Comment Re:Weirdly specific (Score 1) 108
In case others are interested in looking it up: In the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), paying changes it from "consent" basis to "contract" basis.
In case others are interested in looking it up: In the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), paying changes it from "consent" basis to "contract" basis.
Other ad based businesses, e.g. network TV, have managed find without abusing personal data.
Broadcast television has 3-minute ad breaks. Attempting to apply the concept of a 3-minute interstitial (or "ads with countdown") to the web environment would violate the Better Ads Standards published by the Coalition for Better Ads. Meta Platforms is a member of the Coalition's board.
Even if iTunes runs fine stand-alone, I haven't seen evidence that connecting a device (iPhone or iPad) also runs fine. Wine emulates user space; it does not emulate drivers. Granted, last I checked was a few years ago. When did this start working?
Don't trust a company with "spin" in their name.
Certain topics do not lend themselves very well to the scientific method.
It's kind of hard to set up 100 universes, say, and run them through a few billion years. You can't do the experiment part.
Sometimes a hypothesis has potentially observable implications, even if a mad scientist can't reproduce everything in their lab.
I think it has been decades since cosmologists believed the universe is expanding at a constant rate.
IANAPhysicist, but isn't a thrust of 1g specific to the mass you are accelerating? Same device pushing heavier mass gives less acceleration?
Is a claim that you can create a thrust of 1g even meaningful without additional details?
For color, the best critique of PHP is entitled, "PHP a fractal of bad design."
Eevee's article from April 2012 was about PHP 5.3, not PHP 8. PHP versions 5.4, 5.6, and 7 came out soon afterward, fixing a lot of the flaws she pointed out. A retrospective eight years later showed how much the language had progressed on the road to 8.
Otherwise you can be patient and wait a few months to be able see it at home where there are all the things you like.
"a few months"? I remember a decade ago when Hop took literally a year to go from theaters to DVD sell-through, and then another month after that to get to Redbox.
I've set Grammas and Grandpas on Linux after they became tired of Windows and it's not ready for primetime abilities.
Until the grandmother asks you "Now how do I put my CDs on my iPhone? Under Windows, I put the CD in the drive and started iTunes."
I don't know what specific software Quasar1999 was running. In my own case, the proprietary Windows-only program is iTunes for loading MP3s onto my roommate's iPhone SE 3. In the case of other people I regularly talk to online, the proprietary Windows-only program is VRChat.
If the average person who futzes around with Windows can't run Linux Mint, they're being deliberately obtuse. Or they're stupid.
Say my roommate wants me to load MP3s onto her iPhone. I haven't figured out how to do that other than through iTunes for Windows, which does not run in Wine, or Finder for macOS. Am I "deliberately obtuse" or "stupid"?
Even more regrettably, it seems almost all free-software advocates I have known are mindlessly following along instead of rejecting such absurdly invasive Big-Brother brain-damaged computers under the euphemisim of "smart something."
Which handheld computer with a cellular radio that respects users' freedom is compatible with U.S. mobile networks? Last I checked, things like the Fairphone were made for the European market, with no attempt to get onto Verizon's or AT&T's allowlist.
I mean, maybe you should just not work for a company that has a mission of making a profit providing services or goods to a cause or group you fundamentally disagree with?
Personally, I feel like in most cases, you're better off just taking your paycheck to do the work someone is paying you to do. Most larger companies are involved in such a wide variety of things, you can sleep well at night knowing your employer accomplished as much "good" as "evil". (I remember all the people worked up about Monsanto, for example. Many refused to work for them because they thought they were "killing the planet" with products like RoundUp and genetically engineered seeds. The company was eventually sold to Bayer, who changed their name. But they're still basically the same company as ever. Fact is, there are countless positive benefits from products they sold, as well as a laundry list of negatives. Gonna find that with just about ANY company selling chemicals.)
If I'm against Communist China, should I refuse to buy things from any company using manufacturing over there? If so, I'm gonna have to get rid of 80% of the things in my house....
Not even anywhere remotely near a fair comparison!
Chromebooks are bottom of the barrel. They're designed to be as cheap to replace as possible, because many are just handed out to students in schools who had to buy mass quantities of them to distribute. They're also generally only going to run the specific applications included or designated for them. So if they can do that at anything resembling an "adequate" speed, they're going to call it "good enough". Even if it does way too much disk swapping due to running out of RAM? They don't care at that price point. Use it until the SSD burns out. It'll make it through a school year or two and that's all it needs to really do.
Mac laptops, by contrast, are generally considered high-end and premium.
"If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak." -- Phil Wayne
