Posts by Dan 55 16877 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
It's difficult to be sure if iFixit's benchmarks have stayed the same over the years. What was once a 2 might now be a 5.
The repairability of devices is going down, for example changing the battery requires you to open the thing up and deal with glue whereas before you just clipped them on the back or had an accessible battery compartment. RAM and storage upgrades might be impossible on some laptops.
In reality, Windows 10 Mobile Insider is Build 14322, the Windows 10 preview which came out last week was Build 14314.
Yet unlike the desktop platform it's still in beta... insofar as the permanent revolution that are updates on Windows 10 on whatever platform can be labelled as alpha, beta, or whatever.
You do understand that even though the build numbers are similar, the experience can be very different on different platforms, don't you? So much so that one platform can be said to be lagging behind the other in terms of features and usability.
Or a technical solution in the form of an app, iBeacon transmitter, and whatever Google's version of an iBeacon transmitter is called. When the app realises it's in the cinema it mutes the phone.
To inspire millennials to download the app just say that they are entered into a draw for a free ticket once every 100 years and make it clear that it shares all their personal information with the cinema and trusted third parties.
Do you really think the idiot with a comb over would make better laws than this?
Nobody with two braincells to rub together would think that Trump would fix anything, rather it would be the starting point for a slow inexorable slide into an Idiocracy.
Or maybe Bush started that and Trump is the next step along the way.
The EU mandating USB went wrong because manufacturers came up with their own ways of negotiating current draw over USB instead of following the standard just to save a few pence.
I don't think having a pin plug implies that the charger must be inefficient, it was just that chargers then were less efficient than now.
The Symbian 3 ones did charge over USB, but only at 500mA.
I don't know about cables, but certainly only official chargers will be allowed as a charger loaded with malware will look like the real thing. As a side effect official chargers could come with USB-C cable that can't be detached.
What was wrong with those chargers with just a pin connector...
You discover the huge international organisation, the one that has its name proudly emblazoned all over the gadget, has found the cost of hosting a dozen megabytes or so of data, so expensive that the drivers for your gadget are no longer available.
You could almost be talking about Revolv.
This will last until another butterfly flies past Google's window. And as for malware out there getting access to USB devices, that's going to end well too...
The software needs to be installable on the server because it has to be updated so it can't be on ROM. Practically any method used to protect it can be furtled by someone who is trusted with root. If there's a process which regularly checks executables against a list of checksums, the checksum list can be changed too. It's not as if the system as a whole or even each executable can be verified before each run either, lottery terminals are constantly hitting the system all day. As for digitally generated random numbers, does that include a lucky dip? You can argue about how random it is, but it's probably more random than people choosing their own numbers.
They could have used BB10 with Android app compatibility for secure enterprise phones and Android + BB apps for cheaper consumer phones.
Now they've killed BB10 they're little different to anyone else.
It's also a massive marketing failure, since they had Android app compatibility and managed not to sell it.
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