What should really happen is that the fridge and the AC shouldn't be separate units. The AC should offer a refrigerant tap and communication feedback line for the fridge so they can be combined into a single system so that the fridge's compressor is completely bypassed during the summer.
Cell company lobbyists and congress drones apparently thought that you can keep the radio communication equivalent of shouting across a quiet room private by, instead of encrypting the communication, passing laws that make it illegal to notice.
I'm not sure that the FCC or ITU had any part in it, however it seems likely that at least ITU would have been involved....
The remaining question is whether we'll see the law rolled back now that it's been obviated by encryption (or at least CDMA spread spectrum), and is so obviously useless - the only way to detect if someone is listing is to yourself be listening in enough places to measure the shadow created by their receiving equipment or the extremely low-power emission of interference frequencies, assuming that they're using that method of demodulation, equipment capable of receiving the old AM cell phone transmissions can be made in an afternoon using readily available components.
It's their own fault for not making the default password a variant of "everybodygetsthispassworditsnotsecureatall" or, "IShouldChangeThisToSomethingUnique"
For the Touch, the screen comes on pretty much "instantly" after you hit either the wakeup button or "the button" button. If you double tap "the button", a basic UI comes up at the top of the screen whose buttons are always in the same place, so you can remember them by position, for the most part.
Not quite as good as the wheel, but I think it would be possible to design a wheel-like UI that you could use without having to look at it. They haven't, though....
Barnes and Noble already brought a 7-inch pad to market that outperforms the Fire. You may have missed it, because it was a second generation device and came out two days after the Fire.
Doesn't google finance already factor splits into the graph, though? I'm pretty sure that $30 share price right before a 2:1 split and a $30 share price after the split actually mean that the price was $60 right before the split - the price they show is, I believe, normalized to the current price and accumulated splits.
However it is apparent that Sveasoft do NOT think so, based on the above description of their policy, as they distribute the source and permit the users to redistribute their software. If the user is going to treat their effort as if it is worth, "free", then why shouldn't they provide exactly the level of support and additional features that "free" pays for? Functionally, this is what will happen after the users all redistribute their product and Sveasoft goes out of business, anyway.....
Why would you need to run your "system partition" on an external drive? How many programs are you running, anyway?
The external drive is for the huge media files or build trees or whatever you're working on. User data. System stuff goes on the closest drive to the RAM, so you can grab it quickly when it's time to load it.
Media doesn't need to be, because you don't tend to randomly access it in rapid succession for every little operation. That 2GB video file contains everything it needs media-wise to view, it doesn't need to pull in another 150 MB of "sub-videos" scattered over 40,000 small files, and it only needs to read in fast enough to watch or do FF/scrubbing.
Your description of Sveasoft's policy seems pretty fair to me. Customers get the source and can use it to solve their problems, add customizations, etc, and only get blacklisted from future support if they abuse the deal by redistributing it. Sveasoft is harmed by the lost sale as a result, but instead of suing the abusers, they just ignore them.
I seriously doubt the intent of the GPL was to enable users to undermine the ability of people to create software for a living.
Eh, that's the hazard, but there has to be a way to do this that prevents abuse, encourages getting off the system, and gives the unemployed some measure of dignity while collecting benefits so they can go into interviews confident and assured.
I think there are tasks that the community needs that really aren't eating into the private sector. Things that maybe aren't terribly cost effective to hire someone to do, but which, having a bunch of people collecting benefits *anyway* might as well work on.
There are the usual community service projects, for instance, like reorganizing the library shelves and whatnot. Perhaps there is a huge backlog of historical records that need to be entered into a database somewhere, but which aren't critical to the town's functioning, so it's no great loss if they put it off.
I'm sure there are some number of real, "shovel ready" jobs that improve the community without undercutting the rest of the community from that work. Jobs which are "nice to have done" so those doing them can feel a sense of contribution, but boring enough that no one would want to make an "unemployment career" out of. It would be more useful than inventing a need for a new narrow sidewalk with telephone poles in the middle of every sixth square, and paying full-graft contractor rates for the privilege.
The community probably isn't going to be encouraged to "keep people on unemployment" for the community service hours if the effective hourly rate is substantially higher than they would pay to a private contractor for the same work.
For as long as Windows Phone doesn't have the app ecosystem, it will have great difficulty making inroads into the smartphone market. (although, by definition, if it doesn't have apps to run, that's not much different from a feature phone....)
It could have the greatest operating system ever and still it would get bad sales, because people want to be able to buy apps. In that case sales would not indicate the quality of the OS, which encompasses more than just the availability of apps. Ease of porting apps to the phone may or may not be relevant to the quality argument, depending on how that feature is implemented, but it will affect app count, and therefore phone sales.
Pretty sure they're viewed mostly as "Toyotas with a higher price tag" in the US as well, except for the people that buy 'em of course. Not that there's anything wrong with Toyotas, though. They're certainly doing better than our nationalized automakers.
The number of sales is not necessarily a good proxy for the relative quality of two product, as there may be other factors that are generating the result. In the case of phones, Apple's whole ecosystem of 3rd party apps is a huge factor in phone buying decisions, as is their careful choice to make the phone itself "jewelry" as well as a useful phone.
Those two factors alone have carried the iPhone pretty far, and their momentum will probably carry them for some time even if they make no improvements and other phones leave them in the dust in terms of "quality of the os" for much the same reason that health care is about to get very expensive in the US - when you insulate people from the price, they will tend to pick the "brand" name product, and right now iPhone is the brand, and the other smartphones are "ok too."
When WinMo has the app ecosystem that Apple and Android have and has built up some brand recognition then we can start to think about sales volume as even a remotely useful indictor of os quality. Until then, the only useful indicator is actual user and developer reviews. Especially as gaining a reputation for quality is what they need in order to build the brand recognition and app ecosystem in the first place.
But powerpoint isn't intended to be printed, primarily, although it does have a mode to print your "notes" those are not supposed to be something you distribute, but instead something you use to queue your speech, or if you forget something.
My guess would be that powerpoint uses a mixture of screen relative positioning and pixel exact positioning, which screws things up if you change the display size. Perhaps the "nearly identical machine" is a red herring, and the real problem happened when he hooked up the projector. A typical laptop these days will have a 16:10 or 16:9 display, whereas most presentation projectors have a 4:3 display.
Well, you do need two computers depending on the problem - the one you're fixing and the one you're googling with, but yeah, basically everything comes down to
1) Google to see if any one else has had this problem and what they did 2) Someone did, do that stuff.
For drivers, it's just a matter of 1) did you download a new version that broke something? find the old version and reinstall that 2) is there a new version that fixes your problem? download and install it. 3) wait for 2 to be true, or enough time passes that they're probably not going to put out another patch and buy new hardware.
I'm curious as to what additional support people think they're going to get from the basic support from an OEM or even Microsoft other than the having someone at a computer do the above over the phone and relay instructions to you. You're certainly not going to get online with one of the engineers to turn on debug features and step through your drivers or whatever over your $400 Best Buy Bargain. The best you can hope for is for your issue to be added to a bug reporting database, and enough other people having reported it that someone actually does correct it for the next driver release, in which case, you're back to step 3 again anyway.
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What should really happen is that the fridge and the AC shouldn't be separate units. The AC should offer a refrigerant tap and communication feedback line for the fridge so they can be combined into a single system so that the fridge's compressor is completely bypassed during the summer.
Cell company lobbyists and congress drones apparently thought that you can keep the radio communication equivalent of shouting across a quiet room private by, instead of encrypting the communication, passing laws that make it illegal to notice.
I'm not sure that the FCC or ITU had any part in it, however it seems likely that at least ITU would have been involved....
The remaining question is whether we'll see the law rolled back now that it's been obviated by encryption (or at least CDMA spread spectrum), and is so obviously useless - the only way to detect if someone is listing is to yourself be listening in enough places to measure the shadow created by their receiving equipment or the extremely low-power emission of interference frequencies, assuming that they're using that method of demodulation, equipment capable of receiving the old AM cell phone transmissions can be made in an afternoon using readily available components.
But then they shouldn't be downloading it anyway if it's so worthless.
It's their own fault for not making the default password a variant of "everybodygetsthispassworditsnotsecureatall" or, "IShouldChangeThisToSomethingUnique"
Ahh, the old double rounding trick. Using that same trick, an 88 cm screen is a whopping 40 inches!
For the Touch, the screen comes on pretty much "instantly" after you hit either the wakeup button or "the button" button. If you double tap "the button", a basic UI comes up at the top of the screen whose buttons are always in the same place, so you can remember them by position, for the most part.
Not quite as good as the wheel, but I think it would be possible to design a wheel-like UI that you could use without having to look at it. They haven't, though....
Barnes and Noble already brought a 7-inch pad to market that outperforms the Fire. You may have missed it, because it was a second generation device and came out two days after the Fire.
Doesn't google finance already factor splits into the graph, though? I'm pretty sure that $30 share price right before a 2:1 split and a $30 share price after the split actually mean that the price was $60 right before the split - the price they show is, I believe, normalized to the current price and accumulated splits.
However it is apparent that Sveasoft do NOT think so, based on the above description of their policy, as they distribute the source and permit the users to redistribute their software. If the user is going to treat their effort as if it is worth, "free", then why shouldn't they provide exactly the level of support and additional features that "free" pays for? Functionally, this is what will happen after the users all redistribute their product and Sveasoft goes out of business, anyway.....
Interestingly, a movie at a theater is quite returnable, albeit usually for store credit....
uh..
Why would you need to run your "system partition" on an external drive? How many programs are you running, anyway?
The external drive is for the huge media files or build trees or whatever you're working on. User data. System stuff goes on the closest drive to the RAM, so you can grab it quickly when it's time to load it.
Media doesn't need to be, because you don't tend to randomly access it in rapid succession for every little operation. That 2GB video file contains everything it needs media-wise to view, it doesn't need to pull in another 150 MB of "sub-videos" scattered over 40,000 small files, and it only needs to read in fast enough to watch or do FF/scrubbing.
Since when is "The Simpsons" British?
Chromatic aberration? Are you sure you don't mean numerical aperture?
But we're not too old for cookies.
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Your description of Sveasoft's policy seems pretty fair to me. Customers get the source and can use it to solve their problems, add customizations, etc, and only get blacklisted from future support if they abuse the deal by redistributing it. Sveasoft is harmed by the lost sale as a result, but instead of suing the abusers, they just ignore them.
I seriously doubt the intent of the GPL was to enable users to undermine the ability of people to create software for a living.
No more risky than running make without having read everything first....
Never been to a restaurant?
Eh, that's the hazard, but there has to be a way to do this that prevents abuse, encourages getting off the system, and gives the unemployed some measure of dignity while collecting benefits so they can go into interviews confident and assured.
I think there are tasks that the community needs that really aren't eating into the private sector. Things that maybe aren't terribly cost effective to hire someone to do, but which, having a bunch of people collecting benefits *anyway* might as well work on.
There are the usual community service projects, for instance, like reorganizing the library shelves and whatnot. Perhaps there is a huge backlog of historical records that need to be entered into a database somewhere, but which aren't critical to the town's functioning, so it's no great loss if they put it off.
I'm sure there are some number of real, "shovel ready" jobs that improve the community without undercutting the rest of the community from that work. Jobs which are "nice to have done" so those doing them can feel a sense of contribution, but boring enough that no one would want to make an "unemployment career" out of. It would be more useful than inventing a need for a new narrow sidewalk with telephone poles in the middle of every sixth square, and paying full-graft contractor rates for the privilege.
The community probably isn't going to be encouraged to "keep people on unemployment" for the community service hours if the effective hourly rate is substantially higher than they would pay to a private contractor for the same work.
But that's the point!
For as long as Windows Phone doesn't have the app ecosystem, it will have great difficulty making inroads into the smartphone market. (although, by definition, if it doesn't have apps to run, that's not much different from a feature phone....)
It could have the greatest operating system ever and still it would get bad sales, because people want to be able to buy apps. In that case sales would not indicate the quality of the OS, which encompasses more than just the availability of apps. Ease of porting apps to the phone may or may not be relevant to the quality argument, depending on how that feature is implemented, but it will affect app count, and therefore phone sales.
Pretty sure they're viewed mostly as "Toyotas with a higher price tag" in the US as well, except for the people that buy 'em of course. Not that there's anything wrong with Toyotas, though. They're certainly doing better than our nationalized automakers.
You must be a sales guy.
The number of sales is not necessarily a good proxy for the relative quality of two product, as there may be other factors that are generating the result. In the case of phones, Apple's whole ecosystem of 3rd party apps is a huge factor in phone buying decisions, as is their careful choice to make the phone itself "jewelry" as well as a useful phone.
Those two factors alone have carried the iPhone pretty far, and their momentum will probably carry them for some time even if they make no improvements and other phones leave them in the dust in terms of "quality of the os" for much the same reason that health care is about to get very expensive in the US - when you insulate people from the price, they will tend to pick the "brand" name product, and right now iPhone is the brand, and the other smartphones are "ok too."
When WinMo has the app ecosystem that Apple and Android have and has built up some brand recognition then we can start to think about sales volume as even a remotely useful indictor of os quality. Until then, the only useful indicator is actual user and developer reviews. Especially as gaining a reputation for quality is what they need in order to build the brand recognition and app ecosystem in the first place.
The real question is why they gave it the same name as their $10k "big-ass table" computer.
If Yellowstone ever does go off, we're *all* gonna die. Those actually living on it will just get to skip the months of cold, starvation, and wars.
But powerpoint isn't intended to be printed, primarily, although it does have a mode to print your "notes" those are not supposed to be something you distribute, but instead something you use to queue your speech, or if you forget something.
My guess would be that powerpoint uses a mixture of screen relative positioning and pixel exact positioning, which screws things up if you change the display size. Perhaps the "nearly identical machine" is a red herring, and the real problem happened when he hooked up the projector. A typical laptop these days will have a 16:10 or 16:9 display, whereas most presentation projectors have a 4:3 display.
Well, you do need two computers depending on the problem - the one you're fixing and the one you're googling with, but yeah, basically everything comes down to
1) Google to see if any one else has had this problem and what they did
2) Someone did, do that stuff.
For drivers, it's just a matter of
1) did you download a new version that broke something? find the old version and reinstall that
2) is there a new version that fixes your problem? download and install it.
3) wait for 2 to be true, or enough time passes that they're probably not going to put out another patch and buy new hardware.
I'm curious as to what additional support people think they're going to get from the basic support from an OEM or even Microsoft other than the having someone at a computer do the above over the phone and relay instructions to you. You're certainly not going to get online with one of the engineers to turn on debug features and step through your drivers or whatever over your $400 Best Buy Bargain. The best you can hope for is for your issue to be added to a bug reporting database, and enough other people having reported it that someone actually does correct it for the next driver release, in which case, you're back to step 3 again anyway.