I remember as a kid that not only payroll robberies where a big thing but also grocery store and gas station robberies. Anyplace with a lot of cash makes a good target for those kind of crimes. Now it seems to be ATMs but at least no one usually dies when someone steals an ATM.
Let me make it simple for you. 1. Game companies want to make money. 2. To make money you have to reach the largest number of users. 3. The cost of each user must be less than the cost of supporting those users.
Not enough people use Linux to make it worth porting AAA games to Linux. Some companies do like Valve and other companies like nVidia and Valve are working to make Linux a better target OS for games. They do not do shenanigans to make it hard to run in a VM. VMs are a pain when it comes to interfacing hardware in a reliable way and yes I have been their and done that. That is one of the reason that if you do embedded development you are often forced to use a Windows machine. Devices like ST-Links just do not play well with VMs a lot of the time. And if the device you are working on goes from a HID device to DFU device and you are trying to work with it on a VM it has real issues.
The job of the OS is to run software. If the software is not available for the OS then the OS is less useful. And yes I am a Linux user as well as an OS/X user and a Windows user. Linux is great for a server and it works well for almost all web based tasks. It is a good desktop if you do not want to game or must use program that is not available. It is not a double standard it is simply a fact of life.
"Lack of support for Linux games doesn't hold Windows back, but somehow lack of support for Windows games does hold Linux back. It's an unfair double standard, but it is what it is." Here let me fix it for you. The lack of AAA class games for Linux are holding it back. The lack of AAA class games for OS/X are holding it back. Windows has the most AAA class games. Name 3 great games for Linux that are not available for Windows?
I have not searched many onion sites but it seems to me that tor would be a great place for a pirate radio station or a "Big Time Television Network esq" video network.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(TV_series) But I have never seen or heard of one. Too bad since it would be a nice change of pace from all the drugs, porn, and weapons dealing on the TOR network.
No Apple has a problem, it is the same problem Google has with Android Pay and Microsoft has with Microsoft wallet. You have no idea how many times I have walked up to a terminal and try to use my phone and I am told that it doesn't work yet. So I take out my card and put it in the chip reader and have to hear them say that doesn't work yet... Back to the magstripe reader... If it nfc payments keep failing people will stop trying to use them.
You left out Microsoft Wallet uses the same NFC as well on Windows Phone... And yea that is a store to skip. He hates people because they buy Apple products... That kind of stupidity should stop when people get out of high school.
Really so you are also blocking my Android phone. You sir are an idiot, guess what? Some people have a PC and an iPhone and some have an android phone and some even have Windows Phones with NFC payments!
Not for Minix 3 http://wiki.minix3.org/doku.ph... It targets high reliability and security. I see it as ideal system for NASs, Routers, and VOIP systems. The issue is a lack of developers that are interested in it.
The current problem is that jobs that just need a body are going to decrease in number. We need more and more educated people but less and less people with a minimal education. Gone are the days where you can get out of high school and go work in a factory and make a good wage. We really need to bring back vocational education. It was seen as shameful to not have every child aim for a college education. Truth is that that a plumber or electrician can make a good living today.
Really kind of a silly reply. I used an old style drafting desk... In a drafting class. I loved working at that desk.I really wished I could have grabbed one of those desks when the school sold them off to replace drafting with CAD. Before anyone goes off I will say that most old style drafting desks where fixed height. My height really worked well with the height of that desk and the drafting chair. A manually adjustable table combined with a good drafting chair is a valid solution for many people that would cost a lot less and be a lot less complex than a desk your can raise and lower.
Do you have a source for that. And if true is a terrible statement about the practicality of renewables. If true that points to renewables demanding many times the labor costs of fossil fuels.
I read about Spoonrocket. It is nothing but a restaurant that delivers food in San Francisco. In at least one review it was just not that good. I doubt that it's tanking is an example of downturn. It may just be that the margins where way too small for it to ever expand past a small number of cities.
I see two big errors on Nokia's part. 1. The lack of CDMA phones. 2. Not developer friendly. 3. No sense of urgency.
The first kept Nokia off of Verizon and Sprint in the US. Verizon at the time was the number one carrier and Sprint number 3. Sure you could be on AT&T but Nokia phones in general were not marketed well in the US. Like it or not the US market is a large and influential market. The second was simple you had to pay money "and not a little" to develop for Symbian. You just where not going to get a Foursquare or instagram with those prices. 3. Says it all Nokia reminded me of Palm in that way.
Could Nokia have gone forward with Linux/QT? Maybe. Could Nokia gone forward with Android and QT? I really think they could have. Windows Phone? If they had ported QT to that platform to keep their developers happy maybe. Honestly Nokia hardware and camera with the Android ecosystem would be joy.
"If what you say is so, then high gas prices should mean a booming economy and we know that's not true." Very high gas prices are bad for the economy just as very low prices are. The same is true for all commodities and frankly most systems. If the price of a commodity is to low then production drops and you get shortages and then the price goes up and you have inflation and the prices rise. If the price of a commodity is to high you will often see a glut of production followed by a market crash. "Oil field economies are almost always in boom or bust cycles. Prices are prices." Yea and a boom bust cycle helps make a good economic system... Exactly when did you get a degree in economics? And frankly calling me a neo-liberal is about the silliest thing I have heard of in a long time.
The microwave frequency radar will not be able to target a low-rcs target or guide a missile to it. That is the entire point of low-observables. You also don't get that the VHF radar will be targeted not with a ARM but with a standoff weapon. You really do not seem to know very much about radar and weapon systems. High frequency radar is only used for backscatter OTH radar systems. They are huge and not portable. What Russia is using is VHF radar. This is one way they will be dealt with. 1. An EC-135 will detect the VHF area search radar and localize it. 2. Satellites will locate the very large and hard to move VHF area search radar. 3. A B-52, B-1, B-2, F-15... will launch a low observable stand off weapon that will fly at low altitude to avoid the VHF radar for as long as possible.
Actually low commodity prices often have a negative impact on the economy. It is not just the rich oil traders that are hurt but the workers in the oil fields, the people in the towns that sell stuff to the oil field works. The retired people that have oil stocks in 401ks. The people that work in the factories that make the tools used in the oil fields... Everything is connected and a crash in the prices in one market will have more than the simplistic effects that you are spouting off.
Actually I think I see Microsoft's strategy and it may just work. It is really simple. Your phone is your PC / your PC is your phone. 1. WIndows 10 is a unified platform. One Windows OS for both phones and PCs. 2. Intel working hard on getting the X86 to work in the mobile market. 3. The Microsoft wireless display adaptor.
Once phones are powerful enough and frankly they are getting very close your Windows Phone is your PC. Just have a wireless keyboard and mouse and put your phone on the desk and it is your Windows PC. Once USB 3.1 is everywhere you could just hook your phone up to your monitor over USB 3.1 and have the monitor power your phone. The monitor could even have a hub built in so you can use a wired keyboard, mouse, and network.The surface is already a tablet/laptop fusion a phone/pc fusion seems like the next logical step.
Actually I saw lots of people in both when I am at a mall with both stores. I own a macbook pro and only went to the store once. My hard drive crashed and they told me that I needed a new drive. I checked the drive using SMART and it said it was ok. I took it home and repartitioned and formatted the drive and it has worked just great for the last 3 years. Over all not impressed with the Apple store service. The Microsoft store was okay but I just didn't see the point. I see little reason to go to an Apple or Microsoft store unless I was going to buy a new Windows machine. I believe that the Windows computers at the microsoft store are free of demoware.
What do expect? Not a single candidate has real space policy and Sanders is the worst! His is “I am supportive of NASA not only because of the excitement of space exploration, but because of all the additional side benefits we receive from research in that area. Sometimes, and frankly I don’t remember all of those votes, one is put in a position of having to make very very difficult choices about whether you vote to provide food for hungry kids or health care for people who have none and other programs. But, in general, I do support increasing funding for NASA.” Yea talk about a fool's dilemma I have never seen a vote that was for NASA or feeding hungry kids!
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A better example would be Intel can never replace PDP-11s, VAXs, Data General Novas, Wang 2200, or Prime 50s.
IBM still is making mainframes.
Even 15 years ago Java was pretty good.
Those that keep crabbing about it are mostly just repeating what they have heard.
I remember as a kid that not only payroll robberies where a big thing but also grocery store and gas station robberies. Anyplace with a lot of cash makes a good target for those kind of crimes. Now it seems to be ATMs but at least no one usually dies when someone steals an ATM.
Let me make it simple for you.
1. Game companies want to make money.
2. To make money you have to reach the largest number of users.
3. The cost of each user must be less than the cost of supporting those users.
Not enough people use Linux to make it worth porting AAA games to Linux.
Some companies do like Valve and other companies like nVidia and Valve are working to make Linux a better target OS for games.
They do not do shenanigans to make it hard to run in a VM. VMs are a pain when it comes to interfacing hardware in a reliable way and yes I have been their and done that. That is one of the reason that if you do embedded development you are often forced to use a Windows machine. Devices like ST-Links just do not play well with VMs a lot of the time. And if the device you are working on goes from a HID device to DFU device and you are trying to work with it on a VM it has real issues.
The job of the OS is to run software. If the software is not available for the OS then the OS is less useful.
And yes I am a Linux user as well as an OS/X user and a Windows user.
Linux is great for a server and it works well for almost all web based tasks.
It is a good desktop if you do not want to game or must use program that is not available.
It is not a double standard it is simply a fact of life.
"Lack of support for Linux games doesn't hold Windows back, but somehow lack of support for Windows games does hold Linux back. It's an unfair double standard, but it is what it is."
Here let me fix it for you.
The lack of AAA class games for Linux are holding it back. The lack of AAA class games for OS/X are holding it back. Windows has the most AAA class games.
Name 3 great games for Linux that are not available for Windows?
I have not searched many onion sites but it seems to me that tor would be a great place for a pirate radio station or a "Big Time Television Network esq" video network.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(TV_series)
But I have never seen or heard of one. Too bad since it would be a nice change of pace from all the drugs, porn, and weapons dealing on the TOR network.
Moron.
Like any POS terminal will ever not support at least chip?
"What do the labor costs matter if they can offer competitive pricing? "
That is the issue, it doesn't. Natural gas is a lot cheaper.
No Apple has a problem, it is the same problem Google has with Android Pay and Microsoft has with Microsoft wallet.
You have no idea how many times I have walked up to a terminal and try to use my phone and I am told that it doesn't work yet. So I take out my card and put it in the chip reader and have to hear them say that doesn't work yet...
Back to the magstripe reader...
If it nfc payments keep failing people will stop trying to use them.
You left out Microsoft Wallet uses the same NFC as well on Windows Phone...
And yea that is a store to skip. He hates people because they buy Apple products...
That kind of stupidity should stop when people get out of high school.
Really so you are also blocking my Android phone. You sir are an idiot, guess what? Some people have a PC and an iPhone and some have an android phone and some even have Windows Phones with NFC payments!
So you run a PC repair shop... What a jerk.
Not for Minix 3
http://wiki.minix3.org/doku.ph...
It targets high reliability and security. I see it as ideal system for NASs, Routers, and VOIP systems. The issue is a lack of developers that are interested in it.
I wish more people would take a look at Minix3.
BSD license.
Microkernel.
Drives run in userspace and can heal.
It needs a lot of work still. Last time I checked it was only 32bit, single cpu/core, no USB support, and frankly lacking a lot of hardware support.
The current problem is that jobs that just need a body are going to decrease in number. We need more and more educated people but less and less people with a minimal education. Gone are the days where you can get out of high school and go work in a factory and make a good wage.
We really need to bring back vocational education. It was seen as shameful to not have every child aim for a college education. Truth is that that a plumber or electrician can make a good living today.
Really kind of a silly reply.
I used an old style drafting desk... In a drafting class.
I loved working at that desk.I really wished I could have grabbed one of those desks when the school sold them off to replace drafting with CAD.
Before anyone goes off I will say that most old style drafting desks where fixed height. My height really worked well with the height of that desk and the drafting chair.
A manually adjustable table combined with a good drafting chair is a valid solution for many people that would cost a lot less and be a lot less complex than a desk your can raise and lower.
Do you have a source for that. And if true is a terrible statement about the practicality of renewables. If true that points to renewables demanding many times the labor costs of fossil fuels.
I read about Spoonrocket. It is nothing but a restaurant that delivers food in San Francisco. In at least one review it was just not that good.
I doubt that it's tanking is an example of downturn. It may just be that the margins where way too small for it to ever expand past a small number of cities.
I see two big errors on Nokia's part.
1. The lack of CDMA phones.
2. Not developer friendly.
3. No sense of urgency.
The first kept Nokia off of Verizon and Sprint in the US. Verizon at the time was the number one carrier and Sprint number 3. Sure you could be on AT&T but Nokia phones in general were not marketed well in the US. Like it or not the US market is a large and influential market.
The second was simple you had to pay money "and not a little" to develop for Symbian. You just where not going to get a Foursquare or instagram with those prices.
3. Says it all Nokia reminded me of Palm in that way.
Could Nokia have gone forward with Linux/QT? Maybe. Could Nokia gone forward with Android and QT? I really think they could have. Windows Phone? If they had ported QT to that platform to keep their developers happy maybe. Honestly Nokia hardware and camera with the Android ecosystem would be joy.
"If what you say is so, then high gas prices should mean a booming economy and we know that's not true."
Very high gas prices are bad for the economy just as very low prices are. The same is true for all commodities and frankly most systems.
If the price of a commodity is to low then production drops and you get shortages and then the price goes up and you have inflation and the prices rise.
If the price of a commodity is to high you will often see a glut of production followed by a market crash.
"Oil field economies are almost always in boom or bust cycles. Prices are prices."
Yea and a boom bust cycle helps make a good economic system...
Exactly when did you get a degree in economics? And frankly calling me a neo-liberal is about the silliest thing I have heard of in a long time.
The microwave frequency radar will not be able to target a low-rcs target or guide a missile to it. That is the entire point of low-observables. You also don't get that the VHF radar will be targeted not with a ARM but with a standoff weapon. You really do not seem to know very much about radar and weapon systems.
High frequency radar is only used for backscatter OTH radar systems. They are huge and not portable. What Russia is using is VHF radar.
This is one way they will be dealt with.
1. An EC-135 will detect the VHF area search radar and localize it.
2. Satellites will locate the very large and hard to move VHF area search radar.
3. A B-52, B-1, B-2, F-15... will launch a low observable stand off weapon that will fly at low altitude to avoid the VHF radar for as long as possible.
Actually low commodity prices often have a negative impact on the economy. It is not just the rich oil traders that are hurt but the workers in the oil fields, the people in the towns that sell stuff to the oil field works. The retired people that have oil stocks in 401ks. The people that work in the factories that make the tools used in the oil fields...
Everything is connected and a crash in the prices in one market will have more than the simplistic effects that you are spouting off.
Actually I think I see Microsoft's strategy and it may just work.
It is really simple. Your phone is your PC / your PC is your phone.
1. WIndows 10 is a unified platform. One Windows OS for both phones and PCs.
2. Intel working hard on getting the X86 to work in the mobile market.
3. The Microsoft wireless display adaptor.
Once phones are powerful enough and frankly they are getting very close your Windows Phone is your PC. Just have a wireless keyboard and mouse and put your phone on the desk and it is your Windows PC.
Once USB 3.1 is everywhere you could just hook your phone up to your monitor over USB 3.1 and have the monitor power your phone. The monitor could even have a hub built in so you can use a wired keyboard, mouse, and network.The surface is already a tablet/laptop fusion a phone/pc fusion seems like the next logical step.
Actually I saw lots of people in both when I am at a mall with both stores.
I own a macbook pro and only went to the store once. My hard drive crashed and they told me that I needed a new drive.
I checked the drive using SMART and it said it was ok. I took it home and repartitioned and formatted the drive and it has worked just great for the last 3 years. Over all not impressed with the Apple store service.
The Microsoft store was okay but I just didn't see the point. I see little reason to go to an Apple or Microsoft store unless I was going to buy a new Windows machine. I believe that the Windows computers at the microsoft store are free of demoware.
What do expect? Not a single candidate has real space policy and Sanders is the worst! His is
“I am supportive of NASA not only because of the excitement of space exploration, but because of all the additional side benefits we receive from research in that area. Sometimes, and frankly I don’t remember all of those votes, one is put in a position of having to make very very difficult choices about whether you vote to provide food for hungry kids or health care for people who have none and other programs. But, in general, I do support increasing funding for NASA.”
Yea talk about a fool's dilemma I have never seen a vote that was for NASA or feeding hungry kids!