Ooooh... well my whole sense of self worth has been decimated. Well done! You are the supreme intellectual of the universe. We should all aspire to your epic greatness! Oh benevolent great one, please bestow upon us lowly people a nugget of your wisdom.
What kind of UI? The kind where designers watch users having problems with some parts of the design, and fix those parts based on empiric evidence?
Like I said, UI designers wouldn't even know what HCI stands for. Here's some reading for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The principles of HCI not only apply to software UI's but hardware UI's as well. In fact, it started with hardware UI's. Why do you suppose it occurred to software UI developers to create "buttons" that look depressed when you click or have a click event at all? Take a look at your remote control to your TV and see if you can figure it out. By the way, I went to a major school where HCI research is still being done.
Microsoft’s description lists the feature as a mode to let a PC make gaming the “top priority to improve your game’s quality.”
So basically Microsoft is taking the following Windows API call that's been around forever and marketing it as a new feature: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
Brilliant Microsoft marketing, just absolutely brilliant...
It's not people who refuse so much as who can't; and that doesn't mean automation will wipe all jobs away, either, regardless of what the doomsday predictors who fear the pneumatic air gun and wooden shipping pallet say.
It doesn't sound like you're familiar with the work of Joseph Schumpeter. Creative Destruction is a real economic phenomenon. All you have to do is look at the history of the ice industry. You'll also notice that there are no seamstresses with wooden looms anymore either. Creative destruction is expected. In fact, one of the core principles behind real Capitalism is to encourage technological innovation. The purpose of technological innovation is to improve the quality of life of human beings. That's exactly what this automation is.
One of the main reasons there is a raging debate about this in terms of what happens to jobs is because some people can't stomach the idea of us having innovative technology to the point that it doesn't require every citizen to participate in the labor force. This goes all the way back the puritans that originally settled in the United States. I'm referring to people like the Mennonites. One of their beliefs is that your labor counts for something in the afterlife so take away the labor and the whole belief system unravels. There really isn't any value in doing worthless labor for the sake of labor. What would a world look like where there is little or no resource scarcity and there is a limited need for labor. That's a pretty great world I think! It's the one the science fiction idealists of the 50's imagined. Why some people don't ever want to get here is beyond me.
There are some people that think that it's noble to dig a ditch with a spoon when a free back hoe is available. There is nothing noble about that. It's pure stupidity. We have better uses for our time and energy.
What is the unemployment threshold going to be?
When unemployment caused by automation, robotics, etc reaches 10%?
15%...
20%..?
In the coming decades more and more people worldwide will become unemployable, and they will have nothing to do or any way to make a living?
How are governments and communities going to respond?
An economic system based on there never being enough people to do the labor will have to be fundamentally changed because we will have a labor shortage. The question is what changes will that involve? When this happens, requiring people who have no access to labor to pay taxes or procure goods in exchange for currency that can only be gained by exchanging labor will not make any sense.
If so, UI designers must have very poor reading comprehension because Alan Cooper would never advocate the type of UI in question. In that case, book recommendations probably don't matter if UI designers just all think they know better and probably don't even know what HCI stands for.
With these awful flat UIs, it becomes much more difficult to determine how to interact with them. It's unclear what's a button, and what's a label, and what's an icon, and what happens if you click/press in a given area of the screen. That was the whole point of using borders and effects to try to give a three-dimensional appearance to UI elements: it makes it more obvious what they do and how they should be used.
If only UI designers could be bothered to read the books that have covered this topic for years:
This is a pretty common requirement in the western world. The US is the only western country I'm aware of in which there's not a law against advertising an item as on sale when it's never actually been sold at a higher price.
My personal favorite are the stores always running the 50% off sale. 50% off the MSRP which is what the store would actually sell the price at regularly. That's the United States for you. If we're the world leaders of anything, it's unethical sales and marketing.
These findings are not surprising because alcohol causes dehydration and dehydration is often confused with hunger. A lot of people who are chronically dehydrated aren't even aware of it and confuse it with hunger and thus try to resolve by eating when what they really need is a glass of water.
I don't know if that's what they're referring to. Grand Central Dispatch sounds similar to C#'s ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem() or the await task language features in newer versions of the.NET runtime. It's just a way to basically create some unit of work that conforms to a particular interface that can be queued up and then the language run-time can determine how to create threads, processes, etc. in whatever manner is deems best to execute those pieces of work.
This is not a "silent upgrade". You can claim the pop up verbiage was changed in a shady way such that some uneducated users might not realize they had to click the X to avoid signalling to Microsoft that they wanted to install later and I would agree with that statement. That's not a "silent upgrade". "silent upgrade" means installed in the background with no warning whatsoever without the user's consent. The user in that article gave consent unknowingly. That's a completely different issue. My comment that "silent upgrade" is hyperbole still stands. This also explains why I never had a problem because I'm aware of these tactics and read carefully. If you've been reading this site long enough you already know not to blindly trust Microsoft.
You have to make the correct claim, otherwise you're accusing another party of something it really didn't do. It doesn't mean what they did wasn't wrong, but you have to accuse them of what they actually did.
The user data is available for _much_ cheaper than that.
Most likely you're an introvert. You see, extrovert sales and business people, their brains don't work that way. This is the "sell me this pen" scenario.
According to the regulatory filing, the changes will take place after the sale of its core business is completed with Verizon for roughly $4.8 billion.
I'm genuinely surprised it's worth that much.
Where do I sign up for that job? Go to work, collect a hefty paycheck, be completely incompetent and unaccountable then get a wind fall at the end. PROFIT!
AMD can actually connect SSDs directly to a GPU. So you can have your 32GB of HBM2 memory with ridiculous bandwidth, and a multi-TB SSD on the other side of the board
That's a neat idea. It's like you turn a PCI-E SSD into a modern day Voodoo 2 card
Someone check me on my logic here. The way I read this article is that AMD has created a new architecture with a memory controller that can address 512TB of memory address space. That's great and all but are we going to see cards any time in the near future with 512TB of GDDR on them? Not likely. How many years away are we? Who knows. It seems to me this is highly theoretical and possibly to put pressure on the memory industry to innovate on even more dense memory to push graphics even farther to the limit. It could also be to get some investor interest in the next "big thing".
Side question: How did AMD validate that their architecture works without actually being able to fabricate an actual board in practice, simulation?
Rocked in what sense? Mastering the art of charlatanism?
Bingo! Trump, Clinton and Sanders, the millennials are still falling for that crap! Global Warming, Affordable Healthcare Act, Russian Hackers, need I go on.
Um you need to check your facts here. Bernie Sanders is in Silent generation. Trump is BARELY in the Boomer generation. The silent generation went through 1945, Trump was born in 1946. Hillary is also barely in the Boomer generation but moreso than Trump being born in 1947.
Better examples would be Jamie Dimon, John Stumpf, Jordan Belfort, Jeff Bezos, Steve Ballmer etc. Those are the kind of droids you're looking for.
You say that but Halo Master Chief had a 20gb patch day-1, sadly patches in the gigabytes have become the norm.
That's because we have idiots managing software projects with unreasonable expectations. Therefore, we compromise by releasing stuff that isn't done and patch it up until it is actually done because you know being able to say "it was released" is more important than if the software actually works or damages the reputation of the software vendor.
Rocked in what sense? Mastering the art of charlatanism? The majority of Boomers were not very well educated because their journey of self growth and exploration so much more important maaaan to the point that they ditched formal education. When it became apparent to you that was not a sustainable way to live in a socio-economic system, you realized you actually needed to get a decent job but didn't have skills nor the means to pay for education. You didn't want to lower your standards to the bottom rung of the labor force because you were so far above everyone else, so what did you do? You used your remarkable influence skills and social engineering to convince many people that your grand wisdom was necessary in the form of consultative services but all you were really doing was conjuring a job for your own self interest to support yourself out of thin air. What a DRAG on society man. And you have the audacity to curse every generation that came after you claiming they are doing this to a far greater extent than you did. Tsk tsk. Hello pot, meet kettle.
It is an organization we fear, rather than one we trust (such as to hunt the scammers down). And they had this image problem for so long now, one can begin suspecting, it is not just a perception...
You're veering off-topic but if you do a relatively small amount of research into the topic including Gallup polls, you find that social trust in the United States has plummeted for many years and the latest generation, the Millennials, have the lowest social trust. It's been gradually declining: Silent > Boomers > Gen X > Millenials. If you really care about this issue do your research because it's going to take a monumental effort to change the course of our culture. We're essentially devolving back into a more tribal society.
Why is it that you can call Sony and they can tell you similar steps to get into safe mode on your PS3/PS4 and do the equivalent and their front line customer support is educated enough to help you with this but LG not so much?
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Ooooh... well my whole sense of self worth has been decimated. Well done! You are the supreme intellectual of the universe. We should all aspire to your epic greatness! Oh benevolent great one, please bestow upon us lowly people a nugget of your wisdom.
What kind of UI? The kind where designers watch users having problems with some parts of the design, and fix those parts based on empiric evidence?
Like I said, UI designers wouldn't even know what HCI stands for. Here's some reading for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The principles of HCI not only apply to software UI's but hardware UI's as well. In fact, it started with hardware UI's. Why do you suppose it occurred to software UI developers to create "buttons" that look depressed when you click or have a click event at all? Take a look at your remote control to your TV and see if you can figure it out. By the way, I went to a major school where HCI research is still being done.
I was mocking his mispelling of voila but whatever floats your boat.
Stupid + stupid = ? You do the math.
Microsoft’s description lists the feature as a mode to let a PC make gaming the “top priority to improve your game’s quality.”
So basically Microsoft is taking the following Windows API call that's been around forever and marketing it as a new feature: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
Brilliant Microsoft marketing, just absolutely brilliant...
Or, maybe we could all just work fewer hours per week. Which would leave more time for, you know, living.
Bingo. That was the prediction of the 50's, it's just happening later than we thought it would: http://time.com/3754781/1965-p...
I think people still make violas
I'm sure there's an enormous demand for that to build a job-creating industry around. Thanks for playing.
It's not people who refuse so much as who can't; and that doesn't mean automation will wipe all jobs away, either, regardless of what the doomsday predictors who fear the pneumatic air gun and wooden shipping pallet say.
It doesn't sound like you're familiar with the work of Joseph Schumpeter. Creative Destruction is a real economic phenomenon. All you have to do is look at the history of the ice industry. You'll also notice that there are no seamstresses with wooden looms anymore either. Creative destruction is expected. In fact, one of the core principles behind real Capitalism is to encourage technological innovation. The purpose of technological innovation is to improve the quality of life of human beings. That's exactly what this automation is.
One of the main reasons there is a raging debate about this in terms of what happens to jobs is because some people can't stomach the idea of us having innovative technology to the point that it doesn't require every citizen to participate in the labor force. This goes all the way back the puritans that originally settled in the United States. I'm referring to people like the Mennonites. One of their beliefs is that your labor counts for something in the afterlife so take away the labor and the whole belief system unravels. There really isn't any value in doing worthless labor for the sake of labor. What would a world look like where there is little or no resource scarcity and there is a limited need for labor. That's a pretty great world I think! It's the one the science fiction idealists of the 50's imagined. Why some people don't ever want to get here is beyond me.
There are some people that think that it's noble to dig a ditch with a spoon when a free back hoe is available. There is nothing noble about that. It's pure stupidity. We have better uses for our time and energy.
What is the unemployment threshold going to be? When unemployment caused by automation, robotics, etc reaches 10%? 15%... 20%..?
In the coming decades more and more people worldwide will become unemployable, and they will have nothing to do or any way to make a living?
How are governments and communities going to respond?
An economic system based on there never being enough people to do the labor will have to be fundamentally changed because we will have a labor shortage. The question is what changes will that involve? When this happens, requiring people who have no access to labor to pay taxes or procure goods in exchange for currency that can only be gained by exchanging labor will not make any sense.
UI designers have already read those
If so, UI designers must have very poor reading comprehension because Alan Cooper would never advocate the type of UI in question. In that case, book recommendations probably don't matter if UI designers just all think they know better and probably don't even know what HCI stands for.
With these awful flat UIs, it becomes much more difficult to determine how to interact with them. It's unclear what's a button, and what's a label, and what's an icon, and what happens if you click/press in a given area of the screen. That was the whole point of using borders and effects to try to give a three-dimensional appearance to UI elements: it makes it more obvious what they do and how they should be used.
If only UI designers could be bothered to read the books that have covered this topic for years:
You're welcome
This is a pretty common requirement in the western world. The US is the only western country I'm aware of in which there's not a law against advertising an item as on sale when it's never actually been sold at a higher price.
My personal favorite are the stores always running the 50% off sale. 50% off the MSRP which is what the store would actually sell the price at regularly. That's the United States for you. If we're the world leaders of anything, it's unethical sales and marketing.
I prefer the Packard Bell Navigator
These findings are not surprising because alcohol causes dehydration and dehydration is often confused with hunger. A lot of people who are chronically dehydrated aren't even aware of it and confuse it with hunger and thus try to resolve by eating when what they really need is a glass of water.
As in Grand Central Dispatch?
I don't know if that's what they're referring to. Grand Central Dispatch sounds similar to C#'s ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem() or the await task language features in newer versions of the .NET runtime. It's just a way to basically create some unit of work that conforms to a particular interface that can be queued up and then the language run-time can determine how to create threads, processes, etc. in whatever manner is deems best to execute those pieces of work.
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
This is not a "silent upgrade". You can claim the pop up verbiage was changed in a shady way such that some uneducated users might not realize they had to click the X to avoid signalling to Microsoft that they wanted to install later and I would agree with that statement. That's not a "silent upgrade". "silent upgrade" means installed in the background with no warning whatsoever without the user's consent. The user in that article gave consent unknowingly. That's a completely different issue. My comment that "silent upgrade" is hyperbole still stands. This also explains why I never had a problem because I'm aware of these tactics and read carefully. If you've been reading this site long enough you already know not to blindly trust Microsoft.
You have to make the correct claim, otherwise you're accusing another party of something it really didn't do. It doesn't mean what they did wasn't wrong, but you have to accuse them of what they actually did.
The user data is available for _much_ cheaper than that.
Most likely you're an introvert. You see, extrovert sales and business people, their brains don't work that way. This is the "sell me this pen" scenario.
According to the regulatory filing, the changes will take place after the sale of its core business is completed with Verizon for roughly $4.8 billion.
I'm genuinely surprised it's worth that much.
Where do I sign up for that job? Go to work, collect a hefty paycheck, be completely incompetent and unaccountable then get a wind fall at the end. PROFIT!
AMD can actually connect SSDs directly to a GPU. So you can have your 32GB of HBM2 memory with ridiculous bandwidth, and a multi-TB SSD on the other side of the board
That's a neat idea. It's like you turn a PCI-E SSD into a modern day Voodoo 2 card
Someone check me on my logic here. The way I read this article is that AMD has created a new architecture with a memory controller that can address 512TB of memory address space. That's great and all but are we going to see cards any time in the near future with 512TB of GDDR on them? Not likely. How many years away are we? Who knows. It seems to me this is highly theoretical and possibly to put pressure on the memory industry to innovate on even more dense memory to push graphics even farther to the limit. It could also be to get some investor interest in the next "big thing".
Side question: How did AMD validate that their architecture works without actually being able to fabricate an actual board in practice, simulation?
Actually a day one patch sounds more like using the publishing window for development. Nothing new there.
Agreed. But just because it's "nothing new" doesn't mean it's any less stupid than it always was.
Rocked in what sense? Mastering the art of charlatanism?
Bingo! Trump, Clinton and Sanders, the millennials are still falling for that crap! Global Warming, Affordable Healthcare Act, Russian Hackers, need I go on.
Um you need to check your facts here. Bernie Sanders is in Silent generation. Trump is BARELY in the Boomer generation. The silent generation went through 1945, Trump was born in 1946. Hillary is also barely in the Boomer generation but moreso than Trump being born in 1947.
Better examples would be Jamie Dimon, John Stumpf, Jordan Belfort, Jeff Bezos, Steve Ballmer etc. Those are the kind of droids you're looking for.
You say that but Halo Master Chief had a 20gb patch day-1, sadly patches in the gigabytes have become the norm.
That's because we have idiots managing software projects with unreasonable expectations. Therefore, we compromise by releasing stuff that isn't done and patch it up until it is actually done because you know being able to say "it was released" is more important than if the software actually works or damages the reputation of the software vendor.
We Boomers rocked,
Rocked in what sense? Mastering the art of charlatanism? The majority of Boomers were not very well educated because their journey of self growth and exploration so much more important maaaan to the point that they ditched formal education. When it became apparent to you that was not a sustainable way to live in a socio-economic system, you realized you actually needed to get a decent job but didn't have skills nor the means to pay for education. You didn't want to lower your standards to the bottom rung of the labor force because you were so far above everyone else, so what did you do? You used your remarkable influence skills and social engineering to convince many people that your grand wisdom was necessary in the form of consultative services but all you were really doing was conjuring a job for your own self interest to support yourself out of thin air. What a DRAG on society man. And you have the audacity to curse every generation that came after you claiming they are doing this to a far greater extent than you did. Tsk tsk. Hello pot, meet kettle.
It is an organization we fear, rather than one we trust (such as to hunt the scammers down). And they had this image problem for so long now, one can begin suspecting, it is not just a perception...
You're veering off-topic but if you do a relatively small amount of research into the topic including Gallup polls, you find that social trust in the United States has plummeted for many years and the latest generation, the Millennials, have the lowest social trust. It's been gradually declining: Silent > Boomers > Gen X > Millenials. If you really care about this issue do your research because it's going to take a monumental effort to change the course of our culture. We're essentially devolving back into a more tribal society.
Why is it that you can call Sony and they can tell you similar steps to get into safe mode on your PS3/PS4 and do the equivalent and their front line customer support is educated enough to help you with this but LG not so much?