This post is very confusing to me. EVERY Windows 10 PC? I've been using Windows 10 for years and NOTHING from a third party has EVER been installed automatically onto my machine. And by "machine," I mean a half-dozen different machines. I'm on a Windows 10 machine right now and none of the listed applications is installed on it. I last bought a brand-new Windows 10 machine in June and none of these apps is installed on it, either. So where is this idea coming from? I'd really like to know.
Arguably, they aren't rivals at all. Let's not forget that at least one major investor is suing Oracle for allegedly falsifying demand for its cloud, including bullying customers into becoming cloud customers by threatening them with audits if they don't. Also, Oracle has been pressuring product managers into working "cloud" into their product names for years... classic "fake it until you make it."
If, say, the power jack breaks two weeks in, then I've paid $200 for a computer that lasted two weeks.
Coincidentally, the only machine I've owned where the power jack broke was a Chromebook. Cheap plastic case cracked at the same time.
Otherwise, while it worked, it was a perfectly pleasant device to use. I was expecting it to piss me off with the things it couldn't do, but it turns out that while I'm drinking my coffee in the morning, there's very little that I want to do that doesn't involve a browser.
Google is way better about regular security fixes than any of the other vendors. But even they have limits as to how many devices they can actively support at any given time
Maybe but the Chromebook Pixel is Google's own device. They wrote all the hardware specs. How hard would it be to backport their drivers to a new kernel (if that's what's necessary)? What else could possibly become obsolete? Are they really saying they see the Chrome browser becoming so bloated that the Pixel doesn't have enough RAM? Or that the CPU is so slow that it won't be able to render web pages?
This sounds like planned obsolescence, plain and simple. Not only does it encourage current Chromebook users to get a new one ("watch out, your web terminal might be insecure!") but it effectively kills the resale market, too.
What msmash probably doesn't realize is that just because an article has the Forbes logo on it doesn't mean it was written, commissioned, or edited by Forbes staff. Like an increasing number of publications, Forbes has a contributed content program where anyone who "meets their qualifications" (heh heh) can sign up to publish articles on the site. Forbes claims to "vet" the content, but I've never seen them object to anything. What Forbes gets out of it is free content. What do they care if it's garbage?
Oh wait... you were thinking/. editors are supposed to weed out crap like this. You must be new here.
Writing documents- the full desktop apps are better than google docs, but being able to leave something in mid stream on my work PC, pick it up from my home PC, and go back to my work PC without thinking about it is more important than those extra features. Especially if its a shared document.
Office 365 provides this, including real-time collaborative editing, and you don't have to lose the functionality of the desktop applications. As someone who works on documents for a living, having been forced to use Google Docs, I feel it's a really poor substitute.
I'll even go so far as to say this: My work gave me a 13" MacBook Pro from 2017, with the Touchstrip, and I really like the keyboard. I made a lot of typos at first because of the extremely low-profile design, but now I can type fast as hell on it. I've never had any keys mysteriously stop working or anything of the kind. And I've never heard any complaints from my coworkers about that, either. If they don't like it, it's just because they don't like how it feels.
To counter this, look at One Note. Microsoft just moved it from Office (paid) to part of Windows (free).
Not true. The "desktop" version of OneNote has been free for a long time. So has the Windows app. The only change being made is that you'll need to install OneNote separately from Office now, and Microsoft prefers you install the Windows 10 app version; in fact, they'll probably discontinue the Windows desktop version before logn. It's more strong-arming from Microsoft.
I love how this story is all feel-good "we need humans in factories after all," but it never describes one single job that a human is required to do. They tell us that automation can't replace critical thinking -- O RLY? "People do the work requiring dexterity and intelligence," it says. Yeah, like humans have more "dexterity" than a robot and nobody has ever automated a process requiring intelligence before. And the rest of the story describes visions of "battalions" of robots, hundreds of robots, even robots that have been painted a special color to denote that humans can feel safe around them. The robots are stronger than humans and, we are told, "they can actually feel."
GI tracts and other people's GI tracts are not the only source of bacteria. Look up "nosocomial" infections. These are the ones that are caused by strains of bacteria that exist in hospitals, institutional and clinical settings (and only there... you will never find them in your home). Bacteria are everywhere and there are far too many types to be explained by hand dryers.
Recall the Dread Pirate Roberts arrest? Police knew his laptop would lock if he closed the lid, so they had to arrest him while he had it open. They used an officer posing as a waitress to get close enough without arousing suspicion, who pinned him to the floor while another ran in to grab the laptop.
Considering that the so-called Dread Pirate Roberts was arrested at a library, your "waitress" story doesn't hold a lot of water.
Armed conflict is loud, ugly, and newsworthy. We live in a connected age; word of an incident can travel around the world almost instantly. The government has better weapons, but gunning down citizens in the street is perhaps the quickest way to diminish any perception of legitimacy that a government has.
Mmm-hmmmm. Which is why the majority of Americans think of David Koresh as a hero of the people.
I know Spiderman is slated for the end of the year, and the trailers look ok, but seeing all these movies get storyboarded to begin with, why not just continue with a toon?
They put out plenty of cartoon TV shows and even one-off animated movies aimed at more mature audiences. IMHO, it all looks like total crap compared to anything the Japanese are doing. Lame character designs, lazy animation, stiff animation that tries to cut as many corners as possible, bad music, bad voice acting (not that the Japanese are immune to any of this)... I haven't been able to sit through much of any of it. Same goes for the DC stuff. If they're trying to reach adult audiences with cartoons that look like something we used to watch after school when we were in the 8th grade, they might as well pack it up.
What what what what? Who are these people who don't like fucking Robocop? That movie is funny as hell, smart as hell, has a strong plot, great villains, and is a visual feast full of cray-cray. In what sense does it not "hold up"?
Next you'll be telling be Starship Troopers is a snore.
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This post is very confusing to me. EVERY Windows 10 PC? I've been using Windows 10 for years and NOTHING from a third party has EVER been installed automatically onto my machine. And by "machine," I mean a half-dozen different machines. I'm on a Windows 10 machine right now and none of the listed applications is installed on it. I last bought a brand-new Windows 10 machine in June and none of these apps is installed on it, either. So where is this idea coming from? I'd really like to know.
Arguably, they aren't rivals at all. Let's not forget that at least one major investor is suing Oracle for allegedly falsifying demand for its cloud, including bullying customers into becoming cloud customers by threatening them with audits if they don't. Also, Oracle has been pressuring product managers into working "cloud" into their product names for years ... classic "fake it until you make it."
If, say, the power jack breaks two weeks in, then I've paid $200 for a computer that lasted two weeks.
Coincidentally, the only machine I've owned where the power jack broke was a Chromebook. Cheap plastic case cracked at the same time.
Otherwise, while it worked, it was a perfectly pleasant device to use. I was expecting it to piss me off with the things it couldn't do, but it turns out that while I'm drinking my coffee in the morning, there's very little that I want to do that doesn't involve a browser.
Google is way better about regular security fixes than any of the other vendors. But even they have limits as to how many devices they can actively support at any given time
Maybe but the Chromebook Pixel is Google's own device. They wrote all the hardware specs. How hard would it be to backport their drivers to a new kernel (if that's what's necessary)? What else could possibly become obsolete? Are they really saying they see the Chrome browser becoming so bloated that the Pixel doesn't have enough RAM? Or that the CPU is so slow that it won't be able to render web pages?
This sounds like planned obsolescence, plain and simple. Not only does it encourage current Chromebook users to get a new one ("watch out, your web terminal might be insecure!") but it effectively kills the resale market, too.
What msmash probably doesn't realize is that just because an article has the Forbes logo on it doesn't mean it was written, commissioned, or edited by Forbes staff. Like an increasing number of publications, Forbes has a contributed content program where anyone who "meets their qualifications" (heh heh) can sign up to publish articles on the site. Forbes claims to "vet" the content, but I've never seen them object to anything. What Forbes gets out of it is free content. What do they care if it's garbage?
Oh wait ... you were thinking /. editors are supposed to weed out crap like this. You must be new here.
Actually, I have yet to see anyone point out that so far, Opportunity has already exceeded the planned length of its mission by more than 14 years.
Writing documents- the full desktop apps are better than google docs, but being able to leave something in mid stream on my work PC, pick it up from my home PC, and go back to my work PC without thinking about it is more important than those extra features. Especially if its a shared document.
Office 365 provides this, including real-time collaborative editing, and you don't have to lose the functionality of the desktop applications. As someone who works on documents for a living, having been forced to use Google Docs, I feel it's a really poor substitute.
OK based on the summary I think .. I THINK there may be a thing called Fortnite. I'm pretty much out of my depth after that.
Counselor: PCM2's life, where did JonKatz touch you?
PCM2's life, closing eyes and pointing at the Yoda doll: ......t-t-tt-there! (sobs)
If you haven't used it all for your hot grits, I'd like to borrow some grease for my Yoda doll.
I'll even go so far as to say this: My work gave me a 13" MacBook Pro from 2017, with the Touchstrip, and I really like the keyboard. I made a lot of typos at first because of the extremely low-profile design, but now I can type fast as hell on it. I've never had any keys mysteriously stop working or anything of the kind. And I've never heard any complaints from my coworkers about that, either. If they don't like it, it's just because they don't like how it feels.
To counter this, look at One Note. Microsoft just moved it from Office (paid) to part of Windows (free).
Not true. The "desktop" version of OneNote has been free for a long time. So has the Windows app. The only change being made is that you'll need to install OneNote separately from Office now, and Microsoft prefers you install the Windows 10 app version; in fact, they'll probably discontinue the Windows desktop version before logn. It's more strong-arming from Microsoft.
I love how this story is all feel-good "we need humans in factories after all," but it never describes one single job that a human is required to do. They tell us that automation can't replace critical thinking -- O RLY? "People do the work requiring dexterity and intelligence," it says. Yeah, like humans have more "dexterity" than a robot and nobody has ever automated a process requiring intelligence before. And the rest of the story describes visions of "battalions" of robots, hundreds of robots, even robots that have been painted a special color to denote that humans can feel safe around them. The robots are stronger than humans and, we are told, "they can actually feel."
Nice spin on that headline, Reuters.
At least they, um, bury their dead. Apparently.
Yeah, but this wasn't the "really, really old" BlackBerry you may be thinking of. BlackBerry devices based on QNX didn't start shipping until 2013.
Yeah ... you've never seen one in the wild.
GI tracts and other people's GI tracts are not the only source of bacteria. Look up "nosocomial" infections. These are the ones that are caused by strains of bacteria that exist in hospitals, institutional and clinical settings (and only there ... you will never find them in your home). Bacteria are everywhere and there are far too many types to be explained by hand dryers.
Then the whiners will piss and moan about "guns from out of country," but our government has no jurisdiction there. Q.E.D.
Uhhh... we have jurisdiction over our border. Mexican guns aren't much cause for concern as long as they stay in Mexico.
Recall the Dread Pirate Roberts arrest? Police knew his laptop would lock if he closed the lid, so they had to arrest him while he had it open. They used an officer posing as a waitress to get close enough without arousing suspicion, who pinned him to the floor while another ran in to grab the laptop.
Considering that the so-called Dread Pirate Roberts was arrested at a library, your "waitress" story doesn't hold a lot of water.
Nuke it from the surface! It's the only way to be sure.
Armed conflict is loud, ugly, and newsworthy. We live in a connected age; word of an incident can travel around the world almost instantly. The government has better weapons, but gunning down citizens in the street is perhaps the quickest way to diminish any perception of legitimacy that a government has.
Mmm-hmmmm. Which is why the majority of Americans think of David Koresh as a hero of the people.
I know Spiderman is slated for the end of the year, and the trailers look ok, but seeing all these movies get storyboarded to begin with, why not just continue with a toon?
They put out plenty of cartoon TV shows and even one-off animated movies aimed at more mature audiences. IMHO, it all looks like total crap compared to anything the Japanese are doing. Lame character designs, lazy animation, stiff animation that tries to cut as many corners as possible, bad music, bad voice acting (not that the Japanese are immune to any of this) ... I haven't been able to sit through much of any of it. Same goes for the DC stuff. If they're trying to reach adult audiences with cartoons that look like something we used to watch after school when we were in the 8th grade, they might as well pack it up.
And why didn't the robot use it's giant awesomesword right at the start?
It's the Voltron Rule, man! You never bust out an awesomesword until it's almost too late.
What what what what? Who are these people who don't like fucking Robocop? That movie is funny as hell, smart as hell, has a strong plot, great villains, and is a visual feast full of cray-cray. In what sense does it not "hold up"?
Next you'll be telling be Starship Troopers is a snore.
Like many modern humans, reading books isn't something I'm terribly keen on doing.
Jesus Christ, is that what passes for a "nerd" today? I'm glad I don't know you, dude.
Hmm. It's almost as if when a company asks to to sign a confidentiality agreement, they fuckin mean it, and for good reason.