The main problem with the book, and other Heinlein stuff, is that it only works assuming that people generally have good intentions. Heinlein tends to have simplistic characters, which work well in his worlds, and therefore some people unfortunately imagine that what he suggests would work well in real life.
Sorry, it just bothers me when someone is trying to be clever by misusing a word. 'Shill' obviously can't apply to a company exec. The guy who used 'shiller' at least had an idea.
Actually, the research showed that those who posted photos lived longer, as opposed to those who just posted statuses, and I'd say that's correlated with going out.
So the bottom line is: going out extends your life.
There are many pleasures that don't involve dangerous substances. If your only pleasures in life are smoking or alcohol, then yes, you might as well die early.
'Techies' are just people who do a job that happens to be technical in some way. Jobs in general don't have anything to do with improving the world, they just help your employer (which may be you) earns money, and in turn give you money for that.
'Improving the world' just isn't what construction workers do.
Besides, OP, if you have any inkling of a thought how tech can make 'a healthy functioning society', feel free to offer them. If you can say what that even means in your opinion, please do. Ask a democrat or republican, you'd get different answers.
I filed that feature suggestion for several Windows beta, and finally Microsoft made good. Not only are the environment variable window and the editing windows resizable (which is what I asked for), but the path environment variable is edited as a list of directories. Amazing!
As for my general experience: It's okay on most PC's I tried it on. Sometimes loses the tooltips on the recent documents on the task bar on my work PC, which annoys me when when using Visual Studio. On my tablet it freed quite a bit of storage space. On my HTPC I reverted to 7 because there were some software problems.
It's hard to recommend an older model when a Xbox One S is around the corner and expected to sell for the same price.
In general I think that the Xbox One is an attractive console at this price for the undemanding gamer. You can buy it for $250, subscribe to Gold for $60 a year and you get about 4 games a month to keep. Great inexpensive gaming gift for a kid. With keyboard and mouse support underway, aimed at PC style game control but hopefully usable for the UI, it could likely even become a PC alternative, at least for web browsing and applications using the Edge browser. (But that's just speculation on my part.)
Personally consoles don't get a lot of traction in my house these days. I have a Wii and a 360, and they both get some gaming, as well as LEGO games on my HTPC, but the kids and myself still normally prefer the tablets, and for console style gaming the HTPC with 360 wireless controllers works decently. Kinect does get some occasional use (in fact, it's the main use of the 360), and unfortunately Kinect games for the 360 aren't compatible with the One, or I might have been tempted to buy one. Still, even if I was planning to get one, I'd wait for the S, to have a console that's less bulky (and slightly more future proof).
You're looking at desktop CPU's. You look at other chips, GPU's for example, there has been much higher growth in performance. Even performance of integrated GPU's has grown a lot.
Moore's law was never about performance, but even looking at performance, you got about 10x increase for GPU's in past 8 years. Not exactly doubling every two years, but more than the 3,4,5 you talk about.
It's far from perfect, but still much more secure than insecure passwords, which are what we commonly have. It's a lot easier to get passwords (as proved by the many millions of them available online) than to get the biometric identifiers.
Were there ever Palestinian territories before Israel controlled them? They were Ottoman territories, then British Territories, then Jordanian and Egyptian territories.
In my experience that often helps. Don't know where the advice not to do so comes from, but apparently the 'becoming unhinged' flag is actually a good way to get service. I don't know, several 'tips' here seem rather backward.
Bitcoin wasn't designed as a scam, it was just too optimistic. The concept isn't one of a magic money printing device; the miners do valuable work which keeps the currency functioning. It was originally mined on CPU's then GPU's, so was initially truly the 'people's coin'. It wasn't until ASIC's mining arrived that things started going downhill in this respect.
That's indeed a problem with cryptocurrencies in general, but it's a more serious problem with bitcoin because it uses a relatively simple function, one that became quite easy to solve. It was the first, and therefore it has unfortunately both the largest mind share and the most problems.
Suppose someone has a TV and wants to view Netflix on it. A smart TV can allow that, and that would be a natural way to go about it for a normal person. A techie, on the other hand, likes things to be complicated, so would prefer adding another device, or reusing an existing device (which we typically have), because that's more fun. So sure, I have an HTPC (partly created with old parts and upgraded over time), but for other people that would be quite insane. And when you mention the Raspberry Pi, it's clear that your deep in geek territory (which is a totally natural place to be on Slashdot).
The obvious way to go is have Google offer a central repository of updates and drivers.
Currently OEM's each tailor Android in some way, but that's done in a stupid way in which they edit and release their own version of Android. It would be less work for them and better for consumers if the customisations were layered onto a single OS, and users could get updates for that OS without the OEM doing a thing.
I realise that this removed some control of the experience from the OEM, in particular when it come to ensuring that a device works well with an OS update, and I think that Google could give OEM's the ability to postpone an update for a limited time (a couple of months) to ensure stability, and an ability for users to roll back updates, but that's it. Once the time passes, the update will be available to all users, if they want it. OEM's could warn users if an update can cause problems, but installation will be out of their control.
Even if that's not implemented fully, at the very least Google should be able to provide security updates directly to users.
If there's no proof that breakfast is important, than by default we can conclude that it's not important. The null hypothesis would be considered true. Can you prove that I'm not at this moment controlling the weather where you live? You can't, but that doesn't mean that you're burdened with proving this.
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The main problem with the book, and other Heinlein stuff, is that it only works assuming that people generally have good intentions. Heinlein tends to have simplistic characters, which work well in his worlds, and therefore some people unfortunately imagine that what he suggests would work well in real life.
Sorry, it just bothers me when someone is trying to be clever by misusing a word. 'Shill' obviously can't apply to a company exec. The guy who used 'shiller' at least had an idea.
Buy yes, it's Apple vs. ports again.
Actually, the research showed that those who posted photos lived longer, as opposed to those who just posted statuses, and I'd say that's correlated with going out.
So the bottom line is: going out extends your life.
I didn't know 12 year olds were on California's voter registration list.
There are many pleasures that don't involve dangerous substances. If your only pleasures in life are smoking or alcohol, then yes, you might as well die early.
'Techies' are just people who do a job that happens to be technical in some way. Jobs in general don't have anything to do with improving the world, they just help your employer (which may be you) earns money, and in turn give you money for that.
'Improving the world' just isn't what construction workers do.
Besides, OP, if you have any inkling of a thought how tech can make 'a healthy functioning society', feel free to offer them. If you can say what that even means in your opinion, please do. Ask a democrat or republican, you'd get different answers.
I filed that feature suggestion for several Windows beta, and finally Microsoft made good. Not only are the environment variable window and the editing windows resizable (which is what I asked for), but the path environment variable is edited as a list of directories. Amazing!
As for my general experience: It's okay on most PC's I tried it on. Sometimes loses the tooltips on the recent documents on the task bar on my work PC, which annoys me when when using Visual Studio. On my tablet it freed quite a bit of storage space. On my HTPC I reverted to 7 because there were some software problems.
I'm not sure what you mean by zero-fuss, but MS is planning mouse + keyboard gaming support. Hopefully it will arrive this year.
Easier to browse the list here or here.
It's hard to recommend an older model when a Xbox One S is around the corner and expected to sell for the same price.
In general I think that the Xbox One is an attractive console at this price for the undemanding gamer. You can buy it for $250, subscribe to Gold for $60 a year and you get about 4 games a month to keep. Great inexpensive gaming gift for a kid. With keyboard and mouse support underway, aimed at PC style game control but hopefully usable for the UI, it could likely even become a PC alternative, at least for web browsing and applications using the Edge browser. (But that's just speculation on my part.)
Personally consoles don't get a lot of traction in my house these days. I have a Wii and a 360, and they both get some gaming, as well as LEGO games on my HTPC, but the kids and myself still normally prefer the tablets, and for console style gaming the HTPC with 360 wireless controllers works decently. Kinect does get some occasional use (in fact, it's the main use of the 360), and unfortunately Kinect games for the 360 aren't compatible with the One, or I might have been tempted to buy one. Still, even if I was planning to get one, I'd wait for the S, to have a console that's less bulky (and slightly more future proof).
You're looking at desktop CPU's. You look at other chips, GPU's for example, there has been much higher growth in performance. Even performance of integrated GPU's has grown a lot.
Moore's law was never about performance, but even looking at performance, you got about 10x increase for GPU's in past 8 years. Not exactly doubling every two years, but more than the 3,4,5 you talk about.
Yeah, QED. Moore's law is about transistor density, but you reformulated it to be about performance. :)
It's far from perfect, but still much more secure than insecure passwords, which are what we commonly have. It's a lot easier to get passwords (as proved by the many millions of them available online) than to get the biometric identifiers.
Were there ever Palestinian territories before Israel controlled them? They were Ottoman territories, then British Territories, then Jordanian and Egyptian territories.
Are they planning to sue every other content provider which tries to detect piracy?
In my experience that often helps. Don't know where the advice not to do so comes from, but apparently the 'becoming unhinged' flag is actually a good way to get service. I don't know, several 'tips' here seem rather backward.
Bitcoin wasn't designed as a scam, it was just too optimistic. The concept isn't one of a magic money printing device; the miners do valuable work which keeps the currency functioning. It was originally mined on CPU's then GPU's, so was initially truly the 'people's coin'. It wasn't until ASIC's mining arrived that things started going downhill in this respect.
That's indeed a problem with cryptocurrencies in general, but it's a more serious problem with bitcoin because it uses a relatively simple function, one that became quite easy to solve. It was the first, and therefore it has unfortunately both the largest mind share and the most problems.
Which is why it's such a boring trilogy for those who aren't looking for history lessons for an imaginary world, but actually wanted to read a story.
US people are obsessed with Trump, and are influential enough on this site that this kind of news rises to the top.
But hey, I learned about a new technique for hair restoration, and that's got to be worth something.
Suppose someone has a TV and wants to view Netflix on it. A smart TV can allow that, and that would be a natural way to go about it for a normal person. A techie, on the other hand, likes things to be complicated, so would prefer adding another device, or reusing an existing device (which we typically have), because that's more fun. So sure, I have an HTPC (partly created with old parts and upgraded over time), but for other people that would be quite insane. And when you mention the Raspberry Pi, it's clear that your deep in geek territory (which is a totally natural place to be on Slashdot).
Probably 90% of bundled games don't even get installed, or only used for Steam card farming.
We need to teach logic and critical thinking. IMO more important than other things.
The obvious way to go is have Google offer a central repository of updates and drivers.
Currently OEM's each tailor Android in some way, but that's done in a stupid way in which they edit and release their own version of Android. It would be less work for them and better for consumers if the customisations were layered onto a single OS, and users could get updates for that OS without the OEM doing a thing.
I realise that this removed some control of the experience from the OEM, in particular when it come to ensuring that a device works well with an OS update, and I think that Google could give OEM's the ability to postpone an update for a limited time (a couple of months) to ensure stability, and an ability for users to roll back updates, but that's it. Once the time passes, the update will be available to all users, if they want it. OEM's could warn users if an update can cause problems, but installation will be out of their control.
Even if that's not implemented fully, at the very least Google should be able to provide security updates directly to users.
If there's no proof that breakfast is important, than by default we can conclude that it's not important. The null hypothesis would be considered true. Can you prove that I'm not at this moment controlling the weather where you live? You can't, but that doesn't mean that you're burdened with proving this.
So what OS is detected as Windows NT suddenly? NT was at 0.07% in March, and suddenly 2.54% in April. Windows 3.1 has also gone up from 0% to 0.40%.