Driver incompatibility is the big thing. And it's real - when someone's $2,000 microscope camera works with Win7, but not with Win10, upgrading is painful.
"Slap in a SSD" is great when you have three computers at home. When you're dealing with thousands, the simplest steps become year long projects.
I'm small potatoes compared to the military - I manage about 800 desktops and laptops. But if the computer won't run Windows 10 (usually due to driver issues), there's not much choice. Even if the user loves their computer, doesn't want anything newer, and thinks Win10 sucks, I have to upgrade them. I'm a cheapskate by nature, and I hate recycling perfectly good equipment, but that's the cost of doing business.
MoviePass does pay full price for tickets - as far as the movie theater is concerned, they are just another MasterCard provider like Chase or BoA. There is no money going back to MoviePass, and the register at the movie theater does not distinguish between a MoviePass MasterCard and a Chase MasterCard.
The reason AMC is vehemently opposed to MoviePass is because they think it will eventually fail. The dwindling number of regular moviegoers that they have are going to get used to seeing movies for $8-$10 a month. When that falls through, they're going to get sticker shock. I went to saw Jigsaw two nights ago in spite of all the bad reviews, and my first thought of the other people in line was "you idiots are actually paying $12.50 to see this?!"
No, no, no... it will be fact checked by the PUBLIC, not by so called "experts". So that way, the "chemtrails are causing sterility" page will have a much higher rating than the one discussing superfluid spacetime.
We're not a software company. You seriously expect us to hire programmers to write custom code, hire project managers to oversee the programmers, and then take on the care and feeding of that code? Not just code, but system code?
I've been in IT a little over 25 years now. If I brought your idea up at a senior level strategic meeting, I'd be laughed out of the room. This is enterprise level IT, not a bunch of guys gluing shit together in their garage.
We actually do that for our accounting software, but that opens up another can of worms. For example, the software opens up reports in Excel and needs an email client available. That means we need a copy of Office running _inside_Virtual PC. Now all of a sudden we're looking at licensing two copies of Office per machine - not chump change. Export to PDF functionality? Sorry - even though you have a full blow Acrobat DC subscription, it won't work inside your Virtual PC.
And of course, it's possible to get malware inside the Virtual PC. So now we're looking at two antivirus licenses per computer.
As someone who is on the tail end of a 700 computer migration from WinXP to Win7, I feel their pain. A single critical program that won't run on Win7 can be a showstopper. Not to mention special hardware for which no Win7 drivers are available - all of a sudden that $120 upgrade cost for a Win7 license became $25,120 when you include the cost of a new laser engraver.
... then you can't afford a "high end" gaming rig.
Dual-boot is NOT where you want to go with a gaming machine, you'll be fighting drivers on the Linux side every time you get a fresh-off-the-shelf expensive hardware component. If you care enough about gaming performance to even consider building a machine from scratch, then commit to that - rather than trying to make it a jack of all trades.
I've been using Linux since 1992, Windows a few years longer. In that time, I've built up dozens of machines. My suggestion: build a Linux box with components that you know will work with Linux - for example, I stay clear of nVidia because many of those cards are a nightmare on Linux. On my gaming machine I run a $300 nVidia card, etc etc.
You said "Dark matter is just one of two reasonable hypotheses"
I pointed out that non-luminous regular matter is also a valid hypothesis, so you are incorrect that there are only two reasonable hypotheses.
My point being - you are creating a false dichotomy. You are picking two possibilities, and saying dark matter is the more likely of those particular two. That is faulty logic.
I am not a physicist, but why does it have to be mysterious "dark" matter that's causing the discrepancy in the bullet cluster? If it's non-luminous regular matter, we wouldn't be able to detect it either. For that matter, there might be entire classes of elementary particles that exist in those regions of space that don't exist in ours. Homogeneity of the universe is taken as canon by physicists. But this is the same logic as saying "Mercury is a planet like all other planets, and its orbit is being affected by something unknown, therefore Vulcan must exist".
Isn't it equally likely that the gravitational constant is not actually a constant, but varies across different regions of the universe? Dark matter is just a way of forcing equations to match reality, without acknowledging the equation might be wrong. It is the modern equivalent of aether.
There's already a game called Go, which has about a gazillion articles on how to program it. Couldn't you come up with a name that would be less ambiguous? Now, when you see a user group for "Go programming", you have no clue which one it is.
Based on the information trickling out, this doesn't seem to be the case. The conditional logic was fairly sophisticated, to the point of using barometric pressure as one of the parameters. They don't even seem to have built deniability into the code.
On the other hand, the code could be in Java. Those programmers are so verbose, all you have to do is search for the cheatOnEmissionsWhileRunningEPATest() functions.
If the car drove well while complying with emissions requirements, it's doubtful that Volkswagen would have risked an obvious legal violation for some marginal performance gains.
And since they're not going to give you a new engine when you take your car in for recall, it's safe to say that the performance will be reduced when you get it back. For the majority of people, a slight difference in emissions would be preferable to a noticeable drop in performance.
Grandmasters can play chess at a high level because they can understand the position. Understanding the position is what allows them to efficiently prune the tree. For example, if all my opponents pieces are aimed at my king-side, I'm not going to consider king-side castling, or any combination that involves king-side castling. Also, if I know that in the Yugoslav attack of the Sicilian Dragon, exchange sacrifice on c3 is normal, I don't need to think 10 moves ahead to sacrifice a rook for a knight.
Computers are unable to understand positions. Take the final setup mentioned here - http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2014/02/23/sunday-chess-problem-10/
Even a strong engine will analyze for millions of nodes, and believe that black has a definite win. Without identifying the underlying theme of the position - that if White leaves his pieces where they are, Black can never capture, there is no way to understand that this is a draw.
It doesn't even "recognize" good moves. It used Stockfish's evaluation algorithm to build up its own database. It did not "learn" anything new, because Stockfish still runs circles around it.
Your friend might not grasp this fully, but there are quite a few qualified teachers in India, who actually know how to use computers. A good first step might be to contact them, and see what they think, rather than asking a bunch of people on the Internet who haven't actually been to rural India. It's entirely possible that the teachers think kids should focus on basic subjects rather than learn Excel.
Barring that, ask your friend to get a copy of a book called "The Ugly American" by Burdick and Lederer. I'm about 95% sure that he hasn't read it.
That is horrendously bad advice. If I were actually invisible, I would ride on the sidewalk. For riding on the road, you want to stay far enough towards the middle that you don't blend into the surroundings. And when you stop at intersections, you generally need to assert enough room that cars don't squeeze past you. Both those things would be impossible if you were invisible.
You seem to be conflating the subject material being programmed, with the programming per se. As an analogy, it's possible to be an excellent writer without knowing anything about relativity, but you would obviously have to understand relativity thoroughly to write a book about it.
If you're programming wavelet analysis, of course you need to have advanced math skills. But for the overwhelming majority of programmers, math beyond 9th grade or so is simply not necessary. Those programming 3D graphics or physical simulations are exceptions.
(1) I write up a RFP, we contract the appropriate programmers, license a development API for the helpdesk system, develop formal requirements, and spend around $100,000 for a feature that we will use maybe three times in the next year.
(2) I write a SQL query in 5 minutes that pulls the appropriate data, then spend another 15 minutes making the Excel spreadsheet work with it. I give it to my boss and leave for the day at 5pm.
Without knowing anything about our business environment, take a wild guess which method my COO prefers. I'll even give you a clue - he doesn't like spending huge sums of money.
"Free" is how they sell the change to the public. In reality, the open suites simply cannot compete with MS Office on the basis of features. I've used Linux since 1992, and have used Open Office and Libre Office at home for years. But some tasks which would be considered simple in Excel are impossible in Libre. For example, I can create a dashboard in Excel fairly easily, that pulls tickets from the helpdesk SQL database, and gives me a histogram of ages. I have found no way to do that in Libre.
For home use, I would definitely recommend Libre for anyone who doesn't have a particular reason to choose MS Office. But businesses can easily paint themselves into a corner by getting rid of Access.
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By that logic, we should just get rid of Linux, and stick to using Windows. Less total lines of code and all.
I'm going to sketch out some dots (really close together), and I want you to try to connect them...
1 - you're trying to come up with a way to efficiently off people
2 - you're constantly screeching about how fentanyl is instant death
Driver incompatibility is the big thing. And it's real - when someone's $2,000 microscope camera works with Win7, but not with Win10, upgrading is painful.
"Slap in a SSD" is great when you have three computers at home. When you're dealing with thousands, the simplest steps become year long projects.
I'm small potatoes compared to the military - I manage about 800 desktops and laptops. But if the computer won't run Windows 10 (usually due to driver issues), there's not much choice. Even if the user loves their computer, doesn't want anything newer, and thinks Win10 sucks, I have to upgrade them. I'm a cheapskate by nature, and I hate recycling perfectly good equipment, but that's the cost of doing business.
MoviePass does pay full price for tickets - as far as the movie theater is concerned, they are just another MasterCard provider like Chase or BoA. There is no money going back to MoviePass, and the register at the movie theater does not distinguish between a MoviePass MasterCard and a Chase MasterCard.
The reason AMC is vehemently opposed to MoviePass is because they think it will eventually fail. The dwindling number of regular moviegoers that they have are going to get used to seeing movies for $8-$10 a month. When that falls through, they're going to get sticker shock. I went to saw Jigsaw two nights ago in spite of all the bad reviews, and my first thought of the other people in line was "you idiots are actually paying $12.50 to see this?!"
No, no, no... it will be fact checked by the PUBLIC, not by so called "experts". So that way, the "chemtrails are causing sterility" page will have a much higher rating than the one discussing superfluid spacetime.
"Write some custom software"?
We're not a software company. You seriously expect us to hire programmers to write custom code, hire project managers to oversee the programmers, and then take on the care and feeding of that code? Not just code, but system code?
I've been in IT a little over 25 years now. If I brought your idea up at a senior level strategic meeting, I'd be laughed out of the room. This is enterprise level IT, not a bunch of guys gluing shit together in their garage.
We actually do that for our accounting software, but that opens up another can of worms. For example, the software opens up reports in Excel and needs an email client available. That means we need a copy of Office running _inside_Virtual PC. Now all of a sudden we're looking at licensing two copies of Office per machine - not chump change. Export to PDF functionality? Sorry - even though you have a full blow Acrobat DC subscription, it won't work inside your Virtual PC.
And of course, it's possible to get malware inside the Virtual PC. So now we're looking at two antivirus licenses per computer.
As someone who is on the tail end of a 700 computer migration from WinXP to Win7, I feel their pain. A single critical program that won't run on Win7 can be a showstopper. Not to mention special hardware for which no Win7 drivers are available - all of a sudden that $120 upgrade cost for a Win7 license became $25,120 when you include the cost of a new laser engraver.
... then you can't afford a "high end" gaming rig.
Dual-boot is NOT where you want to go with a gaming machine, you'll be fighting drivers on the Linux side every time you get a fresh-off-the-shelf expensive hardware component. If you care enough about gaming performance to even consider building a machine from scratch, then commit to that - rather than trying to make it a jack of all trades.
I've been using Linux since 1992, Windows a few years longer. In that time, I've built up dozens of machines. My suggestion: build a Linux box with components that you know will work with Linux - for example, I stay clear of nVidia because many of those cards are a nightmare on Linux. On my gaming machine I run a $300 nVidia card, etc etc.
Hardware is cheap. What's your time worth?
You said "Dark matter is just one of two reasonable hypotheses"
I pointed out that non-luminous regular matter is also a valid hypothesis, so you are incorrect that there are only two reasonable hypotheses.
My point being - you are creating a false dichotomy. You are picking two possibilities, and saying dark matter is the more likely of those particular two. That is faulty logic.
I am not a physicist, but why does it have to be mysterious "dark" matter that's causing the discrepancy in the bullet cluster? If it's non-luminous regular matter, we wouldn't be able to detect it either. For that matter, there might be entire classes of elementary particles that exist in those regions of space that don't exist in ours. Homogeneity of the universe is taken as canon by physicists. But this is the same logic as saying "Mercury is a planet like all other planets, and its orbit is being affected by something unknown, therefore Vulcan must exist".
Isn't it equally likely that the gravitational constant is not actually a constant, but varies across different regions of the universe? Dark matter is just a way of forcing equations to match reality, without acknowledging the equation might be wrong. It is the modern equivalent of aether.
There's already a game called Go, which has about a gazillion articles on how to program it. Couldn't you come up with a name that would be less ambiguous? Now, when you see a user group for "Go programming", you have no clue which one it is.
Based on the information trickling out, this doesn't seem to be the case. The conditional logic was fairly sophisticated, to the point of using barometric pressure as one of the parameters. They don't even seem to have built deniability into the code.
On the other hand, the code could be in Java. Those programmers are so verbose, all you have to do is search for the cheatOnEmissionsWhileRunningEPATest() functions.
I think that's an "up to" number, which would probably be full throttle at close to redline.
Even then, I doubt most people would care. If everyone was conscientious about clean air, we wouldn't need government regulations in the first place.
If the car drove well while complying with emissions requirements, it's doubtful that Volkswagen would have risked an obvious legal violation for some marginal performance gains.
And since they're not going to give you a new engine when you take your car in for recall, it's safe to say that the performance will be reduced when you get it back. For the majority of people, a slight difference in emissions would be preferable to a noticeable drop in performance.
Grandmasters can play chess at a high level because they can understand the position. Understanding the position is what allows them to efficiently prune the tree. For example, if all my opponents pieces are aimed at my king-side, I'm not going to consider king-side castling, or any combination that involves king-side castling. Also, if I know that in the Yugoslav attack of the Sicilian Dragon, exchange sacrifice on c3 is normal, I don't need to think 10 moves ahead to sacrifice a rook for a knight.
Computers are unable to understand positions. Take the final setup mentioned here - http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2014/02/23/sunday-chess-problem-10/
Even a strong engine will analyze for millions of nodes, and believe that black has a definite win. Without identifying the underlying theme of the position - that if White leaves his pieces where they are, Black can never capture, there is no way to understand that this is a draw.
It doesn't even "recognize" good moves. It used Stockfish's evaluation algorithm to build up its own database. It did not "learn" anything new, because Stockfish still runs circles around it.
Your friend might not grasp this fully, but there are quite a few qualified teachers in India, who actually know how to use computers. A good first step might be to contact them, and see what they think, rather than asking a bunch of people on the Internet who haven't actually been to rural India. It's entirely possible that the teachers think kids should focus on basic subjects rather than learn Excel.
Barring that, ask your friend to get a copy of a book called "The Ugly American" by Burdick and Lederer. I'm about 95% sure that he hasn't read it.
That is horrendously bad advice. If I were actually invisible, I would ride on the sidewalk. For riding on the road, you want to stay far enough towards the middle that you don't blend into the surroundings. And when you stop at intersections, you generally need to assert enough room that cars don't squeeze past you. Both those things would be impossible if you were invisible.
You seem to be conflating the subject material being programmed, with the programming per se. As an analogy, it's possible to be an excellent writer without knowing anything about relativity, but you would obviously have to understand relativity thoroughly to write a book about it.
If you're programming wavelet analysis, of course you need to have advanced math skills. But for the overwhelming majority of programmers, math beyond 9th grade or so is simply not necessary. Those programming 3D graphics or physical simulations are exceptions.
Yes, sure, let's compare those two ideas:
(1) I write up a RFP, we contract the appropriate programmers, license a development API for the helpdesk system, develop formal requirements, and spend around $100,000 for a feature that we will use maybe three times in the next year.
(2) I write a SQL query in 5 minutes that pulls the appropriate data, then spend another 15 minutes making the Excel spreadsheet work with it. I give it to my boss and leave for the day at 5pm.
Without knowing anything about our business environment, take a wild guess which method my COO prefers. I'll even give you a clue - he doesn't like spending huge sums of money.
"Free" is how they sell the change to the public. In reality, the open suites simply cannot compete with MS Office on the basis of features. I've used Linux since 1992, and have used Open Office and Libre Office at home for years. But some tasks which would be considered simple in Excel are impossible in Libre. For example, I can create a dashboard in Excel fairly easily, that pulls tickets from the helpdesk SQL database, and gives me a histogram of ages. I have found no way to do that in Libre.
For home use, I would definitely recommend Libre for anyone who doesn't have a particular reason to choose MS Office. But businesses can easily paint themselves into a corner by getting rid of Access.