I'm surprised that they even allow cameras to be moved between an accounts, I mean where is the profit in allowing used camera sales?
Used cameras are not the issue here. People have account issues all the time with some good reasons to support moving devices between accounts. But the key here is the second part: The warning message was useless, and if this is the process they have for moving between accounts then it is horribly broken.
However, I really don't like laptops that are being offered today.
I think that is the point of the entire article..... Not necessarily design point of view, but from a technology point of view. Personally I would be pissed if I were forced to upgrade to something old.
Also I get your sentiment. We really need more variety in laptops. Personally for me the thinner and lighter the better (hence I'm stuck with a thermally throttling thing). But where there is a market for something beefier that should really be filled. The problem is lots of people do want small, light, thin, and with margins as crap as they are it's harder to go after the niche markets.
and it's only around $6k now. Yeah, some of that value is speculators, but nowhere near all of it.
Don't be silly. People have been speculating against bitcoin since you could get it for a dollar. Just because the crazy stupid price spike in the past year was entirely wallstreet doesn't change the fact that bitcoin's value is not pegged against any product and that trading from and to currencies is and always has been several orders of magnitude higher than any movement between accounts or in exchange for products.
and most of the transactions for bitcoin really were related to drugs
No. Most transactions for bitcoin where trading bitcoin for dollars. This happened many orders of magnitudes more than all other combined products including drugs. And while drugs did and still does make up a large portion of product related bitcoin purchases, the cost of the drugs is pegged against the dollar and floats against the bitcoin. They do NOT peg the the bitcoin to anything tangible, and the drug dealers would be incredibly stupid to do so.
The media has gotten lazy. It is quite impossible to pull something from a release that was never announced for a release. Sets has been in the wild only in Redstone development builds. It didn't have a shipping date.
The only thing Microsoft has done is confirm that it won't make the upcoming Windows 10 update. Nothing has been pulled.
Nothing is changing in the UI. In fact all they are doing is bringing the same UI you are using right now (tabs) to applications. And if you disable sets it looks identical to every other Windows.
Personally I want Slashdot to stop writing stupid headlines like some cheap tabloid rag. Especially since we now have two "Amazon wants" stories in a row.
Your gun is currently aimed at your own foot. Are you sure you wish to continue pulling trigger?
Given that the system identified the multiple account issue, and I assume they didn't have a common system in place to allow multiple accounts to work with one camera why was:
a) the camera not depaired from the old account? b) was the camera allowed to be paired to a new account?
bonus question:
c) if this was by design to allow multiple accounts to access a camera, why is the system setup in such a poor way?
For starters, apply a tax to items packaged with non-biodegradable plastic.
And please make this tax massive, and scale it according to absurdity. Maybe add a few cents to the cost of a plastic sealed container containing spices, but make sure you charge $10 fucking dollars a pop to idiot companies that individiually wrap avacados in plastic.
Bonus points for making the package difficult to open, like those hard formed plastic packaging, and an extra penality for using that to wrap around knives or scissors. If I could open that damn package I wouldn't be in the shop buying scissors now would I!
Now that the US imports are in decline, the logistics donâ(TM)t make economic sense anymore, so itâ(TM)s time for the programs to scale back.
Yes that must be it. That is exactly why china is refusing to take any waste from specific nations only which have high level of recycling contamination.
Seriously you're right about why it started, but you're wrong about why it ended. If your scenario made even remote amount of sense then it would follow a supply and demand pricing adjustment. But it didn't. What it did do was change the quality requirements which affected different countries completely independently of trade imbalances, and resulted in other countries which didn't have the same shipping advantage picking up the slack at a much higher cost.
Well I live in the first world. What am I supposed to do? Arificially starve myself so I can pretend to have a 3rd world problem instead? Maybe not shower in the hope I pick up some rare disease?
That seems like way more effort than actually looking for things I can further improve here in the first world and solve.
This is why I don't use apps. They steal your contact lists, use your camera and microphone when it's not necessary for the functioning of the app and they do some mining on the side. Apps suck. Use the website.
This is why I don't do generalisations. Posts like the above which make wildly inaccurate generalisations would make me look stupid so I apply some thought and only talk in specifics.
Crypto currencies base value is almost entirely on drugs, money laundering and ransomware payments.
Errr no, not even remotely. Crypto currencies' base value is almost entirely speculation, financial fuckery, and idiots investing in dodgy exchanges.
The only thing real that cryptocurrencies are pegged against is ransomware which don't change depending on the bitcoin / dollar value. Drugs and money laundering on the other hand are pegged against the dollar and the bitcoin transactions make up a small amount of that so they have borderline no influence at all. If drugs and money laundering were the basis for bitcoin the price would be far more stable.
You can see that clearly when bitcoin's price barely blips when a major drug site gets taken down, but spikes wildly when some idiot on wallstreet opens their mouth. Now we also have futures to speculate with further removing the value of some cryptocurrencies from anything tangible.
No what you want is a unicorn. Intel just know that they don't exist.
You can offer more cores to increase multithreadding performance without an associated hit in battery life. You can't do the same by ramping up clock speed.
As a matter of interest, what are you doing these days that doesn't benefit from multi-threadding?
Laptop vendors can do more than new CPUs to bring some usefulness and features.
Yes, they can stop thermally throttling the previous generation by making the laptop 1mm thicker doubling the size of the heatsink for a huge speed boost.
Being able to have an OS in ROM would be handy, if only to have a way to restore an OS without having to worry about recovery media.
This confuses me. How often do you do this? Personally I don't want them wasting R&D money on something that is only a minor inconvenience every few years. Seriously a USB stick works fine for a recovery media.
built in vitualization and encryption so one can have their gaming stuff, their work stuff, personal stuff, and stuff nobody should see
This sounds good but I don't see this as the job of the hardware vendor. The last thing I want is those idiots shipping more bloated piece of crap poorly written buggy software. The idea is good, but it should be left to software companies to impliment.
Another idea would be to have better support for external GPU breakout boxes.
That should be as trivial as providing a thunderbolt port these days.
CPUs are nice, but there are still many things that can be done to differentiate one's product from everyone else.
I agree, but my personal list would look slightly different: - Provide more port choice. - Provide improved pen / touch interfaces because other than the Surface Pro / iPad Pro the majority are garbage. - Sound. It seems like every laptop that partners with some sound company (e.g. HP and Harman Kardon) produces rubbish speakers that can't even sustain a skype conversation. - Cameras that don't suck - Drivers that aren't horrible piece of crap. - And honestly I may get flak for saying so, but Connected Standby in Windows is fantastic. Much faster than wake on RAM and other such junk. Being able to sleep and wake my computer in less than a second is a huge deal for me now.
Good question, why would you? In the mean time most people don't have an i7 Haswell based laptop.
Speaking of quoting magical numbers, I have an i5 Haswell based laptop. It's slow as heck. The performance of the device hasn't been related to the processor in it for a long time for many designs. Your processor is 95% as fast as a modern one? Congradulations. Mine is too, for about 15 seconds, and then it sits there alternating between thermal throttling and TPD throttling states which the entire Haswell series is well known for due to the large difference between the turbo boost frequency and the sustained TPD in most designs.
But maybe that's all irrelevant. Maybe tomorrow you'll knock it off your desk and break the screen. Will you upgrade it then? Will forking out money for year old tech then have a meaning for you?
Is not the update service, something completely different and irrelevant while not being related to running the actual software, not part of anything outside of the creative suite and on top of everything not at all relevant to the conversation.
That's what you were going to say wasn't it? I mean that's the only logical way you could have finished that sentence in the context of this conversation.
That's the point: I have purposefully not wrapped my life up with
That's my point. No one cares. But please keep giving us a list of things you don't do, or don't own.
You Been in the business too long guys are like the vegans of the IT world: Q: "How can you spot a vegan?" A: "You don't need to. They'll run up and tell you about it."
what can be attributed to three companies who are some of the worst offenders of screwing up general UI design.
Who the hell cares about my privacy settings when I can no longer safely use maps for navigation due to its shitty settings of minimising into a useless picture in picture everytime there's a hiccup on my phone and has removed the option to force audio output throught the speaker meaning I can't hear it with bluetooth on either.
Who the hell cares about privacy settings on a website that makes it borderline impossible to easily scroll through past messages, or whose mobile app doesn't let you post pictures because it ends up in a select picture loop.
And as for Microsoft, one word... err two words: Start Menu *raises middle finger*
Why would anyone settle with SCO? At this point I would accept nothing less than having all their staff and lawyer's testicles irradiated by a very strong Cobalt source.
Cool story. Do you also ask it to tell you the weather, read you your calendar, order things for you online, set timers and reminders, add items to your shopping list...?
If not then you bought a very different product for very different reasons. errr... Congratulations?
Sorry horse buggy whip makers of the world your time is over.
Huh? You think a rocket engine is going to be even remotely competitive with airline travel even if they cut the time taken down by a factor of 10? Musk may do a lot of things, but he won't displace the airline industry in the slightest.
errrrr no they most definitely do not just pass through the atmosphere it vertically.
I do agree there's probably an incredible fat in the safety margins which can be cut down. There usually is. But it's not like a rocket only affects column of a few hundred meters and that's that.
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I'm surprised that they even allow cameras to be moved between an accounts, I mean where is the profit in allowing used camera sales?
Used cameras are not the issue here. People have account issues all the time with some good reasons to support moving devices between accounts. But the key here is the second part: The warning message was useless, and if this is the process they have for moving between accounts then it is horribly broken.
Obviously, if I am forced to upgrade I would.
However, I really don't like laptops that are being offered today.
I think that is the point of the entire article. .... Not necessarily design point of view, but from a technology point of view. Personally I would be pissed if I were forced to upgrade to something old.
Also I get your sentiment. We really need more variety in laptops. Personally for me the thinner and lighter the better (hence I'm stuck with a thermally throttling thing). But where there is a market for something beefier that should really be filled. The problem is lots of people do want small, light, thin, and with margins as crap as they are it's harder to go after the niche markets.
and it's only around $6k now. Yeah, some of that value is speculators, but nowhere near all of it.
Don't be silly. People have been speculating against bitcoin since you could get it for a dollar. Just because the crazy stupid price spike in the past year was entirely wallstreet doesn't change the fact that bitcoin's value is not pegged against any product and that trading from and to currencies is and always has been several orders of magnitude higher than any movement between accounts or in exchange for products.
and most of the transactions for bitcoin really were related to drugs
No. Most transactions for bitcoin where trading bitcoin for dollars. This happened many orders of magnitudes more than all other combined products including drugs. And while drugs did and still does make up a large portion of product related bitcoin purchases, the cost of the drugs is pegged against the dollar and floats against the bitcoin. They do NOT peg the the bitcoin to anything tangible, and the drug dealers would be incredibly stupid to do so.
The media has gotten lazy. It is quite impossible to pull something from a release that was never announced for a release. Sets has been in the wild only in Redstone development builds. It didn't have a shipping date.
The only thing Microsoft has done is confirm that it won't make the upcoming Windows 10 update. Nothing has been pulled.
Nothing is changing in the UI. In fact all they are doing is bringing the same UI you are using right now (tabs) to applications. And if you disable sets it looks identical to every other Windows.
Get a hold of yourself man.
Personally I want Slashdot to stop writing stupid headlines like some cheap tabloid rag. Especially since we now have two "Amazon wants" stories in a row.
Your gun is currently aimed at your own foot. Are you sure you wish to continue pulling trigger?
Given that the system identified the multiple account issue, and I assume they didn't have a common system in place to allow multiple accounts to work with one camera why was:
a) the camera not depaired from the old account?
b) was the camera allowed to be paired to a new account?
bonus question:
c) if this was by design to allow multiple accounts to access a camera, why is the system setup in such a poor way?
For starters, apply a tax to items packaged with non-biodegradable plastic.
And please make this tax massive, and scale it according to absurdity. Maybe add a few cents to the cost of a plastic sealed container containing spices, but make sure you charge $10 fucking dollars a pop to idiot companies that individiually wrap avacados in plastic.
Bonus points for making the package difficult to open, like those hard formed plastic packaging, and an extra penality for using that to wrap around knives or scissors. If I could open that damn package I wouldn't be in the shop buying scissors now would I!
Now that the US imports are in decline, the logistics donâ(TM)t make economic sense anymore, so itâ(TM)s time for the programs to scale back.
Yes that must be it. That is exactly why china is refusing to take any waste from specific nations only which have high level of recycling contamination.
Seriously you're right about why it started, but you're wrong about why it ended. If your scenario made even remote amount of sense then it would follow a supply and demand pricing adjustment. But it didn't. What it did do was change the quality requirements which affected different countries completely independently of trade imbalances, and resulted in other countries which didn't have the same shipping advantage picking up the slack at a much higher cost.
Well I live in the first world. What am I supposed to do? Arificially starve myself so I can pretend to have a 3rd world problem instead? Maybe not shower in the hope I pick up some rare disease?
That seems like way more effort than actually looking for things I can further improve here in the first world and solve.
This is why I don't use apps. They steal your contact lists, use your camera and microphone when it's not necessary for the functioning of the app and they do some mining on the side. Apps suck. Use the website.
This is why I don't do generalisations. Posts like the above which make wildly inaccurate generalisations would make me look stupid so I apply some thought and only talk in specifics.
....how is this not illegal? It seems like a classic example of wiretapping
Since when is wiretapping wiretapping when the person being "wiretapped" actively consents to the "wiretapping"?
Crypto currencies base value is almost entirely on drugs, money laundering and ransomware payments.
Errr no, not even remotely. Crypto currencies' base value is almost entirely speculation, financial fuckery, and idiots investing in dodgy exchanges.
The only thing real that cryptocurrencies are pegged against is ransomware which don't change depending on the bitcoin / dollar value. Drugs and money laundering on the other hand are pegged against the dollar and the bitcoin transactions make up a small amount of that so they have borderline no influence at all. If drugs and money laundering were the basis for bitcoin the price would be far more stable.
You can see that clearly when bitcoin's price barely blips when a major drug site gets taken down, but spikes wildly when some idiot on wallstreet opens their mouth. Now we also have futures to speculate with further removing the value of some cryptocurrencies from anything tangible.
No what you want is a unicorn. Intel just know that they don't exist.
You can offer more cores to increase multithreadding performance without an associated hit in battery life. You can't do the same by ramping up clock speed.
As a matter of interest, what are you doing these days that doesn't benefit from multi-threadding?
Laptop vendors can do more than new CPUs to bring some usefulness and features.
Yes, they can stop thermally throttling the previous generation by making the laptop 1mm thicker doubling the size of the heatsink for a huge speed boost.
Being able to have an OS in ROM would be handy, if only to have a way to restore an OS without having to worry about recovery media.
This confuses me. How often do you do this? Personally I don't want them wasting R&D money on something that is only a minor inconvenience every few years. Seriously a USB stick works fine for a recovery media.
built in vitualization and encryption so one can have their gaming stuff, their work stuff, personal stuff, and stuff nobody should see
This sounds good but I don't see this as the job of the hardware vendor. The last thing I want is those idiots shipping more bloated piece of crap poorly written buggy software. The idea is good, but it should be left to software companies to impliment.
Another idea would be to have better support for external GPU breakout boxes.
That should be as trivial as providing a thunderbolt port these days.
CPUs are nice, but there are still many things that can be done to differentiate one's product from everyone else.
I agree, but my personal list would look slightly different:
- Provide more port choice.
- Provide improved pen / touch interfaces because other than the Surface Pro / iPad Pro the majority are garbage.
- Sound. It seems like every laptop that partners with some sound company (e.g. HP and Harman Kardon) produces rubbish speakers that can't even sustain a skype conversation.
- Cameras that don't suck
- Drivers that aren't horrible piece of crap.
- And honestly I may get flak for saying so, but Connected Standby in Windows is fantastic. Much faster than wake on RAM and other such junk. Being able to sleep and wake my computer in less than a second is a huge deal for me now.
Good question, why would you? In the mean time most people don't have an i7 Haswell based laptop.
Speaking of quoting magical numbers, I have an i5 Haswell based laptop. It's slow as heck. The performance of the device hasn't been related to the processor in it for a long time for many designs. Your processor is 95% as fast as a modern one? Congradulations. Mine is too, for about 15 seconds, and then it sits there alternating between thermal throttling and TPD throttling states which the entire Haswell series is well known for due to the large difference between the turbo boost frequency and the sustained TPD in most designs.
But maybe that's all irrelevant. Maybe tomorrow you'll knock it off your desk and break the screen. Will you upgrade it then? Will forking out money for year old tech then have a meaning for you?
and Adobe's cloud service
Is not the update service, something completely different and irrelevant while not being related to running the actual software, not part of anything outside of the creative suite and on top of everything not at all relevant to the conversation.
That's what you were going to say wasn't it? I mean that's the only logical way you could have finished that sentence in the context of this conversation.
You aren't AmiMoJo, are you?
I have been insulted on Slashdot before, but this one really takes the cake. Excuse me while I go contemplate the rest of my life.
That's the point: I have purposefully not wrapped my life up with
That's my point. No one cares. But please keep giving us a list of things you don't do, or don't own.
You Been in the business too long guys are like the vegans of the IT world:
Q: "How can you spot a vegan?"
A: "You don't need to. They'll run up and tell you about it."
what can be attributed to three companies who are some of the worst offenders of screwing up general UI design.
Who the hell cares about my privacy settings when I can no longer safely use maps for navigation due to its shitty settings of minimising into a useless picture in picture everytime there's a hiccup on my phone and has removed the option to force audio output throught the speaker meaning I can't hear it with bluetooth on either.
Who the hell cares about privacy settings on a website that makes it borderline impossible to easily scroll through past messages, or whose mobile app doesn't let you post pictures because it ends up in a select picture loop.
And as for Microsoft, one word... err two words: Start Menu *raises middle finger*
Why would anyone settle with SCO? At this point I would accept nothing less than having all their staff and lawyer's testicles irradiated by a very strong Cobalt source.
Cool story. Do you also ask it to tell you the weather, read you your calendar, order things for you online, set timers and reminders, add items to your shopping list...?
If not then you bought a very different product for very different reasons. errr... Congratulations?
Sorry horse buggy whip makers of the world your time is over.
Huh? You think a rocket engine is going to be even remotely competitive with airline travel even if they cut the time taken down by a factor of 10? Musk may do a lot of things, but he won't displace the airline industry in the slightest.
and they pass through it vertically
errrrr no they most definitely do not just pass through the atmosphere it vertically.
I do agree there's probably an incredible fat in the safety margins which can be cut down. There usually is. But it's not like a rocket only affects column of a few hundred meters and that's that.