As an EE I would also try to point my finger at some firmware guys, at some semiconductor guys and some chemical engineers. There's a lot involved in these sorts of batteries in consumer devices, plenty of blame to share.
Samsung/Samsung SDI have already admitted it's a manufacturing defect.
I'm not sure if you're comparing IRC to Slack, or comparing IRC to Slack for Business. I'll assume you're comparing IRC to Slack.
As a very (very) long time IRC user, and before IRC was even invented, a multi-user BBS (with chat) user, I think I "know" online chat fairly well.
Slack offers some killer features IRC just plain lacks, like persistent chat (you can sign off for a few days, sign back in, and see all the messages you missed).
It also has "just works", and beautiful, web, iOS, and Android clients, and lots of really great features like uploading files to a channel that people can download anytime (even if they upload them while you're off-line).
Slack also supports images and plenty of other goodies IRC lacks.
IRC has tons of features, but most of those features aren't as important as the things Slack brings to the table, when it comes to wants and needs of most users. That's why Slack is so successful.
Slack is already pretty established and so I would think Microsoft would have a hard time here...
Microsoft won't have a hard time here.
Skype Teams will be part of Skype for Business, and Skype for Business is part of Office 365, and many/most companies buy their employees O365 subscriptions. Thus, Skype Teams will be "free". Companies will choose the "free" option because they're too stupid to realize that sometimes paying for something saves them money in the long run.
Microsoft is just leveraging their Office monopoly to crush a competitor. You know, business as usual.
It's unfortunate, because Slack is really nice, and Skype is a pile of crap.
...and why is this an idea NOW. I mean, Zika's been out for a (kind of) long time in various parts of the world, and no one ever really thought about wiping them out totally. Hell, malaria and AIDS have been out for years, completely trashing a large number of people every year. But once zika hit the US, it's "KILL ALL OF'M!!!" Typical American way of thinking and it's never ended well.
Yeah! Fucking Americans! They should fix everything in the WHOLE WORLD! Too bad if they're already operating at a loss every year and $20 trillion in debt! A little more debt won't hurt!
Also, yeah! I took a poll, and every single American--EVERY SINGLE ONE!--is in favor of mosquito genocide due to Zika finally showing up in the U.S.! Fucking Americans! So stupid! So predictable! Ha Ha Ha!
Cheap and accessible? $80/month just for the cable is not cheap. That's a week's food for a family.
$80 per week is not nearly enough money for food for a four person family in the United States:
$80 / 7 days = $11.43 per day.
$11.43 / 4 people = $2.86 per person per day.
$2.86 / 3 meals = $0.95 per person per meal per day.
Sorry, but you can't eat for under a dollar per meal in the U.S. without starving to death.
I would say $3 per person per meal per day is reasonable, which works out to over $250 per week and over $1,000 per month. Yes, you could eat more cheaply if you only ate rice, beans, vitamins, and water; I'm just trying to be reasonable here.
Third time this week. I'm reading through slashdot comments on my mobile and get a popup ad with a "data:text/html;base64" url. Here's a couple screen grabs:
first photo shows the URL. second photo shows that chrome thinks the page is still on slashdot's website. The ad pops up and fills the screen on it's own, without me clicking on anything (so it's on some sort of setTimeout or something). It won't let me use the back button either. This crap is very invasive. Slashdot should not be showing these sort of ads
Not only this, but fucking auto fucking refresh is still fucking annoying us, and if you click Older >> at the bottom of the page, it takes you to the older articles but very frequently puts you at the bottom of the page (wtf?), and the big ads at the top take so long to load that the comments I'm reading are often jumping around as the ad finally loads and adjusts the page height, etc. Ugh.
Do average users want to, and are they capable of, properly administering an OS like Windows?
Yes. Turn it on. Done. Administered.
Microsoft has dumbed it down to that point for us. Updates? It'll work itself out. Viruses? Just hit the refresh button if it goes tits up and windows defender can't fix it. Backups? You mean your files weren't on Onedrive?
Seriously if you're "administering" a windows machine without being paid a salary to do so then you're doing it very wrong.
We'll have to agree with disagree. My non-technical Windows-using and macOS-using friends get themselves into trouble all the time because taking care of their Windows and macOS systems is far too hard for non-technical users.
I didn't say it had to be Windows. That's why I said an OS like Windows. For what it's worth, I don't think your average user is even remotely capable of safely and effectively administering Windows, OS X, or desktop Linux.
what is wrong with Linux or chrome if you don't like windows?
I didn't say anything was wrong with ChromeOS. In fact, I think Chromebooks are probably the ideal solution for 95% of average users.
I mean seriously at this point a laptop with similar levels of performance as your phone is a fraction of the price. If you are going to carry around a laptop shell you may as well make it a real laptop that won't have the shit ton of limitations that this is going to have.
Do average users want to, and are they capable of, properly administering an OS like Windows?
The only problem with that is my laptop that is around 7 years old is still massively more powerful than the best modern smartphone, hell even my 10 year old one would be preferrable. why would I want such restrictive performance of a phone without the form factor benefits?
How much power does the average user need for their web browsing, email, music, and videos? Is your typical smartphone fast enough for that use case?
That's nuts. Borrowing money to buy a car? You're already doing it wrong...
Can you elaborate on this? I borrowed money for a car (1.9% interest rate) and use the money freed up to put extra money toward the principle on my mortgage (5% interest rate).
That's not doing it wrong, is it? (This is an honest question as I may not have figured all the angles correctly.)
...auto play video ads on/. cause it to fall below 2% readership in the tech news sector.
. Come on whiplash, you can do better. I, and probably most others on here use ad blockers. I happen to be on mobile with no block, and I'm assaulted.
. I admire some of the changes since dice, but this? I have been a member, under varying names since 96 or 97. It may be time to head to ars or soylent news.
To add to this... They didn't really remove auto-refresh, and going to the next page of stories on Mobile Safari, for some bizarre reason, leaves you at the bottom of the new page, rather than the top.
Starting to think all the sweet talk from whiplash was just pillow talk. Sigh.
Another potential option: Chromebook and a Linux VPS. Of course, that introduces a monthly fee for the VPS. But you can get pretty good ones for as low as 5 or 10 USD these days. (That being said, local development = lower latency = nicer user experience, imo.)
I'm still bummed out that Microsoft successfully killed netbooks (by only selling Windows Starter to netbook makers if the netbooks themselves were spec'd so low as to guarantee a poor user experience). I'm glad Google managed to revive the segment.
I hope your quest is a success because I wouldn't mind, in the future, doing the same thing! (Development on a netbook.)
Can C++ Chrome apps be built directly on the device, or must they be cross-compiled?
They can be built directly on the device using the NaCl Development Environment, available in the Chrome Web Store for free.
Here's the description from the Chrome Web Store:
In-browser development environment for Native Client
Native Client In-browser Development Environment.
Bash, make, git, gcc, python, ruby, lua, in the browser. Online or offline.
Limited arm supported (interpreters, but no compiler).
(Beta) https://developer.chrome.com/n... http://gonacl.com/fire
Slashdot Mirror
As an EE I would also try to point my finger at some firmware guys, at some semiconductor guys and some chemical engineers. There's a lot involved in these sorts of batteries in consumer devices, plenty of blame to share.
Samsung/Samsung SDI have already admitted it's a manufacturing defect.
IRC had this 30 years ago.
I'm not sure if you're comparing IRC to Slack, or comparing IRC to Slack for Business. I'll assume you're comparing IRC to Slack.
As a very (very) long time IRC user, and before IRC was even invented, a multi-user BBS (with chat) user, I think I "know" online chat fairly well.
Slack offers some killer features IRC just plain lacks, like persistent chat (you can sign off for a few days, sign back in, and see all the messages you missed).
It also has "just works", and beautiful, web, iOS, and Android clients, and lots of really great features like uploading files to a channel that people can download anytime (even if they upload them while you're off-line).
Slack also supports images and plenty of other goodies IRC lacks.
IRC has tons of features, but most of those features aren't as important as the things Slack brings to the table, when it comes to wants and needs of most users. That's why Slack is so successful.
Slack is already pretty established and so I would think Microsoft would have a hard time here...
Microsoft won't have a hard time here.
Skype Teams will be part of Skype for Business, and Skype for Business is part of Office 365, and many/most companies buy their employees O365 subscriptions. Thus, Skype Teams will be "free". Companies will choose the "free" option because they're too stupid to realize that sometimes paying for something saves them money in the long run.
Microsoft is just leveraging their Office monopoly to crush a competitor. You know, business as usual.
It's unfortunate, because Slack is really nice, and Skype is a pile of crap.
I agree that the web is pretty much a huge mess, but I just want to address one thing:
- JavaScript. Single threaded and garbage collected.
I think Web Workers allow you to write multi-threaded JavaScript--with, of course, limitations (e.g., no shared memory).
The kind of meals you're talking about aren't realistic or sustainable long term.
...and why is this an idea NOW. I mean, Zika's been out for a (kind of) long time in various parts of the world, and no one ever really thought about wiping them out totally. Hell, malaria and AIDS have been out for years, completely trashing a large number of people every year. But once zika hit the US, it's "KILL ALL OF'M!!!" Typical American way of thinking and it's never ended well.
Yeah! Fucking Americans! They should fix everything in the WHOLE WORLD! Too bad if they're already operating at a loss every year and $20 trillion in debt! A little more debt won't hurt!
Also, yeah! I took a poll, and every single American--EVERY SINGLE ONE!--is in favor of mosquito genocide due to Zika finally showing up in the U.S.! Fucking Americans! So stupid! So predictable! Ha Ha Ha!
By the way... you're an asshat.
Cheap and accessible? $80/month just for the cable is not cheap. That's a week's food for a family.
$80 per week is not nearly enough money for food for a four person family in the United States:
$80 / 7 days = $11.43 per day.
$11.43 / 4 people = $2.86 per person per day.
$2.86 / 3 meals = $0.95 per person per meal per day.
Sorry, but you can't eat for under a dollar per meal in the U.S. without starving to death.
I would say $3 per person per meal per day is reasonable, which works out to over $250 per week and over $1,000 per month. Yes, you could eat more cheaply if you only ate rice, beans, vitamins, and water; I'm just trying to be reasonable here.
Third time this week. I'm reading through slashdot comments on my mobile and get a popup ad with a "data:text/html;base64" url. Here's a couple screen grabs:
http://imgur.com/a/E4fuR
first photo shows the URL. second photo shows that chrome thinks the page is still on slashdot's website. The ad pops up and fills the screen on it's own, without me clicking on anything (so it's on some sort of setTimeout or something). It won't let me use the back button either. This crap is very invasive. Slashdot should not be showing these sort of ads
Not only this, but fucking auto fucking refresh is still fucking annoying us, and if you click Older >> at the bottom of the page, it takes you to the older articles but very frequently puts you at the bottom of the page (wtf?), and the big ads at the top take so long to load that the comments I'm reading are often jumping around as the ad finally loads and adjusts the page height, etc. Ugh.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
What is needed is decent 2 factor authentication.
Isn't that what chip and PIN was supposed to bring us? Something you have (the card) and something you know (the PIN)?
Why the hell did the U.S. adopt chip and signature? I was excited for my new chip and PIN credit card until I realized it was chip and signature.
Do average users want to, and are they capable of, properly administering an OS like Windows?
Yes. Turn it on. Done. Administered.
Microsoft has dumbed it down to that point for us. Updates? It'll work itself out. Viruses? Just hit the refresh button if it goes tits up and windows defender can't fix it. Backups? You mean your files weren't on Onedrive?
Seriously if you're "administering" a windows machine without being paid a salary to do so then you're doing it very wrong.
We'll have to agree with disagree. My non-technical Windows-using and macOS-using friends get themselves into trouble all the time because taking care of their Windows and macOS systems is far too hard for non-technical users.
why does it have to be windows?
I didn't say it had to be Windows. That's why I said an OS like Windows. For what it's worth, I don't think your average user is even remotely capable of safely and effectively administering Windows, OS X, or desktop Linux.
what is wrong with Linux or chrome if you don't like windows?
I didn't say anything was wrong with ChromeOS. In fact, I think Chromebooks are probably the ideal solution for 95% of average users.
I mean seriously at this point a laptop with similar levels of performance as your phone is a fraction of the price. If you are going to carry around a laptop shell you may as well make it a real laptop that won't have the shit ton of limitations that this is going to have.
Do average users want to, and are they capable of, properly administering an OS like Windows?
The only problem with that is my laptop that is around 7 years old is still massively more powerful than the best modern smartphone, hell even my 10 year old one would be preferrable. why would I want such restrictive performance of a phone without the form factor benefits?
How much power does the average user need for their web browsing, email, music, and videos? Is your typical smartphone fast enough for that use case?
They used to offer 4GB and 8GB models too, the 16GB was actually the highend model a few years back.
Storage capacities increase, not really news...
I think the news is that it took Apple so long to increase the storage on their entry level iPhones to something resembling reasonable.
That's nuts. Borrowing money to buy a car? You're already doing it wrong ...
Can you elaborate on this? I borrowed money for a car (1.9% interest rate) and use the money freed up to put extra money toward the principle on my mortgage (5% interest rate).
That's not doing it wrong, is it? (This is an honest question as I may not have figured all the angles correctly.)
...auto play video ads on /. cause it to fall below 2% readership in the tech news sector.
. Come on whiplash, you can do better. I, and probably most others on here use ad blockers. I happen to be on mobile with no block, and I'm assaulted.
. I admire some of the changes since dice, but this? I have been a member, under varying names since 96 or 97. It may be time to head to ars or soylent news.
To add to this... They didn't really remove auto-refresh, and going to the next page of stories on Mobile Safari, for some bizarre reason, leaves you at the bottom of the new page, rather than the top.
Starting to think all the sweet talk from whiplash was just pillow talk. Sigh.
Xbox One and even 360 are pretty great streaming devices too.
Had an Xbox 360 for years:
Done with Microsoft. Wouldn't want another Microsoft console. Fool me once...
Another potential option: Chromebook and a Linux VPS. Of course, that introduces a monthly fee for the VPS. But you can get pretty good ones for as low as 5 or 10 USD these days. (That being said, local development = lower latency = nicer user experience, imo.)
I'm still bummed out that Microsoft successfully killed netbooks (by only selling Windows Starter to netbook makers if the netbooks themselves were spec'd so low as to guarantee a poor user experience). I'm glad Google managed to revive the segment.
I hope your quest is a success because I wouldn't mind, in the future, doing the same thing! (Development on a netbook.)
Is this Native Client?
Yes.
Can C++ Chrome apps be built directly on the device, or must they be cross-compiled?
They can be built directly on the device using the NaCl Development Environment, available in the Chrome Web Store for free.
Here's the description from the Chrome Web Store:
In-browser development environment for Native Client
Native Client In-browser Development Environment.
Bash, make, git, gcc, python, ruby, lua, in the browser. Online or offline.
Limited arm supported (interpreters, but no compiler).
(Beta)
https://developer.chrome.com/n...
http://gonacl.com/fire
Disclaimer: I've never used it--it might suck. ;-)
A Chromebook can be used in verified mode or developer mode. Verified mode cannot run user applications written in languages other than JavaScript.
This is not true. Chromebooks can run Chrome applications written, for example, in C++, and compiled to native code.
<cynical> Have they made it Windows only yet? </cynical>
Great comments. One quick note on this:
Microsoft Office (or better) - Google Docs might count, if it worked offline, but it doesn’t
You can work on Google Docs offline by following the steps found here:
Work on Google files offline
Oops, I misread your post. {embarrassed face}
Although I have indeed heard good things about System76 gear. :-)
Please, tell me that I can buy it with GNU/Linux pre-installed! Please :)
Wish granted.
System76
Thinner and lighter are fine qualities for a cellphone but not for a laptop.
Ha, the funny thing is, I bought an Otterbox Defender for my iPhone 6s in order to fatten it up and make it a little heavier.
Yeah, I'm a little crazy... :-)