That is probably their accursed accessibility misfeature "Sticky Keys". They should have learned by now that the user should enable that in the configuration panel. As it is today if I snooze on the keyboard I enable that crap.
They fixed that ever since NT came out. Windows 2000 was the first useable desktop NT OS they made. The only way Windows can crash today is if you have a buggy device driver. I still remember having to reboot every 30 minutes in Windows 9x when doing video editing. After I switched to Windows 2000 the crashes stopped and if the video editing program had a bug at least only the program crashed not the entire OS.
Actually ever since MS decided backwards compatibility is not very important the chances for Linux or any other alternative desktop OS taking over keep increasing. Not to mention the threat to MS from the smartphone and tablet OSes which will eventually filter to the desktop.
If a driver crashed or a piece of hardware malfunctioned it should be possible to kill and restart the driver without crashing or locking up the operating system. X86 has all those ring levels how about actually using them? Not that this is a problem exclusive to Windows but OSes still are not resilient enough.
Actually were it not for nuclear weapons the money spent on conventional forces would be much larger. With nuclear weapons a state has a viable deterrent even if their armed forces are not very large which is why you have all of these tin pot dictatorships trying to have nuclear weapons today. This is one reason why there are so few bombers in service today. A lot of airforces either do not have dedicated bombers or have extremely limited numbers of them.
Not to mention that AFAIK Iraq did not even use.50 cal. You know, the rest of the world uses metric..50 cal is used in the M2 Browning machine gun which is usually a vehicle mounted weapon. The Iraqis used the Soviet style rounds so their equivalent weapon would have been a 12.7 x 108 mm weapon like a DShK. She basically was injured by her own ejected shells probably off an M2 Browing machine gun. Which is kind of weird since the ejection port of a machine gun is usually in one of the sides of the weapon so boh?
The US really needs to stop their global cop routine or eventually the chickens will come home to roost. Replacing autocratic dictators with religious fundamentalists is not improving world civilization people.
It is not about closed source. It is about all those "basement kids" wanting to write updates to someone else's code. Instead, they reinvent an open source application that is often a reinvention of a closed source product.
The closed source developers copy as much as everyone else. Otherwise we would still be using Wordperfect and Visicalc.
Oh, and for the record, constant updates is a sign of crappy, unprofessional code.
No it just means that there are interested users and developers for the product. A piece of software is only finished when people decide to stop working on it. There is always something else you can add or fix in any piece of software. There are plenty of buggy messes released by closed source vendors which never got properly fixed at all. Google Chrome is one of the most frequently updated pieces of software I have seen so far. Does it seem buggy and crappy unprofessional code to you?
It still remember people saying Android was a bust because it had very low market growth in the first couple of years. I still remember being modded down by the usual rabid Apple downmodders here on/. for saying that Android was certain to be a success and that Apple would lose market share in the smartphone segment because they simply could not cover the entire market demand and they did not have products which the entire world population, including those in the BRIC countries which consist of the majority of the global population, could buy. Guess what history repeats itself. Again. Apple may sue as much as they want. If they manage to block Samsung from selling one quarter then LG, HTC, Motorola, Google, Amazon or whatever will make up the difference and Samsung will remove the allegedly infringing parts and have a product the next quarter from that. The only way for Apple to win is to have superior products but as usual they think they can win this by litigation.
In my experience it is quite the opposite. Because there is no source code available it is more likely that a closed source product will cease to be maintained and if anyone ever picks the idea up again they have to recode it from scratch. This is especially noticeable in games which seldom get updates in closed source software but are constantly updated in FLOSS. The new guys do pick up the torch. I have seen lots of FLOSS projects which are now on their 4th generation of developers.
We do that in Europe to reduce consumption of something we do not produce. Only Norway has significant oil reserves and they are neither an EU member nor do they have enough oil to satisfy the entire EU requirements even at the present consumption level. The situation in the US is somewhat different.
Centralization cuts costs quite often. Do you think just because the government is doing it things magically go wrong? The government has the same issues any other large organization would have. Namely it is hard to make individual people accountable because there are many organizational layers and an inherent lack of transparency. It would be equally bad, probably even worse since you cannot vote them out, if it was centralized by a large private corporation.
Some standardization and automation in health care certainly wouldn't hurt.
Yeah. Windows. Well hopefully it will be more profitable for them than for Nokia which seems to be tethering on the edge of bankruptcy. Assuming Microsoft does not decide to do the manufacturing themselves which is hardly unprecedented. At least even if Google tried to pull a stunt like that the vendors still had the current version of Android FLOSS as a base to work on.
Well the family car is the Tesla Model S. That is the car which is actually being shown in the assembly line in the pictures embedded in the article in question. I remember hearing a long time ago they were considering doing another Roadster based on the chassis of the Model S some time in the future but I do not know what happened to that.
Is the innovation being measured in number of patents filed per person per year or what? If that is the yardstick I would rather not be an "innovator".
All major manufacturers will stop manufacturing them and do what? They certainly cannot manufacture iOS devices now can they? There may be some cellphone vendor consolidation or not but you are sorely mistaken if you think Android will cease to be just because a couple of vendors cannot compete.
If you think developers move en masse to a new platform overnight you are mistaken. However if there is a market the developers will follow... Which there is.
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The UK never extradited Pinochet. He was released on health concerns or whatever...
Even more true since MBA types seem to love it.
That is probably their accursed accessibility misfeature "Sticky Keys". They should have learned by now that the user should enable that in the configuration panel. As it is today if I snooze on the keyboard I enable that crap.
They fixed that ever since NT came out. Windows 2000 was the first useable desktop NT OS they made. The only way Windows can crash today is if you have a buggy device driver. I still remember having to reboot every 30 minutes in Windows 9x when doing video editing. After I switched to Windows 2000 the crashes stopped and if the video editing program had a bug at least only the program crashed not the entire OS.
Actually ever since MS decided backwards compatibility is not very important the chances for Linux or any other alternative desktop OS taking over keep increasing. Not to mention the threat to MS from the smartphone and tablet OSes which will eventually filter to the desktop.
If a driver crashed or a piece of hardware malfunctioned it should be possible to kill and restart the driver without crashing or locking up the operating system. X86 has all those ring levels how about actually using them? Not that this is a problem exclusive to Windows but OSes still are not resilient enough.
Actually were it not for nuclear weapons the money spent on conventional forces would be much larger. With nuclear weapons a state has a viable deterrent even if their armed forces are not very large which is why you have all of these tin pot dictatorships trying to have nuclear weapons today. This is one reason why there are so few bombers in service today. A lot of airforces either do not have dedicated bombers or have extremely limited numbers of them.
Not to mention that AFAIK Iraq did not even use .50 cal. You know, the rest of the world uses metric. .50 cal is used in the M2 Browning machine gun which is usually a vehicle mounted weapon. The Iraqis used the Soviet style rounds so their equivalent weapon would have been a 12.7 x 108 mm weapon like a DShK. She basically was injured by her own ejected shells probably off an M2 Browing machine gun. Which is kind of weird since the ejection port of a machine gun is usually in one of the sides of the weapon so boh?
The US really needs to stop their global cop routine or eventually the chickens will come home to roost. Replacing autocratic dictators with religious fundamentalists is not improving world civilization people.
Yeah if they are still using Silverlight they are missing out on all the phone and tablet users as well.
It is not about closed source. It is about all those "basement kids" wanting to write updates to someone else's code. Instead, they reinvent an open source application that is often a reinvention of a closed source product.
The closed source developers copy as much as everyone else. Otherwise we would still be using Wordperfect and Visicalc.
Oh, and for the record, constant updates is a sign of crappy, unprofessional code.
No it just means that there are interested users and developers for the product. A piece of software is only finished when people decide to stop working on it. There is always something else you can add or fix in any piece of software. There are plenty of buggy messes released by closed source vendors which never got properly fixed at all. Google Chrome is one of the most frequently updated pieces of software I have seen so far. Does it seem buggy and crappy unprofessional code to you?
It still remember people saying Android was a bust because it had very low market growth in the first couple of years. I still remember being modded down by the usual rabid Apple downmodders here on /. for saying that Android was certain to be a success and that Apple would lose market share in the smartphone segment because they simply could not cover the entire market demand and they did not have products which the entire world population, including those in the BRIC countries which consist of the majority of the global population, could buy. Guess what history repeats itself. Again. Apple may sue as much as they want. If they manage to block Samsung from selling one quarter then LG, HTC, Motorola, Google, Amazon or whatever will make up the difference and Samsung will remove the allegedly infringing parts and have a product the next quarter from that. The only way for Apple to win is to have superior products but as usual they think they can win this by litigation.
In my experience it is quite the opposite. Because there is no source code available it is more likely that a closed source product will cease to be maintained and if anyone ever picks the idea up again they have to recode it from scratch. This is especially noticeable in games which seldom get updates in closed source software but are constantly updated in FLOSS. The new guys do pick up the torch. I have seen lots of FLOSS projects which are now on their 4th generation of developers.
We do that in Europe to reduce consumption of something we do not produce. Only Norway has significant oil reserves and they are neither an EU member nor do they have enough oil to satisfy the entire EU requirements even at the present consumption level. The situation in the US is somewhat different.
Not if he is getting paid with stock or gets a lot of fringe benefits which are not counted as a salary.
Centralization cuts costs quite often. Do you think just because the government is doing it things magically go wrong? The government has the same issues any other large organization would have. Namely it is hard to make individual people accountable because there are many organizational layers and an inherent lack of transparency. It would be equally bad, probably even worse since you cannot vote them out, if it was centralized by a large private corporation.
Some standardization and automation in health care certainly wouldn't hurt.
Yeah. Windows. Well hopefully it will be more profitable for them than for Nokia which seems to be tethering on the edge of bankruptcy. Assuming Microsoft does not decide to do the manufacturing themselves which is hardly unprecedented. At least even if Google tried to pull a stunt like that the vendors still had the current version of Android FLOSS as a base to work on.
Robots make the robots?
Well the family car is the Tesla Model S. That is the car which is actually being shown in the assembly line in the pictures embedded in the article in question. I remember hearing a long time ago they were considering doing another Roadster based on the chassis of the Model S some time in the future but I do not know what happened to that.
Is the innovation being measured in number of patents filed per person per year or what? If that is the yardstick I would rather not be an "innovator".
The cool thing about basement kids is that as the old ones retire, new ones keep showing up!
All major manufacturers will stop manufacturing them and do what? They certainly cannot manufacture iOS devices now can they? There may be some cellphone vendor consolidation or not but you are sorely mistaken if you think Android will cease to be just because a couple of vendors cannot compete.
If you think developers move en masse to a new platform overnight you are mistaken. However if there is a market the developers will follow... Which there is.
There are a lot of people earning money with mainframes but I have never even seen any.
Well they can always make a law where everyone needs to have a static IP once we switch to IPv6...