Just the other day someone here ranked the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, released 3.5 years ago, as the best phone ever and that it's been downhill ever since.
And with every article we have a series of apologists who discredit the mourners of lost features with epithets such as granddad and who would ever want X when we have Y?
(Still using my 2012 era LineageOS 14.1 device after cracking the back cover to replace the battery twice)
Iran, the world's largest sponsor of Islamic terrorism
[citation-needed]
Is that the Sunni/Israeli worldview where the world's evils are perpetrated by a minority Shia sect? I myself don't know the facts but am wary of partisan propaganda.
Wouldn't you just invade Iran then? Dubya mumbled something about Saddam's imagined WMD at the time, while Iran was allegedly building actual nukes.
Ween OPEC countries off the US dollar as a trading currency, reinvest the profits in new industries that help diversify oil-state economies when electric vehicles become the norm thus helping fight climate change by reducing the global demand for petrol.
Alas, it's Venezuela, where the cult of Hugo seems to have spiralled out of control in Mugabean proportions.
When idiots tear off the wallpaper? "Three hours for five dollars' worth of coffee is not a model that works"
It seems a peculiarly American/Starbucks phenomenon where mooching on free wifi for hours at a time is regarded as a basic human right. The rest of the world happily tether to their phone's data connection.
On call 24/7. Cafe owners breathe a sigh of relief as "free wifi" no longer a drawcard for telecommuting zombies. But the devil is in the data plan. The definirion of 'unlimited' will be subject to fair use.
I wouldn't say there are any particular unexpected showstoppers in that list.
Hyper-V would need to be replace the underlying hypervisor to support ARM guests. It's not an emulator (?) so would never support running x86 VMs in any case. OpenGL will only use whatever level MS and Qualcomm have bothered to support in their driver. Given it's an Android smartphone chipset, Open GL ES and Vulkan are likely better supported. x86-64 would be a nice to have but the idea is to get developers releasing arm64 binaries, not rely on emulation indefinitely.
X11, how quaint. Did you steal a Delorean and travel back to 1985?! Both Gnome and KDE are rapidly migrating to Wayland. GTK+ and Qt have had a Windows backend for well over a decade.
What WSL needs is to transparently switch backends to the Win32 implementation of GTK+ or Qt. e.g. that if a user runs a KDE app, it launches the program in passing the graphics calls to the Qt libraries on Windows.
(Even if paying a Canonical employee to write some cleanroom glue code for wine to get automated UI testing working for the win32 backend under Linux, yes turtles all the way down)
When I'm on a vacation internationally, I swap my home country's SIM card with one from abroad. This avoids expensive international roaming, while allowing me to make calls locally plus a 4G data connection. And no I don't have a dual SIM model...
Does the phone need to be connected to a local number at the time or can Google spoof a number on my behalf using a gateway connected back to my home telco? (Even when my phone is physically thousands of KM away)
Say I'll be gone for a month or 3. I land in Tabarnia and buy a prepaid Orange SIM for Spain, +34, and for any countries in the Schengen Zone I might visit. An internet gateway that could transparently route my texts over IP when the recipient's country code is back home in Australia to text family and friends would be handy - if it could use a gateway to send and receive texts from my +61 4xx xxx xxx number even when I'm not in the country.
(One could just use a TCP/IP based messaging service, of course. But some annoying services, with security theatre, such as 2FA require receiving SMS.)
Weren't snaps the packaging format for downloadable paid apps on Canonical's phone project, Ubuntu Touch? This seems like an attempt to salvage any 'monetizable' aspects of the abandoned wreck.
By design, I don't think the dpkg format supports proprietary DRM, so if businesses want to ship paid/subscriber-only software, e.g. MS Office 365 for Ubuntu, then snaps would enable that.
With men outnumbering women by some margin due to China's population policies, I'd be wary that this technology allows lonely police officers to woo girls. Officer sees attractive woman, looks her up online and instantly knows all her secrets from social media. Creepy.
I get the whole embrace/extend... meme but what about Electron, that bundles a Chromium runtime with every 'app'? I see this tech streamlining *that* experience on Windows.
*typed from a KDE desktop, so unless MS release a UWP store for Wayland and/or Android, I won't be touching them in any case.
Nuclear is not an option. South Australia does have uranium but there is no domestic market and likely never will be - political suicide to anyone who would stare down environmentalists.
There were murmurs about commissioning a study a year or two back but any motion would ultimately be defeated by both the coal lobby and the greens.
I read somewhere recently that roughly 40% of parents in Melbourne were sending their kids to non-government schools on top of having 30 year mortgages of some of the most overpriced real estate on the planet. Yes, it's common.
Me, a rich fuck? Hardly. I'm in the lower spectrum of earners, putting myself through a university degree.
I would personally send them to the local high school so they could meet kids in the neighbourhood rather than driving them 15km but it's their choice.
Chrome OS is a real, shipping, product. Fuchsia will be ready in 1, 2, or 5 years?
Google wants to gain momentum in the education market; Fuchsia would miss that window. My niece recently graduated from year 6 to high school. She attends a boutique K-12 private school where in earlier years every kid had an iPad but now her cashed-strapped parents must buy her a Macbook. Chrome OS running Android apps offers the best (worst?!) of both worlds on a single device.
A long life battery in a muted enclosure might be desirable for some. Not everyone needs a high performance 'workstation replacement' in wanting to hear a fan running all day. Nevertheless, a 'Pentium' Gemini Lake probably offers better bang for buck.
What are more outrageous are the other specs. 4GB RAM and a 128GB SSD would have been considered adequate in 2010.
Thought experiment: restart your browser with extensions disabled and compare usage. I am using ublock origin after reading somewhere that adblock plus was a performance hog.
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Sorry? September 2014 - 3 and a half years, to the month.
I haven't worked out how to type the 'half' character in ASCII.
Just the other day someone here ranked the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, released 3.5 years ago, as the best phone ever and that it's been downhill ever since.
And with every article we have a series of apologists who discredit the mourners of lost features with epithets such as granddad and who would ever want X when we have Y?
(Still using my 2012 era LineageOS 14.1 device after cracking the back cover to replace the battery twice)
Tim Cook is slipping.
For the good of humanity he should have design-patented the heck out of the notch!
Sorry but that sounds like a witch-hunt.
Moderation is supposed to be anonymous.
[citation-needed]
Is that the Sunni/Israeli worldview where the world's evils are perpetrated by a minority Shia sect? I myself don't know the facts but am wary of partisan propaganda.
Wouldn't you just invade Iran then? Dubya mumbled something about Saddam's imagined WMD at the time, while Iran was allegedly building actual nukes.
The idea itself *almost* has merit.
Ween OPEC countries off the US dollar as a trading currency, reinvest the profits in new industries that help diversify oil-state economies when electric vehicles become the norm thus helping fight climate change by reducing the global demand for petrol.
Alas, it's Venezuela, where the cult of Hugo seems to have spiralled out of control in Mugabean proportions.
It seems a peculiarly American/Starbucks phenomenon where mooching on free wifi for hours at a time is regarded as a basic human right. The rest of the world happily tether to their phone's data connection.
On call 24/7.
Cafe owners breathe a sigh of relief as "free wifi" no longer a drawcard for telecommuting zombies.
But the devil is in the data plan. The definirion of 'unlimited' will be subject to fair use.
I wouldn't say there are any particular unexpected showstoppers in that list.
Hyper-V would need to be replace the underlying hypervisor to support ARM guests. It's not an emulator (?) so would never support running x86 VMs in any case.
OpenGL will only use whatever level MS and Qualcomm have bothered to support in their driver. Given it's an Android smartphone chipset, Open GL ES and Vulkan are likely better supported.
x86-64 would be a nice to have but the idea is to get developers releasing arm64 binaries, not rely on emulation indefinitely.
X11, how quaint. Did you steal a Delorean and travel back to 1985?! Both Gnome and KDE are rapidly migrating to Wayland. GTK+ and Qt have had a Windows backend for well over a decade.
What WSL needs is to transparently switch backends to the Win32 implementation of GTK+ or Qt. e.g. that if a user runs a KDE app, it launches the program in passing the graphics calls to the Qt libraries on Windows.
(Even if paying a Canonical employee to write some cleanroom glue code for wine to get automated UI testing working for the win32 backend under Linux, yes turtles all the way down)
Don't display Getty media in your search results.
That'll learn 'em.
Try Spain, they are an hour ahead - it's still dark in winter when the kids leave to go to school in Galicia.
When I'm on a vacation internationally, I swap my home country's SIM card with one from abroad. This avoids expensive international roaming, while allowing me to make calls locally plus a 4G data connection. And no I don't have a dual SIM model...
Does the phone need to be connected to a local number at the time or can Google spoof a number on my behalf using a gateway connected back to my home telco? (Even when my phone is physically thousands of KM away)
Say I'll be gone for a month or 3. I land in Tabarnia and buy a prepaid Orange SIM for Spain, +34, and for any countries in the Schengen Zone I might visit. An internet gateway that could transparently route my texts over IP when the recipient's country code is back home in Australia to text family and friends would be handy - if it could use a gateway to send and receive texts from my +61 4xx xxx xxx number even when I'm not in the country.
(One could just use a TCP/IP based messaging service, of course. But some annoying services, with security theatre, such as 2FA require receiving SMS.)
Weren't snaps the packaging format for downloadable paid apps on Canonical's phone project, Ubuntu Touch? This seems like an attempt to salvage any 'monetizable' aspects of the abandoned wreck.
By design, I don't think the dpkg format supports proprietary DRM, so if businesses want to ship paid/subscriber-only software, e.g. MS Office 365 for Ubuntu, then snaps would enable that.
With men outnumbering women by some margin due to China's population policies, I'd be wary that this technology allows lonely police officers to woo girls. Officer sees attractive woman, looks her up online and instantly knows all her secrets from social media. Creepy.
Kelsey Grammar - that's the school in Little Britain, yeah?
I get the whole embrace/extend... meme but what about Electron, that bundles a Chromium runtime with every 'app'? I see this tech streamlining *that* experience on Windows.
*typed from a KDE desktop, so unless MS release a UWP store for Wayland and/or Android, I won't be touching them in any case.
Nuclear is not an option. South Australia does have uranium but there is no domestic market and likely never will be - political suicide to anyone who would stare down environmentalists.
There were murmurs about commissioning a study a year or two back but any motion would ultimately be defeated by both the coal lobby and the greens.
I read somewhere recently that roughly 40% of parents in Melbourne were sending their kids to non-government schools on top of having 30 year mortgages of some of the most overpriced real estate on the planet. Yes, it's common.
Me, a rich fuck? Hardly. I'm in the lower spectrum of earners, putting myself through a university degree.
Their school, their rules.
I would personally send them to the local high school so they could meet kids in the neighbourhood rather than driving them 15km but it's their choice.
Not every parent that sends their kids to private school is mega-rich.
At least in my corner of the globe it's common to sacrifice a large proportion of one's income because the state-run system is considered inadequate.
Chrome OS is a real, shipping, product. Fuchsia will be ready in 1, 2, or 5 years?
Google wants to gain momentum in the education market; Fuchsia would miss that window. My niece recently graduated from year 6 to high school. She attends a boutique K-12 private school where in earlier years every kid had an iPad but now her cashed-strapped parents must buy her a Macbook. Chrome OS running Android apps offers the best (worst?!) of both worlds on a single device.
A long life battery in a muted enclosure might be desirable for some. Not everyone needs a high performance 'workstation replacement' in wanting to hear a fan running all day. Nevertheless, a 'Pentium' Gemini Lake probably offers better bang for buck.
What are more outrageous are the other specs. 4GB RAM and a 128GB SSD would have been considered adequate in 2010.
Thought experiment: restart your browser with extensions disabled and compare usage.
I am using ublock origin after reading somewhere that adblock plus was a performance hog.
IIRC, non-MS programs can't see the system copy, i.e. Firefox. Google Chrome sandboxes its own installation.