This type of stuff reminds me of Terminal Emulator Apps who added GUI Buttons, and form like input boxes, to Make your old Console Terminal Based application look more like a PC App. The features are just to make sure people don't migrate off the old legacy system, and stop buying licenses for the Terminal Emulator. This is just screaming, Mobile makers don't make Windows irrelevant, we will give you this fancy tool so you don't go off Windows.
Telephone companies have the ability to track every call as to send them the phone bill. But they cannot block calls with fake caller IDs?
Either the Telephone companies just don't care their services are being actively used to scam people with a difficult to track back to them and lock them up and/or their infrastructure is grossly out of date.
There are choices, Linux for business and Apple for home use. (They can be swapped too)
But more to the issue, Microsoft is competing against itself. Having to convince people to get off their old versions and use the new versions, before the old versions get too old, and allowing the customers to look at other options, because either way it would be a hard upgrade.
It is often like when Apple shows its iPhone sales. The people who stitch from Android to iOS or iOS to Android is more or less a wash. But apples success in a product are how many people upgrade their old phones to the new ones, and net new phone buyers.
Now if Microsoft sees people not upgrading to Windows 10 and staying on Windows 7 or older. Then they may be having a problem with the product. Like they had with Windows Even Version. Where people didn't upgrade and stayed on the old version, forcing MS to put more effort into the next version to make it better and less on new shiny features.
There are a lot of problems in play. But on the politics side, the two party system is taring the country apart. The Left is getting more liberal pushing towards a socialized government that most Americans do not want, and are afraid of. The Right is getting more conservative pushing towards an evangelical christian state. When either side gets in power they putting increasing effort into punishing the minority, which in turns makes the minority side even more likely to unify towards their leaning, so they are more unified to fight back against the oppression that the other-side is giving to them.
The thing is the lying politician of old, couldn't keep their promises, because they knew they had to make a compromise to meet the greater good. Today we not compromising, each side is seeing the other as pure evil, so they are doing everything they can to stop each other, without seeing that both sides have benefits that need to be encouraged, and a negative aspect that should be reduced.
Too much public funds isn't self sustaining, it is just as having venture capitalist putting money into a startup. It gives you the money to get going, but you will need to pay the piper after a while. Also government funds are not unlimited and not without consequences. Also like any country, if you take government funds, you will need to play by the government rules, and have extra rules tied to that money, which often makes growth more difficult.
1. How many of them stay in the US, and use their education and skills to support the United States? 2. Are you implying that the US cannot design competitive or superior products by itself, so we need to actively undercut other nations so we stay on top? 3. What make you think that Chinese cannot get quality education in China or other countries as well? 4. If we cannot be competitive with American Engineers trained in America, why would you assume there is any value to China to send students to learn our engineering, if our stuff is such a failure?
It seems that Modern Nationalism is an odd mix of American Exceptionalism mixed with a feeling on inadequacy of what they can do.
The world had recovered from WWII... America was the only player in town, for about 50 years. And now others are joining in, America was found that it wasn't practicing to improve itself (aged infrastructure and outdated policies and procedures...) Policies to try to stop innovation in other countries is going to be a net loss to the world. US will need to invest into making itself modern.
Modern Human Space travel is almost always considered an unnecessary risk. With current technology the main reason for sending humans, is mostly for the marketing benefit, of letting us know that we can leave the planet if needed.
That said I do support man space flight. To the Moon and Mars.Knowing that it is a high risk activity. But I see it important for our survival is to expand to new areas.
The argument for unnecessary risk could be applied to the European explorers who were trying to find different routes to the "Far East" to trade with them, without paying Italy for being the Middle Man.
Why shouldn't we be jealous. Who wouldn't want to be the leader of Mars? Global Warming would be a good thing! Labor dependent on your resources, they cannot quit, or afford to be unproductive. causing 0% unemployment, and 0% homelessness. History will mark you as the first leader of Mars. if Earth gets destroyed then you become the leader of the human species.
Security and Convince have always been at odds. Now new security tech does help make some things a bit more convent while keeping a reasonable (not superior) degree of security. Such as biometrics like finger print reading and face recognition allow you to keep devices secure enough against the casual bad actor ( the majority of them ). As well with the advancements in encryption allows a lot of extra security to go on without much user interaction. But still it isn't faster and easier to use these system with all the security turned off. Now one of the big issues that I see today are two groups of thought. One group who doesn't pay attention to security at all: Either they don't understand or don't care of the impact to everyone else about the security of their devices and products. Normally their reasoning is why would anyone would want to hack me, or hack such a device. Not realizing any hack gets you a bit further into a network which could open the door for further intrusions. The second group who thinks there stuff is more valuable for what it actually is: Here too much resources are put into fixing the issue. Too much productivity is loss and time spent protecting data that isn't worth the expense. This makes the data so difficult to get that it isn't worth keeping. And often with this group they will look at the millions of dollars they put into security and often forget a tiny hole which still doesn't make them fully safe.
The problem with the internet isn't that they are more bad people then before, but the bad people can hit more targets at once for less effort. A burger in the 1980's may be able to break in to a couple of houses a night, at great risk, perhaps getting enough goods to support him for a week or month. Today on the internet you can try to break into millions of computers a day (And normally make the same amount of money) with less chance of getting caught, or getting attack by a dog, or an armed neighbor.
Security tech makes it worse, but only because the bad guys are being more insidious.
I never had a phone that fell apart after a year. The phone I hated the most was a Motorola flip phone back in 2002 where the connector to the power charger just got corroded and didn’t work after 2 years.
Well you don’t show the trend of being a loyal customer. If you are are willing to drop a $1k phone in under 6 months. Ok I can get the iPhone X may not be for you. But normal people will stick with it for a while to at least get its money worth. If the iPhone X was your first iPhone you probably should had done more research on the trade offs going to Apple.
I think the marketing people were like. “Cool looking stock photo!” Normally for HTC there isn’t the rabid fans who will interpret every pixel in an add to find deep meaning.
People make vanity purchases all the time. That fancy Car costing over $50k will last and work just as well as a $25k car. You may be getting some extra luxuries that will cost the car manufacture a couple of thousands of dollars. But you are really paying for the vanity of saying you have that type of car.
Or people paying extra money on clothing with a logo on it.
Apple caters to the vanity purchase.
Is it the most optimal use of your money? No. However it may be worth it if it makes you feel better.
Before the Free to Play games were around (mostly due to lack of bandwidth to download such add in's and servers reliable enough to handle the load) These games would normally cost $10.00 for a bargain bin cheapo game. $50/$60 for a decent game to around $100 for the big Ultra Mega Epic Game (opposed to the company Epic Mega Games) .
These Free to Play games are akin to Shareware of the 1980s and 1990's Where you get to use the program get hooked on it, and decide to pay more for more content. Except for paying for the Whole program, you now buy parts, So Free to Play, $10 for some features... $100 for the Epic Experience.
Like all things environmental. What are the alternatives? Wood, Bricks, Stone... What are the Pros vs Cons of these alternatives? Renewable, Deforestation, difficult to ship, difficult to work with, limitation on what can be made... Can a hybrid approach be done? Are we using more Concrete then we need? Do we really expect this building to span the Melania?
Where I live there is an abandoned factory made from Concrete, it is an eye sore in the city. However it is nearly indestructible, and will cost too much to knock down.
It could, the geometric shape can be abstracted into other things. Such as time, and process, I could see this being used to help optimize a parallel programming process where a particular code takes so long to run, but to avoid collisions the different elements in time, will need to hit different process points at different time, then you need to span it up, so how many unique process points will you need. Say with a massively parallel system, such as an advanced quantum computer.
No Microsoft beat Apple to it. Windows XP as Marketed as Windows eXPerience. Having used XP I have yet learned to fly. I guess I was using Windows XP wrong, or without having to take some Drugs. Because I never really got any sort of eXPerience with Windows XP. It was painful at first, then it once it got fixed it got boring. But I am still happy they got rid rid of the Phisher Price theme.
Granted it is second nature to me too. It isn't obvious. especially as Alt-PrtScn doesn't give you any user feedback that something happened. On iOS when you do a screen capture, the screen will blink white like there was a picture taken and the newer version would show the image in a thumbnail going to your photos.
But the general rule of thumb is if the directions have more than 3 "then"s in it then it isn't an easy process. Your process had 5 steps.
But you can draw on it like a pen! I mean not useful features such as censoring out information you don't want to share. Like Recognizing text box elements, and being able to flood fill them. Or being able to fade most other elements out so the information you want to show is more prevalent.
Lets be real here. For fun stuff people are using their phones and tablets. People who are using Windows and Linux (not the Android version) are mostly using it for work stuff. There should be more features targeted towards more professional usage of the OS's Not silly pen drawings, but features to pinpoint data that needs to be shown, or hide data that needs to be censored. We need Workstation features, the Desktop PC is dead, The Workstation PC is the future of the technology.
For our home stuff and enjoyment where people use to use a PC for has been moved to tablets and phones. Windows needs to stop trying to be cool, it needs to get a hair cut and get a real job.
Why do you always assume these diversity rules are just checkboxes to pick up unqualified people. Often companies have setup artificial barriers to prevent diversity, despite qualifications.
Encouraging new ideas, life experience and point of views into a project. Dag-Nabbit I want to be oblivious to my personal flaws and failure to see there may be a better idea in waiting.
Working in a diverse group myself, I see diversity as actually a strong benefit to my work. It keeps me honest with myself, helps me make better products and consider problems in a more in-depth way. While there is often a bit more conflict then working on a team of Same minded individuals, but we all make the same mistakes at the same time.
Except Trumps rhetoric has accelerated it. The companies may had tried to move it out of the US. But for the most part people around the world wanted to Visit the Mighty United States, not the Luigi Second Player country Canada. So these companies stayed in the US. Trump with his anti-forger rhetoric has made the United States seem unwelcoming to these foreign visitors. Even if there isn't any additional policy, the rhetoric and tweeting from the guy in charge, make the United States unwelcoming.
Now Trump was technically elected by the populous so this means there are a lot of citizens with this belief, which will not help people make the decision to go to and invest in the US or not.
Is it 100% Trumps fault... No, but he is a reflection of America and its values on the whole. A lot of this stuff happened during Obama and Bush. Partially due to 9/11 fear, Middle eastern Wars, followed up by the Great Recession. So with 9/11 we have an enemy and we "know" how they look like. Then when the recession hit everyone is fighting for work, so having additional competition isn't welcomed. The Recovery of the Recession (which I will blame on Obama) wasn't very spread out, they were clear winners and looser, So while the economy was gowing there was a population who couldn't be lifted off their butts, mainly due to policies that do not understand that demographic. Who has been suffering for much longer are more apt to stay angry and lash out with additional stupid.
No that isn't helpful, or really the correct answer, that is just being a jerk.
The correct answer would be. This topic was covered before, have you checked [link] which was a similar question.
Because a lot of times, the question asked in the other parts had one little issue that didn't make it an acceptable solution to them. Say without using an external library.
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This type of stuff reminds me of Terminal Emulator Apps who added GUI Buttons, and form like input boxes, to Make your old Console Terminal Based application look more like a PC App. The features are just to make sure people don't migrate off the old legacy system, and stop buying licenses for the Terminal Emulator. This is just screaming, Mobile makers don't make Windows irrelevant, we will give you this fancy tool so you don't go off Windows.
Telephone companies have the ability to track every call as to send them the phone bill. But they cannot block calls with fake caller IDs?
Either the Telephone companies just don't care their services are being actively used to scam people with a difficult to track back to them and lock them up and/or their infrastructure is grossly out of date.
There are choices, Linux for business and Apple for home use. (They can be swapped too)
But more to the issue, Microsoft is competing against itself. Having to convince people to get off their old versions and use the new versions, before the old versions get too old, and allowing the customers to look at other options, because either way it would be a hard upgrade.
It is often like when Apple shows its iPhone sales. The people who stitch from Android to iOS or iOS to Android is more or less a wash. But apples success in a product are how many people upgrade their old phones to the new ones, and net new phone buyers.
Now if Microsoft sees people not upgrading to Windows 10 and staying on Windows 7 or older. Then they may be having a problem with the product. Like they had with Windows Even Version. Where people didn't upgrade and stayed on the old version, forcing MS to put more effort into the next version to make it better and less on new shiny features.
There are a lot of problems in play. But on the politics side, the two party system is taring the country apart. The Left is getting more liberal pushing towards a socialized government that most Americans do not want, and are afraid of. The Right is getting more conservative pushing towards an evangelical christian state. When either side gets in power they putting increasing effort into punishing the minority, which in turns makes the minority side even more likely to unify towards their leaning, so they are more unified to fight back against the oppression that the other-side is giving to them.
The thing is the lying politician of old, couldn't keep their promises, because they knew they had to make a compromise to meet the greater good. Today we not compromising, each side is seeing the other as pure evil, so they are doing everything they can to stop each other, without seeing that both sides have benefits that need to be encouraged, and a negative aspect that should be reduced.
Too much public funds isn't self sustaining, it is just as having venture capitalist putting money into a startup. It gives you the money to get going, but you will need to pay the piper after a while. Also government funds are not unlimited and not without consequences. Also like any country, if you take government funds, you will need to play by the government rules, and have extra rules tied to that money, which often makes growth more difficult.
1. How many of them stay in the US, and use their education and skills to support the United States?
2. Are you implying that the US cannot design competitive or superior products by itself, so we need to actively undercut other nations so we stay on top?
3. What make you think that Chinese cannot get quality education in China or other countries as well?
4. If we cannot be competitive with American Engineers trained in America, why would you assume there is any value to China to send students to learn our engineering, if our stuff is such a failure?
It seems that Modern Nationalism is an odd mix of American Exceptionalism mixed with a feeling on inadequacy of what they can do.
The world had recovered from WWII... America was the only player in town, for about 50 years. And now others are joining in, America was found that it wasn't practicing to improve itself (aged infrastructure and outdated policies and procedures...) Policies to try to stop innovation in other countries is going to be a net loss to the world. US will need to invest into making itself modern.
Modern Human Space travel is almost always considered an unnecessary risk. With current technology the main reason for sending humans, is mostly for the marketing benefit, of letting us know that we can leave the planet if needed.
That said I do support man space flight. To the Moon and Mars.Knowing that it is a high risk activity. But I see it important for our survival is to expand to new areas.
The argument for unnecessary risk could be applied to the European explorers who were trying to find different routes to the "Far East" to trade with them, without paying Italy for being the Middle Man.
Why shouldn't we be jealous. Who wouldn't want to be the leader of Mars?
Global Warming would be a good thing!
Labor dependent on your resources, they cannot quit, or afford to be unproductive.
causing 0% unemployment, and 0% homelessness.
History will mark you as the first leader of Mars.
if Earth gets destroyed then you become the leader of the human species.
Security and Convince have always been at odds.
Now new security tech does help make some things a bit more convent while keeping a reasonable (not superior) degree of security.
Such as biometrics like finger print reading and face recognition allow you to keep devices secure enough against the casual bad actor ( the majority of them ). As well with the advancements in encryption allows a lot of extra security to go on without much user interaction. But still it isn't faster and easier to use these system with all the security turned off.
Now one of the big issues that I see today are two groups of thought.
One group who doesn't pay attention to security at all: Either they don't understand or don't care of the impact to everyone else about the security of their devices and products. Normally their reasoning is why would anyone would want to hack me, or hack such a device. Not realizing any hack gets you a bit further into a network which could open the door for further intrusions.
The second group who thinks there stuff is more valuable for what it actually is: Here too much resources are put into fixing the issue. Too much productivity is loss and time spent protecting data that isn't worth the expense. This makes the data so difficult to get that it isn't worth keeping. And often with this group they will look at the millions of dollars they put into security and often forget a tiny hole which still doesn't make them fully safe.
The problem with the internet isn't that they are more bad people then before, but the bad people can hit more targets at once for less effort. A burger in the 1980's may be able to break in to a couple of houses a night, at great risk, perhaps getting enough goods to support him for a week or month. Today on the internet you can try to break into millions of computers a day (And normally make the same amount of money) with less chance of getting caught, or getting attack by a dog, or an armed neighbor.
Security tech makes it worse, but only because the bad guys are being more insidious.
I think that are saying. We liked the look of this stock image.
I never had a phone that fell apart after a year.
The phone I hated the most was a Motorola flip phone back in 2002 where the connector to the power charger just got corroded and didn’t work after 2 years.
Well you don’t show the trend of being a loyal customer. If you are are willing to drop a $1k phone in under 6 months. Ok I can get the iPhone X may not be for you. But normal people will stick with it for a while to at least get its money worth.
If the iPhone X was your first iPhone you probably should had done more research on the trade offs going to Apple.
I think the marketing people were like. “Cool looking stock photo!”
Normally for HTC there isn’t the rabid fans who will interpret every pixel in an add to find deep meaning.
People make vanity purchases all the time.
That fancy Car costing over $50k will last and work just as well as a $25k car. You may be getting some extra luxuries that will cost the car manufacture a couple of thousands of dollars. But you are really paying for the vanity of saying you have that type of car.
Or people paying extra money on clothing with a logo on it.
Apple caters to the vanity purchase.
Is it the most optimal use of your money? No.
However it may be worth it if it makes you feel better.
Before the Free to Play games were around (mostly due to lack of bandwidth to download such add in's and servers reliable enough to handle the load) These games would normally cost $10.00 for a bargain bin cheapo game. $50/$60 for a decent game to around $100 for the big Ultra Mega Epic Game (opposed to the company Epic Mega Games) .
These Free to Play games are akin to Shareware of the 1980s and 1990's Where you get to use the program get hooked on it, and decide to pay more for more content. Except for paying for the Whole program, you now buy parts, So Free to Play, $10 for some features... $100 for the Epic Experience.
Like all things environmental.
What are the alternatives? Wood, Bricks, Stone...
What are the Pros vs Cons of these alternatives? Renewable, Deforestation, difficult to ship, difficult to work with, limitation on what can be made...
Can a hybrid approach be done? Are we using more Concrete then we need? Do we really expect this building to span the Melania?
Where I live there is an abandoned factory made from Concrete, it is an eye sore in the city. However it is nearly indestructible, and will cost too much to knock down.
It could, the geometric shape can be abstracted into other things. Such as time, and process, I could see this being used to help optimize a parallel programming process where a particular code takes so long to run, but to avoid collisions the different elements in time, will need to hit different process points at different time, then you need to span it up, so how many unique process points will you need. Say with a massively parallel system, such as an advanced quantum computer.
No Microsoft beat Apple to it. Windows XP as Marketed as Windows eXPerience. Having used XP I have yet learned to fly. I guess I was using Windows XP wrong, or without having to take some Drugs. Because I never really got any sort of eXPerience with Windows XP. It was painful at first, then it once it got fixed it got boring. But I am still happy they got rid rid of the Phisher Price theme.
Granted it is second nature to me too. It isn't obvious. especially as Alt-PrtScn doesn't give you any user feedback that something happened. On iOS when you do a screen capture, the screen will blink white like there was a picture taken and the newer version would show the image in a thumbnail going to your photos.
But the general rule of thumb is if the directions have more than 3 "then"s in it then it isn't an easy process. Your process had 5 steps.
I normally use Alt-PrtScr for most of my screen captures, because I normally just want to get the active window I am working on.
But you can draw on it like a pen!
I mean not useful features such as censoring out information you don't want to share. Like Recognizing text box elements, and being able to flood fill them.
Or being able to fade most other elements out so the information you want to show is more prevalent.
Lets be real here. For fun stuff people are using their phones and tablets. People who are using Windows and Linux (not the Android version) are mostly using it for work stuff. There should be more features targeted towards more professional usage of the OS's Not silly pen drawings, but features to pinpoint data that needs to be shown, or hide data that needs to be censored. We need Workstation features, the Desktop PC is dead, The Workstation PC is the future of the technology.
For our home stuff and enjoyment where people use to use a PC for has been moved to tablets and phones. Windows needs to stop trying to be cool, it needs to get a hair cut and get a real job.
Why do you always assume these diversity rules are just checkboxes to pick up unqualified people.
Often companies have setup artificial barriers to prevent diversity, despite qualifications.
Encouraging new ideas, life experience and point of views into a project. Dag-Nabbit I want to be oblivious to my personal flaws and failure to see there may be a better idea in waiting.
Working in a diverse group myself, I see diversity as actually a strong benefit to my work. It keeps me honest with myself, helps me make better products and consider problems in a more in-depth way. While there is often a bit more conflict then working on a team of Same minded individuals, but we all make the same mistakes at the same time.
Except Trumps rhetoric has accelerated it. The companies may had tried to move it out of the US. But for the most part people around the world wanted to Visit the Mighty United States, not the Luigi Second Player country Canada. So these companies stayed in the US. Trump with his anti-forger rhetoric has made the United States seem unwelcoming to these foreign visitors. Even if there isn't any additional policy, the rhetoric and tweeting from the guy in charge, make the United States unwelcoming.
Now Trump was technically elected by the populous so this means there are a lot of citizens with this belief, which will not help people make the decision to go to and invest in the US or not.
Is it 100% Trumps fault... No, but he is a reflection of America and its values on the whole. A lot of this stuff happened during Obama and Bush. Partially due to 9/11 fear, Middle eastern Wars, followed up by the Great Recession. So with 9/11 we have an enemy and we "know" how they look like. Then when the recession hit everyone is fighting for work, so having additional competition isn't welcomed.
The Recovery of the Recession (which I will blame on Obama) wasn't very spread out, they were clear winners and looser, So while the economy was gowing there was a population who couldn't be lifted off their butts, mainly due to policies that do not understand that demographic. Who has been suffering for much longer are more apt to stay angry and lash out with additional stupid.
No that isn't helpful, or really the correct answer, that is just being a jerk.
The correct answer would be. This topic was covered before, have you checked [link] which was a similar question.
Because a lot of times, the question asked in the other parts had one little issue that didn't make it an acceptable solution to them. Say without using an external library.