This is a power grab by established giants to prevent an emerging market from getting away from their control. There are no actual IoT entities here: Raspberry Pi Foundation, Arduino LLC, etc. Not even ARM Holdings, whose chips designs will be in most IoT devices. Just the overrepresentation of Cable related companies makes it suspicious.
He can't do that until July when the Senate will be on a long enough recess. There will be a confirmation by then, otherwise Obama will simply put a liberal on the Court.
Perhaps the biggest "fuck you" Obama could give to the GOP (if McConnell lets this go until the July recess) is to put himself on the bench via recess appointment and resign the Presidency in the same executive order.
I keep my smartphone (Samsung Epic 4G, of the Galaxy 1 generation) because no phone available now has the one feature I want to keep: a hardware QWERTY keyboard. Yes, it's stuck on Gingerbread and has an anemic amount of RAM (even for its time), but that just shows how much I hate on-screen keyboards.
MS just doesn't know how to connect with consumers. They think consumers make purchase decisions like CTOs. When MS tries to be cool, it inevitably backfires. The Xbox division somehow manages to escape all the corporate and branding baggage, maybe someone in Redmond should them how?
Consumers don't actually like Windows, either; they just accept it... like death and taxes. If MS is going to get their mobile efforts off the ground (after what, 5 tries now?), they need to separate it from the Windows brand and make app development/porting ridiculously effortless with no platform-based barriers to entry.
I've made 1024 LEDs flash with an rPi. To do that I had to buy a 32x32 LED matrix, power brick, and a proto hat; solder the necessary connections on the hat, then write a C++ application using a very nifty library I found. It showed the date and time, scrolled text, and displayed images.
So what's my level of expertise?
It seems your expectations for Ease of use are too high.
Improving V8 would be more worthwhile to anyone who doesn't have a crippling case of not-invented-here syndrome.
And I don't get the IoT angle here... no hobbyists care about W10IoT, the Microsoft JS engine doesn't make the bait any better. Linux on RaspberryPi is a full fledged OS, not a glorified app bootloader.
Remember, kids: SRL is the usurper Arduino that secretlyfiled the Arduino copyright and started dicking Banzi and Co (arduino.cc) out of royalties. This issue from April 2015 ("Rename this fork and use less confusing versioning") had its most recent comment 17 days ago.
3D TV and Google Glass together are the tea leaves for VR's fate. VR combines all the hassle and baggage of both, but offers little the average consumer will remain hungry for in the long term.
MS will continue to fail at mobile, but not because of their strategy. They've been failing at mobile since before the iPhone.
Their mobile failures are just examples of a broader cultural deficiency in Redmond: they don't know how to connect with consumers, and they're too stubborn and full of hubris to realize that. The XBox division succeeded mostly because it was left alone by the top brass (who likely didn't understand a damn thing about it). When MS learns to put aside their preconceptions about buying habits and that consumers don't shop the same way CTO's do, they might have a chance in any consumer market, including mobile.
Tablets are already dying off, the iPad sales plateau is proof of that.
Why tablets are dying is a more interesting question. Yes, larger phones are intruding on the form factor, but more importantly the general tablet hype has faded away and people have realized that a tablet is not a replacement for a laptop. Vendors love tablets because they're essentially a reset button for software ecosystems: where they couldn't have a walled garden before, now they can.
Touch is a regression in human interface design, and deep down every engineer knows it. To correct that, now we have tablets with keyboards and/or stylii. Jobs swore both of those things would never happen. But I think the reason why iOS gained cut+paste so late was because the only workable soluitons weren't as elegant as he wanted, and he was forced to relent and give the users a necessarily shitty workflow.
Tablets occupy a very narrow market segment that, outside of vertical solutions for business, was doomed from the beginning. Either they'll get replaced by phablets or they'll evolve into netbooks.
They tried to surpass the epic scale of the LoTR movies, while the book was nothing of the sort. Splitting it into three only made it worse.
They added so much extra junk that was obviously filler. Tauriel should never have been created, and the love story with Legolos should never have been pasted in. While the stuff with Gandalf and the Necromancer was at least legitimate, it wasn't necessary to the story.
The Hobbit movies would have been much better as a 6 part HBO miniseries. If any film project would have benefitted from a smaller budget, it was this.
But the last theme I liked, and could actually install because the author hadn't abandoned, was for FF 3.5. I absolutely can't stand the default FF theme (which Australis made worse) and personas are useless. The complete theme concept has been deliberately allowed to atrophy over the last several years. The lack of updated complete themes is one of the reasons why I'm still using FF33 (and every time I upgrade I lose at least one extension I rely on).
When they yank XUL out, FF will cease to be useful and distinctive to me. Chrome isn't an option because it's been FF's model for stripping the UI, and I hate the developer tools interface.
If there is a is a wrong-headed choice, Mozilla proves yet again that they will invariably pick that one.
Since Apple moved to Intel chips, the Mac/PC divide has become mostly about branding.
The important thing about graphics/video/audio that these are among the most complex workflows that exist, and become exponentially more cumbersome without a full keyboard and multi-button mouse. A touchscreen by itself is a regression in HID capability... that's why people don't find and paste the link into the conversation from their phone, they apologize for not being able to do so instead.
It's a shame that ignorant designers and pseudo-developers have tricked so many hapless clients into running WordPress because it's easy. "Easy" here actually means that through a celestial confluence of bad architecture, poor development practice, and sly marketing, a third party market for themes sprang into being, with an horde of add-ons written by neophytes who aspire to writing code only as bad as the WP core, their sole source of PHP practices.
But that's not all. The majority of that monumental-seeming 25% wasn't set up by Joe Hipster for his easily enamored "e-commerce" clients. No, they're deployed via script by phishers and other scammers.
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This is a power grab by established giants to prevent an emerging market from getting away from their control. There are no actual IoT entities here: Raspberry Pi Foundation, Arduino LLC, etc. Not even ARM Holdings, whose chips designs will be in most IoT devices. Just the overrepresentation of Cable related companies makes it suspicious.
People keep saying MS is changing for the better, but this is the exact kind of shit that earned them so much enmity in the first place.
He can't do that until July when the Senate will be on a long enough recess. There will be a confirmation by then, otherwise Obama will simply put a liberal on the Court.
Perhaps the biggest "fuck you" Obama could give to the GOP (if McConnell lets this go until the July recess) is to put himself on the bench via recess appointment and resign the Presidency in the same executive order.
I keep my smartphone (Samsung Epic 4G, of the Galaxy 1 generation) because no phone available now has the one feature I want to keep: a hardware QWERTY keyboard. Yes, it's stuck on Gingerbread and has an anemic amount of RAM (even for its time), but that just shows how much I hate on-screen keyboards.
MS just doesn't know how to connect with consumers. They think consumers make purchase decisions like CTOs. When MS tries to be cool, it inevitably backfires. The Xbox division somehow manages to escape all the corporate and branding baggage, maybe someone in Redmond should them how?
Consumers don't actually like Windows, either; they just accept it... like death and taxes. If MS is going to get their mobile efforts off the ground (after what, 5 tries now?), they need to separate it from the Windows brand and make app development/porting ridiculously effortless with no platform-based barriers to entry.
I've made 1024 LEDs flash with an rPi. To do that I had to buy a 32x32 LED matrix, power brick, and a proto hat; solder the necessary connections on the hat, then write a C++ application using a very nifty library I found. It showed the date and time, scrolled text, and displayed images.
So what's my level of expertise?
It seems your expectations for Ease of use are too high.
Improving V8 would be more worthwhile to anyone who doesn't have a crippling case of not-invented-here syndrome.
And I don't get the IoT angle here... no hobbyists care about W10IoT, the Microsoft JS engine doesn't make the bait any better. Linux on RaspberryPi is a full fledged OS, not a glorified app bootloader.
Save vs Proprietary, nice.
Remember, kids: SRL is the usurper Arduino that secretlyfiled the Arduino copyright and started dicking Banzi and Co (arduino.cc) out of royalties. This issue from April 2015 ("Rename this fork and use less confusing versioning") had its most recent comment 17 days ago.
3D TV and Google Glass together are the tea leaves for VR's fate. VR combines all the hassle and baggage of both, but offers little the average consumer will remain hungry for in the long term.
MS will continue to fail at mobile, but not because of their strategy. They've been failing at mobile since before the iPhone.
Their mobile failures are just examples of a broader cultural deficiency in Redmond: they don't know how to connect with consumers, and they're too stubborn and full of hubris to realize that. The XBox division succeeded mostly because it was left alone by the top brass (who likely didn't understand a damn thing about it). When MS learns to put aside their preconceptions about buying habits and that consumers don't shop the same way CTO's do, they might have a chance in any consumer market, including mobile.
Your other left.
Surely an Attorney General should realize that all the ISPs have all covered their asses with that little caveat.
Tablets are already dying off, the iPad sales plateau is proof of that.
Why tablets are dying is a more interesting question. Yes, larger phones are intruding on the form factor, but more importantly the general tablet hype has faded away and people have realized that a tablet is not a replacement for a laptop. Vendors love tablets because they're essentially a reset button for software ecosystems: where they couldn't have a walled garden before, now they can.
Touch is a regression in human interface design, and deep down every engineer knows it. To correct that, now we have tablets with keyboards and/or stylii. Jobs swore both of those things would never happen. But I think the reason why iOS gained cut+paste so late was because the only workable soluitons weren't as elegant as he wanted, and he was forced to relent and give the users a necessarily shitty workflow.
Tablets occupy a very narrow market segment that, outside of vertical solutions for business, was doomed from the beginning. Either they'll get replaced by phablets or they'll evolve into netbooks.
That time ended when Mitchell Baker stepped down as CEO. Every decision since then has been wrong-headed and self-defeating.
Even the consideration to divest from Thunderbird is a result of all those bad decisions.
LOL, Nope.
And added the CC part.
As a legal tactic.... brilliant!
I would remove WordPress from existence across all of time and space.
He's also a terrible writer and worldbuilder. The only reason Star Wars endures is because of the merchandising.
There are two main problem with the movies:
They tried to surpass the epic scale of the LoTR movies, while the book was nothing of the sort. Splitting it into three only made it worse.
They added so much extra junk that was obviously filler. Tauriel should never have been created, and the love story with Legolos should never have been pasted in. While the stuff with Gandalf and the Necromancer was at least legitimate, it wasn't necessary to the story.
The Hobbit movies would have been much better as a 6 part HBO miniseries. If any film project would have benefitted from a smaller budget, it was this.
As soon as they make a MacBook with a touchscreen or an iPad with a Keyboard... hey, wait a second!
But the last theme I liked, and could actually install because the author hadn't abandoned, was for FF 3.5. I absolutely can't stand the default FF theme (which Australis made worse) and personas are useless. The complete theme concept has been deliberately allowed to atrophy over the last several years. The lack of updated complete themes is one of the reasons why I'm still using FF33 (and every time I upgrade I lose at least one extension I rely on).
When they yank XUL out, FF will cease to be useful and distinctive to me. Chrome isn't an option because it's been FF's model for stripping the UI, and I hate the developer tools interface.
If there is a is a wrong-headed choice, Mozilla proves yet again that they will invariably pick that one.
Since Apple moved to Intel chips, the Mac/PC divide has become mostly about branding.
The important thing about graphics/video/audio that these are among the most complex workflows that exist, and become exponentially more cumbersome without a full keyboard and multi-button mouse. A touchscreen by itself is a regression in HID capability... that's why people don't find and paste the link into the conversation from their phone, they apologize for not being able to do so instead.
It's a shame that ignorant designers and pseudo-developers have tricked so many hapless clients into running WordPress because it's easy. "Easy" here actually means that through a celestial confluence of bad architecture, poor development practice, and sly marketing, a third party market for themes sprang into being, with an horde of add-ons written by neophytes who aspire to writing code only as bad as the WP core, their sole source of PHP practices.
But that's not all. The majority of that monumental-seeming 25% wasn't set up by Joe Hipster for his easily enamored "e-commerce" clients. No, they're deployed via script by phishers and other scammers.