I love progress. A plane that can go past the speed of sound and only half the number of seats of Concord? Sounds like a great plan.
This is progress. The end game is not to build a plane that can carry 1000 passengers instantly but rather a form of transport that works effectively and efficiently at a cost that is profitable enough to run and cheap enough that passengers will use it.
You may notice that for long haul international flights the 787 Dreamliner has about 5x the number of orders than the A380 despite being introduced later and being able to carry half the number of passengers.
If less seats is what makes it viable, then it is definitely progress given how the Concord clearly was no longer viable.
If it took America's biggest company getting their most popular product blocked for you to hear about it, then you simply haven't been paying attention. Patent issues in China have been going on for a long time, and one of America's complaints is that it seems to be stacked in favour of Chinese companies.
Hell 8 years ago patents for Dyson inventions were being granted in China and the patent system was being used to block Dyson from selling products.
To what end? You're upset that one way you're giving profit to Nintendo is different to another way you're giving profit to Nintendo and all games are still available so it's driving you towards piracy?
I call bullshit and will assert that you had been using no-profit-for-Nintendo emulators from day one and had no interest in the SNES Classic.
It might be terrible to the ego to admit that Nintendo's old games are better than the new ones.
What are you talking about? They are still making the old games, just not the consoles. You can buy a huge portion of their back collection ported to the Switch. Profit was looked in the eye, the Switch is far more profitable than the NES Classic.
..that I will continue owning that game, at least to the extent you can own a digital object.
Do you have the game Satisfactory by any chance? This is a game that was recently pulled from Steam and is now an Epic store exclusive. Now I haven't heard much about it yet but I wonder, in 5 years when you want to go back and play this again will you still be able to download and run it having purchased it in the "wrong" store?
Apple's recent experience, and their terms of service saying that a customer may not be able to download the thing they bought if its not available on their store would suggest that this is actually a bad trend rather than a good one for consumers.
I'm personally interested to find out how this turns out. It may lead to innovative ways to tackle other issues in our society.
This will turn out the only way possible: Expect every game to come out on it's own publishers store uniquely. We already saw that with the last Slashdot announcement about the Epic store. Greater choice for all they said! Only a few days later the list of exclusives, and the list of games being pulled from Steam started being released.
How much longer can I see Disney content on Netflix? On and how's things going in America, where your latest Startrek is only available in 1080p with stereo sound instead of 4K and surround sound because Netflix can't carry it due to exclusivity to that other service there?
Competition and choice is good for consumers, but this does not create either, and while we're not subscribing via a monthly fee I do wonder about the future of games which I bought on a platform don't have installed on my machine but then do want to play sometime in the future. Will it still be available to me? Apple's experience with movies recently says no.
well then we don't get any more control over windows updates than you do at home.
One big key thing I will mention (and also the reason why I would not wish Windows 10 Home on my worst enemy), at the very least the Pro version allows you to switch to the semi-annual branch whereas the Home users are locked on the Targeted branch. Also Home users can't delay feature updates for 365 days or security updates for 30 days like Pro users can.
It may sound like nothing but lip service, but with current MS practices Windows 10 Pro is basically a minimum requirement for any computer you want to have working on any given day.
Windows 10 Insiders > Masochists Windows 10 Home > Alpha Testers Windows 10 Pro > Beta Testers Windows 10 Enterprise > Customers
They've always used their customers as beta testers. That shit started at least as early as the MS-DOS days.
A nice quip on the quality of MS software in general, but not constructive to the discussion. There are orders of magnitude differences in not only the quality of software but the actual business practices of MS between the DOS days and now.
And you're back to square one with the same results as DRM. The people who are generally behaving themselves end up with an inferior and more expensive product and Joe Schmoe with home made drone bolted together from parts on a hobby website is still zipping around airports colliding with planes.
There are many existing regulations that many drones break, and "requirements" haven't stopped any of them. Just look at the RF mess and how dead easy it is to buy radio modules for drones that are completely illegal to use in the USA. Oh they are good though, less people have them so there's less interference.
Drones are not noisy, not in the slightest. They basically need to be within 15-20m of you in order to make out the sound over a typical suburban background noise, you have no possibility of making this work, even if the planes themselves were silent. Typical aircraft approaches go for kilometers it's not something you can cover with any kind of audio detection.
And that's before you talk about plane noise. Your other reply to our favourite/. troll suggests you think that audio filters are magical, they are not. You would not be able to filter out the sound of a drone anywhere near the sound of a plane.
and it is still not uncommon for companies to lay off/fire people without notice or severance
Are they in breach of contract or are people just too dumb to lawyer up? That would be illegal in most western countries, and you wouldn't even need to resort to lawyers since many governments have labour departments that actively investigate cases where the contract isn't upheld.
A company is some arbitrary construct. Ultimately though they are run by people, and yes people ultimately still care. If no people care about you that says more about you than anything else.
Well yes, because if they didn't that would be breach of contract. That's the whole purpose of the 2 week notice. It has nothing to do with you being allowed to come to work for 2 weeks, but just because you're not there doesn't mean you're not working and being paid for work.
Getting shown the door is a practice commonly dependent on secrecy and risk. As per policy we show all employees in certain departments the door immediately and this is based on past experience, the employees are the service employees (sabotage), planning employees (poor performance can screw us there), and procurement employees (fraud / embezzlement)
a) let workers go with little to no warning and no compensation
Probably no one since it's illegal in most civilised countries. Oh wait... America doesn't have employment protection laws.
b) witnessed the extremely common scenario where an employee informs their employer they are taking a new job, gives their two weeks notice, and are immediately escorted out the building and left with no job for two weeks.
You still have a job for 2 weeks. That's what 2 weeks notice is about. Just because you don't go to your desk and do something there doesn't mean you are not on the books being paid for those 2 weeks.
Any employer issued laptop should have the entire hard drive encrypted. The fact that it wasn't is not the fault of the employee who's laptop got stolen. It is the fault of the IT department and, ultimately, senior management.
It's only 2018 give Lenovo a break. It's not like they know anything about computers.
He already did, go out and look up your citation is there.
Aluminium wire has to be 1.5x the cross section of copper to carry the same current. At that size it is less than half the weight and it is why this metal is commonly used in power transmission and is exclusively used in high voltage overhead transmission.
About a decade ago it mostly switched to a marketplace for merchants.
Oh dear, you're older than you think you are, and to set that straight remember that the final part of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy came out a decade ago, and so did Spiderman 3.
Ebay on the other hand started acting like this around the start of the original Spiderman trilogy, or almost 2 decades ago.
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I love progress. A plane that can go past the speed of sound and only half the number of seats of Concord? Sounds like a great plan.
This is progress. The end game is not to build a plane that can carry 1000 passengers instantly but rather a form of transport that works effectively and efficiently at a cost that is profitable enough to run and cheap enough that passengers will use it.
You may notice that for long haul international flights the 787 Dreamliner has about 5x the number of orders than the A380 despite being introduced later and being able to carry half the number of passengers.
If less seats is what makes it viable, then it is definitely progress given how the Concord clearly was no longer viable.
I'd blame the CDN because my experience is the dead opposite. Xvideos is painfully slow in comparison.
First time I heard China cared about "patents".
If it took America's biggest company getting their most popular product blocked for you to hear about it, then you simply haven't been paying attention. Patent issues in China have been going on for a long time, and one of America's complaints is that it seems to be stacked in favour of Chinese companies.
Hell 8 years ago patents for Dyson inventions were being granted in China and the patent system was being used to block Dyson from selling products.
China cares, just not about the west.
To what end? You're upset that one way you're giving profit to Nintendo is different to another way you're giving profit to Nintendo and all games are still available so it's driving you towards piracy?
I call bullshit and will assert that you had been using no-profit-for-Nintendo emulators from day one and had no interest in the SNES Classic.
Cool, so back to emulators.
Or just buy a Switch which is ultimately what Nintendo are trying to get people to do here.
Pretty much all the classic games are available on the Switch anyway.
It might be terrible to the ego to admit that Nintendo's old games are better than the new ones.
What are you talking about? They are still making the old games, just not the consoles. You can buy a huge portion of their back collection ported to the Switch. Profit was looked in the eye, the Switch is far more profitable than the NES Classic.
..that I will continue owning that game, at least to the extent you can own a digital object.
Do you have the game Satisfactory by any chance? This is a game that was recently pulled from Steam and is now an Epic store exclusive. Now I haven't heard much about it yet but I wonder, in 5 years when you want to go back and play this again will you still be able to download and run it having purchased it in the "wrong" store?
Apple's recent experience, and their terms of service saying that a customer may not be able to download the thing they bought if its not available on their store would suggest that this is actually a bad trend rather than a good one for consumers.
I'm personally interested to find out how this turns out. It may lead to innovative ways to tackle other issues in our society.
This will turn out the only way possible: Expect every game to come out on it's own publishers store uniquely. We already saw that with the last Slashdot announcement about the Epic store. Greater choice for all they said! Only a few days later the list of exclusives, and the list of games being pulled from Steam started being released.
How much longer can I see Disney content on Netflix? On and how's things going in America, where your latest Startrek is only available in 1080p with stereo sound instead of 4K and surround sound because Netflix can't carry it due to exclusivity to that other service there?
Competition and choice is good for consumers, but this does not create either, and while we're not subscribing via a monthly fee I do wonder about the future of games which I bought on a platform don't have installed on my machine but then do want to play sometime in the future. Will it still be available to me? Apple's experience with movies recently says no.
To be fair, what kind of masochists hits the check for updates button in the first place! These users *want* to get screwed.
I think *most* Windows 10 users aren't doing anything. A few of the savvy ones however are doing whatever they can do disable / defer updates.
Remember these are computer users we are talking about. Any idea of logic, thought, intelligence, or capability does not apply to the masses.
well then we don't get any more control over windows updates than you do at home.
One big key thing I will mention (and also the reason why I would not wish Windows 10 Home on my worst enemy), at the very least the Pro version allows you to switch to the semi-annual branch whereas the Home users are locked on the Targeted branch. Also Home users can't delay feature updates for 365 days or security updates for 30 days like Pro users can.
It may sound like nothing but lip service, but with current MS practices Windows 10 Pro is basically a minimum requirement for any computer you want to have working on any given day.
Windows 10 Insiders > Masochists
Windows 10 Home > Alpha Testers
Windows 10 Pro > Beta Testers
Windows 10 Enterprise > Customers
They've always used their customers as beta testers. That shit started at least as early as the MS-DOS days.
A nice quip on the quality of MS software in general, but not constructive to the discussion. There are orders of magnitude differences in not only the quality of software but the actual business practices of MS between the DOS days and now.
And you're back to square one with the same results as DRM. The people who are generally behaving themselves end up with an inferior and more expensive product and Joe Schmoe with home made drone bolted together from parts on a hobby website is still zipping around airports colliding with planes.
There are many existing regulations that many drones break, and "requirements" haven't stopped any of them. Just look at the RF mess and how dead easy it is to buy radio modules for drones that are completely illegal to use in the USA. Oh they are good though, less people have them so there's less interference.
Drones are not noisy, not in the slightest. They basically need to be within 15-20m of you in order to make out the sound over a typical suburban background noise, you have no possibility of making this work, even if the planes themselves were silent. Typical aircraft approaches go for kilometers it's not something you can cover with any kind of audio detection.
And that's before you talk about plane noise. Your other reply to our favourite /. troll suggests you think that audio filters are magical, they are not. You would not be able to filter out the sound of a drone anywhere near the sound of a plane.
and it is still not uncommon for companies to lay off/fire people without notice or severance
Are they in breach of contract or are people just too dumb to lawyer up? That would be illegal in most western countries, and you wouldn't even need to resort to lawyers since many governments have labour departments that actively investigate cases where the contract isn't upheld.
No company cares about you
A company is some arbitrary construct. Ultimately though they are run by people, and yes people ultimately still care. If no people care about you that says more about you than anything else.
(at least without paying me).
Well yes, because if they didn't that would be breach of contract. That's the whole purpose of the 2 week notice. It has nothing to do with you being allowed to come to work for 2 weeks, but just because you're not there doesn't mean you're not working and being paid for work.
Getting shown the door is a practice commonly dependent on secrecy and risk. As per policy we show all employees in certain departments the door immediately and this is based on past experience, the employees are the service employees (sabotage), planning employees (poor performance can screw us there), and procurement employees (fraud / embezzlement)
a) let workers go with little to no warning and no compensation
Probably no one since it's illegal in most civilised countries. Oh wait ... America doesn't have employment protection laws.
b) witnessed the extremely common scenario where an employee informs their employer they are taking a new job, gives their two weeks notice, and are immediately escorted out the building and left with no job for two weeks.
You still have a job for 2 weeks. That's what 2 weeks notice is about. Just because you don't go to your desk and do something there doesn't mean you are not on the books being paid for those 2 weeks.
Any employer issued laptop should have the entire hard drive encrypted. The fact that it wasn't is not the fault of the employee who's laptop got stolen. It is the fault of the IT department and, ultimately, senior management.
It's only 2018 give Lenovo a break. It's not like they know anything about computers.
He already did, go out and look up your citation is there.
Aluminium wire has to be 1.5x the cross section of copper to carry the same current. At that size it is less than half the weight and it is why this metal is commonly used in power transmission and is exclusively used in high voltage overhead transmission.
About a decade ago it mostly switched to a marketplace for merchants.
Oh dear, you're older than you think you are, and to set that straight remember that the final part of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy came out a decade ago, and so did Spiderman 3.
Ebay on the other hand started acting like this around the start of the original Spiderman trilogy, or almost 2 decades ago.
Feel as old as the rest of us yet?
Not weasel words, just something without a clear and universal definition.
The USAF and NASA will definitely consider anyone between 85km and 100km to be an astronaut.
Also Pluto is a planet.
Depends on who is doing the saying.
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