I'm sorry, but something about that just sets my teeth on edge. Reminds me of old Soviet propaganda newsreels. I refuse to believe all 46,000 employees at the shipyard are smiling all the time...and if they are, something's seriously wrong. Unless he was there at 4:20
I also have a hard time believing someone named their son Alastair Philip Wiper, but the world is a strange place.
Back in the days of print, sure, get a dozen mags in your pocket and you can pass your crap off as gold, for a while anyway. But now? There's a billion gamer websites and blogs, and anybody posting a fluffy review will get eaten alive by their readers, pull that a couple times and you're credibility is toast.
I'm not asking rhetorically, I honestly don't know, I don't follow the gaming press much. I don't see how they can have enough influence to be worth paying off.
They've been selling Retina displays for a couple years, slapping it on the iMac isn't rocket science. I do think it's an unnecessary feature that will jack the price, but the iMac went from being the cheap mac to the not insanely expensive Mac some time ago, so meh.
So by your logic, we should be paying 50 times as much per person for internet service. Yes, the US is bigger than Sweden, but there's no reason infrastructure, including internet, can't scale, or that in doing so the cost per user should increase. Sure you need more resources to do it, but being bigger, we have more resources.
I rebuilt my XP boxes every year or so. I've had Win7 on the same box for 3.5 years, no problems. It could be that today's hardware is so over-powered, not even MS can generate enough bloat to slow it down.
That said, it would be nice if Win10 forced apps to behave better and kept the registry clean. Not holding my breath.
Honestly, I don't need every frickin component hermetically sealed in cellophane with custom-molded plastic caps that will be instantly thrown away. I buy dozens of Macs periodically, and getting rid of Apple's foam packaging is a huge PIA. And it goes straight to the landfill. Give me Dell's cardboard any day.
I do like the jewel-box like packaging on their smaller products, it's mostly cardstock, and well implemented.
The methodology of this study is pretty shaky, so the numbers are worthless. The fact that they're what you'd expect them to be is meaningless. I'm not saying there's no harrassment issues in science or field work, or that your conjecture is necessarily wrong. I'm saying the selection bias of this survey makes it impossible to draw any conclusions from it.
A larger surface will be more prone to flex, leading to cracks. So a small surface like a watch face won't be subjected to much flexing stress, and the sapphire glass will hold up. A tablet, not so much. Pricing too. On a watch with a square inch of glass, spending ten times more for the sapphire glass isn't a big deal. On a tablet with about 30 square inches, well, do the math.
Yeah, that's pathetic. Proterra is an American company with former Director of Transportation Ray LaHood on its board, so they'll probably be picking up more contracts. According to the article, on a 17-mile route the bus will stop for 10 minutes to recharge. I'm sure customers will be thrilled to hang around for ten minutes while the bus charges.
I think electric buses are a great idea, but Proterra, not so much.
Remove that form the equation, and buses start looking very attractive. And that doesn't just apply to big cities. I live in a small but pretty dense town, parking is a huge issue. Bus service is pretty crappy. Something needs to be done, whatever it is will be expensive.
for quick and dirty editing WMM doesn't suck. The UI is fairly intuitive and I haven't crashed it yet. Features are pretty limited of course, but it's not bad for what it is.
"There are at least 4 wizards for adding a printer, some are metro-based and some are desktop based. System restore is another one like that, and there are lots more."
Hardly anyone seems to get that. People who claim they never have to look at Metro must not be doing much on their systems. Get under the hood to do any configuration, and you're bouncing back and forth between Metro and Classic and it's annoying as hell.
...they have said they were moving to a more frequent release schedule, a la Apple. Now that I've been fair to MS, let me say I despise the UI-formerly-known-as-Metro and it can't be replaced soon enough.
""The vast, vast majority of tech engineers that I talked to who are from the United States are very supportive of bringing in people from other countries because they want to work with the very best."
....you're brain dead. I wouldn't believe anything coming out of this shill's mouth.
I had DSL. YMMV of course, but in our location it was pathetic. And anyone I use will be running over AT&T's equipment, and it took them a week to fix my problem (which was in their data center) the last time I dealt with them. So yes, when it comes to ISPs, I do have to put up with jerks, because my only other option is Comcast. they're incredibly evil, but at least they deliver fast internet.
in broadband communications? Hoarding profits to buy out competitors, NBC, and politicians. Why invest in improving service for your captive customers when you can invest in takeovers and bribes?
Ummm...no? Seriously, WTF? Sure, the study is interesting, but what limits are we talking about? I suppose the Kindle might not be the best choice for reading a history text, but aside from that, meh.
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I'm sorry, but something about that just sets my teeth on edge. Reminds me of old Soviet propaganda newsreels. I refuse to believe all 46,000 employees at the shipyard are smiling all the time...and if they are, something's seriously wrong. Unless he was there at 4:20
I also have a hard time believing someone named their son Alastair Philip Wiper, but the world is a strange place.
Back in the days of print, sure, get a dozen mags in your pocket and you can pass your crap off as gold, for a while anyway. But now? There's a billion gamer websites and blogs, and anybody posting a fluffy review will get eaten alive by their readers, pull that a couple times and you're credibility is toast.
I'm not asking rhetorically, I honestly don't know, I don't follow the gaming press much. I don't see how they can have enough influence to be worth paying off.
They've been selling Retina displays for a couple years, slapping it on the iMac isn't rocket science. I do think it's an unnecessary feature that will jack the price, but the iMac went from being the cheap mac to the not insanely expensive Mac some time ago, so meh.
So by your logic, we should be paying 50 times as much per person for internet service. Yes, the US is bigger than Sweden, but there's no reason infrastructure, including internet, can't scale, or that in doing so the cost per user should increase. Sure you need more resources to do it, but being bigger, we have more resources.
I rebuilt my XP boxes every year or so. I've had Win7 on the same box for 3.5 years, no problems. It could be that today's hardware is so over-powered, not even MS can generate enough bloat to slow it down.
That said, it would be nice if Win10 forced apps to behave better and kept the registry clean. Not holding my breath.
That would be a dream!
Or maybe not.
We can only hope.
... for all hardware across a single platform family.", from TFA.
Sounds like a great idea, if implemented properly. My confidence in MS' ability to implement properly is not high.
Hey, be grateful those weren't cubic square yards
Honestly, I don't need every frickin component hermetically sealed in cellophane with custom-molded plastic caps that will be instantly thrown away. I buy dozens of Macs periodically, and getting rid of Apple's foam packaging is a huge PIA. And it goes straight to the landfill. Give me Dell's cardboard any day.
I do like the jewel-box like packaging on their smaller products, it's mostly cardstock, and well implemented.
The methodology of this study is pretty shaky, so the numbers are worthless. The fact that they're what you'd expect them to be is meaningless. I'm not saying there's no harrassment issues in science or field work, or that your conjecture is necessarily wrong. I'm saying the selection bias of this survey makes it impossible to draw any conclusions from it.
A larger surface will be more prone to flex, leading to cracks. So a small surface like a watch face won't be subjected to much flexing stress, and the sapphire glass will hold up. A tablet, not so much. Pricing too. On a watch with a square inch of glass, spending ten times more for the sapphire glass isn't a big deal. On a tablet with about 30 square inches, well, do the math.
Yeah, that's pathetic. Proterra is an American company with former Director of Transportation Ray LaHood on its board, so they'll probably be picking up more contracts. According to the article, on a 17-mile route the bus will stop for 10 minutes to recharge. I'm sure customers will be thrilled to hang around for ten minutes while the bus charges.
I think electric buses are a great idea, but Proterra, not so much.
Remove that form the equation, and buses start looking very attractive. And that doesn't just apply to big cities. I live in a small but pretty dense town, parking is a huge issue. Bus service is pretty crappy. Something needs to be done, whatever it is will be expensive.
...right?
"As far as most slashdot users are concerned, there's enough competition to let capitalism do it's thing."
I have a choice of crappy DSL that doesn't even meet the current 4 Mbps spec, or Comcast. Thanks capitalism!
a fraction of a fighter jet for that!
for quick and dirty editing WMM doesn't suck. The UI is fairly intuitive and I haven't crashed it yet. Features are pretty limited of course, but it's not bad for what it is.
"There are at least 4 wizards for adding a printer, some are metro-based and some are desktop based. System restore is another one like that, and there are lots more."
Hardly anyone seems to get that. People who claim they never have to look at Metro must not be doing much on their systems. Get under the hood to do any configuration, and you're bouncing back and forth between Metro and Classic and it's annoying as hell.
...they have said they were moving to a more frequent release schedule, a la Apple. Now that I've been fair to MS, let me say I despise the UI-formerly-known-as-Metro and it can't be replaced soon enough.
""The vast, vast majority of tech engineers that I talked to who are from the United States are very supportive of bringing in people from other countries because they want to work with the very best."
....you're brain dead. I wouldn't believe anything coming out of this shill's mouth.
I had DSL. YMMV of course, but in our location it was pathetic. And anyone I use will be running over AT&T's equipment, and it took them a week to fix my problem (which was in their data center) the last time I dealt with them. So yes, when it comes to ISPs, I do have to put up with jerks, because my only other option is Comcast. they're incredibly evil, but at least they deliver fast internet.
to build a gas station? 11 days seems easy-peasy.
in broadband communications? Hoarding profits to buy out competitors, NBC, and politicians. Why invest in improving service for your captive customers when you can invest in takeovers and bribes?
"Have we reached the limits of their usefulness?"
Ummm...no? Seriously, WTF? Sure, the study is interesting, but what limits are we talking about? I suppose the Kindle might not be the best choice for reading a history text, but aside from that, meh.