What a poor comparison, 640K maximum was a software limitation, and then as hardware evolved over about 10 years, the software started to hold back capabilities of newer hardware, the old hardware from the time the software was built, would still worked have worked fine. And also be aware that what you're quoting is made up.

At one point 640K was "enough", then quite a while later it wasn't. While undoubtedly 50Mb/s will at some point be "too slow", in the meantime for almost all of today's smartphone needs, and almost certainly for the typical lifetime any 2017 smartphone, it's plenty.

This. Unless you're using your phone as a modem on your computer, the current 50Mb/s speed plus is more than adequate, especially with many networks having stupidly expensive data costs.

I just posted the same question. I have been using Pro version at home since Win10's release and also on my work laptop for about 6 months now. I have never seen these adverts. At home it did auto install a little crap from the store, but after uninstalling those particular apps, they never came back. I purposefully bought Windows 7 Pro for my home machine as I make good use of the remote desktop feature.

I run Windows 10 Professional on both my personal machine at home (I use remote desktop pretty often) and work machine, and I have never seen these adverts. Is it a home edition "feature" only?

You should check out Git LFS (large file storage). It's an extension which only stores references in the Git repo, and then fetches the actual large file off a web server on checkout. It was built for games with large amounts of assets. https://git-lfs.github.com/

Stupid mobile website, was too easy to submit by mistake, but you get the idea. I was just going to add that having an extra device is inconvenient and battery inefficient.

Here in South Africa, (most, if not all) the networks offer very cost effective cost per GB SIM cards, but they can't be used for voice or SMSes. So as an iPhone user, I can't get decent data rates unless I am willing to carry around a separate device with one of these SIM cards which shares its data over a wifi. Which is inco

It's called "Find My Friends" on iOS, you can share your location temporarily which is great for when you are travelling with friends. I have it permanently enabled with my brothers, easier than having to phone/message them to find out how far away they are when we meet up.

Otherwise, while I wouldn't enable it until a relationship becomes serious, my girlfriend (of 3 years now) and I have had it permanently enabled with each other since we moved in together. It's very good for peace of mind and was especially useful when she was unfortunately involved in a serious car accident as I was able to locate her very quickly.

Considering that iOS has a reputation for generally lagging behind Android in features, I'm quite surprised this has only now arrived on Android when Apple has had it for years.

Of course if you value your privacy greatly, steer clear, I'm not worried, but each to their own I guess.

I found it very useful about 8 years ago, before smartphones with messaging apps became so ubiquitous. I lived in France for a bit, then Ireland a little later and had a long distance relationship with a girl in Turkey. Using Skype to send the SMSes to her phone was considerably cheaper. Once I moved to Ireland, I got a cellphone contract which included "free skype to skype" and I could call her for free, just using my Skype credit. It was just a cheap feature phone, but the phone software somehow instructed the cellphone network to "call me" and then route the call over Skype from their network.

I haven't needed Skype credit in quite while now, I met a different girl ultimately who was local, but still have a little credit on my account.

These days I use iMessage and WhatsApp.

I get the feeling from SyFy in the last few years, particularly with 12 Monkeys, that they seem to focus on using "safe" formulas for their shows, they try appeal to science fiction fans with the core premise of the show, but also try to keep the show appealing enough for more mainstream viewers.

10 years ago when we had the Stargate franchise and Battelstar Galactica, things were pretty cool on SciFi, but they followed those up with Warehouse 13 and then later 12 Monkeys which are entertaining enough, but not the same kind of cool science fiction in my opinion.

I haven't read the book (which I now plan to rectify soon), but my gut feeling based on how things have been recently, is that the SyFy TV show will likely just be "okay", but watchable enough.

Most people are looking for "facts" that validate their preconceived opinions. They tend to selectively read articles which have headlines for topics they already have an opinion on, if the article is in conflict with that opinion, they dismiss the article as rubbish, or perhaps comment on it to that effect. If the article is in line with their opinion, they share it proudly with all their social media friends as a proclamation on how "right" their opinions are, regardless of the factual accuracy of the article. It's particularly amusing when it's apparent they have only skimmed the article looking for a choice quote to validate their opinion, while the article on the whole is actually in disagreement with their opinion.

You may be an excellent and perfectly competent developer in your day to day job, but by not knowing (at least certain) terminology for your field, you are lacking a certain degree of professionalism and are certainly restricting yourself in the broader field as you are lacking the ability to effectively converse with others in it.

All different fields have their own set of terminology and at some level it is arbitrary as to what things are called, but when it comes to communicating with others, it is absolutely essential that you all use the same terms for things. When people aren't familiar with standardised terminology for their field, at best they battle a bit when it comes to communication, at worst it leads to a misunderstanding and the wrong thing being done.

Even if your methodologies are exemplary, it is for nought if you are applying the wrong ones simply due to a misunderstanding of what was asked.

My girlfriend is in the process of acquiring a project management certification (PRINCE2) and while part of the certification covers methodologies, an arguably more important aspect of it is the terminology, in particular, the names of different roles that people are assigned to on projects. This is important because she works in a consulting firm and all their big clients expect the consultants to be familiar with these names of roles so that in client meetings, the client could just mention a role name, and everyone in the room will already be on the same page as to the responsibilities and expectations of any person with that role.

At one of my previous jobs, developers were given training on and are expected to at least know the following above and beyond "knowing how to program in general":

• - GOF Design Patterns (at least their intent and how they conceptually solve a given problem)
• - OO Terminology
• - Data Structure Names and what kinds of problems they are appropriate for

And other stuff of course. It of course helped us day to day solving problems, but I imagine that it also helped all of us more readily absorb information at conferences too.

Along with CPanel, I enabled HTTPS on my little website in seconds, it was truly painless. While my website stores nothing of significant value (Minecraft schematic files), it does have a login form and I sleep better knowing login credentials cannot be intercepted anymore.

Since you don't actually know me, you can be forgiven for your complete ignorance into the irony of your assertions.

I started off my career as a computer technician but self taught myself to become the professional software developer that I am today.

Believe it or not it, it was in no small part thanks to Slashdot and by my doing research on technologies mentioned in articles featured here.

So while some people like to sit and moan as AC on Slashdot, I use it as one of many sources to keep a pulse on what is happening in my industry. If I read about something I haven't heard of before, I research it to at least understand the problem it's trying to solve and to be able to keep it in mind for the future in case I encounter a problem for which it may be an appropriate solution.

Perhaps I was a bit harsh, or fed a troll, but the comment I replied to was either genuinely trolling or otherwise deserves to be called out on its apathetic nature.

As a side note, I do not generally work on web front ends and haven't really worked with Angular, I just know of it as it's immensely popular.

A mistype of the word "Angular"?

Any half competent person in front end web development knows what it is, if you're not in that segment of the software development industry, then it is likely that it is of absolutely no interest to you, in which case feel free to move onto the next story.

If you're interested in making yourself more generally knowledgeable and finding out more about Angular, Google it, assuming you know what Google is.