But they just keep removing useful functionality and making the JavaScript slower. It used to be useful, but they seem to be intent on ensuring it isn't any more.
It depends on what you need though. I need support for wide-gamut displays and 32-bit colour which I could never get working properly with Win7, but works fine out-of-the-box with Win10. Also, newer power management features like S0ix states are not supported by Win7, and poorly supported by Win8. Win10 will give a significant battery life improvement on newer notebooks. I agree there's a lot that sucks about Win10, but there are many new features that are actually useful.
Just checked some packaged food, and the "use by"/"best before"/"packed on" dates are in Heisei Era on all of them. Some have both Heisie and CE dates, but none have CE only.
On my Galaxy S3 it was impossible to uninstall any preinstalled apps, but in my S8 it's possible to uninstall most of them (Flipboard, Facebook, Google Duo, and a bunch of other stuff). Can't remove Google Chrome, GMail, or Google Maps and a few other Google things though.
I know it's a meme and all, but does bedroom death really happen? Over a decade and two kids later my wife is still pretty keen, and gets disappointed if I stay up too late working or feel too exhausted for sexytime. I kinda suspect that bedroom death is more a symptom of people realising after they're married that they're really not that into each other.
Buy a Samsung phone? Samsung Android phones always require unlocking before a USB connection will work. I don't know why it's suddenly a big deal when Apple does this.
Killing dynamic linking means you need to update absolutely everything when a security bug is found in a common library. That's far worse than just some extra memory use.
Yeah, but why would you need the reflex mirror and viewfinder if it's on a drone? Perhaps something like a Sony with an electronic viewfinder would be just fine, without the additional mechanical complexity and weight for something you're not using. Good interchangeable lenses don't necessarily require a reflex mirror.
My desktop has PCIe slots populated with dual NV Quadro GPUs, an accelerated 2*40Gbps Ethernet NIC, and a SAS controller. Some people really can't get enough PCIe lanes.
Well, part of their business is to provide investment services and advice, and this involves market analytics. They're betting the cable companies are going to continue to lose their grasp on eyeballs. It's more or less saying, "FWIW we think the cable TV companies aren't going to be losing eyeballs to streaming services at least this fast - consider that when deciding where to invest your money."
UBS is a large Swiss bank, and an investment powerhouse. There's nothing American about them. You'd have to be living under a rock not to know who they are.
Repeating it doesn't make it true. Having a module in the main kernel tree only guarantees it will continue to build, because there's no way for the kernel maintainers to actually test drivers for often esoteric and expensive peripherals, specialised filesystems, or other unusual use-cases. I do want stable kernel ABIs, so drivers continue to work and I'm not at the mercy of people having to play constant catch-up when things are shuffled.
I can see why he went for it, but as they say when you're getting the basics for counselling, the first rule is "stay behind the desk", and the second rule is "always stay behind the desk". When have a professional relationship of any kind, you absolutely must avoid even the appearance of impropriety.
Apple never provided Objective-C for Mac before acquiring NeXT. MPW included a Pascal compiler, and later C and C++ compilers. At some point they switched their 68k C/C++ compilers to an implementation licensed from Symantec and dropped the Pascal compiler. They were late to get PowerPC compilers ready for MPW, so Metrowerks CodeWarrior stole the market.
No, it didn't start like that. The company was founded by ex-HP employees after HP's massive layoffs (pre-Fiorina). They pooled their savings and borrowed as much as they could to start the company, and imagined they'd be turning a profit in a couple of years. They gave employees options to allow them to buy into the vision as well. Of course, things didn't go so well, so they had to look for investors to keep the company alive.
Some of the investors were in it because they wanted to be able to resell the products as part of a "solution" (Siemens Business Services was one of these). Others were venture capitalists hoping the company could be brought to the point where it could either go public of be acquired.
Venture capitalists are taking a risk by funding a startup, so they understandably at least want a guarantee that they're going to get their money back. This is why you usually end up having to create a preferential share class for them. They're the ones doing you a favour. Preferential shares get paid out first in an acquisition, preferential shareholders have the right to accept takeover offers, and they can also vote to liquidate the company. If the company is liquidated, preferential shares are paid out first (after liabilities/debts).
I don't think many employees exercised options after the preferential shares were created. It mostly the founders and early employees who'd put there money where their mouth is who were affected. I never exercised my options - it was pretty clear that a takeover wouldn't bring in enough money to pay out the venture capitalists and leave anything for the employees.
The company kicked on for over 15 years before being acquired. There were good people working there, and there was some interesting technology. If it wasn't for the lack of money making everything stressful, it would've been a good place to work. It wasn't that they wanted to screw people over, it's just tough trying to break into a market. With a choice of making a deal with the devil, or telling everyone, "Sorry folks, it's over, let's pack up and go home," they took the deal.
How does github make money anyway? How do they keep the lights on?
Although they get some revenue from paid plans (which offer features like private repositories, server-side hooks, and other useful things), they've never been profitable. Like so many startups, they keep the lights on by burning investor money while they wait to be acquired.
I've worked for a company like this, and the people who got screwed the most were the employee shareholders. The VCs with their preferential shares divided up the money from the sale, and there was nothing left for the employees who actually believed in the company and put their own money into it. I'd already left by then, but it was a better place to work after the buy-out, as they could actually afford to pay something like market rates for developers. Before the buy-out, cash was always too tight, so everyone was underpaid and no-one got pay rises.
Low-observability surveillance satellites? Low Earth orbit synthetic aperture radar satellite? Low Earth orbit near infrared telescope satellite? Solar panels make them far more visible, and hence easier to find/track. Improvements in betavoltaics are very interesting for spy satellites and other military applications.
The price of an individual share is immaterial. Issuing more shares just dilutes the value of existing shares. If you do a two-for-one stock split, the share price halves. The main benefit of having a lower individual share price is that it makes it easier for smaller investors (e.g. individuals) to get in on the game. Apple in particular doesn't like their share price to get too high, so they've done regular two-for-one splits to keep it at a level where it's easy enough for individuals to afford to buy a round lot of shares.
The older Galaxy S phones didn't allow Facebook to be completely uninstalled, but it's possible to completely uninstall it on the S8 (Australia, Telstra).
Apple Mail had the "redirect" feature at least until Snow Leopard (they may have removed it in the iPhonification of the OS - I stopped using Macs after Snow Leopard). I think it inherited it from NeXT Mail.
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Then you lose the premium you paid for the options - not a huge amount. Hopefully some of your other strategies pay off.
But they just keep removing useful functionality and making the JavaScript slower. It used to be useful, but they seem to be intent on ensuring it isn't any more.
It depends on what you need though. I need support for wide-gamut displays and 32-bit colour which I could never get working properly with Win7, but works fine out-of-the-box with Win10. Also, newer power management features like S0ix states are not supported by Win7, and poorly supported by Win8. Win10 will give a significant battery life improvement on newer notebooks. I agree there's a lot that sucks about Win10, but there are many new features that are actually useful.
Just checked some packaged food, and the "use by"/"best before"/"packed on" dates are in Heisei Era on all of them. Some have both Heisie and CE dates, but none have CE only.
On my Galaxy S3 it was impossible to uninstall any preinstalled apps, but in my S8 it's possible to uninstall most of them (Flipboard, Facebook, Google Duo, and a bunch of other stuff). Can't remove Google Chrome, GMail, or Google Maps and a few other Google things though.
I know it's a meme and all, but does bedroom death really happen? Over a decade and two kids later my wife is still pretty keen, and gets disappointed if I stay up too late working or feel too exhausted for sexytime. I kinda suspect that bedroom death is more a symptom of people realising after they're married that they're really not that into each other.
Buy a Samsung phone? Samsung Android phones always require unlocking before a USB connection will work. I don't know why it's suddenly a big deal when Apple does this.
Killing dynamic linking means you need to update absolutely everything when a security bug is found in a common library. That's far worse than just some extra memory use.
There's Fedora KDE spin...
Yeah, but why would you need the reflex mirror and viewfinder if it's on a drone? Perhaps something like a Sony with an electronic viewfinder would be just fine, without the additional mechanical complexity and weight for something you're not using. Good interchangeable lenses don't necessarily require a reflex mirror.
My desktop has PCIe slots populated with dual NV Quadro GPUs, an accelerated 2*40Gbps Ethernet NIC, and a SAS controller. Some people really can't get enough PCIe lanes.
Well, part of their business is to provide investment services and advice, and this involves market analytics. They're betting the cable companies are going to continue to lose their grasp on eyeballs. It's more or less saying, "FWIW we think the cable TV companies aren't going to be losing eyeballs to streaming services at least this fast - consider that when deciding where to invest your money."
UBS is a large Swiss bank, and an investment powerhouse. There's nothing American about them. You'd have to be living under a rock not to know who they are.
Repeating it doesn't make it true. Having a module in the main kernel tree only guarantees it will continue to build, because there's no way for the kernel maintainers to actually test drivers for often esoteric and expensive peripherals, specialised filesystems, or other unusual use-cases. I do want stable kernel ABIs, so drivers continue to work and I'm not at the mercy of people having to play constant catch-up when things are shuffled.
Navigon's dead. At least in Asia/Pacific they're discontinuing the service. No more updates.
I can see why he went for it, but as they say when you're getting the basics for counselling, the first rule is "stay behind the desk", and the second rule is "always stay behind the desk". When have a professional relationship of any kind, you absolutely must avoid even the appearance of impropriety.
They dropped Pascal before MacOS 9 - it was just C/C++ at that point. Pascal never really made it across to PowerPC.
Apple never provided Objective-C for Mac before acquiring NeXT. MPW included a Pascal compiler, and later C and C++ compilers. At some point they switched their 68k C/C++ compilers to an implementation licensed from Symantec and dropped the Pascal compiler. They were late to get PowerPC compilers ready for MPW, so Metrowerks CodeWarrior stole the market.
That's $200M of revenue - their expenses are still substantially higher than that, making them unprofitable.
No, it didn't start like that. The company was founded by ex-HP employees after HP's massive layoffs (pre-Fiorina). They pooled their savings and borrowed as much as they could to start the company, and imagined they'd be turning a profit in a couple of years. They gave employees options to allow them to buy into the vision as well. Of course, things didn't go so well, so they had to look for investors to keep the company alive.
Some of the investors were in it because they wanted to be able to resell the products as part of a "solution" (Siemens Business Services was one of these). Others were venture capitalists hoping the company could be brought to the point where it could either go public of be acquired.
Venture capitalists are taking a risk by funding a startup, so they understandably at least want a guarantee that they're going to get their money back. This is why you usually end up having to create a preferential share class for them. They're the ones doing you a favour. Preferential shares get paid out first in an acquisition, preferential shareholders have the right to accept takeover offers, and they can also vote to liquidate the company. If the company is liquidated, preferential shares are paid out first (after liabilities/debts).
I don't think many employees exercised options after the preferential shares were created. It mostly the founders and early employees who'd put there money where their mouth is who were affected. I never exercised my options - it was pretty clear that a takeover wouldn't bring in enough money to pay out the venture capitalists and leave anything for the employees.
The company kicked on for over 15 years before being acquired. There were good people working there, and there was some interesting technology. If it wasn't for the lack of money making everything stressful, it would've been a good place to work. It wasn't that they wanted to screw people over, it's just tough trying to break into a market. With a choice of making a deal with the devil, or telling everyone, "Sorry folks, it's over, let's pack up and go home," they took the deal.
Although they get some revenue from paid plans (which offer features like private repositories, server-side hooks, and other useful things), they've never been profitable. Like so many startups, they keep the lights on by burning investor money while they wait to be acquired.
I've worked for a company like this, and the people who got screwed the most were the employee shareholders. The VCs with their preferential shares divided up the money from the sale, and there was nothing left for the employees who actually believed in the company and put their own money into it. I'd already left by then, but it was a better place to work after the buy-out, as they could actually afford to pay something like market rates for developers. Before the buy-out, cash was always too tight, so everyone was underpaid and no-one got pay rises.
Low-observability surveillance satellites? Low Earth orbit synthetic aperture radar satellite? Low Earth orbit near infrared telescope satellite? Solar panels make them far more visible, and hence easier to find/track. Improvements in betavoltaics are very interesting for spy satellites and other military applications.
The price of an individual share is immaterial. Issuing more shares just dilutes the value of existing shares. If you do a two-for-one stock split, the share price halves. The main benefit of having a lower individual share price is that it makes it easier for smaller investors (e.g. individuals) to get in on the game. Apple in particular doesn't like their share price to get too high, so they've done regular two-for-one splits to keep it at a level where it's easy enough for individuals to afford to buy a round lot of shares.
The older Galaxy S phones didn't allow Facebook to be completely uninstalled, but it's possible to completely uninstall it on the S8 (Australia, Telstra).
Apple Mail had the "redirect" feature at least until Snow Leopard (they may have removed it in the iPhonification of the OS - I stopped using Macs after Snow Leopard). I think it inherited it from NeXT Mail.