Install a pihole on your land and laug hat all the suckers that have to watch ads! However, it should be illegal to present ads on a device you paid the full price for. Would a class action lawsuit help to curb rhis behavior?
We've only had smartphones for little over a decade. I bet smartphones will disappear and replaced by a totally different tech within the next 15 years..
You really have no clue what you are talking about. The var keyword has nothing to do with the underlying CLI. It is a language feature that the compiler can pick up on to determine the correct type at compile time. The generated bytecode is still statically typed. The var keyword helps greatly in refactoring.
Alternatively set up an image for a VPN linux node on AWS or some other cloud. Provision in the morning, use its VPN one day and delete the machine afterwards. But you're absolutely right, signing up for a VPN provider will probably lead to extra checks when flying.
No account sharing == no Netflix. It's as simple as that. So instead of having two or three viewers, they will have none. That will be real funny for the stock price. Alternatively I could have the family VPN into our home network to access Netflix. Happy now?
The end of Netflix is near anyway, their programming sucks donkey balls nowadays with dull "bingeworthy" series that turn sour after only a couple of episodes, endless unfunny stand-up "comedy" and heavily politically motivated "documentaries". The only thing worthy of watching nowadays is ST:DSC and even that is a mediocre show.
They are free to fork the protocol and introduce this as an alternative. Let's see how much adoption it will get - law enforcement will love that sharing a movie will now provide a financial incentive, as that will make it a crime instead of a violation.
> What next, they hunt down 'boob' in Gurarati and force another app name change
Why is it that "offensive" names are only fixed when in English? Face it, any combination of letters can be an offensive term in any language. Better stop giving names at all and use guids or numbers instead to describe packages. Excluding obvious offender numbers such as 13 and 69. "Are you running e53-c27a13-3.1-beta2?"
> Most major corporations are still so technically inept that they still run Windows
Yes, so sad, as this is the year of Linux on the Desktop, ofcourse! A Linux desktop won't present any issues at all - large ships can be easily patched mid-sea with a new kernel should a security issue occur! And as everyone knows only Windows is hackable, Linux is completely hackerproof. the X desktop is very well suited for day to day work, users just love its window composition, choice of available software and design. Since these ships have 24/7 high speed internet they might as well run all software in a browser. Wow, you are so technically proficient, I'm sure you would be an excellent architect at a shipping company!!
Maybe it's not bizarre for someone with years of background, but to regular users, the address format is the biggest hurdle to adoption. I am able to explain an IPv4 address to a nine year old. However I don't understand Ipv6 addressing fully myself as it's just too damn complicated and cryptic with all colons and hex. Whoever designed that should be put against the wall retroactively. My IP is::::ff::00 -- say what? My gateway address is::::323::f0::c7, so my local address is::::00::e1::27??
I still don't understand what would be hard in adding two octals to the current IPv4 scheme. 10.1.192.168.1.7 would be a valid, understandable address. The IPv6 scheme is crap and will NEVER be embraced by users.
Total iPhone units sold between 2007 and 2017 worldwide is 216.76 million. So not literally a billion; in fact, the article is specifically about iOS, so we can leave out macs. An iPhone will stay in use for about 5 years so let's assume that half of those 216 million devices is still using Safari and will get the search provider pushed. That's 9 billion for 100 million users, or USD 90 per IOS user. Assume I made a mistake and it would only amount to a third of that per user. I would still be worried if Google would pay my phone manufacturer that for providing me ads.
In the eighties we needed only 640kb of RAM, in the nineties a 1 Gb hard drive was more than enough space, in the new millennium HD was all the resolution we needed, and now we don't need faster chips?
if we held back new hardware and software until all possible security holes have been fixed we'd still be waiting for the first CPU and an OS to run on it.
"Vulkan is now available on over 40% of Android devices, which by itself makes it the second most widely distributed graphics API in the universe"
Available != widely distributed and supports != runs. The fact that there are bindings to support the engine does not mean that Vulkan is actually used on PC (DirectX). If I look at the list with "numerous PC titles" I see a grand total of 37 games - many of which are based on the same base game (such as Doom/Wolfenstein/Quake and the Serious Sam series), and a lot of very old games (Doom or Quake anyone?). Only 7 games on that list were released during the last 12 months.
This month alone, more games were released than in total on this list, so practically - yes, Vulkan is a dead end.
The CoC will just harm its adoptation by scaring neutral developers away. Not everyone wants to fight for perceived social causes all the time or mix their work or hobbies with politics. Rust will in time vanish in obscurity. Are you truly inclusive if you exclude everyone you disagree with?
How cool would it be if all major systems could interface this way and not require any more formal API's. This is the way to full fledged AI. The latency is a bitch though.
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Install a pihole on your land and laug hat all the suckers that have to watch ads!
However, it should be illegal to present ads on a device you paid the full price for. Would a class action lawsuit help to curb rhis behavior?
We've only had smartphones for little over a decade. I bet smartphones will disappear and replaced by a totally different tech within the next 15 years..
What if you hit a tiny little rock floating in the void ..
You really have no clue what you are talking about. The var keyword has nothing to do with the underlying CLI. It is a language feature that the compiler can pick up on to determine the correct type at compile time. The generated bytecode is still statically typed. The var keyword helps greatly in refactoring.
Alternatively set up an image for a VPN linux node on AWS or some other cloud. Provision in the morning, use its VPN one day and delete the machine afterwards. But you're absolutely right, signing up for a VPN provider will probably lead to extra checks when flying.
The equilibrium that existed meant humans get to live and the large animals had to die. This has happened consistently everywhere men was introduced.
They divided the world map in 20 squares. Human activity was not found in only one those squares, probably in Greenland. Solid methodology.
No account sharing == no Netflix. It's as simple as that. So instead of having two or three viewers, they will have none. That will be real funny for the stock price. Alternatively I could have the family VPN into our home network to access Netflix. Happy now?
The end of Netflix is near anyway, their programming sucks donkey balls nowadays with dull "bingeworthy" series that turn sour after only a couple of episodes, endless unfunny stand-up "comedy" and heavily politically motivated "documentaries". The only thing worthy of watching nowadays is ST:DSC and even that is a mediocre show.
They are free to fork the protocol and introduce this as an alternative. Let's see how much adoption it will get - law enforcement will love that sharing a movie will now provide a financial incentive, as that will make it a crime instead of a violation.
> What next, they hunt down 'boob' in Gurarati and force another app name change
Why is it that "offensive" names are only fixed when in English? Face it, any combination of letters can be an offensive term in any language. Better stop giving names at all and use guids or numbers instead to describe packages. Excluding obvious offender numbers such as 13 and 69. "Are you running e53-c27a13-3.1-beta2?"
All the tech giants owe to Wikipedia, good for them. As long as Facebook doesn't get access to Wikipedia's private data.
Let's turn this into a positive: companies can exchange "Saturn ring credits" which can be bought from the government. Win-win!
If it's airgapped no updates will ever be needed. And file transfers would be strictly forbidden as well.
Now this deserves a +5 Insightful, but ofcourse the trolls are too busy bashing the most widely used OS on the planet.
> Most major corporations are still so technically inept that they still run Windows
Yes, so sad, as this is the year of Linux on the Desktop, ofcourse! A Linux desktop won't present any issues at all - large ships can be easily patched mid-sea with a new kernel should a security issue occur! And as everyone knows only Windows is hackable, Linux is completely hackerproof. the X desktop is very well suited for day to day work, users just love its window composition, choice of available software and design. Since these ships have 24/7 high speed internet they might as well run all software in a browser. Wow, you are so technically proficient, I'm sure you would be an excellent architect at a shipping company!!
Maybe it's not bizarre for someone with years of background, but to regular users, the address format is the biggest hurdle to adoption. I am able to explain an IPv4 address to a nine year old. However I don't understand Ipv6 addressing fully myself as it's just too damn complicated and cryptic with all colons and hex. Whoever designed that should be put against the wall retroactively. ::::ff::00 -- say what? My gateway address is ::::323::f0::c7, so my local address is ::::00::e1::27??
My IP is
I still don't understand what would be hard in adding two octals to the current IPv4 scheme. 10.1.192.168.1.7 would be a valid, understandable address. The IPv6 scheme is crap and will NEVER be embraced by users.
Somehow it *always* ends like that. Maybe this is just basic humanity, we can't have nice things.
It does mention the word "sphere" 13 times though. The words "Cube" or "Pyramid" are not present either.
But it's too convenient to do away with any criticism on progressive politics with "How is Moscow today, Sergey?"
Total iPhone units sold between 2007 and 2017 worldwide is 216.76 million. So not literally a billion; in fact, the article is specifically about iOS, so we can leave out macs. An iPhone will stay in use for about 5 years so let's assume that half of those 216 million devices is still using Safari and will get the search provider pushed. That's 9 billion for 100 million users, or USD 90 per IOS user. Assume I made a mistake and it would only amount to a third of that per user. I would still be worried if Google would pay my phone manufacturer that for providing me ads.
In the eighties we needed only 640kb of RAM, in the nineties a 1 Gb hard drive was more than enough space, in the new millennium HD was all the resolution we needed, and now we don't need faster chips?
if we held back new hardware and software until all possible security holes have been fixed we'd still be waiting for the first CPU and an OS to run on it.
"Vulkan is now available on over 40% of Android devices, which by itself makes it the second most widely distributed graphics API in the universe"
Available != widely distributed and supports != runs. The fact that there are bindings to support the engine does not mean that Vulkan is actually used on PC (DirectX). If I look at the list with "numerous PC titles" I see a grand total of 37 games - many of which are based on the same base game (such as Doom/Wolfenstein/Quake and the Serious Sam series), and a lot of very old games (Doom or Quake anyone?). Only 7 games on that list were released during the last 12 months.
This month alone, more games were released than in total on this list, so practically - yes, Vulkan is a dead end.
The CoC will just harm its adoptation by scaring neutral developers away. Not everyone wants to fight for perceived social causes all the time or mix their work or hobbies with politics. Rust will in time vanish in obscurity. Are you truly inclusive if you exclude everyone you disagree with?
How cool would it be if all major systems could interface this way and not require any more formal API's. This is the way to full fledged AI. The latency is a bitch though.