I don't think that information is correct. I use WhatsApp Web while my phone is turned off and it works.
With that being said, the "New" WhatsApp Desktop application is not well thought-out. First: you can't minimize it to system tray or get it out of the way. I like my taskbar clean and I infrequently use WhatsApp - it has no place on my taskbar at all times. There's no setting to minimize it to System Tray. Second: it adds nothing in terms of value compared to the browser-based solution (WhatsApp Web). It provides no incentive to switch. WhatsApp Web runs in a browser tab, doesn't occupy an extra slot on the taskbar, fields notifications too. WhatsApp Desktop has the same functionality but worse UX.
It might get better sometime in the future, but I generally see IM applications are notoriously static from an UX evolution point of view (read: they very rarely get a new version released).
Yeah well, the exact reverse applies to me. Almost none of those I know would ever touch a prebuilt PC. As far as Notebooks go: the office environment is inelastic from a sales perspective. From what TFA statistics are focused on, 1000 units sold to offices are still 1000 units sold, only that in the past 800 were PCs and 200 were notebooks, whereas nowadays 100 are PCs and 900 are notebooks. The biggest drop is most likely attributed to personal/private sales, where the phone you bought last year can do everything you were doing on a notebook 5-7 years ago. Maybe not so efficiently, maybe not so fast, but it weighs 20 times less, its battery holds 10 times as much (worst case scenario) and fits in your pocket. Amazingly, it also doubles as a phone, imagine that!
Sorry but what you're saying is retarded. People don't buy a new PC not because it comes with this and that OS on it, but because it's become more and more simple to buy components and put them together into a new PC. It's going to be better, cheaper and more aligned to your needs than a prebuilt one. That's for PCs.
Notebooks are progresivelly becoming a niche product. Previously, people bought notebooks because they were the ONLY mobile device with capability to browse web, write some documents and perform basic computational tasks. Smartphones and tablets cannibalized Notebooks.
All-in-ones and Two-in-ones (whatever that means) are subsets of the above, in a sense. They're treated separately... frankly I have no idea why.
It's interesting that tablets went down in sales... until you read TFA (for whatever it's worth) and realize that there's no "tablet only" separate category. I guess you'd have to buy that data from Canalys (which, in my language, is very close to the translation of "rascal" or "villain").
In other words, the report is shit because it lumps together wildly different categories. Statistically speaking... crap in, crap out.
Well for starters it was NOT the most technologically advanced suit. As a matter of fact, it was rather old and couldn't be replaced. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...
1. That was not UPGRADE but UPDATE. 2. How would it matter? Set a date/time that suits you best. 3. The notification center is in the systray area but not in systray.
There are so many wrong things with the post above, I don't know where to start. 1. Old versions suck ass compared to new versions from a customer's perspective. Nobody wants to watch weather forecasts that look like they came straight from the 90s. 2. "There's a lot more customers of these programs than suppliers" - and that's the problem. The suppliers hold their customers by the balls. When demand is high and supply is low, you can do whatever the fuck you want as a supplier. 3. The customers rarely (if ever) "band together". Shit needs to be more than FUBAR for customers to band together. 4. The customers will never "develop their own weather software collaboratively" - see point 3. 5. Of course CBS, for instance, could, in theory, develop their own custom weather solution. They could also, in theory, develop their own hardware, broadcast format, audio format, video format, database types and God knows what else. Do they need to? Hell no.
It actually is the user's fault. The user accepted all that shit for numerous years instead of giving them a big fat fuck you. Microsoft pisses on users because they allow it. Who's to blame?
Nope. It's not a genetically-inherited trait, it's an acquired one. None of the teenagers zombie-walking while looking at their phones have parents who did that when they were young, simply because there were no smartphones back then.
2016-era GPUs: - nVidia Pascal: 15.3 Billion transistors; 64 SPs per Compute Unit 3840 CUDA Cores (60 CUDA Units) FP32 Compute: ~12 TFLOPs (Tesla) FP64 Compute: 5.5 TFLOPs(Tesla) RAM: 16 / 32 GB HBM2 Maximum Bandwidth: 1 TB/s
I assume the performance ratio could reach 100:1 easily in some areas. I'd say that's quite some improvement during the last 10 years. The same applies to monitors: 10 years ago, CRT monitors were still ubiquitous. Today, anything less than 1080P LED is below average.
Because they're looking for a fast return for each customer, which is retarded. Yes, you will have customers which won't pay you back the full sum you invested in them. On the other hand, that's more than covered by densely inhabited areas where you invest 1-5% of the amount you're getting out each year. Sadly, corporate overlords are looking for profit coming from 100% of their customer base.
Not to mention a huge community, ability to join friends' multiplayer games, automated broadcasting/streaming as an option, game-based discussion boards, etc.
The "problem" with interconnection is that it propagates outside of just Internet and device-to-device linking. During the last few decades it has become increasingly easier for people to not only communicate but to travel and work together (or fight), no matter where they are. This means: - Salaries across the world are slowly trending towards a midpoint. This will suck for more developed countries and will boost lesser developed countries. - Productivity will likewise even out: countries where people work 6h a day will no longer be able to sustain that work style. Similarly, countries where people work 12h a day, 6-7 days a week will slowly roll down to less than that. - Cultures will clash. They already do and it's not pretty. Some countries' culture is 500 years back: they will have to go through a deep transformation to reach present time, or they will bring down more evolved cultures - and then productivity will be the least of our worries as a species.
Not really. I'm talking about Firewatch, Tharsis and Adr1ft. They're the kind of games you really need to play yourself to realize they're good for you or not. On a more general note, all decision-heavy games mandate playing before buying. A demo would suffice. If you passively watch someone else make decisions to which you might disagree, you're following their path but you can't tell if the game's something you would enjoy for more than 15 minutes. OK, Firewatch is a walking simulator but it has absolutely zero replayability, so after playing it for 10 minutes I uninstalled it, deleted the torrent and watched someone else play it.
Sure, I could have gone with the Steam Refund way, but as of now it's tedious and awkward. I really dislike when they need 5 seconds to take your money but 3 days to give them back.
Piracy stopped being tempting for me when my income became sufficient to allow subscribing to a music streaming service, buying a couple (okay, maybe 5) games a month, subscribing to Netflix from my country and subscribing to some SaaS offers (e.g. Adobe products) whenever needed.
Since then, I bought all the software I needed and I only visited torrent websites to download exactly 3 games, the reason being that watching "Let's play"s and trailers and screenshots as well as reading opinions came out inconclusive. With no demos available, it was the only way to make sure my money wasn't wasted. Turned out 2 of 3 games were actually shit, so it was a good choice. The third I bought after finding out I liked it.
Ten years ago I was pirating literally everything. Today I am pirating nothing - actually I am encouraging others to "buy that shit" instead of pirating it.
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I don't think that information is correct.
I use WhatsApp Web while my phone is turned off and it works.
With that being said, the "New" WhatsApp Desktop application is not well thought-out.
First: you can't minimize it to system tray or get it out of the way. I like my taskbar clean and I infrequently use WhatsApp - it has no place on my taskbar at all times. There's no setting to minimize it to System Tray.
Second: it adds nothing in terms of value compared to the browser-based solution (WhatsApp Web). It provides no incentive to switch. WhatsApp Web runs in a browser tab, doesn't occupy an extra slot on the taskbar, fields notifications too. WhatsApp Desktop has the same functionality but worse UX.
It might get better sometime in the future, but I generally see IM applications are notoriously static from an UX evolution point of view (read: they very rarely get a new version released).
Yeah well, the exact reverse applies to me. Almost none of those I know would ever touch a prebuilt PC.
As far as Notebooks go: the office environment is inelastic from a sales perspective. From what TFA statistics are focused on, 1000 units sold to offices are still 1000 units sold, only that in the past 800 were PCs and 200 were notebooks, whereas nowadays 100 are PCs and 900 are notebooks. The biggest drop is most likely attributed to personal/private sales, where the phone you bought last year can do everything you were doing on a notebook 5-7 years ago. Maybe not so efficiently, maybe not so fast, but it weighs 20 times less, its battery holds 10 times as much (worst case scenario) and fits in your pocket. Amazingly, it also doubles as a phone, imagine that!
I stopped it from auto-updating using the link below:
http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/...
I'll stick with the version I have until Kingdom's Come - or until a better app comes along.
Sorry but what you're saying is retarded.
People don't buy a new PC not because it comes with this and that OS on it, but because it's become more and more simple to buy components and put them together into a new PC. It's going to be better, cheaper and more aligned to your needs than a prebuilt one.
That's for PCs.
Notebooks are progresivelly becoming a niche product. Previously, people bought notebooks because they were the ONLY mobile device with capability to browse web, write some documents and perform basic computational tasks. Smartphones and tablets cannibalized Notebooks.
All-in-ones and Two-in-ones (whatever that means) are subsets of the above, in a sense. They're treated separately... frankly I have no idea why.
It's interesting that tablets went down in sales... until you read TFA (for whatever it's worth) and realize that there's no "tablet only" separate category. I guess you'd have to buy that data from Canalys (which, in my language, is very close to the translation of "rascal" or "villain").
In other words, the report is shit because it lumps together wildly different categories. Statistically speaking... crap in, crap out.
Prakash Kumar Badalababoom.
There's a huge gap between "selling something that's mixed up in their basement" and "mandatory testing which costs 1 million dollars".
Wasn't this tried before with Alcohol? I think it was called "The Prohibition" or something. I wonder how that turned out...
Well for starters it was NOT the most technologically advanced suit. As a matter of fact, it was rather old and couldn't be replaced.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...
Enjoy the rather comprehensive article :)
1. That was not UPGRADE but UPDATE.
2. How would it matter? Set a date/time that suits you best.
3. The notification center is in the systray area but not in systray.
Me: I see the bloody notification in system tray and manually set it up to restart my machine at 5 AM. Problem solved.
That's better.
Redemption mode enabled.
I could live with all that but the T-word, you just went over the line. Shame on you, young man!
There are so many wrong things with the post above, I don't know where to start.
1. Old versions suck ass compared to new versions from a customer's perspective. Nobody wants to watch weather forecasts that look like they came straight from the 90s.
2. "There's a lot more customers of these programs than suppliers" - and that's the problem. The suppliers hold their customers by the balls. When demand is high and supply is low, you can do whatever the fuck you want as a supplier.
3. The customers rarely (if ever) "band together". Shit needs to be more than FUBAR for customers to band together.
4. The customers will never "develop their own weather software collaboratively" - see point 3.
5. Of course CBS, for instance, could, in theory, develop their own custom weather solution. They could also, in theory, develop their own hardware, broadcast format, audio format, video format, database types and God knows what else. Do they need to? Hell no.
It actually is the user's fault. The user accepted all that shit for numerous years instead of giving them a big fat fuck you. Microsoft pisses on users because they allow it. Who's to blame?
Nope.
It's not a genetically-inherited trait, it's an acquired one.
None of the teenagers zombie-walking while looking at their phones have parents who did that when they were young, simply because there were no smartphones back then.
I would not say that's true from any point of view.
For desktop market, for example, compare 2006-era GPUs with 2016-era GPUs.
2006 GPUs:
- Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2:
Core: 48 pixel pipes (24 per GPU), 500MHz
Memory: 1GB (512MB per GPU), 600MHz
- ATI Radeon X1950 XTX
Core: 16 pixel pipelines (48 pixel shaders), 650MHz
Memory: 512MB, 1GHz
2016-era GPUs:
- nVidia Pascal:
15.3 Billion transistors;
64 SPs per Compute Unit
3840 CUDA Cores (60 CUDA Units)
FP32 Compute: ~12 TFLOPs (Tesla)
FP64 Compute: 5.5 TFLOPs(Tesla)
RAM: 16 / 32 GB HBM2
Maximum Bandwidth: 1 TB/s
I assume the performance ratio could reach 100:1 easily in some areas. I'd say that's quite some improvement during the last 10 years.
The same applies to monitors: 10 years ago, CRT monitors were still ubiquitous. Today, anything less than 1080P LED is below average.
Indeed, it does/n't make a sound.
Because they're looking for a fast return for each customer, which is retarded.
Yes, you will have customers which won't pay you back the full sum you invested in them. On the other hand, that's more than covered by densely inhabited areas where you invest 1-5% of the amount you're getting out each year.
Sadly, corporate overlords are looking for profit coming from 100% of their customer base.
Ah, those were the days...
Not to mention a huge community, ability to join friends' multiplayer games, automated broadcasting/streaming as an option, game-based discussion boards, etc.
Whatever the fuck is it that you're smoking, quit it. Turns your brains into mush.
The "problem" with interconnection is that it propagates outside of just Internet and device-to-device linking.
During the last few decades it has become increasingly easier for people to not only communicate but to travel and work together (or fight), no matter where they are.
This means:
- Salaries across the world are slowly trending towards a midpoint. This will suck for more developed countries and will boost lesser developed countries.
- Productivity will likewise even out: countries where people work 6h a day will no longer be able to sustain that work style. Similarly, countries where people work 12h a day, 6-7 days a week will slowly roll down to less than that.
- Cultures will clash. They already do and it's not pretty. Some countries' culture is 500 years back: they will have to go through a deep transformation to reach present time, or they will bring down more evolved cultures - and then productivity will be the least of our worries as a species.
To each his own. I'm thinking that my spent money allow content makers to produce even better content in the future.
Not really.
I'm talking about Firewatch, Tharsis and Adr1ft. They're the kind of games you really need to play yourself to realize they're good for you or not.
On a more general note, all decision-heavy games mandate playing before buying. A demo would suffice. If you passively watch someone else make decisions to which you might disagree, you're following their path but you can't tell if the game's something you would enjoy for more than 15 minutes.
OK, Firewatch is a walking simulator but it has absolutely zero replayability, so after playing it for 10 minutes I uninstalled it, deleted the torrent and watched someone else play it.
Sure, I could have gone with the Steam Refund way, but as of now it's tedious and awkward. I really dislike when they need 5 seconds to take your money but 3 days to give them back.
Piracy stopped being tempting for me when my income became sufficient to allow subscribing to a music streaming service, buying a couple (okay, maybe 5) games a month, subscribing to Netflix from my country and subscribing to some SaaS offers (e.g. Adobe products) whenever needed.
Since then, I bought all the software I needed and I only visited torrent websites to download exactly 3 games, the reason being that watching "Let's play"s and trailers and screenshots as well as reading opinions came out inconclusive. With no demos available, it was the only way to make sure my money wasn't wasted. Turned out 2 of 3 games were actually shit, so it was a good choice. The third I bought after finding out I liked it.
Ten years ago I was pirating literally everything. Today I am pirating nothing - actually I am encouraging others to "buy that shit" instead of pirating it.