All true 6 months before release.
3 weeks before release it should be a lot closer to finalized.
They should be fixing bugs and writing documentation for what's going to be in the final release by now, not still deciding what features it should have.
Then get the latest 10162 release and try that instead. It's a "preview" remember? It's *specifically* not finished..
3 weeks before its released you'd think they would have the most visible and important parts of the user interface working properly.
Some localization issues with some control panel... some multimonitor flaw when the taskbar is on the left side instead of the bottom and the two screens are different resolutions...
But no, builds 10076 and 10130 literally had issues where clicking the start menu wouldn't even reliably open it; and you couldn't even turn bing searching the web off in the start menu / taskbar search. There was no way to just have windows search only the local computer.
I haven't tried 10162 yet. It wasn't available when I last fooled around with my Windows 10 test machine last weekend. (No way I'm using it as a main computer.)
3-4 weeks before release, And this stuff wasn't working properly yet.
It's a "preview" remember? It's *specifically* not finished..
But it is a preview of where Windows 10 is at right now. And its hard to imagine them getting from here to ready to release in the amount of time they have left.
Actually it turns out is a pretty great idea, it's called Uber (and Lyft).
I was commenting specifically on having it operated by teenagers. Do try to keep up.
Driver inexperience + pressure of a random stranger + parts of town they don't know == bad idea.
It has nothing to do with knowing the location of the destination address or the best route there. It has everything to do with not knowing the roads. Not being an expert at merging, not being expert at parallel parking, not being expert at sizing up complex, unfamiliar intersections.
Saying, "no problem they have a GPS" is like saying we should let teenagers fly passenger jets because they have autopilots.
And given the way most taxi drivers drive I frankly would in fact rather be driven by a teenager.
Nice rhetoric. Studies show cab drivers are less crash prone than regular drivers per hour behind the wheel. Teenagers (new drivers) are significantly more crash prone than the average.
As for the "random stranger" thing that part simply shows your unending ignorance into how Uber and Lyft actually work. It's not strangers that meet, it's two vetted individuals.
Two 'vetted individuals' that have never met before are still strangers.
There are a LOT of people like this (including, perhaps you've heard of them, TEENAGERS).
Yeah! Lets put drivers half way through their graduated licensing programs on the streets, driving parts of town they don't know, with random strangers as passengers. Great idea.
I wonder what commercial passenger insurance costs for a teenager who hasn't even got their full license yet. Probably more than they'll ever make driving for uber.
If a movie violates canon,
If the subject of the movie has 'canon' to violate, then the subject of the movie has a problem, not the movie.
I do not mean to offend, but 'canon' and the people who take it seriously... they are the ones with the problem. A story is told for its audience, not for the sake of the story. Tailoring the tale to the medium and the audience is as old as the oral tradition of telling stories.
When I sit around telling campfire stories, tailoring the details and events to localize them, modernize them, and make them more accessible and more engaging... your the guy looking them up in the big book of canon shrilly bleating that such and such didn't happen just-so; and so-and-so went here first and then there.... and the whole thing was in New York not Seattle... trust me the problem is NOT with the story i told.
That would be because the PS3 and PS4 use sony's proprietary graphics API that looks nothing like OpenGL.
Check the thread context.
I never said PS3/PS4 use OGL. I was countering the argument that "it must because be the developers only know directX and are now blaming their tools".
The point stands that the problem is in fact specific to OSX and OpenGL and is NOT the fault of the developers only being competent with DirectX.
The point stands that the "problem" is not developers who are too dependent on Direct3D.
Yet it appears to run ok on the Playstation 3 and 4. So... maybe its something to do with OSX specifically rather than them hiring coders who don't know OpenGL.
I figure the statement from the engineering team got run through too many marketing and legal drones and the message that ultimately got released to the public is just word salad.
Sounds to me like they Driect X coders who don't know how to code for OpenGL properly
And how on earth does that explain it running on PS4... AND PS3? Since when is the PlayStation a directX platform?
I looked at palemoon hard. Its pretty much just one guy is it not. I think its great what he's doing; but I'd prefer to see Firefox fixed properly rather than rely on Moonchild to maintain a browser for me -- something that is going to get increasingly harder as Mozilla diverges further and further from his fork.
. So I run an open guest wifi which is on a different subnet and has its internet rate limited.
Even my guest network is password protected. Its for my guests not for everybody. If I wanted it for everybody, there wouldn't be a password on it, and people wouldn't need a windows feature to shared with their contacts.
Many of my neighbors also have guest networks... none of them are wide open.
This feature is probably the worst/dumbest thing I've seen in Windows 10 so far. Actually no... the inability to disable bing searching the web when you use the search in the start menu is the dumbest hting I've seen in windows 10... if that shit isn't fixed by release nobody should upgrade. NOBODY.
(And the sad thing is I actually over all like windows 10... but its just stuffed with bloat I don't want. At least most of it I can shut off... live tiles, cortana, using microsoft accounts, etc... but its becoming more and more work to set the settings up right.
I'm looking forward to a windows 10 de-crapifier powertool shortly after release... hell I'm tempted to write one.
It's the Swedish equivalent to "Fool me once, shame on you: fool me twice, shame on me" - once you've been bitten by a mistake, you become reluctant to do it again.
There's a better english equivalent than that.
"Once bitten, twice shy."
The US Government isn't brave or cowardly.
Some of there actions are brave. Others cowardly.
They're fighting a war.
No. They really aren't fighting a war.
They are using the military as an international extrajudicial hit squad.
Call it a "war" to rationalize it is like rolling tanks down main street to wage war on shoplifters. After all, we can't simply send the police... they might get injured, how can we take that risk? We should use every advantage we have, all the time... right?)
The "brave" alternative is sending troops in to get killed. That's not a solution, then you just get more people killed.
There are a lot of options between "drone strike at wedding" and "boots on the ground invasion"; lets not frame the question as a binary choice.
And if you don't like policy, you don't frame it in terms of how effective we are at fighting
How we engage is as important as policy. We could use ICBMs, with nuclear warheads too, without loss of American life. That doesn't make it a sensible choice.
Drone strikes at weddings aren't sensible either.
no mod points here but that's pretty interesting/informative.
-cheers
The only intel that is usually received is that some high value target was going to be there.
That's not sufficient intel for a super power to drop a bomb on someone then; especially someone who really poses no real tangible threat.
Mistakes are made and perhaps too often.
Made too often, and admitted too rarely. Mistakes are usually rationalized. In this very thread we have an appeal to Sun Tzu and an argument that we must attack them where they are weak and that its entirely justified to bomb civilian weddings... somehow.
because their physical bravery is put to the use of evil.
Few conflicts should be framed in terms of 'good' and 'evil'. They have many very legitimate grievances; and they have committed many terrible actions. Same applies to us.
In any case framing them as 'evil' in a thread about us drone striking weddings comes across as pretty oblivious.
You can't call a drone pilot a physical coward in the same way.
I don't. I call the US government cowardly. The people setting the policy and calling the shots. Not the people literally taking them. I don't think drone pilots are cowards, or unnecessary.
But I do think strikes against civilian targets in foreign countries without a declaration of war
I'm sure you can imagine what we'd call drone strikes against American soldiers attending weddings perpetrated by North Korea...
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