Ha, yeah, should have pointed that out. 8.1 on my home PC and Surface. My comment was directed toward the Metro/Tile interface in general. The original intent was to point out the quantity of "stock" tiles being the problem, and it devolved into bitching about their replacement for the start menu. My bad.
Actually looking forward to trying 10, just don't have a spare machine at the moment and wasn't brave enough to just dive in sight unseen.
Personal opinion, the stock Metro Tiles that are there the first time you fire up your computer or Surface tablet are just too much, literally there are just too many of them there. I like the concept of the live tiles, and actually find them useful, but having to scroll through 10 horizontal pages of apps to find what you want is incredibly off-putting. After spending a significant amount of time paring them down to only the ones I find useful, it's actually a usable launch pad.
The "Apps" View, their attempt at giving us the start menu back, I have been unable to make useful. Sorted by name, where is Word? Is it under "W" for Word? Just Weather. How about under "O" for office? OneDrive and OneNote. "M" for Microsoft Word? Nope. That's Mail, Maps, Money, and Music. Oh, you have to scroll over a screen to get to "Microsoft Office", there's Office 2010. Hope you weren't looking for Word 2013, cause that's in the next section over "Microsoft Office 2013". The only time it comes close is if you sort the apps by usage. The Category or by Install Date aren't too horrible, but still not incredibly intuitive.
For the most part, I've given up on visually looking for a program to open. I've found the searching function to be far more useful. Hit the Windows key, start typing, pick the application I want to run out of the results. Which works great if you have a keyboard. On the Surface, without the keyboard, swipe from the right side of the screen, touch "search", touch in the search box (because the soft keyboard doesn't come up automatically), the type "Word"...
That said, it is pretty stupid that Space X has not been testing random parts to confirm they meet the requested specifications.
From the article:
That led the company to test what Elon Musk described as an “enormous” number of struts, where they found another strut that failed under the same conditions.
How many struts would they a have to randomly test to catch the two out of an "enormous" amount that actually failed? And do you honestly think they aren't already testing parts?
But, clearly you know better than they do, so here, go show em. Maybe there is "strut tester" in there somewhere.
Name something fun that doesn't pollute the planet in one way or another? Unless you are sitting in a cold dark cave beating a rock against the wall for fun, you are polluting the planet.
By the way, you can't make a living wage [businessinsider.com] driving full-time for Uber either
From the article:
We spoke with more than a dozen Uber drivers
As an assumption, if they would have talked to 25 people the would have said "more than two dozen", so I can assume they didn't talk to 100 or 1000 people. Surveying 12-23 drivers out of 15,000 doesn't seem to be a sufficient sample size to say definitively that they calculated a statistically significant median income.
I came here to post the exact thing as the GP. I just signed up for the update and it said it would download when it was available on the 29th...
I don't think there is anything pedantic about your comment at all, it is a very valid point. Not like a software company has ever pushed something out before it was ready. released != ready
I was thinking it had a "pregnant woman" setting somehow related to the new Dash Button that orders ice cream and fried chicken at frequent random intervals.
"There is no set definition of the term "independent contractor" and as such, one must look to the interpretations of the courts and enforcement agencies to decide if in a particular situation a worker is an employee or independent contractor... DLSE starts with the presumption that the worker is an employee."
Basically they are saying that everyone is an employee unless proven otherwise, but there is no standard for proof. Awesome system ya got there.
So now the good folks at Monster will have to go put black stickers over the "Made for iDevice" logos on their packages, and the millions of hipsters will cry out in horror as their overpriced headphones will no longer work with their iPhones.
I have to admit, whether he actually wrote it or not, the letter to the judge was pretty powerful. I realize it's just a bunch of bullshit, designed to get him the lightest sentence possible, but it was still good bullshit.
That being said, when you can physically murder someone and still not get a life sentence, I think the penalty may have been a little harsh. I don't understand how a life sentance "as to make a harsh example out of Ulbricht" helps anything.
Yes, a small amount when compared to the number of AC transmission lines, but the parent comment didn't mention anything about a comparison (other than the difference between AC and DC termination degradation)
By your logic, there are only a handfull of Ferraris on the road (Ok, I had to stretch for this one... 7000/year sold vs 15.6M/year sold, or.04%), or only a "handfull" of CO2 in the atmosphere (.04%). That low percentage, compared to other cars and compounds, doesn't mean there isn't a shit load of Ferarris or CO2 out there, as the parent was seeming to imply.
Will your microwave only cook shit that comes in an authentic Kitchen Aid brand bowl that has a specific color rim? Because god knows how much I love that "feature" of my piece of shit coffee pot. I'd hate to be free to choose what kind of coffee I drink in the morning.
(I say all of this as if I don't own a piece of shit Keruig that I use every day and will most likely replace with a new one when this one dies a year from now.)
My Keurig can also make hot cider, hot chocolate, or hot water for tea.
So can my microwave.
Yeah, but can your microwave make a cool "ka-chunk ka-chunk ka-chunk, gurgle gurgle gurgle, whoosh" noise, while consuming countless overpriced non-recyclable non-biodegradable coffee pods, then inexplicably die after a year? Yeah, I didn't think so.
You just keep your fancy multi-use device, I'll keep my shitty overpriced coffee pot, thank you very much.
Pretty cool, but still not a fundamental change in the way you use the internet.
Actually, for me personally, it was...
What you just described doesn't fit the mold of the vast majority of internet users. If I had to pull a number out of my ass, the number of home users that have multiple TB of data that needs to be backed up in multiple cloud locations as well as cold storage and home backups, would put you in the top.01%. You just described a business scenario that should be kept to a business class connection, not a $50 or $100/month home connection.
I think the OP's post is reasonable. The other 99.99% of internet users out there would benefit far more from a stable 10x10 connection than they do from multi-Gb download speeds.
I'm not bashing you, it sounds like you've got a great setup that works for you. Just pointing out that your use case doesn't apply to very many people.
I know you were being facetious, but the fact of the world (at least the one I live in) is that 2500 of users' "office" is a job site out in the middle of nowhere. We have a real need for these people to interact with our business system, recording hours expended, material installed, equipment utilization, etc. etc. For these type of workers, a desktop just isn't realistic.
Which leaves me in a quandary: Native app(s) or web-app. We don't have the appetite to develop and maintain several versions of the app for different devices. We don't have the need for super fancy/flashy UI, I envision something simple, plain, and utilitarian. And it has to have some off-line capabilities. Those all lead me towards a web-app...
Don't want to? Then shut up and go back to programming a web-app. The Internet as you know it evolved, sorry it ran you over in the process.
Business app?, desktop, using web services.
Yeah, because everyone in my company is parked behind a desktop all of the time. And there are no conceivable reasons why they may want to interact with a business system when they are't at their desk.
I really wish Facebook had a regex filter. Would be a double win, I'd finally have an excuse to learn how to use regex, and eventually I'd stop seeing "Jimmy sticks his dick in a toaster, you'll never believe what happens next" type shit in my feed.
Add in the regex filter, a "dislike" button, and a paid level of service that gets rid of game requests and leaves my god damn feed on "most recent" and I'll be a happy camper.
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Ha, yeah, should have pointed that out. 8.1 on my home PC and Surface. My comment was directed toward the Metro/Tile interface in general. The original intent was to point out the quantity of "stock" tiles being the problem, and it devolved into bitching about their replacement for the start menu. My bad. Actually looking forward to trying 10, just don't have a spare machine at the moment and wasn't brave enough to just dive in sight unseen.
Personal opinion, the stock Metro Tiles that are there the first time you fire up your computer or Surface tablet are just too much, literally there are just too many of them there. I like the concept of the live tiles, and actually find them useful, but having to scroll through 10 horizontal pages of apps to find what you want is incredibly off-putting. After spending a significant amount of time paring them down to only the ones I find useful, it's actually a usable launch pad.
The "Apps" View, their attempt at giving us the start menu back, I have been unable to make useful. Sorted by name, where is Word? Is it under "W" for Word? Just Weather. How about under "O" for office? OneDrive and OneNote. "M" for Microsoft Word? Nope. That's Mail, Maps, Money, and Music. Oh, you have to scroll over a screen to get to "Microsoft Office", there's Office 2010. Hope you weren't looking for Word 2013, cause that's in the next section over "Microsoft Office 2013". The only time it comes close is if you sort the apps by usage. The Category or by Install Date aren't too horrible, but still not incredibly intuitive.
For the most part, I've given up on visually looking for a program to open. I've found the searching function to be far more useful. Hit the Windows key, start typing, pick the application I want to run out of the results. Which works great if you have a keyboard. On the Surface, without the keyboard, swipe from the right side of the screen, touch "search", touch in the search box (because the soft keyboard doesn't come up automatically), the type "Word"...
Fusion won't work. Fission is on the way out. Fossils are running out. Renewables won't be enough.
Sounds like you just named 4 excellent reason why we need people that are smart in science and math.
Such as?
Getting the nut-job moon landing deniers to shut the fuck up sounds like a good start.
That said, it is pretty stupid that Space X has not been testing random parts to confirm they meet the requested specifications.
From the article:
That led the company to test what Elon Musk described as an “enormous” number of struts, where they found another strut that failed under the same conditions.
How many struts would they a have to randomly test to catch the two out of an "enormous" amount that actually failed? And do you honestly think they aren't already testing parts?
But, clearly you know better than they do, so here, go show em. Maybe there is "strut tester" in there somewhere.
This one seems to be a pretty decent explanation: http://www.orlandosentinel.com...
the heilum bottle would have shot to the top of the tank at high speed
That sounds a lot different than "a hose may have been pinched" Has anyone been able to find audio of the actual conversation?
Name something fun that doesn't pollute the planet in one way or another? Unless you are sitting in a cold dark cave beating a rock against the wall for fun, you are polluting the planet.
By the way, you can't make a living wage [businessinsider.com] driving full-time for Uber either
From the article:
We spoke with more than a dozen Uber drivers
As an assumption, if they would have talked to 25 people the would have said "more than two dozen", so I can assume they didn't talk to 100 or 1000 people. Surveying 12-23 drivers out of 15,000 doesn't seem to be a sufficient sample size to say definitively that they calculated a statistically significant median income.
I don't think there is anything pedantic about your comment at all, it is a very valid point. Not like a software company has ever pushed something out before it was ready. released != ready
(2) the states can't get their shit together - mostly the latter.
Hit the nail on the head.
I was thinking it had a "pregnant woman" setting somehow related to the new Dash Button that orders ice cream and fried chicken at frequent random intervals.
Am I missing something here?
http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_independentcontractor.htm
"There is no set definition of the term "independent contractor" and as such, one must look to the interpretations of the courts and enforcement agencies to decide if in a particular situation a worker is an employee or independent contractor... DLSE starts with the presumption that the worker is an employee."
Basically they are saying that everyone is an employee unless proven otherwise, but there is no standard for proof. Awesome system ya got there.
So now the good folks at Monster will have to go put black stickers over the "Made for iDevice" logos on their packages, and the millions of hipsters will cry out in horror as their overpriced headphones will no longer work with their iPhones.
I have to admit, whether he actually wrote it or not, the letter to the judge was pretty powerful. I realize it's just a bunch of bullshit, designed to get him the lightest sentence possible, but it was still good bullshit.
That being said, when you can physically murder someone and still not get a life sentence, I think the penalty may have been a little harsh. I don't understand how a life sentance "as to make a harsh example out of Ulbricht" helps anything.
By your logic, there are only a handfull of Ferraris on the road (Ok, I had to stretch for this one... 7000/year sold vs 15.6M/year sold, or .04%), or only a "handfull" of CO2 in the atmosphere (.04%). That low percentage, compared to other cars and compounds, doesn't mean there isn't a shit load of Ferarris or CO2 out there, as the parent was seeming to imply.
This is why there are only a handful of DC transmission lines in the world
How big are your hands? Wikipedia has a "few" (200+) examples of HVDC transmission lines. And a here's a cool map showing the inverter stations.
...and information indicating which of them are seeking extramarital affairs
Good. Fuck em. Let's see some good old fashioned public shaming. Cheating fucks.
Will your microwave only cook shit that comes in an authentic Kitchen Aid brand bowl that has a specific color rim? Because god knows how much I love that "feature" of my piece of shit coffee pot. I'd hate to be free to choose what kind of coffee I drink in the morning.
(I say all of this as if I don't own a piece of shit Keruig that I use every day and will most likely replace with a new one when this one dies a year from now .)
My Keurig can also make hot cider, hot chocolate, or hot water for tea.
So can my microwave.
Yeah, but can your microwave make a cool "ka-chunk ka-chunk ka-chunk, gurgle gurgle gurgle, whoosh" noise, while consuming countless overpriced non-recyclable non-biodegradable coffee pods, then inexplicably die after a year? Yeah, I didn't think so.
You just keep your fancy multi-use device, I'll keep my shitty overpriced coffee pot, thank you very much.
Pretty cool, but still not a fundamental change in the way you use the internet.
Actually, for me personally, it was...
What you just described doesn't fit the mold of the vast majority of internet users. If I had to pull a number out of my ass, the number of home users that have multiple TB of data that needs to be backed up in multiple cloud locations as well as cold storage and home backups, would put you in the top .01%. You just described a business scenario that should be kept to a business class connection, not a $50 or $100/month home connection.
I think the OP's post is reasonable. The other 99.99% of internet users out there would benefit far more from a stable 10x10 connection than they do from multi-Gb download speeds.
I'm not bashing you, it sounds like you've got a great setup that works for you. Just pointing out that your use case doesn't apply to very many people.
That's why you have all those guns, right?
I have mine for hunting and target shooting
Why are you out of office
I know you were being facetious, but the fact of the world (at least the one I live in) is that 2500 of users' "office" is a job site out in the middle of nowhere. We have a real need for these people to interact with our business system, recording hours expended, material installed, equipment utilization, etc. etc. For these type of workers, a desktop just isn't realistic.
Which leaves me in a quandary: Native app(s) or web-app. We don't have the appetite to develop and maintain several versions of the app for different devices. We don't have the need for super fancy/flashy UI, I envision something simple, plain, and utilitarian. And it has to have some off-line capabilities. Those all lead me towards a web-app...
Don't want to? Then shut up and go back to programming a web-app. The Internet as you know it evolved, sorry it ran you over in the process.
Business app?, desktop, using web services.
Yeah, because everyone in my company is parked behind a desktop all of the time. And there are no conceivable reasons why they may want to interact with a business system when they are't at their desk.
Add in the regex filter, a "dislike" button, and a paid level of service that gets rid of game requests and leaves my god damn feed on "most recent" and I'll be a happy camper.