The thing is, the US airforce has been trying to get rid of the role that Warthog was designed to fill because ground support is not glamorous.
So over the years they have tried to say that a fighter is as good as a dedicated ground attack craft in ground attack and the ground attack craft role should be scrapped and further that no new ground attack aircraft should be designed. Thus they are trying to push the f-35 into that role now as "It is as good as a dedicated aircraft"
This has resulted in the Warthog soldiering on as the fighters have not been able to fill the role...
No. A lot of money has been spent but a lot more will still be spent in future.
On one hand one should not count the sunk cost when thinking of what is the best strategy to go forward, but on the other hand one should remember that in a complex project things often seem very broken just before they are fixed and it is very hard to say from outside how close to being fixed things are.
As example the f-16 was plagued by huge problems with it's fly by wire system early on (they even made a movie about one of the accidents) and there were also claimed to be a failed project, but then the things were fixed and it has been fairly reliable since then and served very well for 40 years or so now.
As Linked in seems mostly to be a spamming site of useless contacts. They would lose a lot of the so called "value" if they stopped the stupid spamming and only linked people to actual people they interact with as people could see how empty things are in reality.
This is another reminder on why one should not buy new games as they come out.
Things like: Missing features Huge bugs A lot of the content moved to DLCs for separate price.
I stopped buying new titles quite many years ago and instead I just wait until they hit the bargain bin, preferably in an all inclusive version that includes all the DLCs maybe two years later. Also the biggest bugs should have been fixed by that time and so on.
In some cases it is hard to wait, but so far I have held fast. Fallout 4 was the recent "difficult to not buy" thing, but since they are almost done with the DLCs for it, I can likely get it some time next year for a more reasonable price for the all DLCs included version.
I agree. Basically any product made by Google or purchased by Google means it will likely shut down in few years.
So learning to use and/or switching to any of their products is kind of waste of time and effort that way.
I do use some Google products(mostly Mail,Drive,Maps, Chrome and Android), but I do make sure I have all the information also outside their unreliable environments.
>Once upon a time the idea was also that if you paid a subscription you got the whole package, not a bunch of cherry-on-top paid DLCs for games etc., but like the above idea about ads those days are gone and will never be coming back.
That is why I never buy new top games, I wait until the "ultimate edition" with all the DLCs comes out a year or two later. It also tends to be cheaper than the original so it is a win in many ways for me and in the end the company gets less total money from me than if they just released the whole game at once as then I might buy the full price version.
...where we have laws against using technical means to watch others who are in protected areas.
Basically anyone can use things like drones, cameras and so on in the public places and similar(where there is no expectation of privacy), but using anything technical to look into someone's home(and some other locations) is forbidden. The protection of homes is actually pretty strong in other things too.
And yes this includes old ladies with binoculars peeping. A fun case was when some old biddy complained to the police about someone stretching in their 3rd floor window nude that she can see clearly with her binoculars from across a park and she was the only one charged with a crime since she was using a technical device(the binoculars) to secretly look into a protected area(The other person's home).
Lets encrypt does the checks for control of domain like the other certificate authorities.
And really people should use DNS Certification Authority Authorization(RFC 6844) to only allow the certificate authorities they want to use. Though I am not sure if all certificate authorities follow it yet, but at least most do so it is risk mitigation.
The emphasis on Lets Encrypt is likely because that way Trend Micro will get more visibility for "the new thing is bad". Trying to say "the old thing is bad" mostly causes yawns though it is a known problem.
While mostly true that the answer is usually/often network, there are some high data loads where actual database performance might still be a bottleneck and others where the actual calculations or other manipulations(=cpu) are the slow link so there is still a need to look at the values.
Given that at least Lenovo installed such on new computers a while back I would not be surprised if many producers of computers did not get a lot of such proposals,
I do not know about recent UI people as I do not work with such, but when it comes to other computer education, people with recent such seem to have a lot of horrible gaps in their learning of basics way too often,
We have had people with masters degree in Computer science that has included a large number of programming courses when asked "Name three sorting algorithms, describe the basic idea of each of them with a few words and tell when each might be a good choice" just look at you blankly. And many similar gaps.
So I am afraid that the UI people might well be the same.
Indeed. I wonder why people work so hard to ruin things.
The old saying of "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity", might be true in some cases, but it boggles my mind to think that ALL UI designers could be stupid. So I am starting to think that it must be a conspiracy to make using computers hard again or something similar.
Actually I have found command line image editing much better than any GUI tool I have seen when the need was to manipulate more than a tiny number of images. Doing things like creating down sampled versions of 10 000 images is so much easier with command line.
Again getting back to the point of right tool. Unix style command line tools tend to be much better than any GUI tool when you need to repeat the same operation on multiple files.
And yet there is also the Swedish example where in many/most cities the municipality has a fiber network, but that network is then usable by any ISP on equal terms. Most people then buy their connection from the ISPs that in turn use the last mile and backbone services of the municipal network.
Now granted much of the reason why they built those networks was in response to Telias behavior of not wanting to play nice. (Their previous monopoly)
>Also why android for general purpose desktop? >This is masochism!
The problem is alternatives are: Windows->spies on you and stops you from doing things. Linux->the new spiffy unusable UIs are standard so you need to hunt for a usable one. Apple->a LOT more expensive and the increasing lock in makes actually using them as computers harder and harder every year. All the less popular systems->many of them are fine as long as you do not have any problems, but then finding a solution is close to impossible as no-one else uses them.
Android is bad too.. but I do not see it as any more or less masochism than any other current system.
There seems to be a race on the mainstream to make systems as unusable as possible and it is hard to say who is winning the race...
You are mixing countries: In France they do blockades of motorways,blockades of factories and similar. They are thus much more active in their protests than some place like Italy where people go on strike and go home...
I unfortunately bought a shorter version a while back and the connector at one end (that is basically 1 port hub) is badly designed and came apart after about 10 plugin/pull out cycles..
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The thing is, the US airforce has been trying to get rid of the role that Warthog was designed to fill because ground support is not glamorous.
So over the years they have tried to say that a fighter is as good as a dedicated ground attack craft in ground attack and the ground attack craft role should be scrapped and further that no new ground attack aircraft should be designed. Thus they are trying to push the f-35 into that role now as "It is as good as a dedicated aircraft"
This has resulted in the Warthog soldiering on as the fighters have not been able to fill the role...
No. A lot of money has been spent but a lot more will still be spent in future.
On one hand one should not count the sunk cost when thinking of what is the best strategy to go forward, but on the other hand one should remember that in a complex project things often seem very broken just before they are fixed and it is very hard to say from outside how close to being fixed things are.
As example the f-16 was plagued by huge problems with it's fly by wire system early on (they even made a movie about one of the accidents) and there were also claimed to be a failed project, but then the things were fixed and it has been fairly reliable since then and served very well for 40 years or so now.
As Linked in seems mostly to be a spamming site of useless contacts. They would lose a lot of the so called "value" if they stopped the stupid spamming and only linked people to actual people they interact with as people could see how empty things are in reality.
... that is likely to drop the full product lines in few years in another product rationalization.
This is another reminder on why one should not buy new games as they come out.
Things like:
Missing features
Huge bugs
A lot of the content moved to DLCs for separate price.
I stopped buying new titles quite many years ago and instead I just wait until they hit the bargain bin, preferably in an all inclusive version that includes all the DLCs maybe two years later. Also the biggest bugs should have been fixed by that time and so on.
In some cases it is hard to wait, but so far I have held fast. Fallout 4 was the recent "difficult to not buy" thing, but since they are almost done with the DLCs for it, I can likely get it some time next year for a more reasonable price for the all DLCs included version.
I agree. Basically any product made by Google or purchased by Google means it will likely shut down in few years.
So learning to use and/or switching to any of their products is kind of waste of time and effort that way.
I do use some Google products(mostly Mail,Drive,Maps, Chrome and Android), but I do make sure I have all the information also outside their unreliable environments.
Unreliable being the keyword.
Bad enough I have to use adblock to browse the web, But needing an ad block for using your operating system...
>Once upon a time the idea was also that if you paid a subscription you got the whole package, not a bunch of cherry-on-top paid DLCs for games etc., but like the above idea about ads those days are gone and will never be coming back.
That is why I never buy new top games, I wait until the "ultimate edition" with all the DLCs comes out a year or two later. It also tends to be cheaper than the original so it is a win in many ways for me and in the end the company gets less total money from me than if they just released the whole game at once as then I might buy the full price version.
Finland.
...where we have laws against using technical means to watch others who are in protected areas.
Basically anyone can use things like drones, cameras and so on in the public places and similar(where there is no expectation of privacy), but using anything technical to look into someone's home(and some other locations) is forbidden. The protection of homes is actually pretty strong in other things too.
And yes this includes old ladies with binoculars peeping.
A fun case was when some old biddy complained to the police about someone stretching in their 3rd floor window nude that she can see clearly with her binoculars from across a park and she was the only one charged with a crime since she was using a technical device(the binoculars) to secretly look into a protected area(The other person's home).
As there should be also damages for people copying the copies and such...
As Israel might be trying to make new drones that US cannot spy on!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Lets encrypt does the checks for control of domain like the other certificate authorities.
And really people should use DNS Certification Authority Authorization(RFC 6844) to only allow the certificate authorities they want to use. Though I am not sure if all certificate authorities follow it yet, but at least most do so it is risk mitigation.
The emphasis on Lets Encrypt is likely because that way Trend Micro will get more visibility for "the new thing is bad". Trying to say "the old thing is bad" mostly causes yawns though it is a known problem.
So simply: marketing.
While mostly true that the answer is usually/often network, there are some high data loads where actual database performance might still be a bottleneck and others where the actual calculations or other manipulations(=cpu) are the slow link so there is still a need to look at the values.
Given that at least Lenovo installed such on new computers a while back I would not be surprised if many producers of computers did not get a lot of such proposals,
I do not know about recent UI people as I do not work with such, but when it comes to other computer education, people with recent such seem to have a lot of horrible gaps in their learning of basics way too often,
We have had people with masters degree in Computer science that has included a large number of programming courses when asked "Name three sorting algorithms, describe the basic idea of each of them with a few words and tell when each might be a good choice" just look at you blankly. And many similar gaps.
So I am afraid that the UI people might well be the same.
Indeed. I wonder why people work so hard to ruin things.
The old saying of "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity", might be true in some cases, but it boggles my mind to think that ALL UI designers could be stupid. So I am starting to think that it must be a conspiracy to make using computers hard again or something similar.
Actually I have found command line image editing much better than any GUI tool I have seen when the need was to manipulate more than a tiny number of images. Doing things like creating down sampled versions of 10 000 images is so much easier with command line.
Again getting back to the point of right tool. Unix style command line tools tend to be much better than any GUI tool when you need to repeat the same operation on multiple files.
And yet there is also the Swedish example where in many/most cities the municipality has a fiber network, but that network is then usable by any ISP on equal terms. Most people then buy their connection from the ISPs that in turn use the last mile and backbone services of the municipal network.
Now granted much of the reason why they built those networks was in response to Telias behavior of not wanting to play nice. (Their previous monopoly)
>Also why android for general purpose desktop?
>This is masochism!
The problem is alternatives are:
Windows->spies on you and stops you from doing things.
Linux->the new spiffy unusable UIs are standard so you need to hunt for a usable one.
Apple->a LOT more expensive and the increasing lock in makes actually using them as computers harder and harder every year.
All the less popular systems->many of them are fine as long as you do not have any problems, but then finding a solution is close to impossible as no-one else uses them.
Android is bad too.. but I do not see it as any more or less masochism than any other current system.
There seems to be a race on the mainstream to make systems as unusable as possible and it is hard to say who is winning the race...
You are mixing countries:
In France they do blockades of motorways,blockades of factories and similar. They are thus much more active in their protests than some place like Italy where people go on strike and go home...
The good active USB extenders work well, they are basically one port passive hubs. The cheapo ones are just a problem waiting to happen.
I unfortunately bought a shorter version a while back and the connector at one end (that is basically 1 port hub) is badly designed and came apart after about 10 plugin/pull out cycles..