It still doesn't absolve him from being ignorant about his own dealings. Yeah, he has people to do these things for him so that he doesn't have to worry about it. I can understand that. But then, once he knew that a mistake had been made, he should have take responsibility. He's the guy in charge, not his lawyers. It's like asking a computer to do something and then spreading the blame to the computer when it obeys you to the letter.
I know you are halfway kidding (I am erring in the middle) but I think this goes to show that Windows is no longer their primary revenue stream. Far from it actually.
The last numbers I heard was that Window 7 still has about a 50% install base out of all Windows computers. So Windows 10 has one of the lowest adoption rates despite (or because of) aggressive marketing and pushing.
This is a classic problem when moving from another environment to Apple's garden. There are unilateral decisions made about how you are supposed to do things. Some of the time, these methods fly in the face of conventional computer use.
One example I can think of was when they just decided that we were all scrolling web pages the wrong way apparently and just inverted the scroll wheel on the mouse so that moving the wheel away from you would move the web page down instead of up.... like... what the hell Apple?
It is this kind of crap that makes me dislike Apple.
Certainly doesn't stop them from transparently redirecting 2 times so that when you hit the back button, you are just going back to the redirect page which then puts you back into the page you were trying to leave. You have to either hit back 2 (or sometimes even more) times very quickly, or right click on the back button and choose the page you want to go back to. It's almost as annoying as not being able to hit back at all.
This, by the way, is also a side effect of SSO where you are redirected through the authentication system before arriving at the page. It's pretty aggravating.
I am not so sure that it is flaws in the 64 bit version of the software, I feel that it is actually the same problem that plagues Windows in general: Backward compatibility.
There is an ocean of Office and IE plugins that are 32 bit only. While it is a problem that Microsoft created, it's not exactly their problem to update the vast amount of 3rd party programs which only work with 32 bit versions.
The thing is, 64 bit is all well and good, but even today, there isn't a compelling reason to have 64-bit address space for most applications. Kind of the same thing with multi-threading and multiple cores. Most apps just don't need or can't use that extra capacity.
The writing has been on the wall for a while now. You rarely get "just AV" when you install an AV product these days. You end up with a whole suite of value added applications like password managers, system optimizers, registry cleaners, web site scanners, IPS and content filters, etc.
The reactionary system we have been living in was never very good. Relying on signatures to detect malware is a fundamentally flawed system. As the operating systems and, more importantly, the applications that run on them become increasingly secure, the need for the signature-based AV systems declines.
Any AV software company has seen this coming for a long time. At least I would hope they have.
You are mistaking what this is. It is not a VR headset and frame rate doesn't apply in the same as it would on a VR headset. It is an augmented reality headset. It scans the environment around you in order to make a real-time 3d model so that virtual objects can be overlaid on the real items you are seeing.
From what I have heard, it works surprisingly well, it just has a small range of view. Presumably this is because of the high processing requirements of creating and maintaining a stable real-time 3d model.
Agreed. Though, these are only going to be the big sexy projects that everyone can recognize.
Something tells me that fundamental network protocols, text editors, command line tools, file systems and so on will not be mentioned.
It's always the rock stars that get all the attention even though they inevitably rely on a million work horses behind the scenes to achieve their popularity.
Oh the problems we have here in America. It's like living in the dark ages over here. I am sure that Trump will solve this problem for us and make everything great again.
I don't generally fill out surveys. When I do, though, I am as honest as they let me be. Sometimes, the pre-provided answers don't conform to my true feelings or are not applicable.
I prefer the freeform surveys where I can state exactly what I like and don't like.
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They could have paid it... but that would have blown the budget for the PD sponsored BBQ....
Nah, this is a feature. It takes the pressure off from having to do actual work.
I am sure they probably feel that more evidence needs to be digital and on systems that they let the intern surf the web on.
Meh, it's only evidence. We all know that police don't care about that.
Perhaps they could spread them on the ground in winter time so that people don't slip and fall on the ice?
Can they solve the problem of the record skipping in my car?
I have all of the gold plated monster cables and everything....
It still doesn't absolve him from being ignorant about his own dealings. Yeah, he has people to do these things for him so that he doesn't have to worry about it. I can understand that. But then, once he knew that a mistake had been made, he should have take responsibility. He's the guy in charge, not his lawyers. It's like asking a computer to do something and then spreading the blame to the computer when it obeys you to the letter.
Now that I understand the issues better, it's clear we made a mistake.
This just sounds like someone trying to spread the blame.
Why couldn't he just say "I made a mistake" ?
I know you are halfway kidding (I am erring in the middle) but I think this goes to show that Windows is no longer their primary revenue stream. Far from it actually.
The last numbers I heard was that Window 7 still has about a 50% install base out of all Windows computers. So Windows 10 has one of the lowest adoption rates despite (or because of) aggressive marketing and pushing.
This is a classic problem when moving from another environment to Apple's garden. There are unilateral decisions made about how you are supposed to do things. Some of the time, these methods fly in the face of conventional computer use.
One example I can think of was when they just decided that we were all scrolling web pages the wrong way apparently and just inverted the scroll wheel on the mouse so that moving the wheel away from you would move the web page down instead of up.... like... what the hell Apple?
It is this kind of crap that makes me dislike Apple.
Certainly doesn't stop them from transparently redirecting 2 times so that when you hit the back button, you are just going back to the redirect page which then puts you back into the page you were trying to leave. You have to either hit back 2 (or sometimes even more) times very quickly, or right click on the back button and choose the page you want to go back to. It's almost as annoying as not being able to hit back at all.
This, by the way, is also a side effect of SSO where you are redirected through the authentication system before arriving at the page. It's pretty aggravating.
Remedy.... we're all looking at you, you BMC piece of garbage...
You mean on paper? Huh... why would someone do that?
I have notices this as well.
Also, visit apple.com to see the current state of "modern" web page layout and design that is inevitably copied by every other web developer.
You kids with your hula-hoops and fax machines.... And who decided on beige for all these new-fangled gadgets? Damn kids...
I am not so sure that it is flaws in the 64 bit version of the software, I feel that it is actually the same problem that plagues Windows in general: Backward compatibility.
There is an ocean of Office and IE plugins that are 32 bit only. While it is a problem that Microsoft created, it's not exactly their problem to update the vast amount of 3rd party programs which only work with 32 bit versions.
The thing is, 64 bit is all well and good, but even today, there isn't a compelling reason to have 64-bit address space for most applications. Kind of the same thing with multi-threading and multiple cores. Most apps just don't need or can't use that extra capacity.
The writing has been on the wall for a while now. You rarely get "just AV" when you install an AV product these days. You end up with a whole suite of value added applications like password managers, system optimizers, registry cleaners, web site scanners, IPS and content filters, etc.
The reactionary system we have been living in was never very good. Relying on signatures to detect malware is a fundamentally flawed system. As the operating systems and, more importantly, the applications that run on them become increasingly secure, the need for the signature-based AV systems declines.
Any AV software company has seen this coming for a long time. At least I would hope they have.
Well, there you go. You made my point better than I (obviously) did.
This can't be a file system related thing.
No, the grass is greener on the other side. If we could just get this data into XPS format, America would be great again...
You are mistaking what this is. It is not a VR headset and frame rate doesn't apply in the same as it would on a VR headset. It is an augmented reality headset. It scans the environment around you in order to make a real-time 3d model so that virtual objects can be overlaid on the real items you are seeing.
From what I have heard, it works surprisingly well, it just has a small range of view. Presumably this is because of the high processing requirements of creating and maintaining a stable real-time 3d model.
Agreed. Though, these are only going to be the big sexy projects that everyone can recognize.
Something tells me that fundamental network protocols, text editors, command line tools, file systems and so on will not be mentioned.
It's always the rock stars that get all the attention even though they inevitably rely on a million work horses behind the scenes to achieve their popularity.
Oh, I get it, because rooms are cold in Alaska. Clever.
Oh the problems we have here in America. It's like living in the dark ages over here. I am sure that Trump will solve this problem for us and make everything great again.
I don't generally fill out surveys. When I do, though, I am as honest as they let me be. Sometimes, the pre-provided answers don't conform to my true feelings or are not applicable.
I prefer the freeform surveys where I can state exactly what I like and don't like.