I think there's a firmware update to fix the autorotate issue, not sure if it works. I haven't seen the machine for some time, she keeps it at work now.
....to the table. Some of it might even be good, but hiding it under a steaming pile of UI was not the smoothest of moves. As for their store, color me shocked that MS of all people copied a competitor's product with a half-assed implementation.
I'm on my second 5-button Intellipoint mouse. The software for programming the buttons is so much better than any of the competitors I've tried. Really wish they hadn't killed it. Apparently I'm not alone, they go for a premium on ebay.
This. Compare today's cordless tools to those of the late 90s. Night and day. The battery revolution has been going on for years, but because it didn't happen overnight nobody's noticing.
I expect Slashdot to trumpet every potential battery break-through because it's new for nerds. I don't expect to find those new batteries on the shelf tomorrow because I'm not an idiot. It's a long road from the lab to the market, most brilliant ideas don't make it.
...but that's a pretty low bar. For years with Comcast we had random half-hour outages in the evening. That ended about a year ago, so yay for them for finally dealing with whatever the problem was. I rented a place in California last year that had Comcast internet, but it only worked before 3 PM or so. I suspect the problem in both cases was massive under-provisioning, but if they weren't skimping on bandwidth how could they afford to keep buying up other companies?
Just seems like a bad move. Microsoft has been trying and failing to crack that market for a decade, Blackberry's been pushed out. This is not a market crying out for new players.
After promoting the hell out of Aero and how beautiful it was, they come out with crappy, blocky tiles. What step backwards. It's almost as if they have no respect for their customers.
Agreed. And another point...different pedestrians travel at a variety of speeds. What would be unsafe for a slow-moving person can be plenty of time for someone who's fit and moving quickly. the flashing red doesn't tell us much, it's some engineers' best guess as to what isn't enough time to cross. A countdown is objective and allows us to make our own judgement.
"drivers who don't think the belts are necessary may in fact drive more recklessly while wearing them and thus negate many of the gains"
I don't get the logic on this one. If drivers don't believe in the efficacy of seatbelts, why would they drive more recklessly while wearing them? Maybe they're doing so as a way of sticking it to The Man, I suppose.
The first pic seems to be a solar bench that hasn't actually had the solar part installed yet, why the hell would they use that to illustrate the story? And newspapers wonder why they're struggling....
Interesting idea, but these things will disappear about 10 minutes after Cisco gets tired of throwing money at them.
What perfectly justifiable reason could they have? Examples please?
Now if you're using "could" as in "I could sprout wings and fly tomorrow right after I win the lottery" then sure, they "could" have justifiable reasons. It's just very, very, very unlikely.
"Why OP threw in the word "around" is beyond me."
Summaries are required to be inaccurate at the very least, outrageously misleading is preferred if you can manage it.
Yes, I like the fuzzy-math lazy reportage. Five times the range of an electric car is meaningless if you don't say which electric car. Heck, Teslas have a variety of ranges depending on which model you buy.
Ditto. I've used Windows since 3.1, and my wife's Win8 tablet makes me insane. I'm on my second Macbook Air, absolutely love it, no way I'm trading it in.
If you were sitting a couple feet off the ground going 500+ MPH, you might be more impressed than you think. And of course it's stupid, but that's not the point.
" Folks probably would be happy to have the core features of Windows 8 if the menus and buttons looked familiar to the last version. They do not."
While I'm more than happy to criticizeWin8's looks, that's not the crux of the problem. It's the behavior. Randomly switching between Classic and Metro, hidden functions that have to be swiped or god-knows-what if you don't have a touch screen, two control panels, one in Metro, one in Classic, and neither can do everything so you get to hunt within both, and on and on. I don't care for Win8's aesthetics, and am glad to see Yosemite is going in the opposite direction with more transparency and other visual features, but looks are a very small part of it's problems.
And I think you get that, but the sentence I quoted really bugged me.
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I think there's a firmware update to fix the autorotate issue, not sure if it works. I haven't seen the machine for some time, she keeps it at work now.
....to the table. Some of it might even be good, but hiding it under a steaming pile of UI was not the smoothest of moves. As for their store, color me shocked that MS of all people copied a competitor's product with a half-assed implementation.
and .....yeah. It was my first in-depth experience with Win8, and not a good one. Layer on some buggy firmware, and boy did the good times roll.
As long as everyone gives 110 percent, both can come first!
I'm on my second 5-button Intellipoint mouse. The software for programming the buttons is so much better than any of the competitors I've tried. Really wish they hadn't killed it. Apparently I'm not alone, they go for a premium on ebay.
Thanks, I was wondering how that could be true. I'm shocked, shocked, that poster got it wrong and a /. editor didn't catch it. What are the odds?
This. Compare today's cordless tools to those of the late 90s. Night and day. The battery revolution has been going on for years, but because it didn't happen overnight nobody's noticing.
I expect Slashdot to trumpet every potential battery break-through because it's new for nerds. I don't expect to find those new batteries on the shelf tomorrow because I'm not an idiot. It's a long road from the lab to the market, most brilliant ideas don't make it.
Next they'll be telling us Pluto isn't a planet. Enough with this revisionism!
And by god if Brontosaurus was good enough for Fred Flintstone, it's good enough for me!
...but that's a pretty low bar. For years with Comcast we had random half-hour outages in the evening. That ended about a year ago, so yay for them for finally dealing with whatever the problem was. I rented a place in California last year that had Comcast internet, but it only worked before 3 PM or so. I suspect the problem in both cases was massive under-provisioning, but if they weren't skimping on bandwidth how could they afford to keep buying up other companies?
Just seems like a bad move. Microsoft has been trying and failing to crack that market for a decade, Blackberry's been pushed out. This is not a market crying out for new players.
After promoting the hell out of Aero and how beautiful it was, they come out with crappy, blocky tiles. What step backwards. It's almost as if they have no respect for their customers.
Agreed. And another point...different pedestrians travel at a variety of speeds. What would be unsafe for a slow-moving person can be plenty of time for someone who's fit and moving quickly. the flashing red doesn't tell us much, it's some engineers' best guess as to what isn't enough time to cross. A countdown is objective and allows us to make our own judgement.
"drivers who don't think the belts are necessary may in fact drive more recklessly while wearing them and thus negate many of the gains"
I don't get the logic on this one. If drivers don't believe in the efficacy of seatbelts, why would they drive more recklessly while wearing them? Maybe they're doing so as a way of sticking it to The Man, I suppose.
The first pic seems to be a solar bench that hasn't actually had the solar part installed yet, why the hell would they use that to illustrate the story? And newspapers wonder why they're struggling....
Interesting idea, but these things will disappear about 10 minutes after Cisco gets tired of throwing money at them.
What perfectly justifiable reason could they have? Examples please?
Now if you're using "could" as in "I could sprout wings and fly tomorrow right after I win the lottery" then sure, they "could" have justifiable reasons. It's just very, very, very unlikely.
"Why OP threw in the word "around" is beyond me."
Summaries are required to be inaccurate at the very least, outrageously misleading is preferred if you can manage it.
Yes, I like the fuzzy-math lazy reportage. Five times the range of an electric car is meaningless if you don't say which electric car. Heck, Teslas have a variety of ranges depending on which model you buy.
Ditto. I've used Windows since 3.1, and my wife's Win8 tablet makes me insane. I'm on my second Macbook Air, absolutely love it, no way I'm trading it in.
Was that before or after he gave Hans Blix and his team of inspectors the run of the place and they still couldn't find any WMDs?
If you were sitting a couple feet off the ground going 500+ MPH, you might be more impressed than you think. And of course it's stupid, but that's not the point.
What could possibly go wrong?
No. Here's the latest figures:
Apr 2014 $275,800 $320,100
Yes, there was a bubble. It popped, and most markets recovered.
The inflation index usually ignores the cost of housing, conveniently, which happens to be most people's greatest single expense. As you can see, the minimum wage is hardly keeping up:
Median Average
1980 $64,600 $76,400
1981 $68,900 $83,000
1982 $69,300 $83,900
1983 $75,300 $89,800
1984 $79,900 $97,600
1985 $84,300 $100,800
1986 $92,000 $111,900
1987 $104,500 $127,200
1988 $112,500 $138,300
1989 $120,000 $148,800
1990 $122,900 $149,800
1991 $120,000 $147,200
1992 $121,500 $144,100
1993 $126,500 $147,700
1994 $130,000 $154,500
1995 $133,900 $158,700
1996 $140,000 $166,400
1997 $146,000 $176,200
1998 $152,500 $181,900
1999 $161,000 $195,600
2000 $169,000 $207,000
2001 $175,200 $213,200
2002 $187,600 $228,700
2003 $195,000 $246,300
2004 $221,000 $274,500
2005 $240,900 $297,000
2006 $246,500 $305,900
Now cut that out!
" Folks probably would be happy to have the core features of Windows 8 if the menus and buttons looked familiar to the last version. They do not."
While I'm more than happy to criticizeWin8's looks, that's not the crux of the problem. It's the behavior. Randomly switching between Classic and Metro, hidden functions that have to be swiped or god-knows-what if you don't have a touch screen, two control panels, one in Metro, one in Classic, and neither can do everything so you get to hunt within both, and on and on. I don't care for Win8's aesthetics, and am glad to see Yosemite is going in the opposite direction with more transparency and other visual features, but looks are a very small part of it's problems.
And I think you get that, but the sentence I quoted really bugged me.