I understand that claiming that NASA is "incompetent" after keeping rover up for 15 years past mission parameters is delusional. Perhaps you need to clarify what incompetent means. Now let's go to your second rant: how much money does NASA get and for what? I'm pretty sure you have very little clue.
First, please list all the NASA bloat that you think has occurred. Second, why would you think that NASA doesn't know what happened. The batteries being drained in a dust storm is the exact scenario that NASA predicted more than 16 years ago in their planning. And third, why would the Chinese and Russians getting to Mars help out NASA in this way? Have those countries have designed and built repair bots that can troubleshoot an American rover? I would bet they Chinese and Russian rovers have their own missions and not one thought has been put into fixing another rover.
WMP isn't front and center of Win10 like previous versions Windows but it's still there. You have to set it to be the default player. There are older features that I think that you have to hack like DVD playback.
Perhaps you should write to your Congressman about funding NASA to fulfill your fantasies. Otherwise as a government agency, NASA is limited to what Congress will allow them to do mission wise and budget wise.
Let me see if I understand your nonsensical rant. You want to defund NASA for trying to revive a rover that they have kept working for more than 15 years past the original mission parameters because they are "incompetent". I feel that feat alone destroys your point.
Am I the only one that thinks there is not a good reason for this? MS is shutting down a service that supplies metadata to Windows Media Player that affects all players on OS older than Windows 10. Why isn't Win10 affected? Surely there isn't anything that should break in metadata that would break the OS. This isn't like when MS turned off the PlaysForSure servers as they deprecated everything with those old systems. This seems to be a forced push to people using older Windows.
Here's the nuance you're missing: You chose to install that particular version of Android OS that does not have as many options that you like; however, the phone is highly configurable in that you could install other OS versions that may give you more options. The phone is more configurable than the OS.
The hire could mean that Apple needs help with a particular component. For example, Apple has hired a few wireless radio engineers a few years back. The speculation was that they would compete with Qualcomm. No, Apple switched to using Intel chips so they needed help with that area. In the field of batteries, this has been an area that could use some improvement for all smartphones not just Apple.
First of all, on average if climates get warmer, there will be more droughts. Second of all please present your evidence that said that NY and Florida would be underwater by 2015z
Are you a farmer that will have to find new sources of water as droughts affect your crops? If additional water is not enough, can you switch to alternative crops? Not a farmer, are you or someone you know will be affected if farming has to change because of climate change? That's just on crops.
In your link it says:
"After initially keeping it proprietary from its inception in 2004, in late 2011 Apple made the [ALAC] codec available open source and royalty-free."
Not even that. Scientists have long known the difficulty of detecting such a heavy particle. The wait was all about building an accelerator big enough and sensors fast enough to detect it.
Also there is a tendency of journalism to report on the surprise of the general public when the scientists had an expectation of the event. For example, the Higgs boson particle was found by CERN but it was predicted more than 50 years ago.
Yes and when there are on-demand shows on cable, the selection may be limited. For example only the current season of whatever show I'm watching. And the experience is less than ideal as there are embedded ads that can't be avoided. To ensure these ads are unavoidable, features like fast forwarding are disabled for the entire show and not just the ads. It makes the sure harder to watch and re-watch.
To me it seems like the author would be one of those people that complains that a professional plumber/mechanic/electrician costs money. They could do the job themselves and then disaster would ensue. In this particular case they are complaining that a non-profit art organization has made a 24 x 20 print, framed it, and is selling it for $166 when they could have done the same for $16. I don't know about the quality of their work but I would assume that MoMA knows how to frame art doing and have done a decent job. Yes anyone could put in the work and effort to do the same. But I can tell you it would be more than $16 to do that job. The frame alone would probably be more.
I would say that this is unlikely as Activision needs all of Blizzard's games. Without Blizzard, they only have Call of Duty as an active title. They have dead titles like Guitar Hero which they could ressurrect. Activision would likely fight against such a split.
Yes to all of that. My main, original point was using a commercial display instead of a smart TV to avoid the Internet features may be very expensive especially for the large displays around 60". It may be several thousand dollars cheaper to get the smart TV and not connect it to the internet. Even if I had to replace the smart TV four or five times, it still would be cheaper.
On average you are going to spend more on a what is a commercial/professional display over a consumer display. Can you find a good deal on a commercial display and are there expensive consumer displays? Yes but on average commercial is more expensive.
People can make educated guesses however there is extrapolation involved as these two slightly different architectures. Also it is not just hardware that can affect performance. Take two ARM based chips that came out at roughly the same time: Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 vs Apple's A8. On paper the Snapdragon with its 2+2 cores should handily beat A8 with its 2 cores. When benchmarking just the CPUs the Snapdragon won. However when benchmarking phones with the two CPUs, the iPhone beat out all Android/Windows phones with Snapdragons. Clearly the difference was the software and the other hardware of the phone.
That might be true that Gizmodo is crap but what I clearly said is that Gizmodo would be guilty of libel if the NVidia CEO didn't say what they claimed he said.
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I understand that claiming that NASA is "incompetent" after keeping rover up for 15 years past mission parameters is delusional. Perhaps you need to clarify what incompetent means. Now let's go to your second rant: how much money does NASA get and for what? I'm pretty sure you have very little clue.
First, please list all the NASA bloat that you think has occurred. Second, why would you think that NASA doesn't know what happened. The batteries being drained in a dust storm is the exact scenario that NASA predicted more than 16 years ago in their planning. And third, why would the Chinese and Russians getting to Mars help out NASA in this way? Have those countries have designed and built repair bots that can troubleshoot an American rover? I would bet they Chinese and Russian rovers have their own missions and not one thought has been put into fixing another rover.
WMP isn't front and center of Win10 like previous versions Windows but it's still there. You have to set it to be the default player. There are older features that I think that you have to hack like DVD playback.
Perhaps you should write to your Congressman about funding NASA to fulfill your fantasies. Otherwise as a government agency, NASA is limited to what Congress will allow them to do mission wise and budget wise.
Let me see if I understand your nonsensical rant. You want to defund NASA for trying to revive a rover that they have kept working for more than 15 years past the original mission parameters because they are "incompetent". I feel that feat alone destroys your point.
Am I the only one that thinks there is not a good reason for this? MS is shutting down a service that supplies metadata to Windows Media Player that affects all players on OS older than Windows 10. Why isn't Win10 affected? Surely there isn't anything that should break in metadata that would break the OS. This isn't like when MS turned off the PlaysForSure servers as they deprecated everything with those old systems. This seems to be a forced push to people using older Windows.
Here's the nuance you're missing: You chose to install that particular version of Android OS that does not have as many options that you like; however, the phone is highly configurable in that you could install other OS versions that may give you more options. The phone is more configurable than the OS.
Again none of that really has to do with vendor lock. What you are describing is "highly configurable".
Define "program". Like all smartphones you can develop for it if you choose. You'll need a Mac whereas with an Android you'll need a Mac or PC
You can argue about whether it is minimalist however being vendor locked has nothing to do with the word "minimalist".
The hire could mean that Apple needs help with a particular component. For example, Apple has hired a few wireless radio engineers a few years back. The speculation was that they would compete with Qualcomm. No, Apple switched to using Intel chips so they needed help with that area. In the field of batteries, this has been an area that could use some improvement for all smartphones not just Apple.
First of all, on average if climates get warmer, there will be more droughts. Second of all please present your evidence that said that NY and Florida would be underwater by 2015z
Are you a farmer that will have to find new sources of water as droughts affect your crops? If additional water is not enough, can you switch to alternative crops? Not a farmer, are you or someone you know will be affected if farming has to change because of climate change? That's just on crops.
In your link it says: "After initially keeping it proprietary from its inception in 2004, in late 2011 Apple made the [ALAC] codec available open source and royalty-free."
So it has been open source almost 8 years now.
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Not even that. Scientists have long known the difficulty of detecting such a heavy particle. The wait was all about building an accelerator big enough and sensors fast enough to detect it.
Also there is a tendency of journalism to report on the surprise of the general public when the scientists had an expectation of the event. For example, the Higgs boson particle was found by CERN but it was predicted more than 50 years ago.
Yes and when there are on-demand shows on cable, the selection may be limited. For example only the current season of whatever show I'm watching. And the experience is less than ideal as there are embedded ads that can't be avoided. To ensure these ads are unavoidable, features like fast forwarding are disabled for the entire show and not just the ads. It makes the sure harder to watch and re-watch.
To me it seems like the author would be one of those people that complains that a professional plumber/mechanic/electrician costs money. They could do the job themselves and then disaster would ensue. In this particular case they are complaining that a non-profit art organization has made a 24 x 20 print, framed it, and is selling it for $166 when they could have done the same for $16. I don't know about the quality of their work but I would assume that MoMA knows how to frame art doing and have done a decent job. Yes anyone could put in the work and effort to do the same. But I can tell you it would be more than $16 to do that job. The frame alone would probably be more.
I would say that this is unlikely as Activision needs all of Blizzard's games. Without Blizzard, they only have Call of Duty as an active title. They have dead titles like Guitar Hero which they could ressurrect. Activision would likely fight against such a split.
Yes to all of that. My main, original point was using a commercial display instead of a smart TV to avoid the Internet features may be very expensive especially for the large displays around 60". It may be several thousand dollars cheaper to get the smart TV and not connect it to the internet. Even if I had to replace the smart TV four or five times, it still would be cheaper.
On average you are going to spend more on a what is a commercial/professional display over a consumer display. Can you find a good deal on a commercial display and are there expensive consumer displays? Yes but on average commercial is more expensive.
People can make educated guesses however there is extrapolation involved as these two slightly different architectures. Also it is not just hardware that can affect performance. Take two ARM based chips that came out at roughly the same time: Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 vs Apple's A8. On paper the Snapdragon with its 2+2 cores should handily beat A8 with its 2 cores. When benchmarking just the CPUs the Snapdragon won. However when benchmarking phones with the two CPUs, the iPhone beat out all Android/Windows phones with Snapdragons. Clearly the difference was the software and the other hardware of the phone.
How would NVidia know that their competitor's unreleased product is better or worse? They can't know.
That might be true that Gizmodo is crap but what I clearly said is that Gizmodo would be guilty of libel if the NVidia CEO didn't say what they claimed he said.