It isn't. I haven't personally found a reason to turn off any live tiles... I simply mentioned it as an option, if you really don't like what one is doing.
You'll get some great info from Slashdot, but you'll also get misleading advice like the above.
Cortana is an ad for the ads on Bing
Google Chrome is an ad for the ads on Google. If you're ok with search engines and virtual assistants like Siri or Google Now, I doubt Cortana would raise any real concerns.
I'm not saying you should be ok with search ads or virtual assistant data sent to these companies. That's up to you.
Live Tiles are just ads for the MS App Store
Live Tiles have nothing to do with ads. They're content-focused widgets. The content is completely at the discretion of the developer. And you can turn the "live" part off if you don't like what it shows... or unpin or uninstall the app, you have several options.
Windows 10 does include ads for store apps (called Suggested Apps). They are not live tiles. You can turn suggested apps off via a setting: http://www.zdnet.com/article/h...
Intended or not, Youtube videos will persist in a browser session for days or even weeks (assuming no reboot or browser restart). I listen to certain soundtracks that way, keep them loaded and play when I feel like it.
I'd bet they are written to disk in the form of swap or maybe even browser cache.
Factoring in rewriting millions of lines of code for no reason?
Perhaps, perhaps not. It requires a cost-benefit analysis. My point is that you can't just assume that it is always more cost effective to throw money at continued maintenance of your mainframe system.
For that matter, software maintenance for mainframes is becoming more and more costly as the supply of developers who know how to work with their software gets older and shrinks toward zero.
No, the real "issue" here is that the minimum wage unfairly targets particular employers, those who hire unskilled workers. An increase to minimum wage will impact some industries much more than others.
A better solution would be a universal basic income, with no minimum wage. It would be fair by not targeting particular industries (a progressive tax would pay for it), it would force employers to compete, it could eliminate unemployment (any income you earn, no matter how small, is more than you have and is not needed to survive), and in particular to this discussion it would eliminate much of the competitive advantage of robots.
The joke back then was that it practically trained unwary users to allow any action requiring admin privileges with minimal thought and effort.
I agree, but it wasn't the only one. The same goes for OS X password prompt, learning to run "sudo" before every command in Linux, and in general the disparate nature of corporate software and systems. Even today I have to login every time my phone goes to sleep (which is after just seconds) just to have the ability to view company email (which separately requires logging in every few minutes).
Vista got folks used to clicking a button; these others got them used to entering their password at any request.
Claiming Vistas bad reputation was only caused by the "hard" choice of security over usability is a one sided view of history.
Late or not, shamed or not, it doesn't matter now. Security is much better thanks to those decisions and efforts, so the idea that Windows is a joke of security is one that nobody that understands security has taken seriously for quite some time now.
Actually, people who actually know something about security instead of only reading Slashdot commentary.
People who realize that Vista, despite the inevitable hardships and bad reputation that came with breaking drivers and applications, was the result of a tough but vital decision to make some great improvements to security.
People who understand that sandboxing is a powerful security model despite its limitations, one that is not just promoted by Microsoft but also by Apple and even Google to a degree (e.g. Chrome).
It's a great step, and I don't like being pedantic... but they did not launch into orbit as stated in the article. This is clearly a suborbital launch, to an altitude of 70 km with the flight lasting about 10 minutes.
Even if this were true*,.NET runs on powerful, modern commodity hardware. If you were to start a software project from scratch, it would cost orders of magnitude more to build it using a mainframe system than a.NET based system with similar performance characteristics.
* which it isn't, it's decently performant with JIT and quite speedy with.NET native, even compared with new language compilers and frameworks and.NET code is certainly optimized much better than code run through ancient compilers
I don't think there is a consensus on a repeatable and measurable way to determine what is "real AI". Some people believe that the Turing Test has been passed, and some don't, and some say it doesn't matter because intelligence isn't defined by the ability to communicate on a human level.
Regardless, no, everyone's AI isn't just regular expressions. Example: math. A regular language cannot return the answer to arbitrary math questions like "What is 2 plus 3?" or "What is 38.5 times 96.7?", but Turing complete language can. (But those aren't AI, because the answers amount to a function, a lookup table. At minimum an AI needs to support finding an answer when the domain does not provide a single correct mapping.)
The most fundamental problem with Citizens United is the general idea that money should drive politics in a democratic system, one which purports ideals of giving equal voice to each citizen.
A more compatible system with democracy would be to provide for all campaign funds from the general tax-funded budget. No campaign contributions, no self-spending on campaigns.
We've had the separation of church and state; it's about time for the separation of money and state.
A "complication" is a traditional domain-specific term related to watches, and just means a feature above and beyond standard time-telling (such as moon phases or a calculator).
If you don't know what a complication is related to watches, I could see how "Complications API" is a strange term and might be misinterpreted as a typo of "complicated API".
The Planar display is OLED based and does not require a light source, as mentioned in the video at the link in the summary. Not sure about the Samsung display although I suspect the same is true based on the provided images, unless they put a light source behind the mirror.
A HUD would actually help enhance visibility by tracking road markings, signs, and obstacles that are low visibility, as well as alerting you of events happening in your blind spots. Integrating 3D maps and directions would be handy. Putting your speedometer and other dashboard information closer to your view could reduce time you take your eyes off the road.
They did ditch WinRT. They replaced it with UWP, which is a broader platform with more capability and a roadmap that diverges from the original intent of WinRT.
As for adoption, it's happening at an accelerating pace with several high-profile apps now released or in beta as UWP. Project Centennial is going to make mixed-mode apps possible in order to take advantage of each platform's strengths, but that hasn't been released yet. Between new APIs, more interest in the platform (companies are just now beginning to really consider Windows 10), and Centennial, I think it's unfair to make a judgment about the future of UWP based on past performance of the old WinRT project.
whilst WinRT it's replacement seems to be lacking uptake because it's largely crippled by everything that was wrong with Windows 8 (namely trying to fudge a tablet way of doing things onto the desktop).
The UWP team recently spoke to your point at Build, calling it a mistake to lock down the APIs and committing to move as many Win32-equivalent APIs into UWP as is reasonable (i.e. they are cleaning things up and applying modern application model principles as they copy the APIs).
I did. I based my estimates on an educated guess from my experience working in a similar place, given our local population and the number of individual orders placed per day as well as the number of employees who worked at least half time.
Feel free to make an actual contribution to this discussion by refuting my numbers if you have better data.
You raise good points but they aren't insurmountable. I personally prefer a system where the basic income is below poverty level and provided as a budgeted card, to help prevent abuse.
Everything that qualifies as a "basic need" is already pretty much at top demand. If it isn't, then it isn't a basic need. It's not like suddenly there will be a huge influx of people who haven't eaten before or don't have living arrangements. A tiny few, but not enough to sway the supply/demand curve.
The idea that Government has a solution for every problem, is the actual problem.
We're well past the point of no return. Our society would never eliminate government regulations that support the poor.
My suggestion is to turn some of the lemons into lemonade, to make it a better system. Remove some of the problems by replacing the minimum wage with basic income. It removes a huge government regulation on the market (which only affects a particular set of businesses) and places the burden directly on the government and the taxpayer in general. If society wants it, society should fund it.
Minimum wage also suffers from the problems you mentioned, but in my opinion it is the worse system of the two because of its detrimental effects on the market which will eventually lead to an overwhelming amount of automation-induced unemployment.
Slashdot Mirror
It isn't. I haven't personally found a reason to turn off any live tiles... I simply mentioned it as an option, if you really don't like what one is doing.
You'll get some great info from Slashdot, but you'll also get misleading advice like the above.
Cortana is an ad for the ads on Bing
Google Chrome is an ad for the ads on Google. If you're ok with search engines and virtual assistants like Siri or Google Now, I doubt Cortana would raise any real concerns.
I'm not saying you should be ok with search ads or virtual assistant data sent to these companies. That's up to you.
Live Tiles are just ads for the MS App Store
Live Tiles have nothing to do with ads. They're content-focused widgets. The content is completely at the discretion of the developer. And you can turn the "live" part off if you don't like what it shows... or unpin or uninstall the app, you have several options.
Windows 10 does include ads for store apps (called Suggested Apps). They are not live tiles. You can turn suggested apps off via a setting: http://www.zdnet.com/article/h...
Intended or not, Youtube videos will persist in a browser session for days or even weeks (assuming no reboot or browser restart). I listen to certain soundtracks that way, keep them loaded and play when I feel like it.
I'd bet they are written to disk in the form of swap or maybe even browser cache.
Because there's no evidence that it is going to happen. I haven't seen any blog posts, announcements, or articles related to what you said.
Your assertion is a slippery slope. You are committing the logical fallacy, so the burden is on you.
Factoring in rewriting millions of lines of code for no reason?
Perhaps, perhaps not. It requires a cost-benefit analysis. My point is that you can't just assume that it is always more cost effective to throw money at continued maintenance of your mainframe system.
For that matter, software maintenance for mainframes is becoming more and more costly as the supply of developers who know how to work with their software gets older and shrinks toward zero.
What would be the rationale to not implement this in all Windows systems?
For the same reason they allow you to have a blank password in Windows but not for Microsoft accounts.
This only affects Microsoft Accounts and Azure AD, not local Windows accounts.
No, the real "issue" here is that the minimum wage unfairly targets particular employers, those who hire unskilled workers. An increase to minimum wage will impact some industries much more than others.
A better solution would be a universal basic income, with no minimum wage. It would be fair by not targeting particular industries (a progressive tax would pay for it), it would force employers to compete, it could eliminate unemployment (any income you earn, no matter how small, is more than you have and is not needed to survive), and in particular to this discussion it would eliminate much of the competitive advantage of robots.
If you're not willing to switch to their new subscription-based system
Windows 10 does not require a subscription.
I rolled back the latest Windows Insider build just a few days ago. It works just fine, even in the bleeding edge versions.
The joke back then was that it practically trained unwary users to allow any action requiring admin privileges with minimal thought and effort.
I agree, but it wasn't the only one. The same goes for OS X password prompt, learning to run "sudo" before every command in Linux, and in general the disparate nature of corporate software and systems. Even today I have to login every time my phone goes to sleep (which is after just seconds) just to have the ability to view company email (which separately requires logging in every few minutes).
Vista got folks used to clicking a button; these others got them used to entering their password at any request.
Claiming Vistas bad reputation was only caused by the "hard" choice of security over usability is a one sided view of history.
Strawman argument... I never made that claim.
Late or not, shamed or not, it doesn't matter now. Security is much better thanks to those decisions and efforts, so the idea that Windows is a joke of security is one that nobody that understands security has taken seriously for quite some time now.
Actually, people who actually know something about security instead of only reading Slashdot commentary.
People who realize that Vista, despite the inevitable hardships and bad reputation that came with breaking drivers and applications, was the result of a tough but vital decision to make some great improvements to security.
People who understand that sandboxing is a powerful security model despite its limitations, one that is not just promoted by Microsoft but also by Apple and even Google to a degree (e.g. Chrome).
It's a great step, and I don't like being pedantic... but they did not launch into orbit as stated in the article. This is clearly a suborbital launch, to an altitude of 70 km with the flight lasting about 10 minutes.
In fact, .Net applications generally run slower.
Even if this were true*, .NET runs on powerful, modern commodity hardware. If you were to start a software project from scratch, it would cost orders of magnitude more to build it using a mainframe system than a .NET based system with similar performance characteristics.
* which it isn't, it's decently performant with JIT and quite speedy with .NET native, even compared with new language compilers and frameworks and .NET code is certainly optimized much better than code run through ancient compilers
Real AI hasn't been invented yet
I don't think there is a consensus on a repeatable and measurable way to determine what is "real AI". Some people believe that the Turing Test has been passed, and some don't, and some say it doesn't matter because intelligence isn't defined by the ability to communicate on a human level.
Regardless, no, everyone's AI isn't just regular expressions. Example: math. A regular language cannot return the answer to arbitrary math questions like "What is 2 plus 3?" or "What is 38.5 times 96.7?", but Turing complete language can. (But those aren't AI, because the answers amount to a function, a lookup table. At minimum an AI needs to support finding an answer when the domain does not provide a single correct mapping.)
The most fundamental problem with Citizens United is the general idea that money should drive politics in a democratic system, one which purports ideals of giving equal voice to each citizen.
A more compatible system with democracy would be to provide for all campaign funds from the general tax-funded budget. No campaign contributions, no self-spending on campaigns.
We've had the separation of church and state; it's about time for the separation of money and state.
A "complication" is a traditional domain-specific term related to watches, and just means a feature above and beyond standard time-telling (such as moon phases or a calculator).
If you don't know what a complication is related to watches, I could see how "Complications API" is a strange term and might be misinterpreted as a typo of "complicated API".
Otherwise, that sentence seems self-explanatory.
Eh, those photos show more vivid light than the mirror receives, I doubt that is the case.
The Planar display is OLED based and does not require a light source, as mentioned in the video at the link in the summary. Not sure about the Samsung display although I suspect the same is true based on the provided images, unless they put a light source behind the mirror.
A HUD would actually help enhance visibility by tracking road markings, signs, and obstacles that are low visibility, as well as alerting you of events happening in your blind spots. Integrating 3D maps and directions would be handy. Putting your speedometer and other dashboard information closer to your view could reduce time you take your eyes off the road.
They did ditch WinRT. They replaced it with UWP, which is a broader platform with more capability and a roadmap that diverges from the original intent of WinRT.
As for adoption, it's happening at an accelerating pace with several high-profile apps now released or in beta as UWP. Project Centennial is going to make mixed-mode apps possible in order to take advantage of each platform's strengths, but that hasn't been released yet. Between new APIs, more interest in the platform (companies are just now beginning to really consider Windows 10), and Centennial, I think it's unfair to make a judgment about the future of UWP based on past performance of the old WinRT project.
whilst WinRT it's replacement seems to be lacking uptake because it's largely crippled by everything that was wrong with Windows 8 (namely trying to fudge a tablet way of doing things onto the desktop).
The UWP team recently spoke to your point at Build, calling it a mistake to lock down the APIs and committing to move as many Win32-equivalent APIs into UWP as is reasonable (i.e. they are cleaning things up and applying modern application model principles as they copy the APIs).
I did. I based my estimates on an educated guess from my experience working in a similar place, given our local population and the number of individual orders placed per day as well as the number of employees who worked at least half time.
Feel free to make an actual contribution to this discussion by refuting my numbers if you have better data.
You raise good points but they aren't insurmountable. I personally prefer a system where the basic income is below poverty level and provided as a budgeted card, to help prevent abuse.
Everything that qualifies as a "basic need" is already pretty much at top demand. If it isn't, then it isn't a basic need. It's not like suddenly there will be a huge influx of people who haven't eaten before or don't have living arrangements. A tiny few, but not enough to sway the supply/demand curve.
The idea that Government has a solution for every problem, is the actual problem.
We're well past the point of no return. Our society would never eliminate government regulations that support the poor.
My suggestion is to turn some of the lemons into lemonade, to make it a better system. Remove some of the problems by replacing the minimum wage with basic income. It removes a huge government regulation on the market (which only affects a particular set of businesses) and places the burden directly on the government and the taxpayer in general. If society wants it, society should fund it.
Minimum wage also suffers from the problems you mentioned, but in my opinion it is the worse system of the two because of its detrimental effects on the market which will eventually lead to an overwhelming amount of automation-induced unemployment.