That all greatly depends on the kind of work you do and for who.
Does your mother need a full fledged Windows PC to do her day to day computing? Expand from that.
It is horrifying at times to realize just how many can get by without the 'deFacto Standard' as you call it.
Long ago a full Windows PC (or Mac) was the norm for running all of the apps/services someone would want... now you can most of the core things on a tablet or via a web browser.
I work for a company where the only machines running Windows are those of the C# developers. The sales & support teams all run mac mini's or Mac Book Pros to access external wiki, bug tracking & salesforce instances. Most of what they do could be accomplished with a Chromebook!
The one thing going for Microsoft is that when XYZ Corp is going to build their next big internal or external system, maybe they will put it on Azure and pay for a few Visual Studio licenses along the way... however that doesn't make up for the increasing revenue losses from the dumpster fire that is the Windows client future.
People still choose Windows for two main reasons: 1. Inertia 2. Actual dependencies on platform
#1 is slowing down, and the amount of new dependencies isn't going to keep #2 around forever.
Re-watching The X-Files last year left me with the same feeling. I even came to sarcastically suspect that X-Files was in fact a bit of government propaganda. Not regarding the existence of aliens... but suggesting the competency and near perfect operational security of government.
Or the OTA antennas have moved indoors. It is shocking to me how many people I know who rely on OTA for some portion of their video consumption, none of who use an outdoor antenna.
Last month I dropped a OTA tuner, antenna and Raspberry Pi in another timezone just so I could watch out of state football games without paying for a service... and I am not a millennial.
(in the mean time the house price has increased by $200k while spending $30k on renovations).
Good for you. On paper my home's value has gone up by a even larger $ amount, representing a ~100% increase over a 5.5 year period, with not a penny spent on renovations.
Maybe they're right and I should have rented and put my money in the stock market, but I never have to worry about not having a place to live or the market crashing again.
Then you have paid it off fully then? And have sufficient savings (and guaranteed future income) to pay for whatever city/county/state taxes may come your way?
And if it does, I'll have saved enough money to buy another house and rent this one out.
That all depends on where you live. Wouldn't other local real estate have gone up by similar amounts?
I bought when the local market was at it's lowest, which was good for me (on paper). Today I have recently married co-workers with sizable bank accounts (after years of renting and being single) who cannot afford to buy anywhere near where they work due to the massive increase in local prices.
They can change their minds yes, but you missed the earlier part of the article:
That being said, fair use may protect some fan creations from being an infringement, but that is handled on a case-by-case basis, looking at the facts of the actual work.
Hatch doors... which would be separate failure points along the way for the pressure difference to be changed.
Assume perfect seals and no malicious or accidental misuse of even a single hatch door. A tech team is sent out to to assist the passengers in getting out. You can't just open the hatch, you've 14.7 lbs of pressure per square inch trying to keep that door closed, assuming it swings out. Now you've got to pressurize either the entire system (so largely shutting it down), or the particular leg you are on. How long does this take? Now how long does it take to undo these steps?
Short of a 9/11, when there is an airplane crash, even an entire airport (or state) is shut down due to weather, the rest of the system keeps going.
This also aside from all of the issues related to thermal expansion & contraction of the materials, making the sealing even more difficult.
An airplane can glide quite some distance without power. It can even be controlled during this phase.
If a hyperloop tube suffers a catastrophic breach, think of the pressure wave of air rushing in and what that will do to any near by vehicle. Now, what happens to the vehicles in front of the one that just became a bullet in a gun?
Sounds like a local problem to me. Every taxi company I've run across, especially in small cities have drivers that are fluent english speakers.
Lucky you. On a previous trip to California, I landed at SFO and took a taxi down to SV. The driver noted the address I wanted to go to was out of the local zone so would be hit with a higher rate after we left the local ring. I agreed given I wasn't going to be paying for the ride in the end.
Along the drive, I heard his phone announce "you have left the geo-fenced area" (or something to that effect), at which point he pressed a couple of buttons on the fare meter to bump the rate. This was also during a window when he appeared to begin driving some more lengthy routes to my destination. I was of course following the route on my phone and was puzzles the entire was as to his choice of routes.
Upon reaching my destination, he pulled out his personal (and cracked) iPhone to do the math as to the actual fare (1.5x the fare on the meter), then slide my card through the attached Stripe reader... not the Android device with Flywheel app sitting on the dashboard, nor the credit card reader sitting in front of me (behind the passenger seat) provided by the taxi company. I was tired and agreed, again, I wasn't paying in the end.
Upon checking out the next morning, I asked the desk agent what a taxi ride from SFO should run... she gave a range which was ~50% less than what I had paid.
I rode in an Uber (my second, the first was to my destination that morning) on my ride back to the airport... it cost 1/4th what the taxi did.
My mother was at a company business event and later noted that the taxi had charged her card $5 more than what was on her receipt... some checking showed that multiple people from her group alone had similar billing issues... all because the taxi drivers figured some big company wouldn't know/mind being overcharged slightly.
No... f-taxis. I will never ride in an american taxi again. For all of their problems, Lyft and Uber provide a degree of transparency that
I still see payphones all over the place, hell there's still one a block from where I used to live. Again seems to me you've got a local problem.
Care to take some local photos... perhaps with a copy of the local news paper for proof? Last month I put 4000 miles on the my vehicle for a road trip that traversed 7 states (only ~50% of the road was re-driven on the way back). Know how many pay phones I saw along the way? The same # as the # of USB-C cables/chargers I found at various truck stops/gas stations/etc stores along the way... an grand total of zero.
Not researchers, or scientists, or even interested persons... But simply 'women'. Are we to assume then that their primary qualification is their gender? (Yes I would have the same beef if it had been written as 'a team of men')
Isn't disappointment something Apple tries to create during every announcement?
Sure you are fond of your current phone which you've had for a few months or even a year, and when you bought it, it was the best thing available... but now... that new one is so thin, performant, beautiful... and yours is just... meh. Clearly there is only one way to solve your new found disappointment... pre-orders open later this week.
There is an simpler answer... Did you happen to miss the fact that the iPhone SE, 6s & 7 will still be available?
Why? Because not everyone wants/can afford the biggest and best... and for just $350 you can get a new iPhone, and for those with a little (or a lot) more money there is a product at more compatible price points.
They did much the same thing a decade ago which the iPod was the must have product and various staggered price points which started as low as $99 (I think).
Who says Siri is that discriminating, even when dealing with a 'trained' voice?
The day after my wife got Siri all trained 'only' to recognize her, I could spoof her by simply talking out of the back of my throat and bumping my voice up a few octaves. I sound ridiculous, and nothing like my wife... but despite several re-trainings, I can still get her phone to do things she doesn't want.
Sorry to hear that I'm not sure and so I'm asking a question?
Sorry to hear you come with pre-conceived notions which are unsupported by reality.
Then you avoided it and linked to Ann fucking "bring the Tsar to the USA I hate democracy" Rand instead of using your own words?
I think you missed the use of my own words prior to the link. Remind me, when did Rand want the Tsar brought to the US? I might have missed that memo.
I think that explains your begging for money
Had you not been so lazy, you would have seen that I've had that link there for over a decade. A little more investigation would have revealed I did so as a social experiment. Given the last donation was 7 years ago, you'd think that either A) I've more or less abandoned the project and am too lazy to take it and related links down, or B) I am still desperately hoping that someone, somewhere is willing to contribute, because the multi year gap has to end sometime... right? right?
connected with your "everyone ELSE for themselves" politics
Interesting how you failed to reference such comments from me... it's as if you are again putting your own insecurities and biased views on to rather innocuous statements. But don't let me stop you from not quoting anything.
bald selfishness pretending to be ideology.
Still waiting for a citation or three from you.
Did I nail it beggar boy or are you going to tell me what's really going on?
Nope, and nope. The effort required to enlighten you is more than I care to expend... and I enjoy your grasping at straws. There is a reason I marked you as a foe, and you continue to demonstrate it's correctness.
Let me try again - how does your apparent begging fit in with your apparent alt-right politics?
I guess not.
Have you stopped beating your wife? I don't care that you claim that you didn't start... have you stopped?
That's what a loaded question based on a false narrative sounds like. Your question is much the same.
What have I said that is inline with 'alt-right politics'?
I know that to many, "Everyone I don't like is Hitler", errr... "alt-right" is a popular theme in some circles, ala 'punching nazis'. Where have I said something (feel free to go through my entire/. history to find something which is exclusively alt-right and does not overlap with libertarian, conservative, objectivist, or classical liberal view?
It's ok, I'll wait.
What's that? I'm not a white nationalist? Hrm, that does seem to put me out of the proper bucket of 'alt-right'... I wonder what else you are wrong about?
Isn't "every man for himself" the line that gets pushed?
Except I'm not alt-right, as discussed above. Hell, even Ayn Rand's philosophy is ok with what you are upset about: https://atlassociety.org/comme...
Of course everyone's read the thing, it's only about ten pages. Was it so hard to read ten pages? Do you want a gold star sticker?
Was just chatting with my boss and a co-worker about it on friday... neither of them had read it, and their views on it were more or less from headlines which misrepresent it.
Another co-worker mentioned yesterday he hasn't gotten around to reading it.
So no, not everyone has read the thing.
What's the line? "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on"?
Will no one rid Slashdot of this meddlesome topic of the... I can't say more without getting unwelcome attention, and I'm sure they're already overworked, what with losing their prime work space and all.
And here you fall into the same trap that the 'official' Google response, like so much of the outrage to the post... anger that someone would dare say something they disagree with... without refuting a single word of what is said.
Someone may think they win an argument via insults & shame... but then quite a few people got sick of being called 'racist' at every turn and voted for Trump instead... perhaps that tactic has worn out it's effectiveness?
And this being said by a #NeverTrumper.
Regarding the diversionary topic of election problems, my favorite crazy solution (this week) is guest voting.
Yeah... good luck with that. I'm going to stick with my pushing for the Article V convention of the states which has a fair bit more historical support.
Nice idea in theory, but as we saw in 2016, horrible in practice (at least for those on the left side of things) as Jill Stein took more votes than the margin Clinton lost by in MI, PA & WI.
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Same reason they don't build their own airplanes, ships, guns, etc...
When/how do you propose amending the first Amendment? No biggie, I mean, it's all that stands in your way.
Remember, the courts have generally took a dim view on compulsory (forced) speech... which voting would almost certainly qualify as.
That all greatly depends on the kind of work you do and for who.
Does your mother need a full fledged Windows PC to do her day to day computing? Expand from that.
It is horrifying at times to realize just how many can get by without the 'deFacto Standard' as you call it.
Long ago a full Windows PC (or Mac) was the norm for running all of the apps/services someone would want... now you can most of the core things on a tablet or via a web browser.
I work for a company where the only machines running Windows are those of the C# developers. The sales & support teams all run mac mini's or Mac Book Pros to access external wiki, bug tracking & salesforce instances. Most of what they do could be accomplished with a Chromebook!
The one thing going for Microsoft is that when XYZ Corp is going to build their next big internal or external system, maybe they will put it on Azure and pay for a few Visual Studio licenses along the way... however that doesn't make up for the increasing revenue losses from the dumpster fire that is the Windows client future.
People still choose Windows for two main reasons:
1. Inertia
2. Actual dependencies on platform
#1 is slowing down, and the amount of new dependencies isn't going to keep #2 around forever.
Re-watching The X-Files last year left me with the same feeling. I even came to sarcastically suspect that X-Files was in fact a bit of government propaganda. Not regarding the existence of aliens... but suggesting the competency and near perfect operational security of government.
There must be no millennials in your town then: https://www.wsj.com/articles/m...
Or the OTA antennas have moved indoors. It is shocking to me how many people I know who rely on OTA for some portion of their video consumption, none of who use an outdoor antenna.
Last month I dropped a OTA tuner, antenna and Raspberry Pi in another timezone just so I could watch out of state football games without paying for a service... and I am not a millennial.
Thanks Trump!
Wait... this precedes him?
Thanks Obama!
Wait... he didn't cause this?
Thanks Amazon!
Wait... you mean a private company tends to have a rather hard time telling large masses of people where they can/can't live.
Who is the 'you' who 'force seniors to live without homes' again?
Good for you. On paper my home's value has gone up by a even larger $ amount, representing a ~100% increase over a 5.5 year period, with not a penny spent on renovations.
Then you have paid it off fully then? And have sufficient savings (and guaranteed future income) to pay for whatever city/county/state taxes may come your way?
That all depends on where you live. Wouldn't other local real estate have gone up by similar amounts?
I bought when the local market was at it's lowest, which was good for me (on paper). Today I have recently married co-workers with sizable bank accounts (after years of renting and being single) who cannot afford to buy anywhere near where they work due to the massive increase in local prices.
They can change their minds yes, but you missed the earlier part of the article:
Did you ever hear about the 'artist' who put together a gallery of screenshots of different peoples Instagram photos? He's been in court previously for claims of copyright infringement wrt using someone elses work as the basis for his... and he won.
The law on this (and precedent)... is interesting, and not quite as clear cut as most thing.
There is a bit of a difference between a full Disney movie and say... Fan art. https://www.plagiarismtoday.co...
Hatch doors... which would be separate failure points along the way for the pressure difference to be changed.
Assume perfect seals and no malicious or accidental misuse of even a single hatch door. A tech team is sent out to to assist the passengers in getting out. You can't just open the hatch, you've 14.7 lbs of pressure per square inch trying to keep that door closed, assuming it swings out. Now you've got to pressurize either the entire system (so largely shutting it down), or the particular leg you are on. How long does this take? Now how long does it take to undo these steps?
Short of a 9/11, when there is an airplane crash, even an entire airport (or state) is shut down due to weather, the rest of the system keeps going.
This also aside from all of the issues related to thermal expansion & contraction of the materials, making the sealing even more difficult.
An airplane can glide quite some distance without power. It can even be controlled during this phase.
If a hyperloop tube suffers a catastrophic breach, think of the pressure wave of air rushing in and what that will do to any near by vehicle. Now, what happens to the vehicles in front of the one that just became a bullet in a gun?
Lucky you. On a previous trip to California, I landed at SFO and took a taxi down to SV. The driver noted the address I wanted to go to was out of the local zone so would be hit with a higher rate after we left the local ring. I agreed given I wasn't going to be paying for the ride in the end.
Along the drive, I heard his phone announce "you have left the geo-fenced area" (or something to that effect), at which point he pressed a couple of buttons on the fare meter to bump the rate. This was also during a window when he appeared to begin driving some more lengthy routes to my destination. I was of course following the route on my phone and was puzzles the entire was as to his choice of routes.
Upon reaching my destination, he pulled out his personal (and cracked) iPhone to do the math as to the actual fare (1.5x the fare on the meter), then slide my card through the attached Stripe reader... not the Android device with Flywheel app sitting on the dashboard, nor the credit card reader sitting in front of me (behind the passenger seat) provided by the taxi company. I was tired and agreed, again, I wasn't paying in the end.
Upon checking out the next morning, I asked the desk agent what a taxi ride from SFO should run... she gave a range which was ~50% less than what I had paid.
I rode in an Uber (my second, the first was to my destination that morning) on my ride back to the airport... it cost 1/4th what the taxi did.
My mother was at a company business event and later noted that the taxi had charged her card $5 more than what was on her receipt... some checking showed that multiple people from her group alone had similar billing issues... all because the taxi drivers figured some big company wouldn't know/mind being overcharged slightly.
No... f-taxis. I will never ride in an american taxi again. For all of their problems, Lyft and Uber provide a degree of transparency that
Care to take some local photos... perhaps with a copy of the local news paper for proof? Last month I put 4000 miles on the my vehicle for a road trip that traversed 7 states (only ~50% of the road was re-driven on the way back). Know how many pay phones I saw along the way? The same # as the # of USB-C cables/chargers I found at various truck stops/gas stations/etc stores along the way... an grand total of zero.
Not researchers, or scientists, or even interested persons... But simply 'women'. Are we to assume then that their primary qualification is their gender? (Yes I would have the same beef if it had been written as 'a team of men')
Isn't disappointment something Apple tries to create during every announcement?
Sure you are fond of your current phone which you've had for a few months or even a year, and when you bought it, it was the best thing available... but now... that new one is so thin, performant, beautiful... and yours is just... meh. Clearly there is only one way to solve your new found disappointment... pre-orders open later this week.
There is an simpler answer... Did you happen to miss the fact that the iPhone SE, 6s & 7 will still be available?
Why? Because not everyone wants/can afford the biggest and best... and for just $350 you can get a new iPhone, and for those with a little (or a lot) more money there is a product at more compatible price points.
They did much the same thing a decade ago which the iPod was the must have product and various staggered price points which started as low as $99 (I think).
How is that any different than the current t world where the police could compelled you to touch the finger print reader on your device?
Who says Siri is that discriminating, even when dealing with a 'trained' voice?
The day after my wife got Siri all trained 'only' to recognize her, I could spoof her by simply talking out of the back of my throat and bumping my voice up a few octaves. I sound ridiculous, and nothing like my wife... but despite several re-trainings, I can still get her phone to do things she doesn't want.
Sorry to hear you come with pre-conceived notions which are unsupported by reality.
I think you missed the use of my own words prior to the link. Remind me, when did Rand want the Tsar brought to the US? I might have missed that memo.
Had you not been so lazy, you would have seen that I've had that link there for over a decade. A little more investigation would have revealed I did so as a social experiment. Given the last donation was 7 years ago, you'd think that either A) I've more or less abandoned the project and am too lazy to take it and related links down, or B) I am still desperately hoping that someone, somewhere is willing to contribute, because the multi year gap has to end sometime... right? right?
Interesting how you failed to reference such comments from me... it's as if you are again putting your own insecurities and biased views on to rather innocuous statements. But don't let me stop you from not quoting anything.
Still waiting for a citation or three from you.
Nope, and nope. The effort required to enlighten you is more than I care to expend... and I enjoy your grasping at straws. There is a reason I marked you as a foe, and you continue to demonstrate it's correctness.
Sorry to hear.
No doubt this will be well thought out...
I guess not.
Have you stopped beating your wife? I don't care that you claim that you didn't start... have you stopped?
That's what a loaded question based on a false narrative sounds like. Your question is much the same.
What have I said that is inline with 'alt-right politics'?
I know that to many, "Everyone I don't like is Hitler", errr... "alt-right" is a popular theme in some circles, ala 'punching nazis'. Where have I said something (feel free to go through my entire /. history to find something which is exclusively alt-right and does not overlap with libertarian, conservative, objectivist, or classical liberal view?
It's ok, I'll wait.
What's that? I'm not a white nationalist? Hrm, that does seem to put me out of the proper bucket of 'alt-right'... I wonder what else you are wrong about?
Except I'm not alt-right, as discussed above. Hell, even Ayn Rand's philosophy is ok with what you are upset about: https://atlassociety.org/comme...
beg
VERB
begging (present participle)
ask (someone) earnestly or humbly for something:
Are you sure I'm not doing it ironically or for the lulz?
Was just chatting with my boss and a co-worker about it on friday... neither of them had read it, and their views on it were more or less from headlines which misrepresent it.
Another co-worker mentioned yesterday he hasn't gotten around to reading it.
So no, not everyone has read the thing.
What's the line? "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on"?
3) Don't realize that those on the right tend to own more firearms and be into self-reliance more than those on the left.
I can count on one hand how many prepers I've met who are democrats.
And here you fall into the same trap that the 'official' Google response, like so much of the outrage to the post... anger that someone would dare say something they disagree with... without refuting a single word of what is said.
Someone may think they win an argument via insults & shame... but then quite a few people got sick of being called 'racist' at every turn and voted for Trump instead... perhaps that tactic has worn out it's effectiveness?
And this being said by a #NeverTrumper.
Yeah... good luck with that. I'm going to stick with my pushing for the Article V convention of the states which has a fair bit more historical support.
Go ahead, throw your vote away!
Nice idea in theory, but as we saw in 2016, horrible in practice (at least for those on the left side of things) as Jill Stein took more votes than the margin Clinton lost by in MI, PA & WI.
New QB and only second year coach... they will need it.
None the less... Go Big Red!