Really but why? I've quite enjoyed not having to upgrade my sandy bridge. I overclocked it to 4.5Ghz 6 years ago and it's still faster in everyday tasks than even the latest $1000 offering, only in extreme multi core tasks does it lack, which I rarely need.
A new system is such a distraction from my work. Days to reinstall and update everything, weeks to weed out issues and acclimate to a totally new setup.
Now if we could only get Microsoft to support Windows 7 indefinitely. I'd gladly pay $10/year for infinite support, or at least for another 5-10 years before AI takes my job.
Well I would hope one day, all jobs that no one wants to do are done by automation. Leaving humans to do things they want to do, even if automation can do them. This would amount to mostly the arts I would think, but some like to do non-artistic things for fun, and just imagine things that might be fun if you don't HAVE to do them, almost everything actually, because you are learning and growing. Nearly everyday of your life could be filled with a new task you get to learn, practice, and try for fun.
The struggle will be the transition to all this, somehow we have to figure out how to organize, prioritize, and distribute the automated wealth and things.
Who uses Facebook most? Young people. Who voted for Clinton? Mostly young voters who use Facebook. If Facebook had any effect, it supported Clinton rather than Trump.
Facebook stats: Age 25 to 34, at 29.7% of users, is the most common age demographic. (Source:Emarketer 2012)
A company that exists solely to make profit is trying to "capitalize" on something!
"But in the presentation it became clear that Microsoft is capitalizing on the recent hype of 3D printing and positioning itself to capitalize on the future consumer markets for 3D printing."
I find it amusing walking robot creators talking about accessing areas inaccessible via wheeled vehicles. Walking down a 1cm step? Are you kidding me! Wheeled robots blow this thing away in every aspect, until it can go up stairs, climb the side of a mountain, and walk around just as good as a human, please call your job what it is, a tiny fractional step having fun spending other peoples money.
We need a new exchange that only executes trades once per month. If a company is on this exchange it is not allowed to be on any other exchanges. Problem solved. If you need your money out early there is a small fee. No more flash crashes, much less speculation, invest in a company due to dividends and growth and not emotionally fabricated stock appreciation.
I agree, I was running into memory barriers on XP with photoshop, and especially 3dsmax. I do a lot of heavy content creation though and 99% of people will never need 64 bit. Windows 7 definitely solved this problem, and brought some other little nice things to the table, nothing ground breaking by any means.
I wish they would just leave the fucking UI alone, NOBODY cares about having to learn a new interface to get shit done! I guess its hard swimming against the stream of mass consumers that don't do jack shit on their computer and want everything glossy and dumbed down. The crash of PC sales will probably be a good thing, as now only business users are left and now they can start optimizing for actually getting work done with a PC rather than showing off 4 year old photos of cats that no one gives a flying fuck about.
Are you joking? Have you been living under a rock the past 10 years? The online restriction has 100% everything to do with piracy, anything else is simply a side effect. It is no secret, piracy has been raping the game market, well guess what, you can't have free games forever! Each year you have more games pushed to server only for the one simple reason of authentication. EA are not scumbags! They are in business like every other single business on the planet, to make money. If you would rather steal games than pay for them then they don't have much of a choice, if you don't like it then don't buy the fucking game! It is pretty simple.
I can't believe it took so many comments before this was written. iOS and Andriod have OBLITERATED the console and handheld markets. Is it really a surprise, how can a dedicated system with $30 games even come close to competing with free and 99c games?
The ONLY chance Nintendo has is by making a specialized Andriod game device which has hardware controls, for many games hardware controls are much better. Even though touch devices have BT controls, they are not standardized, expensive, and not well supported. Oh and the other huge change, online distribution only.
In FL a new 4 year grad earns 45k+pension+benefits. Most teachers I know work from 8-3 in the classroom and a few hours outside of that, and a many of them hold second hand jobs, not because they have to by any means, but to simply support frivolous expenses. Add in the ridiculous amount of holidays and summer off, and they are one of the most overpaid professions in my opinion. It takes little special education and ability to teach and almost anyone can do it. Could I walk into any classroom tomorrow K-12 and teach it, yes with out a doubt.
I'm surprised they didn't post GPS data of the actual route, especially the parking lot incident. They should also be able to get security camera footage. If this is true the journalist's career should be over, flush the fuck down the toilet!
Because the vast majority of people live less than 60 miles from work and waste $26,000 on gas every 10 years! Not to mention causing vast amounts of pollution and noise. This is not the end-all of electric cars, but an important step on the way to an affordable electric car for everyone. How can it NOT be beneficial to society, the economy, the country, and the environment to use less fuel for travel? That's why the fuck!
I agree and the summary is very negatively biased. I clicked through to the BGR article expecting to find a scathing summary, when in fact it was quite the opposite.
"On an island, the Surface Pro is a fantastic premium computer that is portable, versatile and capable. It is priced fairly and it offers novel features that provide clear advantages over rival devices. But in a market where interest in personal computers is declining and Windows 8 is struggling to gain traction, I fear the Surface Pro might not be the right product right now.
The Surface Pro is not good fit for everyone, but those who do purchase Microsoft’s new tablet for work or for personal use — whether they number in the thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions — will not be disappointed."
Windows is dying, office is dead, quit trying to force them! Zune is dead, and windows phone is in the ICU, Microsoft's only somewhat healthy division with a possible future is entertainment, why in the hell would they sell it?
If I were Microsoft, I would launch a new console immediately, featuring kick ass hardware with no dvd/bluray drive and all software is downloaded with a 30% royalty rate, good bye publisher distribution! The current xbox live gold would become free, and a new tier of xbox live would add a free video streaming library like netflix, AND HERE IS THE BIG ONE, a free video GAME library that works like netflix, you can only check out a certain number of games at a time and their save state is wiped when the game is returned. The only games in the this library are older and lower tier ones, much like the netflix movie library.
Had pain in my hands in the morning when waking, with stiff wrists and knuckles. I got a PowerBall LCD and if anything it made the pain worse, quite simply putting more stress on an already stressed area should make it worse right? What solved my problem was to simply always take my hands off the mice when not in use (I dual wield) What I was doing was keeping my hand on my mouse at all times, and resting my wrist on my desk, when reading an article or coding I would have my hand there the whole time, even if I was only using the mouse a few seconds. This habit wasn't too hard to break. I also started taking glucosamine, a joint lubricant, after a few months all of my pain went away.
"and are therefore inherently more dangerous" Ah but you see that is the whole point of the comparison, logic would tell you they are more dangerous, but statistically they are not! More people are injured and die from clubs and hammers than guns. Its simply to point out that there are so few people killed by guns and gun violence that is pointless to ban them. Especially given the facts that:
1) most mass shootings were committed by people on extreme medication (not mentally 100%) 2) most used illegal guns (outlawing guns is not going to effect mass killings), we have outlawed and spent trillions on the war on drugs for decades, you can still buy any drug in every city in America 3) most mass murderers killed themselves, meaning why in hell are they going to care about the penalties having an illegal gun? 4) even if this were utopia and no assault/high mag guns existed they will simply use 8 pistols, a bomb, or any other of the 100 devices to kill a bunch of people
The solution is not playing whack a mole with methods to kill people, its to help those who are mentally ill, depressed, and with anger/rage issues. Even then I doubt its possible to reduce mass murders, its simply a product of modern society. The sooner you realize you are never 100% safe, the sooner we can rid ourselves of the ridiculous security theater bullshit.
I'm not saying you don't live in cities, I'm saying that the article is comparing pockets of Europe, to the USA as a whole. If you compare ~43 regions of the USA each with a population of 8M to that of Switzerland, of course we are going to have varying degrees of healthy ones, just as Europe and the rest of the world does. It is exactly as saying, lets pick the healthiest area in the US, then compare that to the average of all Europe and say all of Europe has low life expectancy, when clearly it does not.
How can you compare the USA with a population of 350M to Switzerland of 8M, we have CITIES with more people! Now maybe if you compared US states vs Switzerland I guarantee you things would shake out quite differently. Also its very amusing the number one reason they cite is gun violence, this is propaganda pumping the public full of bullshit to pass gun control. Perhaps they should ban clubs and hammers, since more people die every year due them as one report recently found. And then there's the other study that found any time you ban or limit guns violent crimes increase.
That is very hard to believe, do you really think that with millions spent researching LEDs no one has tried different lens combinations, magnifiers, reflectors, and fresnels? Also, if 50% of the light was being absorbed by the LED wouldn't it get so hot it would melt itself?
The youtube video is worthless, they show off lame functionality that is entirely possible with any current normal tablet, such as extended desktops, tapping to move documents, and location aware features. The only papertab feature is bending the paper to navigate pages, which is error prone, gimmicky, and not worth much. Show me the technology in the papertab on why it is so thin and flexible.
If you are deleting functionality I highly suggesting leaving a permanent comment in saying what was deleted and when. Specs change all the time and the code may be needed in the future, a one line comment and hunt to SC will save from rewriting the functionality in the future. Without comments no one is going to search for it and it is lost forever.
If 6ft of concrete is deemed safe then use 2-3ft and a magnetic shield, this way you reduce mass, and are still protected from small projectiles. There is probably a balance point where using both is better than either one on its own.
Another idea is to use lunar material for the shielding, or create a satellite garbage collector and use space junk.
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Really but why? I've quite enjoyed not having to upgrade my sandy bridge. I overclocked it to 4.5Ghz 6 years ago and it's still faster in everyday tasks than even the latest $1000 offering, only in extreme multi core tasks does it lack, which I rarely need.
A new system is such a distraction from my work. Days to reinstall and update everything, weeks to weed out issues and acclimate to a totally new setup.
Now if we could only get Microsoft to support Windows 7 indefinitely. I'd gladly pay $10/year for infinite support, or at least for another 5-10 years before AI takes my job.
How about simply hiring a full time on call helicopter? UberRotors VerticalLyft TelsaZoom
Well I would hope one day, all jobs that no one wants to do are done by automation. Leaving humans to do things they want to do, even if automation can do them. This would amount to mostly the arts I would think, but some like to do non-artistic things for fun, and just imagine things that might be fun if you don't HAVE to do them, almost everything actually, because you are learning and growing. Nearly everyday of your life could be filled with a new task you get to learn, practice, and try for fun.
The struggle will be the transition to all this, somehow we have to figure out how to organize, prioritize, and distribute the automated wealth and things.
There is no point in wasting money on a good lock or door if there is a window, even then it's usually a waste of money.
Who uses Facebook most? Young people. Who voted for Clinton? Mostly young voters who use Facebook. If Facebook had any effect, it supported Clinton rather than Trump.
Facebook stats: Age 25 to 34, at 29.7% of users, is the most common age demographic. (Source:Emarketer 2012)
http://www.cnn.com/election/re...
18-29 Clinton 55% Trump 37%
30-44 Clinton 50% Trump 42%
A company that exists solely to make profit is trying to "capitalize" on something!
"But in the presentation it became clear that Microsoft is capitalizing on the recent hype of 3D printing and positioning itself to capitalize on the future consumer markets for 3D printing."
I find it amusing walking robot creators talking about accessing areas inaccessible via wheeled vehicles. Walking down a 1cm step? Are you kidding me! Wheeled robots blow this thing away in every aspect, until it can go up stairs, climb the side of a mountain, and walk around just as good as a human, please call your job what it is, a tiny fractional step having fun spending other peoples money.
We need a new exchange that only executes trades once per month. If a company is on this exchange it is not allowed to be on any other exchanges. Problem solved. If you need your money out early there is a small fee. No more flash crashes, much less speculation, invest in a company due to dividends and growth and not emotionally fabricated stock appreciation.
I agree, I was running into memory barriers on XP with photoshop, and especially 3dsmax. I do a lot of heavy content creation though and 99% of people will never need 64 bit. Windows 7 definitely solved this problem, and brought some other little nice things to the table, nothing ground breaking by any means.
I wish they would just leave the fucking UI alone, NOBODY cares about having to learn a new interface to get shit done! I guess its hard swimming against the stream of mass consumers that don't do jack shit on their computer and want everything glossy and dumbed down. The crash of PC sales will probably be a good thing, as now only business users are left and now they can start optimizing for actually getting work done with a PC rather than showing off 4 year old photos of cats that no one gives a flying fuck about.
Are you joking? Have you been living under a rock the past 10 years? The online restriction has 100% everything to do with piracy, anything else is simply a side effect. It is no secret, piracy has been raping the game market, well guess what, you can't have free games forever! Each year you have more games pushed to server only for the one simple reason of authentication. EA are not scumbags! They are in business like every other single business on the planet, to make money. If you would rather steal games than pay for them then they don't have much of a choice, if you don't like it then don't buy the fucking game! It is pretty simple.
I can't believe it took so many comments before this was written. iOS and Andriod have OBLITERATED the console and handheld markets. Is it really a surprise, how can a dedicated system with $30 games even come close to competing with free and 99c games?
The ONLY chance Nintendo has is by making a specialized Andriod game device which has hardware controls, for many games hardware controls are much better. Even though touch devices have BT controls, they are not standardized, expensive, and not well supported. Oh and the other huge change, online distribution only.
In FL a new 4 year grad earns 45k+pension+benefits. Most teachers I know work from 8-3 in the classroom and a few hours outside of that, and a many of them hold second hand jobs, not because they have to by any means, but to simply support frivolous expenses. Add in the ridiculous amount of holidays and summer off, and they are one of the most overpaid professions in my opinion. It takes little special education and ability to teach and almost anyone can do it. Could I walk into any classroom tomorrow K-12 and teach it, yes with out a doubt.
I'm surprised they didn't post GPS data of the actual route, especially the parking lot incident. They should also be able to get security camera footage. If this is true the journalist's career should be over, flush the fuck down the toilet!
Because the vast majority of people live less than 60 miles from work and waste $26,000 on gas every 10 years! Not to mention causing vast amounts of pollution and noise. This is not the end-all of electric cars, but an important step on the way to an affordable electric car for everyone. How can it NOT be beneficial to society, the economy, the country, and the environment to use less fuel for travel? That's why the fuck!
I agree and the summary is very negatively biased. I clicked through to the BGR article expecting to find a scathing summary, when in fact it was quite the opposite.
"On an island, the Surface Pro is a fantastic premium computer that is portable, versatile and capable. It is priced fairly and it offers novel features that provide clear advantages over rival devices. But in a market where interest in personal computers is declining and Windows 8 is struggling to gain traction, I fear the Surface Pro might not be the right product right now.
The Surface Pro is not good fit for everyone, but those who do purchase Microsoft’s new tablet for work or for personal use — whether they number in the thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions — will not be disappointed."
Windows is dying, office is dead, quit trying to force them! Zune is dead, and windows phone is in the ICU, Microsoft's only somewhat healthy division with a possible future is entertainment, why in the hell would they sell it?
If I were Microsoft, I would launch a new console immediately, featuring kick ass hardware with no dvd/bluray drive and all software is downloaded with a 30% royalty rate, good bye publisher distribution! The current xbox live gold would become free, and a new tier of xbox live would add a free video streaming library like netflix, AND HERE IS THE BIG ONE, a free video GAME library that works like netflix, you can only check out a certain number of games at a time and their save state is wiped when the game is returned. The only games in the this library are older and lower tier ones, much like the netflix movie library.
Had pain in my hands in the morning when waking, with stiff wrists and knuckles. I got a PowerBall LCD and if anything it made the pain worse, quite simply putting more stress on an already stressed area should make it worse right? What solved my problem was to simply always take my hands off the mice when not in use (I dual wield) What I was doing was keeping my hand on my mouse at all times, and resting my wrist on my desk, when reading an article or coding I would have my hand there the whole time, even if I was only using the mouse a few seconds. This habit wasn't too hard to break. I also started taking glucosamine, a joint lubricant, after a few months all of my pain went away.
Does this hail the rebirth of religion? Or perhaps the renaissance of sci-fi in 5-10 years?
"and are therefore inherently more dangerous" Ah but you see that is the whole point of the comparison, logic would tell you they are more dangerous, but statistically they are not! More people are injured and die from clubs and hammers than guns. Its simply to point out that there are so few people killed by guns and gun violence that is pointless to ban them. Especially given the facts that:
1) most mass shootings were committed by people on extreme medication (not mentally 100%)
2) most used illegal guns (outlawing guns is not going to effect mass killings), we have outlawed and spent trillions on the war on drugs for decades, you can still buy any drug in every city in America
3) most mass murderers killed themselves, meaning why in hell are they going to care about the penalties having an illegal gun?
4) even if this were utopia and no assault/high mag guns existed they will simply use 8 pistols, a bomb, or any other of the 100 devices to kill a bunch of people
The solution is not playing whack a mole with methods to kill people, its to help those who are mentally ill, depressed, and with anger/rage issues. Even then I doubt its possible to reduce mass murders, its simply a product of modern society. The sooner you realize you are never 100% safe, the sooner we can rid ourselves of the ridiculous security theater bullshit.
I'm not saying you don't live in cities, I'm saying that the article is comparing pockets of Europe, to the USA as a whole. If you compare ~43 regions of the USA each with a population of 8M to that of Switzerland, of course we are going to have varying degrees of healthy ones, just as Europe and the rest of the world does. It is exactly as saying, lets pick the healthiest area in the US, then compare that to the average of all Europe and say all of Europe has low life expectancy, when clearly it does not.
How can you compare the USA with a population of 350M to Switzerland of 8M, we have CITIES with more people! Now maybe if you compared US states vs Switzerland I guarantee you things would shake out quite differently. Also its very amusing the number one reason they cite is gun violence, this is propaganda pumping the public full of bullshit to pass gun control. Perhaps they should ban clubs and hammers, since more people die every year due them as one report recently found. And then there's the other study that found any time you ban or limit guns violent crimes increase.
That is very hard to believe, do you really think that with millions spent researching LEDs no one has tried different lens combinations, magnifiers, reflectors, and fresnels? Also, if 50% of the light was being absorbed by the LED wouldn't it get so hot it would melt itself?
The youtube video is worthless, they show off lame functionality that is entirely possible with any current normal tablet, such as extended desktops, tapping to move documents, and location aware features. The only papertab feature is bending the paper to navigate pages, which is error prone, gimmicky, and not worth much. Show me the technology in the papertab on why it is so thin and flexible.
If you are deleting functionality I highly suggesting leaving a permanent comment in saying what was deleted and when. Specs change all the time and the code may be needed in the future, a one line comment and hunt to SC will save from rewriting the functionality in the future. Without comments no one is going to search for it and it is lost forever.
If 6ft of concrete is deemed safe then use 2-3ft and a magnetic shield, this way you reduce mass, and are still protected from small projectiles. There is probably a balance point where using both is better than either one on its own.
Another idea is to use lunar material for the shielding, or create a satellite garbage collector and use space junk.