The police detected an anomaly and saw fit to investigate. Did they say they suspected the guy of a crime?
The police shouldn't be seen as just arrest machines. They've more roles than that. What if the guy was hauling radioactive materials below the threshold allowed for civilians but in an unsafe manner? They'd be there to tell him that it's not safe. It's a rare and strange enough occurrence that I don't see a problem with that.
You mean yesterday's, surely. Rasterizers still are required obviously but GPUs nowadays are very much shader-based and not so much polygon-centric (we're far from T&L). They're built to efficiently process short but otherwise arbitrary floating-point operation sequences in extremely parallel scenarii.
I'm pretty sure buying and then leasing means you pay twice as much;)
There is, however, one key difference between consoles and cellphones: if I buy a cellphone up front for the full price, I still need a contract to use it and telcos rarely if ever give rebates to the monthly fees if you already own a cellphone. In this scenario, it's therefore more economical to take their subsidized phones. You also get to change phones every time your current one's "paid off".
If I buy a console, I don't actually *need* any service. XBL Gold exists, of course, but I have had an Xbox 360 since a few months after it came out and I've never ever needed Gold. Most things I care about (system updates, game updates) are available with the free Silver account. Therefore, it makes sense to just buy a 360 up-front and save on recurring costs. Even assuming you want Gold, it's still more economical to get the console up-front; you can often get a special package with a free Gold sub for a little bit (usually a month, sometimes more).
As for cars, the main reason that I can see is that lease times usually coincide with warranties. People like having the safety provided by a warranty and not having to deal with reselling the car and fixing it up at your own cost for that. Sure, it probably isn't the best of calculations, but I can see how some people willingly trade off some money for the assurance that somebody will take back the car once its lease time is done, no questions asked (well, provided you didn't scrap it obviously!).
Microsoft did this because otherwise IE would've been wiped off the face of the Earth. If they want to stay relevant, they need to get in with the times, but it's not thanks to them that this has happened. We can thank Mozilla, Opera, Google and even Apple, but certainly not Microsoft. It took them 3 versions (from 6 to 9) of IE to undo the majority of the damage their non-standard tendencies caused.
Also, Google was the one who pushed WebM. They wanted to have an open standard instead of h.264. Microsoft pushed h.264 heavily.
Microsoft definitely got better lately, but unfortunately not by kindness of the heart. They were forced to adapt.
I hope all of these authors release (or re-release!) ebooks so that I can support their work and Tor's decision. I probably would never have discovered Sanderson if it weren't for Warbreaker being available for free with no strings attached (an excellent book by the way).
Funny. Everybody I know of who runs Windows can be slotted in one of two categories: -Runs the computer with a modicum of common sense. Doesn't click "free cat wallpaper" links on ihaxyou.com. Lets Windows run its updates. -Does everything in his/her power to wreck the computer.
The few that are in the second category deserve to be hacked, really. It's like complaining that your car sucks because you didn't do your oil change for five years and used summer tires in winter.
Get a Nexus phone? They tend to get extensive updates, and once your warranty's up/official support dries up, you're guaranteed to be able to flash to Cyanogenmod or any other distribution you can think of thanks to unlocked bootloaders and the inherent popularity of the device.
For anyone remotely tech savvy, it's the logical choice.
Or, you could take a solid day to familiarize yourself with it and then see whether your productivity increases or decreases.
The problem is that people HATE change, even if after the change they find themselves in a better position. The UI could be the best thing since sliced bread (though I won't say that it is) and people would still balk and whine about it.
I for one find it much more elegant, intuitive and compact than cumbersome menus.
The difference is that I can take notes in real time in LaTeX, but I never could do that in Word, not with all the messing around the GUI. I can recognize Word's strength as being more approachable, but once you've developed a framework with LaTeX and are familiar with the syntax and commands, you can write extremely fast.
This is very much a case of using the least terrible software. I'd jump onto a more modern language than LaTeX anyday, but none has appeared thus far that can match its flexibility and reach.
I'll say this: if it weren't for Metro I would unquestionably recommend Windows 8 as an upgrade to Windows 7 and especially Vista/XP. The UI's generally clean, they've updated many of the things that needed updating (like the task manager or the file transfer dialog) and boot times are improved.
However, the forced inclusion of Metro through their "start screen" idea is flawed at best, a deal-breaker at worst. No, it's not utterly unusable, as some people might say, but it is a lot less convenient than the start menu. It's a needless downgrade from something which took less space, less mouse movement, fewer clicks and especially which fit with the aesthetic of the rest of the OS better. As it is there's a fairly jarring jump between the appearance of the desktop and the Metro tiles, making it feel like you're running two different OS. If the start screen let me use Windows programs more efficiently, it would've been good (and it's entirely possible to make it do so, Microsoft just didn't do it). As it is, programs take way too much space for no reason, getting access to things takes too many clicks, many traditional features are locked behind a "pretty" UI and it generally feels a bit schizophrenic.
However, my biggest gripe isn't actually the start screen, it's the "Charms". Whereas the bottom-left corner opens up the start screen, the right border opens up the charms panel, which has things like wifi strength and such; that much is good. However, in order to do the extremely unusual action of shutting down or hibernating the computer, you have to go into Settings, then Shutdown, all of which AFTER having opened the Charms menu. How's that for intuitive?
Make the start screen more efficient and put a prominent power button in there and I'll be a lot warmer to the OS. As it is Windows 7 still does the job well enough to stop me from moving on. Oh and, the fact they've shoved Metro in Windows Server 8 (even with the "desktop experience" pack disabled) is utterly insane.
Sorry, not gonna happen. You might as well unplug the phone if that's the call you're waiting for.
Violating relativity is not on anybody's todo list; entanglement has many useful properties, but you still can't break the speed of light barrier with it, and that isn't an implementation issue.
This comes back to something I've always thought: "normal" people don't exist, even if "normal" is common. Everybody has something major that's off with them (major, as in not a small scar or a tendency to get more colds). I've yet to meet somebody who doesn't fit this in some manner, even if at first glance they'd look perfectly "normal".
To be fair, Mendel arrived late in the Church's lifetime - the 19th century. During a large part of the Middle Ages, the Church was responsible for locking away (thus preserving, but also stopping people from reading) books on science, history and other such subjects.
Just look across the border to the Middle East, who were during the same period at the very peak of their civilization; their scientific discoveries managed to easily eclipse Europe's for many centuries, all the way up to the Renaissance, which coincided with a decrease in the Church's hold on politics and science.
Yes, the Church did many good things, namely by funding many of the most incredible artists the world has known and preserving gems from Antiquity, but I'd have a hard time saying it was a good thing overall, no matter the epoch.
Thing is, most streaming services seem to exist in places with poor net. Netflix and Hulu are US only, while the BBC iPlayer is UK only. Where are the good streaming services for say, mainland Europe?
Not that it matters much to me (I'm in Canada, land of the extortionate bandwidth caps), but I haven't really heard about serious streaming services in countries where bandwidth caps and/or speeds are not an issue.
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Alternatively, it'd cause more Click-the-cow-type games to crop up, because stupid sells.
Sad but true.
My 20/month plan includes 100 minutes and nothing else (no call display, no voice mail). I need to add 20/month on top to get 1GB data.
Yes, there's a continental rift between NA and EU. But hey, I get 911 free!
But we have to cover a greater area with fewer people than Europe and and and...
Oh fuck it we just love money.
The police detected an anomaly and saw fit to investigate. Did they say they suspected the guy of a crime?
The police shouldn't be seen as just arrest machines. They've more roles than that. What if the guy was hauling radioactive materials below the threshold allowed for civilians but in an unsafe manner? They'd be there to tell him that it's not safe. It's a rare and strange enough occurrence that I don't see a problem with that.
You mean yesterday's, surely. Rasterizers still are required obviously but GPUs nowadays are very much shader-based and not so much polygon-centric (we're far from T&L). They're built to efficiently process short but otherwise arbitrary floating-point operation sequences in extremely parallel scenarii.
I'm pretty sure buying and then leasing means you pay twice as much ;)
There is, however, one key difference between consoles and cellphones: if I buy a cellphone up front for the full price, I still need a contract to use it and telcos rarely if ever give rebates to the monthly fees if you already own a cellphone. In this scenario, it's therefore more economical to take their subsidized phones. You also get to change phones every time your current one's "paid off".
If I buy a console, I don't actually *need* any service. XBL Gold exists, of course, but I have had an Xbox 360 since a few months after it came out and I've never ever needed Gold. Most things I care about (system updates, game updates) are available with the free Silver account. Therefore, it makes sense to just buy a 360 up-front and save on recurring costs. Even assuming you want Gold, it's still more economical to get the console up-front; you can often get a special package with a free Gold sub for a little bit (usually a month, sometimes more).
As for cars, the main reason that I can see is that lease times usually coincide with warranties. People like having the safety provided by a warranty and not having to deal with reselling the car and fixing it up at your own cost for that. Sure, it probably isn't the best of calculations, but I can see how some people willingly trade off some money for the assurance that somebody will take back the car once its lease time is done, no questions asked (well, provided you didn't scrap it obviously!).
The risks of not reversing it involve the deaths of millions if not billions of people. Your economical bullshit has little weight compared to this.
Microsoft did this because otherwise IE would've been wiped off the face of the Earth. If they want to stay relevant, they need to get in with the times, but it's not thanks to them that this has happened. We can thank Mozilla, Opera, Google and even Apple, but certainly not Microsoft. It took them 3 versions (from 6 to 9) of IE to undo the majority of the damage their non-standard tendencies caused.
Also, Google was the one who pushed WebM. They wanted to have an open standard instead of h.264. Microsoft pushed h.264 heavily.
Microsoft definitely got better lately, but unfortunately not by kindness of the heart. They were forced to adapt.
Tor has Sanderson and Jordan too, if fantasy's more your fancy.
I hope all of these authors release (or re-release!) ebooks so that I can support their work and Tor's decision. I probably would never have discovered Sanderson if it weren't for Warbreaker being available for free with no strings attached (an excellent book by the way).
Funny. Everybody I know of who runs Windows can be slotted in one of two categories:
-Runs the computer with a modicum of common sense. Doesn't click "free cat wallpaper" links on ihaxyou.com. Lets Windows run its updates.
-Does everything in his/her power to wreck the computer.
The few that are in the second category deserve to be hacked, really. It's like complaining that your car sucks because you didn't do your oil change for five years and used summer tires in winter.
Get a Nexus phone? They tend to get extensive updates, and once your warranty's up/official support dries up, you're guaranteed to be able to flash to Cyanogenmod or any other distribution you can think of thanks to unlocked bootloaders and the inherent popularity of the device.
For anyone remotely tech savvy, it's the logical choice.
So basically the only way would be protecting users from themselves?
Do you see where that'd be going?
I believe they've learned since Office 2010 sheds the orb for a more traditional File tab (which looks a lot like a large menu).
Or, you could take a solid day to familiarize yourself with it and then see whether your productivity increases or decreases.
The problem is that people HATE change, even if after the change they find themselves in a better position. The UI could be the best thing since sliced bread (though I won't say that it is) and people would still balk and whine about it.
I for one find it much more elegant, intuitive and compact than cumbersome menus.
The difference is that I can take notes in real time in LaTeX, but I never could do that in Word, not with all the messing around the GUI. I can recognize Word's strength as being more approachable, but once you've developed a framework with LaTeX and are familiar with the syntax and commands, you can write extremely fast.
This is very much a case of using the least terrible software. I'd jump onto a more modern language than LaTeX anyday, but none has appeared thus far that can match its flexibility and reach.
I'll say this: if it weren't for Metro I would unquestionably recommend Windows 8 as an upgrade to Windows 7 and especially Vista/XP. The UI's generally clean, they've updated many of the things that needed updating (like the task manager or the file transfer dialog) and boot times are improved.
However, the forced inclusion of Metro through their "start screen" idea is flawed at best, a deal-breaker at worst. No, it's not utterly unusable, as some people might say, but it is a lot less convenient than the start menu. It's a needless downgrade from something which took less space, less mouse movement, fewer clicks and especially which fit with the aesthetic of the rest of the OS better. As it is there's a fairly jarring jump between the appearance of the desktop and the Metro tiles, making it feel like you're running two different OS. If the start screen let me use Windows programs more efficiently, it would've been good (and it's entirely possible to make it do so, Microsoft just didn't do it). As it is, programs take way too much space for no reason, getting access to things takes too many clicks, many traditional features are locked behind a "pretty" UI and it generally feels a bit schizophrenic.
However, my biggest gripe isn't actually the start screen, it's the "Charms". Whereas the bottom-left corner opens up the start screen, the right border opens up the charms panel, which has things like wifi strength and such; that much is good. However, in order to do the extremely unusual action of shutting down or hibernating the computer, you have to go into Settings, then Shutdown, all of which AFTER having opened the Charms menu. How's that for intuitive?
Make the start screen more efficient and put a prominent power button in there and I'll be a lot warmer to the OS. As it is Windows 7 still does the job well enough to stop me from moving on. Oh and, the fact they've shoved Metro in Windows Server 8 (even with the "desktop experience" pack disabled) is utterly insane.
Better hurry, things are getting uglier by the day...
Sorry, not gonna happen. You might as well unplug the phone if that's the call you're waiting for.
Violating relativity is not on anybody's todo list; entanglement has many useful properties, but you still can't break the speed of light barrier with it, and that isn't an implementation issue.
You're assuming /. readers have much of a choice.
This comes back to something I've always thought: "normal" people don't exist, even if "normal" is common. Everybody has something major that's off with them (major, as in not a small scar or a tendency to get more colds). I've yet to meet somebody who doesn't fit this in some manner, even if at first glance they'd look perfectly "normal".
To be fair, Mendel arrived late in the Church's lifetime - the 19th century. During a large part of the Middle Ages, the Church was responsible for locking away (thus preserving, but also stopping people from reading) books on science, history and other such subjects.
Just look across the border to the Middle East, who were during the same period at the very peak of their civilization; their scientific discoveries managed to easily eclipse Europe's for many centuries, all the way up to the Renaissance, which coincided with a decrease in the Church's hold on politics and science.
Yes, the Church did many good things, namely by funding many of the most incredible artists the world has known and preserving gems from Antiquity, but I'd have a hard time saying it was a good thing overall, no matter the epoch.
Depends on whether you're only concerned with the next fiscal year or the next twenty.
Thing is, most streaming services seem to exist in places with poor net. Netflix and Hulu are US only, while the BBC iPlayer is UK only. Where are the good streaming services for say, mainland Europe?
Not that it matters much to me (I'm in Canada, land of the extortionate bandwidth caps), but I haven't really heard about serious streaming services in countries where bandwidth caps and/or speeds are not an issue.
I rent Blu-Rays and rip them if I can't find them for a price I consider fair.
Though most of the time I end up renting them, watching them once and not even bothering to rip them.
Sigh.