... Microsoft's Surface line and Apple's iPad Pro will lead the growth as consumers have turned away from laptops in favor of these more versatile computing devices....
I find the tablet form factor to be far more restrictive and more difficult to use than a laptop. The only things the tablet has in its favor are smaller size and a coolness factor. Aside from that, it is more difficult to enter data into a tablet, multitasking is difficult (if not impossible), you are locked in to a difficult-to-change configuration, etc.
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I have a tablet, and it sits idle most of the time, while my laptop gets used frequently.
US workers are absolutely terrified of taking time off lest it gets used against them in a review...
My manager told me that I could not use my vacation time so long as there was work to do on the project I was assigned to. It was a three year project;. HR was useless, telling me that I could take the vacation but refusing to tell my manger the same thing.
I waited until a lull in the project (another department was the critical path for a while), gave a month's notice, and took a week vacation. A year later, I was included in the layoffs.
It seems to be harmless when not logged in as an Administrator.
I tried it as a standard user on two Windows installs, one 64-bit Windows 7 Pro on real hardware, and the other Windows 7 Home 32-bit on a VM. Both gave me a BSOD immediately.
...You fix the sorting "nearly every time". In a few months, you'll fix it "most of the time."...
It's been a few months already. Over a year, that I distinctly remember, probably longer. I see no hint that the behavior is changing over time. This is a simple two-choice option, and facebook can't get it right.
Facebook engineers are too enamored with the algorithm, and not the results of the algorithm. Case in point, nearly every time I go on to facebook, I have to tell it that I want the items on my newsfeed "most recent first" and not sorted by what facebook thinks I should see first. So if facebook engineers can't get something as simple as "chronological order" correct, what hope is there for them to get this new zuck-wet-dream correct?
... that have been assembled from around the world via telecommuting will now all relocate to one office somewhere. Which country gets the office, and which employees have to migrate to a new country?
I agree with all you said. That is why I used the word "if" in my comment (which the replies to my comment all seem to have ignored. I even put it in the title so it would be obvious!). As for me, I use MP3 when I need lossy compression, and only when I need lossy compression. I still find MP3 is more widely supported than any of the lossy alternatives. However, starting about five years ago, my main format of choice has been FLAC. All the master audio files I make are FLAC, and the MP3 files are derived from those FLAC masters.
... increase the upper limit on acceptable bitrates to more than 320kbps. While the 320kbps bitrate sounds quite good, even in an A/B comparison to Apple's highly touted lossy AAC, allowing MP3 files to use higher bit rates would a nice intermediate alternative to moving to something like FLAC lossless.
... and tell them to stop using the security update distribution channel to trick me into doing an unwanted operating system update. Recently, Windows Update has looked a lot like malware in the way it operated to trick customers into upgrading to Windows 10.
They are stigmatized by the egregiously bad actions of the Windows team, the malware-like tactics that were used to force Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10 against their apparent will or knowledge.
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Azure may be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it will always suffer from the anchor that is the Windows 10 update disaster.
... it is not that I want any particular version of Windows to succeed or fail. It is that I want Microsoft to become more of a user-friendly company, a company that does not appear to view the users of its software as mere raw material to be harvested, processed and sold to advertisers.
Microsoft has discovered that they are having trouble competing when the playing field is level, so Microsoft has to forcibly lock customers in, removing customer choice, in order to have their sub-standard products be used.
(I didn't read the entire summary because BeauHD seems to prefer the lack of paragraphs, instead presenting an undecipherable wall of text to the/. community. Hey, BeauHD, why don't you at least try to do some modicum of editing?)
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But from the headline... now we have AI shooting energized probes at people. This is going to end up in a bad place.
If someone is meeting all exceptions, and management is aware he getting everything done with time to spare, it is management's failure to give them more work.
Go to management, ask for more work, a.k.a., a promotion, and the money that comes with it. If management says "no" then you have bad management, i.e., management that is not interested in employee development. Time to look for a job with better management.
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Bottom line: if you're not doing the job you're being paid for, you're goofing off.
...One reason, as many suggested, could be that the employee might not have been fairly compensated despite being exceptionally good at the job. In which case, the problem resides somewhere in the management who has failed to live up to the expectations....
What sort of clap-trap is this excuse. If an employee tries to use it, I'd consider it more evidence that the employee should be fired.
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Bottom line: if you don't like the management of the company, then leave. If you are doing side work on the job, that is the equivalent of goofing off.
Quit your whining and get back to working the job you are being paid for.
It appears that the study used cherry-picked data to achieve the results they wanted. So the question lingers, who wanted the study to come out in the way it did?
That's why he wants those EnergyStar labels to go away. The corporations will make more profit if they don't have to sell energy-efficient appliances. Then there will be more demand for power, and subsequently more demand for coal. It all makes sense when you look at it from the viewpoint of greedy corporations.
Sports? Good grief, computer gaming is not "sports" by any stretch of the imagination. The only reason sponsors and cheerleaders try to equate it to real sports is because real sports has a large stream of money flowing through it.
I conversed the the good people at Bing, and was told pretty much that its a bug they don't intend to fix. They also told me how to code my website to get around the bug. Needless to say, I did the work to get around the bug. However, instead of restricting Bing from the parts of the site I restrict to all search engines, now Bing is totally restricted from browsing any part of the web site.
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However, the way Microsoft has been acting recently (e.g., Windows 10 forced upgrades), I doubt if they even care about what I try to tell them via robots.txt.
The Microsoft attitude apparently is pervasive within the company.
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Or do I have to pay a ransom to the electric company in order to get the darn thing to boot? :)
... Microsoft's Surface line and Apple's iPad Pro will lead the growth as consumers have turned away from laptops in favor of these more versatile computing devices. ...
I find the tablet form factor to be far more restrictive and more difficult to use than a laptop. The only things the tablet has in its favor are smaller size and a coolness factor. Aside from that, it is more difficult to enter data into a tablet, multitasking is difficult (if not impossible), you are locked in to a difficult-to-change configuration, etc.
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I have a tablet, and it sits idle most of the time, while my laptop gets used frequently.
US workers are absolutely terrified of taking time off lest it gets used against them in a review ...
My manager told me that I could not use my vacation time so long as there was work to do on the project I was assigned to. It was a three year project;. HR was useless, telling me that I could take the vacation but refusing to tell my manger the same thing. I waited until a lull in the project (another department was the critical path for a while), gave a month's notice, and took a week vacation. A year later, I was included in the layoffs.
It seems to be harmless when not logged in as an Administrator.
I tried it as a standard user on two Windows installs, one 64-bit Windows 7 Pro on real hardware, and the other Windows 7 Home 32-bit on a VM. Both gave me a BSOD immediately.
...You fix the sorting "nearly every time". In a few months, you'll fix it "most of the time."...
It's been a few months already. Over a year, that I distinctly remember, probably longer. I see no hint that the behavior is changing over time. This is a simple two-choice option, and facebook can't get it right.
Facebook engineers are too enamored with the algorithm, and not the results of the algorithm. Case in point, nearly every time I go on to facebook, I have to tell it that I want the items on my newsfeed "most recent first" and not sorted by what facebook thinks I should see first. So if facebook engineers can't get something as simple as "chronological order" correct, what hope is there for them to get this new zuck-wet-dream correct?
... that have been assembled from around the world via telecommuting will now all relocate to one office somewhere. Which country gets the office, and which employees have to migrate to a new country?
I agree with all you said. That is why I used the word "if" in my comment (which the replies to my comment all seem to have ignored. I even put it in the title so it would be obvious!). As for me, I use MP3 when I need lossy compression, and only when I need lossy compression. I still find MP3 is more widely supported than any of the lossy alternatives. However, starting about five years ago, my main format of choice has been FLAC. All the master audio files I make are FLAC, and the MP3 files are derived from those FLAC masters.
... increase the upper limit on acceptable bitrates to more than 320kbps. While the 320kbps bitrate sounds quite good, even in an A/B comparison to Apple's highly touted lossy AAC, allowing MP3 files to use higher bit rates would a nice intermediate alternative to moving to something like FLAC lossless.
...If you took a math class at some point in the US, there is likely a bulky $100 calculator gathering dust somewhere in your closet. ...
Though I do also still have the HP-35 calculator that replaced my slide rule.
... and tell them to stop using the security update distribution channel to trick me into doing an unwanted operating system update. Recently, Windows Update has looked a lot like malware in the way it operated to trick customers into upgrading to Windows 10.
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Azure may be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it will always suffer from the anchor that is the Windows 10 update disaster.
... it is not that I want any particular version of Windows to succeed or fail. It is that I want Microsoft to become more of a user-friendly company, a company that does not appear to view the users of its software as mere raw material to be harvested, processed and sold to advertisers.
Microsoft has discovered that they are having trouble competing when the playing field is level, so Microsoft has to forcibly lock customers in, removing customer choice, in order to have their sub-standard products be used.
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But from the headline... now we have AI shooting energized probes at people. This is going to end up in a bad place.
...We have great examples after great examples of people doing what "sounds good"...
Obviously, no one came up with something that was better. Thanks for making my point so eloquently.
... Come up with a better idea.
If someone is meeting all exceptions, and management is aware he getting everything done with time to spare, it is management's failure to give them more work.
Go to management, ask for more work, a.k.a., a promotion, and the money that comes with it. If management says "no" then you have bad management, i.e., management that is not interested in employee development. Time to look for a job with better management.
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Bottom line: if you're not doing the job you're being paid for, you're goofing off.
... says the guy posting on a forum during work hours....
Perhaps your work hours, but not mine. Don't presume everyone works 9-5 weekdays.
...One reason, as many suggested, could be that the employee might not have been fairly compensated despite being exceptionally good at the job. In which case, the problem resides somewhere in the management who has failed to live up to the expectations. ...
What sort of clap-trap is this excuse. If an employee tries to use it, I'd consider it more evidence that the employee should be fired.
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Bottom line: if you don't like the management of the company, then leave. If you are doing side work on the job, that is the equivalent of goofing off.
Quit your whining and get back to working the job you are being paid for.
... let COBOL retire. Come up with a strategy to replace COBOL, execute the strategy, then allow COBOL to retire.
It appears that the study used cherry-picked data to achieve the results they wanted. So the question lingers, who wanted the study to come out in the way it did?
That's why he wants those EnergyStar labels to go away. The corporations will make more profit if they don't have to sell energy-efficient appliances. Then there will be more demand for power, and subsequently more demand for coal. It all makes sense when you look at it from the viewpoint of greedy corporations.
Sports? Good grief, computer gaming is not "sports" by any stretch of the imagination. The only reason sponsors and cheerleaders try to equate it to real sports is because real sports has a large stream of money flowing through it.
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However, the way Microsoft has been acting recently (e.g., Windows 10 forced upgrades), I doubt if they even care about what I try to tell them via robots.txt.
The Microsoft attitude apparently is pervasive within the company.