So how often do you work on someone else's computer compared to your own computer? Which use case do you want to optimize? Especially now that there are all the cool cloud services that could temporarily let you use Norton Commander on your bosses computer.
Can your tools included with Windows bulk rename files by having a convenient two folder display where you can just click on files to move them to the other side rather than having to drag mouse back and forth for each one of them? Imagine what could be achieved in these 20 years if there was a market for commercial file managers.
Before Windows 95, PCs had a vibrant marketplace of GUI shells, file managers, e-mail applications and web browsers. Netscape introduced Java applets and Javascript, updated frequently and was free with honor system payments. UNIX-based system had a wide choice of free and commercial Windows managers with features like virtual desktops that Microsoft only added in Windows 10.
What Microsoft taught users is to be lazy and not look beyond built in software with mediocre feature set. They have ultimately hurt themselves as mainstream applications became so dumbed down that you can just run the same thing on 4 inch phone and not miss much. Have they cultivated a healthy 3rd party ecosystem, people might be still interested in more powerful desktop/laptop experience in addition to phones and tablets.
They first marginalized the DVD rental service and now are doing the same with movie streaming. While I watched some of Netflix originals, HBO Now has even more and better original series. The value of Netflix subscription for me is access to movies and shows from major studios. Guess I should look into Amazon Prime instead. Not interested in paying for Hulu and still watching ads.
Those are the main functions of car interface and optimum functionality requires independent or phone-linked cellular connection. Everything else is just due to the fact that someone else might like extra features and it's difficult to customize them for each individual car. Ideally those things will be installable/uninstallable like mobile apps.
Today's linux distributions have all the functionality that most people need, but many small annoyances that add up to lack of polish and loss of productivity. For example, when plugging in multiple external monitors, system tends to forget the order you arranged them into last time, something that never happens under OSX. I can only imagine how bad things get in more esoteric areas that important to minority of users/developers, like accessibility and color calibration. Most users who just need the work done and don't care about ideology would prefer a better debugged OS, especially now that Microsoft fixed the Windows 8 fiasco.
Just because you can buy a cheap phone does not mean it works in an acceptable manner. These $60 phones are running Jelly Bean and have 512MB of storage.
Try running everything in TFA simultaneously and then see if you think 8GB or even 16GB is enough. In Java development workflow, it's common to have half a dozen VMs around, each needing 1-2GB for optimum performance. It's very helpful to have your sources, compiled classes and dependency jars in filesystem hash to avoid reading them from SSD on every build. Now edit a few high resolution images and open browser with dozens of tabs to read various documentation and tell me how much memory you would rather have.
Every time I set out to learn OpenGL, I just get put off by how fucked up it is. Not necessarily just being low level, but the sheer disrespect of host programming language, standardization and modern design practices. It's OK to use float[] instead of ByteBuffer. Textures can be objects instead of integers. Modern GPUs can handle one modern standard compressed texture format with alpha. Maybe one day I will find a decent wrapper that takes away unnecessary grant work. Until then I will just look for more satisfying and less tedious problems to solve.
If Photoshop skills are only a small part of the class, Amazon/Microsoft/Google cloud compute instances with Adobe creative suite and remote desktop could be the easiest/cheapest way to go. You just need a pool of licenses to accommodate simultaneous logins and all the instances can be torn down except when that specific part of the class is in session.
While these brave women are in Russia, we have a good constitutional tool to encourage citizens to fight our enemies. Drying up ISIS recruitment money and eliminating their online presence would deal a measurable blow to organization that prides itself in media savvy. And it would be done for free by young people who would never consider joining Army or NSA.
If there is any packet loss, retransmissions are needed. No problem for a single, audio-only link where the receiver can buffer data. If you also have video or multiple audio links, simply dropping the packet is probably a better option that breaking video/audio synchronization. For non-interactive content one could design a protocol with very precise clock synchronization, where each device will play a given frame of buffered data simultaneously. Have never heard of anything like this implemented in consumer electronics though.
I have been lately very concerned that, even between all the pesticides, hormones and antibiotics, I am not getting enough foreign chemicals in my burgers. Maybe this one will finally do the trick and help me mutate into green and 2-headed superior species!
Just Google "Baikalâ"Amur Mainline". The project would make sense if Russia and USA were on visa-free travel level good terms, with vibrant urban or industrial centers on both sides of Bering Strait. Think of something like Channel tunnel. But, even in the best political climate, why connect remote areas requiring days of additional road travel to deliver people or goods? Air or sea shipping is the best option until huge changes in demographics of both countries and mutual political ties.
Agreed, Tizen gives more control to Samsung compared to Android. But how is that going to make my life better as user or developer? Are Samsung APIs any better/faster/more secure than Google APIs? It would, I guess, make sense to have a framework on top of AOSP that lets users choose among many competing service providers just like they choose search engines. But Tizen is not it.
As a developer, having choice of graphics libraries would only benefit me if Tizen was a dominant platform already. Otherwise, I get to port my app to iOS and Android and then rewrite it using another graphics library. As an end user, I have to learn new gestures for each app and I shudder to think about accessibility.
When creating a product, the first question must be, what new value does it bring to the user and why nothing else in the market serves the same needs well. Making money down the line is obviously very important, but can not be the starting point or even expectation for a couple of years after launch.
Android is already open source and Google services are free. Why would any user, developer or vendor want another operating system with tiny market share that doesn't offer any compelling technological breakthroughs? FirefoxOS provides device-agnostic thin client computing. Various custom android ROMs emphasize security or customization. But what does Tizen really offer than is not already available on a platform with bigger mindshare? So far, sounds like wishful thinking on part of Samsung rather than a solid business plan.
You have to say a lot more for your advice to be useful. Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro and they send strings from your desktop search box to their server to show you ads.
Most people want cloud services for convenience. Or they expect software crashes to magically resolve over time, which involves sending analytics to the developer. There is of course nothing wrong with having a different opinion. Just accept that Windows is not written with you in mind.
You may have better luck with MacOSX. Tim Cook made privacy/not sending things to cloud a big deal lately, partially because Apple cloud services are not very good and this spins their primitive nature as a feature. You still need to avoid adding cloud/store accounts, disable Bing search in spotlight/Safari, turn off diagnostics and probably do a few other steps I missed. But at least it's a much more tractable and documented process than with Windows.
There are Linux/Android distributions where privacy/security are primary features. Feel free to try them and discover usability tradeoffs for yourself. With POP3, e-mail used to be deleted from the server as soon as client had chance to download it. Yet most people choose IMAP, where years of your correspondence is stockpiled "in the cloud". Microsoft just goes where the money of most users is.
Acceleration is limited as much by available energy and limitations of materials as by the propellant. One can in theory shoot out a few particles at close to speed of light and accelerate arbitrarily fast. Or just shoot out lots of photons in one direction and move around "without propellant". This new drive has to not just work, but be more efficient than anything else we know. Else, it might well have some interesting science, but not be practically useful.
If your employer/manager implies otherwise, or discriminates against you in any way for discussing compensation, they are in legal hot water.
In practice, sharing your salary in personally identifiable way is probably not beneficial for your career. Coworkers who earn less are likely to be resentful, and those who earn more may feel you must be somehow inferior. Sites like glassdoor are probably the best balance of transparency and privacy.
Interviews are done by individual rank and file developers who are generally not compensated or recognized for doing this extra work in addition to their primary project. It's very unlikely that there was some top down directive to not hire people based on age. It's possible that younger interviewers have an unconscious preference for people similar to themselves, but dozens of folks who interviewed her would not be acting in consort or with malicious intent.
C was developed in 1972, still used for many if not most production projects. Fortran was developed in 1957 and continues to be important in scientific computation. Both predate MS-DOS, which was first available in 1981, and I definitely used both personally. When it comes to recognizably modern computing, I don't think one can go much further back in history than that.
Would you like to pay for every Internet search, like the good old days of Lexus Nexus? Watching Antenna TV? Buying physical goods, because the company was not able to sell lots through advertisement and ramp up efficiencies on volume? Money in our wallets is limited resource and most of us want some choices on what to pay for and what to get for free while giving businesses a chance to sell something else to us later.
Ads can be seen as a kind of voluntary income transfer. It's possible to get lots of stuff for free or low price by accepting ads, gathering coupons or starting and canceling free trials. Poor do not have money to buy advertised products anyway. The only issues are deceptive/emotionally exploitive ads, and need for universal ability to opt out by paying fair price that the content provider would otherwise get for the impressions.
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So how often do you work on someone else's computer compared to your own computer? Which use case do you want to optimize? Especially now that there are all the cool cloud services that could temporarily let you use Norton Commander on your bosses computer.
Can your tools included with Windows bulk rename files by having a convenient two folder display where you can just click on files to move them to the other side rather than having to drag mouse back and forth for each one of them? Imagine what could be achieved in these 20 years if there was a market for commercial file managers.
Before Windows 95, PCs had a vibrant marketplace of GUI shells, file managers, e-mail applications and web browsers. Netscape introduced Java applets and Javascript, updated frequently and was free with honor system payments. UNIX-based system had a wide choice of free and commercial Windows managers with features like virtual desktops that Microsoft only added in Windows 10.
What Microsoft taught users is to be lazy and not look beyond built in software with mediocre feature set. They have ultimately hurt themselves as mainstream applications became so dumbed down that you can just run the same thing on 4 inch phone and not miss much. Have they cultivated a healthy 3rd party ecosystem, people might be still interested in more powerful desktop/laptop experience in addition to phones and tablets.
They first marginalized the DVD rental service and now are doing the same with movie streaming. While I watched some of Netflix originals, HBO Now has even more and better original series. The value of Netflix subscription for me is access to movies and shows from major studios. Guess I should look into Amazon Prime instead. Not interested in paying for Hulu and still watching ads.
Those are the main functions of car interface and optimum functionality requires independent or phone-linked cellular connection. Everything else is just due to the fact that someone else might like extra features and it's difficult to customize them for each individual car. Ideally those things will be installable/uninstallable like mobile apps.
Today's linux distributions have all the functionality that most people need, but many small annoyances that add up to lack of polish and loss of productivity. For example, when plugging in multiple external monitors, system tends to forget the order you arranged them into last time, something that never happens under OSX. I can only imagine how bad things get in more esoteric areas that important to minority of users/developers, like accessibility and color calibration. Most users who just need the work done and don't care about ideology would prefer a better debugged OS, especially now that Microsoft fixed the Windows 8 fiasco.
Just because you can buy a cheap phone does not mean it works in an acceptable manner. These $60 phones are running Jelly Bean and have 512MB of storage.
Try running everything in TFA simultaneously and then see if you think 8GB or even 16GB is enough. In Java development workflow, it's common to have half a dozen VMs around, each needing 1-2GB for optimum performance. It's very helpful to have your sources, compiled classes and dependency jars in filesystem hash to avoid reading them from SSD on every build. Now edit a few high resolution images and open browser with dozens of tabs to read various documentation and tell me how much memory you would rather have.
Every time I set out to learn OpenGL, I just get put off by how fucked up it is. Not necessarily just being low level, but the sheer disrespect of host programming language, standardization and modern design practices. It's OK to use float[] instead of ByteBuffer. Textures can be objects instead of integers. Modern GPUs can handle one modern standard compressed texture format with alpha. Maybe one day I will find a decent wrapper that takes away unnecessary grant work. Until then I will just look for more satisfying and less tedious problems to solve.
If Photoshop skills are only a small part of the class, Amazon/Microsoft/Google cloud compute instances with Adobe creative suite and remote desktop could be the easiest/cheapest way to go. You just need a pool of licenses to accommodate simultaneous logins and all the instances can be torn down except when that specific part of the class is in session.
Powering on these 88 Xeons sealed in Epoxy will take care of those pesky underground bunkers better than a nuke.
While these brave women are in Russia, we have a good constitutional tool to encourage citizens to fight our enemies. Drying up ISIS recruitment money and eliminating their online presence would deal a measurable blow to organization that prides itself in media savvy. And it would be done for free by young people who would never consider joining Army or NSA.
If there is any packet loss, retransmissions are needed. No problem for a single, audio-only link where the receiver can buffer data. If you also have video or multiple audio links, simply dropping the packet is probably a better option that breaking video/audio synchronization. For non-interactive content one could design a protocol with very precise clock synchronization, where each device will play a given frame of buffered data simultaneously. Have never heard of anything like this implemented in consumer electronics though.
And they have plenty of Android phones with alternative services. Why would they want another one with much fewer apps?
I have been lately very concerned that, even between all the pesticides, hormones and antibiotics, I am not getting enough foreign chemicals in my burgers. Maybe this one will finally do the trick and help me mutate into green and 2-headed superior species!
Just Google "Baikalâ"Amur Mainline". The project would make sense if Russia and USA were on visa-free travel level good terms, with vibrant urban or industrial centers on both sides of Bering Strait. Think of something like Channel tunnel. But, even in the best political climate, why connect remote areas requiring days of additional road travel to deliver people or goods? Air or sea shipping is the best option until huge changes in demographics of both countries and mutual political ties.
Agreed, Tizen gives more control to Samsung compared to Android. But how is that going to make my life better as user or developer? Are Samsung APIs any better/faster/more secure than Google APIs? It would, I guess, make sense to have a framework on top of AOSP that lets users choose among many competing service providers just like they choose search engines. But Tizen is not it.
As a developer, having choice of graphics libraries would only benefit me if Tizen was a dominant platform already. Otherwise, I get to port my app to iOS and Android and then rewrite it using another graphics library. As an end user, I have to learn new gestures for each app and I shudder to think about accessibility.
When creating a product, the first question must be, what new value does it bring to the user and why nothing else in the market serves the same needs well. Making money down the line is obviously very important, but can not be the starting point or even expectation for a couple of years after launch.
Android is already open source and Google services are free. Why would any user, developer or vendor want another operating system with tiny market share that doesn't offer any compelling technological breakthroughs? FirefoxOS provides device-agnostic thin client computing. Various custom android ROMs emphasize security or customization. But what does Tizen really offer than is not already available on a platform with bigger mindshare? So far, sounds like wishful thinking on part of Samsung rather than a solid business plan.
You have to say a lot more for your advice to be useful. Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro and they send strings from your desktop search box to their server to show you ads.
Most people want cloud services for convenience. Or they expect software crashes to magically resolve over time, which involves sending analytics to the developer. There is of course nothing wrong with having a different opinion. Just accept that Windows is not written with you in mind.
You may have better luck with MacOSX. Tim Cook made privacy/not sending things to cloud a big deal lately, partially because Apple cloud services are not very good and this spins their primitive nature as a feature. You still need to avoid adding cloud/store accounts, disable Bing search in spotlight/Safari, turn off diagnostics and probably do a few other steps I missed. But at least it's a much more tractable and documented process than with Windows.
There are Linux/Android distributions where privacy/security are primary features. Feel free to try them and discover usability tradeoffs for yourself. With POP3, e-mail used to be deleted from the server as soon as client had chance to download it. Yet most people choose IMAP, where years of your correspondence is stockpiled "in the cloud". Microsoft just goes where the money of most users is.
Acceleration is limited as much by available energy and limitations of materials as by the propellant. One can in theory shoot out a few particles at close to speed of light and accelerate arbitrarily fast. Or just shoot out lots of photons in one direction and move around "without propellant". This new drive has to not just work, but be more efficient than anything else we know. Else, it might well have some interesting science, but not be practically useful.
If your employer/manager implies otherwise, or discriminates against you in any way for discussing compensation, they are in legal hot water.
In practice, sharing your salary in personally identifiable way is probably not beneficial for your career. Coworkers who earn less are likely to be resentful, and those who earn more may feel you must be somehow inferior. Sites like glassdoor are probably the best balance of transparency and privacy.
Interviews are done by individual rank and file developers who are generally not compensated or recognized for doing this extra work in addition to their primary project. It's very unlikely that there was some top down directive to not hire people based on age. It's possible that younger interviewers have an unconscious preference for people similar to themselves, but dozens of folks who interviewed her would not be acting in consort or with malicious intent.
C was developed in 1972, still used for many if not most production projects. Fortran was developed in 1957 and continues to be important in scientific computation. Both predate MS-DOS, which was first available in 1981, and I definitely used both personally. When it comes to recognizably modern computing, I don't think one can go much further back in history than that.
Would you like to pay for every Internet search, like the good old days of Lexus Nexus? Watching Antenna TV? Buying physical goods, because the company was not able to sell lots through advertisement and ramp up efficiencies on volume? Money in our wallets is limited resource and most of us want some choices on what to pay for and what to get for free while giving businesses a chance to sell something else to us later.
Ads can be seen as a kind of voluntary income transfer. It's possible to get lots of stuff for free or low price by accepting ads, gathering coupons or starting and canceling free trials. Poor do not have money to buy advertised products anyway. The only issues are deceptive/emotionally exploitive ads, and need for universal ability to opt out by paying fair price that the content provider would otherwise get for the impressions.
I hope this is built well away from tall buildings, airplane flight paths and other things that's don't mix well with high power microwaves.