Posts by Teiwaz 4136 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011
Ask a grown up to explain the difference between Android and the entirely optional Google Play Services
Which the entire point of the ruling and this discussion, since you seem to have missed it while running around looking down your nose at eyeryone and dribbling from the brain.
You can't easily <u>buy</u> a device that doesn't come with Google Play Services nor remove it from said device without replacing the entire O.S. with another version.
Majority of the market in Android phones comes with bundled Google Play Services, and to most users they are ubiquitous, so I doubt I could find an average grown-up to tell me the difference, because to most, and many phone OEMs and Google they are synomymous.
So Judge Dredd is a computer. What are we going to call society in the future? Old Dystopia or New Dystopia.
The digital feudal system. They're just replacing local lords (who've been occasionally know to go Robin of Sherwood with corporations, who sometimes do charity, but also very 'charitable' to poor government servants.
DNA to replace passwords? Has no one seen Gattaca?
I was also going to say that replicating DNA is "easy" for those that know how. But even easier would be to say "bleed on this will you?"
Gattaca? I thought it was a dreary Corporate training film....
There's DNA in piss* isn't there? That's always an option
* there is in faeces, hey, if they want a sample, might as well have something I'll be dumping at some point during the day anyway. I prefer to get lightheaded and trippy in my own time.
<Why would you want to jam 56 PCs into a rack?
You'd never fit people's desks around it for a start.</i>
Maybe it's the new Hot-Deskting.
Sort of musical chairs Hot Desking, didn't manage to login for long this week, ticks list for next to be shown the door.
Must be a new IBM strategy.
Considering the number of people inclined to that area of It are often hounded to the grave by U.S. authorities, is it really an area ...
a) to look for stable, reliable people
b) the reliable kind of person who tends toward loyalty, doing what they are told and not making waves (which is what I gather governments like).
It's not very nice to have the security forces crash your home at 6 a.m just because you found a hole and told the responsible company something they didn't want to hear enough to decide to play ostrich and deny everything.
Most of the rain falls where there aren't that many people living (eg Scotland, Cornwall)
You left out Wales and N.I - where it rains a lot. Maybe not heavily, but seemingly consistently.
Don't know about Wales, but N.I water is still on the rates (or was until recently) and with mostly sod all investment (and total lack of any effective Political leadership for decades) if it actually stops raining for any more than a few weeks, the leaky system can't retain much of a reserve.
Yep, I was just about to point out that it didn't say improving...
I am reminded of the Ministry of Alterations "We, Change people from being alive people to being dead people" from the Red Dwarf - Back to Reality.
All well and good but what about the big elephant in the room? Linux
Linux is what future terminators run on (as evident in the films) and what are they doing about this?
Firstly :
If you can't tell a Penguin from an Elephant, there's no hope for you. Penguin research
Additionally :
Well, if you are going to have an AI potential killing machine, wouldn't you want it open source and not a closed proprietary system?
John Conner wouldn't have been able to reprogram the first T1000 and send it back to protect Sarah otherwise.
Please. What is wrong with "used"? Has someone escaped from HR again?
You wanted them to 'used' like a 'used' condom when they can instead 'leverage' a more dynamic sounding word that gives the impression of force being applied with care and judgement and to ultimate effect?
Even when the impression is a total lie and gives a wholly false image of even remotely competent management.
This verbal virus spread far beyond HR years ago.
It's getting so bad that I am looking for a different forum.
Yeah, good luck with that, but I doubt anything less infected exists.
I'm not so sure of the corporate sponsored involvement (although it would not surprise me), unpaid or unrewarded partisanship seems quite easy to induce in the land of the 'no free lunch unless you pay for it, and tip well, but if you can afford it, then it's complimentary'.
I know I wouldn't go down well on Ars....
A lot of anti-EU 'how dare they fine Google' (presumably 'an US company') sentiment on here today.
Tempted to think the Trumpeters cavalry are out in force, armed with recent orange twits tweets about 'the enemy' to try to deal some alternative propaganda.
'Course, it might be the Farage-Boris lot, hoping to ingratiate in the vain hope of not being shafted roughly at a future US-UK trade grovel agreement.
My guess is that more would than wouldn't. By a seriously long way.
I daresay they would. The easy functionality is a strong inducement, even if you are aware of the slurp and tracking, even the feeling of your lifeforce being constantly drained by the knowledge of the slow drip of your personal data and activities syphoned off to feed the Google beast is not enough for many users.
But having the choice not to, if your don't need or don't want the thing leeching at your life is much better.
There are other satnavs, and openstreetmaps (is that still about, I lose track) could do with the attention. One Google fan (or even one Google van) certainly didn't make Street View the rich resource it is.
Show us where Microsoft is threatening to withdraw the availability of Windows to any manufacturer that dares to ship a Chromebook
Giants in the Playground (in lingerie)
Maybe Google is too big to dare crossing, or fear of pushing OEMs to total ChromeOS supply only, or Google has piccies of MS in saucy underwear....
There is the chance that this would erode Amazons grip too.
At the moment, Amazon is big enough to ignore Google, but other producers are not.
Cracking Googles stranglehold, may add some benefit to Amazon, but they've been big enough to not be particularly intimidated by Google for some time before bring out their pad, so it's not a sudden release of potential handcuffs for them at all.
Smaller entities are much more shackled by the current status quo.
Pete 2
The UK seems to think the ignominy of being found to be breaking the law [ sharp intake of breath! ] is enough
Now I know you're American. Such a U.S. view of the English, it's total fiction.
UK government have no such concept of ignominy, the proof is their response to mass surveillance being found illegal, their response was mostly to try to ignore it, then offer measly rewordings that didn't much change the illegal nature of their intent much at all.
Sort of like a bank robber going in and offering to rewrite the note demanding money from the safe (after the trial), in the hopes it would no longer count as perpetrating a hold-up and they could walk away with 'the goods'.
They are monopolist in terms of user lock in methods - try getting iTunes for android, try auto sync of photos (etc.) you take to iCloud from Android.
Maybe, had the iphone inherited the ubiquity they had in the early 00's with the ipod, but they haven't.
I'd forgotten all about itunes, (I had to send a request for long term storage for the word 'ipod') hard to believe that buggy bloat POS, itunes was every a thing.
seriously mucked up mentally now, i'll be iwriting, 'i' in ifront of ieverthing for the irest of the iday.
Icon : sod it, I'm on the sauce (isauce) the rest of the day.
The inquiry runs on funding, does it not. It's not a for profit or a rogue independent charity making a nice little earner for those managing it and only good works as a by product.
Here's your speeding ticket, pay now, you'll get most the money back once it's been round the tumbledryer for a while. Bollocks
Fire everyone responsible, start again with all new staff, repeat as necessary if/when they blunder.
I'd also recommend criminal proceedings, after all 'this was a crime against the most vulnerable in society' or somesuch...
I'm sure it's coming, and the advert will be ever so slightly on topic to your phone conversation.
The excuse will be 'call prices may have to go up, blah blah monetise, blah blah alternative income streams'
....just feeding the tinfoil hatters, tear off another sheet and increasing the lining by an extra 5mm.
by the time you've found a spare monitor, mouse, keyboard and carried cables around,
You're assuming a truly portable situation - clearly something like a laptop/netbook/ultrabook is still better for the occasions where you might need a screen and keyboard in a convenient bundle anywhere.
I think most people, most of the time, are only using full desktop mode in a few predictable locations a lot of the time home - office, in between these locations, a smartphone style access might be acceptable.
KDE are prepping for adjustable display-size apps with Kirigami as well.
RE: Jump to comments button.
Then there's all the sages and wise-men who leap immediately into the comment box without having read more than the article title (or merely just skimmed it, and jumped to comment on what they thought it said).
I do try to read the article first, but with articles like yesterdays mostly verbatim drivel from ISPs, it was self defence to leap to the comments after a paragraph or two before I started bleeding from the ears.
Text based, I get, i fondly remember (well, small flashes in between the long cold-sweat nightmares of fruitless and mostly unrewarded frustration) but turn-based always puts me in mind of the only slightly less frustrating Civilisation, Colonisation or UFO and their ilk from the early to mid-nineties.
I used to play about with a text adventure construction kit (don't recall it's actual name) on my first PC - the only way beasties would kill you with was one 'huge teeth' description, which I kept forgetting, A spy epic I wrote for it was a little freaky with beautiful spy ladies coming at you with knives/guns but at the last minute, taking you out instead with a huge set of sharp teeth.
Any AI being forced to play that and against all odds, becoming self aware is going to need therapy.
I've not seen a real gearing up of Linux (desktop) for the Enterprise
Nor will you. There's no overriding direction and no ultimate authority to dictate such a drive.
Thankfully, as from what I've seen of IT corps of late, they are much more concerned with devising some sort of scheme to make more money off people who've already paid them on the back of whatever Yo-Yo fad is currently in vogue in the guise of a new feature.
Gnome Shell is a passable desktop (although I believe Red Hat defaults to the more conservative fallback session - presumably they are quite happy to let the gnome monkeys do their thang in the eventual hope of shakespeare and not shit). KDE is getting there with Plasma 5, but the others are either too niche for Enterprise desktops or much too antiquated looking.
A company, like a singular user needs to have the will to implement the 'Linux Desktop, Dressing it up or trying a Lindows isn't going to work.
Politicians are intent on putting spin, lying, putting out fake news, borderline slander and generally egging on the worst instincts of society in order to win.
When there is no interest in the truth or sensible cooperative discussion to sort out issues and they rely on bribes and promises they don't intend to keep to get into office.
Russia are no saints, but they've done this because the western political systems are so corrupt and broken now. Their own population is led around by fake news and slanted reports.
Or is only okay to carry on when it's the native government deceiving the people and not when a foreign power sticks it's oar in.
Basically, I think it wouldn't have happened, couldn't have happened had the politicians of the country in question had not sunk to the lowest in their desperate morally bankrupt race to get in at all costs.
Yes I can see it now.
Funnily enough, that close of that little drama-ettte, skit or sketch also often plays out the same if said Customs Official think you may have an extra ounce of baccy or bottle of cheap Calais plonk you weren't entitled to - and that was while within the EU Free movement of goods.
Ohh, the ruination of society...
You could probably carry through several cannisters of rabies and be waved through, but god help have more tobacco on you than they think you should have - It has such a short shelf life after all.
I often think this wole rigmarole is just line the rest of the government on the same mentality as HMCE.
The uK is a serious data fetishist and needs therapy.
It was all we'd like a soft exit, but if a hard exit is what it takes, so be it.
Until they were told they'd be out of Galileo and the Interpol *'sharing'.
* 'data Sharing' to the Uk is much like two year olds attitude to sweets, mine, mine, mine, mine Wahhh!
Supposedly might not officially have to accede to ECJ rulings, but the current UK administration aren't good at playing the game by any rules than their own. Even if this all goes through, I give it a year before the first suspension from the game for being out of bounds.
What do people think? Will Scotland decide to leave before N.I collapses?
..."typing in BASIC listings from computer magazines in the '80s and debugging"...
Now that there is a dying breed in IT. Ho hum
I'd be impressed if your could type in BASIC listings from Computer magazines in the '80's, today
Is that your Delorean parked outside?
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