Since they are employed by Microsoft, no one will be able to do much with the results for 14 years. Microsoft unable because they are generally inept, and others unable because Microsoft will ask their soul in return for patent license.
And you happen to have a contact for your wife in your phone that says "WIFE" and not just her first name?
I've seen untrained bystanding good samaritans inspecting phones of a unconscious person. They look for last few calls to saved numbers and call most of them. Even if they don't get the spouse of the person, they get someone who knows someone who knows.... the spouse. Not difficult really.
Indian governments are typically more concerned with communications - email / SMS / phone calls. Rather than contents of phone or computers. Indian concerns are a result of low-tech terrorists from Pakistan blowing random shit - Indian agencies still get significant intelligence by tapping SMS and phone calls. Contents of phones don't help Indian security agencies much in this regard currently.
US security agencies are more concerned with content - kiddie porn obsession has a lot to do with it. Different strokes for different folks. Apple's strategy doesn't have the danger you mention, in India, as their calls, SMSes and emails are still subject to simple warrants.
Indian attitude to Blackberry was due mainly to communications rather than content of devices.
ALL the cars need gas hauled by the offroading cars (ALL people need food produced / handled / processed by farm workers).
The radiation is transmitted (!!) by gas. (The bugs are transmitted by food - may not cause a problem with gut but a skin cut during cutting vegetables, or touching one's food with injured body part is not unheard of).
So the 33% doesn't increase to 34% or 35% - but progressively, and potentially 90+% i.e. an unrelated coincidence can expose 90+% people to the bugs in farm workers' noses.
The window preview as you hover over the tasks in the task bar is addictive. Being able to see thumbnails of each application window makes it easier to pick which window to bring forward (another bonus for multi-taskers).
You seem like you know what you are talking about. Can you tell me how to disable this in Windows 7? I have somehow removed the thumbnail of the running application window, but a tooltip still appears even if mouse cursor reaches the toolbar accidentally, refusing to go away for a while, blocking my screen.
So Google employees admit "freely" among themselves, but not "freely" enough to the public. If you are so concerned about "silly", why do you use silly lies like Google "freely admit" it?
In a sane world, it is called NOT AT ALL admitting that users are their product, but internally discussing related things. Surely not "freely" admitting.
but I'm not going to pretend that's not the way it is
But you are going to pretend falsely and deceptively that this industry "freely admit" that users are their product. Got it.
Or you could be idiot enough to not know the difference between something being true and an admission of it being true.
So Google doesn't "freely admit" it but their employees do privately and yet "freely" to you? Yet they are not "free" enough to do so on Google's behalf?
I don't dispute that conclusion, but Google "freely admit" it? With the adverb "freely" of questionable utility and no meaning? I presume if the adverb had a meaning it would have been clarified in first reply.
Google and all other ad-based businesses freely admit the advertisers are their customer and the users their product
Where did Google freely admit that users are their product? While I don't understand the meaning of "freely" here, so I presume it is somewhat related to "explicitly" . Is that on correct lines ?
Without taking any blame off Microsoft, I'd like to argue that while you boast of so many years of embedded development and understanding that GPUs don't do anything without drivers; when you make your argument it still comes off like you don't understand that.
Microsoft CANNOT develop drivers of any respectable GPUs without enormous help from Nvidia or AMD. And they don't even try, in any significant way, other than supporting graphics companies. They could have tested and released lists of supported GPUs if the list were small, like Apple's. It's not so they can't, not without 200 times as much effort as Apple which they are unwilling to invest. Probably they should, but you can't pretend they don't have orders of magnitude more work to do in this area than Apple, precisely because of hardware variety. That much is just for graphics.
Every argument is not about defending at attacking windows UI. This one is against your misconception about GPUs being sentient beings.
So you've still not read, or understood the statement I repeated in my last post. GPU doesn't do anything on its own. It needs a driver. Lacking a driver, you cannot find a GPU, any class, that can draw a single triangle.
Not that YOU didn't quantify, no one really "knows", for stronger definitions of " know ". Plenty of studies? Sure. All addressing different effects of the diet, and all reaching different conclusions.
If you have some special knowledge on this subject, you could have alerted these people (http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/09/02/0314223/low-carb-diet-trumps-low-fat-diet-in-major-new-study), they wouldn't have wasted their time. You might have received a Nobel prize too.
1. It's the user's choice isn't it? Say user uses the browser for some website already, and for him, opening lots of tabs on mobile browsers isn't very convenient. Website wrapping apps while not terribly indispensable, are surely of positive value. Website owner also might find it easier to write, test and guarantee better experience on apps as compared to 10 kinds of mobile browsers, 3 main engines and subtle variations in WebKit engine.
2. In-app purchases are declared upfront. Garbage? User decides, not you.
3. Fair point. This can be generalized to bad search feature in both Apple and Google stores. Inexplicable, horrible, deliberately non-useful search functionality. But being deliberate, apple and google surely see some value in this madness which I fail to see, so I'm not sure it will help them if they improve their search.
OK, that is fine, I'm not sure you read "But as a general statement it is completely not true that a competent GPU is capable of doing something on its own."
So if you didn't talk about GPU drivers, you are missing something important.
It is still useful for kids to eat less salt. Because this taste for salt once developed is hard to destroy, and later they might satisfy this with junk food. And dietary sodium doesn't do much of good above a certain level, so it is not that they are missing much.
Fundamental flaw - every nutrient and every poison has a dosage at which it is effective.
So 10 grams of Vitamin C a day can be considered "high Vitamin C diet". 10 grams of protein a day can be considered "low protein diet". 10 grams of paracetamol a day can be considered "poison".
Once you realize this, your statement makes zero sense. All three nutrients are essential? Great. What is the amount at which they are effective? No one knows.
People associating windows with easy and simple are known as computer geniuses - top 5% of population in "computer genius" terms. For 95% people using computers, windows is associated with difficult.
Linux is associated with "what's that?". Ok, Linux is actually not associated with anything.
So obviously, it isn't the tightly-spec'ed hardware (since what Apple is doing could be handled by any competent GPU designed in this century)
Well, (both) the competent GPU makers suck so hard at driver writing, that black holes have developed an inferiority complex. So on top of a competent GPU, one needs a competent GPU writer, or at least hold the hands of GPU makers in writing drivers for an OS and/or test the drivers beyond imagination.
Apple is doing that well with their limited GPUs supported. But as a general statement it is completely not true that a competent GPU is capable of doing something on its own.
While there is such a thing as a "high quality" app, it is a very low barrier - 99% of Android Play Store apps are "high quality". Basically if an app doesn't crash during its core functionality, and performs the core functionality, it is "high quality". Rest is all subjective.
That doesn't mean many people will like or find use in 99% of Android Play Store apps - different people will like and use different apps. But that doesn't mean there is any criteria set in stone making the not used apps "low quality".
Ahh, you guys are funny. Time travelling from 18th century, but pretending to be time travelling from 23rd century. Go and check actual 21st century and you will weep.
Well, I'm not sure if anyone is saying that
......
"The perfect is the enemy of the good"
Ok, so you use the word "know" a lot more lightly than I do. That is fine. Though it did lead you to trust food label calorie numbers a lot more than they deserve, so I thought you might be in reverse gear about this. Probably not.
Making it the most used camera and one of the most used video systems, regardless of what you think.
Most used cameras are of the CCTV variety - hard to beat a 24/7 camera in amount of usage. Most used video system is the eye, in some animal or the other. Electronic equivalent would be the TV - many brands would beat iPhone. And most used electronic video *capture* device, of course, like earlier, CCTV.
Yes, it is complicated, and not really known to mankind. It would be good if you point out the error when slashdotters and people elsewhere make the mistake of considering it simple and lecture others.
Diet effect on water retention are also significant.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler". I see these attempts to quantify the as yet unquantifiable as violation of the principle in second half of the alleged Einstein quote.
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Since they are employed by Microsoft, no one will be able to do much with the results for 14 years. Microsoft unable because they are generally inept, and others unable because Microsoft will ask their soul in return for patent license.
And you happen to have a contact for your wife in your phone that says "WIFE" and not just her first name?
I've seen untrained bystanding good samaritans inspecting phones of a unconscious person. They look for last few calls to saved numbers and call most of them. Even if they don't get the spouse of the person, they get someone who knows someone who knows .... the spouse. Not difficult really.
Indian governments are typically more concerned with communications - email / SMS / phone calls. Rather than contents of phone or computers. Indian concerns are a result of low-tech terrorists from Pakistan blowing random shit - Indian agencies still get significant intelligence by tapping SMS and phone calls. Contents of phones don't help Indian security agencies much in this regard currently.
US security agencies are more concerned with content - kiddie porn obsession has a lot to do with it. Different strokes for different folks. Apple's strategy doesn't have the danger you mention, in India, as their calls, SMSes and emails are still subject to simple warrants.
Indian attitude to Blackberry was due mainly to communications rather than content of devices.
ALL the cars need gas hauled by the offroading cars (ALL people need food produced / handled / processed by farm workers).
The radiation is transmitted (!!) by gas. (The bugs are transmitted by food - may not cause a problem with gut but a skin cut during cutting vegetables, or touching one's food with injured body part is not unheard of).
So the 33% doesn't increase to 34% or 35% - but progressively, and potentially 90+% i.e. an unrelated coincidence can expose 90+% people to the bugs in farm workers' noses.
The window preview as you hover over the tasks in the task bar is addictive. Being able to see thumbnails of each application window makes it easier to pick which window to bring forward (another bonus for multi-taskers).
You seem like you know what you are talking about. Can you tell me how to disable this in Windows 7? I have somehow removed the thumbnail of the running application window, but a tooltip still appears even if mouse cursor reaches the toolbar accidentally, refusing to go away for a while, blocking my screen.
So Google employees admit "freely" among themselves, but not "freely" enough to the public. If you are so concerned about "silly", why do you use silly lies like Google "freely admit" it?
In a sane world, it is called NOT AT ALL admitting that users are their product, but internally discussing related things. Surely not "freely" admitting.
but I'm not going to pretend that's not the way it is
But you are going to pretend falsely and deceptively that this industry "freely admit" that users are their product. Got it.
Or you could be idiot enough to not know the difference between something being true and an admission of it being true.
So Google doesn't "freely admit" it but their employees do privately and yet "freely" to you? Yet they are not "free" enough to do so on Google's behalf?
I don't dispute that conclusion, but Google "freely admit" it? With the adverb "freely" of questionable utility and no meaning? I presume if the adverb had a meaning it would have been clarified in first reply.
Google and all other ad-based businesses freely admit the advertisers are their customer and the users their product
Where did Google freely admit that users are their product? While I don't understand the meaning of "freely" here, so I presume it is somewhat related to "explicitly" . Is that on correct lines ?
Without taking any blame off Microsoft, I'd like to argue that while you boast of so many years of embedded development and understanding that GPUs don't do anything without drivers; when you make your argument it still comes off like you don't understand that.
Microsoft CANNOT develop drivers of any respectable GPUs without enormous help from Nvidia or AMD. And they don't even try, in any significant way, other than supporting graphics companies. They could have tested and released lists of supported GPUs if the list were small, like Apple's. It's not so they can't, not without 200 times as much effort as Apple which they are unwilling to invest. Probably they should, but you can't pretend they don't have orders of magnitude more work to do in this area than Apple, precisely because of hardware variety. That much is just for graphics.
Every argument is not about defending at attacking windows UI. This one is against your misconception about GPUs being sentient beings.
So you've still not read, or understood the statement I repeated in my last post. GPU doesn't do anything on its own. It needs a driver. Lacking a driver, you cannot find a GPU, any class, that can draw a single triangle.
Not that YOU didn't quantify, no one really "knows", for stronger definitions of " know ". Plenty of studies? Sure. All addressing different effects of the diet, and all reaching different conclusions.
If you have some special knowledge on this subject, you could have alerted these people (http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/09/02/0314223/low-carb-diet-trumps-low-fat-diet-in-major-new-study), they wouldn't have wasted their time. You might have received a Nobel prize too.
OK, so
1. Microsoft made a decision - to use "primitive" graphics.
2. They have a business model where they need to support a wide variety of graphics chips.
You are saying 1 was surely not caused by the driver insanity resulting from 2. Based on what?
1. It's the user's choice isn't it? Say user uses the browser for some website already, and for him, opening lots of tabs on mobile browsers isn't very convenient. Website wrapping apps while not terribly indispensable, are surely of positive value. Website owner also might find it easier to write, test and guarantee better experience on apps as compared to 10 kinds of mobile browsers, 3 main engines and subtle variations in WebKit engine.
2. In-app purchases are declared upfront. Garbage? User decides, not you.
3. Fair point. This can be generalized to bad search feature in both Apple and Google stores. Inexplicable, horrible, deliberately non-useful search functionality. But being deliberate, apple and google surely see some value in this madness which I fail to see, so I'm not sure it will help them if they improve their search.
OK, that is fine, I'm not sure you read "But as a general statement it is completely not true that a competent GPU is capable of doing something on its own."
So if you didn't talk about GPU drivers, you are missing something important.
It is still useful for kids to eat less salt. Because this taste for salt once developed is hard to destroy, and later they might satisfy this with junk food. And dietary sodium doesn't do much of good above a certain level, so it is not that they are missing much.
I have yet to see any evidence that eating the more processed version of ANY grain is as good as an unprocessed version.
Cooking is a processing - and uncooked forms of various foods have various dangers. E.g. Bird flu, tape worm, some food borne diseases etc.
Fundamental flaw - every nutrient and every poison has a dosage at which it is effective.
So 10 grams of Vitamin C a day can be considered "high Vitamin C diet". 10 grams of protein a day can be considered "low protein diet". 10 grams of paracetamol a day can be considered "poison".
Once you realize this, your statement makes zero sense. All three nutrients are essential? Great. What is the amount at which they are effective? No one knows.
People associating windows with easy and simple are known as computer geniuses - top 5% of population in "computer genius" terms. For 95% people using computers, windows is associated with difficult.
Linux is associated with "what's that?". Ok, Linux is actually not associated with anything.
So obviously, it isn't the tightly-spec'ed hardware (since what Apple is doing could be handled by any competent GPU designed in this century)
Well, (both) the competent GPU makers suck so hard at driver writing, that black holes have developed an inferiority complex. So on top of a competent GPU, one needs a competent GPU writer, or at least hold the hands of GPU makers in writing drivers for an OS and/or test the drivers beyond imagination.
Apple is doing that well with their limited GPUs supported. But as a general statement it is completely not true that a competent GPU is capable of doing something on its own.
While there is such a thing as a "high quality" app, it is a very low barrier - 99% of Android Play Store apps are "high quality". Basically if an app doesn't crash during its core functionality, and performs the core functionality, it is "high quality". Rest is all subjective.
That doesn't mean many people will like or find use in 99% of Android Play Store apps - different people will like and use different apps. But that doesn't mean there is any criteria set in stone making the not used apps "low quality".
Ahh, you guys are funny. Time travelling from 18th century, but pretending to be time travelling from 23rd century. Go and check actual 21st century and you will weep.
Well, I'm not sure if anyone is saying that
......
"The perfect is the enemy of the good"
Ok, so you use the word "know" a lot more lightly than I do. That is fine. Though it did lead you to trust food label calorie numbers a lot more than they deserve, so I thought you might be in reverse gear about this. Probably not.
Making it the most used camera and one of the most used video systems, regardless of what you think.
Most used cameras are of the CCTV variety - hard to beat a 24/7 camera in amount of usage. Most used video system is the eye, in some animal or the other. Electronic equivalent would be the TV - many brands would beat iPhone. And most used electronic video *capture* device, of course, like earlier, CCTV.
Yes, it is complicated, and not really known to mankind. It would be good if you point out the error when slashdotters and people elsewhere make the mistake of considering it simple and lecture others.
Diet effect on water retention are also significant.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler". I see these attempts to quantify the as yet unquantifiable as violation of the principle in second half of the alleged Einstein quote.