Extreme dislike for MS aside, would you rather have Granny G. launch an app from the Start screen or call you up always asking how to play some obscure media file because Windows Media Player won't play it, and she doesn't know what VLC is or where to find it?
From my experiences with Metro apps, she would be calling you asking how to actually make the app do anything and how to get out of it afterwards with a Metro interface version.
Just wondering if that one asshole developer who blocked the client on iOS will block it for windows phone as well.
Couldn't the other developers have just wrote new code to serve the functionality of the stuff he wrote and replace his code, thereby removing him from the project contributor list in effect and making his opinion moot?
They recently taped out a Cortex-A7 processor with this technology, calling it a significant milestone for the fabless ecosystem."
I'm very good at the English language but I have no idea what this means. How do you 'tape out' a processor? What's a 'fabless ecosystem'? (The rainforests are rather wonderful, I hear.)
"Taping out" is the process of laying out the actual lines that will become the paths of the circuit. This used to be done with actual tape and photographed and reduced in size. Somehow I doubt they actually used that method with this and more likely the work was all done on a computer.
I can only assume a "fabless ecosystem" is a fancy way of saying "the industry of making something when you don't make anything" or chip design/IP creation.
Over a hundred people die from firearms every day in America. Roughly about 1/3 accidents, 1/3 suicides, and 1/3 deliberate homicides.
Here's the statistic for 2009. They average out to 85.88 deaths per day for firearms in combining those categories. The figure for accidental deaths was not accessable without sifting through the sorce tables, but of that 31,347 deaths homicides made up 11,493 of them (source) and suicides 18,735 (source).
Do you have something to back up your "over a hundred every day" claim?
I can also purchase a car... can be used for evil purposes as well as good..
Are you being facetious here???
He's making the point you're focusing too much on the form of the tools themselves. Banning all guns and being concerned about ease of legally acquiring them use does not make the world a safe place because all sorts of very benign objects can be used as deadly weapons just as easily. Creating a truly safe environment would make civilization grind to a halt because we'd lose automobiles, butter knives, household chemicals, etc. And it doesn't matter if guns are illegal when so much gun violence if perpetrated by those who have no regard for the law to begin with.
Prior to the release of Win8, I was highly, highly critical. Thought it was the dumbest thing MS had ever done. As someone who went through the pain of WinME, that's saying a lot. But I've gotten used to it. Still spend almost all my time in the desktop, but I've grown to like the metro apps for things like easy access for my kids. I still think MS made a mistake by not at least making a full-desktop-mode option, but I can live with Metro and find it beneficial in some ways. I certainly haven'y been hampered by it at all.
Oops. Ignore that paragraph. It's not my words, and I didn't mean to quote it.
These days however I have no idea what I'm supposed to associate Linksys with.
I associate them now with that stupid "cloud" firmware setup that lets them spy on you as part of the EULA and wont be buying another one of their routers....which is a shame because my current router (a Linksys WRT54gv5) is having issues losing power occasionally, and I think a break has developed in the AC adapter cord from playing around with it, a real shame despite some of the router's limitations. In other words, I'm a happy Linksys owner who's looking to this as a reason to upgrade to a new 802.11n router but will be specifically looking for another company's wares now.
On a related note, my mother will be buying herself her first wireless router in the not-to-distant future because of a Christmas gift I got her. Guess who she's going to ask for advice on routers. Guess who I'm not going to recommend.
Marketers like to downplay good old fashioned word-of-mouth, especially from geeks. But here's two lost sales.
Personally I keep a list of the top 10 applications I launch (Chrome, Visual Studio, a screen capture utility, etc) right at the very top level of the "Start" menu so I can get to them quickly
So put them on the metro page. Functions in a similar way: press the windows key and you'll see all your pinned apps for quick and easy access as well as be able to just type the name of any given app you may want.
You're both idiots. Pin them to the Taskbar.
You use them in the Desktop space so having to go to Metro to launch them is dumb. If these apps are used that often you generally have them already on the Taskbar when they have open Windows, so why not keep them there.
I've been using Windows 8 since DP and rarely ever touch the Metro side, with a 1920 pixel wide Taskbar I can pin more than 20 apps for easy access.
Prior to the release of Win8, I was highly, highly critical. Thought it was the dumbest thing MS had ever done. As someone who went through the pain of WinME, that's saying a lot. But I've gotten used to it. Still spend almost all my time in the desktop, but I've grown to like the metro apps for things like easy access for my kids. I still think MS made a mistake by not at least making a full-desktop-mode option, but I can live with Metro and find it beneficial in some ways. I certainly haven'y been hampered by it at all.
Of course. We have SEO programmers. Coming up next, TTO -- Twitter Trustworthiness Optimizers.
We start with lots of sock-puppet follower accounts, add a pessimistic spin and frowny faces. Also use links that will probably lead to astroturfing sources, and finally give the tweet a healthy copy-edit before it's posted to made it in a first or second-person perspective and make it a declarative, expletive-free message.
You would destroy all of the freedoms so many have died for you to obtain -- if only because a group is using speech you deem unacceptable.
Free speech does not mean the right to anonymity, or to protection beyond what any other citizen would receive. If Anonymous can open the phone book or use some other method to figure out their personal information that's legal, they're free to publish that info. It's up to the people who seek that information with what they do with it once they have it.
Westboro Baptist Church is an object lesson in why it's good to have some restrictions on speech, such as limiting it to a reasonable time and place.
The problem is "reasonable" is a subjective term. The TSA feels our current security procedures are a reasonable inconvenience for travelers for the additional safety they allegedly provide.
Because the dynamic range is too great. When the dialog is at an acceptable level the other noises (gunshots or explosions) cause physical discomfort to my ears. Movies on VHS were never like this, as soon as DVDs came out this nonsense started.
You might check the audio track options on the movie. The great difference in sounds seems to be more prevalent in multi-channel (5.1) surround-sound audio tracks, but if the DVD also offers a regular 2.0 stereo track, you'll find the dialog audio has more "push" behind it and comes through louder, and loud explosions, etc are a little toned down compared to their 5.1 counterparts.
I just did a couple of image searches that used to be CLUTTERED with Rule 34, and now I can actually find relevant stuff. That's actually a VAST improvement. Better than Safe Search=on used to be, in fact.
Couldn't Google have just made this new searching mode the new "Moderate" then and still left people the option of setting SafeSearch to "Off" and having it behave the way it did before.
That's the problem with this new method. Supposedly you just have to use more precise search terms to get those explicit results, but "explicit" is a subjective term to start with and now there's now way to simply see ALL the results the spiders find without someone's judgement of where an image belongs.
...So you can build your own steam console with the hardware you want (and is fully upgradeable when new tech comes out) and ready to rock as soon as the OS is installed.
That would defeat the strongest argument for the console: it just runs and you know it will runs what's available for it. Build-your-own comes with the all the headaches that come with it: driver compatibility, hardware reliability, and performance requirements for individual games. Console games are for all the Joe Sixpacks who just wants to flip a switch and play. When I used to buy games for my SNES, I didn't have to look at the box and wonder "do I have enough RAM for this?", "will I need to install a better graphics card to get smooth gameplay?"
If you want a full-screen gaming environment for Ubuntu, when Steam is available for Linux, is there any reason you couldn't just build a dedicated gaming PC for the living room in an HTPC case, and then install Ubuntu and set it to auto-run Steam in Big Picture mode when it boots up. This sounds like a request you can already fulfill on your own.
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Extreme dislike for MS aside, would you rather have Granny G. launch an app from the Start screen or call you up always asking how to play some obscure media file because Windows Media Player won't play it, and she doesn't know what VLC is or where to find it?
From my experiences with Metro apps, she would be calling you asking how to actually make the app do anything and how to get out of it afterwards with a Metro interface version.
I like MPC Home Theater edition best but isn't it just a fork of VLC?
MPC-HC has nothing to do with VLC.
It's more like a fork of the original Media Player Classic when development fell off on it.
Just wondering if that one asshole developer who blocked the client on iOS will block it for windows phone as well.
Couldn't the other developers have just wrote new code to serve the functionality of the stuff he wrote and replace his code, thereby removing him from the project contributor list in effect and making his opinion moot?
They recently taped out a Cortex-A7 processor with this technology, calling it a significant milestone for the fabless ecosystem."
I'm very good at the English language but I have no idea what this means. How do you 'tape out' a processor? What's a 'fabless ecosystem'? (The rainforests are rather wonderful, I hear.)
"Taping out" is the process of laying out the actual lines that will become the paths of the circuit. This used to be done with actual tape and photographed and reduced in size. Somehow I doubt they actually used that method with this and more likely the work was all done on a computer.
I can only assume a "fabless ecosystem" is a fancy way of saying "the industry of making something when you don't make anything" or chip design/IP creation.
I wouldn't hire someone who uses the word "whiner". It shows a lack of empathy and ability to recognize that situations can be improved.
But you would hire someone who gets so upset over a few minor communication issues? Doesn't sound like a guy who can cope well under pressure to me.
They have better Christmas decorations that us, too! Look at that header bar.
You didn't include the link in your first post, and make us go deeper to get to Inception? ;-)
Bloomberg reports that Kodak has agreed to sell the patent portfolio for $525 million, despite previous valuations of over $2 billion."
I just can't figure out how Kodak ended up in bankruptcy to begin with when they have leadership like this...
Isn't that the same as Visa and Mastercard?
I thought they were being targeted as a "payment processor", not as a bank.
I look forward to seeing Paypal get a taste of having to follow rules.
Over a hundred people die from firearms every day in America. Roughly about 1/3 accidents, 1/3 suicides, and 1/3 deliberate homicides.
Here's the statistic for 2009. They average out to 85.88 deaths per day for firearms in combining those categories. The figure for accidental deaths was not accessable without sifting through the sorce tables, but of that 31,347 deaths homicides made up 11,493 of them (source) and suicides 18,735 (source).
Do you have something to back up your "over a hundred every day" claim?
I can also purchase a car ... can be used for evil purposes as well as good..
Are you being facetious here???
He's making the point you're focusing too much on the form of the tools themselves.
Banning all guns and being concerned about ease of legally acquiring them use does not make the world a safe place because all sorts of very benign objects can be used as deadly weapons just as easily. Creating a truly safe environment would make civilization grind to a halt because we'd lose automobiles, butter knives, household chemicals, etc. And it doesn't matter if guns are illegal when so much gun violence if perpetrated by those who have no regard for the law to begin with.
Prior to the release of Win8, I was highly, highly critical. Thought it was the dumbest thing MS had ever done. As someone who went through the pain of WinME, that's saying a lot. But I've gotten used to it. Still spend almost all my time in the desktop, but I've grown to like the metro apps for things like easy access for my kids. I still think MS made a mistake by not at least making a full-desktop-mode option, but I can live with Metro and find it beneficial in some ways. I certainly haven'y been hampered by it at all.
Oops. Ignore that paragraph. It's not my words, and I didn't mean to quote it.
These days however I have no idea what I'm supposed to associate Linksys with.
I associate them now with that stupid "cloud" firmware setup that lets them spy on you as part of the EULA and wont be buying another one of their routers. ...which is a shame because my current router (a Linksys WRT54gv5) is having issues losing power occasionally, and I think a break has developed in the AC adapter cord from playing around with it, a real shame despite some of the router's limitations. In other words, I'm a happy Linksys owner who's looking to this as a reason to upgrade to a new 802.11n router but will be specifically looking for another company's wares now.
On a related note, my mother will be buying herself her first wireless router in the not-to-distant future because of a Christmas gift I got her. Guess who she's going to ask for advice on routers. Guess who I'm not going to recommend.
Marketers like to downplay good old fashioned word-of-mouth, especially from geeks. But here's two lost sales.
Personally I keep a list of the top 10 applications I launch (Chrome, Visual Studio, a screen capture utility, etc) right at the very top level of the "Start" menu so I can get to them quickly
So put them on the metro page. Functions in a similar way: press the windows key and you'll see all your pinned apps for quick and easy access as well as be able to just type the name of any given app you may want.
You're both idiots. Pin them to the Taskbar.
You use them in the Desktop space so having to go to Metro to launch them is dumb.
If these apps are used that often you generally have them already on the Taskbar when they have open Windows, so why not keep them there.
I've been using Windows 8 since DP and rarely ever touch the Metro side, with a 1920 pixel wide Taskbar I can pin more than 20 apps for easy access.
Prior to the release of Win8, I was highly, highly critical. Thought it was the dumbest thing MS had ever done. As someone who went through the pain of WinME, that's saying a lot. But I've gotten used to it. Still spend almost all my time in the desktop, but I've grown to like the metro apps for things like easy access for my kids. I still think MS made a mistake by not at least making a full-desktop-mode option, but I can live with Metro and find it beneficial in some ways. I certainly haven'y been hampered by it at all.
Of course. We have SEO programmers.
Coming up next, TTO -- Twitter Trustworthiness Optimizers.
We start with lots of sock-puppet follower accounts, add a pessimistic spin and frowny faces. Also use links that will probably lead to astroturfing sources, and finally give the tweet a healthy copy-edit before it's posted to made it in a first or second-person perspective and make it a declarative, expletive-free message.
...Gord Young claims to have deciphered the message in less than 20 minutes. He believes that the message is comprised mostly of acronyms.
Maybe they got the age of the message wrong. This sounds like a modern corporate press release.
You would destroy all of the freedoms so many have died for you to obtain -- if only because a group is using speech you deem unacceptable.
Free speech does not mean the right to anonymity, or to protection beyond what any other citizen would receive. If Anonymous can open the phone book or use some other method to figure out their personal information that's legal, they're free to publish that info. It's up to the people who seek that information with what they do with it once they have it.
Westboro Baptist Church is an object lesson in why it's good to have some restrictions on speech, such as limiting it to a reasonable time and place.
The problem is "reasonable" is a subjective term. The TSA feels our current security procedures are a reasonable inconvenience for travelers for the additional safety they allegedly provide.
Because the dynamic range is too great. When the dialog is at an acceptable level the other noises (gunshots or explosions) cause physical discomfort to my ears. Movies on VHS were never like this, as soon as DVDs came out this nonsense started.
You might check the audio track options on the movie. The great difference in sounds seems to be more prevalent in multi-channel (5.1) surround-sound audio tracks, but if the DVD also offers a regular 2.0 stereo track, you'll find the dialog audio has more "push" behind it and comes through louder, and loud explosions, etc are a little toned down compared to their 5.1 counterparts.
lose: something you had, you have, no more.
Commas, muthafucka!
Can you use them?!
I just did a couple of image searches that used to be CLUTTERED with Rule 34, and now I can actually find relevant stuff. That's actually a VAST improvement. Better than Safe Search=on used to be, in fact.
Couldn't Google have just made this new searching mode the new "Moderate" then and still left people the option of setting SafeSearch to "Off" and having it behave the way it did before.
That's the problem with this new method. Supposedly you just have to use more precise search terms to get those explicit results, but "explicit" is a subjective term to start with and now there's now way to simply see ALL the results the spiders find without someone's judgement of where an image belongs.
I agree that a 30% cut is a bit too much...
No. It isn't. The only people who think that are those that have an axe to grind with Apple.
a) Pretty much every other app store out there has the same deal and, more importantly...
Ah, yes, the "everybody else is doing it" argument -- used to justify all sorts of exploitation over the centuries.
How is that any different than just building your own PC how you want and installing Steam on it?
...So you can build your own steam console with the hardware you want (and is fully upgradeable when new tech comes out) and ready to rock as soon as the OS is installed.
That would defeat the strongest argument for the console: it just runs and you know it will runs what's available for it. Build-your-own comes with the all the headaches that come with it: driver compatibility, hardware reliability, and performance requirements for individual games. Console games are for all the Joe Sixpacks who just wants to flip a switch and play. When I used to buy games for my SNES, I didn't have to look at the box and wonder "do I have enough RAM for this?", "will I need to install a better graphics card to get smooth gameplay?"
If you want a full-screen gaming environment for Ubuntu, when Steam is available for Linux, is there any reason you couldn't just build a dedicated gaming PC for the living room in an HTPC case, and then install Ubuntu and set it to auto-run Steam in Big Picture mode when it boots up. This sounds like a request you can already fulfill on your own.