It's almost like you want to sell the higher margin ones first, in order to help pay for the amazing capital expenditure it takes to build a car assembly line.
Who is shocked by this? Nobody should be, as this is how it has always worked.
Henry Ford started out with the affordable mass market car and built out from there. Economies of scale and all that.
Not sure why, since he grew up wealthy and used his mom's connections to get an in with IBM and his dad's advice to take advantage of it, but go figure.
Gates was selling microcomputer BASIC to Fortune 500 clients in the mid seventies. Microsoft ultimately developed a full suite of languages for CP/M ---- and MBASIC in its many incarnations defines the eight bit era. Gates didn't go to the IBM PC team. the IBM PC team came to him. The IBM PC was going to be a 16-bit CP/M or CP/M clone, of that there was never any doubt.
It is no longer possible to enforce a punitive NDA or an arbitration that restricts disclosure of sexual harassment or abuse. The legal and PR consequences will prove disastrous.
What the world is waiting for is adults who recognize the advantage of breaking free from monopolistic, profit-driven, central control of their electronic/online experience.
The MSDOS PC launched in 1981, Mass market priced OS running on generic and affordable IBM PC compatible hardware. Windows 95 cemented the notion of a graphical UI that anyone can use and the OEM hardware and software bundle that works out of the box. The profit-driven approach can deliver quite a lot and do it very quickly.
Starting in NYC as an example, how far could one daisy-chain WAN jumping? To New Jersey? Florida? California (lol)?
Toronto is north of here over about 30 miles of open water. The Niagara escarpment to the south makes bridging to the backbone near Buffalo something of a problem. Building out a network of any size is difficult and and MESH isn't magic.
How about because it is an accurate description based upon past use. Autopilot in planes and ships, they will take you on the course set, they will not avoid shit or take complex routes, you set them and away they go
That describes the autopilot of a DC-3 or the Chris Craft cabin cruiser of 1954..
The problem is that when the general public thinks "autopilot" what they visualize is the automation and glass cockpit of a modern jumbo jet ---- which can be programmed for collision avoidance and complex routing.
You see this all the time on Slashdot. The geek quotes from the dictionary or tech manual and ignores common usage. It is when the geek turns to marketing that the habit becomes dangerous.
A felony is a massive life-altering consequence that is not necessarily the most useful way to address or punish a problem. The kid's sixteen.
I am tempted to say that committing the felony is the life-altering experience. The kid is sixteen, I'll grant you that.. But the geek tends to reach out for the get-out-of-jail-free card whenever one of his own is looking at serving hard time.
Perhaps when Win 10 does reach a billion installs Slashdot will finally retire its stained glass windows logo. If the stereotypical Slashdot post about Win 10 died with it, so much the better.
he develops the mathematics to predict the future based on large-scale statistical analysis.
Not merely to predict the future. But to give back-stage manipulators answerable to no one the power to shape the future to his ends. The problem remains, as always, "Who guards the guards?"
Why are there no true dual system laptops or tablets?
The market is too small. It costs too much. Service and support is a nightmare. If your boss is serious about security, he wants you using a dedicated system, ideally one that is chained to your desk, with no Internet access, whatever.
However, what we still do not know is - when did she start moving?
The tight question to ask is "When should the car start slowing down?" Recognize that a pedestrian may move onto the road unpredictably. Consider also the behavior of children at play, pets, deer, and so on. Expressway driving is easy for a machine in part because generally almost nothing is in motion but other vehicles and they are - most of the time, anyway -- essentially running on tracks. Their movements clearly defined and limited.
No thanks. I wills tick to gaming on Windows 7, that doesn't spy on me.
Developers target platforms with significant market share and mainstream graphical support. Mainstream support for Win 7 as an OS ended in 2015. OEM Win 7 system installs for the consumer market in 2014. Four years is a long time in this business.
If self-driving cars rack up fewer pedestrian deaths per mile driven than human drivers, that's the critical metric.
No. What matters is whether the self-driving car is as a practical matter perfected and trustworthy --- and that is nore than a purely statistical calculation. The numbers may be on your side, but what people will see will be the bodies on on the road and no driver behind the wheel.
Open source could have saved the day for this a-hole. But luckily for the rest of us he's an idiot.
How often do you think these guys do their own paper work? If it s legitimate, it goes through their clerical staff and all they ever see is a working draft for mark-up or the end product.
Don't display Getty media in your search results.
That'll learn 'em.
Getty Images is one of the largest and most significant photo archives in the world with over 80 million images and some 50,000 hours of video. Its stock images are prime goods and any professional in the field knows this.
The geek's all-purpose excuse for any decision that doesn't go their way is bribery. It's so much simpler than trying to understand staffing, workflow and management in the office environment. In many ways, the client OS and apps is a much more subtle and intractabl problem than the server.
The astonishing thing is how many geeks who should know better, see nothing wrong with so-called "smart" so-called "telephones" -- which are the antithesis of what we computer hobbyists were trying to build for all those decades.
The problem in a nutshell.The geek thinks the world is full of computer hobbyists. Google. Apple. Microsoft and the rest know that the word is full of people with other interests and values. Think of the perfect storm: The Windows 95 PC with dial-up AOL at a flat monthly rate.
If you want explanations of topics which are accessible to the general public then you do not go out and read an encyclopedia you go and read a book designed to simplify complex topics enough that non-scientists can digest them.
The Encyclopedia Britannica in its prime was written for the adult general reader and not the specialist scholar or professional ---and attracted some very good and accessible writers whose academic credentials were perfectly sound.
Microsoft was selling customized microcomputer BASICs to Fortune 500 clients in the mid seventies. MBASIC was the first product for the micro to reach a million dollars in sales. By 1980, Microsoft was offering a full suite of programming languages for CP/M and was moving into operating systems before being approached by IBM. The notion that Microsoft was am insignificant or invisible player in the industry before the IBM PC is just plain nonsense.
What Gates offered IBM was a serviceable and perhaps more importantly a uniquely affordable 16 Bit CP/M clone + MBASIC, etc., in time for the scheduled launch of the IBM PC. I doubt that the IBM PC team gave a damn how Gates sourced or developed the package so long as it was ready on time.
Not everything needs to be accessed through a web browser...Let them make their own apps and when they fail to move eyeballs away from the web, let them come back and play nicely with the rest of us.
Home PC sales ---if not in free fall --- can't be described as particularly healthy. While the Netflix app is installed on a gazillion cell phones, smart TVs, video game consoles, 4K Blu-Ray players, Roku set top boxes and god alone knows how many other toys and gadgets. Netflix has all the eyeballs anyone could ask for. The same is true for all the giants in media and marketing.
The big boys don't have play nice with the geek anymore.
W3C sells out, leaves its somewhat democratic origins, succumbs to the payola, jumps the shark. Carry on, EFF. Someone has to.
To what end? Do you see the audience for Disney or Netflix going away any soon? The cell phone, the tablet, the 4K TV, video game console or Roku box with the Disney or Netflix app pre-installed? If you don't, then where does the PC and the web browser fit into the picture? Without access to protected media content. I don't think they survive as a viable mass market consumer product.
There are two ways of distributing protected content; through an app or through a browser --- and the dominance of the app diminishes the significance and utility of the browser.
Which has never been any great joy to use on any other mobile device than a full size laptop.
The geek doesn't like paying for content. I get that. But that is no longer a problem for anyone else. You want to keep the browser relevant? Then you have give it access to protected content.
What are people trying to secure?
Their location and identity in the event they are trying to report an incident anonymously.
I've been long enough to have have made more 911 than I care think about. Not once would it been desirable to disguise my identity or location. More than once it has been.difficult to speak or to think clearly --- to remember your own name. The "anonymous caller" makes for good TV, In real life, the 911 caller is more likely to having a asthma attack.
You just know how the Slashdot geek is going to respond to any post about Microsoft Office. So let us tick with the basics.
LibreOffice is the stand-alone office suite of the nineties, sans a broadly useful integrated messaging and calendar applications like Outlook.and Skype.,
Office 365 is an integrated office system with online and offline components and customized versions for federally compliant medical record applications and so on.
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It's almost like you want to sell the higher margin ones first, in order to help pay for the amazing capital expenditure it takes to build a car assembly line.
Who is shocked by this? Nobody should be, as this is how it has always worked.
Henry Ford started out with the affordable mass market car and built out from there. Economies of scale and all that.
Not sure why, since he grew up wealthy and used his mom's connections to get an in with IBM and his dad's advice to take advantage of it, but go figure.
Gates was selling microcomputer BASIC to Fortune 500 clients in the mid seventies. Microsoft ultimately developed a full suite of languages for CP/M ---- and MBASIC in its many incarnations defines the eight bit era. Gates didn't go to the IBM PC team. the IBM PC team came to him. The IBM PC was going to be a 16-bit CP/M or CP/M clone, of that there was never any doubt.
It is no longer possible to enforce a punitive NDA or an arbitration that restricts disclosure of sexual harassment or abuse. The legal and PR consequences will prove disastrous.
What the world is waiting for is adults who recognize the advantage of breaking free from monopolistic, profit-driven, central control of their electronic/online experience.
The MSDOS PC launched in 1981, Mass market priced OS running on generic and affordable IBM PC compatible hardware. Windows 95 cemented the notion of a graphical UI that anyone can use and the OEM hardware and software bundle that works out of the box. The profit-driven approach can deliver quite a lot and do it very quickly.
Starting in NYC as an example, how far could one daisy-chain WAN jumping? To New Jersey? Florida? California (lol)?
Toronto is north of here over about 30 miles of open water. The Niagara escarpment to the south makes bridging to the backbone near Buffalo something of a problem. Building out a network of any size is difficult and and MESH isn't magic.
How about because it is an accurate description based upon past use. Autopilot in planes and ships, they will take you on the course set, they will not avoid shit or take complex routes, you set them and away they go
That describes the autopilot of a DC-3 or the Chris Craft cabin cruiser of 1954..
The problem is that when the general public thinks "autopilot" what they visualize is the automation and glass cockpit of a modern jumbo jet ---- which can be programmed for collision avoidance and complex routing.
You see this all the time on Slashdot. The geek quotes from the dictionary or tech manual and ignores common usage. It is when the geek turns to marketing that the habit becomes dangerous.
A felony is a massive life-altering consequence that is not necessarily the most useful way to address or punish a problem. The kid's sixteen.
I am tempted to say that committing the felony is the life-altering experience. The kid is sixteen, I'll grant you that.. But the geek tends to reach out for the get-out-of-jail-free card whenever one of his own is looking at serving hard time.
Perhaps when Win 10 does reach a billion installs Slashdot will finally retire its stained glass windows logo. If the stereotypical Slashdot post about Win 10 died with it, so much the better.
he develops the mathematics to predict the future based on large-scale statistical analysis.
Not merely to predict the future. But to give back-stage manipulators answerable to no one the power to shape the future to his ends. The problem remains, as always, "Who guards the guards?"
Why are there no true dual system laptops or tablets?
The market is too small. It costs too much. Service and support is a nightmare. If your boss is serious about security, he wants you using a dedicated system, ideally one that is chained to your desk, with no Internet access, whatever.
However, what we still do not know is - when did she start moving?
The tight question to ask is "When should the car start slowing down?" Recognize that a pedestrian may move onto the road unpredictably. Consider also the behavior of children at play, pets, deer, and so on. Expressway driving is easy for a machine in part because generally almost nothing is in motion but other vehicles and they are - most of the time, anyway -- essentially running on tracks. Their movements clearly defined and limited.
No thanks. I wills tick to gaming on Windows 7, that doesn't spy on me.
Developers target platforms with significant market share and mainstream graphical support. Mainstream support for Win 7 as an OS ended in 2015. OEM Win 7 system installs for the consumer market in 2014. Four years is a long time in this business.
If self-driving cars rack up fewer pedestrian deaths per mile driven than human drivers, that's the critical metric.
No. What matters is whether the self-driving car is as a practical matter perfected and trustworthy --- and that is nore than a purely statistical calculation. The numbers may be on your side, but what people will see will be the bodies on on the road and no driver behind the wheel.
Open source could have saved the day for this a-hole. But luckily for the rest of us he's an idiot.
How often do you think these guys do their own paper work? If it s legitimate, it goes through their clerical staff and all they ever see is a working draft for mark-up or the end product.
Don't display Getty media in your search results.
That'll learn 'em.
Getty Images is one of the largest and most significant photo archives in the world with over 80 million images and some 50,000 hours of video. Its stock images are prime goods and any professional in the field knows this.
I suspect someone got paid off big time.
The geek's all-purpose excuse for any decision that doesn't go their way is bribery. It's so much simpler than trying to understand staffing, workflow and management in the office environment. In many ways, the client OS and apps is a much more subtle and intractabl problem than the server.
The astonishing thing is how many geeks who should know better, see nothing wrong with so-called "smart" so-called "telephones" -- which are the antithesis of what we computer hobbyists were trying to build for all those decades.
The problem in a nutshell.The geek thinks the world is full of computer hobbyists. Google. Apple. Microsoft and the rest know that the word is full of people with other interests and values. Think of the perfect storm: The Windows 95 PC with dial-up AOL at a flat monthly rate.
They are hurting in every area as people bail on their garbage, proprietary software left and right.
Maybe you should spend less time posting to Slashdot and more time looking at where Microsoft is positioned in the work place.
If you want explanations of topics which are accessible to the general public then you do not go out and read an encyclopedia you go and read a book designed to simplify complex topics enough that non-scientists can digest them.
The Encyclopedia Britannica in its prime was written for the adult general reader and not the specialist scholar or professional ---and attracted some very good and accessible writers whose academic credentials were perfectly sound.
Microsoft was selling customized microcomputer BASICs to Fortune 500 clients in the mid seventies. MBASIC was the first product for the micro to reach a million dollars in sales. By 1980, Microsoft was offering a full suite of programming languages for CP/M and was moving into operating systems before being approached by IBM. The notion that Microsoft was am insignificant or invisible player in the industry before the IBM PC is just plain nonsense.
What Gates offered IBM was a serviceable and perhaps more importantly a uniquely affordable 16 Bit CP/M clone + MBASIC, etc., in time for the scheduled launch of the IBM PC. I doubt that the IBM PC team gave a damn how Gates sourced or developed the package so long as it was ready on time.
Not everything needs to be accessed through a web browser...Let them make their own apps and when they fail to move eyeballs away from the web, let them come back and play nicely with the rest of us.
Home PC sales ---if not in free fall --- can't be described as particularly healthy. While the Netflix app is installed on a gazillion cell phones, smart TVs, video game consoles, 4K Blu-Ray players, Roku set top boxes and god alone knows how many other toys and gadgets. Netflix has all the eyeballs anyone could ask for. The same is true for all the giants in media and marketing.
The big boys don't have play nice with the geek anymore.
W3C sells out, leaves its somewhat democratic origins, succumbs to the payola, jumps the shark. Carry on, EFF. Someone has to.
To what end? Do you see the audience for Disney or Netflix going away any soon? The cell phone, the tablet, the 4K TV, video game console or Roku box with the Disney or Netflix app pre-installed? If you don't, then where does the PC and the web browser fit into the picture? Without access to protected media content. I don't think they survive as a viable mass market consumer product.
There are two ways of distributing protected content; through an app or through a browser --- and the dominance of the app diminishes the significance and utility of the browser.
Which has never been any great joy to use on any other mobile device than a full size laptop.
The geek doesn't like paying for content. I get that. But that is no longer a problem for anyone else. You want to keep the browser relevant? Then you have give it access to protected content.
What are people trying to secure? Their location and identity in the event they are trying to report an incident anonymously.
I've been long enough to have have made more 911 than I care think about. Not once would it been desirable to disguise my identity or location. More than once it has been .difficult to speak or to think clearly --- to remember your own name. The "anonymous caller" makes for good TV, In real life, the 911 caller is more likely to having a asthma attack.
LibreOffice is the stand-alone office suite of the nineties, sans a broadly useful integrated messaging and calendar applications like Outlook .and Skype.,
Office 365 is an integrated office system with online and offline components and customized versions for federally compliant medical record applications and so on.