We had this discussion at the local hackerspace and got only slightly better results, which I thought was surprising for people who thrive on technology.
However... When it was rephrased as: "If you could have an automous car, but it could only go 45mph and use special lanes in autonomous mode, would you want it?" Suddenly the numbers shot way up. Seems many don't trust mixing humans and autonomous, especially at high speed. As people starting thinking of the benefits to this, even at slower speeds, the numbers went up and up until all but the most staunch opponents were left and even they wavered.
This is not far off from how cars got accepted as well.
Automakers started pushing the idea that streets were meant for cars, not foot traffic or horses (look up the origins of jaywalking), once the public was convinced, it went from there. The same can very easily happen with autonomous vehicles.
Me as well.
I was part of it, made recommendation after recommendation, nothing ever changed.
Nothing, that is, except my changes, which they rolled back every damn update. If you were fast track and used lots of alternate software, it was almost impossible to use long term, every time you started your computer, you never knew what would remain. The only saving grace was that I wasn't running it on my primary laptop, but this was only because it wouldn't run on my primary laptop at the time (an Asus core I5), 8.1 would not either. While I replaced that laptop, this has yet to be solved and probably never will be.
I went back to 7, but that's only temporary, I'm about 80% switched over to Linux (Mint) and will probably be down to a Windows VM within a month.
While they can be charming and sound great in negotiations, do your homework before getting in bed with one. Vulture capitalists is a perfect name for some of them, the last one wanted terms that would make a loan shark jealous.
Some of the addresses are hard coded, blocking them at the firewall or hosts file doesn't always work.
There are lists, and you can block them (there are programs to do so), however, as Microsoft has said, much of this is integrated into the OS, if you block them, the OS begins to lose functionality. For example, Smartscreen no longer works, so you get an error when installing a program, but you can bypass it, driver update also no longer works... Things like that. You might find these to be minor, and to an extent they are, but they do effect your productivity. I found it better to put my desktop back to Win7 and invest my time tweaking Win10 into switching over to Linux.
It's only a matter of time before malware to comes along and hijacks this system, which could prove very difficult to spot and remove.
The shrink rate is higher than the tolerances of Lego.
How much it shrinks each print can change based on formula, environment, filament size, etc... The only way Lego gets around this is by using a high pressure mold, something you cannot do free form.
Also....
By the time you count electricity and time, it's cheaper to buy the Lego off the shelf. That's before you even buy the printer.
You better have a beefy system (or enjoy pain) if you intend to run Solidworks in VM. Even then, if you use Windows in a VM, you're still using Windows.
Cad is becoming less and less specialized as 3d printers become more and more common.
Microsoft doesn't write the firmware, the hardware vendor does. There's little Microsoft can do to stop Asus or anyone else from issuing firmware and drivers that still support Windows 7 or 8, other than incentives (or threats). However, there are some things you simply can't backport, cpu extensions and things, such as SSE instructions, while you can insert a driver for the latest SATA, anything kernel level isn't going to happen. This isn't anything new, you can't (easily) run Win98 on modern hardware, nor would you get DirectX 11 or SSE 4.2 instruction support even if it did, the OS doesn't have the code for it.
That said, how long will vendors keep supporting older operating systems. Many stopped supporting XP a while back and odds are the only reason Vista is supported is because of 7 drivers often being backwards compatible. At some point you simply won't be able to get the drivers needed (just as you can't get Win98 running on the latest hardware), but again, that is not up to Microsoft. The idea of only having to make drivers for one operating system probably appeals to a lot of vendors.
With how hard MS has pushed Win10 onto people, I can see vendors rushing to dump support for older systems quickly. It's cheaper.
You read a blurb of a summary or the summary, and a bad one at that.
The author did a disservice titling the article as he/she did, and falsely makes the claim that they could not identify a male or female brain as that is not what the study found.
From the actual study's own abstract:
“Our study demonstrates that, although there are sex/gender differences in the brain, human brains do not belong to one of two distinct categories: male brain/female brain. “ This doesn't mean you cannot look at an MRI scan of brain patterns and not say it's male or female, just that that you cannot look at (most) individual traits by themselves as evidence of gender. What they found was that people are a hodgepodge of stereotypes mixed together, however you can still identify a definite male or female bias. You can Google the MRI scans if you want. br>
In relation to your last points,
Conveniently, the study actually tackled that as well, I'll let them summarize.
“These results suggest a relative reluctance among men, especially faculty men within STEM, to accept evidence of gender biases in STEM. This finding is problematic because broadening the participation of underrepresented people in STEM, including women, necessarily requires a widespread willingness (particularly by those in the majority) to acknowledge that bias exists before transformation is possible.”
MRI scans of transgender people have consistently shown that transgender peoples brains show the same patterns as those of the gender they identify as, Caitlyn's patterns would show up as female on a scan.
If they focus on just sexuality section, that too follows the same pattern, gay men and straight women show up the same.
Iphones are massive compared to screen size , not to mention delicate.
4in Androids have very little storage, and many are no longer even supported (Android is sh*t for supporting older devices). Even then, between the small storage and Google, being the geniuses that they are, removing move to SD on Kit Kat, most don't have nearly enough storage. 4gigs on Kit Kat should be considered criminal (1gig of app storage... WTF!?!). Also, most of them have garbage for screen resolution.
My S4 works well, but at some point it too will become obsolete in terms of updates/security. At the moment, it's about as good a fit as I can find, it's borderline too large and I would prefer a better camera but checks all of the other boxes. I use some high end weather apps for storm reporting, I also have to remote into servers on occasion when a laptop is not handy. I use 14gigs worth of apps, and that's before pictures, music, app data, cache...
As for the phone in the clutch... you do know we carry more than just phones right?
People agree, they may not be the majority, but there are plenty of us out there. The problem is there are no choices because size is one of the few factors carriers/manufacturers can point to that shows the phone is newer and "better" than the old models. Honestly, other than screen size is the S6 a Massive jump from an S5? If you know about phones, yes, but to a layman, not so much.
A holster doesn't change the fact that I can't operate it with one handed, or that it looks like I'm holding a tablet to my ear while using it, or won't fit in a small clutch. I'm not wearing a holster with a formal/party dress. I want a phone to communicate when I need to, maybe check the weather, look something up or take a picture, not carry a full on portable computer or tablet. If I need that on a job, I take a tablet or computer with me.
Companies need to get it through their heads that many people have very legitimate reasons why they don't want a massive device. That doesn't mean I don't want the latest OS (don't even get me started on this), or a good camera/screen/processor/storage/memory. I just want it all in a smaller device.
Perceived value, quality and reliability, which is what you are basing that decision on is very flawed.
Go look at actual reliability reports for Mercedes, it barely edges over average for reliability (which is still better than Cadillac but far short of GM), which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the cost of repairs. And Ford, while some are quite good, some are downright scary to own and others that are decent but are ridiculously expensive when things eventually do go wrong. Chevy actually edges them out if you know where to find the dealer trade-in reliability info.
By the way, almost every major manufacturer has plants here, we have the ability, the problem is people kept buying the spoon-fed garbage they offered and once people woke up, American companies couldn't figure out why they were so left behind. They did it to themselves.
People have said this for decades, hasn't happened yet.
Laptops and tablets are not what will kill the desktop. Laptops are slower, easier to steal or damage, harder/costlier to repair, have less storage, and are HORRIBLE for ergonomics. Any business swapping out desktops for laptops are idiots who haven't done the ROI. Tablets aren't any better.
Eventually though, desktops will change, personally, I think we will be swapping out the towers for cell phones with wireless keyboard/mouse/displays (something you can already do). In fact, I suspect that at some point your tablet and laptop also will be powered by the same phone. There have been attempst at this already, and for some it's already be feasible if they knew the technology existed. However, it will still be a while before you kill off the workstation. They need the power and data capacity you simply cannot get from a small device.
5 gigs is nothing anymore.
As previously mentioned, you can just use a thumbstick, keep one on a keychain, another at work. Write a simple batch file to copy files quickly and easily... Problem is, that requires work. Any backup plan that requires the user to actually do something is bound to fail at some point.
This is why I like Crashplan. Yes, you can use their cloud (reasonably priced), but you can also just send encrypted files to any remote system(s) of your choice as well. The best part is that not only is it easy, It's free and works on most major OS. I setup a small "server" (old desktop with a big drive) in an office. In exchange for backing up their files to my home, I backup my files to their office. It even emails you updates and warnings if anything goes wrong. It's pretty much the best backup I've found for homes and small business. .
I only backup necessary stuff though, anything I can afford to lose is backed up to a local drive.
This. Very much this.
While they look and operate similar, the underlying functionality and minor gui changes made a vast difference in how the OS ran. Vista generally requires twice the memory to keep up with Win7. Back when Vista was released, that was A LOT of memory.
Yes, ease of use and time are a big problem, as is strength and costs, both are issues on production based 3d printers as well, so don;t go thinking the big ones are better.
No, what many forget is that many people simply don't create much.
You can buy a small personal machine shop for your garage for about the price of a small 3d printer, you can also put together a nice woodshop as well. You can also buy tools to fix your car, or professional grade photo/video editors for photo and video editing. So why doesn't everyone have these? They have no need or want of them.
The only reason printers in the home took off because people found a use for them, or got them free with their computer. Kids could type and print reports for school, you could print off reports for work, etc... What purpose does the average person have for modern 3d printers? NONE. It doesn't matter if the price is $30, it's time consuming, fickle, technical, and expensive. Do you rally want to spend 8 hours, and $10 on plastic to make a vase you can buy at Walmart for $3. Of course not.
It doesn't matter how simple you make it, or how cheap, so long as it's easier and cheaper to just go buy the item you can print, it will never be on the kitchen counter. Get us somewhere close to Star Trek level replicators and yes, then we may see it, but until we get anywhere close to that, it's simply not going to happen in the average home. At the moment hobbyists and professionals are using them because they either need them or want to play with them, but the average home has absolutely zero use for one, anyone who says otherwise is riding the hype train and probably trying make a buck from it. Current 3d printers belong in labs, machine, hobby and fabrication shops, not the kitchen counter and it will remain that way for a long time yet.
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Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
We had this discussion at the local hackerspace and got only slightly better results, which I thought was surprising for people who thrive on technology.
However... When it was rephrased as: "If you could have an automous car, but it could only go 45mph and use special lanes in autonomous mode, would you want it?" Suddenly the numbers shot way up. Seems many don't trust mixing humans and autonomous, especially at high speed. As people starting thinking of the benefits to this, even at slower speeds, the numbers went up and up until all but the most staunch opponents were left and even they wavered.
This is not far off from how cars got accepted as well.
Automakers started pushing the idea that streets were meant for cars, not foot traffic or horses (look up the origins of jaywalking), once the public was convinced, it went from there. The same can very easily happen with autonomous vehicles.
Me as well.
I was part of it, made recommendation after recommendation, nothing ever changed.
Nothing, that is, except my changes, which they rolled back every damn update. If you were fast track and used lots of alternate software, it was almost impossible to use long term, every time you started your computer, you never knew what would remain. The only saving grace was that I wasn't running it on my primary laptop, but this was only because it wouldn't run on my primary laptop at the time (an Asus core I5), 8.1 would not either. While I replaced that laptop, this has yet to be solved and probably never will be.
I went back to 7, but that's only temporary, I'm about 80% switched over to Linux (Mint) and will probably be down to a Windows VM within a month.
I wouldn't say at all costs, however...
While they can be charming and sound great in negotiations, do your homework before getting in bed with one. Vulture capitalists is a perfect name for some of them, the last one wanted terms that would make a loan shark jealous.
Be careful when working with them.
Some of the addresses are hard coded, blocking them at the firewall or hosts file doesn't always work.
There are lists, and you can block them (there are programs to do so), however, as Microsoft has said, much of this is integrated into the OS, if you block them, the OS begins to lose functionality. For example, Smartscreen no longer works, so you get an error when installing a program, but you can bypass it, driver update also no longer works... Things like that. You might find these to be minor, and to an extent they are, but they do effect your productivity. I found it better to put my desktop back to Win7 and invest my time tweaking Win10 into switching over to Linux.
It's only a matter of time before malware to comes along and hijacks this system, which could prove very difficult to spot and remove.
The shrink rate is higher than the tolerances of Lego.
How much it shrinks each print can change based on formula, environment, filament size, etc... The only way Lego gets around this is by using a high pressure mold, something you cannot do free form.
Also....
By the time you count electricity and time, it's cheaper to buy the Lego off the shelf. That's before you even buy the printer.
You better have a beefy system (or enjoy pain) if you intend to run Solidworks in VM. Even then, if you use Windows in a VM, you're still using Windows.
Cad is becoming less and less specialized as 3d printers become more and more common.
Microsoft doesn't write the firmware, the hardware vendor does. There's little Microsoft can do to stop Asus or anyone else from issuing firmware and drivers that still support Windows 7 or 8, other than incentives (or threats). However, there are some things you simply can't backport, cpu extensions and things, such as SSE instructions, while you can insert a driver for the latest SATA, anything kernel level isn't going to happen. This isn't anything new, you can't (easily) run Win98 on modern hardware, nor would you get DirectX 11 or SSE 4.2 instruction support even if it did, the OS doesn't have the code for it.
That said, how long will vendors keep supporting older operating systems. Many stopped supporting XP a while back and odds are the only reason Vista is supported is because of 7 drivers often being backwards compatible. At some point you simply won't be able to get the drivers needed (just as you can't get Win98 running on the latest hardware), but again, that is not up to Microsoft. The idea of only having to make drivers for one operating system probably appeals to a lot of vendors.
With how hard MS has pushed Win10 onto people, I can see vendors rushing to dump support for older systems quickly. It's cheaper.
You read a blurb of a summary or the summary, and a bad one at that.
The author did a disservice titling the article as he/she did, and falsely makes the claim that they could not identify a male or female brain as that is not what the study found.
From the actual study's own abstract:
“Our study demonstrates that, although there are sex/gender differences in the brain, human brains do not belong to one of two distinct categories: male brain/female brain. “ This doesn't mean you cannot look at an MRI scan of brain patterns and not say it's male or female, just that that you cannot look at (most) individual traits by themselves as evidence of gender. What they found was that people are a hodgepodge of stereotypes mixed together, however you can still identify a definite male or female bias. You can Google the MRI scans if you want.
br> In relation to your last points,
Conveniently, the study actually tackled that as well, I'll let them summarize.
“These results suggest a relative reluctance among men, especially faculty men within STEM, to accept evidence of gender biases in STEM. This finding is problematic because broadening the participation of underrepresented people in STEM, including women, necessarily requires a widespread willingness (particularly by those in the majority) to acknowledge that bias exists before transformation is possible.”
MRI scans of transgender people have consistently shown that transgender peoples brains show the same patterns as those of the gender they identify as, Caitlyn's patterns would show up as female on a scan.
If they focus on just sexuality section, that too follows the same pattern, gay men and straight women show up the same.
Iphones are massive compared to screen size , not to mention delicate.
4in Androids have very little storage, and many are no longer even supported (Android is sh*t for supporting older devices). Even then, between the small storage and Google, being the geniuses that they are, removing move to SD on Kit Kat, most don't have nearly enough storage. 4gigs on Kit Kat should be considered criminal (1gig of app storage... WTF!?!). Also, most of them have garbage for screen resolution.
My S4 works well, but at some point it too will become obsolete in terms of updates/security. At the moment, it's about as good a fit as I can find, it's borderline too large and I would prefer a better camera but checks all of the other boxes. I use some high end weather apps for storm reporting, I also have to remote into servers on occasion when a laptop is not handy. I use 14gigs worth of apps, and that's before pictures, music, app data, cache...
As for the phone in the clutch... you do know we carry more than just phones right?
People agree, they may not be the majority, but there are plenty of us out there. The problem is there are no choices because size is one of the few factors carriers/manufacturers can point to that shows the phone is newer and "better" than the old models. Honestly, other than screen size is the S6 a Massive jump from an S5? If you know about phones, yes, but to a layman, not so much.
A holster doesn't change the fact that I can't operate it with one handed, or that it looks like I'm holding a tablet to my ear while using it, or won't fit in a small clutch. I'm not wearing a holster with a formal/party dress. I want a phone to communicate when I need to, maybe check the weather, look something up or take a picture, not carry a full on portable computer or tablet. If I need that on a job, I take a tablet or computer with me.
Companies need to get it through their heads that many people have very legitimate reasons why they don't want a massive device. That doesn't mean I don't want the latest OS (don't even get me started on this), or a good camera/screen/processor/storage/memory. I just want it all in a smaller device.
Perceived value, quality and reliability, which is what you are basing that decision on is very flawed.
Go look at actual reliability reports for Mercedes, it barely edges over average for reliability (which is still better than Cadillac but far short of GM), which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the cost of repairs. And Ford, while some are quite good, some are downright scary to own and others that are decent but are ridiculously expensive when things eventually do go wrong. Chevy actually edges them out if you know where to find the dealer trade-in reliability info.
By the way, almost every major manufacturer has plants here, we have the ability, the problem is people kept buying the spoon-fed garbage they offered and once people woke up, American companies couldn't figure out why they were so left behind. They did it to themselves.
I can vouch for this, it re-installed on me.
It loves to re-install things you remove.
There was a time when people thought Linux would become a contender on the desktop.
There was a time?
I still meet people who think it's just around the corner, not to mention every new Windows release brings those expectations.
Nothing more.
Seriously they happen all day long all up and down the state.
People have said this for decades, hasn't happened yet.
Laptops and tablets are not what will kill the desktop. Laptops are slower, easier to steal or damage, harder/costlier to repair, have less storage, and are HORRIBLE for ergonomics. Any business swapping out desktops for laptops are idiots who haven't done the ROI. Tablets aren't any better.
Eventually though, desktops will change, personally, I think we will be swapping out the towers for cell phones with wireless keyboard/mouse/displays (something you can already do). In fact, I suspect that at some point your tablet and laptop also will be powered by the same phone. There have been attempst at this already, and for some it's already be feasible if they knew the technology existed. However, it will still be a while before you kill off the workstation. They need the power and data capacity you simply cannot get from a small device.
5 gigs is nothing anymore.
As previously mentioned, you can just use a thumbstick, keep one on a keychain, another at work. Write a simple batch file to copy files quickly and easily... Problem is, that requires work. Any backup plan that requires the user to actually do something is bound to fail at some point.
This is why I like Crashplan. Yes, you can use their cloud (reasonably priced), but you can also just send encrypted files to any remote system(s) of your choice as well. The best part is that not only is it easy, It's free and works on most major OS. I setup a small "server" (old desktop with a big drive) in an office. In exchange for backing up their files to my home, I backup my files to their office. It even emails you updates and warnings if anything goes wrong. It's pretty much the best backup I've found for homes and small business.
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I only backup necessary stuff though, anything I can afford to lose is backed up to a local drive.
This. Very much this.
While they look and operate similar, the underlying functionality and minor gui changes made a vast difference in how the OS ran. Vista generally requires twice the memory to keep up with Win7. Back when Vista was released, that was A LOT of memory.
This is nothing, wait until you see the new Control Panel icons.
http://www.winbeta.org/news/wi...
Folder icons are easy to change, and no you don't need 3rd party software to do it, just go into properties.
Yes, ease of use and time are a big problem, as is strength and costs, both are issues on production based 3d printers as well, so don;t go thinking the big ones are better.
No, what many forget is that many people simply don't create much.
You can buy a small personal machine shop for your garage for about the price of a small 3d printer, you can also put together a nice woodshop as well. You can also buy tools to fix your car, or professional grade photo/video editors for photo and video editing. So why doesn't everyone have these? They have no need or want of them.
The only reason printers in the home took off because people found a use for them, or got them free with their computer. Kids could type and print reports for school, you could print off reports for work, etc... What purpose does the average person have for modern 3d printers? NONE. It doesn't matter if the price is $30, it's time consuming, fickle, technical, and expensive. Do you rally want to spend 8 hours, and $10 on plastic to make a vase you can buy at Walmart for $3. Of course not.
It doesn't matter how simple you make it, or how cheap, so long as it's easier and cheaper to just go buy the item you can print, it will never be on the kitchen counter. Get us somewhere close to Star Trek level replicators and yes, then we may see it, but until we get anywhere close to that, it's simply not going to happen in the average home. At the moment hobbyists and professionals are using them because they either need them or want to play with them, but the average home has absolutely zero use for one, anyone who says otherwise is riding the hype train and probably trying make a buck from it. Current 3d printers belong in labs, machine, hobby and fabrication shops, not the kitchen counter and it will remain that way for a long time yet.
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