Honestly it looks like watching 480p upscaled.

It seems like the inevitable fate of any successful product. Wall St demands higher and higher profits, so there is no choice but to keep adding and pushing, even beyond what makes sense. Then the product inevitably becomes so bloated that people only tolerate it until a simpler alternative comes along. Then that becomes successful and the cycle continues...

Before responding like this, why are we even accepting the premise without testing?

I just tested. I opened Google Maps (not already running) on my phone. I searched for somewhere random (US Courthouse). I selected a court from the four options and clicked the icon for directions. I had directions on screen in about 20 seconds from my click to launch the app. I didn't need any unnecessary clicks.

Maybe, since he mentions cross streets, the author is talking about when you search for a place but know you really want to navigate nearby, not to their door. That took me about 35 seconds starting Maps from scratch. You search for your destination, zoom in at the destination to see where you might really want to drive to. Delete the destination and select "Choose from map" and now you can navigate to wherever you place the pin.

So that's not quite as straightforward, but still it's no where near several minutes. It could do the initial zoom for you, but that would be at the expense of showing you the planned route and alternate routes which, I think, are more useful more frequently.

Of course none of this is as simple as using the Google Assistant and saying "Hey Google, directions to the United States District Court". which gets me directions in under fifteen seconds with no clicks and a read out of the preferred major road together with an estimated duration.

Now it's fair to ask whether Maps is becoming too bloated,, but I don't see any evidence bloat is making it harder to get directions.

It was quickly fixed in production, but damage was done to the brand, mine has been awsome these 3 years. 10/10 (except no sd card)

Really. I have chucked out four devices, each of which bootlooped and they were acquired over a period of about a year. All purchased from Google.

So, either Google were selling old faulty stock or this wasn't quickly fixed in production.

Is it any real surprise that a high percentage of blockchain sites are kind of shady?

Or that they wanted payment in hard currency not cryptocoins?

What are we supposed to make of this credential? Ex Apple engineer makes new sweatshirt, Ex Google engineer makes new ice cream scoop.

If you're fired from Silicon Valley, is the next move to make anything, advertise it online and describe as having been invented by an ex big-tech engineer?

They assumed a 45-year career working 250 days a year

So, 365 days in a year, less 104 weekend days leaves just 261 days.

We then have holidays - most folk get off (either on the day or in lieu) New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

That puts as to 255 days available to work. In other words, the analysis reckons the average person will take five workdays total for vacation and sick time in an entire year.

And they think it's the commute time to be concerned about!

Let's think about what Epic were asking for. They'd prefer users not be notified of a critical vulnerability for three months and instead just wait to see how many upgrade naturally.

Google on the other hand have a published policy that they will notify of security events after 90 days if un-patched or after a patch is widely available, exactly what happened here.

While Google does have a strong financial incentive to stop other companies from operating outside the play store, they also have an incentive for Android not to be viewed as a less secure mobile operating system. It seems to me that, if you want to encourage security patches to be applied, you would want to let users know that their existing install has a critical vulnerability. Why Epic would prefer silence can be inferred, but it's not to the benefit of their customers.

No, don't start trying to school me on network monitoring. I get that the device can't know it's being monitored if you do it right. But what it could do is send captured voice traffic at a later time, or during a period of time when you know it's supposed to be sending traffic. You know, unless your super sleuth skills allow you to decrypt what it sends and all.

What it cannot do is send voice without using data. And voice data, even compressed, is pretty large. More than enough to be noticeable. In a home with music, kids and pets, daytime noise is almost constant. The actual volume of data would be huge if it was transferring everything it heard. And there's no way it's powerful enough to filter out background and only transmit relevant communications.

A 48kbps audio stream over a month would take about 15GB. It's easy to see if a device transmits even a hundredth of that. Place a Google Home next to a TV playing CNN 24/7 and it doesn't suddenly start transmitting 15GB per month.

As I said in my original post, it is easy to confirm that a Google Home or an Amazon Echo does not record/transmit everything it hears unless it's broken.

Why do we have these blatant untruths? Sure, these devices listen all the time - for a wake word. The idea that they're always listening to your conversation and always recording are patently false. My network usage confirms this. Unless Google and Amazon are shipping these with LTE modems and are paying for the bandwidth requirements of uploading tens of millions of simultaneous audio streams?

selling the high defect ones to other camera companies

Any evidence for this? There's a big difference between keeping a design exclusive and selling inferior or faulty goods. I can't imagine for a second that the likes of Nikon would accept high defect CCDs.

Indeed. My fifteen year old Canon 10D with a $50 50mm prime lens will take better photos than pretty much any cell phone camera available today. That said, I'm not likely to take the Canon to the pub, so there's a role for both.

Your article is about 4 years and $26 per hour out of date

We should note though that the $50+ figure is based on limited hours. If we're comparing it with other jobs, we'd want to compare against a 2080 hour work year which sees their pilots earning about $29/hour.

$29/hour for highly skilled employment with unsociable hours and lots of travel is not high. Add to that the very high training cost.

I really like these, also a bit more expensive, but which have a passthrough outlet.

The only time you see secondary fermentation used in mass market is in specialty brews, cask festivals, and similar specialty beer types. Otherwise it's just too unpredictable.

You're not in the UK, are you? Real ale is pretty widely available, hand pumped from the cask and relies on secondary fermentation. In the US it's harder to find, but available in bars that specialize in that sort of thing.

By that rationale, there's almost no such thing as interstate commerce.

Not at all.

In fact today's decision if you read it has a pretty good breakdown on how this stuff applies in the taxation realm (which is slightly different to the plain jurisdictional one covered by international shoe and subsequent decisions). States can't use sales taxes to impede interstate commerce, punish an out of state vendor or favor an in-state one. But they can levy a sales tax and the decision makes clear that someone with sufficient minimum contacts in the state (I think S. Dakota required 200+ individual transactions or $100k in sales before being required to collect tax) can be responsible for collecting it.