That does not beat my take on bypassing security: saving said password into a macro to achieve "automatic login". It also prevented me from taking the guilt trip to the IT dept. because I forgot my password AGAIN, since they made us change it every few weeks. To get to that macro someone had to get to my computer when it was unlocked anyway, so I did not find my own actions terribly wrong.
Moreover, the article seems to make the assumption that "feedback" is strictly freeform text or questionnaires. The truth is, 99.9% of the feedback is actually telemetry data so, yes, the more the merrier.
Not true. Kinect for Windows had different hardware to make the optimal distance to the subject significantly shorter compared to the XBOX version, and it was not just the calibration.
There *shouldn't* be any third party crap embedded with the drivers, it is (used to be?) a rule enforced by Microsoft for OEMs that go through the certification process.
Let me question your doubts with some facts. Two major insurance companies and one (huge) banking institution located in the midwest pay between $70,000 and $80,000 a year as of mid 2013 for senior-level positions. I know that from going to their interviews myself, and they were very desperately looking for people. Albeit not desperately enough to raise the pay...
Have you ever heard of compiler warnings? VS will even warn you about stuff as little as when you use 10l instead of 10L because the lowercase L might be confused with the number 1. If you don't believe me, look at the amount of bugs that magically get fixed once you can compile your code with no warnings using the -w4 flag.
It is a marketing issue. It is saying to the general public: Microsoft products suck so badly that not even their own employees use them!
If I remember correctly, Microsoft had a smartwatch many years ago that could only tell the time if it had a Wi-Fi connection, I am SHOCKED that it didn't catch on.
I think that what you are missing here is that Elon Musk is a wealthy, intelligent geek. A billionaire with a physics degree? Of course that it's going to be praised by the more science-oriented subset of the population!
I think that you have your math wrong. Number one, you don't know who you are comparing the face of so according to your schema you would need to do 10,000 * 10,000 comparisons, since you don't have a way to say "Oh! This is John Derp's face, so let's only compare it to the other 9,999 faces!". Also, you don't compare each face with everyone else's, you only compare with a list of known crooks (hopefully not EVERYONE'S face is in the system, although I am not sure of anything these days).
Then, assuming there are 100 known crooks in the 10,000 population, you do 10,000 * 100 comparisons and, assuming the same error rate of 1 in 1,000 you get 1,000,000 / 1,000 = 1,000 errors. Which is not nearly as high but definitely not ideal.
I henceforth name this the subset-birthday paradox!
Having just taken an exam for my distance learning class through ProctorU, I can tell you that the only thing stopping me from cheating were my ethical principles...
Your post leads to my theory. If having such good eyesight was a requirement to be an astronaut, it would be perfectly possible that they somehow cheated their way there and once they went into space... well, mission accomplished. No need to pretend anymore, now they can put the glasses back on!
You are being modded as funny but as an ignorant mortal let me ask you... Are you being serious? I thought that software engineers in any industry were paid significantly better
Sitting on the pilot seat would be the only thing enticing enough for me to pay the predatory fees for "perks".
PS: Being a tall person who cannot sit straight without pushing the seat in front of me with my knees, being offered extra leg room for a fee is border line offensive.
PS: Our marketing department will soon release a video showcasing how all of your usability concerns are also a problem in the Windows platform for totally real world scenarios. For example, you can't go to the end of the line on Windows if someone popped the "End" key out of your keyboard!
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That does not beat my take on bypassing security: saving said password into a macro to achieve "automatic login". It also prevented me from taking the guilt trip to the IT dept. because I forgot my password AGAIN, since they made us change it every few weeks. To get to that macro someone had to get to my computer when it was unlocked anyway, so I did not find my own actions terribly wrong.
Moreover, the article seems to make the assumption that "feedback" is strictly freeform text or questionnaires. The truth is, 99.9% of the feedback is actually telemetry data so, yes, the more the merrier.
Python list comprehension, which is OK for simple queries but doesn't scale as nicely as LINQ
Not true. Kinect for Windows had different hardware to make the optimal distance to the subject significantly shorter compared to the XBOX version, and it was not just the calibration.
There *shouldn't* be any third party crap embedded with the drivers, it is (used to be?) a rule enforced by Microsoft for OEMs that go through the certification process.
Ah darn it! There goes my brilliant plan of beating this record...
Wanting to "break the internet" seems to be a hot trend these days.
Let me question your doubts with some facts. Two major insurance companies and one (huge) banking institution located in the midwest pay between $70,000 and $80,000 a year as of mid 2013 for senior-level positions. I know that from going to their interviews myself, and they were very desperately looking for people. Albeit not desperately enough to raise the pay...
Have you ever heard of compiler warnings? VS will even warn you about stuff as little as when you use 10l instead of 10L because the lowercase L might be confused with the number 1. If you don't believe me, look at the amount of bugs that magically get fixed once you can compile your code with no warnings using the -w4 flag.
Besides old timers, who cares if it takes a couple more hours to deplete the battery?
Seeing as all these phones are pretty decent, from my point of view, I just want the greatest performance.
FTFY. In other words, it doesn't fit my use case ergo no one else can benefit from it.
Actually they missed the boat on this one
I see what you did there...
It is a marketing issue. It is saying to the general public: Microsoft products suck so badly that not even their own employees use them!
If I remember correctly, Microsoft had a smartwatch many years ago that could only tell the time if it had a Wi-Fi connection, I am SHOCKED that it didn't catch on.
I think that what you are missing here is that Elon Musk is a wealthy, intelligent geek. A billionaire with a physics degree? Of course that it's going to be praised by the more science-oriented subset of the population!
Mod parent up. It's the tragedy of the commons, but taking justice into your own hands makes you just as bad if not worse than the BitTorrent users
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I think that you have your math wrong. Number one, you don't know who you are comparing the face of so according to your schema you would need to do 10,000 * 10,000 comparisons, since you don't have a way to say "Oh! This is John Derp's face, so let's only compare it to the other 9,999 faces!". Also, you don't compare each face with everyone else's, you only compare with a list of known crooks (hopefully not EVERYONE'S face is in the system, although I am not sure of anything these days).
Then, assuming there are 100 known crooks in the 10,000 population, you do 10,000 * 100 comparisons and, assuming the same error rate of 1 in 1,000 you get 1,000,000 / 1,000 = 1,000 errors. Which is not nearly as high but definitely not ideal.
I henceforth name this the subset-birthday paradox!
Yes but they were not *real* people until the Spaniards converted them to Catholicism!
Having just taken an exam for my distance learning class through ProctorU, I can tell you that the only thing stopping me from cheating were my ethical principles...
I have bad news for you: this telemetry system will remain after the tech preview
I didn't hear anything about that. Then again, I wasn't looking in the direction of the sound
Your post leads to my theory. If having such good eyesight was a requirement to be an astronaut, it would be perfectly possible that they somehow cheated their way there and once they went into space... well, mission accomplished. No need to pretend anymore, now they can put the glasses back on!
You are being modded as funny but as an ignorant mortal let me ask you... Are you being serious? I thought that software engineers in any industry were paid significantly better
Sitting on the pilot seat would be the only thing enticing enough for me to pay the predatory fees for "perks".
PS: Being a tall person who cannot sit straight without pushing the seat in front of me with my knees, being offered extra leg room for a fee is border line offensive.
You are holding it wrong.
Cheers,
Steve Jobs
PS: Our marketing department will soon release a video showcasing how all of your usability concerns are also a problem in the Windows platform for totally real world scenarios. For example, you can't go to the end of the line on Windows if someone popped the "End" key out of your keyboard!
Documents don't stop being top secret just because someone leaked them.
If someone leaks the *top secret* documents and they are no longer *secret*, then they are just *top*