Yeah who couldn't see that a bunch of zombie corpses were worthless? Oh wait, anyone with half a brain did.
I wouldn't say worthless. You have a decade's old company that has millions of active email addresses. That's a captive audience you can advertise to. AOL/Time Warner biggest mistake was getting rid of their chat service. That is what was keeping them alive.
AOL already had created communities that could be accessed by keywords. If those were standardized a bit the platform could have have created and AOL Timeline. So you had AOL Groups. You had an AOL Messenger. Restrict who could see or send you messages and you would have had AOL Facebook.
The original USB 1.0 standard had written into it the ability to have a universal driver system. When plugged in the device would upload a drive payload in a Java applet to allow at least partial operation until a platform specific drive could be found. For security reasons and the fact Java wasn't installed everywhere that was quickly dropped from the USB standard. Microsoft is just replicating that idea but in.NET instead of Java.
Overall no.The issue I think most people have is the Christian hierarchy that is enforced within the organization. They fear that it will force everyone who touches SQLite will have to take a religious stance they don't agree with. That CoC is just peace, pray, and work hard for what you believe. If they stay with this CoC I look for Google and the Mozillia foundation to remove SQLite for their browsers in the next major update just for political, not practical reasons.
You've heard of all the clones of the Raspberry Pi SBC? One of them is the Orange Pi. They have a line of DIY kits that will let you build your own phone starting around $40 on AliExpress.
Personally almost all I use is Chromebook. Occasionally I need to tweak a graphic or Word document which I can do via tVNC on my old desktop.
For work I use Citrix to get into my desktop. My storage is 95% in Google Docs. When the Linux windows come out I'll be set there.
The only things I really want beyond quality desktop office and graphic apps that don't have a huge monthly cost (I'm looking at you Microsoft and Adobe) is better Android support. There's a few apps and games I really wish ran better on my system. Maybe a better gamepad interface. But that's more on the game producers.
Aren't Progressive Web Apps processor and RAM hogs?
HTML with wrapper like Cordova have a pretty good storage footprint. From my tinkering apps are 4 megs minimum for a basic app on a phone with almost no space is not a good situation. I've seen some apps get to 600 megs.
Java - is good in size but Google is moving away from it. Also I've had pure Java apps run real slow.
C++ is the best overall but hard to work with on Android and you have to make custom versions for almost every major processor type.
The Atari VCS (formally AtariBox) is scheduled to come out the general public (non-bakers) within 6-12 months of the PS5. Will the general public buy the VCS or wait for the PS5? I know that the VCS will use similar but much lower powered CPU and GPU's. So why pay $200-300 for a VCS when you can get a PS4 for the same price or a PS5 for little much more?
At the company I work for we use a sever products that have exclusive interface with Flash or Sliverlight. Our concern is what happens when these products have reached thier End of Life. I know the first thing a lot of people will say is 'switch vendors'. It's not that easy.
We would love to but we have contracts, working relations, and thousands of hours of setup and training on these products. We are looking for alternatives. But until we find them we have to launch VM's for these applications.
But I suspect that the long term plans included things like striking deals with movies theaters for a slice of the concessions (arguing increased traffic)...
When MP first came out they bought large block of ticket credits from various chains at about $.75 - $1 a piece. Most people were only using the service about 2-3 times a month. At the time it was a $30/month subscriptions which made them a ton of money.(I heard these part on a radio interview with president at the time about 3 years ago.) Theaters saw concessions and attendance go up which was a great time for everyone.
Then the theaters said 'As more people use the system we're getting a lot complaints customers on how the system work. Why don't we do the same?'. The chains started raising the prices on MP to about $2-3 per ticket to cover their cost dealing with complaints. With MP's administration costs and the lowered subscription price they were loosing about 1-2% on every subscription. This was compounded by attrition from member's credit cards expiring (see comments below). Since the theaters 'owned' ticket already they realized that loosing money to a middle man. The big chains already had movie clubs so they modernized it (easier to use member cards), dropped the price, and added roll-over concession perks. Plus the chains also got additional demographics they never had before.
The Movie Pass application system is just plain clunky to use:
After sign up everything was done in the poorly designed phone app. It's a resource hog for no reason. Nothing is controlled through website even though that had the API's for the applications.
You had to sign-in too buy ticket via the app AT your location. You couldn't but them from home to save time. You had use data and have a good GPS on your.
You had to use a special credit at the theater and hope your earlier sign-in has register with the credit authorization system. That also meant to carry an extra card instead of just using the phone.
Neither the website or the app would let you update your credit card information. When your credit card expired you had to get a new account
A few things can (would have) of fixed:
Web interface to let you update you information and buy tickets at home
Get rid of the credit card and use a 'member' card with a QR/bar code that could be scanned.
OR display a QR/bar code on your phone (additional security if it rotated every so often)
OR let you just print a ticket from home and do away from all the above BS
Even if I'm seeking a job but getting money while I don't have a job why would I seriously look for job? There's no stress to find a job, per the article, why bother?
The project involves 2000 unemployed Finns, who receive roughly $690 every month - no strings attached. No official findings have yet been published, but some participants reported lower stress levels at an early stage.
You got to remember the algorithms are still relatively primitive. My guess is that in that pictures were geo-tagged in a region known for sheep. It saw the tubes coming out the ground as legs. In the other photo it saw the white rocks in the creek bed as wool with shadows.
Isn't that what they said what about OSS? To be honest, aren't the bad guys just going to use last generation's AI to crack the current generation and then make it available on black market? Look at how long it tool to crack DVD and Bluray keys? It was meant to be the most advanced of it's time.
The writing is on the wall that Android will not be with us for much longer. At least not as an officially maintained platform. Android is getting bigger and bigger and becoming harder to maintain. Plus Google has been moving to development in HTML PWA (Progressive Web Applications) and lighter weight Go based applications.
Android is a mess. Its big. Its bulky. Its hard to maintain. And it has fragmented implementations. No phone table run Android the same way even on thier own devices.
The plan as I see it is that Google drops Android and Chromebooks support. and unifies their platforms in the Fuchsia OS that same way Apple did with their products. I would see some part of their OS to start closing off. The core will still be open source. But higher performance sandboxes will be closed off. Also look for low cost but restrictive licences for Fuchsia OS to to unify the platform.
The said that with the Amiga's Video Toaster. Yes kiddies, that was a thing. What we need is for the media to get out of our lives and people to turn of their devices and see what reality really is. I feel like we live in a Videodrome more and more each day.
The real goal or the Russian ads were not to sway the election. Either way the Russians were going to win. Hillary with the Uranium One deals and Trump with general of the cuff remarks. The ads were about discord. They wanted the Americans to be so angry and distracted so that Putin could get a strong foot hold with Iran and smaller former Russian state nations.
I would be excited but my phone has a ton of apps pre-installed that can't be uninstalled. If I could uninstall GMAIL I would switch to this in a heart beat or just use the web interface.
There are a ton of cheap FPGA boards left out there that were used for Bitcoin mining. Why not repurpose them? I can pick a decent one on Ebay for $60-100.
People got tired of dealing with all the ads and unrelated news on Facebook. The former FB users, to a lesser degree YouTube, have ran to mostly closed off micro-networks like Telegram, Discord, Amino, and Quidd.
At least with Beanie Babies you got some fluff to hold onto. With crypto you just get a bunch of numbers that don't even have stitches and cloth baking them.
Ok the Republicans said the same about Democratic videos popping up against Trump. So which is real? Can we can the # of times that pro-Trump and pro-Hillary videos actually ran and unique views by person? We never will because it would reveal too much about Google's algorithms.
You're thinking about Google's server / desktop OS they run internally. If you believe the marketing, Fuchsia is meant to be a fusion of web app (Chrome OS) and the power of its current API's (Android.) Rust was pushed hard when Fuchsia first appeared as if that was going to be the replacement for Java and C++.
Also that about when they started pushing PWA (Progressive Web Apps ) and dropping support for the Chrome apps as the 'light weight alternatives for light weight OS's like Fuchsia that can run on low end phones.'
I know at one time Google talked about an Android virtual machine for Fuchsia ala ChromeOS's limited Android support. But obviously was never demo'ed it.
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And Facebook and Twitter is pushing to have phone taxed so that people will use their messaging and VOIP services.
Yeah who couldn't see that a bunch of zombie corpses were worthless? Oh wait, anyone with half a brain did.
I wouldn't say worthless. You have a decade's old company that has millions of active email addresses. That's a captive audience you can advertise to. AOL/Time Warner biggest mistake was getting rid of their chat service. That is what was keeping them alive.
AOL already had created communities that could be accessed by keywords. If those were standardized a bit the platform could have have created and AOL Timeline. So you had AOL Groups. You had an AOL Messenger. Restrict who could see or send you messages and you would have had AOL Facebook.
The original USB 1.0 standard had written into it the ability to have a universal driver system. When plugged in the device would upload a drive payload in a Java applet to allow at least partial operation until a platform specific drive could be found. For security reasons and the fact Java wasn't installed everywhere that was quickly dropped from the USB standard. Microsoft is just replicating that idea but in .NET instead of Java.
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Overall no.The issue I think most people have is the Christian hierarchy that is enforced within the organization. They fear that it will force everyone who touches SQLite will have to take a religious stance they don't agree with. That CoC is just peace, pray, and work hard for what you believe. If they stay with this CoC I look for Google and the Mozillia foundation to remove SQLite for their browsers in the next major update just for political, not practical reasons.
You've heard of all the clones of the Raspberry Pi SBC? One of them is the Orange Pi. They have a line of DIY kits that will let you build your own phone starting around $40 on AliExpress.
Personally almost all I use is Chromebook. Occasionally I need to tweak a graphic or Word document which I can do via tVNC on my old desktop.
For work I use Citrix to get into my desktop. My storage is 95% in Google Docs. When the Linux windows come out I'll be set there.
The only things I really want beyond quality desktop office and graphic apps that don't have a huge monthly cost (I'm looking at you Microsoft and Adobe) is better Android support. There's a few apps and games I really wish ran better on my system. Maybe a better gamepad interface. But that's more on the game producers.
What is the best way to make a 'lite app'?
So what is the best way to make a lite app?
The Atari VCS (formally AtariBox) is scheduled to come out the general public (non-bakers) within 6-12 months of the PS5. Will the general public buy the VCS or wait for the PS5? I know that the VCS will use similar but much lower powered CPU and GPU's. So why pay $200-300 for a VCS when you can get a PS4 for the same price or a PS5 for little much more?
At the company I work for we use a sever products that have exclusive interface with Flash or Sliverlight. Our concern is what happens when these products have reached thier End of Life. I know the first thing a lot of people will say is 'switch vendors'. It's not that easy.
We would love to but we have contracts, working relations, and thousands of hours of setup and training on these products. We are looking for alternatives. But until we find them we have to launch VM's for these applications.
When MP first came out they bought large block of ticket credits from various chains at about $.75 - $1 a piece. Most people were only using the service about 2-3 times a month. At the time it was a $30/month subscriptions which made them a ton of money .(I heard these part on a radio interview with president at the time about 3 years ago.) Theaters saw concessions and attendance go up which was a great time for everyone.
Then the theaters said 'As more people use the system we're getting a lot complaints customers on how the system work. Why don't we do the same?'. The chains started raising the prices on MP to about $2-3 per ticket to cover their cost dealing with complaints. With MP's administration costs and the lowered subscription price they were loosing about 1-2% on every subscription. This was compounded by attrition from member's credit cards expiring (see comments below). Since the theaters 'owned' ticket already they realized that loosing money to a middle man. The big chains already had movie clubs so they modernized it (easier to use member cards), dropped the price, and added roll-over concession perks. Plus the chains also got additional demographics they never had before.
The Movie Pass application system is just plain clunky to use:
A few things can (would have) of fixed:
Even if I'm seeking a job but getting money while I don't have a job why would I seriously look for job? There's no stress to find a job, per the article, why bother?
The project involves 2000 unemployed Finns, who receive roughly $690 every month - no strings attached. No official findings have yet been published, but some participants reported lower stress levels at an early stage.
You got to remember the algorithms are still relatively primitive. My guess is that in that pictures were geo-tagged in a region known for sheep. It saw the tubes coming out the ground as legs. In the other photo it saw the white rocks in the creek bed as wool with shadows.
Isn't that what they said what about OSS? To be honest, aren't the bad guys just going to use last generation's AI to crack the current generation and then make it available on black market? Look at how long it tool to crack DVD and Bluray keys? It was meant to be the most advanced of it's time.
Hackers Hijacked Tesla's Amazon Cloud Account To Mine Cryptocurrency
If you become too decentralized you get to the point that no one track was is going on.
The writing is on the wall that Android will not be with us for much longer. At least not as an officially maintained platform. Android is getting bigger and bigger and becoming harder to maintain. Plus Google has been moving to development in HTML PWA (Progressive Web Applications) and lighter weight Go based applications.
Android is a mess. Its big. Its bulky. Its hard to maintain. And it has fragmented implementations. No phone table run Android the same way even on thier own devices.
The plan as I see it is that Google drops Android and Chromebooks support. and unifies their platforms in the Fuchsia OS that same way Apple did with their products. I would see some part of their OS to start closing off. The core will still be open source. But higher performance sandboxes will be closed off. Also look for low cost but restrictive licences for Fuchsia OS to to unify the platform.
The said that with the Amiga's Video Toaster. Yes kiddies, that was a thing. What we need is for the media to get out of our lives and people to turn of their devices and see what reality really is. I feel like we live in a Videodrome more and more each day.
The real goal or the Russian ads were not to sway the election. Either way the Russians were going to win. Hillary with the Uranium One deals and Trump with general of the cuff remarks. The ads were about discord. They wanted the Americans to be so angry and distracted so that Putin could get a strong foot hold with Iran and smaller former Russian state nations.
I would be excited but my phone has a ton of apps pre-installed that can't be uninstalled. If I could uninstall GMAIL I would switch to this in a heart beat or just use the web interface.
There are a ton of cheap FPGA boards left out there that were used for Bitcoin mining. Why not repurpose them? I can pick a decent one on Ebay for $60-100.
People got tired of dealing with all the ads and unrelated news on Facebook. The former FB users, to a lesser degree YouTube, have ran to mostly closed off micro-networks like Telegram, Discord, Amino, and Quidd.
Google, the people whose AI is behind YouTube Adpocolypse?
At least with Beanie Babies you got some fluff to hold onto. With crypto you just get a bunch of numbers that don't even have stitches and cloth baking them.
Ok the Republicans said the same about Democratic videos popping up against Trump. So which is real? Can we can the # of times that pro-Trump and pro-Hillary videos actually ran and unique views by person? We never will because it would reveal too much about Google's algorithms.
You're thinking about Google's server / desktop OS they run internally. If you believe the marketing, Fuchsia is meant to be a fusion of web app (Chrome OS) and the power of its current API's (Android.) Rust was pushed hard when Fuchsia first appeared as if that was going to be the replacement for Java and C++.
Also that about when they started pushing PWA (Progressive Web Apps ) and dropping support for the Chrome apps as the 'light weight alternatives for light weight OS's like Fuchsia that can run on low end phones.'
I know at one time Google talked about an Android virtual machine for Fuchsia ala ChromeOS's limited Android support. But obviously was never demo'ed it.