All that would result in is software that no one will buy or want. You want to pay $5000 for your new smartphone because it was held up to the same engineering standards? The reality is in a consumer world people get what they pay for and the vast majority are not willing to pay what it would cost to have the software they use engineered to those standards. If you had a choice between a Samsung Galaxy s5 for $500 and a Brand X with same features but at $5000 because it has software that was designed to those engineering standards I guarantee the only outcome would be Brand X going out of business.
this is a solution searching for a problem that doesn't exist. I still wear a nice watch, mainly as a backup for when my phone has a flat battery or is in an awkward to reach place. my current watch does everything I need it to do, it tells the time, is water proof so I never need to be concerned where I am with it and doesn't need recharging more than once a year, maybe one day a smart watch will also be able to do all those things, but what's the point!
of course they have an ulterior motive, and pretty much all of them are farely up front about that, would have taken you all of about 5 seconds to find it for any of the providers. They want you to use their service and like it enough or be tied to it enough to upgrade to the premium offerings.
and what exactly is stopping you using client side encryption and storing in onedrive or amazon or googles service? personally I would not trust ANY of them with data that I considered sensitive enough to need encryption and I certainly would not be using encryption software provided by any of the cloud providers themselves. I see no advantage to anything offered by MEGA and hence I don't understand why anyone would use that service.
Dangerous to your trim, maybe. Dangerous to your life? Not so much.
It is not speed, but difference in speed, which is dangerous to your life. I fear the one coming up behind me at a difference of 50+ MPH MUCH more than the one next to me doing a couple MPH different. Yeah, the guy next to me may take out my mirror or scuff my door, but the guy behind me may kill me.
NOT On a motorbike, the person next to you is as dangerous if not more so than oncoming traffic. when your travelling at speed on a motorbike a tap from the person next to you that doesn't see you can be just as fatal as a head on. Usually I am far more concerned about whether the person next to me has seen me, oncoming traffic is far easier to predict and handle on a motorbike, the driver that merges without indicating is nightmare that you need to be constantly aware of if you want to stay alive.
I completely agree, it doesn't need to be loud, just at a level to make it audible at close distances, quiet car level is many times better than silent. morons that modify cars and motorbikes just to increase sound for some sort of dick waving exercise should be fined to oblivion.
umm NO. sound travels in both directions, a bike does not move at sufficient speed for sound to only be behind them. The benefit of hearing a bike is not for cars on the interstate, it is for pedestrians that will step out in front of you, people that are doing slow speed manoeuvres that may fail to see you in the mirrors but still might hear you coming 20-50 yards behind them. push bike riders that at the best of times are a hazard even when they know you are there.
most countries do not recognise virtual goods as property (though that is changing) and they certainly don't recognise bitcoin as currency. As such even if it could be proved he stole them I doubt there is much that could be done in most countries, regulations have upsides as well as downsides, many with their heads in the sand didn't seem to realise this.
you vastly underestimate how brazen and opportunistic thieves are. It only takes a couple of seconds, perhaps you sit your phone down on the counter while you take your wallet out to pay for your coffee or it is slightly protruding from your pocket making it an easy target to pick. You give the example of securing a $600 bankroll, guess what, people with $600 bankrolls also get targeted and robbed all the time too.
What you said is the VERY definition of Blind Faith, you cannot prove the existence of god or the holy spirit, you blindly accept they exist. I am fine with you believing that, just don't try to preach it as science because it is the exact opposite. Also ALL SCIENCE is basically detective work, including physics, it is investigating theories to see which are untrue and which are likely true, the complete inability to investigate God and the Holy spirit make them unscientific and hence should not be the basis of ANY scientific teachings.
triple that is only 75 miles a day average. hardly a freakish amount. my drive to work is 25 miles a day and same home. That covers 2/3rd of that mileage, I am pretty damn sure a 25 mile commute is not a freackishly rare number.
For some like yourself that drives so little they are definitely practical, I don't drive a lot but I easily do more than triple your daily average, even if you doubled your mileage you will quickly run into serious limitations.
Valve have failed to deliver on just about every project they have worked on the past decade. Everything from Halflife to SteamOS/Steambox and now they are pushing their next Vapourware product. If it wasn't for their hugely successful marketplace flogging other peoples software this company would have gone bust years ago.
Why is this a story? this is common practise for pretty much all industries, especially IT based ones. Most companies don't even try to hide the fact, nothing wrong with the practise, they would be fools if they were not constantly checking what the competition does.
My current Lenovo W520 is going is just over 3 years old now (16GB RAM, i7, Dual SSD's). I have an older W500 as well which is almost 6 years old now and it is also still happily working and still quite powerful (8GB, Core 2 Duo). The Lenovo's are mostly butt ugly but they do seem to last quite well.
Stock price isn't actually a particularly good measure in the case of MS unless you also factor in P/E ratios, When balmer took over they were trading at a P/E ratio of around 40-45. That isn't a realistic number for any company unless they are expecting meteoric growth numbers which given the valuation at the time was just not possible or sustainable, they would have to have grown to well in excess of being a trillion dollar company today to justify that number or to put in perspective they would need to be worth more than apple and google combined. MS currently trade at P/E ratio of around 15.
No I think his biggest problem was that he inherited a company that had a shareprice that was at the time massively overinflated, It masked much of his success of the following decade as people would point at the shareprice and claim he was failing even though financially he was providing excellent growth. He did more than just be a caretaker, he significantly diversified the company while still maintaining a solid to excellent (though not shooting star) growth throughout his time at the helm. I will agree he wasn't a technology visionary, though he was definitely very successful business wise.
Worst CEO of all time? geez most CEO's would give their right arm to be half as successful as he has been since he became CEO. Profits, revenue and sales all increased under him year on year with very good growth across the board while not allowing costs to blow out. Yes he had plenty of failures but from a business standpoint he has actually been a massive success for them with his successes far outweighing the failures, could he have been more successful with a few smarter choices, SURE, but very few CEO's have outperformed him over the past decade or so.
Shouldn't this fuel an antitrust investigation? The mere fact they can pressure a publisher by not listing their books means free market failed.
Actually this appears to be the exact opposite and is a demonstration of a free market working not failing. The inability to put pressure on a publisher would be free market failure.
please point out any law that would make MS in any way shape or form on the hook for any warranty after EOL of life of XP. none of the Australian laws do anything like that as they only enforce minimum warranties. The original poster you replied to was completely correct, there is absolutely NONE after the EOL of product supplied by the license, EULA or LAW in Australia that would come into play here. Australian laws are only good for preventing ridiculous claims and extremely short warranties, beyond that they are no better than any other country.
Where are you from with such good laws? here in Australia we have some laws around it but they are utterly toothless where a simple disclaimer in the EULA that local laws take precedence avoids any legal problems (which everyone puts in) and besides which the warranties under law here are far less than most companies provide for software and many many years less than has been supplied for XP.
The price, considering the specs, is actually pretty good. They come in cheaper than the X1 Carbons we currently use and have better screens and are lighter. We already have a few on order to trial them as a replacement for the Carbons for our next batch of machines for remote users.
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All that would result in is software that no one will buy or want. You want to pay $5000 for your new smartphone because it was held up to the same engineering standards? The reality is in a consumer world people get what they pay for and the vast majority are not willing to pay what it would cost to have the software they use engineered to those standards. If you had a choice between a Samsung Galaxy s5 for $500 and a Brand X with same features but at $5000 because it has software that was designed to those engineering standards I guarantee the only outcome would be Brand X going out of business.
this is a solution searching for a problem that doesn't exist. I still wear a nice watch, mainly as a backup for when my phone has a flat battery or is in an awkward to reach place. my current watch does everything I need it to do, it tells the time, is water proof so I never need to be concerned where I am with it and doesn't need recharging more than once a year, maybe one day a smart watch will also be able to do all those things, but what's the point!
of course they have an ulterior motive, and pretty much all of them are farely up front about that, would have taken you all of about 5 seconds to find it for any of the providers. They want you to use their service and like it enough or be tied to it enough to upgrade to the premium offerings.
and what exactly is stopping you using client side encryption and storing in onedrive or amazon or googles service? personally I would not trust ANY of them with data that I considered sensitive enough to need encryption and I certainly would not be using encryption software provided by any of the cloud providers themselves. I see no advantage to anything offered by MEGA and hence I don't understand why anyone would use that service.
Dangerous to your trim, maybe. Dangerous to your life? Not so much.
It is not speed, but difference in speed, which is dangerous to your life. I fear the one coming up behind me at a difference of 50+ MPH MUCH more than the one next to me doing a couple MPH different. Yeah, the guy next to me may take out my mirror or scuff my door, but the guy behind me may kill me.
NOT On a motorbike, the person next to you is as dangerous if not more so than oncoming traffic. when your travelling at speed on a motorbike a tap from the person next to you that doesn't see you can be just as fatal as a head on. Usually I am far more concerned about whether the person next to me has seen me, oncoming traffic is far easier to predict and handle on a motorbike, the driver that merges without indicating is nightmare that you need to be constantly aware of if you want to stay alive.
I completely agree, it doesn't need to be loud, just at a level to make it audible at close distances, quiet car level is many times better than silent. morons that modify cars and motorbikes just to increase sound for some sort of dick waving exercise should be fined to oblivion.
who said anything about it needing to be loud? it merely has to be at an audible level, something around the average car sound is sufficient.
umm NO. sound travels in both directions, a bike does not move at sufficient speed for sound to only be behind them. The benefit of hearing a bike is not for cars on the interstate, it is for pedestrians that will step out in front of you, people that are doing slow speed manoeuvres that may fail to see you in the mirrors but still might hear you coming 20-50 yards behind them. push bike riders that at the best of times are a hazard even when they know you are there.
most countries do not recognise virtual goods as property (though that is changing) and they certainly don't recognise bitcoin as currency. As such even if it could be proved he stole them I doubt there is much that could be done in most countries, regulations have upsides as well as downsides, many with their heads in the sand didn't seem to realise this.
you vastly underestimate how brazen and opportunistic thieves are. It only takes a couple of seconds, perhaps you sit your phone down on the counter while you take your wallet out to pay for your coffee or it is slightly protruding from your pocket making it an easy target to pick. You give the example of securing a $600 bankroll, guess what, people with $600 bankrolls also get targeted and robbed all the time too.
What you said is the VERY definition of Blind Faith, you cannot prove the existence of god or the holy spirit, you blindly accept they exist. I am fine with you believing that, just don't try to preach it as science because it is the exact opposite. Also ALL SCIENCE is basically detective work, including physics, it is investigating theories to see which are untrue and which are likely true, the complete inability to investigate God and the Holy spirit make them unscientific and hence should not be the basis of ANY scientific teachings.
triple that is only 75 miles a day average. hardly a freakish amount. my drive to work is 25 miles a day and same home. That covers 2/3rd of that mileage, I am pretty damn sure a 25 mile commute is not a freackishly rare number.
For some like yourself that drives so little they are definitely practical, I don't drive a lot but I easily do more than triple your daily average, even if you doubled your mileage you will quickly run into serious limitations.
Valve have failed to deliver on just about every project they have worked on the past decade. Everything from Halflife to SteamOS/Steambox and now they are pushing their next Vapourware product. If it wasn't for their hugely successful marketplace flogging other peoples software this company would have gone bust years ago.
Why is this a story? this is common practise for pretty much all industries, especially IT based ones. Most companies don't even try to hide the fact, nothing wrong with the practise, they would be fools if they were not constantly checking what the competition does.
My current Lenovo W520 is going is just over 3 years old now (16GB RAM, i7, Dual SSD's). I have an older W500 as well which is almost 6 years old now and it is also still happily working and still quite powerful (8GB, Core 2 Duo). The Lenovo's are mostly butt ugly but they do seem to last quite well.
Stock price isn't actually a particularly good measure in the case of MS unless you also factor in P/E ratios, When balmer took over they were trading at a P/E ratio of around 40-45. That isn't a realistic number for any company unless they are expecting meteoric growth numbers which given the valuation at the time was just not possible or sustainable, they would have to have grown to well in excess of being a trillion dollar company today to justify that number or to put in perspective they would need to be worth more than apple and google combined. MS currently trade at P/E ratio of around 15.
No I think his biggest problem was that he inherited a company that had a shareprice that was at the time massively overinflated, It masked much of his success of the following decade as people would point at the shareprice and claim he was failing even though financially he was providing excellent growth. He did more than just be a caretaker, he significantly diversified the company while still maintaining a solid to excellent (though not shooting star) growth throughout his time at the helm. I will agree he wasn't a technology visionary, though he was definitely very successful business wise.
Worst CEO of all time? geez most CEO's would give their right arm to be half as successful as he has been since he became CEO. Profits, revenue and sales all increased under him year on year with very good growth across the board while not allowing costs to blow out. Yes he had plenty of failures but from a business standpoint he has actually been a massive success for them with his successes far outweighing the failures, could he have been more successful with a few smarter choices, SURE, but very few CEO's have outperformed him over the past decade or so.
Shouldn't this fuel an antitrust investigation? The mere fact they can pressure a publisher by not listing their books means free market failed.
Actually this appears to be the exact opposite and is a demonstration of a free market working not failing. The inability to put pressure on a publisher would be free market failure.
please point out any law that would make MS in any way shape or form on the hook for any warranty after EOL of life of XP. none of the Australian laws do anything like that as they only enforce minimum warranties. The original poster you replied to was completely correct, there is absolutely NONE after the EOL of product supplied by the license, EULA or LAW in Australia that would come into play here. Australian laws are only good for preventing ridiculous claims and extremely short warranties, beyond that they are no better than any other country.
Where are you from with such good laws? here in Australia we have some laws around it but they are utterly toothless where a simple disclaimer in the EULA that local laws take precedence avoids any legal problems (which everyone puts in) and besides which the warranties under law here are far less than most companies provide for software and many many years less than has been supplied for XP.
still in business yes, but the operating now at more realistic prices and production levels for such a niche product.
The price, considering the specs, is actually pretty good. They come in cheaper than the X1 Carbons we currently use and have better screens and are lighter. We already have a few on order to trial them as a replacement for the Carbons for our next batch of machines for remote users.
It DOES have an unlocked bootloader, you can put anything you want on the surface pro.