You're quite mistaken if you think the majority of the population cares about PC AAA games or word processing. Anything more than a tweet is unnecessary to them.
They need to look for stars that are being occluded and see if we can create a dataset, but if it is beyond the oort cloud, the orbital period may be measured in 1000's of years and will be even hard yet to detect
I recall the suggested orbit for the "9th planet" was 19000 years. So it's way way out there. Finding it, provided it exists, is going to be challenging.
But what does the rest of the world use to run GPS navigators, cameras, routers, set top boxes, thermostats, wrist watches, super computers, and more? That would be Linux.
What do developers use? Linux. Microsoft admitted as much when they said the reason for bash on Windows was to lure developers back.
Actually, they use some form of *nix at this point. Fewer and fewer are running windows. Even a long-time hard-core windows dev friend switched to macs and java because of his job just a couple of years ago and now can't believe he put up with that crap for so long. He only lost a couple percent of his team due to the switch, with the rest actually being happier.
What a master stroke the Surface was!
I thought so. How else could we get them to be sidelined more rapidly? If MS because just an app based services company like it appears they're going to be, I'm fine with that. Especially as tablet and phone apps force them into a more sane development model.
"We have a phone that in fact can replace your PC"
No. You don't. Because that isn't possible to do. The fact that this guy even said that means he is clueless about mobile. He needs to be replaced.
For likely 80% of the population that is in fact a true statement. Facebook? Check. Viewing youtube videos? Check. Web browsing? Check. Email? What's that.. err, check. Messaging? In all its forms, check.
You're missing a main point - we can't magically undo 150 years of CO2 creation when we decide the effects are noticeable. There will be a time when actions are taken to reduce the effects, but that won't stop the effects from increasing for the foreseeable future. Will it cause our extinction? Doubtful. Will it cause extinctions and much harm? It's already happening. Even with the asteroid 65M years ago, it wasn't a dino free world the next day. The extinctions took several 1000s of years, IIRC, and then another 1.5 million or so before the biosphere started seriously diversifying again. So, to put that in perspective, recorded history only barely covers 5000 years.
If scientists came and told the average couch potato that unless they stopped driving their gas-guzzler today, their great great great grandchildren might be living in an arid desert barely scratching out a living and dying of thirst, I'm sure exactly 0% would stop driving their gas guzzlers. The average couch potato can barely conceive of issues next week, much less several generations away. Look what it took to get chloro-flouro-carbons out of use.
I've seen the windows 10 enterprise license. It still supports hand picked updates.
I sincerely hope you're not in charge if anything important isf you didn't know that.
I am in charge of things of importance, which is why I don't touch windows.
As for the license, if you have information on how to kill forced updates/upgrades and not merely delay them 8 months, I'm sure there's lots of windows users that would like to see it. Other than taking control of all network access for your PC and localhosting all MS addresses related to updates of course, which requires external hardware as apparently the OS won't be fooled by your antics.
Macbook pros have been using the latest released CPUs and are ahead on SSDs. Their screens are also incredible. I'm sure that by now Dell et al have managed to come close. The XPS-15 with QHD+ screen and SSD comes in around $2100, which is very similar to the 15" retina MBP. If you add the Apple Care Service and the closest you can get from Dell, the XPS-15 actually costs more than the MBP. Since you can drop Linux on one of these, IIRC, we won't discuss software. I've owned and worked on a number of laptops from Dell, IBM (now Lenovo), Toshiba, and HP (work and family - gotta love being the family tech). Absolutely none hold a candle to the MBP in build nor component quality, and haven't for the past 10 years.
Because IT doesn't push out patches automatically. They test them in their environment first. It also gives them the ability to not push non-security updates, driver updates, etc.
You haven't seen the Win 10 license then. When it was announced is when IBM started going Apple. I can't imagine why.
Generally, OSX doesn't push out features in their patches, only fixes. The core also happens to be relatively tight and properly layered.
Conversely, MS pushes everything and the kitchen sink into an originally monolithic minimally layered system, so it's no surprise to anyone that deals with systems programming that this latter approach causes all sorts of headaches.
reportedly wouldn't hire Stanford CS graduate students
Having interviewed a couple of hundred recent CS grads (both BS and graduate) over the past few years myself, I wouldn't hire them either, Stanford or elsewhere. I don't know what happened to CS education, but the last 15 years or so the "graduates" might as well have played video games for whatever time they spent in school. They might know more.
You have to spend a LOT on other stupid things to just begin to catch up with the cost of an Apple product.
It depends upon what you're comparing. For a while, a Mac Air was the cheapest ultra light notebook you could buy by a long shot. MacBooks and MacBook pro's are pretty cost competitive just on initial purchase, much less the rest for comparable hardware. Can you buy cheaper windows hardware? Yes. Is it less capable? Yes.
With Microsoft using Windows 10 to harvest data from my PC (emails, web browsing, etc), and Microsoft owning LinkedIn's data... well, I've already have started to drastically reduce what I have on LinkedIn.
You're too late - LinkedIn is similar to a public billboard. You shouldn't have anything on it you wouldn't post on a billboard facing a major interstate in a downtown metropolis.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I merely pointed out that GP's ire should not be reserved for a single incident, and that the incident he chose to be upset about wasn't even the most egregious example by far that he could have chosen.
So what did Goldman Sachs pay the Bush administration to give the Secretary of Treasury position to Paulson, the recently former GS CEO? I recall a massive banker bailout that seemed to favor GS immensely occurring during his tenure as well.
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You're quite mistaken if you think the majority of the population cares about PC AAA games or word processing. Anything more than a tweet is unnecessary to them.
It's a pretty imprecise suspected orbit, as we don't even know if it truly exists. Otherwise, it'd be pretty simple to track it down.
They need to look for stars that are being occluded and see if we can create a dataset, but if it is beyond the oort cloud, the orbital period may be measured in 1000's of years and will be even hard yet to detect
I recall the suggested orbit for the "9th planet" was 19000 years. So it's way way out there. Finding it, provided it exists, is going to be challenging.
But what does the rest of the world use to run GPS navigators, cameras, routers, set top boxes, thermostats, wrist watches, super computers, and more? That would be Linux.
What do developers use? Linux. Microsoft admitted as much when they said the reason for bash on Windows was to lure developers back.
Actually, they use some form of *nix at this point. Fewer and fewer are running windows. Even a long-time hard-core windows dev friend switched to macs and java because of his job just a couple of years ago and now can't believe he put up with that crap for so long. He only lost a couple percent of his team due to the switch, with the rest actually being happier.
What a master stroke the Surface was!
I thought so. How else could we get them to be sidelined more rapidly? If MS because just an app based services company like it appears they're going to be, I'm fine with that. Especially as tablet and phone apps force them into a more sane development model.
Oh shit Oh shit Oh shit Oh shit Oh shit Oh shit Oh shit Oh shit World Ending, Glaciers Melting, Seas Rising,
You're correct, glaciers are melting, seas are rising, and the world certainly is ending for some species and even countries.
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
You have that correct.
Wait, I was thinking Android / iPhones. Windows phones? Not so much....
"We have a phone that in fact can replace your PC" No. You don't. Because that isn't possible to do. The fact that this guy even said that means he is clueless about mobile. He needs to be replaced.
For likely 80% of the population that is in fact a true statement. Facebook? Check. Viewing youtube videos? Check. Web browsing? Check. Email? What's that.. err, check. Messaging? In all its forms, check.
You're missing a main point - we can't magically undo 150 years of CO2 creation when we decide the effects are noticeable. There will be a time when actions are taken to reduce the effects, but that won't stop the effects from increasing for the foreseeable future. Will it cause our extinction? Doubtful. Will it cause extinctions and much harm? It's already happening. Even with the asteroid 65M years ago, it wasn't a dino free world the next day. The extinctions took several 1000s of years, IIRC, and then another 1.5 million or so before the biosphere started seriously diversifying again. So, to put that in perspective, recorded history only barely covers 5000 years.
If scientists came and told the average couch potato that unless they stopped driving their gas-guzzler today, their great great great grandchildren might be living in an arid desert barely scratching out a living and dying of thirst, I'm sure exactly 0% would stop driving their gas guzzlers. The average couch potato can barely conceive of issues next week, much less several generations away. Look what it took to get chloro-flouro-carbons out of use.
Same year as the year of the Linux Desktop (tm)
Yep - will occur in 10 years since systemd came along.
Let me show you Venus, perhaps you'd like to visit?
I've seen the windows 10 enterprise license. It still supports hand picked updates.
I sincerely hope you're not in charge if anything important isf you didn't know that.
I am in charge of things of importance, which is why I don't touch windows.
As for the license, if you have information on how to kill forced updates/upgrades and not merely delay them 8 months, I'm sure there's lots of windows users that would like to see it. Other than taking control of all network access for your PC and localhosting all MS addresses related to updates of course, which requires external hardware as apparently the OS won't be fooled by your antics.
Those intel chips in the macbook pro retina as of 2015 were from 2013...
Not all that ahead of the curve.
Don't make this so easy Core i7 4980HQ was released Q3 2014 and is in the 2015 MBP.
Macbook pros have been using the latest released CPUs and are ahead on SSDs. Their screens are also incredible. I'm sure that by now Dell et al have managed to come close. The XPS-15 with QHD+ screen and SSD comes in around $2100, which is very similar to the 15" retina MBP. If you add the Apple Care Service and the closest you can get from Dell, the XPS-15 actually costs more than the MBP. Since you can drop Linux on one of these, IIRC, we won't discuss software. I've owned and worked on a number of laptops from Dell, IBM (now Lenovo), Toshiba, and HP (work and family - gotta love being the family tech). Absolutely none hold a candle to the MBP in build nor component quality, and haven't for the past 10 years.
It's going to be hard convincing the Martians that "we come in peace" after this...
It's obvious we come in pieces!
Compared to the average in the US, yes.
Because IT doesn't push out patches automatically. They test them in their environment first. It also gives them the ability to not push non-security updates, driver updates, etc.
You haven't seen the Win 10 license then. When it was announced is when IBM started going Apple. I can't imagine why.
Generally, OSX doesn't push out features in their patches, only fixes. The core also happens to be relatively tight and properly layered.
Conversely, MS pushes everything and the kitchen sink into an originally monolithic minimally layered system, so it's no surprise to anyone that deals with systems programming that this latter approach causes all sorts of headaches.
If 40% of his windows machines needed help desk support then his organization is doing something seriously wrong.
The other 60% must not be able to access his help desk support web site.
reportedly wouldn't hire Stanford CS graduate students
Having interviewed a couple of hundred recent CS grads (both BS and graduate) over the past few years myself, I wouldn't hire them either, Stanford or elsewhere. I don't know what happened to CS education, but the last 15 years or so the "graduates" might as well have played video games for whatever time they spent in school. They might know more.
You have to spend a LOT on other stupid things to just begin to catch up with the cost of an Apple product.
It depends upon what you're comparing. For a while, a Mac Air was the cheapest ultra light notebook you could buy by a long shot. MacBooks and MacBook pro's are pretty cost competitive just on initial purchase, much less the rest for comparable hardware. Can you buy cheaper windows hardware? Yes. Is it less capable? Yes.
With Microsoft using Windows 10 to harvest data from my PC (emails, web browsing, etc), and Microsoft owning LinkedIn's data ... well, I've already have started to drastically reduce what I have on LinkedIn.
You're too late - LinkedIn is similar to a public billboard. You shouldn't have anything on it you wouldn't post on a billboard facing a major interstate in a downtown metropolis.
Gattaca. It's spelled Gattaca.
And apparently David Furlonger and Stephen Smith finally saw it last week.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I merely pointed out that GP's ire should not be reserved for a single incident, and that the incident he chose to be upset about wasn't even the most egregious example by far that he could have chosen.
and if you look in the DNC leaks, you'll see that all of those banks that took TARP money all gave back a percentage to the Clinton Foundation
So they took Republican generated and pushed TARP money and gave it to Democrats? Interesting.
So what did Goldman Sachs pay the Bush administration to give the Secretary of Treasury position to Paulson, the recently former GS CEO? I recall a massive banker bailout that seemed to favor GS immensely occurring during his tenure as well.