It came out 16 years ago, but it was sold in NEW computers less than a decade ago. When Microsoft was anxiously trying to get people to move to the abysmal Vista the customers often discovered that the "Vista Ready" computers were not able to run Vista and so some vendors would downgrade to XP in order to sell them.
And do be honest, these computers aren't all that old. Some may have been major purchases when new, so why not allow the computers to run for a decade instead of the modern concept of shoving them to landfills once a year? The snag is that those computers can't support Vista (even newer than XP) or Windows 7 or heaven forbid Windows 10.
Great, you can pay for their new computers then. I suspect most of the XP owners aren't upgrading to Windows but will be using the phones or tablets instead.
Haiti was shunned by all its neighboring countries because they had a successful slave revolt against the French. Thomas Jefferson who was president at the time refused to recognize the new state. Economically it was mostly isolated which greatly hindered its development compared to the Dominican Republic.
As for Mexico, it was conqured by Spain, a western European country. A Spaniard would likely be called a gringo by a mexican. Spain treated its colonies as resources to exploit. On the plus side, Spain got rid of slavery before Americans did, and part of the reason Texas revolted was in order to keep its slaves.
I don't know how much better developed it would have become. The US was not very well developed until the 20th century. Much of Mexico is also desert which inhibits economic development. Historically for example, El Paso on the US side versus Juarez on the south were very similar economically and the population readily travelled across the border as if it were one large city, until the 1930s. The differences economically are not due to race or ethnicity.
That's either dumb of your or is overly partisan. The Obama administration deported more people than the Dubya administration. Stop getting your news from Infowars.
They certainly got here when no one else was here so there was no one around to ask permission to immigrate. Unlike the Europeans who showed up with smallbox and guns.
You need the ABI to be fixed before inter-language linking will work. Ie object file linking to object file or library. You will not always have full source code to all the stuff you need to link to. Both sides have to agree on how the stack is layed out, what register usage shall be, and so forth.
And the tools matter. GCC, binutils, and gdb are dropping support for the ABI that was chosen naively a decade for the project I'm on, and it's not trivial to just switch to the more commonly used format (ARM EABI) because of other naive decisions like assuming a particular layout of structures or the use of bitfields. Stuff almost no one does after having some experience in porting software to different types of architecture. It really is a good idea to use a standardly used ABI for your architecture.
Yes, on a systems language, doing real programming that touches the hardware, not a scripting language like on the web. Even if you're using Python or such, the people who actually write those languages have to comply with the ABIs under the hood.
ABIs are very important if you're going to be portable, or you want to interact with third party tools like debuggers and linkers, or link to third party libraries.
Because assembler is an order of magnitude harder to write in than C, your one week task will take a month instead, and trying to fix someone else's assembler module will take many months deciphering it. Assembler is also not portable. C is extremely portable precisely because it is much more portable and has very good optimization opportunities. You will find many OSX developers who know C fluently, it's what OSX is written in.
No one really cares about that except Trump, who's still bitter and angry and not being able to buy into the franchise. He's the president of a major world power, he needs to stop focusing on television ratings and viewership numbers. Popularity games are fine in high school but need to stop once one enters the real world.
You never get "support" from Microsoft. All you get are patches. They will not accept your calls if you have bugs, or help you resolve any issues. As long as you're getting security patches then you're getting full support. All the non-security patches these days seem like attempts to either get you ready for Windows 10, add more Azerbaijani language support, or fix an obscure issue in remote desktop.
(my apologies for Azerbaijanis who are experiencing remote desktop issues in Windows 10 for painting you with a stereotypical brush)
The guy just had a toddler temper tantrum with Canada and now he's supposed to be talking to the most crazy dictator out there and we think he can accomplish something? Sure, we *should* be talking. But we should be prepared too, get the facts too before negotiating. He should know how many nukes we have, should know the history of the Korean war, know why the North and South don't trust each other, know why North Korea distrusts America, know the history of other negotiations in the past, and so forth.
Trump was good at deal making in the early days. Later on though, when word got around that his deals resulted in you getting shafted, he had much more problems making the deals. He's got a massive ego that makes him erroneously think that he's a good negotiator, and an ego big enough to seriously screw up the talks. Just look at how he had a toddler tantrum at Canada, does you honestly think that North Korea will be easier for him to deal with than Canada?
They're also extremely expensive to make. Customers demand the best graphics, full voice acting, more features than the previous games, and so forth. So with all that expense they feel that they must have a blockbuster hit in order to pay for it all (well, after saving money by working underpaid devs and artists to death). And like movie blockbusters, the plan is to never innovate or do anything different that might cause a drop in sales.
So you can try to look at indie games to make up the difference. But they're in a bind too - too many devs are doing simplistic stuff (non-coders throwing stuff together with an existing engine) and are still desperate to monetize just to cover the cost of not having a paying job for the last two years. So you get preview versions you have to pay for just to keep the hype up a year before the game is scheduled to be done, and so forth.
It's a weird industry. Meanwhile, we can still play Fallout 3 forever...
EA is the McDonald's of gaming. Lots of customers who don't expect anything notable. So they'll make a ton of money while being roundly panned by critics.
She's also in a settlement agreement with the S.E.C. that she won't be an officer or director of a company for ten years. So I'm unsure how she's raising money now, who would raise money for a company they can't be a part of? But she's going to jail soon enough I think, there are criminal charges pending.
She did lose all her money as well apparently. She had common stock (whoops!) and when the company was revalued her shares lost all value. And since she exercised her options, she was in debt because of it (in any startup, get some cash compensation even if you're CEO).
But the thing is, she didn't have the "bright" part. She dropped out of Stanford as an undergraduate, so no degree beyond high school. Unlike Zuckerberg or Gates, you don't just become an expert on your own in advanced biochemistry and medicine. There was no one with degrees in medicine or biology or a related build on the Theranos board. The employee turnover rate at Theranos was extremely high, so there was no one senior at Theranos with the relevant background either.
Her relevant background was essentially that she worked in a lab at Stanford with a respected engineering professor (not medical), and she later worked in a lab where she filed for a patent (b.f.d., it's so easy to get a patent these days).
The entire thing appears to have been a sham from start to end. Investors used to working for the typical Silicon Valley startup whose brilliant idea is "it's a social media web site, but the feed is on the left instead of the right!" were duped into thinking that could shift to a medical startup without knowing anything about the field.
If you count startups, most of them have incompetents CEOs. It's not at all a big deal to become a CEO, just get a friend and declare yourself a startup, and voila you are a CEO. Sure, she talked a big game and got some funding, but that's not really being the same thing as a business leader. She clearly showed how terrible she was at business leadership.
What she did wasn't really standard business practice. I know we like to talk that way, but what she did went way beyond fudging some numbers and doing a lot of hand waving at marketing demos. There are CEOs and CFOs who've gone to jail for far less than what she did.
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It came out 16 years ago, but it was sold in NEW computers less than a decade ago. When Microsoft was anxiously trying to get people to move to the abysmal Vista the customers often discovered that the "Vista Ready" computers were not able to run Vista and so some vendors would downgrade to XP in order to sell them.
And do be honest, these computers aren't all that old. Some may have been major purchases when new, so why not allow the computers to run for a decade instead of the modern concept of shoving them to landfills once a year? The snag is that those computers can't support Vista (even newer than XP) or Windows 7 or heaven forbid Windows 10.
Great, you can pay for their new computers then. I suspect most of the XP owners aren't upgrading to Windows but will be using the phones or tablets instead.
Modern games aren't necessarily better games. And the XP computers might not even be on the internet and thus safer than the new junk.
There's a difference between not supporting that OS versus actively prohibiting it. The new "features" in steam could have been made optional.
Alternately, get all the games downloaded and go into offline mode permanently.
Upgrading the OS is not easy, in most of these cases it will require a brand new computer.
Haiti was shunned by all its neighboring countries because they had a successful slave revolt against the French. Thomas Jefferson who was president at the time refused to recognize the new state. Economically it was mostly isolated which greatly hindered its development compared to the Dominican Republic.
As for Mexico, it was conqured by Spain, a western European country. A Spaniard would likely be called a gringo by a mexican. Spain treated its colonies as resources to exploit. On the plus side, Spain got rid of slavery before Americans did, and part of the reason Texas revolted was in order to keep its slaves.
I don't know how much better developed it would have become. The US was not very well developed until the 20th century. Much of Mexico is also desert which inhibits economic development. Historically for example, El Paso on the US side versus Juarez on the south were very similar economically and the population readily travelled across the border as if it were one large city, until the 1930s. The differences economically are not due to race or ethnicity.
It's basically a case of national security. When the electronics fail then how does society manage?
I still see the DEC logo (hint, it's the one that says "digital").
That's either dumb of your or is overly partisan. The Obama administration deported more people than the Dubya administration. Stop getting your news from Infowars.
Certainly many Mexicans were well established here in California long before the gringos showed up.
They certainly got here when no one else was here so there was no one around to ask permission to immigrate. Unlike the Europeans who showed up with smallbox and guns.
I'd also like to add that there is nothing unpatriotic about expressing free speech. Trying to shut up free speech is what is unpatriotic.
You need the ABI to be fixed before inter-language linking will work. Ie object file linking to object file or library. You will not always have full source code to all the stuff you need to link to. Both sides have to agree on how the stack is layed out, what register usage shall be, and so forth.
And the tools matter. GCC, binutils, and gdb are dropping support for the ABI that was chosen naively a decade for the project I'm on, and it's not trivial to just switch to the more commonly used format (ARM EABI) because of other naive decisions like assuming a particular layout of structures or the use of bitfields. Stuff almost no one does after having some experience in porting software to different types of architecture. It really is a good idea to use a standardly used ABI for your architecture.
Yes, on a systems language, doing real programming that touches the hardware, not a scripting language like on the web. Even if you're using Python or such, the people who actually write those languages have to comply with the ABIs under the hood.
ABIs are very important if you're going to be portable, or you want to interact with third party tools like debuggers and linkers, or link to third party libraries.
Because assembler is an order of magnitude harder to write in than C, your one week task will take a month instead, and trying to fix someone else's assembler module will take many months deciphering it. Assembler is also not portable. C is extremely portable precisely because it is much more portable and has very good optimization opportunities. You will find many OSX developers who know C fluently, it's what OSX is written in.
No one really cares about that except Trump, who's still bitter and angry and not being able to buy into the franchise. He's the president of a major world power, he needs to stop focusing on television ratings and viewership numbers. Popularity games are fine in high school but need to stop once one enters the real world.
You never get "support" from Microsoft. All you get are patches. They will not accept your calls if you have bugs, or help you resolve any issues. As long as you're getting security patches then you're getting full support. All the non-security patches these days seem like attempts to either get you ready for Windows 10, add more Azerbaijani language support, or fix an obscure issue in remote desktop.
(my apologies for Azerbaijanis who are experiencing remote desktop issues in Windows 10 for painting you with a stereotypical brush)
But I came here for an argument!
The guy just had a toddler temper tantrum with Canada and now he's supposed to be talking to the most crazy dictator out there and we think he can accomplish something? Sure, we *should* be talking. But we should be prepared too, get the facts too before negotiating. He should know how many nukes we have, should know the history of the Korean war, know why the North and South don't trust each other, know why North Korea distrusts America, know the history of other negotiations in the past, and so forth.
Trump was good at deal making in the early days. Later on though, when word got around that his deals resulted in you getting shafted, he had much more problems making the deals. He's got a massive ego that makes him erroneously think that he's a good negotiator, and an ego big enough to seriously screw up the talks. Just look at how he had a toddler tantrum at Canada, does you honestly think that North Korea will be easier for him to deal with than Canada?
They're also extremely expensive to make. Customers demand the best graphics, full voice acting, more features than the previous games, and so forth. So with all that expense they feel that they must have a blockbuster hit in order to pay for it all (well, after saving money by working underpaid devs and artists to death). And like movie blockbusters, the plan is to never innovate or do anything different that might cause a drop in sales.
So you can try to look at indie games to make up the difference. But they're in a bind too - too many devs are doing simplistic stuff (non-coders throwing stuff together with an existing engine) and are still desperate to monetize just to cover the cost of not having a paying job for the last two years. So you get preview versions you have to pay for just to keep the hype up a year before the game is scheduled to be done, and so forth.
It's a weird industry. Meanwhile, we can still play Fallout 3 forever...
EA is the McDonald's of gaming. Lots of customers who don't expect anything notable. So they'll make a ton of money while being roundly panned by critics.
She's also in a settlement agreement with the S.E.C. that she won't be an officer or director of a company for ten years. So I'm unsure how she's raising money now, who would raise money for a company they can't be a part of? But she's going to jail soon enough I think, there are criminal charges pending.
She did lose all her money as well apparently. She had common stock (whoops!) and when the company was revalued her shares lost all value. And since she exercised her options, she was in debt because of it (in any startup, get some cash compensation even if you're CEO).
But the thing is, she didn't have the "bright" part. She dropped out of Stanford as an undergraduate, so no degree beyond high school. Unlike Zuckerberg or Gates, you don't just become an expert on your own in advanced biochemistry and medicine. There was no one with degrees in medicine or biology or a related build on the Theranos board. The employee turnover rate at Theranos was extremely high, so there was no one senior at Theranos with the relevant background either.
Her relevant background was essentially that she worked in a lab at Stanford with a respected engineering professor (not medical), and she later worked in a lab where she filed for a patent (b.f.d., it's so easy to get a patent these days).
The entire thing appears to have been a sham from start to end. Investors used to working for the typical Silicon Valley startup whose brilliant idea is "it's a social media web site, but the feed is on the left instead of the right!" were duped into thinking that could shift to a medical startup without knowing anything about the field.
If you count startups, most of them have incompetents CEOs. It's not at all a big deal to become a CEO, just get a friend and declare yourself a startup, and voila you are a CEO. Sure, she talked a big game and got some funding, but that's not really being the same thing as a business leader. She clearly showed how terrible she was at business leadership.
What she did wasn't really standard business practice. I know we like to talk that way, but what she did went way beyond fudging some numbers and doing a lot of hand waving at marketing demos. There are CEOs and CFOs who've gone to jail for far less than what she did.