Since Linux users make up 1% of the market share (I'm not sure the % for gamers, but could be lower), I'll doubt they'll lose sleep over it.
I'm using Windows and Crimson seems fine and dandy. Oh, Windows is crap you say? Well, too bad. Guess you'll just have to live with your poor steam selection and spotty driver support. Fortunately I hear nVidia has been treating Linux users just fine.
But let's be clear they're not dropping the ball because you're not entitled to super duper spectacular driver support when you choose an operating system that hardly anyone outside of your profession uses.
I actually was in a free lunch program so I know all the hoops we had to jump through just to get it.
Someone who could afford a BMW wouldn't make it there. All these stories about people on foodstamps driving Mercedes are largely myths. Even if there are a handful of people who do exploit the system, it's not as rampant as mister, "Too many parents driving new cars to pick up their kids who get free lunches!"
What's ridiculous is that stigmatizing attitude against the poor. The last thing they need is some moron claiming that they're stealing all the money when really they're just trying to survive in a broken system.
The same people who call Windows 10 Spyware tend to be the same people who are perfectly okay with using an android phone or have a far less overblown reaction to Google.
As for the ads in Windows 10, you can disable it by right clicking the ad and selecting, "Don't show ads again."
How about you guys quit being hypocrites and insisting every end-user must be using linux and be proficient in bash or other forms of masochism.
MS keeps getting unfairly tossed under the bus, again and again and again.
"Oh they're tracking me if I don't opt to disable most of it! Wow look at this friggin' piece of spyware!" "Oh they're giving me non-invasive ads in my software! Might as well be adware!"
It's also the case that people simultaneously gripe about how underpaid coders are while wanting free products for everything. How the hell do you expect MS to pay its coders? "Oh here you can try working for us for free, and if we really appreciate you we'll give you some donations."
Don't bitch about Windows when you're using an Android device. Like seriously.
And if you're one of those people that doesn't and genuinely cares about your privacy and such, then good for you. I'm happy you practice what you preach. But that doesn't mean everyone has to do it your way. I'm perfectly willing to give some company some personal data so long as it's used responsibly.
Actually the argument is bogus from the start. Even if you own the car doesn't mean it should be permitted to run over pedestrians just because you want it to.
A noncertified tech does as you describe, but these people don't touch pills at all.
A certified technician has to pass an exam. You've got to know more than how to read labels, since they're the ones often filling prescriptions. It's important they know how drugs work, their mechanism for action, the routes of administration, not to mention the test requires you to memorize around 200 of the top drugs used (and all of their properties, naturally). Some pharmacy techs do not even work in a retail pharmacy and will be preparing IV and other kinds of medication in a more laboratory like setting in a hospital (or otherwise).
It's far from the unskilled labor you're making it out to be. A lot of people even go to school to become a pharmacy tech.
The reason why anybody would want to write universal apps is not because of our three percent share in phones. It's because a billion consumers are going to have a Start Menu, which is going to have your app.
that was the whole point of the 3% phone marketshare and this is the circular logic thats been plaguing "thought leaders" at redmond for a decade. To have that button, you need a platform, and you didnt win phones or tablets so what pray tell is the start button going to show up on? transit cards?
You start the journey there and take them to multiple places. Their app can go to the phone. They can go to HoloLens. They can go to Xbox.... And by the way, when we hook them on that, we have a phone app.
Stop. stop with the fever-dream of a phone. you lost seven billion dollars on the phone thing. real people lost jobs because of your half-assed insistance on dominating all markets forever. as of 2009, Steam had a 70% share of the digital distribution market for video games so clearly at this point both developers and customers think the X-Box crack is wack. Maybe if you treated your users like real people and not some sort of parasite theyd keep following.
This strategy is path dependent, which is a term I use that means where you start is not where you end up.
Yes. Bankruptcy court is still certainly not the lowest option you have. Take a look at how long SCO managed to fuck up the brand.
And therein lies a lot of the nuance. The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users. And in our case the truth is we have users on desktop.
Sigh, here we go again with the MS hate.
Nadella said some great things and all anyone can hear is Ballmer shouting something about developers.
Universal Windows is a contradiction. Especially coming from a company with an on-again off-again relationship with allowing backward compatibility on X-Box. Your customers quit caring about your apps for their devices when google came out with docs. Web is the universal app.
Yeah, why couldn't they just resize the big-endian to make it a little-endian! Problem solved! Like, can't you just cram a disk in there and have it work? I thought consoles were some kind of sorcery that did whatever we wanted them to.
Yeah, because Google Docs has the same functionality as MS Office. I mean I could get into a debate with you about Libre Office; but seriously, Google Docs? My mind is being blown right now. I'd use the online version of MS Office before I'd consider using Google Docs.
The Web is not an app. I have no bloody idea what you mean by this. Do you even know what an application is?
Stop. stop with the fever-dream of a phone. you lost seven billion dollars on the phone thing. real people lost jobs because of your half-assed insistance on dominating all markets forever. as of 2009, Steam had a 70% share of the digital distribution market for video games so clearly at this point both developers and customers think the X-Box crack is wack. Maybe if you treated your users like real people and not some sort of parasite theyd keep following.
Still going on about the Xbox? Jesus Christ man they're giving you backwards compatibility despite huge technological limitations with a bunch of stuff they're working on to make it even better.
Everyone that got let go from Nokia was given a compensation package and not left out in the cold. And sure they lost money on Nokia. Sometimes you take risks and you lose, that's called business (or in this case, cleaning up Ballmer's mess). And here you are bitching about how they're trying to dominate everything while quoting MS saying they're going to consolidate their markets instead of diversify them. And fucking please, while we're at it, Google does the same shit (if not more) but they're a-okay
It's not being fair, that's being unfair. It's unfair to those who hold themselves to a higher standard of truth and realistic accuracy that someone with a handful of internet links can waltz in and be given the same platform. Why bother actually researching anything when you can just complain you're not being given an equal voice and have it handed to you because you poor little thing being left out in the cold by the big bad mean people.
But hey diversity is always a good thing right?
Dear University of Toronto, please remove your head out of your ass. Homeopathy should not be given any legitimate platform, nor should any other form of ridiculous pseudoscience. If you want students to have a critical lens, then teach them more rigor about the scientific method and drawing proper conclusions. Teach about flawed experiment designs, fabricated data, and the dangers of pay to publish journals.
And nothing to do with all that coffee you're guzzling.
Oh, I can get by on 3-4 hours a night too! Hell I can do it without caffeine. But let's not delude ourselves into thinking we're functioning perfectly fine on this little sleep. The legendary short sleepers the article is talking about don't ever sleep in and they don't set alarms to wake themselves up. You jumble up their circadian rhythm and they'll still be paddling along just fine. They don't wake up tired; they wake up refreshed.
One of the things scientists found when they studied this was that a lot of people (like yourself) claimed to be short sleepers, but were, in actuality, just suffering from chronic sleep deprivation. You grow so used to feeling tired that you acclimate to the feeling. That's all it is. You're definitely not performing at peak capacity.
The Nokia purchase didn't immediately start being a cash cow? Oh no!
Investors scramble (and I am one) to ask why isn't this investment paying off right now. Short term profits! Short term profits! Gimme money now!
Or you can hold out and wait for MS to actually use the Nokia assets to build up and become formidable marketplace. Here's a great idea, let's withdrawal from the mobile market altogether!
Nadella is not that retarded, he knows the importance of the mobile market and how important it is. MS needs a piece of that cake if they want to stay relevant in current times. The enterprise/desktop market was fine and dandy two decades ago. But it's not anymore. Consumers demand more and more from their mobile devices. Eventually a mobile device will be most people's PCs.
Nokia is their only avenue to success and even though they're losing money now, they won't be in the future. So let your short term investors scream their heads off anytime they see red ink without actually critically analyzing the figure.
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Since Linux users make up 1% of the market share (I'm not sure the % for gamers, but could be lower), I'll doubt they'll lose sleep over it.
I'm using Windows and Crimson seems fine and dandy. Oh, Windows is crap you say? Well, too bad. Guess you'll just have to live with your poor steam selection and spotty driver support. Fortunately I hear nVidia has been treating Linux users just fine.
But let's be clear they're not dropping the ball because you're not entitled to super duper spectacular driver support when you choose an operating system that hardly anyone outside of your profession uses.
They're going to wish they brought a bigger flashlight.
Not if you institute a tax on it.
We're not giving them enough of someone else's land.
I actually was in a free lunch program so I know all the hoops we had to jump through just to get it.
Someone who could afford a BMW wouldn't make it there. All these stories about people on foodstamps driving Mercedes are largely myths. Even if there are a handful of people who do exploit the system, it's not as rampant as mister, "Too many parents driving new cars to pick up their kids who get free lunches!"
What's ridiculous is that stigmatizing attitude against the poor. The last thing they need is some moron claiming that they're stealing all the money when really they're just trying to survive in a broken system.
I call BS on your calling BS.
You haven't seen a single parent in that situation, come the fuck on.
You missed the joke. I used C# syntax.
while (Microsoft == Windows.Creator)
{
Console.WriteLine("{0}", "Windows is malware!!!");
}
---
Alright now that we got that out of our system let's discuss why C# is terrible.
I don't think you realize that these pros play SC for twelve, fourteen hours a day, pretty much seven days a week. And they're already elite to start.
It's far more serious than American football.
The same people who call Windows 10 Spyware tend to be the same people who are perfectly okay with using an android phone or have a far less overblown reaction to Google.
As for the ads in Windows 10, you can disable it by right clicking the ad and selecting, "Don't show ads again."
And when Google does it, it's a-okay.
How about you guys quit being hypocrites and insisting every end-user must be using linux and be proficient in bash or other forms of masochism.
MS keeps getting unfairly tossed under the bus, again and again and again.
"Oh they're tracking me if I don't opt to disable most of it! Wow look at this friggin' piece of spyware!"
"Oh they're giving me non-invasive ads in my software! Might as well be adware!"
It's also the case that people simultaneously gripe about how underpaid coders are while wanting free products for everything. How the hell do you expect MS to pay its coders? "Oh here you can try working for us for free, and if we really appreciate you we'll give you some donations."
Don't bitch about Windows when you're using an Android device. Like seriously.
And if you're one of those people that doesn't and genuinely cares about your privacy and such, then good for you. I'm happy you practice what you preach. But that doesn't mean everyone has to do it your way. I'm perfectly willing to give some company some personal data so long as it's used responsibly.
Actually the argument is bogus from the start. Even if you own the car doesn't mean it should be permitted to run over pedestrians just because you want it to.
This sounds like it will be fun to exploit.
"What do you mean the servers are already full?!"
Oh, it's never too late.
Voltaire was right about assassinations. Seems like we need a system to keep the politicians in line.
With how aggressively they pushed it is there any reason to be skeptical?
In other words don't overlook the human element in any plan that requires 100% efficacy.
Yeah we have to take a stand and pull out so the taliban can intentionally target hospitals.
Pretty sure he's always done things faster and better than he says.
You're about half-right.
A noncertified tech does as you describe, but these people don't touch pills at all.
A certified technician has to pass an exam. You've got to know more than how to read labels, since they're the ones often filling prescriptions. It's important they know how drugs work, their mechanism for action, the routes of administration, not to mention the test requires you to memorize around 200 of the top drugs used (and all of their properties, naturally). Some pharmacy techs do not even work in a retail pharmacy and will be preparing IV and other kinds of medication in a more laboratory like setting in a hospital (or otherwise).
It's far from the unskilled labor you're making it out to be. A lot of people even go to school to become a pharmacy tech.
I didn't realize my smartphone had PCI-E slots.
Yeah why aren't they prioritizing that 1% Linux marketshare?
The reason why anybody would want to write universal apps is not because of our three percent share in phones. It's because a billion consumers are going to have a Start Menu, which is going to have your app.
that was the whole point of the 3% phone marketshare and this is the circular logic thats been plaguing "thought leaders" at redmond for a decade. To have that button, you need a platform, and you didnt win phones or tablets so what pray tell is the start button going to show up on? transit cards?
You start the journey there and take them to multiple places. Their app can go to the phone. They can go to HoloLens. They can go to Xbox. ... And by the way, when we hook them on that, we have a phone app.
Stop. stop with the fever-dream of a phone. you lost seven billion dollars on the phone thing. real people lost jobs because of your half-assed insistance on dominating all markets forever. as of 2009, Steam had a 70% share of the digital distribution market for video games so clearly at this point both developers and customers think the X-Box crack is wack. Maybe if you treated your users like real people and not some sort of parasite theyd keep following.
This strategy is path dependent, which is a term I use that means where you start is not where you end up.
Yes. Bankruptcy court is still certainly not the lowest option you have. Take a look at how long SCO managed to fuck up the brand.
And therein lies a lot of the nuance. The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users. And in our case the truth is we have users on desktop.
Sigh, here we go again with the MS hate.
Nadella said some great things and all anyone can hear is Ballmer shouting something about developers.
Universal Windows is a contradiction. Especially coming from a company with an on-again off-again relationship with allowing backward compatibility on X-Box. Your customers quit caring about your apps for their devices when google came out with docs. Web is the universal app.
Yeah, why couldn't they just resize the big-endian to make it a little-endian! Problem solved! Like, can't you just cram a disk in there and have it work? I thought consoles were some kind of sorcery that did whatever we wanted them to.
Yeah, because Google Docs has the same functionality as MS Office. I mean I could get into a debate with you about Libre Office; but seriously, Google Docs? My mind is being blown right now. I'd use the online version of MS Office before I'd consider using Google Docs.
The Web is not an app. I have no bloody idea what you mean by this. Do you even know what an application is?
Stop. stop with the fever-dream of a phone. you lost seven billion dollars on the phone thing. real people lost jobs because of your half-assed insistance on dominating all markets forever. as of 2009, Steam had a 70% share of the digital distribution market for video games so clearly at this point both developers and customers think the X-Box crack is wack. Maybe if you treated your users like real people and not some sort of parasite theyd keep following.
Still going on about the Xbox? Jesus Christ man they're giving you backwards compatibility despite huge technological limitations with a bunch of stuff they're working on to make it even better.
Everyone that got let go from Nokia was given a compensation package and not left out in the cold. And sure they lost money on Nokia. Sometimes you take risks and you lose, that's called business (or in this case, cleaning up Ballmer's mess). And here you are bitching about how they're trying to dominate everything while quoting MS saying they're going to consolidate their markets instead of diversify them. And fucking please, while we're at it, Google does the same shit (if not more) but they're a-okay
Indeed and it's not fine.
It's not being fair, that's being unfair. It's unfair to those who hold themselves to a higher standard of truth and realistic accuracy that someone with a handful of internet links can waltz in and be given the same platform. Why bother actually researching anything when you can just complain you're not being given an equal voice and have it handed to you because you poor little thing being left out in the cold by the big bad mean people.
But hey diversity is always a good thing right?
Dear University of Toronto, please remove your head out of your ass. Homeopathy should not be given any legitimate platform, nor should any other form of ridiculous pseudoscience. If you want students to have a critical lens, then teach them more rigor about the scientific method and drawing proper conclusions. Teach about flawed experiment designs, fabricated data, and the dangers of pay to publish journals.
Sometimes I don't even know why I bother.
And nothing to do with all that coffee you're guzzling.
Oh, I can get by on 3-4 hours a night too! Hell I can do it without caffeine. But let's not delude ourselves into thinking we're functioning perfectly fine on this little sleep. The legendary short sleepers the article is talking about don't ever sleep in and they don't set alarms to wake themselves up. You jumble up their circadian rhythm and they'll still be paddling along just fine. They don't wake up tired; they wake up refreshed.
One of the things scientists found when they studied this was that a lot of people (like yourself) claimed to be short sleepers, but were, in actuality, just suffering from chronic sleep deprivation. You grow so used to feeling tired that you acclimate to the feeling. That's all it is. You're definitely not performing at peak capacity.
The Nokia purchase didn't immediately start being a cash cow? Oh no!
Investors scramble (and I am one) to ask why isn't this investment paying off right now. Short term profits! Short term profits! Gimme money now!
Or you can hold out and wait for MS to actually use the Nokia assets to build up and become formidable marketplace. Here's a great idea, let's withdrawal from the mobile market altogether!
Nadella is not that retarded, he knows the importance of the mobile market and how important it is. MS needs a piece of that cake if they want to stay relevant in current times. The enterprise/desktop market was fine and dandy two decades ago. But it's not anymore. Consumers demand more and more from their mobile devices. Eventually a mobile device will be most people's PCs.
Nokia is their only avenue to success and even though they're losing money now, they won't be in the future. So let your short term investors scream their heads off anytime they see red ink without actually critically analyzing the figure.