No I'd say that is a theory explaining the physical evidence: sun doesn't collapse on itself, is hot, heavier elements exist. Detecting the neutrinos is yet another piece of physical evidence supporting an already existing theory.
Couldn't they have gotten there pretty easily by balancing the forces? You have a mostly hydrogen ball of gas (we can tell from the spectrum of light we get).Gravity would collapse it, something needs to be pushing back at nearly the same force. Hydrogen fusion is a possible solution, do the math and yeah the fusion rate expected given the gravitational forces matches the current balance of forces re: heat expansion, solar wind and gravity. Shy of proposing some magical force that happens not using the matter we can see you are left using what you can see which is hydrogen which should be fusing given its environment. Not a proof but I don't think anything ever is. You could just say yeah fusion happens but some magic force is counter acting it, then a second magical/unknown force that spits out neutrinos happens in the opposite direction. We don't go for that because it isn't the simplest solution but I suggest we were already at the point where hydrogen fusion was the simplest solution: explains how the higher elements get created, balance of forces, why the sun is so hot etc.
My experience is that is generally the case. The problem with performance: you have to convince your boss to spend a month looking into something that "might" help vs doing something they think will get customers. That said often new features are pulled out of their or distributors hats hoping that it is something the customer will actually care about. Web solutions should help with the monitization of performance a bit: you can directly relate people leaving your site to the latency they experienced, can relate the number of servers needed to how inefficient the program/language/OS/whatever is etc. Sometimes it is just inertia too: we have 1M lines of code that are written this way it would take months to fix it... lets do something else. That is why you might not need a lot of design up front but you should at least have your best and brightest working on the new projects because the groundwork they lay will likely be the structure the code keeps for better or worst when it is 5 years later and the codebase has become a beast and you are now relying on it to generate revenue.
Passwords/security inherently get in the way of ease of use. Having to enter your password every time is a risk too: easier for people to look over your shoulder and figure out what you are typing, easier to hit max attempts and accidentally lock yourself out etc.
Not an easy thing but it shouldn't just be password but context. We need a way of saying: "my wife can check my email for that important piece of info I need while driving now, but not later". A one time use code. Germany (and probably others) have a similar system for banks. You have your code and confirmation numbers mailed to you. When you start a transaction it asks you for the corresponding code from the list. You could then at least for your bank account only give someone the one code that they are currently being asked for and not have to worry about them running away and doing more transactions later.
Admittedly anecdotal but when working from home a few months back I had issues with the VPN software not liking win 8. I ended up running virtualbox + xp. I noticed the network performance was way slower (things like loading webpages) when using the vm (even when not connected to the vpn) vs "local" machine. I had GPU optimizations turned on, I had all cores and a lot of ram allocated to the vm and didn't appear to be resource constrained (va task man/perf mon on the host os) etc. There does seem to be a performance impact as far as I can tell. Could you tune it better? Use better vm/host OS etc? I'm sure you can. But it isn't as simple as "modern CPUs/software avoid the penalty" to paraphrase your earlier post. There is work involved at least to tweak it work that doesn't appear to be required to get equivalent performance on a stock "bare metal" install. At any rate my experience has been it is usually good enough not best performance you get. When consolidating a large number of fairly under utilized boxes onto one server sure, but a db or file server that needs to be fast our your whole org feels the latency? Not so much. Hardware/IT time is relatively cheap compared to hundreds of people losing > 1 min a day each.
Deal with client side developers all the time asking for 100MB of data "right now" across an internet pipe (which might be coming from africa or some place with really bad service): why shouldn't we get all the data at the same time? It seems to me that a lot of the performance tuning knowledge is getting lost on a large percentage of devs: the solution is always get someone to get you a fatter internet pipe, bigger server, drop everything and try a new framework etc. Server side developers do it too: "we have a large instance on AWS I guess that is as fast as we go". Very easy to throw your hands up with performance issues because it burns so much time troubleshooting and experimenting versus hacking together the next feature that the customer wants.
Switching costs... somewhat. Now that you have a few years experience with another browser MS isn't the incumbent. they don't have to just match others in features they need to offer something good enough to be worth switching + likely using something different than on your phone/other device.
Yep that is the choice I guess. It is along the lines of the Apple ecosystem though: limited selection: people trust apple to build a solid system at a few different price points for them. They don't expect 20 options for video cards, harddrives, processors etc. A couple choices of each is usually all they are given. The store promised a safe AND easy place to find apps for your device. It has done a reasonable job at the first point but the clutter makes the second one next to impossible. Type VLC you'll get dozens of options only one/a few of which are true VLC the rest just let you stream from your media server. The effort involved in reading all those descriptions even when you had a pretty good idea of what you are looking for in the first place is painful, add to that the chance that you might be paying for each attempt to get what you want and then the store is doing a big disservice to customers: it isn't exactly like you have a returns department or any sort of support for a lot of these apps.
But that is the solution you've chose when you chose to force people to use your store to sell/buy for your devices. By operating the store/setting the bar to entry you are implicitly choosing what should be there. Walmart doesn't sell anyone's crap even online. At some point you have to say we have n types of cereal any more will just be clutter. If you are the n + 1 guy trying to enter the store you are screwed but that is part of determining if you have a business and not just a "me too" product you felt like hacking together on a weekend.
Why do developers have a right to build whatever they want on your platform? If your platform is closed like Apple is they/you don't: get over it. If they don't want a Playboy App it won't exist. If they don't want to support Flash it won't exist. Etc. If you don't like it build for windows or linux, make it a web app instead etc. If your app is really that good it will help people move away/encourage these closed stores to be opened up.
I agree. All app stores I've seen do this. Some just have Games all together, some go one level deeper: games -> puzzle. What is needed is games->puzzle->"like" minesweeper. To keep the subcategories small I'd suggest limiting the number of apps. Sorry we've reached our limit of 20 Tetris like games please do something original.
Allow at most say 10 apps in a particular niche (say todo lists). Any app older than 2 years goes away (or are really buried like you don't get them in searches you have to page though them at 20 apps a page till you find them). You can still access it if you've purchased it in the past but it no longer is available for viewing/new downloads. New submissions with minor changes from existing apps are not accepted (ex: yet another tetris clone with different music or point system). There needs to be a balance between choice and chaos: you don't see every plumber in the country in the phone book because only a few are relevant to you. Similarly with software, to a lesser extent perhaps but still true: there is only so many ways to keep a list of things that makes sense when using a finger sized input device. Keep a few options and dump all the new skin clones.
If you are going to offer a curated store of apps for your platform you should really curate: pick the best or best examples of different approaches to the space and dump the rest.
No I'm thinking sub saharan africa, Malaysia etc. The Indian middle class is still poor in terms of people I want to get money from (maybe if I was living there selling into the market wouldn't be an issue). But (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2327182/The-myth-great-Indian-Middle-class-Roughly-30-Indias-population-lives-poverty-line.html) the world bank calls middle class $2-20 a day so even at the high end we are talking people making $600 a month. I pay about that a month for my commute to work. MS might get some money out of these countries but it won't be anything like the Windows business in its hayday did.
Yeah and so does everyone that makes both. Desktop/laptop is still a large market though. My understanding is Macbook has the largest market share of all models. That said I'm sure it helps that apple has very few models vs something like Dell or Lenovo. But 5M very expensive items at 30%+ profit margin still makes a good dent in anyones profit/loss.
It's funny it is kind of the Mac v PC battle of the late 80's-90's. Platform wins. I have a Lumina 920 and it is a great phone. Win phone is fun to use. But...: not a lot of apps for it. Not that I care much. I'm not into social media crap or a dozen other things. What it does really well right out of the box: hotmail, gmail, facebook contacts all automatically merged (after logging into the relevent apps of course) and shown in one place. It doesn't matter if someone's hotmail has their phone number but their mailing address is only saved on there FB page: it all shows up in the same contact. Dido: things like birthday's and holidays: automatically figured out and notified.
That is pretty much all I needed from a phone: contacts in one place and access to FB for the 1-2 times a month I actually check it. But: I am not the typical smartphone user. MS missed the cool factor boat by a couple years and now have to bribe people (sometimes literally by supplying in house devs to help support a big name app get ported to the platform) to develop for it. Since people aren't sure if they can find the app they want on WinPhone they just go for an Android or iPhone. Them giving out WinPhone for free now will maybe get them a better market share in the low end phones for the developing world but: if you are giving away the software what is the point being in the business? (If you are hoping on making money on selling apps you don't want the entry level 3rd world population as your customer base either).
Some things need domain knowledge especially in programming but also at some level with mechanical engineering things. They can't do everything but a gear head that lives and dreams of cars might have better ideas of how to mount a suspension on a frame than a 4 year mech eng grad that has been taking the bus their whole life. An artist that is a competent coder might be more useful working on Maya than a computer ninja that doesn't understand the workflow of an artist. Similarly for medical software, accounting etc. Things that are themselves their own professions sometime need the coder that is a hack X but they also need the X that is a hack coder.
But you slow down to a crawl if you are iding every customer, they might be using false ids or they've moved since the last time they got a license etc. Plus if you've ever saw a cops episode it seems everyone walks/drives around without any id (maybe that is just criminals some how thinking that if the cops can't figure out who they are they'll just let them go:)). The US is the only rich country I know of that still takes imprints (been to France, Germany, Czech, UK, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, and live in Canada). I've actually never had a imprint of my card because we've always had electronic readers and for the last 5 years or so chips in the card. I don't even know how many stores still have the ability I think it has been over a year since I even saw a imprint device.
I think it will end up being like when traveling to another country with a developed banking system for a long while: you'll pay for almost everything with credit cards or a head of time but you'll still have a couple hundred (equivalent) around just in case someone won't take it for whatever reason.
Ex. power blackouts like NY had last year, or ~15 years ago when New England and Ontario had a power outage for a couple days. Most things will shutdown anyways in those scenarios but still are businesses really not going to want to be able to sell things because their card reader isn't working? Or how about your wallet gets stolen, credit card gets hacked etc? With cash you might/likely have some around the house. How many people have a spare copy of their bank card and credit card and will it work once you report the other one as missing? What you are just going to not buy anything for 3-5 days while you wait for another one?
I've seen numerous talks/podcasts with MS employees and it seemed pretty flat. Many say things like my bosses boss (head of enterprise software) says we should XYZ for our customers. Maybe by the time you get invited to podcasts you are already pretty senior but a lot of them sounded like they were just a member of a team, ASP or C# say. If that is any indication of the hierachy though it probably is only 5-6 levels to the CEO which isn't bad when you have 130k employees basically breaking the company up with each junior manager managing 20 people, their manager managing 20 managers etc all the way up would do that.
It looks like every world cup but perhaps a couple has had a different stitch pattern on the ball. Is there really that much need for innovation? I think it might be cool to have a "better ball" but doesn't the sport at some point lose something from the equipment changing so frequently? Comparing stats when the balls have different characteristics like how smoothly they'll roll, air resistance etc must be the explanation for soccer riots.
I'm not sure if 4.5"x4.5" would feel right but I could see a square phone that you hold at a point (ie speaker/receiver on the diagonal): since the majority of the time phones are used for something other than as a phone having symmetry and not even having to think which way you grab the device would be nice.
You got to do something so you can damn the people that don't believe even after all the evidence. You got to do very little so those that believe you did it look crazy and you give people a reason not to believe in you.
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No I'd say that is a theory explaining the physical evidence: sun doesn't collapse on itself, is hot, heavier elements exist. Detecting the neutrinos is yet another piece of physical evidence supporting an already existing theory.
Couldn't they have gotten there pretty easily by balancing the forces? You have a mostly hydrogen ball of gas (we can tell from the spectrum of light we get).Gravity would collapse it, something needs to be pushing back at nearly the same force. Hydrogen fusion is a possible solution, do the math and yeah the fusion rate expected given the gravitational forces matches the current balance of forces re: heat expansion, solar wind and gravity. Shy of proposing some magical force that happens not using the matter we can see you are left using what you can see which is hydrogen which should be fusing given its environment. Not a proof but I don't think anything ever is. You could just say yeah fusion happens but some magic force is counter acting it, then a second magical/unknown force that spits out neutrinos happens in the opposite direction. We don't go for that because it isn't the simplest solution but I suggest we were already at the point where hydrogen fusion was the simplest solution: explains how the higher elements get created, balance of forces, why the sun is so hot etc.
My experience is that is generally the case. The problem with performance: you have to convince your boss to spend a month looking into something that "might" help vs doing something they think will get customers. That said often new features are pulled out of their or distributors hats hoping that it is something the customer will actually care about. Web solutions should help with the monitization of performance a bit: you can directly relate people leaving your site to the latency they experienced, can relate the number of servers needed to how inefficient the program/language/OS/whatever is etc. Sometimes it is just inertia too: we have 1M lines of code that are written this way it would take months to fix it ... lets do something else. That is why you might not need a lot of design up front but you should at least have your best and brightest working on the new projects because the groundwork they lay will likely be the structure the code keeps for better or worst when it is 5 years later and the codebase has become a beast and you are now relying on it to generate revenue.
I use the tool I have for the job I'm doing. Please take your zealotry to the middle east. It is only appreciated there.
Passwords/security inherently get in the way of ease of use. Having to enter your password every time is a risk too: easier for people to look over your shoulder and figure out what you are typing, easier to hit max attempts and accidentally lock yourself out etc.
Not an easy thing but it shouldn't just be password but context. We need a way of saying: "my wife can check my email for that important piece of info I need while driving now, but not later". A one time use code. Germany (and probably others) have a similar system for banks. You have your code and confirmation numbers mailed to you. When you start a transaction it asks you for the corresponding code from the list. You could then at least for your bank account only give someone the one code that they are currently being asked for and not have to worry about them running away and doing more transactions later.
Admittedly anecdotal but when working from home a few months back I had issues with the VPN software not liking win 8. I ended up running virtualbox + xp. I noticed the network performance was way slower (things like loading webpages) when using the vm (even when not connected to the vpn) vs "local" machine. I had GPU optimizations turned on, I had all cores and a lot of ram allocated to the vm and didn't appear to be resource constrained (va task man/perf mon on the host os) etc. There does seem to be a performance impact as far as I can tell. Could you tune it better? Use better vm/host OS etc? I'm sure you can. But it isn't as simple as "modern CPUs/software avoid the penalty" to paraphrase your earlier post. There is work involved at least to tweak it work that doesn't appear to be required to get equivalent performance on a stock "bare metal" install. At any rate my experience has been it is usually good enough not best performance you get. When consolidating a large number of fairly under utilized boxes onto one server sure, but a db or file server that needs to be fast our your whole org feels the latency? Not so much. Hardware/IT time is relatively cheap compared to hundreds of people losing > 1 min a day each.
Deal with client side developers all the time asking for 100MB of data "right now" across an internet pipe (which might be coming from africa or some place with really bad service): why shouldn't we get all the data at the same time? It seems to me that a lot of the performance tuning knowledge is getting lost on a large percentage of devs: the solution is always get someone to get you a fatter internet pipe, bigger server, drop everything and try a new framework etc. Server side developers do it too: "we have a large instance on AWS I guess that is as fast as we go". Very easy to throw your hands up with performance issues because it burns so much time troubleshooting and experimenting versus hacking together the next feature that the customer wants.
Switching costs ... somewhat. Now that you have a few years experience with another browser MS isn't the incumbent. they don't have to just match others in features they need to offer something good enough to be worth switching + likely using something different than on your phone/other device.
Can't wait for the marketing spam on that one: Have you tried Stool yet? Click here to sample stool.
Yep that is the choice I guess. It is along the lines of the Apple ecosystem though: limited selection: people trust apple to build a solid system at a few different price points for them. They don't expect 20 options for video cards, harddrives, processors etc. A couple choices of each is usually all they are given. The store promised a safe AND easy place to find apps for your device. It has done a reasonable job at the first point but the clutter makes the second one next to impossible. Type VLC you'll get dozens of options only one/a few of which are true VLC the rest just let you stream from your media server. The effort involved in reading all those descriptions even when you had a pretty good idea of what you are looking for in the first place is painful, add to that the chance that you might be paying for each attempt to get what you want and then the store is doing a big disservice to customers: it isn't exactly like you have a returns department or any sort of support for a lot of these apps.
But that is the solution you've chose when you chose to force people to use your store to sell/buy for your devices. By operating the store/setting the bar to entry you are implicitly choosing what should be there. Walmart doesn't sell anyone's crap even online. At some point you have to say we have n types of cereal any more will just be clutter. If you are the n + 1 guy trying to enter the store you are screwed but that is part of determining if you have a business and not just a "me too" product you felt like hacking together on a weekend.
Why do developers have a right to build whatever they want on your platform? If your platform is closed like Apple is they/you don't: get over it. If they don't want a Playboy App it won't exist. If they don't want to support Flash it won't exist. Etc. If you don't like it build for windows or linux, make it a web app instead etc. If your app is really that good it will help people move away/encourage these closed stores to be opened up.
I agree. All app stores I've seen do this. Some just have Games all together, some go one level deeper: games -> puzzle. What is needed is games->puzzle->"like" minesweeper. To keep the subcategories small I'd suggest limiting the number of apps. Sorry we've reached our limit of 20 Tetris like games please do something original.
Allow at most say 10 apps in a particular niche (say todo lists). Any app older than 2 years goes away (or are really buried like you don't get them in searches you have to page though them at 20 apps a page till you find them). You can still access it if you've purchased it in the past but it no longer is available for viewing/new downloads. New submissions with minor changes from existing apps are not accepted (ex: yet another tetris clone with different music or point system). There needs to be a balance between choice and chaos: you don't see every plumber in the country in the phone book because only a few are relevant to you. Similarly with software, to a lesser extent perhaps but still true: there is only so many ways to keep a list of things that makes sense when using a finger sized input device. Keep a few options and dump all the new skin clones.
If you are going to offer a curated store of apps for your platform you should really curate: pick the best or best examples of different approaches to the space and dump the rest.
No I'm thinking sub saharan africa, Malaysia etc. The Indian middle class is still poor in terms of people I want to get money from (maybe if I was living there selling into the market wouldn't be an issue). But (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2327182/The-myth-great-Indian-Middle-class-Roughly-30-Indias-population-lives-poverty-line.html) the world bank calls middle class $2-20 a day so even at the high end we are talking people making $600 a month. I pay about that a month for my commute to work. MS might get some money out of these countries but it won't be anything like the Windows business in its hayday did.
Yeah and so does everyone that makes both. Desktop/laptop is still a large market though. My understanding is Macbook has the largest market share of all models. That said I'm sure it helps that apple has very few models vs something like Dell or Lenovo. But 5M very expensive items at 30%+ profit margin still makes a good dent in anyones profit/loss.
It's funny it is kind of the Mac v PC battle of the late 80's-90's. Platform wins. I have a Lumina 920 and it is a great phone. Win phone is fun to use. But ...: not a lot of apps for it. Not that I care much. I'm not into social media crap or a dozen other things. What it does really well right out of the box: hotmail, gmail, facebook contacts all automatically merged (after logging into the relevent apps of course) and shown in one place. It doesn't matter if someone's hotmail has their phone number but their mailing address is only saved on there FB page: it all shows up in the same contact. Dido: things like birthday's and holidays: automatically figured out and notified.
That is pretty much all I needed from a phone: contacts in one place and access to FB for the 1-2 times a month I actually check it. But: I am not the typical smartphone user. MS missed the cool factor boat by a couple years and now have to bribe people (sometimes literally by supplying in house devs to help support a big name app get ported to the platform) to develop for it. Since people aren't sure if they can find the app they want on WinPhone they just go for an Android or iPhone. Them giving out WinPhone for free now will maybe get them a better market share in the low end phones for the developing world but: if you are giving away the software what is the point being in the business? (If you are hoping on making money on selling apps you don't want the entry level 3rd world population as your customer base either).
Some things need domain knowledge especially in programming but also at some level with mechanical engineering things. They can't do everything but a gear head that lives and dreams of cars might have better ideas of how to mount a suspension on a frame than a 4 year mech eng grad that has been taking the bus their whole life. An artist that is a competent coder might be more useful working on Maya than a computer ninja that doesn't understand the workflow of an artist. Similarly for medical software, accounting etc. Things that are themselves their own professions sometime need the coder that is a hack X but they also need the X that is a hack coder.
So you don't need to make or sell products.
But you slow down to a crawl if you are iding every customer, they might be using false ids or they've moved since the last time they got a license etc. Plus if you've ever saw a cops episode it seems everyone walks/drives around without any id (maybe that is just criminals some how thinking that if the cops can't figure out who they are they'll just let them go :)). The US is the only rich country I know of that still takes imprints (been to France, Germany, Czech, UK, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, and live in Canada). I've actually never had a imprint of my card because we've always had electronic readers and for the last 5 years or so chips in the card. I don't even know how many stores still have the ability I think it has been over a year since I even saw a imprint device.
I think it will end up being like when traveling to another country with a developed banking system for a long while: you'll pay for almost everything with credit cards or a head of time but you'll still have a couple hundred (equivalent) around just in case someone won't take it for whatever reason.
Ex. power blackouts like NY had last year, or ~15 years ago when New England and Ontario had a power outage for a couple days. Most things will shutdown anyways in those scenarios but still are businesses really not going to want to be able to sell things because their card reader isn't working? Or how about your wallet gets stolen, credit card gets hacked etc? With cash you might/likely have some around the house. How many people have a spare copy of their bank card and credit card and will it work once you report the other one as missing? What you are just going to not buy anything for 3-5 days while you wait for another one?
I've seen numerous talks/podcasts with MS employees and it seemed pretty flat. Many say things like my bosses boss (head of enterprise software) says we should XYZ for our customers. Maybe by the time you get invited to podcasts you are already pretty senior but a lot of them sounded like they were just a member of a team, ASP or C# say. If that is any indication of the hierachy though it probably is only 5-6 levels to the CEO which isn't bad when you have 130k employees basically breaking the company up with each junior manager managing 20 people, their manager managing 20 managers etc all the way up would do that.
But this team lives close to me therefore it is the most important thing in my life to see them win.
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It looks like every world cup but perhaps a couple has had a different stitch pattern on the ball. Is there really that much need for innovation? I think it might be cool to have a "better ball" but doesn't the sport at some point lose something from the equipment changing so frequently? Comparing stats when the balls have different characteristics like how smoothly they'll roll, air resistance etc must be the explanation for soccer riots.
I'm not sure if 4.5"x4.5" would feel right but I could see a square phone that you hold at a point (ie speaker/receiver on the diagonal): since the majority of the time phones are used for something other than as a phone having symmetry and not even having to think which way you grab the device would be nice.
You got to do something so you can damn the people that don't believe even after all the evidence. You got to do very little so those that believe you did it look crazy and you give people a reason not to believe in you.