And on my families iPhone's our earbuds are still in their nice little plastic cases. Got four of them now, never used, not once.
To the earbuds that come with the iPhone, I, too, would leave them in their original packaging.... And then pull out my Sennheiser headphones, or tape adapter (for the car) or otherwise. Apple's earbuds are far too uncomfortable for me, personally, but I still use the headphone port every day.
I hate the idea of paying another $100 on top of the base cost of a pair of headphones just to add wireless. I hate the idea of having to constantly be aware of the battery level in the headphones. (At Apple's new, proprietary implementation) I hate the idea of being locked to a single platform.
I don't mind having a wire dangle, and rather enjoy having in-line controls. I like having an in-line microphone that I can either let dangle or bring right up to my mouth if I want to talk quietly and still be heard or just be heard better in a loud place.
There's a reason the headphone port has lasted as long as it has. It is useful. It is universal. Give me a headphone jack, or I won't buy it. As an Android user, I'm glaring at Motorola and their Moto Z with distaste because they're going the same route. Not everyone prefers wireless. And no one likes dongles.
How many people are *capable* of building a decent laptop? Desktops use standardized interfaces (ATX/BTX, PCI Express, etc). Laptop motherboards, keyboards, etc are all specially designed to fit the chassis, especially once you start getting into laptops designed to be light/thin.
Bullshit. Nexus 7 launched at $200 and the Nexus 5 launched at $350 (though I opted for the 32GB version). Those were great devices for their time. The Nexus 5 is still a great device. So don't tell me that the Nexus line has always been expensive at launch or otherwise. Don't use the last 2 years to generalize the entire product line.
By the time I load my basic utilities and required apps, my phone's speed is always way slower than out-of-the-box stock. I have come to accept this. OS updates have also slowed things down over time. Back when my Nexus 5 came out, it responded faster than I could muscle-memory position my finger for the next button. Lollipop was a little slower, and Marshmallow is even slower. Not unusable, like my HTC G2 on Gingerbread became, but with more than a few milliseconds response time between actions.
Okay, unlike T-Mobile and now Sprint's very fluid (and wrong) usage of "unlimited data" (classifying video as something other than data is incorrect), saying "unlimited free calls" doesn't specify the geographical boundaries, so "national" calling can easily be assumed.
The bottom line, is that if we want better government, then we should vote for it.
Yes, we should vote on it. But it seems that any politician that agrees with the mass's opinion on some topics, it is the opposite on other topics. So a politician that is willing to help fix things with oligopoly will probably screw things over elsewhere in society.
... but if you allow the federal bureaucrats to bend the states to their will on this, then the door is open to federal impositions on many other issues that you may not like so much.
So, you're opposed to the federal government telling states to open up competition?
You should have a plan to replace and upgrade the whole thing one piece at a time, even if not replacing the whole system at once.
Thing of it is, though, regarding platform upgrades such as software built upon IE6, Windows 9x (or whatever it's tied to) often requires a complete redesign of the framework due to API changes, etc. Machines can be replaced with newer stuff that does the exact same thing (same input, same output, regardless of the process during), so that it doesn't interrupt the overall flow.
Am I the only one that's thought of adding some sort of acceleration based generator to this thing to replace the battery so that you could shake it to erase it? Then it truly would be a modern etch-a-sketch.
There's generally little difference between a child at 8 months and 28 days versus at 9 months. In fact, the mother could decide to have an elective c-section at 8 months and 28 days an make that the kids "birthday".
No offense, but your argument is flawed. A human is considered to be born once it exits the womb, no matter when or how. Software is also born, if you will, as soon as it is released, no matter how or when, during whatever stage of development. Thus when Linus released the initial source code to Linux on UseNet (Aug 25 1991, 11:12PM is when notification was posted, according to archives), that is when it was born.
First, let me admit that I have not yet RTFA, but let me place a rebuttal anyway. No, Daemons and Services are absolutely NOT the same as device driver support. That being said, all operating systems start up several different services, etc, by default. Using MySQL as the example, several Linux distributions apparently start MySQL by default along with several other programs. Most users of these distributions often never use MySQL, so the maintainers are removing it from the default startup script. Whilst the software itself may still be included with the operating system, the change of not starting it by default increases overall computer performance (due to fewer programs being run). The comment that this idea can make the operating system run on more hardware is then technically correct regarding slower CPUs and/or less RAM.
That's just too much information to look at in a possible crash situation.
I can't remember where the article is, but I read a while back that in one study, they reduced the amount of information available to a person if the car sensed that a crash was imminent. The study found a consistant increase in reflexes across the board. Granted, it was only a few milliseconds, but as they said, that's anywhere from 4-10 feet that you're shaving off of your stoping distance in most circumstances.
Regarding your suggestion, generally, the human brain can more quickly judge sudden changes in velocity based on perception rather than numbers. Interesting idea though.
Well, as long as we're all taking a stab at vehicular design, here's what I propose: 1) Normal breaking of any level == lights on full 2) Sudden hard breaking == rapid flashing of break lights 3) ABS kicks in == #2 + automatic hazards
I figure most people don't use the hazards, so suddenly having the YELLOW lights coming on in front of you would definately grab your attention. (You know, if the sudden, rapid closure with the vehicle in front of you didn't already)
You don't need to circumvent anything to get a Buffalo router if all you want to do is run dd-wrt. There are tons of routers supported, including the 2 I just had laying around from way before I'd ever heard of it.
Just because you decide to upgrade the firmware to DD-WRT does not mean that the hardware you run it on isn't important. Personally, I purchased a WRT54G-TM (as opposed to attempting to get a specific version of another model) because I know it has 32M ram and 8M flash, so that I could use the mega image. Ignoring ram/flash sizes, there are still other factors related to the hardware that can affect someone's choice of router. I'm not saying Buffalo is anything special, I don't know; I've never used them. But, combined with the apparently low price point, Buffalo may be more attractive or better suited for someone than another make/model of router.
There is one major flaw with the argument of hosting your own web server: most ISP's block incomming SMTP messages as hosting servers is generally against their TOS unless you have a business account WITH A STATIC IP. That's right folks, most ISP's don't even let you host servers on a normal (read, dynamic IP) business line.
Then there is the electricity bills and physical maintenence to contend with. And I have to agree with other folks - keeping up-to-date with security for it can be a pain.
I'm pretty sure that there is no law that can force any company to *erase* data at a set rate. And for those that don't wish to deal with those issues (having their data kept for long periods of time), the solution is simple: don't use the service. It is your choice to go to google and use their search engine. If you don't like the terms of service, go use someone else.
All that being said, I, too, dislike their lengthy data retention policies, but I continue to use their services. Oh well.
If a employee installs the software themselves then it shouldn't be the company's fault. Except for the fact that the employee is (no matter their official title) a representative of the company, so what the employee does is "done by the company", as far as liability is concerned. The company can punish the employee accordingly, but the employer is still the liable party.
Personally, I wish your line of thinking were reality since that would make our jobs [in the IT dept] so much easier.
People will use whatever is cheap, fast, pretty, reliable and secure. No... "People" will use whatever is easiest for them. IE comes with Windoze. Why else would its market share be so high? Firefox has gotten easier to get and use over time (for the average computer illiterate), and thus its market share has increased in the last few years.
"People", as you call them, generally don't care about security. (And that's why helpdesk and computer repair shops stay in business) As far as cheap, they say you get what you pay for... Oh wait, they're all free.
No, actually. Remember, with the RealID act coming into effect, a person that does not have a [valid] ID card cannot enter into a federal building. Taken straight up, that means that I cannot get into the building to even complain that I'm not actually dead.
I find it funny that Europe is attempting to force an American company to change how they do business. Now, don't get me wrong, I hate M$ as much as the next/.'er, but would it not be an interesting slap in the face to the EU if Microsoft told them to buzz off and stopped selling and supporting their products over there (Feed 'em the line, "Don't like how we run things? Fine. We'll take our business elsewhere."). Yes, that would be a lot of revenue lost, but I'm pretty sure that the EU would start begging Microsoft to come back.
I'm sure I'm not the first one to think of this, but between GMail still being in beta and hardware manufactures willing to release hardware based on "beta" specifications (802.11n, anyone?), I could just see something like a "GPhone beta" or "Draft GPhone" coming out.
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And on my families iPhone's our earbuds are still in their nice little plastic cases. Got four of them now, never used, not once.
To the earbuds that come with the iPhone, I, too, would leave them in their original packaging. ... And then pull out my Sennheiser headphones, or tape adapter (for the car) or otherwise. Apple's earbuds are far too uncomfortable for me, personally, but I still use the headphone port every day.
I hate the idea of paying another $100 on top of the base cost of a pair of headphones just to add wireless. I hate the idea of having to constantly be aware of the battery level in the headphones. (At Apple's new, proprietary implementation) I hate the idea of being locked to a single platform.
I don't mind having a wire dangle, and rather enjoy having in-line controls. I like having an in-line microphone that I can either let dangle or bring right up to my mouth if I want to talk quietly and still be heard or just be heard better in a loud place.
There's a reason the headphone port has lasted as long as it has. It is useful. It is universal. Give me a headphone jack, or I won't buy it. As an Android user, I'm glaring at Motorola and their Moto Z with distaste because they're going the same route. Not everyone prefers wireless. And no one likes dongles.
How many people are *capable* of building a decent laptop? Desktops use standardized interfaces (ATX/BTX, PCI Express, etc). Laptop motherboards, keyboards, etc are all specially designed to fit the chassis, especially once you start getting into laptops designed to be light/thin.
Bullshit. Nexus 7 launched at $200 and the Nexus 5 launched at $350 (though I opted for the 32GB version). Those were great devices for their time. The Nexus 5 is still a great device. So don't tell me that the Nexus line has always been expensive at launch or otherwise. Don't use the last 2 years to generalize the entire product line.
By the time I load my basic utilities and required apps, my phone's speed is always way slower than out-of-the-box stock. I have come to accept this. OS updates have also slowed things down over time. Back when my Nexus 5 came out, it responded faster than I could muscle-memory position my finger for the next button. Lollipop was a little slower, and Marshmallow is even slower. Not unusable, like my HTC G2 on Gingerbread became, but with more than a few milliseconds response time between actions.
Okay, unlike T-Mobile and now Sprint's very fluid (and wrong) usage of "unlimited data" (classifying video as something other than data is incorrect), saying "unlimited free calls" doesn't specify the geographical boundaries, so "national" calling can easily be assumed.
The bottom line, is that if we want better government, then we should vote for it.
Yes, we should vote on it. But it seems that any politician that agrees with the mass's opinion on some topics, it is the opposite on other topics. So a politician that is willing to help fix things with oligopoly will probably screw things over elsewhere in society.
... but if you allow the federal bureaucrats to bend the states to their will on this, then the door is open to federal impositions on many other issues that you may not like so much.
So, you're opposed to the federal government telling states to open up competition?
That's the wonderful part about faraday cages. They are passive devices, so no "work" is being done, unlike jammers.
But seriously? iPhone superior to Android? Were they buying budget phones?
You should have a plan to replace and upgrade the whole thing one piece at a time, even if not replacing the whole system at once.
Thing of it is, though, regarding platform upgrades such as software built upon IE6, Windows 9x (or whatever it's tied to) often requires a complete redesign of the framework due to API changes, etc. Machines can be replaced with newer stuff that does the exact same thing (same input, same output, regardless of the process during), so that it doesn't interrupt the overall flow.
Am I the only one that's thought of adding some sort of acceleration based generator to this thing to replace the battery so that you could shake it to erase it? Then it truly would be a modern etch-a-sketch.
There's generally little difference between a child at 8 months and 28 days versus at 9 months. In fact, the mother could decide to have an elective c-section at 8 months and 28 days an make that the kids "birthday".
No offense, but your argument is flawed. A human is considered to be born once it exits the womb, no matter when or how. Software is also born, if you will, as soon as it is released, no matter how or when, during whatever stage of development. Thus when Linus released the initial source code to Linux on UseNet (Aug 25 1991, 11:12PM is when notification was posted, according to archives), that is when it was born.
So, good ol' Bill was right! 640K of RAM is all you'll ever need!
First, let me admit that I have not yet RTFA, but let me place a rebuttal anyway.
No, Daemons and Services are absolutely NOT the same as device driver support. That being said, all operating systems start up several different services, etc, by default. Using MySQL as the example, several Linux distributions apparently start MySQL by default along with several other programs. Most users of these distributions often never use MySQL, so the maintainers are removing it from the default startup script. Whilst the software itself may still be included with the operating system, the change of not starting it by default increases overall computer performance (due to fewer programs being run). The comment that this idea can make the operating system run on more hardware is then technically correct regarding slower CPUs and/or less RAM.
"pushd" and "popd"
Two of the most useful directory navigation tools available (after tab completion, of course).
That's just too much information to look at in a possible crash situation.
I can't remember where the article is, but I read a while back that in one study, they reduced the amount of information available to a person if the car sensed that a crash was imminent. The study found a consistant increase in reflexes across the board. Granted, it was only a few milliseconds, but as they said, that's anywhere from 4-10 feet that you're shaving off of your stoping distance in most circumstances.
Regarding your suggestion, generally, the human brain can more quickly judge sudden changes in velocity based on perception rather than numbers. Interesting idea though.
Well, as long as we're all taking a stab at vehicular design, here's what I propose:
1) Normal breaking of any level == lights on full
2) Sudden hard breaking == rapid flashing of break lights
3) ABS kicks in == #2 + automatic hazards
I figure most people don't use the hazards, so suddenly having the YELLOW lights coming on in front of you would definately grab your attention. (You know, if the sudden, rapid closure with the vehicle in front of you didn't already)
You don't need to circumvent anything to get a Buffalo router if all you want to do is run dd-wrt. There are tons of routers supported, including the 2 I just had laying around from way before I'd ever heard of it.
Just because you decide to upgrade the firmware to DD-WRT does not mean that the hardware you run it on isn't important. Personally, I purchased a WRT54G-TM (as opposed to attempting to get a specific version of another model) because I know it has 32M ram and 8M flash, so that I could use the mega image. Ignoring ram/flash sizes, there are still other factors related to the hardware that can affect someone's choice of router. I'm not saying Buffalo is anything special, I don't know; I've never used them. But, combined with the apparently low price point, Buffalo may be more attractive or better suited for someone than another make/model of router.
There is one major flaw with the argument of hosting your own web server: most ISP's block incomming SMTP messages as hosting servers is generally against their TOS unless you have a business account WITH A STATIC IP. That's right folks, most ISP's don't even let you host servers on a normal (read, dynamic IP) business line.
Then there is the electricity bills and physical maintenence to contend with. And I have to agree with other folks - keeping up-to-date with security for it can be a pain.
So should we call this a MicroCray or CraySoft?
I'm pretty sure that there is no law that can force any company to *erase* data at a set rate. And for those that don't wish to deal with those issues (having their data kept for long periods of time), the solution is simple: don't use the service. It is your choice to go to google and use their search engine. If you don't like the terms of service, go use someone else.
All that being said, I, too, dislike their lengthy data retention policies, but I continue to use their services. Oh well.
Personally, I wish your line of thinking were reality since that would make our jobs [in the IT dept] so much easier.
"People", as you call them, generally don't care about security. (And that's why helpdesk and computer repair shops stay in business) As far as cheap, they say you get what you pay for... Oh wait, they're all free.
No, actually. Remember, with the RealID act coming into effect, a person that does not have a [valid] ID card cannot enter into a federal building. Taken straight up, that means that I cannot get into the building to even complain that I'm not actually dead.
I find it funny that Europe is attempting to force an American company to change how they do business. Now, don't get me wrong, I hate M$ as much as the next /.'er, but would it not be an interesting slap in the face to the EU if Microsoft told them to buzz off and stopped selling and supporting their products over there (Feed 'em the line, "Don't like how we run things? Fine. We'll take our business elsewhere."). Yes, that would be a lot of revenue lost, but I'm pretty sure that the EU would start begging Microsoft to come back.
I'm sure I'm not the first one to think of this, but between GMail still being in beta and hardware manufactures willing to release hardware based on "beta" specifications (802.11n, anyone?), I could just see something like a "GPhone beta" or "Draft GPhone" coming out.