Also, most PCs aren't powerful enough to really run VR.
Well, that's a given: you need more power to run any game as VR, because a good VR experience requires higher resolution and framerate than regular gaming.
The tale of Windows Phone is one of absolute hubris. Let me tell you the ways.
Microsoft thought, just by planting a guy to make Nokia move to WP, they could steal Nokia's exceedingly loyal users. But those people were not blindly loyal to the brand, they were invested in the roadmap: Symbian now, MeeGo soon. Without these, might as well go a completely different way. Especially when many were angry for the loss of MeeGo.
Ditto about carriers and app developers, who were counting on that roadmap. They had put a lot of money and work in preparing for MeeGo. The move to WP cost them a lot, so they were enraged and went with anyone but Microsoft.
The Skype acquisition didn't help either. Calls and messages for free? Carriers saw it as an existential threat. Microsoft got promoted from "those people are a headache" to "those sons of bitches are actively trying to murder us".
And WP may be decent now, but it was originally rushed. When the first Lumias came out, it was an incomplete mess without a possible upgrade. This meant lots of returned phones, a headache to retailers. So they also hated WP and discreetly guided potential buyers to a less headache-inducing alternative.
Microsoft was so sure they could buy success, they ended up stepping on everyone's toes.
I think it's a joke, "Netcraft confirms it" is a meme around here. But the number is right, Windows has been surpassed by Android. StatCounter confirms it.
What an incompetently written headline: "desktop now available for PC and Mac" makes one understand that it is just a desktop environment running on top of Windows and macOS, replacing Explorer.exe and the Finder, but still the same operating systems underneath running the same applications. Which is not the case at all.
What they're doing is the opposite of what I'd like to see. I'd simplify and unify, give it a single clean look, something with a "90s feel", a la ClarisWorks.
Nonsense! Nokia was nowhere near bankrupt at the time. By Q4 2010 they were consistently profitable and Symbian still led at ~32% market share. Yes, other phone makers had moved away from it, but Nokia's own sales were mostly untouched - iOS and Android had grown mostly by taking customers from Palm, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile. And as Symbian was a more lightweight system, it would be easier to put it on low-cost devices. Expectations at the time were rather positive - if they could keep advancing Symbian and finally deliver MeeGo.
Elop's stint was an attempt at fixing things only the same sense as drinking poison is an attempt at quenching your thirst. It was a disaster in every way. The fact that he killed hopes for another MeeGo device after the extremely positive reception of the N9 shows clearly that he was there solely to advance Microsoft's interests, no matter that it harmed Nokia.
No. That would imply he at least tried to act in favor of the company's interests with a modicum of competence.
Say, do you know the "Osborne effect" - when a company announces upcoming products too soon and kills demand for the current ones?
Also, do you know the "Ratner effect" - when a company's leadership publicly attacks its own products, ruining their reputation?
Put them together and you get the monstrosity of the "Elop effect".
That lunatic stated that the still immensely popular Symbian was not competitive, killing that cash cow overnight. What for? The WP-based devices meant to replace it were still several months away - and not only that, that system would have a reputation for lacking essential features for years. This means, all of a sudden the world's biggest cell phone maker had no viable smartphone to sell. The vacuum left by Nokia's suicide was promptly filled by Android devices. So you can see how Elop's leadership was immensely profitable... for Samsung!
A sane and honest person in his position at that moment would have praised and supported Symbian until its successor was ready. And by that I clearly mean MeeGo, not WP.
Those pictures make me think of this bit from Atlas Shrugged.
You, who claim that you long to rise above the crude concerns of the body, above the drudgery of serving mere physical needs—who is enslaved by physical needs: the Hindu who labors from sunrise to sunset at the shafts of a hand-plow for a bowl of rice, or the American who is driving a tractor? Who is the conqueror of physical reality: the man who sleeps on a bed of nails or the man who sleeps on an inner-spring mattress? Which is the monument to the triumph of the human spirit over matter: the germ-eaten hovels on the shorelines of the Ganges or the Atlantic skyline of New York?"
If you really don't want to vote, you can just enter an invalid number, the machine even has a dedicated "blank vote" button. Also, I may have phrased that wrong, the police is discreet but will act if you try anything shady.
This controversy is absurd to me. Then again, your whole election system is absurd. It is perplexing that you can't do this right, while Brazil does -- and hell knows we're not often the best example of doing anything right.
So, here's how we do it:
* Voting is mandatory from age 18 to 70. Miss it and you have to pay a small fine. * The whole country votes at once: always a Sunday, from 8AM to 5PM. Early voting is not possible. * Voters are assigned the polling place closest to their address, down to the room. Voting elsewhere is not possible. * Federally issued photo ID must be presented for voting. * Bringing cameras to the booth is strictly forbidden (you can leave your phone with the poll worker while you vote). * The whole country uses the same electronic voting machine, a simple and rugged design. * Polling places are heavily policed, making voter intimidation, canvassing, and machine tampering unlikely.
This system is very efficient, the result is always tallied and announced in a couple of hours after the polling places close.
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So what if Apple won't offer a sane, standardized solution? How about you just STOP BUYING APPLE CRAP!?
Also, most PCs aren't powerful enough to really run VR.
Well, that's a given: you need more power to run any game as VR, because a good VR experience requires higher resolution and framerate than regular gaming.
That yacht is a damn fugly thing, though.
It's in my list of things I do immediately after installing Firefox to make it usable:
1. restore title bar and menu bar
2. do not close window when closing last tab
3. do not hide http url prefix
My brain parses "://" as gibberish and reads that logo as "moz a".
The tale of Windows Phone is one of absolute hubris. Let me tell you the ways.
Microsoft thought, just by planting a guy to make Nokia move to WP, they could steal Nokia's exceedingly loyal users. But those people were not blindly loyal to the brand, they were invested in the roadmap: Symbian now, MeeGo soon. Without these, might as well go a completely different way. Especially when many were angry for the loss of MeeGo.
Ditto about carriers and app developers, who were counting on that roadmap. They had put a lot of money and work in preparing for MeeGo. The move to WP cost them a lot, so they were enraged and went with anyone but Microsoft.
The Skype acquisition didn't help either. Calls and messages for free? Carriers saw it as an existential threat. Microsoft got promoted from "those people are a headache" to "those sons of bitches are actively trying to murder us".
And WP may be decent now, but it was originally rushed. When the first Lumias came out, it was an incomplete mess without a possible upgrade. This meant lots of returned phones, a headache to retailers. So they also hated WP and discreetly guided potential buyers to a less headache-inducing alternative.
Microsoft was so sure they could buy success, they ended up stepping on everyone's toes.
I think it's a joke, "Netcraft confirms it" is a meme around here. But the number is right, Windows has been surpassed by Android. StatCounter confirms it.
No jack, no buy, no thanks.
Who could have guessed: removing features from a product does not make it more appealing! Shocking, I know.
Then I'll drop Samsung and go with another brand that gives me what I want. That's the point.
The solution is to actually ENFORCE the rules, not discard them.
What an incompetently written headline: "desktop now available for PC and Mac" makes one understand that it is just a desktop environment running on top of Windows and macOS, replacing Explorer.exe and the Finder, but still the same operating systems underneath running the same applications. Which is not the case at all.
What they're doing is the opposite of what I'd like to see. I'd simplify and unify, give it a single clean look, something with a "90s feel", a la ClarisWorks.
>implying that's a bad thing
Not Microsoft. Red Hat.
Nonsense! Nokia was nowhere near bankrupt at the time. By Q4 2010 they were consistently profitable and Symbian still led at ~32% market share. Yes, other phone makers had moved away from it, but Nokia's own sales were mostly untouched - iOS and Android had grown mostly by taking customers from Palm, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile. And as Symbian was a more lightweight system, it would be easier to put it on low-cost devices. Expectations at the time were rather positive - if they could keep advancing Symbian and finally deliver MeeGo.
Elop's stint was an attempt at fixing things only the same sense as drinking poison is an attempt at quenching your thirst. It was a disaster in every way. The fact that he killed hopes for another MeeGo device after the extremely positive reception of the N9 shows clearly that he was there solely to advance Microsoft's interests, no matter that it harmed Nokia.
No. That would imply he at least tried to act in favor of the company's interests with a modicum of competence.
Say, do you know the "Osborne effect" - when a company announces upcoming products too soon and kills demand for the current ones?
Also, do you know the "Ratner effect" - when a company's leadership publicly attacks its own products, ruining their reputation?
Put them together and you get the monstrosity of the "Elop effect".
That lunatic stated that the still immensely popular Symbian was not competitive, killing that cash cow overnight. What for? The WP-based devices meant to replace it were still several months away - and not only that, that system would have a reputation for lacking essential features for years. This means, all of a sudden the world's biggest cell phone maker had no viable smartphone to sell. The vacuum left by Nokia's suicide was promptly filled by Android devices. So you can see how Elop's leadership was immensely profitable... for Samsung!
A sane and honest person in his position at that moment would have praised and supported Symbian until its successor was ready. And by that I clearly mean MeeGo, not WP.
Toba is also a Brazilian slang for butthole. Either way, it's where the sun don't shine.
The Onion is co-owned by Univision Communications... whose chairman Haim Saban juuust happens to be the Clintons' biggest individual financial backer.
Those pictures make me think of this bit from Atlas Shrugged.
Designated burning streets.
No absentee or mail-in votes, at all.
Already not allowed here.
If you really don't want to vote, you can just enter an invalid number, the machine even has a dedicated "blank vote" button. Also, I may have phrased that wrong, the police is discreet but will act if you try anything shady.
This controversy is absurd to me. Then again, your whole election system is absurd. It is perplexing that you can't do this right, while Brazil does -- and hell knows we're not often the best example of doing anything right.
So, here's how we do it:
* Voting is mandatory from age 18 to 70. Miss it and you have to pay a small fine.
* The whole country votes at once: always a Sunday, from 8AM to 5PM. Early voting is not possible.
* Voters are assigned the polling place closest to their address, down to the room. Voting elsewhere is not possible.
* Federally issued photo ID must be presented for voting.
* Bringing cameras to the booth is strictly forbidden (you can leave your phone with the poll worker while you vote).
* The whole country uses the same electronic voting machine, a simple and rugged design.
* Polling places are heavily policed, making voter intimidation, canvassing, and machine tampering unlikely.
This system is very efficient, the result is always tallied and announced in a couple of hours after the polling places close.
Better have incomplete support than allow the emoji cancer.