Twitter will shrink dramatically or disappear entirely as the video capabilities of higher bandwidth and newer/denser technologies make written dialogue even more irrelevant than it is today.
Written dialogue will never be completely replaced by video, because it can be consumed much more quickly.
I agree with you for the rest, though.
Running Bittorent over Tor is a bad idea. As the linked article says, look at I2P instead.
But it would be fine to run your browser over Tor in order to get the torrent magnet link, and then use the "normal" network with your favorite torrent application to get the actual file ?
This is an absolutely fantastic idea.
Good enough for me.
a couple corrections to your inaccuracies (intentional?): * iphones back up automatically to icloud.
By default only. Mine doesn't.
The value is not in the code but rather in the developers. I challenge you to take a few of your friends take the current version of cyanogen mod and get it working on the next Samsung phone when it gets released.
You are totally right. I could not do it, but the current CyanogenMod could easily fork it after having cashed Google's Money.
This exactly what happened with MySQL in 2008 : Monty Widenius sold it to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion. He then left to start MariaDB, a MySQL fork.
I don't think that Google is stupid or desperate enough to spend $1 billion on a company having only brilliant developers but no IP.
I hate, hate, hate, hate large phones. If I needed a bigger screen, I'll pull out my tablet or my laptop. I'm a skinny guy, I wear tight-ish jeans (fiance hates it, but I gotta be me), and pulling a big-ass phone out of my front pocket is a pain in my ass, and that's with an IPhone 5S.
I'm going to pass on the 6 and hope they come out with a traditional-sized one for the 6S or 7.
I agree with you. Unfortunately, I think that Apple wants us to have a large phone in our bag and an Apple Watch at the wrist.
I would not hold my breath for an iPhone 6s (with "s" for "small").
I see no reason why Apple felt it necessary to slim the device down even more - when they could have just had the same thickness as the 5/5S resulting in no silly bulge for the camera.
Plus, they could have put a bigger battery in the case and maybe get an hour or so extra time out of the thing. Which I can imagine would be a lot more useful than shaving a couple mm off an already perfectly slim enough phone.
Did you consider weight ? The iPhone 5s weights 112 grams, versus 129 grams for the iPhone 6. Apple certainly didn't want to make it heavier.
And I don't even mention the monstrous iPhone 6 Plus...
I am very happy with my iPhone 5s. My ideal phone would be a 5s with NFC.
I'm not a giant Apple fan, but one thing that I actually liked about their strategy up to this point was keeping their phones smaller.
Same here. My iPhone 5S is great, but I wouldn't want it to be bigger. I guess I will need to wait one year before seing an iPhone 6C (with "C" as in "Compact").
It's not stupid website. It's just stupid 4 char tld that shouldn't exist according to the standards.
Please show me in RFC 1035 where you see this 3 letter limitation.
By the way, the ".arpa" pseudo-domain has always existed.
There are myriad of validators out there that will reject it
No, most validators correctly implement the standard, only a handfew are incorrect.
they worked well for decades.
Something on the web that worked well for decades has necessarily been enhanced at some point...
"+" or plenty of other special characters. Stuff like quotes can even be valid if used properly, while we still have some website that won't even accept a dash/underscore.
I had to wait nearly 10 years for my ".name" domain to be accepted by most websites (say, 99.5%).
For "+" or other funny characters, my estimate is that you will need at least 10 years starting from now.
I would not hold my breath.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
