Most of the time it's not about the equipment, so long as the story being covered is well lit and within 50 feet, a decent photographer can get a good newspaper worthy image. But as lighting gets worse or things get further away, a dedicated camera and pro photographer is invaluable.
What this also increases the skills reporters must bring to the job, good reporters must now be able to interview people, write stories, and take good pictures to record the events. What I find a little crazy is that they just axed photographers without giving them a chance to become reporters also. Often, I pay more attention to the pictures than the story which is often filled with sparse and often incorrect details. A person who can take great pictures and is even a mediocre writer could easily be a better journalist than the reporter who takes poor pictures.
Walk into any office of any reasonably sized company. Count the number of Macs. Now count the number of PCs. In my company for example the only Macs I see are when people bring their own.
No doubt. But there are more Macs as a percentage this year than there were last year, iPads have replaced increasing numbers of PCs this year. When you lose ground every year for 2-3 years you aren't winning.
Computers installed in people's offices are little comfort to Dell and HP as they try and figure out how to explain to their shareholders exactly why their sales are into double digit declines and share value yet again.
.. a shift in consumer preferences could completely trash Apple's bottom line.
The oft repeated mantra which has been proved wrong for every year over the past 10+ years.
"Chances are that your company will buy Windows PCs because this platform is winning the PC war. "
Traditional PC sales have dropped in real terms for 9 consecutive quarters and the most recent quarter was the deepest yet. The iMac has grown market share and actual units shipped over that same time period. Apple introduced the iPad shipped 120 million units at an average selling price of just a touch over the ASP of Windows PCs. Apple's profits on just the Mac and iPad exceed the profits of all Windows PC makers combined (Though I'm not sure Microsoft themselves).
What exactly is your definition of "winning the PC war"?
iOS 6 has a do not disturb function similar to what you suggest. (I'm sure it'll be available on Android soon enough)
Phillips released an app that is location aware and turns on your lightbulb in your house based on your location. No programming required.
If the server ran ActiveScript or Flash, I could see getting excited, but it's just minified javascript. This is the problem, were Stallman to describe minified code to most people they wouldn't see the 'evil' in it. So he invented a new phrase to try and make the rest of the planet see things the way he does.
What Stallman and the FSF are complaining about is bone standard ECMAscript, nothing proprietary about it. Minification is done by web administrators to conserve bandwidth and make their pages load faster. Stallman deliberately used a loaded term to paint this like it's worse than it is. If he'd just come out and said "People need to use more readable javascript" he'd look like an idiot So he fudged things a bit, coined a new phrase which if you read it literally doesn't make sense, then wrote a big essay about it. What's next, is he going to ban PERL because no-one can read it? Is everyone going to be required to use Python because it's the most readable language?
Hopefully they make lots of noise and spend a lot of money taking HuffPo to court, PETA has become a caricature of itself. I can't believe they are still around.
Google has expanded from indexing existing information to indexing people. The more you share with Google, the more value you bring to Google in terms of creating marketing value. They can sell more and more targeted advertising based on where you go, who you are with, what stores you frequent, what hobbies you have, how you travel, how much time you spend in specific places, etc. Google Glass is the ultimate extension of that strategy.
I would be far more interested in buying a product like this from a company that makes money selling products as opposed to a company focused on extruding as much information from me in order to resell it.
From what I understand, the hack doesn't affect the binaries on disk, it runs in memory only. Checksum based file checkers don't check running executable.
Except, that's not what the article says. BB has long been approved, "Samsung's Knox version of Android is currently going through the security review process, with a decision expected in the next two weeks." The iPhone has already gone through the review and there were specific recommendations made to make it compliant. Samsung is using the NSA's Android version as a core component so it's likely there were some specific implementation guidelines which they followed and it's likely they won't have as many post-review changes to put in place, but until the review is done, it's hard to say.
Regardless, Knox isn't even available yet and won't be for a couple of months.
"Open" isn't a selling point to anything more than a tiny sliver of the population. Few people care about "Open", let alone about splitting hairs between how open Android is versus Firefox. It's just not a selling point that is going to garner any momentum. The vast majority are happy with iOS which isn't open, but is easy to develop on and easy for developers to make money on.
If Firefox is going to do well, its going to need to have something more interesting going for it than "More open than Android".
Microsoft is just using this whole always online thing to get everyone worked up so they are super focused on the fact that there is this onerous requirement.
That way when they announce that it is not in fact going to be always on, the press will spend so much time focused on that they won't even notice that it's price is in the stratosphere unless you agree to a subscription regardless.
It's becoming exceedingly difficult to keep your search history private. All the major search companies keep it, Apple keeps Siri searches, etc.
DuckDuckGo I believe keeps things as anonymous as you can get. There are also some hacks you can do if you are careful, privacy mode/ incognito is a start, but even then it's easy to tip your hand. If you are truly doing something crazy, use a bootable USB and do your searches from a random public wifi hotspot.
It should be good at gaming. I can pick up a Nintendo Wii for $129, it has a better game selection and arguably a better controller. The Nintendo has better third party support and more console type titles. Getting access to thousands of junky phone-games is pretty much pointless. People shopping for a gaming console likely have a console that performs as good as this thing and has better titles.
It's a cute hacker toy with no real future market prospects outside a small geek niche.
The "hetero" image shows a bit of side boob and perhaps some nipple and that's it. The blocked image shows full on male genitalia in mouth in two separate frames.
The actual act in the hetero image is more disturbing and is larger, but the image shows no actual genitalia, male or female.
How old was iOS when the iPhone 5 was released?
More important, how long after iOS 6 was released was it available on the iPhone 4? The iPhone 4S? The iPhone 3GS? The iPad 2?
Android has a lot of cool stuff, but updates are glacial and lots of products get left behind in a hurry. A big part of the problem with Android malware is because exploits don't need to attack the most recent version of Android, because so few people are using a recent version of Android. People are using Android exploits that are months or sometimes years old.
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Most of the time it's not about the equipment, so long as the story being covered is well lit and within 50 feet, a decent photographer can get a good newspaper worthy image. But as lighting gets worse or things get further away, a dedicated camera and pro photographer is invaluable. What this also increases the skills reporters must bring to the job, good reporters must now be able to interview people, write stories, and take good pictures to record the events. What I find a little crazy is that they just axed photographers without giving them a chance to become reporters also. Often, I pay more attention to the pictures than the story which is often filled with sparse and often incorrect details. A person who can take great pictures and is even a mediocre writer could easily be a better journalist than the reporter who takes poor pictures.
I remember when Microsoft was the center of the entire technology sector. Funny how much things change.
Walk into any office of any reasonably sized company. Count the number of Macs. Now count the number of PCs. In my company for example the only Macs I see are when people bring their own.
No doubt. But there are more Macs as a percentage this year than there were last year, iPads have replaced increasing numbers of PCs this year. When you lose ground every year for 2-3 years you aren't winning. Computers installed in people's offices are little comfort to Dell and HP as they try and figure out how to explain to their shareholders exactly why their sales are into double digit declines and share value yet again.
.. a shift in consumer preferences could completely trash Apple's bottom line.
The oft repeated mantra which has been proved wrong for every year over the past 10+ years.
"Chances are that your company will buy Windows PCs because this platform is winning the PC war. "
Traditional PC sales have dropped in real terms for 9 consecutive quarters and the most recent quarter was the deepest yet. The iMac has grown market share and actual units shipped over that same time period. Apple introduced the iPad shipped 120 million units at an average selling price of just a touch over the ASP of Windows PCs. Apple's profits on just the Mac and iPad exceed the profits of all Windows PC makers combined (Though I'm not sure Microsoft themselves).
What exactly is your definition of "winning the PC war"?
iOS 6 has a do not disturb function similar to what you suggest. (I'm sure it'll be available on Android soon enough) Phillips released an app that is location aware and turns on your lightbulb in your house based on your location. No programming required.
Yeah, not sure why someone modded this down which it's all pretty much spot on.
If the server ran ActiveScript or Flash, I could see getting excited, but it's just minified javascript. This is the problem, were Stallman to describe minified code to most people they wouldn't see the 'evil' in it. So he invented a new phrase to try and make the rest of the planet see things the way he does.
What Stallman and the FSF are complaining about is bone standard ECMAscript, nothing proprietary about it. Minification is done by web administrators to conserve bandwidth and make their pages load faster. Stallman deliberately used a loaded term to paint this like it's worse than it is. If he'd just come out and said "People need to use more readable javascript" he'd look like an idiot So he fudged things a bit, coined a new phrase which if you read it literally doesn't make sense, then wrote a big essay about it. What's next, is he going to ban PERL because no-one can read it? Is everyone going to be required to use Python because it's the most readable language?
Hopefully they make lots of noise and spend a lot of money taking HuffPo to court, PETA has become a caricature of itself. I can't believe they are still around.
Google has expanded from indexing existing information to indexing people. The more you share with Google, the more value you bring to Google in terms of creating marketing value. They can sell more and more targeted advertising based on where you go, who you are with, what stores you frequent, what hobbies you have, how you travel, how much time you spend in specific places, etc. Google Glass is the ultimate extension of that strategy. I would be far more interested in buying a product like this from a company that makes money selling products as opposed to a company focused on extruding as much information from me in order to resell it.
If it were a man, would he have used a term that implies someone's incompetence is tied to their sex?
Bimbo: An attractive but empty-headed young woman, esp. one perceived as a willing sex object.
Isn't the start menu the place you find icons to drag onto the taskbar? Or does Windows 7/8 support pinning the way OSX does now?
[quote]No, it means you need a more complicated password.[/quote] Or better still, generate a key and turn off passwords entirely.
From what I understand, the hack doesn't affect the binaries on disk, it runs in memory only. Checksum based file checkers don't check running executable.
How much longer should I wait? My old HTC Trophy (running Windows Phone 7.x) also (as far as I am aware) never had any major exploits against it.
Maybe another 5 million users or so? Oh wait...
Except, that's not what the article says. BB has long been approved, "Samsung's Knox version of Android is currently going through the security review process, with a decision expected in the next two weeks." The iPhone has already gone through the review and there were specific recommendations made to make it compliant. Samsung is using the NSA's Android version as a core component so it's likely there were some specific implementation guidelines which they followed and it's likely they won't have as many post-review changes to put in place, but until the review is done, it's hard to say. Regardless, Knox isn't even available yet and won't be for a couple of months.
"Open" isn't a selling point to anything more than a tiny sliver of the population. Few people care about "Open", let alone about splitting hairs between how open Android is versus Firefox. It's just not a selling point that is going to garner any momentum. The vast majority are happy with iOS which isn't open, but is easy to develop on and easy for developers to make money on. If Firefox is going to do well, its going to need to have something more interesting going for it than "More open than Android".
Microsoft is just using this whole always online thing to get everyone worked up so they are super focused on the fact that there is this onerous requirement. That way when they announce that it is not in fact going to be always on, the press will spend so much time focused on that they won't even notice that it's price is in the stratosphere unless you agree to a subscription regardless.
Or... sell the car to someone who is willing to buy gas.
If you've read the book.... you'd know what I mean.
It's becoming exceedingly difficult to keep your search history private. All the major search companies keep it, Apple keeps Siri searches, etc. DuckDuckGo I believe keeps things as anonymous as you can get. There are also some hacks you can do if you are careful, privacy mode/ incognito is a start, but even then it's easy to tip your hand. If you are truly doing something crazy, use a bootable USB and do your searches from a random public wifi hotspot.
It's not a smartphone, it's a gaming console.
It should be good at gaming. I can pick up a Nintendo Wii for $129, it has a better game selection and arguably a better controller. The Nintendo has better third party support and more console type titles. Getting access to thousands of junky phone-games is pretty much pointless. People shopping for a gaming console likely have a console that performs as good as this thing and has better titles.
It's a cute hacker toy with no real future market prospects outside a small geek niche.
Apple was able to tell people all the cool things they could do with an iPad.
Google: "You tell us what it's good for!"
When the inventor can't easily explain what the best uses for their invention are, it's a safe bet there really aren't any.
Have you seen the images?
The "hetero" image shows a bit of side boob and perhaps some nipple and that's it. The blocked image shows full on male genitalia in mouth in two separate frames.
The actual act in the hetero image is more disturbing and is larger, but the image shows no actual genitalia, male or female.
How old was iOS when the iPhone 5 was released? More important, how long after iOS 6 was released was it available on the iPhone 4? The iPhone 4S? The iPhone 3GS? The iPad 2? Android has a lot of cool stuff, but updates are glacial and lots of products get left behind in a hurry. A big part of the problem with Android malware is because exploits don't need to attack the most recent version of Android, because so few people are using a recent version of Android. People are using Android exploits that are months or sometimes years old.