Pretty much any 'social media' app now wants access to pretty much everything. I know several people who've stuck with an old version of the Facebook app before it started demanding almost complete control over the device. Other mobile operating systems let you deny Facebook access to your camera or microphone, whereas Android included that feature in a recen OS release... and then removed it.
And, no, I'm not going to install some random other OS on the tablet when I can just buy a different device which includes that functionality in the first place.
Of don't own a car with all those gadgets doesn't occur to anyone?
So, where are we going to buy cars which don't have all these gadgets? New cars need the gadgets to meet economy and safety requirements, and there aren't enough old cars to go around.
Of course, if the operating system actually had real user-level security controls, the apps wouldn't be able to do that.
I can't see myself buying another Android device so long as they expect me to allow pretty much every possible permission for every piece of crap app that doesn't even need half of them.
I believe they mean 'automobiles which are inefficient at actually getting you anywhere', which is what environmentalists actually want, so we'll start using their beloved buses and bikes instead.
Expecting a decent word processor on a device without a keyboard and mouse is a bit... optimistic.
I write on my Android tablet using some free word processor I downloaded, but it's slow going. Oddly, more due to lack of a mouse to move the cursor when I need to change something than due to having to type on the on-screen keyboard.
J.J. Abrams is signed to direct. He's never seen a single episode of the TV show, but he's sure that, if he uses enough lens flare and explosions, no-one will ever notice.
Anyways, stealth is far from all the F35 brings to the table. The summary criticizes it for perhaps not being a good dogfighter, but if all aircraft are easy to track, that's even more irrelevant, because something easy to track is easy to shoot down at long range.
If you're shooting at long range, why bother with a fighter when you can buy a drone for a small fraction of the pirce?
For the 99% of runtime it does not use GC. While running GC, your user better freezes, too.
Particularly when your whole machine runs out of RAM running a few Java apps that want a few gigabytes each to reduce garbage collection pauses, and starts swapping.
You game will load 0.2 seconds faster than a standard SSD but you'll pay $150 more for it. Enjoy.
If the games I've bought recently are anything to go by, it won't load any faster, because it's already loaded all the useful stuff from disk by the time you get to the end of the unskippable videos advertising AMD GPUs and the Unreal engine.
Indeed. Web server stats show hardly anyone browses the web on their Android tablet, so we would be expected to believe that people just buy them to use as doorstops or something.
Back in the real world, I very rarely use the web browser on my Android tablet, because all the sites I normally use it to visit have apps.
You just need a pre-negotiated shared key. AES encryption is pretty fast.
However, you still probably don't want to do it, because, if the encryption somehow gets screwed up, your ABS brakes will reject the readings from the brake sensors and cause you to crash when you lock the wheels. There are potential safety issues on both sides.
I honestly think Firefox fans are so caught up in the trivium that they've forgotten how good the browser really is, or how much it's sincerely improved over the years.
[citation needed]
I can't see anything that's improved in Firefox since they went Full Metal Retard a few years ago. They've screwed up the UI, they've added new bugs, they've neglected to fix old ones. All they've succeeded at is rapidly increasing the version number.
I dread a new Firefox release, because I know they'll have fcsked up something else.
He admitted that Apple conspired with publishers. That's the crime Apple were convicted of, because conspiring to raise prices is, you know, an actual, real crime under US law.
Apple broke up Amazon's monopoly.
What monopoly? The conspiracy's goal was to force Amazon to sell ebooks for more than it wanted to. They were trying to make readers pay more for their books. What's so great about that, exactly?
Because they did so, authors no longer had to just take whatever Amazon was willing to let them have.
Uh, what? Authors take whatever the publishers are willing to let them have. What does Amazon have to do with what publishers pay their authors?
Did they ever fix the god-awful nonsense where Gedit refuses to open a file because it thinks it's some wacko Unicode crap and doesn't even give you an 'I don't freaking care, just open the goddamn file as ASCII' option?
That was the agreement - 30% to Amazon, and right now, 35%-35% split for authors/publishers.
Ha-ha. You actually think that publishers split their royalties 50:50 with authors?
For Stephen King, perhaps. For Joe Newbie, it's typically 75% to the publisher, and 25% to the guy who actually wrote the damn book, who then has to pay 15% of that 25% to his agent.
Most writers would earn a lot more with a part-time job flipping burgers than from writing a book.
You mean you can make more money developing software to do things that people need than churning out the same old crap games and hoping to make money from advertising or in-app purchases?
Concorde was retired because it was 1960s technology in an era of fly-by-wire 'glass cockpit' designs, and passenger levels fell dramatically after 9/11, making it uneconomical to operate.
But it works so well for aircraft. Look at AF447, for example.
Oh, hang on, they couldn't figure out what was wrong and flew the plane into the sea.
You're right, though: if a car requires a human to be there to take over at any moment, it's hardly 'driverless'. It just has a cruise control that can steer as well as control the speed.
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Pretty much any 'social media' app now wants access to pretty much everything. I know several people who've stuck with an old version of the Facebook app before it started demanding almost complete control over the device. Other mobile operating systems let you deny Facebook access to your camera or microphone, whereas Android included that feature in a recen OS release... and then removed it.
And, no, I'm not going to install some random other OS on the tablet when I can just buy a different device which includes that functionality in the first place.
Of don't own a car with all those gadgets doesn't occur to anyone?
So, where are we going to buy cars which don't have all these gadgets? New cars need the gadgets to meet economy and safety requirements, and there aren't enough old cars to go around.
Of course, if the operating system actually had real user-level security controls, the apps wouldn't be able to do that.
I can't see myself buying another Android device so long as they expect me to allow pretty much every possible permission for every piece of crap app that doesn't even need half of them.
I believe they mean 'automobiles which are inefficient at actually getting you anywhere', which is what environmentalists actually want, so we'll start using their beloved buses and bikes instead.
Expecting a decent word processor on a device without a keyboard and mouse is a bit... optimistic.
I write on my Android tablet using some free word processor I downloaded, but it's slow going. Oddly, more due to lack of a mouse to move the cursor when I need to change something than due to having to type on the on-screen keyboard.
J.J. Abrams is signed to direct. He's never seen a single episode of the TV show, but he's sure that, if he uses enough lens flare and explosions, no-one will ever notice.
WP7 came out almost three years ago. Good luck finding an Android phone supported for anywhere *near* that long!
Skype claims to run on Android 2.3, released at the end of 2010. Hey, look, that's within a month or two of WP7's release.
XP got extended for years, twice. What would be 'well enough'? Forever?
More than three or four years after they stopped selling it would be a good start.
But, yeah, I'm guessing that both remaining WP7 users are really upset about this.
Anyways, stealth is far from all the F35 brings to the table. The summary criticizes it for perhaps not being a good dogfighter, but if all aircraft are easy to track, that's even more irrelevant, because something easy to track is easy to shoot down at long range.
If you're shooting at long range, why bother with a fighter when you can buy a drone for a small fraction of the pirce?
Yeah, properly sizing the RAM on your machine to the load you're going to put on it is SO FUCKING HARD.
Or you could just use a language that doesn't need 1+GB of RAM for an IDE... because garbage collection.
That's the thing that runs a tiny subset of Windows C# programs, isn't it?
For the 99% of runtime it does not use GC. While running GC, your user better freezes, too.
Particularly when your whole machine runs out of RAM running a few Java apps that want a few gigabytes each to reduce garbage collection pauses, and starts swapping.
It's like Java, only not terrible.
And only runs on Windows.
You game will load 0.2 seconds faster than a standard SSD but you'll pay $150 more for it. Enjoy.
If the games I've bought recently are anything to go by, it won't load any faster, because it's already loaded all the useful stuff from disk by the time you get to the end of the unskippable videos advertising AMD GPUs and the Unreal engine.
What a weird thing to say.
Indeed. Web server stats show hardly anyone browses the web on their Android tablet, so we would be expected to believe that people just buy them to use as doorstops or something.
Back in the real world, I very rarely use the web browser on my Android tablet, because all the sites I normally use it to visit have apps.
You just need a pre-negotiated shared key. AES encryption is pretty fast.
However, you still probably don't want to do it, because, if the encryption somehow gets screwed up, your ABS brakes will reject the readings from the brake sensors and cause you to crash when you lock the wheels. There are potential safety issues on both sides.
I honestly think Firefox fans are so caught up in the trivium that they've forgotten how good the browser really is, or how much it's sincerely improved over the years.
[citation needed]
I can't see anything that's improved in Firefox since they went Full Metal Retard a few years ago. They've screwed up the UI, they've added new bugs, they've neglected to fix old ones. All they've succeeded at is rapidly increasing the version number.
I dread a new Firefox release, because I know they'll have fcsked up something else.
He did no such thing.
He admitted that Apple conspired with publishers. That's the crime Apple were convicted of, because conspiring to raise prices is, you know, an actual, real crime under US law.
Apple broke up Amazon's monopoly.
What monopoly? The conspiracy's goal was to force Amazon to sell ebooks for more than it wanted to. They were trying to make readers pay more for their books. What's so great about that, exactly?
Because they did so, authors no longer had to just take whatever Amazon was willing to let them have.
Uh, what? Authors take whatever the publishers are willing to let them have. What does Amazon have to do with what publishers pay their authors?
So, let me get this right: you admit that Apple committed the crime, but don't think they should do the time... because Amazon?
Buttons and menus confuse users.
Or something.
Did they ever fix the god-awful nonsense where Gedit refuses to open a file because it thinks it's some wacko Unicode crap and doesn't even give you an 'I don't freaking care, just open the goddamn file as ASCII' option?
When was the last time you heard anything controversial about the UN-run ITU?
Ha-ha! You want to jand the Internet over to the people who invented X.25. Good one!
That was the agreement - 30% to Amazon, and right now, 35%-35% split for authors/publishers.
Ha-ha. You actually think that publishers split their royalties 50:50 with authors?
For Stephen King, perhaps. For Joe Newbie, it's typically 75% to the publisher, and 25% to the guy who actually wrote the damn book, who then has to pay 15% of that 25% to his agent.
Most writers would earn a lot more with a part-time job flipping burgers than from writing a book.
You mean you can make more money developing software to do things that people need than churning out the same old crap games and hoping to make money from advertising or in-app purchases?
I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you!
Concorde was retired because it was 1960s technology in an era of fly-by-wire 'glass cockpit' designs, and passenger levels fell dramatically after 9/11, making it uneconomical to operate.
But it works so well for aircraft. Look at AF447, for example.
Oh, hang on, they couldn't figure out what was wrong and flew the plane into the sea.
You're right, though: if a car requires a human to be there to take over at any moment, it's hardly 'driverless'. It just has a cruise control that can steer as well as control the speed.