Your phone depends on complex thermal and power management to avoid unpleasant things like suddenly shutting down, burning your privates or bursting in flames. When the later case occurs, like with Note 7, you have a cause to complain. Otherwise, it's normal for performance to vary based on the weather or a particular bumper case. Would you prefer for devices to be artificially throttled when conditions allow faster operations so you don't get disappointed when they are a little slower?
For the first task, Linux is tremendously better than Windows/OSX/ChromeOS. For the second, it's still not relevant. Everything else is done in a web browser and underlying OS only gets in the way. The sad part is death of non-developer power users for whom OS would actually matter. Like on OSX, you used to be able to take a folder of photos, automatically apply same effects to each by driving normally UI app with Javascript, have the results encoded into a DVD slideshow and then burn the disc that will be waiting and ready when you come back from lunch break. Nowadays people just do things manually and sacrifice quality or waste time. Even with word processing, Latex can better ensure uniform, error-free formatting over hundreds of pages than manual menu choices in Word. But, intelligence seldom wins over apathy.
It's common for young companies to be overambicious and flaky only to mature later. Remember all the wild claims made by young Apple about its products? Of course, Apple was not in healthcare back then, but Theranos is also not doing open heart surgeries. Theranos technology could be valuable despite not being as accurate as existing bulky/expensive labs by reaching patients that could not or would not be served by mainstream medicine. Maybe they have learned their lessons and will do allright.
Most people's top fear should be spying by cybercriminals. And although government spying has no practical effect on MOST people, it goes very badly for those it does affect. In comparison, what will smartphone vendors do to you with information they collect? Show you more useful ads? Fix bugs you are running into? Having said that, weirdos are useful. His unusual concerns are giving me an additional operating system that might one day be useful for something. Just like RMS couldn't bear to print things with a closed source driver and created an ecosystem.
The study defined wisdom as a characteristic of followers rather than leaders and than found that underlings rather than boses posess it. If one is constantly vaccilating between points of view based on every conversation with others, it's impossible to commit to one course of action for long enough to succeed, let alone organize others to assist you. Of course, society needs both kinds of people to function. But that's a separate question of what constitutes wisdom.
Consider a likely answer, and don't worry about giving a much longer notice. The usual practice in the corporate world is kind of depressing. On the other hand, say you are working in a family style business that would likely share plans with you far in advance. Then you can do likewise, and perhaps they will sometimes call you for a consultation and a chance to earn some extra cash after official retirement.
If there is off the shelf software that does what I want (on demand services on a box that uses very little power when not in use), I would be happy to purchase it for reasonable price. If not, I can only gain the functionality by hacking and repurposing it.
Embedded NAS boxes don't have much CPU/GPU power though. The way Intel ME is marketed, it sounds like you can have powered off desktop that costs pennies/month in electric use, doesn't make noise, doesn't wear out fans and so on. And then it can wake up and transcode 4K video for Plex or stream Steam games seconds later. It's not that easy to approximate this even using a secondary embedded device that powers the main PC on and off. If same ethernet card is used, one could imagine main CPU cores taking over an existing connection establised by ME so that each client does not have to be rewritten to connect to an on demand service.
Ladies who entered data on punch cards or stitched core ROMs were not programmers, although they were participating in something important that deserves recognition. On the other hand, ENIAC programming was fairly high skill, requiring understanding of mathematics to wire the function tables. Still, it's misleading to say that men were not interested in computer science back then. Hardware design of ENIAC was done by (mostly?) men. Now hardware design is not a major source of CS employment, so similar men are going into software. Not saying women are not interested too, but there are factors other than men forcing them out.
Regulation is needed when there are severe problems in private market and these problems are not being solved for a prolonged period of time. CO2 emissions seems to be a good such example, and either carbon tax or cap and trade a reasonable response. Even phone number portability is arguably unnecessary. The same problem was being actively solved by services such as Google Voice and over the top apps. Arguably legislation suffocated these services and left us stuck with inconvinient phone numbers rather than calling each others by name/email. Internet neutrality - phew! What horrible things were happening in 2015 before the rules were enacted? What is so wrong in many countries that have no neutrality regulations today? Why can't we regulate things later when there is a specific problem rather than pulling doomsday scenarios out of our asses? I saw a Vice News episode last night and this guy is getting racist threats and having to hide his family. Don't people have some other priorities? Like maybe worrying about getting nuked by North Korea instead of Hulu streaming in 4K?
I would love a laptop with weekend battery life and always on LTE. But I am not willing to wait for half an hour when it decides to install the updates and I need to print out boarding passes for an upcoming flight. Somehow no other OS is as intrusive or slow at updating itself.
App developers will then forget these phones as priorities because their users aren't rolling in money. Updates to initially installed apps will bloat in size because of feature creep and device will run out of storage and become a paperweight. Happens to every entry level device sold with inadequate specs to shave off $5 from price, or for price differentiation to upsell pricier SKUs.
I am sure not every country in the world has net neutrality laws. Are they living this scenario right now? Or does consumer demand ensure availability of unrestricted services?
Most people die in hospitals and most healthcare is done on people who will never get well enough to enjoy any marginal life extension. A rational attitude is to invest in healthy lifestyle and simple drug treatments for diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol first. Of course, if you get one of those rare illnesses that are both curable and serious enough to require treatment, it's worth the expense. But other than that? I would rather travel the world for a year while I am still healthy enough to enjoy it than linger on for 3 years in hospitals. I will get the same tattoo if things go South.
Harm of cigarettes has been well known for long time and there are tons of safer methods to get Nicotine into your body if you like or need the effects. Companies that supply a product that you willingly buy should not be forced to advertise against it.
Despite heavy marketting it will sound exactly like every portable stereo it's size. If you care about sound, get a set of real speakers with a subwoofer and connect cast device of your choice to the amplifier. If you don't, this is a waste of money.
If I am forced to watch ads, I might as well see something than I might be remotely interested in, not $MEDICINE for old people that I don't need to talk to my doctor about.
Decide who will solve inevitable problems in advance - yourself, your son, geek squad, etc. Windows is not like OSX/ChromeOS - it routinely gets borked by driver updates, registry corruption, mysterious hangs/slowdowns... I have a gaming laptop myself for Oculus, but keep a Chromebook for daily productivity, as something on Windows is likely to broken or laggy just when I need to send an urgent e-mail.
Parents can be jerks to their children in many ways, but knowingly gifting them a terrible (often fatal, but now treatable) genetic mutation is not usually something a parent would do.
Does not jibe with the world we have now. Families have known that a lot of their ancestors died from the same mysterous illness for centuries. People seem to very much do it.
Just like cash, but you can ship it between continents in less than a second. If this use of bitcoin rises as more people try out cryptocurrency, exchange rate against dollar will also rise. It's true that pure speculators holding lots of bitcoin passively can inflate the value further, just like with any currency. Also, bitcoin could concievably fade to obscurity because another cryptocurrency wins people over. But we can expect cryptocurrencies as a whole to appreciate as they gain adoption in the coming decades.
I edited some articles about Apple software that I knew works differently from what the article said. But I am unlikely to write a feature article. Probably half the edits is for grammar and tpyos?
So what was Hillary's plan to get people suffering from loss of manufacturing/mining jobs new jobs to support themselves? Trump promised protectionism and immigration curbs. Bernie promised free education to aquire new skills. I am not saying these are realistic plans, but at least they talked about the issue. What use is Hillary's maternity leave if you don't have a job to take a maternity leave from?
Snowflakes are not a left or right phenomena. If you voted for Hillary because she promised you healthcare or for Trump because he promised you jobs, you are not a snowflake. You are just a victim of a two party system and, although you are unlikely to get what you want, you went with a candidate who was at least talking about it. If you personally wearing a black or white hood and carrying a bicycle lock to a street protest, you are an idiot and a criminal, but you at least have some personal courage of terrorist variety. True snowflakes are those who urge antifa to brawl because if Ben Shapiro speaks on college campus we will have Fourth Reich. Or those who urge white supremacists to march because if local government decides to take down one monument, we will have white genocide. Millenials in parents basement who don't have much in stake personally but get their panties in the bunch. The sad thing that those in the basement will be likely survivers if moron in charge starts a nuclear war. That at least I think would have been slightly less likely with Hillary...
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Your phone depends on complex thermal and power management to avoid unpleasant things like suddenly shutting down, burning your privates or bursting in flames. When the later case occurs, like with Note 7, you have a cause to complain. Otherwise, it's normal for performance to vary based on the weather or a particular bumper case. Would you prefer for devices to be artificially throttled when conditions allow faster operations so you don't get disappointed when they are a little slower?
For the first task, Linux is tremendously better than Windows/OSX/ChromeOS. For the second, it's still not relevant. Everything else is done in a web browser and underlying OS only gets in the way. The sad part is death of non-developer power users for whom OS would actually matter. Like on OSX, you used to be able to take a folder of photos, automatically apply same effects to each by driving normally UI app with Javascript, have the results encoded into a DVD slideshow and then burn the disc that will be waiting and ready when you come back from lunch break. Nowadays people just do things manually and sacrifice quality or waste time. Even with word processing, Latex can better ensure uniform, error-free formatting over hundreds of pages than manual menu choices in Word. But, intelligence seldom wins over apathy.
It's common for young companies to be overambicious and flaky only to mature later. Remember all the wild claims made by young Apple about its products? Of course, Apple was not in healthcare back then, but Theranos is also not doing open heart surgeries. Theranos technology could be valuable despite not being as accurate as existing bulky/expensive labs by reaching patients that could not or would not be served by mainstream medicine. Maybe they have learned their lessons and will do allright.
Most people's top fear should be spying by cybercriminals. And although government spying has no practical effect on MOST people, it goes very badly for those it does affect. In comparison, what will smartphone vendors do to you with information they collect? Show you more useful ads? Fix bugs you are running into? Having said that, weirdos are useful. His unusual concerns are giving me an additional operating system that might one day be useful for something. Just like RMS couldn't bear to print things with a closed source driver and created an ecosystem.
The study defined wisdom as a characteristic of followers rather than leaders and than found that underlings rather than boses posess it. If one is constantly vaccilating between points of view based on every conversation with others, it's impossible to commit to one course of action for long enough to succeed, let alone organize others to assist you. Of course, society needs both kinds of people to function. But that's a separate question of what constitutes wisdom.
Consider a likely answer, and don't worry about giving a much longer notice. The usual practice in the corporate world is kind of depressing. On the other hand, say you are working in a family style business that would likely share plans with you far in advance. Then you can do likewise, and perhaps they will sometimes call you for a consultation and a chance to earn some extra cash after official retirement.
If there is off the shelf software that does what I want (on demand services on a box that uses very little power when not in use), I would be happy to purchase it for reasonable price. If not, I can only gain the functionality by hacking and repurposing it.
Embedded NAS boxes don't have much CPU/GPU power though. The way Intel ME is marketed, it sounds like you can have powered off desktop that costs pennies/month in electric use, doesn't make noise, doesn't wear out fans and so on. And then it can wake up and transcode 4K video for Plex or stream Steam games seconds later. It's not that easy to approximate this even using a secondary embedded device that powers the main PC on and off. If same ethernet card is used, one could imagine main CPU cores taking over an existing connection establised by ME so that each client does not have to be rewritten to connect to an on demand service.
Ladies who entered data on punch cards or stitched core ROMs were not programmers, although they were participating in something important that deserves recognition. On the other hand, ENIAC programming was fairly high skill, requiring understanding of mathematics to wire the function tables. Still, it's misleading to say that men were not interested in computer science back then. Hardware design of ENIAC was done by (mostly?) men. Now hardware design is not a major source of CS employment, so similar men are going into software. Not saying women are not interested too, but there are factors other than men forcing them out.
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Regulation is needed when there are severe problems in private market and these problems are not being solved for a prolonged period of time. CO2 emissions seems to be a good such example, and either carbon tax or cap and trade a reasonable response. Even phone number portability is arguably unnecessary. The same problem was being actively solved by services such as Google Voice and over the top apps. Arguably legislation suffocated these services and left us stuck with inconvinient phone numbers rather than calling each others by name/email. Internet neutrality - phew! What horrible things were happening in 2015 before the rules were enacted? What is so wrong in many countries that have no neutrality regulations today? Why can't we regulate things later when there is a specific problem rather than pulling doomsday scenarios out of our asses? I saw a Vice News episode last night and this guy is getting racist threats and having to hide his family. Don't people have some other priorities? Like maybe worrying about getting nuked by North Korea instead of Hulu streaming in 4K?
I would love a laptop with weekend battery life and always on LTE. But I am not willing to wait for half an hour when it decides to install the updates and I need to print out boarding passes for an upcoming flight. Somehow no other OS is as intrusive or slow at updating itself.
App developers will then forget these phones as priorities because their users aren't rolling in money. Updates to initially installed apps will bloat in size because of feature creep and device will run out of storage and become a paperweight. Happens to every entry level device sold with inadequate specs to shave off $5 from price, or for price differentiation to upsell pricier SKUs.
I am sure not every country in the world has net neutrality laws. Are they living this scenario right now? Or does consumer demand ensure availability of unrestricted services?
Most people die in hospitals and most healthcare is done on people who will never get well enough to enjoy any marginal life extension. A rational attitude is to invest in healthy lifestyle and simple drug treatments for diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol first. Of course, if you get one of those rare illnesses that are both curable and serious enough to require treatment, it's worth the expense. But other than that? I would rather travel the world for a year while I am still healthy enough to enjoy it than linger on for 3 years in hospitals. I will get the same tattoo if things go South.
Harm of cigarettes has been well known for long time and there are tons of safer methods to get Nicotine into your body if you like or need the effects. Companies that supply a product that you willingly buy should not be forced to advertise against it.
Despite heavy marketting it will sound exactly like every portable stereo it's size. If you care about sound, get a set of real speakers with a subwoofer and connect cast device of your choice to the amplifier. If you don't, this is a waste of money.
If you are willing to pay for your preference and forego content that doesn't give you that option, great!
If I am forced to watch ads, I might as well see something than I might be remotely interested in, not $MEDICINE for old people that I don't need to talk to my doctor about.
Decide who will solve inevitable problems in advance - yourself, your son, geek squad, etc. Windows is not like OSX/ChromeOS - it routinely gets borked by driver updates, registry corruption, mysterious hangs/slowdowns... I have a gaming laptop myself for Oculus, but keep a Chromebook for daily productivity, as something on Windows is likely to broken or laggy just when I need to send an urgent e-mail.
Parents can be jerks to their children in many ways, but knowingly gifting them a terrible (often fatal, but now treatable) genetic mutation is not usually something a parent would do.
Does not jibe with the world we have now. Families have known that a lot of their ancestors died from the same mysterous illness for centuries. People seem to very much do it.
Just like cash, but you can ship it between continents in less than a second. If this use of bitcoin rises as more people try out cryptocurrency, exchange rate against dollar will also rise. It's true that pure speculators holding lots of bitcoin passively can inflate the value further, just like with any currency. Also, bitcoin could concievably fade to obscurity because another cryptocurrency wins people over. But we can expect cryptocurrencies as a whole to appreciate as they gain adoption in the coming decades.
I edited some articles about Apple software that I knew works differently from what the article said. But I am unlikely to write a feature article. Probably half the edits is for grammar and tpyos?
So what was Hillary's plan to get people suffering from loss of manufacturing/mining jobs new jobs to support themselves? Trump promised protectionism and immigration curbs. Bernie promised free education to aquire new skills. I am not saying these are realistic plans, but at least they talked about the issue. What use is Hillary's maternity leave if you don't have a job to take a maternity leave from?
Snowflakes are not a left or right phenomena. If you voted for Hillary because she promised you healthcare or for Trump because he promised you jobs, you are not a snowflake. You are just a victim of a two party system and, although you are unlikely to get what you want, you went with a candidate who was at least talking about it. If you personally wearing a black or white hood and carrying a bicycle lock to a street protest, you are an idiot and a criminal, but you at least have some personal courage of terrorist variety. True snowflakes are those who urge antifa to brawl because if Ben Shapiro speaks on college campus we will have Fourth Reich. Or those who urge white supremacists to march because if local government decides to take down one monument, we will have white genocide. Millenials in parents basement who don't have much in stake personally but get their panties in the bunch. The sad thing that those in the basement will be likely survivers if moron in charge starts a nuclear war. That at least I think would have been slightly less likely with Hillary...