It reset the default browser after the big October update; re-enabled Cortana and put it back on the task bar if you'd disabled it IIRC. Several updates (including the big October one) have also put Edge and the Windows Store back in your task bar if you had unpinned them.
Didn't happen to me. I've got three Win10 machines and also remove/hide/disable Cortana, Edge and the MS Store, and haven't seen them again since. Are these updates different based on location?
It remains to be seen if Russia can influence an election in the US.
Russia is already influencing this election, look at how much airtime is given to the subject. Just as China, Mexico, and the Philippines are. Whether there's enough influence to swing a result is another story, but you'd be naive to think it couldn't be done.
Some technical information is moving that way, but there's still quality that people need to pay for - copy editing, stats checking, pictures and illustrations etc.
Even this could be donated. Many large corps already donate millions in license fees and services to education, donating a few hours each year for these tasks wouldn't be too much of a stretch.
What made America great during the golden years of blue-collar workers wasn't manufacturing per-se, it was in finding productive use of a workforce which happened to be manufacturing at the time.
It was innovation, and since innovation required manufacturers it had the beautiful side effect of spreading wealth. Those conditions won't exist again, and no amount if wishing it back will make it so. Trump is selling a dream and the stupid people are sucking it up. Prosperity in the future of automation is going to be difficult, there are no easy catchphrase solutions. This is the weakness of democracy in the age of complexity. You can't sell complex solutions to the masses, and this is why China will win.
Are you so partisan that you would actually lament the fact that 50,000 people in Pennsylvania are going to have new jobs?
Let's have this conversation when the jobs happen. Because right now, it's is mere speculation, and regardless of political affiliation we should all judge outcomes after they've occurred, not on a press release about what might or might not happen.
But it is good to see the leader of the country promoting manufacturing.
Well sort of. Because even though he says America first, he himself still chooses cheaper products made in China. He does this because he knows that American manufacturing makes no sense economically. Sure you can feel good about so called "job/wealth-creation", but ultimately it will means everything costs more, so any gains are immediately lost due to inflation.
We know all this because it's nothing new. We went through it all in the 70's and it didn't work as well as the current model. Sure the current way is flawed, but it's less flawed than the 1970's rhetoric Trump is selling (selling to others, not himself since we know he chooses Made in China over America).
The whole text book thing seems really archaic these days. Text books should just be wiki-fied, with version control and a print format function. Give editing to only authorised experts, and update annually as required and you're done. Cost would be trivial since content would be donated just like Wikipedia is now. How is this still an issue.
I threw 10 out as a number because that seems like a big number. 5 years is probably OK too. 2 years is, in my opinion, way too short for nearly mandatory obsolesce.
Based on what? Nature is filled with examples of short life cycles, why can't our inventions follow similar patterns?
The only issue I can see is finite resource consumption, and waste management. As long as these are adequately addressed there is no reason why there should be any minimum limits.
Not even close. Cali is bankrupt. Has been for years now. The only reason they are staying afloat is because they are part of the US and can get cheap bond loans. Cali would be utterly fucked if they go through with their threats to leave the US.
Is that what Donald Trump told you?
You're going to have to provide a citation for that, since what we do know is that if California were a country it'd be the 5th largest in the world. Somewhere around a UK or France. So I'm pretty sure they'd be better off than your state under such an agreement.
CSS routinely destroys layouts on mobile devices - even on sites with a mobile-specific URL. It also is ridiculous in terms of wasting space on ultra-wide displays. Even plain text is better.
One thing I do know know, having worked on leading edge web projects (not a dev, so you are sort of right) is that modern tech, when implemented properly shits on anything you can point to from the 90's. Responsive web, single page apps, HTML5 etc, I've seen some pretty cool stuff that works equally well on *any* device and any size screen. That was impossible up to a few years ago, so my point still stands, newer is better.
The real question is "why do these executives continue to get incredible salaries when they demonstrably do nothing for the company?"
It's not nothing. Cook is still running the world most profitable company successfully, just slightly less successfully than the board would like. It's not like he's just sitting at home playing World of Warcraft while the company tanks.
That's a lot of pressure. I think I would pass on 9 million/year for that kind of responsibility. I live ok. I don't have access to all the toys, but I am relatively happy with what I got.
Same here. We talk about being rich and famous as young people, but as I age I prefer quiet and comfortable.
Maybe not that cheap, but to me $650 for a phone is PATENTLY RIDICULOUS, regardless how many features it has or what it can do.
Most phones are kept for 2 years, so you're talking 90c a day, less than a newspaper or cup of coffee, for something that does a lot more.
Sure not everyone can afford 90c/day for a mobile computer/media device/GPS/payment and application platform, but for those that can, it is still pretty good value.
The original web was just fine with no javascript, no css,
Crap. Take off the nostalgia googles, modern web browsing is done via multiple device types and screen sizes, that CSS and Scripting help to deliver this seamlessly.
There's a reason no-one choose to stick with old tech and tools, and it's not a global conspiracy, it's because they are inferior.
The US is a group of 50 states with completely separate governments, ideals, constitutions. My point is that the ideals and size of the state of California account for the entirety of the difference.
Couldn't you say the same thing about Trump or any winner of any election?
ie whatever his margin of victory, find a single state that has a similar margin, then attribute the win to only that state?
Clinton didn't win even 50% of the vote. The majority of voters voted ABC - anybody but Clinton.
Same could be said for Trump, anybody but Trump ABT. ie more people didn't vote for him than did. Seems a pointless thing to say to make since most elections are won by the most votes (however that is determined) rather than 50% of votes plus one.
Assad is preferable to the opposition in almost every way.
Same goes for Saddam. Just because someone is a dick is not reason enough to remove them. You only remove them if you have a clearly better alternative.
I see this phenomenon happen all the time in sports teams. A player does something bad, gets dropped only for the coach to realise he doesn't have better replacements and the team suffers. Sometimes, a good player playing bad is still better than a bad payer playing good.
I don't expect everyone to be perfect, I just expect the Russian government not to look like 2-bit amateurs.
Which is the point I'm trying to make. People use the term 'government' as if it's one homogeneous entity that functions consistently. There's literally millions of people working for the Russian 'government', all with their own personalities and issues. Just because the best government resources shouldn't look like 2-bit amateurs, doesn't mean your worst can't.
Again you're assuming some hive mind where every agent acts to most effective and most efficiently all the time. That would be pretty predictable and one dimensional from a nation state don't you think? Do you think maybe the people charged with such tasks could be a little more creative than that?
If I was running the country, not all my interference measures would be big-budget, high-tech government looking efforts. Some would, but I'd also have teams of grass roots cowboy types to try all sorts of amateur tactics specifically to make it look totally non-government. It could be that this was part of some other non-important project with different priorities that just luckily happened to succeed even though it wasn't expected to.
Whose to really say, it's hardly likely that there'll ever be conclusive evidence either way, but you'd be naive to think China and Russia aren't playing such games with the USA (and vice versa). And I wouldn't rule out anything based purely on the fact that it was clumsy. It's a standard strategy to throw shit around and see what sticks.
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Did you know that the two largest privately-held companies are Cargill and Koch Industries ($120B and $115B respectively)?.
This is a tech site. If you are here and haven't heard of Microsoft then you should kill yourself now.
It reset the default browser after the big October update; re-enabled Cortana and put it back on the task bar if you'd disabled it IIRC. Several updates (including the big October one) have also put Edge and the Windows Store back in your task bar if you had unpinned them.
Didn't happen to me. I've got three Win10 machines and also remove/hide/disable Cortana, Edge and the MS Store, and haven't seen them again since. Are these updates different based on location?
Minimum age is 35, not 45.
It remains to be seen if Russia can influence an election in the US.
Russia is already influencing this election, look at how much airtime is given to the subject. Just as China, Mexico, and the Philippines are. Whether there's enough influence to swing a result is another story, but you'd be naive to think it couldn't be done.
Give editing to only authorised experts
Some technical information is moving that way, but there's still quality that people need to pay for - copy editing, stats checking, pictures and illustrations etc.
Even this could be donated. Many large corps already donate millions in license fees and services to education, donating a few hours each year for these tasks wouldn't be too much of a stretch.
High value products do no use container ships.
Like cars for example? I'm pretty sure a car is worth more than an iPhone...
What made America great during the golden years of blue-collar workers wasn't manufacturing per-se, it was in finding productive use of a workforce which happened to be manufacturing at the time.
It was innovation, and since innovation required manufacturers it had the beautiful side effect of spreading wealth. Those conditions won't exist again, and no amount if wishing it back will make it so. Trump is selling a dream and the stupid people are sucking it up. Prosperity in the future of automation is going to be difficult, there are no easy catchphrase solutions. This is the weakness of democracy in the age of complexity. You can't sell complex solutions to the masses, and this is why China will win.
Are you so partisan that you would actually lament the fact that 50,000 people in Pennsylvania are going to have new jobs?
Let's have this conversation when the jobs happen. Because right now, it's is mere speculation, and regardless of political affiliation we should all judge outcomes after they've occurred, not on a press release about what might or might not happen.
But it is good to see the leader of the country promoting manufacturing.
Well sort of. Because even though he says America first, he himself still chooses cheaper products made in China. He does this because he knows that American manufacturing makes no sense economically. Sure you can feel good about so called "job/wealth-creation", but ultimately it will means everything costs more, so any gains are immediately lost due to inflation.
We know all this because it's nothing new. We went through it all in the 70's and it didn't work as well as the current model. Sure the current way is flawed, but it's less flawed than the 1970's rhetoric Trump is selling (selling to others, not himself since we know he chooses Made in China over America).
How does this steer him toward a 2024 Presidential bid?
The whole text book thing seems really archaic these days. Text books should just be wiki-fied, with version control and a print format function. Give editing to only authorised experts, and update annually as required and you're done. Cost would be trivial since content would be donated just like Wikipedia is now. How is this still an issue.
I threw 10 out as a number because that seems like a big number. 5 years is probably OK too. 2 years is, in my opinion, way too short for nearly mandatory obsolesce.
Based on what? Nature is filled with examples of short life cycles, why can't our inventions follow similar patterns?
The only issue I can see is finite resource consumption, and waste management. As long as these are adequately addressed there is no reason why there should be any minimum limits.
Not even close. Cali is bankrupt. Has been for years now. The only reason they are staying afloat is because they are part of the US and can get cheap bond loans. Cali would be utterly fucked if they go through with their threats to leave the US.
Is that what Donald Trump told you?
You're going to have to provide a citation for that, since what we do know is that if California were a country it'd be the 5th largest in the world. Somewhere around a UK or France. So I'm pretty sure they'd be better off than your state under such an agreement.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Maybe not.
CSS routinely destroys layouts on mobile devices - even on sites with a mobile-specific URL. It also is ridiculous in terms of wasting space on ultra-wide displays. Even plain text is better.
One thing I do know know, having worked on leading edge web projects (not a dev, so you are sort of right) is that modern tech, when implemented properly shits on anything you can point to from the 90's. Responsive web, single page apps, HTML5 etc, I've seen some pretty cool stuff that works equally well on *any* device and any size screen. That was impossible up to a few years ago, so my point still stands, newer is better.
The real question is "why do these executives continue to get incredible salaries when they demonstrably do nothing for the company?"
It's not nothing. Cook is still running the world most profitable company successfully, just slightly less successfully than the board would like. It's not like he's just sitting at home playing World of Warcraft while the company tanks.
That's a lot of pressure. I think I would pass on 9 million/year for that kind of responsibility. I live ok. I don't have access to all the toys, but I am relatively happy with what I got.
Same here. We talk about being rich and famous as young people, but as I age I prefer quiet and comfortable.
I should be able to get software updates for a phone for at least 10 years before I have to replace it.
Why because you say so? Why 10 and not 20 or 50?
That it costs $300 is not so big of a deal if I'm not buying a replacement every 2 years.
$300 is about 40cents/day. I'm willing to bet you spend more than than on other shit that offers less value.
Maybe not that cheap, but to me $650 for a phone is PATENTLY RIDICULOUS, regardless how many features it has or what it can do.
Most phones are kept for 2 years, so you're talking 90c a day, less than a newspaper or cup of coffee, for something that does a lot more.
Sure not everyone can afford 90c/day for a mobile computer/media device/GPS/payment and application platform, but for those that can, it is still pretty good value.
The original web was just fine with no javascript, no css,
Crap. Take off the nostalgia googles, modern web browsing is done via multiple device types and screen sizes, that CSS and Scripting help to deliver this seamlessly.
There's a reason no-one choose to stick with old tech and tools, and it's not a global conspiracy, it's because they are inferior.
Okay. Keep your money. The other states will keep their water. Or sell it to you.
Deal!
I'm not American, but I'm pretty sure California makes more money than you make water.
The US is a group of 50 states with completely separate governments, ideals, constitutions. My point is that the ideals and size of the state of California account for the entirety of the difference.
Couldn't you say the same thing about Trump or any winner of any election?
ie whatever his margin of victory, find a single state that has a similar margin, then attribute the win to only that state?
Clinton didn't win even 50% of the vote. The majority of voters voted ABC - anybody but Clinton.
Same could be said for Trump, anybody but Trump ABT. ie more people didn't vote for him than did. Seems a pointless thing to say to make since most elections are won by the most votes (however that is determined) rather than 50% of votes plus one.
Assad is preferable to the opposition in almost every way.
Same goes for Saddam. Just because someone is a dick is not reason enough to remove them. You only remove them if you have a clearly better alternative.
I see this phenomenon happen all the time in sports teams. A player does something bad, gets dropped only for the coach to realise he doesn't have better replacements and the team suffers. Sometimes, a good player playing bad is still better than a bad payer playing good.
I don't expect everyone to be perfect, I just expect the Russian government not to look like 2-bit amateurs.
Which is the point I'm trying to make. People use the term 'government' as if it's one homogeneous entity that functions consistently. There's literally millions of people working for the Russian 'government', all with their own personalities and issues. Just because the best government resources shouldn't look like 2-bit amateurs, doesn't mean your worst can't.
If a nation state wanted...
Again you're assuming some hive mind where every agent acts to most effective and most efficiently all the time. That would be pretty predictable and one dimensional from a nation state don't you think? Do you think maybe the people charged with such tasks could be a little more creative than that?
If I was running the country, not all my interference measures would be big-budget, high-tech government looking efforts. Some would, but I'd also have teams of grass roots cowboy types to try all sorts of amateur tactics specifically to make it look totally non-government. It could be that this was part of some other non-important project with different priorities that just luckily happened to succeed even though it wasn't expected to.
Whose to really say, it's hardly likely that there'll ever be conclusive evidence either way, but you'd be naive to think China and Russia aren't playing such games with the USA (and vice versa). And I wouldn't rule out anything based purely on the fact that it was clumsy. It's a standard strategy to throw shit around and see what sticks.
No, because you're desperate enough that you'd still have banged the monster, so there was no fraud.
So doesn't the same rule apply to the 'victims' in the article?
You can't have it both ways...