You can already get an Oculus Go for much less than the premium of going first-class. And you get to keep the headset.
As for windowless planes, I'm sure that a lot of people are thinking about it right now. Windows create weak points, add mass and complexity. Planes would fly better without windows. Simulating windows with displays, VR or whatever is tempting. Furthermore, flying (as a passenger in an airliner) is not awesome anymore so it may be easier to have passengers let go of their windows. There may be security issues but I'm sure they can be dealt with. I suppose we'll still have some windows, on the emergency exits for instance. There already is a hole for the door, so I suppose it is less of a problem.
According to the summary, there is a gender difference!
The research, published today in Nature Communications, also shows that girls do better than boys in non-STEM subjects.
In other words, on average, girls have better grades than boys, but STEM is their weak point.
Think of it that way: imagine girls are excellent at poker, and average at chess, while boys suck at poker and are average at chess. Why would girls play chess when they have higher chance of winning by playing poker, and probably enjoy it more in the process? And why would boys play poker just get owned by any passing girl when they can play chess on a more level playing field. In the end boys will probably end up being better chess players because girls will be too busy playing poker.
If you are thinking about IE, that's not bloatware, it is an essential piece of software. Even if you didn't use it as your default browser, you probably used it at least once to download your favorite alternative browser.
The point of lawsuit is that a web browser is so essential that not letting user choose is anti-competitive.
How is AMD 5 years ahead? The only thing they have over Intel seems to be their "infinity fabric" interconnect architecture, allowing them to make efficient multi-die packages. It's good, but I can't imagine that's 5 years worth of advancement.
Other than that, AMD is in the same ballpark as Intel, maybe a little bit behind. That's still impressive, real competition after all these years, however AMD better not fall asleep now that they have (hopefully) woken up Intel if they don't want to get passed again.
We can also say that they are making it cheaper for people who can wait. Plain and planned charity. That's just a question of perspective. In reality, it is a mix of both. Well, maybe not the charity part, we are all greedy, including the people who make up Apple.
Personally, I am in favor of making people pay for privileges, because globally, it makes things cheaper for those who don't need these privileges. For example, I don't mind the variable pricing now common with airlines. For example, when I see a student next to me in the plane, who paid half the price I did, I am happy. Unlike me, he probably planned his trip a long time in advance, probably took a lot of time finding the good deals and had to be flexible in his dates. He did all that because otherwise, he couldn't have traveled. Me, I have a job, more money and less time. The double price ticket is within my budget, so that's fine. If everybody paid the same price, I would probably have saved a bit, however that student wouldn't have traveled. And it is not charity on my part, because if in that case, I am the one who paid more, there are other situations where I benefit from the money of others who paid for a privilege.
The headline can be rephrased as "it seems that nobody is interested in building expensive stuff".
Doing things better costs money, and in that case, their customers are not ready to pay for it. Consumers pay for what they see: features, a nice GUI, etc... they don't look under the hood as long as it runs. So developers spend money on features and nice design, and do the minimum to make sure it runs well enough for most people. They get better return on investment like this.
From an optical standpoint, smartphone cameras are shit, all of them. Good cameras need big lenses and big sensors. Quantum physics told us that light has a size, its wavelength, and it comes in small packets called photons, it means you can't expect to make a camera smaller and expect the same quality as something bigger.
The reason smartphones are able to take decent pictures is all about photo-processing. There is analog and digital image processing in the camera itself, plus additional processing by the smartphone. They are now going as far as using machine learning in order to make something out of the noisy mess these sensors are outputting. That's quite impressive, really.
Why would they feel guilty? They created something people wanted to buy and got rich for it. They have no guilt to soothe, but they have money and they need to invest in something.
And they know that poor, uneducated people won't produce the employees they need in the future, they may not even produce interesting customers. So they invest in education not only to improve their public image, but also to ensure a brighter future for the world their company and themselves will be part of, preferably a big part.
Gift economy? 3D printers? Democratically-planned government projects? Nice ideal, but no. - A gift economy is still an economy. It is not based on pure altruism but on social rules that are much more complex than market economies. Passed a certain scale, gifts stop being gifts, they are a way of asserting power, repaying debts, etc... just like with money in a capitalist society. The difference is that in a market economy, we have clear rules. We know how much we will need to pay back, interest rates, etc... so we can make plans, and with contracts to make sure people keep their word. No need to find out how much you have to give back in order to keep the desired social status. - 3D printers are incredibly inefficient and just as limited compared to mass production technologies. They have their use cases, but not when we need to make billions of the same item. Or items that have tight tolerance when it comes to materials (ex: engines). - Do you know about the bike shed effect? It pretty much make democratic planning impossible. I means, the general public is completely incompetent when it comes to building something like a nuclear power plant or managing a welfare program. We need experts who can see the big picture and talk to other experts who can deal with the technical details, people with a solid background and years of experience in their field. Simply making an informed decision is too much to ask for the average guy. The "average guy" may be an expert in an other field, but that's irrelevant for the case. Democracy is least bad way of keeping leaders in check, but definitely not a universal solution.
The idea behind OneDrive is to store your files on Microsoft servers, so that you can access them from anywhere you have access to Microsoft servers, with your account. Don't like it, you are free to use local storage, your own NAS, or another "cloud" provider.
To avoid requiring permanent access to Microsoft servers, decrease latency, stay compatible with "offline" apps, etc... the files are copied to local storage. But from a purely user perspective it doesn't matter, you are working "in the cloud". The local files can come and go as the system see fit, it is just a cache. And that a cache is flushed sometimes is a good thing, you don't want all of your 1TB account to end up on your 500GB laptop for instance... Note that if you don't want the local cache to be flushed for some files (because you really need them offline), you just have to mark them so.
I suppose you could use a generator. I would love the irony of powering an all-electric car with a generator.
The issue is that batteries have a shitty energy density compared to gasoline, that's the biggest problem with EVs. A Tesla battery is about 500 kg for 400 km range. A gas car may use around 30L of fuel for that range, around 25kg, that's a factor of 20. It means you would need the equivalent of 20 jerrycan worth of batteries to match the range of 1 jerrycan of gas. And and there is the problem of charging time, which may be an issue when a hurricane is coming your way.
Not the worst, the Outlook webmail is way worse. All the bad things about GMail are here too. But GMail is well polished, Outlook is not. The Windows version is OK.
As a CEO, making money is a moral requirement. Towards your shareholders, your employees and everyone who invests time and money into your company. It is also your job.
Selling the product at the highest price does not equal making more money, especially not in the long term. Look at Walmart, Amazon, Ryanair, and many others. They made billions by selling cheap. Selling Nitrofurantoin at these price may precipitate the arrival of generics 100 times cheaper, reducing your sales to zero.
Also short term profits is not a moral requirement either. It even goes against your main goal of making money in the long term. Focus on the short term and all you are doing is inviting vampires.
AMP has two parts. One is a set of very sensible rules for doing good websites. The second is a way for Google to take control of the web.
So what you should do is simple. Make a website that is compatible with AMP. Then remove all Google stuff. You will end up with a website that is independent and fast. And when you are at it, apply the same principles to your destop website.
Mistakes by themselves shouldn't be punished. They are the consequence of something, and that something should be dealt with.
It may involve punishing the employee, for example if the employee refused to follow a procedure, he may be punished for that, but not for the mistake itself. And even in that case, one should investigate why the procedure wasn't followed. Maybe it is simply impossible to follow, or that it is too time consuming for the stated goals. Or it can be that the employee simply does the job poorly, but then again, why? Maybe he is just bad and he should get fired but for poor performance rather than for the mistake itself. But it may be because he just needs training.
If you just punish employees for their mistakes without going for the root cause you may end up firing loads of perfectly good employees and not fix anything. For example if the issue is caused by a manager giving tasks to untrained employees, he is the problem, not the guy holding the drill.
Ok, I looked it up and it looks like people in the US and Canada have locked bootloaders. I live in Europe so maybe that's why I didn't really get the problem. For the knox eFuse, they can't deny you the warranty if the cause is unrelated. I think it is the case in the EU and in the US. The "KNOX warranty void" just mean that you can't use Knox anymore, which shouldn't really matter unless it is a company issued phone. However, most of it comes from the shop policies, if one denies you a warranty repair, it is a PITA regardless of legality. Unless they changed something the unlocking process takes no time at all, in fact, there is no unlocking process since the bootloader isn't locked in the first place. The only thing is that in order to flash a ROM, you need to use ODIN and not fastboot. As for being friendly to tweakers, outside of North America, Samsung is relatively tweaker friendly when it comes to letting you do what you want to do. However, don't count on their help if you want to develop on Samsung devices, the worst part is that they often heavily customize their ROMs, so what works on a stock Android may not work with Samsung.
IIRC all Samsung smartphones are bootloader unlocked unless they are carrier branded. Flashing a new ROM is really easy using ODIN.
I heard they toned down on the bloat lately, which, for flagships, would be a little disappointing for me. That's because with the bloat are really nice features that aren't available with other vendors, some of the best ones ended up in stock Android. That's the kind of thing that push things forwards. For the low end however, I agree that Samsung's bloat is terrible. Flagships have enough horsepower to handle it, as you go down, the bloat stays mostly the same but the specs don't follow, and to make things worse, if they remove something, it tends to be one of the really nice features, the useless stuff that slow down the system stay.
I like the time when Samsung meant "too many features in a plastic shell". Now, they don't mean anything, Samsung phones are just like other smartphones, essentially pale copies of what Apple is doing as the moment.
Another reason to keep politics out of software dev. Your bad guy isn't the always other community member's bad guy. If we let everyone exert their grudge on software licenses, no one would be able to use that software.
I don't know any country where noon is truly the middle of your day. If you wake up at 7am and go to sleep at 11pm the middle of the day is 3pm. Most people are already living "in a different timezone".
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You can already get an Oculus Go for much less than the premium of going first-class. And you get to keep the headset.
As for windowless planes, I'm sure that a lot of people are thinking about it right now. Windows create weak points, add mass and complexity. Planes would fly better without windows. Simulating windows with displays, VR or whatever is tempting. Furthermore, flying (as a passenger in an airliner) is not awesome anymore so it may be easier to have passengers let go of their windows. There may be security issues but I'm sure they can be dealt with.
I suppose we'll still have some windows, on the emergency exits for instance. There already is a hole for the door, so I suppose it is less of a problem.
According to the summary, there is a gender difference!
The research, published today in Nature Communications, also shows that girls do better than boys in non-STEM subjects.
In other words, on average, girls have better grades than boys, but STEM is their weak point.
Think of it that way: imagine girls are excellent at poker, and average at chess, while boys suck at poker and are average at chess. Why would girls play chess when they have higher chance of winning by playing poker, and probably enjoy it more in the process? And why would boys play poker just get owned by any passing girl when they can play chess on a more level playing field. In the end boys will probably end up being better chess players because girls will be too busy playing poker.
The truth is that most people don't care about their personal data going to Google.
And thanks to the bunch of clowns directing Firefox, Chrome came out as the better browser overall, so people use it.
Normally that's the point where someone suggests you uninstall Windows and use Linux.
If you are thinking about IE, that's not bloatware, it is an essential piece of software. Even if you didn't use it as your default browser, you probably used it at least once to download your favorite alternative browser.
The point of lawsuit is that a web browser is so essential that not letting user choose is anti-competitive.
How is AMD 5 years ahead? The only thing they have over Intel seems to be their "infinity fabric" interconnect architecture, allowing them to make efficient multi-die packages. It's good, but I can't imagine that's 5 years worth of advancement.
Other than that, AMD is in the same ballpark as Intel, maybe a little bit behind. That's still impressive, real competition after all these years, however AMD better not fall asleep now that they have (hopefully) woken up Intel if they don't want to get passed again.
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We can also say that they are making it cheaper for people who can wait. Plain and planned charity. That's just a question of perspective. In reality, it is a mix of both. Well, maybe not the charity part, we are all greedy, including the people who make up Apple.
Personally, I am in favor of making people pay for privileges, because globally, it makes things cheaper for those who don't need these privileges. For example, I don't mind the variable pricing now common with airlines. For example, when I see a student next to me in the plane, who paid half the price I did, I am happy. Unlike me, he probably planned his trip a long time in advance, probably took a lot of time finding the good deals and had to be flexible in his dates. He did all that because otherwise, he couldn't have traveled. Me, I have a job, more money and less time. The double price ticket is within my budget, so that's fine. If everybody paid the same price, I would probably have saved a bit, however that student wouldn't have traveled. And it is not charity on my part, because if in that case, I am the one who paid more, there are other situations where I benefit from the money of others who paid for a privilege.
The headline can be rephrased as "it seems that nobody is interested in building expensive stuff".
Doing things better costs money, and in that case, their customers are not ready to pay for it. Consumers pay for what they see: features, a nice GUI, etc... they don't look under the hood as long as it runs. So developers spend money on features and nice design, and do the minimum to make sure it runs well enough for most people. They get better return on investment like this.
Mine is Verdana.
Other tricks:
- wide margins
- increase line spacing
Then there are style tricks:
- short paragraphs
- lists are your friend
Also put as much fluff as you can: titles, headers, footers, etc...
Finally, avoid making your fonts bigger, it doesn't take as much space as it seems and it is too obvious.
From an optical standpoint, smartphone cameras are shit, all of them. Good cameras need big lenses and big sensors. Quantum physics told us that light has a size, its wavelength, and it comes in small packets called photons, it means you can't expect to make a camera smaller and expect the same quality as something bigger.
The reason smartphones are able to take decent pictures is all about photo-processing. There is analog and digital image processing in the camera itself, plus additional processing by the smartphone. They are now going as far as using machine learning in order to make something out of the noisy mess these sensors are outputting. That's quite impressive, really.
Why would they feel guilty? They created something people wanted to buy and got rich for it. They have no guilt to soothe, but they have money and they need to invest in something.
And they know that poor, uneducated people won't produce the employees they need in the future, they may not even produce interesting customers. So they invest in education not only to improve their public image, but also to ensure a brighter future for the world their company and themselves will be part of, preferably a big part.
Gift economy? 3D printers? Democratically-planned government projects?
Nice ideal, but no.
- A gift economy is still an economy. It is not based on pure altruism but on social rules that are much more complex than market economies. Passed a certain scale, gifts stop being gifts, they are a way of asserting power, repaying debts, etc... just like with money in a capitalist society. The difference is that in a market economy, we have clear rules. We know how much we will need to pay back, interest rates, etc... so we can make plans, and with contracts to make sure people keep their word. No need to find out how much you have to give back in order to keep the desired social status.
- 3D printers are incredibly inefficient and just as limited compared to mass production technologies. They have their use cases, but not when we need to make billions of the same item. Or items that have tight tolerance when it comes to materials (ex: engines).
- Do you know about the bike shed effect? It pretty much make democratic planning impossible. I means, the general public is completely incompetent when it comes to building something like a nuclear power plant or managing a welfare program. We need experts who can see the big picture and talk to other experts who can deal with the technical details, people with a solid background and years of experience in their field. Simply making an informed decision is too much to ask for the average guy. The "average guy" may be an expert in an other field, but that's irrelevant for the case. Democracy is least bad way of keeping leaders in check, but definitely not a universal solution.
The idea behind OneDrive is to store your files on Microsoft servers, so that you can access them from anywhere you have access to Microsoft servers, with your account. Don't like it, you are free to use local storage, your own NAS, or another "cloud" provider.
To avoid requiring permanent access to Microsoft servers, decrease latency, stay compatible with "offline" apps, etc... the files are copied to local storage. But from a purely user perspective it doesn't matter, you are working "in the cloud". The local files can come and go as the system see fit, it is just a cache. And that a cache is flushed sometimes is a good thing, you don't want all of your 1TB account to end up on your 500GB laptop for instance... Note that if you don't want the local cache to be flushed for some files (because you really need them offline), you just have to mark them so.
I suppose you could use a generator. I would love the irony of powering an all-electric car with a generator.
The issue is that batteries have a shitty energy density compared to gasoline, that's the biggest problem with EVs. A Tesla battery is about 500 kg for 400 km range. A gas car may use around 30L of fuel for that range, around 25kg, that's a factor of 20. It means you would need the equivalent of 20 jerrycan worth of batteries to match the range of 1 jerrycan of gas.
And and there is the problem of charging time, which may be an issue when a hurricane is coming your way.
Not the worst, the Outlook webmail is way worse.
All the bad things about GMail are here too. But GMail is well polished, Outlook is not. The Windows version is OK.
As a CEO, making money is a moral requirement. Towards your shareholders, your employees and everyone who invests time and money into your company. It is also your job.
Selling the product at the highest price does not equal making more money, especially not in the long term. Look at Walmart, Amazon, Ryanair, and many others. They made billions by selling cheap. Selling Nitrofurantoin at these price may precipitate the arrival of generics 100 times cheaper, reducing your sales to zero.
Also short term profits is not a moral requirement either. It even goes against your main goal of making money in the long term. Focus on the short term and all you are doing is inviting vampires.
AMP has two parts. One is a set of very sensible rules for doing good websites. The second is a way for Google to take control of the web.
So what you should do is simple. Make a website that is compatible with AMP. Then remove all Google stuff. You will end up with a website that is independent and fast. And when you are at it, apply the same principles to your destop website.
You should take decisions assuming speculative execution is good. If you are wrong, you can always undo what you've done and start again.
Mistakes by themselves shouldn't be punished. They are the consequence of something, and that something should be dealt with.
It may involve punishing the employee, for example if the employee refused to follow a procedure, he may be punished for that, but not for the mistake itself. And even in that case, one should investigate why the procedure wasn't followed. Maybe it is simply impossible to follow, or that it is too time consuming for the stated goals.
Or it can be that the employee simply does the job poorly, but then again, why? Maybe he is just bad and he should get fired but for poor performance rather than for the mistake itself. But it may be because he just needs training.
If you just punish employees for their mistakes without going for the root cause you may end up firing loads of perfectly good employees and not fix anything. For example if the issue is caused by a manager giving tasks to untrained employees, he is the problem, not the guy holding the drill.
Ok, I looked it up and it looks like people in the US and Canada have locked bootloaders. I live in Europe so maybe that's why I didn't really get the problem.
For the knox eFuse, they can't deny you the warranty if the cause is unrelated. I think it is the case in the EU and in the US. The "KNOX warranty void" just mean that you can't use Knox anymore, which shouldn't really matter unless it is a company issued phone. However, most of it comes from the shop policies, if one denies you a warranty repair, it is a PITA regardless of legality.
Unless they changed something the unlocking process takes no time at all, in fact, there is no unlocking process since the bootloader isn't locked in the first place. The only thing is that in order to flash a ROM, you need to use ODIN and not fastboot.
As for being friendly to tweakers, outside of North America, Samsung is relatively tweaker friendly when it comes to letting you do what you want to do. However, don't count on their help if you want to develop on Samsung devices, the worst part is that they often heavily customize their ROMs, so what works on a stock Android may not work with Samsung.
IIRC all Samsung smartphones are bootloader unlocked unless they are carrier branded. Flashing a new ROM is really easy using ODIN.
I heard they toned down on the bloat lately, which, for flagships, would be a little disappointing for me. That's because with the bloat are really nice features that aren't available with other vendors, some of the best ones ended up in stock Android. That's the kind of thing that push things forwards. For the low end however, I agree that Samsung's bloat is terrible. Flagships have enough horsepower to handle it, as you go down, the bloat stays mostly the same but the specs don't follow, and to make things worse, if they remove something, it tends to be one of the really nice features, the useless stuff that slow down the system stay.
I like the time when Samsung meant "too many features in a plastic shell". Now, they don't mean anything, Samsung phones are just like other smartphones, essentially pale copies of what Apple is doing as the moment.
I heard they have free food, and that it is really good.
Another reason to keep politics out of software dev. Your bad guy isn't the always other community member's bad guy. If we let everyone exert their grudge on software licenses, no one would be able to use that software.
I don't know any country where noon is truly the middle of your day. If you wake up at 7am and go to sleep at 11pm the middle of the day is 3pm. Most people are already living "in a different timezone".