We ARE desperate to save the Internet from the shitbags that are trying to destroy net neutrality, and the greedy piece of shit corporations who are looking to make yet more money when they're already raking in plenty.
Perhaps it's going to be sitting in orbit, so that when a facility is established on Mars, the administrator will have a really nice car, and will only need to develop a way to deorbit it?
Getting all the countries on earth to actually get their people to participate in this just seems like a complete impossibility.. so we're completely fucked, and so are most of the species on the planet.
Good to know.
This is a DUMB ASS!!!! idea, and should be nipped in the bud long before it starts to grow.. it would be a cancerous canker on the world of fantasy, and a great big pile of steaming shite on J.R.R. Tolkien's grave!
If HP hadn't killed WebOS, and it was still in active development, there would be a third. It was very nice to use on the Palm Pre 3 that I had.
It was incredibly short-sighted of HP to flush that down the toilet along with the hardware, especially when they then had to spend a lot more money to get another tablet setup to sell.
>>> The study was conducted by Christian Bird at Microsoft's...
This came from Microsoft, so most likely the premise for the study was specifically designed to generate results that would strongly suggest that one of Microsoft's horrid, awful, crap, packages would be superior to some free open-source package. (It looks like Python and Javascript are being targeted by Microsoft, in order to try and supplant it with their Typescript crapola.)
As far as I'm concerned, the source of this study makes it "fake news" and junk-computer-science.
Witnessing the birth of the turbolift, a-la Star Trek.
To those saying "watch it fall"... uhm... no.. for exactly as there are brakes that engage in the loss of power in a Star Trek turbolift... same thing here. All it takes is to have a solenoid set that, when power is NOT applied, clamps down. This can also be used to stabilise the lift when it is stopped at a door.
These guys are probably just the first to make the turbolift concept work.
I find it interesting that M&S would be so concerned about such things, when all their plastic packaging that I've seen contains a note: "Plastic: Not Currently Recycled"
I used to be a serious OS/2 user, and I'm definitely going to check it out.
If you've never used the Workplace Shell, you really owe it to yourself to check this out. If it ends up compatible with a lot of things, I might very well end up running Arca OS and the WPS in a full-screen VM on my Linux machine, just to have the WPS. A great deal of Linux software will likely be as portable to Arca OS as it was to OS/2 in the past... which is extremely portable. (I probably ran 2/3's free open-source software on OS/2 back in the day, mostly ported from Linux.)
Seriously.. if you're looking for a new UI... WPS is worth checking out! (The $99 price tag isn't horrid for checking it out. I think that's what I paid for OS/2 2.0 and 2.1 back in the day.)
Having to give the company you work for biometric data would be an incredible invasion of privacy... and if you work in a position that makes you a target for something like "tiger kidnapping" it would be possible to use your biometrics just by having you along. No need to get a passcode out of you, just stuff your eye in front of the scanner, or your finger onto a fingerprint reader, or your hand on a hand sensor. It would probably make such attacks more frequent, because there would be no need to coerce people in these positions by kidnapping their families etc.., just bring the one person along.
It also means that, at least in the U.S., the police could forcibly open any data device protected with biometrics without a warrant etc.., due to recent court rulings in regard to that.
Should we still hope for Windows 10S success, when we want to see Windows, and Microsoft, and all of Microsoft's products, fail because they cripple productivity and innovation worldwide due to their extreme mediocrity?
This sure sounds like a crock to me. Similar to when they created the "486SX" which was a 486DX in which the math coprocessor did not pass quality control, so they disabled it & sold the chip as an SX instead of throwing it in the bin.
They're probably doing QC testing on the chips & "downgrading" the ones that don't work... either that or they're charging you a LICENSE FEE for features and cores in the CPU and making their hardware "by subscription" which would be a truly horrific turn of events!
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We ARE desperate to save the Internet from the shitbags that are trying to destroy net neutrality, and the greedy piece of shit corporations who are looking to make yet more money when they're already raking in plenty.
Perhaps it's going to be sitting in orbit, so that when a facility is established on Mars, the administrator will have a really nice car, and will only need to develop a way to deorbit it?
I have to wash my hair... so... yeah... like... I think I'll be avoiding that or something... yeah.
Isn't this an issue that nearly killed TiVO previously? I hope it doesn't kill Plex! =o
Getting all the countries on earth to actually get their people to participate in this just seems like a complete impossibility.. so we're completely fucked, and so are most of the species on the planet. Good to know.
Are bookmakers laying odds on how long it will be before the city of Munich simply stops working?
This is a DUMB ASS!!!! idea, and should be nipped in the bud long before it starts to grow.. it would be a cancerous canker on the world of fantasy, and a great big pile of steaming shite on J.R.R. Tolkien's grave!
If HP hadn't killed WebOS, and it was still in active development, there would be a third. It was very nice to use on the Palm Pre 3 that I had. It was incredibly short-sighted of HP to flush that down the toilet along with the hardware, especially when they then had to spend a lot more money to get another tablet setup to sell.
Lots of Borland/Pascal programmers are saying we told you so though.
That I can see. ;)
>>> The study was conducted by Christian Bird at Microsoft's...
This came from Microsoft, so most likely the premise for the study was specifically designed to generate results that would strongly suggest that one of Microsoft's horrid, awful, crap, packages would be superior to some free open-source package. (It looks like Python and Javascript are being targeted by Microsoft, in order to try and supplant it with their Typescript crapola.)
As far as I'm concerned, the source of this study makes it "fake news" and junk-computer-science.
I'm actually pretty surprised, and happily so! Now, if only some Western countries' courts would smarten up!
Ding dong, the shit is fired!
Which old shit?
The racist shit!
Ding dong, the racist shit is fired!!!!
Are republicans calling themselves "colleges" now? That's the only way colleges would be bad for America.
It's going to get infected with all kinds of virii and bugs!
The last thing the world needs is more people using crappy Microsoft software!
Witnessing the birth of the turbolift, a-la Star Trek. To those saying "watch it fall"... uhm... no.. for exactly as there are brakes that engage in the loss of power in a Star Trek turbolift... same thing here. All it takes is to have a solenoid set that, when power is NOT applied, clamps down. This can also be used to stabilise the lift when it is stopped at a door. These guys are probably just the first to make the turbolift concept work.
I find it interesting that M&S would be so concerned about such things, when all their plastic packaging that I've seen contains a note: "Plastic: Not Currently Recycled"
I *SO* want to see the lamest of all social media disappear off the face of the earth! =D
I used to be a serious OS/2 user, and I'm definitely going to check it out. If you've never used the Workplace Shell, you really owe it to yourself to check this out. If it ends up compatible with a lot of things, I might very well end up running Arca OS and the WPS in a full-screen VM on my Linux machine, just to have the WPS. A great deal of Linux software will likely be as portable to Arca OS as it was to OS/2 in the past... which is extremely portable. (I probably ran 2/3's free open-source software on OS/2 back in the day, mostly ported from Linux.) Seriously.. if you're looking for a new UI... WPS is worth checking out! (The $99 price tag isn't horrid for checking it out. I think that's what I paid for OS/2 2.0 and 2.1 back in the day.)
Having to give the company you work for biometric data would be an incredible invasion of privacy... and if you work in a position that makes you a target for something like "tiger kidnapping" it would be possible to use your biometrics just by having you along. No need to get a passcode out of you, just stuff your eye in front of the scanner, or your finger onto a fingerprint reader, or your hand on a hand sensor. It would probably make such attacks more frequent, because there would be no need to coerce people in these positions by kidnapping their families etc.., just bring the one person along. It also means that, at least in the U.S., the police could forcibly open any data device protected with biometrics without a warrant etc.., due to recent court rulings in regard to that.
What happens when an earthquake collapses or changes the course of a tunnel, so people travelling in it abruptly reach a dead end?
It's probably that such a prestigious university doesn't want anyone to know it's using microsoft's crappy cloud for anything that matters
Should we still hope for Windows 10S success, when we want to see Windows, and Microsoft, and all of Microsoft's products, fail because they cripple productivity and innovation worldwide due to their extreme mediocrity?
If this goes through, you'll only have to steal any given individual's details ONCE to rob them blind everywhere! What a boon for hackers!
This sure sounds like a crock to me. Similar to when they created the "486SX" which was a 486DX in which the math coprocessor did not pass quality control, so they disabled it & sold the chip as an SX instead of throwing it in the bin.
They're probably doing QC testing on the chips & "downgrading" the ones that don't work... either that or they're charging you a LICENSE FEE for features and cores in the CPU and making their hardware "by subscription" which would be a truly horrific turn of events!