It all points back to every luxury brand, regardless of origin, wanting to seem European, especially like German upscale brands. What the non-Euro brands rarely understood, or eventually forget, is that there is (or was) logic and meaning in the Deutsche-luxo name soup: it told you something about the car itself, usually something about size class and/or powertrain.
Some of the invented Japanese luxury brands got this, and mostly still do. Cadillac and Lincoln just need to stop trying to be non-American with their nonsense model names (MKZ? CTS4? WTF).
These Hyundai model names have no meaning because they're pure marketing constructs. Beyond "G is for Genesis" and a vague notion that 90 is somehow more than 80, they're empty.
My Samsung handset is stuck in 2011, and the upgrade path for it ended in 2013. I'm not talking about a software path, but a hardware path: the QWERTY keyboard. It's the main reason I got a smartphone. Now there are none, so I'm going back to a feature phone soon (I'm also tired of paying for "4G" that Sprint never bothered to install in my area).
And before anyone tries to say on-screen keyboards have improved: that's not the point, they're still on the screen obscuring half of what I'm looking at, which is even worse because I do as little as possible on my phone in portrait mode.
At least some of that 6MM are either former cable ISP customers (likely because of the cable company), aren't in a cable service area, or are willing to accept DSL's limitations in order to avoid dealing with cable as an ISP. I fall into the last group.
Precisely. Lack of activity can mean death or maturity.
I use KDE because I can make it behave exactly the way I want (with about three exceptions that aren't outright bugs), it doesn't try to hold my hand longer than I want, doesn't talk down to me, and doesn't deliberately try to be oversimplified or minimal or trendy.
I agree. I think MS is slowly abdicating development to *nix/FOSS so they can get it off their plate. They don't want to develop standalone software products anymore, they want to move everything to SaaS and more or less follow IBM's footsteps. But it'll take at least a decade, especially to get their enterprise customers (who are the only ones MS understands and cares about) on board for that transition. I bet in a few years we'll see OEMs actually be more allowed to preinstall other OSes. There may not be a consumer-level Windows in 10 years.
After 20 years of MS trying to kill the shell, they relented and decided the Windows platform needed one. But in typical MS style, they asked themselves "How can we make a shell that's notably different from everything else that already works?" and someone piped up "OOP is the Way of Everything." Welcome to another episode of Redmond: Not Invented Here Syndrome.
Pretty much. This is nothing more than political posturing and theatrics designed to pad the resumes of these board members with cybersecurity "experience" that they can cite to the equally ignorant Senators who will preside over their eventual confirmation hearings.
These are all platter drives, but you can only discover that in the comments at TFA.
There are so few 8GB HGST drives, and they're so new, that the current data about them is statistically insignificant/unreliable, as is any model with less than 500 units and 200k drive days.
Their motivation has changed. They still want Enterprise to pay for it, but they want consumers to use it, thereby subjecting themselves to telemetry, data mining, and OS-level advertising. MS has decided that consumer data is worth more than consumer money. They're obsessed with users as a commodity now; that's why they bought Skype and LinkedIn. They don't care about those services, they want the users.
The Win10 deadline came and went as almost everyone suspected, and with this change in consumer strategy they have zero incentive to raise the "price". I expect them to start moving up the non-enterprise end of life dates on previous versions instead. Win7 support ends in 2020? Not so fast, it's 2018. If you miss that deadline, pay $119 for the "safety and security" of Win10.
No, they want to build a closed ecosystem and control/profit from every aspect within it. If MS wanted to entice developers, they would have open sourced Visual Studio a decade ago and made it platform/language agnostic.
No one really likes Microsoft, and Microsoft has never known how to connect with consumers in an open market. Their only consumer success story against viable, established competition is XBox.
Plus a new XBox SKU known to have Win10 anniversary edition on it allows them to further inflate the Win10 uptake numbers toward their 1 billion installs goal.
Settings in a way, but not something as mundane and friendly as a checkbox exposed to the user anywhere. This shell game of truthiness is about which browsers are allowed to play 1080p content by the media consortiums and which browsers are following the DRM rules bullshit.
Probably not. Anyone who knows there are 7 to 10 inch standalone LCD screens available knows they can get one for $100 or less instead of paying for a tablet (and only high end tablets would have such a feature). The OEMs want tablets to be as isolated as possible so they have to rely on the cloud and users are mentally primed for SaaS.
Tablets were never going to replace anything, they're a flawed compromise between everything else. Manufacturers pushed them in the hopes that they could expand the relevance of the new mobile walled gardens, and the media fueled the hype because blind consumerism. Tablet OEMs who started designing keyboards into new tablets were ahead of the curve.
Tablets are for consumption, not production. Only now are people realizing this, so their tablet upgrades are laptops or nothing. If you don't need a video clipboard, you don't need a tablet.
What's the fucking point of 4K media on a 6 inch screen (or on a 10 inch screen for that matter)? You can't distinguish that many pixels in such a small space.
Just open three more checkout lanes (real checkout lanes, self-checkout doesn't count). Walmart knows how many lanes they need open because they study customer traffic patterns, but their standard operating procedure is to open three fewer than what the data requires.
One more reason why the Walmart store experience is openly hostile to customers.
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It all points back to every luxury brand, regardless of origin, wanting to seem European, especially like German upscale brands. What the non-Euro brands rarely understood, or eventually forget, is that there is (or was) logic and meaning in the Deutsche-luxo name soup: it told you something about the car itself, usually something about size class and/or powertrain.
Some of the invented Japanese luxury brands got this, and mostly still do. Cadillac and Lincoln just need to stop trying to be non-American with their nonsense model names (MKZ? CTS4? WTF).
These Hyundai model names have no meaning because they're pure marketing constructs. Beyond "G is for Genesis" and a vague notion that 90 is somehow more than 80, they're empty.
This is the latest demonstration of why the all-or-nothing forced updates coming in October are a terrible idea.
Dammit, I meant 5 rows.
Nope, nope, hell nope, and nope.
My Samsung handset is stuck in 2011, and the upgrade path for it ended in 2013. I'm not talking about a software path, but a hardware path: the QWERTY keyboard. It's the main reason I got a smartphone. Now there are none, so I'm going back to a feature phone soon (I'm also tired of paying for "4G" that Sprint never bothered to install in my area).
And before anyone tries to say on-screen keyboards have improved: that's not the point, they're still on the screen obscuring half of what I'm looking at, which is even worse because I do as little as possible on my phone in portrait mode.
At least some of that 6MM are either former cable ISP customers (likely because of the cable company), aren't in a cable service area, or are willing to accept DSL's limitations in order to avoid dealing with cable as an ISP. I fall into the last group.
Yep, these all suck monumentally.
And since Mozilla hasn't made a good decision since Mitchell Baker left, whichever one the internet thinks is ugliest is what Mozilla will pick.
Precisely. Lack of activity can mean death or maturity.
I use KDE because I can make it behave exactly the way I want (with about three exceptions that aren't outright bugs), it doesn't try to hold my hand longer than I want, doesn't talk down to me, and doesn't deliberately try to be oversimplified or minimal or trendy.
#1: Updates will always be available.
#2: We could put that on paper, but we won't.
MS does have a testing community, but it's a smaller shanty town than what you might expect.
I agree. I think MS is slowly abdicating development to *nix/FOSS so they can get it off their plate. They don't want to develop standalone software products anymore, they want to move everything to SaaS and more or less follow IBM's footsteps. But it'll take at least a decade, especially to get their enterprise customers (who are the only ones MS understands and cares about) on board for that transition. I bet in a few years we'll see OEMs actually be more allowed to preinstall other OSes. There may not be a consumer-level Windows in 10 years.
After 20 years of MS trying to kill the shell, they relented and decided the Windows platform needed one. But in typical MS style, they asked themselves "How can we make a shell that's notably different from everything else that already works?" and someone piped up "OOP is the Way of Everything." Welcome to another episode of Redmond: Not Invented Here Syndrome.
Pretty much. This is nothing more than political posturing and theatrics designed to pad the resumes of these board members with cybersecurity "experience" that they can cite to the equally ignorant Senators who will preside over their eventual confirmation hearings.
Is it still legit and not an FBI honeypot? That's what a lot of people have been wondering since the strange happenings of the last takedown attempt.
These are all platter drives, but you can only discover that in the comments at TFA.
There are so few 8GB HGST drives, and they're so new, that the current data about them is statistically insignificant/unreliable, as is any model with less than 500 units and 200k drive days.
Their motivation has changed. They still want Enterprise to pay for it, but they want consumers to use it, thereby subjecting themselves to telemetry, data mining, and OS-level advertising. MS has decided that consumer data is worth more than consumer money. They're obsessed with users as a commodity now; that's why they bought Skype and LinkedIn. They don't care about those services, they want the users.
The Win10 deadline came and went as almost everyone suspected, and with this change in consumer strategy they have zero incentive to raise the "price". I expect them to start moving up the non-enterprise end of life dates on previous versions instead. Win7 support ends in 2020? Not so fast, it's 2018. If you miss that deadline, pay $119 for the "safety and security" of Win10.
No, they want to build a closed ecosystem and control/profit from every aspect within it. If MS wanted to entice developers, they would have open sourced Visual Studio a decade ago and made it platform/language agnostic.
No one really likes Microsoft, and Microsoft has never known how to connect with consumers in an open market. Their only consumer success story against viable, established competition is XBox.
Derp, OK.
*Begins typing CC number... 4--*
*Shutdown*
That would make batteries last much longer.
Plus a new XBox SKU known to have Win10 anniversary edition on it allows them to further inflate the Win10 uptake numbers toward their 1 billion installs goal.
Just get cold grits, they look the same as hot grits.
Settings in a way, but not something as mundane and friendly as a checkbox exposed to the user anywhere. This shell game of truthiness is about which browsers are allowed to play 1080p content by the media consortiums and which browsers are following the DRM rules bullshit.
Probably not. Anyone who knows there are 7 to 10 inch standalone LCD screens available knows they can get one for $100 or less instead of paying for a tablet (and only high end tablets would have such a feature). The OEMs want tablets to be as isolated as possible so they have to rely on the cloud and users are mentally primed for SaaS.
Tablets were never going to replace anything, they're a flawed compromise between everything else. Manufacturers pushed them in the hopes that they could expand the relevance of the new mobile walled gardens, and the media fueled the hype because blind consumerism. Tablet OEMs who started designing keyboards into new tablets were ahead of the curve.
Tablets are for consumption, not production. Only now are people realizing this, so their tablet upgrades are laptops or nothing. If you don't need a video clipboard, you don't need a tablet.
What's the fucking point of 4K media on a 6 inch screen (or on a 10 inch screen for that matter)? You can't distinguish that many pixels in such a small space.
Just open three more checkout lanes (real checkout lanes, self-checkout doesn't count). Walmart knows how many lanes they need open because they study customer traffic patterns, but their standard operating procedure is to open three fewer than what the data requires.
One more reason why the Walmart store experience is openly hostile to customers.