Ahh, this same stupid arrogant, insulting response when problems are blown out of proportion by an engineer who can't see the forest through the trees or think simple.
So, pray tell, what exactly is the solution to the problem of someone giving a Google AV a coordinate in NAD27 when Google expects WGS-84? How does Google differentiate? Do these over-smart all-knowing Google engineers think they'll teach everyone about datums and to always always use WGS-84?
No. They will probably instead teach everyone to push a button on their phone. Or teach everyone to drag an icon on an online map. The map may even be 3d someday.
I agree that sl149q's response could come across as sarcastic, but take the sarcasm out and he is right. Let the engineers know your use cases. Let them figure out how to deliver them in a simple way for the average user. If the engineers already know your use case, then you just added fuel to prove that there is demand for the use case. If they don't already know, then they will.
My Surface Pro 3 upgraded flawlessly. Since upgrading my Surface Pro 3, I have seen longer battery life, near instant wake up times. Better tablet mode. Better desktop mode.
My Lenovo W530 also upgraded just fine, though it isn't a tablet or touchscreen. I still like the experience better than Windows 8.1. Unfortunately, I cannot create a new user and login. I can only use the one user that already exists. I put an hour into fixed this and couldn't. The suggestion is to copy the c:\users\default folder from another windows 10 computer. I haven't tried that yet.
Two of my devices failed to upgrade. One entered a boot loop and I had to boot off a Windows 10 install CD, go to repair and troubleshooting and recover it all myself from the command line. Not something the average user could do. The forums said to reformat and there wasn't a fix. I managed to put it back together without a reinstall and it is back to Windows 7. The issue were never resolved before the final date for the free upgrade came and went. Not sure if Microsoft will let me upgrade now. I have an MSDN subscription, so I don't necessarily need the free keys, but I would like my personal devices and their keys separate from my work's MSDN keys.
Yeah you would have. If you had a child, and you hadn't read this post yet, you would have simply said: "Look boy, check out the cool robot."
Then when it ran over your sons foot, you would have complained. Your story would reach Slashdot where some arm chair parent like you rags on you for not being OCD when it comes to protecting your kid.
1. Problem 1 - Tthe same as with religion. Too many zealots. While "Separation of Church and State" isn't really a phrase used in the constitution, it is a phrase the judicial system uses. So if you can separate those that "believe in science" as a religion, then it might work.
2. Problem 2 - Science doesn't care about morality What happens when science shows that your death benefits man more than your life?
3. Problem 3 - Science doesn't care about your inalienable rights Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, right? See #2. Also, what if science shows that liberty actually results in more unhappiness and more crime and death. So let's just take liberty away.
4. Problem 4 - Instead of a Christian crusade, there would be an anit-religion crusade Let's kill all the believers who don't bow down to the truth that there is not God, religion is false, and science is everything.
How is science any better than when religion ran the government?
"I have never been given any opportunity to negotiate on salary. I do my performance review and I get a little slip of paper with my raise."
Your comment, Kria, is a perfect demonstration of what many articles are talking about when they say men negotiate salaries better than women. Kria, you assume you need to be given an opportunity to negotiate your salary.
More men would see that same performance review as an opportunity to negotiate salary. A higher number of men than women would make a choice to challenge the performance review and slip of paper and say: "That isn't enough. Raise that number or I'm going to start looking."
You have had opportunities, but you haven't seen them: 1. When you were hired. 2. Each performance review. 3. Every working day (especially good days when you are receiving praise for work well done)
Also, more men than women would create an opportunity to negotiate salary either by getting an offer for a different company or just asking.
Well's Fargo calls me. Hey we detected fraudulance on your card. Are these your expenses. They have called about 10 times. 2 times, I my card was pwned. Both times, they handled it all in seconds with no issues.
One time, I called Well's fargo, they didn't call me. Same deal. They canceled my current number, credited the charge and had me a new number all in a three minute phone call. Easy as can be.
There are actually city laws that restrict through traffic in neighborhoods in many cities. Is Waze obeying these laws? If not, file a suit against them. Sending a driver into a neighborhood with a no through traffic law is just as against the law as suggesting a driver go down a one-way street.
If you don't have such a law, and your government allows lobbying, then go to your city meetings/counsels and lobby for the law. If the law doesn't pass. Deal with it. If the law passes, then once the law is in place, contact Waze. If Waze stops. Great. If Waze doesn't stop routing traffic through the neighborhood, but continues to send drivers intended to be through traffic, file a lawsuit. The fact that you contacted them, asked them to obey the law and they didn't is not going to go well for them in court.
My guess is that they are going to hit a lawsuit soon. And it is going to be a class action suit with thousands of neighborhoods joining in, so it will become a big deal.
What about the factory to build the robots. What about robot repair and maintenance?
Whenever a task is automated with robots, jobs are created throughout the world to make this possible.
1. Design the robots 2. Build parts for the robots. 3. Improve the robots 4. Repair the robots 5. Paint (rust proof) the robots 6. Non-repair maintenance (grease gears, test quality, etc.) 7. Write code to interface with the robots 8. Document the robots (both the robots and the code API) 9. Market the robots 10. Sell the robots 11. Litigate all the robot related issues: patents, job loss, parts and price gouging, new laws, etc... 12. Build robots to build the robots (go back to #1)
Now, le'ts add to those jobs more jobs created when some of those who were laid off who start a new business.
After a significant innovation, the job market shifts labor forces from one place to another. It can take a few years but shifting jobs, not long-term job loss, is what happens.
It is usually only in the short term that job loss happens.
A nice sized salt lake would be better. Pump in ocean water. You don't have to desalinate it. The sun and heat will evaporate the water into the air and create more rain all around the area. Plus the water will seep into the ground, which will filter out most the salt and increase the ground water.
Most business users run Windows on Mac, usually in a VM. My company doesn't have a single Mac out there that isn't also running windows. In fact, many of the employees spend their entire day working in the Windows VM. They only got a Mac because it was "trendy."
So if you take this into account, then maybe Microsoft shouldn't be so worried.
Also, we have some developers who run Linux. Mostly developers. Different than business users running a Mac, most our Linux users stay in Linux most of the time, but they still have a Windows VM and a Windows license for those occasions when they must run Windows.
You can't just reach feature parity with Windows as an OS. No. You have to to provide feature parity for not just everything Windows does, but everything all the important (or even unimportant but wanted) applications built on Windows can do, too.
I need a mouse. The iPad Pro is competing in the Hybrid market, as a device that is both a Tablet and a Laptop. Without a mouse it will likely never be a competitor in the hybrid market.
The iPad is very expensive and many who bought them have given them to their kids to use or use them as an eReader/Video watcher or now leave them on their shelves as paper weights.
For an eReader there are plenty of cheaper yet quality devices. For the kids, the Kindle is a far better experience (by a long ways). Besides being cheaper yet still higher quality than kids need, there is Kindle Free Time, which is unrivaled as a tool to give parents control.
So where does that leave the iPad. The only reason to buy one is to be an Apple fan. Fortunately for Apple, there are many of those. But as an investor, I have to assume that the iPad was first out the gate but not going to win the race.
It actually does benefit us as users. If Microsoft can get everyone off of Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1, they can focus on 10 and later. If the can focus, the product will be better. If the security team isn't patching Windows 7/8, then they are working on improvements that we all need.
If everyone is on Windows 10, their will be a larger market for Apps, and apps long missing from Windows will come.
If Linux is incompatible and it is Linux that wants this, then Linux needs to change to a more permissive license. The copyleft things is kind of considered a virus by a lot people.
So with more free time, we will have more artists, authors, researchers of new undiscovered ideas.
Humans needs include air, food, water, shelter, clothes, love, social interaction. We long since met our needs. Our culture is about wants. Each time AI takes over handling a want, humans will just add more wants.
There are some problems with their data and their assumptions:
Problem 1: Facebook has 1.5 billion users. Of those, 1/3 are considered fake or duplicate accounts or have died. So 1 billion real/valid users. The world has 7 billion people. So Facebook has shown that of people who join facebook, the degree of separation is lowering to 3.57. What does this mean for those not on Facebook.
Problem 2: A friend isn't a friend on Facebook. Guess what. Just because two people agree to "friend" each other, doesn't make them "Friends". Most people have far fewer people they could contact directly than they have friends. For example, a lot of my friends are my friends. But really we are separated by my wife, even though Facebook has us marked as not separated.
When the Surface Phone is also your laptop and your desktop and all you need is a screen that is nothing more than a wireless display/input device for your phone, the majority of the world will move over to it. Why? Because while other phones have all the apps, Windows has all the Applications. Apps are just a neat way to have a better experience on a mobile device than a browser provides. Full-blown applications are the real driver of this world.
As for just needing a display/input device, doesn't that sound familiar? Tablets, laptops, desktops are going to nothing more than terminal screens. Technology just repeats itself only smaller and smaller. It is the mainframe design, but the mainframe is your phone and the terminals are anything else you want to use.
Whether you like it or not, Windows run the most Applications by millions. This is why even though Apple laptops have cracked into enterprise, almost every last one of them has to have a Windows Virtual Machine to run some Windows only app the business needs.
The smart phone is the future. Microsoft isn't going to abandon it. Abandoning Windows Phone doesn't mean abandoning the phone market.
Add blockers are great now. However, they aren't long for this world. I'd share my opinion here but I've already blogged about this: Shameless plug for my blog: http://www.rhyous.com/2016/01/...
Actually, all the GPL says is that the source has to be available for request. It doesn't have to be available to easily download via the internet. If you offer the code to anyone who writes a written request via snail mail with a valid postage stamp you are technically compliant with GPL.
Also as for Apache section B, the article contradicts itself. First it says that the changed files haven't been named, then it says ". . . no differences! No authors, no changed files, no trademarks, just copy-paste development." Which is it? Are there changed files they need to report or not?
C# is not worse than Java. Your two points are not shortcomings, they are benefits.
The dynamically typed var are not a problem, it is a solution. It isn't required to use. If you don't like it, don't use it. But dynamic variables are quite nice for two reasons: 1. The code is much easier to read with var than with overly long variables. Look at these two equivalent lines. The second is obviously easier to read.
Dictionary> dictionary = new Dictionary>()
var dictionary = new Dictionary>()
2. It allows for anonymous types, which is extremely useful in linq and makes creating a simply object easy without the hassle of having to create an maintain an object with two properties in source to be used once inside a single method.
Also, having to declare what exceptions a method throws is obnoxious and useless. In the end, it is time consuming with little benefit and a lot of maintenance time. Not to mention figuring out what exception will might be thrown by a delegate passed in has not been solved yet.
C# allows you to document exceptions with a standard comment. Comments are where this belongs, not in the code. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
But if you are an expert at Java, then C# only sucks because of one reason: It is not the language you are an expert at.;-)
Actually, it is started as replacement/rewrite of Java. So it started out better by fixing mistakes that were obvious in the java language. Microsoft took the opportunity caused by Sun's lawsuit to write a better language. C# ditched Java quite quickly and Java has been playing catch-up for years.
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Ahh, this same stupid arrogant, insulting response when problems are blown out of proportion by an engineer who can't see the forest through the trees or think simple.
So, pray tell, what exactly is the solution to the problem of someone giving a Google AV a coordinate in NAD27 when Google expects WGS-84? How does Google differentiate? Do these over-smart all-knowing Google engineers think they'll teach everyone about datums and to always always use WGS-84?
No. They will probably instead teach everyone to push a button on their phone. Or teach everyone to drag an icon on an online map. The map may even be 3d someday.
I agree that sl149q's response could come across as sarcastic, but take the sarcasm out and he is right. Let the engineers know your use cases. Let them figure out how to deliver them in a simple way for the average user. If the engineers already know your use case, then you just added fuel to prove that there is demand for the use case. If they don't already know, then they will.
My Surface Pro 3 upgraded flawlessly. Since upgrading my Surface Pro 3, I have seen longer battery life, near instant wake up times. Better tablet mode. Better desktop mode.
My Lenovo W530 also upgraded just fine, though it isn't a tablet or touchscreen. I still like the experience better than Windows 8.1. Unfortunately, I cannot create a new user and login. I can only use the one user that already exists. I put an hour into fixed this and couldn't. The suggestion is to copy the c:\users\default folder from another windows 10 computer. I haven't tried that yet.
Two of my devices failed to upgrade. One entered a boot loop and I had to boot off a Windows 10 install CD, go to repair and troubleshooting and recover it all myself from the command line. Not something the average user could do. The forums said to reformat and there wasn't a fix. I managed to put it back together without a reinstall and it is back to Windows 7. The issue were never resolved before the final date for the free upgrade came and went. Not sure if Microsoft will let me upgrade now. I have an MSDN subscription, so I don't necessarily need the free keys, but I would like my personal devices and their keys separate from my work's MSDN keys.
Yeah you would have. If you had a child, and you hadn't read this post yet, you would have simply said: "Look boy, check out the cool robot."
Then when it ran over your sons foot, you would have complained. Your story would reach Slashdot where some arm chair parent like you rags on you for not being OCD when it comes to protecting your kid.
The problem with Science is big:
1. Problem 1 - Tthe same as with religion. Too many zealots.
While "Separation of Church and State" isn't really a phrase used in the constitution, it is a phrase the judicial system uses.
So if you can separate those that "believe in science" as a religion, then it might work.
2. Problem 2 - Science doesn't care about morality
What happens when science shows that your death benefits man more than your life?
3. Problem 3 - Science doesn't care about your inalienable rights
Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, right?
See #2.
Also, what if science shows that liberty actually results in more unhappiness and more crime and death. So let's just take liberty away.
4. Problem 4 - Instead of a Christian crusade, there would be an anit-religion crusade
Let's kill all the believers who don't bow down to the truth that there is not God, religion is false, and science is everything.
How is science any better than when religion ran the government?
"I have never been given any opportunity to negotiate on salary. I do my performance review and I get a little slip of paper with my raise."
Your comment, Kria, is a perfect demonstration of what many articles are talking about when they say men negotiate salaries better than women. Kria, you assume you need to be given an opportunity to negotiate your salary.
More men would see that same performance review as an opportunity to negotiate salary. A higher number of men than women would make a choice to challenge the performance review and slip of paper and say: "That isn't enough. Raise that number or I'm going to start looking."
You have had opportunities, but you haven't seen them:
1. When you were hired.
2. Each performance review.
3. Every working day (especially good days when you are receiving praise for work well done)
Also, more men than women would create an opportunity to negotiate salary either by getting an offer for a different company or just asking.
No for me. Charge backs are easy as can be.
Well's Fargo calls me. Hey we detected fraudulance on your card. Are these your expenses. They have called about 10 times. 2 times, I my card was pwned. Both times, they handled it all in seconds with no issues.
One time, I called Well's fargo, they didn't call me. Same deal. They canceled my current number, credited the charge and had me a new number all in a three minute phone call. Easy as can be.
There are actually city laws that restrict through traffic in neighborhoods in many cities. Is Waze obeying these laws? If not, file a suit against them. Sending a driver into a neighborhood with a no through traffic law is just as against the law as suggesting a driver go down a one-way street.
If you don't have such a law, and your government allows lobbying, then go to your city meetings/counsels and lobby for the law. If the law doesn't pass. Deal with it. If the law passes, then once the law is in place, contact Waze. If Waze stops. Great. If Waze doesn't stop routing traffic through the neighborhood, but continues to send drivers intended to be through traffic, file a lawsuit. The fact that you contacted them, asked them to obey the law and they didn't is not going to go well for them in court.
My guess is that they are going to hit a lawsuit soon. And it is going to be a class action suit with thousands of neighborhoods joining in, so it will become a big deal.
What about the factory to build the robots.
What about robot repair and maintenance?
Whenever a task is automated with robots, jobs are created throughout the world to make this possible.
1. Design the robots
2. Build parts for the robots.
3. Improve the robots
4. Repair the robots
5. Paint (rust proof) the robots
6. Non-repair maintenance (grease gears, test quality, etc.)
7. Write code to interface with the robots
8. Document the robots (both the robots and the code API)
9. Market the robots
10. Sell the robots
11. Litigate all the robot related issues: patents, job loss, parts and price gouging, new laws, etc...
12. Build robots to build the robots (go back to #1)
Now, le'ts add to those jobs more jobs created when some of those who were laid off who start a new business.
After a significant innovation, the job market shifts labor forces from one place to another. It can take a few years but shifting jobs, not long-term job loss, is what happens.
It is usually only in the short term that job loss happens.
A nice sized salt lake would be better. Pump in ocean water. You don't have to desalinate it. The sun and heat will evaporate the water into the air and create more rain all around the area. Plus the water will seep into the ground, which will filter out most the salt and increase the ground water.
Most business users run Windows on Mac, usually in a VM. My company doesn't have a single Mac out there that isn't also running windows. In fact, many of the employees spend their entire day working in the Windows VM. They only got a Mac because it was "trendy."
So if you take this into account, then maybe Microsoft shouldn't be so worried.
Also, we have some developers who run Linux. Mostly developers. Different than business users running a Mac, most our Linux users stay in Linux most of the time, but they still have a Windows VM and a Windows license for those occasions when they must run Windows.
You can't just reach feature parity with Windows as an OS. No. You have to to provide feature parity for not just everything Windows does, but everything all the important (or even unimportant but wanted) applications built on Windows can do, too.
Just because we keep a computer for longer than a few years doesn't make us poor. Many of us are just frugal. "Poor" is a poor word.
I need a mouse. The iPad Pro is competing in the Hybrid market, as a device that is both a Tablet and a Laptop. Without a mouse it will likely never be a competitor in the hybrid market.
The iPad is very expensive and many who bought them have given them to their kids to use or use them as an eReader/Video watcher or now leave them on their shelves as paper weights.
For an eReader there are plenty of cheaper yet quality devices.
For the kids, the Kindle is a far better experience (by a long ways). Besides being cheaper yet still higher quality than kids need, there is Kindle Free Time, which is unrivaled as a tool to give parents control.
So where does that leave the iPad. The only reason to buy one is to be an Apple fan. Fortunately for Apple, there are many of those. But as an investor, I have to assume that the iPad was first out the gate but not going to win the race.
If it is just black and white, the answer would be maybe for a very small niche (which just might be enough for his crowdfunding campaign).
If it were color e-Ink, then it would be quite worth it.
It actually does benefit us as users. If Microsoft can get everyone off of Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1, they can focus on 10 and later. If the can focus, the product will be better. If the security team isn't patching Windows 7/8, then they are working on improvements that we all need.
If everyone is on Windows 10, their will be a larger market for Apps, and apps long missing from Windows will come.
Seriously? If your model can't predict earth itself, then your model is wrong.
Perhaps your model is a missing some element.
Once your model properly predicts earth, then talk to us about what the rest of the universe is like.
Why should Oracle change it's license?
If Linux is incompatible and it is Linux that wants this, then Linux needs to change to a more permissive license. The copyleft things is kind of considered a virus by a lot people.
Enforced freedom is not freedom.
This is not how I want our government to operate.
Governments must NOT have back doors. The threat of such power outweighs the benefit.
So with more free time, we will have more artists, authors, researchers of new undiscovered ideas.
Humans needs include air, food, water, shelter, clothes, love, social interaction.
We long since met our needs. Our culture is about wants. Each time AI takes over handling a want, humans will just add more wants.
There are some problems with their data and their assumptions:
Problem 1:
Facebook has 1.5 billion users. Of those, 1/3 are considered fake or duplicate accounts or have died. So 1 billion real/valid users. The world has 7 billion people. So Facebook has shown that of people who join facebook, the degree of separation is lowering to 3.57. What does this mean for those not on Facebook.
Problem 2:
A friend isn't a friend on Facebook. Guess what. Just because two people agree to "friend" each other, doesn't make them "Friends". Most people have far fewer people they could contact directly than they have friends. For example, a lot of my friends are my friends. But really we are separated by my wife, even though Facebook has us marked as not separated.
When the Surface Phone is also your laptop and your desktop and all you need is a screen that is nothing more than a wireless display/input device for your phone, the majority of the world will move over to it. Why? Because while other phones have all the apps, Windows has all the Applications. Apps are just a neat way to have a better experience on a mobile device than a browser provides. Full-blown applications are the real driver of this world.
As for just needing a display/input device, doesn't that sound familiar? Tablets, laptops, desktops are going to nothing more than terminal screens. Technology just repeats itself only smaller and smaller. It is the mainframe design, but the mainframe is your phone and the terminals are anything else you want to use.
Whether you like it or not, Windows run the most Applications by millions. This is why even though Apple laptops have cracked into enterprise, almost every last one of them has to have a Windows Virtual Machine to run some Windows only app the business needs.
The smart phone is the future. Microsoft isn't going to abandon it. Abandoning Windows Phone doesn't mean abandoning the phone market.
Add blockers are great now. However, they aren't long for this world. I'd share my opinion here but I've already blogged about this:
Shameless plug for my blog: http://www.rhyous.com/2016/01/...
Actually, all the GPL says is that the source has to be available for request. It doesn't have to be available to easily download via the internet. If you offer the code to anyone who writes a written request via snail mail with a valid postage stamp you are technically compliant with GPL.
Also as for Apache section B, the article contradicts itself. First it says that the changed files haven't been named, then it says ". . . no differences! No authors, no changed files, no trademarks, just copy-paste development." Which is it? Are there changed files they need to report or not?
C# is not worse than Java. Your two points are not shortcomings, they are benefits.
The dynamically typed var are not a problem, it is a solution. It isn't required to use. If you don't like it, don't use it. But dynamic variables are quite nice for two reasons:
1. The code is much easier to read with var than with overly long variables. Look at these two equivalent lines. The second is obviously easier to read.
Dictionary> dictionary = new Dictionary>()
var dictionary = new Dictionary>()
2. It allows for anonymous types, which is extremely useful in linq and makes creating a simply object easy without the hassle of having to create an maintain an object with two properties in source to be used once inside a single method.
Also, having to declare what exceptions a method throws is obnoxious and useless. In the end, it is time consuming with little benefit and a lot of maintenance time. Not to mention figuring out what exception will might be thrown by a delegate passed in has not been solved yet.
C# allows you to document exceptions with a standard comment. Comments are where this belongs, not in the code.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
But if you are an expert at Java, then C# only sucks because of one reason: It is not the language you are an expert at. ;-)
Actually, it is started as replacement/rewrite of Java. So it started out better by fixing mistakes that were obvious in the java language. Microsoft took the opportunity caused by Sun's lawsuit to write a better language. C# ditched Java quite quickly and Java has been playing catch-up for years.