Well, to be fair, at 40 inches, 4k actually starts to make sense. It's basically the same as 4, 1080p monitors, each being 20 inches. So, you could basically get a similar layout by purchasing 4 smaller monitors, and then arranging them in big rectangle. Plus, as I said in another post, arranging windows is easier on multiple monitors.
Personally, While 1 large monitor could have some advantages, I feel that many smaller monitors actually work better. Most window managers don't really handle a single large monitor as well as many small ones. For instance, I can just maximize a bunch of different applications, each on different monitor. Only takes a few clicks. To do something similar with multiple monitors, I'd have to do a lot of manual movement and resizing of windows to get things to line up right. I have 3 17 inch (4:3) monitors on my desk right now. 17 inch monitors are fine for a single window. I could see how having them slightly larger would be nice, but I'd much rather have 3, 17 inch monitors than a single 40 inch monitor, no matter the resolution.
You switched to Android because you iPhone couldn't get an update? Hope you picked the right model. Android phones have terrible track records for receiving updates. Many of them never receive an update after leaving the factory floor. People say the Nexus line of phones get better support, but I'm not sure if I believe that. The Nexus One is stuck on Gingerbread (2.3) after only being released in 2010. The Nexus S is only at 4.1, Then Galaxy Nexus is at 4.2 or 4.3 depending on the hardware revision. The only ones you can run the latest OS on are the Nexus 4 and 5, the former of which is only from late 2012. Meanwhile, in with Apple, IOS 7 is supported all the way back to the iPhone 4, which was released in early 2011.
I don't know, but as far as I've seen, putting scripting abilities, and other programming provisions, in browsers has lead to way more security problems than allowing people to run arbitrary executables. At least when I run arbitrary executables I get to decide which ones to run. They are downloaded to my computer, which can then run virus scans on them. Compare that to browser run code, where a small hole in the sandbox can lead to a users computer running all sorts of things, just from visiting a webpage.
Well, it may not have an EXE extension, but in Linux and OSX, you can surely download a file, set the executable bit, and execute the program. There might be Linux and OSX configurations where the user does not have the right to set the executable bit, but again, it's not the norm. IOS, Android, and WinRT all allow programs to be download and run from the appropriate app store, and I can't see why you wouldn't want to just put an app on the apps store but would rather try to coerce a browser to do something it wasn't really meant to do in the first place. Consoles and games systems are much less easy to get your foot in the door in terms of development, but that's hardly a reason to develop a paint program in a browser.
What I want to know is, Why does Ford need this data? I understand why people would have a GPS in their car, and why a recording of their actions might be stored on the car (although even more than a short history should be easily erased), but why doesn't this information need to be transmitted back to the car company at all? I bet most people, when asked about whether or not they want a GPS system are not told that the GPS will send information back to the manufacturer about their every movement.
Who has to "install" a program. You can download an EXE and run it without installing it. This part of the reason that Google Chrome got so popular so fast. You didn't have to install anything. It didn't require administrator access. Very few machines are locked down so much that you can't run arbitrary EXEs. Just about any system I've ever used would let you run whichever executable you wanted. Now, if you wanted to write files outside your home directory, or open up listening ports, that's a whole other story, but I don't think I've ever used a system where an arbitrary exe (not counting specific viruses) weren't allowed to run.
Exactly. you can't have it both ways. The driver either has to be in control all the time, or the car has to be in control all the time. You can't expect the driver to be an idle passenger 99% of the time and still expect them to be able to react quickly and properly when the computer decides it doesn't know what to do.
I think the simple answer is, why do you need a browser based paint program? Because you can is a good reason, but are there any other reasons. You could just as easily build a pain program using more traditional methods, and if you need to communicate with a server, you can just send stuff to the server, using HTTP if you like. There's very little reason to actually have the program running in the browser.
You still need to encrypt the email as it's being sent out to the recipients, and you still need the incoming email to be encrypted as it's getting initially sent to Yahoo's servers. It doesn't matter if it's encrypted when you're reading it if it was already intercepted before it got to your inbox. Simillarly, it doesn't matter if the message you're sending is encrypted between you and Yahoo if Yahoo sends it in plain text to the recipient.
Yeah, this reminds me of my security professor's opinion on SSL. It's great at what it does, but it pretty much does nothing to stop your credit card number from being stolen. It's a good idea to encrypt your credit card information when sending it to the online store. It's a better idea to come up with a payment system where you don't have to send your credit card info to the online store. Personally, I think that PayPal has done more for payment security than SSL has. At least with PayPal, only they need to know my credit card details, and the seller still gets their money. Ideally the credit card companies would have set up a system. So that nobody outside you and the credit card company has to know your credentials. The store just needs a cryptographically signed receipt saying that the money was transferred.
Actually, If you're given the source, and allowed to modify the source, and run the modified source, then it is for all intents and purposes open source. Just because you have to pay to have access to that, doesn't mean it's not open source. If there's a problem, you are still able to fix the problem yourself, which is the main tenet of open source software.
Not only that, it says "can be compiled for Linux, Mac, and Android". What about Windows? I'm all for using free software, but putting out a product like this and then ignoring the most popular operating system in the world by a long shot seems to be like they're asking for it to fail. It's like like they're only targeting free operating systems, as Mac somehow made the list.
But was Kodak ever a big player in the camera market? I know they made film, and photographic paper, but don't ever recall them being particularly valued for their cameras. Sure they had cameras, but Kodak was first and foremost a film company. For them, embracing the new technology would have meant completely changing what their business was all about. Camera manufacturers on the other hand, had a much easier time. Most of them just took their existing film camera, and put a CCD where the film would usually go. A much easier transition than trying to figure out what to di with a bunch of film factories when they were no longer needed.
As far as WWII goes, it's like the old saying, hindsight is 20/20. Sure there were decisions that were made, both by foreign government after WWI and by individual citizens in Germany that lead to the Nazi uprising. But once the Nazis got to a point of power, there wasn't any option other than war to stop them.
My mobile phone provider has had something similar for a while. If you visit 0.facebook.com you get to browse Facebook for free. It offers a minimal version of the website, but still allows you to read your message, and update your status. It's good for everybody involved. Because the site is very minimalistic, the it's less traffic on the network. The user gets free access to Facebook. And Facebook get more people visiting their site, more often. If companies want to pay for my bandwidth then that's better than me paying for it. Although somehow I think they are getting billed $1 per MB like the customers.
Yeah, keep your eyes open at the thrift store and you can get decent routers there for $10. Just remember to bring your internet enabled cell phone to check for model numbers so you know how to distinguish the ones with a 4 MB ROM from the ones with a 1 MB Rom. I've picked up a couple of routers this way. Amazing what these little boxes can do with some custom firmware.
I was a little hesitant about going for a phone with no buttons, but personally, It's been the best phone I've ever had. My phone without buttons (not and iPhone, but brand doesn't matter here) has actually lasted the longest of all my cellphones. In every other phone I've had, some of the buttons, or the flip of screen, or some other movable aspect of the phone brakes. When there's no moving parts on the phone, there's just much less to brake. Actually, my phone still has volume and power buttons, which I'd wish they'd find a way to get rid of.
Yeah, recently used my mother-in-law's phone over the holidays, and I have to say that I abhor the Apple keyboard. The keys always show upper case letters, which comping from somebody who's used to Android, I found this quite annoying. The only difference between "shift" being pressed is whether or not the arrow is filled in, and I can't tell you if filled in arrow means that the shift key is on or off.
I think they are still 2 completely different markets. Adidas isn't going to stop making soccer cleats because there's more people who watch soccer than play soccer. Similary, the console and phone/tablet games markets aren't really that closely related except insofar as they are both about video games. I think the only major change is that the entire video game market is getting bigger, because you can easily get someone who already owns a cell phone to spend $2 on a game. Personally, as someone who has a Wii, a tablet, and a cellphone, I still end up doing most of my gaming on the Wii, because I just like playing on on a big screen, with a real controller so much more fun.
I seriously don't know why most people just don't use a program like PasswordSafe of Keepass and just be done with the whole problem. Just 1 password to remember, and you can have complicated, unique passwords for every single system, and not have to remember any of them. You can also get apps that read the encrypted password files for your phone, and tablet, so you don't really have to worry about being without your passwords. Typing in your master password on your phone can be a little cumbersome, but it's not something you'll have to do every day.
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Really? We're getting announcements before games are even started development now? Seems a little early to get everyone all excited about a product that hasn't even started development yet. Let m know when the product has a solid release date.
How does it make any difference what language the swear words are in when they are said on network TV? Obviously, for a language as widespread as Chinese there will be quite a large number of people who understand exactly what is being said. Would it be OK if all the swears were in Spanish? Because there would probably be quite a few people in the US (depending on which state) where a large number of people understand exactly what is being said. What about shows like Battlestar Galactica, where they just made up a word and continually said "frack". Personally, I found it kind of annoying, as that's the only word that changed in the whole English language, and hearing it jarred my brain, and snapped me out of the immersion of watching the show. The sentiment and meaning was exactly the same, so why not use the real word. That's why I really liked House Of Cards. Because they don't actually show it on TV, they can put whatever they want in the show. Use whatever words they want, show whatever body parts they want, and make the episodes exactly as long as they need to be, without having to worry about what anybody thinks of it except whether or not their desired viewers will like it.
While your language is a bit harsh, I agree with you. For the people who don't like it, they may have not used it on a touch screen, or simply haven't used it enough to get used to it. Personally, I find it way better than any other touch OS out there. Sure not all machines have touch interfaces, but all laptops and tablets (of course) will in the next 2-3 years, and I would bet that many desktops will also ship with a touch screen. I have to admit, I kind of don't like it on my old laptop. But on my Surface 2, the UI is fast, and everything is really quickly accessible. For tablets nothing beats it because it's the only one that (by default) supports running 2 apps at the same time. Also you can switch between apps with a flick of your finger.
I can understand why they would want to put a NIC in a vending machine. However, I can't understand for the life of me why they would want to build their own NICs. That's something that would ideally be outsourced to another company. Even if you're talking millions of vending machines, it doesn't sense for a cola company to start making their own NICs. They'll probably still outsource the actual NIC construction and just get the manufacturer to use their MAC addresses. Still don't see a point though. Sure, if they own them, they can ensure that all their machines have similar NICs, and are identifiable as such, but the MAC address doesn't get past the first hop anyway, so it's not like you could identify them remotely in most circumstances. E
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Well, to be fair, at 40 inches, 4k actually starts to make sense. It's basically the same as 4, 1080p monitors, each being 20 inches. So, you could basically get a similar layout by purchasing 4 smaller monitors, and then arranging them in big rectangle. Plus, as I said in another post, arranging windows is easier on multiple monitors.
Personally, While 1 large monitor could have some advantages, I feel that many smaller monitors actually work better. Most window managers don't really handle a single large monitor as well as many small ones. For instance, I can just maximize a bunch of different applications, each on different monitor. Only takes a few clicks. To do something similar with multiple monitors, I'd have to do a lot of manual movement and resizing of windows to get things to line up right. I have 3 17 inch (4:3) monitors on my desk right now. 17 inch monitors are fine for a single window. I could see how having them slightly larger would be nice, but I'd much rather have 3, 17 inch monitors than a single 40 inch monitor, no matter the resolution.
You switched to Android because you iPhone couldn't get an update? Hope you picked the right model. Android phones have terrible track records for receiving updates. Many of them never receive an update after leaving the factory floor. People say the Nexus line of phones get better support, but I'm not sure if I believe that. The Nexus One is stuck on Gingerbread (2.3) after only being released in 2010. The Nexus S is only at 4.1, Then Galaxy Nexus is at 4.2 or 4.3 depending on the hardware revision. The only ones you can run the latest OS on are the Nexus 4 and 5, the former of which is only from late 2012. Meanwhile, in with Apple, IOS 7 is supported all the way back to the iPhone 4, which was released in early 2011.
I don't know, but as far as I've seen, putting scripting abilities, and other programming provisions, in browsers has lead to way more security problems than allowing people to run arbitrary executables. At least when I run arbitrary executables I get to decide which ones to run. They are downloaded to my computer, which can then run virus scans on them. Compare that to browser run code, where a small hole in the sandbox can lead to a users computer running all sorts of things, just from visiting a webpage.
Well, it may not have an EXE extension, but in Linux and OSX, you can surely download a file, set the executable bit, and execute the program. There might be Linux and OSX configurations where the user does not have the right to set the executable bit, but again, it's not the norm. IOS, Android, and WinRT all allow programs to be download and run from the appropriate app store, and I can't see why you wouldn't want to just put an app on the apps store but would rather try to coerce a browser to do something it wasn't really meant to do in the first place. Consoles and games systems are much less easy to get your foot in the door in terms of development, but that's hardly a reason to develop a paint program in a browser.
What I want to know is, Why does Ford need this data? I understand why people would have a GPS in their car, and why a recording of their actions might be stored on the car (although even more than a short history should be easily erased), but why doesn't this information need to be transmitted back to the car company at all? I bet most people, when asked about whether or not they want a GPS system are not told that the GPS will send information back to the manufacturer about their every movement.
Who has to "install" a program. You can download an EXE and run it without installing it. This part of the reason that Google Chrome got so popular so fast. You didn't have to install anything. It didn't require administrator access. Very few machines are locked down so much that you can't run arbitrary EXEs. Just about any system I've ever used would let you run whichever executable you wanted. Now, if you wanted to write files outside your home directory, or open up listening ports, that's a whole other story, but I don't think I've ever used a system where an arbitrary exe (not counting specific viruses) weren't allowed to run.
Exactly. you can't have it both ways. The driver either has to be in control all the time, or the car has to be in control all the time. You can't expect the driver to be an idle passenger 99% of the time and still expect them to be able to react quickly and properly when the computer decides it doesn't know what to do.
I think the simple answer is, why do you need a browser based paint program? Because you can is a good reason, but are there any other reasons. You could just as easily build a pain program using more traditional methods, and if you need to communicate with a server, you can just send stuff to the server, using HTTP if you like. There's very little reason to actually have the program running in the browser.
You still need to encrypt the email as it's being sent out to the recipients, and you still need the incoming email to be encrypted as it's getting initially sent to Yahoo's servers. It doesn't matter if it's encrypted when you're reading it if it was already intercepted before it got to your inbox. Simillarly, it doesn't matter if the message you're sending is encrypted between you and Yahoo if Yahoo sends it in plain text to the recipient.
Yeah, this reminds me of my security professor's opinion on SSL. It's great at what it does, but it pretty much does nothing to stop your credit card number from being stolen. It's a good idea to encrypt your credit card information when sending it to the online store. It's a better idea to come up with a payment system where you don't have to send your credit card info to the online store. Personally, I think that PayPal has done more for payment security than SSL has. At least with PayPal, only they need to know my credit card details, and the seller still gets their money. Ideally the credit card companies would have set up a system. So that nobody outside you and the credit card company has to know your credentials. The store just needs a cryptographically signed receipt saying that the money was transferred.
Actually, If you're given the source, and allowed to modify the source, and run the modified source, then it is for all intents and purposes open source. Just because you have to pay to have access to that, doesn't mean it's not open source. If there's a problem, you are still able to fix the problem yourself, which is the main tenet of open source software.
Not only that, it says "can be compiled for Linux, Mac, and Android". What about Windows? I'm all for using free software, but putting out a product like this and then ignoring the most popular operating system in the world by a long shot seems to be like they're asking for it to fail. It's like like they're only targeting free operating systems, as Mac somehow made the list.
But was Kodak ever a big player in the camera market? I know they made film, and photographic paper, but don't ever recall them being particularly valued for their cameras. Sure they had cameras, but Kodak was first and foremost a film company. For them, embracing the new technology would have meant completely changing what their business was all about. Camera manufacturers on the other hand, had a much easier time. Most of them just took their existing film camera, and put a CCD where the film would usually go. A much easier transition than trying to figure out what to di with a bunch of film factories when they were no longer needed.
As far as WWII goes, it's like the old saying, hindsight is 20/20. Sure there were decisions that were made, both by foreign government after WWI and by individual citizens in Germany that lead to the Nazi uprising. But once the Nazis got to a point of power, there wasn't any option other than war to stop them.
My mobile phone provider has had something similar for a while. If you visit 0.facebook.com you get to browse Facebook for free. It offers a minimal version of the website, but still allows you to read your message, and update your status. It's good for everybody involved. Because the site is very minimalistic, the it's less traffic on the network. The user gets free access to Facebook. And Facebook get more people visiting their site, more often. If companies want to pay for my bandwidth then that's better than me paying for it. Although somehow I think they are getting billed $1 per MB like the customers.
Yeah, keep your eyes open at the thrift store and you can get decent routers there for $10. Just remember to bring your internet enabled cell phone to check for model numbers so you know how to distinguish the ones with a 4 MB ROM from the ones with a 1 MB Rom. I've picked up a couple of routers this way. Amazing what these little boxes can do with some custom firmware.
I was a little hesitant about going for a phone with no buttons, but personally, It's been the best phone I've ever had. My phone without buttons (not and iPhone, but brand doesn't matter here) has actually lasted the longest of all my cellphones. In every other phone I've had, some of the buttons, or the flip of screen, or some other movable aspect of the phone brakes. When there's no moving parts on the phone, there's just much less to brake. Actually, my phone still has volume and power buttons, which I'd wish they'd find a way to get rid of.
Yeah, recently used my mother-in-law's phone over the holidays, and I have to say that I abhor the Apple keyboard. The keys always show upper case letters, which comping from somebody who's used to Android, I found this quite annoying. The only difference between "shift" being pressed is whether or not the arrow is filled in, and I can't tell you if filled in arrow means that the shift key is on or off.
I think they are still 2 completely different markets. Adidas isn't going to stop making soccer cleats because there's more people who watch soccer than play soccer. Similary, the console and phone/tablet games markets aren't really that closely related except insofar as they are both about video games. I think the only major change is that the entire video game market is getting bigger, because you can easily get someone who already owns a cell phone to spend $2 on a game. Personally, as someone who has a Wii, a tablet, and a cellphone, I still end up doing most of my gaming on the Wii, because I just like playing on on a big screen, with a real controller so much more fun.
I seriously don't know why most people just don't use a program like PasswordSafe of Keepass and just be done with the whole problem. Just 1 password to remember, and you can have complicated, unique passwords for every single system, and not have to remember any of them. You can also get apps that read the encrypted password files for your phone, and tablet, so you don't really have to worry about being without your passwords. Typing in your master password on your phone can be a little cumbersome, but it's not something you'll have to do every day.
Really? We're getting announcements before games are even started development now? Seems a little early to get everyone all excited about a product that hasn't even started development yet. Let m know when the product has a solid release date.
How does it make any difference what language the swear words are in when they are said on network TV? Obviously, for a language as widespread as Chinese there will be quite a large number of people who understand exactly what is being said. Would it be OK if all the swears were in Spanish? Because there would probably be quite a few people in the US (depending on which state) where a large number of people understand exactly what is being said. What about shows like Battlestar Galactica, where they just made up a word and continually said "frack". Personally, I found it kind of annoying, as that's the only word that changed in the whole English language, and hearing it jarred my brain, and snapped me out of the immersion of watching the show. The sentiment and meaning was exactly the same, so why not use the real word. That's why I really liked House Of Cards. Because they don't actually show it on TV, they can put whatever they want in the show. Use whatever words they want, show whatever body parts they want, and make the episodes exactly as long as they need to be, without having to worry about what anybody thinks of it except whether or not their desired viewers will like it.
While your language is a bit harsh, I agree with you. For the people who don't like it, they may have not used it on a touch screen, or simply haven't used it enough to get used to it. Personally, I find it way better than any other touch OS out there. Sure not all machines have touch interfaces, but all laptops and tablets (of course) will in the next 2-3 years, and I would bet that many desktops will also ship with a touch screen. I have to admit, I kind of don't like it on my old laptop. But on my Surface 2, the UI is fast, and everything is really quickly accessible. For tablets nothing beats it because it's the only one that (by default) supports running 2 apps at the same time. Also you can switch between apps with a flick of your finger.
I can understand why they would want to put a NIC in a vending machine. However, I can't understand for the life of me why they would want to build their own NICs. That's something that would ideally be outsourced to another company. Even if you're talking millions of vending machines, it doesn't sense for a cola company to start making their own NICs. They'll probably still outsource the actual NIC construction and just get the manufacturer to use their MAC addresses. Still don't see a point though. Sure, if they own them, they can ensure that all their machines have similar NICs, and are identifiable as such, but the MAC address doesn't get past the first hop anyway, so it's not like you could identify them remotely in most circumstances. E