When I worked at Microsoft 12 years ago, some of our top execs were being held in a Chinese prison on some total nonsense while the company "negotiated" terms of opening some Microsoft stores in China.
Once the deal was done and they were finally released, one of them explained to us "this is just how business is done in China."
Exactly. This is good policy.
I wish I could switch, but my AMD display drivers on Linux cause my display to crash constantly so I have to reboot.
I also need to run the system in "Best Performance" mode (in Win 10), disabling some under the hood performance optimizations that cause the same crash. But I don't know how to. Fucking frustrating.
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I swear, the MDS around here is hilarious.
LOL, I agree, but you sound like controlled opposition. Or a nutter.
Metro was awesome on phones, especially when you set it to translucent, it looked simply incredible. But it was absolutely out of place on the desktop.
Apps were definitely the OS' downfall. That was mainly because Google and Apple used their duopoly to keep important apps like Gmail and GMaps off the platform. They also made sure customers did not see any Windows Phones by forcing cretail outlets to hide them on a small shelf in the back. Both of these actions ensured it couldn't get traction.
But both could have been overcome if Microsoft had spent a little money on it. Satya formerly ran the Azure division and had no interest in the platform at all. It was the usual bureaucratic neglect and myopia of a technology run by MBAs since its founding. And MBAs like other MBAs and protect their turf.
They put MBAs in charge who are programmed to listen to the marketing droids, who are mindless idiots.
To be fair, Microsoft has always been run by MBAs and marketing drones, really bad ones straight out of the 90s.
Satya Nadella seems to have zero vision other than "grow the cloud business." He's the idiot who discontinued Windows Phone (which was insanely awesome) on a whim just before going on stage at BUILD.
That's what a loan is. You borrow money and pay interest. Are you saying only western countries make loans, and that they are somehow evil for doing so??
The usual reason dirtbags get pardons, for both parties, he gave lots of money to their PACs and campaigns.
Our president has sold over 2,000 pardons for literally billions of dollars and he has a 40% approval rating
Citation needed. And from a legitimate source, which I'm sure you don't have.
As for 40% approval, that's false. The pollster who was most accurate in the last election has him at 44%, higher than Obama on the same day in his second term. No one has him at 40%. If fact, he's been about a point higher than Obama in the RCP Average for nearly every day of this second term.
From what I read, the cooling can be done with enough radiators.
The real problem is getting data to space and then back, given the bandwidth and clouds. The AI problems they're solving would need to be long running to be economical, not some chatbot.
I suspect this is actually economical for some purposes, given the amount of private money a people are putting into it.
At companies? I worked on the project to write the missing scheduling software for the Veterans Association about 12 years ago, the absence of which led to thousands of veterans not getting the surgeries they needed.
They hired me and two other developers, total, laid off the other two guys in a month, then me after two months.
That's the total budget government bureaucrats had allocated for development, out of $300 allocated. It took another 4 years and a few more rounds of funding by Congress before any actual company saw enough funds to do anything useful.
Way ahead of you, bud. Look at my Karma.
Besides, I have no idea how to add a sig.
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