What's frustrating is that the stuff Karmashock keeps repeating in their long winded posts is stuff that Microsoft has already at least partly implemented, in software running on real hardware today.
The crop of low-cost x86 tablets on the market today, for about the same price as a similar Android tablet, run real full x86 windows. The touch-based User Interface is in there, and you can easily attach a keyboard/mouse (if one isn't integrated into the hardware already) and it turns into a 'desktop' Windows machine. There are even two versions of Interne Explorer with separate GUI interfaces (a weak point- I wish there was one immediately convertible version, but likely they'll solve that with Windows 10) If I want to edit the registry or do advanced Control Panel functions, I have to go to the desktop.
I'm not sure why Karmashock feels the need to describe what is already mostly out there as if it's an idea Microsoft needs to implement.
Also to those reading: go out and get a current Windows tablet. The only things you'll miss is the touch-based versions of third-party apps from companies that refuse to roll one out yet. Google is refusing to make a Youtube or Chrome app for Metro, and Firefox (unwisely) decided to not make a browser for Metro. Fuckers. It makes sense though, except Mozilla is supposed to be cross-platform, not marooned on the dying peninsula.
it would be even better if the x86 processor could just be made to be mobile friendly.
Are you clueless about the latest generation of mobile x86 processors from Intel, or is it just that you live in the wiring closet of the User Interface testing lab at Apple?
You're basically describing my Windows Tablet (an Asus Transformer). Not completely, because Microsoft hasn't rolled out Windows 10 for me to install on it yet.
Also, it was priced south of $350 and is a real x86 tablet in 10" form factor. I have no idea why anybody would be stupid enough to buy an iPad these days. Unless they're stupid enough to need an App Store to steer their choices for them, I guess.
They should close Moffett Field and redevelop the land. I suspect nobody could afford to operate it without subsidies, especially if the land value was assessed properly.
Actually, it should be enough that most people don't read the entire EULA. That should serve as a precedent that the EULAs are unenforceable. It's just common knowledge that few if any people who click through them read the entire thing. That should be enough to invalidate them.
Businesses that provide services to a customer base and have been subject to the precedents set by tort law for many decades? Businesses who can't compete with freebooters who jump into a market and assume that by tacking 'on the internet' onto the end of their business plan they can skirt a whole bunch of consumer protection regulations?
I mean, Uber is exactly just an 'on the Internet, with a cellphone' deal. Other than that, it's like any other flim-flam taxi service that just hands a dispatch radio to random drivers who want to give 'being a taxi driver' a try. Which, wait, taxi companies aren't allowed to do!?!
Meth survives, and thrives, in backwater areas where people have (for various reasons) no fucking hope of anything ever getting better. In places like southern Indiana, some people just clock out. The zombie bodies they leave behind are frightening.
Part of the problem is caused by the disconnect that is a result of how Insurance companies are selected by individuals. I don't have a very free opportunity to choose who my healthcare insurer is, so it becomes a 'it doesn't matter' issue- I can't chose a more frugual insurer with a lower rate, so since I can't choose one that will bird-dog the itemized charges by a hospital., may as well just go along with it.
Our Health Insurance should not be selected for us by the Human Resources department where we work. The way to do away with this 'interesting' phenomena is to eliminate any tax benefits for a company providing healthcare for their employees. Take away that 'perk' to the companies and more companies would choose to either offer a direct payment 'perk' to employees to choose their own health insurace, or raise pay overall because they would no longer be dumping money into a 'health plan.' Just get rid of the tax incentive that pressures companies into 'offering health benefits' and allow people to spend their health care dollars the way they choose.
Are you actually asserting that someone will discover a JavaScript security hole, then instead of simply exploiting it with a standard web page, they would instead construct an ms-dos program designed to run in dos box that exploits some additional security hole in dos box in order to exploit the JavaScript vulnerability?
That would be a much more interesting hack than the usual exploits. Probably it would be worthy of posting on slashdot.
I would argue that if this is a philantropic 'giving' deal, instead of simply 'giving $100M' they should open up the whole software package. Why is the software this AltSchool uses proprietary? It doesn't sound like 'giving $100M' it sounds like a seed capital investment. You know that with the Zuck involved there's a scheme to monetize the thing if it takes off.
Facebook tracking of all school children from the age they enter pre-school? Priceless!
Carly officiated over the end of the gravy train for the boomer fucks who were just getting settled into their cushy labs at H-P. Sadly for the, the Cold War and the bottomless expenditures for, granted, awesome test equpment was ovah. The old school engineers were all about done and most were close to retirement, and those poor dear boomers were hoping to cash in.
Carly didn't make it happen, but HP was on the way down down down. The end of the Cold War assured that.
"Nothing constructive done" sounds like an excellent government program. Where do we sign up? A tactic of someone in charge just plain shutting things down is even better than our plan of starving the fuckers out by taking away their tax dollars.
As for Mrs. Clinton, before she was First Lady she obtained a Doctorate in Law from Yale and worked as a lawyer, as well as having served on corporate boards.
She rode the waves and reaped the benefits of being a political operator. She has come damn close to being disbarred a few times since getting that *ahem* Doctorate in Law.
She's cut from the same swindling shyster cloth as the husband who cuckolds her.
I for one am willing to blame Collin Powell for 9/11, if you're willing to acknowledge that Hillary Clinton had an abysmal record as Secretary of State, one that shows she would be a terrible choice for President.
This level journalism is what causes people to say that Windows NT left a ship marooned.
Ah, you mean that old RexBallard-era chestnut on the 'Government Computer News' website? For some reason that's the only article I have EVER seen linked to from that particular website.
We probably end up with something worse than the sea water that we start out with. Remember, this is cost effective lithium extraction, not the friendly kind.
I have a book in my library titled: "Microsoft BASIC And It's Files" by dilithium press, copyright 1982.
Reading the title today, one would think that it was a book that examined the internal structure (the 'files') of Microsoft BASIC.
No, in fact it's a book that teaches how to use the File Manipulation features on the various computers (TRS-80, Osborne 1, etc.) that ran Microsoft BASIC. It's very open-ended like all Personal Computing books of the era, because one could never know at that time exactly how someone had bootstrapped their computer into running Microsoft BASIC, one could only assume they had gotten there somehow.
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What's frustrating is that the stuff Karmashock keeps repeating in their long winded posts is stuff that Microsoft has already at least partly implemented, in software running on real hardware today.
The crop of low-cost x86 tablets on the market today, for about the same price as a similar Android tablet, run real full x86 windows. The touch-based User Interface is in there, and you can easily attach a keyboard/mouse (if one isn't integrated into the hardware already) and it turns into a 'desktop' Windows machine. There are even two versions of Interne Explorer with separate GUI interfaces (a weak point- I wish there was one immediately convertible version, but likely they'll solve that with Windows 10) If I want to edit the registry or do advanced Control Panel functions, I have to go to the desktop.
I'm not sure why Karmashock feels the need to describe what is already mostly out there as if it's an idea Microsoft needs to implement.
Also to those reading: go out and get a current Windows tablet. The only things you'll miss is the touch-based versions of third-party apps from companies that refuse to roll one out yet. Google is refusing to make a Youtube or Chrome app for Metro, and Firefox (unwisely) decided to not make a browser for Metro. Fuckers. It makes sense though, except Mozilla is supposed to be cross-platform, not marooned on the dying peninsula.
If you have to reach back to the spreadsheet as your example of a killer app, the Apple 2 should have enough power to suit your purposes.
Your mouse has a more powerful processor than the Apple 2, btw.
it would be even better if the x86 processor could just be made to be mobile friendly.
Are you clueless about the latest generation of mobile x86 processors from Intel, or is it just that you live in the wiring closet of the User Interface testing lab at Apple?
You're basically describing my Windows Tablet (an Asus Transformer). Not completely, because Microsoft hasn't rolled out Windows 10 for me to install on it yet.
Also, it was priced south of $350 and is a real x86 tablet in 10" form factor. I have no idea why anybody would be stupid enough to buy an iPad these days. Unless they're stupid enough to need an App Store to steer their choices for them, I guess.
They should close Moffett Field and redevelop the land. I suspect nobody could afford to operate it without subsidies, especially if the land value was assessed properly.
A statue of Steve Jobs with a wash mechanism to rinse off, contain and label each spit sample.
I know plenty of people who'd line up for it.
Do they want urine samples, too?
Actually, it should be enough that most people don't read the entire EULA. That should serve as a precedent that the EULAs are unenforceable. It's just common knowledge that few if any people who click through them read the entire thing. That should be enough to invalidate them.
'crap compared to iTunes' is a pretty low bar.
Let's just say that the music biz has always thrived on marketing fluff and hype, and that's a core competency at Apple.
Businesses that provide services to a customer base and have been subject to the precedents set by tort law for many decades? Businesses who can't compete with freebooters who jump into a market and assume that by tacking 'on the internet' onto the end of their business plan they can skirt a whole bunch of consumer protection regulations?
I mean, Uber is exactly just an 'on the Internet, with a cellphone' deal. Other than that, it's like any other flim-flam taxi service that just hands a dispatch radio to random drivers who want to give 'being a taxi driver' a try. Which, wait, taxi companies aren't allowed to do!?!
I have a favorite song I sing to myself when some clueless fuck controlling a big rig is screwing up rush hour traffic:
"I've been working on the railroad,
all the live-long day.
I've been working on the railroad,
since they took my truck away."
I WANT that fucker in the snow, prying at a stuck switch somewhere in a switchyard.
Meth survives, and thrives, in backwater areas where people have (for various reasons) no fucking hope of anything ever getting better. In places like southern Indiana, some people just clock out. The zombie bodies they leave behind are frightening.
Part of the problem is caused by the disconnect that is a result of how Insurance companies are selected by individuals. I don't have a very free opportunity to choose who my healthcare insurer is, so it becomes a 'it doesn't matter' issue- I can't chose a more frugual insurer with a lower rate, so since I can't choose one that will bird-dog the itemized charges by a hospital., may as well just go along with it.
Our Health Insurance should not be selected for us by the Human Resources department where we work. The way to do away with this 'interesting' phenomena is to eliminate any tax benefits for a company providing healthcare for their employees. Take away that 'perk' to the companies and more companies would choose to either offer a direct payment 'perk' to employees to choose their own health insurace, or raise pay overall because they would no longer be dumping money into a 'health plan.' Just get rid of the tax incentive that pressures companies into 'offering health benefits' and allow people to spend their health care dollars the way they choose.
That would be a much more interesting hack than the usual exploits. Probably it would be worthy of posting on slashdot.
I would argue that if this is a philantropic 'giving' deal, instead of simply 'giving $100M' they should open up the whole software package. Why is the software this AltSchool uses proprietary? It doesn't sound like 'giving $100M' it sounds like a seed capital investment. You know that with the Zuck involved there's a scheme to monetize the thing if it takes off.
Facebook tracking of all school children from the age they enter pre-school? Priceless!
Carly officiated over the end of the gravy train for the boomer fucks who were just getting settled into their cushy labs at H-P. Sadly for the, the Cold War and the bottomless expenditures for, granted, awesome test equpment was ovah. The old school engineers were all about done and most were close to retirement, and those poor dear boomers were hoping to cash in.
Carly didn't make it happen, but HP was on the way down down down. The end of the Cold War assured that.
"Nothing constructive done" sounds like an excellent government program. Where do we sign up? A tactic of someone in charge just plain shutting things down is even better than our plan of starving the fuckers out by taking away their tax dollars.
Imagine the insult to the GOP base of marrying someone who isn't white and an immigrant!
You go ahead and imagine, since this is apparently your pretend-time.
"It's Hillary's Turn This Time."
I remember when they said that about Bob Dole. I hope it turns out the same for kankles.
As for Mrs. Clinton, before she was First Lady she obtained a Doctorate in Law from Yale and worked as a lawyer, as well as having served on corporate boards.
She rode the waves and reaped the benefits of being a political operator. She has come damn close to being disbarred a few times since getting that *ahem* Doctorate in Law.
She's cut from the same swindling shyster cloth as the husband who cuckolds her.
I for one am willing to blame Collin Powell for 9/11, if you're willing to acknowledge that Hillary Clinton had an abysmal record as Secretary of State, one that shows she would be a terrible choice for President.
This level journalism is what causes people to say that Windows NT left a ship marooned.
Ah, you mean that old RexBallard-era chestnut on the 'Government Computer News' website? For some reason that's the only article I have EVER seen linked to from that particular website.
We probably end up with something worse than the sea water that we start out with. Remember, this is cost effective lithium extraction, not the friendly kind.
Coal scales up well for a whole community to use it collectively.
So the mess is in one communally owned plant, not in everyone's houses.
I prefer:
10 A$=""
20 A$=A$+INKEY$
30 PRINT A$
40 GOTO 20
Run it, and start typing random stuff on the keyboard.
I have a book in my library titled: "Microsoft BASIC And It's Files" by dilithium press, copyright 1982.
Reading the title today, one would think that it was a book that examined the internal structure (the 'files') of Microsoft BASIC.
No, in fact it's a book that teaches how to use the File Manipulation features on the various computers (TRS-80, Osborne 1, etc.) that ran Microsoft BASIC. It's very open-ended like all Personal Computing books of the era, because one could never know at that time exactly how someone had bootstrapped their computer into running Microsoft BASIC, one could only assume they had gotten there somehow.