I wouldn't say dammit. This isn't doing anything to fix the fucked up pricing practices of the USA medical system. Most people don't pay what the hospital quotes on their *first* bill.
Regedit is just one of many thousands of programs that nearly all people never use. I have no doubt they applied some criteria to it, feed it some telemetry and then saved 313k automatically without realising that regedit was gone.
How much utility does it provide to the normal user? Seriously I know a guy who lost both hands in an industrial accident who can count the number of times most users would use regedit on his nonexistent fingers.
The only cite I have is from Amazon suspending the Lumia 950. Other various numbers I've seen have been similar to or worse than the competition (yet never increasing above single digits). That said I've also seen an article talking about Windows phones having the best numbers evar according to research funded by MS.
Anyway no idea why. Could be lack of apps (the market place is shithouse), maybe it's the weird tile crap that people either love or hate, I highly doubt it's technical given Nokia generally has a reputation of not producing craps.
If the H2S concentration is high enough to mask some of the composition on the underlying layers it would most certainly paralise your sense of smell instantly, something that happens as low as 100ppm concentrations.
Uranus smells of nothing. Which frankly is far more plesant than most jokes would suggest.
Yes but can you get it in your pocket. You have to remember the fundamental reason for these increases is demand from new gadgets.
Computers didn't stop getting "better", the definition of "better" just changed from faster / more capacity per price, to smaller formfactor per price.
Though with interest in phones and tablets starting to become lackluster and hopefully peaking maybe we can see a change in the trend.
Also I just upgraded my 5 year old SSD. Sure it was the same price per TB but I also got an order of magnitude increase in speed. "Better" is in the eye of the beholder.
BUT, the fact is, that China's Coal consumption and CO2 emissions went up last year.
China's coal consumption changed last year by less than 1% (NEA figure), which is a dramatic departure from the trend of previous year on year increases. While their consumption changed so little they also opened up many new coal plants while closing older ones.
So while the actual number can be summarised poorly as "OMG MORE COAL" the trend and results are actually quite a net win both for the environment and in terms of CO2 emissions which grew less than 2% despite a quite large increase in primary energy consumption due to manfuacturing.
In the world yes. However the oil industry is localised. The loss doesn't even show up in the global numbers, but it could be enough to cause a major investment drive or even closures of refining depending on how the local market is affected.
On a global level this isn't even a blip on the radar, however the industry itself is highly localised with refiners specialised on the local market. They are likely quite hurting as a result of this.
Now, I wonder how it really "hurt" the oil industry.
The industry itself would be largely unaffected. However the industry is very localised. A change this size in a local area could mean anything from refineries becoming unviable, to a required major equipment investment to deal with a different product slate.
Generalising "factories" is disingenius. You're right the vast problem is factories. However the long tail pipe is not a nearby factory, it's a distributed power network across the country.
By the way before you say it doesn't work like that you should consider that it's not only the factories that are incredibly sub par in China, the shitty old diesel busses are too (a typical replacement program isn't throwing out new Euro 4 busses). Don't underestimate just how much of a difference it makes getting these old belchers out of the city.
For all the problems that were still there after 2008 note that the air quality in China has steaily been improving over the past 5 years.
If you had the battery tech now available when they put the trolly buses in... You wouldn't have trolley buses. It addressed a technological limitation of the day.
And even if it hasn't, having a tail pipe out of population centers is a net win for health, even if it were a net loss for the environment... Which is not.
Has anyone found an "The Outline" post on Slashdot that hasn't fallen under 1) Uninformed Gibberish 2) Trolling clickbait 3) Completely boring filler of interest to no one even the topic's core audience
Then use anything. Linux for it's excellent design. Mac for despite some stupid security bugs being of no interest, and Windows 10 for resisting an incredible number of attacks and being prompt to automatically fix security issues (whether you want it to or not).
Really every modern OS meets your requirements.
If you have HDD space problems though don't use Windows 10. It has an undenyably huge footprint.
What makes you think any of that? I have news for you, in the consumer space people don't give a crap. They don't give a crap about spying, they don't give a crap about updates, bling, features, they just don't give a crap what OS their computers run.
Consumers love the status quo. The whole Windows 10 spying thing came in long after the completely lackluster interest in the upgrade. Windows OS level upgrades have been driven by computer sales since the days where Windows stopped shipping on floppy disks.
There's nothing really that MS could do to drive improved adoption short of sending someone out in the middle of the night to hit old computers with hammers. Conversely for all their anti-consumer tactics their OS is still steadily being adopted at the same rate as new PCs (for obvious reasons), so they are able to do little to convince people not to upgrade as well.
An anecdote does not data make. I know a few people who liked Windows phones, but it is undeniable that they were widely hated, sales were suspended due to return rates, and that it killed Nokia.
I don't think. I know. I use my credit card online all the time. Doing so redirects to a Mastercard site which then requries me to enter a verification password (either a passphrase I chose, or 2FA).
Also it's interesting that you say it's an issue of lazyness. I don't think I've eaten anywhere in the past 2 years where the credit card machine wasn't brought to me. I have considered wireless machines basically standard since turn of the century with the old ones starting to be phased out some 20 years ago.
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No need, they'll just post stupidly high prices and your insurance company will negotiate the rate after anyway.
I wouldn't say dammit. This isn't doing anything to fix the fucked up pricing practices of the USA medical system. Most people don't pay what the hospital quotes on their *first* bill.
I will bet you a dollar that the target market for these devices use Cortana far more than regedit
Regedit is just one of many thousands of programs that nearly all people never use. I have no doubt they applied some criteria to it, feed it some telemetry and then saved 313k automatically without realising that regedit was gone.
How much utility does it provide to the normal user? Seriously I know a guy who lost both hands in an industrial accident who can count the number of times most users would use regedit on his nonexistent fingers.
And MS has the telemetry to prove it
The only cite I have is from Amazon suspending the Lumia 950. Other various numbers I've seen have been similar to or worse than the competition (yet never increasing above single digits). That said I've also seen an article talking about Windows phones having the best numbers evar according to research funded by MS.
Anyway no idea why. Could be lack of apps (the market place is shithouse), maybe it's the weird tile crap that people either love or hate, I highly doubt it's technical given Nokia generally has a reputation of not producing craps.
But were they widely hated by people who actually used them?
No. They were loved by the droves of people who returned them in volumes that caused some vendors to withdraw them from sale. /sarcasm.
If you take high-fidelity video material
They didn't. Your post is invalid.
Wrong too, but invalid even if it were right.
If the H2S concentration is high enough to mask some of the composition on the underlying layers it would most certainly paralise your sense of smell instantly, something that happens as low as 100ppm concentrations.
Uranus smells of nothing. Which frankly is far more plesant than most jokes would suggest.
True story. I once eagerly devoured a documentary on Helvitica.
And yet I'm sure you'll be bored out of your mind by this article.
Yes but can you get it in your pocket. You have to remember the fundamental reason for these increases is demand from new gadgets.
Computers didn't stop getting "better", the definition of "better" just changed from faster / more capacity per price, to smaller formfactor per price.
Though with interest in phones and tablets starting to become lackluster and hopefully peaking maybe we can see a change in the trend.
Also I just upgraded my 5 year old SSD. Sure it was the same price per TB but I also got an order of magnitude increase in speed. "Better" is in the eye of the beholder.
Unless you're buying a GPU, then you're screwed.
BUT, the fact is, that China's Coal consumption and CO2 emissions went up last year.
China's coal consumption changed last year by less than 1% (NEA figure), which is a dramatic departure from the trend of previous year on year increases. While their consumption changed so little they also opened up many new coal plants while closing older ones.
So while the actual number can be summarised poorly as "OMG MORE COAL" the trend and results are actually quite a net win both for the environment and in terms of CO2 emissions which grew less than 2% despite a quite large increase in primary energy consumption due to manfuacturing.
Individual numbers never tell a good story.
In the world yes. However the oil industry is localised. The loss doesn't even show up in the global numbers, but it could be enough to cause a major investment drive or even closures of refining depending on how the local market is affected.
but they're certainly not causing problems
On a global level this isn't even a blip on the radar, however the industry itself is highly localised with refiners specialised on the local market. They are likely quite hurting as a result of this.
Now, I wonder how it really "hurt" the oil industry.
The industry itself would be largely unaffected. However the industry is very localised. A change this size in a local area could mean anything from refineries becoming unviable, to a required major equipment investment to deal with a different product slate.
Generalising "factories" is disingenius. You're right the vast problem is factories. However the long tail pipe is not a nearby factory, it's a distributed power network across the country.
By the way before you say it doesn't work like that you should consider that it's not only the factories that are incredibly sub par in China, the shitty old diesel busses are too (a typical replacement program isn't throwing out new Euro 4 busses). Don't underestimate just how much of a difference it makes getting these old belchers out of the city.
For all the problems that were still there after 2008 note that the air quality in China has steaily been improving over the past 5 years.
If you had the battery tech now available when they put the trolly buses in... You wouldn't have trolley buses. It addressed a technological limitation of the day.
And even if it hasn't, having a tail pipe out of population centers is a net win for health, even if it were a net loss for the environment ... Which is not.
The major government-sponsored AI initiatives have been largely wasted
You mean like all of the publicly funded university research which kicked off the entire field?
Has anyone found an "The Outline" post on Slashdot that hasn't fallen under
1) Uninformed Gibberish
2) Trolling clickbait
3) Completely boring filler of interest to no one even the topic's core audience
Ubuntu or Debian are both viable options
For whom? Those people who care about this shit don't have it meet their requirements, those people who don't care, ....well they don't care.
Then use anything. Linux for it's excellent design. Mac for despite some stupid security bugs being of no interest, and Windows 10 for resisting an incredible number of attacks and being prompt to automatically fix security issues (whether you want it to or not).
Really every modern OS meets your requirements.
If you have HDD space problems though don't use Windows 10. It has an undenyably huge footprint.
What makes you think any of that? I have news for you, in the consumer space people don't give a crap. They don't give a crap about spying, they don't give a crap about updates, bling, features, they just don't give a crap what OS their computers run.
Consumers love the status quo. The whole Windows 10 spying thing came in long after the completely lackluster interest in the upgrade. Windows OS level upgrades have been driven by computer sales since the days where Windows stopped shipping on floppy disks.
There's nothing really that MS could do to drive improved adoption short of sending someone out in the middle of the night to hit old computers with hammers. Conversely for all their anti-consumer tactics their OS is still steadily being adopted at the same rate as new PCs (for obvious reasons), so they are able to do little to convince people not to upgrade as well.
CONSUMERS DON'T CARE. Not one iota.
I disagree.
An anecdote does not data make. I know a few people who liked Windows phones, but it is undeniable that they were widely hated, sales were suspended due to return rates, and that it killed Nokia.
I don't think. I know. I use my credit card online all the time. Doing so redirects to a Mastercard site which then requries me to enter a verification password (either a passphrase I chose, or 2FA).
Also it's interesting that you say it's an issue of lazyness. I don't think I've eaten anywhere in the past 2 years where the credit card machine wasn't brought to me. I have considered wireless machines basically standard since turn of the century with the old ones starting to be phased out some 20 years ago.