and vastly more skills... not to mention being wired into something people want
Yes I doubt these two parts. The rest of it seems okay but frankly I would be very amazed and actually quite let down if Google with it's phenomenal amount of data mining and large amounts of data research doesn't end up with the most useful and functional assistant.
As for being something people want, I would say that is trumped by something people have. Many people (myself included) don't want a digital assistant. None the less I have one in my phone. It would be quite phenomenal if a digital assistant people need to buy separately trumps the install base of a digital assistant that multiple people already have in their house in their phones.
Honest question - isn't it necessary to de-energise the transmitter before technicians can climb the tower to install or maintain hardware? Presumably it happens in the graveyard shift. The ERP right at the tower must be quite high.
I used to hear stories of the RF engineers at work who simply took a running jump. Kids these days are getting soft.
this is probably still at the conference-room-table stage.
Actually it's in operation around the world. You see firstly not all AM towers are hot. Yes pretty much every tower over 10KW is but many of the quoted number are far smaller in power and not hot. Additionally there are products on the market specifically designed to colocate services on hot AM towers which isolate the antenna mountings and the feedlines quite happily letting you colocate equipment on even higher power hot AM towers.
Guess what, RF engineers actually know what they are talking about. Oh and you owe me some transistors, or rather the GP some transistors.
Depends on what is being bought. A lot of people go shopping every day but don't actually buy very much.
I went to the shops today just to buy a kitchen roll. That will come up as a statistic that I went shopping today (I typically go every day since it's on the way from work). I know people who go shopping once a week who buy a shitload more than I do.
They have spent a fuckton of money on UI design overhaul as well as writing design guidelines and converting apps to use a consistent style guide. Google does give a shit, that's why this UI balls up is so fascinating.
It doesn't matter if your secretary isues* a document with comic sans. However what about if your secretary was also the person who was responsible for writing the style guidelines for the entire company.
THAT is the issue here. Google have paid a small fortune employing designers to come up with a cohesive and consistent style and UI and have pushed this out for not only their products universally but also published it as a guide for other developers. Keeping to the design and style guidelines they set for apps provides developers with some free advertising as Google also promotes apps which make good use of their style guide. When a company like that messes up with fonts then it matters.
*I misspelled "issues". Nothing important is going to happen. Some Slashdotter may get upset. Can the same be said if the Oxford dictionary made the same misspelling?
but I haven't recovered from the last time I was hit with "new features."
You mean features like the ability to control the update and reboot process? Or all those features that you won't ever touch even in the slightest?
That's what I don't understand about you whingers. You spend all this time trying to block updates to "features" that you won't ever encounter or use, and then complain about shit that has long been fixed on your out of date install.
Now please do share, what "new feature" has kicked your dog that upset you so?
You must be talking about that other Slashdot that you're reading.
If MS doesn't care about those things then why are they increasingly gathering more data about what their users do?
You don't understand the difference between "you" and "al'y'all". Microsoft couldn't give a shit about what "you" do. However aggregated data about everyone is used for development decisions. So feel free to download and read the Anarchists Cookbook, the police won't come knocking on your door.
I think many admins care that Windows updates have been causing BSODs.
And so does MS which is precisely why they pulled the release before it was released to the general public. Admins everywhere should be cheering at their decision as a triumph of software development over marketing bozos pushing out garbage in favour of an artificial deadline.
in plenty of countries you have to blur the faces of strangers in your pictures. You must be unaware of how life is in at least half the world
Nope, you're just the arsehole who assumes everyone who owns these glasses does so in order to take photos of strangers. Congratulations, you're exactly the type of person I'm talking about.
And no in nearly all countries you don't need to blur photos of strangers taken in public if not used for commercial reasons.
Without, well, it's surprising what a little faulty driver can do to a system...
Then you are absolutely doing it wrong. For the past 3 years Windows can automatically nuke its own install to be completely clean without touching a single user file.
Err no there's zero stress on the charging port for most battery cases. Also WTF you doing that is making your connectors fail. It's a phone not a cricket bat.
Can anyone explain why a ski lift could possibly need Internet-connected settings?
Not internet connected: Remote settings. Just that remote in this case is likely on an unsecured network connected to the internet by idiots. Why would you need that? Ever notice a ski lift slows down if someone stumbles when getting on at the bottom, and also slows down when someone stumbles getting off at the top? Already you have two different locations you need to control a single system from. Guess what the *cheapest* way of doing that is.
What possible benefit is there to being able to control it if you aren't physically there to judge the operating conditions and environment, and to watch the customers?
Not everything is about control. Most of these systems are setup with remote access for data collection and equipment monitoring with control added in as a bonus for someone who needed an additional network based control.
Some idiot likely ticked every checkbox and turned on everything.
While some/.'ers might point out the ability to do this with cheaper hardware and rolling your own using rsync, I defy you to find a similarly simple solution.
My dad has a run of the mill D-Link router. Plugged a HDD in there, told him to click the "Setup Windows Backup" button, and he was done with a full system backup. For a bonus I told him to go to the control panel, click File History, and click enable. Done.
Complete backup and file history enabled and possible on pretty much any router with a USB port and Windows 8 or later. The backup works just the same on Windows 7 but the File History does take more than 1 click to setup.
You lose and gain points all administratively without ever the justice system involved.
The justice system is always involved. Just because the evidence is stacked against people meaning they don't try to fight it doesn't mean there isn't a justice system.
I mean I could have argued my case before a court to try and get my 3 points back from my last ticket, but really when I got a letter with the fine and de-merrit along with a link to where I could view a video of me running a red light I knew I ran, what would be the point? Just because I didn't go to court didn't mean there wasn't a justice system in place.
And if you lose all your points you can't drive
Well yes, not because you shouldn't but rather because you demonstrated you physically can't cope with the driving systems and its rules. Honestly I'm in favour of people who lose their license due to accumulation of demerit never getting their license back. You have to really have a sustained and long term interest in breaking the rules to get to that stage, and frankly shouldn't have a license.
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and vastly more skills... not to mention being wired into something people want
Yes I doubt these two parts. The rest of it seems okay but frankly I would be very amazed and actually quite let down if Google with it's phenomenal amount of data mining and large amounts of data research doesn't end up with the most useful and functional assistant.
As for being something people want, I would say that is trumped by something people have. Many people (myself included) don't want a digital assistant. None the less I have one in my phone. It would be quite phenomenal if a digital assistant people need to buy separately trumps the install base of a digital assistant that multiple people already have in their house in their phones.
Ad hominem.
Nope, subtle dig at the buying practices of the GP. You read too much into my statement and came up with the ad hominem yourself.
Honest question - isn't it necessary to de-energise the transmitter before technicians can climb the tower to install or maintain hardware? Presumably it happens in the graveyard shift. The ERP right at the tower must be quite high.
I used to hear stories of the RF engineers at work who simply took a running jump. Kids these days are getting soft.
this is probably still at the conference-room-table stage.
Actually it's in operation around the world. You see firstly not all AM towers are hot. Yes pretty much every tower over 10KW is but many of the quoted number are far smaller in power and not hot. Additionally there are products on the market specifically designed to colocate services on hot AM towers which isolate the antenna mountings and the feedlines quite happily letting you colocate equipment on even higher power hot AM towers.
Guess what, RF engineers actually know what they are talking about. Oh and you owe me some transistors, or rather the GP some transistors.
Depends on what is being bought. A lot of people go shopping every day but don't actually buy very much.
I went to the shops today just to buy a kitchen roll. That will come up as a statistic that I went shopping today (I typically go every day since it's on the way from work). I know people who go shopping once a week who buy a shitload more than I do.
Google doesn't give a shit
They have spent a fuckton of money on UI design overhaul as well as writing design guidelines and converting apps to use a consistent style guide. Google does give a shit, that's why this UI balls up is so fascinating.
It matters THAT much?
It doesn't matter if your secretary isues* a document with comic sans. However what about if your secretary was also the person who was responsible for writing the style guidelines for the entire company.
THAT is the issue here. Google have paid a small fortune employing designers to come up with a cohesive and consistent style and UI and have pushed this out for not only their products universally but also published it as a guide for other developers. Keeping to the design and style guidelines they set for apps provides developers with some free advertising as Google also promotes apps which make good use of their style guide. When a company like that messes up with fonts then it matters.
*I misspelled "issues". Nothing important is going to happen. Some Slashdotter may get upset. Can the same be said if the Oxford dictionary made the same misspelling?
but I haven't recovered from the last time I was hit with "new features."
You mean features like the ability to control the update and reboot process? Or all those features that you won't ever touch even in the slightest?
That's what I don't understand about you whingers. You spend all this time trying to block updates to "features" that you won't ever encounter or use, and then complain about shit that has long been fixed on your out of date install.
Now please do share, what "new feature" has kicked your dog that upset you so?
And that's not what people are complaining about.
You must be talking about that other Slashdot that you're reading.
If MS doesn't care about those things then why are they increasingly gathering more data about what their users do?
You don't understand the difference between "you" and "al'y'all". Microsoft couldn't give a shit about what "you" do. However aggregated data about everyone is used for development decisions. So feel free to download and read the Anarchists Cookbook, the police won't come knocking on your door.
I think many admins care that Windows updates have been causing BSODs.
And so does MS which is precisely why they pulled the release before it was released to the general public. Admins everywhere should be cheering at their decision as a triumph of software development over marketing bozos pushing out garbage in favour of an artificial deadline.
Free in Windows 7, pay to remove ads in Windows 10.
So what you are saying is it's a game that was never free in Windows 10 to begin with making the earlier comment completely invalid? Gotchya.
Is "sort things out" an euphemism for trying to patch gaping security holes?
They have been sorting this platform out long before the gaping holes were first discovered.
in plenty of countries you have to blur the faces of strangers in your pictures. You must be unaware of how life is in at least half the world
Nope, you're just the arsehole who assumes everyone who owns these glasses does so in order to take photos of strangers. Congratulations, you're exactly the type of person I'm talking about.
And no in nearly all countries you don't need to blur photos of strangers taken in public if not used for commercial reasons.
I have backups today.
Good
Without, well, it's surprising what a little faulty driver can do to a system...
Then you are absolutely doing it wrong. For the past 3 years Windows can automatically nuke its own install to be completely clean without touching a single user file.
Every Samsung phone has a replaceable battery. What you seem to want is a user exchangeable battery. Can't imagine why though.
So buy any phone then. You can get the batteries replaced at pretty much any phone shop.
Err no there's zero stress on the charging port for most battery cases. Also WTF you doing that is making your connectors fail. It's a phone not a cricket bat.
Or the simple "push and water flows for 15 seconds" mechanical ones.
No that one simply is a retarded waste of water, incidentally there were banned in my city when we hit water restrictions 10 years ago.
Can anyone explain why a ski lift could possibly need Internet-connected settings?
Not internet connected: Remote settings. Just that remote in this case is likely on an unsecured network connected to the internet by idiots. Why would you need that? Ever notice a ski lift slows down if someone stumbles when getting on at the bottom, and also slows down when someone stumbles getting off at the top? Already you have two different locations you need to control a single system from. Guess what the *cheapest* way of doing that is.
What possible benefit is there to being able to control it if you aren't physically there to judge the operating conditions and environment, and to watch the customers?
Not everything is about control. Most of these systems are setup with remote access for data collection and equipment monitoring with control added in as a bonus for someone who needed an additional network based control.
Some idiot likely ticked every checkbox and turned on everything.
And that is a problem for playing a bit of music why?
One of them is plugged in behind the Bose
Of course it is. You need to hook an overpriced sound system to an overpriced Airplay receiver.
While some /.'ers might point out the ability to do this with cheaper hardware and rolling your own using rsync, I defy you to find a similarly simple solution.
My dad has a run of the mill D-Link router. Plugged a HDD in there, told him to click the "Setup Windows Backup" button, and he was done with a full system backup. For a bonus I told him to go to the control panel, click File History, and click enable. Done.
Complete backup and file history enabled and possible on pretty much any router with a USB port and Windows 8 or later. The backup works just the same on Windows 7 but the File History does take more than 1 click to setup.
Yes but he did it stupidly. He could also have just plugged his HDD into pretty much any modern router and pointed Windows Backup to it as well.
That was just the first Google hit.
So observation bias then. Replace MikroTik with Airport and you'll get Google hits too. But that may cause your fanboi brain to melt.
There STILL is nothing but utter garbage in the Microsoft Store.
You lose and gain points all administratively without ever the justice system involved.
The justice system is always involved. Just because the evidence is stacked against people meaning they don't try to fight it doesn't mean there isn't a justice system.
I mean I could have argued my case before a court to try and get my 3 points back from my last ticket, but really when I got a letter with the fine and de-merrit along with a link to where I could view a video of me running a red light I knew I ran, what would be the point? Just because I didn't go to court didn't mean there wasn't a justice system in place.
And if you lose all your points you can't drive
Well yes, not because you shouldn't but rather because you demonstrated you physically can't cope with the driving systems and its rules. Honestly I'm in favour of people who lose their license due to accumulation of demerit never getting their license back. You have to really have a sustained and long term interest in breaking the rules to get to that stage, and frankly shouldn't have a license.