Whoever thought the AI was accurate enough is to blame, that is, the person who approved its use for that patient and then signed off on the diagnosis. I mean, people are verifying this stuff right? It's not like the AI has any authority itself.
*alleged* charges. There is nothing formal, only rumors at this point. There is nothing they could actually charge him of other than anything any other journalist has done in publishing same information.
So if it's unintentional that means a bug or error has been found in software designed to define the content
Are we going to punish companies for bugs? Perhaps the measure should at least allow the companies to address it in a timely manner, or to prove that they were at least attempting to be stringent? A punishment for something unintentional seems a little extreme.
It has been clear since MS has been using its Cortana management software to control and manage services, notifications, and hooks into contacts/mail/messages/etc on devices from different vendors running different operating systems that they wish to manage everything through their own platform, making users go through them to get things done.
iTunes was easy to see, if people ran Windows 10 S and couldn't connect their iPhone or iPad they'd get rid of Windows. But Steam Origin GoG and UPlay would be surprising to see on there.
On Android you can install Amazon Store, on Windows there's Steam, Origin, UPlay, GoG, on Mac there is Steam as well, these are all curated storefronts with an eye on malware.
The issue here is they cannot be added to Windows 10 S as a companion storefront even though they do as much to "lock out the malware developers and remove the need for virus scanners."
Since you're restricted to one store it stifles competitive pricing for apps and games.
OEMs will be happy to include 10 S as it makes their devices cheaper and easier to support, it will be the defacto standard version of Windows, suddenly all casual desktop users are funneled to the Windows Store.
If MS had a store API that let other vendors hook in and provide their own storefronts this would not be a big deal, but for some reason they don't. I hear the Windows Store compared to a package repo in Linux, but it's not, you can't add third party sources.
Yes, they closed down their own development, but are tasking this team to support third party projects attempting to develop VR games.
"We've decided to shift our focus away from internal content creation to support more external production," Jason Rubin of Oculus said. "As part of that shift, we'll be winding down Story Studio. Now that a large community of filmmakers and developers are committed to the narrative VR art form, we're going to focus on funding and supporting their content."
I don't see this as anything to do with homosexuality, just a euphemism for "brown nosing" which itself is not a reference to coprophilia, but a euphemism for "sucking up to someone", again nothing to do with actual sucking... Oh you get the point.
How much discount do you get from them gathering information? And if the price increases does it automatically reorder? Is that increase just for you (a la amazon) or for everyone? Does it automatically price compare? Lots of fails here...
It won't fail. It's cheaper for OEMs to include and less things can go wrong on it. No more bonsai buddy toolbar cleanups etc. Harder for app piracy to take place. The publishers, users, and manufacturers will see it as a win.
The only people who will be upset are more hard core users, and they've shown much tenacity when it comes to putting up with the crap Windows throws at them. Windows' share is about the same even after Vista, Win8, and Win10 shenanigans, and die hards are sticking to Win7 come hell or high water.
I'm sure whoever gets stuck with 10 S is going to stick with it as well. (The S stands for Stockholm!)
Well I totally agree, but they have always had this mindset and it seems baked into their vision, they seem to want to get there no matter how slowly. They've gotten this far and nobody's jumping. I imagine they'll try to cut a deal to allow other stores... Either that or some government/group is going to be upset that a store is tied into an OS... But that is why they're starting to ship it tied to a device, like the iTunes app store and Google Play store. It would probably be a long court battle and by then the damage would be done.
I mean you're right, the only reason they'd change course is if it hurts their bottom line... But with businesses and casuals being the only groups who make them money (people who use steam don't really) that's who they're targeting and trying to keep. They will (and have) put up with the exploitation and see the coming lockdown as a security and usability benefit.
It's like a package manager but without the ability to choose repos, limiting software library or forcing you to side load or simply accepting risk of running unverified software. It also binds you to a single vendor. So it's a worse solution even for those who want it as there will be little competition for pricing.
You're looking at it from your perspective for what you want, most Windows users are not like you, they're businesses that pay for expensive apps which will have no problems being available through Windows store, or home users that just use it for school and web browsing. Now for the users who are like you, they're still jumping through hoops to bend Windows to their will or stay on Windows 7, you guys are willing to put up with a lot, so they don't have to care about you. You'll always be there.
You're already saying you won't jump ship to Linux until your games are gone, which means you're still planning to stick with Windows. MS will continue to let you run Win32 on Pro versions of Windows, so you won't lose your steam library. However they will stop updating Win32, so games will naturally end up UWP and on the Windows Store, so Microsoft doesn't care. Once that happens, they will make it more annoying to run straight Win32 apps, forcing you to side load them, perhaps only allowing certain features such as Games Mode and Beam and other built in crap to work with UWP software, and sure you don't care about that but in the future it could mean forcing Win32 support through a separate VM controlled by hypervisor, effectively splitting Windows, and then let support for that wither off and die.
By then you'll be getting all your games through the Windows Store with the shift to UWP anyway, Win32 won't cut it anymore when its APIs no longer offer up to date security. MS will tell developers to switch to UWP if they want to use DirectX 13, and other patched and secure APIs (compared to the rotting Win32 ones anyway) and suddenly running non-Windows Store Win32 apps will be considered a liability.
At the time when laptops were made of plastic, had shitty screens, 2-3 hour battery life, shoehorning numpads on a cramped and badly arranged keyboard, at least 12 status LEDs blinding and distracting you as they blinked or changed state, came preloaded with crapware up the wazoo and recovery images without pure OS installs, terrible joystick/trackballs embedded in the keyboard, flimsy pop-out disc drives...
Of course I wanted a MacBook or MacBook Pro! These things were solid, powerful, had a long battery life, simple design but feature filled and did exactly what you needed.
No wonder everyone has cloned their design. Now I might buy a non-Apple laptop because others have the same design I like but also have removable batteries, and I don't care what OS it comes with because I just install Linux anyway, but Apple is still kind of the brain dead easy decision because I know there is a lot of support for Apple hardware if you like using Linux. With PC laptops it might be a crapshoot because there is more variation in chipsets and hardware support for your exact combination will be less likely.
You're only speaking about a niche and that doesn't really apply to students. Windows is being geared towards end users the same way all other popular devices are these days.
The few power users and content creators will buy a more expensive version of Windows or simply use other OSes, but that last part is unlikely. Windows users are easy to push around and will put up with annoying moving targets like blocking Windows 10 updates and fiddling with the registry and command line, they also put up with crap like preferences reset to defaults with updates, pop up nags, forced annoyances like Cortana. Nobody is jumping ship and they all have a serious case Stockholm syndrome. They're not even looking at choices.
Plus, getting people at a young age used to not being able to use Steam or Origin or UPlay or Good Old Games will be to Microsoft's benefit, and force developers to consider releasing on the Windows Store, also to Microsoft's benefit.
Oh well, I just didn't have much fun with it, the last one I found fun was for DS. It started going off the rails for me with the 3DS entry and this seems like more in that direction. It's fine, I still enjoy the older games. I guess I just like different aspects than others do! I was very into perfecting a timed run of tracks in previous entries and attempting to do that in this game feels less rewarding, it seems almost pointless to play that way in this game.
Thanks for sharing your views I enjoyed reading it
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If Mozilla throws in the towel, all users lose.
Whoever thought the AI was accurate enough is to blame, that is, the person who approved its use for that patient and then signed off on the diagnosis. I mean, people are verifying this stuff right? It's not like the AI has any authority itself.
*alleged* charges. There is nothing formal, only rumors at this point. There is nothing they could actually charge him of other than anything any other journalist has done in publishing same information.
Ask meathead to fix your computer, just hope Gloria doesn't distract him, maybe invite Lionel over to distract her and Edith while he goes to work
but but but but......"with a computer!"
"direct users unintentionally to"
So if it's unintentional that means a bug or error has been found in software designed to define the content
Are we going to punish companies for bugs? Perhaps the measure should at least allow the companies to address it in a timely manner, or to prove that they were at least attempting to be stringent? A punishment for something unintentional seems a little extreme.
It has been clear since MS has been using its Cortana management software to control and manage services, notifications, and hooks into contacts/mail/messages/etc on devices from different vendors running different operating systems that they wish to manage everything through their own platform, making users go through them to get things done.
What good does it do if we know we were hacked if nothing's done about it? I'd rather keep our privacy, the result is the same either way.
iTunes was easy to see, if people ran Windows 10 S and couldn't connect their iPhone or iPad they'd get rid of Windows. But Steam Origin GoG and UPlay would be surprising to see on there.
On Android you can install multiple stores, and yes iOS market is shrinking and you have to pay for apps on iOS that you get free on Android
On Android you can install Amazon Store, on Windows there's Steam, Origin, UPlay, GoG, on Mac there is Steam as well, these are all curated storefronts with an eye on malware.
The issue here is they cannot be added to Windows 10 S as a companion storefront even though they do as much to "lock out the malware developers and remove the need for virus scanners."
Since you're restricted to one store it stifles competitive pricing for apps and games.
OEMs will be happy to include 10 S as it makes their devices cheaper and easier to support, it will be the defacto standard version of Windows, suddenly all casual desktop users are funneled to the Windows Store.
If MS had a store API that let other vendors hook in and provide their own storefronts this would not be a big deal, but for some reason they don't. I hear the Windows Store compared to a package repo in Linux, but it's not, you can't add third party sources.
Yes, they closed down their own development, but are tasking this team to support third party projects attempting to develop VR games.
"We've decided to shift our focus away from internal content creation to support more external production," Jason Rubin of Oculus said. "As part of that shift, we'll be winding down Story Studio. Now that a large community of filmmakers and developers are committed to the narrative VR art form, we're going to focus on funding and supporting their content."
I don't see this as anything to do with homosexuality, just a euphemism for "brown nosing" which itself is not a reference to coprophilia, but a euphemism for "sucking up to someone", again nothing to do with actual sucking... Oh you get the point.
How much discount do you get from them gathering information? And if the price increases does it automatically reorder? Is that increase just for you (a la amazon) or for everyone? Does it automatically price compare? Lots of fails here...
I really wonder why they mandated new drives for the UHD BD spec, when HVEC is much smaller than H264 anyway it could easily fit on dual layer BDs...
Systems like PS4 Pro (or even PS4 since it can do 4k at 30/24Hz) could easily play them if it weren't for the drive requirement
It won't fail. It's cheaper for OEMs to include and less things can go wrong on it. No more bonsai buddy toolbar cleanups etc. Harder for app piracy to take place. The publishers, users, and manufacturers will see it as a win.
The only people who will be upset are more hard core users, and they've shown much tenacity when it comes to putting up with the crap Windows throws at them. Windows' share is about the same even after Vista, Win8, and Win10 shenanigans, and die hards are sticking to Win7 come hell or high water.
I'm sure whoever gets stuck with 10 S is going to stick with it as well. (The S stands for Stockholm!)
I'm talking about when you too get far ahead, cars in back magically speed up
Thanks for the help though :)
Well I totally agree, but they have always had this mindset and it seems baked into their vision, they seem to want to get there no matter how slowly. They've gotten this far and nobody's jumping. I imagine they'll try to cut a deal to allow other stores... Either that or some government/group is going to be upset that a store is tied into an OS... But that is why they're starting to ship it tied to a device, like the iTunes app store and Google Play store. It would probably be a long court battle and by then the damage would be done.
I mean you're right, the only reason they'd change course is if it hurts their bottom line... But with businesses and casuals being the only groups who make them money (people who use steam don't really) that's who they're targeting and trying to keep. They will (and have) put up with the exploitation and see the coming lockdown as a security and usability benefit.
It's like a package manager but without the ability to choose repos, limiting software library or forcing you to side load or simply accepting risk of running unverified software. It also binds you to a single vendor. So it's a worse solution even for those who want it as there will be little competition for pricing.
You're looking at it from your perspective for what you want, most Windows users are not like you, they're businesses that pay for expensive apps which will have no problems being available through Windows store, or home users that just use it for school and web browsing. Now for the users who are like you, they're still jumping through hoops to bend Windows to their will or stay on Windows 7, you guys are willing to put up with a lot, so they don't have to care about you. You'll always be there.
You're already saying you won't jump ship to Linux until your games are gone, which means you're still planning to stick with Windows. MS will continue to let you run Win32 on Pro versions of Windows, so you won't lose your steam library. However they will stop updating Win32, so games will naturally end up UWP and on the Windows Store, so Microsoft doesn't care. Once that happens, they will make it more annoying to run straight Win32 apps, forcing you to side load them, perhaps only allowing certain features such as Games Mode and Beam and other built in crap to work with UWP software, and sure you don't care about that but in the future it could mean forcing Win32 support through a separate VM controlled by hypervisor, effectively splitting Windows, and then let support for that wither off and die.
By then you'll be getting all your games through the Windows Store with the shift to UWP anyway, Win32 won't cut it anymore when its APIs no longer offer up to date security. MS will tell developers to switch to UWP if they want to use DirectX 13, and other patched and secure APIs (compared to the rotting Win32 ones anyway) and suddenly running non-Windows Store Win32 apps will be considered a liability.
At the time when laptops were made of plastic, had shitty screens, 2-3 hour battery life, shoehorning numpads on a cramped and badly arranged keyboard, at least 12 status LEDs blinding and distracting you as they blinked or changed state, came preloaded with crapware up the wazoo and recovery images without pure OS installs, terrible joystick/trackballs embedded in the keyboard, flimsy pop-out disc drives...
Of course I wanted a MacBook or MacBook Pro! These things were solid, powerful, had a long battery life, simple design but feature filled and did exactly what you needed.
No wonder everyone has cloned their design. Now I might buy a non-Apple laptop because others have the same design I like but also have removable batteries, and I don't care what OS it comes with because I just install Linux anyway, but Apple is still kind of the brain dead easy decision because I know there is a lot of support for Apple hardware if you like using Linux. With PC laptops it might be a crapshoot because there is more variation in chipsets and hardware support for your exact combination will be less likely.
You're only speaking about a niche and that doesn't really apply to students. Windows is being geared towards end users the same way all other popular devices are these days.
The few power users and content creators will buy a more expensive version of Windows or simply use other OSes, but that last part is unlikely. Windows users are easy to push around and will put up with annoying moving targets like blocking Windows 10 updates and fiddling with the registry and command line, they also put up with crap like preferences reset to defaults with updates, pop up nags, forced annoyances like Cortana. Nobody is jumping ship and they all have a serious case Stockholm syndrome. They're not even looking at choices.
Plus, getting people at a young age used to not being able to use Steam or Origin or UPlay or Good Old Games will be to Microsoft's benefit, and force developers to consider releasing on the Windows Store, also to Microsoft's benefit.
Why would they change their current course?
Oh well, I just didn't have much fun with it, the last one I found fun was for DS. It started going off the rails for me with the 3DS entry and this seems like more in that direction. It's fine, I still enjoy the older games. I guess I just like different aspects than others do! I was very into perfecting a timed run of tracks in previous entries and attempting to do that in this game feels less rewarding, it seems almost pointless to play that way in this game.
Thanks for sharing your views I enjoyed reading it
Did not mean to put a 'z' instead of an 's', a cringeworthy typo if there ever was one