Web Apps?
Most would be pointless if:
1) Websites sensibly designed.
2) If Adverts could be better managed
3) If all 3rd party scripts & cookies etc could be blocked.
Appifaction of websites is evil. It's a privacy busting walled garden.
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Fix REGULAR Android Apps FIRST!
1) No in App "reporting" to Google, other 3rd parties or seller
2) No in App adverts
3) Proper disclosure of App permissions, what they are for and reporting etc in the Playstore.
4) Proper disclosure of in App purchases (An upgrade to a different version is not the same as game add-ins).
5) Ability to turn off permissions per object, even if installed on older Androids such as 4.x etc.
6) info in Playstore if printing, screencasting, external storage etc is supported.
The user has too little information in advance of purchase and too little information afterwards.
Why so few Apps support printing and external storage? 1992 Windows and its applications were better thought out than the Android + Apps mess.
Why?
There are no shortage of humans doing it well, though record labels seem determined to promote the poorer ones, we'd be worse off with AI songs.
Humans are self replicating and to an extent self repairing.
There are probably useful things real AI might do, just as there are useful things that can be done with other tools. Probably boring and tedious things that humans don't want to do, like sorting rubbish, being a prison officer or changing nappies.
You need Blue Peter's Sticky Backed Plastic?
The legs look unstable.
The price seems high as I got nearly as much cardboard with my industrial 2.2m high MDF & steel shelving, which as the uprights are in two parts could make two standing desks. It's half that price too. Bolt free. No screw driver needed.
They only really do lights and healthcare. The Philips badge for TVs and AV licensed to two Asian companies, so less connection to that stuff than Argos has to Bush (Argos decide which Chinese/Turkish stuff to stick the Bush badge on).
Semiconductors spun off as NXP and now getting extinguished for the IP by Qualcomm, I mean bought.
No idea who does the kitchen stuff that used to be Philips, the tumble driers, fridge, freezer, washing machine.
In 1926 they only made light bulbs and diversified into Valves (tubes) then Radio. They were once the largest Consumer Electronics in Europe.
Probably an Intel made in Israel, Ireland, China or USA, packaged somewhere with cheap labour?
Assembly/test sites:
Chandler, Arizona, United States
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Kulim, Malaysia
Penang, Malaysia
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Jerusalem, Israel
See also Intel's own website
Not all design is in USA either.
Maybe it will be "better" (for a limited sense of better) if he is a puppet.
Intel has loads of Fab plants outside USA.
Non-US soy is often the main kind in Europe anyway as the USA soy is more likely to be genetically modified.
Is there a list of actually made or grown in USA products with no viable good alternatives? US branded doesn't mean USA made.
With cleverly added background hum that has frequency variations etc for the required time and place
Except in Okinawa due to USA presence. They also manage to have 50Hz AND 60Hz electricity on same landmass (I forget which bit).
Used Japanese cars from Japan used to be popular in Ireland. The UK ones have been more popular in recent years.
Yes, lets have a XP/Win7 style Windows, ditch the crippled "Home" version and all the "Cloud" stuff and all the Telemetry / spying and all the eye candy (but proper shadow effect icons like Win 3.1 to Windows 2003). Even MS admitted that Aero was a mistake. Bring back a proper native Forms API, but move/keep GDI out of Kernel.
However don't drop important but little used features. Unlike never wanted (ribbon) or never used features, little used features might be important.
Instead of gold plating and adding features, reduce bugs, inconstancies and vulnerabilities. Write NEW kinds of software instead of version 15 of Word or 12 of Windows.
Lasers can work as propulsion, I can't see how this can be working, note the propulsion is so small that you can be looking at some sort of systematic error, like you can't shield from the effects of orbit or moving masses. They need three of them at right angles.
"One theory is that protons fired around the nozzle are providing thrust, but it's going to take a lot more testing to see if that's true."
Do you mean photons? Protons would use up the material of the engine.
Is this better tool than Gibson Reseach's one (which maybe just looks for uPNP stupid settings, though they can scan all your ports.)?
https://www.grc.com/default.htm
Scroll down to ShieldsUp!
Compared to GRC's site they want far too many different domain's scripts enabled according to NoScript.
It also gives false positives!
"The scanner couldn't access the device on your IP address [redacted], possibly as a result of it being infected with the Mirai malware.
Please restart your connected device to enable scanner access. Why?"
Either it's incompetent or a scam to sell cloud services.
"Q: I restarted my device but the scanner still can't access it. What should I do?
Nothing, you're good. If after rebooting the scanner still can't access your device, it's because the remote access ports are closed and your device is secure from Mirai injection attacks."
Well, I don't have anything exposed by my Router/Firewall (Open WRT on a PCEngines SBC)
The problem is that Whatsapp has all the phone numbers/contacts on a users phone.
The problem is people posting info and photos of other people on their facebook account.
Also people blindly following signup instructions like on Linkedin to share their email account with the so called Social Media so all the data can be mined and all the addresses spammed.
The Regulators are largely ignoring it all and only take notice if there is outrage on mainstream media. They are not proactive about misuse of clear single pixels, 3rd part cookies (both should be illegal), icons with tracking scripts etc.
"Analysts are predicting untold riches in enterprise cloud and ERP-as-a-Service thanks to the underlying switch from buying on-prem licences."
Maybe they are right, if so then really stupid people are making the decisions. People outsourcing core aspects or mission critical or private aspects of their operations to so called "Cloud" may not personally suffer (any failure claims by our customers will be less than our cost savings), but the human race will rue it when they can't buy food at the checkout or make calls on mobile (because EPOS is down and Billing is down, all backends on the "cloud" to save money).
Someone here suggested they only make laptops at all so that Apple staff aren't using machines with Dell or Lenovo badges.
I've been saying since they axed the Mac Server and "Computer" from their name, look at the profits. The Mac is a tiny niche, with little after market Apple income compared to iOS pads and iTunes, hence the experiment of the Apple version of Surface Pro.
So I don't expect them to axe Macs any time soon, but I think any feature not needed by their own staff is a very low priority.
MediaPortal is only win7 and later.
MediaPortal is no use for Linux. The MythTV is.
Kodi is primarily for streaming.
MythTV is primarly for Satellite cards and DVB-TV Sticks etc and can work VERY well on Linux. (ProgDVB on Windows is superior to any MS MediaCentre version for Broadcast and even does MHEG5 Interactive), but no use for Linux, and not free. However I'd pay something for decent Linux TV reception software that just works, like ProgDVB or other packages on Windows.
The problem with Linux is setting up the PCI satellite cards and USB TV sticks in the first place.
Is there a future for Windows with OEM sales of Win7 now ended?
Yes, at least mildly interesting, the rest is uncomfortable and boring. It doesn't help those with chronic congestion, skin conditions, breathing issues etc that the aircraft are not fully pressurised. You need to drink stuff with water to avoid dehydration, with risk of drinking too much or not enough.
"In a typical commercial passenger flight, the cabin altitude is programmed to rise gradually from the altitude of the airport of origin to a regulatory maximum of 8,000 ft (2,400 m). This cabin altitude is maintained while the aircraft is cruising at its maximum altitude and then reduced gradually during descent until the cabin pressure matches the ambient air pressure at the destination.[citation needed]"
IMO this little mentioned fact (apart from how little space there is and insufficient humidity for those used to the Emerald Isle, and how horrid airports and airport security is) goes a long way to explain why I hate air travel. I don't worry about safety, my car trip to the supermarket may be more dangerous.
I can't resist asking those sort of questions. My last boss deliberately took me to foreign vendor meetings when he wanted to unsettle the vendor before signing (or not signing) the contract.
Engineers are not so welcome at meetings when their own company is selling.
I don't have a fear of flying, I just hate it.
I do occasionally have a slight nervousness about take-off or landing when they seem unusual.
I've occasionally bought a ticket, but always had the expense refunded. I hate flying so much, I can't see why I'd ever want to spend my own money on it.
Bought two Lenovo Laptops this week, they came with Win7 pro "free" if you ordered Win 10 pro,
Whatever about the "regular" versions, Vista Home and Win 10 Home at least seem like crippleware.
I see MS has only just ceased OEM Win 7 sales.
One at least will "dual boot" to Linux Mint + Mate, I hope (no SSD).
Maybe they sketched out the case and logo.
Depends what they mean by design. I did a 4G (not Wimax or LTE) VOIP only "handset" using a PCMCIA modem using a handmade case and catalogue industrial PCBs in 2007. In a sense I designed it.
Did they really pick the chips, layout a PCB etc, assemble it, debug, do the approvals etc?
Only matters to Apple Shareholders, and indirectly to how much the buyer is over paying.
To shops, accessory makers, IT support, App developers, Malvertisers, black hats, people wanting support, it's market share.
Perhaps people are realising that Apple is almost x2 overpriced for what you get. Despite having only 13% of market, they have maybe about 70% of the profits. It's not due to especially clever manufacturing, though the glue helps reduce cost.