You know, I've seen black bear prints that look remarkably similar to human prints. I'm serious, they can really look alike under the right conditions, such that there's no obvious impression of claws...
It all sounds great, but if consumes more power than similar performance ARM SoCs then what's the point?
Ahem, unless it consumes significantly less power than similar performance ARM, or offers significantly more performance for the same power as ARM, then what's the point?
Get used to it. Those of us who have been carrying health insurance for years have been required to pay for you dumb fucks who don't carry health insurance because you "never get sick" and now just got cancer or ran your car into a tree.
Every once in a while, I think "insightful" should go to +6!
Actually, that's most likely the reason why it succeeded. 1) MS pushing their OSes through anticompetitive practices (confirmed in court!), 2) MS having intimate knowledge of their own OSes helping them write better apps, 3) customers buying MS Office for various reasons including more hassle-free operation on their PCs, 4) the whole network effect thingy kicking in.
Don't forget: 5) Bugs in document conversion deliberately inserted in order to make a mixed WordPerfect/Word environment frustrating enough to push organizations to drop WordPerfect. (Not a rumor, established as fact during the anti-trust trial, by internal MS e-mails discussing the planning of these bugs!)
Joel Spolsky has an excellent write up on why the Office file formats suck. A must read.
He makes many good points, and is correct overall, but there is one glaring error:
... it doesn’t reflect bad programming on Microsoft’s part...
Well, bullshit. The kludges and obvious lack of forethought are rampant. It's possible to create a binary format to be "blitted" straight into memory that is sanely versioned...
That said, your second point is a good one, why would it suddenly turn blue when ever other crash just causes it to turn black with a rotating circle?
Because the more detailed description I've read doesn't sound like the whole OS is actually rebooting. More like the app picker or some other userland process, crashing and restarting, and the lock screen coming on.
Who also predicted (in 2011) that Windows Phones would capture 20% of the mobile market in 2015??? Yep. In fact, they are the same outfit that predicted (in 2010) that Symbian would have 30% in 2014. So, I make it a rule not to get worked up about their predictions...
Well, duh, it costs them basically no money to leave a web server running as long as the web server has no failures and is not attacked. But do you want a government server up and running when you know that there will be no one available to deal with any problems that may come up???
Jobs got through a long and involved demo without a crash nor even a glitch. Compare this to so many Microsoft presentations, where you know good and damned well they put every bit as much effort into finding a "golden path" for the demo, but it crashes ANYWAY!
By that time actual on line use of the device in aircraft willbe allowed. That is already about to be approved for any fcc certified devices.
I don't think you understand. Allowing a device to be used inside an aircraft during flight is not the same as allowing it to be used by cabin crew as a replacement for their "flight bags". In one case the FAA doesn't give a flying fuck if the device crashes every 10 minutes, or has crappy touch input that ignores every other tap, or any other aspect of quality as long as it doesn't interfere with aircraft control; in the other case they care very much that it works well and reliably, and they do require certification on a per-model basis, and the Surface has not been certified, at least not yet.
A "stalker" label that could be applied to a user's profile--after due process resulting in an actual court order. That would get the user off linkedin, because it would become useless to him.
My my, the guys you talked to on the phone didn't lie, they just "gave the 'Least Untruthful' Answer" possible [huffingtonpost.com].
While I appreciate your point and humor... No, the reason I put the emphasis the way I did is to drive home the point that they were, in fact, not giving the "least untruthful" answer, nor an answer tainted by any hint of truth. They flat-out lied. When you sell memory with a lifetime warranty, and the warranty is plastered all over the web site, then tech support informs the customer that "memory bought separately from a computer purchase has no warranty", that is a lie. When a monitor fails to the point that the power button no longer works, no longer even illuminates because the power supply has failed, and you tell the customer that the monitor is fine but "when you hook it up to a Mac the Mac takes over that function and that is why your power button no longer works", that is a lie, made up on the spot to get rid of the customer and avoid the claim.
When Dell outsourced it's help, I tried it a few times, and it was almost impossible to understand "Chris" and "Bob".
Wouldn't have mattered. I guess I'm better with accents, because I understood them perfectly. But they were flat-out lying to me (on two different issues, several years apart) so the outcomes was the same for me as for you: determination to never buy a Dell product again.
The only people that care are the ipad buyers who want to buy an ipad because its an ipad...
Bullshit. People do not want Microsoft tablets because of their experiences with Windows and MS Office. THAT is why Microsoft cannot win in this segment against either Apple or Android, and will be absolutely crushed by the combination of Apple and Android.
...have your fingerprint on file for however long it stays roughly the same...
Yes, but to be clear: setting up TouchID on an iPhone does not result in your fingerprint being on file, as it, like ALL fingerprint-matching software as far as I know, stores what is essentially a hash derived from landmark features of your prints, not your actual prints. So the on-file data would have to come from somewhere else in order to use this method.
So, it's not super-secure, but at least you can't unlock it by breathing on it;-)
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...it's sent as cleartext *inside of the SSL stream*...
Why, oh why, did you post that like two minutes after my mod points expired???
You know, I've seen black bear prints that look remarkably similar to human prints. I'm serious, they can really look alike under the right conditions, such that there's no obvious impression of claws...
Then they should have a national discussion of what the laws should be as opposed to what they are now.
Or alarm systems? Safes? Etc? The exact same logic would apply. Why is this not blindingly obvious to everyone???
It all sounds great, but if consumes more power than similar performance ARM SoCs then what's the point?
Ahem, unless it consumes significantly less power than similar performance ARM, or offers significantly more performance for the same power as ARM, then what's the point?
;-)
Get used to it. Those of us who have been carrying health insurance for years have been required to pay for you dumb fucks who don't carry health insurance because you "never get sick" and now just got cancer or ran your car into a tree.
Every once in a while, I think "insightful" should go to +6!
Actually, that's most likely the reason why it succeeded. 1) MS pushing their OSes through anticompetitive practices (confirmed in court!), 2) MS having intimate knowledge of their own OSes helping them write better apps, 3) customers buying MS Office for various reasons including more hassle-free operation on their PCs, 4) the whole network effect thingy kicking in.
Don't forget: 5) Bugs in document conversion deliberately inserted in order to make a mixed WordPerfect/Word environment frustrating enough to push organizations to drop WordPerfect. (Not a rumor, established as fact during the anti-trust trial, by internal MS e-mails discussing the planning of these bugs!)
Joel Spolsky has an excellent write up on why the Office file formats suck. A must read.
He makes many good points, and is correct overall, but there is one glaring error:
... it doesn’t reflect bad programming on Microsoft’s part...
Well, bullshit. The kludges and obvious lack of forethought are rampant. It's possible to create a binary format to be "blitted" straight into memory that is sanely versioned...
Rapture of the Nerds co-author Charlie Stross hates Microsoft Word, worse than you do.
No. No he does not.
That said, your second point is a good one, why would it suddenly turn blue when ever other crash just causes it to turn black with a rotating circle?
Because the more detailed description I've read doesn't sound like the whole OS is actually rebooting. More like the app picker or some other userland process, crashing and restarting, and the lock screen coming on.
At least one Apple exec told US workers to stuff it, as Apple doesn't owe them anything.
Really? Who? When? Full quote? Context?
Who also predicted (in 2011) that Windows Phones would capture 20% of the mobile market in 2015??? Yep. In fact, they are the same outfit that predicted (in 2010) that Symbian would have 30% in 2014. So, I make it a rule not to get worked up about their predictions...
You also get that these things are getting injected thousands of feet below the bottom of any water table, which is covered by impermeable rock...
And you also get that the point of fracking is to fracture that rock so that it becomes permeable???
For what it's worth I prefer Buffalo hardware. It's robust and performs well.
Seconded. I can give you plenty of reasons not to buy Linksys, or Cisco, or NetGear, or D-Link. I can give you 0 reasons not to buy Buffalo ;-)
Well, duh, it costs them basically no money to leave a web server running as long as the web server has no failures and is not attacked. But do you want a government server up and running when you know that there will be no one available to deal with any problems that may come up???
Jobs got through a long and involved demo without a crash nor even a glitch. Compare this to so many Microsoft presentations, where you know good and damned well they put every bit as much effort into finding a "golden path" for the demo, but it crashes ANYWAY!
...not because the company distrusts NIST, but because its executives are worried about the NSA's influence on NIST's development...
Really? So they are worried about NSA's influence on NIST, but they still trust NIST???
By that time actual on line use of the device in aircraft willbe allowed. That is already about to be approved for any fcc certified devices.
I don't think you understand. Allowing a device to be used inside an aircraft during flight is not the same as allowing it to be used by cabin crew as a replacement for their "flight bags". In one case the FAA doesn't give a flying fuck if the device crashes every 10 minutes, or has crappy touch input that ignores every other tap, or any other aspect of quality as long as it doesn't interfere with aircraft control; in the other case they care very much that it works well and reliably, and they do require certification on a per-model basis, and the Surface has not been certified, at least not yet.
Surface 2 release date is set for October 22, not two years, and these don't have to be certified.
1) Delta says it will be 2 years from now when they get this fully implemented.
2) Yes, they do have to be certified by the FAA for this use, and Delta states they expect that certification to be received next year.
A "stalker" label that could be applied to a user's profile--after due process resulting in an actual court order. That would get the user off linkedin, because it would become useless to him.
My my, the guys you talked to on the phone didn't lie, they just "gave the 'Least Untruthful' Answer" possible [huffingtonpost.com].
While I appreciate your point and humor... No, the reason I put the emphasis the way I did is to drive home the point that they were, in fact, not giving the "least untruthful" answer, nor an answer tainted by any hint of truth. They flat-out lied. When you sell memory with a lifetime warranty, and the warranty is plastered all over the web site, then tech support informs the customer that "memory bought separately from a computer purchase has no warranty", that is a lie. When a monitor fails to the point that the power button no longer works, no longer even illuminates because the power supply has failed, and you tell the customer that the monitor is fine but "when you hook it up to a Mac the Mac takes over that function and that is why your power button no longer works", that is a lie, made up on the spot to get rid of the customer and avoid the claim.
When Dell outsourced it's help, I tried it a few times, and it was almost impossible to understand "Chris" and "Bob".
Wouldn't have mattered. I guess I'm better with accents, because I understood them perfectly. But they were flat-out lying to me (on two different issues, several years apart) so the outcomes was the same for me as for you: determination to never buy a Dell product again.
The only people that care are the ipad buyers who want to buy an ipad because its an ipad...
Bullshit. People do not want Microsoft tablets because of their experiences with Windows and MS Office. THAT is why Microsoft cannot win in this segment against either Apple or Android, and will be absolutely crushed by the combination of Apple and Android.
...have your fingerprint on file for however long it stays roughly the same...
Yes, but to be clear: setting up TouchID on an iPhone does not result in your fingerprint being on file, as it, like ALL fingerprint-matching software as far as I know, stores what is essentially a hash derived from landmark features of your prints, not your actual prints. So the on-file data would have to come from somewhere else in order to use this method.
So, it's not super-secure, but at least you can't unlock it by breathing on it ;-)
My source [epbbd.com] says the Escalade is 7,100 pounds gross. Perhaps you have a better source that puts it above 8500 pounds?
Yeah, 8,500 sure seems unlikely. Considering that my GMC 4000 doesn't weigh much more than 9,000 ;-)