Linux is a lot easier than that these days. TBH installing something like Linux Mint on a new machine is easier than installing Windows and much much quicker.
The DVD thing is a thing of the past and now with steam running a stack of games the barrier is much lower.
That said, the incentives just aren't there. Being able to close a window with a middle mouse click, or press f3 for a split filebrowser page aren't enough incentive.
Installing windows on a new machine is stupendously easy.
- plug in usb thumbdrive with installer on it - boot - answer about 5 questions - done
They shipped 150m phones in 2017 and are going to ship 200m phones in 2018.
XDA has a total of 6.6m users in total. Lets ignore that most of those users are inactive, and that most of them won't be about huawei phones. Lets also assume people buy a phone every 2 years.
That means that, in a completely ridiculous use case which we know is overblown, under %2 of their user base will be effected.
It's more likely well under %0.01 of their actual handsets.
My wife and I are android people. We trade off upgrade years. I got the Pixel 1. She got the Pixel 2, no headphone jack. It took her 6 months to notice, because we haven't owned non-bluetooth headphones in years, apart from some "studio" ones I use when doing music and never go near a phone anyways (and have a 1/4" jack).
I'm not a huge fan of these as I had a surface pro with work that was flakey as, but it's $500 including keyboard for the base model, and you've compared a 10" lightweight tablet with two 15" laptops, neither of which have touch or a tablet mode of any sort.
So a search for 2 in 1 with a 10-12" screen, no atom processor, 4+gb ram, 64+gb SSD gives you this: https://www.newegg.com/Product...
eMMC or flash storage is basically worthless, so ignore any of those.
That guy is $150 cheaper than surface go + keyboard, has a nicer keyboard and will be more sturdy. It also has a worse quality screen and is thicker etc. I'd say for an education laptop for primary school it's superior and at a lower price.
Gerber does not control all of it's data processing for this as they do not own, nor have visibility, over the entire supply chain. They don't buy fruit from farmers, they buy from suppliers who buy from aggregates who by from trusts who by from farmers.
If you do some reading (I did after seeing this article) the Food Trust blockchain is a great idea. Ignoring that it's controlled by IBM, and you have to pay them to participate, it means a one stop trusted supply chain for food as more and more suppliers sign up.
So the idea is that Gerber has a batch of apple baby food that makes a bunch of babies sick. They trace back the fruit to 10 farms. Those farms then forward trace to everyone who got their fruit for a given timeframe to notify. It turns out that jimmy's apple sauce uses 2 of those farms as well and they've made people sick. Now you can notify everyone who used those two farms. Etc.
Normally jimmy's apple sauce and Gerber would NEVER share a supply chain solution since they are competitors.
Make a bit more sense? The entire point is that you don't control everyone in the sequence.
In Australia, where this article was written, almost every home power outlet is side by side, so he didn't go to ANY trouble to find a power outlet which was side by side.
Also your standard "buy it at the shops" power board has that same spacing since it's a standard. You have to buy a special hugely spaced power board. Notice this one has only one specially spaced one: https://www.target.com.au/p/us...
This one has actual spacing markers to show you where they will fithttps://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/hpm-5-outlet-power-surge-protector-hpd1055
If you don't want IoT devices then you're not the market, so.... congratulations?
The direct market for this is all of the "smart" device manufacturers, giving them an easily updated platform without having to do so themselves. Currently very few IoT/smart devices are updated ever.
This is google's fix to an existing problem, not something they've come up with in isolation.
Bitcoin/litecoin/dogecoin/etc attempt to solve the trustless peer to peer model.
A multi-bank blockchain implementation would not use a trustless model, it would be a trusted model where the sender and receiver both sign the transaction, and it is then added to the blockchain for consumption by all participating banks.
It's a way to share an immutable (without retracting ALL transactions before the transaction to be deleted) ledger, in this case between trusted parties.
I think they should absolutely be free to market/etc the terms "natural/mined" diamond vs "man made/lab grown" diamond, but "real" vs "fake" is incorrect and should be hammered on by agencies who regulate advertising and commerce.
Cubic zirconia is a "fake" diamond if it's sold as such. Man made diamonds are real, end of story.
Is it still a fun fact if it's neither fun nor a fact?
For the 9 months ending Sep 30 2016, they made $1,150,984,000 (1.1 billion) in revenue selling cars, of which $195,592,000 (0.1 billion) was from ZEV carbon credits.
In fact, they take OUT the carbon credits from their GAAP reporting numbers (what this article refers to) so that their results aren't skewed.
My belief is that the 99% use case of this is for running docker images.
Before this you could run docker on windows, but you had to create a "bizarre" tiny linux distro VM (100mb or so storage), and the docker on windows launcher would leverage that to provision and run the docker images. You had to dedicate ram to that VM to run your docker pool.
With this you can run docker images "natively", without a separate VM memory space, and due to the elf loader support they actually are running on windows itself.
I do not see this as a good alternative to traditional VMs.
My belief is that the 99% use case of this is for running docker images.
Before this you could run docker on windows, but you had to create a "bizarre" tiny linux distro VM (100mb or so storage), and the docker on windows launcher would leverage that to provision and run the docker images. You had to dedicate ram to that VM to run your docker pool.
With this you can run docker images "natively", without a separate VM memory space, and due to the elf loader support they actually are running on windows itself.
I do not see this as a good alternative to traditional VMs.
The only one that I've had come up is RDS. Azure SQL is great if your application supports SQL 2016, but if it's mysql/etc you have to spin up your own linux server and run mysql on it (Azure DOES have a template for that at least) whereas on AWS it's a pure PaaS offering.
The cost calculator on AWS is years ahead of the Azure one, but that's not a day by day use thing.
Azure's CDN capabilities are more flexible than AWS, and I'd argue HDInsight is better than EMR.
AWS kinesis beats Azure's event hubs right now.
The inbuilt user management is much easier in AWS, being PKI based instead of Azure AD based.
There's other pieces I've missed I'm sure, hence wondering what services you've used in AWS which are lacking in Azure?
The problem isn't what it was, it's what it was promised to be. If you look at every public comment by the creator/team, the game doesn't do any of the interesting things that were promised.
A lookup table is the solution I'd use for that sort of problem, but if you're counting the lookup table as 1 line of code then you're sort of going against the spirit of the challenge.
You are not really a LOW level programmer if you freak out with no IDE or libraries. If you're writing the sort of code presented here I'd say you can easily call yourself a Systems Engineer or Software Engineer (unlike 99% of the people who call themselves a Software Engineer).
However, if you feel the need to write assembly, use code quirks to eek out 1% more performance, and write your own libraries then you have no place in modern high level software development, excepting if you're writing drivers, video games, or embedded code. Anyone doing that sort of BS is likely very smart, but is also a liability to any non-toy project.
Please never use Microsoft as a recommended licensing model. It's never the lesser evil, but I digress...
What specific issues do you have with MS's corporate licensing model?
-if you own a software license bought outright at any time you own it in perpetuity -CALs are bought yearly (typically) but are "essentially" the same no matter the platform or age. There are exceptions for this (dynamics CRM end user vs admin licenses, etc) but in general it works this way -Licenses are separate from support contracts, so you can opt for zero support for zero fee, or have MS premier support on-site 24/7 for a HUGE fee -You can optionally pay an annuity to get free upgrades for any software you use, but again not required -they offer bespoke support contracts when needed. An entity I was working with required security and break-fix updates for win2k3, which is out of ANY sort of support lifecycle, but MS was willing to provide them for $XXXX per server (it wasn't cheap, but at least it was available....)
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Linux is a lot easier than that these days. TBH installing something like Linux Mint on a new machine is easier than installing Windows and much much quicker.
The DVD thing is a thing of the past and now with steam running a stack of games the barrier is much lower.
That said, the incentives just aren't there. Being able to close a window with a middle mouse click, or press f3 for a split filebrowser page aren't enough incentive.
Installing windows on a new machine is stupendously easy.
- plug in usb thumbdrive with installer on it
- boot
- answer about 5 questions
- done
I've got 10 within 10 meters of my desk. They do exactly what they say they do (we use them in schools).
How is that vaporware?
They are the second biggest phone manufacturer.
They shipped 150m phones in 2017 and are going to ship 200m phones in 2018.
XDA has a total of 6.6m users in total. Lets ignore that most of those users are inactive, and that most of them won't be about huawei phones. Lets also assume people buy a phone every 2 years.
That means that, in a completely ridiculous use case which we know is overblown, under %2 of their user base will be effected.
It's more likely well under %0.01 of their actual handsets.
math majors? Really?
The federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr. I don't have my calculator handy, but I'm pretty sure $7.017 is not "less than half" of $7.25.
$7017.00 annually, not $7.017 per hour.
$7.25 * 40 hours per week * 52 weeks per year = $15080.00
$15080.00 / 2 = $7540.00
$7017.00 < $7540.00
So no, you are not that great at math.
My wife and I are android people. We trade off upgrade years.
I got the Pixel 1.
She got the Pixel 2, no headphone jack. It took her 6 months to notice, because we haven't owned non-bluetooth headphones in years, apart from some "studio" ones I use when doing music and never go near a phone anyways (and have a 1/4" jack).
" blockchain is no better than some federated database with an easy API to which others have written user-facing interfaces"
The "better" is that everyone's copy is guaranteed the same.
I'm not a huge fan of these as I had a surface pro with work that was flakey as, but it's $500 including keyboard for the base model, and you've compared a 10" lightweight tablet with two 15" laptops, neither of which have touch or a tablet mode of any sort.
So a search for 2 in 1 with a 10-12" screen, no atom processor, 4+gb ram, 64+gb SSD gives you this:
https://www.newegg.com/Product...
eMMC or flash storage is basically worthless, so ignore any of those.
https://www.newegg.com/Product...
That guy is $150 cheaper than surface go + keyboard, has a nicer keyboard and will be more sturdy. It also has a worse quality screen and is thicker etc. I'd say for an education laptop for primary school it's superior and at a lower price.
Same $500 gets you:
https://www.newegg.com/Product...
Larger SSD, worse processor, better screen, lesser brand. I think this one is a real tossup, I'd likely buy this one for my $500.
So looking at the ACTUAL market of this device it's competitive but not best in class.
Gerber does not control all of it's data processing for this as they do not own, nor have visibility, over the entire supply chain. They don't buy fruit from farmers, they buy from suppliers who buy from aggregates who by from trusts who by from farmers.
If you do some reading (I did after seeing this article) the Food Trust blockchain is a great idea. Ignoring that it's controlled by IBM, and you have to pay them to participate, it means a one stop trusted supply chain for food as more and more suppliers sign up.
So the idea is that Gerber has a batch of apple baby food that makes a bunch of babies sick. They trace back the fruit to 10 farms. Those farms then forward trace to everyone who got their fruit for a given timeframe to notify. It turns out that jimmy's apple sauce uses 2 of those farms as well and they've made people sick. Now you can notify everyone who used those two farms. Etc.
Normally jimmy's apple sauce and Gerber would NEVER share a supply chain solution since they are competitors.
Make a bit more sense? The entire point is that you don't control everyone in the sequence.
In Australia, where this article was written, almost every home power outlet is side by side, so he didn't go to ANY trouble to find a power outlet which was side by side.
Also your standard "buy it at the shops" power board has that same spacing since it's a standard. You have to buy a special hugely spaced power board. Notice this one has only one specially spaced one: https://www.target.com.au/p/us...
This one has none: https://www.officeworks.com.au...
This one has actual spacing markers to show you where they will fithttps://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/hpm-5-outlet-power-surge-protector-hpd1055
If you currently have a smart switch you get security updates for 0 seconds, let alone 1 year.
If you don't want IoT devices then you're not the market, so.... congratulations?
The direct market for this is all of the "smart" device manufacturers, giving them an easily updated platform without having to do so themselves. Currently very few IoT/smart devices are updated ever.
This is google's fix to an existing problem, not something they've come up with in isolation.
The article is about a reply from a support ticket, not any sort of official statement by Razer.
Someone in media should contact them officially.
In Australia anything under $100 doesn't require a PIN (and most people use tap-to-pay for years now)
Bitcoin/litecoin/dogecoin/etc attempt to solve the trustless peer to peer model.
A multi-bank blockchain implementation would not use a trustless model, it would be a trusted model where the sender and receiver both sign the transaction, and it is then added to the blockchain for consumption by all participating banks.
It's a way to share an immutable (without retracting ALL transactions before the transaction to be deleted) ledger, in this case between trusted parties.
I think they should absolutely be free to market/etc the terms "natural/mined" diamond vs "man made/lab grown" diamond, but "real" vs "fake" is incorrect and should be hammered on by agencies who regulate advertising and commerce.
Cubic zirconia is a "fake" diamond if it's sold as such. Man made diamonds are real, end of story.
I was truncating out of laziness, not rounding, but you are correct. Thanks!
Is it still a fun fact if it's neither fun nor a fact?
For the 9 months ending Sep 30 2016, they made $1,150,984,000 (1.1 billion) in revenue selling cars, of which $195,592,000 (0.1 billion) was from ZEV carbon credits.
In fact, they take OUT the carbon credits from their GAAP reporting numbers (what this article refers to) so that their results aren't skewed.
It's right there in black and white in the results: http://files.shareholder.com/d...
A re-paste of a comment I posted as a reply:
My belief is that the 99% use case of this is for running docker images.
Before this you could run docker on windows, but you had to create a "bizarre" tiny linux distro VM (100mb or so storage), and the docker on windows launcher would leverage that to provision and run the docker images. You had to dedicate ram to that VM to run your docker pool.
With this you can run docker images "natively", without a separate VM memory space, and due to the elf loader support they actually are running on windows itself.
I do not see this as a good alternative to traditional VMs.
My belief is that the 99% use case of this is for running docker images.
Before this you could run docker on windows, but you had to create a "bizarre" tiny linux distro VM (100mb or so storage), and the docker on windows launcher would leverage that to provision and run the docker images. You had to dedicate ram to that VM to run your docker pool.
With this you can run docker images "natively", without a separate VM memory space, and due to the elf loader support they actually are running on windows itself.
I do not see this as a good alternative to traditional VMs.
Which services are behind?
The only one that I've had come up is RDS. Azure SQL is great if your application supports SQL 2016, but if it's mysql/etc you have to spin up your own linux server and run mysql on it (Azure DOES have a template for that at least) whereas on AWS it's a pure PaaS offering.
The cost calculator on AWS is years ahead of the Azure one, but that's not a day by day use thing.
Azure's CDN capabilities are more flexible than AWS, and I'd argue HDInsight is better than EMR.
AWS kinesis beats Azure's event hubs right now.
The inbuilt user management is much easier in AWS, being PKI based instead of Azure AD based.
There's other pieces I've missed I'm sure, hence wondering what services you've used in AWS which are lacking in Azure?
The problem isn't what it was, it's what it was promised to be. If you look at every public comment by the creator/team, the game doesn't do any of the interesting things that were promised.
http://press-start.com.au/news...
Even key core features are broken, such as naming undiscovered planets getting "lost" by the server.
A lookup table is the solution I'd use for that sort of problem, but if you're counting the lookup table as 1 line of code then you're sort of going against the spirit of the challenge.
I think you have the terminology 100% backwards.
You are not really a LOW level programmer if you freak out with no IDE or libraries. If you're writing the sort of code presented here I'd say you can easily call yourself a Systems Engineer or Software Engineer (unlike 99% of the people who call themselves a Software Engineer).
However, if you feel the need to write assembly, use code quirks to eek out 1% more performance, and write your own libraries then you have no place in modern high level software development, excepting if you're writing drivers, video games, or embedded code. Anyone doing that sort of BS is likely very smart, but is also a liability to any non-toy project.
Please never use Microsoft as a recommended licensing model. It's never the lesser evil, but I digress...
What specific issues do you have with MS's corporate licensing model?
-if you own a software license bought outright at any time you own it in perpetuity
-CALs are bought yearly (typically) but are "essentially" the same no matter the platform or age. There are exceptions for this (dynamics CRM end user vs admin licenses, etc) but in general it works this way
-Licenses are separate from support contracts, so you can opt for zero support for zero fee, or have MS premier support on-site 24/7 for a HUGE fee
-You can optionally pay an annuity to get free upgrades for any software you use, but again not required
-they offer bespoke support contracts when needed. An entity I was working with required security and break-fix updates for win2k3, which is out of ANY sort of support lifecycle, but MS was willing to provide them for $XXXX per server (it wasn't cheap, but at least it was available....)