What is the acceptable minimum? Should people who use computers be required to know how to program them? Without specifics, you are just stating the obvious.
What we need to teach everyone is critical thinking. Coding is not even on the list.
The point that this clown is making is that he wants mindless code monkeys, a dime a dozen. Code monkeys do not need any critical thinking capabilities; in fact, they are better without them.
If your goal is to look like a complete dork, do wear your VR goggles in public. Even better if you indulge in spastic movements of your hands, in your attempts to interact with the virtual world.
Which just shows, once again, how pathetically limited AI systems are. Albeit we people do need maps, when driving we make our immediate decisions based on the information we get in real time, without having to cross-check with a map.
Don't misunderstand -- I am not saying Microsoft has malicious intent by adding Cortana to Skype; the company could have good intentions.
Where did I hear that before... Oh yeah, something along the lines of "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
For profit companies do not have good intentions. Their only intent is to maximize profit for their shareholders. It does not matter if this aligns with their customers' needs. Their customers' needs are nothing but a byproduct of their activities, not a necessary, or even sought-after, outcome. They will do whatever it takes, good or bad, moral or immoral, within the law, to attain profit maximization. In the case of many companies, Microsoft included, going without the law is standard operational procedure as well, their philosophy being that, as long as they don't get caught, anything goes.
Behind the scenes, MS still is under the influence of the same guys as usual. MS is just riding the storm and biding its time, until it can show its true colors again. Trust MS at your own peril.
Alfred Nobel picked those fields for reasons that he chose to keep to himself. That's it. One can endlessly speculate about his reasons, but that is all that one can do. Quite frankly, there are far more important things to devote one's mental energies to.
For a device that starts at $600+, I expect a minimum of 6GB RAM. You get 4GB in devices in the $200 ballpark. Plus, these Pixel phones do not take SD cards. Thanks but, no, thanks.
Google Music allows you to store 50,000 songs without paying though, this is larger than most people's mp3 libraries.
Does that include the songs that you want? An unlimited number of songs that you do not care about is no use if you still have to pay for the songs you really want.
There are a LOT of people out there with disposable income.
I am one of them - and I can also not understand why anybody would want to spend $1,000 on a stupid phone. I'd rather use the money to buy somebody I care for a present that they want - even if it is a $1,000 stupid phone.
Can you please provide examples? The truth is, graphene was touted to be the wonder material of the future and, ten years later, it seems to remain the wonder material of the future. Examples that it is the wonder material of today would be most welcome.
What has changed is the fact the MS is not the 800 lbs gorilla it used to be. Today is little more than another player, but as foul and obnoxious as it has always been. If it is not wreaking havoc that's because it can't any more. But, don't be deceived: it still extorts millions upon millions on licensing fees from Android, and it still has a program to undermine free software whenever and wherever it can, as long as that effort does not clash with its own interests.
Trust Microsoft and prepared to be killed.
Here's the problem with you guys: you seem to be unable to understand that there is an infinity of colors between black and white. To wit, some of us are as liberal as they come, and also ecstatic that this nonsensical superstition of the natives has not prevailed. Unlike you people, we also tend to be consistent in our disregard of all forms of superstition.
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What is the acceptable minimum? Should people who use computers be required to know how to program them? Without specifics, you are just stating the obvious.
What we need to teach everyone is critical thinking. Coding is not even on the list.
The point that this clown is making is that he wants mindless code monkeys, a dime a dozen. Code monkeys do not need any critical thinking capabilities; in fact, they are better without them.
Another clown who wants plenty of code monkeys to select from.
If your goal is to look like a complete dork, do wear your VR goggles in public. Even better if you indulge in spastic movements of your hands, in your attempts to interact with the virtual world.
Which just shows, once again, how pathetically limited AI systems are. Albeit we people do need maps, when driving we make our immediate decisions based on the information we get in real time, without having to cross-check with a map.
The anonymous coward that posted that summary seems to feel nostalgic about the time when MS was the 800 lbs gorilla bullying everybody.
Where did I hear that before... Oh yeah, something along the lines of "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
For profit companies do not have good intentions. Their only intent is to maximize profit for their shareholders. It does not matter if this aligns with their customers' needs. Their customers' needs are nothing but a byproduct of their activities, not a necessary, or even sought-after, outcome. They will do whatever it takes, good or bad, moral or immoral, within the law, to attain profit maximization. In the case of many companies, Microsoft included, going without the law is standard operational procedure as well, their philosophy being that, as long as they don't get caught, anything goes.
Hulu would have to pay me $5.99 a month.
Try it and see. If it survives the market, the world needed what you built. If it doesn't survive, the world didn't need what you built.
That's a very naive and simplistic view of the way in which the market works.
It’s also a cesspool of shitty, insecure code.
Samsung code, you mean.
Poor MS.
Behind the scenes, MS still is under the influence of the same guys as usual. MS is just riding the storm and biding its time, until it can show its true colors again. Trust MS at your own peril.
Forget about AIM. Does AOL still exist?
Alfred Nobel picked those fields for reasons that he chose to keep to himself. That's it. One can endlessly speculate about his reasons, but that is all that one can do. Quite frankly, there are far more important things to devote one's mental energies to.
The only reason for Microsoft to release "Edge" is for exposure.
It has already been exposed as a criminal organization. With this, it will be exposed as a pathetic criminal organization.
So, Americans in the US won't have access to it?
For a device that starts at $600+, I expect a minimum of 6GB RAM. You get 4GB in devices in the $200 ballpark. Plus, these Pixel phones do not take SD cards. Thanks but, no, thanks.
The UK really is in the leading edge when it comes to creeping toward a pervasive police state.
Google Music allows you to store 50,000 songs without paying though, this is larger than most people's mp3 libraries.
Does that include the songs that you want? An unlimited number of songs that you do not care about is no use if you still have to pay for the songs you really want.
There are a LOT of people out there with disposable income.
I am one of them - and I can also not understand why anybody would want to spend $1,000 on a stupid phone. I'd rather use the money to buy somebody I care for a present that they want - even if it is a $1,000 stupid phone.
Can you please provide examples? The truth is, graphene was touted to be the wonder material of the future and, ten years later, it seems to remain the wonder material of the future. Examples that it is the wonder material of today would be most welcome.
Sure. How do I install it in my Linux box?
What has changed is the fact the MS is not the 800 lbs gorilla it used to be. Today is little more than another player, but as foul and obnoxious as it has always been. If it is not wreaking havoc that's because it can't any more. But, don't be deceived: it still extorts millions upon millions on licensing fees from Android, and it still has a program to undermine free software whenever and wherever it can, as long as that effort does not clash with its own interests. Trust Microsoft and prepared to be killed.
I guess that, by now, you already know where you can stick it.
Here's the problem with you guys: you seem to be unable to understand that there is an infinity of colors between black and white. To wit, some of us are as liberal as they come, and also ecstatic that this nonsensical superstition of the natives has not prevailed. Unlike you people, we also tend to be consistent in our disregard of all forms of superstition.