Most of the young people I know use Uber whenever possible. They know when the car is coming. They can check driver ratings and Uber responds to route abuse. DC cabs try and filter out where you are going to do their own route optimization. Uber just shows up when you call it.
We used it in San Francisco this year for the first time. It was a very nice experience. No meter antics. No complaining that the credit card machine was out of order. (I'm looking at you NYC cabs).
Windows 10 upgrades in general have been problematic for me.
E7240 MBR SSD in the second bay requires that the MSATA SSD be moved to another machine to do the upgrade and won't run windows update after the upgrade.
E6420 single partition MBR Windows 7 is erased and converted to RAW by the upgrade process.
The giant "no button" trackpad on a macbook is a great feature. I don't understand why companies like dell continue to produce high end machines with small trackpads and big buttons. My E6430 has two sets of buttons and two pointers instead of one really big pad:-(
The rise of two income families changed expense / income dynamics. High income earning units can drive up housing costs and increase the costs of other services. It can also change the vacation and time off dynamic of families with the need to sync work schedules, school schedules and paid time off.
Singles can't live on their own in many places because they are competing with pooled earning couples. Blue collar working families are now at double the disadvantage when looking for housing, child care or other social and physical services.
No we should not return to the past. Yes, we should realize that single parents and single income families have a long term disadvantage. Societies movement away from long term unions around children creates significant financial disadvantages for large portions of the US population.
The new start menu is pretty nice. "Pin to start" is great. You can go with small or large icons for the pinned apps. The pc mode is improved where you don't have the ridiculous full screen "modern apps" that you have to switch away from with alt-tab or by using hot corners. Hot corners in general are gone. Dual monitor is pretty good. All my devices work. I'm using it on my daily work and home machines. VMWare runs fine on it.
On the not so good side. It is hard to make search only search my machine and not the internet. You really feel this with a slow connection. Sometimes the start menu will not come up when I hit the windows logo. They kind of dumbed down the windows update making so you can't pick which ones you want now. That may be a good thing for most folks but I don't like it. Settings in general are an ugly mix of modern and classic. Device Manager and some of the Network settings are classic but the tray interfaces are all moder. The Moder App version One Note is confusing. It is even more confusing that you end up with two versions of OneNote if you install office. You can set the zoom / scale differently on multiple monitors but you sometimes get weird font behavior if you drag a window across the monitors.
It feels like an improvement over ghastly windows 8 , which I previously ran on all machines so I could get task bars on all monitors.
The company is 51% white, barely over half. They are making progressat a rate of 2% per year, if the goal is to be "less white" . How fast can a company change with Facebook's attrition and growth rate?
49% asian includes a several ethnic phenotype. Grouping them together makes it look like a monolithic block when in fact it probably means large pools of Indian or Chinese ancestor employees. Would facebook look more diverse with a finer breakdown?
Certain groups, who are under represented in engineering colleges, are also underrepresented in their employee pool. Facebook could do "fake" diversity like a lot of companies where HR, facilities and non-tech jobs are disproportionately black and Hispanic. It would help them make their public numbers without actually creating oportunities:-(
The Palestinian population in the occupied territories has gone from 1.03 million to 4.55 million since 1967. Either you don't know what the term means or the Israelis are the worst at implementing genocide.
I talked with folks from the Microsoft side at the build conference.
The Microsoft team was pretty passionate how 3D additive devices can change the future of manufacturing and make communities. They were really focused on the needs of small-med-large manufacturers making high quality slicers and standard drivers wildly available. The person I talked to said that they wanted to help let printer manufacturers focus on the things they innovate and not worry about the software as much that was outside their area of expertise.
Some of the larger machine shops are talking about being able to build parts with additive processes that are impossible with current techniques. You can add cooling channels, hollow spaces, internal honeycomb structures that can't be forged or milled. I'm not a machinist but it sounded like a change on the scale of computer controlled CNC
Focusing on bands may have been an issue. You have to get the band pick right or you don't sell any. People buy mixed band packs if they like "most" then they may learn to like the others as they play them.
I wish I had mod points. The one band games and packs were a horrible idea. The original Guitar Hero products introduced people to a lot of different bands from different times. My kids and their friends came to appreciate that. (Ok me too).
This is actually one of my gripes with Rocksmith. I'd really like some (80s,90s,2000s... ) anthology pack rather than "3 greenday songs"
There are dozens of languages that compile to the.NET CLI, including BASIC, C++, Ruby, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Python, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, Scheme, etc. C# is the most popular language to compile to the CLI, yes, but almost any other common language out there can be used too.
C# is really the only popular.Net language. Microsoft.Net spent time on C# while the Java / JVM crowd spent time building new languages.
.Net 4.5 has some nice async features. LINQ, on the other hand is yet another power tool that lets the unsuspecting create amazingly inefficient code. No one ever seems to have any idea what their LINQ code is doing under the hood.
Java unchecked exceptions operate basically the same was as C#/.Net extensions. You catch them where you want in the call stack or it bubbles all the top.
People don't like checked exceptions because your code is filled with documentation about the types of problems it can have. Of course the alternative is you end up with catch Exception(e) code at boundaries which has its own problems.
VS is great unless you want to run and build multiple projects (solutions) at the same time. Want to work on a library and a couple consumers? Open multiple copies of Visual Studio. Want to run the debugger against multiple copies? Run multiple copies of Visual Studio. Want to do certain operations in test or other modes? Run Visual. Studio as administrator
VS only got the ability to edit code in the debugger in 64bit mode this year!
uh, well that's easy, the aliens are the bad guys and the predators are just that.
The aliens have the ability to wipe out entire spieces and co-opt their DNA. The predators assume they can control that type of danger to support their coming of age rituals. The Predators are stupid.
This is another example of Apple's attention to the small details of how they do things. Little things add up to create the overall brand image.
Apple's attention to detail in the packaging of their products is a good example. People only "unpack" their products once but apple considers that part of the experience of owning their products.
125,000 miles would be considered a serious quality defect with a traditional auto. If memory serves me right, most recent example was BMW nikasil engine block issue.
Owners of early 2000s Dodge Caravans and Ford Windstars might disagree. Plenty got less than 100,000 before developing issues that cost more to repair than the value of the vehicle.
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My immediate family has 5 iphones, all 16GB. No one has yet noticed that they are useless. I will inform them :-0
Stick with the smaller phone if you want to use smaller pickets. That's why they still sell it.
Most of the young people I know use Uber whenever possible. They know when the car is coming. They can check driver ratings and Uber responds to route abuse. DC cabs try and filter out where you are going to do their own route optimization. Uber just shows up when you call it.
We used it in San Francisco this year for the first time. It was a very nice experience. No meter antics. No complaining that the credit card machine was out of order. (I'm looking at you NYC cabs).
Windows 10 upgrades in general have been problematic for me.
E7240 MBR SSD in the second bay requires that the MSATA SSD be moved to another machine to do the upgrade and won't run windows update after the upgrade.
E6420 single partition MBR Windows 7 is erased and converted to RAW by the upgrade process.
The giant "no button" trackpad on a macbook is a great feature. I don't understand why companies like dell continue to produce high end machines with small trackpads and big buttons. My E6430 has two sets of buttons and two pointers instead of one really big pad :-(
The rise of two income families changed expense / income dynamics. High income earning units can drive up housing costs and increase the costs of other services. It can also change the vacation and time off dynamic of families with the need to sync work schedules, school schedules and paid time off.
Singles can't live on their own in many places because they are competing with pooled earning couples. Blue collar working families are now at double the disadvantage when looking for housing, child care or other social and physical services.
No we should not return to the past. Yes, we should realize that single parents and single income families have a long term disadvantage. Societies movement away from long term unions around children creates significant financial disadvantages for large portions of the US population.
The new start menu is pretty nice. "Pin to start" is great. You can go with small or large icons for the pinned apps. The pc mode is improved where you don't have the ridiculous full screen "modern apps" that you have to switch away from with alt-tab or by using hot corners. Hot corners in general are gone. Dual monitor is pretty good. All my devices work. I'm using it on my daily work and home machines. VMWare runs fine on it.
On the not so good side. It is hard to make search only search my machine and not the internet. You really feel this with a slow connection. Sometimes the start menu will not come up when I hit the windows logo. They kind of dumbed down the windows update making so you can't pick which ones you want now. That may be a good thing for most folks but I don't like it. Settings in general are an ugly mix of modern and classic. Device Manager and some of the Network settings are classic but the tray interfaces are all moder. The Moder App version One Note is confusing. It is even more confusing that you end up with two versions of OneNote if you install office. You can set the zoom / scale differently on multiple monitors but you sometimes get weird font behavior if you drag a window across the monitors.
It feels like an improvement over ghastly windows 8 , which I previously ran on all machines so I could get task bars on all monitors.
The company is 51% white, barely over half. They are making progressat a rate of 2% per year, if the goal is to be "less white" . How fast can a company change with Facebook's attrition and growth rate? 49% asian includes a several ethnic phenotype. Grouping them together makes it look like a monolithic block when in fact it probably means large pools of Indian or Chinese ancestor employees. Would facebook look more diverse with a finer breakdown?
:-(
Certain groups, who are under represented in engineering colleges, are also underrepresented in their employee pool. Facebook could do "fake" diversity like a lot of companies where HR, facilities and non-tech jobs are disproportionately black and Hispanic. It would help them make their public numbers without actually creating oportunities
The Palestinian population in the occupied territories has gone from 1.03 million to 4.55 million since 1967. Either you don't know what the term means or the Israelis are the worst at implementing genocide.
Burton snowboard leash. The metal clip lets me hang my keys from my motorcycle jacket or a belt loop.
I talked with folks from the Microsoft side at the build conference. The Microsoft team was pretty passionate how 3D additive devices can change the future of manufacturing and make communities. They were really focused on the needs of small-med-large manufacturers making high quality slicers and standard drivers wildly available. The person I talked to said that they wanted to help let printer manufacturers focus on the things they innovate and not worry about the software as much that was outside their area of expertise.
Some of the larger machine shops are talking about being able to build parts with additive processes that are impossible with current techniques. You can add cooling channels, hollow spaces, internal honeycomb structures that can't be forged or milled. I'm not a machinist but it sounded like a change on the scale of computer controlled CNC
Why did you post AC. This was the most informative post of the bunch.
That all happened after embrace and extend and a worldview change at Microsoft
Agree 100%. The Rhythm games are group games. IMO: Rocksmith is great if you are a loner. No one wants to watch you learn to play.
Focusing on bands may have been an issue. You have to get the band pick right or you don't sell any. People buy mixed band packs if they like "most" then they may learn to like the others as they play them.
I wish I had mod points. The one band games and packs were a horrible idea. The original Guitar Hero products introduced people to a lot of different bands from different times. My kids and their friends came to appreciate that. (Ok me too). This is actually one of my gripes with Rocksmith. I'd really like some (80s,90s,2000s... ) anthology pack rather than "3 greenday songs"
There are dozens of languages that compile to the .NET CLI, including BASIC, C++, Ruby, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Python, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, Scheme, etc. C# is the most popular language to compile to the CLI, yes, but almost any other common language out there can be used too.
C# is really the only popular .Net language. Microsoft .Net spent time on C# while the Java / JVM crowd spent time building new languages.
.Net 4.5 has some nice async features. LINQ, on the other hand is yet another power tool that lets the unsuspecting create amazingly inefficient code. No one ever seems to have any idea what their LINQ code is doing under the hood.
Exception handling isn't that different.
Java unchecked exceptions operate basically the same was as C#/.Net extensions. You catch them where you want in the call stack or it bubbles all the top.
People don't like checked exceptions because your code is filled with documentation about the types of problems it can have. Of course the alternative is you end up with catch Exception(e) code at boundaries which has its own problems.
VS only got the ability to edit code in the debugger in 64bit mode this year!
The aliens have the ability to wipe out entire spieces and co-opt their DNA. The predators assume they can control that type of danger to support their coming of age rituals. The Predators are stupid.
Sony just told the Jihadist how to make sure there will never be any movies involving Islam shown in the US.
This is another example of Apple's attention to the small details of how they do things. Little things add up to create the overall brand image. Apple's attention to detail in the packaging of their products is a good example. People only "unpack" their products once but apple considers that part of the experience of owning their products.
"Let me be clear about my wish. I’m neither asking for more time than is likely nor foreshortening my life."
He was talking about how much health care/pain he'd be willing to put up with
"I am talking about how long I want to live and the kind and amount of health care I will consent to after 75"
Please read the article before posting all kinds of protestations how stupid the guy is.
125,000 miles would be considered a serious quality defect with a traditional auto. If memory serves me right, most recent example was BMW nikasil engine block issue.
Owners of early 2000s Dodge Caravans and Ford Windstars might disagree. Plenty got less than 100,000 before developing issues that cost more to repair than the value of the vehicle.