The trouble is that Android permissions are historically too coarse-grained to let a manifest distinguish "application can query call state" from "application can query device ID".
I think the complaint is that it should never have been installed in the system partition in the first place. Instead, it should have been installed in the user partition at the factory and placed on a list of apps to automatically reinstall when the user first connects to Wi-Fi after a reset.
That's why you buy phones that permit you to root them... including full bootloader access.
If I am buying a phone in person, why aren't sales associates trained on which phones have "full bootloader access"? If I am buying a phone online, how can I accurately gauge the size, weight, display quality, and touch screen responsiveness of a device through the Internet?
a) Why would you open a voicemail in a web browser? That's a stupendous security risk.
I don't see it as any worse than webmail or listening to music on Soundcloud. What's the threat model?
b) What is your carrier doing to deliver voicemail by anything other than their voicemail service?
Probably storing the voicemails as audio files and making them available to people who want to check voicemail on a device other than their phone, for convenience. Some will even perform speech recognition to let the subscriber get the gist of the message before deciding whether to listen.
Choice
Then the manufacturer ought to preinstall the app in the data partition where the user can make a "choice" to delete it. After a factory reset, Google Play Store would reinstall it the next time it sees Wi-Fi.
That said I'm pretty sure stock Android allows you to remove updates for those apps and regain that space, but I'm not 100% sure since I haven't run a stock Android system in years.
All versions of stock Android that I have used on Nexus 7 have had the "Uninstall updates" button on each preinstalled app's page in Settings.
I'll believe Flash is dead once Weebl's Stuff (Weebl and Bob; "Badgers"), Homestar Runner, and the animutation scene go all HTML5. Rendering an SWF to MP4 and uploading it to YouTube is not the answer, as it bloats file sizes by a factor of ten in an era of capped home Internet.
I think with something as complex as a computer, we can have new genres of games like Katamari Damacy if someone puts their mind to it.
Katamari is a 3D platformer. Instead of the jumping mechanic of Super Mario, it has the eating mechanic of Bubbles (1982). Trying new things is a matter of combining existing building blocks in new ways. Have there been any new building blocks introduced since Parappa nearly two decades ago?
Some pacifists take intentional steps to prevent use by the military. See for example GlovePIE, whose EULA had restrictions on use by the military last time I checked.
People DO move between countries.
And a lot of people unload their stuff on Craigslist, eBay, or a yard sale when they move.
6-10 sheets of paper on my desk and compare and contrast all of them at once
How many eyeballs do you have?
Two, with both foveas pointed the same way, but with other documents in peripheral vision to preserve the visuospatial sense of context that a one-thing-at-a-time display lacks.
It's cost-prohibitive for them to mail you the touch screen device and expect you to mail it back. And not all existing computers owned by customers have touch screens.
We use numerous highly-customized document templates that simply don't like anything except MS Office, and have occasionally had problems over the years even with MS Office and problems as features are tweaked by Microsoft.
Then why not translate them into highly-customized document templates that simply don't like anything except LibreOffice?
Part of the problem is that users that are extremely proficient with MS Office do not want to change
Is the change from classic Microsoft Office to LibreOffice bigger than the change from Microsoft Office 2003 to later versions of Microsoft Office that include the ribbon UI? If not, why do they "want to change" in the latter case but not the former?
[The language used to implement parts of the OS X kernel is a C++] subset, which doesn't allow any of the bits requiring significant support from the runtime (exceptions, RTTI/multiple inheritance)
But what are the advantages of this subset over C?
[C++ is] better than C in pretty much every single regard[*]. [...] [*] The only regard in which it's not is that a few obscure platforms don't have a C++ compiler.
That and machines without enough memory to hold "significant support from the runtime". I tried compiling Hello World for a Game Boy Advance using a cross-GCC that targets Thumb. Because the GBA BIOS lacks an implementation of the C++ standard library, I had to statically link GNU libstdc++. I wrote two Hello World programs in C++: one using <cstdio> and one using <iostream>. The one using <cstdio> was 6K, including a statically linked terminal emulator, while the using <iostream> was 180K bytes, even after turning on -Wl,--gc-sections to enable more aggressive pruning of unreachable code. That was a big chunk of memory on a platform with only 256K of main RAM, 32K of fast RAM, and 96K of video memory. I debugged into it, and it turned out that the constructor for std::cout was constructing objects to represent locale-specific formats for date, time, and currency types despite that my program printed none of those types. I repeated the experiment with MinGW, a port of GCC to Windows (x86), and got comparable sizes.
Driver's ed is not a required course in Indiana. Furthermore, the Indiana BMV requires 50 hours of verifiable supervised driving on a learner's permit before it'll issue a license, which makes it a bit harder for an adult to learn if parents are unavailable to sit in the front passenger's seat. I'm told some states in Australia require even more (120 hours).
I personally got my license years ago before the BMV extended the supervised driving log requirement to adult learners. However, I do not own a car and haven't driven in years.
I guess I was assuming one gaming PC on which family members take turns and two or three laptops with integrated graphics for homework and Facebook. If two of the PCs are gaming PCs, I agree that it's more practical.
So what's the lawful way to view, say, the film Song of the South or the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea? I've never tried Popcorn Time, but I know these works tend to be missing from lawful streaming services' libraries. If there is none, how does this "dog in the manger" mentality "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", as one country's constitution puts it?
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The trouble is that Android permissions are historically too coarse-grained to let a manifest distinguish "application can query call state" from "application can query device ID".
I think the complaint is that it should never have been installed in the system partition in the first place. Instead, it should have been installed in the user partition at the factory and placed on a list of apps to automatically reinstall when the user first connects to Wi-Fi after a reset.
That's why you buy phones that permit you to root them... including full bootloader access.
If I am buying a phone in person, why aren't sales associates trained on which phones have "full bootloader access"? If I am buying a phone online, how can I accurately gauge the size, weight, display quality, and touch screen responsiveness of a device through the Internet?
a) Why would you open a voicemail in a web browser? That's a stupendous security risk.
I don't see it as any worse than webmail or listening to music on Soundcloud. What's the threat model?
b) What is your carrier doing to deliver voicemail by anything other than their voicemail service?
Probably storing the voicemails as audio files and making them available to people who want to check voicemail on a device other than their phone, for convenience. Some will even perform speech recognition to let the subscriber get the gist of the message before deciding whether to listen.
Choice
Then the manufacturer ought to preinstall the app in the data partition where the user can make a "choice" to delete it. After a factory reset, Google Play Store would reinstall it the next time it sees Wi-Fi.
Creationists need to produce an alien witness who is from a world with a very different time dilation than ours
And this alien might have gone by the name Joshua while on earth, which the Greeks misheard as "Jesus".
That said I'm pretty sure stock Android allows you to remove updates for those apps and regain that space, but I'm not 100% sure since I haven't run a stock Android system in years.
All versions of stock Android that I have used on Nexus 7 have had the "Uninstall updates" button on each preinstalled app's page in Settings.
Rendering an SWF to MP4 and uploading it to YouTube is not the answer, as it bloats file sizes by a factor of ten in an era of capped home Internet.
[Link to an MP4]
Even 240p is much bigger than Flash for a lot of videos that I've encountered.
If what you say is true, I'd like to run some tests on some JS-heavy web app. When you close a tab, what "js-type entries" don't go away?
I'll believe Flash is dead once Weebl's Stuff (Weebl and Bob; "Badgers"), Homestar Runner, and the animutation scene go all HTML5. Rendering an SWF to MP4 and uploading it to YouTube is not the answer, as it bloats file sizes by a factor of ten in an era of capped home Internet.
Small and Large had a baby.
I think with something as complex as a computer, we can have new genres of games like Katamari Damacy if someone puts their mind to it.
Katamari is a 3D platformer. Instead of the jumping mechanic of Super Mario, it has the eating mechanic of Bubbles (1982). Trying new things is a matter of combining existing building blocks in new ways. Have there been any new building blocks introduced since Parappa nearly two decades ago?
Of course, I use the num-pad with my right hand. Who would not?
Users of a laptop without a num-pad.
in Chrome, I can do a shift-esc, and kill a lot of memory hogs per tab. No real way to do that in FF.
about:memory estimates how much memory each tab is using. Close the hogs and then click "Minimize memory usage".
There are a lot of websites which demand an account to do much (pinterest).
Solution: Start putting -site:pinterest.com in your Google searches, and block the site in hosts.
I expected N to port all first-party Virtual Boy games to the Nintendo 3DS.
I think the idea is that you use old Go to bootstrap new Go, just as you use old g++ (prior to 4.8 when it became self-hosting) to bootstrap new g++.
I used to be military.
Some pacifists take intentional steps to prevent use by the military. See for example GlovePIE, whose EULA had restrictions on use by the military last time I checked.
People DO move between countries.
And a lot of people unload their stuff on Craigslist, eBay, or a yard sale when they move.
6-10 sheets of paper on my desk and compare and contrast all of them at once
How many eyeballs do you have?
Two, with both foveas pointed the same way, but with other documents in peripheral vision to preserve the visuospatial sense of context that a one-thing-at-a-time display lacks.
It's cost-prohibitive for them to mail you the touch screen device and expect you to mail it back. And not all existing computers owned by customers have touch screens.
We use numerous highly-customized document templates that simply don't like anything except MS Office, and have occasionally had problems over the years even with MS Office and problems as features are tweaked by Microsoft.
Then why not translate them into highly-customized document templates that simply don't like anything except LibreOffice?
Part of the problem is that users that are extremely proficient with MS Office do not want to change
Is the change from classic Microsoft Office to LibreOffice bigger than the change from Microsoft Office 2003 to later versions of Microsoft Office that include the ribbon UI? If not, why do they "want to change" in the latter case but not the former?
[The language used to implement parts of the OS X kernel is a C++] subset, which doesn't allow any of the bits requiring significant support from the runtime (exceptions, RTTI/multiple inheritance)
But what are the advantages of this subset over C?
[C++ is] better than C in pretty much every single regard[*].
[...]
[*] The only regard in which it's not is that a few obscure platforms don't have a C++ compiler.
That and machines without enough memory to hold "significant support from the runtime". I tried compiling Hello World for a Game Boy Advance using a cross-GCC that targets Thumb. Because the GBA BIOS lacks an implementation of the C++ standard library, I had to statically link GNU libstdc++. I wrote two Hello World programs in C++: one using <cstdio> and one using <iostream>. The one using <cstdio> was 6K, including a statically linked terminal emulator, while the using <iostream> was 180K bytes, even after turning on -Wl,--gc-sections to enable more aggressive pruning of unreachable code. That was a big chunk of memory on a platform with only 256K of main RAM, 32K of fast RAM, and 96K of video memory. I debugged into it, and it turned out that the constructor for std::cout was constructing objects to represent locale-specific formats for date, time, and currency types despite that my program printed none of those types. I repeated the experiment with MinGW, a port of GCC to Windows (x86), and got comparable sizes.
Uh... well.. duh, who actually would think they'd use C in their own new shiny language toolchain
The reference implementation of Python, a different language that's been around as long as Linux, is still written in C. So go figure.
Driver's ed is not a required course in Indiana. Furthermore, the Indiana BMV requires 50 hours of verifiable supervised driving on a learner's permit before it'll issue a license, which makes it a bit harder for an adult to learn if parents are unavailable to sit in the front passenger's seat. I'm told some states in Australia require even more (120 hours).
I personally got my license years ago before the BMV extended the supervised driving log requirement to adult learners. However, I do not own a car and haven't driven in years.
I guess I was assuming one gaming PC on which family members take turns and two or three laptops with integrated graphics for homework and Facebook. If two of the PCs are gaming PCs, I agree that it's more practical.
So what's the lawful way to view, say, the film Song of the South or the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea? I've never tried Popcorn Time, but I know these works tend to be missing from lawful streaming services' libraries. If there is none, how does this "dog in the manger" mentality "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", as one country's constitution puts it?