I was confused when I read the headline - missed the "Pro" bit. Left me wondering if Win 10 in general is a dead end for enterprise... probably not for the foreseeable, I guess, since the alternatives seem less attractive to large enterprises already entrenched in the MS system. But with decreasing emphasis on Windows and Office by Microsoft (saw this a few days ago, can't find link right now), this could change..
This is a very interesting point. Whether this sort of calling bot becomes common in our future is far from certain. For example, if a law requires the bot to identify itself as a non-human, I imagine almost all humans will hang up immediately, making the bot pretty useless for marketers, etc. Or, it could go the way of "google glass", which was not made illegal or subject to special rules, but was found to be a social non-starter. I guess we will see...
I'm a lot like you: (al)pine when logged in locally, Thunderbird on MS Windows, and Mail.app on MacOS. These are in reverse order of my use frequency, actually.
One problem I have (and I don't think I'm alone) is that work mail is via Exchange only. I use this to allow Thunderbird to interoperate, and its.. OK. Not perfect, but better than having to use Outlook, which to me seems to have odd quirks and does not play well with my IMAP server.
Last year I experimented with Spark email on MacOS. It was great! Had lots of nice features I could see myself getting very used to. Then, I found out that they have a serious privacy issue built right in and I immediately dropped it. This was a pretty depressing moment. Makes you appreciate open source.
Interesting.. does this constitute a tacit admission that the product (YouTube videos) might possibly be harmful in large amounts? Is this like a product warning on cigarettes?
I think you have it right the iMac was important not for technical but for "mind share" reasons. I only wanted to add that they were also substantially purchased by schools- might be hard to remember now that it looks like chromebooks fill the elementary education space, but Apple used to have a strong presence there..
Never have, had to look up the ADM-3A. That is a solid looking piece of kit! I will take your word for it, definitely. I use a unicomp keyboard today because I also enjoy kinetic typing.
The problem with the aquarius kb was not that it needed heavy pressure, more that it was finicky about registering anything at any pressure. The keys mushed laterally somehow. And was small for even a kids hands. An abomination.
I have to agree strongly with this! At an impressionable young age I was typing on this dang thing. No measuring what damage that did to me (I am still suspicious of "island" style keyboards!), even at the time I knew this was a terrible keyboard. Inputting those cool computer game programs in BASIC was just torture.
Actually, that thing might make a person grateful for any keyboard that is not that one..
I was going to write something similar- Apple Inc is pretty brutal about breaking backward compatibility/ dropping features they feel you no longer need (plenty of examples, some notable ones: 68K->PPC->x86; no more optical discs; no more 3.5mm jack).
Question for the group: The backward compatibility/longevity champion is.. MS Windows? I think Linux distributions might be in second place, at least for pre-compiled binaries (source code might be more durable?).
Yesterday I saw a colleague pull out a CDROM from 2002, install the software on his current Windows box, and successfully run it. I was impressed.
From the perspective of what Facebook is actually about I agree with you. However, I think many people probably think that "their" messages on the platform belong to them, and are for them only. This is a mistake, as many readers here have known for a long time.
Perhaps "looks bad" is not the best way to put it, more like "reveals too much, and what is revealed is very unflattering and contradicts how they generally present themselves and/or are perceived by most"... or something.
The sad mistake by the public seems to be thinking that their correspondence on Facebook actually belongs to them. This sort of event shows that is absolutely not the case.
Keep your bits on your own machines, kids!
As for Facebook and Mr. Zuckerberg: Have you no shame? This sort of move looks terrible. Perhaps you have no brain.
I recently read this article which gives an excellent historical perspective on ISAs, RISC, CISC, VLIW, etc. To me, it also shows why very long upgrade cycles (like 2013->2019 in this case) might make quite a bit of sense now a days. We may be heading to a period of expensive, long-lived machines. Interesting times.
I clicked on the story just to post this. Why are more frequent releases per unit time a good thing? What shortcoming in Java does this address? Those more knowledgeable might be able to say something, but I thought the stability was a *good* thing...
That is an interesting story- thank you for sharing. I guess a consideration when starting a new software project should always be how others will abuse it. Its sad, but the example at hand shows that people are infinitely inventive when it comes to finding ways to ruin a commons...
This is a good question. I wonder if the outcome could be as stated (natively running Linux a thing of the past) but not for the reason given. There may be no grand evil plan from Microsoft, but separate issues could lead to less ability for users to run Linux natively.
I'm thinking about hardware compatibility. This is sometimes spotty for Linux on mobile hardware (power usage, graphics switching, sleep, etc, etc). If running WSL is good enough for most, will there be as much impetus to resolve these issues? If not, will the state of running Linux natively suffer? Seems possible.
Some people seem to think the medallion system exits only as some evil socialist government scheme to limit competition and make certain early comers wealthy without working. They can be excused for thinking this, I think, based on the coverage. Planning and limiting traffic make for boring headlines.
I looked at the list. I see a list of behaviors that a person with a basic level of civility and politeness would never engage in anyway. The fact the code of conduct exists is a sad commentary humanity in the 21st century, but it hardly seems like the end of the FreeBSD project.
I don't see a need to get up in arms to defend "Harassing", "Disrupting", "unwelcome", "threats", or "intimidation" (words in the list). These are things civil people should not do.
I think you hit it on the head. I also would add that gnome 3 made the problem worse by having needlessly wide title bars. It feels like the loaded the dice a bit here..
As you point out, whether it will work for some of us depends on details like OS and form factor details. I wonder how different this is than an iPad pro with a detachable keyboard. Don't we already have this for those who need it? I guess they are promising longer run times.
Currently on of the reasons to keep a more 'traditional' portable computer include 1) higher performance and 2) OS/software selection. If these differences break down much further ('regular' computers keep getting thinner, use ULV processors, while ARM64 gets faster) perhaps the distinction will come down to 2). Or disappear altogether.
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My laziness in never moving from Sourceforge appears to be .. paying off??
I was confused when I read the headline - missed the "Pro" bit. Left me wondering if Win 10 in general is a dead end for enterprise... probably not for the foreseeable, I guess, since the alternatives seem less attractive to large enterprises already entrenched in the MS system. But with decreasing emphasis on Windows and Office by Microsoft (saw this a few days ago, can't find link right now), this could change..
This is a very interesting point. Whether this sort of calling bot becomes common in our future is far from certain. For example, if a law requires the bot to identify itself as a non-human, I imagine almost all humans will hang up immediately, making the bot pretty useless for marketers, etc. Or, it could go the way of "google glass", which was not made illegal or subject to special rules, but was found to be a social non-starter. I guess we will see...
I'm a lot like you: (al)pine when logged in locally, Thunderbird on MS Windows, and Mail.app on MacOS. These are in reverse order of my use frequency, actually.
One problem I have (and I don't think I'm alone) is that work mail is via Exchange only. I use this to allow Thunderbird to interoperate, and its.. OK. Not perfect, but better than having to use Outlook, which to me seems to have odd quirks and does not play well with my IMAP server.
Last year I experimented with Spark email on MacOS. It was great! Had lots of nice features I could see myself getting very used to. Then, I found out that they have a serious privacy issue built right in and I immediately dropped it. This was a pretty depressing moment. Makes you appreciate open source.
Interesting.. does this constitute a tacit admission that the product (YouTube videos) might possibly be harmful in large amounts? Is this like a product warning on cigarettes?
I think you have it right the iMac was important not for technical but for "mind share" reasons. I only wanted to add that they were also substantially purchased by schools- might be hard to remember now that it looks like chromebooks fill the elementary education space, but Apple used to have a strong presence there..
Never have, had to look up the ADM-3A. That is a solid looking piece of kit! I will take your word for it, definitely. I use a unicomp keyboard today because I also enjoy kinetic typing.
The problem with the aquarius kb was not that it needed heavy pressure, more that it was finicky about registering anything at any pressure. The keys mushed laterally somehow. And was small for even a kids hands. An abomination.
I have to agree strongly with this! At an impressionable young age I was typing on this dang thing. No measuring what damage that did to me (I am still suspicious of "island" style keyboards!), even at the time I knew this was a terrible keyboard. Inputting those cool computer game programs in BASIC was just torture.
Actually, that thing might make a person grateful for any keyboard that is not that one..
I was going to write something similar- Apple Inc is pretty brutal about breaking backward compatibility/ dropping features they feel you no longer need (plenty of examples, some notable ones: 68K->PPC->x86; no more optical discs; no more 3.5mm jack).
Question for the group: The backward compatibility/longevity champion is.. MS Windows? I think Linux distributions might be in second place, at least for pre-compiled binaries (source code might be more durable?).
Yesterday I saw a colleague pull out a CDROM from 2002, install the software on his current Windows box, and successfully run it. I was impressed.
From the perspective of what Facebook is actually about I agree with you. However, I think many people probably think that "their" messages on the platform belong to them, and are for them only. This is a mistake, as many readers here have known for a long time.
Perhaps "looks bad" is not the best way to put it, more like "reveals too much, and what is revealed is very unflattering and contradicts how they generally present themselves and/or are perceived by most"... or something.
The sad mistake by the public seems to be thinking that their correspondence on Facebook actually belongs to them. This sort of event shows that is absolutely not the case.
Keep your bits on your own machines, kids!
As for Facebook and Mr. Zuckerberg: Have you no shame? This sort of move looks terrible. Perhaps you have no brain.
I recently read this article which gives an excellent historical perspective on ISAs, RISC, CISC, VLIW, etc. To me, it also shows why very long upgrade cycles (like 2013->2019 in this case) might make quite a bit of sense now a days. We may be heading to a period of expensive, long-lived machines. Interesting times.
Dang it. I'm so far behind the curve I never got around to signing up/installing the app in the first place.
I clicked on the story just to post this. Why are more frequent releases per unit time a good thing? What shortcoming in Java does this address? Those more knowledgeable might be able to say something, but I thought the stability was a *good* thing...
That is an interesting story- thank you for sharing. I guess a consideration when starting a new software project should always be how others will abuse it. Its sad, but the example at hand shows that people are infinitely inventive when it comes to finding ways to ruin a commons...
This is a good question. I wonder if the outcome could be as stated (natively running Linux a thing of the past) but not for the reason given. There may be no grand evil plan from Microsoft, but separate issues could lead to less ability for users to run Linux natively.
I'm thinking about hardware compatibility. This is sometimes spotty for Linux on mobile hardware (power usage, graphics switching, sleep, etc, etc). If running WSL is good enough for most, will there be as much impetus to resolve these issues? If not, will the state of running Linux natively suffer? Seems possible.
Some people seem to think the medallion system exits only as some evil socialist government scheme to limit competition and make certain early comers wealthy without working. They can be excused for thinking this, I think, based on the coverage. Planning and limiting traffic make for boring headlines.
I looked at the list. I see a list of behaviors that a person with a basic level of civility and politeness would never engage in anyway. The fact the code of conduct exists is a sad commentary humanity in the 21st century, but it hardly seems like the end of the FreeBSD project.
I don't see a need to get up in arms to defend "Harassing", "Disrupting", "unwelcome", "threats", or "intimidation" (words in the list). These are things civil people should not do.
Would you add optical disc drives to that list? Seems to me that the market might, though I personally miss them and use external units..
I think you hit it on the head. I also would add that gnome 3 made the problem worse by having needlessly wide title bars. It feels like the loaded the dice a bit here..
Munich -> Barcelona. The "year of Linux" is starting to feel like a relay!
In all seriousness, though- hope this works out well for them. There are clearly challenges, but moving away from any monoculture is a good thing.
As you point out, whether it will work for some of us depends on details like OS and form factor details. I wonder how different this is than an iPad pro with a detachable keyboard. Don't we already have this for those who need it? I guess they are promising longer run times.
Currently on of the reasons to keep a more 'traditional' portable computer include 1) higher performance and 2) OS/software selection. If these differences break down much further ('regular' computers keep getting thinner, use ULV processors, while ARM64 gets faster) perhaps the distinction will come down to 2). Or disappear altogether.
Have to ask, does this also affect Intel-Macs? I infer "yes", but have not read many of the detailed articles yet...
He's been arrested. Will be tried. Whether or not he is afraid of the repercussions, they are real.
You are right- I should have typed "must not" to be clearer. Thanks.