So their idea is to re-post propaganda videos? I thought their stated job was to help combat terrorism (when they aren't busy creating their own elsewhere).
But Surface (and more so the second versions announced) isn't just marketed nor targeted at being a tablet. It makes a great laptop when you have the keyboard/cover. And the new docking station solidifies its place on your desktop.
I use a Surface Pro for development - even running Hyper-V with a couple of VMs at a time for testing - and am quite happy with it. The screen could be bigger, but that doesn't make for a good tablet and the docking station will help fill that void (not to mention multi-screen development is easier in various scenarios anyway).
And while I probably don't need a 512GB SSD (256GB should be plenty since I use cloud storage for a lot of stuff, much of which isn't cached locally), the 8GB option at $1300 is comparable to - and even better than some - laptops/ultrabooks that are reasonable for development.
...while reducing the hassles of boarding a plane that deter some people from flying.
So they're reducing prices for luggage and fuel? The hiked ticket prices to cover the fuel hike in 2009, as well as tacked on additional fees for luggage, obesity, etc. Prices didn't drop back down much compared to the hike, and then they hike prices again for the 2011 oil scare.
And your typical consumer neither understands DRM nor cares, as long as the mainstream scenarios work (and they most often do). DRM schemes are a technophile argument and, unfortunately, most consumers aren't technophiles.
I can't see how YouTube would outright drop support for H.264. IE still makes up 56% across all versions (source: http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0). Google would be fools to dissuade that many customers away from YouTube as well as any sites that embed YouTube videos. As one reply says in this regard, they might use another site.
But even that doesn't always work. When was the last time you filled out an application that required (otherwise I don't give it) your email address and there wasn't even enough room to write it? Limitations are found even on physical paper.
That, and you have to question how much time was spent on social networking sites as well. I know of a lot of people with similar "disadvantaged" backgrounds that waste their days away on Facebook et. al.
Besides, they should be reading more/. and other real news sites!
And while I agree that our dependence on oil is a contributing factor, everyone saying it's all our fault needs to stop driving, stop taking the bus or anything that uses petrol and live up to your claims. Yes, alternative fuels will be nice someday, but get off your soapbox and start practicing what you're preaching. It's not so easy, is it?
We need more R&D into alternative fuels but right now much of that is being done by the oil companies, and our shoddy education system based on standardized tests doesn't exactly turn out the best and the brightest to contribute to more R&D. I see that as a bigger problem that will fail to sustain America.
Movie:If you want Calculon to race to the laser gun battle in his hover-Ferarri, press 1. If you want Calculon to double-check his paperwork, press 2. Enter now.
How would that help? Yeah, they screwed up by making shortcuts and not properly inspecting equipment and they should be fined. Fixing this disaster would cost them big. But to get rid of BP - one of the largest oil companies in the world? Consider the economic impact of that - many jobs lost, decreased tax revenue, and certainly OPEC will raise oil prices from a drop in competition (they do that).
Silverlight supports Accessibility APIs natively. It also works on Mac and Linux (through Moonlight). It can also be easily scaled if, for example, hosted in a DIV with relative size (and, optionally, positioning).
Drag the Windows task bar to the top of the screen where you claim your mouse usually is. So now what't the point? The GP post asks the right question: how does this boost productivity if I can't place Windows side by side (and in Windows 7 this is even easier by dragging one window to one edge of the screen, and another to the other edge of the screen)?
Actually, Silverlight 3 supports browser navigation with very little work on the Silverlight developer's part. Without refreshing the page, it adds to the history by using bookmarks and clicking back does work. Also with very little work is a way to represent the same data in the web page via server output using SEO extensions, so content is still searchable. Sure you have to code a minimal UI with the same data, but with shared business objects and a thinweight UI layer you can achieve this pretty simply.
Mod parent up. Although it seems most so far get what UAC does/doesn't, for the rest of you: UAC helps prevent privileged execution by running everything in a filtered token for administrators (very close to normal user). If a virus doesn't require elevated privileges then UAC won't help.
But not all, and they have no way QA to validate their claims.
Besides, how can you trust that anyone knows then end date? Why would Mayan's have such knowledge, and that a culture that is long lost even has an understanding of the heavens? Even with all today's telescopes, probes, and such we still can't explain much / most of it.
It seems foolish to believe, and a waste to discuss. And if I'm wrong...well, you can point and laugh at me after the apocolypse.
I remember sometime back on/. when WSJ was reporting rumors and the statement was basically the same: WTF WSJ? I thought they were supposed to be more tactful than that, or are they just trying to cope in a world where print is quickly dying (and the economic situation doesn't help either)?
I hardly see how that's comparable. Slaves are still people and limited compared to robots of iRobot (yeah, still a long way off but certainly doable). And times were harder in some ways back the, requiring much more work than today. More people - slaves or free - were required to even push information around (even back when there was actually tubes).
In this event, yes, socialism or something like it will be required - assuming the robots realize they don't need us and kill us off like in Terminator and so many others that show what happens when you break any of the Three Rules of Robotics. But that's also a long way off. Most people fear the very words "socialism" and "communism" because of history or just not understanding them. Even recent talks in the U.S. about nationalizing banks scares most people who start spouting "Yeah, like Japan!" and all sorts of stuff not thinking rationally through all the scenarios.
But we are living in the "now". Problems are happening now. Now is not the time to worry only for investors (frankly, I don't think that time is ever right). As people are laid off the economy is affected adversely. People without jobs means more burden on social programs which may require higher taxes and less spending by people and companies to cope (especially those now without jobs). And that leads to fewer jobs. Further down the downward spiral we go.
Progress is definitely important, but laying off hundreds or thousands of workers degrades the overall economic conditions. There's only so much money for educational grants and loans that a lot of people (or even by their sheer laziness) will have to live off of social programs like wellfare. And that's a burden on society to have to pay. Maybe if someone were to do all the math society as a whole might fare slightly better, but nowhere near what a lot of poeple are probably thinking. (I don't agree lazy people deserve such privileges, but should we just let them die of starvation?)
Educating people costs money, and as we automate (or replace like in this topic's manner) more and more, fewer and fewer people are required. Some additional jobs might created on building on that technology or making it better, but not enough to cover all the displaced workers. And do we really need more people behind the counters of even more McDonald's?
There's quite a few video games I like. Should I vote their corresponding movies up even if Uwe Boll directs? That's idiotic. Love an actor. Love the book, video game, or writer that inspired the movie script. But don't vote a movie just based on that. It really shows ignorance.
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So their idea is to re-post propaganda videos? I thought their stated job was to help combat terrorism (when they aren't busy creating their own elsewhere).
But Surface (and more so the second versions announced) isn't just marketed nor targeted at being a tablet. It makes a great laptop when you have the keyboard/cover. And the new docking station solidifies its place on your desktop.
I use a Surface Pro for development - even running Hyper-V with a couple of VMs at a time for testing - and am quite happy with it. The screen could be bigger, but that doesn't make for a good tablet and the docking station will help fill that void (not to mention multi-screen development is easier in various scenarios anyway).
And while I probably don't need a 512GB SSD (256GB should be plenty since I use cloud storage for a lot of stuff, much of which isn't cached locally), the 8GB option at $1300 is comparable to - and even better than some - laptops/ultrabooks that are reasonable for development.
Did you read the original post? There's actually more room for content now when compared to Explorer that's been around in Vista and Win7.
Use vim and you'll get better.
So they're reducing prices for luggage and fuel? The hiked ticket prices to cover the fuel hike in 2009, as well as tacked on additional fees for luggage, obesity, etc. Prices didn't drop back down much compared to the hike, and then they hike prices again for the 2011 oil scare.
That's pretty much what keeps me from flying.
But the cultists probably froze to death...err, re-death.
And your typical consumer neither understands DRM nor cares, as long as the mainstream scenarios work (and they most often do). DRM schemes are a technophile argument and, unfortunately, most consumers aren't technophiles.
Have you even looked at the list of providers? They are third-party sites, like eTrust that has been around for ages.
I can't see how YouTube would outright drop support for H.264. IE still makes up 56% across all versions (source: http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0). Google would be fools to dissuade that many customers away from YouTube as well as any sites that embed YouTube videos. As one reply says in this regard, they might use another site.
But even that doesn't always work. When was the last time you filled out an application that required (otherwise I don't give it) your email address and there wasn't even enough room to write it? Limitations are found even on physical paper.
That, and you have to question how much time was spent on social networking sites as well. I know of a lot of people with similar "disadvantaged" backgrounds that waste their days away on Facebook et. al.
Besides, they should be reading more /. and other real news sites!
BP took shortcuts. It is their fault.
And while I agree that our dependence on oil is a contributing factor, everyone saying it's all our fault needs to stop driving, stop taking the bus or anything that uses petrol and live up to your claims. Yes, alternative fuels will be nice someday, but get off your soapbox and start practicing what you're preaching. It's not so easy, is it?
We need more R&D into alternative fuels but right now much of that is being done by the oil companies, and our shoddy education system based on standardized tests doesn't exactly turn out the best and the brightest to contribute to more R&D. I see that as a bigger problem that will fail to sustain America.
Like "All My Circuits: the Movie"?
How would that help? Yeah, they screwed up by making shortcuts and not properly inspecting equipment and they should be fined. Fixing this disaster would cost them big. But to get rid of BP - one of the largest oil companies in the world? Consider the economic impact of that - many jobs lost, decreased tax revenue, and certainly OPEC will raise oil prices from a drop in competition (they do that).
...I'm a doctor, not a patient! - Dr. McCoy when asked to wave the tricorder medical scanner for 24 hours waiting for a diagnosis.
Silverlight supports Accessibility APIs natively. It also works on Mac and Linux (through Moonlight). It can also be easily scaled if, for example, hosted in a DIV with relative size (and, optionally, positioning).
Drag the Windows task bar to the top of the screen where you claim your mouse usually is. So now what't the point? The GP post asks the right question: how does this boost productivity if I can't place Windows side by side (and in Windows 7 this is even easier by dragging one window to one edge of the screen, and another to the other edge of the screen)?
Actually, Silverlight 3 supports browser navigation with very little work on the Silverlight developer's part. Without refreshing the page, it adds to the history by using bookmarks and clicking back does work. Also with very little work is a way to represent the same data in the web page via server output using SEO extensions, so content is still searchable. Sure you have to code a minimal UI with the same data, but with shared business objects and a thinweight UI layer you can achieve this pretty simply.
Mod parent up. Although it seems most so far get what UAC does/doesn't, for the rest of you: UAC helps prevent privileged execution by running everything in a filtered token for administrators (very close to normal user). If a virus doesn't require elevated privileges then UAC won't help.
But not all, and they have no way QA to validate their claims.
Besides, how can you trust that anyone knows then end date? Why would Mayan's have such knowledge, and that a culture that is long lost even has an understanding of the heavens? Even with all today's telescopes, probes, and such we still can't explain much / most of it.
It seems foolish to believe, and a waste to discuss. And if I'm wrong...well, you can point and laugh at me after the apocolypse.
ViM only needs 7 versions to get it right. Emacs is at 23?
I remember sometime back on /. when WSJ was reporting rumors and the statement was basically the same: WTF WSJ? I thought they were supposed to be more tactful than that, or are they just trying to cope in a world where print is quickly dying (and the economic situation doesn't help either)?
I hardly see how that's comparable. Slaves are still people and limited compared to robots of iRobot (yeah, still a long way off but certainly doable). And times were harder in some ways back the, requiring much more work than today. More people - slaves or free - were required to even push information around (even back when there was actually tubes).
In this event, yes, socialism or something like it will be required - assuming the robots realize they don't need us and kill us off like in Terminator and so many others that show what happens when you break any of the Three Rules of Robotics. But that's also a long way off. Most people fear the very words "socialism" and "communism" because of history or just not understanding them. Even recent talks in the U.S. about nationalizing banks scares most people who start spouting "Yeah, like Japan!" and all sorts of stuff not thinking rationally through all the scenarios.
But we are living in the "now". Problems are happening now. Now is not the time to worry only for investors (frankly, I don't think that time is ever right). As people are laid off the economy is affected adversely. People without jobs means more burden on social programs which may require higher taxes and less spending by people and companies to cope (especially those now without jobs). And that leads to fewer jobs. Further down the downward spiral we go.
Progress is definitely important, but laying off hundreds or thousands of workers degrades the overall economic conditions. There's only so much money for educational grants and loans that a lot of people (or even by their sheer laziness) will have to live off of social programs like wellfare. And that's a burden on society to have to pay. Maybe if someone were to do all the math society as a whole might fare slightly better, but nowhere near what a lot of poeple are probably thinking. (I don't agree lazy people deserve such privileges, but should we just let them die of starvation?)
Educating people costs money, and as we automate (or replace like in this topic's manner) more and more, fewer and fewer people are required. Some additional jobs might created on building on that technology or making it better, but not enough to cover all the displaced workers. And do we really need more people behind the counters of even more McDonald's?
There's quite a few video games I like. Should I vote their corresponding movies up even if Uwe Boll directs? That's idiotic. Love an actor. Love the book, video game, or writer that inspired the movie script. But don't vote a movie just based on that. It really shows ignorance.