The only computer I genuinely used as a primary machine for more than 6 years was the Apple ][+ which lasted for 10. Things have changed since then.
I would say that depends on what you buy. My primary machine is a first-gen Core i7 (920) I built years ago. Still fine today. I'm debating if I should build a new machine from Kaby Lake or Cannonlake when they are released. Main reason for upgrading is to move to a smaller (physical size) computer that runs cooler, not performance.
I was under the impression that it was wrong to dig through a customer's files without reason, and possibly in-itself illegal to do so, even if it is a widespread practice.
Maybe that's the whole point. Get other people to do the illegal searches the police can't do themselves. Everyone stay vigilant for suspicious activity! Report your neighbor and be wary of everyone. That's how we breed our culture of fear and keep you under our thumb.
India has a long history of corruption. This should not be a surprise to anyone.
Must be why U.S. companies are so hot to work with them, the CxO's are happy to find some of their own across the sea -- but too stupid to realize they'll be treated the same.
And by stupid I mean the licensing deals. We're in 2016 and there's still idiots out there who can't understand that people can't subscribe to 10+ services to watch everything they want.
No. They could subscribe to 10+ services to get everything they want, it's just very few people would do that because of the hassle of dealing with 10+ companies and the price for doing so.
Consider the Roku and its customized "channels". There's no reason someone one couldn't have 10+ non-free channels on their device. If they want to search for a specific item and aren't sure where it is, like other streaming devices, the Roku will tell you which service has it of the ones you have.
The real problem is every service wanting you to pay $8/mo or more for just their content and wanting to bill you directly. After about three services you're paying way to much for entertainment. If you only had to pay $2-3 dollars a month and could have all the billing details handled by Roku (or your Apple ID, or Amazon) people who be more willing to subscribe to multiple services to get what they want.
Oooooo, a customized bundle $2-$3/mo services chosen by the consumer, but billed together and all accessed from a single device -- I'm suddenly describing a la carte cable.
I'm wouldn't be surprised if it was a fake "leak" orchestrated by Microsoft deliberately. People talking about the Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard and they gotta do something to make themselves look relevant still.
You think he should be out any money from stuff he made 16 years ago? I think copyright laws as they are now are ridiculous as well, but that's just stupid. He should be able to enjoy the benefits of the stuff he personally created, from a copyright of original works standpoint, for his own lifetime.
Now after the original author dies (or a certain number of years, whichever comes last) it starts to be less about protecting the works for those involved and more about corporations looking for endless income with no work and talentless family members wanting a money cow.
"I believe Microsoft is perfectly entitled to drop support for newer processors in old versions of Windows."
Even more: that's not dropping support. "Dropping" implies something was supported and it is supported no more.
That's what it sounds like they are doing from the summary.
This doesn't take effect right away; Windows 7 and 8.1 will be supported on older chips until their planned end-of-life dates, in 2020 and 2023 respectively. They'll also be supported on a list of current Skylake devices for the next 18 months. After that, only the latest version of Windows will support integration between the operating system and new CPU features.
The way I interpret that is: The current Skylake devices will be supported the next 18 months, but after that they wont work anymore -- so Microsoft is removing support even though you're running a version of Windows that's considered "supported" until 2020 or 2023. That way people can't build systems with newer hardware through the end of the decade and continue to avoid Windows 10.
I went to a barbecue competition (large national one), and I came up with a great idea. Since I used my Garmin to get to the event when I parked I set a favorite location to where I was while sitting in the parked car. Then I got out and stowed the GPS on me.
When it was time to go home I turned the GPS back on (two hour battery runtime) and let it guide me back to the car's location.
This would be the same Comcast that makes your cableco-provided wireless modem/router combo broadcast a second public wi-fi network by default? Sounds like Comcast will cause open back doors in the both physical and metaphorical sense.
I'm still not clear on what the summary means when it says "When Gene Roddenberry's computer died, it took with it the only method of accessing some 200 floppy disks of his unpublished work." Is there some reason someone couldn't read these disks on another CP/M machine? I'm pretty sure that operating system wasn't a homebrew project of Roddenberry's...
... the first HD TV's came out in the late 90's...
I'm going to be nit-picky here and point you towards Wikipedia's article on HDTV.
In 1949, France started its transmissions with an 819 lines system (with 737 active lines). The system was monochrome only, and was used only on VHF for the first French TV channel. It was discontinued in 1983.
In 1958, the Soviet Union developed ransformator (Russian: , meaning Transformer), the first high-resolution (definition) television system capable of producing an image composed of 1,125 lines of resolution aimed at providing teleconferencing for military command. It was a research project and the system was never deployed by either the military or consumer broadcasting.
In 1979, the Japanese state broadcaster NHK first developed consumer high-definition television with a 5:3 display aspect ratio.[4] The system, known as Hi-Vision or MUSE after its Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding for encoding the signal, required about twice the bandwidth of the existing NTSC system but provided about four times the resolution (1080i/1125 lines). Satellite test broadcasts started in 1989, with regular testing starting in 1991 and regular broadcasting of BS-9ch commencing on November 25, 1994, which featured commercial and NHK programming.
These are systems dating back to the start of the Korean War pretty much, and are "high definition" resolutions. Regardless of how popular they were (or were not) they existed, and therefore display devices capable of using them also existed. You can discount the first two if you want because they were military applications or false-starters, but the Japanese system was definitely in the consumer market.
First, why does the blame fall to Tim Cook of all people instead of the developers of the game?
Because the game's developers didn't write the code that handles in-app purchases. That's part of the iTMS's ecosystem (hence Apple getting an automatic cut). So technically, I guess they should blame the developers in that specific arm of Apple -- not Tim Cook himself.
I agree with your post overall, I'm just seeing you pointing the finger incorrectly just like the story.
What's annoyed me about the increased commercialization of the web is how disposable URLs and information is treated now. Over the years I've bookmarked articles on Yahoo -- plain bookmarks, not session-specific ones, only to come back a few months later and find the bookmark is dead, the article gone it appears. Like it would be a huge burden on Yahoo to keep that several KBs of content on their server for more than a year.
Funny enough, I have the opposite problem when I visit the website of my city's shitty local newspaper. If I try and search for a news article on a recent event, the search engine is more likely to give me stories of the topic from 10 years ago, and I'm not able to locate the recent story after looking over a few pages of results. Sorting by date doesn't help.
I was talking about the Amazon cable I linked. You would still need an adapter to connect it to Lightning or a 30-pin connector, which isn't much different than using your normal device cable and a "USB Condom" instead. Just a matter of which end needs extra hardware.
LOL. $20 for the one that doesn't look like it came from a parts-drawer. Like one of the earlier posters said, you can a specialty charging-only USB cable for less and not have to supply your own cable then.
Of course, if you're using an Apple device that wont work. But Apple users are becoming conditioned to having to carry around a bunch of dongles to do what you could accomplish with on-device ports before.
Slashdot Mirror
You know you can link to individual comments?
You're not a new fish.
The only computer I genuinely used as a primary machine for more than 6 years was the Apple ][+ which lasted for 10. Things have changed since then.
I would say that depends on what you buy. My primary machine is a first-gen Core i7 (920) I built years ago. Still fine today.
I'm debating if I should build a new machine from Kaby Lake or Cannonlake when they are released. Main reason for upgrading is to move to a smaller (physical size) computer that runs cooler, not performance.
I was under the impression that it was wrong to dig through a customer's files without reason, and possibly in-itself illegal to do so, even if it is a widespread practice.
Maybe that's the whole point. Get other people to do the illegal searches the police can't do themselves.
Everyone stay vigilant for suspicious activity! Report your neighbor and be wary of everyone. That's how we breed our culture of fear and keep you under our thumb.
India has a long history of corruption. This should not be a surprise to anyone.
Must be why U.S. companies are so hot to work with them, the CxO's are happy to find some of their own across the sea -- but too stupid to realize they'll be treated the same.
And by stupid I mean the licensing deals. We're in 2016 and there's still idiots out there who can't understand that people can't subscribe to 10+ services to watch everything they want.
No. They could subscribe to 10+ services to get everything they want, it's just very few people would do that because of the hassle of dealing with 10+ companies and the price for doing so.
Consider the Roku and its customized "channels". There's no reason someone one couldn't have 10+ non-free channels on their device. If they want to search for a specific item and aren't sure where it is, like other streaming devices, the Roku will tell you which service has it of the ones you have.
The real problem is every service wanting you to pay $8/mo or more for just their content and wanting to bill you directly. After about three services you're paying way to much for entertainment. If you only had to pay $2-3 dollars a month and could have all the billing details handled by Roku (or your Apple ID, or Amazon) people who be more willing to subscribe to multiple services to get what they want.
Oooooo, a customized bundle $2-$3/mo services chosen by the consumer, but billed together and all accessed from a single device -- I'm suddenly describing a la carte cable.
Yes, so they don't release them both at once or they will competing against each other. So let's release them far enough apart people will see both.
I agree, Browsing this story on my Windows 8 (not RT) tablet on Firefox.
When's the future coming again?
I'm wouldn't be surprised if it was a fake "leak" orchestrated by Microsoft deliberately.
People talking about the Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard and they gotta do something to make themselves look relevant still.
You think he should be out any money from stuff he made 16 years ago? I think copyright laws as they are now are ridiculous as well, but that's just stupid.
He should be able to enjoy the benefits of the stuff he personally created, from a copyright of original works standpoint, for his own lifetime.
Now after the original author dies (or a certain number of years, whichever comes last) it starts to be less about protecting the works for those involved and more about corporations looking for endless income with no work and talentless family members wanting a money cow.
"I believe Microsoft is perfectly entitled to drop support for newer processors in old versions of Windows."
Even more: that's not dropping support. "Dropping" implies something was supported and it is supported no more.
That's what it sounds like they are doing from the summary.
The way I interpret that is: The current Skylake devices will be supported the next 18 months, but after that they wont work anymore -- so Microsoft is removing support even though you're running a version of Windows that's considered "supported" until 2020 or 2023. That way people can't build systems with newer hardware through the end of the decade and continue to avoid Windows 10.
I don't use Chrome sign-on ever, even for regular browsing.
If you're that paranoid, you shouldn't be using Chrome to start with.
Does that mean I have to throw away my porn iPad and go back to my porn ChromeBook?
I hate that. Just moving the bookmarks will take forever.
Joke Fail.
You're using Chrome on both, so bookmarks are synced through your Google account.
Am I the only one amused the Korean War has come to the point of being a literal shouting match between the two countries?
I went to a barbecue competition (large national one), and I came up with a great idea. Since I used my Garmin to get to the event when I parked I set a favorite location to where I was while sitting in the parked car. Then I got out and stowed the GPS on me.
When it was time to go home I turned the GPS back on (two hour battery runtime) and let it guide me back to the car's location.
Yeah, that's gonna be the joke here.
Netflix exists in all these countries. But due to this licensing restriction or that contract, will there be anything to actually watch on it?
Since the title is different the editors don't consider it a dupe.
This would be the same Comcast that makes your cableco-provided wireless modem/router combo broadcast a second public wi-fi network by default? Sounds like Comcast will cause open back doors in the both physical and metaphorical sense.
I'm still not clear on what the summary means when it says "When Gene Roddenberry's computer died, it took with it the only method of accessing some 200 floppy disks of his unpublished work." Is there some reason someone couldn't read these disks on another CP/M machine? I'm pretty sure that operating system wasn't a homebrew project of Roddenberry's...
Even better, the blog they linked to appears to be black font on black text (JavaScript is disabled here).
Does that mean their reply is completely transparent?
"All black" sounds like completely redacted to me.
Really? Am I supposed to be surprised they didn't comment?
... the first HD TV's came out in the late 90's...
I'm going to be nit-picky here and point you towards Wikipedia's article on HDTV.
These are systems dating back to the start of the Korean War pretty much, and are "high definition" resolutions. Regardless of how popular they were (or were not) they existed, and therefore display devices capable of using them also existed. You can discount the first two if you want because they were military applications or false-starters, but the Japanese system was definitely in the consumer market.
First, why does the blame fall to Tim Cook of all people instead of the developers of the game?
Because the game's developers didn't write the code that handles in-app purchases. That's part of the iTMS's ecosystem (hence Apple getting an automatic cut). So technically, I guess they should blame the developers in that specific arm of Apple -- not Tim Cook himself.
I agree with your post overall, I'm just seeing you pointing the finger incorrectly just like the story.
What's annoyed me about the increased commercialization of the web is how disposable URLs and information is treated now. Over the years I've bookmarked articles on Yahoo -- plain bookmarks, not session-specific ones, only to come back a few months later and find the bookmark is dead, the article gone it appears. Like it would be a huge burden on Yahoo to keep that several KBs of content on their server for more than a year.
Funny enough, I have the opposite problem when I visit the website of my city's shitty local newspaper. If I try and search for a news article on a recent event, the search engine is more likely to give me stories of the topic from 10 years ago, and I'm not able to locate the recent story after looking over a few pages of results. Sorting by date doesn't help.
I was talking about the Amazon cable I linked. You would still need an adapter to connect it to Lightning or a 30-pin connector, which isn't much different than using your normal device cable and a "USB Condom" instead. Just a matter of which end needs extra hardware.
You mean something like a USB Condom?
LOL. $20 for the one that doesn't look like it came from a parts-drawer. Like one of the earlier posters said, you can a specialty charging-only USB cable for less and not have to supply your own cable then.
Of course, if you're using an Apple device that wont work. But Apple users are becoming conditioned to having to carry around a bunch of dongles to do what you could accomplish with on-device ports before.