No, coming back as Microsoft CEO was the deal he was given when he was sent to Nokia to destroy all its value.
Considering how its value is up like 100% from the bottom, and likely to keep slowly creeping upwards along with WP market share in the short term at least, then if Elop's mission was to drive the value to the ground only, it failed.
But don't worry, there's plenty of room for conspiracies still. Elop's mission could have been to install WP as a 3rd ecosystem as quickly as possible, no matter the cost (to Nokia's shareholders), and accepting a big risk of total failure (of Nokia as a company) and continuing irrelevancy of Windows in mobile space. The way Symbian was murdered certainly fits this theory.
We would, but seeing as you haven't left the Holy Sepulchre at the Church of Microsoft, we'd have to yell really loud.
Whoa he doesnt like Google and we all know the only people that dont like Google are people who love Microsoft! How could any rational person *not* like Google?!
Does someone still like Google? Use their stuff, sure, lesser of evils etc, but like them... Seriously?
if the code isnt finished, it's beta software at best.
MICROSOFT, YOU ARE SELLING BETA SOFTWARE.
Well, that's certainly improvement over what they were selling when they launched ME or Vista...
Also, RTM does not mean final. If RTM is (pre-)beta quality, it just means they are planning on installing a set of updates on devices between manufacturing and packaging, Or maybe they're just relying on users updating their device, which users need to do anyway with any tablet or smartphone today, regardless of OS or brand.
I don't really remember the book too well, been a while since I read it. However, if I remember correctly, the protagonist was successfully transmogrified into a happy person in the end...
About censorship today, I suppose the preferred way to make something effectively "forbidden" would be DMCA takedown notices by the copyright holders, as well as silently moving the material to back rooms in places like public libraries (and reporting anybody who specifically asks for it), gradually removing them from school curricula, and so on.
Start or join an opensource project and work on it together.
Nothing like some real achievements, which actually help people who use the software for real. Some game achievements don't quite compare.
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I had a chance to try iPhone 4 for a few days. Well, it could have been longer, but I just did not want to keep it longer. I guess the appeal of iOS is solely the apps, which I obviously did not want to invest in. For all it's shortcomings, my current WP7 phone is just nicer. I was genuinely surprised about this too, I was honestly expecting much more after all the iPhone hype I've heard over the years.
Note that it was not a big difference, so someone who likes iOS doesn't have much reason to change to WP either.
invent new technologies which avoid the disadvantage
That can't be done without the capital necessary to invest in the R&D. The more capital there is, the more R&D there can be.
Where do you think the capital to invest in energy depending on exacavating fossil carbon comes from? If it became profitable to invest in renewable (in timeframe of human lifespan) energy, then investments would go there. There's no shortage of money in the developed world. Cut the returns of investing in fossil energy just a bit, and more money starts to flow to alternatives. I mean, money is already being invested in alternatives, it's just a matter of slowly changing the balance.
Climate change is the norm. The climate has always changed. Man doesn't cause it.
Why not? Life is what makes climate of the Earth what it is, and life has changed the climate radically many times in the past: atmospheric oxygen, regulation of amount of CO2, albedo...
Humans have an impact on Earth. For an understandable layman example, just look at how deserts are expanding, then go see what is actually happening in the areas where the greenery is receding and desert advancing: humans cutting, burning, cultivating, exposing soil to erosion, leaving a desert behind, kilometer by kilometer, year by year. Altering CO2 content of atmosphere is less easily seen, but to disbelieve it you have to pretty much believe in a global conspiracy of scientists and meteorologists making stuff up.
Why is it so hard to believe, that humans can be one of the many life forms that have evolved during the last ~4 billion years, which can change the climate?
Or is this some kind of belief, that climate change can happen in only one way, and if climate has ever changed before humans appeared, then it's impossible for humans to have much effect on the climate? To me this belief sounds a bit... let's be polite and say: lunatic.
the only way this could go awry is if humans decide to decrease their level of technology on purpose. Which is basically what the carbon taxes are about.
I think you got this backwards. Making current technology to have extra disadvantages (even if by artificial mechanism like taxes) would generally create pressure to invent new technologies which avoid the disadvantage. This will increase our level of technology faster, by making it economically less profitable to just use old stagnated technologies which have economy of scale and already recouped research costs on their side anyway.
Google glasses? With kids playing outside? Right... I think you should come out of your underground dwelling before saying someone else lives under a rock...
Google Bidirectional Ocular Implants would be robust enough, bet they're not available in quite a few years yet.
The level of lead exposure that the children will get from licking a roadway is vastly less than the exposure they historically got from old lead paints used in their houses. This is what normal people call reasonable risk management.
Dubious risk management, more like it. Road paint gets grinded to fine dust by cars and spread around as part of the road dust. Amount of lead there might still be too miniscule to matter, but I wouldn't bet on it, without some real measurements. Especially if lead containing particles happen to be heavier than other components of road dust, then accumulation can happen at places.
Very cool technology but its not a reactionless drive sadly. The magnets merely allow a swarm of sats to hold a formation in relation to each other.
Oh well... darned laws of physics getting in the way again!
Well, good thing it is not reactionless... I mean, if it were reactionless drive, then it would just move the Earth without moving the spacecraft, and what good would that be?
(If they are to be used for Law Enforcement and anti-terrorism domestic surveilence I would say thats not 'commercial'
First will be ubiquitous aerial photography. There's of course just plain getting photos for fun and for checking things like condition of roof, basically just cheaper version of current aerial photography and videos, such as a personal drone (instead of a helicopter with a camera crew, with total cost probably around $1000/hour) following you and filming you doing some sports.
But things will quickly go further with imaging stuff. For example, now you have "baby cams" so you can check on your baby sleeping from different room. In future there will be "kid drones" which will follow your kid (to playground, friends houses, going to school...) and let you check on them remotely.
Then there will be drones that actually do something, such as robot window cleaners, much like there are robot lawnmowers now. A bigger drone can function as a safety harness when working in high places much like an always-deployed parachute, and even a bigger drone can replace so called "cherry picker". In a restaurant or bar, a drone might bring your order to your table.
Lot of possibilities, and what really happens with drones during next several decades is hard to imagine beforehand, because drones have potential to be a life-changing technology, much like phones - mobile phones - smartphones, or travelling photographers - personal compact cameras - Internet-connected digital cameras. The essential thing with drones is, they can get to places without interfering with people (at least as long as we don't have personal jetpacks in common use).
Why do several people repeat this here? Is it an attempt at sarcasm? Trolling? Does anything remotely related to AGV turn stupid up to 11 in some people? Are some people just inherently lik that?
Hint: Similar phenomenon, such as different changes in global climate, can happen for different, unrelated reasons.
If I were in the remaining 10%, I'd quit no matter how much they paid me. Doing the work of 9 people? That's burn out in less than a month.
Wrong attitude. Getting 10% of the job done would be more like it. I don't see how that'd cause a burn-out. It might cause you to get fired, so in that sense it might be better to leave on your own terms, but if you're the one who holds the responsiblity and knowledge of 9 people who were fired befor eyou, that does give some job security. At the very least you'd be given time to train your replacement;)
But you do have control. Perhaps not control of climate change, but control of how you can adapt your own life to it. It could mean everything from learning practical skills (or acquiring syanide pills for the whole family) for a potential total economic collapse scenario with subsequent famine, pestilence, war and death, to going to an Arctic safari to see wild polar bears while there are any left.
Perhaps "worry" is wrong word, but you should be concerned, same as you'd be concerned about a hurricane or a blizzard heading your way.
If you are a software developer, and don't find use for arbitrarily large number of cores... Time to get up to date! Ok, if you program in scripting languages, never mind. Also, if you are forced to program with crippled toolchain, which can't do parallel compilation, never mind. Also, if you can't afford enough memory to cache entire source tree or an SSD, never mind.
But otherwise, I don't think there are non-server computers on market, which have more cores that can be used by a software developer.
And it's not about how large portion of the time all cores are need, in fact it is the opposite... The less real time they are all utilized, the better. Ideal solution would be, if all compiles would take a fraction of a second. So a 50 compiles per day would still keep all cores utilized just for a few seconds per day.
And the same applies to all kinds of media editing of course. Ideally, every editing operation able to make use of all cores will take a fraction of a second, so indeed, ideally most cores would be idling most of the time.
This would go beautifully in mobile space too. Imagine a mobile browser, where rendering a web page would take irrelevantly short time, with all cores briefly utilized, then all but one or two going to 0-power idle state, waiting for next time things need to be updated.
Summary: the less real time you have all cores utilized, the better, as long as the time when all cores are being utilized is time when user is waiting for the computer.
With Windows 8? No.Windows 8 is a tablet OS, where the tablet stuff intrudes onto desktop mode heavily, and Metro apps are just crippled for desktop use. It is far from being a functional desktop OS, and I doubt it will ever get there, avoiding spurious accounts and spyware notwithstanding.
Just stick with Win7, and if you must, run Windows 8 in a VM. That way you have the Metro stuff neatly where it belongs: in a window you can hide or close.
Substitute with or add Linux anywhere above as appropriate.
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No, coming back as Microsoft CEO was the deal he was given when he was sent to Nokia to destroy all its value.
Considering how its value is up like 100% from the bottom, and likely to keep slowly creeping upwards along with WP market share in the short term at least, then if Elop's mission was to drive the value to the ground only, it failed.
But don't worry, there's plenty of room for conspiracies still. Elop's mission could have been to install WP as a 3rd ecosystem as quickly as possible, no matter the cost (to Nokia's shareholders), and accepting a big risk of total failure (of Nokia as a company) and continuing irrelevancy of Windows in mobile space. The way Symbian was murdered certainly fits this theory.
...I suppose the Flamebait mod means someone does like Google ;)
We would, but seeing as you haven't left the Holy Sepulchre at the Church of Microsoft, we'd have to yell really loud.
Whoa he doesnt like Google and we all know the only people that dont like Google are people who love Microsoft! How could any rational person *not* like Google?!
Does someone still like Google? Use their stuff, sure, lesser of evils etc, but like them... Seriously?
if the code isnt finished, it's beta software at best.
MICROSOFT, YOU ARE SELLING BETA SOFTWARE.
Well, that's certainly improvement over what they were selling when they launched ME or Vista...
Also, RTM does not mean final. If RTM is (pre-)beta quality, it just means they are planning on installing a set of updates on devices between manufacturing and packaging, Or maybe they're just relying on users updating their device, which users need to do anyway with any tablet or smartphone today, regardless of OS or brand.
I don't really remember the book too well, been a while since I read it. However, if I remember correctly, the protagonist was successfully transmogrified into a happy person in the end...
About censorship today, I suppose the preferred way to make something effectively "forbidden" would be DMCA takedown notices by the copyright holders, as well as silently moving the material to back rooms in places like public libraries (and reporting anybody who specifically asks for it), gradually removing them from school curricula, and so on.
I wonder when 1984 will become a forbidden book. It is, after all, a terrorism guidebook in disguise!
Now if you could only combine phone sex with coding together...
abstract class BodyPart {
List insertInto(BodyPart &other) { throw NotSupportedException; };
List receive(BodyPart &other) { throw NotSupportedException; };
FlexibleSize size();
git commit -m"Base class for Body Part interaction"
git push
On the other side of the continent:
git pull
class Tongue extends BodyPart {
As a programming exercise, please complete the class hierarchy and use it an application together with your SO.
Enjoying quality time with your partner isn't (always) about "achievements"..
But games (usually) are, and question is about gaming.
Start or join an opensource project and work on it together.
Nothing like some real achievements, which actually help people who use the software for real. Some game achievements don't quite compare.
I had a chance to try iPhone 4 for a few days. Well, it could have been longer, but I just did not want to keep it longer. I guess the appeal of iOS is solely the apps, which I obviously did not want to invest in. For all it's shortcomings, my current WP7 phone is just nicer. I was genuinely surprised about this too, I was honestly expecting much more after all the iPhone hype I've heard over the years.
Note that it was not a big difference, so someone who likes iOS doesn't have much reason to change to WP either.
invent new technologies which avoid the disadvantage
That can't be done without the capital necessary to invest in the R&D. The more capital there is, the more R&D there can be.
Where do you think the capital to invest in energy depending on exacavating fossil carbon comes from? If it became profitable to invest in renewable (in timeframe of human lifespan) energy, then investments would go there. There's no shortage of money in the developed world. Cut the returns of investing in fossil energy just a bit, and more money starts to flow to alternatives. I mean, money is already being invested in alternatives, it's just a matter of slowly changing the balance.
Climate change is the norm. The climate has always changed. Man doesn't cause it.
Why not? Life is what makes climate of the Earth what it is, and life has changed the climate radically many times in the past: atmospheric oxygen, regulation of amount of CO2, albedo...
Humans have an impact on Earth. For an understandable layman example, just look at how deserts are expanding, then go see what is actually happening in the areas where the greenery is receding and desert advancing: humans cutting, burning, cultivating, exposing soil to erosion, leaving a desert behind, kilometer by kilometer, year by year. Altering CO2 content of atmosphere is less easily seen, but to disbelieve it you have to pretty much believe in a global conspiracy of scientists and meteorologists making stuff up.
Why is it so hard to believe, that humans can be one of the many life forms that have evolved during the last ~4 billion years, which can change the climate?
Or is this some kind of belief, that climate change can happen in only one way, and if climate has ever changed before humans appeared, then it's impossible for humans to have much effect on the climate? To me this belief sounds a bit... let's be polite and say: lunatic.
the only way this could go awry is if humans decide to decrease their level of technology on purpose. Which is basically what the carbon taxes are about.
I think you got this backwards. Making current technology to have extra disadvantages (even if by artificial mechanism like taxes) would generally create pressure to invent new technologies which avoid the disadvantage. This will increase our level of technology faster, by making it economically less profitable to just use old stagnated technologies which have economy of scale and already recouped research costs on their side anyway.
Google glasses? With kids playing outside? Right... I think you should come out of your underground dwelling before saying someone else lives under a rock...
Google Bidirectional Ocular Implants would be robust enough, bet they're not available in quite a few years yet.
The level of lead exposure that the children will get from licking a roadway is vastly less than the exposure they historically got from old lead paints used in their houses. This is what normal people call reasonable risk management.
Dubious risk management, more like it. Road paint gets grinded to fine dust by cars and spread around as part of the road dust. Amount of lead there might still be too miniscule to matter, but I wouldn't bet on it, without some real measurements. Especially if lead containing particles happen to be heavier than other components of road dust, then accumulation can happen at places.
Very cool technology but its not a reactionless drive sadly. The magnets merely allow a swarm of sats to hold a formation in relation to each other.
Oh well... darned laws of physics getting in the way again!
Well, good thing it is not reactionless... I mean, if it were reactionless drive, then it would just move the Earth without moving the spacecraft, and what good would that be?
Yeah, what is the point of "commercial" drones?
(If they are to be used for Law Enforcement and anti-terrorism domestic surveilence I would say thats not 'commercial'
First will be ubiquitous aerial photography. There's of course just plain getting photos for fun and for checking things like condition of roof, basically just cheaper version of current aerial photography and videos, such as a personal drone (instead of a helicopter with a camera crew, with total cost probably around $1000/hour) following you and filming you doing some sports.
But things will quickly go further with imaging stuff. For example, now you have "baby cams" so you can check on your baby sleeping from different room. In future there will be "kid drones" which will follow your kid (to playground, friends houses, going to school...) and let you check on them remotely.
Then there will be drones that actually do something, such as robot window cleaners, much like there are robot lawnmowers now. A bigger drone can function as a safety harness when working in high places much like an always-deployed parachute, and even a bigger drone can replace so called "cherry picker". In a restaurant or bar, a drone might bring your order to your table.
Lot of possibilities, and what really happens with drones during next several decades is hard to imagine beforehand, because drones have potential to be a life-changing technology, much like phones - mobile phones - smartphones, or travelling photographers - personal compact cameras - Internet-connected digital cameras. The essential thing with drones is, they can get to places without interfering with people (at least as long as we don't have personal jetpacks in common use).
So where is the part about the captured Space Aliens and their ship?
Lightly redacted.
Global warming is not our fault.
Why do several people repeat this here? Is it an attempt at sarcasm? Trolling? Does anything remotely related to AGV turn stupid up to 11 in some people? Are some people just inherently lik that?
Hint: Similar phenomenon, such as different changes in global climate, can happen for different, unrelated reasons.
If I were in the remaining 10%, I'd quit no matter how much they paid me. Doing the work of 9 people? That's burn out in less than a month.
Wrong attitude. Getting 10% of the job done would be more like it. I don't see how that'd cause a burn-out. It might cause you to get fired, so in that sense it might be better to leave on your own terms, but if you're the one who holds the responsiblity and knowledge of 9 people who were fired befor eyou, that does give some job security. At the very least you'd be given time to train your replacement ;)
But you do have control. Perhaps not control of climate change, but control of how you can adapt your own life to it. It could mean everything from learning practical skills (or acquiring syanide pills for the whole family) for a potential total economic collapse scenario with subsequent famine, pestilence, war and death, to going to an Arctic safari to see wild polar bears while there are any left.
Perhaps "worry" is wrong word, but you should be concerned, same as you'd be concerned about a hurricane or a blizzard heading your way.
If you are a software developer, and don't find use for arbitrarily large number of cores... Time to get up to date! Ok, if you program in scripting languages, never mind. Also, if you are forced to program with crippled toolchain, which can't do parallel compilation, never mind. Also, if you can't afford enough memory to cache entire source tree or an SSD, never mind.
But otherwise, I don't think there are non-server computers on market, which have more cores that can be used by a software developer.
And it's not about how large portion of the time all cores are need, in fact it is the opposite... The less real time they are all utilized, the better. Ideal solution would be, if all compiles would take a fraction of a second. So a 50 compiles per day would still keep all cores utilized just for a few seconds per day.
And the same applies to all kinds of media editing of course. Ideally, every editing operation able to make use of all cores will take a fraction of a second, so indeed, ideally most cores would be idling most of the time.
This would go beautifully in mobile space too. Imagine a mobile browser, where rendering a web page would take irrelevantly short time, with all cores briefly utilized, then all but one or two going to 0-power idle state, waiting for next time things need to be updated.
Summary: the less real time you have all cores utilized, the better, as long as the time when all cores are being utilized is time when user is waiting for the computer.
Money talks, bullshit walks.
If you want the laws written to support your way of life, better pony up the cash. Taxes don't count btw.
Mod points, where are you? I need you!
With Windows 8? No.Windows 8 is a tablet OS, where the tablet stuff intrudes onto desktop mode heavily, and Metro apps are just crippled for desktop use. It is far from being a functional desktop OS, and I doubt it will ever get there, avoiding spurious accounts and spyware notwithstanding.
Just stick with Win7, and if you must, run Windows 8 in a VM. That way you have the Metro stuff neatly where it belongs: in a window you can hide or close.
Substitute with or add Linux anywhere above as appropriate.