It's a different operating system. Whether you consider it an upgrade depends on whether you like hipster UIs.
And, don't forget, they've apparently said this is the last version of Windows, and new features will continually be pushed out. Next time the hipsters want to release a new UI, you'll wake up one morning and find your desktop looks completely different because it auto-updated overnight.
Yeah, people who want to jump into a new technology and learn about it do suck. What were they thinking. We'll just stay safe and sound with our proven technology of Commodore 64 V2 BASIC.
The Shiny! The Shiny!
Back in the real world, this is probably the first time Microsoft released a new version of Windows and no-one really cared. All the interesting new technology is elsewhere.
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It's not possible. The Windows fanboys have repeatedly told me here that Microsoft locking out other operating systems from the PC will never happen.
All of these have designated areas in which they can happen. So do drones, but the problem is that people have been using them outside of those confines.
No, the problem is drones are far, far too useful to operate only in 'designated areas'.
For example, in the not too distant future, instead of that helicopter ambulance flying to help someone out in the middle of nowhere, it could be a drone wired to a VR headset. But that won't be allowed, because 'designated area'.
The current aviation regulation regime is simply unable to deal with the future. Either you ban the future, or you have to change the regulations.
You're an experienced test pilot of a rocket powered ship and you have to be specifically trained to anticipate the effects of slamming on the brakes while traveling at supersonic speed?
As touched on in a comment above, he didn't deploy them, he unlocked them. As I understand it, he unlocked them too early, so the deployment mechanism was unable to prevent them from deploying under the stress of supersonic flight at relatively low altitude.
You want to unlock them early, because, if you can't unlock them, you can still cut the engine and glide back. You don't want to unlock them too early, because this happens.
So what's your stance on RSA, one of the early software patents, which is still used everywhere?
Cryptography is a special case, as governments did their best to prevent innovation there until the late 90s/early 2000s. And the RSA patent was another of the reasons for the slow spread of cryptography prior to the end of the last Crypto War, as no-one wanted to be tied to a patented algorithm; some even suggested it was patented for precisely that reason, though I doubt that was the case.
Except Google don't even keep updating their own devices. Last I heard, it sounded like they're tossing several Nexus devices out the window with Android M.
Much as I hate to do so, I'll be replacing my Nexus 7 with an iPad when Google obsolete it. I'm sick of Android's hopeless lack of security, lack of permission controls, and lack of updates.
I think you'll find most of the techies got fed up with the perpetual SJW shill stories claiming they're EVIL SEXIST RACIST CISWHITEMALES... and left. SJWs destroy everything they touch, and don't even care, because they didn't build that.
Personally, I only bother coming back here when I need an excuse to procrastinate. And I did have a four or five digit UID before I forgot the login and had to create a new one.
See how this works? The Nanny State pendulum can swing in several directions.
Dude, in my experience, the people who want to ban drones are the same people who want to ban cars.
Ug scared. Ug ban.
They won't be happy until they force us all back to the Stone Age. Oh, except stones are dangerous, so maybe it will have to be the Fluffy Feather Age.
Are you seriously claiming, that, a few years from now, the New Zealand police will be arresting every Japanese tourist walking around town with a ten gram drone following them around and posting pictures to Facebook?
Do you think the police there have nothing better to do? Or that the people making money from tourism would support such a measure?
I think they're mostly a projection by the anti-drone nutters. THEY would use a drone to spy on their neighbour's teenage daughter if they had one, therefore everyone would.
It's like the anti-gun nutters who know that no-one can be trusted with guns, because THEY would go crazy and shoot everyone nearby if they had one.
Drones though are just one mechanical failure away from lethal force given the height and mass they generally have during operation, all without any effort
How is a one ounce drone more dangerous than my neighbour's cricket ball?
If there's a drone flying outside your window, you close the curtains.
But, hey, be a buggy whip maker if that makes you happy. It won't stop the bad guys STEALING YOUR SOUL with their EVIL DRONE CAMERA, because, you know, bad guys don't give a crap about laws.
Man, this site has gone downhill in the last few years.
After all, a photographer with a telephoto lens cannot sell pictures of you or post them in any publicly viewable media without your permission, but what about drone footage of you?
Duh, it would fall under the same law that any other video footage did.
You do know, dude, that a camera doesn't actually STEAL YOUR SOUL, right? Because you sound an awful lot like the people who believe that.
I've also got a non-camera quad that's 2 5/8" from tip to tip. I'm sure that size range will have cameras soon. I doubt it would even sting if it fell on my head.
Soon? Palm-sized drones with cameras, with and without FPV, have been on the market for... well, quite a while.
"The people driving horseless carriages recklessly at TEN MILES AN HOUR are the ones who have made the Red Flag Act necessary. Don't blame the government, blame the crazies who have made this law necessary!"
The real crazies are the ones who think they can make the Drone Red Flag Acts stick. Drones are only going to get smaller, more capable and more ubiquitous. If you think you can stop the tsunami of technological progress, you're like the buggy whip makers who thought that forcing car owners to have a man walk in front with a red flag everywhere it went could keep them in business.
And, fifty years from now, we'll look back on people pushing such laws, and laugh at how crazy they were. Just as we do with the promoters of the Red Flag Act.
Yes. It makes total sense, and is perfectly reasonable, that I should have to request permission from the city to fly a one ounce drone, and stop if anyone complains.
Other countries have produced far more sane regulations — such as limiting drone and RC model operators to flying no closer than 30m from people or buildings
That's not a 'sane regulation'. It prevents you from flying a palm-sized drone pretty much anywhere in a city.
These are basically the Red Flag Acts of the drone era. Ooh, scary, Ug not like scary thing, Ug must ban!
But, hey, if those countries don't want anything to do with one of the most important industries of the 21st century, doesn't worry me.
Same for the doors, you have to be within about a foot of the door. You can't unlock the doors from the outside when the key is on the inside. You can't unlock or open any of the doors with the key at or more than a meter away from the door you're trying to unlock.
Except there was an article a few weeks ago about crooks breaking into cars by using a directional antenna to pick up the signal from your key and retransmit it to the car.
I doubt it's anything to do with this. I suspect it's because they can't measure the effectiveness of TV, print and radio ads. The advertisers tell them their print, TV and radio ads are incredibly effective, then, when they put ads on the Internet where they can directly measure the effectiveness, they discover... they don't actually work.
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Dude, it's an upgrade.
In what sense?
It's a different operating system. Whether you consider it an upgrade depends on whether you like hipster UIs.
And, don't forget, they've apparently said this is the last version of Windows, and new features will continually be pushed out. Next time the hipsters want to release a new UI, you'll wake up one morning and find your desktop looks completely different because it auto-updated overnight.
Are you insane. Windows 7 is nothing but vista repackaged.
And most of the bugs fixed. For example, I've never had to wait two minutes while Windows 7 copied a 1MB file, unlike Vista.
Yeah, people who want to jump into a new technology and learn about it do suck. What were they thinking. We'll just stay safe and sound with our proven technology of Commodore 64 V2 BASIC.
The Shiny! The Shiny!
Back in the real world, this is probably the first time Microsoft released a new version of Windows and no-one really cared. All the interesting new technology is elsewhere.
It's not possible. The Windows fanboys have repeatedly told me here that Microsoft locking out other operating systems from the PC will never happen.
All of these have designated areas in which they can happen. So do drones, but the problem is that people have been using them outside of those confines.
No, the problem is drones are far, far too useful to operate only in 'designated areas'.
For example, in the not too distant future, instead of that helicopter ambulance flying to help someone out in the middle of nowhere, it could be a drone wired to a VR headset. But that won't be allowed, because 'designated area'.
The current aviation regulation regime is simply unable to deal with the future. Either you ban the future, or you have to change the regulations.
You're an experienced test pilot of a rocket powered ship and you have to be specifically trained to anticipate the effects of slamming on the brakes while traveling at supersonic speed?
As touched on in a comment above, he didn't deploy them, he unlocked them. As I understand it, he unlocked them too early, so the deployment mechanism was unable to prevent them from deploying under the stress of supersonic flight at relatively low altitude.
You want to unlock them early, because, if you can't unlock them, you can still cut the engine and glide back. You don't want to unlock them too early, because this happens.
So what's your stance on RSA, one of the early software patents, which is still used everywhere?
Cryptography is a special case, as governments did their best to prevent innovation there until the late 90s/early 2000s. And the RSA patent was another of the reasons for the slow spread of cryptography prior to the end of the last Crypto War, as no-one wanted to be tied to a patented algorithm; some even suggested it was patented for precisely that reason, though I doubt that was the case.
I still can't believe that something this basic missed QA in MSFT because .NET regression tests would be a basic must have including JIT problems.
Didn't Microsoft lay off thousands of QA folks a year or so back?
I guess the expected tsunami of techies eager for SJW articles never arrived.
Enjoy getting updates that cripple your device while still being vulnerable to web/etc based root vulnerabilities.
Just like Android, then.
Except you can keep installing the updates until the device is simply too outdated to run them.
Except Google don't even keep updating their own devices. Last I heard, it sounded like they're tossing several Nexus devices out the window with Android M.
Much as I hate to do so, I'll be replacing my Nexus 7 with an iPad when Google obsolete it. I'm sick of Android's hopeless lack of security, lack of permission controls, and lack of updates.
I think you'll find most of the techies got fed up with the perpetual SJW shill stories claiming they're EVIL SEXIST RACIST CISWHITEMALES... and left. SJWs destroy everything they touch, and don't even care, because they didn't build that.
Personally, I only bother coming back here when I need an excuse to procrastinate. And I did have a four or five digit UID before I forgot the login and had to create a new one.
See how this works? The Nanny State pendulum can swing in several directions.
Dude, in my experience, the people who want to ban drones are the same people who want to ban cars.
Ug scared. Ug ban.
They won't be happy until they force us all back to the Stone Age. Oh, except stones are dangerous, so maybe it will have to be the Fluffy Feather Age.
Are you seriously claiming, that, a few years from now, the New Zealand police will be arresting every Japanese tourist walking around town with a ten gram drone following them around and posting pictures to Facebook?
Do you think the police there have nothing better to do? Or that the people making money from tourism would support such a measure?
Where are all these asshole multirotor pilots?
I think they're mostly a projection by the anti-drone nutters. THEY would use a drone to spy on their neighbour's teenage daughter if they had one, therefore everyone would.
It's like the anti-gun nutters who know that no-one can be trusted with guns, because THEY would go crazy and shoot everyone nearby if they had one.
No, I like daylight. And I like sunbathing in my apartment.
Oh, you're just making fun of the anti-drone nutters. Sorry, I though you were serious.
Pretty good troll. I'd give you at least 7/10.
Drones though are just one mechanical failure away from lethal force given the height and mass they generally have during operation, all without any effort
How is a one ounce drone more dangerous than my neighbour's cricket ball?
If there's a drone flying outside your window, you close the curtains.
But, hey, be a buggy whip maker if that makes you happy. It won't stop the bad guys STEALING YOUR SOUL with their EVIL DRONE CAMERA, because, you know, bad guys don't give a crap about laws.
Man, this site has gone downhill in the last few years.
After all, a photographer with a telephoto lens cannot sell pictures of you or post them in any publicly viewable media without your permission, but what about drone footage of you?
Duh, it would fall under the same law that any other video footage did.
You do know, dude, that a camera doesn't actually STEAL YOUR SOUL, right? Because you sound an awful lot like the people who believe that.
I've also got a non-camera quad that's 2 5/8" from tip to tip. I'm sure that size range will have cameras soon. I doubt it would even sting if it fell on my head.
Soon? Palm-sized drones with cameras, with and without FPV, have been on the market for... well, quite a while.
"The people driving horseless carriages recklessly at TEN MILES AN HOUR are the ones who have made the Red Flag Act necessary. Don't blame the government, blame the crazies who have made this law necessary!"
The real crazies are the ones who think they can make the Drone Red Flag Acts stick. Drones are only going to get smaller, more capable and more ubiquitous. If you think you can stop the tsunami of technological progress, you're like the buggy whip makers who thought that forcing car owners to have a man walk in front with a red flag everywhere it went could keep them in business.
And, fifty years from now, we'll look back on people pushing such laws, and laugh at how crazy they were. Just as we do with the promoters of the Red Flag Act.
Yes. It makes total sense, and is perfectly reasonable, that I should have to request permission from the city to fly a one ounce drone, and stop if anyone complains.
Knee-jerk. Knee-jerk. Watch that knee jerk.
Other countries have produced far more sane regulations — such as limiting drone and RC model operators to flying no closer than 30m from people or buildings
That's not a 'sane regulation'. It prevents you from flying a palm-sized drone pretty much anywhere in a city.
These are basically the Red Flag Acts of the drone era. Ooh, scary, Ug not like scary thing, Ug must ban!
But, hey, if those countries don't want anything to do with one of the most important industries of the 21st century, doesn't worry me.
Same for the doors, you have to be within about a foot of the door. You can't unlock the doors from the outside when the key is on the inside. You can't unlock or open any of the doors with the key at or more than a meter away from the door you're trying to unlock.
Except there was an article a few weeks ago about crooks breaking into cars by using a directional antenna to pick up the signal from your key and retransmit it to the car.
I doubt it's anything to do with this. I suspect it's because they can't measure the effectiveness of TV, print and radio ads. The advertisers tell them their print, TV and radio ads are incredibly effective, then, when they put ads on the Internet where they can directly measure the effectiveness, they discover... they don't actually work.