April 8, 2014. That's when extended support for XP ends.
Of course that's just when IE6 will finally be unsupported.
IE7 and IE8 would still have years of support to go
Yes let's ban all ads, then a lot of people won't be able to put anything up because they can't afford the bandwidth costs. They of course could recoup those costs with a paywall, but people like you wouldn't pay it because of your entitlement.
Watson won BECAUSE of the AI improvements. If he just buzzed in first for every answer he would have gotten some wrong as possibly lost. Also there were times when Watson had the correct answer yet Ken Jennings or Brad Rutter buzzed in with the correct response FIRST.
For Watson, it depended on the answer. The "Buzz Threshold" varied quite a bit. The lowest value may have been 50%, but sometimes the "Buzz Threshold" was quite a bit higher.
Watson is still just following a fixed set of rules,
Pff, some AI Ken Jennings had, he followed the fixed set of Jeopardy rules. If he really wanted to win he should have gone over to Trebek and asked for the question ahead of time, or eliminated the competition by disconnecting their buzzers.
The X-5 Comes with 2.2 however it wont be updated to 2.3.
So how exactly is this phone an example of easy/quick upgrades?
Even if Google Voice eliminates the need for a contract, it's still the OEMs that would stand to make more money from people buying a new phone unlocked rather than upgrading their existing one for free.
So does development 'take time' or is it that the OEMs shouldn't feel obligated to do it? Hmm I heard the Windows 7 SP1 went RTM, I hope {insert OEM} tests it for every computer they make so users can download the version specific to what they have. Oh, I know, Android is FOSS so it's different...okay. I heard Ubuntu 11.04 is coming out end of April, I hope {insert OEM} tests it for every configuration so I can download the specific Ubuntu version for my hardware.
Also, nice job saying iOS wasn't released for iPad until later when I specifically said "iOS Phone". I'll concede that I was wrong in its availability, it's only for iPhone 4 and 3GS, which is still twice as many as Gingerbread.
I don't really expect OEMs to jump on it immediately, but it would be nice if they jumped on it AT ALL. Two months after it was released with the Nexus S, and not a single phone has been upgraded to Gingerbread, not even Google's other dog fooding phone, the Nexus One.
The truth of the matter is that is it far more lucrative for Telcos and OEMs to not support upgrades in any Android phones, instead making the user shell out more money for newer hardware/contract.
which is why the Android model of open source is fundamentally broken, imho. But then it was never about the customer.
This is such a stupid fucking argument.
"Oh my god they released in December and it takes months for manufacturers to port to their devices! Android is broken!"
You don't realize it, but this is the right way to do it. How would you expect it to work?
Like iOS?
Apple says "oh hey new version of iOS is out and you can instantly get it for any iOS phone that's been out the past 2 or 3 years with a simple update"
Takes months for manufacturers, maybe, if they actually were trying. They could have been experimenting with the beta version of Gingerbread and have it working by the time it was officially released. Hell what about all those Android phones still on 2.1, or worse, 1.6?
A lot of those users are ones who CAN'T update due to IT policies. Those same IT policies prevent something like Firefox from being default in a corporate environment due to the lack of management with Group Policy.
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Bribery does require consent between the two parties, but the third party (the consumer) is the one getting raped.
They were silenced because once they got switched to AT&T their call got dropped
Unless you stuff those letters with millions of dollars, absolutely nothing you do will ever work.
but... but.... my entitlement!
I never really understood GNOME's problem with Ubuntu adopting Unity.
Does GNOME get mad at distros when they include Shotwell instead of F-Spot, Pidgin instead of Empathy, Firefox instead of Epiphany?
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UI testing? Marketing? Working with OEMs to get it installed on desktops? Nope, apparently that's not contributing to Linux at all.
They aren't because they don't need to be.
People are still buying the games
How about IE9's relatively shit CSS3 support?
Any concerns of broken implementation could be alleviated with the -ms- prefix.
Granted it is much better than IE8 and below, but for stuff like text-shadow, there's really no excuse not to have it at this point
April 8, 2014. That's when extended support for XP ends. Of course that's just when IE6 will finally be unsupported. IE7 and IE8 would still have years of support to go
Actually that's due to incompatibilities with the GPL. If WP7 allowed GPL software then Microsoft would be VIOLATING the GPL
Yes let's ban all ads, then a lot of people won't be able to put anything up because they can't afford the bandwidth costs. They of course could recoup those costs with a paywall, but people like you wouldn't pay it because of your entitlement.
I know Barcade is, as you put it, hipstercade. I'm saying jacks smirking reven's idea is essentially Barcade for those too young to be in a bar.
Brooklyn arcade for hipsters?
So the under 21 version of Barcade?
Bargaining too. Also there's no Frustration, it's just in there with Anger.
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance.
But scientists don't increase the speed of light until 2208
"Stifle Innovation" has become the new "Think of the children"
You're absolutely right, because no one releases closed-source malware on a closed source OS like Windows. Oh wait, you're full of shit.
Watson won BECAUSE of the AI improvements. If he just buzzed in first for every answer he would have gotten some wrong as possibly lost. Also there were times when Watson had the correct answer yet Ken Jennings or Brad Rutter buzzed in with the correct response FIRST.
For Watson, it depended on the answer. The "Buzz Threshold" varied quite a bit. The lowest value may have been 50%, but sometimes the "Buzz Threshold" was quite a bit higher.
I guess we need a "True Scotsman" to write the AI?
Watson is still just following a fixed set of rules,
Pff, some AI Ken Jennings had, he followed the fixed set of Jeopardy rules. If he really wanted to win he should have gone over to Trebek and asked for the question ahead of time, or eliminated the competition by disconnecting their buzzers.
The X-5 Comes with 2.2 however it wont be updated to 2.3.
So how exactly is this phone an example of easy/quick upgrades?
Even if Google Voice eliminates the need for a contract, it's still the OEMs that would stand to make more money from people buying a new phone unlocked rather than upgrading their existing one for free.
So does development 'take time' or is it that the OEMs shouldn't feel obligated to do it? Hmm I heard the Windows 7 SP1 went RTM, I hope {insert OEM} tests it for every computer they make so users can download the version specific to what they have. Oh, I know, Android is FOSS so it's different...okay. I heard Ubuntu 11.04 is coming out end of April, I hope {insert OEM} tests it for every configuration so I can download the specific Ubuntu version for my hardware. Also, nice job saying iOS wasn't released for iPad until later when I specifically said "iOS Phone". I'll concede that I was wrong in its availability, it's only for iPhone 4 and 3GS, which is still twice as many as Gingerbread.
I don't really expect OEMs to jump on it immediately, but it would be nice if they jumped on it AT ALL. Two months after it was released with the Nexus S, and not a single phone has been upgraded to Gingerbread, not even Google's other dog fooding phone, the Nexus One.
The truth of the matter is that is it far more lucrative for Telcos and OEMs to not support upgrades in any Android phones, instead making the user shell out more money for newer hardware/contract.
which is why the Android model of open source is fundamentally broken, imho. But then it was never about the customer.
This is such a stupid fucking argument.
"Oh my god they released in December and it takes months for manufacturers to port to their devices! Android is broken!"
You don't realize it, but this is the right way to do it. How would you expect it to work?
Like iOS?
Apple says "oh hey new version of iOS is out and you can instantly get it for any iOS phone that's been out the past 2 or 3 years with a simple update"
Takes months for manufacturers, maybe, if they actually were trying. They could have been experimenting with the beta version of Gingerbread and have it working by the time it was officially released. Hell what about all those Android phones still on 2.1, or worse, 1.6?
A lot of those users are ones who CAN'T update due to IT policies. Those same IT policies prevent something like Firefox from being default in a corporate environment due to the lack of management with Group Policy.