Software does not have needs. Users have needs. Software tries to meet that need.
As for me, I used to have a number of applications that ran on Windows. It would have been shittier for me if Cygwin wasn't around to give me a real shell[1]. I donated some bux to the Cygwin maintainers, contrary to your claim that no one is going to pay for that.
[1] This was before PowerShell (get off my lawn). Since I've only got so much room in my brain for shell languages so I would still prefer BASH on Windows even if PS was objectively better (spoiler: it ain't).
3.5mm jack just works. It's cheap it does what it needs to do. No real need to change it yet.
There is a real need, which is some people (not you, of course) would like a phone that's thinner than the 3.5mm jack + casing will allow.
Please stop conflating my need with a real need or even anyone else's need. There are many phones on the market, you can pick one that suits you best without thinking ill of anyone else's choice.
As for being admin friendly: This is where WP shines, at least in the Dashboard. No other system is so easyly adopted by n00bs than WordPress. Any dimwit can operate an WP installation within 5 minutes of catching the first glimpse of it
This is exactly it. The promise of technology that I remember from the 90s was that anyone would be able to stand up a simple static website for their antique store or tractor repair shop without becoming domain experts in LAMP. These aren't necessarily dumb people (although some are pretty dim), but they are fairly ignorant of all things tech related.
Instead, some forces appear to have pushed us into a place where many organizations feel overwhelmed and either hire contractors (which turn out the same garbage) or just don't adopt the latest technology.
WordPress is one of the few forces pushing in the other direction, trying to democratize technology into a tool that anyone can employ.
RJ45 port height: 8.3mm Minimum height to accommodate the female RJ45 connector: 10mm Height of the bottom half of a MacBook Pro: 5mm
File this under "nope".
Of course, if you want a battleship, by all means, buy a Thinkpad or whoever else is making brick-sized laptops. More power to you. But please don't crap on the part of the market that would like something sleek and doesn't particularly care to make design compromises for a connector that was designed during the Nixon years. Especially when it's $20 for a dongle.
If, as you claim, they are independent companies and no one at MS US exercises supervisory or contractual authority over MS Ireland, then MS US can truthfully go to the court and say they have no means to comply with the order.
If, on the other hand, MS US, either through direct control or via contractual obligations, directs the actions of MS Ireland, then MS US would be required to comply with the order as they have the means to do so.
The same thing that happens when any subordinate company employee refuses to comply with a court order -- the court tells the company to effect the order.
In this case, the court would order MS US to give effect to the order, and MS US would either have to order/discipline/fire people at MS Ireland until they complied, or else be in noncompliance with the court's order.
The courts certainly aren't going to dick around figuring out which subordinate where needs to do what. Compliance is the company's problem.
Totally agree. I think the point that diesel car owners are owed is a predictable regulatory regime where rules are announced and finalized in advance so they can plan accordingly.
The right of counties/cities to make rules is distinct from saying that they can change them on a whim.
Renewables are always cheaper. The price of fuel for fossil fuels will go up.
People have been saying this (since forever). On the rare occasion when you can get a proponent of the theory to commit themselves to a particular testable prediction about the real world, their track record is quite dismal.
Now, as a scientifically-minded person, if the proponents of a theory continue to make incorrect predications about the real world (or walk their predictions back saying 'next decade' for 50 years straight), at some point we have to conclude their theory is just not very good. This is the measure of scientific knowledge: you have to make a prediction ahead of time and then check whether it came true.
On the other hand, if you believe you have confident knowledge of what direction the price of crude oil will go by 2027, you can make a killing. I absolutely invite you to do so and will really have no grudge if you are right in your bet and make bank.
[ Note: there are very good environmental reasons not to rely on coal/oil/gas indefinitely, even if they they resulted in cheaper energy. That's a different claim from the OP saying 'renewables are always cheaper'. ]
Here's another analogy: when humans set out on the ocean (or heck, even across the Mediterranean) many never came back. Millenia later in the age of sail, ships were still leaving port never to return.
Gene editing is a vast new frontier in human exploration. Why should we expect that it will be less dangerous than the previous ones?
That's not how it works. Gambling (as defined by law, perhaps deviating from the normal use of the word) has to be a game of chance where the prize is something of independent monetary value.
Reading this article will give you a good feel for how dependent restaurants are on beer/liquor sales to stay afloat.
Delivery of food with no high-margin drinks wrecks that model. In a world where you can order any combination of items alone, each item has to be priced reasonably.
Easy to do if you've implemented it like that from the start. Quite a bit harder if this API has been public since 2007 and you don't want to cause incompatibility issues.
How happy would you be as a developer if you did things according to the documentation at the time and then years later were told you have to change because the API contract is changed? Pray that we don't change it further?
OK, let's say we are going to do this and ban randomized rewards. Let's also say we are going to make Kjella the person that gets to write a formal definition of "reward" so that developers can follow it. Let's also say that Kjella gets final say on any appeal by a developer.
So then, what counts a reward? Some examples:
In WOW and Diablo Online, monsters drop random items when you kill them
In OverWatch, you can buy boxes with random cosmetic items such as decals/colors but they don't impact whether you win or lose
In MtG (or Gwent), you get a random cards which somewhat impact whether you win or lose
In Twilight Struggle, you get random cards (and roll dice) that greatly impact whether you win or lose
Honestly, I don't see how you are not going to sink into a morass of rules-lawyering about what constitutes a random reward that is relevant and what constitutes improperly paying for it.
If the housing market is competitive then shouldn't the hotel market also be competitive? And if they are both independently competitive, shouldn't they cross-compete for space?
In other words, if there is X marginal demand for 1 more hotel room and Y marginal demand for 1 more apartment to rent, why is it a given that a unit that was an apartment previously must be so forever? And the same for hotel rooms?
Also, investors that are parking their money in real estate aren't leaving them empty, right? They are actually being used as hotel rooms, which reduces demand to build a new hotel that would otherwise accommodate that demand.
Actually, I take that back. The hotel market is not competitive because cities have for a long time been slack about building enough new hotels to meet demand, instead letting existing incumbents raise rates.
The accumulated evidence linking lead exposure in children to criminality later in life is overwhelming.
I'm not a reflexive treehugger or chemicals-are-bad kind of guy, but I am open to reading the data and making a case-by-case decision. In this particular case, it's a slam dunk.
Truth-on-server. The officer doesn't rely on on the information displayed on the screen to do anything except point at an entry in the police-accessible database. And that database must already exist, since the State today has to keep track of whose license is expired, who got a DUI, who has a CDL/motorcycle endorsement, etc...
For instance, you could easily have you phone display a QR-code that encoded something like license-tracker://US.California.DLIDv2.1234512345 (someone probably screwed up v1). All the information then comes down from the already-existing-today backend. If you lie and say you are record #5432154321, then hope that person's photo looks just like you (and anyway, look-alike photos are an equal problem with physical licenses, couple of my friends had older siblings above the drinking age:-) )
This is actually step up in security from truth-in-hard-to-forge-plastic with fancy holograms and other anti-counterfeiting measures. The essence there is the relying party assessing whether the document is legitimate. In the truth-on-server model, the relying party checks their own authoritative record and doesn't have to trust anything from outside it.
[ Of course, this is assuming all-online. Obviously hard-to-forge instruments were created expressly for offline verification. The construction of a hybrid approach is left as an exercise for the reader. ]
Lol, rasterized graphics to a monitor straight from the application layer? Encapsulation is for jerks, let's have each application reimplement a hardware-assisted compositing engine that works for every single graphics card on the market! For the lulz.
Also, you know Mac programs have always been an entire self-contained folder of stuff where the UI doesn't let you descend into it by clicking it. Literally that's it. Linking by relative path plus a UI where a folder looks like a single thing.
So the student that studies and knows the relevant formulas but makes a mathematical error somewhere gets the same amount of points as the student that showed up to class stoned and doesn't know a single thing?
Partially correct is good enough for partial credit.
First, you don't know me. So maybe insults aren't the way to go.
Second, we did have a large part of tests that were rapid-fire multiple choice. I don't recall exactly, but it was something like 60-90s per question. We also had a part that was long-form questions where you should show your work.
The idea was to assess the students on both types of questions.
Lastly, this was mostly applicable to homework, the purpose of which is to be a learning exercise not a high-stakes test. We had high-stakes tests as well of course.
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The fact is Linux never needed windows support
Software does not have needs. Users have needs. Software tries to meet that need.
As for me, I used to have a number of applications that ran on Windows. It would have been shittier for me if Cygwin wasn't around to give me a real shell[1]. I donated some bux to the Cygwin maintainers, contrary to your claim that no one is going to pay for that.
[1] This was before PowerShell (get off my lawn). Since I've only got so much room in my brain for shell languages so I would still prefer BASH on Windows even if PS was objectively better (spoiler: it ain't).
3.5mm jack just works. It's cheap it does what it needs to do. No real need to change it yet.
There is a real need, which is some people (not you, of course) would like a phone that's thinner than the 3.5mm jack + casing will allow.
Please stop conflating my need with a real need or even anyone else's need. There are many phones on the market, you can pick one that suits you best without thinking ill of anyone else's choice.
As for being admin friendly: This is where WP shines, at least in the Dashboard. No other system is so easyly adopted by n00bs than WordPress. Any dimwit can operate an WP installation within 5 minutes of catching the first glimpse of it
This is exactly it. The promise of technology that I remember from the 90s was that anyone would be able to stand up a simple static website for their antique store or tractor repair shop without becoming domain experts in LAMP. These aren't necessarily dumb people (although some are pretty dim), but they are fairly ignorant of all things tech related.
Instead, some forces appear to have pushed us into a place where many organizations feel overwhelmed and either hire contractors (which turn out the same garbage) or just don't adopt the latest technology.
WordPress is one of the few forces pushing in the other direction, trying to democratize technology into a tool that anyone can employ.
See, here I was being gracious and explaining that, if you want a 5mm thicker Thinkpad, more power to you.
Some of us actually have the decency to acknowledge other peoples' preferences.
To be honest, at this point I wouldn't give Uber the benefit of the doubt in any discussion.
How is that relevant? They are disputing statistical methods -- there's no benefit of the doubt like it's some subjective argument.
RJ45 port height: 8.3mm
Minimum height to accommodate the female RJ45 connector: 10mm
Height of the bottom half of a MacBook Pro: 5mm
File this under "nope".
Of course, if you want a battleship, by all means, buy a Thinkpad or whoever else is making brick-sized laptops. More power to you. But please don't crap on the part of the market that would like something sleek and doesn't particularly care to make design compromises for a connector that was designed during the Nixon years. Especially when it's $20 for a dongle.
If, as you claim, they are independent companies and no one at MS US exercises supervisory or contractual authority over MS Ireland, then MS US can truthfully go to the court and say they have no means to comply with the order.
If, on the other hand, MS US, either through direct control or via contractual obligations, directs the actions of MS Ireland, then MS US would be required to comply with the order as they have the means to do so.
The same thing that happens when any subordinate company employee refuses to comply with a court order -- the court tells the company to effect the order.
In this case, the court would order MS US to give effect to the order, and MS US would either have to order/discipline/fire people at MS Ireland until they complied, or else be in noncompliance with the court's order.
The courts certainly aren't going to dick around figuring out which subordinate where needs to do what. Compliance is the company's problem.
Totally agree. I think the point that diesel car owners are owed is a predictable regulatory regime where rules are announced and finalized in advance so they can plan accordingly.
The right of counties/cities to make rules is distinct from saying that they can change them on a whim.
Renewables are always cheaper. The price of fuel for fossil fuels will go up.
People have been saying this (since forever). On the rare occasion when you can get a proponent of the theory to commit themselves to a particular testable prediction about the real world, their track record is quite dismal.
Now, as a scientifically-minded person, if the proponents of a theory continue to make incorrect predications about the real world (or walk their predictions back saying 'next decade' for 50 years straight), at some point we have to conclude their theory is just not very good. This is the measure of scientific knowledge: you have to make a prediction ahead of time and then check whether it came true.
On the other hand, if you believe you have confident knowledge of what direction the price of crude oil will go by 2027, you can make a killing. I absolutely invite you to do so and will really have no grudge if you are right in your bet and make bank.
[ Note: there are very good environmental reasons not to rely on coal/oil/gas indefinitely, even if they they resulted in cheaper energy. That's a different claim from the OP saying 'renewables are always cheaper'. ]
Here's another analogy: when humans set out on the ocean (or heck, even across the Mediterranean) many never came back. Millenia later in the age of sail, ships were still leaving port never to return.
Gene editing is a vast new frontier in human exploration. Why should we expect that it will be less dangerous than the previous ones?
That's not how it works. Gambling (as defined by law, perhaps deviating from the normal use of the word) has to be a game of chance where the prize is something of independent monetary value.
Reading this article will give you a good feel for how dependent restaurants are on beer/liquor sales to stay afloat.
Delivery of food with no high-margin drinks wrecks that model. In a world where you can order any combination of items alone, each item has to be priced reasonably.
Easy to do if you've implemented it like that from the start. Quite a bit harder if this API has been public since 2007 and you don't want to cause incompatibility issues.
How happy would you be as a developer if you did things according to the documentation at the time and then years later were told you have to change because the API contract is changed? Pray that we don't change it further?
OK, let's say we are going to do this and ban randomized rewards. Let's also say we are going to make Kjella the person that gets to write a formal definition of "reward" so that developers can follow it. Let's also say that Kjella gets final say on any appeal by a developer.
So then, what counts a reward? Some examples:
Honestly, I don't see how you are not going to sink into a morass of rules-lawyering about what constitutes a random reward that is relevant and what constitutes improperly paying for it.
You would have to convince the gaming commissions that the items in the boxes were items of monetary value. Otherwise it's not gambling . . .
Those are all very real problems. I've lost video cards, laptops and motherboards, especially those made right after the cutoff.
Nevertheless, they pale in comparison to the social costs of violent crime.
If the housing market is competitive then shouldn't the hotel market also be competitive? And if they are both independently competitive, shouldn't they cross-compete for space?
In other words, if there is X marginal demand for 1 more hotel room and Y marginal demand for 1 more apartment to rent, why is it a given that a unit that was an apartment previously must be so forever? And the same for hotel rooms?
Also, investors that are parking their money in real estate aren't leaving them empty, right? They are actually being used as hotel rooms, which reduces demand to build a new hotel that would otherwise accommodate that demand.
Actually, I take that back. The hotel market is not competitive because cities have for a long time been slack about building enough new hotels to meet demand, instead letting existing incumbents raise rates.
The accumulated evidence linking lead exposure in children to criminality later in life is overwhelming.
I'm not a reflexive treehugger or chemicals-are-bad kind of guy, but I am open to reading the data and making a case-by-case decision. In this particular case, it's a slam dunk.
Truth-on-server. The officer doesn't rely on on the information displayed on the screen to do anything except point at an entry in the police-accessible database. And that database must already exist, since the State today has to keep track of whose license is expired, who got a DUI, who has a CDL/motorcycle endorsement, etc...
For instance, you could easily have you phone display a QR-code that encoded something like license-tracker://US.California.DLIDv2.1234512345 (someone probably screwed up v1). All the information then comes down from the already-existing-today backend. If you lie and say you are record #5432154321, then hope that person's photo looks just like you (and anyway, look-alike photos are an equal problem with physical licenses, couple of my friends had older siblings above the drinking age :-) )
This is actually step up in security from truth-in-hard-to-forge-plastic with fancy holograms and other anti-counterfeiting measures. The essence there is the relying party assessing whether the document is legitimate. In the truth-on-server model, the relying party checks their own authoritative record and doesn't have to trust anything from outside it.
[ Of course, this is assuming all-online. Obviously hard-to-forge instruments were created expressly for offline verification. The construction of a hybrid approach is left as an exercise for the reader. ]
Overheating won't usually create flickering, it's almost always loss of conductivity across some marginal solder joint/connection.
That's why freezing helps -- it contracts the solder and gets the conductivity perfect.
Lol, rasterized graphics to a monitor straight from the application layer? Encapsulation is for jerks, let's have each application reimplement a hardware-assisted compositing engine that works for every single graphics card on the market! For the lulz.
Also, you know Mac programs have always been an entire self-contained folder of stuff where the UI doesn't let you descend into it by clicking it. Literally that's it. Linking by relative path plus a UI where a folder looks like a single thing.
I thought we were upset with Microsoft pushing the Windows 10 upgrade too aggressively, not failing to provide an upgrade path.
Can we have a straight story here?
So the student that studies and knows the relevant formulas but makes a mathematical error somewhere gets the same amount of points as the student that showed up to class stoned and doesn't know a single thing?
Partially correct is good enough for partial credit.
Hi Mr Internet Troll,
First, you don't know me. So maybe insults aren't the way to go.
Second, we did have a large part of tests that were rapid-fire multiple choice. I don't recall exactly, but it was something like 60-90s per question. We also had a part that was long-form questions where you should show your work.
The idea was to assess the students on both types of questions.
Lastly, this was mostly applicable to homework, the purpose of which is to be a learning exercise not a high-stakes test. We had high-stakes tests as well of course.