on buy vs subscribe? All things being equal, I would go for subscription. A lot of things could change by the time a purchase would break even in 4 years - I may not drive the same car, I may not use iPhone (I don't know, but I also may not in future) or CarPlay hardware/software may change without good support from BMW. At least subscription revenue might motivate BMW to offer support and upgrades. Not like with the useless 30 pin iPod jack on my wife's car.
So say I get similar alert in my home in CA. Don't have any basement, have one bathtub where children can fit. How do I maximize chances of long term survival? Stay in the house or in the car which at least has a partial metal envelope?
Now we have 3 bums sitting on welfare because nobody will hire them for minimum wage and then they will lose welfare and besides they can't afford daycare for their kids. With UBI and no minimum wage, two bums pay the third one some change to watch the kids and go blow up balloons in birthday parties to earn money for some joints. Before long, bumtown with a collapsed economy has people trading with each other for services, some earning enough to pay back their UBI in taxes. In the meantime, everyone is staying busy and out of trouble. If we have to subsidize people, do it in a way that doesn't discourage them from working and gives them maximum flexibility in meeting their own needs on free market.
Well, now access is granted to one company with no competitive bidding. I am for private enterprise myself, but think of a town like one big HOA where land deed gives HOA a grant to provide certain services and in turn HOA is obligated to contract these services in the most efficient manner. Like it's well understood that competing swimming pools are not practical, so the board needs to choose a specific poolman to maintain the single one. I don't see how broadband is that different from water or electricity here?
I see Comcast cable dangling over my backyard, suspended on utility poles I pay for with my tax money. I don't see any reason to allow that if they get frisky. How about my town does competitive bidding to get a backbone hookup and maintain local routers and wires? If Comcast wins fine, but Silicon Valley has lots of startups who would love to land a big gig.
We have onshore toxic waste dumps, domestic child labor and policemen mowing down law abiding citizens. Maybe if we clean up our own shop, we can lead by example without being heavyhanded?
Absolutely not. A billion of people in China can make their government accountable if they choose to. In the meantime, we are struggling to make our own government accountable (hi Snowden). Telling everyone on the planet how to live should not be on the top of our priority list.
Why bring second device on vacation or pay for hotel WiFi? E-mail, Photos, Netflix (which T-mobile currently includes), everything else works great. Can set up a hotspot if I need bigger screen/keyboard/etc. Using 1GB of data for 3 hours of emails/tweets seems insane, I had 500MB data pass stretch for a week on vacation. Sure, there is some convenience to faster/higher limit home WiFi, but we are talking about a costly government mandate here. Why prop up dying technology when gigabit LTE is around the corner? Also mandate is often for poor areas, and the poor can ill afford two plans and forced cable TV bundling by broadband companies. If you are living on modest means, best to stick to cell plan which you need anyway and make it stretch for all Internet needs.
Thin and attractive? It's a fucking phone, not a girlfriend. And those same features also made it more breakable, which of course creates profits for vendors.
These features also make a girlfriend more likely to break up with you and run away without another guy. Sturdy and reliable is best.
Here. This is not about white men having it horrible in the country or Sillicon Valley in general. It's about specific comments and actions by specific people. Just like in the case of a lady who got awarded a million for spilling McD coffee on herself, there is more here than meets the eye. It's up to court to sort it out and hopefully deliver a just resolution rather than for us to speculate to appearances.
Very nice, are you ready to pay for a smartphone like you pay for a durable product like a car? A decade of usable life can be arranged as long as you are willing to accept tradeoffs such as price, weight, form factor and features. Not interested? Than STFU. Market delivers what customers are asking for.
Use case that you are after has moved from netbooks to tablets. Either iPad Mini or many Android tablets are pretty inexpensive. I would pick up one and see how far you can go with functionality that you need. While you have been holding on to EeePC, both hardware and software development for this form factor has been moving to mobile. Conversely, Windows apps and desktop web pages are increasingly unusable for that form factor. While you may not be aware of this now, you will notice a big jump in productivity by using up to date solution and will probably not want to go back. You can still get a keyboard/touch pad case for a tablet and get a dirt cheap larger Windows laptop if your apps are really irreplaceable.
Web is great for it's purpose to compose and link information. However, it sucks as an alternative to well written apps that it replaced. I am glad that technology is catching up and that companies are investing resources to keep social forums clean rather than everything being a wall of dick picks. I am also glad that there are freer options like 4chan and completely decentralized facilities like Tor/Bittorrent for absolute free speech. But these are (important) edge cases, not mainstream Internet passtime.
A group of managers surrounded by yes-men/women convinced themselves that an obviously ridiculous thing would fly, or can be even be explained away as being for customers' own benefit. Plenty of engineers said "that's retarded" on internal mailing lists. Nobody listened to them and a company lawyer told them to drop the thread. Expect some weeks of denial and PR attempts followed by inevitable caving in with "it's only a guideline". I have not seen this particular train wreck from inside, but they are all the same.
Everything else is riddled with crashes, UI slugishness, missing apps and buffering. Roku just does one thing - playing video, including 4K/HDR on a USB powered stick - and does it really well. I have Android TV too - for Steam streaming with Moonlight and emulators for retro games - but I always use Roku remote for actually watching TV.
This is taking decades to sink in, starting all the way from people sharing games on floppies. Apparently nothing was learned from Word macros, Java, Flash. Every time new technology is supposed to magically deliver perfect security. I think now it's Javascript? Guess what, it can't. Stuff running on your device can misuse legitimate permissions for nefarious purposes and use bugs or side channels to get access to things you have not granted it. You might as well leave your financial documents in a desk drawer of your AirBnb rental. If people are determined, they can get to your stuff if you let them in.
The paper actually talks about instructions that are speculatively executed and then discarded, so they don't actually cause page fault. And how, as a result, content of fetched addresses can be potentially discovered by carefully measuring timing of subsequent instructions.
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A lot of mass market software makes more sense as subscription than purchase. For example, customers are not willing to pay a big sum upfront, experience degrades without maintanance and people balk at paying for upgrades while creating bad publicity based on old version, old versions plain do not work on new hardware/OS. A more important thing to demand from a vendor is take out capability for your data, so that you can switch to another vendor if dissatisfied. This will also facilitate development of open source or one time purchase alternatives for those who can't or don't want to rent.
Chromebooks have Play Store (and sideloading APKs/Linux with some hackery irrelevant to an average user). These laptops have Microsoft Store, not sure about developer sideloads. Seems up to which app/game selection you prefer?
Except I stop paying if the vendor doesn't provide a low cost update to current hardware+software and do my own thing. Ideally hardware is provided free of charge with rental.
I kind of agree that at this price point you shouldn't be nickled and dimed. But as for ownership rather than service, it depends on nature of the thing. I don't see CarPlay being durable without ongoing hardware and software support. My previous car had a cassette player. I would rather have paid an annual fee for music playback and have VW incentivised to help me upgrade it to iPod cable and then Bluetooth - or stop paying and come up with my own solution if they flaked out. Ownership is for when I am sure I will want the same item, exactly as it is as including natural aging, long term.
Presumably you understand that you are buying a BMW and how much you will be wasting upfront and on maintenance/fuel costs. And that you can have "CarPlay" for $10 one time investment.. Let's not even go into Apple tax. If money is not an object for you, what do you care either way on buy vs subscribe? All things being equal, I would go for subscription. A lot of things could change by the time a purchase would break even in 4 years - I may not drive the same car, I may not use iPhone (I don't know, but I also may not in future) or CarPlay hardware/software may change without good support from BMW. At least subscription revenue might motivate BMW to offer support and upgrades. Not like with the useless 30 pin iPod jack on my wife's car.
So say I get similar alert in my home in CA. Don't have any basement, have one bathtub where children can fit. How do I maximize chances of long term survival? Stay in the house or in the car which at least has a partial metal envelope?
Now we have 3 bums sitting on welfare because nobody will hire them for minimum wage and then they will lose welfare and besides they can't afford daycare for their kids. With UBI and no minimum wage, two bums pay the third one some change to watch the kids and go blow up balloons in birthday parties to earn money for some joints. Before long, bumtown with a collapsed economy has people trading with each other for services, some earning enough to pay back their UBI in taxes. In the meantime, everyone is staying busy and out of trouble. If we have to subsidize people, do it in a way that doesn't discourage them from working and gives them maximum flexibility in meeting their own needs on free market.
Well, now access is granted to one company with no competitive bidding. I am for private enterprise myself, but think of a town like one big HOA where land deed gives HOA a grant to provide certain services and in turn HOA is obligated to contract these services in the most efficient manner. Like it's well understood that competing swimming pools are not practical, so the board needs to choose a specific poolman to maintain the single one. I don't see how broadband is that different from water or electricity here?
I see Comcast cable dangling over my backyard, suspended on utility poles I pay for with my tax money. I don't see any reason to allow that if they get frisky. How about my town does competitive bidding to get a backbone hookup and maintain local routers and wires? If Comcast wins fine, but Silicon Valley has lots of startups who would love to land a big gig.
If you are going to bring back old brands, bring back good ones. Circuit City was pretty much same as Best Buy, what's the point of duplication?
We have onshore toxic waste dumps, domestic child labor and policemen mowing down law abiding citizens. Maybe if we clean up our own shop, we can lead by example without being heavyhanded?
Absolutely not. A billion of people in China can make their government accountable if they choose to. In the meantime, we are struggling to make our own government accountable (hi Snowden). Telling everyone on the planet how to live should not be on the top of our priority list.
Why bring second device on vacation or pay for hotel WiFi? E-mail, Photos, Netflix (which T-mobile currently includes), everything else works great. Can set up a hotspot if I need bigger screen/keyboard/etc. Using 1GB of data for 3 hours of emails/tweets seems insane, I had 500MB data pass stretch for a week on vacation. Sure, there is some convenience to faster/higher limit home WiFi, but we are talking about a costly government mandate here. Why prop up dying technology when gigabit LTE is around the corner? Also mandate is often for poor areas, and the poor can ill afford two plans and forced cable TV bundling by broadband companies. If you are living on modest means, best to stick to cell plan which you need anyway and make it stretch for all Internet needs.
Thin and attractive? It's a fucking phone, not a girlfriend. And those same features also made it more breakable, which of course creates profits for vendors.
These features also make a girlfriend more likely to break up with you and run away without another guy. Sturdy and reliable is best.
Here. This is not about white men having it horrible in the country or Sillicon Valley in general. It's about specific comments and actions by specific people. Just like in the case of a lady who got awarded a million for spilling McD coffee on herself, there is more here than meets the eye. It's up to court to sort it out and hopefully deliver a just resolution rather than for us to speculate to appearances.
Very nice, are you ready to pay for a smartphone like you pay for a durable product like a car? A decade of usable life can be arranged as long as you are willing to accept tradeoffs such as price, weight, form factor and features. Not interested? Than STFU. Market delivers what customers are asking for.
Use case that you are after has moved from netbooks to tablets. Either iPad Mini or many Android tablets are pretty inexpensive. I would pick up one and see how far you can go with functionality that you need. While you have been holding on to EeePC, both hardware and software development for this form factor has been moving to mobile. Conversely, Windows apps and desktop web pages are increasingly unusable for that form factor. While you may not be aware of this now, you will notice a big jump in productivity by using up to date solution and will probably not want to go back. You can still get a keyboard/touch pad case for a tablet and get a dirt cheap larger Windows laptop if your apps are really irreplaceable.
Web is great for it's purpose to compose and link information. However, it sucks as an alternative to well written apps that it replaced. I am glad that technology is catching up and that companies are investing resources to keep social forums clean rather than everything being a wall of dick picks. I am also glad that there are freer options like 4chan and completely decentralized facilities like Tor/Bittorrent for absolute free speech. But these are (important) edge cases, not mainstream Internet passtime.
A group of managers surrounded by yes-men/women convinced themselves that an obviously ridiculous thing would fly, or can be even be explained away as being for customers' own benefit. Plenty of engineers said "that's retarded" on internal mailing lists. Nobody listened to them and a company lawyer told them to drop the thread. Expect some weeks of denial and PR attempts followed by inevitable caving in with "it's only a guideline". I have not seen this particular train wreck from inside, but they are all the same.
Everything else is riddled with crashes, UI slugishness, missing apps and buffering. Roku just does one thing - playing video, including 4K/HDR on a USB powered stick - and does it really well. I have Android TV too - for Steam streaming with Moonlight and emulators for retro games - but I always use Roku remote for actually watching TV.
This is taking decades to sink in, starting all the way from people sharing games on floppies. Apparently nothing was learned from Word macros, Java, Flash. Every time new technology is supposed to magically deliver perfect security. I think now it's Javascript? Guess what, it can't. Stuff running on your device can misuse legitimate permissions for nefarious purposes and use bugs or side channels to get access to things you have not granted it. You might as well leave your financial documents in a desk drawer of your AirBnb rental. If people are determined, they can get to your stuff if you let them in.
The paper actually talks about instructions that are speculatively executed and then discarded, so they don't actually cause page fault. And how, as a result, content of fetched addresses can be potentially discovered by carefully measuring timing of subsequent instructions.
I knew it, I JUST knew it!
I don't want a 30% slowdown to my workloads and I don't care if games hack each other to death.
I prefer OnePlus myself, but would gladly take reliability over a big of speed in any phone.