I'm not sure it was computers. While it is conceivable that they have written a twitter bot that waits for news from Israel about conflicts in the Middle East, I'm not sure that the Israeli military Twitter feed would be a source of timely information in case of an actual attack.
Well, I hated it, but not enough to revert until the backup fiasco. Seriously a step backward. I had no need for "Metro". I tried it and didn't like it. In particular I don't like the way that the OS declares that you are done with an app and closes them willy-nilly such that Alt-Tab no longer functions. If you get a good application, you can at least get back to where you were quickly since they are supposed to remember their state. But most apps don't seem to do this. The mail and pdf app that are built in are examples of bad apps.
How does Hyper-V mean that you don't need a backup strategy? Unless you automate the image backups, you are in exactly the same boat that I was. Windows 7 backup isn't quite Time Machine*, but daily backups with a fill-in from something like Crashplan are pretty bullet-proof and non-obtrusive. Removing that is puzzling. I know that the imaging function isn't useful on machines with the DRM protected boot, but they could have just grayed out the option on gimped machines. I suspect that they didn't want their own machines (Surface series) to look like they were gimped, so they gimped everyone's machine. It's a shame, because in my old age I actually buy software, so MS is losing a paying customer - albeit just a meager consumer and not one of their "real" business customers.
*In terms of simplicity - I actually trust the Windows 7 backup images more than Time Machine.
I think there is a third, which is sort of related to your number 1: 3. ARM is clearly moving toward 64-bit. If you are redesigning your processor anyway, are you going to make a new 32-bit chip that won't last into the days where phones get more RAM, or are you going to go with the modern architecture that you can stick in your cheaper phones going forward?
And of course having a "desktop class" portable chip of their own does expand their flexibility in laptop offerings, but ARM still can't touch Intel right now at the mid-to-high end laptop game where Apple has a market.
I just tried to use Windows 8 for a year, hating but tolerating it. Last week I found out the hard way that the built-in backup in Windows 8 doesn't make an image to recover from in Windows 7. So despite using two-different backup solutions, I still had to re-install all of my Applications again. Faced with throwing money at a decent imaging backup solution or just putting 7 on the machine, the choice became obvious.
I don't think we need that kind of "innovation" on the Desktop, where I can actually use things like "hover", "double-click", and multiple mouse buttons with a scroll wheel. On the tablet side, you don't have to gimp the touch interface so that it is still navigable with a mouse.
Sadly, you replaced the inevitable grammar Nazi chain with an anti-grammar Nazi chain. I, too, am now participating in this activity devoid of all value.
Don't think I haven't thought about it! They are also tearing up the street and I definitely considered surreptitiously running a CAT6:) As much as I hate dealing with Comcast, Verizon is honestly almost as bad so I'm not sure it is worth all of the effort.
They have it across the street from my house, but my house is on a dead end circuit with only 8 or 10 other homes, so no love here. It's Comcraptic. Just like in TFA, they advertise like crazy - I must get a glossy flyer every week, begging me to call. When I occasionally get my hopes up and call the number on the flyer, they try to sign me up with Direct TV... WTF? While I'm happy that they are subsidizing the Post Office, you would think that they could share some availability information with their marketing department.
Hey, I'm as much at a loss as you guys are. I'm trying to think like management might. It sounds weird, but I actually had to trick my soul into leaving my body for a second (my soul loves candy corn).
Yeah, exactly - that might work if the radius isn't too sharp, right? Depends if this stuff is like a sheet of projector transparency or more like a piece of thin plexiglass.
Use your imagination - I don't know what the minimum radius is, but if they leave room in the hinge then the screen could retract away from the edges of the frame such that it forms a radius in the hinge. Such a mechanism need not be complicated - simply attach the screen at the back of the hinge. It is a trivial design challenge, at least in principle. Let this message serve as "prior art" if some knucklehead tries to patent it:)
Yes, I was referring tot he genuinely poor, whose minimum wage or near-minimum wage salaries do not keep up with inflation. They also are more sensitive to increases in things like food, energy, and housing prices. A yuppie can get a crappier car or a smaller apartment . A yuppie can buy store brands. A poor person - if they have a car - already have the crappiest car they can get away with using. A poor person already is living in a crap apartment (or public housing). A poor person is probably on food stamps and is already economizing on food.
Now, I'm not a Ron Paul anti-fed type, mind you. Inflation can be good - for instance, sometimes salaries "need" to go down, but they don't because people don't take kindly to that. Inflation is a way to reduce salaries without superficially reducing them. But doing this to minimum wage people kind of subverts the point of minimum wage in the first place - it probably should be tied to inflation. Inflation can also be good because it means we aren't having deflation. Deflation is a serious problem.... why would I spend any of my money when it is going to be worth more tomorrow? That said, printing money should be limited to controlling inflation/deflation, not for getting out of debt.
They decided they'd lost that fight because he had a veto, therefore they didn't fight the fight.
If I pretend for a minute that the Dems wanted to close GitMo, then they could not have shut the government down because that would make the Tea Party happy. A better analogy would be if the doves in the House stopped funding for the Iraqi war. I don't think such a thing was possible, since there were probably enough Democratic hawks to side with the Republicans, but that would be similar to what the Tea Party is doing now.
What terrifies the fuck out of me is that the way our government is designed there are lots of opportunities for a principled person to bring everything to a halt.
Well, it's not really a halt... in fact, even "shut down", the government is spending more than in takes in. I actually find that terrifying, because it illustrates how badly out of balance our expectations are for government with what we are willing to pay.
I share your coincern for "minority" rule, but at the same time I'm glad that a significant minority position is protected... even when I disagree with their stance. I have to admit that I'm not sure there would be any fiscal discussion at all without the Tea Party, so they do play a role - even if they are totally nuts.
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I'm not sure it was computers. While it is conceivable that they have written a twitter bot that waits for news from Israel about conflicts in the Middle East, I'm not sure that the Israeli military Twitter feed would be a source of timely information in case of an actual attack.
Well, I hated it, but not enough to revert until the backup fiasco. Seriously a step backward. I had no need for "Metro". I tried it and didn't like it. In particular I don't like the way that the OS declares that you are done with an app and closes them willy-nilly such that Alt-Tab no longer functions. If you get a good application, you can at least get back to where you were quickly since they are supposed to remember their state. But most apps don't seem to do this. The mail and pdf app that are built in are examples of bad apps.
How does Hyper-V mean that you don't need a backup strategy? Unless you automate the image backups, you are in exactly the same boat that I was. Windows 7 backup isn't quite Time Machine*, but daily backups with a fill-in from something like Crashplan are pretty bullet-proof and non-obtrusive. Removing that is puzzling. I know that the imaging function isn't useful on machines with the DRM protected boot, but they could have just grayed out the option on gimped machines. I suspect that they didn't want their own machines (Surface series) to look like they were gimped, so they gimped everyone's machine. It's a shame, because in my old age I actually buy software, so MS is losing a paying customer - albeit just a meager consumer and not one of their "real" business customers.
*In terms of simplicity - I actually trust the Windows 7 backup images more than Time Machine.
Yes, now she can implement her devious plan to spy on 0.01% of American households running Ubuntu desktop! Muwhahahahha!
LOL, well I did suggest that the magnesium parts they were using might not work out so well...
The two possible answers is:
I think there is a third, which is sort of related to your number 1:
3. ARM is clearly moving toward 64-bit. If you are redesigning your processor anyway, are you going to make a new 32-bit chip that won't last into the days where phones get more RAM, or are you going to go with the modern architecture that you can stick in your cheaper phones going forward?
And of course having a "desktop class" portable chip of their own does expand their flexibility in laptop offerings, but ARM still can't touch Intel right now at the mid-to-high end laptop game where Apple has a market.
I just tried to use Windows 8 for a year, hating but tolerating it. Last week I found out the hard way that the built-in backup in Windows 8 doesn't make an image to recover from in Windows 7. So despite using two-different backup solutions, I still had to re-install all of my Applications again. Faced with throwing money at a decent imaging backup solution or just putting 7 on the machine, the choice became obvious.
I don't think we need that kind of "innovation" on the Desktop, where I can actually use things like "hover", "double-click", and multiple mouse buttons with a scroll wheel. On the tablet side, you don't have to gimp the touch interface so that it is still navigable with a mouse.
My last job was corrosion testing. I would test various materials and coatings for their corrosion resistance - basically, I would make things rust.
My current job is building robotic assembly equipment. Despite my last job, I do not make the robots rust.
Sadly, you replaced the inevitable grammar Nazi chain with an anti-grammar Nazi chain. I, too, am now participating in this activity devoid of all value.
With a name like Connor, I'm wondering if you didn't travel back in time to post this message in an attempt to change the future.
Just works, but cheap?
Wait 'till we default. You're coming along for the ride with us... yeeeehaw!
I know it is a first post, and I know it is an AC using crude language. But his point stands. It is an entirely plausible explanation.
Don't think I haven't thought about it! They are also tearing up the street and I definitely considered surreptitiously running a CAT6 :) As much as I hate dealing with Comcast, Verizon is honestly almost as bad so I'm not sure it is worth all of the effort.
They have it across the street from my house, but my house is on a dead end circuit with only 8 or 10 other homes, so no love here. It's Comcraptic. Just like in TFA, they advertise like crazy - I must get a glossy flyer every week, begging me to call. When I occasionally get my hopes up and call the number on the flyer, they try to sign me up with Direct TV... WTF? While I'm happy that they are subsidizing the Post Office, you would think that they could share some availability information with their marketing department.
Hey, I'm as much at a loss as you guys are. I'm trying to think like management might. It sounds weird, but I actually had to trick my soul into leaving my body for a second (my soul loves candy corn).
Could it be simplifying their tech support somehow?
You go and spoil our hard speculation by looking up a fact? In TFA no less? For shame... :)
Yeah, exactly - that might work if the radius isn't too sharp, right? Depends if this stuff is like a sheet of projector transparency or more like a piece of thin plexiglass.
Use your imagination - I don't know what the minimum radius is, but if they leave room in the hinge then the screen could retract away from the edges of the frame such that it forms a radius in the hinge. Such a mechanism need not be complicated - simply attach the screen at the back of the hinge. It is a trivial design challenge, at least in principle. Let this message serve as "prior art" if some knucklehead tries to patent it :)
Well, that's Al2O3 - an oxide.
That's probably preferable to getting phone support from Mexico and washers from India...
Yes, I was referring tot he genuinely poor, whose minimum wage or near-minimum wage salaries do not keep up with inflation. They also are more sensitive to increases in things like food, energy, and housing prices. A yuppie can get a crappier car or a smaller apartment . A yuppie can buy store brands. A poor person - if they have a car - already have the crappiest car they can get away with using. A poor person already is living in a crap apartment (or public housing). A poor person is probably on food stamps and is already economizing on food.
Now, I'm not a Ron Paul anti-fed type, mind you. Inflation can be good - for instance, sometimes salaries "need" to go down, but they don't because people don't take kindly to that. Inflation is a way to reduce salaries without superficially reducing them. But doing this to minimum wage people kind of subverts the point of minimum wage in the first place - it probably should be tied to inflation. Inflation can also be good because it means we aren't having deflation. Deflation is a serious problem.... why would I spend any of my money when it is going to be worth more tomorrow? That said, printing money should be limited to controlling inflation/deflation, not for getting out of debt.
No, they'll just "quantitatively ease" the bonds out of existence and tax us all with inflation. How's that for helping the poor?
They decided they'd lost that fight because he had a veto, therefore they didn't fight the fight.
If I pretend for a minute that the Dems wanted to close GitMo, then they could not have shut the government down because that would make the Tea Party happy. A better analogy would be if the doves in the House stopped funding for the Iraqi war. I don't think such a thing was possible, since there were probably enough Democratic hawks to side with the Republicans, but that would be similar to what the Tea Party is doing now.
What terrifies the fuck out of me is that the way our government is designed there are lots of opportunities for a principled person to bring everything to a halt.
Well, it's not really a halt... in fact, even "shut down", the government is spending more than in takes in. I actually find that terrifying, because it illustrates how badly out of balance our expectations are for government with what we are willing to pay.
I share your coincern for "minority" rule, but at the same time I'm glad that a significant minority position is protected... even when I disagree with their stance. I have to admit that I'm not sure there would be any fiscal discussion at all without the Tea Party, so they do play a role - even if they are totally nuts.
The magic hand with a government-granted monopoly, LOL.