And when you have a lineup of cars a quarter mile long, and your hand pumping gas and diesel into vehicles, how's that going to go for you. Mopst gas stations are not built so they can be gravity fed. Yes, I'm sure there are a few with optimal conditions, but basically, fuel distribution is based upon operating electrical grids.
By "Republican" you mean the chief campaign staff of Donald Trump, who have already admitted to one instance of attempted collusion, and some of which, like Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, have already been outed lying about their foreign contacts.
Can you explain why it's justified? It's the same codebase, and I'm assuming whatever extensions are there for the Xeon processors are part of the kernel and/or distribution.
No, but they can steadily migrate, and it certainly has happened with some enterprises moving to GMail/Calendar, and some educational institutions have put their toes in the water over Google Docs. There are definitely a lot of organizations who are at least considering a post-MS future.
I think Microsoft saw the problem well enough. They saw that computing was steadily moving over to mobile devices. But they could never come up with a device or operating system that gave developers and consumer any particular reason to move to their platform. They've been all but begging these days for people to develop apps for the Microsoft Store, but nobody cares, because it's irrelevant and who is going to waste their time?
So we're going to see them continue to leverage the things they do have dominance in; and that's Office/Back Office. They're going to have to play by Apple's and Google's rules, at least for now, but they need to keep MS-Office and Exchange as THE killer applications. They're still going to have their dominance on the PC, but whether that's going to maintain long term fortunes depends a lot on how the evolution of computers proceeds over the next 10-20 years.
All I know is that my smart phone has altered the way I compute. The bulk of my email correspondence is on my phone, and a lot of casual browsing goes on there as well. I still use a PC at work and have a laptop at home, and use them for coding, spreadsheet and word processing, but that's what they are, workhorses for those things that would be too hard on a phone, and if someone comes up with voice recognition good enough to do dictation, some of my word processing might end up on the phone as well.
Sorry mate, they're all doing it, and it is very much about apps apps apps, and Microsoft could never find a way to compel developers who had been developing on iOS and Android for years to move over to another platform. Microsoft came too late to the party with too little to entice either users or developers. Now they've entered an era when Windows is not installed on a majority of consumer computing devices, so now they're going to have to pay by the Apple and Google walled garden rules.
Wish I had.mod points. An excellent and thoughtful analysis. There are too many people who suffer from a sort of absolutist binary thinking on matters of constitutional rights.
The difference is the fake news purveyors have no concept of accountability. Yes, news outlets will get things wrong, but they also retract when it is discovered that they have.
The only caveat to all of this is that in the age of the Internet, online news sources have sadly started mixing editorial content with actual reporting. This I am very critical of. In the old days, newspapers had a specific section for editorial content, and even the nightly news, where there was editorial content, was usually put at the end of the broadcast and clearly stated as an editorial. On the Internet it can be rather hard to identify what is journalism and what isn't. Fox and CNN's websites are both abusers of this; mixing in the actual reporting with editorials and making it hard to figure out which you're reading.
I just simply don't trust average people on comment forums actually being able in many cases to debunk any claim. Relying upon random comments on the Internet seems a terrible idea to me.
This whole thing seems to feed into the whole "all claims are equally valid" sort of post-modernist claim; a sort of epistemological nihilism which is largely defended by significantly inflating the problems with mainstream journalism.
You will note that when no WMDs were ever found, these news outlets in fact reported that. As opposed to some of the alt-right "news sources" who kept peddling bullshit like the uranium claim and Pizzagate long after both had been fully debunked. And that's the difference. Inevitably even the very best journalists are going to get it wrong sometimes, but there's a degree of accountability there as well. Rolling Stone ate a lot of crow after the Rape on Campus story was debunked, and retracted the story. That's what journalists do when they fuck up. But the fringe bloggers on all sides of the political spectrum are not accountable, and seem to completely reject the notion of accountability. They are propagandists through and through.
At this point it's just willful gullibility. I suspect most people, for instance, that went around spreading the Pizzagate story knew it was bullshit (except for the fruitcake who showed up there with a gun), but the lie serves a purpose.
I think in some peoples' eyes, that's not a problem, that's the point, to obscure reality and to give fake claims the aura of truth by removing any critical capacity to measure them. They don't want anyone, let alone Google or Facebook, going in and debunking their false stories, and will fight tooth and nail to prevent any independent review of the garbage they either are putting out there, or believe themselves.
Since no one is an authority in all fields or in all areas of knowledge, yes, actually we often do need help. I go to the doctor when I have an ailment that needs treatment, because, as it turns out, the guy that delivers my pizzas or the police officer across the street from me likely isn't knowledgeable enough to actual diagnose or treat the problem. Now sure, it is possible that the pizza guy is pursuing a medical degree or the cop happens to have a greater-than-layman's knowledge of the condition, but the odds seem stacked against that.
This idea that somehow we have the tools to assess all claims is little more than post-modern bullshit, and is more a cover for justifying all manner of absurd claims simply because they tickle your ideological leanings. Now maybe Google is the wrong organization to be curating that knowledge or weighing good claims versus bad claims, but this notion that anyone, even the smartest people in the world, have the capacity to judge all claims is just simply nonsense.
I hope the eagles knock each and every one of these machines out of the sky. I hope it ends up costing these companies millions, and there's not a fucking thing they're going to be able to do about it. Drone operators/owners are some of the most selfish, self-entitled assholes around, and every time one of them loses one of their drones, I cheer. Good riddance.
When someone insists they're moving from Google's spyware to Microsoft's spyware because somehow they think they're sticking it to the man, if they're not a shill, then they're just naive, or possibly just an idiot.
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And when you have a lineup of cars a quarter mile long, and your hand pumping gas and diesel into vehicles, how's that going to go for you. Mopst gas stations are not built so they can be gravity fed. Yes, I'm sure there are a few with optimal conditions, but basically, fuel distribution is based upon operating electrical grids.
By "Republican" you mean the chief campaign staff of Donald Trump, who have already admitted to one instance of attempted collusion, and some of which, like Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, have already been outed lying about their foreign contacts.
George W Bush sans two thirds of his brain would have been better. A lobotomized trout would have been better.
And ended up with Donald Trump as president
And when the power to gas pumps stop working, everything grinds to a halt as well.
It doesn't. Thanks for playing.
Can you explain why it's justified? It's the same codebase, and I'm assuming whatever extensions are there for the Xeon processors are part of the kernel and/or distribution.
Most of the actual Windows programs I use would suck very badly indeed on the tiny display and interface of a phone.
No, but they can steadily migrate, and it certainly has happened with some enterprises moving to GMail/Calendar, and some educational institutions have put their toes in the water over Google Docs. There are definitely a lot of organizations who are at least considering a post-MS future.
I've bought three smart phones to one PC, so yeah, my money is definitely not flowing very heavily towards MS these days.
I think Microsoft saw the problem well enough. They saw that computing was steadily moving over to mobile devices. But they could never come up with a device or operating system that gave developers and consumer any particular reason to move to their platform. They've been all but begging these days for people to develop apps for the Microsoft Store, but nobody cares, because it's irrelevant and who is going to waste their time?
So we're going to see them continue to leverage the things they do have dominance in; and that's Office/Back Office. They're going to have to play by Apple's and Google's rules, at least for now, but they need to keep MS-Office and Exchange as THE killer applications. They're still going to have their dominance on the PC, but whether that's going to maintain long term fortunes depends a lot on how the evolution of computers proceeds over the next 10-20 years.
All I know is that my smart phone has altered the way I compute. The bulk of my email correspondence is on my phone, and a lot of casual browsing goes on there as well. I still use a PC at work and have a laptop at home, and use them for coding, spreadsheet and word processing, but that's what they are, workhorses for those things that would be too hard on a phone, and if someone comes up with voice recognition good enough to do dictation, some of my word processing might end up on the phone as well.
And Windows 10 isn't spyware for Microsofr?
Sorry mate, they're all doing it, and it is very much about apps apps apps, and Microsoft could never find a way to compel developers who had been developing on iOS and Android for years to move over to another platform. Microsoft came too late to the party with too little to entice either users or developers. Now they've entered an era when Windows is not installed on a majority of consumer computing devices, so now they're going to have to pay by the Apple and Google walled garden rules.
If you mean "DOA", then I agree. Why would anyone need Win32/64 on a phone?
Wish I had.mod points. An excellent and thoughtful analysis. There are too many people who suffer from a sort of absolutist binary thinking on matters of constitutional rights.
The difference is the fake news purveyors have no concept of accountability. Yes, news outlets will get things wrong, but they also retract when it is discovered that they have.
The only caveat to all of this is that in the age of the Internet, online news sources have sadly started mixing editorial content with actual reporting. This I am very critical of. In the old days, newspapers had a specific section for editorial content, and even the nightly news, where there was editorial content, was usually put at the end of the broadcast and clearly stated as an editorial. On the Internet it can be rather hard to identify what is journalism and what isn't. Fox and CNN's websites are both abusers of this; mixing in the actual reporting with editorials and making it hard to figure out which you're reading.
I just simply don't trust average people on comment forums actually being able in many cases to debunk any claim. Relying upon random comments on the Internet seems a terrible idea to me.
This whole thing seems to feed into the whole "all claims are equally valid" sort of post-modernist claim; a sort of epistemological nihilism which is largely defended by significantly inflating the problems with mainstream journalism.
You will note that when no WMDs were ever found, these news outlets in fact reported that. As opposed to some of the alt-right "news sources" who kept peddling bullshit like the uranium claim and Pizzagate long after both had been fully debunked. And that's the difference. Inevitably even the very best journalists are going to get it wrong sometimes, but there's a degree of accountability there as well. Rolling Stone ate a lot of crow after the Rape on Campus story was debunked, and retracted the story. That's what journalists do when they fuck up. But the fringe bloggers on all sides of the political spectrum are not accountable, and seem to completely reject the notion of accountability. They are propagandists through and through.
At this point it's just willful gullibility. I suspect most people, for instance, that went around spreading the Pizzagate story knew it was bullshit (except for the fruitcake who showed up there with a gun), but the lie serves a purpose.
I think in some peoples' eyes, that's not a problem, that's the point, to obscure reality and to give fake claims the aura of truth by removing any critical capacity to measure them. They don't want anyone, let alone Google or Facebook, going in and debunking their false stories, and will fight tooth and nail to prevent any independent review of the garbage they either are putting out there, or believe themselves.
Since no one is an authority in all fields or in all areas of knowledge, yes, actually we often do need help. I go to the doctor when I have an ailment that needs treatment, because, as it turns out, the guy that delivers my pizzas or the police officer across the street from me likely isn't knowledgeable enough to actual diagnose or treat the problem. Now sure, it is possible that the pizza guy is pursuing a medical degree or the cop happens to have a greater-than-layman's knowledge of the condition, but the odds seem stacked against that.
This idea that somehow we have the tools to assess all claims is little more than post-modern bullshit, and is more a cover for justifying all manner of absurd claims simply because they tickle your ideological leanings. Now maybe Google is the wrong organization to be curating that knowledge or weighing good claims versus bad claims, but this notion that anyone, even the smartest people in the world, have the capacity to judge all claims is just simply nonsense.
Electric cars don't work when the power goes out, ICE powered cars do.
That is until you go to gas up, and there's no power to the pumps.
Slashdot could stop pandering to the likes of you by getting rid of AC postings
I hope the eagles knock each and every one of these machines out of the sky. I hope it ends up costing these companies millions, and there's not a fucking thing they're going to be able to do about it. Drone operators/owners are some of the most selfish, self-entitled assholes around, and every time one of them loses one of their drones, I cheer. Good riddance.
When someone insists they're moving from Google's spyware to Microsoft's spyware because somehow they think they're sticking it to the man, if they're not a shill, then they're just naive, or possibly just an idiot.
Welcome to the age of electronic warfare, where sextants and typewriters may be brought out of mothballs before it's all said and done.
This message is so totally not brought to you by Redmond. Nope, no shilling here...