Add to that the fact that our currently operating nuclear plants where not designed to throttle and you can understand why it's not a good idea... Nuclear plants have longer lead times because changing power output of the nuclear core requires more engineering effort than a fossil fueled burner does which needs more effort than your hydro-electric plant. But it is *extremely* difficult to plan electrical power requirements far enough in advance to use our current 30 year old nuclear power plants which where designed to run for decades at static power outputs.
The biggest problem most countries using nuclear power have, is the plants that were built are now much older than they were originally designed to be. On top of that, many of these nuclear plants are using first generation nuclear technology. That is, technology developed not long after the second world war. These plants are inherently dangerous, and the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear disaster proved what can happen when something goes wrong. The thing is, it's not like we haven't developed much safer plant designs since, it's just that since incidents like three-mile island and chernobyl, many people have been against the building of new nuclear plants.To me, this seems crazy, because now many countries are trying to increase the operating life of some very old and unsafe reactors, where we could have built fresh new reactors, which are much safer, more energy efficient, and will most likely age much better. If the anti-nuclear protesters 20 years ago could have seen the impending peak oil crisis, and the global warming crisis, i'm pretty sure they would have shut up and we would have much safer, more flexible, and longer-lasting nuclear plants than the 30-40 year-old reactors many countries are still relying on today.
Well the knly reason people would realistically Pirate XP is because either their PC does not support 7 and up or for some reason you cannot or will not use 7. In this use case the profits would not be lost anyway as theres no compatible system for sale that provides the users needs.
you have to break a few eggs. Dell is one of the american computing greats, and it would be a very sad day to see it taken over or file for bankruptcy. So in order to turn a company with more money leaks than a welsh allotment, you have to fire people and rearrange departments. Apple did it in 1997, Microsoft will do it in the next few years (hopefully), IBM's been doing it since IBM made computers. If Dell wants to become more than just a hardware manufacturer and OEM for Windows, they need to cut back and re-evolve. I have great expectations of Dell since it's gone private. I hope my expectations are realised...
Just pirate it. It might technically be illegal, but if they're not selling it anymore, they're not losing profit from you pirating it. Sure it's still illegal in most places, but they technically can't sue you for lost profits.
It's still too little too late. Look at Apple when they moved to PowerPC. Apple's computers could run circles around the competing x86 chips, but by then the x86 architecture had become so prevalent there was no hope in hell that PowerPC would dominate. It's the same with between x86 and ARM in the mobile world. Sure, there will be x86 chips that are faster and more power efficient, but everyone's so ingrained into ARM that they'll never really make inroads into the market.
The problem with Intel is they've sat on their laurels with the x86 architecture for too long. I give them many points for trying to capture the high-end market with Itanium, but they didn't realise it was going to be the low end market that would come around and steal away the next big market. They were too busy protecting their face to realise they were gonna get kicked in the balls.
I love ARM because it powers everything from my iPad to my HTC One to my WD HDD to my TV to my Raspberry Pi to my CD ROM drive to my router to my... *mumble mumble drone drone*
If you can write a recipe, you can code. All coding is, is a basic description of how to turn ingredients (aka conditional statements, variables and functions) into a product. Buuuuut, just because anyone can program, doesn't mean everyone should. I can quite easily follow a recipe on how to bake a cake, but that doesn't mean i need to go out and learn how to be a chef.
Should everybody learn to drive?
Should everybody learn to fish?
Should everybody learn to use an abacus?
Should everybody learn to make fire with 2 sticks?
Should everybody learn how to skin a rabbit with their bare hands?
The answer is no, and so is the answer to this question. In fact, this article is a perfect example of Betteridges law of headlines which, iirc, was covered here on slashdot a few months ago.
It was the other way round 10 years ago. Back in 2003 the dominant consumer OS was Windows, with more than 90% of all consumer computer interaction going through a PC running Windows. On the server side, you had Windows NT, Solaris, Linux and various other *NIX's. Nowadays the server market is much more unified, with either Windows or Linux dominating, and most server-side software is now tailored to one or the other, or both. However, the consumer market has changed considerably, with many new OSes and API's joining the party, including all the smartphone OSes from Android to iOS to webOS to Windows Phone 8 and it's associated Metro interface and API's. Software hasn't become schizophrenic, it's always been like that
I, myself disagree. Whist i'm no fan of the pseudo-3d effect on the backgrounds, or any of the "fancyness" of iOS7, i only run 7 on my iPhone 4, which doesn't support any of that anyway. My iPad 3 still runs iOS6 jailbroken, but as soon as an untether comes out, that's going on 7 too. 7 works well for me, and isnt too different from 6 IMHO. In fact, visually, i think it's a massive improvement from the very dated XP-like textures of iOS6 and below. At least 7 is so simple, visually, that it's going to be very hard to become dated.
Upgrade it to 7 you moron! Hardly any real difference except it's more secure and takes less system resources. And ofc take away admin rights, install chrome/ff etc etc
Most and many shops won't honor people who are short-changed once they've left the store. Why would i give them the change they gave me in error once i leave?
I've been both "short" and "long" changed before without realising before i've left there premises, especially on nights out. I figure that the money i lose to being short-changed here and there is balanced by the amount i get back from getting too much change.
No, after pumping in so much R&D money, the only profitable thing to do is sell it, regardless of quality. Same thing happened with Vista after rewriting Longhorn twice
Let's be honest, they were the only choices people had anyway. GNU/X.org/Linux has never really been quite "there yet" for the desktop... It's always been the go-to OS for neckbeards and nerds, and has never, and probably will never, hit the mainstream. There's just too much variety and not enough cohesion between distros to allow GNU/X.org/Linux to be anywhere near successful. The compatibility between Debian-based distros is probably the only/real/ saving grace. But even then it's still a hodge-podge of distros with various API/ABI compatibility
Most people don't "choose" to buy a new machine, they're forced to because their hardware is outdated. Most non-techy people i know don't upgrade that often, and some haven't upgraded in over a decade. I have a friend who does graphics design for a living on a PIII with 128mb RAM with a dial-up connection running Win2000. My step-dad still uses a late-gen P4 i donated to him after upgrading myself. He'd still be using a PII if it wasn't for me.
People don't upgrade until their hardware dies. If it dies, they buy a new machine and use the latest and greatest OS that it ships with. Heck, i know many people on my own CS course at uni who use Toshiba laptops still full of the bloatware they shipped with. If it works, they stick with it, because many people don't think they have much choice.
It's often not a case of "won't buy an new one" but a case of "can't buy a new one". smartphones are expensive gadgets, and for a lot of people, $400+ is a lot of money and something people can't afford to spend every 6 months.
Gasoline or Cocaine? Both are addicting, give you a massive adrenaline boost, and fuck you up if you don't respect them.
Maybe it's time to make cars with more than 200hp illegal. Think of the live's that will be saved.
Apple, in my mind, have solved the problem in the best way possible in (Mac) OS X. By only allowing the system to install signed (and thus hopefully vetted) software, many of these rogue applications just flat-out cannot be installed by the user. Obviously, any mechanism like this is only good if there's a way to turn it off, and indeed Mac OS X provides that capability. By restricting what Joe Idiot can and cannot install means that Joe Idiot is less likely to get crap installed on his computer. And for the more tech savvy people, there's always the option to turn it off.
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Yes, I know I can write my app without any Javascript library, but I am really hoping avoid that.
There's your answer. Mojang has to rewrite Minecraft (for Pocket Edition) in C++ in order to get it submitted to the iOS App Store.
Add to that the fact that our currently operating nuclear plants where not designed to throttle and you can understand why it's not a good idea ... Nuclear plants have longer lead times because changing power output of the nuclear core requires more engineering effort than a fossil fueled burner does which needs more effort than your hydro-electric plant. But it is *extremely* difficult to plan electrical power requirements far enough in advance to use our current 30 year old nuclear power plants which where designed to run for decades at static power outputs.
The biggest problem most countries using nuclear power have, is the plants that were built are now much older than they were originally designed to be. On top of that, many of these nuclear plants are using first generation nuclear technology. That is, technology developed not long after the second world war. These plants are inherently dangerous, and the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear disaster proved what can happen when something goes wrong. The thing is, it's not like we haven't developed much safer plant designs since, it's just that since incidents like three-mile island and chernobyl, many people have been against the building of new nuclear plants.To me, this seems crazy, because now many countries are trying to increase the operating life of some very old and unsafe reactors, where we could have built fresh new reactors, which are much safer, more energy efficient, and will most likely age much better. If the anti-nuclear protesters 20 years ago could have seen the impending peak oil crisis, and the global warming crisis, i'm pretty sure they would have shut up and we would have much safer, more flexible, and longer-lasting nuclear plants than the 30-40 year-old reactors many countries are still relying on today.
Well the knly reason people would realistically Pirate XP is because either their PC does not support 7 and up or for some reason you cannot or will not use 7. In this use case the profits would not be lost anyway as theres no compatible system for sale that provides the users needs.
you have to break a few eggs. Dell is one of the american computing greats, and it would be a very sad day to see it taken over or file for bankruptcy. So in order to turn a company with more money leaks than a welsh allotment, you have to fire people and rearrange departments. Apple did it in 1997, Microsoft will do it in the next few years (hopefully), IBM's been doing it since IBM made computers. If Dell wants to become more than just a hardware manufacturer and OEM for Windows, they need to cut back and re-evolve. I have great expectations of Dell since it's gone private. I hope my expectations are realised...
Don't forget that ReactOS is aiming to clone Windows XP as an open-source OS
Just pirate it. It might technically be illegal, but if they're not selling it anymore, they're not losing profit from you pirating it. Sure it's still illegal in most places, but they technically can't sue you for lost profits.
It's still too little too late. Look at Apple when they moved to PowerPC. Apple's computers could run circles around the competing x86 chips, but by then the x86 architecture had become so prevalent there was no hope in hell that PowerPC would dominate. It's the same with between x86 and ARM in the mobile world. Sure, there will be x86 chips that are faster and more power efficient, but everyone's so ingrained into ARM that they'll never really make inroads into the market.
The problem with Intel is they've sat on their laurels with the x86 architecture for too long. I give them many points for trying to capture the high-end market with Itanium, but they didn't realise it was going to be the low end market that would come around and steal away the next big market. They were too busy protecting their face to realise they were gonna get kicked in the balls.
I love ARM because it powers everything from my iPad to my HTC One to my WD HDD to my TV to my Raspberry Pi to my CD ROM drive to my router to my... *mumble mumble drone drone*
If you can write a recipe, you can code. All coding is, is a basic description of how to turn ingredients (aka conditional statements, variables and functions) into a product. Buuuuut, just because anyone can program, doesn't mean everyone should. I can quite easily follow a recipe on how to bake a cake, but that doesn't mean i need to go out and learn how to be a chef.
Should everybody learn to drive?
Should everybody learn to fish?
Should everybody learn to use an abacus?
Should everybody learn to make fire with 2 sticks?
Should everybody learn how to skin a rabbit with their bare hands?
The answer is no, and so is the answer to this question. In fact, this article is a perfect example of Betteridges law of headlines which, iirc, was covered here on slashdot a few months ago.
Here's a link
It was the other way round 10 years ago. Back in 2003 the dominant consumer OS was Windows, with more than 90% of all consumer computer interaction going through a PC running Windows. On the server side, you had Windows NT, Solaris, Linux and various other *NIX's. Nowadays the server market is much more unified, with either Windows or Linux dominating, and most server-side software is now tailored to one or the other, or both. However, the consumer market has changed considerably, with many new OSes and API's joining the party, including all the smartphone OSes from Android to iOS to webOS to Windows Phone 8 and it's associated Metro interface and API's. Software hasn't become schizophrenic, it's always been like that
but a pardon for his crimes, a pack of beers and a a badge that says "I stated the obvious"
Exactly. If you're going to be a career criminal, learn to not get caught!
I, myself disagree. Whist i'm no fan of the pseudo-3d effect on the backgrounds, or any of the "fancyness" of iOS7, i only run 7 on my iPhone 4, which doesn't support any of that anyway. My iPad 3 still runs iOS6 jailbroken, but as soon as an untether comes out, that's going on 7 too. 7 works well for me, and isnt too different from 6 IMHO. In fact, visually, i think it's a massive improvement from the very dated XP-like textures of iOS6 and below. At least 7 is so simple, visually, that it's going to be very hard to become dated.
Upgrade it to 7 you moron! Hardly any real difference except it's more secure and takes less system resources. And ofc take away admin rights, install chrome/ff etc etc
Most and many shops won't honor people who are short-changed once they've left the store. Why would i give them the change they gave me in error once i leave?
I've been both "short" and "long" changed before without realising before i've left there premises, especially on nights out. I figure that the money i lose to being short-changed here and there is balanced by the amount i get back from getting too much change.
No, after pumping in so much R&D money, the only profitable thing to do is sell it, regardless of quality. Same thing happened with Vista after rewriting Longhorn twice
Like the nutter at the Apple helm got behind the calm, collected Jonny Ive. Businessmen hire for profit. Nutters hire for ideas
Let's be honest, they were the only choices people had anyway. GNU/X.org/Linux has never really been quite "there yet" for the desktop... It's always been the go-to OS for neckbeards and nerds, and has never, and probably will never, hit the mainstream. There's just too much variety and not enough cohesion between distros to allow GNU/X.org/Linux to be anywhere near successful. The compatibility between Debian-based distros is probably the only /real/ saving grace. But even then it's still a hodge-podge of distros with various API/ABI compatibility
Most people don't "choose" to buy a new machine, they're forced to because their hardware is outdated. Most non-techy people i know don't upgrade that often, and some haven't upgraded in over a decade. I have a friend who does graphics design for a living on a PIII with 128mb RAM with a dial-up connection running Win2000. My step-dad still uses a late-gen P4 i donated to him after upgrading myself. He'd still be using a PII if it wasn't for me.
People don't upgrade until their hardware dies. If it dies, they buy a new machine and use the latest and greatest OS that it ships with. Heck, i know many people on my own CS course at uni who use Toshiba laptops still full of the bloatware they shipped with. If it works, they stick with it, because many people don't think they have much choice.
It's often not a case of "won't buy an new one" but a case of "can't buy a new one". smartphones are expensive gadgets, and for a lot of people, $400+ is a lot of money and something people can't afford to spend every 6 months.
Gasoline or Cocaine? Both are addicting, give you a massive adrenaline boost, and fuck you up if you don't respect them. Maybe it's time to make cars with more than 200hp illegal. Think of the live's that will be saved.
Apple, in my mind, have solved the problem in the best way possible in (Mac) OS X. By only allowing the system to install signed (and thus hopefully vetted) software, many of these rogue applications just flat-out cannot be installed by the user. Obviously, any mechanism like this is only good if there's a way to turn it off, and indeed Mac OS X provides that capability. By restricting what Joe Idiot can and cannot install means that Joe Idiot is less likely to get crap installed on his computer. And for the more tech savvy people, there's always the option to turn it off.