Comment Re:Uh oh, NOW you've done it... (Score 2) 135
James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is
Already filthy rich.
James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is
Already filthy rich.
Do I get counted as an astronaut as I'm waiting for NASA to call me up? Or as a porn star in case one of the starlets decides she wants a hunka hunka burning nerd for a quicky?
Does wishing you had another job cause you to count towards the statistics of that job?
I honestly don't think "wannabee" counts towards these things.
I don't have one, and it's unlikely that I will have any tablet, ever.
Touchscreens are a regression in human interfaces. Yes, it's more intuitive than a mouse, but it lacks any way to even emulate buttons after the first, "cursor" positioning is imprecise at best, and worst of all there's just no substitute for a keyboard.
Honestly, have you even tried one?
I'm pretty high on the "get off my lawn" scale, and while I agree that for doing work, I still prefer a keyboard. But I find I do completely different things on my tablet, and in different ways. And for that, I prefer my tablet.
When I'm planning a trip, I'm using Google Maps, marking points of interest so I have them for later. When I'm reading the daily news, or checking the weather
Sitting on a sofa, or in a comfy chair, or in the back yard, or on a plane
So, yes, for work nobody is saying most people could replace their laptop or desktop. Well, most people aren't.
But the overwhelming majority of people, the overwhelming majority of the time, are NOT "getting stuff done". And when I'm not actively working, there are many things I'd prefer to do on my Nexus 7 than I would on a desktop or a laptop.
I know many people, who are not geeks or techies, or who are retired, or any number of things
And I know many people who are geeks and techies, and outside of office hours, they prefer their tablet for many tasks.
So, in the same way that people find their phones exceedingly useful, people who find a phone too small also find their tablets exceedingly useful.
Not everybody is coding, or writing spreadsheets, or doing the TPS reports
f all the stories and thing said about quantum computers, especially with the amount of poorly written stuff out there, that is the sentence you highlight when talking about gibberish?
LOL
It sounds like something out of a mission statement generator
I simply have no idea of WTF it's telling me.
With which I will do
"Our device is capable of emitting light with striking quantum mechanical properties never observed in an integrated source," said Bajoni. "The rate at which the entangled photons are generated is unprecedented for a silicon integrated source, and comparable with that available from bulk crystals that must be pumped by very strong lasers."
As usual, every story to do with quantum anything is pretty much gibberish to the layperson.
Sounds like a quantum mood ring, but I have no idea.
Unless Android tablets have also plateaued or started to decline
The people I know with tablets prefer them to a phone for the things they do with it.
A friend keeps his Nexus 7 on his sofa so that while he's watching TV if he sees something he wants to Google he has it handy. My mother in law uses her tablet for almost everything she'd use a computer for. I still get a lot of use from my Nexus 7 as well.
I admit, my Android tablet isn't a 'necessity', and may not get used daily
Yes, you could use a phone for a lot of this stuff
I know more than a few non-techies for whom their tablet is more important than their PC.
"But we're very concerned they not lead to the creation of what I would call a 'zone of lawlessness,' where there's evidence that we could have lawful access through a court order that we're prohibited from getting because of a company's technological choices.
You've demonstrated you can't be trusted. The CIA has proven they're willing to lie to Congress.
So the reality is, you're all lying, thieving bastards who ignore the law and our rights.
You got fucking probable cause and a warrant, show it. But you don't get blanket fishing expeditions just in case.
Sorry, but you're asking for back doors to all forms of security
Go piss up a rope.
It feels strange that Apple is making such a profit with a rather smallish that may be 12% of the market and no particularly eye-popping new products since the Steve Jobs era, just a series of well-engineered refinements.
Not really
So, it's not all from the devices, but the on-going revenue stream of selling all that tasty digital content.
But music, and books, and movies, and apps, and whatever else they can sell digitally
The problem with security is it is an on-going process, and it takes time. Which means the trust that you actually are secure also takes time.
So, just because you started out thinking "Oh boy, are we going to be hella secure" -- it takes a long time to FIND all those things which defeat that, and just as long to convince everybody that you've done it.
Almost as soon as I heard of this phone my first thought was "gee, you're brand new, why should be trust that you've got it sorted out".
And, as TFS says
I think they started trading on a reputation they hadn't earned yet, and now it's biting them in the ass.
We were told that it'd give us Cortana, Microsoft's AI assistant
OK, I'll preface this with a "get off my lawn" to get it out of the way.
But I have to say, I have precisely zero interest in this. The more I read TFA, the more I cringe.
After setting Cortana up, which involves telling her your name, and adjusting some other minor settings, sheâ(TM)ll be good to go. If the respective option is enabled, sheâ(TM)ll always listen out for âoeHey, Cortanaâ, at which point your question can be asked. In the example below, I asked, âoeHey, Cortana. Could you please show me the weather?â, at which point she queried the Internet and spit back the accurate info â" without me having to state a specific location.
Talking to Cortana is finicky at best. After stating âoeHey, Cortanaâ, Iâ(TM)ve found that Iâ(TM)ve either had to keep talking right away to be heard, or have her say, âoeHey, Robâ and then me have to click the microphone icon again to speak. It seems some thresholds need to be adjusted, because in the current implementation, itâ(TM)s easier to avoid potential hassle and just go find such information online.
I don't want my fucking computer to feel like it's on a first name basis with me. I don't want to talk to it. I don't want my computer constantly listening to and parsing everything I say. I sure as shit don't want that crap integrated with an ad platform.
If I want to see the weather, I'll go to the tab I keep open with the weather.
This is a bunch of dreck I can't see myself wanting to use, which is mostly a "make pretend" version of AI which is at best a shortcut to search. I don't see the value in voice commands -- in fact, I see great nuisance in it (like in Offices, or just everywhere).
This sounds like an OS which is heavily focused on "teh social" integration with XBox, with the new lame-ass crayon interfaces Microsoft seems partial to, and a bunch of dorky features which seem like they're trying too damned hard.
I don't see any of these features being useful, I see them as being pointless eye candy, which is full of gimmicks I don't see myself using in the long run -- in fact, I see me disabling as many as possible.
I'm afraid Microsoft's "vision of the future" is a glimpse into hell. At least half of those features sound like shit which will slow down the machine and add zero benefit.
Now, seriously, get the fuck off my damned lawn.
LOL
Hmmm
More simple explanation: Life is out there, it's just too far away to detect, or to visit us--and will ALWAYS be so, because you can't cheat Newton and Einstein. An alternate "simplest" explanation (though less likely) is that we are first.
To suggest that ET hasn't come to visit us because we are "too violent" or whatever, and that they are masking their presence is definitely NOT the simplest explanation--it suggests that every nearby alien species has agreed to isolate us, and every member of those civilizations is on board with the idea. No one is out there playing with an RF emitter in the VHF band, Harry Mudd hasn't stopped by and spilled the beans, no one's even accidentally done anything to give the game away.
Sorry, I'm just not buying that.
Or maybe refund the money they've been given to maintain it, or the subsidies to expand it.
Sorry, but the telecom companies have been handed huge piles of cash to maintain this stuff
They weren't given that money to only invest in the most profitable stuff
Greedy, shortsighted corporations don't need to charge more to pay for that stuff
Mostly I think they've been lining executive pockets, and bribing politicians so they can keep doing the same crap.
No, most of that is porn
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford