If Linux aims for the same level of polish and stability, it's not a bad idea to do the same. Someone else will likely have to fix bugs in your code at some point. Having a consistent style of comments and other things makes it faster to scan visually and spot problems for someone used to that style.
Most games on Steam still run fine on XP and old Intel laptop integrated cards. If you want game of the year at 4k resolution and 120Hz, that's entirely your choice. There are hundreds of great titles with reasonable system requirements, Many are not available on consoles, or at least the particular console you have at home. "The town of light" is the latest PC-only game I played that rocks.
This will preserve your ability to install Windows 10 on that computer in future, when A11y features are sorted out or you really need new functionality.
Though from your description, problems are mostly in new functionality that is in addition to apps that you currently use. For example, Windows 10 still has classic Internet Explorer. Consider keeping the upgrade for a week or so and seeing what you miss. You have a month to rollback.
Does your workspace always give a two week notice for laid off employees? If not, why should employees bother when the situation is reversed?
On the same note, do you expect employees to invest major effort into protecting your confidential information? Better secure employees SSNs and other confidential information well and offer financial compensation if the system is hacked.
You are doubling size of typical data structures made up of ints and pointers, while RAM and especially CPU cache is a very finite resource. Why would you want to do that when modern hardware supports 32 bit software perfectly well?
I am all for hermetically sealed case with wireless charging and bluetooth/WiFi/NFC for connectivity. Ports invariably loosen, act flaky and fill up with dust even during regular use. Forget about swimming in salt water for an hour and then throwing the phone on sandy beach blanket. Throw in capacitive buttons with no moving parts and we have major improvements in reliability.
Microsoft product managers have been heavily smoking weed when working on Zune and Windows Mobile. With Windows 10 they have pretty much been stoned from developer preview days till now. They have now found their true passion and I am sure Microsoft Bong will be a way more successful product than Microsoft Bob. Why, the whole company name signifies what happens to some men when they overindulgence.
If you are a current iOS user, it's easy to try a boatload of Google apps. Like what you see? You can get the full experience for your next phone, keep accessing lifetime of your photos for free and have a wide choice of form factors and special features like waterproof devices.
If you are among the current majority of users in US and worldwide with an Android phone - why even think about Apple? It's not like you can try out iMessage on your Windows 10 tablet or Android phone, fall in love with quality and look for more from the creator. Easier to just standardize on Facebook messenger or whatsapp.
Pass the law that any software which is no longer sold at price comparable to what it went for at it's prime is public domain and anyone is entitled to hack it and bypass any anti-copying measures. Many instant wins, no downside to speak of:
Production systems are not disturbed by upgrades they don't need
Reliable, legal ways to enjoy old games
New versions of software have to actually be superior to old versions for majority of user base to sell.
Hehe, personal freedom through restricting people, businesses and even sovereign countries. Libertarians will love this guy! War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. Didn't he actually praise the low educated?
By the way, flat tax means no breaks for long term capital gain or church donations. AKA, higher tax rate for the rich.
I prefer employer of last resort. No job? Hungry? Show up at 7:30am with some coveralls and gloves
Are those jobs useful for society or not? If they are, they should already be part of private or public job market and will not help remaining poor. If not, making people do them is worse than just handing out cash, because you are preventing them and any government bureaucrats in charge from being even slightly productive by performing services for a little extra cash.
But you do realize how many sex workers in the U.S. are not volunteers, right?
Certainly we can have different laws for voluntary employment vs slavery and vigorously prosecute perpetrators of the later? Accidentally, work under the threat of starvation proposed above would be a form of slavery.
Why not allow children as young as 6 to work 20+ hours a week?
Children are not mature enough to enter into contract. If their parents enter them into one, we would have to see if it's in their reasonable best interest (safety, education, adequate play time) and assign better guardians in case of severe violations. Some Hollywood parents seem to meet this threshold. On the other hand, school summer breaks were originally to have kids help parents around the farm.
Why not allow children as young as 6 to work 20+ hours a week?
Current system already makes poor stay poor by providing disincentive to work (you lose your benefits faster than your income increases, food stamps can not be saved up to finance a hot dog stand). Replacing it with basic income would give poor more flexibility to rise up and make many workspace regulations unnecessary as people can walk out without fear of destitution.
As for the rich, well the largest companies were going to collapse in 2008 and give smaller car makers like Tesla and others a chance to succeed. Remember what happened instead?
In a truly free market without corporate personhood, people would also go to banks where executives are responsible with their own cars and houses if they lose customer deposits. Think they would still behave as recklessly and take such huge bonuses while the bank fails then?
I have a lot of sympathy for libertarian ideas, but party leaders need to start thinking how to win elections in a democracy that includes voters with diverse political convictions. I can think of a platform that will appeal to a healthy fraction of Democrats and Republicans:
Replace most benefit programs and workspace regulations with nationwide basic income
Legalize soft drugs (anything that does not immediately make you claw someone's face off), adult prostitution and right to die on the principles of personal freedom. No nanny state laws like banning smoking and soda.
Support for legal gun ownership for private self defense
Tackle climate change and pollution with carbon tax as payment to public for private use of shared resources (atmosphere).
No broad surveillance without a warrant for specific individuals. All warrants are made public after N years to allow reasonable time for an investigation to complete
You know how Apple released the original iPad in 2010? And then they were hiring 10s of thousands of employees and spending billions on R&D without anything significant to show for it besides minor annual hardware revisions? Pretty much until Apple watch was announced in '15?
There are many reasons why hardware lifecycles are different from software. No idea about the real story, but what is released or not released in 2 1/2 years is not much of indication of anything.
Microsoft must be truly desperate to risk this much bad publicity and user alienation. I guess they got p0wned on mobile and MacBooks/Chromebooks, coupled with various cloud software, cast the need of anyone to own a Windows PC into doubt.
So they must have decided that they HAVE to defragment their install base and edge into mobile through tablets - or die. If you are a committed Windows user, you should probably hope that they succeed. Otherwise you will be left, at best, with poorly maintained platform run by a diminished company.
On the other hand, we don't personally owe anything to Microsoft and should just move to platforms that best suit our needs.
There was "offline help" where you pressed a button with a keyword on an information kiosk and it automatically flipped a book inside to the corresponding page. Can't go wrong with BASIC. Not that it teaches programming practices you would want to use long term, but it reflects the essence of how computers work internally without being as intimidating as assembly.
It's not that we have to fight so much that bothers me, but I demand medkits, transporters to other parts of the level and respawn 30 seconds after getting killed!
If you are the person who enjoys tinkering with Raspberry Pi and doesn't need proprietary Netflix and HBO apps, you are not the target market of smart TVs. If you have 3 TVs in the house, care about room aethetics, host a lot of guests who are not familiar with your HDMI port setup and spend $200 on weekly groceries, you might have a different perspective on the matter.
If you need your gaming or DVR recording to never be interrupted by updates, prepare to do hairy registry hacks. Even then I get momentary notifications during full screen games that new updates are available.
If you need the level of privacy where even (generally responsible and well audited) Microsoft employees or (somewhat restrained, depending on your religion and country of origin) US government can not discover what you are doing without spending major money, you should be really using Linux on hardware with minimum number of binary driver blobs or enterprise remote administration features.
If you do basic word processing, legal web browsing and e-mail to family, Windows 10 is most likely an improvement from Windows 7/8 in terms of usability and security from non-government hackers. Game performance is also improved and the difference is likely to get bigger as time goes by.
From what I understand, you can install Windows 10 and immediately downgrade to permanently make a given computer eligible to install Windows 10 in future.
The best interest of OEMs is for existing users to have great experience with the product so that they buy the next one from the same vendor. But this does not apply to ultra cheap prepaid phones where entire goal is to sell you something once. And stupidity can certainly overcome someone's best interest.
Price of every device sold should include a fee to mitigate any environmental damage incurred in its manufacturing and cost of eventually recycling the components. Beyond that, I think it's up to each manufacturer to negotiate a contract with users. If I can buy an $250 device every 2 years or an $400 device every 4 years, I would probably go with the first option to enjoy latest gadget / unscratched exterior, but that's just me.
Charging a subset of users for an upgrade seems like the worst case scenario. Full expense has to be incurred to develop the upgrade while money is only collected from a portion of customers. So prices would be high and both upgrades and non-upgrades will be unhappy with the vendor and shop elsewhere next time. But again, freedom of business model.
Ed will soon find out that robots are not all they are cracked to be. This $35K does not cover maintenance and obsoleteness. Then the work area needs to be setup just right and every slightest mishap results in lengthy work shutdown if not property damage. Want to add new items to menus? Hehe!
Those factory robots are maintained by full time stuff with 6 digit salaries. Thinking the same is going to be practical in a franchise run by a high school dropout in a poor neighborhood is delusional.
Taking a break from tinkering with Raspberry Pi + breadboard + sensor kit to post this. Would not be that hard to control the wires a thermostat is connected to with GPIO. The question is just how smart and safe your solution is going to be. Value of cloud is machine learning based not just on your home, but all homes, and human follow up to enhance the software when there is a trend with no automated solution. Non-networked solution will never be as good, and thus will not be a consumer product.
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If Linux aims for the same level of polish and stability, it's not a bad idea to do the same. Someone else will likely have to fix bugs in your code at some point. Having a consistent style of comments and other things makes it faster to scan visually and spot problems for someone used to that style.
Most games on Steam still run fine on XP and old Intel laptop integrated cards. If you want game of the year at 4k resolution and 120Hz, that's entirely your choice. There are hundreds of great titles with reasonable system requirements, Many are not available on consoles, or at least the particular console you have at home. "The town of light" is the latest PC-only game I played that rocks.
This will preserve your ability to install Windows 10 on that computer in future, when A11y features are sorted out or you really need new functionality.
Though from your description, problems are mostly in new functionality that is in addition to apps that you currently use. For example, Windows 10 still has classic Internet Explorer. Consider keeping the upgrade for a week or so and seeing what you miss. You have a month to rollback.
Does your workspace always give a two week notice for laid off employees? If not, why should employees bother when the situation is reversed?
On the same note, do you expect employees to invest major effort into protecting your confidential information? Better secure employees SSNs and other confidential information well and offer financial compensation if the system is hacked.
Not every Linux device is a consumer desktop or laptop, RAM in mobile/embedded space is far from free. And again, cache is much smaller than RAM.
You are doubling size of typical data structures made up of ints and pointers, while RAM and especially CPU cache is a very finite resource. Why would you want to do that when modern hardware supports 32 bit software perfectly well?
I am sure visuals are great, but wouldn't one experience some unwanted haptic/olfactory feedback when trying this technology in a crowded place?
I am all for hermetically sealed case with wireless charging and bluetooth/WiFi/NFC for connectivity. Ports invariably loosen, act flaky and fill up with dust even during regular use. Forget about swimming in salt water for an hour and then throwing the phone on sandy beach blanket. Throw in capacitive buttons with no moving parts and we have major improvements in reliability.
Microsoft product managers have been heavily smoking weed when working on Zune and Windows Mobile. With Windows 10 they have pretty much been stoned from developer preview days till now. They have now found their true passion and I am sure Microsoft Bong will be a way more successful product than Microsoft Bob. Why, the whole company name signifies what happens to some men when they overindulgence.
If you are a current iOS user, it's easy to try a boatload of Google apps. Like what you see? You can get the full experience for your next phone, keep accessing lifetime of your photos for free and have a wide choice of form factors and special features like waterproof devices.
If you are among the current majority of users in US and worldwide with an Android phone - why even think about Apple? It's not like you can try out iMessage on your Windows 10 tablet or Android phone, fall in love with quality and look for more from the creator. Easier to just standardize on Facebook messenger or whatsapp.
Pass the law that any software which is no longer sold at price comparable to what it went for at it's prime is public domain and anyone is entitled to hack it and bypass any anti-copying measures. Many instant wins, no downside to speak of:
Hehe, personal freedom through restricting people, businesses and even sovereign countries. Libertarians will love this guy! War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. Didn't he actually praise the low educated?
By the way, flat tax means no breaks for long term capital gain or church donations. AKA, higher tax rate for the rich.
I prefer employer of last resort. No job? Hungry? Show up at 7:30am with some coveralls and gloves
Are those jobs useful for society or not? If they are, they should already be part of private or public job market and will not help remaining poor. If not, making people do them is worse than just handing out cash, because you are preventing them and any government bureaucrats in charge from being even slightly productive by performing services for a little extra cash.
But you do realize how many sex workers in the U.S. are not volunteers, right?
Certainly we can have different laws for voluntary employment vs slavery and vigorously prosecute perpetrators of the later? Accidentally, work under the threat of starvation proposed above would be a form of slavery.
Why not allow children as young as 6 to work 20+ hours a week?
Children are not mature enough to enter into contract. If their parents enter them into one, we would have to see if it's in their reasonable best interest (safety, education, adequate play time) and assign better guardians in case of severe violations. Some Hollywood parents seem to meet this threshold. On the other hand, school summer breaks were originally to have kids help parents around the farm.
Why not allow children as young as 6 to work 20+ hours a week?
Current system already makes poor stay poor by providing disincentive to work (you lose your benefits faster than your income increases, food stamps can not be saved up to finance a hot dog stand). Replacing it with basic income would give poor more flexibility to rise up and make many workspace regulations unnecessary as people can walk out without fear of destitution.
As for the rich, well the largest companies were going to collapse in 2008 and give smaller car makers like Tesla and others a chance to succeed. Remember what happened instead?
In a truly free market without corporate personhood, people would also go to banks where executives are responsible with their own cars and houses if they lose customer deposits. Think they would still behave as recklessly and take such huge bonuses while the bank fails then?
I have a lot of sympathy for libertarian ideas, but party leaders need to start thinking how to win elections in a democracy that includes voters with diverse political convictions. I can think of a platform that will appeal to a healthy fraction of Democrats and Republicans:
You know how Apple released the original iPad in 2010? And then they were hiring 10s of thousands of employees and spending billions on R&D without anything significant to show for it besides minor annual hardware revisions? Pretty much until Apple watch was announced in '15?
There are many reasons why hardware lifecycles are different from software. No idea about the real story, but what is released or not released in 2 1/2 years is not much of indication of anything.
Microsoft must be truly desperate to risk this much bad publicity and user alienation. I guess they got p0wned on mobile and MacBooks/Chromebooks, coupled with various cloud software, cast the need of anyone to own a Windows PC into doubt.
So they must have decided that they HAVE to defragment their install base and edge into mobile through tablets - or die. If you are a committed Windows user, you should probably hope that they succeed. Otherwise you will be left, at best, with poorly maintained platform run by a diminished company.
On the other hand, we don't personally owe anything to Microsoft and should just move to platforms that best suit our needs.
There was "offline help" where you pressed a button with a keyword on an information kiosk and it automatically flipped a book inside to the corresponding page. Can't go wrong with BASIC. Not that it teaches programming practices you would want to use long term, but it reflects the essence of how computers work internally without being as intimidating as assembly.
It's not that we have to fight so much that bothers me, but I demand medkits, transporters to other parts of the level and respawn 30 seconds after getting killed!
If you are the person who enjoys tinkering with Raspberry Pi and doesn't need proprietary Netflix and HBO apps, you are not the target market of smart TVs. If you have 3 TVs in the house, care about room aethetics, host a lot of guests who are not familiar with your HDMI port setup and spend $200 on weekly groceries, you might have a different perspective on the matter.
If you need your gaming or DVR recording to never be interrupted by updates, prepare to do hairy registry hacks. Even then I get momentary notifications during full screen games that new updates are available.
If you need the level of privacy where even (generally responsible and well audited) Microsoft employees or (somewhat restrained, depending on your religion and country of origin) US government can not discover what you are doing without spending major money, you should be really using Linux on hardware with minimum number of binary driver blobs or enterprise remote administration features.
If you do basic word processing, legal web browsing and e-mail to family, Windows 10 is most likely an improvement from Windows 7/8 in terms of usability and security from non-government hackers. Game performance is also improved and the difference is likely to get bigger as time goes by.
From what I understand, you can install Windows 10 and immediately downgrade to permanently make a given computer eligible to install Windows 10 in future.
The best interest of OEMs is for existing users to have great experience with the product so that they buy the next one from the same vendor. But this does not apply to ultra cheap prepaid phones where entire goal is to sell you something once. And stupidity can certainly overcome someone's best interest.
Price of every device sold should include a fee to mitigate any environmental damage incurred in its manufacturing and cost of eventually recycling the components. Beyond that, I think it's up to each manufacturer to negotiate a contract with users. If I can buy an $250 device every 2 years or an $400 device every 4 years, I would probably go with the first option to enjoy latest gadget / unscratched exterior, but that's just me.
Charging a subset of users for an upgrade seems like the worst case scenario. Full expense has to be incurred to develop the upgrade while money is only collected from a portion of customers. So prices would be high and both upgrades and non-upgrades will be unhappy with the vendor and shop elsewhere next time. But again, freedom of business model.
Ed will soon find out that robots are not all they are cracked to be. This $35K does not cover maintenance and obsoleteness. Then the work area needs to be setup just right and every slightest mishap results in lengthy work shutdown if not property damage. Want to add new items to menus? Hehe!
Those factory robots are maintained by full time stuff with 6 digit salaries. Thinking the same is going to be practical in a franchise run by a high school dropout in a poor neighborhood is delusional.
Looking forward to eating in Burger King.
Taking a break from tinkering with Raspberry Pi + breadboard + sensor kit to post this. Would not be that hard to control the wires a thermostat is connected to with GPIO. The question is just how smart and safe your solution is going to be. Value of cloud is machine learning based not just on your home, but all homes, and human follow up to enhance the software when there is a trend with no automated solution. Non-networked solution will never be as good, and thus will not be a consumer product.