We can't continue to support legacy systems because people refuse to upgrade.
I wouldn't refuse to upgrade if they didn't massively redesign the UI on a regular basis for no good reason. I have Win7 on my laptop and WinXP on my workstation, because even after more than a year of using Win7 regularly, I still think XP works better, so I use it for my "real" work and the laptop for everyday stuff.
People have no trouble buying OSX updates, because even though the graphics change regularly, the functionality doesn't change much. Of course, it does help that OSX updates are cheaper.
I really wish these tools didn't focus so much on the Start menu. I never use it.
I'm more interested in the taskbar and the old Explorer. Adding new panels to the taskbar, bringing back QuickLaunch with the small icons and support for multiple launch instances, getting rid of the stupid pinning paradigm, letting me have my damn window menus back, etc.
I work in a warehouse that sends medical supplies to hospitals.
The thing that immediately astounded me about Amazon's warehouse is that everything is accessible by foot on shelves that are single-story. It's clean. They pick to totes and wheeled carts. That's amazing.
I work in a smaller building that's five stories tall (and the company now says they want to move to a new warehouse that is at least seven stories tall). It's impossible to access anything without a machine. Everything is dirty. Damages are everywhere.
Warehouse jobs, in general, are difficult. The way I see it, working for Amazon would probably get me less pay than I'm making now, but it looks like it would be a whole lot easier.
Also : yes, you need eye witnesses. Or at least external experts.
My external expert is my dash cam.
Fuck fake carbon fiber, leather seats, auto-dimming mirrors, and $2,000 "convenience packages". I'll pay good money for an integrated dash cam if I can use and remove my own memory card.
the actual result is that it gets you to the back of the queue at the traffic lights 10% sooner
Wouldn't that imply that you're not actually going 10% faster than normal traffic, because you're going the same speed as traffic?
I can't remember the last time I drove on a regular street where people were over the speed limit (given that almost all the roads in my area are set at 45 MPH). All the speeding takes place on expressways where there are no traffic lights, and practically everyone goes 20 MPH over the limit.
In fact, in a world of self driving cars, I don't see why we would need a speed limit.
I sure hope you're talking about the expressways, because if you're talking about regular streets, I'd be afraid of running over a child, striking an animal, hitting a pothole, or anything else that you shouldn't find on a street but may very well be there and the car isn't nimble enough to avoid.
Self-driving cars give me the willies. Even our railways and subways are not 100% computer controlled, but somehow we think that fully automating road cars is a good idea.
Now we have electricity and can have light and entertainment 24/7. I find it likely that within the next 100 years, it will be common and possibly healthy to have 4 hours or less sleep a night.
My eyes do that naturally and I've never used any of those red/blue glasses. It's normal for your eyes not to see the same colors.
My big beef with cheap, TN panel LCDs is that the viewing angle is so narrow, my left eye sees different colors than my right eye. I have to use a good IPS display just for everyday work or I get a stereographic-induced headache. Forget resolution -- I'm pissed it took so long for affordable IPS displays to hit the market.
I don't like the idea of any outside influences messing with how my car drives. Limits built into the car are fine, but not outside forces. This includes police cars that can remotely disable vehicles with the push of a button.
We're hearing more and more about security problems with cars and wifi. Does anyone seriously think that cameras looking for road signs and changing the car's behavior will be secure and reliable?
Warn the drivers, but never take control away from the driver. These are not go-karts at an amusement park.
If I could get paid full time, I'd quit my current job in a heartbeat and work on personal projects. "Fuck you, pay me" isn't about greed -- it's about supporting yourself.
Starting a business is very, very difficult and time consuming if you only want to work on a few things. I'm not sure if I'd use it, but Kickstarter is a terrific idea.
Wet shaving is the only way to do it. Buy an electric that's properly waterproof and go nuts.
My beard is so thick an stubborn, I am seriously considering laser hair removal so I don't have to gut my face every morning. However, my rotary shaver does a great job if I use some soap lather (shaving foam is too thick). If I try to shave dry, all I get is imitation sandpaper.
I think a better way of looking at it is how many other people licensed the engines Carmack has created. As in, very few, because the engines weren't very useful. Meanwhile, look at where Unreal Engine and Unity3D have gone.
To say nothing about design, the reality was that the D3 engine did some clever new stuff, but it ran horribly slow and looked just plain ugly. It's very obvious that it wasn't a very efficient engine, and thus wasn't well-suited for games. Rage was the same. Ambitious and interesting, but not very practical.
What locker room? When I worked there a long time ago, there was just an area you could put your bags, and you had to hope nobody would steal your stuff.
Not heard about it? My company has Cigna for health insurance, and they've been charging smokers extra $$$ for years.
They also require you to submit a blood sample and submit a lifestyle questionnaire online, or else they will also surcharge you hundreds of dollars annually. This originally started as a discount for participating, but of course now it's a surcharge if you don't. It hasn't come to the point where they'll charge you extra if you're obese, have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or whatnot, but they most definitely do want to go there eventually.
When this first started about four years ago, my first thought was, "this can't possibly be legal."
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So they have to artificially destroy Windows XP in order to sell newer versions.
Sounds like the Detroit auto model to me... which is proven not to work.
Maybe they could have just make sure that Win8 didn't suck?
We can't continue to support legacy systems because people refuse to upgrade.
I wouldn't refuse to upgrade if they didn't massively redesign the UI on a regular basis for no good reason. I have Win7 on my laptop and WinXP on my workstation, because even after more than a year of using Win7 regularly, I still think XP works better, so I use it for my "real" work and the laptop for everyday stuff.
People have no trouble buying OSX updates, because even though the graphics change regularly, the functionality doesn't change much. Of course, it does help that OSX updates are cheaper.
I really wish these tools didn't focus so much on the Start menu. I never use it.
I'm more interested in the taskbar and the old Explorer. Adding new panels to the taskbar, bringing back QuickLaunch with the small icons and support for multiple launch instances, getting rid of the stupid pinning paradigm, letting me have my damn window menus back, etc.
I work in a warehouse that sends medical supplies to hospitals.
The thing that immediately astounded me about Amazon's warehouse is that everything is accessible by foot on shelves that are single-story. It's clean. They pick to totes and wheeled carts. That's amazing.
I work in a smaller building that's five stories tall (and the company now says they want to move to a new warehouse that is at least seven stories tall). It's impossible to access anything without a machine. Everything is dirty. Damages are everywhere.
Warehouse jobs, in general, are difficult. The way I see it, working for Amazon would probably get me less pay than I'm making now, but it looks like it would be a whole lot easier.
I can accept automatic braking systems just fine, but that's not exactly the definition of a self-driving car.
You can't honestly say you're a good driver if you don't already account for your 300ms or longer reaction time.
Also : yes, you need eye witnesses. Or at least external experts.
My external expert is my dash cam.
Fuck fake carbon fiber, leather seats, auto-dimming mirrors, and $2,000 "convenience packages". I'll pay good money for an integrated dash cam if I can use and remove my own memory card.
the actual result is that it gets you to the back of the queue at the traffic lights 10% sooner
Wouldn't that imply that you're not actually going 10% faster than normal traffic, because you're going the same speed as traffic?
I can't remember the last time I drove on a regular street where people were over the speed limit (given that almost all the roads in my area are set at 45 MPH). All the speeding takes place on expressways where there are no traffic lights, and practically everyone goes 20 MPH over the limit.
In fact, in a world of self driving cars, I don't see why we would need a speed limit.
I sure hope you're talking about the expressways, because if you're talking about regular streets, I'd be afraid of running over a child, striking an animal, hitting a pothole, or anything else that you shouldn't find on a street but may very well be there and the car isn't nimble enough to avoid.
Self-driving cars give me the willies. Even our railways and subways are not 100% computer controlled, but somehow we think that fully automating road cars is a good idea.
You're not taking into consideration many aliasing artifacts, such as moire effects.
Sitting in the dark gets boring.
Now we have electricity and can have light and entertainment 24/7. I find it likely that within the next 100 years, it will be common and possibly healthy to have 4 hours or less sleep a night.
My eyes do that naturally and I've never used any of those red/blue glasses. It's normal for your eyes not to see the same colors.
My big beef with cheap, TN panel LCDs is that the viewing angle is so narrow, my left eye sees different colors than my right eye. I have to use a good IPS display just for everyday work or I get a stereographic-induced headache. Forget resolution -- I'm pissed it took so long for affordable IPS displays to hit the market.
The revolution was how they were built so they could be cheap enough for ordinary people to afford them.
Somehow, I don't think comparing the Model T to the iPhone is quite appropriate.
It's SSD that represents the niche: small data for very casual users that don't do much of anything.
Or perhaps very serious users that just don't happen to have a collection of Blu-ray rips on their workstation.
Lately, I've been seeing a lot of people use SSD arrays for their SQL databases.
I don't like the idea of any outside influences messing with how my car drives. Limits built into the car are fine, but not outside forces. This includes police cars that can remotely disable vehicles with the push of a button.
We're hearing more and more about security problems with cars and wifi. Does anyone seriously think that cameras looking for road signs and changing the car's behavior will be secure and reliable?
Warn the drivers, but never take control away from the driver. These are not go-karts at an amusement park.
If I could get paid full time, I'd quit my current job in a heartbeat and work on personal projects. "Fuck you, pay me" isn't about greed -- it's about supporting yourself.
Starting a business is very, very difficult and time consuming if you only want to work on a few things. I'm not sure if I'd use it, but Kickstarter is a terrific idea.
People are sick of the pump and dump shoot by wire FPS rubbish which has been churned out for the last 10 years
Naturally, we don't have that problem on PCs or mobile. It also hasn't been a problem since Doom.
Wet shaving is the only way to do it. Buy an electric that's properly waterproof and go nuts.
My beard is so thick an stubborn, I am seriously considering laser hair removal so I don't have to gut my face every morning. However, my rotary shaver does a great job if I use some soap lather (shaving foam is too thick). If I try to shave dry, all I get is imitation sandpaper.
I think a better way of looking at it is how many other people licensed the engines Carmack has created. As in, very few, because the engines weren't very useful. Meanwhile, look at where Unreal Engine and Unity3D have gone.
To say nothing about design, the reality was that the D3 engine did some clever new stuff, but it ran horribly slow and looked just plain ugly. It's very obvious that it wasn't a very efficient engine, and thus wasn't well-suited for games. Rage was the same. Ambitious and interesting, but not very practical.
Given how badly they screwed up the actual XBox hardware? Less reliable and more overheating problems than most laptops.
What locker room? When I worked there a long time ago, there was just an area you could put your bags, and you had to hope nobody would steal your stuff.
Same reason people steal toilet paper from company bathrooms. It's an impulse, not a need.
I presume the reason why they call it ascorbic acid and not vitamin C is because it's been cooked to death.
ok, clearly there has not been a full scale shareholder revolt. yet.
Time and time again on Slashdot, people keep suggesting that the shareholders get rid of Balmer.
So what kind of leverage does Balmer have to keep his job? Does anyone actually know?
Too bad the touchscreen is the one part of the car I despise.
Not heard about it? My company has Cigna for health insurance, and they've been charging smokers extra $$$ for years.
They also require you to submit a blood sample and submit a lifestyle questionnaire online, or else they will also surcharge you hundreds of dollars annually. This originally started as a discount for participating, but of course now it's a surcharge if you don't. It hasn't come to the point where they'll charge you extra if you're obese, have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or whatnot, but they most definitely do want to go there eventually.
When this first started about four years ago, my first thought was, "this can't possibly be legal."