There's a place for the tech but it's not meant to replace the keyboard all together. I honestly see more value in interaction with augmented reality using hands than this stuff. I see engineers work with 3d models everyday and if they could they would plunge their hands in the monitor.
Data input will always be better on a keyboard and remains far more private than any conversation you may have with your computer software.
I personally find it convenient. Configured it once and bam, all administrative tools are in one place and organized. The day you need something not in there you just deal with it...
the company continues to transition customers to Edge on Windows 10."
Internet Explorer is NOT being discontinued anytime soon. There are a number of devices, enterprises, corporations and government entities that still use software written is god awful proprietary models such as ActiveX and still need to be available until they move away. Add to that the number of web services with NTLM support and you increase the number of users still needing IE.
So the reality is that Edge is being pushed as the browser for 99% of users. IE is still available in Windows 10 but is not "in your face" like Edge is.
Then again this article is from August, so Microsoft has probably fixed all that by now (ha ha ha I almost finished typing that with a straight face!)
I've read the article and I see nothing mentioning that the privacy settings don't do what they are told except for requests made outside which both me and you understand it's traceable regardless of local configurations. You make a search request on Google and voila, tones of advertisements based on your recent searches start appearing everywhere you go.
Microsoft didn't hide any information. If you take even just 5 minutes to read the very few lines of information on what is collected you can then make an informed decision. And from what I've read during custom setup, the defaults aren't harmful unless your a privacy nut (which many here appear to be). The day my OS starts uploading my intellectual property to MS I'll call my lawyer and deal with them directly.
Maybe someone can confirm but I recall having the option to opt out of this behavior by Windows 10. You had to pick custom installation but it was pretty clear cut once you read the description. I think most people are just too lazy to spend 5 minutes reading and click Express or Next instead.
The way I see it is they probably interpolated their numbers by using the ones that did opt in and assume an average on the rest. I know that's what I would do if I wanted to present an appealing number.
Sounds like the Broken Window Fallacy, or something like that.
I would hoping you would bring that up because it's too often used as an argument on/.
Inefficiency is a net loss no matter how you turn it yet you benefit from this every single day of your life. If you tell me what you do for a living I can probably suggest 95% of what you do is not efficient in the scheme of thing, one way or another. Hence your existence is a net loss to society. Humans aren't efficient and because humans aren't cars you can park you need to keep them employed and happy. When you centralize profit you increase the lifestyle of a few to the detriment of many. This has been seen time and time again.
An interesting read about why the broken window fallacy is often a poor argument. It makes arguments such as: "a broken window may be an opportunity for a better window with lettering which can improve business long term..." http://www.savingcommunities.o...
Wouldn't it make more sense to just levy a 10% local sales tax on cars instead?
A good solution to a valid problem.
As for rural areas, aren't rural people already having the problem of having much less disposable income in general? Why do you want to stick them with a giant tax for buying a car?
I've lived in rural areas most of my life and my experience is that people with no skills suffer no matter where they live but that local businesses at least allow them to depend less on the government programs which in itself is a net loss.
Add to this the inability to make devices attempt to use a slightly different range (channels) to avoid the noise due to companies making products that go and tap into every single channel range. Wireless bandwidth greed ruins the technology. If it wasn't for this the tech could have evolved to allow auto detection of the best channel to use in the selected area (such as wireless phones). This unfortunately can no longer happen because of the greed aforementioned.
I worked for D-Link and nobody other than the techs truly cared about the bandwidth greed.
If I could have built something as simple as facebook I too would have sold it to help me fund my ideas (which I cannot be turned to profit so quickly),
History has shown that allowing one entity to control all aspect of business also centralizes the profit. The end result is that profits aren't spent in the local community and that is especially bad in rural areas.
As for DIY maintenance, that affects any low-end brand. I've met far more people who tinkered on their Hondas than probably any other brand; it's only really old farts who tinkered on Chryslers, and no one does any more.
That's a matter of perspective. I'm on the exact opposite of the spectrum where most people I know tinker on American built vehicles. I'm one that tinkers on a Mazda 6 which happens to have Ford engine in it. I personally don't prefer Ford over anything but I despise when people take a stance on a brand because of what they perceive to be the truth. Ford had some bad years, Honda did too. The two Fords I owned in the past did me well both reaching 250+ km before I replaced them. Ford has managed to keep the title when it comes to longevity with trucks and large SUVs with 4 vehicles in the top 20 according the records pulled from iseecars.com. So like I said, one's perspective isn't necessarily taking all variables into consideration.
and allow carmakers to sell directly to consumers through manufacturer-owned dealerships. It would allow carmakers to exercise a LOT more control over the car-buying and servicing experience
Totally Agree
Apple's corporate HQ will jump right in to salvage their reputation, but with independent auto dealerships we don't have that, we just have thousands upon thousands of independent, franchised businesses run by charlatans and con artists scamming us any way they can.
There are advantages to both models with the current model being better from a socioeconomic standpoint and the Apple model being better from a customer's standpoint.
I'll let you know that Ford in the last 10 years has had vehicles make the top 3 most reliable vehicles over some of the top 10 most reliable auto makers. If you think that Ford is behind other manufacturers you need to go and align your facts. $$$ for $$$ Ford has some of the most reliable vehicle. The yearly study for JDP is also questionable since it doesn't take vehicle value or longevity into consideration. Its like comparing MacBook with an Acer Laptop or equivalent spec. Last I checked the Ford F-250 had the #1 spot for vehicle longevity in the US with 3 other products in the top 20.
Most manufacturers are neck in neck when it comes to reliability. If you turn that in $$$ / Failure, the top 10 list quickly becomes the bottom 10 list.
Stop it you Honda fan boy. All auto makers have had major failures in their vehicles and they all flow up and down the JDP reliability chart year after year. Ford had some really bad years in the early 90s. They eventually got their shit together. The Ford Fusion made the list of most reliable sedans a few times and the F150 is the best selling truck in NA which according to motor trend is the result of a well engineered product with limited failure to it's major components.
Another interesting stat was the maintenance. Motor trend posted this a few years back (sorry can't find it) where it showed that customers of some auto makers didn't service their vehicles as much as others. An imprinted mentality of DIY which can render a vehicle less reliable (Do I hear GM, Ford and Chrysler?).
I've owned 7 vehicles which have all reached at least 200 000 KM and I can tell you that my experience was very similar across all vehicles. The best service I obtained was from Ford and Mazda. The worst service I got was from Honda and GM. My 2 cents.
I have a Mazda 6 with a Ford 3.0 Duratec engine (that's what they used to put in the V6 version). I have abused this vehicle and the engine is still going strong after 300 000 km.
See, I've experienced all 3 major OSs. My personal favourite at this point is the Windows Phone. I've just purchased my second Windows capable phone as I was going on 4 years with my first. I purchased the Blu Win HD Unlocked for $140 all in. Had to add a 32gb SD card since the base product comes with only 8GB. So you could call me a fan boy and since I'm a MS coder it just makes sense for me.
I realize their product accounts for less than 3% of the NA market so I don't expect carriers to bend over and stock that product. What I do expect is an unbiased opinion when asked about the product. In every single store I've gone I always get the "WP are shit, they don't have apps and the hardware sucks". I'll ask them if they've tried one and how they came to this conclusion. I usually get a blank stare. Most of these opinionated retail clerks only really know 2 or 3 phones well enough to recommend and WP is not one of them. IMO it's one of the reasons the product has not picked up. Nobody is pushing them because it's really easy to push Apple and Android.
You're not getting my question. I've used Crashplan. You can't specify a network location as a location to backup. It's an administrative rights issue.
That's a matter of perception and I've seen this at all levels (corporate or personal). All it takes is for the entity to do something you completely disagree with for them to be labeled vile and evil. That once again is group's perspective on the topic which is obviously not shared in majority if the company continues to grow and remain profitable.
There are corporations that do things right
All corporations that survive the test of time are doing something right.
Corporations typically have the equivalent of love of money, in that they're often managed to increase the value of their shares
Money = Life. That's the truth in a capitalist system. You work for company X and you do a good job because you care but at the end of the day you do it so you can get more $$$. Company X to pay more to it's employees it must get more $$$. You see the cycle?
Philips said they did it to avoid problems, but it also would increase their revenue. Corps never tell their customers that they did something to squeeze more money out of them.
Their motive was most probably customer satisfaction which equals money. The only thing we truly know is that they made their customers happy and that's all that matters to any external entity.
The board might have been involved in the decision; such decisions tend to be at least reviewed at high level. I'm confident they knew about it shortly afterwards, as they likely monitor news articles about the company.
My experience with board meetings is that these types of decisions are left to the people that work in the company. Marketing would normally be the last one to touch it and would most probably not require board approval. The board meeting is more likely to deal with major road map items such as product releases, expected revenues, failure to achieve revenue objectives and other items equivalent. In smaller companies your assessment would be correct but Philips and any of it's divisions IMO are too big to discuss these items in board meetings
but my direct investments are in companies I generally approve of, who take good care of their customers and employees
Your one of very few that invest directly in the market then. Most people don't have the know how or the will to invest in the market. This means they fall back to mutual funds or equivalent which are managed by financial consultants which pressure for results.
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There's a place for the tech but it's not meant to replace the keyboard all together. I honestly see more value in interaction with augmented reality using hands than this stuff. I see engineers work with 3d models everyday and if they could they would plunge their hands in the monitor.
Data input will always be better on a keyboard and remains far more private than any conversation you may have with your computer software.
The CEO told me I can work in my underwear if I close the door. Should I take him up on it?
What's bad about the metro UI in 2012?
I personally find it convenient. Configured it once and bam, all administrative tools are in one place and organized. The day you need something not in there you just deal with it...
And still other OSs with issues too. Just one announced now on /.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Clearly a very bias opinion.
The narrow view of a basement dweller. You sir are not read to be making decisions for any corporation or enterprise.
Each tech has it's pros and cons.
the company continues to transition customers to Edge on Windows 10."
Internet Explorer is NOT being discontinued anytime soon. There are a number of devices, enterprises, corporations and government entities that still use software written is god awful proprietary models such as ActiveX and still need to be available until they move away. Add to that the number of web services with NTLM support and you increase the number of users still needing IE.
So the reality is that Edge is being pushed as the browser for 99% of users. IE is still available in Windows 10 but is not "in your face" like Edge is.
Then again this article is from August, so Microsoft has probably fixed all that by now (ha ha ha I almost finished typing that with a straight face!)
I've read the article and I see nothing mentioning that the privacy settings don't do what they are told except for requests made outside which both me and you understand it's traceable regardless of local configurations. You make a search request on Google and voila, tones of advertisements based on your recent searches start appearing everywhere you go.
Microsoft didn't hide any information. If you take even just 5 minutes to read the very few lines of information on what is collected you can then make an informed decision. And from what I've read during custom setup, the defaults aren't harmful unless your a privacy nut (which many here appear to be). The day my OS starts uploading my intellectual property to MS I'll call my lawyer and deal with them directly.
Maybe someone can confirm but I recall having the option to opt out of this behavior by Windows 10. You had to pick custom installation but it was pretty clear cut once you read the description. I think most people are just too lazy to spend 5 minutes reading and click Express or Next instead.
The way I see it is they probably interpolated their numbers by using the ones that did opt in and assume an average on the rest. I know that's what I would do if I wanted to present an appealing number.
Sounds like the Broken Window Fallacy, or something like that.
I would hoping you would bring that up because it's too often used as an argument on /.
Inefficiency is a net loss no matter how you turn it yet you benefit from this every single day of your life. If you tell me what you do for a living I can probably suggest 95% of what you do is not efficient in the scheme of thing, one way or another. Hence your existence is a net loss to society. Humans aren't efficient and because humans aren't cars you can park you need to keep them employed and happy. When you centralize profit you increase the lifestyle of a few to the detriment of many. This has been seen time and time again.
An interesting read about why the broken window fallacy is often a poor argument. It makes arguments such as: "a broken window may be an opportunity for a better window with lettering which can improve business long term..."
http://www.savingcommunities.o...
Wouldn't it make more sense to just levy a 10% local sales tax on cars instead?
A good solution to a valid problem.
As for rural areas, aren't rural people already having the problem of having much less disposable income in general? Why do you want to stick them with a giant tax for buying a car?
I've lived in rural areas most of my life and my experience is that people with no skills suffer no matter where they live but that local businesses at least allow them to depend less on the government programs which in itself is a net loss.
Add to this the inability to make devices attempt to use a slightly different range (channels) to avoid the noise due to companies making products that go and tap into every single channel range. Wireless bandwidth greed ruins the technology. If it wasn't for this the tech could have evolved to allow auto detection of the best channel to use in the selected area (such as wireless phones). This unfortunately can no longer happen because of the greed aforementioned.
I worked for D-Link and nobody other than the techs truly cared about the bandwidth greed.
If I could have built something as simple as facebook I too would have sold it to help me fund my ideas (which I cannot be turned to profit so quickly),
History has shown that allowing one entity to control all aspect of business also centralizes the profit. The end result is that profits aren't spent in the local community and that is especially bad in rural areas.
As for DIY maintenance, that affects any low-end brand. I've met far more people who tinkered on their Hondas than probably any other brand; it's only really old farts who tinkered on Chryslers, and no one does any more.
That's a matter of perspective. I'm on the exact opposite of the spectrum where most people I know tinker on American built vehicles. I'm one that tinkers on a Mazda 6 which happens to have Ford engine in it. I personally don't prefer Ford over anything but I despise when people take a stance on a brand because of what they perceive to be the truth. Ford had some bad years, Honda did too. The two Fords I owned in the past did me well both reaching 250+ km before I replaced them. Ford has managed to keep the title when it comes to longevity with trucks and large SUVs with 4 vehicles in the top 20 according the records pulled from iseecars.com. So like I said, one's perspective isn't necessarily taking all variables into consideration.
and allow carmakers to sell directly to consumers through manufacturer-owned dealerships. It would allow carmakers to exercise a LOT more control over the car-buying and servicing experience
Totally Agree
Apple's corporate HQ will jump right in to salvage their reputation, but with independent auto dealerships we don't have that, we just have thousands upon thousands of independent, franchised businesses run by charlatans and con artists scamming us any way they can.
There are advantages to both models with the current model being better from a socioeconomic standpoint and the Apple model being better from a customer's standpoint.
I'll let you know that Ford in the last 10 years has had vehicles make the top 3 most reliable vehicles over some of the top 10 most reliable auto makers. If you think that Ford is behind other manufacturers you need to go and align your facts. $$$ for $$$ Ford has some of the most reliable vehicle. The yearly study for JDP is also questionable since it doesn't take vehicle value or longevity into consideration. Its like comparing MacBook with an Acer Laptop or equivalent spec. Last I checked the Ford F-250 had the #1 spot for vehicle longevity in the US with 3 other products in the top 20.
Most manufacturers are neck in neck when it comes to reliability. If you turn that in $$$ / Failure, the top 10 list quickly becomes the bottom 10 list.
But I wouldn't expect a bigot to look at facts.
Stop it you Honda fan boy. All auto makers have had major failures in their vehicles and they all flow up and down the JDP reliability chart year after year. Ford had some really bad years in the early 90s. They eventually got their shit together. The Ford Fusion made the list of most reliable sedans a few times and the F150 is the best selling truck in NA which according to motor trend is the result of a well engineered product with limited failure to it's major components.
Another interesting stat was the maintenance. Motor trend posted this a few years back (sorry can't find it) where it showed that customers of some auto makers didn't service their vehicles as much as others. An imprinted mentality of DIY which can render a vehicle less reliable (Do I hear GM, Ford and Chrysler?).
I've owned 7 vehicles which have all reached at least 200 000 KM and I can tell you that my experience was very similar across all vehicles. The best service I obtained was from Ford and Mazda. The worst service I got was from Honda and GM. My 2 cents.
I have a Mazda 6 with a Ford 3.0 Duratec engine (that's what they used to put in the V6 version). I have abused this vehicle and the engine is still going strong after 300 000 km.
It was intended as sarcasm. :)
And I learned the hard way that I meant moral, not morale.
I'm French. I tend to make mistakes like that. Thanks for the correction. Very appreciated.
There are fans for every brand.
See, I've experienced all 3 major OSs. My personal favourite at this point is the Windows Phone. I've just purchased my second Windows capable phone as I was going on 4 years with my first. I purchased the Blu Win HD Unlocked for $140 all in. Had to add a 32gb SD card since the base product comes with only 8GB. So you could call me a fan boy and since I'm a MS coder it just makes sense for me.
I realize their product accounts for less than 3% of the NA market so I don't expect carriers to bend over and stock that product. What I do expect is an unbiased opinion when asked about the product. In every single store I've gone I always get the "WP are shit, they don't have apps and the hardware sucks". I'll ask them if they've tried one and how they came to this conclusion. I usually get a blank stare. Most of these opinionated retail clerks only really know 2 or 3 phones well enough to recommend and WP is not one of them. IMO it's one of the reasons the product has not picked up. Nobody is pushing them because it's really easy to push Apple and Android.
Because China is a morale compass for all of us to follow.
You're not getting my question. I've used Crashplan. You can't specify a network location as a location to backup. It's an administrative rights issue.
A corporation can become vile surprisingly fast.
That's a matter of perception and I've seen this at all levels (corporate or personal). All it takes is for the entity to do something you completely disagree with for them to be labeled vile and evil. That once again is group's perspective on the topic which is obviously not shared in majority if the company continues to grow and remain profitable.
There are corporations that do things right
All corporations that survive the test of time are doing something right.
Corporations typically have the equivalent of love of money, in that they're often managed to increase the value of their shares
Money = Life. That's the truth in a capitalist system. You work for company X and you do a good job because you care but at the end of the day you do it so you can get more $$$. Company X to pay more to it's employees it must get more $$$. You see the cycle?
Philips said they did it to avoid problems, but it also would increase their revenue. Corps never tell their customers that they did something to squeeze more money out of them.
Their motive was most probably customer satisfaction which equals money. The only thing we truly know is that they made their customers happy and that's all that matters to any external entity.
The board might have been involved in the decision; such decisions tend to be at least reviewed at high level. I'm confident they knew about it shortly afterwards, as they likely monitor news articles about the company.
My experience with board meetings is that these types of decisions are left to the people that work in the company. Marketing would normally be the last one to touch it and would most probably not require board approval. The board meeting is more likely to deal with major road map items such as product releases, expected revenues, failure to achieve revenue objectives and other items equivalent. In smaller companies your assessment would be correct but Philips and any of it's divisions IMO are too big to discuss these items in board meetings
but my direct investments are in companies I generally approve of, who take good care of their customers and employees
Your one of very few that invest directly in the market then. Most people don't have the know how or the will to invest in the market. This means they fall back to mutual funds or equivalent which are managed by financial consultants which pressure for results.