but some of the findings are clearly important enough to warrant public discussion
That's not how science works. Not on a non-peer reviewed study. All manner of quackery would be "important enough to warrant public discussion" if you set your bar low enough that anytime someone writes something on a piece of paper it is accepted as fact.
AFTER peer review it may warrant public discussion.
Weird how Surface Pro seems to always get both good and bad reputations overtime.
Not really. There has been a very consistent problem reporting over the past few years, nothing weird about it at all. The Pro 3 has battery issues and the old Pro 3 keyboard had connectivity issues. The Pro 4 was a sheer utter fucking disaster from a reliability point of view from the moment it was released, and it reviews accordingly.
People who rave about it do so on features. Personally I'm really happy with both my Pro 3 and my partner is happy with her Pro 4. The mitigating factor here is both have been RMAed and it was completely painless and we had a replacement unit 3 days later. Had the support not been as good I would stop recommending people buy them.
MS is chalking up a truly horrible record on HW reliability.
Did you expect the poor record of the Surface Pro 4 to change with a new announcement of a problem on the same defective product? Remember this device is why early last year consumer reports took away their recommendation.
+5 Insightful. Getting exactly the right temperature profile would likely reflow the solder joints which have cracked due to thermal stressing fixing the problem completely.
This is what happens when you remove lead from your solder. Even a decade later, no one can get it right.
It has nothing to do with lead in solder. The only thing that lead free solder needs to work properly is a different temperature profile, and those profiles are well known and published by the companies manufacturing not only the solder but also the packages that will be soldered. Man we've been fixing cold solder joints since back when we poured lead into our gasoline tanks. Some companies fuck up some production runs due to poor quality control. This has been the case since the dawn of... well... production.
Including size, weight and form factor? If everyone is worried about specs per dollar then Microsoft wouldn't have pushed a single Surface unit, and Apple wouldn't exist. The Surface is in every way a premium form-over-performance device.
No he only inadvertently supported 1% of the other side. The problem with saying that this supports the argument that people should be able to pay for access ignores the sheer number who will feel ripped off for doing so.
Just because something else is better doesn't mean anyone actually gives a crap. Yeah there's plenty of choices, but I see zero reason to use any of them. Skype does what it is supposed to.
Something being "popular" still requires that people are not pressed into using it or at least have a choice.
But people do have a choice, and that's why the term "popular" is still perfectly valid. They could have rolled back, they could have downloaded a Windows 7 ISO and installed it, they could have switched to Linux abandoning the platform all together.
Maybe I'm just being dense (I'm pretty tired) but I still haven't heard an definitive 'why'.
What can you do with Paypal? Receive money from credit cards or a few banks which partner with them. What can you do with Adyen? Receive money from basically anything and anywhere including many esoteric local payment methods in many countries.
This may come as a shock to Americans but in much of Europe credit cards are something of an oddity.
Nothing ironic about it. Adyen is attempting to be a universal money movement service. Paypal is Paypal and you're blessed if it works with your bank, or you may as well get a credit card.
I have. Heck at one point my bank specifically refused to work with Paypal because of their legal skirting of banking laws. When paying for a product it works well, just don't ever use it to receive money. It has varied between not transferring my money into my bank, to sitting on my funds for 3 months for no reason when I raised an ebay dispute for an item that never arrived from a dodgy seller that suddenly accumulated a lot of negative feedback.
The irony of that not going well is that they are widely known to be heavily biased towards buyers over sellers. Stick a round in a revolver, spin the barrel, take aim at your wallet and pull the trigger. The outcome is better than receiving money through paypal.
Oh you buy stuff. No wonder you're okay with Paypal. It's just not as fun if you get paid, or refund something, or collect donations, or have your account frozen because it is March and the moon is currently in Pisces indicating bad Paypal luck for all Capricorns this month.
I'd want to switch to some payment service I've never heard of and don't trust...... why?
Everything at some point in your life is something you've never heard of, including Paypal.
Now the real question is do you want to research, learn about and subsequently trust a large company headquartered in a state with strict banking laws, that offers multiple banking services including credit cards, debit cards, and online payments, and is subject to some pretty sane laws....
or... do you stick with Paypal, a US company for all intents and purposes except for legal intents and purposes where it instead decided to be headquartered in Luxembourg for the sole purpose of dodging those pesky banking regulations.
I've heard of Paypal: http://www.paypalsucks.com/ In comparison a company which I don't know or trust would be a welcome change.
I think that's kind of the point. Taking a car out of the showroom instantly knocks 30% off it's value. Someone is being royally screwed for a $50 discount.
You wouldn't. The point is to write every step where it isn't immediately obvious how you get from one stage to the next.
162+199 = 361 is verifiable as typing those two numbers into a calculator would result in the 3rd. There's a very easy progression. More importantly is the scope for error and the scope for identifying where the error occurred. Did you miss-add? Or did you not understand the concept.
Show your work means to show you understand the concept. It is important when re-arranging formulas using the technique taught to you during the semester. It is completely irrelevant for something you can type into a calculator and spit out the answer (unless the topic of the semester was how to add two numbers).
Which is all completely irrelevant since Windows 7 will be out of extended support only a few months after Office 2019 comes out, and thus they don't need to support their users.
Hmm....large entity and we're at MS Office 2010....I don't see us moving from that and Win 7 for quite a long time to come. No real reason to at this point....
What is the reason not to? If you're a large entity then you're likely paying MS a fixed fee anyway regardless of what versions of OSes or Applications are installed.
By the way extended support for Windows 7 ends in two years. If you're as large as you're implying with your post you're either already assessing and planning the move to Windows 10 or you're playing with fire. If you're already doing a major system change I'll bet that a revised office suite is part of that as it is typical to not roll out a new office suite unless you do a major system change in large organisations.
Mind you that will likely land you on Office 2016.
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but some of the findings are clearly important enough to warrant public discussion
That's not how science works. Not on a non-peer reviewed study. All manner of quackery would be "important enough to warrant public discussion" if you set your bar low enough that anytime someone writes something on a piece of paper it is accepted as fact.
AFTER peer review it may warrant public discussion.
Weird how Surface Pro seems to always get both good and bad reputations overtime.
Not really. There has been a very consistent problem reporting over the past few years, nothing weird about it at all. The Pro 3 has battery issues and the old Pro 3 keyboard had connectivity issues. The Pro 4 was a sheer utter fucking disaster from a reliability point of view from the moment it was released, and it reviews accordingly.
People who rave about it do so on features. Personally I'm really happy with both my Pro 3 and my partner is happy with her Pro 4. The mitigating factor here is both have been RMAed and it was completely painless and we had a replacement unit 3 days later. Had the support not been as good I would stop recommending people buy them.
MS is chalking up a truly horrible record on HW reliability.
Did you expect the poor record of the Surface Pro 4 to change with a new announcement of a problem on the same defective product? Remember this device is why early last year consumer reports took away their recommendation.
+5 Insightful. Getting exactly the right temperature profile would likely reflow the solder joints which have cracked due to thermal stressing fixing the problem completely.
This is what happens when you remove lead from your solder. Even a decade later, no one can get it right.
It has nothing to do with lead in solder. The only thing that lead free solder needs to work properly is a different temperature profile, and those profiles are well known and published by the companies manufacturing not only the solder but also the packages that will be soldered. Man we've been fixing cold solder joints since back when we poured lead into our gasoline tanks. Some companies fuck up some production runs due to poor quality control. This has been the case since the dawn of ... well ... production.
similarly spec'd laptops for less than 500
Including size, weight and form factor? If everyone is worried about specs per dollar then Microsoft wouldn't have pushed a single Surface unit, and Apple wouldn't exist. The Surface is in every way a premium form-over-performance device.
He inadvertently supported the other side.
No he only inadvertently supported 1% of the other side. The problem with saying that this supports the argument that people should be able to pay for access ignores the sheer number who will feel ripped off for doing so.
Just because it is popular does not make it good
Just because something else is better doesn't mean anyone actually gives a crap. Yeah there's plenty of choices, but I see zero reason to use any of them. Skype does what it is supposed to.
Something being "popular" still requires that people are not pressed into using it or at least have a choice.
But people do have a choice, and that's why the term "popular" is still perfectly valid. They could have rolled back, they could have downloaded a Windows 7 ISO and installed it, they could have switched to Linux abandoning the platform all together.
Popular is still the correct term here.
Providing a forced and unwanted
Citation required. The vast majority of people don't give a shit what OS they have.
Suddenly today's news makes sense: https://cryptoslate.com/myster...
Maybe I'm just being dense (I'm pretty tired) but I still haven't heard an definitive 'why'.
What can you do with Paypal? Receive money from credit cards or a few banks which partner with them.
What can you do with Adyen? Receive money from basically anything and anywhere including many esoteric local payment methods in many countries.
This may come as a shock to Americans but in much of Europe credit cards are something of an oddity.
Ironically, they accept paypal too :p - https://www.adyen.com/pricing/...
Nothing ironic about it. Adyen is attempting to be a universal money movement service. Paypal is Paypal and you're blessed if it works with your bank, or you may as well get a credit card.
I've never had an issue with PayPal's service...
I have. Heck at one point my bank specifically refused to work with Paypal because of their legal skirting of banking laws. When paying for a product it works well, just don't ever use it to receive money. It has varied between not transferring my money into my bank, to sitting on my funds for 3 months for no reason when I raised an ebay dispute for an item that never arrived from a dodgy seller that suddenly accumulated a lot of negative feedback.
The irony of that not going well is that they are widely known to be heavily biased towards buyers over sellers. Stick a round in a revolver, spin the barrel, take aim at your wallet and pull the trigger. The outcome is better than receiving money through paypal.
Oh you buy stuff. No wonder you're okay with Paypal. It's just not as fun if you get paid, or refund something, or collect donations, or have your account frozen because it is March and the moon is currently in Pisces indicating bad Paypal luck for all Capricorns this month.
I'd want to switch to some payment service I've never heard of and don't trust...... why?
Everything at some point in your life is something you've never heard of, including Paypal.
Now the real question is do you want to research, learn about and subsequently trust a large company headquartered in a state with strict banking laws, that offers multiple banking services including credit cards, debit cards, and online payments, and is subject to some pretty sane laws....
or... do you stick with Paypal, a US company for all intents and purposes except for legal intents and purposes where it instead decided to be headquartered in Luxembourg for the sole purpose of dodging those pesky banking regulations.
I've heard of Paypal: http://www.paypalsucks.com/ In comparison a company which I don't know or trust would be a welcome change.
I think that's kind of the point. Taking a car out of the showroom instantly knocks 30% off it's value. Someone is being royally screwed for a $50 discount.
And thus Fear Of Missing Out has been replaced with Regret For Playing Along
You wouldn't. The point is to write every step where it isn't immediately obvious how you get from one stage to the next.
162+199 = 361 is verifiable as typing those two numbers into a calculator would result in the 3rd. There's a very easy progression. More importantly is the scope for error and the scope for identifying where the error occurred. Did you miss-add? Or did you not understand the concept.
Show your work means to show you understand the concept. It is important when re-arranging formulas using the technique taught to you during the semester. It is completely irrelevant for something you can type into a calculator and spit out the answer (unless the topic of the semester was how to add two numbers).
Having to use a sarcasm tag defeats the purpose of encouraging critical thinking.
*Mind blown.
LibreOffice includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and a database.
It's free!
https://www.libreoffice.org/
Office 2019 is new and shiny. It's Free*!
*Free to corporate users who pay contractual subscriptions to MS anyway. Everyone else doesn't give a shit and will happily use Office 97.
Which is all completely irrelevant since Windows 7 will be out of extended support only a few months after Office 2019 comes out, and thus they don't need to support their users.
Hmm....large entity and we're at MS Office 2010....I don't see us moving from that and Win 7 for quite a long time to come.
No real reason to at this point....
What is the reason not to? If you're a large entity then you're likely paying MS a fixed fee anyway regardless of what versions of OSes or Applications are installed.
By the way extended support for Windows 7 ends in two years. If you're as large as you're implying with your post you're either already assessing and planning the move to Windows 10 or you're playing with fire. If you're already doing a major system change I'll bet that a revised office suite is part of that as it is typical to not roll out a new office suite unless you do a major system change in large organisations.
Mind you that will likely land you on Office 2016.
Providing a free software upgrade vs scamming people out of money for absolutely nothing? Yeah totally comparable.
I think there's a hosts entry that can do that for you.