At least Apple's button is configurable. I have mine set to toggle Ring/Silent.

The alert slider is infinitely more useful than an AI slider...whatever that will be. I'd rather control when I get disturbed than have AI slop shovelled down my throat

I didn't know FB allowed encrypted emails. Perhaps the usage was low because the deployment occurred in such a way that ensured its failure ?

if device makers stop supporting their devices after 2 years, and all devices do not get updates at the same time. I used Android all the way up till this year, and the support alone was worth the switch.

For the record, my Android phones were the OG Galaxy S, the Galaxy Note 3, the Galaxy S7, and the OnePlus 6T, all flagship devices.I think I got one full OS update once each, and then abandoned even for security updates. This was untenable for me.

Same... I got my first iDevices this year. I like the regular updates and support

This all day. A proper 'Fuck You' to Wright.

For the same reasons that we don't consider physics mathematics. While physics and CS use mathematical tools, their domains are not necessarily the same. At most, you could put some aspects of those subjects in "Applied Math" but just knowing math doesn't get you to physics or CS, and vice versa.

Apple is gonna dick people around with the Mac Pro just like they did with the Macbook Pro. They will take away ports and functionality and charge $4,000 dollars for it. I used to be an Apple fan but these last several years seems to show that Apple has given up on the desktop. I would rather they just sell licenses to OS X (or open source it)...their bread and butter are the iOS devices anyway.

OOOOh if only I had some mod points. One of my favorite corny sci-fi movies as a youngin. Look out for those Xan-do-Xans as well

I type

sudo yaourt -Syua

like a real man.

are centralized above and beyond efficiency in production, despite the fact that knowledge workers can be sent work digitally and we have high quality teleconferencing if you really need "facetime" (Fuck you, Apple!), they still wake up, put on office clothes, and commute on average 45 minutes to their workplace to do a job that can be done from anyplace in the world. It's about disciplining and control of labor by the bosses. They can make you work at the pace they want you to, regulate your movements, and make you abide to any other policies that they see fit. Hell, if they let them have some autonomy by letting them work at home, they might get the crazy idea to work on their own projects and go independent, taking away profits from Father Corporation that they deserve. Y'know...actually innovate!!!

The reason why the US isnt't doing big science projects is because doesn't have the Soviet Union to play catchup with. The way they fund "innovation" is bass-ackward and will only do so if it is profitable and is "sure to work". As a result we get new electronic gizmos that is basically micronization of older tech and nothing fundamentally radical. David Graeber talks about this in some of his lectures regarding why we don't have robot factories and all the whiz bang tech we were expected to have by now. It's bureaucracy, hierarchy, and how we tend to fund things as a society.

At this time, China isn't really outcompeting the US on any technological strategic front, and the Europeans are more or less on the same squad as the US. If ever the case the Chinese decide to go to Mars, invented a teleporter, or presented a serious strategic threat to the US that may change, but by then it will be too late. I predict that the people to beat in this era will still be the Europeans even in this time of austerity.

If you want innovation, you give a group of smart people who work well together some resources and leave them alone to weave their tapestry of dreams, not regiment them to what bureaucrats think they should be working on or some idiotic timetable.

Then stop using shitty apps?

Like I said, they needed to upgrade a decade ago. Turn that old P3 into a linux server and buy a new machine FFS. Tax time is here, spend 300 bucks and get a better machine.

They shouldn't have fixed it. anyone using Windows XP should have upgraded years ago. Perhaps this would be encouragement to move to Windows 7....or Linux :D