Easy. Decisions like this are not made in isolation. Contracts like this aren't a simple 30 second job + signature. There were likely a large number of people (especially legal people) involved in this project with a todo list that felled entire forests in order to get printed on paper.
Things get missed all the time. The more people involved, the bigger the players, the more likely it is something gets missed.
Except, they weren't domain squatters... it was a local, family-run PC repair and Small Business IT support company that had their legit domain stolen.
Of course they were. What kind of an amateur hour cybersquatter doesn't pretend to be a local family-run PC repair business that didn't exist before the announcement and popped up out of nowhere with a fancy domain.
The devil is often in the details as you say. The timeline smells of cyber squatting. If it didn't they may very well have ended up the new Nissan Computers
Are there any hard numbers showing that this is caused by increased demand rather than constrained supply?
Did you miss the news that in Q2 PCs experienced the largest demand in over 6 years after several years of decline?
Most of this is being driven by corporate Windows 10 adoption as the deadline for Windows 7 is getting closer. Companies don't upgraded OSes, they hand out new PCs.
I see you've never dealt with the UK government. Just because you have the right to something, the entitlement to something, and even the necessary paperwork completed doesn't mean you're not in for a world class bureaucratic experience.
Eventually it experienced some problems and Microsoft's support was bad.
That's interesting. We have two SurfacePros in the house and both of them experienced problems. The only reason I would consider another one is that Microsoft support was quite good to us. Both issues were turned around within 3 days with no cost to us. They simply emailed us a UPS sticker and that was that. 3 days later new devices arrived.
That said, I did find it infuriating talking to their first line idiot support group. It took a whole 5 minutes for them to get through their bullshit: "Oh I'm sorry to hear that you're having problems. This is really not the experience I wanted you to have with our product. Let me see if..." I actually cut him off and asked him if he wants good feedback then he should cut the bullshit all I want is an RMA number, not a marketing speech. But to the guys credit he became a normal person as I asked.
After embracing something typical users who don't understand how EEE works will just jump straight to quoting the line without realizing why it's not at all relevant.
No they don't.They just don't care about upgrading. You can verify this yourself Windows adoption figures perfectly trend the sale rate of PCs with one notable exception: Windows 10 adoption was higher than all previous versions initially thanks to the MS forced tactics.
The downward trend in Windows 10 adoption compared to Windows 7 is perfectly inline with the downward trend in PC sales on the whole.
Windows 10 while technically supperior, has major breakage issues upon frequent updates
Yes I agree. It also is a technical detail that is completely irrelevant as everyone who isn't a techhead doesn't know or doesn't care.
The word you're looking for is deterministic. Computers are perfect and godlike in their deterministic nature.
To err is human, to really fuck up requires a computer, as the old cliche goes.
You misinterpreted the cliche. It is still very much targeted at the human operator.
As recent tests, including this article, show is that computers are not as good as a decent human driver... not a good one, just a mediocre one.
And you've missed the point there too. Computers get better in a collective. Their deterministic nature means faults can be fixed and remain fixed. Right now in some situations humans are better drivers, in other situations computers are better drivers. But there is one thing that is 100% certain: Computers will continue to improve and humans have reached their limit. Actually I'm inclined to think that humans will actually get worse with an ever increasing set of distractions competing for a driver's time.
Yes. Windows 10 is running on your device. I don't see how you personally would be the device though. Do you have a brain implant? If so I can send you John Connor's address.
Huh? Just what are you on about? You don't need much of a beast at all to achieve a far better VR experience than a GearVR. If you can't get your Rift running on a 6 year old computer with a semi modern but still cheap GPU you're doing something fundamentally wrong.
Hard to imagine anything that would make someone more nauseous and stand a better chance of forever turning them off to VR.
You get nauseous using a 3DOF HMD? Just as well you identified your sensitivity before you parted with real money.
The most important fraction. Google makes a tiny fraction of profit from Android/Linux when compared to Enterprise agreements from Microsoft.
When keeping the shareholders happy no one gives a crap about Android, especially since Google's monetisation attempt may see them lose 4% of their revenue soon.
Can you separate users who didn't know better from users who actually care? This isn't an iPhone. The last time I saw anyone remotely care about an OS upgrade was Windows XP.
Actually that's not right, those poor people who used Vista were generally quite excited to use something else when the chance presented. But the point is most users don't give a shit what their computers run. Given them a Linux with a windows skin and the only thing you'll hear complaints about is that when they double click the.exe file it doesn't work (remember these complaints from the netbook days)?
That sounds like a weasel-word if ever I heard one.
A piece of electronics that runs Windows 10. Here's a simple litmus test: Does the accumulated dense mass of atoms run Windows 10? Chances are it's a device.
Based on what? I know a few Rift owners. They all used cheaper setups like a gateway drug. I'm a GearVR user myself using ALVR to stream from my PC to the headset and I'm eagerly watching the developments in the higher end.
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Seriously, in 2018, how does this happen?
Easy. Decisions like this are not made in isolation. Contracts like this aren't a simple 30 second job + signature. There were likely a large number of people (especially legal people) involved in this project with a todo list that felled entire forests in order to get printed on paper.
Things get missed all the time. The more people involved, the bigger the players, the more likely it is something gets missed.
Except, they weren't domain squatters... it was a local, family-run PC repair and Small Business IT support company that had their legit domain stolen.
Of course they were. What kind of an amateur hour cybersquatter doesn't pretend to be a local family-run PC repair business that didn't exist before the announcement and popped up out of nowhere with a fancy domain.
The devil is often in the details as you say. The timeline smells of cyber squatting. If it didn't they may very well have ended up the new Nissan Computers
Are there any hard numbers showing that this is caused by increased demand rather than constrained supply?
Did you miss the news that in Q2 PCs experienced the largest demand in over 6 years after several years of decline?
Most of this is being driven by corporate Windows 10 adoption as the deadline for Windows 7 is getting closer. Companies don't upgraded OSes, they hand out new PCs.
Or just buy a fancy new AMD.
Has anyone heard news of forthcoming Intel processors that have secure architectures and actually adhere to those architectures?
Does anyone except for VM / Cloud service companies care?
Better for whom? Engineers? Scientists? Developers? No, no, and no. It's good for the *company*
Read what I wrote: Centrally Managed, Highly vertically Integrated. I never said anything about end users.
Yeah, they'll either have to do that, or simply not develop for the platform. I wonder which they will do.
Why wonder when you can look at similar platforms, e.g. Anything Nintendo has ever made.
I see you've never dealt with the UK government. Just because you have the right to something, the entitlement to something, and even the necessary paperwork completed doesn't mean you're not in for a world class bureaucratic experience.
Eventually it experienced some problems and Microsoft's support was bad.
That's interesting. We have two SurfacePros in the house and both of them experienced problems. The only reason I would consider another one is that Microsoft support was quite good to us. Both issues were turned around within 3 days with no cost to us. They simply emailed us a UPS sticker and that was that. 3 days later new devices arrived.
That said, I did find it infuriating talking to their first line idiot support group. It took a whole 5 minutes for them to get through their bullshit: "Oh I'm sorry to hear that you're having problems. This is really not the experience I wanted you to have with our product. Let me see if ..." I actually cut him off and asked him if he wants good feedback then he should cut the bullshit all I want is an RMA number, not a marketing speech. But to the guys credit he became a normal person as I asked.
meaning that if Telsa is burning capital at the rate it's been burning, they'll be out of cash around February 2019
I'm sure the last time this was said it was February 2018. And the time before it was February 2017.
Running a Linux VM on windows
Shows that you don't know how Azure works.
makes it dependent on Win10's vulnerabilities
Shows you don't know how Hyper-V works.
Better would be to run Win10 as a VM on Linux.
Shows you don't realise that Linux is far better optimised and performs far better in a Hyper-V / vSphere host, than Windows does on a Xen / KVM host.
Better yet, don't use Win10 at all.
Ding ding ding. We have a winner. Incidentally that's exactly how Azure works when you run Linux.
Quotation.
After embracing something typical users who don't understand how EEE works will just jump straight to quoting the line without realizing why it's not at all relevant.
The only holdout of Windows is the desktop and gaming market
Don't be silly. You're ignoring the single largest Windows user base: Corporate desktop / workstations.
For centrally managed and highly vertically integrated user services Windows is better than anything Linux has.
People do care about keeping 7.
No they don't.They just don't care about upgrading. You can verify this yourself Windows adoption figures perfectly trend the sale rate of PCs with one notable exception: Windows 10 adoption was higher than all previous versions initially thanks to the MS forced tactics.
The downward trend in Windows 10 adoption compared to Windows 7 is perfectly inline with the downward trend in PC sales on the whole.
Windows 10 while technically supperior, has major breakage issues upon frequent updates
Yes I agree. It also is a technical detail that is completely irrelevant as everyone who isn't a techhead doesn't know or doesn't care.
And machines are peferct and godlike.
The word you're looking for is deterministic. Computers are perfect and godlike in their deterministic nature.
To err is human, to really fuck up requires a computer, as the old cliche goes.
You misinterpreted the cliche. It is still very much targeted at the human operator.
As recent tests, including this article, show is that computers are not as good as a decent human driver... not a good one, just a mediocre one.
And you've missed the point there too. Computers get better in a collective. Their deterministic nature means faults can be fixed and remain fixed. Right now in some situations humans are better drivers, in other situations computers are better drivers. But there is one thing that is 100% certain: Computers will continue to improve and humans have reached their limit. Actually I'm inclined to think that humans will actually get worse with an ever increasing set of distractions competing for a driver's time.
Yes. Windows 10 is running on your device. I don't see how you personally would be the device though. Do you have a brain implant? If so I can send you John Connor's address.
Depends on the title. Skyrim VR is rated quite highly. Doom VFR is a completely rebuilt game which unfortunately sucks quite a bit IMO.
It's a niche market that few if any developers develop software for
Sure. But if one of those developers is Bethesda who've released multiple AAA titles for the platform that's hardly an issue.
They purchased PCs capable of playing Rift based
Huh? Just what are you on about? You don't need much of a beast at all to achieve a far better VR experience than a GearVR. If you can't get your Rift running on a 6 year old computer with a semi modern but still cheap GPU you're doing something fundamentally wrong.
Hard to imagine anything that would make someone more nauseous and stand a better chance of forever turning them off to VR.
You get nauseous using a 3DOF HMD? Just as well you identified your sensitivity before you parted with real money.
So, like, a fraction of Android/Linux devices?
The most important fraction. Google makes a tiny fraction of profit from Android/Linux when compared to Enterprise agreements from Microsoft.
When keeping the shareholders happy no one gives a crap about Android, especially since Google's monetisation attempt may see them lose 4% of their revenue soon.
users who didn't know any better
Can you separate users who didn't know better from users who actually care? This isn't an iPhone. The last time I saw anyone remotely care about an OS upgrade was Windows XP.
Actually that's not right, those poor people who used Vista were generally quite excited to use something else when the chance presented. But the point is most users don't give a shit what their computers run. Given them a Linux with a windows skin and the only thing you'll hear complaints about is that when they double click the .exe file it doesn't work (remember these complaints from the netbook days)?
First of all: What's a "device"?
That sounds like a weasel-word if ever I heard one.
A piece of electronics that runs Windows 10. Here's a simple litmus test: Does the accumulated dense mass of atoms run Windows 10? Chances are it's a device.
No they won't.
Based on what? I know a few Rift owners. They all used cheaper setups like a gateway drug. I'm a GearVR user myself using ALVR to stream from my PC to the headset and I'm eagerly watching the developments in the higher end.
No, having a BAD DRIVER in the loop is a setup for failure.
No. Humans are fallible and non-deterministic. Good drivers are also a setup for failure.