With a hypervisor you don't have to worry if your hardware is compatible. You create a VM that's tweaked to work with OS X. Hell run Linux and Windows along side if you have enough resources.

you seem really confused about your articles. That article does not state a 2018 delivery, the all electric is based on their 2018 Panamera model, it is not nor has it ever been scheduled for a 2018 delivery, the 2018 delivery was always for a hydrid variant upon which the all electric vehicle will be based..

No, *BSD is what Linux couldn't be at the time, so it became linux instead.

The BSD license was still uncertain in 1991-3 when Linux was getting it's start. If the uncertainty had not been there, people would just have used 386BSD and been done with it.

Recall the US "Magic Lantern" keystroke logger and demands for antivirus vendor cooperation.
Magic Lantern (software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

So you will be buying the Androids with cheap Face ID knockoffs then?

Mozilla was probably not the best placed to produce an entire OS with a whole range of applications, which is the mobile platform, it represents a massive jump in the required capability. The only logical competitor to Google of course wont happen because the idiots lack foresight. That competitor would be M$ creating a mobile Linux distribution and doing exactly what Google did and now Google is perceived as being quite naughty itself and has left markets open to be stolen just like https://duckduckgo.com/ which is totally good enough now to escape to from Google thought control and growing traffic indicates people are moving (they still use Google Maps for map searches but use duck duck go for all other searches, the bulk of searches). M$ simply wont go that way and even if they did, you know they would hugely screw up privacy and control, killing it, greed driven stupidity is greed driven stupidity (greed convinces them the stupidest decisions will work because greed demands they work and ignore all the reasons why it wont work because they don't easily fit in spreadsheets).

What happens when the battery runs out?

saying we will cover you in court is a better way.

be by saying we are liable for civil stuff and if there happens to be a criminal case we will cover your costs + bail if needed.

Naah, Nasa _pretends_ to want to send men to Mars but their primary function (as defined by Senate funding) has become keeping the pork pipeline of continual studies on "how to get to mars" open.

It's so nice that there's a none-of-the-above choice that many people on Slashdot have made, then, isn't it?

That is an issue on your side, not on mine...

I don't think this is the case at all... and I don't think that just because I work on the Android OS. I think that because I recognize the power of the network effect at work.

There are many, many examples. In most cases, the network effect leads not to a duopoly, as in the iOS / Android case, but a monopoly or near monopoly. In the case of operating systems, there has never been a class of machine with a large variety of operating system, not after computing was commercialized. Perhaps the closest thing we ever saw to a really diverse ecosystem was the proliferation of Unix variants for high-end workstations and servers in the late 80s and early 90s, and that only happened because POSIX made them a single platform with variations, with strong source compatibility. On the desktop, we've never seen a diverse ecosystem: Microsoft has owned it with Apple maintaining a small niche.

What about operating systems lends itself to a network effect? Several things, but the biggest one is applications. Where there are lots of users, there are lots of application developers. Where there are lots of application developers, there are lots of users. In fact, the rise of the web as a super-platform, a platform that runs on a variety of other platforms, has softened the network effect in desktop operating systems and enabled OS X to rise to double digit market share and Linux-based OSes (notably, ChromeOS and Ubuntu -- in that order) to rise above a rounding error. But Windows still rules the roost.

The only thing that has actually managed to unseat Windows was the rise of an entirely new platform. Microsoft had a chance to own that one as well, but screwed it up. Apple managed to carve out an even bigger niche through a first mover advantage and more fragmentation in the competition, but still ultimately lost to the OS that ran on more kinds of devices and addressed more price points. Had Google standardized the Android phone as thoroughly as IBM standardized the IBM PC, Apple's market share would be even smaller. But because Google open sourced the Android OS, hardware makers could customize it and the resulting fragmentation has helped to keep iOS in the game.

And smartphones have, like desktops, reached a point of stable maturity. There is innovation left to be done (there always is), but it's in the decimal places, as it were. The shape, primary feature set and user interface metaphors have crystallized. Perhaps something as radical as arbitrarily bendable devices, or radically different I/O technologies can break it loose again, but without that, smartphones are essentially what they're going to be. Oh, they'll keep improving in small ways, but that's it.

Likewise, the phone app space is pretty stable and mature. There is already an app (or 20) to do most everything that users want to do, on both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Any new smartphone operating system will find it extremely difficult to compete against those app stores. Honestly, the best way to do it right now is probably to be Android-compatible, but to try to do something different that is sufficiently useful. But it's really not obvious what that could be. Andy Rubin is trying with the Essential Phone, but it's not going well.

No, I think that what is going to unseat Android and iOS is an OS for another entirely new platform. My bet is that it will be some form of wearable, but I have no idea what kind. Perhaps watches (so far they aren't compelling), perhaps networked processors built into all of our clothing, I don't know.

I wouldn't count on that next platform shift to unseat Apple and Google, though. Apple has already proven itself agile enough to make the leap (though that was with Jobs, which made a difference. He was an asshole, but he was good at seeing what people want), and I think Google is equally capable of doing it (though with more of a shotgun-and-see-what-sticks approach). I'd give each company at least a 30% chance.

The planet where NASA has never received an appropriation to build and fly centrifugal-grav space stations, professor.

They can match it back up with
"UK Spy Agency Collected Webcam Images From Yahoo Users With The Help Of NSA, Report Says" Feb 27, 2014
https://techcrunch.com/2014/02...
Collect it all just keeps on giving.

The worst is that lineage OS or any version of AOSP is having more extreme difficulty on working on the majority of phones now. Google is doing everything to force you to watch ads. There's already crap propping up on peoples sleep/idle screen and claims that it's just third party software. And the talk of Google wanting to close off Android with the next releases like Apple is already putting me off. They very fact I can't have youtube playing with the screen off without rooting is already telling me a lot.

I'm hoping Sailfish OS takes off on more devices, as it seems the only nations interested in privacy and more control over their devices are the very nations we're calling undemocratic and authoritarian.

Worst trade ever.

The subcarrier phase was shifted by 180 degrees between scans...

That sounds like PAL. I don't think NTSC did that.

schools especially. Whether they should or not I'm in no position to tell them. At least until I'm actually hired.

Re:Change your beard style?
Given how much data is collected from any face (nose, eyes, mouth, lips, jaw measurements) enough unique data should exist from other face measurements that did not change with a beard.
The problem, of normal face changes was fix years ago.
The real money was in top, down, side, looking up CCTV collection. Working with much less face on direct, 2d like face data. That was a real 3d challenge.
If an average person is looking at the device, a lot of measurements should be able to ID most users.

Same to you, AC.

0123456 was addressing the latent criticism of BFR: "lets see FH fly before moving on to BFR" and it's implied FH is a useful stepping stone to BFR. It's not. As 0123456 very correctly noted, most of FH's raison d'etre has been rendered moot by upgrades to F9 and solving the risks inherent in flying 3 cores in intimate proximity will not help in the next progression on the road to full reusability: Second stage re-use.

In case Musk's slides were to complicated for you to follow, let me lay it out clearly for you: BFR, being 100% re-usable will be cheaper to launch than FH.

The only thing I expect from movie retreads, is they will look better but every other aspect of the movie will be worse and have stopped paying any attention to the release and consider them 'B' movies from the get go. You have nepotism, the all age casting couch, corruption, self serving ego, driving the creation of some real rubbish.

IP based tuner boxes for both OTA and cable use... Not *exactly* a STB. The boxes have NO composite, RF or HDMI interfaces.

Windows media player is being removed because M$ is sick of being exposed as a huge loser. The worst accepted media player in the industry losing to pretty much everyone, simply better to not have one. It seems M$ is hunkering down, expecting more consumer losses and cutting everything they can to focus on exploiting areas where they have control via content lock it ie exploiting a monopoly to the death of the company. The mass privacy invasion of windows 10 has cost them dearly and likely will kill the company in the end.

MAPS.ME is an offline map with gps functions. There's open source code for it and it isn't based on google apps or services.

Lets get some self driving cars first, then worry about all this other stuff. People seem fine with airplane automation.

The Ford Maverick ($4000 in 1974) was not an entry level car. It was a high performance car. The Ford Focus ($20,000 now) is an entry level car

To get a real comparison, you would need to determine what 2017 car is the equivalent to the 1974 Maverick. I don't know.

However, according to http://www.usinflationcalculat... $4000 in 1974 would be almost $20,000 in 2017. I'm sure that whatever the equivalent 1974 car to the 2017 Focus was less than $4000.

Why would an autonomous car bother to try to pass another vehicle that was going ~3 mph slower than the limit? Why not just hang out behind it? It's unlikely to make any significant difference in how long it takes to get where it's going. Plus, it can realize somewhat better fuel economy from the decrease in drag that goes along with drafting behind the truck (assuming it can maintain an appropriate distance due to its sensor and control systems).

Arrogance runs both ways. The assumption you know everything and the other person you're talking to knows nothing. When you deal with people professionally, that's often where your relationship has to start, and you just have to get past that so you can actually get something done.

That happens because bluster and posturing come from insecurity. It's very common for people to feel pressure to be somehow more capable than they feel they can manage. And the result is that they are defensive, and as the best defense is a good offense, it comes out as arrogance, whether it's on the client or consultant side. This imposes a kind of initial phase in which one or both sides struggle to establish a pecking order.

People are threatened by the need to change, but not necessarily knowing what needs to be done. But that's natural; it's the place everyone has to start. Now I reached a point in my career where I'd dealt with hundreds of organizations around the country and thousands of users; and I'd meet with someone who'd maybe been working in the field two or three years and would be absolutely certain I couldn't possibly understand what he was going through. So I had to approach every new client as if I'd never seen any of this before. And it's OK, because (a) I'm being paid by the hour, (b) it gives me a chance to observe, and (c) people are easier to work with after you let them lead as far as they know where to go.

The whole premise is bullshit. This is an investigation in click bait, which I but have pretty successfully adapted to ignoring (I still hate it and would love to be able to block those shit content creators but the POS at alphabet wont allow individual user control of the content that is shoved in their face), claiming that the click bait is the work of the Russia government. The worst of the click bait comes from the US and Eastern Europe and Russia ain't that good at it, personally I think the Ukraine and Romania seem to produce the worst of the click bait but the whole of eastern Europe is deeply embedded in it along with of course the USA, the number one click baiter globally and this not just from rubbish sites but from main stream media, the government and major corporations.

Everybody is watching and any shit you come up with will be used to target the US government and the corporation that control it on a global basis, those idiots are setting the rules which will be applied to them and wow, it will cripple US media overseas, every lie will likely result in criminal prosecution and they routinely lie as a matter of course.

Actually only about 50% of the American population votes.

So no, only half the people are stupid loser voters, the other half are just stupid losers.

YMMV

you might have a router, switch or printer running BSD, or today rode an elevator with BSD controller....more of it out there than most people know

The mega-cities are the only areas of growing GDP, rural populations are thankfully being wiped out one by one.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-20/rural-america-is-aging-and-shrinking

With the growing gap in wealth the mega-cities have compared to rural populations and the growing cognition that the rural populations are an albatross more situations like Catalan will arise. Within a generation or two we will likely see a resurgence of the mega-cities colonizing the surrounding peasantry. The rural populations have nothing of value to prevent them from being made subservient. The end state will probably look something like China' two class citizenship. The city folk with have rights and prosperity meanwhile the rural population will descend further into abject poverty as the population has outright failed to invest in education,infrastructure or any other parts of civilization.

So, they're just like any other ad?

May I interest you in this miracle anti-aging cream that I assure you will take years off your life?

The Firefly of mobile operating systems :-(

No, the problem is that the current US voting system mathematically favors only having two candidates on the ballot. Another problem is that campaign financing gives a significant amount of influence to the rich on who will be the party candidate which allows them to only have representatives that favor their interests.

Actually, neither side wants this to change because the current system gives them a stranglehold on power.

The Kremlin has an opposing interest, isn't this the lesser evil?

If we want to actually change how things work on the state and federal level then we need to start demanding change at the local level.

I don't understand people who pay for commercial, pay for someone to enter their lounge room and scream at them about shit they don't want. Once you start going largely commercial free, those commercial when you occasionally come across, come across as extremely aggressive and loud, hugely undesirable and really put you off products. There are products they I totally avoid as a result of aggressive commercial placement and a very loud and aggravating style. If people behaved like commercial did, wander into your house to demand you buy product, would you tolerate it or would you throw them out. I can not understand why people think they will be able to sell me product by actively trying to force me to watch their POS commercials. Every time I buy stuff, I check other people's NEGATIVE opinions an reviews of the product, fuck you commercials, you live or die on how badly you have treated existing customers, that is it.