No, Microsoft is the victim of this bug, not the perpetrator. They just try to mitigate the impact. The fact that they give customers this option implies that the performance impact is huge.
I have always wonder why postings like this are acceptable on Slashdot. Most online communities have long embraced a "no personal insult" policy, and they are much better for it.
> One way or another you pay for public services. "There is no such thing as a free lunch."
Did anybody claim that public services just happen? No, of course they are paid for, but they are (or can be) free at the point of delivery. That means everybody can afford them, whether rich or poor. It is part and parcel of what most countries consider to be part of "a minimum standard of living". And it seems hard to argue with that, because dying for lack of medical care can hardly be called any standard of living.
I am not sure what it is like in your place, but have you tried to order a regular licensed taxi recently? I managed to do it, but it is much more difficult and takes much longer than just hailing an uber. And if you want to go to the emergency room, I guess you have a feel of urgency, that most taxi companies just do not cater for. ("We have one driver free tomorrow at 10am, is that ok"?)
That seems to confirm the original story: for a normal computer user, it would be impossible to maintain a Google Home remotely. Even you have to go through great pain and electricity expense to do so, and you are probably breaking some ToS.
The Linux desktop is here, and it has been for a long time. Since about 2000, Linux is a useful desktop operating system, with a rich set of general purpose applications.
Unfortunately, Linux has progressed very little since 2000. In 2000, we had two credible office suites, and now, many splits and forkes later, we have about 10 - one as incomplete as the next.
Meanwhile MS Office has improved massively, and the 2016 version (office 365) is just brilliant for collaborative work. Anything on Linux seems at least 10 years behind in this respect. Windows even has a Linux subsystem!
But Linux offers more choice and more freedom, at no cost. So by all means use it if you value those.
Shannon is problem, yes. A single satellite has a lot less bandwidth than a 10GB Ethernet cable.
But it does not have to be omnidirectional - just like cell phone towers, it could broadcast in bundles, or even use beam forming. Iridium was designed in the 1990s, using technology available at the time. Technology has improved - we will soon have 5G, and space technology as improved, too.
I think a new LEO satellite phone network would be doable, but it would need to be reasonably competitive with mobile phone services.
"There should be the same amount of atmosphere to cross whether the Sun rises due East in the summer, or South-East in the winter."
Get a globe and check it out, you will find that this statement is not true.
"Space is fake. The Earth is flat. The eclipses prove it."
Hardly. The Earth reflects light back to the moon, hence you can see the back of the moon (both at a new moon and at a solar eclipse). The Earth is not translucent, so the lunar eclipse is pretty dark (but not completely, due to the atmosphere).
The fact that you cannot imagine a round Earth does not mean that it has to be flat.:-)
Yes, that is a problem - and not just with totalitarian states. India also have severe restrictions on satellite phones - than is another market of 1 Billion people as good as lost. Implementing proper government surveillance for 200 countries and keeping all those governments separate must be difficult.
There are way around that. Sun used to sell a "dumb" laser print, that was connected as a video device. It used the same logic as a monitor, just with a lower refresh rate: scanning the picture pixel by pixel in real time. Of course it was discontinued soon, but there is support for it in Ghostscript.
You can get a decent one with about 1000 pages of toner for very little money. Of course it is only black & white, but given the hassle free nature of it, that is a trade off I am happy to live with.
I agree - Quantum is a massive step forward. It may have broken a lot of plug-ins, but at least it is still a functional and complete browser.
For Microsoft, Edge was also a big step forward, but unfortunately it felt unfinished for quite a while, and it is only now approaching something you could call a proper browser.
It means they do not have enough money to pay for the basics in life, which are usually considered shelter, food, and health.
Of course they may prioritise other "modern conveniences", such as mobile phone, laptop, internet etc. But it is difficult to imagine how you could lead a life and job without those "conveniences".
Some may just be bad a spending money, or at cooking, or lazy. It is hard to know the full story, and it is hard to generalize.
No, corporate employees are not usually evil. The secret of a commercial organisation is to diffuse responsibility, so that you can perform evil actions with non-evil employees. Everybody things they are doing the right thing, just following procedures etc, but the end result is often evil.
Indeed, life expectancy is significantly higher in the EU. The reasons usually cited (to roughly equal significance) are lifestyle, medical insurance coverage, and gun crime.
Windows 10 has a number of nice features, such as the UWP, support for modern hardware like touch screens (with a touch compatible interface), high resolution screens, HDR, fast wake up etc, and great integration with the cloud, especially Office 365.
Linux may be the more solid operating system, but it offers none of the those features. So if you want to use them, Windows 10 is the winner by default.
That is exactly it. It is not that Excel is a brilliant tool for any job (although it is at least decent for some jobs), it is more that there are no proper (CIS, business intelligence etc) tools to do the job.
Analog TV was compatible for 60 years. Even B&W sets could receive color TV.
But since we have gone digital, format rot has set in fast. Now standards change every 5 years, and the old box becomes obsolete. Welcome to planned obsolescence.
Yes, the news is that top of the range phones now ship with outdated Android versions. One of the hallmarks of a top phone used to be a current Android version.
But I do wonder whether this has anything to do with Google selling their own top phone now. They may not give competitors early access to new versions, and I can see why it might take 3 months to do the engineering and testing for an upgrade.
Actually, Google is by the the most reliable service I have every used. I think there was a 10 minute outage that I noticed, in more than a decade.
But this is not about accidents, this is about intentional sabotage of user devices. I do like Logitech for their hardware, but the software is always lacking, and this is just another example.
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No, Microsoft is the victim of this bug, not the perpetrator. They just try to mitigate the impact. The fact that they give customers this option implies that the performance impact is huge.
This.
I think the crammed all the seats of a 747 into a 737 now, with seat footprint about 30% smaller than 20 years ago. It sucks to fly now.
I have always wonder why postings like this are acceptable on Slashdot. Most online communities have long embraced a "no personal insult" policy, and they are much better for it.
> One way or another you pay for public services. "There is no such thing as a free lunch."
Did anybody claim that public services just happen? No, of course they are paid for, but they are (or can be) free at the point of delivery. That means everybody can afford them, whether rich or poor. It is part and parcel of what most countries consider to be part of "a minimum standard of living". And it seems hard to argue with that, because dying for lack of medical care can hardly be called any standard of living.
I am not sure what it is like in your place, but have you tried to order a regular licensed taxi recently? I managed to do it, but it is much more difficult and takes much longer than just hailing an uber. And if you want to go to the emergency room, I guess you have a feel of urgency, that most taxi companies just do not cater for. ("We have one driver free tomorrow at 10am, is that ok"?)
That seems to confirm the original story: for a normal computer user, it would be impossible to maintain a Google Home remotely. Even you have to go through great pain and electricity expense to do so, and you are probably breaking some ToS.
The Linux desktop is here, and it has been for a long time. Since about 2000, Linux is a useful desktop operating system, with a rich set of general purpose applications.
Unfortunately, Linux has progressed very little since 2000. In 2000, we had two credible office suites, and now, many splits and forkes later, we have about 10 - one as incomplete as the next.
Meanwhile MS Office has improved massively, and the 2016 version (office 365) is just brilliant for collaborative work. Anything on Linux seems at least 10 years behind in this respect. Windows even has a Linux subsystem!
But Linux offers more choice and more freedom, at no cost. So by all means use it if you value those.
Shannon is problem, yes. A single satellite has a lot less bandwidth than a 10GB Ethernet cable.
But it does not have to be omnidirectional - just like cell phone towers, it could broadcast in bundles, or even use beam forming. Iridium was designed in the 1990s, using technology available at the time. Technology has improved - we will soon have 5G, and space technology as improved, too.
I think a new LEO satellite phone network would be doable, but it would need to be reasonably competitive with mobile phone services.
Is this supposed to be funny or real?
"There should be the same amount of atmosphere to cross whether the Sun rises due East in the summer, or South-East in the winter."
Get a globe and check it out, you will find that this statement is not true.
"Space is fake. The Earth is flat. The eclipses prove it."
Hardly. The Earth reflects light back to the moon, hence you can see the back of the moon (both at a new moon and at a solar eclipse). The Earth is not translucent, so the lunar eclipse is pretty dark (but not completely, due to the atmosphere).
The fact that you cannot imagine a round Earth does not mean that it has to be flat. :-)
Yes, that is a problem - and not just with totalitarian states. India also have severe restrictions on satellite phones - than is another market of 1 Billion people as good as lost. Implementing proper government surveillance for 200 countries and keeping all those governments separate must be difficult.
The argument is really a very bold lie, with absolutely no evidence to support.
There are way around that. Sun used to sell a "dumb" laser print, that was connected as a video device. It used the same logic as a monitor, just with a lower refresh rate: scanning the picture pixel by pixel in real time. Of course it was discontinued soon, but there is support for it in Ghostscript.
This.
You can get a decent one with about 1000 pages of toner for very little money. Of course it is only black & white, but given the hassle free nature of it, that is a trade off I am happy to live with.
I agree - Quantum is a massive step forward. It may have broken a lot of plug-ins, but at least it is still a functional and complete browser.
For Microsoft, Edge was also a big step forward, but unfortunately it felt unfinished for quite a while, and it is only now approaching something you could call a proper browser.
It means they do not have enough money to pay for the basics in life, which are usually considered shelter, food, and health.
Of course they may prioritise other "modern conveniences", such as mobile phone, laptop, internet etc. But it is difficult to imagine how you could lead a life and job without those "conveniences".
Some may just be bad a spending money, or at cooking, or lazy. It is hard to know the full story, and it is hard to generalize.
No, corporate employees are not usually evil. The secret of a commercial organisation is to diffuse responsibility, so that you can perform evil actions with non-evil employees. Everybody things they are doing the right thing, just following procedures etc, but the end result is often evil.
Indeed, life expectancy is significantly higher in the EU. The reasons usually cited (to roughly equal significance) are lifestyle, medical insurance coverage, and gun crime.
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return 0.82740;
}
Windows 10 has a number of nice features, such as the UWP, support for modern hardware like touch screens (with a touch compatible interface), high resolution screens, HDR, fast wake up etc, and great integration with the cloud, especially Office 365.
Linux may be the more solid operating system, but it offers none of the those features. So if you want to use them, Windows 10 is the winner by default.
That is exactly it. It is not that Excel is a brilliant tool for any job (although it is at least decent for some jobs), it is more that there are no proper (CIS, business intelligence etc) tools to do the job.
Analog TV was compatible for 60 years. Even B&W sets could receive color TV.
But since we have gone digital, format rot has set in fast. Now standards change every 5 years, and the old box becomes obsolete. Welcome to planned obsolescence.
Yes, the news is that top of the range phones now ship with outdated Android versions. One of the hallmarks of a top phone used to be a current Android version.
But I do wonder whether this has anything to do with Google selling their own top phone now. They may not give competitors early access to new versions, and I can see why it might take 3 months to do the engineering and testing for an upgrade.
The Toshiba Portege R100 was great, but later models have a rather mediocre chiclet keyboard.
The only decent chiclet keyboard I ever found is a Google Chromebook. Even the Microsoft Surface does not come close.
Actually, Google is by the the most reliable service I have every used. I think there was a 10 minute outage that I noticed, in more than a decade.
But this is not about accidents, this is about intentional sabotage of user devices. I do like Logitech for their hardware, but the software is always lacking, and this is just another example.
Yes, I think that is what most technically competent people do anyway.
The funny thing is that my PVR is getting 5 years old, and I would struggle to find one now that is as good.
Of course the internet related functions have mostly moved to a different box, but most smart boxes are not good PVRs.