Posts by Tim Seventh

Re: But muh headphone jack!

"I personally love my V-Moda Crossfade 2 Wireless over-ears and V-Moda Forza Metallo earbuds (I prefer V-Moda's sound profiles - nicely accurate highs and mids, and fantastic bass presence without being excessively boomy or distortive) and the thought of going back to corded ranks right up there with the thought of going back to a corded mouse. I mean, you could, but... why? "

If you work with not just one system but many systems (at work and in office) especially in IT, then you'll see why we don't use wireless device as much.

Wireless means,

-Another item to replace (battery) for each system.

-Another thing to do (recharge battery) for each system.

-Another thing to care (battery lifetime) for each system.

-Another thing to worry (replacement when battery die) for each system.

-Another security issue to care (wireless hack) for each system.

-Another interface issue to care (wireless signal interference) for each system.

-Another safety consideration (any device with battery glued on can explode/ cause fire) for each system.

In exchange for ONE benefit

-No tangling issue

The negatives don't stop there. If you work with music, most 'real' amps and 'real' music equipment like a guitar amp support the 6.5mm headphone jack, which is compatibility with the 3.5mm headphone jack, which does not have Bluetooth support.

Maybe you'll get one or two wireless devices like plenty of us (because of the convenience), but in no way does it replace the wired device.

Re: The one thing I wholeheartedly agree with Jobs on ...

is stylii. If you need them, you've failed.

And then Apple Introduces the Apple Pencil...

Re: Discussion

Some of us "dumb" Americans are tired of seeing ridiculous trade imbalances.

Well yes literally everyone around the world hates globalization so you are not along, but you must have followed trump way too much (I am putting this nicely).

Trump is a live actor, saying whatever and doing whatever that "feels right". "dumb" Americans hate globalization and trade imbalances, so trump says I'll fix it with a ban hammer, which is bad not because of the result but the process.

Let's use your honey example. You procedure honey but Central America can manufacture more and import more and it is unfair. So we let trump use the instant ban hammer. BAM! All industries like cake / biscuit / bread makers in the America depend on cheap honey are now forced to buy alternatives. Those who couldn't face bankruptcy and layoff all the workers, because typical customers purchase only the cheapest. Those few who could survive, with loyal customers, raise the price of their products indirectly raise the price of other those products and similar ones.

With higher priced products, consumers are now forced to pay for an increased price at the same wage, and they continue to be angry. You think that's over? Well if it's on a small scale then yes. If not, no it's not over. Those mass of America workers who got laid-off from those industries now lower the demand of overall country's purchase power due to unemployment, which decrease all sales in the country. With decrease in sales, some other none related industries now also face bankruptcy and laying-off more workers. With the market stability destroyed, it becomes a depression.

The correct approach to fix trade imbalances is to slowly apply the restriction, which in terms slow the depression into small recessions. With small recession, fewer industries face bankruptcy and fewer people get laid off, while more industries and workers have time to find alternatives. This keeps market stability for a strong future.

So to put it this way (nicely), knowledgeable people around the world and Americans know this and know how "dumb" trump is for doing this and know how "dumb" Americans can't see this. Once the damage snowballs, it can go out of control (History: The Great Depression).

Everyone know a lot of things are done with good intention (increase job), but knowledgeable people can see right through the problem it can cause (destroying the market).

Here's a tip, learn more and listen fewer trump. Just my 2 cents.

This whole thread is depressing, it's serious tinfoil hat brigade, FUD, basic failures to read and understand privacy policies...

Umm, reading privacy policies? Anyone that considers themselves technically competent reads source codes and network connection logs. When we see a connection that we didn't specify command it to connect, it's phoning home. It's not FUD when we see the connection log gets longer by the millisecond.

Games consoles, phones, and tablets work fine for education. Videos depend on the content.

Games consoles, phones, and tablets work fine for education. Videos not so much. depend on the content.

Some simple information are better as text, like a command, a part of a code, some facts, etc.

But it gets terrible at explaining multiple and/or abstracted process, like showing how to dissemble a motherboard, showing how to draw a cat, showing how to open a bottle with a cucumber, etc. These are things that are difficult to be explained in words, and better shown as images or videos.

Science and Religion both require belief or a leap of faith.

Your definition itself is wrong. Science is proven, not believed. Religion is believed and unable to be proven.

Are there countries where it's legal to run down pedestrians* on a normal road? There may be mitigation, but in civilised countries, it's the driver's responsibility to not drive into pedestrians (and many other things).

*If it helps, think of small children irresponsible parents and legal loopholes.

Fixed that for you, because you are only looking at the green grass and disregarding other problems. First, law is not your parent. Parents are not excused for letting or leaving kids on their own on the road. Second, there are actual people who jump in front of cars to get hit just to abuse this type of loopholes to get money.

So, yes there are civilised countries where you do not get punished if it is the pedestrians' fault for the accident.

Also in countries with overall higher intelligent, people tense to put their personal responsibility in front of any legal responsibility, meaning they actually avoid jaywalking when seeing a fast car approaching. It's because when they or kids die, it's dead regardless of what happens afterward.

Re: Crikey I'm ransomed by Corporate America

I'm trying to get Windows 8.1 to boot, Linux's not good either, one of my drives (with Linux on it) has become invisible to the BIOS and hardware at boot time (either as a USB or Internal drive). {explain that I weep !}

I presume you mean your current Windows 8.1 isn't booting, and you're trying to get it to boot. In addition, your linux drive isn't booting either. Since you've said that it is invisible to the BIOS, it means that you have access to the bios but the drive are not shown. From this, it means either your usb port / internal SATA connectors are dead, your hard drives had failed, or both boot partitions (windows and linux) have be corrupted.

If you want to double check the drives to for extent of the issue, you'll want to try something else to boot up your PC. You can try using a live linux usb, boot it up, and then plug in the hard drive with a usb. If you see a few partitions shown, then you've got good news. Your drive isn't really dead and you might be able to recover your data.

My bare metal restorer, PBR and all others backups have failed (not fit for purpose).

Therefor I am ransomed, as I must upgrade to Windows 10 or loose my access to my paid for programs and applications.

That's not really ransomed if there's nothing asking for a ransom. That's just losing your backups and your data. Also if somehow you've regain access to your programs and applications, there's no need to upgrade to Windows 10. Just get a new hard drive, buy/get a Windows 8.1 license that is still available, install Windows 8.1 to the new hard drive, and re-install all your programs and applications to access them.

Re: "the top 1 per cent of false-news cascades routinely diffused to between 1,000 and 100,000"

I have spent quite a bit of time trying to respond and educate the people sending me the latest fraud mail of the day - because many of those were people I personally knew. Some of them do not speak to me anymore; apparently I dared challenge their worldview and they did not accept that.

Unless you had authority over them or they are open minded, challenging their worldview is pointless. If I were you, I would have straightly out pointed out the fraud mail and stop there. If they accept my educate, then good for them. If they don't, then I let Darwinism take in charge.

^Self referencing statement. This comment points out exactly one thing and stops there. If you accept it, then good for you. If not, then I also let Darwinism take in charge.

Re: I despair

Why rely on what a "car" is telling you? A car that can easily be co-opted into telling lies.

We screwed up that part too, by 'hacking' the sensors with covers on traffic signs, and hand-drawn car lane trap (a nice circle with doted lines on the outer side, the smart car can enter but can never exit).

Re: Enough, already

That's easy to say when your livelihood isn't dependent on you monetising your software innovation.

The thing is in the global world, it is pretty clear that patents no longer protect the small guys.

In plenty of cases, it is used against the small guys, even when they were the ones who created the the product first. Part of the problem is to get patent to have effect, you need a lot of money for the patent and the lawyers, which small guys don't have from the start. The second problem is it is easier for someone or a large company to quickly rip off your software innovation, patent or not. Even worse, it is easier for them to quickly sue your software innovation the second you have some profit.

So rather than keeping software patent at all (f*ck patent troll), it might as well be better to delete software patent as a whole.

Re: It rubs the Monopoly on it's skin, or else it gets the antitrust again...

You do know google maps has had offline mode for some time, right?

Google Maps offline maps expire after 30 days(source 1, source 2). Not that offline if you ask me.

If you want truly offline, try Maps.me or some other map apps.

Re: Stock Android

I have to confess to being in two minds about stock android. Yes its dull, boring and while not a bad user experience, it's not great either.

For android, all you need is to download is a custom home launcher app in the play store to instantly make it exciting. Just in case you didn't know, most non-stock android just simply adds their own customized home launcher to change how you feel about their android device. So stock android can easily be changed to look similar to non-stock android.

Taking from another perspective, what really separates a stock android and a non-stock android is the amount of bloat placed by the manufacture. Stock android (google stock version) will have little to no bloat apps with only google apps, while non-stock android almost always have bloat apps from the manufacture. When bloat apps eats your data, your battery and phoning home which you can't disable by default (without rooting or custom rom), that's a point given to stock android especially when users complain about the slowness of bloated non-stock devices.

"all people are doing with landfill is redistributing a few minerals."

Surely if landfill is a distribution of 'minerals', then pollution is also a distribution of 'minerals'. Except we also lose land when those 'minerals' are place, and consumer those 'minerals' indirectly through plants, animals, air and water.

If you want to really know how bad it is, ask one of those who lives next to one.

Re: I have one question.

"The top of most phone screens just display a few simple icons most of the time - no reason not to share that space with a camera. The issue is implementation - LG made a phone with a discrete screen next the camera, not a bad idea."

If you only think the notch blocked only 'the top of most phone' and a few simple icons most of the time, then you clearly haven't tried rotating it and used it for other things. Unless you watch movies with one eye blinded, the notch extremely stands out with the asymmetric in landscape mode.

Sure apple fans can 'compensate' for the difficulty. But no matter how you flip it horizontally to the right or the left, it will still be asymmetrical.

Re: So...

Google apps totally ignore my "give fake GPS results to apps" app, I'm sure they'll totally ignore firewall apps to.

Most android non-root firewall are based on VPN connection. If you have a network monitoring log, you should see the connection getting blocked by the firewall. I do recommend getting one as it is the easiest way to keep some control of your phone.

If you install a custom rom (android OS) like lineageOS, there are individual options for you to block network and gps permissions.

I need to root my new phone some day soonish. Only thing that has stopped me so far is that rooting involves asking permission from Motorola, who will then void your warranty. sigh

Rooting should have nothing to do with asking permission from Motorola. Unless you meant unlocking bootloader to install custom rooted rom, then you might need Motorola permission to unlock it. However regardless of rooting or installing custom rom, doing either will indeed void your warranty. This is straightly because the manufacture won't fix your rom if you broke it yourself.

Nonetheless if there is a well community supporting your very-specific phone, you can more or less find ways to unroot your phone and/or re-lock the bootloader if you really need to use the limited warranty. Just don't forget to keep a backup copy of your OEM rom for that case.

If you are rooting for the first time, I do not recommend doing this on a brand new expensive phone, since you can easily and accidentally soft brick your phone.

Re: Do project managers live in the world?

a snack that makes no sound and leaves no crumbs or dust (cheese string??)

Not directly related to your comment, but anything they do are probably just going to be reinvent

-cheese stick

-potato wedge

-fried chicken

-beef jerky

-chocolate

-dry fruit

or some other food/snacks already available on the market that make no sound and leave few crumbs.

Re: If somebody does not understand...

"After two more teaching sessions I had to admit defeat."

I've done something similar, teaching someone how to share a message. The person would be able to do it for the moment with no problem. Then the next week, the same person would ask the same question. And then again, and again. Until around the fifty or Sixth times, I gave up saying don't ask me again.

It was a real life while loop. I had to break it before I become insane.

@Lee D

Your point basically summarized to school never change (to pi) unless otherwise, but only to back it up with with GTA V, Overwatch 3D or video editing, and "buy them all an iPad"… What kinds of well funded rich school are you working with?

No 12 year old kid in school I have seen done anything remotely close to real 3D or video editing. I can only assume that your ‘school’ aren’t the same school raspberry pi was designed for. Your ‘school’ is more like ‘university’ (and maybe some high school or well funded private school).

In this case, you’ve compared apple to orange. Raspberry pi isn't a replacement for real heavy computation. It is cheap hardware for school like kindergarten to middle school (maybe some high school) as an alternative for cost saving when they didn't need the high cost hardware or license in the first place. In those types of school by installing a browser in raspberry pi, they already have all the tools necessary for basic teaching. Online calculator, compiler, physic simulator, literature, video, etc, there's already everything the teachers need for their lecture at a very low cost.

Re: How is the warning transmitted to phones?

"I’m just curious as to how the warning is transmitted to phones."

In some smartphones, there's a setting for Government Alerts (iphone) and Cell Broadcast (android). For iPhone, it includes AMBER alerts and Emergency Alert. For android, includes, presidential alerts, extreme threats, ETWS test broadcasts, AMBER alerts, channel 50 (for Brazil), and channel 60 (for India).

That's how the "Ballistic Missile" message was broadcasted.

Re: Android privacy? Is that new?

"Tin foil hat?"

No, it's just real time phoning home. Get a network monitor app (net monitor [privacy friendly], etc.) and you'll see a long list of connections going out.

Anyone who cares for a little privacy with their android-based phone would have a firewall (NetGuard, NoRoot Firewall, etc) just to give themselves some control over their device.

Re: Anyone know of anyone who specialises in Bitcoin property sales in the UK?

"Someone has asked me to sell his commecial property for bitcoin, bit of a surprise request because I don't do this at all. How exactly I'd accomplish this task, I have no idea, also would rather not have the grief to be utterly honest. He's got a mortgage he's paying on it, freehold property."

You could just tell him you'll sell the property, but he has to buy the bitcoin online (on exchange, etc), leaving you out of the mess.

Re: Tweeter-totter

(Kids get taught simple math like 1 + 1 , why aren't they taught simple "life skills" somewhere/somehow?

It's because both the teachers, the parents and most adults haven't learned them / know them yet.

Re: Wired article

It feels like cloudflare might hire them at one point. Their interest in computers, internet, DDoS, and DDoS migration feels like the type that will be useful to cloudflare.