You are also a member of a small minority based on your requirements. Nothing wrong with that at all, and clearly an iPhone doesn't satisfy those requirements. I'm glad you found a device that did.
I don't understand why Slashdot can't figure out that the type of people that frequent this site have very different requirements than other people, and that all devices must not meet the superset of requirements found here and elsewhere.
It's a damn tool, like a socket set. If the socket set doesn't have the specialty socket you need for some relatively low-frequency job but another does, get the other one. Only when we start talking about electronics do we start to see this zealotry and irrational nonsense.
You do know there's a massive gulf between "I can root it because I have physical access to the device and all the passwords" and "omg my device got rooted over the air by unknown parties!"... right?
I really don't see how what is described in TFS is different from charging more for prime time TV advertising rather than daytime TV rates. You pay more, you get more eyeballs. That's how advertising has always worked.
And here in the US, it's been case law for a long time that free speech != unlimited speech. For example: yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater, libel, etc.
Except for Ubuntu Server, with a long-term support version that makes it perfect for application server operations because you know you'll continue getting patches and fixes.
Signed, someone with over 80 Ubuntu Server 14.0.4 LTS instances running on Amazon EC2.
That "something" is the synchronizers in the gearbox - they can't mesh if going too fast. Once they slow down, the synchro can mesh, and the gears will line up.
It's why you don't grind gears constantly when shifting unless you force it.
Didn't mean to call you a Samsung fanboy - you're correct with your seatbelt analogy. Slashdot needs to fix their 20 year old commenting system already.
This is clearly a design flaw that didn't even exist on previous models. But it must be the users' fault that they can completely damage the one feature that sets this device apart from many others with one second of inattentiveness that none of the competitors, or even previous models, are susceptible to.
Yep, totally the users' fault that Samsung made completely unnecessary changes for the sake of change.
And within 3 years, any smart watch on the market today will be an obsolete museum piece that will barely power up due to a decayed Li-ion battery, and on the edge of being completely useless when it falls out of support with the devices it is dependent on for it's functionality.
The Swiss watch will still be working for another 50+ years exactly as intended.
I'm still waiting for a use case for a smart watch that is better than any solution I already have. The only one that even came close is having a tiny display on my wrist for navigation while riding my motorcycle, but since I have a bluetooth audio receiver on my helmet I can already do turn-by-turn.
Everything else it does either is completely superfluous, or uninteresting to me.
Hmm, this year I bought a new tablet, AND built a new desktop PC.
Why? Everything is not a nail, so I need a set of tools that consists of more than just a hammer. I use a laptop, desktop, smartphone, and tablet every day for different purposes.
This is a troll, but OS X already has a pre-existing systemd-ish process control, called launchd which was open sourced under the Apache license like 10 years ago.
Trump's popularity is a mile wide and an inch deep - it's all name recognition. Once people start to hear some of the other candidates, you're going to see that lead erode, and fast.
I'm sure that if there was nothing to find, handing over the server is exactly what would have happened. But instead, because there's something to find (either legally or politically), it's delay, obfuscate, etc...
This is one of the things that tightens my jaws on software updates in general - I'm sick and tired of seeing that a new version of an app is available, and the sole contents of what the update changes is "bug fixes."
Yeah, except what you're conveniently not saying is that your molten salt is likely to be NaK, which ignites spontaneously in air, and explodes if it makes contact with water. As a bonus, the molten salt also becomes incredibly radioactive while in operation (sodium-24, half-life of 15 hours, two gamma rays per disintegration, decays into magnesium which is also highly flammable).
There's a reason that these haven't been built past the research and design phases, and it's mostly to do with solving a whole new set of engineering problems. The Soviets used lead-bismuth eutectic as coolant in nuclear submarines in the 1980s, and that technology never made it to commercial energy production either due to issues with the coolant being corrosive to steel, and that configuration has WAY less concerns.
I'm a big fan of using nuclear power and getting it as close as we can to perfection and operational safety, but you can't just paint over the problems with each design.
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You are also a member of a small minority based on your requirements. Nothing wrong with that at all, and clearly an iPhone doesn't satisfy those requirements. I'm glad you found a device that did.
I don't understand why Slashdot can't figure out that the type of people that frequent this site have very different requirements than other people, and that all devices must not meet the superset of requirements found here and elsewhere.
It's a damn tool, like a socket set. If the socket set doesn't have the specialty socket you need for some relatively low-frequency job but another does, get the other one. Only when we start talking about electronics do we start to see this zealotry and irrational nonsense.
You do know there's a massive gulf between "I can root it because I have physical access to the device and all the passwords" and "omg my device got rooted over the air by unknown parties!" ... right?
Yeah, just give up that billion sets of eyeballs in a rapidly developing nation. Who needs them?
I really don't see how what is described in TFS is different from charging more for prime time TV advertising rather than daytime TV rates. You pay more, you get more eyeballs. That's how advertising has always worked.
And here in the US, it's been case law for a long time that free speech != unlimited speech. For example: yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater, libel, etc.
Except for Ubuntu Server, with a long-term support version that makes it perfect for application server operations because you know you'll continue getting patches and fixes.
Signed, someone with over 80 Ubuntu Server 14.0.4 LTS instances running on Amazon EC2.
That's awesome - I never thought of just using a NAT rule to man-in-the-middle something that has already been man-in-the-middle'd...
For most of us, it's a moot point, as our shit ISPs don't support IPv6
I'd love to see them bypass a null-route rule on my router.
If I want the traffic to not go somewhere, they are completely at my mercy. Mwa ha ha!
Good luck ignoring my DNS server sending their spyware to 127.0.0.1, or my router sending their traffic to the bit bucket.
That "something" is the synchronizers in the gearbox - they can't mesh if going too fast. Once they slow down, the synchro can mesh, and the gears will line up.
It's why you don't grind gears constantly when shifting unless you force it.
Shit - meant to respond to GP.
Didn't mean to call you a Samsung fanboy - you're correct with your seatbelt analogy. Slashdot needs to fix their 20 year old commenting system already.
Good job, Samsung fanboy.
This is clearly a design flaw that didn't even exist on previous models. But it must be the users' fault that they can completely damage the one feature that sets this device apart from many others with one second of inattentiveness that none of the competitors, or even previous models, are susceptible to.
Yep, totally the users' fault that Samsung made completely unnecessary changes for the sake of change.
Yeah, this is why you review a design before making a billion of them.
How about they just design the pen with a flanged end and a socket to match, so it's impossible to insert backwards?
Swiss watches are merely jewellery.
And within 3 years, any smart watch on the market today will be an obsolete museum piece that will barely power up due to a decayed Li-ion battery, and on the edge of being completely useless when it falls out of support with the devices it is dependent on for it's functionality.
The Swiss watch will still be working for another 50+ years exactly as intended.
I'm still waiting for a use case for a smart watch that is better than any solution I already have. The only one that even came close is having a tiny display on my wrist for navigation while riding my motorcycle, but since I have a bluetooth audio receiver on my helmet I can already do turn-by-turn.
Everything else it does either is completely superfluous, or uninteresting to me.
Hmm, this year I bought a new tablet, AND built a new desktop PC.
Why? Everything is not a nail, so I need a set of tools that consists of more than just a hammer. I use a laptop, desktop, smartphone, and tablet every day for different purposes.
It's ok, they have a Prop 65 sign just outside the reservoir.
This is a troll, but OS X already has a pre-existing systemd-ish process control, called launchd which was open sourced under the Apache license like 10 years ago.
Trump's popularity is a mile wide and an inch deep - it's all name recognition. Once people start to hear some of the other candidates, you're going to see that lead erode, and fast.
I'm sure that if there was nothing to find, handing over the server is exactly what would have happened. But instead, because there's something to find (either legally or politically), it's delay, obfuscate, etc...
This is one of the things that tightens my jaws on software updates in general - I'm sick and tired of seeing that a new version of an app is available, and the sole contents of what the update changes is "bug fixes."
May as well not have written anything at all.
... install Windows ...
I think I just found how to fix it. Don't install Windows!
Yeah, except what you're conveniently not saying is that your molten salt is likely to be NaK, which ignites spontaneously in air, and explodes if it makes contact with water. As a bonus, the molten salt also becomes incredibly radioactive while in operation (sodium-24, half-life of 15 hours, two gamma rays per disintegration, decays into magnesium which is also highly flammable).
There's a reason that these haven't been built past the research and design phases, and it's mostly to do with solving a whole new set of engineering problems. The Soviets used lead-bismuth eutectic as coolant in nuclear submarines in the 1980s, and that technology never made it to commercial energy production either due to issues with the coolant being corrosive to steel, and that configuration has WAY less concerns.
I'm a big fan of using nuclear power and getting it as close as we can to perfection and operational safety, but you can't just paint over the problems with each design.