Android isn't selling because of anything you said. People were moving to smart phones and tablets before android had a workable solution worth a crap. Android just hitched a ride as a cheaper low cost alternative that is almost-but-not-quite what Apple had for years.
If android/Linux was everything you claim, it would represent more than 0.5% on the desktop. Which it isn't.
I already told you the why the market is moving the direction it is. Do with it as you will, but your crackpot theories are just that. Keep deluding yourself if you want.
Hairy feet, as usual, you are misguided. People aren't switching to tablets because of anything Microsoft does are did. The switch was inevitable. A large portion if the population previously bought PCs to consume content, and when a better platform arrived, cheaper, mobile, and better for consuming content became available, those users switched to it.
As for Microsoft listening, perhaps you should listen to yourself. The masses has spoken, and they wanted a more mobile, more touch friendly environment that gets out of their way while the user is consuming content. Lo and behold, that is EXACTLY the UI changes made to windows. It's touch enabled, it gets completely out of the way while the user is running the apps (consuming content), yet still allows them to continue running their old applications they are familiar with. Sounds like Microsoft listened pretty damn well.
Or are you saying that people hate touch enabled devices that get the OS UI out of the way, and in order to protest their absolute hatred for how Microsoft has done that, they've all flicked to tablets... Which DO THE EXACT SAME THING!
Here's my solution to the problem: Remove the TSA agents.
It was directly their presence that got an unarmed passenger shot. For the public safety, they should removed and corralled into a single location in the country, so that should another disgruntled, armed man want to shoot them, they will be isolated from the general public.
Just to pull a car analogy, Windows 8 feels like someone puts the engine and transmission of a sports car into a truck because people love sports cars and how they feel, so it just has to be better for trucks too.
Not a very good analogy considering that the brand new 2014 corvette took the engine from its trucks (the silverado 1500 6.2L).
That depends. There are many things on Windows that outperform the equivalent replacements on linux. Using blanket statements is bad, especially when they are wrong.
So you complain they got rid of the start button, and they add a start button. Now you complain that you wanted a non-full screen start menu.
As if this is a hugely epic problem. I like the new start screen. If you don't (for whatever reason), feel free to install any of the dozen or so replacements, many of them free.
$80...$100 The highest benchmark score for Intel is 1,988 with the G3430, and the highest benchmark score for AMD is 1,385 with the AMD A8-5600K $100..$120 The highest benchmark score for Intel is 1,797 with the i3-3240 (G3430 better buy), and the highest benchmark score for AMD is 1,526 with the FX-4350. $120..$140 The highest benchmark score for Intel is 1,859 with the i3-3245, and the highest benchmark score for AMD is so far down the list I got bored. same trend continues in every bracket
It wasn't agile, or even agile like. It was waterfall in the classical form. Just because minor changes happen doesn't affect the base. They didn't have massively changing deliverables. They didn't hold meetings with the end users (the public) and incorporate new changes every week. They didn't have fully or mostly fully functional moon rockets every couple weeks. They did SOME testing, but the entire project wasn't unit tested every sprint.
The design and goal was set from the start and never changed during the entire project. They didn't build the very least they needed to satisfy the requirements. Every part of the project was over engineered for what it needed to do. Specs were drawn that required most systems to be able to work at 110-150%+ of the requirements.
Almost all waterfall projects have milestones. And almost all large waterfall projects go through an iterative refinement process at the end. That doesn't make it agile. What was lost on this government project was a decent, non-changing scope of work set at the beginning. Agile as most people know falls apart quickly with large complicated systems. Not that this was an extreme example of z large complicated system.
the agile approach could also have been used in the moon program
I'd hate to be the astronaut used when you begin your first unit tests. Especially the ones that happen before the '...and get back home alive' sprint happens.
And courts, judges, car impounds, parking ticket maids, lawyers, prosecutors, public defenders, court room clerks, all the people who have to build and maintain the increased courthouse sizes, and on and on...
And if that happened, I would expect pretty much the same thing. Obama would publicly make a press statement condemning it, make some silly demand for retribution (release some spy or whatnot) then get on with his business as usual.
Would you be friendly with someone who was spying on you?
If she's cute, I might even be more friendly.
Allies are always potential adversaries on any subject. Or do you expect allies to always have the same agendas and always vote and have the same political views on everything?
There is a much larger jump going from 1080p to 4k (1:4) than from 720p to 1080p (4:9), and a lot of people don't like 3D because of other issues, like having to wear glasses. Off-center being dim and less effective. The 3D effect causing headaches, or not working very well in people that have one eye significantly stronger than the other. These are all strikes against why 3D isn't making it into the market that doesn't affect 4K resolution screens.
Having actually seen 4K resolution screens in person, there is quite a difference even from 1080p on 50-60" screens, and they are coming down in price fairly quickly. Last one I saw was a 60" 4k going for under $5k (I don't recall exactly how much, it might have been $3k -- I just remember considering it and it was within my budget). That is a pretty significant drop in price, and I expect it will continue to drop. As it gets cheaper, more people will buy into it.
And to that point, I wouldn't mind if they can read thousands of them daily, so long as the record of it and the location of the car is not used for any other purpose beyond the immediate -- checking registration, reports of it being stolen, or involved in an active crime. Once it is determined that it is not, the records must be eliminated.
You must not write very much. I've had more issues with non-IE browsers doing silly things than IE (9+) in the past few years.
Such as: Firefox not supporting overflow (or lack thereof) on framesets. Chrome/Safari doing incorrect sub-pixel interpretation on images by default -- requiring webkit prefixed styles to get them to behave. Chrome incorrectly sizing absolutely positioned items that have padding. Firefox has really bad CSS3 animations that are jerky, and sometimes don't complete (99% doesn't count). Chome/Safari/opera not supporting colspan='0'. Chrome/Firefox not supporting column layouts correctly.
And about a half dozen other issues, yes, they have all been reported to the various browser makers too. Looks like firefox's overflow on framesets may actually get fixed sometime in the next few months after it was reported 7+ years ago.
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Wow. Nothing you said is right.
Android isn't selling because of anything you said. People were moving to smart phones and tablets before android had a workable solution worth a crap. Android just hitched a ride as a cheaper low cost alternative that is almost-but-not-quite what Apple had for years.
If android/Linux was everything you claim, it would represent more than 0.5% on the desktop. Which it isn't.
I already told you the why the market is moving the direction it is. Do with it as you will, but your crackpot theories are just that. Keep deluding yourself if you want.
Hairy feet, as usual, you are misguided. People aren't switching to tablets because of anything Microsoft does are did. The switch was inevitable. A large portion if the population previously bought PCs to consume content, and when a better platform arrived, cheaper, mobile, and better for consuming content became available, those users switched to it.
As for Microsoft listening, perhaps you should listen to yourself. The masses has spoken, and they wanted a more mobile, more touch friendly environment that gets out of their way while the user is consuming content. Lo and behold, that is EXACTLY the UI changes made to windows. It's touch enabled, it gets completely out of the way while the user is running the apps (consuming content), yet still allows them to continue running their old applications they are familiar with. Sounds like Microsoft listened pretty damn well.
Or are you saying that people hate touch enabled devices that get the OS UI out of the way, and in order to protest their absolute hatred for how Microsoft has done that, they've all flicked to tablets... Which DO THE EXACT SAME THING!
Lol.
Here's my solution to the problem: Remove the TSA agents.
It was directly their presence that got an unarmed passenger shot. For the public safety, they should removed and corralled into a single location in the country, so that should another disgruntled, armed man want to shoot them, they will be isolated from the general public.
Problem solved.
Just to pull a car analogy, Windows 8 feels like someone puts the engine and transmission of a sports car into a truck because people love sports cars and how they feel, so it just has to be better for trucks too.
Not a very good analogy considering that the brand new 2014 corvette took the engine from its trucks (the silverado 1500 6.2L).
That depends. There are many things on Windows that outperform the equivalent replacements on linux. Using blanket statements is bad, especially when they are wrong.
So you complain they got rid of the start button, and they add a start button. Now you complain that you wanted a non-full screen start menu.
As if this is a hugely epic problem. I like the new start screen. If you don't (for whatever reason), feel free to install any of the dozen or so replacements, many of them free.
Of course, you could then look at this benchmark is more indicative of what people actually run: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
$80...$100 The highest benchmark score for Intel is 1,988 with the G3430, and the highest benchmark score for AMD is 1,385 with the AMD A8-5600K
$100..$120 The highest benchmark score for Intel is 1,797 with the i3-3240 (G3430 better buy), and the highest benchmark score for AMD is 1,526 with the FX-4350.
$120..$140 The highest benchmark score for Intel is 1,859 with the i3-3245, and the highest benchmark score for AMD is so far down the list I got bored.
same trend continues in every bracket
Let us know how you feel in a year when you can't upgrade your Note to the latest version of android.
Yup. Won't be getting a PS4 to replace my PS3. Will have to see what apps become available for the XBone.
If you notice. Otherwise it just becomes one more in an army of zombie bots.
I don't think anyone cares about your running Windows XP in a VM, so long as you keep it off the net.
It wasn't agile, or even agile like. It was waterfall in the classical form. Just because minor changes happen doesn't affect the base. They didn't have massively changing deliverables. They didn't hold meetings with the end users (the public) and incorporate new changes every week. They didn't have fully or mostly fully functional moon rockets every couple weeks. They did SOME testing, but the entire project wasn't unit tested every sprint.
The design and goal was set from the start and never changed during the entire project. They didn't build the very least they needed to satisfy the requirements. Every part of the project was over engineered for what it needed to do. Specs were drawn that required most systems to be able to work at 110-150%+ of the requirements.
Almost all waterfall projects have milestones. And almost all large waterfall projects go through an iterative refinement process at the end. That doesn't make it agile. What was lost on this government project was a decent, non-changing scope of work set at the beginning. Agile as most people know falls apart quickly with large complicated systems. Not that this was an extreme example of z large complicated system.
the agile approach could also have been used in the moon program
I'd hate to be the astronaut used when you begin your first unit tests. Especially the ones that happen before the '...and get back home alive' sprint happens.
And courts, judges, car impounds, parking ticket maids, lawyers, prosecutors, public defenders, court room clerks, all the people who have to build and maintain the increased courthouse sizes, and on and on...
Of course, part of the time, you make the light that you wouldn't have otherwise, saving you a few minutes each time.
Assuming you aren't lying, you must live in Montana. Is there any other cars on the road with you?
And if that happened, I would expect pretty much the same thing. Obama would publicly make a press statement condemning it, make some silly demand for retribution (release some spy or whatnot) then get on with his business as usual.
I don't mind stepping on my morals to help the US fuck over the world.
This is probably fair, as we have a large group of people dedicated to fucking over the US -- we call them politicians, especially US politicians.
Would you be friendly with someone who was spying on you?
If she's cute, I might even be more friendly.
Allies are always potential adversaries on any subject. Or do you expect allies to always have the same agendas and always vote and have the same political views on everything?
There is a much larger jump going from 1080p to 4k (1:4) than from 720p to 1080p (4:9), and a lot of people don't like 3D because of other issues, like having to wear glasses. Off-center being dim and less effective. The 3D effect causing headaches, or not working very well in people that have one eye significantly stronger than the other. These are all strikes against why 3D isn't making it into the market that doesn't affect 4K resolution screens.
Having actually seen 4K resolution screens in person, there is quite a difference even from 1080p on 50-60" screens, and they are coming down in price fairly quickly. Last one I saw was a 60" 4k going for under $5k (I don't recall exactly how much, it might have been $3k -- I just remember considering it and it was within my budget). That is a pretty significant drop in price, and I expect it will continue to drop. As it gets cheaper, more people will buy into it.
you refusing to give up your fifth amendment rights makes it hard to investigate as well, and I don't see anyone ACTIVELY trying to get rid of those.
You haven't been looking very far. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/01/can-a-court-make-you-give-up-your-password/
And to that point, I wouldn't mind if they can read thousands of them daily, so long as the record of it and the location of the car is not used for any other purpose beyond the immediate -- checking registration, reports of it being stolen, or involved in an active crime. Once it is determined that it is not, the records must be eliminated.
Why are you on the side of criminals and terrorists, Citizen?
I try to support my elected officials, whenever it is sane to do so.
You must not write very much. I've had more issues with non-IE browsers doing silly things than IE (9+) in the past few years.
Such as:
Firefox not supporting overflow (or lack thereof) on framesets.
Chrome/Safari doing incorrect sub-pixel interpretation on images by default -- requiring webkit prefixed styles to get them to behave.
Chrome incorrectly sizing absolutely positioned items that have padding.
Firefox has really bad CSS3 animations that are jerky, and sometimes don't complete (99% doesn't count).
Chome/Safari/opera not supporting colspan='0'.
Chrome/Firefox not supporting column layouts correctly.
And about a half dozen other issues, yes, they have all been reported to the various browser makers too. Looks like firefox's overflow on framesets may actually get fixed sometime in the next few months after it was reported 7+ years ago.
Two more than the number of linux desktops out there.