> I like like the bottle neck in the future will be Harddrive/SSD file read/write speeds. No. It will be your ISP > Honestly, I'd love to have my hands on a terabyte drive with 1TBps speeds. You need also a fast…
This is also the killer feature for me. You can "scan" a filesystem in a couple of minutes.
> Finding representative portions of your userbase that will actually talk to you is pretty difficult. Finding developers that will listen to users is even more difficult. And Microsoft with its telemetry is one of the…
> Plenty of downvotes, but no productive suggestion of what use-case would be best served with WebRTC ... Worms. Todays web browser are like MS office 15 years ago. A disaster waiting to happen.
> More usefully, I'd ask, "Why the Moon?" They found oil there.
> > On the Gmail page, a pink alert bar appeared at the top, reading, “Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer. Protect yourself now.” > Fascinating that…
> The future of humanity is in your hands. No, the future of humanity is in the hands of less than 1% of its members who are only interested in more money and power.
> Now is the time to aggressively pursue reforestation, especially in the tropics. Now it's already too late. And anyway, the only thing that is aggressively pursued in the tropics is war which has a catastrofic effect…
> I hope you are joking and I am failing to pick up on it. Because such cases can be made for many human interest stories. Unless the boy was driving a self driving car I really don't see the significance to HN. Well,…
> > Electron > Oh God please no. I don't need or want every application wrapped in a browser engine. Why not ? Dont't you like those funny little creatures called worms ? Remember Visual Basic ?
> UWP is the future of Windows APIs, Win32 is mostly frozen since WIndows XP. Frozen is usually a good thing. > Microsoft is just making UWP similar to what Google is making with AndroidX, detaching the technology from…
> Is not WinUI the extraction of the UI part of the UWP stack? Yes namespaces break, but concepts and controls are from the same linage. UWP is more than the UI. It has also sandboxing and deployment. The UWP has…
> This basically fixes all of them by building a common umbrella that all existing UI toolkits (UWP, WPF, WinForms, Win32) can use. So intead of a screwdriver, a wrench or a hex key you have now a hammer.
> It's such a shame this is a UI toolkit. There, i fixed it for you. Seriuosly even a 3 year old would have had a better idea for a toolkit.
That's because they dont know how to use the telemetry from calc yet. Wait, they just sold it to an advertising company.
> I wonder if it is illegal under GDPR to include spying apps on phones without telling the user. It is illegal but it is not enforced.
> It's anonymized in the sense that you don't know who it will be sold to and what they will do with it. So "It's anonymized" but It's not anonymized. > In all seriousness, this is a point GDPR struggles with. It's…
> I wonder how many devices already do this. All Android phones. But they send the data to google and facebook so they must be good.
No.
> To equate "politics" with lying, stealing, and corruption is the sort of cynicism that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Politics _is_ lying, stealing and corruption. > This article is fundamentally based on the…
So instead of lots of malware you just stick to one.
> I would still prefer to have to trust just one authority for my platform than a multitude of random developers. Single point of failure. > > Let this be another nail in the coffin of the "walled garden" farce. > There…
> Chrome can always be replaced just like Internet Explorer was. Is not even the default on most platforms. Firefox is more or less Chrome. Edge same. Vivaldi is also Chrome. > Safari on the other hand... You're not…
> Google spying on people and selling their data is worse from my point of view than anything MS did. Also, Apple has a far greater lock down on their products than MS ever dreamed of. But it is no (so much) worse than…
> However, at least in Win 98 SE, PostScript drivers finally worked… sort of… > Fun fact: Up to NS4 / IE4, you couldn't print a JavaScript generated HTML output, which was a major restriction in the days, when "the…
> I like like the bottle neck in the future will be Harddrive/SSD file read/write speeds. No. It will be your ISP > Honestly, I'd love to have my hands on a terabyte drive with 1TBps speeds. You need also a fast…
This is also the killer feature for me. You can "scan" a filesystem in a couple of minutes.
> Finding representative portions of your userbase that will actually talk to you is pretty difficult. Finding developers that will listen to users is even more difficult. And Microsoft with its telemetry is one of the…
> Plenty of downvotes, but no productive suggestion of what use-case would be best served with WebRTC ... Worms. Todays web browser are like MS office 15 years ago. A disaster waiting to happen.
> More usefully, I'd ask, "Why the Moon?" They found oil there.
> > On the Gmail page, a pink alert bar appeared at the top, reading, “Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer. Protect yourself now.” > Fascinating that…
> The future of humanity is in your hands. No, the future of humanity is in the hands of less than 1% of its members who are only interested in more money and power.
> Now is the time to aggressively pursue reforestation, especially in the tropics. Now it's already too late. And anyway, the only thing that is aggressively pursued in the tropics is war which has a catastrofic effect…
> I hope you are joking and I am failing to pick up on it. Because such cases can be made for many human interest stories. Unless the boy was driving a self driving car I really don't see the significance to HN. Well,…
> > Electron > Oh God please no. I don't need or want every application wrapped in a browser engine. Why not ? Dont't you like those funny little creatures called worms ? Remember Visual Basic ?
> UWP is the future of Windows APIs, Win32 is mostly frozen since WIndows XP. Frozen is usually a good thing. > Microsoft is just making UWP similar to what Google is making with AndroidX, detaching the technology from…
> Is not WinUI the extraction of the UI part of the UWP stack? Yes namespaces break, but concepts and controls are from the same linage. UWP is more than the UI. It has also sandboxing and deployment. The UWP has…
> This basically fixes all of them by building a common umbrella that all existing UI toolkits (UWP, WPF, WinForms, Win32) can use. So intead of a screwdriver, a wrench or a hex key you have now a hammer.
> It's such a shame this is a UI toolkit. There, i fixed it for you. Seriuosly even a 3 year old would have had a better idea for a toolkit.
That's because they dont know how to use the telemetry from calc yet. Wait, they just sold it to an advertising company.
> I wonder if it is illegal under GDPR to include spying apps on phones without telling the user. It is illegal but it is not enforced.
> It's anonymized in the sense that you don't know who it will be sold to and what they will do with it. So "It's anonymized" but It's not anonymized. > In all seriousness, this is a point GDPR struggles with. It's…
> I wonder how many devices already do this. All Android phones. But they send the data to google and facebook so they must be good.
No.
> To equate "politics" with lying, stealing, and corruption is the sort of cynicism that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Politics _is_ lying, stealing and corruption. > This article is fundamentally based on the…
So instead of lots of malware you just stick to one.
> I would still prefer to have to trust just one authority for my platform than a multitude of random developers. Single point of failure. > > Let this be another nail in the coffin of the "walled garden" farce. > There…
> Chrome can always be replaced just like Internet Explorer was. Is not even the default on most platforms. Firefox is more or less Chrome. Edge same. Vivaldi is also Chrome. > Safari on the other hand... You're not…
> Google spying on people and selling their data is worse from my point of view than anything MS did. Also, Apple has a far greater lock down on their products than MS ever dreamed of. But it is no (so much) worse than…
> However, at least in Win 98 SE, PostScript drivers finally worked… sort of… > Fun fact: Up to NS4 / IE4, you couldn't print a JavaScript generated HTML output, which was a major restriction in the days, when "the…