Most people like watching Netflix with one remote. You also have choices of Roku/Android/etc Smart TVs where you have same interface you would have on an extra stick. If not, or you changed your mind, by all means disable WiFi to cut back on overhead/eliminate unnecessary attack vectors. But in general, your TV will connect to Samsung, Netflix, and so on. They may spy on you but, if you are not on the radar of major intelligence agencies, this spying is not likely to have any practical impact on your life. So use functionality which you find useful and free to disable anything you have no interest in.
You want an oncall person to be able to quickly stop a contraversy or even a legal liability to the company. So if a Twitter employer sees a lot of crap coming out a high profile account, you want to be able to quickly shut it off to limit damage.
If you already have a current generation console, there is no reason for you to upgrade. At some point someone will buy a new console. This extra polish will convince them to choose Xbox over Playstation/Nintendo/PC/waiting some more time.
Intel stuff is a bunch of crap when it comes to slim laptops/tablet/phones. If AMD can come up with something capable of playing an average modern game or straming a 4K video, that would be very cool.
Even being in middle class, it's distressing to get an $200 bill for a week worth of supplies from Safeway. Upon close inspection, prices are Ok for obvious stuff like milk but pretty outrageous for anything slightly unusual like shampoo. It's also not down to making the margins, as Costco and asian grocery stories obviously manage to survive without such tricks. I can afford to swallow the increase, but I feel really sorry for common people who can't afford to drive to a further away store or just are not educated enough to figure out the nuances, If you have nothing but 7/11 in your neighborhood, you are fucked.
It's not like older people can't read a book and learn new stuff. Both presidential candidates in 2016 were around 70... Ok, maybe not the best example, but if you are not too old to be a POTUS, you are not too old to master machine learning. Sure, there is agism in Sillicon Valley, but there are gazillions of well paid consulting positions around the country, where you are likely to earn more than starting in a brand new field with no experience. A lot of government/medical/manufacturing systems use older technologies like MFC with few qualified experts and therefore high pay and good job security. Remember that nukes still run on floppies and Cobol jobs are still around. Unless that is you are bored and feel like doing something new and unrelated to CS, then you probably have some idea of what it might be. I know a lot of ex-coders in real estate. Suprisingly many are in outdoor adventure business because they are tired of sitting in the office and want sun on their faces. I would personally love to get into large scale infrastructure business like solar farms or power grid because I have always been curious as to how they work.
Like every modern laptop. Need a magnifying glass to get anything done on Chromebook Pro for example. With KDE, I can just change a setting and it works great.
Being a minority is a negative even when majority is very understanding. Like being gay in an majority-straight society, being a Jew in majority-Christian country, being a non-liberal in Sillicon Valley and so on. What AI may be missing is a human value of being yourself rather than being popular.
They still only offer TV on 80s style boxes and charge extra for HD. And refuse to sell good standalone internet without TV. That in the heart of Sillicon Valley, where people are painfully aware of the gap between what they are getting and what's possible in 2017. We need some hybrid middle range service between WiFi and cellular so that local companies can offer Internet service for a few blocks without breaking their backs on equipment.
Right to repair electronics ended with move from transistors to integrated chips. Even if manufacturer freely provides parts and manuals, a single chip can be a large part of device cost and replacing it can lose stored data. If device is subsidized by a deal with a wireless career or ongoing revenue from selling content, a standalone component can actually be more expensive than the whole device. And "delicate parts floating in hardened epoxy" may well be the best design for the user, but not a repair shop. What we can start with is repeal anti-circumvention laws, at least for the purposes of repair, so that people can at least try. Also charge seller the cost of clean recycling of the device during initial sale and therefore make repairs and upgrades by replacing small parts more lucrative than planned obsolecene.
Expense of physical infrastructure is already considerable compared to some AWS compute instances for Internet radio, who can afford payroll for every local station that people only listen to in the car? This way broadcast radio can be at least supported for a while longer. What we need is a good automated emergency broadcast system that authorities can use to provide information during natural disasters.
From what I read, Discovery is full of brush on diversity for the sake of diversity, not because how different characters enhance a story line. And also, Klingon commander is modeled after Trump. So anyway, I don't want to watch something like Rogue One and spoil my impression of the other series I used to love as well. Star Wars went south with Jar Jar Binks I think. And yes I know Gene Roddenberry was a socialist and earlier shows touch on politics of the day like cold war. But at the very least it's not politics that is around me right now and I can watch these episodes as some interesting stories happening in 24th century, not someone trying to moralize about the same things I am sick and tired of IRL.
System file open dialog or UI drag and drop will have no problem opening the file and granting a temporary permission to access it. Or LibreOffice can call an API to share a file with user's choice of an app. That's how it works everywhere.
Why should apps have access to all folders by default and then (only now) there is a feature to restrict certain folders? Why should most apps access anything except their own data? Android/iOS/OSX/Web have been like this forever, what is taking so long for Windows?
In not so distant past, you could code your own web server on a home desktop and make it available to any browser worldwide. With https you have to get a domain name and a certificate, adding ongooing expenses and implying someone needs to give you permission for what you want to serve to the world. Plus SSL is not something you can code from scratch on top of the OS as a hobby. We ought to at least establish a strong hobby Internet if commercial one has to be locked down.
There is also Debian noroot with some performance hit (it rewrite paths with strace). It's a shame that anything uses hardcoded paths in 2017. Ideally userland should run on Android/ChromeOS with at most a recompile and replacement "X" libraries that do native graphics.
Aren't you late to the party? In 2017, you should be lecturing us on correct use of preferred gender pronouns and evils of Columbus Day and Cinco De Mayo. Although I am curious on overlap between language Nazi crowds now and then. Maybe there is a generational tradition too?
My time is more important. If a page wants to use my CPU for whatever useful activity, that's fine. Will leave it up to browsers to limit CPU use when on battery and prioritize when other things need to be done on the device.
The threat I have rational reasons to worry about is domestic and foreign cybercrime. I don't know why NSA would want my data either, but they probably don't need a very strong reason. Kaspersky would be same for defense from the crooks and a little better for defense from NSA, so it's a keeper. Also it would be naive to expect to be able to defend oneself from a major spy agency without training that can probably only be given by another spy agency.
Probably because desktop itself is on the decline and new entry in the competition does not make sense. Mobile friendly options such as Android and Android compatible ChromeOS support a larger variety of business apps than Windows, although fewer of older ones. Accidentally, these are also Linux distributions.
So maybe we need volunteers to teach poor people to toggle "unknown sources" preference and sideload hardcore FOSS app store or custom ROM. But, how much are they missing really? The last big innovation for the poor were service economy apps like Uber and Instacart. You may sleep in the car but you can at least earn a little cash using the same car while awake. Anyway, those are already in the walled garden. What else do you have in mind - not saying it's impossible, but we need to be specific. I guess adult services/pot delivery may need a sideloaded apk.
If you are poor, you have other concerns like a place to live, food to eat (especially something that doesn't give you diabetes at 25), somone to watch kids while you go to an interview. A cheap prepaid phone with mobile data, has not been a limiting factor for many years. It's not that tech does not help at all, it's just that the potential has been tapped out at this point and other kinds of help are needed. At least in US, obviously greater access to cell phones has important practical uses in developing countries and refugee camps.
Screen recording is fully supported and available to any app. Note however that the system will ask you nicely if you want to allow a particular app to start capturing screen and this prompt can not be suppressed by the app. The user has a checkbox to allow the same app to do it silently in future. I don't know if Apple allows such access without user warning.
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Like "President Trump". Or "First Post"
Most people like watching Netflix with one remote. You also have choices of Roku/Android/etc Smart TVs where you have same interface you would have on an extra stick. If not, or you changed your mind, by all means disable WiFi to cut back on overhead/eliminate unnecessary attack vectors. But in general, your TV will connect to Samsung, Netflix, and so on. They may spy on you but, if you are not on the radar of major intelligence agencies, this spying is not likely to have any practical impact on your life. So use functionality which you find useful and free to disable anything you have no interest in.
You want an oncall person to be able to quickly stop a contraversy or even a legal liability to the company. So if a Twitter employer sees a lot of crap coming out a high profile account, you want to be able to quickly shut it off to limit damage.
Oh wait...
If you already have a current generation console, there is no reason for you to upgrade. At some point someone will buy a new console. This extra polish will convince them to choose Xbox over Playstation/Nintendo/PC/waiting some more time.
They probably have a bot that continiously polls high profile accounts for continued availability and a convinient reactivate button on SRE dashboard?
Intel stuff is a bunch of crap when it comes to slim laptops/tablet/phones. If AMD can come up with something capable of playing an average modern game or straming a 4K video, that would be very cool.
Even being in middle class, it's distressing to get an $200 bill for a week worth of supplies from Safeway. Upon close inspection, prices are Ok for obvious stuff like milk but pretty outrageous for anything slightly unusual like shampoo. It's also not down to making the margins, as Costco and asian grocery stories obviously manage to survive without such tricks. I can afford to swallow the increase, but I feel really sorry for common people who can't afford to drive to a further away store or just are not educated enough to figure out the nuances, If you have nothing but 7/11 in your neighborhood, you are fucked.
It's not like older people can't read a book and learn new stuff. Both presidential candidates in 2016 were around 70... Ok, maybe not the best example, but if you are not too old to be a POTUS, you are not too old to master machine learning. Sure, there is agism in Sillicon Valley, but there are gazillions of well paid consulting positions around the country, where you are likely to earn more than starting in a brand new field with no experience. A lot of government/medical/manufacturing systems use older technologies like MFC with few qualified experts and therefore high pay and good job security. Remember that nukes still run on floppies and Cobol jobs are still around. Unless that is you are bored and feel like doing something new and unrelated to CS, then you probably have some idea of what it might be. I know a lot of ex-coders in real estate. Suprisingly many are in outdoor adventure business because they are tired of sitting in the office and want sun on their faces. I would personally love to get into large scale infrastructure business like solar farms or power grid because I have always been curious as to how they work.
Like every modern laptop. Need a magnifying glass to get anything done on Chromebook Pro for example. With KDE, I can just change a setting and it works great.
Being a minority is a negative even when majority is very understanding. Like being gay in an majority-straight society, being a Jew in majority-Christian country, being a non-liberal in Sillicon Valley and so on. What AI may be missing is a human value of being yourself rather than being popular.
They still only offer TV on 80s style boxes and charge extra for HD. And refuse to sell good standalone internet without TV. That in the heart of Sillicon Valley, where people are painfully aware of the gap between what they are getting and what's possible in 2017. We need some hybrid middle range service between WiFi and cellular so that local companies can offer Internet service for a few blocks without breaking their backs on equipment.
Right to repair electronics ended with move from transistors to integrated chips. Even if manufacturer freely provides parts and manuals, a single chip can be a large part of device cost and replacing it can lose stored data. If device is subsidized by a deal with a wireless career or ongoing revenue from selling content, a standalone component can actually be more expensive than the whole device. And "delicate parts floating in hardened epoxy" may well be the best design for the user, but not a repair shop. What we can start with is repeal anti-circumvention laws, at least for the purposes of repair, so that people can at least try. Also charge seller the cost of clean recycling of the device during initial sale and therefore make repairs and upgrades by replacing small parts more lucrative than planned obsolecene.
Expense of physical infrastructure is already considerable compared to some AWS compute instances for Internet radio, who can afford payroll for every local station that people only listen to in the car? This way broadcast radio can be at least supported for a while longer. What we need is a good automated emergency broadcast system that authorities can use to provide information during natural disasters.
From what I read, Discovery is full of brush on diversity for the sake of diversity, not because how different characters enhance a story line. And also, Klingon commander is modeled after Trump. So anyway, I don't want to watch something like Rogue One and spoil my impression of the other series I used to love as well. Star Wars went south with Jar Jar Binks I think. And yes I know Gene Roddenberry was a socialist and earlier shows touch on politics of the day like cold war. But at the very least it's not politics that is around me right now and I can watch these episodes as some interesting stories happening in 24th century, not someone trying to moralize about the same things I am sick and tired of IRL.
System file open dialog or UI drag and drop will have no problem opening the file and granting a temporary permission to access it. Or LibreOffice can call an API to share a file with user's choice of an app. That's how it works everywhere.
Why should apps have access to all folders by default and then (only now) there is a feature to restrict certain folders? Why should most apps access anything except their own data? Android/iOS/OSX/Web have been like this forever, what is taking so long for Windows?
In not so distant past, you could code your own web server on a home desktop and make it available to any browser worldwide. With https you have to get a domain name and a certificate, adding ongooing expenses and implying someone needs to give you permission for what you want to serve to the world. Plus SSL is not something you can code from scratch on top of the OS as a hobby. We ought to at least establish a strong hobby Internet if commercial one has to be locked down.
There is also Debian noroot with some performance hit (it rewrite paths with strace). It's a shame that anything uses hardcoded paths in 2017. Ideally userland should run on Android/ChromeOS with at most a recompile and replacement "X" libraries that do native graphics.
Aren't you late to the party? In 2017, you should be lecturing us on correct use of preferred gender pronouns and evils of Columbus Day and Cinco De Mayo. Although I am curious on overlap between language Nazi crowds now and then. Maybe there is a generational tradition too?
My time is more important. If a page wants to use my CPU for whatever useful activity, that's fine. Will leave it up to browsers to limit CPU use when on battery and prioritize when other things need to be done on the device.
The threat I have rational reasons to worry about is domestic and foreign cybercrime. I don't know why NSA would want my data either, but they probably don't need a very strong reason. Kaspersky would be same for defense from the crooks and a little better for defense from NSA, so it's a keeper. Also it would be naive to expect to be able to defend oneself from a major spy agency without training that can probably only be given by another spy agency.
Probably because desktop itself is on the decline and new entry in the competition does not make sense. Mobile friendly options such as Android and Android compatible ChromeOS support a larger variety of business apps than Windows, although fewer of older ones. Accidentally, these are also Linux distributions.
So maybe we need volunteers to teach poor people to toggle "unknown sources" preference and sideload hardcore FOSS app store or custom ROM. But, how much are they missing really? The last big innovation for the poor were service economy apps like Uber and Instacart. You may sleep in the car but you can at least earn a little cash using the same car while awake. Anyway, those are already in the walled garden. What else do you have in mind - not saying it's impossible, but we need to be specific. I guess adult services/pot delivery may need a sideloaded apk.
If you are poor, you have other concerns like a place to live, food to eat (especially something that doesn't give you diabetes at 25), somone to watch kids while you go to an interview. A cheap prepaid phone with mobile data, has not been a limiting factor for many years. It's not that tech does not help at all, it's just that the potential has been tapped out at this point and other kinds of help are needed. At least in US, obviously greater access to cell phones has important practical uses in developing countries and refugee camps.
Screen recording is fully supported and available to any app. Note however that the system will ask you nicely if you want to allow a particular app to start capturing screen and this prompt can not be suppressed by the app. The user has a checkbox to allow the same app to do it silently in future. I don't know if Apple allows such access without user warning.