"Since UWP comprises W10, Xbox, Mobile and Server, it's basically everything MS is doing right now, can you be more evil than that?"
yet, if Apple or Google built a universal OS for desktop, server, mobile and stand alone devices, it would be hailed as innovative and visionary, done for the most benevolent reasons and all profits would go to caring for abandoned puppies...
UWP has issues, especially for gamers. But Evil?? You need to turn on your TV or read a newspaper before throwing that word around so casually. I hope you ardent MS haters never fuck up royally and find yourself continually flamed for it 20+ years later after making an effort to change. Try saving your self-righteous fury for the truly evil things in our world.
"even though an automotive wheel is proven technology that does pretty much the same thing as an aircraft wheel."
Well, if you mean they are both round and made of rubber, then yes. An aircraft wheel has to go from 0 to whatever the landing speed of the aircraft is in just a second or so. They also need to handle fairly extreme temperature ranges, ie: 150 deg F tarmac on a hot day to freezing or sub-zero temps at altitude, and back again. And they need to be able to do both of those, and more, repeatedly and with as low weight as practical and safe. I doubt most automotive tires would hold up well under same conditions.
the movie Demolition Man Seems oddly prescient now. I believe it was LA, but seems San Francisco is trying to build their own version. Clean, shiny, everyone trying desperately to not offend anyone else, and those who don't or can't fit the mold are swept out of sight. Does this happen in other places? Sure, but it's sadly ironic that the center of the free love, countercultural revolution has come to this.
"It is not surprising if Microsoft wants to turdify Eclipse through "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish."
Microsoft under Nadella has been every bit as evil and corrupting as in the past under Gates and Ballmer."
jesus, some folks just won't let go... As if MS has not changed in 20 years. As if tech favorites like google, yahoo, hp, ibm, apple etc haven't ground the little guy beneath their feet on occasion. There's not a chance that the people making decisions these days at MS are from a newer generation than Gates, Ballmer et al. There's, not a chance that these new people have a different perspective on doing business. Nope, MS has stayed the same since 1998 or so and the rest of the tech industry has evolved into a serene and cooperative utopia.
Remember folks, once someone has committed a crime, served their sentence and gone on to do better (in general), it's OK to keep hating them no matter what.
Before DX we were heading down the path of proprietary API's from everyone that made video hardware. DX, OpenGL, custom crap like GLide. Would you really want GPU and API to look like the Android fragmentation. Do you think the quality or number of games would be better if every developer had to support 10 different API's? We'd have ended up with the equivalent of console "exclusive titles" that only ran on some graphics hardware. In fact, without the common standard of DX, video gaming might well have condensed into ONLY console gaming. Without a single, high performance, constantly evolving API like DX, would there even be a market for Vulkan? I think they owe a great deal to MS and DX for providing them with an environment to even exist.
MS has and continues to screw up a lot of things, but DX isn't one of them. There's a reason Vulkan likes to tout its "DX12 level of performance"...
since we'd have to get past the giant sun beam focusing parasol satellite that NK has in orbit. does homeland security screen for asians with diamonds embedded in them yet?
yeah... the difference is when they say planning, they mean doing by 2020, when we say planning, we mean the planning might be complete by 2020, at which time the project will be deemed unworkable and planning will start again. I don't think NASA has a clue how to make it happen. I don't mean technically, I mean how to actually get a manned moon colony funded and delivered mostly on time and on budget. NASA plays politics worse than anyone.
Is there a reason you can't market it as a general "activity" monitor like fitbit and similar items? So long as you don't state or imply that it's a form of treatment for diabetics (or any other specific condition), wouldn't you be ok? A little very carefully worded, targeted advertising that diabetics are likely to see would allow them to make their own judgement on whether it would/could help them manage their condition. If it's as good as you say and so much cheaper, word of mouth may be all you need. Might want to forget about the communication back to doctor features though.
"No Vision, No Plan, No Budget" ?
"You know, that third one might be the cause of the first two..."
You know the first two might be the cause of the third... NASA publicity would have us all believe that a major Mars mission is just a small step up in difficulty from landing on the Moon, despite the fact that most of that Apollo expertise is aging and dying AND the fact that NASA hasn't done squat outside of LEO in 40 years (manned flight, of course). Nevermind ROI, people just want to believe that the money won't go into a black hole for 20 years and culminate with a one way publicity stunt.
I don't think there's a lot of confidence among the general public that NASA could actually pull something off at ANY budget.
Could be that Google has some inside information that leads them to believe that prices on SSD will not be dropping to acceptable levels any time soon, despite what SSD boosters would have us all believe. If they are proposing something like this, they must have some inkling that spinning platters have a great deal of life left.
The reality is that the relative geographic isolation of Australia and the fact that, for most people, something that happens there might as well be on the moon, has more to do with the lack of terrorist attacks than the steady increase in government surveillance and the erosion of liberty. Unfortunately, the politicians will just say "hey, no attacks, so we must be right!"
Except that this discussion is not about mobile (iOS and Android) is it? We're talking about desktop OS here. In the mobile space the options ARE better than Windows Phone in many ways. Also, no one is "switching" OS on their phone. You want to try something new, you buy a new phone. Easy enough for anyone. Changing your PC OS or buying into it by switching to Mac or a Linux PC is asking for a bit more effort than most Windows PC users are willing to make. Windows works for them, and since Windows 7, it's largely worked very well.
Again, you can talk all day long about how Linux is technically better, but Joe User doesn't care and doesn't see enough benefit to making the switch. I have moved relatives to Ubuntu, and they like it, but I was hand-holding them through the entire process and without that, they'd never, ever have considered it. This is probably key to Mac success these days. You can go into an Apple store and have someone SHOW you how to use it, like my hand-holding with Ubuntu.
"I think Windows continues to be standard because of "herd mentality" without technical merit"
At the end of the day, the vast majority of computer users don't care about technical merit. They use Windows because the alternatives are not better enough in any meaningful way to motivate them to learn a new OS and replace the software they already own. Particularly an OS that, no matter what advances are made, still requires far to much command line usage to accomplish common tasks or fix issues. Powerful it may be, but that command line triggers despair in your average user. Linux is great when it "Just Works", but when it doesn't, the thin veneer of usability on top of the OS starts to show through.
"I assure you, the government could get into the phone far easier than this hack. How hard is it to make fake fingerprints to use to unlock a phone anyways?"
Assuming a government out to get you, how hard would it be to head to your home and lift as many fingerprints as they want to? yeah, not that hard. If your lifestyle creates a serious concern regarding well funded entities accessing something important on your devices, then I'd like to suggest that any consumer level products are probably a risky idea...
For the rest of us...I see this as less "Apple Defending Your Rights" and more "Apple Creating Yet Another Way To Encourage Early Device Replacement"... Personally, I think Apple will keep adding "features" like this here and there until they finally add one too many and get hit with the mother of all class action suits.
that's interesting, because I submitted a correction to Google Maps just last year by clicking "send feedback". I reported what was supposed to be an east-west road connecting two north-south roads (think letter H). Unfortunately, the east-west road actually dead-ended in a pasture about 400 yards before it connected one of the north-south roads. The detour to get where that little missing connection should have led was about 5 miles...
Anyway, I got an email response from Google Maps about 3 weeks later reporting that I was correct and the maps had been updated. Sure enough, map was correct when I checked. Point is, if you see an issue, report it...it's built into Google Maps for pete's sake...
if you setup a few computers running typical anti-virus/malware protection and up to date on all patches, then scripted un-blocked visits to a bunch of popular sites, i wonder how long it would take to get a hacked computer... could you use that as a basis for a suit against the ad-network or the site(s) that use them? If I go to a restaurant and they just throw crap from a supplier in the pot willy-nilly without checking it first (right product, doesn't smell bad, no foreign content), I'd have a pretty good case if I got food poisoning right?
I had a print subscription to Wired since 1996. About 2 years ago I didn't renew, not because I didn't like the magazine anymore, but because my magazine continually arrived two to three weeks AFTER it was available on store shelves. That wouldn't have been so bad, except that Wired eventually got to the point of releasing all the magazine content online over the course of the month...for FREE... I tried for nearly 2 years to get Wired to figure out the problem, to no avail. Even when I moved to a new house, 30+ miles away, the late deliveries continued (so probably not a local post office issue.)
It's always frustrating when you WANT to give a company your money, but they just have to make it so damn hard (see DRM also...) Anyway, maybe I'll whitelist them, maybe I'll just quit going to Wired.com. I'm sure not giving them any more money.
Major aircraft manufacturers have been working on this for years. Airbus has made no secret they want to get an electric commercial passenger aircraft into production and from what I've read over the last few years, they've been making steady progress. Smaller GA aircraft companies are also taking a serious look at electric, particularly for the light sport class which has regulatory restrictions on size, weight, top speed, and number of passengers and typically do not have the same range/endurance needs. Electric passenger aircraft will happen, maybe not next week, but sooner than many expect, if for no other reason than there's a lot of money being thrown at it...
I'm beginning to get sick of the Elon worship. Apparently, like Steve Jobs, an idea isn't a good idea until it comes from his mouth.
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"Since UWP comprises W10, Xbox, Mobile and Server, it's basically everything MS is doing right now, can you be more evil than that?"
yet, if Apple or Google built a universal OS for desktop, server, mobile and stand alone devices, it would be hailed as innovative and visionary, done for the most benevolent reasons and all profits would go to caring for abandoned puppies...
UWP has issues, especially for gamers. But Evil?? You need to turn on your TV or read a newspaper before throwing that word around so casually. I hope you ardent MS haters never fuck up royally and find yourself continually flamed for it 20+ years later after making an effort to change. Try saving your self-righteous fury for the truly evil things in our world.
"even though an automotive wheel is proven technology that does pretty much the same thing as an aircraft wheel."
Well, if you mean they are both round and made of rubber, then yes. An aircraft wheel has to go from 0 to whatever the landing speed of the aircraft is in just a second or so. They also need to handle fairly extreme temperature ranges, ie: 150 deg F tarmac on a hot day to freezing or sub-zero temps at altitude, and back again. And they need to be able to do both of those, and more, repeatedly and with as low weight as practical and safe. I doubt most automotive tires would hold up well under same conditions.
the movie Demolition Man Seems oddly prescient now. I believe it was LA, but seems San Francisco is trying to build their own version. Clean, shiny, everyone trying desperately to not offend anyone else, and those who don't or can't fit the mold are swept out of sight. Does this happen in other places? Sure, but it's sadly ironic that the center of the free love, countercultural revolution has come to this.
"It is not surprising if Microsoft wants to turdify Eclipse through "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish." Microsoft under Nadella has been every bit as evil and corrupting as in the past under Gates and Ballmer."
jesus, some folks just won't let go... As if MS has not changed in 20 years. As if tech favorites like google, yahoo, hp, ibm, apple etc haven't ground the little guy beneath their feet on occasion. There's not a chance that the people making decisions these days at MS are from a newer generation than Gates, Ballmer et al. There's, not a chance that these new people have a different perspective on doing business. Nope, MS has stayed the same since 1998 or so and the rest of the tech industry has evolved into a serene and cooperative utopia.
Remember folks, once someone has committed a crime, served their sentence and gone on to do better (in general), it's OK to keep hating them no matter what.
Before DX we were heading down the path of proprietary API's from everyone that made video hardware. DX, OpenGL, custom crap like GLide. Would you really want GPU and API to look like the Android fragmentation. Do you think the quality or number of games would be better if every developer had to support 10 different API's? We'd have ended up with the equivalent of console "exclusive titles" that only ran on some graphics hardware. In fact, without the common standard of DX, video gaming might well have condensed into ONLY console gaming. Without a single, high performance, constantly evolving API like DX, would there even be a market for Vulkan? I think they owe a great deal to MS and DX for providing them with an environment to even exist.
MS has and continues to screw up a lot of things, but DX isn't one of them. There's a reason Vulkan likes to tout its "DX12 level of performance"...
"It's probably more like 100mW with a 2 meter dish that gives 60dBi of gain at 80GHz."
can i have that again in proper units such as libraries of congress or blue whales?
since we'd have to get past the giant sun beam focusing parasol satellite that NK has in orbit. does homeland security screen for asians with diamonds embedded in them yet?
what's more disingenuous is using a big word like disingenuous in an election year. why do you want to destroy democracy by using confusing language?
When Mars Rovers are banned, only outlaws will have Mars Rovers.
yeah... the difference is when they say planning, they mean doing by 2020, when we say planning, we mean the planning might be complete by 2020, at which time the project will be deemed unworkable and planning will start again. I don't think NASA has a clue how to make it happen. I don't mean technically, I mean how to actually get a manned moon colony funded and delivered mostly on time and on budget. NASA plays politics worse than anyone.
I thought I'd seen every analogy on slashdot... guess not... ladies and gentlemen, "the bill gates" analogy has arrived.
Is there a reason you can't market it as a general "activity" monitor like fitbit and similar items? So long as you don't state or imply that it's a form of treatment for diabetics (or any other specific condition), wouldn't you be ok? A little very carefully worded, targeted advertising that diabetics are likely to see would allow them to make their own judgement on whether it would/could help them manage their condition. If it's as good as you say and so much cheaper, word of mouth may be all you need. Might want to forget about the communication back to doctor features though.
"No Vision, No Plan, No Budget" ? "You know, that third one might be the cause of the first two..."
You know the first two might be the cause of the third... NASA publicity would have us all believe that a major Mars mission is just a small step up in difficulty from landing on the Moon, despite the fact that most of that Apollo expertise is aging and dying AND the fact that NASA hasn't done squat outside of LEO in 40 years (manned flight, of course). Nevermind ROI, people just want to believe that the money won't go into a black hole for 20 years and culminate with a one way publicity stunt.
I don't think there's a lot of confidence among the general public that NASA could actually pull something off at ANY budget.
Could be that Google has some inside information that leads them to believe that prices on SSD will not be dropping to acceptable levels any time soon, despite what SSD boosters would have us all believe. If they are proposing something like this, they must have some inkling that spinning platters have a great deal of life left.
I'd think running on sour grapes would drastically increase supplies and yield more potent batteries.
The reality is that the relative geographic isolation of Australia and the fact that, for most people, something that happens there might as well be on the moon, has more to do with the lack of terrorist attacks than the steady increase in government surveillance and the erosion of liberty. Unfortunately, the politicians will just say "hey, no attacks, so we must be right!"
Except that this discussion is not about mobile (iOS and Android) is it? We're talking about desktop OS here. In the mobile space the options ARE better than Windows Phone in many ways. Also, no one is "switching" OS on their phone. You want to try something new, you buy a new phone. Easy enough for anyone. Changing your PC OS or buying into it by switching to Mac or a Linux PC is asking for a bit more effort than most Windows PC users are willing to make. Windows works for them, and since Windows 7, it's largely worked very well.
Again, you can talk all day long about how Linux is technically better, but Joe User doesn't care and doesn't see enough benefit to making the switch. I have moved relatives to Ubuntu, and they like it, but I was hand-holding them through the entire process and without that, they'd never, ever have considered it. This is probably key to Mac success these days. You can go into an Apple store and have someone SHOW you how to use it, like my hand-holding with Ubuntu.
"I think Windows continues to be standard because of "herd mentality" without technical merit"
At the end of the day, the vast majority of computer users don't care about technical merit. They use Windows because the alternatives are not better enough in any meaningful way to motivate them to learn a new OS and replace the software they already own. Particularly an OS that, no matter what advances are made, still requires far to much command line usage to accomplish common tasks or fix issues. Powerful it may be, but that command line triggers despair in your average user. Linux is great when it "Just Works", but when it doesn't, the thin veneer of usability on top of the OS starts to show through.
"I assure you, the government could get into the phone far easier than this hack. How hard is it to make fake fingerprints to use to unlock a phone anyways?"
Assuming a government out to get you, how hard would it be to head to your home and lift as many fingerprints as they want to? yeah, not that hard. If your lifestyle creates a serious concern regarding well funded entities accessing something important on your devices, then I'd like to suggest that any consumer level products are probably a risky idea...
For the rest of us...I see this as less "Apple Defending Your Rights" and more "Apple Creating Yet Another Way To Encourage Early Device Replacement"... Personally, I think Apple will keep adding "features" like this here and there until they finally add one too many and get hit with the mother of all class action suits.
always when i have no mod points... well played sir!
I have a feeling it could be improved with systemd.
that's interesting, because I submitted a correction to Google Maps just last year by clicking "send feedback". I reported what was supposed to be an east-west road connecting two north-south roads (think letter H). Unfortunately, the east-west road actually dead-ended in a pasture about 400 yards before it connected one of the north-south roads. The detour to get where that little missing connection should have led was about 5 miles...
Anyway, I got an email response from Google Maps about 3 weeks later reporting that I was correct and the maps had been updated. Sure enough, map was correct when I checked. Point is, if you see an issue, report it...it's built into Google Maps for pete's sake...
if you setup a few computers running typical anti-virus/malware protection and up to date on all patches, then scripted un-blocked visits to a bunch of popular sites, i wonder how long it would take to get a hacked computer... could you use that as a basis for a suit against the ad-network or the site(s) that use them? If I go to a restaurant and they just throw crap from a supplier in the pot willy-nilly without checking it first (right product, doesn't smell bad, no foreign content), I'd have a pretty good case if I got food poisoning right?
I had a print subscription to Wired since 1996. About 2 years ago I didn't renew, not because I didn't like the magazine anymore, but because my magazine continually arrived two to three weeks AFTER it was available on store shelves. That wouldn't have been so bad, except that Wired eventually got to the point of releasing all the magazine content online over the course of the month...for FREE... I tried for nearly 2 years to get Wired to figure out the problem, to no avail. Even when I moved to a new house, 30+ miles away, the late deliveries continued (so probably not a local post office issue.)
It's always frustrating when you WANT to give a company your money, but they just have to make it so damn hard (see DRM also...) Anyway, maybe I'll whitelist them, maybe I'll just quit going to Wired.com. I'm sure not giving them any more money.
Major aircraft manufacturers have been working on this for years. Airbus has made no secret they want to get an electric commercial passenger aircraft into production and from what I've read over the last few years, they've been making steady progress. Smaller GA aircraft companies are also taking a serious look at electric, particularly for the light sport class which has regulatory restrictions on size, weight, top speed, and number of passengers and typically do not have the same range/endurance needs. Electric passenger aircraft will happen, maybe not next week, but sooner than many expect, if for no other reason than there's a lot of money being thrown at it...
I'm beginning to get sick of the Elon worship. Apparently, like Steve Jobs, an idea isn't a good idea until it comes from his mouth.