Well last time I checked operating systems don't install themselves, a user has to download the setup or insert a disk and there are quite a few user agreement prompts before anything installs.
It can very easily turn into mockery when you don't understand a culture and then try to emulate it. Think parents trying to act hip, it just doesn't work. Why try to falsely disguise what it is and where it's from?
> my palm will brush against it, and the software will assume I'm clicking on something
There should be palm rejection options available, or options to turn off touch pad clicks in the touchpad driver software. Most OEMs use Synaptics, you can download the latest driver software directly from their site, it may give you more options than you currently have available.
Additionally batteries degrade over their lifetime and will lose charge faster, also different phones have different wireless radios and different antenna configurations which would mean some phones would use more or less battery for the same operations.
People replace smart phones mainly because they are slow or have become slow, or they want some new feature that isn't available on their current model. As smart phone mature this becomes less common, the technology will get to good enough level, speed, battery life, camera, and people will not feel compelled to replace their smart phones every year.
Hell I bought my Nexus 5 on release and don't feel the need to replace it yet.
>Everything you can do with closed source software you can also do with open, and there are things you can't do with closed source.
This is just not true. Show me a completely open source smart phone... thing is you can't, the baseband and radio will always for sure be closed source. There are markets where having knowledge that your competition doesn't is vital to success, that is why some things will always be closed source.
Preordered the Lockitron when is was first announced, after ~ 2 years got tired of waiting and canceled my order and bought a Yale ZWave smart lock. I am very happy with it, it has a touch screen, I can open it with a pin code, from my phone or even from my Android Wear watch. I love that it's ZWave because I don't have to use a separate app for it and other home automation devices, and I can set rules based on the condition of the other devices.
Between getting burned on this and the SOAP router, I will never back a hardware based Kickstrarter. I figure it's better to let someone else pay for the privilege to get the alpha version and struggle with it until the bugs are worked out.
They haven't yet, but with Android Wear replicating its functionality while being much less expensive and more socially acceptable, it's not hard to see that Glass doesn't have much of a future.
Google abandons projects swiftly when they think that don't make sense; Wave, iGoogle, Reader, Glass?, Buzz, Plus?, Answers, Google Video, Google Checkout/Wallet, Orkut, Picasa, Gears, etc... When you are a large company you need to focus your resources into areas where you can be effective and not stretch yourself too thin.
> including some here on HN - taking such extreme and unfounded positions on this? I think it's quite likely that they didn't do the hacking themslves. Perhaps they paid members of Lulzsec to do this...
I'm struggling to see how you don't see the irony or hypocrisy in what you are saying.
If you want to really get down to it, there is no such thing as security, only deterrents, with enough determination and skill a way will be found through all defenses. There are many more script-kiddies out there than real hackers, IMO obscurity successfully deters the script-kiddies in pretty much all cases. If a skilled hacker wants in to your network he will eventually find a way, if even just through social engineering. With a layered approach to security, obscurity, strong passwords, patched systems, log monitoring, encryption, etc... You will successful deter the "hack of opportunity" and even many targeted hacks, leaving you only truly vulnerable to the skilled hacker.
Obscurity is part of security. I have personally found that by using non-default ports for services that attempts to break in have gone down to zero. For example if you leave port 5900 open I guarantee your going to have bots trying to break in day and night. Someone would have to be specifically targeting my network to even find the ports I use(a port scan takes a good amount of time) and the services behind those ports. Of course that's not the only security in place, there are many layers but obscurity plays an important part.
Intel vPro chips have a VNC server built right into the chip, you can VNC in without the need for there to even be an OS installed. It would be very easy to hide a backdoor in one the hundreds of chips stashed in your laptop.
Their Windows 8 app is utterly broken, and although I tell the Android app to remember my password it frequently makes me reenter it. I really wish they would focus on polish, I've very close to moving to a competitor.
A million Yuan is $163,000 US dollars, and 80 square meters is 860 square feet. I would imagine that is just about impossible for a migrant worker to manage.
In my experience DP doesn't work reliably @ 4k, at least on AMD & Intel GPUs. If you do a bit of Googleing you'll see that there are many problems with DP at super high resolutions. I personally went through 5 different brands of DP cables, a DP MST HUB and all sorts of other remedies and fixes and nothing works reliably. I have 3 ASUS PB278Q and the only input that works reliably is DVI.
I just bought a GTX 980 because it supports HDMI 2.0, I am now running my HTPC at 4096x2160 @ 60hz over HDMI. As of right now the only graphics cards you can buy that support HDMI 2.0 are the GTX 970 & 980.
Don't know why you are getting down voted, I have (3) 3k displays (ASUS PB278Q) and I have frequent problems getting them to come back up after reboots or sleep. I've tried 5 different brands of displayport cables, a MST HUB, drivers, mixed config (DVI, Onboard Intel, ect...). The AMD driver will report that there is not enough bandwidth, the only thing I can do to get them to come back up is unplug and replug the disport cable. Research online shows this is a common problem with Hires displays.
Everyone crapped on Microsoft because there were no x64 drivers for Vista, and the 3rd party manufacturers didn't want to create new drivers for their old hardware.
It's Microsoft's fault that 3rd party driver support sucks? So they get blamed with they keep compatibility as in the case of PAE on x86 and blamed when they break it.
>Microsoft refused to support physical address extensions in XP
Completely wrong
"The original releases of Windows XP and Windows XP SP1 used PAE mode to allow RAM to extend beyond the 4 GB address limit. However, it led to compatibility problems with 3rd party drivers which led Microsoft to remove this capability in Windows XP Service Pack 2. Windows XP SP2 and later, by default, on processors with the no-execute (NX) or execute-disable (XD) feature, runs in PAE mode in order to allow NX.[14] The no execute (NX, or XD for execution disable) bit resides in bit 63 of the page table entry and, without PAE, page table entries on 32-bit systems have only 32 bits; therefore PAE mode is required in order to exploit the NX feature. However, "client" versions of 32-bit Windows (Windows XP SP2 and later, Windows Vista, Windows 7) limit physical address space to the first 4 GB for driver compatibility via the licensing limitation mechanism, even though these versions do run in PAE mode if NX support is enabled.
Windows 8 will only run on processors which support PAE, in addition to NX and SSE2."
I second the position of don't walk away from DoorBot, run. In the past month it has never rung my phone, I can check the history in the app of when the doorbell was rung, but it never triggered my phone. In the off chance it does ring, the video quality is horrible and distorted, and there is a great lag. Even with all that said, I'm still understating how bad it is.
There also appears to be no progress being made to resolve these issues. Just look at the reviews for the android app.