I don't get confronted with an EULA when I order a laptop from Amazon. And once I've bought it I don't care what appears on the screen because I didn't have the opportunity to read that when I was making the purchase (the SALE part of Sale Of Goods Act).
No, it's microsoft having a different minimum spec for 8.0 and 8.1. It's a cpu issue. Version n.x software should alway run on the same hardware n.x-1 ran on.
What does Microsoft suggest people do about this? Buy new hardware? Live without the security fixes after just a year or so? Downgrade to 7?
In some countries this would possibly enter consumer protection territory. In the UK possibly the 1979 Sale Of Goods Act.
> It is so archaic in this day and age of microization to have something mechanic > bottlenecking the whole computer
And yet...nothing has replaced it in terms of cost of lifespan. SSDs still suck in terms of reliability. If you're got a lot of money then sure, get a smallish one for your OS to boot from, but come back and give me a call when there's something to replace my 1/2TB drives full of pictures/music.
I can't imagine why I would ever go near a Yahoo site. Yahoo Answers? Seriously? Didn't Stack Exchange demolish that nonsense? Yahoo email? With the `win tickets to the World Cup` spammy sigfiles a good 8 months after the World Cup finished? What do they offer than other companies don't offer, better, and without the lack of respect?
What language-preferably something new rather than dated, because new is always better-do you suggest be used for operating systems, games, simulations and other large/complex tasks? Not all Slashdot readers are html hairdressers, you know...
Do you use any parts of Boost instead of what's in the standard library, or just the stuff that's missing? Care to explain? (I'm learning C++11 (having not used C++ too much over the last few years) so I'd find it a useful heads up.)
How are they going to make money on services? I've bought a number of Android phones and tablets over the years, and spent about £20 in total between them. (An no, I have no pirate software whatsoever). You just don't need to buy software for mobile OSes, as the built in/free stuff is sufficient other than for games, and they're not charging £40 each for games.
It's always amused me, as a vegetarian, how the first thing people often say is "how do you get enough protein" like it's a constant struggle. "How much do I need" I'll ask. They don't know. But, you know, a LOT - enough that they'd worry about it!
There's a third market. People who have a smartphone, and have a watch which costs between $0 and $500 and who don't want to look like a nerd. If you can make them non-nerd like and they actually offer something then go for it. No-one's going to buy them just because they exist, and the current ones look like someone's strapped a small smartphone to your wrist. There's a reason people scoff at those.
> Do you believe that Nokia was naive when Elop was hired ?
Yes. They knew they were losing - that's not insight; that's just looking at the figures. They needed to do something. They probably thought he was going to use his experience to help, not to make decisions which would lead to them losing enough money so that his (previous) employers could perform a takeover. I'm a little surprised there's been no lawsuit yet; perhaps now is the time for that?
> The point Ubisoft is making, however, is that your FB profile contains enormous > amounts of information in a single place that can be mined in any number of ways.
Yeah, that's why we like it. That's why we use it. It's the point of Facebook. Without that info, what exactly would it be?
Seriously, if people didn't like it they'd have stopped using it by now. Please take the paranoia elsewhere; some of us have a life.
Why use an app which you have to use your phone for, when there are those which work on tablets, desktops etc? I go abroad, I put my phone into airplane mode and use only wifi (I'm not paying £1500 per gig!).
Chinese quality? Remember those shitty cheap Chinese Android tablets running Android v2.7.2 etc, or the mp4 players that had been hacked to report 64gigs of ram but actually held 4gb?
I look forward to exercising my uk consumer rights with people who speak English as a 3rd language.
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I don't get confronted with an EULA when I order a laptop from Amazon. And once I've bought it I don't care what appears on the screen because I didn't have the opportunity to read that when I was making the purchase (the SALE part of Sale Of Goods Act).
No, it's microsoft having a different minimum spec for 8.0 and 8.1. It's a cpu issue. Version n.x software should alway run on the same hardware n.x-1 ran on.
What does Microsoft suggest people do about this? Buy new hardware? Live without the security fixes after just a year or so? Downgrade to 7?
In some countries this would possibly enter consumer protection territory. In the UK possibly the 1979 Sale Of Goods Act.
> It is so archaic in this day and age of microization to have something mechanic
> bottlenecking the whole computer
And yet...nothing has replaced it in terms of cost of lifespan. SSDs still suck in terms of reliability. If you're got a lot of money then sure, get a smallish one for your OS to boot from, but come back and give me a call when there's something to replace my 1/2TB drives full of pictures/music.
Thanks, but no. (The quality of Yahoo Answers, with the clunky, shitty website-ness of Google Groups. 2003 wants its online forum back!)
I can't imagine why I would ever go near a Yahoo site. Yahoo Answers? Seriously? Didn't Stack Exchange demolish that nonsense? Yahoo email? With the `win tickets to the World Cup` spammy sigfiles a good 8 months after the World Cup finished? What do they offer than other companies don't offer, better, and without the lack of respect?
"'People do bring it up every now and then.'"
And when they don't, I remind them! It's kind of who I am. It's all I am. I have nothing. I'm so sad. Please kill me.
It would seem that the gap is closing, in terms of both the performance (of the compiler and the executables it produces) and the error messages:
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ClangD...
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...
Ok, thanks. I'm currently working my way through the new Stroustrup book and I'll bear that in mind.
How many guesses do you get at the number? I'm not doing much this weekend.
What language-preferably something new rather than dated, because new is always better-do you suggest be used for operating systems, games, simulations and other large/complex tasks? Not all Slashdot readers are html hairdressers, you know...
Do you use any parts of Boost instead of what's in the standard library, or just the stuff that's missing? Care to explain? (I'm learning C++11 (having not used C++ too much over the last few years) so I'd find it a useful heads up.)
Ah - but I keep my ID in a second safe deposit box!
How are they going to make money on services? I've bought a number of Android phones and tablets over the years, and spent about £20 in total between them. (An no, I have no pirate software whatsoever). You just don't need to buy software for mobile OSes, as the built in/free stuff is sufficient other than for games, and they're not charging £40 each for games.
If you can afford the performance hit on every single subscript, sure!
Don't forget 0. Only silly languages start loops, arrays etc at 1.
My comment was more about people's ignorance about protein than about what you like to eat (the latter being rather off-topic).
Waste due to the exterior becoming unwashably dirty, you mean?
It's always amused me, as a vegetarian, how the first thing people often say is "how do you get enough protein" like it's a constant struggle. "How much do I need" I'll ask. They don't know. But, you know, a LOT - enough that they'd worry about it!
What, like fruit and vegetables?
There's a third market. People who have a smartphone, and have a watch which costs between $0 and $500 and who don't want to look like a nerd. If you can make them non-nerd like and they actually offer something then go for it. No-one's going to buy them just because they exist, and the current ones look like someone's strapped a small smartphone to your wrist. There's a reason people scoff at those.
> Do you believe that Nokia was naive when Elop was hired ?
Yes. They knew they were losing - that's not insight; that's just looking at the figures. They needed to do something. They probably thought he was going to use his experience to help, not to make decisions which would lead to them losing enough money so that his (previous) employers could perform a takeover. I'm a little surprised there's been no lawsuit yet; perhaps now is the time for that?
> The point Ubisoft is making, however, is that your FB profile contains enormous
> amounts of information in a single place that can be mined in any number of ways.
Yeah, that's why we like it. That's why we use it. It's the point of Facebook. Without that info, what exactly would it be?
Seriously, if people didn't like it they'd have stopped using it by now. Please take the paranoia elsewhere; some of us have a life.
Why use an app which you have to use your phone for, when there are those which work on tablets, desktops etc? I go abroad, I put my phone into airplane mode and use only wifi (I'm not paying £1500 per gig!).
> Unfortunately, today's phone can do that without a cable, making the process less
> complicated.
That is a shame. Oh well, there are always other uses for cable fetishists, such as charging. For now, anyway.
Chinese quality? Remember those shitty cheap Chinese Android tablets running Android v2.7.2 etc, or the mp4 players that had been hacked to report 64gigs of ram but actually held 4gb?
I look forward to exercising my uk consumer rights with people who speak English as a 3rd language.