They are going in the opposite direction for home / small business. Shorter cycles and less support. More like the phone model where OS versions turnover fast and everyone is expected to be running the latest.
The updates are free forever on any device that at one point was licensed for Windows 7, or 8.1 and upgraded in the first year. What happens for devices bought with 10 is not yet announced.
Well I see Anita's recent efforts as being a lot more expensive than her earlier work. She clearly is running late and slower than expected. But this is exponential effort rule: 20% more quality requires 80% more effort. It wouldn't shock me if the current longer, more complex, better produced videos are 10x the work / cost of her earlier work and now she's drawing salary. She might very well burn through the kickstarter money. Think about the difference between a $5k movie, $100k movie, $1m movie, $20m movie, $100m movie, $300m movie. Does a $300m movie really seem like 60,000 $5k movies? I suspect she's learning that, though I am giving her the benefit of the doubt.
I don't know anything about Harry Knowles at all so I can't comment on the analogy though it sounds like you are making an interesting simile.
It is very interesting reading that comment that people are going to be on a constant upgrade path like Apple. I can see that for home / small business. For companies though they often have the right to upgrade it is the compatibility and uniformity that present the problem.
I'm wondering if Microsoft's intent is to fork home / small business away from enterprise; returning more to the strategy in the Win NT 3.51 - Windows 2000 days.
Well yes. But remember net present value is an exponential equation.
N dollars today is worth N*(1+R)^Y dollars Y years from now, where R is the risk adjusted return I'm aiming for (usually higher than.12). So if R is 15% and Y is 10 years that's slightly over 4 i.e. Microsoft would rather have 1 sale back then, than 4 sales today.
IE in the last year moved from 2nd to 3rd place. IE in its history has never undersold Firefox.
Yes those ones. I didn't realize that the investigation had dismissed her concerns until I just looked it up now. 2 points for you. Since you seem to know what you are talking about what about the other threats?
Remember that revolution happened (at least in big companies) where the core data was on mainframes and the PÇ was auxiliary. For small business / home that wasn't true. Now we have a mixed environment where people have responsive core IT providing mainframe like services and they have local applications for performance and variety. Seems like best of both worlds.
How did it fail? IE dependencies were a major problem in migrating to Linux in the late 1990s and early 2000s when there was a desire to move away from Windows. IE stagnation retarded the move to web based applications for years. I'd say it was a massive success.
They exploded at the same time and gave support to one another. The people who were leading GamerGate were quite often inflammatory and personally insulting. Look at this thread. You hear Quinn being called a "slut". That sort of language usually doesn't come up in discussions of corruption. For example Jonnie Williams is alleged by the McDonnells to have been flirting and carrying on with Maureen McDonnell yet he's not called a slut for doing it.
Exactly. Anita had nothing to do with game journalism corruption, she is openly a political activists. The group of people hassling Quinn were the same people hassling Sarkeesian. Your sequence of events is wrong. GamerGate can after the harassment started not before it.
As for Sarkeesian I've seen the stuff written about her. The critiques of her analysis are included with all sorts of overblown drama and then of course there were the outright insults.
As for the profit her fundraising was before GamerGate. That's what resulted in her raising $100k. Certainly GamerGate and Zoe Quinn helped her move from minor to midsized feminist celebrity activist.
Linux system reliability because it is so cheap is based on overlap and redundancy. That actually turns out to be a better strategy than moderately more reliable. It isn't as good a strategy as much more reliable and overlap like you have with a mainframe. But once you start going multisite Linux beats out the mainframe.
Helping the front line IT workers get the tools they need to do their job is not "throwing them under the bus". Establishing that using X constitutes negligence and thus if something goes wrong the company's liability will skyrocket helps them it doesn't hurt them.
Do all the reviewers in "the best presses in the United States" bang the same girl and give her pathetic game good reviews?
Do the journalists in the best presses have personal interests and allow them to bleed over into disproportionate attention? Absolutely they do.
Zoe Quinn slept with all the major game reviewers and/or their editors. She gets rave reviews for a game people who actually bought have panned mercilessly.
The game was free. No one bought it. It obviously markets itself as activism / educational and well it is boring. It is the sort of good cause shlock that often gets critical acclaim though it isn't particularly entertaining. Look at movie reviews in art magazines and then have someone who likes action movies try those movies out.
Literally caught with their pants down, they point to their customers and scream "sexist!". That's the point of the scandal.
If that were the case then Anita Sarkeesian wouldn't have been attacked. She had nothing to do with corruption. Also there would have been far more focus on the journalists who had sold their influence than the girl they were boning.
OK I've looked at Antia's work. Under your theory she would have initiated the harassment. What harassment did she engage in when this started? Whom did she start harassing to create the backlash?
I'm not a gamer. I did a bit of research a few months back, and that is what happened. The claims about journalistic connections are exactly the kind one would see in any trade press. Depression Quest was a terrible game, but it was the sort of politically correct ground breaking art piece that critics often swoon over and moreover hate to pan especially since it was a charity work. Sarkeesian I find to be wrong on lots of facts in her analysis and intermixing various categories of feminist critique but she's entertaining and the camera loves her. Also she's doing important activism work, so I didn't see her as particularly outside what activists often are like.
The totally overblown emotion I did see and I did find the claims of harassment credible given how many different semi-independent sources supported them.
So I yeah I did research and I did come to agree with the critics. If I'm wrong I'd like to see things like a sensible complaint about lack of ethics in gaming journalism that isn't just as true of say fashion journalism or biking magazines and websites.
There wasn't even a really a point in the whole scandal. People in every trade press know each other. They get along, they are often friendly. The best presses in the United States didn't meet the standards the GamerGate people were demanding much less sites which cover games in exchange for ad revenue.
OK. I followed this issue a few months ago when it was pretty clear that extreme emotion which provided support for terrorism was definitely part of the GamerGate culture. I'm willing to be educated though. What have they done about such behavior? Who have they reported to police or stopped or....?
OK so add that stuff in. Say 1 desktop support person per 500 employees dedicated to testing. Software that currently isn't paying 17% maintenance contract is on one. I'm still not seeing how you are at a big number relative to cost of employees.
I think the article should have listed the 4 issues the EFF had with Apple:
1) Ban iOS developers from ever speaking about the developer agreement.
2) Ban iOS developers from jailbreaking an Apple device, or even enabling others to do so.
3) Require Apple to approve every security updates. They were concerned that unaddressed security bugs could linger and leave users at risk.
4) Wrap every app in the Apple store with "unnecessary: DRM, which limits what users can do with their apps.
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Now my editorial.
(1) and (2) they have a good point.
4) Is the virus problem. I agree with Apple here requiring an OSX device and an SDK is not too onerous for a controlled ecosystem. End users like the controlled ecosystem. This way it prevents developers from abusing the system (malware, virus, spyware...) while allowing for most applications to get through. It also enables better security practices. So I disagree on (4). People who want to install their own software can but the bar is high enough that developers aren't going to pressure people into installing software that hasn't gone through Apple's approval.
3) Same reason as (4). Apple loses control if they don't approve all updates. Apple customers trust Apple more than developers.
The UI was pretty good on a mixed device like a Surface or a Yoga. Some problems but some real noticeable advantages. It sucked on a traditional laptop / desktop. Not forcing users to have the right hardware was why they didn't like the experience.
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They are going in the opposite direction for home / small business. Shorter cycles and less support. More like the phone model where OS versions turnover fast and everyone is expected to be running the latest.
The updates are free forever on any device that at one point was licensed for Windows 7, or 8.1 and upgraded in the first year. What happens for devices bought with 10 is not yet announced.
Well I see Anita's recent efforts as being a lot more expensive than her earlier work. She clearly is running late and slower than expected. But this is exponential effort rule: 20% more quality requires 80% more effort. It wouldn't shock me if the current longer, more complex, better produced videos are 10x the work / cost of her earlier work and now she's drawing salary. She might very well burn through the kickstarter money. Think about the difference between a $5k movie, $100k movie, $1m movie, $20m movie, $100m movie, $300m movie. Does a $300m movie really seem like 60,000 $5k movies? I suspect she's learning that, though I am giving her the benefit of the doubt.
I don't know anything about Harry Knowles at all so I can't comment on the analogy though it sounds like you are making an interesting simile.
It is very interesting reading that comment that people are going to be on a constant upgrade path like Apple. I can see that for home / small business. For companies though they often have the right to upgrade it is the compatibility and uniformity that present the problem.
I'm wondering if Microsoft's intent is to fork home / small business away from enterprise; returning more to the strategy in the Win NT 3.51 - Windows 2000 days.
Well yes. But remember net present value is an exponential equation.
N dollars today is worth N*(1+R)^Y dollars Y years from now, where R is the risk adjusted return I'm aiming for (usually higher than .12). So if R is 15% and Y is 10 years that's slightly over 4 i.e. Microsoft would rather have 1 sale back then, than 4 sales today.
IE in the last year moved from 2nd to 3rd place. IE in its history has never undersold Firefox.
Yes those ones. I didn't realize that the investigation had dismissed her concerns until I just looked it up now. 2 points for you. Since you seem to know what you are talking about what about the other threats?
Remember that revolution happened (at least in big companies) where the core data was on mainframes and the PÇ was auxiliary. For small business / home that wasn't true. Now we have a mixed environment where people have responsive core IT providing mainframe like services and they have local applications for performance and variety. Seems like best of both worlds.
How did it fail? IE dependencies were a major problem in migrating to Linux in the late 1990s and early 2000s when there was a desire to move away from Windows. IE stagnation retarded the move to web based applications for years. I'd say it was a massive success.
They exploded at the same time and gave support to one another. The people who were leading GamerGate were quite often inflammatory and personally insulting. Look at this thread. You hear Quinn being called a "slut". That sort of language usually doesn't come up in discussions of corruption. For example Jonnie Williams is alleged by the McDonnells to have been flirting and carrying on with Maureen McDonnell yet he's not called a slut for doing it.
Exactly. Anita had nothing to do with game journalism corruption, she is openly a political activists. The group of people hassling Quinn were the same people hassling Sarkeesian. Your sequence of events is wrong. GamerGate can after the harassment started not before it.
As for Sarkeesian I've seen the stuff written about her. The critiques of her analysis are included with all sorts of overblown drama and then of course there were the outright insults.
As for the profit her fundraising was before GamerGate. That's what resulted in her raising $100k. Certainly GamerGate and Zoe Quinn helped her move from minor to midsized feminist celebrity activist.
Linux system reliability because it is so cheap is based on overlap and redundancy. That actually turns out to be a better strategy than moderately more reliable. It isn't as good a strategy as much more reliable and overlap like you have with a mainframe. But once you start going multisite Linux beats out the mainframe.
So in short, it isn't that simple.
Helping the front line IT workers get the tools they need to do their job is not "throwing them under the bus". Establishing that using X constitutes negligence and thus if something goes wrong the company's liability will skyrocket helps them it doesn't hurt them.
Actually one of gaming magazines did an article with 6 semi-random female game programmers about gamergate. They were able to dig up other people.
Do the journalists in the best presses have personal interests and allow them to bleed over into disproportionate attention? Absolutely they do.
The game was free. No one bought it. It obviously markets itself as activism / educational and well it is boring. It is the sort of good cause shlock that often gets critical acclaim though it isn't particularly entertaining. Look at movie reviews in art magazines and then have someone who likes action movies try those movies out.
If that were the case then Anita Sarkeesian wouldn't have been attacked. She had nothing to do with corruption. Also there would have been far more focus on the journalists who had sold their influence than the girl they were boning.
OK I've looked at Antia's work. Under your theory she would have initiated the harassment. What harassment did she engage in when this started? Whom did she start harassing to create the backlash?
I'm not a gamer. I did a bit of research a few months back, and that is what happened. The claims about journalistic connections are exactly the kind one would see in any trade press. Depression Quest was a terrible game, but it was the sort of politically correct ground breaking art piece that critics often swoon over and moreover hate to pan especially since it was a charity work. Sarkeesian I find to be wrong on lots of facts in her analysis and intermixing various categories of feminist critique but she's entertaining and the camera loves her. Also she's doing important activism work, so I didn't see her as particularly outside what activists often are like.
The totally overblown emotion I did see and I did find the claims of harassment credible given how many different semi-independent sources supported them.
So I yeah I did research and I did come to agree with the critics. If I'm wrong I'd like to see things like a sensible complaint about lack of ethics in gaming journalism that isn't just as true of say fashion journalism or biking magazines and websites.
That's good to hear. OK so who then is behind the current attacks? For example the threats in Utah against Sarkeesian's speech?
There wasn't even a really a point in the whole scandal. People in every trade press know each other. They get along, they are often friendly. The best presses in the United States didn't meet the standards the GamerGate people were demanding much less sites which cover games in exchange for ad revenue.
OK. I followed this issue a few months ago when it was pretty clear that extreme emotion which provided support for terrorism was definitely part of the GamerGate culture. I'm willing to be educated though. What have they done about such behavior? Who have they reported to police or stopped or ....?
Tizen has the OS layer replaced. What you are looking for is Sailfish: https://jolla.com/
OK so add that stuff in. Say 1 desktop support person per 500 employees dedicated to testing. Software that currently isn't paying 17% maintenance contract is on one. I'm still not seeing how you are at a big number relative to cost of employees.
Of course it is. Do the math on fully loaded costs of employees and what a complete hardware replacement adds to that. It is chickenfeed.
I think the article should have listed the 4 issues the EFF had with Apple:
1) Ban iOS developers from ever speaking about the developer agreement.
2) Ban iOS developers from jailbreaking an Apple device, or even enabling others to do so.
3) Require Apple to approve every security updates. They were concerned that unaddressed security bugs could linger and leave users at risk.
4) Wrap every app in the Apple store with "unnecessary: DRM, which limits what users can do with their apps.
____
Now my editorial.
(1) and (2) they have a good point.
4) Is the virus problem. I agree with Apple here requiring an OSX device and an SDK is not too onerous for a controlled ecosystem. End users like the controlled ecosystem. This way it prevents developers from abusing the system (malware, virus, spyware...) while allowing for most applications to get through. It also enables better security practices. So I disagree on (4). People who want to install their own software can but the bar is high enough that developers aren't going to pressure people into installing software that hasn't gone through Apple's approval.
3) Same reason as (4). Apple loses control if they don't approve all updates. Apple customers trust Apple more than developers.
The UI was pretty good on a mixed device like a Surface or a Yoga. Some problems but some real noticeable advantages. It sucked on a traditional laptop / desktop. Not forcing users to have the right hardware was why they didn't like the experience.
Generally you want to wait a service pack or two for a less buggy experience. That's pretty normal. Certainly that was the case with XP and NT.