Not sure where you got your incorrect information from, but the current keyboard was designed for maximum speed of the day, not to slow down typing speeds.
While it is true that there are keyboard layouts that can make typing faster on a computer, the current keyboard was designed to space out the hammers so they would not jam on typewriters thus increasing the speed people could type.
I read Unity, and the first thing I thought of was another version for Portalarium to upgrade to. Then I saw Ubuntu and went, oh right, that is still a thing is it.
I would think they would be reluctant to do something stupid like getting rid of the headphone jack.
Especially after the Galaxy S6 colossal failure with not having the microSD slot and no removable battery.
Then with the S7 Note still having the locked in battery so they have to change it, and is looking like they have to do a second recall.
This path with the S8 looks like intentional suicide.
Just putting a manned spaceship into orbit of Mars would probably take more fuel than landing. Putting satellites into orbit is already quite hard, due to the gravity being basically 1/3rd of Earths. The problem is that people are squishy and don't stay perfectly still, so you have to constantly make small course corrections. The more people, the bigger the problem. The gravity means that your window of angle of entry is that much smaller where Mars will actually capture you into orbit.
Then there is the aerobraking! At sea level Mars has 0.6% the pressure of Earth. This is why they crash probes into Mars instead of trying to land them. Parachutes won't work with the weight of rovers and what the humans will be coming down in is much heavier than rovers. It just takes more time to slow down, what's the problem with that? True you could take more time to slow down, but the problem is either you are going to be too high up and just plummet to your death, or you are going to have to come in at an angle where you crash land, and people are squishy and their bodies don't like crash landings. The different between gravity and viscosity make anything in between very difficult. There is also the problem that people need to eat, pee and poop, thus things move around and well death ensues.
Up until the Windows 10 free cut-off date, Windows forcefully installed itself onto some people's computers without asking. Sometimes with Windows Update turned off. Not all of the code was copied form a central server, actually any computer already with Windows 10 can be requested to send parts of the main install, or updates. Some people complained that it didn't give any preference to computers already on the internal network, I think this has been fixed in the Anniversary Update. Copying itself confirmed!
Has a detrimental effect. Windows 10 removes some features automatically like Media Center, Windows DVD Maker, DVD playing, Desktop Gadgets, Start Menu, Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts. It also removes some third party software as well, or requires you to uninstall and re-install it. Some games and programs just no longer work at all. Now you can get some of these things back with third party programs, or hackers getting Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts to work again, but it is the same thing with a virus, or malware. Windows 10 is both a malware and virus confirmed!
Oh, but I'm not done. "Windows 10 does not destroy or corrupt data unless Microsoft deems that it is for the user's own good." Microsoft now supports FLAC files natively, well kind of, it will read and play them until for some reason it decides to corrupt the files so that it, nor any third party software can play them anymore. Microsoft is aware of the problem, but I have not seen a fix for it, even though it has been a problem since the first release of the OS.
As for corrupting data, a common problem with Windows 10 is that it will sometimes corrupt core OS files such as the taskbar, start menu and windows update. Common problem! I have even experienced this myself. It is so common, they actually have a specific easy fix baked into the OS to solve this. The only problem being that the easy fix uses windows update, so if that is hosed, you can still fix the problem, but it is really complicated. I ended up doing a refresh instead. Aka, Windows 10 corrupts the OS making it a virus.
I'm sure some people with ASUS motherboards can tell you about their hosed systems from a Windows 10 update
How about the Anniversary Update that breaks all USB2 web cams making some completely inoperable?
As you point out, it gathers sensitive information and displays unwanted advertising in their replacement for the old games, in the start menu and in notifications. Making Windows 10 definitely malware.
As you can see, not only is Windows 10 malware, but it also meets every definition of a virus as well.
Windows is immune from the virus once it is patched, then the patch is patched. They fix the problems caused by the patch to the patch. Then finally actually fix the real original problem.
It amazes me how many times the patch to fix the problem, doesn't fix the problem.
From cheap, to high end SanDisk cards, I have had 100% failure rate within 2 years. My dad has bought some SanDisk cards and I think 1 made it to 3 years. The only other card that I've had die so quickly was the 1 Duracell SD card I bought.
Except Google has come out and said that they worked with Samsung on this. It is actually green, with a white outline and an exception has been made for this one special case.
I listen to many independent musicians. The Internet has opened up where you do not have to join the mafia... I mean RIAA, to release your music. To reach the most people, you still need to be where a large number of other artists are. Most put their music on iTunes. A large portion of my independent songs can only be found on iTunes, even though most ai found out about on YouTube.
The nice thing I'd that if you download your iTunes songs, just about any device will play them.
Title should read, "Amazon Adds Audiobooks and Podcasts To US Prime Membership".
I have Amazon.ca Prime and do not get free Audobooks, Podcasts, Video Streaming, Audio Streaming, or Ebook Rentals.
Heck, because I have an account on Amazon.com, I had to contact support to get my Unlimited Prime Photo Storage, which they just announced came to Canada.
That is correct, HDR is not possible via HDMI 1.4.
As for the original PS4... "NeoGAF forums user Jeff Rigby discovered last year that the Playstation 4’s custom HDMI controller is apparently HDMI 2.0 compatible"
Source: https://www.winbeta.org/news/s...
Previously having read what he had said, but unfortunately cannot find the post, the PS4 HDMI controller is higher bandwidth than HDMI 1.4. This would suggest that it may have been designed to be upgradable to a later version of HDMI than was available at the PS4 launch via a firmware upgrade.
Phonetic data, not words, or lines. I worked on an English as a Second Language system back in 1996 that sounded really good and only had about 120 phonetic samples that you could make it say anything you wanted.
It even had a basic emotion engine.
The more complicated part we found was in translating the typed words into phonetic speech. Back then we went with a lookup table for words that didn't sound like how they were spelled, then falling back to a sound it out algorithm for everything else.
We usually only used the table for words that really did not sound right, as RAM and CPU cycles were limited back then. Also much more efficient lookup algorithms have been developed since then.
Completely different hardware, with different specs and capacity components, requiring developers to test the many different configurations.
Where have we seen this before... Hrmm, I think they call them PCs.
I'm sick and tired of hearing about all the crimes our police, judges and politicians are committing and getting off with no repercussions.
As a police officer you are held to a higher standard and these criminals are acting worse than many of the people currently in jail.
Even our premier has admitted to criminal negligence on public record. She is still in office.
Microsoft has a utility to repair core OS files.
Just look up "Using System File Checker (SFC) To Fix Issues"
A common problem with Windows 10 is the start menu will stop opening. This is caused by Windows 10 corrupting its core OS files. (Please note: it is Windows 10 corrupting the core files, not any other program) The exact case(s) for when this happens is not known. It is suspected that Windows Update is one of the main causes of this problem.
I personally ran into this on my Surface Pro 3. The easy way of fixing this is to use SFC with Windows Update to download the needed files. The only problem is that most people that run into this problem also have their Windows Update files corrupted. SFC can be used without Windows Update, but by that point it was easier for me to do a Windows Refresh and just re-install all my Win32 applications and fix up my settings. A refresh on my main machine would be almost unthinkable because of how much time it would take to rebuild.
I still don't understand why the 2 mobile OS do not have profile support. When I got my first cell phone about 16 years ago, it had profiles. It was a basic feature all phone OS' had. Now we have "smart" phones where we have to get third party apps for basic phone functions.
Or in the case of iOS you get the worst of the currently supported browsers on the Web. Seriously, the thing is a complete joke. Even the desktop version is a thousand times better!
I'm not even going to start on the Palm OS ripoff interface other than to say Palm pulled it off better.
Windows 10 was purposely released feature incomplete. Which technically makes it Alpha software.
Windows 10 cannot be Beta software, because Beta is supposed to be feature complete, just fixing bugs, and boy is it buggy!
I had a problem the other day on my Surface Pro 3 where the Start Menu would not open up. Also the notification centre and WiFi would not open either. Turns out this is form a common bug where Windows 10 will corrupt the core OS files. They have a fix for it that is really easy to do. You just have to open up the command line and run this tool that will download an ISO matching your version and fix the core OS files using Windows Update. Except Windows Update is usually one of the core files corrupted. That's okay, you can figure out your exact version of Windows, download the ISO, mount it, then you can run the command specifying exactly where the files are. I ended up running a refresh instead.
This is one of the many "small" bugs in Windows 10. You know just things like some CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives aren't detected. WiFi sometimes doesn't work, or just plain breaks for no reason.
When Windows 7 was in development, I ran the preview and then beta on my main computer, because they were 1 million times better than Windows Vista. To use all my memory I couldn't use Windows XP, unless it was Windows XP 64bit, but that was a bit of a crap shoot on if things would work or not.
You have hit the nail directly on the head for why UFS is DOA!
Speed and capacity.
It has the speed, but maximum storage is 256GB. This is an exact repeat of xD cards.
A new, faster, lager capacity microSD spec is probably just around the corner, that will work with existing cards, making UFS a non-starter.
You sir are the niche!
Most normal, non-technical people I know will not buy a phone without external storage, unless it is an iPhone.
They want lots of storage for all their pictures and video. They often ask me how to turn off cloud storage because they don't trust it. If it goes in the cloud, it is because they choose to post it to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, or Pintress.
They do not download to their computer and only delete the pictures and video they don't like.
Mind you, most of these people also don't know how to set their phones to save pictures and video to external storage, so unless the phone asked them where to store them they get put on the internal memory until it runs out and they ask me how can their big card run out of space so fast.
The Windows Store is a complete cash grab. It offers no value. They don't even properly filter out malware. Also you may see your purchase disappear, because reasons. Microsoft has done it in the past, on and is still doing it!
Taking these things into consideration, the only way to improve it, it to delete it off your system. It is a useless pile of garbage that has some fundamental design flaws. The biggest of which is that it is run by Microsoft and the biggest flaws in it Microsoft has no interest in preventing.
Apple has said that they will have an adapter that you can use the 3.5 headphones on. It will plug into the charging/data port. Of course being Apple the adapter will be way over priced.
Yes, Microsoft is delivering on exactly what the MPAA and RIAA want!
I call them crime bosses because their counterparts in Canada, CRIA & MPA-C, have both been found breaking the law on multiple occasions.
Are you running Windows 7?
Yes - Goto A
No - Upgrade to Windows 10 (Honestly in all ways Windows 10 is better than Windows 8/8.1)
A) Do you need DirectX 12?
Yes - Upgrade to Windows 10
No - Goto B
B) Do you need to test in Edge?
Yes - I guess you better install Windows 10, but maybe after a installing, install Windows 7 in a dual boot for actual work
No - Stay on Windows 7
Hate to tell you but Office is not 100% compatible with Office. Especially between new and old versions, but even sometimes the same version on different computers have troubles.
I find that Libreoffice Writer is actually more compatible with Word documents than Word most of the time.
It is true Calc is not as good with Excel... Unless you start talking about 2003 and before. Microsoft with Excel 2007 decided to break compatibility majorly with older versions, so Calc seem to open pre-Excel 2007 documents better than Excel.
Impress... *sigh* Impress... Powerpoint is still far superior.
All this being said, Microsoft many times have recommended people install Libreoffice to open documents that have gotten damaged because Office will refuse to open them at all.
For the record at work I use Microsoft Office and it is a steaming pile of crap compared to Libreoffice! I am on a Mac with Office 2011, 2016 has been released, but it is right now in the testing phase at our business. I understand Mac Office 2016 is supposed to be feature par with Windows Office 2016, but Mac Office 2011 definitely is not.
Comparing Window Office to Libreoffice, I still find Libreoffice for the most part is better, though you get things like headers and footers in Microsoft that are done better.
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Not sure where you got your incorrect information from, but the current keyboard was designed for maximum speed of the day, not to slow down typing speeds.
While it is true that there are keyboard layouts that can make typing faster on a computer, the current keyboard was designed to space out the hammers so they would not jam on typewriters thus increasing the speed people could type.
I read Unity, and the first thing I thought of was another version for Portalarium to upgrade to. Then I saw Ubuntu and went, oh right, that is still a thing is it.
I would think they would be reluctant to do something stupid like getting rid of the headphone jack.
Especially after the Galaxy S6 colossal failure with not having the microSD slot and no removable battery.
Then with the S7 Note still having the locked in battery so they have to change it, and is looking like they have to do a second recall.
This path with the S8 looks like intentional suicide.
Just putting a manned spaceship into orbit of Mars would probably take more fuel than landing. Putting satellites into orbit is already quite hard, due to the gravity being basically 1/3rd of Earths. The problem is that people are squishy and don't stay perfectly still, so you have to constantly make small course corrections. The more people, the bigger the problem. The gravity means that your window of angle of entry is that much smaller where Mars will actually capture you into orbit.
Then there is the aerobraking! At sea level Mars has 0.6% the pressure of Earth. This is why they crash probes into Mars instead of trying to land them. Parachutes won't work with the weight of rovers and what the humans will be coming down in is much heavier than rovers. It just takes more time to slow down, what's the problem with that? True you could take more time to slow down, but the problem is either you are going to be too high up and just plummet to your death, or you are going to have to come in at an angle where you crash land, and people are squishy and their bodies don't like crash landings. The different between gravity and viscosity make anything in between very difficult. There is also the problem that people need to eat, pee and poop, thus things move around and well death ensues.
Up until the Windows 10 free cut-off date, Windows forcefully installed itself onto some people's computers without asking. Sometimes with Windows Update turned off. Not all of the code was copied form a central server, actually any computer already with Windows 10 can be requested to send parts of the main install, or updates. Some people complained that it didn't give any preference to computers already on the internal network, I think this has been fixed in the Anniversary Update. Copying itself confirmed!
Has a detrimental effect. Windows 10 removes some features automatically like Media Center, Windows DVD Maker, DVD playing, Desktop Gadgets, Start Menu, Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts. It also removes some third party software as well, or requires you to uninstall and re-install it. Some games and programs just no longer work at all. Now you can get some of these things back with third party programs, or hackers getting Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts to work again, but it is the same thing with a virus, or malware. Windows 10 is both a malware and virus confirmed!
Oh, but I'm not done. "Windows 10 does not destroy or corrupt data unless Microsoft deems that it is for the user's own good." Microsoft now supports FLAC files natively, well kind of, it will read and play them until for some reason it decides to corrupt the files so that it, nor any third party software can play them anymore. Microsoft is aware of the problem, but I have not seen a fix for it, even though it has been a problem since the first release of the OS.
As for corrupting data, a common problem with Windows 10 is that it will sometimes corrupt core OS files such as the taskbar, start menu and windows update. Common problem! I have even experienced this myself. It is so common, they actually have a specific easy fix baked into the OS to solve this. The only problem being that the easy fix uses windows update, so if that is hosed, you can still fix the problem, but it is really complicated. I ended up doing a refresh instead. Aka, Windows 10 corrupts the OS making it a virus.
I'm sure some people with ASUS motherboards can tell you about their hosed systems from a Windows 10 update
How about the Anniversary Update that breaks all USB2 web cams making some completely inoperable?
As you point out, it gathers sensitive information and displays unwanted advertising in their replacement for the old games, in the start menu and in notifications. Making Windows 10 definitely malware.
As you can see, not only is Windows 10 malware, but it also meets every definition of a virus as well.
Windows is immune from the virus once it is patched, then the patch is patched. They fix the problems caused by the patch to the patch. Then finally actually fix the real original problem.
It amazes me how many times the patch to fix the problem, doesn't fix the problem.
From cheap, to high end SanDisk cards, I have had 100% failure rate within 2 years. My dad has bought some SanDisk cards and I think 1 made it to 3 years. The only other card that I've had die so quickly was the 1 Duracell SD card I bought.
Except Google has come out and said that they worked with Samsung on this. It is actually green, with a white outline and an exception has been made for this one special case.
I listen to many independent musicians. The Internet has opened up where you do not have to join the mafia... I mean RIAA, to release your music. To reach the most people, you still need to be where a large number of other artists are. Most put their music on iTunes. A large portion of my independent songs can only be found on iTunes, even though most ai found out about on YouTube. The nice thing I'd that if you download your iTunes songs, just about any device will play them.
Title should read, "Amazon Adds Audiobooks and Podcasts To US Prime Membership".
I have Amazon.ca Prime and do not get free Audobooks, Podcasts, Video Streaming, Audio Streaming, or Ebook Rentals.
Heck, because I have an account on Amazon.com, I had to contact support to get my Unlimited Prime Photo Storage, which they just announced came to Canada.
That is correct, HDR is not possible via HDMI 1.4.
As for the original PS4... "NeoGAF forums user Jeff Rigby discovered last year that the Playstation 4’s custom HDMI controller is apparently HDMI 2.0 compatible"
Source: https://www.winbeta.org/news/s...
Previously having read what he had said, but unfortunately cannot find the post, the PS4 HDMI controller is higher bandwidth than HDMI 1.4. This would suggest that it may have been designed to be upgradable to a later version of HDMI than was available at the PS4 launch via a firmware upgrade.
Phonetic data, not words, or lines. I worked on an English as a Second Language system back in 1996 that sounded really good and only had about 120 phonetic samples that you could make it say anything you wanted. It even had a basic emotion engine. The more complicated part we found was in translating the typed words into phonetic speech. Back then we went with a lookup table for words that didn't sound like how they were spelled, then falling back to a sound it out algorithm for everything else. We usually only used the table for words that really did not sound right, as RAM and CPU cycles were limited back then. Also much more efficient lookup algorithms have been developed since then.
300-Pound Security Robot Runs Over Toddler At California Shopping Center
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Completely different hardware, with different specs and capacity components, requiring developers to test the many different configurations.
Where have we seen this before... Hrmm, I think they call them PCs.
I'm sick and tired of hearing about all the crimes our police, judges and politicians are committing and getting off with no repercussions.
As a police officer you are held to a higher standard and these criminals are acting worse than many of the people currently in jail.
Even our premier has admitted to criminal negligence on public record. She is still in office.
Microsoft has a utility to repair core OS files.
Just look up "Using System File Checker (SFC) To Fix Issues"
A common problem with Windows 10 is the start menu will stop opening. This is caused by Windows 10 corrupting its core OS files. (Please note: it is Windows 10 corrupting the core files, not any other program) The exact case(s) for when this happens is not known. It is suspected that Windows Update is one of the main causes of this problem.
I personally ran into this on my Surface Pro 3. The easy way of fixing this is to use SFC with Windows Update to download the needed files. The only problem is that most people that run into this problem also have their Windows Update files corrupted. SFC can be used without Windows Update, but by that point it was easier for me to do a Windows Refresh and just re-install all my Win32 applications and fix up my settings. A refresh on my main machine would be almost unthinkable because of how much time it would take to rebuild.
I still don't understand why the 2 mobile OS do not have profile support. When I got my first cell phone about 16 years ago, it had profiles. It was a basic feature all phone OS' had. Now we have "smart" phones where we have to get third party apps for basic phone functions. Or in the case of iOS you get the worst of the currently supported browsers on the Web. Seriously, the thing is a complete joke. Even the desktop version is a thousand times better! I'm not even going to start on the Palm OS ripoff interface other than to say Palm pulled it off better.
Windows 10 was purposely released feature incomplete. Which technically makes it Alpha software.
Windows 10 cannot be Beta software, because Beta is supposed to be feature complete, just fixing bugs, and boy is it buggy!
I had a problem the other day on my Surface Pro 3 where the Start Menu would not open up. Also the notification centre and WiFi would not open either. Turns out this is form a common bug where Windows 10 will corrupt the core OS files. They have a fix for it that is really easy to do. You just have to open up the command line and run this tool that will download an ISO matching your version and fix the core OS files using Windows Update. Except Windows Update is usually one of the core files corrupted. That's okay, you can figure out your exact version of Windows, download the ISO, mount it, then you can run the command specifying exactly where the files are. I ended up running a refresh instead.
This is one of the many "small" bugs in Windows 10. You know just things like some CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives aren't detected. WiFi sometimes doesn't work, or just plain breaks for no reason.
When Windows 7 was in development, I ran the preview and then beta on my main computer, because they were 1 million times better than Windows Vista. To use all my memory I couldn't use Windows XP, unless it was Windows XP 64bit, but that was a bit of a crap shoot on if things would work or not.
You have hit the nail directly on the head for why UFS is DOA! Speed and capacity. It has the speed, but maximum storage is 256GB. This is an exact repeat of xD cards. A new, faster, lager capacity microSD spec is probably just around the corner, that will work with existing cards, making UFS a non-starter.
You sir are the niche! Most normal, non-technical people I know will not buy a phone without external storage, unless it is an iPhone. They want lots of storage for all their pictures and video. They often ask me how to turn off cloud storage because they don't trust it. If it goes in the cloud, it is because they choose to post it to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, or Pintress. They do not download to their computer and only delete the pictures and video they don't like. Mind you, most of these people also don't know how to set their phones to save pictures and video to external storage, so unless the phone asked them where to store them they get put on the internal memory until it runs out and they ask me how can their big card run out of space so fast.
The Windows Store is a complete cash grab. It offers no value. They don't even properly filter out malware. Also you may see your purchase disappear, because reasons. Microsoft has done it in the past, on and is still doing it!
Taking these things into consideration, the only way to improve it, it to delete it off your system. It is a useless pile of garbage that has some fundamental design flaws. The biggest of which is that it is run by Microsoft and the biggest flaws in it Microsoft has no interest in preventing.
Apple has said that they will have an adapter that you can use the 3.5 headphones on. It will plug into the charging/data port. Of course being Apple the adapter will be way over priced.
Yes, Microsoft is delivering on exactly what the MPAA and RIAA want!
I call them crime bosses because their counterparts in Canada, CRIA & MPA-C, have both been found breaking the law on multiple occasions.
Are you running Windows 7?
Yes - Goto A
No - Upgrade to Windows 10 (Honestly in all ways Windows 10 is better than Windows 8/8.1)
A) Do you need DirectX 12?
Yes - Upgrade to Windows 10
No - Goto B
B) Do you need to test in Edge?
Yes - I guess you better install Windows 10, but maybe after a installing, install Windows 7 in a dual boot for actual work
No - Stay on Windows 7
Hate to tell you but Office is not 100% compatible with Office. Especially between new and old versions, but even sometimes the same version on different computers have troubles.
I find that Libreoffice Writer is actually more compatible with Word documents than Word most of the time.
It is true Calc is not as good with Excel... Unless you start talking about 2003 and before. Microsoft with Excel 2007 decided to break compatibility majorly with older versions, so Calc seem to open pre-Excel 2007 documents better than Excel.
Impress... *sigh* Impress... Powerpoint is still far superior.
All this being said, Microsoft many times have recommended people install Libreoffice to open documents that have gotten damaged because Office will refuse to open them at all.
For the record at work I use Microsoft Office and it is a steaming pile of crap compared to Libreoffice! I am on a Mac with Office 2011, 2016 has been released, but it is right now in the testing phase at our business. I understand Mac Office 2016 is supposed to be feature par with Windows Office 2016, but Mac Office 2011 definitely is not.
Comparing Window Office to Libreoffice, I still find Libreoffice for the most part is better, though you get things like headers and footers in Microsoft that are done better.