I suspect - and Apple would probably hate this - that to many people "iPhone" and "smartphone" mean exactly the same thing, in much the same way that all tissues are Kleenex. If you don't give enough of a damn about the differences between square touchscreens called Nexus and iPhone and Galaxy and Lumia to make a purchasing decision between them, you probably don't give enough of a damn to keep their names striaght.
The last time they failed it was because they were absolutely atrocious. Read the contemporary reports; they never had the chance to reach the stage of causing the sorts of hypothetical social issues you envision. That's not to say that those won't turn out to be problems this time, but they weren't the problem last time. Not by a long shot.
Ha, actually looking at the physics shows that the mass just cancels out and velocity is all that matters. Newton didn't predict this though, lacking a good velocity for light.
Newton's law of universal gravitation doesn't include velocity at all; it's just the product of the masses over the square of the distance between them.
There's no value in being a visionary. Most people have a thousand and one save-the-world ideas before breakfast; what matters is figuring out which ones actually work and dismissing the ones that don't, something Adams has shown no particular aptitude for. Nikola Tesla may be remembered for a bunch of fantastical ideas that never came to pass, but he's respected for the ideas he pulled off.
These days tools like Unity let you target multiple platforms relatively easily now that the consoles are x86; for more difficult ports like to the Vita, Sony will actively hunt down interesting software and give the developer either technical assistance, or contact with an experience porting specialist like Curve. Excitingly, Microsoft has seen the PR coup this has been for Sony and is attempting to follow suit.
...and Microsoft's equivalent had all the same problems, not as many features, and just plain didn't work properly. However you feel about Steam, a worse version of Steam is not an appealing option.
That's because it's a hedge against Microsoft's attempts to subsume PC games into their own walled garden, locking out Steam. The conditions that would make a Steambox necessary are also the ones that would suddenly make it - and Linux in general - viable for thirdparty hardware and software manufacturers. If those conditions don't arise, Steambox will fail, but Valve won't need it anyway.
You don't want to ship early then fix when you're talking about the controller. You want that to be a steady target for developers, not just for big changes like whether you need analogue triggers, but for subtle qualitative ones like the throw of the triggers and buttons, and in this case pretty much everything about the repsonse of those touchpads. How much contact is needed to register a touch? What method do you use to smooth the capacitance data into coordinates? What's the sample rate? Developers will spend lots of time tuning the "feel" of their games to match those parameters, and if you change those a year later, suddenly their game is going to feel subtly wrong, (Anyone who has had to play a console game with a cheap thirdparty pad knows this pain.) The developer will have to live with it or go in and issue some sort of controller-version-specific patch.
Nope, with controllers, doing it right and late is more important than doing it almost right and early.
I would be very surprised if Samsung even planned on collecting this data; when Nokia were shipping phone models with sports biometric sensors about five years ago, they had every opportunity to develop a huge database of useful information, but lacked the resources, knowledge and will to do so. It's a cute little value-added gizmo like everything else they build in to their devices.
Maybe this was a proof-of-concept hack and they didn't want to take the risks involved in setting up an actual Paypal account they could extract money from until they were sure it worked?
Apple do have two-factor authentication these days. If you have that enabled, anyone attempting to log on to your account has to have access to one of your devices or one of your fall-back accounts. Frankly, that should be turned on by default.
My new rule of thumb is that anything I don't have protected by two-factor is something I can afford to lose access to. That's not to say that two-factor is a panacea - it's very easy to set it up so it's useless by, for example, giving a less-secure email address as a fall-back - but it's the minimum for anything I care about.
The same way they locked the phone: Find My iPhone lets you display a message on the device, along the lines of "Please return me to the front desk" or "Call me on *othernumber*".
Oh, it's hella illegal on a human rights basis, but most of the signatories of those conventions take enormous liberties in their interpretation of what's permitted where it applies to their own people, much less another nation's.
1) It's perfectly legal for the NSA to spy on Britons, which it is documented as doing 2) It's perfectly legal for the NSA to give that information to GCHQ, which it is documented as doing 3) It's perfectly legal for GCHQ to spy on Americans, which it is documented as doing 4) It's perfectly legal for GCHQ to give that information to the NSA.
The "censorship" in question is the decision not to publish the name of the nation in question:
"By denying an entire population the knowledge of its own victimization, this act of censorship denies each individual in that country the opportunity to seek an effective remedy, whether in international courts, or elsewhere."
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Yeah, if he's pointing out that it's a serious misnomer he's bang on.
I suspect - and Apple would probably hate this - that to many people "iPhone" and "smartphone" mean exactly the same thing, in much the same way that all tissues are Kleenex. If you don't give enough of a damn about the differences between square touchscreens called Nexus and iPhone and Galaxy and Lumia to make a purchasing decision between them, you probably don't give enough of a damn to keep their names striaght.
The "informed" part is what I'm referring to when I say "figuring out which ones actually work". Larry Niven did the maths.
The last time they failed it was because they were absolutely atrocious. Read the contemporary reports; they never had the chance to reach the stage of causing the sorts of hypothetical social issues you envision. That's not to say that those won't turn out to be problems this time, but they weren't the problem last time. Not by a long shot.
Nope, it's literally just the set of orbits where you can have liquid water.
Ha, actually looking at the physics shows that the mass just cancels out and velocity is all that matters. Newton didn't predict this though, lacking a good velocity for light.
Of course, we're celebrating this now because its age will only asymptotically approach 100 years.
Newton's law of universal gravitation doesn't include velocity at all; it's just the product of the masses over the square of the distance between them.
There's no value in being a visionary. Most people have a thousand and one save-the-world ideas before breakfast; what matters is figuring out which ones actually work and dismissing the ones that don't, something Adams has shown no particular aptitude for. Nikola Tesla may be remembered for a bunch of fantastical ideas that never came to pass, but he's respected for the ideas he pulled off.
These days tools like Unity let you target multiple platforms relatively easily now that the consoles are x86; for more difficult ports like to the Vita, Sony will actively hunt down interesting software and give the developer either technical assistance, or contact with an experience porting specialist like Curve. Excitingly, Microsoft has seen the PR coup this has been for Sony and is attempting to follow suit.
It's a great time to be into indie games.
...and Microsoft's equivalent had all the same problems, not as many features, and just plain didn't work properly. However you feel about Steam, a worse version of Steam is not an appealing option.
What do you mean, "option"? They're Linux PCs running Steam, they all natively support keyboards and mice.
That's because it's a hedge against Microsoft's attempts to subsume PC games into their own walled garden, locking out Steam. The conditions that would make a Steambox necessary are also the ones that would suddenly make it - and Linux in general - viable for thirdparty hardware and software manufacturers. If those conditions don't arise, Steambox will fail, but Valve won't need it anyway.
You don't want to ship early then fix when you're talking about the controller. You want that to be a steady target for developers, not just for big changes like whether you need analogue triggers, but for subtle qualitative ones like the throw of the triggers and buttons, and in this case pretty much everything about the repsonse of those touchpads. How much contact is needed to register a touch? What method do you use to smooth the capacitance data into coordinates? What's the sample rate? Developers will spend lots of time tuning the "feel" of their games to match those parameters, and if you change those a year later, suddenly their game is going to feel subtly wrong, (Anyone who has had to play a console game with a cheap thirdparty pad knows this pain.) The developer will have to live with it or go in and issue some sort of controller-version-specific patch.
Nope, with controllers, doing it right and late is more important than doing it almost right and early.
There are going to be trials of self-driving shuttle cars in Milton Keynes next year, so you might want to watch the local news for that area.
The end user.
I would be very surprised if Samsung even planned on collecting this data; when Nokia were shipping phone models with sports biometric sensors about five years ago, they had every opportunity to develop a huge database of useful information, but lacked the resources, knowledge and will to do so. It's a cute little value-added gizmo like everything else they build in to their devices.
Maybe this was a proof-of-concept hack and they didn't want to take the risks involved in setting up an actual Paypal account they could extract money from until they were sure it worked?
Apple do have two-factor authentication these days. If you have that enabled, anyone attempting to log on to your account has to have access to one of your devices or one of your fall-back accounts. Frankly, that should be turned on by default.
My new rule of thumb is that anything I don't have protected by two-factor is something I can afford to lose access to. That's not to say that two-factor is a panacea - it's very easy to set it up so it's useless by, for example, giving a less-secure email address as a fall-back - but it's the minimum for anything I care about.
The same way they locked the phone: Find My iPhone lets you display a message on the device, along the lines of "Please return me to the front desk" or "Call me on *othernumber*".
Oh, it's hella illegal on a human rights basis, but most of the signatories of those conventions take enormous liberties in their interpretation of what's permitted where it applies to their own people, much less another nation's.
I'd like to point out that:
1) It's perfectly legal for the NSA to spy on Britons, which it is documented as doing
2) It's perfectly legal for the NSA to give that information to GCHQ, which it is documented as doing
3) It's perfectly legal for GCHQ to spy on Americans, which it is documented as doing
4) It's perfectly legal for GCHQ to give that information to the NSA.
"It isn't illegal by the laws of my country" is not a particularly helpful answer when dealing with international relations.
Nobody knows. Although we know that it was there, and it was in a hot dense state.
Note that "nobody knows" does not mean "whatever pet theory you have is right".
The "censorship" in question is the decision not to publish the name of the nation in question:
"By denying an entire population the knowledge of its own victimization, this act of censorship denies each individual in that country the opportunity to seek an effective remedy, whether in international courts, or elsewhere."