I'm wondering whether we will eventually get a trustworthy western corporation with their own version of Android that doesn't snoop so much. I have an old Android phone that my kid uses and that thing lasts almost a week on a single charge of the 1800 mAh battery. We opted not to sign in to a Google account when configuring the device and disabled mobile internet. I imagine you could probably have a phone that ran quite a bit longer if you were willing to put up with some minor inconveniences like only polling for new mail periodically.
I really don't need that much stuff from Google Play at this point and could probably go completely Google free by replacing most of what I do on my phone with open source alternatives. My needs are pretty basic, and could probably be filled by having a good browser like (Firefox perhaps) and simple email, messaging, and phone tools
Yes, but in terms of being a settlement, only Mars makes sense as Venus and Mercury are both way too hot to be anywhere close to hospitable. Mars, despite being further away has many qualities that make a good candidate for a permanent settlement.
Funnily enough, gait recognition is directly mentioned in Cory Doctorow's Book, Little Brother, which is based around the theme of living in a police state. The main character avoids the gait detection in his school by sticking rocks in his shoes.
Am I the only one who would want larger cards in exchange for similar speeds to desktop storage? Something about the size of Compact Flash, but with the ability to work as similar to an actual SSD found on a desktop or laptop. 985 Mb/s is quite slow in comparison to the 500 MB/s we have with desktop storage media. Maybe the power requirements are too high or there are other reasons it won't work. I'd love to be able to take a standard M.2 drive and stick in my phone or camera, even if we have to increase the size of the devices by a bit to accommodate this.
Simply having the storage soldered to the board is too much of a problem for me. M.2 drives don't take up that much space, and are a much better solution to soldering the storage directly to the board. Even if you plan to never use anything other than MacOS, having the storage soldered to the board is a completely ridiculous idea with no other reason than to prevent people from upgrading/fixing the machine by themselves in the future.
This is proof that many people buying Apple products will buy their products regardless of how bad of a deal it is. The type of connector makes little difference in most people's lives, but the refusal of Apple to give a quick charger on such an expensive phone is simply inexcusable. There is no reason other than greed and charging the customer extra for the privilege of fast charging.
If news companies don't want Google indexing their content, they should just say so in their robots.txt file. There's no reason for Google to completely abandon the EU, and there's no reason for content owners to complain that others are indexing their content when they have a perfectly functionality way of controlling whether or not the content is indexed.
I wonder how much of this is due to slow I/O. I've noticed that machines that would have been fine 5 years ago are terribly slow because they don't have an SSD. As soon as you put in an actually SSD, many of the performance problems seem to disappear. I think they've completely stopped optimizing their operating system for anything that doesn't have an SSD.
Not sure about the Windows ones, but I bought a chromebook with 4GB RAM for my kid similar to these low end laptops and I was quite impressed with the speed and functionality.
I think that if they put an actual SSD in these machine as opposed to EMMC (SSDs are ridiculously cheap now), and 4 GB of RAM, then these machine should run pretty well. Most tasks don't require high end CPUs. I have a 10 year old machine with 4GB ram and I put an SSD in there and it just flies for basic tasks
The problem is that building the smart TV functionality into it kills the experience. You can opt out of connecting it to the network, but it's still going to have a boot up time and the interface of a smart TV. They've made the apps and other smart TV features easy to access but made it harder to just do normal things such as select the input or enable the headphones for sound.
Also, I really don't think it would be any more expensive. Sure they get money from data collection, but software development isn't free, and neither is the hardware that runs that software. That's just them trying to justify why the TVs should be Smart TVs.
Things are about to get pretty interesting in this respect. For the last century we've been focusing on automating physical labour and we've made a lot of headway, but automating data oriented tasks has been kind of ignored. Sure we've introduced computers into the workplace, but we haven't done a lot of work to make sure we are using them efficiently.
I've seen countless organizations who had 2 systems that didn't communicate with one another so they just employed a bunch of people to copy and paste data between them, and never thought of whether it could be done better and/or cheaper if they just did a little bit of programming to glue the systems together.
Very few companies realize how much time they are wasting when they don't have a good system that is tailored to their needs. There are so many companies working in an Outlook + Excel + Word culture where they don't have any real processes, nobody knows what anybody else is doing, and they aren't really taking full advantage of the computers sitting on their desks.
For a gaming machine with a 17 inch screen, 1080p is fine. If they were targeting it as a portable workstation I would agree, but for games it makes a lot of sense. Wide screen with high refresh and acceptable resolution is fine.
I really have to wonder who's buying these machines. They are quite expensive for the specs. I understand the need for portability, but you could easily build something that fit into a briefcase or two for good portability while still keeping the cost more affordable and getting much better performance. It's not like you can really plan them unplugged anyway. Most of them required dual external power supplies and don't get more than an hour unplugged, if that. We used to have LAN parties just fine when all we had were CRTs and Full size towers. It's not like you actually can use most of these machines as you would a normal laptop, so you might as well stop trying to make a laptop form factor machine and just go for something that can be moved easily.
And if you choose to go with someone other than Samsung, like AData or Kingston, the prince is even better. It's only about $45 Canadian for a 240 GB SSD. Which makes it even more insane. Who's using eMMC storage when a proper SSD is so cheap.
I stopped using any of the smart TV features on my TV over the summer. I got a refurb small form factor PC and plugged in the HDMI to my TV. Windows is a little clunky, but it runs way better than whatever was on my TV. Runs Netflix, Plex, tons of web browser based TV channels, and anything else you would ever want on your TV. Easily connects to a VPN and can even run a bunch of games. I tried a couple Android boxes, but they were terrible and there was a bunch of apps that just didn't run. I don't think there's a smart TV or other TV box that beats having an actual PC hooked up to your TV.
The important thing to remember is that Disney already has a trademark on Mickey, and that will never expire. So it still stops people from producing new works with Mickey in them even if Steamboat Willie goes into the public domain. Haivng Steamboat Willie in the public domain only allows us to make copies of the original without getting autorization from Disney.
It's not a hard and fast rule though. Nintendo upgraded the 3DS and created the "New 3DS". There were very few games released that were exclusive to the "New 3DS". Only a handful of retail releases and a bunch of SNES ports that you could buy online. The most noteable were Minecraft and Xenoblade Chronicles.
I think this part of the problem. They have removed all ability for me to rate movies effectively. It's all thumbs up or thumbs down. There is no way to tell them I liked one movie more than another, simply that I liked them both. The star rating system made so much more sense. I still don't understand why they got rid of that.
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But it does mean that the executable file wasn't altered in transit.
I'm wondering whether we will eventually get a trustworthy western corporation with their own version of Android that doesn't snoop so much. I have an old Android phone that my kid uses and that thing lasts almost a week on a single charge of the 1800 mAh battery. We opted not to sign in to a Google account when configuring the device and disabled mobile internet. I imagine you could probably have a phone that ran quite a bit longer if you were willing to put up with some minor inconveniences like only polling for new mail periodically.
I really don't need that much stuff from Google Play at this point and could probably go completely Google free by replacing most of what I do on my phone with open source alternatives. My needs are pretty basic, and could probably be filled by having a good browser like (Firefox perhaps) and simple email, messaging, and phone tools
Yes, but in terms of being a settlement, only Mars makes sense as Venus and Mercury are both way too hot to be anywhere close to hospitable. Mars, despite being further away has many qualities that make a good candidate for a permanent settlement.
Finally, something my computer can run.
Good old Rubber Hose Cryptanalysis
Funnily enough, gait recognition is directly mentioned in Cory Doctorow's Book, Little Brother, which is based around the theme of living in a police state. The main character avoids the gait detection in his school by sticking rocks in his shoes.
Am I the only one who would want larger cards in exchange for similar speeds to desktop storage? Something about the size of Compact Flash, but with the ability to work as similar to an actual SSD found on a desktop or laptop. 985 Mb/s is quite slow in comparison to the 500 MB/s we have with desktop storage media. Maybe the power requirements are too high or there are other reasons it won't work. I'd love to be able to take a standard M.2 drive and stick in my phone or camera, even if we have to increase the size of the devices by a bit to accommodate this.
Simply having the storage soldered to the board is too much of a problem for me. M.2 drives don't take up that much space, and are a much better solution to soldering the storage directly to the board. Even if you plan to never use anything other than MacOS, having the storage soldered to the board is a completely ridiculous idea with no other reason than to prevent people from upgrading/fixing the machine by themselves in the future.
This is proof that many people buying Apple products will buy their products regardless of how bad of a deal it is. The type of connector makes little difference in most people's lives, but the refusal of Apple to give a quick charger on such an expensive phone is simply inexcusable. There is no reason other than greed and charging the customer extra for the privilege of fast charging.
I'm willing to take the hit for the "format as table" feature that Excel has.
Black socks, they never get dirty, the longer you wear them, the stronger they get.
Sometimes I think I should wash them, but something keeps telling me, no no, not yet.
If news companies don't want Google indexing their content, they should just say so in their robots.txt file. There's no reason for Google to completely abandon the EU, and there's no reason for content owners to complain that others are indexing their content when they have a perfectly functionality way of controlling whether or not the content is indexed.
I wonder how much of this is due to slow I/O. I've noticed that machines that would have been fine 5 years ago are terribly slow because they don't have an SSD. As soon as you put in an actually SSD, many of the performance problems seem to disappear. I think they've completely stopped optimizing their operating system for anything that doesn't have an SSD.
Not sure about the Windows ones, but I bought a chromebook with 4GB RAM for my kid similar to these low end laptops and I was quite impressed with the speed and functionality.
I think that if they put an actual SSD in these machine as opposed to EMMC (SSDs are ridiculously cheap now), and 4 GB of RAM, then these machine should run pretty well. Most tasks don't require high end CPUs. I have a 10 year old machine with 4GB ram and I put an SSD in there and it just flies for basic tasks
The problem is that building the smart TV functionality into it kills the experience. You can opt out of connecting it to the network, but it's still going to have a boot up time and the interface of a smart TV. They've made the apps and other smart TV features easy to access but made it harder to just do normal things such as select the input or enable the headphones for sound.
Also, I really don't think it would be any more expensive. Sure they get money from data collection, but software development isn't free, and neither is the hardware that runs that software. That's just them trying to justify why the TVs should be Smart TVs.
Things are about to get pretty interesting in this respect. For the last century we've been focusing on automating physical labour and we've made a lot of headway, but automating data oriented tasks has been kind of ignored. Sure we've introduced computers into the workplace, but we haven't done a lot of work to make sure we are using them efficiently.
I've seen countless organizations who had 2 systems that didn't communicate with one another so they just employed a bunch of people to copy and paste data between them, and never thought of whether it could be done better and/or cheaper if they just did a little bit of programming to glue the systems together.
Very few companies realize how much time they are wasting when they don't have a good system that is tailored to their needs. There are so many companies working in an Outlook + Excel + Word culture where they don't have any real processes, nobody knows what anybody else is doing, and they aren't really taking full advantage of the computers sitting on their desks.
For a gaming machine with a 17 inch screen, 1080p is fine. If they were targeting it as a portable workstation I would agree, but for games it makes a lot of sense. Wide screen with high refresh and acceptable resolution is fine.
I really have to wonder who's buying these machines. They are quite expensive for the specs. I understand the need for portability, but you could easily build something that fit into a briefcase or two for good portability while still keeping the cost more affordable and getting much better performance. It's not like you can really plan them unplugged anyway. Most of them required dual external power supplies and don't get more than an hour unplugged, if that. We used to have LAN parties just fine when all we had were CRTs and Full size towers. It's not like you actually can use most of these machines as you would a normal laptop, so you might as well stop trying to make a laptop form factor machine and just go for something that can be moved easily.
And if you choose to go with someone other than Samsung, like AData or Kingston, the prince is even better. It's only about $45 Canadian for a 240 GB SSD. Which makes it even more insane. Who's using eMMC storage when a proper SSD is so cheap.
I stopped using any of the smart TV features on my TV over the summer. I got a refurb small form factor PC and plugged in the HDMI to my TV. Windows is a little clunky, but it runs way better than whatever was on my TV. Runs Netflix, Plex, tons of web browser based TV channels, and anything else you would ever want on your TV. Easily connects to a VPN and can even run a bunch of games. I tried a couple Android boxes, but they were terrible and there was a bunch of apps that just didn't run. I don't think there's a smart TV or other TV box that beats having an actual PC hooked up to your TV.
The most popular one is probably Netflix. If you use Netflix on an Android device you have used WideVine.
The important thing to remember is that Disney already has a trademark on Mickey, and that will never expire. So it still stops people from producing new works with Mickey in them even if Steamboat Willie goes into the public domain. Haivng Steamboat Willie in the public domain only allows us to make copies of the original without getting autorization from Disney.
It's not a hard and fast rule though. Nintendo upgraded the 3DS and created the "New 3DS". There were very few games released that were exclusive to the "New 3DS". Only a handful of retail releases and a bunch of SNES ports that you could buy online. The most noteable were Minecraft and Xenoblade Chronicles.
Does China even care?
This is the country with fake apple stores, pirate movie booths on every street corner, and many other counterfeit goods.
I think this part of the problem. They have removed all ability for me to rate movies effectively. It's all thumbs up or thumbs down. There is no way to tell them I liked one movie more than another, simply that I liked them both. The star rating system made so much more sense. I still don't understand why they got rid of that.