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I'm also not too fond of the auto-suggestions for responses when i open up emails. They've been in the mobile client for awhile, but hate to see them spreading to the desktop UI.
If anyone knows a way to disable either the pop-up hover icons or the auto-suggested responses I'd love to hear about it!
Agreed. I subscribe to a number of list servers, so why would I want to respond to many, if any, emails from them.
Call me when AI can ener your house and put hidden listening devices. Oh... wait...
I assume you're thinking all those IOT devices from Google, Amazon, etc., and Facebook and connected sites (whether you are a subscriber or not) are doing the work of CIA spies.
Some of the things I would want to install are Chrome browser, Microsoft Office and any or all of Adobe's graphics stuff such as the full Photoshop software. And it better run just as fast as on a PC with the latest Intel hardware. Others will have other software preferences. Microsoft now has Windows on ARM, but first reports show Excel being kind of slow and probably not ready for business users.
I didn't know that about the Olsen quote.
Maybe Olsen was very, very way ahead of his time. I'm thinking of the HUGE increase in the use of Internet of Things technology that seems to be ubiquitous. Most of these devices aren't used for general computing, though they all probably have some kind of computing (microprocessor?) hardware in them and some have video graphics displays. I mean, they aren't used for word processing or spreadsheet generation. Oh, wait..., many IOT devices have a voice interface and could easily be used for text generation. Spreadsheets might take some more time.
Perhaps this is what's going on in the computing paradigm for K -12 education in the US. Google's efforts in this area with the Chrome OS and very inexpensive laptops and now Apple's iPad initiative. At least Chrome machines have a keyboard attached. Both efforts have or will have the support back end with Web based servers, software tools for content generation and other management requirements. Some folks with minimal computing and communication needs have also adopted the Chrome OS paradigm. It's not a short leap to imagine this jumping to much more powerful systems for heavy duty sophisticated business and home computing. Computing as a service is on its way.
This sounds like the plan Ken Olsen of Digital had in mind with terminals connected to a central computer system - a VAX using a smart terminal. His famous statement in 1977 was, "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." This of course could be expanded to the workplace. The question will be what kind of smart terminal will be necessary to use Microsoft's Azure or any other similar system at work or even ro do computing at home? The only local storage might be just enough to enable the boot up of the terminal and enough RAM to run multiple apps simultaneously. The app software and the OS bits might not even be stored on the terminal. Is this a full blown PC or a less capable smart terminal with a graphical user interface? This suggests conversion to a true computing as a service paradigm, not just software as a service, but for the whole ball of wax.
... MS senior leadership has seen the writing on the wall and PC sales growth is done for,...
One of the reasons that PC sales growth has slowed probably involves multiple factors. First, almost everyone (individuals and workers) who wants or needs a PC already has one. If the PC is reasonably new there's really no need to upgrade as it's very reliable and a new one won't be much faster. One improvement that's been realized is the advent of silicon base storage media for PCs which makes boot up almost instantaneous and may be more reliable than drives with spinning disks. With the advent of on prem or offsite cloud data storage, who needs bigger and faster PC data storage, particularly for the workplace. With Windows 10 and free perpetual updates that don't need new hardware, why buy new hardware to upgrade for new OS and application features? This and more means new hardware just isn't needed.
In addition the advent of all kinds of portable devices such as phones and tablets has shifted the way folks do computing and communicating. Hardware production has clearly shifted to growth in these areas. When everyone has what they need or use that's "good enough" or improvement in reliability and features slows to a crawl for this new hardware paradigm, we may see sales of these kinds of hardware also slow way down.
Does this mean every teacher will need a school purchased $2,000 to $3,000 iMac computer with specialized software to interface to these new iPads? Will the schools also need additional school system purchased Apple specific centralized server hardware and software for all these iPads to do their job? There could be additional overhead I haven't thought of.
My Toyota 2010 Prius gets 54 MPG and I buy most of its gas at Costco right now for ~$2.25/Gal. I'm ignoring the 4% Costco rewards on gasoline because of the membership fee of $55/year. I'm not sure if that's fair, but it doesn't matter where I buy gas if I use the Costco credit card to buy gas, I still get the 4% credit.
Any way, at $2.25/Gal * (1 Gal/ 54 miles)=$0.042/mile.
This is about the same fuel cost as driving the Tesla, so right now my Prius is about as fuel efficient as a Tesla fueled at home using Immerman's numbers. The operative phrase is "right now" because gasoline could move up and upset these figures. The Prius has other costs, too, such as oil changes and both will need new tires, brake jobs, dollar depreciation, etc., so it's hard to figure total $ costs per mile.
My most recent bill shows electricity costs $0.1044/kWh, a bit lower than $0.12, so a Tesla would be a little bit cheaper to fuel at home.
The chances of such legislation passing the California, or any other state legislature, depends on how many legislators Apple has bought. I'm sure Apple's out shopping now.
...and the ever "improved" interfaces the latest version of the software one uses. The introduction of the Ribbon in MS Office apps is a great example. Recently I created a new spreadsheet in Exel and, as I hadn't done this for awhile, forgot how to add a New Window to it. It took quite a bit of time to find what I wanted. The same problem shows up in figuring out how to find things in Windows 10 that I routinely was able to do in Win 7.
Perhaps not completely analogous, but the film does examine the situation where technology disrupts both business owners and their workers. One of my favorite Alec Guinness flicks. For those not in the know, the Guinness character invents a new thread that produces clothes that are indestructible and threatens to eventually put cloth weavers and their workers out of business. A typical '40's, '50s British subtle comedy. One of my favorites.
Another non-comparable situation is Denmark. Apparently the country produces 110% of the needed electricity from wind. Obviously the situation is different as the country consists mainly as a peninsula and islands stuck in the North Sea with lots of wind. If south east Australia has wind and the land to build wind turbines, they need to get on with it.
I saw the $14/kWh and wondered if anyone, especially homeowners/renters, actually paid that for electricity. If I found electricity cost me that I'd disconnect from the grid and get my own generator running on the cheapest fuel - natural gas if available, diesel or gasoline and probably go solar, add a small windmill and a battery.
This "department" should be physically separated from the rest of the company, headed by folks who have shown creativity in software and hardware - and anything else that comes to mind - development and given the charge to think beyond what seems currently possible. In other words, innovate. Google has the money to do this it just needs the will to spend it on innovation.
It's also analogous to "Free Shipping." Last time I heard FeEx and UPS charge Amazon, Walmart or Bed Bath and Beyond and other shippers for their work. The ads should say, "Shipping cost included in the price," or something to that effect.
Besides the fact that very few airports could handle the A380, one version could carry ~800 passengers. Imagine even a large airport with the runways that could handle it and getting a large number of them for nearly simultaneous boarding and landing all at once - the terminal would be a mess. And don't even think about the TSA Holdup Theater.
I don't think foreign students, particularly graduate students, in STEM disciplines are taking seats away from foreign students. My experience with American students is they are not qualified for undergraduate educations because of the horrible quality of K-12 education in the US. The other thing that's happening and will accelerate is that some Chinese universities are becoming world class and will increase the production of world class STEM workers. US colleges will suffer from the lack of tuition from foreign students as a result.
Perhaps a bit off topic, but the company may make some profit by selling your DNA data to health insurers. Not sure if this is true. One of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (Obama care) is that insurers can't deny coverage due to a previous condition. Knowledge of a genetic disposition for some condition that might be expensive to treat would be useful to insurers if the ACA goes away as some members of Congress want.
I'd like a new Nexus 7 (or 8) Wi-Fi only - latest Snap Dragon processor and Android version, high quality screen, headphone jack, and more. The size is right for me, better than a phone for sure. I use my Nexus 7 2012 to check on news, listen to music, and read books. Our library district has over 50,000 e books and seems to be adding them faster than paper books and, again, the size is just right for e book reading. But the 2012 N7 is pretty slow when moving around and reading Flipboard. Samsung has some nice tablets, but i'd like pure Android.
What else can explain his comments? When we catch a UFO on the ground occupied by extra-earth aliens, UFOs proven to contain intelligent beings from elsewhere in the universe is not proven beyond reasonable doubt.
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just buy a $50 lightning cable attached to an escape key.
it's the apple way
Plus a dongle you'll need for all the other cables and attachments you need to use.
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I'm also not too fond of the auto-suggestions for responses when i open up emails. They've been in the mobile client for awhile, but hate to see them spreading to the desktop UI. If anyone knows a way to disable either the pop-up hover icons or the auto-suggested responses I'd love to hear about it!
Agreed. I subscribe to a number of list servers, so why would I want to respond to many, if any, emails from them.
Call me when AI can ener your house and put hidden listening devices. Oh ... wait...
I assume you're thinking all those IOT devices from Google, Amazon, etc., and Facebook and connected sites (whether you are a subscriber or not) are doing the work of CIA spies.
Was your new computer an Apple device? No bad updates there, right?
Some of the things I would want to install are Chrome browser, Microsoft Office and any or all of Adobe's graphics stuff such as the full Photoshop software. And it better run just as fast as on a PC with the latest Intel hardware. Others will have other software preferences. Microsoft now has Windows on ARM, but first reports show Excel being kind of slow and probably not ready for business users.
I didn't know that about the Olsen quote. Maybe Olsen was very, very way ahead of his time. I'm thinking of the HUGE increase in the use of Internet of Things technology that seems to be ubiquitous. Most of these devices aren't used for general computing, though they all probably have some kind of computing (microprocessor?) hardware in them and some have video graphics displays. I mean, they aren't used for word processing or spreadsheet generation. Oh, wait..., many IOT devices have a voice interface and could easily be used for text generation. Spreadsheets might take some more time.
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Perhaps this is what's going on in the computing paradigm for K -12 education in the US. Google's efforts in this area with the Chrome OS and very inexpensive laptops and now Apple's iPad initiative. At least Chrome machines have a keyboard attached. Both efforts have or will have the support back end with Web based servers, software tools for content generation and other management requirements. Some folks with minimal computing and communication needs have also adopted the Chrome OS paradigm. It's not a short leap to imagine this jumping to much more powerful systems for heavy duty sophisticated business and home computing. Computing as a service is on its way.
This sounds like the plan Ken Olsen of Digital had in mind with terminals connected to a central computer system - a VAX using a smart terminal. His famous statement in 1977 was, "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." This of course could be expanded to the workplace. The question will be what kind of smart terminal will be necessary to use Microsoft's Azure or any other similar system at work or even ro do computing at home? The only local storage might be just enough to enable the boot up of the terminal and enough RAM to run multiple apps simultaneously. The app software and the OS bits might not even be stored on the terminal. Is this a full blown PC or a less capable smart terminal with a graphical user interface? This suggests conversion to a true computing as a service paradigm, not just software as a service, but for the whole ball of wax.
One of the reasons that PC sales growth has slowed probably involves multiple factors. First, almost everyone (individuals and workers) who wants or needs a PC already has one. If the PC is reasonably new there's really no need to upgrade as it's very reliable and a new one won't be much faster. One improvement that's been realized is the advent of silicon base storage media for PCs which makes boot up almost instantaneous and may be more reliable than drives with spinning disks. With the advent of on prem or offsite cloud data storage, who needs bigger and faster PC data storage, particularly for the workplace. With Windows 10 and free perpetual updates that don't need new hardware, why buy new hardware to upgrade for new OS and application features? This and more means new hardware just isn't needed.
In addition the advent of all kinds of portable devices such as phones and tablets has shifted the way folks do computing and communicating. Hardware production has clearly shifted to growth in these areas. When everyone has what they need or use that's "good enough" or improvement in reliability and features slows to a crawl for this new hardware paradigm, we may see sales of these kinds of hardware also slow way down.
Does this mean every teacher will need a school purchased $2,000 to $3,000 iMac computer with specialized software to interface to these new iPads? Will the schools also need additional school system purchased Apple specific centralized server hardware and software for all these iPads to do their job? There could be additional overhead I haven't thought of.
My Toyota 2010 Prius gets 54 MPG and I buy most of its gas at Costco right now for ~$2.25/Gal. I'm ignoring the 4% Costco rewards on gasoline because of the membership fee of $55/year. I'm not sure if that's fair, but it doesn't matter where I buy gas if I use the Costco credit card to buy gas, I still get the 4% credit.
Any way, at $2.25/Gal * (1 Gal/ 54 miles)=$0.042/mile.
This is about the same fuel cost as driving the Tesla, so right now my Prius is about as fuel efficient as a Tesla fueled at home using Immerman's numbers. The operative phrase is "right now" because gasoline could move up and upset these figures. The Prius has other costs, too, such as oil changes and both will need new tires, brake jobs, dollar depreciation, etc., so it's hard to figure total $ costs per mile.
My most recent bill shows electricity costs $0.1044/kWh, a bit lower than $0.12, so a Tesla would be a little bit cheaper to fuel at home.
The chances of such legislation passing the California, or any other state legislature, depends on how many legislators Apple has bought. I'm sure Apple's out shopping now.
Check the link below. Scroll down to and open "Nexus devices" under "When you'll get Android updates" to see when Google will not guarantee updates.
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1 - During the time it takes to retrain the staff, productivity is lost as staff are not doing their job.
2. - Wait until a different 20 year old has the company adopt Microsoft Teams. More training and lost productivity.
...and the ever "improved" interfaces the latest version of the software one uses. The introduction of the Ribbon in MS Office apps is a great example. Recently I created a new spreadsheet in Exel and, as I hadn't done this for awhile, forgot how to add a New Window to it. It took quite a bit of time to find what I wanted. The same problem shows up in figuring out how to find things in Windows 10 that I routinely was able to do in Win 7.
Perhaps not completely analogous, but the film does examine the situation where technology disrupts both business owners and their workers. One of my favorite Alec Guinness flicks. For those not in the know, the Guinness character invents a new thread that produces clothes that are indestructible and threatens to eventually put cloth weavers and their workers out of business. A typical '40's, '50s British subtle comedy. One of my favorites.
Another non-comparable situation is Denmark. Apparently the country produces 110% of the needed electricity from wind. Obviously the situation is different as the country consists mainly as a peninsula and islands stuck in the North Sea with lots of wind. If south east Australia has wind and the land to build wind turbines, they need to get on with it.
I saw the $14/kWh and wondered if anyone, especially homeowners/renters, actually paid that for electricity. If I found electricity cost me that I'd disconnect from the grid and get my own generator running on the cheapest fuel - natural gas if available, diesel or gasoline and probably go solar, add a small windmill and a battery.
This "department" should be physically separated from the rest of the company, headed by folks who have shown creativity in software and hardware - and anything else that comes to mind - development and given the charge to think beyond what seems currently possible. In other words, innovate. Google has the money to do this it just needs the will to spend it on innovation.
It's also analogous to "Free Shipping." Last time I heard FeEx and UPS charge Amazon, Walmart or Bed Bath and Beyond and other shippers for their work. The ads should say, "Shipping cost included in the price," or something to that effect.
Besides the fact that very few airports could handle the A380, one version could carry ~800 passengers. Imagine even a large airport with the runways that could handle it and getting a large number of them for nearly simultaneous boarding and landing all at once - the terminal would be a mess. And don't even think about the TSA Holdup Theater.
I don't think foreign students, particularly graduate students, in STEM disciplines are taking seats away from foreign students. My experience with American students is they are not qualified for undergraduate educations because of the horrible quality of K-12 education in the US. The other thing that's happening and will accelerate is that some Chinese universities are becoming world class and will increase the production of world class STEM workers. US colleges will suffer from the lack of tuition from foreign students as a result.
Perhaps a bit off topic, but the company may make some profit by selling your DNA data to health insurers. Not sure if this is true. One of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (Obama care) is that insurers can't deny coverage due to a previous condition. Knowledge of a genetic disposition for some condition that might be expensive to treat would be useful to insurers if the ACA goes away as some members of Congress want.
I'd like a new Nexus 7 (or 8) Wi-Fi only - latest Snap Dragon processor and Android version, high quality screen, headphone jack, and more. The size is right for me, better than a phone for sure. I use my Nexus 7 2012 to check on news, listen to music, and read books. Our library district has over 50,000 e books and seems to be adding them faster than paper books and, again, the size is just right for e book reading. But the 2012 N7 is pretty slow when moving around and reading Flipboard. Samsung has some nice tablets, but i'd like pure Android.
What else can explain his comments? When we catch a UFO on the ground occupied by extra-earth aliens, UFOs proven to contain intelligent beings from elsewhere in the universe is not proven beyond reasonable doubt.