I suppose you think Facebook is just something where someone posts some status updates right?
As opposed to say: A social network A unified messaging platform A business directory An online market place A reviewing system A widely used single sign-on system A games platform The first company to provide a 360degree video platform (bet you thought that was Google Right?) One of the leaders in pushing VR (admittedly they bought this one).
That's to say nothing of their developments in the advertising world.
I don't see why for some reason you think market value magically applies to all exchanges except to BTC. The key here is low trading volumes will cause market value to plummet if you massively cash out (e.g. if you pull $100m out of BTC the price would collapse as it isn't stabilised by volume) but right now, you want to sell 1BTC for $10000US, go for it. There's little stopping you.
Sure it can, but you wouldn't have been stuck. I'll bet you a Marsbar that your local train station would have had somewhere that takes a card and converts it to cash.... kind of like every toll booth I've seen in the past 15 years.
So you have bought the transponder for a dozen different municipalities, or have you just not gone anywhere that only accepts pre-payment by those transponders.
I've yet to find a place in America where the hire car doesn't come with the transponder. Or Australia, Spain, China, etc. And on the one case in America where the transponder didn't work, every machine happily accepted a credit card.
On the other hand, I maintain my families Windows machines.
I don't even "maintain" my mothers or my sister's machine anymore. At some point you should just tell your family they are too stupid to use computers.
Had to reinstall Windows 10 on a laptop this weekend because all the crapware that was slowing it down making it unusable. I swear you have to do this every few years because of crap that accumulates - let alone the crap that comes with a new PC.
Then you swear wrong or you just have phenomenal idiots as users. The last OS that needed reinstalling because it slowed down was XP. I installed Windows 10 on my personal machine 2 weeks ago. For shits and giggles I did a "systeminfo | find/i "install date" and got a wonderful answer of December 2010, and I only did the reinstall since my SSD finally died.
It took the entire day to re-install Windows and Office - many reboots for reasons I don't know -
Now you're doing something wrong. 2 weeks ago Windows rebooted twice during the install (which it tells you it will do up front), the entire install took about 40min. Office install took about 20min, and before the day was out installed 63 further programs several of which were behemoths like Adobe's Creative Suite, and at the very end of the day I *manually* rebooted windows 10 once, and only because a notification came up saying that windows updates were pending.
Maybe as a Linux user you don't know how to use Windows anymore.
...who brought you the Ribbon. And Windows 8's "Tablet interface for desktops".
While the latter is an absolute turd, the former has been a fantastic step forward in usability which has seen adoption of computers by non-technical people majorly increase, technical people who actually bother to learn an interface benefit from a large reduction in worthless clicking (and if you were keyboard shortcutting then you shouldn't notice any difference anyway), and an idea that has proven so popular that it has been widely adopted by a wide range of other software.
If you call the ribbon some kind of disaster, then sign me up for more disasters.
Can not relocate a window from one work space to another.
That one is untrue. Hit Windows+Tab then you can drag whichever application to and from whatever workspace you wish.
The sticky dock at the bottom would let me switch to any desktop directly without cycling through all desktops.
Not sure why that's relevant, hitting the Windows+Tab button brings up a list of the desktops, you don't need to cycle anything, just click the one you want. You even have a live preview of it.
Win10 workspaces is the perfect example of too little too late.
Actually windows 10 workspaces is a perfect example of a little bit to appease a few. It's not heavily advertised, not heavily featured, and by-n-large not at all missed by the majority of non-windows 10 users, not to mentioned not actually used by the majority of windows 10 users either.
To be honest I've never seen the appeal. Though at one stage I was doing some work that was benefiting from the idea of having two setup discrete work spaces, so I bought a second monitor and never looked back.
What are you on about? I've travelled all over the world without worrying about crap like "cash" at a toll machine and never once considered the fact that I don't need to carry around useless local currency as a discouragement.
Of course there's a difference. You said it yourself just now, it's entirely in the perception of the player. If the player perceives the game as a grind you've either failed to create an interesting game, or screwed it up on purpose to milk money out of the player in the hope he'll pay not to play.
but I think the people who are buying Chromebooks aren't looking to throw away money on software.
By throwing money away you're realising you're talking about the cost of a large cup of coffee once a month on an entire office suite right?
Chromebooks aren't just for poor people, and when people are happily spending $100/mth on cable, an additional $8 to get an office suite that is compatible with the formats used in general throughout the world isn't going to break the bank.
Most employers don't care what format your resume comes in so long as their automated web application process approves the file type
FTFY. You're assuming a certain level of human common sense when in fact what you're doing is arguing semantics with a machine, or worse still a HR person.
There's a difference between playing a game and grinding a game. If there's a diminishing returns system that would seem like something that you should point out up front.
I've never seen a VM instance take more than a split second to post. Who* uses servers these days? Throw them off a cliff and into the clouds.
I'm only being partially facetious here. Spinning up an entire OS instance for a short activity is rapidly becoming a thing that we are interested in doing these days, and shaving that boot time counts when you're paying by the second.
The only itch of *yours*. Parallel startup is actually the feature many cared about the least and is also why the alternatives saw little adoption.
By the way most people don't give a shit about "concept of Unix", that is something completely incompatible with the workload and interaction between various parts of a modern OS.
You jump straight to greed, but I urge you to think back throughout history to see the effect of attempting to ban a product unilaterally consumed by a good percentage of the population. It didn't work well last time.
In the mean times the efforts of banning the product in a way that is effective and doesn't create excessive legal challenge involves very slowly boiling the frog. You don't need some government commercial death machine conspiracy to see why we're where we are.
Their existing and past attempts at prohibition have worked out really well!
Prohibition needs to boil the frog so to say. Introduce an all out ban and it will be disregarded. Slowly socialise the bans with ever increasing barriers to smoking and people accept it, or rather they are forced to accept it as public opinion of those who crack early starts to work against them.
The difference between knowing and caring is huge. Since the 60s nearly everyone "knows". But lots of people self-justify. It's only a small percentage that suffer complications like losing a foot, and if I die of lung cancer I've saved myself the most horrible years of my life right?
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Facebook is a service that exists solely because computer experts (us) have been to lazy about finally replacing Usenet
Congratulations, you have just named about 1 of the 15 different services that Facebook provide.
Maybe you should research something before talking.
But Facebook? Innovation? Really?
I suppose you think Facebook is just something where someone posts some status updates right?
As opposed to say:
A social network
A unified messaging platform
A business directory
An online market place
A reviewing system
A widely used single sign-on system
A games platform
The first company to provide a 360degree video platform (bet you thought that was Google Right?)
One of the leaders in pushing VR (admittedly they bought this one).
That's to say nothing of their developments in the advertising world.
Yes but they are doing that in USD which makes them insensitive to price fluctuation.
Has anyone actually tried to get $10k for a BTC?
Go to your local exchange and click sell?
I don't see why for some reason you think market value magically applies to all exchanges except to BTC. The key here is low trading volumes will cause market value to plummet if you massively cash out (e.g. if you pull $100m out of BTC the price would collapse as it isn't stabilised by volume) but right now, you want to sell 1BTC for $10000US, go for it. There's little stopping you.
... about sovereign airspace violation?
Everything they are allowed to based on their agreements with the USA after the war: "Asking the USA to intervene"
Notice the limited scope of "NK and Japan."
The scope is not limited to NK and Japan thanks to a treaty forced on Japan by the USA after the war.
If any scope regarding international conflict ever includes Japan, it by default now includes the USA.
Learn some history.
Only an idiot kept the default toolbars
You have just called 99% of the users idiots, and thus failed at interface design.
Sure it can, but you wouldn't have been stuck. I'll bet you a Marsbar that your local train station would have had somewhere that takes a card and converts it to cash. ... kind of like every toll booth I've seen in the past 15 years.
So you have bought the transponder for a dozen different municipalities, or have you just not gone anywhere that only accepts pre-payment by those transponders.
I've yet to find a place in America where the hire car doesn't come with the transponder. Or Australia, Spain, China, etc. And on the one case in America where the transponder didn't work, every machine happily accepted a credit card.
"cash" is a dying concept.
On the other hand, I maintain my families Windows machines.
I don't even "maintain" my mothers or my sister's machine anymore. At some point you should just tell your family they are too stupid to use computers.
Had to reinstall Windows 10 on a laptop this weekend because all the crapware that was slowing it down making it unusable. I swear you have to do this every few years because of crap that accumulates - let alone the crap that comes with a new PC.
Then you swear wrong or you just have phenomenal idiots as users. The last OS that needed reinstalling because it slowed down was XP. I installed Windows 10 on my personal machine 2 weeks ago. For shits and giggles I did a "systeminfo | find /i "install date" and got a wonderful answer of December 2010, and I only did the reinstall since my SSD finally died.
It took the entire day to re-install Windows and Office - many reboots for reasons I don't know -
Now you're doing something wrong. 2 weeks ago Windows rebooted twice during the install (which it tells you it will do up front), the entire install took about 40min. Office install took about 20min, and before the day was out installed 63 further programs several of which were behemoths like Adobe's Creative Suite, and at the very end of the day I *manually* rebooted windows 10 once, and only because a notification came up saying that windows updates were pending.
Maybe as a Linux user you don't know how to use Windows anymore.
It's funny how iPadificaton of the desktop OS seems to be a threat constantly looming over the Mac, yet always lands on Windows...
It's hard to treat a threat seriously when it affects such a small portion of users none of which are businesses.
...who brought you the Ribbon. And Windows 8's "Tablet interface for desktops".
While the latter is an absolute turd, the former has been a fantastic step forward in usability which has seen adoption of computers by non-technical people majorly increase, technical people who actually bother to learn an interface benefit from a large reduction in worthless clicking (and if you were keyboard shortcutting then you shouldn't notice any difference anyway), and an idea that has proven so popular that it has been widely adopted by a wide range of other software.
If you call the ribbon some kind of disaster, then sign me up for more disasters.
Can not relocate a window from one work space to another.
That one is untrue. Hit Windows+Tab then you can drag whichever application to and from whatever workspace you wish.
The sticky dock at the bottom would let me switch to any desktop directly without cycling through all desktops.
Not sure why that's relevant, hitting the Windows+Tab button brings up a list of the desktops, you don't need to cycle anything, just click the one you want. You even have a live preview of it.
Win10 workspaces is the perfect example of too little too late.
Actually windows 10 workspaces is a perfect example of a little bit to appease a few. It's not heavily advertised, not heavily featured, and by-n-large not at all missed by the majority of non-windows 10 users, not to mentioned not actually used by the majority of windows 10 users either.
To be honest I've never seen the appeal. Though at one stage I was doing some work that was benefiting from the idea of having two setup discrete work spaces, so I bought a second monitor and never looked back.
What are you on about? I've travelled all over the world without worrying about crap like "cash" at a toll machine and never once considered the fact that I don't need to carry around useless local currency as a discouragement.
Of course there's a difference. You said it yourself just now, it's entirely in the perception of the player. If the player perceives the game as a grind you've either failed to create an interesting game, or screwed it up on purpose to milk money out of the player in the hope he'll pay not to play.
but I think the people who are buying Chromebooks aren't looking to throw away money on software.
By throwing money away you're realising you're talking about the cost of a large cup of coffee once a month on an entire office suite right?
Chromebooks aren't just for poor people, and when people are happily spending $100/mth on cable, an additional $8 to get an office suite that is compatible with the formats used in general throughout the world isn't going to break the bank.
Most employers don't care what format your resume comes in so long as their automated web application process approves the file type
FTFY. You're assuming a certain level of human common sense when in fact what you're doing is arguing semantics with a machine, or worse still a HR person.
Not to mention macOS is effectively a monoculture regarding support. Linux on the other hand can best be described as a clusterfuck.
There's a difference between playing a game and grinding a game. If there's a diminishing returns system that would seem like something that you should point out up front.
I've never seen a VM instance take more than a split second to post. Who* uses servers these days? Throw them off a cliff and into the clouds.
I'm only being partially facetious here. Spinning up an entire OS instance for a short activity is rapidly becoming a thing that we are interested in doing these days, and shaving that boot time counts when you're paying by the second.
the only itch it legitimately scratched
The only itch of *yours*. Parallel startup is actually the feature many cared about the least and is also why the alternatives saw little adoption.
By the way most people don't give a shit about "concept of Unix", that is something completely incompatible with the workload and interaction between various parts of a modern OS.
You jump straight to greed, but I urge you to think back throughout history to see the effect of attempting to ban a product unilaterally consumed by a good percentage of the population. It didn't work well last time.
In the mean times the efforts of banning the product in a way that is effective and doesn't create excessive legal challenge involves very slowly boiling the frog. You don't need some government commercial death machine conspiracy to see why we're where we are.
Their existing and past attempts at prohibition have worked out really well!
Prohibition needs to boil the frog so to say. Introduce an all out ban and it will be disregarded. Slowly socialise the bans with ever increasing barriers to smoking and people accept it, or rather they are forced to accept it as public opinion of those who crack early starts to work against them.
The difference between knowing and caring is huge. Since the 60s nearly everyone "knows". But lots of people self-justify. It's only a small percentage that suffer complications like losing a foot, and if I die of lung cancer I've saved myself the most horrible years of my life right?
That's right, friends. The government
Only because you don't have socialised healthcare.