Sometimes I think the use for such software is so you can appreciate the difference after the uninstall. I think some people become complacent at how fast their PCs are, and it's only after Norton/McAfee removal that they realise what they were missing all those years. That makes them happy - it's like a RAM or SSD upgrade for free.
'Unfortunately', this is how the free market works, and I'm sure many businesses have been bitten by such deaths.
The 'good news' if they do go under is they don't have to put more hard work into updating their site, as the good souls at Facebook would be taking over that role. Google, MS or Apple after that will probably chomp even Facebook then, bringing us all one step closer to an automated society, which is in no way a bad thing.
What's with all this secure boot crap anyway? When did anyone last get a virus, trojan or worm through the boot process and not through say the browser or a rogue piece of software?
Has Symantec or McAfee infiltrated into Microsoft or something?
Indeed. At some point the growth of the version number won't be linear anymore but polynomial, then exponential. Then double exponential. Can you imagine that, a browser that's exponentially better than anything on offer today?
Soon after that we'll start needing Knuth's up-arrow notation, followed shortly by Conway's chained arrow notation. Life in the browser will be rosy for everyone, because the numbers will be high, and they'll keep getting higher.
However, an arms race will develop, and to keep their fans from defecting to their inferior rival's browser (lower number natch), they'll be taking tips from none other than the strangest, deadliest thread ever to have been conceived by man: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7469
(beware indeed: that thread is a big rabbit hole of rational insanity).
If mobile screen tech was better sooner, and batteries had more juice in them 10 years ago, we may never have seen such amazing advances in big desktop computers. Portability is great, but it's nice to see how much power they can pack into a bigger area.
I always felt more in tune with cars thereafter and naturally drove the car with gears in my mind, translating to smoother takeoffs and, well I use to gear down with standard; I miss that functionality driving automatic.
Okay, I guess that's a side effect, but perhaps I could argue that you didn't learn qwerty properly in the first place, and if you spent the time towards improving on qwerty rather than learning an additional mapping, then you would've been even more proficient still.
I know some instruments, and I'm fairly sure that as I learn to play new ones.. working on guitar and lyra right now.. generalizations and cross applicative senses of things form such as chord theory, rhythms and melody, moods of music..
Certainly, but imagine say two different sizes for the keys of a piano (I have grade 8 in piano fwiw), or string spacings/lengths for a guitar. It's to everyone's benefit to keep to a (good) standard for a given instrument.
What kind of technology and materials would we need to get the giant Fermilab etc. down from square kilometres down to square metres or even inches? Would cheap fusion energy, or room-temperature super-conductors, or limitless supplies of carbon nanotubes/diamond/graphene help reach that particular goal?
What I never tend to see is a simple site with various graphs charting this progress (of market available products). Whether it's the cost/GB of SSD storage, highest temperature found for a superconductor, or indeed the joules (or watts) per litre (or mass) of battery. I'd just love to see the curves, and see how they grow over the years.
I was just taking it to its logical conclusion. You'll save time not having to learn it and also need less brain storage to store one mapping compared to two. Same principle for anything - piano, guitar, dvorak vs qwerty, car gear-stick, would also apply. Standards are a good thing.
You can answer that question yourself if you ask "What's wrong with the brain having to learn 1000 layouts". Even our flexible neurons have limits, and at least some people value their time too.
More important than the orientation of the keypad is a calculator that takes full advantage of a keyboard and full-size screen.
It turns out >99.9% of PC calculators don't feature a full multi-line notepad/scratchpad style, or on-the-fly 'answer-as-you-type' functionality. A bit like the amazing Soulver on the Mac actually, which was the only calc so far to realize that traditional paper-roll calcs are doing it all wrong.
Hence the inevitable quick shameless plug for my 'OpalCalc' calculator which I only just released yesterday. I'll let the page speak for itself:) http://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/
I think people here are blinded by their hatred for flash. But it's not flash that's the problem, but rather the misuse of it all over the web, and the way it can hog the CPU rather than giving it only x percent, or the way one can't isolate which tab has the flash app running.
Okay, things could be better in the flash world, but to restrict it, and *all other plugins* is restricting freedom in exactly the kind of way that Slashdotters would usually despise. I think MS are just trying to copy Apple, and that's sad.
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I feel sad that they didn't find some way of trying to unify the desktop and Metro. Sure, space can be limited for some apps, but other apps which are small in size may be able to run on a phone and desktop with little or no change.
Calling native functions from.NET usually involves building up structures and manipulating pointers. Under WinRT all APIs are exposed as objects that C# and VB can consume directly. This puts.NET developers on level footing with C++ developers.
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Wow, the 2nd half of the sentence completely changed the tone there.
Sometimes I think the use for such software is so you can appreciate the difference after the uninstall. I think some people become complacent at how fast their PCs are, and it's only after Norton/McAfee removal that they realise what they were missing all those years. That makes them happy - it's like a RAM or SSD upgrade for free.
Hopefully, it crashes Chrome or IE too. It'd be a shame for only Firefox users to uninstall needless software.
Sites like that seem slightly surreal, almost on the level of "buy your own planet" from the HHGTG or something.
'Unfortunately', this is how the free market works, and I'm sure many businesses have been bitten by such deaths.
The 'good news' if they do go under is they don't have to put more hard work into updating their site, as the good souls at Facebook would be taking over that role. Google, MS or Apple after that will probably chomp even Facebook then, bringing us all one step closer to an automated society, which is in no way a bad thing.
Possibly. Or instead it could just be more fun, and information is clearer in a 3D format (as it often is when presented in stereo generally).
Make classes entertaining, exciting and involving, and kids will want to learn more.
You have an interesting definition of 'better' if you switched.
What's with all this secure boot crap anyway? When did anyone last get a virus, trojan or worm through the boot process and not through say the browser or a rogue piece of software?
Has Symantec or McAfee infiltrated into Microsoft or something?
Indeed. At some point the growth of the version number won't be linear anymore but polynomial, then exponential. Then double exponential. Can you imagine that, a browser that's exponentially better than anything on offer today?
Soon after that we'll start needing Knuth's up-arrow notation, followed shortly by Conway's chained arrow notation. Life in the browser will be rosy for everyone, because the numbers will be high, and they'll keep getting higher.
However, an arms race will develop, and to keep their fans from defecting to their inferior rival's browser (lower number natch), they'll be taking tips from none other than the strangest, deadliest thread ever to have been conceived by man:
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7469
(beware indeed: that thread is a big rabbit hole of rational insanity).
If mobile screen tech was better sooner, and batteries had more juice in them 10 years ago, we may never have seen such amazing advances in big desktop computers. Portability is great, but it's nice to see how much power they can pack into a bigger area.
Sometimes, people know it's a joke, laugh, but then comment on the serious side of it anyway.
I always felt more in tune with cars thereafter and naturally drove the car with gears in my mind, translating to smoother takeoffs and, well I use to gear down with standard; I miss that functionality driving automatic.
Okay, I guess that's a side effect, but perhaps I could argue that you didn't learn qwerty properly in the first place, and if you spent the time towards improving on qwerty rather than learning an additional mapping, then you would've been even more proficient still.
I know some instruments, and I'm fairly sure that as I learn to play new ones.. working on guitar and lyra right now.. generalizations and cross applicative senses of things form such as chord theory, rhythms and melody, moods of music..
Certainly, but imagine say two different sizes for the keys of a piano (I have grade 8 in piano fwiw), or string spacings/lengths for a guitar. It's to everyone's benefit to keep to a (good) standard for a given instrument.
Random question:
What kind of technology and materials would we need to get the giant Fermilab etc. down from square kilometres down to square metres or even inches? Would cheap fusion energy, or room-temperature super-conductors, or limitless supplies of carbon nanotubes/diamond/graphene help reach that particular goal?
What I never tend to see is a simple site with various graphs charting this progress (of market available products). Whether it's the cost/GB of SSD storage, highest temperature found for a superconductor, or indeed the joules (or watts) per litre (or mass) of battery. I'd just love to see the curves, and see how they grow over the years.
I was just taking it to its logical conclusion. You'll save time not having to learn it and also need less brain storage to store one mapping compared to two. Same principle for anything - piano, guitar, dvorak vs qwerty, car gear-stick, would also apply. Standards are a good thing.
I could of cared less. Can I has Cheezburger now?
You can answer that question yourself if you ask "What's wrong with the brain having to learn 1000 layouts". Even our flexible neurons have limits, and at least some people value their time too.
More important than the orientation of the keypad is a calculator that takes full advantage of a keyboard and full-size screen.
It turns out >99.9% of PC calculators don't feature a full multi-line notepad/scratchpad style, or on-the-fly 'answer-as-you-type' functionality. A bit like the amazing Soulver on the Mac actually, which was the only calc so far to realize that traditional paper-roll calcs are doing it all wrong.
Hence the inevitable quick shameless plug for my 'OpalCalc' calculator which I only just released yesterday. I'll let the page speak for itself :)
http://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/
Probably better to say *read* their advertisements and click if interested, since the last thing their partners need is false clicks.
Even better, they should accept donations and let people decide how much the article is worth to them.
Kludgy would have probably been a better word.
Then "alongside" would have been a more suitable word compared to the article's "sit on top".
The article states that UEFI can (and will) be built on top of BIOS, so won't it inherit all the bloat and limitations of BIOS anyway?
If they used proper global illumination, then there'd be a real change. It looks like no more than one or two bounces of light to me.
I think people here are blinded by their hatred for flash. But it's not flash that's the problem, but rather the misuse of it all over the web, and the way it can hog the CPU rather than giving it only x percent, or the way one can't isolate which tab has the flash app running.
Okay, things could be better in the flash world, but to restrict it, and *all other plugins* is restricting freedom in exactly the kind of way that Slashdotters would usually despise. I think MS are just trying to copy Apple, and that's sad.
I feel sad that they didn't find some way of trying to unify the desktop and Metro. Sure, space can be limited for some apps, but other apps which are small in size may be able to run on a phone and desktop with little or no change.
However, as a C# developer the below looks interesting from this site: http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/WinRT-API
C#/VB: The end of P/Invoke
Calling native functions from .NET usually involves building up structures and manipulating pointers. Under WinRT all APIs are exposed as objects that C# and VB can consume directly. This puts .NET developers on level footing with C++ developers.