... was the number of European models he sees driving around. He thinks that cars should be all American all the time. I wonder how giving US companies a free pass to not innovate and produce shittier models than the rest of the world fits in with that world view.
If it reduced air pollution by.1% but increased the cost of cars by 100%, then that's inefficient
Nope, that's very efficient. Make cars too expensive to buy and run and see the wonderful changes that will happen to your society as a result. America may no longer be great again as people generally will lose a bit of flab if they dare to walk or cycle somewhere. Public transport will improve, people will adapt. Cars will become smaller (we already saw that happening during the last fuel price hike), but it will be sad to see America lose its crown as one of the least energy efficient countries per capita in the world.
I just finished a long drive. It's Friday. I don't need to travel internationally for another 10 days, so my car is probably going to go unused for that time. It's a great time of year to be on a bike, metro, train, bus, tram, walk, or heck I may even rollerblade off to do my shopping.
Long ago i had read a study that said the German electricity grid produced so much greenhouse gasses that using a modern diesel car was less worse than driving an electrical one.
The study sounds like it was worthless from the get go. Even worst case scenarios of full on 60s era coal plants everywhere make driving an electric car cleaner than diesel / petrol. But we're not in worst case scenarios. Germany had a large nuclear base and even in the early 90s a not insignificant share of gas, and alternative sources.
But that was then. This is now, a country where 44% of production last year generated no CO2 emissions, mostly due to renewables, but also significantly due to nuclear. And they still have a good 14% on top of that in nat gas too.
I think you should find the study and figure out who commissioned it. David Koch perhaps?
In most of the life you live you don't have to expose your identity
That's not true at all. In most of life you actually expose your identity, just not necessarily your name, and that's where a lot of people get the comparison to real life wrong. You can't walk down the street without your very personal face being recorded on a camera somewhere. Everyone can see you, that means people can identify you again. Any partially important transaction is referenced to your actual name and SSN. Your visual appearance will be attached to your name in a number of databases.
You are NOT anonymous.
That is quite unlike the internet where you can at best identify an endpoint network connection, and potentially a piece of equipment behind it.
I'm guessing Google checked with the council and they renamed the street and just because Google is a tech company that isn't dependent on labourers you misattributed the cause of the street name change because Google is faster.
I found a typo in Google maps once. I hit the send feedback button, reported the error and 2 weeks later the spelling mistake was gone.
Not surprising. Lots of zombies actually don't give a shit about anything that happens where they live. I fall into this category too. Didn't realise there was a festival in the park opposite my house and my wife pointed out that the signs have been up in our street for the past month.
Windows owns that market. Microsoft hardware does not.
Also my wife is a teacher and Apple is still in that market well and truly much to her disgust. The difference in what we're hearing is that Apple regarded the tablet as the future of education. That has been utterly killed now. Places where you see Apple in education are using Macbooks very against the Apple strategy, but the reality is many people tried iPads then replaced them with PCs.
Her current school is a Macbook school (formerly an iPad school). Her previous school was a cheap Windows laptop school (formerly an iPad school). She uses her Surface Pro 4 to teach rather than the Macbook she was given (she personally hates her Mac)
If these providers were really treating me so incredibly unfairly, why wouldnâ(TM)t another option naturally emerge?
In a perfect market yes. Internet service providers are not a perfect market. In fact they are usually a text book example of an imperfect market created through a process of public spending and government granted oligopolies. That's if you're lucky. Quite often you're faced with an outright monopoly.
Hasnt that always been the cycle of technology? Someone does something poorly and then someone else can do it better and make lots of money.
Someone tried. Look how much Google fibre spent only to achieve nothing. This isn't some startup creating an app.
The day Windows starts charging by the month is the day you'll see a lot of Linux adoption. Consumers are quite happy to be treated like shit for free, they have far less tolerance for it even with a small fee.
But ultimately that isn't exclusive from the trends. MS may be moving towards DaaS, but IF (big IF) consumers chose to adopt it, they will do so when their old PC melts into a puddle.
It's marketed as more of a workhorse compared to the iPad pro and then proceeds to include something more restrictive to actual work: Windows 10 S locked down with the complete lack of software that is available from the Windows Store.
It's compared to the rest of the Surface line which is mostly made up higher end and quite capable devices, and like the original abortion of the Surface RT is nothing like it's brethren.
It's pushed towards education at a higher price class than most of the competitors.
It's being compared to laptops which it's not. It's being compared to cheap which it's not.
Honestly, buy a tablet, buy a laptop, or buy a proper Surface Pro, and if you're hell bent on restrictive cheaper devices there's a Chromebook that is right for you.
Oh look at that. You can buy a non tablet, without stylus or touchscreen for that price. Please tell us about all those other things that are completely different you can buy for that price.
What same plant? Just because Telsa bought the plant doesn't make it the same plant. The insides are completely gutted, the production completely different, and surprise surprise the end product is different too.
The only thing Tesla and Toytoa share in common is the roof.
You should stop comparing to a company that isn't even selling the same product. Maybe look to those who are. e.g. The problem Porsche is having ramping up production of the Taycan.
So sales are up, losses are up - but they're on track to make a profit? Really? Something's not adding up...
Yes when you remove several variables and then conflate equations with two different times you will typically find your math doesn't add up.
But hey if entire business reports were able to be condensed into 2x 4 word statements then you wouldn't need accountants or financial reports the size of a decent novel.
but my small businesses were holding off on new PCs as much as possible
My point was the opposite. There's no doubt in the Windows 8 era there were holdouts. That was a spectacular turd. However... why did they need new PCs? My point exactly was that windows comes on PCs as part of replacement programs.
The trend is correlated perfectly, aside from the forced update issue 3 years ago.
Ontario should just spend the money (which is a drop in the bucket compared to the overall budget) and prove whether this works or not.
No. Personally I think it's good they killed it early. But let us advertise the correct reason for why this was good. We want to see a trial of UBI, what was happening was a trial of I.
a) It was means tested and adjusted based on income, therefore not Universal. b) It was graded with different rates based on conditions, therefore not Basic.
There's no point in testing if UBI works by running a trial that isn't UBI in the first place.
I actually don't know anyone who cares about this. "Support"? When has anyone got any form of "Support" from MS?
Ask gamers to tell you ANY _new_ features that are DirectX 12 only and not available in DirectX 10? You'll get *crickets.* Gamers don't fucking care.
Actually gamers will give you a list of features of new graphics cards such as tessellation, or at the very least will tell you that games actually look better, which they objectively do for those with DX12 support. Personally my gaming machine has Windows 10 for that reason.
They obviously don't care about Windows Spyware [microsoft.com]
No they really don't. I don't either. I don't know anyone not on Slashdot who cares either.
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It's a silly conclusion. MS rammed initially. got all the people who submitted and then that was it. There's nothing being rammed now and hasn't been for a long time now.
The reality is that Windows sales have always followed OEM PC sales and very few users ever purchased a license outright. With the PC sales market the way it is, there's no surprise at the figures. You can see the trend lines line up nicely in their 2017 financial report, aside from a blip on release dates of Windows the sales volume follows the PC sales trend very accurately.
The real conclusion: Users don't give a shit. I am security conscious so I will give a shit in 2020 but I will probably buy a new PC then rather than just upgrade Windows. I also don't give a shit on my Linux box. Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS is still good for another year, clearly all versions of Ubuntu since then must really suck right! Nope, there's no practical difference between it and my 16.04 LTS version, both of them will go through the resulting headache when they need to or when the computer catches fire. Otherwise why change?
very hard indeed as the only option for 3 years now.
Errr what is the alternative again? A 10 year old OS that has ended mainstream support? Or do you expect MS to provide OEMs a copy of Linux?
MS hasn't pushed anything hard since the initial Windows 7 > 10 upgrade, and that was pretty much all over a few years back. Now they are just sitting back and letting the stragglers catch up as their computer die.
Pretty much says everything there is to say about Windows 10.
Nope, it says everything there is to say about OSes in general. People don't care. I like most users have never actually bought a Windows license. There is just no compelling reason to upgrade an OS. All it does is change things and create work.
There is nothing new about these numbers for Windows 10 compared to any previous version of Windows. Or for that matter Linux.... should I not be using Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, it's in support for another year?
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... was the number of European models he sees driving around. He thinks that cars should be all American all the time. I wonder how giving US companies a free pass to not innovate and produce shittier models than the rest of the world fits in with that world view.
The problem is taking 8 hours to recharge the car.
Welcome time traveller to 2018. Much has happened during your 10 year coma.
The weight is in rollover protection.
Horseshit. Your cars are huge. We can rollover protect ourselves just fine in Europe too with cars a fraction of your size and weight.
More power is _never_ a waste.
A statement which breaks the laws of physics.
If it reduced air pollution by .1% but increased the cost of cars by 100%, then that's inefficient
Nope, that's very efficient. Make cars too expensive to buy and run and see the wonderful changes that will happen to your society as a result. America may no longer be great again as people generally will lose a bit of flab if they dare to walk or cycle somewhere. Public transport will improve, people will adapt. Cars will become smaller (we already saw that happening during the last fuel price hike), but it will be sad to see America lose its crown as one of the least energy efficient countries per capita in the world.
I just finished a long drive. It's Friday. I don't need to travel internationally for another 10 days, so my car is probably going to go unused for that time. It's a great time of year to be on a bike, metro, train, bus, tram, walk, or heck I may even rollerblade off to do my shopping.
Long ago i had read a study that said the German electricity grid produced so much greenhouse gasses that using a modern diesel car was less worse than driving an electrical one.
The study sounds like it was worthless from the get go. Even worst case scenarios of full on 60s era coal plants everywhere make driving an electric car cleaner than diesel / petrol. But we're not in worst case scenarios. Germany had a large nuclear base and even in the early 90s a not insignificant share of gas, and alternative sources.
But that was then. This is now, a country where 44% of production last year generated no CO2 emissions, mostly due to renewables, but also significantly due to nuclear. And they still have a good 14% on top of that in nat gas too.
I think you should find the study and figure out who commissioned it. David Koch perhaps?
In most of the life you live you don't have to expose your identity
That's not true at all. In most of life you actually expose your identity, just not necessarily your name, and that's where a lot of people get the comparison to real life wrong. You can't walk down the street without your very personal face being recorded on a camera somewhere. Everyone can see you, that means people can identify you again. Any partially important transaction is referenced to your actual name and SSN. Your visual appearance will be attached to your name in a number of databases.
You are NOT anonymous.
That is quite unlike the internet where you can at best identify an endpoint network connection, and potentially a piece of equipment behind it.
I'm guessing they checked google maps
I'm guessing Google checked with the council and they renamed the street and just because Google is a tech company that isn't dependent on labourers you misattributed the cause of the street name change because Google is faster.
I found a typo in Google maps once. I hit the send feedback button, reported the error and 2 weeks later the spelling mistake was gone.
Not surprising. Lots of zombies actually don't give a shit about anything that happens where they live. I fall into this category too. Didn't realise there was a festival in the park opposite my house and my wife pointed out that the signs have been up in our street for the past month.
it's by definition both closed source, and tested only to one's own environment
So basically the entire self driving car industry with the concept of custom silicon being completely irrelevant?
+1 Informative. Anyone with mod points?
Cheers for that. Did not know MS backtracked on that.
Windows owns that market. Microsoft hardware does not.
Also my wife is a teacher and Apple is still in that market well and truly much to her disgust. The difference in what we're hearing is that Apple regarded the tablet as the future of education. That has been utterly killed now. Places where you see Apple in education are using Macbooks very against the Apple strategy, but the reality is many people tried iPads then replaced them with PCs.
Her current school is a Macbook school (formerly an iPad school). Her previous school was a cheap Windows laptop school (formerly an iPad school).
She uses her Surface Pro 4 to teach rather than the Macbook she was given (she personally hates her Mac)
If these providers were really treating me so incredibly unfairly, why wouldnâ(TM)t another option naturally emerge?
In a perfect market yes. Internet service providers are not a perfect market. In fact they are usually a text book example of an imperfect market created through a process of public spending and government granted oligopolies. That's if you're lucky. Quite often you're faced with an outright monopoly.
Hasnt that always been the cycle of technology? Someone does something poorly and then someone else can do it better and make lots of money.
Someone tried. Look how much Google fibre spent only to achieve nothing. This isn't some startup creating an app.
The day Windows starts charging by the month is the day you'll see a lot of Linux adoption. Consumers are quite happy to be treated like shit for free, they have far less tolerance for it even with a small fee.
But ultimately that isn't exclusive from the trends. MS may be moving towards DaaS, but IF (big IF) consumers chose to adopt it, they will do so when their old PC melts into a puddle.
Yeah. I too hate performance.
It's marketed as more of a workhorse compared to the iPad pro and then proceeds to include something more restrictive to actual work: Windows 10 S locked down with the complete lack of software that is available from the Windows Store.
It's compared to the rest of the Surface line which is mostly made up higher end and quite capable devices, and like the original abortion of the Surface RT is nothing like it's brethren.
It's pushed towards education at a higher price class than most of the competitors.
It's being compared to laptops which it's not. It's being compared to cheap which it's not.
Honestly, buy a tablet, buy a laptop, or buy a proper Surface Pro, and if you're hell bent on restrictive cheaper devices there's a Chromebook that is right for you.
Oh look at that. You can buy a non tablet, without stylus or touchscreen for that price. Please tell us about all those other things that are completely different you can buy for that price.
Toyota was making more ICE cars in the same plant
What same plant? Just because Telsa bought the plant doesn't make it the same plant. The insides are completely gutted, the production completely different, and surprise surprise the end product is different too.
The only thing Tesla and Toytoa share in common is the roof.
You should stop comparing to a company that isn't even selling the same product. Maybe look to those who are. e.g. The problem Porsche is having ramping up production of the Taycan.
So sales are up, losses are up - but they're on track to make a profit? Really? Something's not adding up...
Yes when you remove several variables and then conflate equations with two different times you will typically find your math doesn't add up.
But hey if entire business reports were able to be condensed into 2x 4 word statements then you wouldn't need accountants or financial reports the size of a decent novel.
Indeed! I agree there's no justification for not having complete control of updates.
but my small businesses were holding off on new PCs as much as possible
My point was the opposite. There's no doubt in the Windows 8 era there were holdouts. That was a spectacular turd. However... why did they need new PCs? My point exactly was that windows comes on PCs as part of replacement programs.
The trend is correlated perfectly, aside from the forced update issue 3 years ago.
Ontario should just spend the money (which is a drop in the bucket compared to the overall budget) and prove whether this works or not.
No. Personally I think it's good they killed it early. But let us advertise the correct reason for why this was good. We want to see a trial of UBI, what was happening was a trial of I.
a) It was means tested and adjusted based on income, therefore not Universal.
b) It was graded with different rates based on conditions, therefore not Basic.
There's no point in testing if UBI works by running a trial that isn't UBI in the first place.
But the strategic value of having access to the search/usage data from the most popular video gateway is too big to let a competitor own.
So what you're saying is they didn't overpay?
* MS artificially not supporting newer CPUs
I actually don't know anyone who cares about this. "Support"? When has anyone got any form of "Support" from MS?
Ask gamers to tell you ANY _new_ features that are DirectX 12 only and not available in DirectX 10? You'll get *crickets.* Gamers don't fucking care.
Actually gamers will give you a list of features of new graphics cards such as tessellation, or at the very least will tell you that games actually look better, which they objectively do for those with DX12 support. Personally my gaming machine has Windows 10 for that reason.
They obviously don't care about Windows Spyware [microsoft.com]
No they really don't. I don't either. I don't know anyone not on Slashdot who cares either.
*Spelling and grammar checking services in this post brought to you by MS spyware.
It's a silly conclusion. MS rammed initially. got all the people who submitted and then that was it. There's nothing being rammed now and hasn't been for a long time now.
The reality is that Windows sales have always followed OEM PC sales and very few users ever purchased a license outright. With the PC sales market the way it is, there's no surprise at the figures. You can see the trend lines line up nicely in their 2017 financial report, aside from a blip on release dates of Windows the sales volume follows the PC sales trend very accurately.
The real conclusion: Users don't give a shit. I am security conscious so I will give a shit in 2020 but I will probably buy a new PC then rather than just upgrade Windows. I also don't give a shit on my Linux box. Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS is still good for another year, clearly all versions of Ubuntu since then must really suck right! Nope, there's no practical difference between it and my 16.04 LTS version, both of them will go through the resulting headache when they need to or when the computer catches fire. Otherwise why change?
What is the killer feature?
very hard indeed as the only option for 3 years now.
Errr what is the alternative again? A 10 year old OS that has ended mainstream support? Or do you expect MS to provide OEMs a copy of Linux?
MS hasn't pushed anything hard since the initial Windows 7 > 10 upgrade, and that was pretty much all over a few years back. Now they are just sitting back and letting the stragglers catch up as their computer die.
Pretty much says everything there is to say about Windows 10.
Nope, it says everything there is to say about OSes in general. People don't care. I like most users have never actually bought a Windows license. There is just no compelling reason to upgrade an OS. All it does is change things and create work.
There is nothing new about these numbers for Windows 10 compared to any previous version of Windows. Or for that matter Linux.... should I not be using Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, it's in support for another year?