If Hollywood was creating a stream of innovative, original movies that might only appeal to a percentage of the viewing audience
This is exactly why Netflix is winning right now. Hollywood wants to appeal to the widest audience at all costs - this is the same thing that almost completely killed the music industry. More movies, more genres, lower budgets - they'd make a killing.
Rober Ebert was a genius, though. He understood that pretentious movies are not the ultimate in entertainment and is sometimes cheap crap is great.
Just look at this snip from his review of Gremlins (movie picked at random):
"Gremlins" is a confrontation between Norman Rockwell's vision of Christmas and Hollywood's vision of the blood-sucking monkeys of voodoo island..... At the level of Pop Movie-going, it's a sophisticated, witty B movie, in which the monsters are devouring not only the defenseless town, but decades of defenseless clichés.
A glance at the RT score tells a lot more than just the ranking. Especially if you compare the critic score to the audience score and how far apart they are. But I usually pop in further to read a few critic and audience review snippets. From that I can usually tell what the movie is worth. I used to watch trailers, but they spoil too much of the movie these days (or make the movie look better than it is).
I do the same when looking for a restaurant - find a negative review and they'll tell you everything good about the place that they don't understand.
They're able to - they just don't want the risk. Rebooting old movies from the 80's or making yet another sequel is safe - even if it's terrible people will buy tickets (unless they're warned in advance by terrible reviews).
Turns out, it's not safe to make garbage and expect to turn a profit.
If old cells can't reproduce due to lack of telomerase, and all the old cells are then killed. What's left?
And before you talk about just artificially lengthening telomeres, remember that they are essentially an anti-cancer safeguard. The combination of both will produce mutant cancerous zombies.
I'm just surprised that dialing 999 (or 911) is beyond him.
His mother is probably on the young side of millennial - meaning voice calls are a rare thing, having been replaced by messaging and Snapchat. He may not even know what "dialing" means, but can ask Siri.
And 2 is about 90% of all movies. It's too much of a risk to finance original ideas. Let's remake a 20-year old movie that was only sort of good or put that established board game, video game, comic book brand on the big screen. And even for the kids' movies, more than three-quarters are a sequel or remake.
Oddly, science fiction has had a good number of original titles lately that aren't terrible - even with the mainstream audiences.
What's your point? Windows 7 is eligible for security updates. Security updates don't have different hardware requirements than the original release. This is an artificial restriction which has nothing to do with supporting new hardware.
And if you bought Windows 7 for this PC specifically, you'd be eligible for a refund from Microsoft if they refuse to offer the security updates under the terms of the license agreement, assuming that the need for a security update constitutes the need for a repair under warranty (it should):
REMEDY FOR BREACH OF WARRANTY. Microsoft will repair or replace the software at no charge. If Microsoft cannot repair or replace it, Microsoft will refund the amount shown on your receipt for the software. It will also repair or replace supplements, updates and replacement software at no charge. If Microsoft cannot repair or replace them, it will refund the amount you paid for them, if any. You must uninstall the software and return any media and other associated materials to Microsoft with proof of purchase to obtain a refund. These are your only remedies for breach of the limited warranty.
I'm not saying it should work - not having drivers for the north/south bridge seems to be what's broken (on-die or not, it's not the CPU). I'm just saying they shouldn't block people from trying. If someone wants to cobble together a way to make it work, BSODs and all, let them. If Intel or AMD may release drivers (after hell freezes over) or someone finds a way to backport them unsigned or someone wants to write something from scratch, why should MS put an artificial lock on the door?
Ryzen has new features. It doesn't require ANY for it to work on Windows 7. Windows added a new feature to detect and block the architecture from updates - that's the only "new feature" that's relevant here.
fully supported != updates blocked. Ignoring the CPU and just assuming it will work would be better than this. They don't actually need to add support for anything that isn't already in there.
As it was, the OS had no knowledge of that architecture. Adding code to explicitly reject it, despite sharing a common instruction set is a "new feature." XP would probably run on it (with legacy boot enabled).
If they mean using beamforming to wirelessly charge from a distance, that's one thing.
Applying a "new" inductive charger patent to "devices around the home" would just be Qi. For that matter, putting that on a phone isn't novel enough to patent, just stupid.
The only problem I have with your proposal is that you seem to be suggesting that the possession of some amount of temperature (enthalpy) by an atom is an intrinsic requirement to maintain the atom's existence.
I think that is the core question that's raised. What is an atom?
I guess as a prediction "matter decays into energy at absolute zero" could be either right or wrong, but for me it belongs in the same category as "black holes are wormholes to other universes".
What energy? I'd think you have to entirely remove all energy from a closed system in order to reach absolute zero - no energy, no matter.
I'm lazy, so I may not go far enough back, but GE had its first wordmark in 1892. Not every wordmark changes the shapes of its letterforms to slightly non-letter shapes, only the more creative ones - some are subtle enough that you may have never noticed.
The Twinings tea company's logo is multiple hundreds of years old, but may or may not be considered a wordmark due to the fact that it's usually combined with a symbol.
The Staples word mark does not contain a letter L. That is a literal staple. This only goes back to 1986. But it was the first wordmark that comes to mind that substitutes a symbol for a letter as in Mozilla.
Slang getting an alternate spelling (often due to poor/lazy pronunciation) and becoming a word in its own right is how a lot of new words make it into the dictionary lately (including the abominable "bae").
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If Hollywood was creating a stream of innovative, original movies that might only appeal to a percentage of the viewing audience
This is exactly why Netflix is winning right now. Hollywood wants to appeal to the widest audience at all costs - this is the same thing that almost completely killed the music industry. More movies, more genres, lower budgets - they'd make a killing.
Rober Ebert was a genius, though. He understood that pretentious movies are not the ultimate in entertainment and is sometimes cheap crap is great.
Just look at this snip from his review of Gremlins (movie picked at random):
"Gremlins" is a confrontation between Norman Rockwell's vision of Christmas and Hollywood's vision of the blood-sucking monkeys of voodoo island..... At the level of Pop Movie-going, it's a sophisticated, witty B movie, in which the monsters are devouring not only the defenseless town, but decades of defenseless clichés.
A glance at the RT score tells a lot more than just the ranking. Especially if you compare the critic score to the audience score and how far apart they are. But I usually pop in further to read a few critic and audience review snippets. From that I can usually tell what the movie is worth. I used to watch trailers, but they spoil too much of the movie these days (or make the movie look better than it is).
I do the same when looking for a restaurant - find a negative review and they'll tell you everything good about the place that they don't understand.
They're able to - they just don't want the risk. Rebooting old movies from the 80's or making yet another sequel is safe - even if it's terrible people will buy tickets (unless they're warned in advance by terrible reviews).
Turns out, it's not safe to make garbage and expect to turn a profit.
If old cells can't reproduce due to lack of telomerase, and all the old cells are then killed. What's left?
And before you talk about just artificially lengthening telomeres, remember that they are essentially an anti-cancer safeguard. The combination of both will produce mutant cancerous zombies.
I'm just surprised that dialing 999 (or 911) is beyond him.
His mother is probably on the young side of millennial - meaning voice calls are a rare thing, having been replaced by messaging and Snapchat. He may not even know what "dialing" means, but can ask Siri.
Sometimes dialing the emergency number is hard.
And 2 is about 90% of all movies. It's too much of a risk to finance original ideas. Let's remake a 20-year old movie that was only sort of good or put that established board game, video game, comic book brand on the big screen. And even for the kids' movies, more than three-quarters are a sequel or remake.
Oddly, science fiction has had a good number of original titles lately that aren't terrible - even with the mainstream audiences.
LOTS more, because VPN providers can also sell your browsing data.
The app will sell for $500. The device is probably disposable and will be $150/ea.
An average drop of water is about 50 microliters.
they're still $5 a pop
Seen them for $1 at a dollar store.
Real programmers use only the 1 and 0 keys
Keys? Real programmers use jumper wires directly on the memory bus pins of the CPU.
What's your point? Windows 7 is eligible for security updates. Security updates don't have different hardware requirements than the original release. This is an artificial restriction which has nothing to do with supporting new hardware.
And if you bought Windows 7 for this PC specifically, you'd be eligible for a refund from Microsoft if they refuse to offer the security updates under the terms of the license agreement, assuming that the need for a security update constitutes the need for a repair under warranty (it should):
REMEDY FOR BREACH OF WARRANTY. Microsoft will repair or replace the software at no
charge. If Microsoft cannot repair or replace it, Microsoft will refund the amount shown
on your receipt for the software. It will also repair or replace supplements, updates and
replacement software at no charge. If Microsoft cannot repair or replace them, it will
refund the amount you paid for them, if any. You must uninstall the software and return
any media and other associated materials to Microsoft with proof of purchase to obtain a
refund. These are your only remedies for breach of the limited warranty.
I'm not saying it should work - not having drivers for the north/south bridge seems to be what's broken (on-die or not, it's not the CPU). I'm just saying they shouldn't block people from trying. If someone wants to cobble together a way to make it work, BSODs and all, let them. If Intel or AMD may release drivers (after hell freezes over) or someone finds a way to backport them unsigned or someone wants to write something from scratch, why should MS put an artificial lock on the door?
that's what it pretty much does
What's pretty much what what does?
They actually added code to block the architecture from updates. They aren't merely ignoring the new CPUs.
Ryzen is a new feature
Ryzen has new features. It doesn't require ANY for it to work on Windows 7. Windows added a new feature to detect and block the architecture from updates - that's the only "new feature" that's relevant here.
fully supported != updates blocked. Ignoring the CPU and just assuming it will work would be better than this. They don't actually need to add support for anything that isn't already in there.
Blocking Ryzen qualifies as a new feature update.
As it was, the OS had no knowledge of that architecture. Adding code to explicitly reject it, despite sharing a common instruction set is a "new feature." XP would probably run on it (with legacy boot enabled).
If they mean using beamforming to wirelessly charge from a distance, that's one thing.
Applying a "new" inductive charger patent to "devices around the home" would just be Qi. For that matter, putting that on a phone isn't novel enough to patent, just stupid.
The only problem I have with your proposal is that you seem to be suggesting that the possession of some amount of temperature (enthalpy) by an atom is an intrinsic requirement to maintain the atom's existence.
I think that is the core question that's raised. What is an atom?
I guess as a prediction "matter decays into energy at absolute zero" could be either right or wrong, but for me it belongs in the same category as "black holes are wormholes to other universes".
What energy? I'd think you have to entirely remove all energy from a closed system in order to reach absolute zero - no energy, no matter.
Surely you mean "alternative"
Another example right there.
From Google:
2. NORTH AMERICAN
taking the place of; alternative.
"the rerouted traffic takes a variety of alternate routes"
I'm lazy, so I may not go far enough back, but GE had its first wordmark in 1892. Not every wordmark changes the shapes of its letterforms to slightly non-letter shapes, only the more creative ones - some are subtle enough that you may have never noticed.
The Twinings tea company's logo is multiple hundreds of years old, but may or may not be considered a wordmark due to the fact that it's usually combined with a symbol.
The Staples word mark does not contain a letter L. That is a literal staple. This only goes back to 1986. But it was the first wordmark that comes to mind that substitutes a symbol for a letter as in Mozilla.
Slang getting an alternate spelling (often due to poor/lazy pronunciation) and becoming a word in its own right is how a lot of new words make it into the dictionary lately (including the abominable "bae").
Wordmarks are a form of logo that's been around for hundreds of years.
neologism happens from time to time.