Apple will be the gatekeeper for music, and Netflix for video.
Apple is so far from the gatekeeper for music these days that it's laughable. Ironically it's the Zune subscription that has succeeded. It was just Spotify who made it happen because of its cross platform nature.
Microsoft saw the future and then tried to sell the past (mp3 players) as a bundle and failed. Spotify did the exact same thing (minus songs you get to keep) for $5 less and did gangbusters.
Now Apple is trying to play catchup in the music realm.
Another point on this. When Apple started locking in the music industry, the labels also matched to avoid too strong of a monopoly. So Zune music service pretty much just said "Give us what you're giving Apple" and was able to build out their library. Spotify wouldn't have stood a chance in hell of negotiating those contracts if iTunes wasn't already getting sweet digital rates. Netflix wrenched open the door and now Amazon often has the same films because the studios both want a bidding war and they also aren't going to spend too much time negotiating most of their catalogue.
Hearing these conspiracies is like listening to right wing nuts go on about how everybody is eventually going to be driven into a FEMA camp.
And as to $0.99 to change your theme color? Well, I guess that's not paranoid since that happened in 1996 with "Windows 95 Plus!" which mostly just added theme colors for a few bucks. So nothing new there. But "Want to install a third party browser?" 1. They would get sued out of existence. 2. only if the third party browser charged a price in the store which none do on any other platform. You don't see chrome on charging money so no it won't cost anything.
Precision GPS. I've driven 5 mph over a mountain pass following the white line with my door open looking down while my passenger watched for tail lights ahead. If I could have followed 3-5' accurate Gps I would have lane split and been more than fine.
Microsoft already allows Win32 in store apps -- you do have to rebuild, but create a UWP app and bring in the Desktop Extensions SDK and that give you Win32.
That's only a very small subset of Win32. Project Centenial http://www.brianmadden.com/blo... is in the works though to allow full Win32 apps to run in the WinRT sandbox.
As to battery life, if you can play games on your phone you can run a Win32 App without worry.
I've worked on ads that were seen by tens of millions of people, who knew that in the process they became windows users! I should apparently be hired as a Microsoft Evangelist./s
Windows was also used by Weta on those films. Every film has at least one windows license doing something. That means every Ubuntu user is simultaneously a Windows and OSX user.
Both causes though may have been mitigated with the size of the ground based landing pad. If you don't have to land quite so precisely you won't have to make as many corrections that means less use of hydraulic fluid and less engine vectoring.
Narrow bandwidth is exactly what you want from a display's color primary. The more pure the display is the more saturated it is and the wider the color gamut. If someone could really create an LCD with a perfect 630nm red, 550nm green and 450nm blue without any other frequencies it would be a fantastic display. The ultimate displays currently available today are lasers because they naturally produce extremely narrow frequency bands exclusively. The second best are probably though LCDs + Quantum dot. Which are already almost achieving the full Rec2020 gamut. http://static1.squarespace.com...
Full LED displays (NOT LCDs with LED backlights) can easily reproduce a wider range of colors if they use the right LEDs (some displays have added an extra color like yellow, some simply move the RGB LEDs further apart on the spectrum). Other display types can do this as well, but it's not as simple as with LEDs.
Full LED displays are only used in like ballpark score boards and billboards and their color is terrible. Unless you mean OLED, in which case just call it OLED. Almost every LCD display today uses a white LED and an array of filters.
Most "Full LED" displays are just 6500k LEDs with a colored filter. So a white LED + LCD filter array is pretty much the same as a white LED + Filter coating. 'Regular' LCDs are also just as good as OLED at color gamut if not better. You take a UV LED and you use quantum dot emission as your color mask and you have an incredibly pure color output. Which by the way is what you want out of your red green and blue primaries, not them "further apart" (further apart to where infrared, ultraviolet and... not sure where you want green to move to.). Rec2020's green isn't "further apart on the spectrum" compared to Rec709's green from blue it's just a narrower, more saturated green. It's a question of purity not 'distance'. Saturation is product of the width of the spectrum emitted not its wavelength.
It is impossible to separate "HDR" photography from "HDR" displays because they both do the same thing - fuck with contrast in different areas of an image differently in order to overcome limitations of the resolution/gamut of the format/display.
Wow ignorance and attitude what a lovely combination.
Neither inherently 'fuck with contrast'. HDR photography is just capturing a High Dynamic Range of values. So SDR would be 0.01 nits -> 100 nits. HDR would be 0.01 nits to 1,000 nits. Almost every decent camera today can capture at least that much dynamic range.
. The display you used as an example is "HDR" via the "Peak Illuminator" feature. It's just dimming the LED array, as all "HDR" displays are.
Nope. HDR is overdriving the LED array not dimming them. Yes, most HDR displays do use localized dimming but OLED doesn't, it just displays each pixel by itself and it can get up to 600+ nits which isn't as good as LED but every other pixel can be black black to 600 nits. Yes if you don't have enough LED resolution then there can be some localized tone mapping errors but on really good displays with 120+ zones the haloing of bright objects on dark is pretty subtle, comparable to flare in a good DLP rear projection display.
There is definitely a benefit to HDR. Just as it's different to look at a photograph of a street lamp vs looking at a street lamp, having that real peak values up in the thousands of nits gives your eyes and brain the illusion of being 'more real' because it's not trying to trick you into thinking you're looking at a bright object... the object is actually bright.
Nooooope. I have a Vizio UHD tv and apparently fullscreen Netflix actually changes your display settings and even through 2.0 when I maximize or minimize the Netflix window I lose input and sometimes the TV completely loses sync and says "no Input" until you change to a different HDMI and back. Sadly it seems to have gotten way worse.
No, HDR is about fucking with contrast in one part of the image and fucking with contrast differently in another part of the image. It looks terrible every fucking time, and it's less accurate than just linearly plotting everything after setting your curves once for the whole image. It's absolutely retarded to have a curve that is different over different parts of the same image.
Effectively every sentence you wrote is completely wrong. What you are calling "HDR" is actually "localized tone mapping" it's a filter effect like adjusting the histogram, it's not HDR. Your reaction is like someone looking at a red/green anaglyph stereo image (http://www.designcommunity.com/scrapbook/images/125.jpg) without glasses on and saying "This 3D business is AWFUL, the colors are all weird and the image is doubled. It doesn't look dimensional at all!"
HDR just means "High Dynamic Range". HDR displays are about accurately reproducing the world as captured on a display. So if you have a bright flashlight, the bulb could theoretically be so bright on screen that you have to squint or shield your eyes. That would probably be a poor aesthetic choice but it's not about doing localized tone mapping, it's about reproducing the world as it really exists slightly better. The trick is that they want to reproduce 16+ stops of luminance data and they don't want to break HDMI or BluRay. So their trick is to heavily compress the say 20 stops of dynamic range into only 10 bits. That means they have a gamma curve which is non-linear. And that's nothing new. Almost every single image in existence is gamma encoded in either Rec709 or sRGB's gamma. Because in order to store a SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) image like a jpeg you would be wasting a lot of data on precision the human eye can't see when stored in linear.
HDR photography does not require multiple exposures. HDR photography is just high dynamic range capture. A modern sensor like Alexa or RED can capture 18 stops of dynamic range. That is on the low end but in a single exposure already HDR.
HDR is not shit. HDR is exactly what you want "A wider range" of contrast. Instead of displaying black to gray, HDR can display black to blinding white. It's arguably and in my experience far more impressive than higher resolution.
Brightness is important to color rendition. If you have a pure saturated red screen. But it's at 50 nits it's going to look like an unsaturated drab screen. Crank up that pure red screen to 5,000 nits and the color will be perceived as eye searing fire. If you can only ever reproduce a hue at 100 nits you're missing out on all colors which are very bright. Take a simple gradient: http://onlineteachingtoolkit.c...
If your display could only handle the bottom half of the luminance you wouldn't be able to reproduce the top "blue" blue it would always be a "deep blue".
Brightness is an additional dimension to the vibrance of color separate from the wider gamut and more saturated primaries of 2020. That's why we can express 3 dimensions to every color: hue, Saturation (Rec2020 primaries) and Value (HDR).
Also HDR adds 10bit color almost by necessity as much as Rec2020's larger gamut so HDR material is at least 10 bit.
Yeah really autonomous cars imo should be viewed as circulators. Take mass transit to a nearby hub and then hop on a private circulator to do the last mile jaunt to your house.
Of course the downside to this is that it would show up Microsoft as hypocritical for copying Google APIs whilst at the same time supporting Oracle in its fight against Google for copying Oracle APIs.
If Google is going to undermine Oracle's APIs, Microsoft might as well retaliate and undermine Google. That's not really hypocritical. That's like saying "I want us to go to the circus. But if we decide that we are going to the movies, I'm coming too since I'm not just going to sit at home."
read from a journal entry she says she wrote in May 2006 about her then-husband. "He got mad at me for ignoring him and grabbed me and shook me again," she read. "He also threw me to the ground and got on top of me. He started punching me in the stomach and slapped me across the face. I was shaking so bad."
For the price of one manned mission we will see tens of thousands of more engineers and scientists inspired to go into STEM.
I know 2 people who are going back to college for mechanical engineering so that they can "work at SpaceX someday". And that's suborbital. Anecdote yes, but listen to all of the Anecdotes of people inspired by Apollo.
Except they're not at all competitive. It would be like a bicycle company saying their bicycle just one-upped the Tesla Model 3 in range and price. Technically true, but what people want is a car not a bicycle and improved electric bicycles won't offer much competition to a mass produced electric car. That's not to say both aren't cool in their own way but the only real company that is seeing competition from Blue Origin at the moment is Virgin Galactic and the SpaceShipTwo. However Virgin Galactic and Rutan already accomplished years ago what BO did today.
What this might do though is give BO a good boost of revenue towards making truly competitive hardware that does do something more useful than give wealthy sightseers a bucket list checkmark.
Pfizer sells a patented product. The only thing stopping someone from making it for $1 instead of $1000 is that patent. The government's courts, police and armies defend Pfizer's business from being destroyed by generic knock offs. Fuck me if using the might and power of the US government to create and defend your business model doesn't deserve *something*.
Let's entertain your silly little sophomoric perspective. Let's say Pfizer owes nothing to the state. Great. The reciprocal principle then means that the state owes nothing then to Pfizer. Lipitor is now free for everybody! In order to avoid paying 2% more in taxes they've now given up $10B next year in revenue to avoid 2% of about $800m in profit which works out to $16m in taxes. Their $10B business model only costs about $120m in taxes total. That's a bargain.
(Back in the 90s): 4 of us were taken to the principles office for the entire day after being separated and interrogated. We were told if we didn't confess and agree to 50 hours of community service they would call the FBI and we would probably have lifetime felony charges on our record. So just "Agree to the community service and terms of your punishment for the next year and it'll all go away."
Yes, it's as nefarious as you expected. We logged onto computers using the sys admin's password (half to fuck with 7th graders and half to actually do his job since he was an inept nitwit whose solution to every problem was re-install windows and couldn't even be bothered to change the 17" monitors from 640x480 to something reasonable like 1024.)
Uhhhh, this is what happens when you use any application written in C, C++, Java, C#, PHP, Python or just about any programming language without adding threading code. The OS is irrelevant.
The right wingers just want to go kill the stupid terrorists.
And who exactly is a terrorist? That's the problem. The US Government has arrested and detained innocent people in the past. The US Government has mistakenly killed innocent people presumed to be terrorists in the past. Almost every anti-terrorism operation kills civilians. So "Just want to go kill stupid terrorists." also means invading Iraq, destabilizing the country and arguably creating the environment in which ISIS emerged. So saying that liberals are creating a disaster through inaction is no more true than saying that conservatives are creating a disaster through action. However when inaction and action both produce equally terrible outcomes--maybe the cheaper option is the better terrible outcome. That's not to say that every action is certainly or even most likely worse than inaction but it is to say that "Just go kill stupid terrorists" is not a logically acceptable path. It costs lives, it costs money and it will inevitably kill far more than 140 civilians so it had better be pretty clearly superior to inaction.
Lastly it was conservatives who opened Guantanamo and refuse to close it, conservatives who passed the Patriot Act, conservatives who called anti-war activists "treasonous". It's pretty hard to take the high road on liberties unless you mean "Gun Control" which is as much an innate right as "The Right to Own High Explosives" which nobody claims because thankfully it wasn't deemed sensible 300 years ago to say "the people's right to bare C4 shall not be infringed.".
Falcon 9 has engine 1-engine out capability almost on the launch pad. 9/8 = 1.12 (coincidence) but on the launch pad has a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1.18. It only takes a handful of seconds after liftoff to have burned enough fuel to reach 1.2. However it does take about 15 seconds before it could theoretically suffer 2-engine loss and *hover*. Certainly wouldn't make it to space but there is a time at which space craft definitely do have an abundance of engines for their thrust/weight ratio. Falcon 9 again actually starts throttling down before first stage shut-down.
Windows 8 and 10 have a user accessible file system without compromising security. It's kind of a PITA in some situations because the user has to elevate each folder's access privileges per application and some some folders like like Win32 Program Files and the System directory are off-limits (except through UNC hacks).
Forces developers to rethink a lot of stuff too since file access isn't guaranteed.
Chopping people's heads off to make a point and to recruit more crazies is not necessarily evil... uh huh.
We execute people to "make a point" when they feel they warrant it. Lots of people are calling for indiscriminate carpet bombing of Syria to "Make a point" which will undoubtedly murder far more than 150 civilians.
I'm not 100% convinced that amputation is better or worse than life imprisonment. I would take amputation to being a three-strike burglar thrown in jail for the next 40 years.
'The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions' I think is the most apt true-ism in this instance. ISIS has a viewpoint on what the perfect society looks like. They'll kill or jail or enslave anyone who threatens that ideal society. So do we. We just have a more 'enlightened' perspective on what that ideal society looks like.
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Apple will be the gatekeeper for music, and Netflix for video.
Apple is so far from the gatekeeper for music these days that it's laughable. Ironically it's the Zune subscription that has succeeded. It was just Spotify who made it happen because of its cross platform nature.
Microsoft saw the future and then tried to sell the past (mp3 players) as a bundle and failed. Spotify did the exact same thing (minus songs you get to keep) for $5 less and did gangbusters.
Now Apple is trying to play catchup in the music realm.
Another point on this. When Apple started locking in the music industry, the labels also matched to avoid too strong of a monopoly. So Zune music service pretty much just said "Give us what you're giving Apple" and was able to build out their library. Spotify wouldn't have stood a chance in hell of negotiating those contracts if iTunes wasn't already getting sweet digital rates. Netflix wrenched open the door and now Amazon often has the same films because the studios both want a bidding war and they also aren't going to spend too much time negotiating most of their catalogue.
Hearing these conspiracies is like listening to right wing nuts go on about how everybody is eventually going to be driven into a FEMA camp.
And as to $0.99 to change your theme color? Well, I guess that's not paranoid since that happened in 1996 with "Windows 95 Plus!" which mostly just added theme colors for a few bucks. So nothing new there. But "Want to install a third party browser?" 1. They would get sued out of existence. 2. only if the third party browser charged a price in the store which none do on any other platform. You don't see chrome on charging money so no it won't cost anything.
Precision GPS. I've driven 5 mph over a mountain pass following the white line with my door open looking down while my passenger watched for tail lights ahead. If I could have followed 3-5' accurate Gps I would have lane split and been more than fine.
Microsoft already allows Win32 in store apps -- you do have to rebuild, but create a UWP app and bring in the Desktop Extensions SDK and that give you Win32.
That's only a very small subset of Win32. Project Centenial http://www.brianmadden.com/blo... is in the works though to allow full Win32 apps to run in the WinRT sandbox.
As to battery life, if you can play games on your phone you can run a Win32 App without worry.
I've worked on ads that were seen by tens of millions of people, who knew that in the process they became windows users! I should apparently be hired as a Microsoft Evangelist. /s
Windows was also used by Weta on those films. Every film has at least one windows license doing something. That means every Ubuntu user is simultaneously a Windows and OSX user.
Both causes though may have been mitigated with the size of the ground based landing pad. If you don't have to land quite so precisely you won't have to make as many corrections that means less use of hydraulic fluid and less engine vectoring.
Narrow bandwidth is exactly what you want from a display's color primary. The more pure the display is the more saturated it is and the wider the color gamut. If someone could really create an LCD with a perfect 630nm red, 550nm green and 450nm blue without any other frequencies it would be a fantastic display. The ultimate displays currently available today are lasers because they naturally produce extremely narrow frequency bands exclusively. The second best are probably though LCDs + Quantum dot. Which are already almost achieving the full Rec2020 gamut.
http://static1.squarespace.com...
Full LED displays (NOT LCDs with LED backlights) can easily reproduce a wider range of colors if they use the right LEDs (some displays have added an extra color like yellow, some simply move the RGB LEDs further apart on the spectrum). Other display types can do this as well, but it's not as simple as with LEDs.
Full LED displays are only used in like ballpark score boards and billboards and their color is terrible. Unless you mean OLED, in which case just call it OLED. Almost every LCD display today uses a white LED and an array of filters.
Most "Full LED" displays are just 6500k LEDs with a colored filter. So a white LED + LCD filter array is pretty much the same as a white LED + Filter coating. 'Regular' LCDs are also just as good as OLED at color gamut if not better. You take a UV LED and you use quantum dot emission as your color mask and you have an incredibly pure color output. Which by the way is what you want out of your red green and blue primaries, not them "further apart" (further apart to where infrared, ultraviolet and... not sure where you want green to move to.). Rec2020's green isn't "further apart on the spectrum" compared to Rec709's green from blue it's just a narrower, more saturated green. It's a question of purity not 'distance'. Saturation is product of the width of the spectrum emitted not its wavelength.
It is impossible to separate "HDR" photography from "HDR" displays because they both do the same thing - fuck with contrast in different areas of an image differently in order to overcome limitations of the resolution/gamut of the format/display.
Wow ignorance and attitude what a lovely combination.
Neither inherently 'fuck with contrast'. HDR photography is just capturing a High Dynamic Range of values. So SDR would be 0.01 nits -> 100 nits. HDR would be 0.01 nits to 1,000 nits. Almost every decent camera today can capture at least that much dynamic range.
. The display you used as an example is "HDR" via the "Peak Illuminator" feature. It's just dimming the LED array, as all "HDR" displays are.
Nope. HDR is overdriving the LED array not dimming them. Yes, most HDR displays do use localized dimming but OLED doesn't, it just displays each pixel by itself and it can get up to 600+ nits which isn't as good as LED but every other pixel can be black black to 600 nits. Yes if you don't have enough LED resolution then there can be some localized tone mapping errors but on really good displays with 120+ zones the haloing of bright objects on dark is pretty subtle, comparable to flare in a good DLP rear projection display.
There is definitely a benefit to HDR. Just as it's different to look at a photograph of a street lamp vs looking at a street lamp, having that real peak values up in the thousands of nits gives your eyes and brain the illusion of being 'more real' because it's not trying to trick you into thinking you're looking at a bright object... the object is actually bright.
Nooooope. I have a Vizio UHD tv and apparently fullscreen Netflix actually changes your display settings and even through 2.0 when I maximize or minimize the Netflix window I lose input and sometimes the TV completely loses sync and says "no Input" until you change to a different HDMI and back. Sadly it seems to have gotten way worse.
No, HDR is about fucking with contrast in one part of the image and fucking with contrast differently in another part of the image.
It looks terrible every fucking time, and it's less accurate than just linearly plotting everything after setting your curves once for the whole image.
It's absolutely retarded to have a curve that is different over different parts of the same image.
Effectively every sentence you wrote is completely wrong. What you are calling "HDR" is actually "localized tone mapping" it's a filter effect like adjusting the histogram, it's not HDR. Your reaction is like someone looking at a red/green anaglyph stereo image (http://www.designcommunity.com/scrapbook/images/125.jpg) without glasses on and saying "This 3D business is AWFUL, the colors are all weird and the image is doubled. It doesn't look dimensional at all!"
HDR just means "High Dynamic Range". HDR displays are about accurately reproducing the world as captured on a display. So if you have a bright flashlight, the bulb could theoretically be so bright on screen that you have to squint or shield your eyes. That would probably be a poor aesthetic choice but it's not about doing localized tone mapping, it's about reproducing the world as it really exists slightly better. The trick is that they want to reproduce 16+ stops of luminance data and they don't want to break HDMI or BluRay. So their trick is to heavily compress the say 20 stops of dynamic range into only 10 bits. That means they have a gamma curve which is non-linear. And that's nothing new. Almost every single image in existence is gamma encoded in either Rec709 or sRGB's gamma. Because in order to store a SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) image like a jpeg you would be wasting a lot of data on precision the human eye can't see when stored in linear.
HDR photography does not require multiple exposures. HDR photography is just high dynamic range capture. A modern sensor like Alexa or RED can capture 18 stops of dynamic range. That is on the low end but in a single exposure already HDR.
HDR is not shit. HDR is exactly what you want "A wider range" of contrast. Instead of displaying black to gray, HDR can display black to blinding white. It's arguably and in my experience far more impressive than higher resolution.
Brightness is important to color rendition. If you have a pure saturated red screen. But it's at 50 nits it's going to look like an unsaturated drab screen. Crank up that pure red screen to 5,000 nits and the color will be perceived as eye searing fire. If you can only ever reproduce a hue at 100 nits you're missing out on all colors which are very bright. Take a simple gradient: http://onlineteachingtoolkit.c...
If your display could only handle the bottom half of the luminance you wouldn't be able to reproduce the top "blue" blue it would always be a "deep blue".
Brightness is an additional dimension to the vibrance of color separate from the wider gamut and more saturated primaries of 2020. That's why we can express 3 dimensions to every color: hue, Saturation (Rec2020 primaries) and Value (HDR).
Also HDR adds 10bit color almost by necessity as much as Rec2020's larger gamut so HDR material is at least 10 bit.
Yeah really autonomous cars imo should be viewed as circulators. Take mass transit to a nearby hub and then hop on a private circulator to do the last mile jaunt to your house.
Shit I was hoping someone could explain to me after having read the full Wikipedia article how in any way that is a shibboleth.
Of course the downside to this is that it would show up Microsoft as hypocritical for copying Google APIs whilst at the same time supporting Oracle in its fight against Google for copying Oracle APIs.
If Google is going to undermine Oracle's APIs, Microsoft might as well retaliate and undermine Google. That's not really hypocritical. That's like saying "I want us to go to the circus. But if we decide that we are going to the movies, I'm coming too since I'm not just going to sit at home."
read from a journal entry she says she wrote in May 2006 about her then-husband. "He got mad at me for ignoring him and grabbed me and shook me again," she read. "He also threw me to the ground and got on top of me. He started punching me in the stomach and slapped me across the face. I was shaking so bad."
Is her name Amy Elliott Dunne?
For the price of one manned mission we will see tens of thousands of more engineers and scientists inspired to go into STEM.
I know 2 people who are going back to college for mechanical engineering so that they can "work at SpaceX someday". And that's suborbital. Anecdote yes, but listen to all of the Anecdotes of people inspired by Apollo.
Except they're not at all competitive. It would be like a bicycle company saying their bicycle just one-upped the Tesla Model 3 in range and price. Technically true, but what people want is a car not a bicycle and improved electric bicycles won't offer much competition to a mass produced electric car. That's not to say both aren't cool in their own way but the only real company that is seeing competition from Blue Origin at the moment is Virgin Galactic and the SpaceShipTwo. However Virgin Galactic and Rutan already accomplished years ago what BO did today.
What this might do though is give BO a good boost of revenue towards making truly competitive hardware that does do something more useful than give wealthy sightseers a bucket list checkmark.
Pfizer sells a patented product. The only thing stopping someone from making it for $1 instead of $1000 is that patent. The government's courts, police and armies defend Pfizer's business from being destroyed by generic knock offs. Fuck me if using the might and power of the US government to create and defend your business model doesn't deserve *something*.
Let's entertain your silly little sophomoric perspective. Let's say Pfizer owes nothing to the state. Great. The reciprocal principle then means that the state owes nothing then to Pfizer. Lipitor is now free for everybody! In order to avoid paying 2% more in taxes they've now given up $10B next year in revenue to avoid 2% of about $800m in profit which works out to $16m in taxes. Their $10B business model only costs about $120m in taxes total. That's a bargain.
(Back in the 90s): 4 of us were taken to the principles office for the entire day after being separated and interrogated. We were told if we didn't confess and agree to 50 hours of community service they would call the FBI and we would probably have lifetime felony charges on our record. So just "Agree to the community service and terms of your punishment for the next year and it'll all go away."
Yes, it's as nefarious as you expected. We logged onto computers using the sys admin's password (half to fuck with 7th graders and half to actually do his job since he was an inept nitwit whose solution to every problem was re-install windows and couldn't even be bothered to change the 17" monitors from 640x480 to something reasonable like 1024.)
Uhhhh, this is what happens when you use any application written in C, C++, Java, C#, PHP, Python or just about any programming language without adding threading code. The OS is irrelevant.
The right wingers just want to go kill the stupid terrorists.
And who exactly is a terrorist? That's the problem. The US Government has arrested and detained innocent people in the past. The US Government has mistakenly killed innocent people presumed to be terrorists in the past. Almost every anti-terrorism operation kills civilians. So "Just want to go kill stupid terrorists." also means invading Iraq, destabilizing the country and arguably creating the environment in which ISIS emerged. So saying that liberals are creating a disaster through inaction is no more true than saying that conservatives are creating a disaster through action. However when inaction and action both produce equally terrible outcomes--maybe the cheaper option is the better terrible outcome. That's not to say that every action is certainly or even most likely worse than inaction but it is to say that "Just go kill stupid terrorists" is not a logically acceptable path. It costs lives, it costs money and it will inevitably kill far more than 140 civilians so it had better be pretty clearly superior to inaction.
Lastly it was conservatives who opened Guantanamo and refuse to close it, conservatives who passed the Patriot Act, conservatives who called anti-war activists "treasonous". It's pretty hard to take the high road on liberties unless you mean "Gun Control" which is as much an innate right as "The Right to Own High Explosives" which nobody claims because thankfully it wasn't deemed sensible 300 years ago to say "the people's right to bare C4 shall not be infringed.".
Falcon 9 has engine 1-engine out capability almost on the launch pad. 9/8 = 1.12 (coincidence) but on the launch pad has a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1.18. It only takes a handful of seconds after liftoff to have burned enough fuel to reach 1.2. However it does take about 15 seconds before it could theoretically suffer 2-engine loss and *hover*. Certainly wouldn't make it to space but there is a time at which space craft definitely do have an abundance of engines for their thrust/weight ratio. Falcon 9 again actually starts throttling down before first stage shut-down.
Windows 8 and 10 have a user accessible file system without compromising security. It's kind of a PITA in some situations because the user has to elevate each folder's access privileges per application and some some folders like like Win32 Program Files and the System directory are off-limits (except through UNC hacks).
Forces developers to rethink a lot of stuff too since file access isn't guaranteed.
Chopping people's heads off to make a point and to recruit more crazies is not necessarily evil... uh huh.
We execute people to "make a point" when they feel they warrant it. Lots of people are calling for indiscriminate carpet bombing of Syria to "Make a point" which will undoubtedly murder far more than 150 civilians.
I'm not 100% convinced that amputation is better or worse than life imprisonment. I would take amputation to being a three-strike burglar thrown in jail for the next 40 years.
'The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions' I think is the most apt true-ism in this instance. ISIS has a viewpoint on what the perfect society looks like. They'll kill or jail or enslave anyone who threatens that ideal society. So do we. We just have a more 'enlightened' perspective on what that ideal society looks like.