Hi. I ran out of mod points so would like to add this: so far, people have pointed the finger at Microsoft, at the NHS, at end users and pretty much EVERYONE except the manufacturers of devices that decided to embed Windows XP in their "solution".
If instead of Windows someone puts a flavour of Linux, maybe Android or anything else connected to the network and the contract doesn't say anything about when the OS is upgraded, then sooner or later the machine will be forgotten in someone's upgrade plans.
Perhaps the machine manufacturer has their ass covered by saying in the contract "this machine should not be on any network" or something like that, but it's a bit lame if companies and hospitals are buying expensive machines that don't get software upgrades in a timely manner.
Removing the Touchbar would be a big admission of failure. I don't know if your feelings about it are widespread in the Mac user community but I'd be surprised if they removed the last big innovation they announced. I would not be so surprised if they expanded it to replace physical keys elsewhere.
Would this approach not impact hardware development as well? And mobiles and iot? If Microsoft, Google, Apple and all Linux distribution organisations are expected to support older versions permanently, their software legacy grows and with it, the supported hardware combinations also grow.
People here on/. dislike the push to upgrade to Win10, but it's what's going on elsewhere, with more mobile devices being sold than desktop format PCs. The model doesn't suit everyone all at the same time and with the same level of satisfaction, but it does work. If not, BYOD would be uncommon.
As things are, on slashdot what I get is:
Apple: most people run recent iOS versions - this shows Apple is doing well. Newer versions of OS X run well on older Macs too. Excellent Apple!
Google: there's a lot of people on older versions of Android, it would be great if Google were in charge and everyone had the opportunity to upgrade asap! It's the telco operators that are getting in the way of OS greatness! Excellent Google!
Microsoft: In my special case it is 100% reasonable that I want to run Windows XP until the end of times. Everyone who disagrees is wrong and Microsoft is bad for pushing me to Windows Vista/7/8/10. This ransomware story is 100% Microsoft's fault.
Is that relevant? If the EU works more and more like a federation of states, and if the power grids work well enough to distribute cross borders, is it a useful goal to have to aim for 100% local production?
I don't know how it works in big federations like Russia, USA, India and Brazil, but to me it sounds like among cooperative players, sending electricity back and forth to optimise availability and price should not be constrained by state or national borders.
In the UK, the Daily Mail didn't even mention Macron's victory in the front page today, and N Farage is one of several Leave campaigners to say that France is doomed, pretty much like earlier ACs did in this site.
Macron seems to be an annoyance to a lot of deplorables.
Why would they do that? I[...] its still gonna be profitable with as little as they have to support it.
Except... if there's a security breach that affects a lot of devices at a time when MS has already turned those development/maintenance teams into a skeleton crew, or those people already decided that working in legacy tech is not as interesting as everyone else's job at Microsoft and elsewhere.
MS should definitely keep support alive for x years after the last device they put on sale, and hope that x+1 years from now buyers have moved on rather than complain about lack of service.
As the eternal optimist Nokia Lumia 925 owner, I think that the plan here is to let the share go down to near zero and then when the new Zune-mobile product line is launched they'll have awesome growth figures to show:)
To be honest I'm not sure what this new site adds.
I'm interested in what it can subtract. At the moment everyone and their dog needs to publish dozens of news articles to justify their price, be it in terms of ad revenue, or in size of time-slots on a TV channel.
If this Tribune is good enough to stick to the main news for each region, with no pressure or urgency to cover the latest in "weird and wonderful" events, it's an improvement. Sooner or later the other media will stand out as being silly and will lose relevance. A lot like adwords made punch the monkey style ads obsolete for a few years.
Don't know what axe you have to grind with MS and Dynamics, but the online version has its backups accessible from the Admin Center. If you want to grab ALL your stuff from CRM Online and put it in a SQL server in your basement, there's instructions here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c... If you're using on-premises version of Dynamics and SQL, you'll have specific instructions to follow. Finding them in MSDN or Technet is not really difficult.
I'm under the impression you're too keen to bash Dynamics to actually tell the whole story, or any consistent story. Exporting Contacts is beyond Microsoft's capabilities? - very strange. Between Advanced Find and Power Query in Excel you should get what you need.
[...]There is no way Tesla is ever going to make a profit in many years to come[...]
Well if AC can speculate, so can I !
One way to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles would be to make legislation to phase out ICE cars. Mainstream manufacturers would not like it but one way to deal with the chicken and egg problems of electric car adoption would be to set out a modular design for passenger cars and mandate that from... say 2025, all new models need to be ready for retrofitting an electric drivetrain as per the standard. Non-compliant manufacturers will have to take their focus away from passenger vehicles. If manufacturers were clever enough to devise and adopt emissions test defeating software, they had better work together to help fix the tailpipe emissions problem. That's one way Tesla can get to profit sooner - with governments getting serious about phasing out ICE.
The hallowed Model 3 will get trampled in the mass market. Several major companies that actually know how to build cars will have competing electric cars right around the time the Model 3 will be available in significant numbers, with probably very few redeeming features to set it apart
Sure. They are just waiting for Model 3 to be released to *then* defeat Tesla. It's nearly a Bond-villainesque scheme, made primarily to defeat Tesla in the most visible way possible, while sacrificing current market and mindshare. (that was me being sarcastic) AFAIK new models for this year started development a LONG time ago. It's very hard to believe that there is not a Tesla model 4 or 5 in the pipeline, as there should be Ford, Mercedes, Renault, VW, etc. The Model 3 is in production, where are the others?
Moreover, it will get just as much competition as the Model S, with Audi, Mercedes-Benz and BMW all working on luxury electric vehicles that will put the Model S to shame.
Normally, the S Class Mercedes shows the technology that all cars should have several years later. Ever since the Tesla S was released with its lovely software updates, that doesn't seem to be the rule any longer. I'm not from the USA, the German and French car industries are much closer to home... and I just don't see anything good enough to take back the tech leadership. Yes, there's plenty of $1M+ cars in magazines, but only so many oil barons to buy them.
If Mercedes, BMW and the VW Group want to put the Tesla S to shame, they really need to build something instead of making drawings for magazines.
Those were before Russia changed the balance of the war in Assad's favour. It's obvious he's the number 1 suspect because of precedent and having an air force, but I don't see any advantage for Assad's regime to get even more foreign powers involved, especially if it's the USA.
Is sarin gas something that needs a military airplane to launch, or could some random drone launch do what we saw in the news?
I was thinking more in the lines of having devices and games that can make it worthwhile playing on Xbox (mobile) and Xbox (living room) together. If Nintendo can release their mobile/living room console, Microsoft might be in a good position to do similar.
Anyway, this is all Microsoft's problem, not mine:)
...and/or one that can work with Xbox content. It would would be silly to overlook the mobile games market when there's already a lot of Microsoft platform gamers. To assume the only "consoles" that exist are Xbox, Nintendo and Playstation leaves a lot of money on the table.
If developing for more than one of the device types that Windows 10 runs on really does not require a huge incremental effort, then MS should release one of their machines every now and then, and hope that a new handheld format becomes more profitable for them than smartphones have. If buyers don't use smartphones primarily for phone calls, it's time someone tries different form factors.
If you are a vendor who derives a huge percentage of sales from Walmart, you have to think hard whether it makes sense to throw away all those sales or do as Walmart demands and come up with a bonus package or provide some other service Walmart wants.
With all this cost cutting and pressure on suppliers, I wonder how much of the so called obesity epidemic is due to replacing better ingredients with cheaper, more fattening alternatives.
This can be a cooperation across borders. non-USA guys buy the USA senators' data and sooner or later USA guys will have the opportunity to return the favour. Sure, the CIA can fly to Romania to catch someone but we can make it impractical to chase everyone involved in the crowdfunding.
Thanks. I don't have kids but should have thought that there are plenty of opportunities to find out about allergies outside of going to the doctor's. silly me:p
It's one thing to put up a disclaimer saying the chip is not supported and any trouble/bugs/crashes you run into are at your own risk, it's quite another to block the install completely.
Fine, but this policy applies to consumers as well as professional buyers. Why should MS offer to spend time and effort dealing with the backlash of unhappy consumers after they check the "yes, I know what I'm doing" box and 2 years later are writing in support forums that Windows crashes all the time and is worse than Hitler?
When I go to Google Play I occasionally get error messages that are much more vague than what MS is publishing here. The app won't install because my device is incompatible, end of story. If this is good enough for Android, who's going to pay extra to have a higher level of service from Microsoft?
hi. Mortality is not the only useful measure here. It's great that fewer people die with or without vaccination, but there are impacts from being sick that are also useful to mitigate. In the worst cases, people can become permanently debilitated as a consequence of a disease that in others just caused a nasty rash. Another facto to consider, and this IMHO is compatible with the interest in military use for some diseases, is that if a big number of people gets sick at the same time, it is highly disruptive of life in society.
If instead of waiting for people to catch diseases and then gain natural immunity you do something to acquire immunity, you have a better chance of avoiding big numbers in morbidity, not just mortality. It is not just a nice bonus if by doing this each individual is less likely to be spreading the disease for several weeks that year, and is hopefully not becoming deaf or blind.
After all the extensions XP Enterprise ended its support period 3 years ago, according to the MS life cycle DB.
When people in this site talk about supporting old software that they dislike, stuff that old is way overdue for a replacement. People at Microsoft probably are no different, maybe expect about the reaction they get whenever they have to tell anyone their day job was to support Vista or XP:)
Slashdot Mirror
I saw that one too. Looked very unlike Trump, didn't it?
It's as if the Presidential Trump guy from Twitter actually took over.
https://twitter.com/MatureTrum...
Hi. I ran out of mod points so would like to add this: so far, people have pointed the finger at Microsoft, at the NHS, at end users and pretty much EVERYONE except the manufacturers of devices that decided to embed Windows XP in their "solution".
If instead of Windows someone puts a flavour of Linux, maybe Android or anything else connected to the network and the contract doesn't say anything about when the OS is upgraded, then sooner or later the machine will be forgotten in someone's upgrade plans.
Perhaps the machine manufacturer has their ass covered by saying in the contract "this machine should not be on any network" or something like that, but it's a bit lame if companies and hospitals are buying expensive machines that don't get software upgrades in a timely manner.
Removing the Touchbar would be a big admission of failure. I don't know if your feelings about it are widespread in the Mac user community but I'd be surprised if they removed the last big innovation they announced.
I would not be so surprised if they expanded it to replace physical keys elsewhere.
Would this approach not impact hardware development as well? And mobiles and iot?
If Microsoft, Google, Apple and all Linux distribution organisations are expected to support older versions permanently, their software legacy grows and with it, the supported hardware combinations also grow.
People here on /. dislike the push to upgrade to Win10, but it's what's going on elsewhere, with more mobile devices being sold than desktop format PCs. The model doesn't suit everyone all at the same time and with the same level of satisfaction, but it does work. If not, BYOD would be uncommon.
As things are, on slashdot what I get is:
Apple: most people run recent iOS versions - this shows Apple is doing well. Newer versions of OS X run well on older Macs too. Excellent Apple!
Google: there's a lot of people on older versions of Android, it would be great if Google were in charge and everyone had the opportunity to upgrade asap! It's the telco operators that are getting in the way of OS greatness! Excellent Google!
Microsoft: In my special case it is 100% reasonable that I want to run Windows XP until the end of times. Everyone who disagrees is wrong and Microsoft is bad for pushing me to Windows Vista/7/8/10. This ransomware story is 100% Microsoft's fault.
Germany imports its power.
Is that relevant?
If the EU works more and more like a federation of states, and if the power grids work well enough to distribute cross borders, is it a useful goal to have to aim for 100% local production?
I don't know how it works in big federations like Russia, USA, India and Brazil, but to me it sounds like among cooperative players, sending electricity back and forth to optimise availability and price should not be constrained by state or national borders.
Bring back the travel by ship. I don't want a cruise. I just want a cheap way out of North America that doesn't involve the bullshit.
Are there no trains or roads that US people can use to get to Canadian airports?
In the UK, the Daily Mail didn't even mention Macron's victory in the front page today, and N Farage is one of several Leave campaigners to say that France is doomed, pretty much like earlier ACs did in this site.
Macron seems to be an annoyance to a lot of deplorables.
and instead you now have thousands of jobs maintaining and building those robots.
... in one of 4 large companies from China.
Why would they do that? I[...] its still gonna be profitable with as little as they have to support it.
Except... if there's a security breach that affects a lot of devices at a time when MS has already turned those development/maintenance teams into a skeleton crew, or those people already decided that working in legacy tech is not as interesting as everyone else's job at Microsoft and elsewhere.
MS should definitely keep support alive for x years after the last device they put on sale, and hope that x+1 years from now buyers have moved on rather than complain about lack of service.
As the eternal optimist Nokia Lumia 925 owner, I think that the plan here is to let the share go down to near zero and then when the new Zune-mobile product line is launched they'll have awesome growth figures to show :)
"Airlander 10 offers a new type of flight, with ground-breaking capabilities."
Not the best choice of words IMHO
To be honest I'm not sure what this new site adds.
I'm interested in what it can subtract. At the moment everyone and their dog needs to publish dozens of news articles to justify their price, be it in terms of ad revenue, or in size of time-slots on a TV channel.
If this Tribune is good enough to stick to the main news for each region, with no pressure or urgency to cover the latest in "weird and wonderful" events, it's an improvement. Sooner or later the other media will stand out as being silly and will lose relevance. A lot like adwords made punch the monkey style ads obsolete for a few years.
Don't know what axe you have to grind with MS and Dynamics, but the online version has its backups accessible from the Admin Center. If you want to grab ALL your stuff from CRM Online and put it in a SQL server in your basement, there's instructions here:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c...
If you're using on-premises version of Dynamics and SQL, you'll have specific instructions to follow. Finding them in MSDN or Technet is not really difficult.
I'm under the impression you're too keen to bash Dynamics to actually tell the whole story, or any consistent story. Exporting Contacts is beyond Microsoft's capabilities? - very strange. Between Advanced Find and Power Query in Excel you should get what you need.
[...]There is no way Tesla is ever going to make a profit in many years to come[...]
Well if AC can speculate, so can I !
One way to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles would be to make legislation to phase out ICE cars. Mainstream manufacturers would not like it but one way to deal with the chicken and egg problems of electric car adoption would be to set out a modular design for passenger cars and mandate that from... say 2025, all new models need to be ready for retrofitting an electric drivetrain as per the standard. Non-compliant manufacturers will have to take their focus away from passenger vehicles.
If manufacturers were clever enough to devise and adopt emissions test defeating software, they had better work together to help fix the tailpipe emissions problem.
That's one way Tesla can get to profit sooner - with governments getting serious about phasing out ICE.
The hallowed Model 3 will get trampled in the mass market. Several major companies that actually know how to build cars will have competing electric cars right around the time the Model 3 will be available in significant numbers, with probably very few redeeming features to set it apart
Sure. They are just waiting for Model 3 to be released to *then* defeat Tesla. It's nearly a Bond-villainesque scheme, made primarily to defeat Tesla in the most visible way possible, while sacrificing current market and mindshare. (that was me being sarcastic)
AFAIK new models for this year started development a LONG time ago. It's very hard to believe that there is not a Tesla model 4 or 5 in the pipeline, as there should be Ford, Mercedes, Renault, VW, etc. The Model 3 is in production, where are the others?
Moreover, it will get just as much competition as the Model S, with Audi, Mercedes-Benz and BMW all working on luxury electric vehicles that will put the Model S to shame.
Normally, the S Class Mercedes shows the technology that all cars should have several years later. Ever since the Tesla S was released with its lovely software updates, that doesn't seem to be the rule any longer. I'm not from the USA, the German and French car industries are much closer to home... and I just don't see anything good enough to take back the tech leadership. Yes, there's plenty of $1M+ cars in magazines, but only so many oil barons to buy them.
If Mercedes, BMW and the VW Group want to put the Tesla S to shame, they really need to build something instead of making drawings for magazines.
forgot:
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Yellow Kite (22 Feb. 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1473635632
ISBN-13: 978-1473635630
A Beginner's Guide to Losing Your Mind: Survival techniques for staying sane
By Emily Reynolds, formerly a writer at Wired magazine in the UK.
Not an easy read at times, but has +5 insightful bits on how to deal with mental illness, ours or our friends'.
Those were before Russia changed the balance of the war in Assad's favour.
It's obvious he's the number 1 suspect because of precedent and having an air force, but I don't see any advantage for Assad's regime to get even more foreign powers involved, especially if it's the USA.
Is sarin gas something that needs a military airplane to launch, or could some random drone launch do what we saw in the news?
I was thinking more in the lines of having devices and games that can make it worthwhile playing on Xbox (mobile) and Xbox (living room) together. If Nintendo can release their mobile/living room console, Microsoft might be in a good position to do similar.
Anyway, this is all Microsoft's problem, not mine :)
...and/or one that can work with Xbox content. It would would be silly to overlook the mobile games market when there's already a lot of Microsoft platform gamers. To assume the only "consoles" that exist are Xbox, Nintendo and Playstation leaves a lot of money on the table.
If developing for more than one of the device types that Windows 10 runs on really does not require a huge incremental effort, then MS should release one of their machines every now and then, and hope that a new handheld format becomes more profitable for them than smartphones have. If buyers don't use smartphones primarily for phone calls, it's time someone tries different form factors.
If you are a vendor who derives a huge percentage of sales from Walmart, you have to think hard whether it makes sense to throw away all those sales or do as Walmart demands and come up with a bonus package or provide some other service Walmart wants.
With all this cost cutting and pressure on suppliers, I wonder how much of the so called obesity epidemic is due to replacing better ingredients with cheaper, more fattening alternatives.
This can be a cooperation across borders. non-USA guys buy the USA senators' data and sooner or later USA guys will have the opportunity to return the favour. Sure, the CIA can fly to Romania to catch someone but we can make it impractical to chase everyone involved in the crowdfunding.
Thanks. I don't have kids but should have thought that there are plenty of opportunities to find out about allergies outside of going to the doctor's. silly me :p
It's one thing to put up a disclaimer saying the chip is not supported and any trouble/bugs/crashes you run into are at your own risk, it's quite another to block the install completely.
Fine, but this policy applies to consumers as well as professional buyers. Why should MS offer to spend time and effort dealing with the backlash of unhappy consumers after they check the "yes, I know what I'm doing" box and 2 years later are writing in support forums that Windows crashes all the time and is worse than Hitler?
When I go to Google Play I occasionally get error messages that are much more vague than what MS is publishing here. The app won't install because my device is incompatible, end of story. If this is good enough for Android, who's going to pay extra to have a higher level of service from Microsoft?
hi.
Mortality is not the only useful measure here. It's great that fewer people die with or without vaccination, but there are impacts from being sick that are also useful to mitigate. In the worst cases, people can become permanently debilitated as a consequence of a disease that in others just caused a nasty rash. Another facto to consider, and this IMHO is compatible with the interest in military use for some diseases, is that if a big number of people gets sick at the same time, it is highly disruptive of life in society.
If instead of waiting for people to catch diseases and then gain natural immunity you do something to acquire immunity, you have a better chance of avoiding big numbers in morbidity, not just mortality. It is not just a nice bonus if by doing this each individual is less likely to be spreading the disease for several weeks that year, and is hopefully not becoming deaf or blind.
hi. How did you find out about the allergy? Was it from the first vaccine in the schedule, through other testing, or does it run in the family?
Actually... they are!
After all the extensions XP Enterprise ended its support period 3 years ago, according to the MS life cycle DB.
When people in this site talk about supporting old software that they dislike, stuff that old is way overdue for a replacement. People at Microsoft probably are no different, maybe expect about the reaction they get whenever they have to tell anyone their day job was to support Vista or XP :)