Those pro-Trump denialists claiming you need a greenhouse to grow vegetables in Anatarctica when we all know there's RECORD HEAT down there.
I'll only let them live if they install a weather monitoring station inside the greenhouse and then give the temperature measurements a +5C adjustment in the name of TRUTH.
I didn't even read TFA and even I knew it was for the purpose of growing food outside of earth but you had to make it into a political global warming, Trump bashing agenda.
I hope you're proud of your inability to take the time to read.
I don't think it was ever intended to sell well. It was intended to stop the Windows Store in it's tracks.
In that it was quite succesful.
I doubt the problems with the Windows store have anything to do with Valve's efforts and more with Microsoft's way of trying to force people to use it.
Since Windows RT, people have worried that they would try to lock Windows to that curated cesspoo.. err I mean garden. I think their approach on a platform that's always been used to openly install anything they want has turned it's users off from wanting to use it so far.
I think the problem with breaking up these companies is that it doesn't resolve the fundamentals that permitted them to come into being in the 1st place. Breaking them up just means that it will happen again in the future unless we change was made it possible to begin with.
FreeCAD is somewhat usable but early enough in it's development that the interface is a total mess. The workbenches seem thrown together and sometimes have identical tools that work just slightly differently. I've successfully used it personally and professionally so I can tell you that it is capable, but I would never recommend it to someone with years of time into Solidworks. (not if they want to retain their hair).
I've barely touched FreeCad and agree with what you are saying as I felt so lost in the interface. What I feel is that with AutoCAD in a subscription model, if FreeCAD was able to speed up their development to the point where more people can make use of it, it could see a rise in investment the same as Blender is seeing at the moment. Remember, Blender may be open source but people can donate to it or use the Blender Cloud service (which is purely optional unlike a subscription model) to fund it and companies of all kinds are pitching in with money and coders for their needs. With increased funding to FreeCAD and Gimp, these tools could at some point become viable alternatives not only for the masses but companies needing them and a way to force the proprietary vendors to rethink their subscription model.
Those you listed are no alternatives. If you're just an amateur maybe, but professionals doing professional work need professional tools, not toys. Besides, if you are ever thinking of applying for a job involving image editing and processing, the mere mention of the word "GIMP" will result in your resume being trashed. Welcome to the real world.
This is very true of Gimp and I feel the slow pace of development is one of the reasons. If they deployed new version more frequently they might have more traction. Now I know that Photoshop is the defacto program for Photo editing out there and that isn't changing anytime soon but looking at Blender where 5 years ago, no one in a studio would have dared to mention using it, now you see some studios listing it as software they use in-house and will hire people who have knowledge of Blender so there what could be a beginning of a shift there. However, in my opinion for Gimp to do the same, they need to change the way they develop the software.
A few years ago when adobe started to go the subscription route I expected to see more people switch to free software. But the thins is : once you are used to something, it takes some effort to move to something else. It's not a matter of capacity of the software or even ease of use, it's a matter of being willing to make an effort to learn new ways, and to change.
So I say you want comfort and no change, well cough up. this has a price, you choose proprietary vendors, so pay what they ask and live with it.
The alternatives are free and available, but they require an actual effort on the user's end.
While there are many online resources to help a person learn software, I keep thinking that many still need a traditional way of learning. Many graphics design professionals went to a school to learn these tools and may need retraining in order to get proficient quickly. Maybe if there were a lot of schools willing to teach how to use these free/open source tools people would be more easily able to move away from the proprietary options. I know there are some schools out there but they are too few at the moment.
As a user of Blender, I am fine with Autodesk's destructive attitudes. I've noticed that some animation studios are now providing both money to the Blender Institute and software coders to help it's development. It may still feel like a drop in the bucket but Blender is capable to do many of the tasks needed out there already.
Now I know that won't cover all aspects but maybe other programs such as FreeCAD will get a boost from these vendor lock in tactics.
If Gimp could speed up their development, people might see a benefit to replace Photoshop in businesses too but I might be asking too much here.
How can I take your comment seriously when you slip in net neutrality as if it had anything to do with the fact that Canadians pay the highest prices for cell phones fees? This problem in Canada is as old as the arrival of the cell phone service, well before we started to hear of the term net neutrality which makes it irrelevant to this discussion. You're mixing apples and oranges as far as I'm concerned.
Yes they are located in Canada but none of the Canadian carriers will let them buy bandwidth as I recall which is why we can't get this option out here. If the federal government wanted to get competition going, they should force carriers to provide the possibility for companies like Ting to do here what they can do in the US.
Bearing in mind the despicable behavior of MS throughout its history, can you blame people for airing negative views about this company whenever it is mentioned? MS is harvesting what it has sowed, and will carry on doing so for a long time.
When the idea is actually interesting and requested by developers. I think I can blame them.
If no one was requesting this feature and they added it, we might be wondering why they are even bothering but the fact is that there are people who are requesting this feature. Yes, they have a history of making their own versions of things but I'm sure they've also done good things and believe it or not, it's not everyone in the company that has bad intentions. I like to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.
I pay 35$+tx a month which is a little bit more than 40$ for unlimited calls across the country, 1 Gig data, unlimited texting nationwide and a voicemail box with 10 messages (the others offer only 3 VM with the base plan) on Koodo.
Of course Koodo is using Telus' network since it's the same owner but most think it's better quality to be on a known brand like Telus.
I am Canadian and it is real fact that Canada has stong pro-net-neutrality laws which are prime cause of expensive bills. If we were smart to kick out libtards we could end net nutrality and the deregulation is guaranteed to lower prices.
The fact that Canada has some of the highest prices around the world have been around well before net neutrality was a thing. While I'm all for kicking out the Liberals (for other reasons), I'll point out that a decade of Conservative rule has not changed anything in regards to pricing either.
So far it all seems to be very much against Python being used by Microsoft in Excel, granted it's still under 20 posts as I write this but considering it was the most voted feature on M$' site and I'm assuming those asking are themselves programmers, why so much negativity here? The way I see it, if Excel uses Python, it gives people more incentive to learn it and that can translate into people able to use it in other programs that use Python.
Also, as someone who's had to troubleshoot broken VBA scripts on Excel, anything that can move us away from them is a win in my book.
Am I the only one that worries about this? Disney has been gobbling up IP for the last few years with Marvel and LucasFilms and with the acquisition of Fox's movies (which include some of Marvel's IP) I find it to be a bit much. It also means there will be one less studio out there making movies in a world where other studios such as Sony and Paramount are reporting losses. There were even rumors of Sony wanting to sell their movie studio. Will Disney eat them up too in some near future?
One thing I noticed about Anime is that old stuff on DVD or BluRay can end up costing a lot over time because when the licenses aren't renewed they become impossible to find. I have some anime in my collection that are going for a few hundred on eBay. So when it comes to imports, buying is the safest solution if you want to be able to see it again in the future.
You know, I'd have no problem with the dealership putting such a device to turn off my car if in return I had the ability to turn off their power when they do something like demand a fee that wasn't in the contract.
When I got the house in 97, there were old coax cables going from the basement to the living room which I would assume was there for years before I arrived so probably RG59. We had cable TV but after a few years we stopped using the service and took out all the coax on the outside over the years of renovation. When HDTV came to Canada in 2011. I researched and got an OTA antenna on the roof and got a line running to the basement where we placed a signal booster/splitter. Since that coax cable was already running from the basement, I hooked it up and found it worked. No need to run a line and saved myself some work.
When computers 1st started, they were provided by the schools. They were only networks to themselves and using DOS. Used mainly to learn stuff like word processing and programming and other little things in labs.
Today, they are bought by the students, they are networked to everything on the internet and mainly using Windows and Mac OS. I'll assume some schools put filters and other network restrictions but figure this is more or less accurate.
I'm not saying that the old way was better. I recall some kids wiping out the PCs to load their games on them at the time and messing up things but for the most part, students were using them for the intended work and focusing.
Here's the important part of this comparison. I think when all this belief in computers for education was imagined as a benefit, it was during that DOS era. The idea of using these to enhance education was based on a system that wasn't able to sidetrack the student's from the task like it can today by opening a web browser. You couldn't even open a 2nd program back in the day and it no one seems to have come back to revisit the idea or are seeing the problem and turning a blind eye or making it the student's responsibility to manage themselves.
The access to the internet isn't all bad but to me, it's negated a lot of the benefits that computers are supposed to provide in the school system.
While a situation where a closed source OS is abandoned such as Surface tablets running Windows RT.
This example shows how Canonical abandoning the tablets, while sad, doesn't mean it's over. If there is a will to keep supporting these devices and make more, the software is still there to work with and improve instead of being lost.
Except now they could slap people who are torrenting their movies with fines and lawsuits literally within minutes of the video appearing online.
The stream could be chock-full of watermarks and hidden data which would identify the account to which that video was streamed.
What they may be powerless against is private sharing networks which would allow people to stream a recording from a camera to their friends. Sorta like card sharing, minus the cards.
Still, they'd probably catch a bunch of people who are idiots or have idiot friends and whose camera streams would end up online.
What do you mean within minutes? What makes you think they couldn't do that before? Just because the source was a cheap camera with no watermarks doesn't mean companies couldn't find them. Heck, anyone wanting to download the movie had to do a search for the movie's title to find it.
Correct. It's a venture capitalist world. They just incubate companies until they can cash out and then it's "See you l8r!" and off to do it again and again and again. There is no such thing as a long-term engagement anymore. The venture capitalists made that a thing of the past. You reap what you sow bitches!
Actually, for Gen X, the problem was that the baby boomers were holding onto the jobs for so long that there were no places for us it seemed. We were even seen by some medias as being the generation with no hope.
As a Gen-Xer myself, I wasn't leaving my jobs, most of the time, the jobs were contracts or would end.
We didn't have stability like our parents before us or expect a wage hike without moving to another company.
Do the number separate the ones leaving vs those being let go?
My current position is the 1st in my career where I have made it past 5 years of service non-stop. I did work before in another field where I lasted more than 4 years but would end up on unemployment insurance every year for 3 months worth time more or less depending on production needs.
They can't abandon the smartphone market because of Samsung's move.
I know Microsoft is coming out with a phone that will have the docking features to turn it into a desktop but more importantly will run Win32 desktop apps natively.
I think this could be the way for them to get a foothole into the market from the business side where companies could give employees phones that double as their work computer. Still, it's quite a dumb idea to try to sell a Samsung product running Android in their own store that can be both a phone and a desktop along side their own computer and phone solutions.
I guess their own products are too far behind to offer as an alternative at this time. This will put them in a bind at some point.
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Those pro-Trump denialists claiming you need a greenhouse to grow vegetables in Anatarctica when we all know there's RECORD HEAT down there.
I'll only let them live if they install a weather monitoring station inside the greenhouse and then give the temperature measurements a +5C adjustment in the name of TRUTH.
I didn't even read TFA and even I knew it was for the purpose of growing food outside of earth but you had to make it into a political global warming, Trump bashing agenda.
I hope you're proud of your inability to take the time to read.
I don't think it was ever intended to sell well. It was intended to stop the Windows Store in it's tracks. In that it was quite succesful.
I doubt the problems with the Windows store have anything to do with Valve's efforts and more with Microsoft's way of trying to force people to use it. Since Windows RT, people have worried that they would try to lock Windows to that curated cesspoo.. err I mean garden. I think their approach on a platform that's always been used to openly install anything they want has turned it's users off from wanting to use it so far.
I think the problem with breaking up these companies is that it doesn't resolve the fundamentals that permitted them to come into being in the 1st place.
Breaking them up just means that it will happen again in the future unless we change was made it possible to begin with.
FreeCAD is somewhat usable but early enough in it's development that the interface is a total mess. The workbenches seem thrown together and sometimes have identical tools that work just slightly differently. I've successfully used it personally and professionally so I can tell you that it is capable, but I would never recommend it to someone with years of time into Solidworks. (not if they want to retain their hair).
I've barely touched FreeCad and agree with what you are saying as I felt so lost in the interface. What I feel is that with AutoCAD in a subscription model, if FreeCAD was able to speed up their development to the point where more people can make use of it, it could see a rise in investment the same as Blender is seeing at the moment. Remember, Blender may be open source but people can donate to it or use the Blender Cloud service (which is purely optional unlike a subscription model) to fund it and companies of all kinds are pitching in with money and coders for their needs. With increased funding to FreeCAD and Gimp, these tools could at some point become viable alternatives not only for the masses but companies needing them and a way to force the proprietary vendors to rethink their subscription model.
Those you listed are no alternatives. If you're just an amateur maybe, but professionals doing professional work need professional tools, not toys. Besides, if you are ever thinking of applying for a job involving image editing and processing, the mere mention of the word "GIMP" will result in your resume being trashed. Welcome to the real world.
This is very true of Gimp and I feel the slow pace of development is one of the reasons. If they deployed new version more frequently they might have more traction. Now I know that Photoshop is the defacto program for Photo editing out there and that isn't changing anytime soon but looking at Blender where 5 years ago, no one in a studio would have dared to mention using it, now you see some studios listing it as software they use in-house and will hire people who have knowledge of Blender so there what could be a beginning of a shift there. However, in my opinion for Gimp to do the same, they need to change the way they develop the software.
A few years ago when adobe started to go the subscription route I expected to see more people switch to free software. But the thins is : once you are used to something, it takes some effort to move to something else. It's not a matter of capacity of the software or even ease of use, it's a matter of being willing to make an effort to learn new ways, and to change. So I say you want comfort and no change, well cough up. this has a price, you choose proprietary vendors, so pay what they ask and live with it. The alternatives are free and available, but they require an actual effort on the user's end.
While there are many online resources to help a person learn software, I keep thinking that many still need a traditional way of learning. Many graphics design professionals went to a school to learn these tools and may need retraining in order to get proficient quickly. Maybe if there were a lot of schools willing to teach how to use these free/open source tools people would be more easily able to move away from the proprietary options. I know there are some schools out there but they are too few at the moment.
As a user of Blender, I am fine with Autodesk's destructive attitudes. I've noticed that some animation studios are now providing both money to the Blender Institute and software coders to help it's development. It may still feel like a drop in the bucket but Blender is capable to do many of the tasks needed out there already.
Now I know that won't cover all aspects but maybe other programs such as FreeCAD will get a boost from these vendor lock in tactics.
If Gimp could speed up their development, people might see a benefit to replace Photoshop in businesses too but I might be asking too much here.
How can I take your comment seriously when you slip in net neutrality as if it had anything to do with the fact that Canadians pay the highest prices for cell phones fees? This problem in Canada is as old as the arrival of the cell phone service, well before we started to hear of the term net neutrality which makes it irrelevant to this discussion. You're mixing apples and oranges as far as I'm concerned.
Yes they are located in Canada but none of the Canadian carriers will let them buy bandwidth as I recall which is why we can't get this option out here. If the federal government wanted to get competition going, they should force carriers to provide the possibility for companies like Ting to do here what they can do in the US.
Found russian stooge. I'm "sure" you are anti-liberal and here is you defending net neutrality like a cuck.
This comment shows how low the IQ discussion can go on this site at times. Keep your nonsense to yourself dude.
Bearing in mind the despicable behavior of MS throughout its history, can you blame people for airing negative views about this company whenever it is mentioned? MS is harvesting what it has sowed, and will carry on doing so for a long time.
When the idea is actually interesting and requested by developers. I think I can blame them.
If no one was requesting this feature and they added it, we might be wondering why they are even bothering but the fact is that there are people who are requesting this feature. Yes, they have a history of making their own versions of things but I'm sure they've also done good things and believe it or not, it's not everyone in the company that has bad intentions. I like to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.
No here's the dumb part.
I pay 35$+tx a month which is a little bit more than 40$ for unlimited calls across the country, 1 Gig data, unlimited texting nationwide and a voicemail box with 10 messages (the others offer only 3 VM with the base plan) on Koodo.
Of course Koodo is using Telus' network since it's the same owner but most think it's better quality to be on a known brand like Telus.
I am Canadian and it is real fact that Canada has stong pro-net-neutrality laws which are prime cause of expensive bills. If we were smart to kick out libtards we could end net nutrality and the deregulation is guaranteed to lower prices.
The fact that Canada has some of the highest prices around the world have been around well before net neutrality was a thing. While I'm all for kicking out the Liberals (for other reasons), I'll point out that a decade of Conservative rule has not changed anything in regards to pricing either.
So far it all seems to be very much against Python being used by Microsoft in Excel, granted it's still under 20 posts as I write this but considering it was the most voted feature on M$' site and I'm assuming those asking are themselves programmers, why so much negativity here?
The way I see it, if Excel uses Python, it gives people more incentive to learn it and that can translate into people able to use it in other programs that use Python.
Also, as someone who's had to troubleshoot broken VBA scripts on Excel, anything that can move us away from them is a win in my book.
Am I the only one that worries about this? Disney has been gobbling up IP for the last few years with Marvel and LucasFilms and with the acquisition of Fox's movies (which include some of Marvel's IP) I find it to be a bit much. It also means there will be one less studio out there making movies in a world where other studios such as Sony and Paramount are reporting losses. There were even rumors of Sony wanting to sell their movie studio. Will Disney eat them up too in some near future?
One thing I noticed about Anime is that old stuff on DVD or BluRay can end up costing a lot over time because when the licenses aren't renewed they become impossible to find. I have some anime in my collection that are going for a few hundred on eBay. So when it comes to imports, buying is the safest solution if you want to be able to see it again in the future.
You know, I'd have no problem with the dealership putting such a device to turn off my car if in return I had the ability to turn off their power when they do something like demand a fee that wasn't in the contract.
When I got the house in 97, there were old coax cables going from the basement to the living room which I would assume was there for years before I arrived so probably RG59. We had cable TV but after a few years we stopped using the service and took out all the coax on the outside over the years of renovation. When HDTV came to Canada in 2011. I researched and got an OTA antenna on the roof and got a line running to the basement where we placed a signal booster/splitter. Since that coax cable was already running from the basement, I hooked it up and found it worked. No need to run a line and saved myself some work.
When computers 1st started, they were provided by the schools. They were only networks to themselves and using DOS. Used mainly to learn stuff like word processing and programming and other little things in labs. Today, they are bought by the students, they are networked to everything on the internet and mainly using Windows and Mac OS. I'll assume some schools put filters and other network restrictions but figure this is more or less accurate.
I'm not saying that the old way was better. I recall some kids wiping out the PCs to load their games on them at the time and messing up things but for the most part, students were using them for the intended work and focusing.
Here's the important part of this comparison. I think when all this belief in computers for education was imagined as a benefit, it was during that DOS era. The idea of using these to enhance education was based on a system that wasn't able to sidetrack the student's from the task like it can today by opening a web browser. You couldn't even open a 2nd program back in the day and it no one seems to have come back to revisit the idea or are seeing the problem and turning a blind eye or making it the student's responsibility to manage themselves.
The access to the internet isn't all bad but to me, it's negated a lot of the benefits that computers are supposed to provide in the school system.
While a situation where a closed source OS is abandoned such as Surface tablets running Windows RT.
This example shows how Canonical abandoning the tablets, while sad, doesn't mean it's over. If there is a will to keep supporting these devices and make more, the software is still there to work with and improve instead of being lost.
Except now they could slap people who are torrenting their movies with fines and lawsuits literally within minutes of the video appearing online. The stream could be chock-full of watermarks and hidden data which would identify the account to which that video was streamed.
What they may be powerless against is private sharing networks which would allow people to stream a recording from a camera to their friends. Sorta like card sharing, minus the cards. Still, they'd probably catch a bunch of people who are idiots or have idiot friends and whose camera streams would end up online.
What do you mean within minutes? What makes you think they couldn't do that before? Just because the source was a cheap camera with no watermarks doesn't mean companies couldn't find them. Heck, anyone wanting to download the movie had to do a search for the movie's title to find it.
Over 300 billion in debt, double the debt of California with only a third of the population....
I'm sorry but have you looked at the debt of the neighboring province in the east?
Correct. It's a venture capitalist world. They just incubate companies until they can cash out and then it's "See you l8r!" and off to do it again and again and again. There is no such thing as a long-term engagement anymore. The venture capitalists made that a thing of the past. You reap what you sow bitches!
Actually, for Gen X, the problem was that the baby boomers were holding onto the jobs for so long that there were no places for us it seemed. We were even seen by some medias as being the generation with no hope.
As a Gen-Xer myself, I wasn't leaving my jobs, most of the time, the jobs were contracts or would end.
We didn't have stability like our parents before us or expect a wage hike without moving to another company.
Do the number separate the ones leaving vs those being let go?
My current position is the 1st in my career where I have made it past 5 years of service non-stop. I did work before in another field where I lasted more than 4 years but would end up on unemployment insurance every year for 3 months worth time more or less depending on production needs.
They can't abandon the smartphone market because of Samsung's move.
I know Microsoft is coming out with a phone that will have the docking features to turn it into a desktop but more importantly will run Win32 desktop apps natively.
I think this could be the way for them to get a foothole into the market from the business side where companies could give employees phones that double as their work computer.
Still, it's quite a dumb idea to try to sell a Samsung product running Android in their own store that can be both a phone and a desktop along side their own computer and phone solutions.
I guess their own products are too far behind to offer as an alternative at this time. This will put them in a bind at some point.