Actually it was the Africans such as the Egyptians, with things like their wheeled chariots, irrigation and other things that came from civilization, but don't let that ruin your petty little racist rant.
More Edison that Tesla by a long shot. To find something a bit closer to Tesla look at the guys designing the rockets instead of their boss. The "later life" Tesla was shooting in the dark and trying to guess what he hit instead of having a modern understanding of radio waves.
There's a lot more going on with space than one small company putting a triivial amount of resources into solving these problems compared with several government agencies.
Here's two ways to do it. 1/ You can simulate a massive environment. 2/ You can control the inputs and fool someone into thinking you have simulated a massive environment, including wallpapering over the flaws or convincing the observer that the flaws are really something else.
This is more like scientology than science.
Philosophy is neither, especially not like the Hubbard weirdness. The ancient Greeks called this Sophism and used it as another way to think about reality. Things get elaborate and complicated very fast, hence "sophisticated", which at one time was a bit of an insult.
Sorting out some of the technology for a Mars colony is going to take decades (eg. the NASA horticulture experiments in Antarctica) so IMHO there's nothing wrong with starting on things decades before we can ship stuff and people out there. Just landing is a challenge even after getting there.
But severly limited in its usability and applications which is why Microsoft ruled the roost
Not as such, and notice I said "came close" and never anything about NT actually catching up. Server space is something MS had trouble getting into until MS Outlook became popular enough to drive a lot of MS Exchange installs.
I really don't understand what you get out of this weird revisionism. Do you actually believe this stuff you have written or are you up to some cynical manipulation?
Seriously. There are people at Microsoft, working very hard, who go to work, every day, thinking that doing this kind of shite and letting it loose on literally millions of consumers is a good idea.
Much much worse but it shows the mindset. A leading Enron exec on blatantly gaming the California electricity market and driving costs up "we are doing God's work".
The close button (red X) didn't work as users expected
True - it hid the countdown in a recent version instead of actually stopping the countdown. I saw it happen where fifteen minutes after the user closed the dialogue box the upgrade started. Yes, I told them that was going to happen, but I'm a *nix guy so was not taken seriously.
They can only do that because Onyx and all the others have to pay a shitload more to licence eink. The really nice eink devices come at prices where you just about have to be a hopeless fanboy to even contemplate them. The positive side is devices to read simple text are likely to be useful indefinitely so for some purposes they will never be obsolete even if they can't display some PDFs or newer file formats. That stupidly expensive big eink tablet won't sound like such a stupid idea five years after it has been paid for. Just don't drop it (unless it's a Wexler one with a flexible screen).
True, a technical problem has gone away but stupidity can still remain. Those directory names I was writing about have punctuation in them! Commas, semicolons, everything apart from asterisks. You can get to them nested deep on a *nix filesystem but it's a pain. People blame quality assurance systems but the initial guidelines don't mandate such stupid implementations - it's just someone doing something really stupid and others copying them in between Facebook employee stalking and farmville or whatever the latest game on there is.
Yes, I was commenting on the disdain that goes far beyond their previous efforts. Update reboots when a user is logged on and active used to come with warnings and a way to postpone immediately before the update, but this Win10 forced update goes ahead without that.
I keep running into you but only because you say some really weird shit at times. These days even very large mining trucks are electric and electric freight trains are likely to have been very widespread since long before you were born. While on very long runs diesel-electric locomotives are the go instead of electric in this case we are discussing Europe where you don't need to power a train 500km from the nearest power station. Mass electrification of rail was a 1970s thing in a lot of the world.
Countries yes, but there's a lot of unemployed people from the US oil industry at the moment who probably want a little more than knowing that their country can still keep on going without them having jobs. If they hadn't put up so much in political donations we'd be looking at the House of Saud as something very different to being an ally.
That is the argument to use a *nix server with a real database instead of a toy database on a much more expensive but functionally equivalent toy OS that is leased at a high cost and threat of audits instead of bought outright. A sudden reboot just to apply an update in the middle of a user's actions is hard to justify and certainly not deserving of a reward of paying extra money to the vendor that does it on one platform but hopefully not the other.
If you are using Windows 7 or 8 you should know that the bulk of Microsoft's telemetry has been backported
If you are using Windows 7 or 8 and installing updates at all then it's hard to avoid getting Win10 as an update. There probably won't be much left in the middle. Unpatched malware-prone Win7 machines on one side and telemetry-ridden Win10 on the other.
Didn't people here used to rant that linux was broken because we typed words instead of pointing at pretty pictures:) That literacy is paying off now even on MS Windows!
A lot of printer vendors install third party spoolers and other tools. It used to just be for plotters but now it's for relatively low end printers. Those tools generally work with hiccups measured in one or two times per year per 100 PCs.
Once malware is on the system with anything more than the most trivial user level permissions you can assume that anything is easy for it to hijack. If it can get to the hosts file you are already hosed in every way the script kiddie or malware writer can think of.
I'm sure it would happen with both MS Win7 and MS Win10, but stuff like the file explorer really badly chokes in some cases before it gets anywhere near the network hardware. Copying thousands of 2MB files in a single directory on a USB disk is just not what it was designed for as an extreme example that I've seen it attempt to do over a weekend for about 30% progress versus two hours done on a different system. Maybe robocopy or something equivalent instead of the file explorer would give similar performance to linux and all the rest in that situation.
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Actually it was the Africans such as the Egyptians, with things like their wheeled chariots, irrigation and other things that came from civilization, but don't let that ruin your petty little racist rant.
Wouldn't it be cool if it was turtles that programmed our simulation? Because, then, you know...
It's all done in LOGO?
More Edison that Tesla by a long shot. To find something a bit closer to Tesla look at the guys designing the rockets instead of their boss. The "later life" Tesla was shooting in the dark and trying to guess what he hit instead of having a modern understanding of radio waves.
There's a lot more going on with space than one small company putting a triivial amount of resources into solving these problems compared with several government agencies.
1/ You can simulate a massive environment.
2/ You can control the inputs and fool someone into thinking you have simulated a massive environment, including wallpapering over the flaws or convincing the observer that the flaws are really something else.
Philosophy is neither, especially not like the Hubbard weirdness. The ancient Greeks called this Sophism and used it as another way to think about reality. Things get elaborate and complicated very fast, hence "sophisticated", which at one time was a bit of an insult.
Sorting out some of the technology for a Mars colony is going to take decades (eg. the NASA horticulture experiments in Antarctica) so IMHO there's nothing wrong with starting on things decades before we can ship stuff and people out there. Just landing is a challenge even after getting there.
Let me rephrase that - Saudi individuals funded Daesh and it wasn't until around a year ago that barriers were put in their way.
Not as such, and notice I said "came close" and never anything about NT actually catching up. Server space is something MS had trouble getting into until MS Outlook became popular enough to drive a lot of MS Exchange installs.
I really don't understand what you get out of this weird revisionism. Do you actually believe this stuff you have written or are you up to some cynical manipulation?
Much much worse but it shows the mindset. A leading Enron exec on blatantly gaming the California electricity market and driving costs up "we are doing God's work".
True - it hid the countdown in a recent version instead of actually stopping the countdown. I saw it happen where fifteen minutes after the user closed the dialogue box the upgrade started. Yes, I told them that was going to happen, but I'm a *nix guy so was not taken seriously.
They can only do that because Onyx and all the others have to pay a shitload more to licence eink. The really nice eink devices come at prices where you just about have to be a hopeless fanboy to even contemplate them.
The positive side is devices to read simple text are likely to be useful indefinitely so for some purposes they will never be obsolete even if they can't display some PDFs or newer file formats. That stupidly expensive big eink tablet won't sound like such a stupid idea five years after it has been paid for. Just don't drop it (unless it's a Wexler one with a flexible screen).
By the time NT came close to catching up (Win NT4) linux was widely available.
The nerds are getting dragged into this to "just fix it" and yelled at as if we work for Microsoft instead of wrangling *nix systems.
Yes but done while you've been waiting maybe an hour or two to use the computer.
True, a technical problem has gone away but stupidity can still remain.
Those directory names I was writing about have punctuation in them! Commas, semicolons, everything apart from asterisks. You can get to them nested deep on a *nix filesystem but it's a pain.
People blame quality assurance systems but the initial guidelines don't mandate such stupid implementations - it's just someone doing something really stupid and others copying them in between Facebook employee stalking and farmville or whatever the latest game on there is.
Yes, I was commenting on the disdain that goes far beyond their previous efforts.
Update reboots when a user is logged on and active used to come with warnings and a way to postpone immediately before the update, but this Win10 forced update goes ahead without that.
I keep running into you but only because you say some really weird shit at times. These days even very large mining trucks are electric and electric freight trains are likely to have been very widespread since long before you were born. While on very long runs diesel-electric locomotives are the go instead of electric in this case we are discussing Europe where you don't need to power a train 500km from the nearest power station.
Mass electrification of rail was a 1970s thing in a lot of the world.
They FUNDED that bunch until not very long ago!
Countries yes, but there's a lot of unemployed people from the US oil industry at the moment who probably want a little more than knowing that their country can still keep on going without them having jobs.
If they hadn't put up so much in political donations we'd be looking at the House of Saud as something very different to being an ally.
That is the argument to use a *nix server with a real database instead of a toy database on a much more expensive but functionally equivalent toy OS that is leased at a high cost and threat of audits instead of bought outright.
A sudden reboot just to apply an update in the middle of a user's actions is hard to justify and certainly not deserving of a reward of paying extra money to the vendor that does it on one platform but hopefully not the other.
If you are using Windows 7 or 8 and installing updates at all then it's hard to avoid getting Win10 as an update.
There probably won't be much left in the middle. Unpatched malware-prone Win7 machines on one side and telemetry-ridden Win10 on the other.
Didn't people here used to rant that linux was broken because we typed words instead of pointing at pretty pictures :)
That literacy is paying off now even on MS Windows!
A lot of printer vendors install third party spoolers and other tools. It used to just be for plotters but now it's for relatively low end printers. Those tools generally work with hiccups measured in one or two times per year per 100 PCs.
Once malware is on the system with anything more than the most trivial user level permissions you can assume that anything is easy for it to hijack. If it can get to the hosts file you are already hosed in every way the script kiddie or malware writer can think of.
I'm sure it would happen with both MS Win7 and MS Win10, but stuff like the file explorer really badly chokes in some cases before it gets anywhere near the network hardware.
Copying thousands of 2MB files in a single directory on a USB disk is just not what it was designed for as an extreme example that I've seen it attempt to do over a weekend for about 30% progress versus two hours done on a different system. Maybe robocopy or something equivalent instead of the file explorer would give similar performance to linux and all the rest in that situation.