there is an important fact you ignore: PCs now have less than 50% of the internet market in general, and I suspect smartphones and other devices' share will only grow in future, considering the slowing sales of PC and the increasing penetration of alternate gaming platforms. MS doesn't seem to see a way to stem the flow from computers to other devices, so they are maximizing their profits for the short term.
50% of a HUGE market which regularly has games at $49+, how many mobile games are people buying at that price? It's like Apple vs Android, there's more droid yet Apple nets 3/4 the profit. Microsoft can't figure out what it's doing - it's getting owned everywhere: lost it's ass with Windows Phone, Windows 10 is lackluster, their last bastions are Office and an attempt at the tablet market.
The fact that Steam has such a hegemony on PC gaming is not good, and that's just one example of why.
You mean like not limiting their players to a single platform? This argument can be reversed. The fact that Windows 10 limits players to only players of their platform, would absolutely fragment MMOs. Same old Microsoft. The faster that adware platform can be jettisoned the better.
The fourth problem, and the most telling of all, is the overall choice to limit the hardware specifications--for example, the maximum allowed RAM--on a device that does not have user-serviceable RAM, no less, simply because it would have impacted battery life. This is an outright lie, because all you should do is make the battery bigger and the device thicker. This tells us that Apple again chooses to put design first and usability and performance last.
Evidently the RAM situation is due to LPDDR3 memory controller and the new Kaby Lake processors using LPDDR4. The Surface Pro suffers from the same RAM situation. I was hoping for something a little more for the refresh myself. I've been heavily looking into a ZBook.
I vote by mail and I'm in favor of a paper ballot. I don't trust the voting machines. Do you know of any countries that make use of anything like this?
That's unfortunate. Would you say more people are affected by the mail slip ups or computer breaches presently? How would you suggest the lack of a paper trail that voting machines enable be addressed?
Perhaps you can do something where you have the best of both worlds? Linux host with GPU pass through (dedicated hardware for Windows VM to run Steam). 95% performance. I use Apple stuff at work and really dig it for development, homebrew makes it amazing. Got 7 for a workstation at home (copy of 8 just waiting to migrate to when I do another hardware refresh) and a bunch of VMs and VPS for work. Here's one thread on it, there are more guides out there.
Are you one of these people? What's your point? That some people made some bad calls? Are you claiming Kickstarter is where the vast number of business people reside? Or that Kickstarter is a retched hive of scum and that the vast majority of projects on there flop?
If I understand you correctly "Some people lost some money on a website"
I've bought tons of stuff online and I've backed a number of projects on Kickstarter. I hardly think it's full of saints. Each of the projects I've backed have been realized - and they're all software. I went with projects where people have done things before and it was $50. I'm curious as to what projects were backed? How much was wagered on the endeavors? I'd like to see first hand the appeals made to better understand their judgement, if you'd kindly enlighten us.
As you are aware Youtube is able to identify content, and there are other services you may have even used such as Shazam which allow you to identify audio specifically. They're really interesting pieces of software. I don't think infringement is as big a problem now (vs when they opened their doors) on Youtube since uploaded copyrighted media is able to be identified via Content Id the ad revenue is shared with the respective organizations. When this process doesn't proceed that's when the content is disappeared. Pretty neat how these companies make it big by enabling the behavior in some fashion and then eventually clamp down. See the iPod (as if people were paying $10,000 to fill them with licensed media), Google, Youtube und so weiter.
United Kingdom: The UK enacted its handgun ban in 1996. From 1990 until the ban was enacted, the homicide rate fluctuated between 10.9 and 13 homicides per million. After the ban was enacted, homicides trended up until they reached a peak of 18.0 in 2003. Since 2003, which incidentally was about the time the British government flooded the country with 20,000 more cops, the homicide rate has fallen to 11.1 in 2010. In other words, the 15-year experiment in a handgun ban has achieved absolutely nothing.
Ireland: Ireland banned firearms in 1972. Ireland’s homicide rate was fairly static going all the way back to 1945. In that period, it fluctuated between 0.1 and 0.6 per 100,000 people. Immediately after the ban, the murder rate shot up to 1.6 per 100,000 people in 1975. It then dropped back down to 0.4. It has trended up, reaching 1.4 in 2007.
Australia: Australia enacted its gun ban in 1996. Murders have basically run flat, seeing only a small spike after the ban and then returning almost immediately to preban numbers. It is currently trending down, but is within the fluctuations exhibited in other nations.
TIL it's xenophobic and irrational to want to do something about massive waves of illegal immigration. Controlling borders is something every country has a right to. Amnesty was supposed to have addressed these issues multiple times. If wages were going up instead of down you might have a better point. Among other issues there is a huge problem with people who have no right being in the country and dozens of cities who will not deport people who commit crimes. Full stop. Why is it "racist" (as if so called immigrants have a single race) to want to address it? Is the assumption that the US doesn't let in enough people? More are let in than the entire world combined and it's still not enough. There are more people that shouldn't be here than the entire population of Sweden if you're using the official numbers, double if you've any sense which would exceed Australia's population.
Back in the Sputnik-era, people thought of programmers as a priesthood in lab coats: the sole keepers of knowledge that ran these exotic, and mysterious room-sized machines. Today the priesthood is a little hipper -- lab coats have long given way to a countercultural vibe -- but it's still a priesthood, perhaps more druidic than Jesuitic, but a priesthood nonetheless, largely comprised of white men."
In the 1960s, some vocational profiling studies came out that coloured computer programmers as "disinterested in people", and this personality profiling was added into the aptitude tests by which companies decided who to train for programming positions, despite evidence that psychometric profiling is inaccurate. This, in addition to the increased requirement for formal mathematical training (which not many women had), the changing view programmers were skilled professionals (traditionally men) and not people who just calibrated machines, and women's lack of access to personal computers, contributed to the decline of women in computing.
Fast forward a decad: the Personal Computer revolution of the 90s and increasing accessibility, falling prices, there has never been a time where computing is so accessible. YouTube, and plenty of other sites including MOOC courses, which in no way discriminate, what gives? Apparently the vast majority of people don't want to program either. If you're interested in it, you will seek it out. What next, forcing people to study topics based on their sex?
What I don't understand is why more police aren't being shot in this nation. The police are trashing lives on a whim, and some of those trashed lives will have nothing to lose. I haven't had a polite interaction with a cop in 20 years, and most people say that the best policy is to avoid them at all costs. Parents are starting to teach their children not to call the police for help.
The militarization of the Police is a fascinating phenomenon. The Police are the "enforcement" conversely the politicians are the "management". Something which doesn't get nearly as much attention in these matters are the politicians who enact these policies. I'm not affiliated with this work, just something relevant to the topic, you may find it insightful: Rise of the Warrior Cop. It covers the origin of policing from the Roman praetorian guard to the present incarnation.
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there is an important fact you ignore: PCs now have less than 50% of the internet market in general, and I suspect smartphones and other devices' share will only grow in future, considering the slowing sales of PC and the increasing penetration of alternate gaming platforms. MS doesn't seem to see a way to stem the flow from computers to other devices, so they are maximizing their profits for the short term.
50% of a HUGE market which regularly has games at $49+, how many mobile games are people buying at that price? It's like Apple vs Android, there's more droid yet Apple nets 3/4 the profit. Microsoft can't figure out what it's doing - it's getting owned everywhere: lost it's ass with Windows Phone, Windows 10 is lackluster, their last bastions are Office and an attempt at the tablet market.
The fact that Steam has such a hegemony on PC gaming is not good, and that's just one example of why.
You mean like not limiting their players to a single platform? This argument can be reversed. The fact that Windows 10 limits players to only players of their platform, would absolutely fragment MMOs. Same old Microsoft. The faster that adware platform can be jettisoned the better.
You're going to like the sound of this name, bigly.
The fourth problem, and the most telling of all, is the overall choice to limit the hardware specifications--for example, the maximum allowed RAM--on a device that does not have user-serviceable RAM, no less, simply because it would have impacted battery life. This is an outright lie, because all you should do is make the battery bigger and the device thicker. This tells us that Apple again chooses to put design first and usability and performance last.
Evidently the RAM situation is due to LPDDR3 memory controller and the new Kaby Lake processors using LPDDR4. The Surface Pro suffers from the same RAM situation. I was hoping for something a little more for the refresh myself. I've been heavily looking into a ZBook.
Then again neither are most Catholics.
I vote by mail and I'm in favor of a paper ballot. I don't trust the voting machines. Do you know of any countries that make use of anything like this?
Excellent. You mean like what the article suggested?
That's unfortunate. Would you say more people are affected by the mail slip ups or computer breaches presently? How would you suggest the lack of a paper trail that voting machines enable be addressed?
Hail Vault dweller! Maybe you can use some arguments from your Zip drive? Or only the ones sourced from your floppy drive pulling up?
Perhaps you can do something where you have the best of both worlds? Linux host with GPU pass through (dedicated hardware for Windows VM to run Steam). 95% performance. I use Apple stuff at work and really dig it for development, homebrew makes it amazing. Got 7 for a workstation at home (copy of 8 just waiting to migrate to when I do another hardware refresh) and a bunch of VMs and VPS for work. Here's one thread on it, there are more guides out there.
Do you really need someone to point out what hardware and software are? This thread is about software updates.
Are you one of these people? What's your point? That some people made some bad calls? Are you claiming Kickstarter is where the vast number of business people reside? Or that Kickstarter is a retched hive of scum and that the vast majority of projects on there flop?
If I understand you correctly "Some people lost some money on a website"
I've bought tons of stuff online and I've backed a number of projects on Kickstarter. I hardly think it's full of saints. Each of the projects I've backed have been realized - and they're all software. I went with projects where people have done things before and it was $50. I'm curious as to what projects were backed? How much was wagered on the endeavors? I'd like to see first hand the appeals made to better understand their judgement, if you'd kindly enlighten us.
My hat is off to you, sir.
Pretty crazy considering all of the new taxes they've raised from cannabis.
Posting to undo mismod.
Which we all know is infinite. Have a smurf buy it for you.
As you are aware Youtube is able to identify content, and there are other services you may have even used such as Shazam which allow you to identify audio specifically. They're really interesting pieces of software. I don't think infringement is as big a problem now (vs when they opened their doors) on Youtube since uploaded copyrighted media is able to be identified via Content Id the ad revenue is shared with the respective organizations. When this process doesn't proceed that's when the content is disappeared. Pretty neat how these companies make it big by enabling the behavior in some fashion and then eventually clamp down. See the iPod (as if people were paying $10,000 to fill them with licensed media), Google, Youtube und so weiter.
Fascinating link, thanks. I spent way too long watching videos on his steam engines.
Windows has some catching up to do. On Linux you can do something like: cat /dev/ram | strings | grep "ace02468bdf1357"
From the article:
United Kingdom: The UK enacted its handgun ban in 1996. From 1990 until the ban was enacted, the homicide rate fluctuated between 10.9 and 13 homicides per million. After the ban was enacted, homicides trended up until they reached a peak of 18.0 in 2003. Since 2003, which incidentally was about the time the British government flooded the country with 20,000 more cops, the homicide rate has fallen to 11.1 in 2010. In other words, the 15-year experiment in a handgun ban has achieved absolutely nothing.
Ireland: Ireland banned firearms in 1972. Ireland’s homicide rate was fairly static going all the way back to 1945. In that period, it fluctuated between 0.1 and 0.6 per 100,000 people. Immediately after the ban, the murder rate shot up to 1.6 per 100,000 people in 1975. It then dropped back down to 0.4. It has trended up, reaching 1.4 in 2007.
Australia: Australia enacted its gun ban in 1996. Murders have basically run flat, seeing only a small spike after the ban and then returning almost immediately to preban numbers. It is currently trending down, but is within the fluctuations exhibited in other nations.
. Maybe banning guns like Chicago will do the trick? Last year 2,988 shooting victims, 1,827 this year. Care to guess the demographics, and more importantly gang affiliations of the parties involved? Maybe it's time to have a national discussion about how black lives don't matter to other blacks.
TIL it's xenophobic and irrational to want to do something about massive waves of illegal immigration. Controlling borders is something every country has a right to. Amnesty was supposed to have addressed these issues multiple times. If wages were going up instead of down you might have a better point. Among other issues there is a huge problem with people who have no right being in the country and dozens of cities who will not deport people who commit crimes. Full stop. Why is it "racist" (as if so called immigrants have a single race) to want to address it? Is the assumption that the US doesn't let in enough people? More are let in than the entire world combined and it's still not enough. There are more people that shouldn't be here than the entire population of Sweden if you're using the official numbers, double if you've any sense which would exceed Australia's population.
Back in the Sputnik-era, people thought of programmers as a priesthood in lab coats: the sole keepers of knowledge that ran these exotic, and mysterious room-sized machines. Today the priesthood is a little hipper -- lab coats have long given way to a countercultural vibe -- but it's still a priesthood, perhaps more druidic than Jesuitic, but a priesthood nonetheless, largely comprised of white men."
Somewhat recently NPR featured a story about women programmers, and a graph showing women in CS climbing until the 1980s. In another article at Smithsonianmag.com on how programming used to be "women's work" a commenter states:
In the 1960s, some vocational profiling studies came out that coloured computer programmers as "disinterested in people", and this personality profiling was added into the aptitude tests by which companies decided who to train for programming positions, despite evidence that psychometric profiling is inaccurate. This, in addition to the increased requirement for formal mathematical training (which not many women had), the changing view programmers were skilled professionals (traditionally men) and not people who just calibrated machines, and women's lack of access to personal computers, contributed to the decline of women in computing.
Fast forward a decad: the Personal Computer revolution of the 90s and increasing accessibility, falling prices, there has never been a time where computing is so accessible. YouTube, and plenty of other sites including MOOC courses, which in no way discriminate, what gives? Apparently the vast majority of people don't want to program either. If you're interested in it, you will seek it out. What next, forcing people to study topics based on their sex?
What I don't understand is why more police aren't being shot in this nation. The police are trashing lives on a whim, and some of those trashed lives will have nothing to lose. I haven't had a polite interaction with a cop in 20 years, and most people say that the best policy is to avoid them at all costs. Parents are starting to teach their children not to call the police for help.
The militarization of the Police is a fascinating phenomenon. The Police are the "enforcement" conversely the politicians are the "management". Something which doesn't get nearly as much attention in these matters are the politicians who enact these policies. I'm not affiliated with this work, just something relevant to the topic, you may find it insightful: Rise of the Warrior Cop. It covers the origin of policing from the Roman praetorian guard to the present incarnation.
Maybe the Huffington post editorial staff can spin it?
It's like Microsoft fired their (formerly excellent) user interface and usability personnel, and hired a college grad hell-bent on design.
Julie Larson-Green. is responsible for Metro. She's in her 50s...