I would day it's ambiguous. I learned coming through BASIC but it was practically a fancy batch script more than a program. After that I learned PHP and it's hard to call that an "application" either. I learned C via cRobots which also isn't an application writing task. I became a proficient programmed learn maxscript for 3ds max. I never wrote a "application" in that either, although it had a user interface and database backend and processed data. All the hallmarks of an application but no executable. I think a better definition of programming is writing instructions that process data and either act on it out output new data. From that definition yes mel programming in Maya is programming, yes web JavaScript is programming and yes so is a lot of matlab.
It's a problem Chile would love to have too. I assume the reason they have to sell it is because of transmission limitations in delivering it to their citizens not demand. When I visited Chile almost everybody was using wood stoves for heat and the air quality was awful.
Pro I think the best new feature is Windows Backup, it is a file versioning system, like in Windows 8, or what we should have had from day 1 of Windows.
I love it as well, however it's been around for nearly 10 years (Vista).
Yes, if you aren't on a 7" tablet (Windows 8 still works best on a small touchscreen). There are numerous improvements to the kernel under the hood and from a user perspective: - It boots way faster. - It uses less battery. - Command line and powershell are dramatically improved. - Bash in Windows is incredibly useful.* - God menu on the start menu through right click to directly go to all of the "deep" settings that are hard to get to in Windows 7 like "network Connections". - Snap with rescale. If you snap a window to the left. It will automatically ask you what you want to snap to the right. And when you rescale a snapped app of the left it scales the app on the right to fit. - Most consumer software is targeting it now as the primary OS for bug fixes and QA. - The new Store deployment and update system is far superior to install/uninstall and when I start up a new system I just hit "Download" instead of tracking down installation media etc. I hope that all of my software migrates to the AppX deployment system. Also cross buy is nice when available. I bought my first game that runs on the Xbox and PC. - I love being able to get text message notifications on my PC so that I can read texts without getting out my phone. And then even reply.* - If you have a touchscreen tablet like a Surface it's nice to be able to mix touch apps with mouse/keyboard apps easily. - Cortana is working well. It sucks in flight and package tracking information automatically which is nice from emails. - Task bar icons have notifications so my mail app has a little (3) circle right on the taskbar.* - Native multiple desktops. - Miracast to PC. You can mirror your desktop to another PC's desktop as a window like teamviewer. Handy for presentations if you want to view on your own computer without huddling over their shoulder. * - Notification center is just generally nice to finally have on Windows. I look forward though to the summer update when they add universal dismiss so that if I look at an email on my phone it doesn't have the notification at home. - Lots of new HyperV functionality. - native Photos app supports animated gifs and mp4s and webm. - Windows Hello identity management is awesome where it's supported. I only have it on my phone but I want it desperately on my laptop and PC. Death to passwords. You just look at the screen and it unlocks and can (with developer support) even log you into your bank app etc. - System wide spell checker. - Vastly improved calculator app. - Cortana will answer easy questions. "100 cm in inches" right in the task bar. - Clock on multiple screens.* - Calendar on taskbar has actual events and appointments since it is a real calendar not a generic date/time widget.* - Screen capture. Integrated screen/video capture is a hotkey away. - You won't have to worry about it unexpectedly upgrading. - It's a rather stable development target. I like it as a developer because I know everybody on Windows 10 is on Windows 10 or Windows 10+6months. Mandatory updates means everybody supports the latest APIs within 6 months so it's not horribly fragmented. - Updates are super easy. The guy who was playing CS:Go and had his system reboot wasn't upgrading from 7 to 10 he was upgrading from 10 to 10.1 and you can see how relatively painless that process was. It usually takes me about 15 minutes to upgrade to the latest OS with new features. Windows used to take 2-3 years to get a new feature, now they regularly add new things (the summer update is pretty substantial and has a lot of things I already miss not having on my "stable-branch" work machine. They've really streamlined the build and release system so that Windows can be iterated on quickly. I know internally how huge of a deal it can be for development to have a great automatic build and deployment system for accelerating feature development, I'm excited that windows has it now so that Microsoft can focus on add features going forward. It's generally just a new k
Watered down CS classes is exactly what most people need.
Yeah I'm really confused by this quote...
"Just as would-be musicians become proficient by listening, improvising and composing, and not just by playing other people's compositions, so would-be programmers become proficient by designing prototypes and models that work for solving real problems, doing critical thinking and analysis, and creative collaboration -- none of which can be accomplished in one hour of coding,"
I come from a town where many of my peers went on to be incredibly musicians thanks to a strong music education program. My stand partner in Orchestra played for the Queen of England. But I don't know *anyone* who was a competent improviser or composer.
Playing an instrument is an art form in of itself. Putting notes to a page is a different art form. Just like we have choreographers and we have dancers and sometimes the two are the same we're looking at two different skillsets not some incomplete look.
Most people I know with CS degrees are coders, they solve problems. They aren't system architects which is really what she thinks 4th graders should be learning.
I once got into a debate with a sociology student who insisted that "bitch" was gendered but "dick" was not. Most of the argument consisted of "bitch" was personally very offensive to her while growing up but "dick" wasn't therefore bitch was bad and dick was fine. The exact opposite argument using the same standard (that "I didn't find bitch personally very offensive") didn't seem to hold any weight.
Ironically, the whole point of this move is to ensure going forward games are like PC games in that they run on new or old systems as long as the system is capable. Microsoft is unifying Xbox and windows this summer. Windows apps will run on Xbox with no modification and games will only require minimal effort to port. Ultimately their goal is to make games cross playable and cross purchase so that you buy a game once and then can play on your console in 4k, on your laptop on the plane or bus or maybe where applicable on your phone using the same code. Buy once, play anywhere. If you buy a game for your Xbox 360, it's a completely different game with perhaps a totally different dev team than the Xbox one. Going forward the goal is to allow you to buy for one console and then like a PC, simply use the better shaders and textures and effects when you upgrade to a better console.
Electric cars upend multiple industries - from oil services all the way to convenience stores.
Arguably having to sit there for 30 minutes should be a huge boon for convenience stores to capture that extended idle time.
The problem with Hydrogen is that while EV doesn't make the oil industry much money (except in gas power plants), Hydrogen literally costs them a ton of money. The rather infamous Honda H2 vehicles which cost $500k each to manufacture are not sustainable. Nor is the infrastructure. So regardless if they wanted to fight it tooth and nail they would be faced with the inevitable question by consumers "where can I get an h2 vehicle" and the answer would always be "nowhere" because rolling out even a 50k vehicle pretend effort would be stupendously expensive and not really delay the inevitable. Everybody knows H2 is a dead end, so while the entrenched interests might not like EV, they also know H2 isn't the weapon to fight it.
The women on that show were so shallow and lifeless I have a hard time understanding how it existed at all.
My Fiancee and I concluded that Sex and the City is the female equivalent to Entourage. I liked entourage more. She liked Sex and the City more. (I'm far more likely to ever visit IMDB).
He should just realize he is not part of the target audience, and watch something else.
I have watched Sex in the City, I would not have watched Sex in the City by my own volition. I would give it a solid 6-7 rating.
My Fiancee does not watch Clone Wars, nor would I even suggest that she watch Clone Wars, because it's bad. I know it's bad. I complain about how bad it is. But I keep watching it. I would also give it a solid 6-7 rating. I'm sure she would give it a 1. But she doesn't watch it.
I think that's the difference. Guys watch mediocre or bad television with their female partners, female partners go do something else.
Just because an operating system includes driver support doesn't mean the game uses a driver feature. Windows supports VR output for games. But unless the developer actually uses the API your software doesn't magically work in VR. It'll automatically update your software, but it won't add *features* to software on its own.
That would be like complaining "what's the point of automatic updates if they don't add XYZ feature automatically to the code!?"
There's two sides. There is the Technological Society/Theodore Kaczynski perspective which is that technology leads to larger government:
Roads require drivers licenses Radios require spectrum licensing Nuclear weapons are too dangerous for personal ownership Power transmission needs oversight
Ultimately the theory here is that you either need large organizations who act and look a lot like a government or a government to maintain the infrastructure essential to a modern society.
However, I think that while that perspective is very true, it assumes technology is on a bell curve. It used to be that you could be very self sufficient. Then we became dependent on society. Technology though once it reaches an apex of The Matrix/Star Trek Replicators means that you are again fully self sufficient. Think about just a very small narrow area like computing. It used to be that a computer was very isolated and not very dependent on society. Then it got a modem and connected to the phone network--ultimately the internet and as it grew it consumed more and more power requiring a connection to the power grid.
Now with a smart phone you can do almost all of that. And theoretically with a meshed wifi network you could still connect to other people and communicate. All without government/infrastructure support.
The big things we still need government for are: Defense, Infrastructure, Regulation, pension, law enforcement and Healthcare. If you had a replicator and Star Trek level medicine that would take care of pension and healthcare. Infrastructure will fade away with jet packs and off-the-grid electricity generation from rooftop solar. Defense will fade away when resource scarcity is dramatically reduced. All that's left is effectively a standards body and a law enforcement agency. But again... most crime is theft (resource scarcity).
So it's not about Technology being given too much power, but about Technology eventually reducing the need for oversight.
I imagine even if you don't install apps from the store, the store still has all of the deployment and patching code built into it that's necessary to install an AppX.
That game streamer didn't have windows 10 installed during the stream he had the Windows 10 TH2 update from october installed during his stream. That means he was deferring upgrades for 6 months and never once bothered to patch his system. Sorry but I fully support Microsoft ensuring that their OS doesn't splinter into 30 different versions that developers have to support. Not to mention avoiding patching known security flaws for 6 months is just a terrible idea on a "regular" workstation.
And no Windows 10 isn't spying on you. It's been demonstrated numerous times that if you turn off analytics it's not sending home any data. There was one report where a moron saw his network card's repeated DNS requests and went all tin-foil-hat that they were nefarious. Sorry but that's how networking works. It's not an evil scheme to steal your personal info.
That's not "Malware". That's just useless overpriced shitware.
The whole point of the Windows Store is to sandbox applications from acting as malware. An IT Manager should prefer them finding shitware that is sandboxed than shitware on Downloads.com that probably actually does have viruses.
Also that story is 2 years old. Thankfully Microsoft purged the store of shitware ages ago.
Actually that's the problem not the solution. It looks like this is the "Fall Update". You can defer a patch for up to 6 months. It looks like he just hit the 6 month mark of deferring all upgrades.
The real solution isn't to never check for updates, the real solution is to periodically actually install updates when it's convenient to do so. Updates are like peeing. You can hold it for a while, but it's smart to go when you have a minute or else you're liable to piss yourself at an inopportune time when you can't hold it any longer.
Except that you get into Uncertainty Principles which mean that the information you gain is random. It's like a random bit generator. Now, take that random bit generator and increase the number of bits... still random.
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Toyota added this to Priuses. It's a high enough frequency that the range of the sound dissipates very quickly.
For good reason too. Nobody wants to get run over by a bicycle going 15mph.
I would day it's ambiguous. I learned coming through BASIC but it was practically a fancy batch script more than a program. After that I learned PHP and it's hard to call that an "application" either. I learned C via cRobots which also isn't an application writing task. I became a proficient programmed learn maxscript for 3ds max. I never wrote a "application" in that either, although it had a user interface and database backend and processed data. All the hallmarks of an application but no executable. I think a better definition of programming is writing instructions that process data and either act on it out output new data. From that definition yes mel programming in Maya is programming, yes web JavaScript is programming and yes so is a lot of matlab.
It's a problem Chile would love to have too. I assume the reason they have to sell it is because of transmission limitations in delivering it to their citizens not demand. When I visited Chile almost everybody was using wood stoves for heat and the air quality was awful.
Pro I think the best new feature is Windows Backup, it is a file versioning system, like in Windows 8, or what we should have had from day 1 of Windows.
I love it as well, however it's been around for nearly 10 years (Vista).
Yes, if you aren't on a 7" tablet (Windows 8 still works best on a small touchscreen). There are numerous improvements to the kernel under the hood and from a user perspective:
- It boots way faster.
- It uses less battery.
- Command line and powershell are dramatically improved.
- Bash in Windows is incredibly useful.*
- God menu on the start menu through right click to directly go to all of the "deep" settings that are hard to get to in Windows 7 like "network Connections".
- Snap with rescale. If you snap a window to the left. It will automatically ask you what you want to snap to the right. And when you rescale a snapped app of the left it scales the app on the right to fit.
- Most consumer software is targeting it now as the primary OS for bug fixes and QA.
- The new Store deployment and update system is far superior to install/uninstall and when I start up a new system I just hit "Download" instead of tracking down installation media etc. I hope that all of my software migrates to the AppX deployment system. Also cross buy is nice when available. I bought my first game that runs on the Xbox and PC.
- I love being able to get text message notifications on my PC so that I can read texts without getting out my phone. And then even reply.*
- If you have a touchscreen tablet like a Surface it's nice to be able to mix touch apps with mouse/keyboard apps easily.
- Cortana is working well. It sucks in flight and package tracking information automatically which is nice from emails.
- Task bar icons have notifications so my mail app has a little (3) circle right on the taskbar.*
- Native multiple desktops.
- Miracast to PC. You can mirror your desktop to another PC's desktop as a window like teamviewer. Handy for presentations if you want to view on your own computer without huddling over their shoulder. *
- Notification center is just generally nice to finally have on Windows. I look forward though to the summer update when they add universal dismiss so that if I look at an email on my phone it doesn't have the notification at home.
- Lots of new HyperV functionality.
- native Photos app supports animated gifs and mp4s and webm.
- Windows Hello identity management is awesome where it's supported. I only have it on my phone but I want it desperately on my laptop and PC. Death to passwords. You just look at the screen and it unlocks and can (with developer support) even log you into your bank app etc.
- System wide spell checker.
- Vastly improved calculator app.
- Cortana will answer easy questions. "100 cm in inches" right in the task bar.
- Clock on multiple screens.*
- Calendar on taskbar has actual events and appointments since it is a real calendar not a generic date/time widget.*
- Screen capture. Integrated screen/video capture is a hotkey away.
- You won't have to worry about it unexpectedly upgrading.
- It's a rather stable development target. I like it as a developer because I know everybody on Windows 10 is on Windows 10 or Windows 10+6months. Mandatory updates means everybody supports the latest APIs within 6 months so it's not horribly fragmented.
- Updates are super easy. The guy who was playing CS:Go and had his system reboot wasn't upgrading from 7 to 10 he was upgrading from 10 to 10.1 and you can see how relatively painless that process was. It usually takes me about 15 minutes to upgrade to the latest OS with new features. Windows used to take 2-3 years to get a new feature, now they regularly add new things (the summer update is pretty substantial and has a lot of things I already miss not having on my "stable-branch" work machine. They've really streamlined the build and release system so that Windows can be iterated on quickly. I know internally how huge of a deal it can be for development to have a great automatic build and deployment system for accelerating feature development, I'm excited that windows has it now so that Microsoft can focus on add features going forward. It's generally just a new k
Watered down CS classes is exactly what most people need.
Yeah I'm really confused by this quote...
"Just as would-be musicians become proficient by listening, improvising and composing, and not just by playing other people's compositions, so would-be programmers become proficient by designing prototypes and models that work for solving real problems, doing critical thinking and analysis, and creative collaboration -- none of which can be accomplished in one hour of coding,"
I come from a town where many of my peers went on to be incredibly musicians thanks to a strong music education program. My stand partner in Orchestra played for the Queen of England. But I don't know *anyone* who was a competent improviser or composer.
Playing an instrument is an art form in of itself. Putting notes to a page is a different art form. Just like we have choreographers and we have dancers and sometimes the two are the same we're looking at two different skillsets not some incomplete look.
Most people I know with CS degrees are coders, they solve problems. They aren't system architects which is really what she thinks 4th graders should be learning.
I once got into a debate with a sociology student who insisted that "bitch" was gendered but "dick" was not. Most of the argument consisted of "bitch" was personally very offensive to her while growing up but "dick" wasn't therefore bitch was bad and dick was fine. The exact opposite argument using the same standard (that "I didn't find bitch personally very offensive") didn't seem to hold any weight.
Except that most people like fresh new books.
Ironically, the whole point of this move is to ensure going forward games are like PC games in that they run on new or old systems as long as the system is capable. Microsoft is unifying Xbox and windows this summer. Windows apps will run on Xbox with no modification and games will only require minimal effort to port. Ultimately their goal is to make games cross playable and cross purchase so that you buy a game once and then can play on your console in 4k, on your laptop on the plane or bus or maybe where applicable on your phone using the same code. Buy once, play anywhere. If you buy a game for your Xbox 360, it's a completely different game with perhaps a totally different dev team than the Xbox one. Going forward the goal is to allow you to buy for one console and then like a PC, simply use the better shaders and textures and effects when you upgrade to a better console.
Electric cars upend multiple industries - from oil services all the way to convenience stores.
Arguably having to sit there for 30 minutes should be a huge boon for convenience stores to capture that extended idle time.
The problem with Hydrogen is that while EV doesn't make the oil industry much money (except in gas power plants), Hydrogen literally costs them a ton of money. The rather infamous Honda H2 vehicles which cost $500k each to manufacture are not sustainable. Nor is the infrastructure. So regardless if they wanted to fight it tooth and nail they would be faced with the inevitable question by consumers "where can I get an h2 vehicle" and the answer would always be "nowhere" because rolling out even a 50k vehicle pretend effort would be stupendously expensive and not really delay the inevitable. Everybody knows H2 is a dead end, so while the entrenched interests might not like EV, they also know H2 isn't the weapon to fight it.
Hey? Did anyone else notice the headline is wrong?
The women on that show were so shallow and lifeless I have a hard time understanding how it existed at all.
My Fiancee and I concluded that Sex and the City is the female equivalent to Entourage. I liked entourage more. She liked Sex and the City more. (I'm far more likely to ever visit IMDB).
He should just realize he is not part of the target audience, and watch something else.
I have watched Sex in the City, I would not have watched Sex in the City by my own volition. I would give it a solid 6-7 rating.
My Fiancee does not watch Clone Wars, nor would I even suggest that she watch Clone Wars, because it's bad. I know it's bad. I complain about how bad it is. But I keep watching it. I would also give it a solid 6-7 rating. I'm sure she would give it a 1. But she doesn't watch it.
I think that's the difference. Guys watch mediocre or bad television with their female partners, female partners go do something else.
Or "male shows" like Battlestar Galactica is objectively better television than Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
I think this just reveals how sexist pressures apparently are keep women from watching amazing television like BSG.
Uhhh... you mean like XOrg, Win32 or Cocoa? Every OS needs a GUI layer/API to handle application execution.
UWP also handles installation/uninstallation which if anything prevents bloat and definitely prevents installation rot.
Just because an operating system includes driver support doesn't mean the game uses a driver feature. Windows supports VR output for games. But unless the developer actually uses the API your software doesn't magically work in VR. It'll automatically update your software, but it won't add *features* to software on its own.
That would be like complaining "what's the point of automatic updates if they don't add XYZ feature automatically to the code!?"
There's two sides. There is the Technological Society/Theodore Kaczynski perspective which is that technology leads to larger government:
Roads require drivers licenses
Radios require spectrum licensing
Nuclear weapons are too dangerous for personal ownership
Power transmission needs oversight
Ultimately the theory here is that you either need large organizations who act and look a lot like a government or a government to maintain the infrastructure essential to a modern society.
However, I think that while that perspective is very true, it assumes technology is on a bell curve. It used to be that you could be very self sufficient. Then we became dependent on society. Technology though once it reaches an apex of The Matrix/Star Trek Replicators means that you are again fully self sufficient. Think about just a very small narrow area like computing. It used to be that a computer was very isolated and not very dependent on society. Then it got a modem and connected to the phone network--ultimately the internet and as it grew it consumed more and more power requiring a connection to the power grid.
Now with a smart phone you can do almost all of that. And theoretically with a meshed wifi network you could still connect to other people and communicate. All without government/infrastructure support.
The big things we still need government for are:
Defense, Infrastructure, Regulation, pension, law enforcement and Healthcare. If you had a replicator and Star Trek level medicine that would take care of pension and healthcare. Infrastructure will fade away with jet packs and off-the-grid electricity generation from rooftop solar. Defense will fade away when resource scarcity is dramatically reduced. All that's left is effectively a standards body and a law enforcement agency. But again... most crime is theft (resource scarcity).
So it's not about Technology being given too much power, but about Technology eventually reducing the need for oversight.
I imagine even if you don't install apps from the store, the store still has all of the deployment and patching code built into it that's necessary to install an AppX.
That game streamer didn't have windows 10 installed during the stream he had the Windows 10 TH2 update from october installed during his stream. That means he was deferring upgrades for 6 months and never once bothered to patch his system. Sorry but I fully support Microsoft ensuring that their OS doesn't splinter into 30 different versions that developers have to support. Not to mention avoiding patching known security flaws for 6 months is just a terrible idea on a "regular" workstation.
And no Windows 10 isn't spying on you. It's been demonstrated numerous times that if you turn off analytics it's not sending home any data. There was one report where a moron saw his network card's repeated DNS requests and went all tin-foil-hat that they were nefarious. Sorry but that's how networking works. It's not an evil scheme to steal your personal info.
That's not "Malware". That's just useless overpriced shitware.
The whole point of the Windows Store is to sandbox applications from acting as malware. An IT Manager should prefer them finding shitware that is sandboxed than shitware on Downloads.com that probably actually does have viruses.
Also that story is 2 years old. Thankfully Microsoft purged the store of shitware ages ago.
Actually that's the problem not the solution. It looks like this is the "Fall Update". You can defer a patch for up to 6 months. It looks like he just hit the 6 month mark of deferring all upgrades.
The real solution isn't to never check for updates, the real solution is to periodically actually install updates when it's convenient to do so. Updates are like peeing. You can hold it for a while, but it's smart to go when you have a minute or else you're liable to piss yourself at an inopportune time when you can't hold it any longer.
Except that you get into Uncertainty Principles which mean that the information you gain is random. It's like a random bit generator. Now, take that random bit generator and increase the number of bits... still random.
Well, I mean that's a pretty high bar to achieve since these days nearly anything can be done in a browser. :D
But we've now got VLC (huge), Office, real Xbox Games, Instagram (only able to post through an app), Uber, Waze and Starbucks.
We won't start to see win32 apps showing up though for a couple months when the summer update adds win32 package support.
Core-M should serve this market well:
http://ark.intel.com/products/...
Several of the chips in the 2ghz range are passively cooled.