Re: I want one.
I don't trust maids. I'm personally MORE interested in the idea of cleaning robots than sex robots.
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That's a pretty limited use case. There isn't really much case for a rich browser-based internet client that can't be filled by standardized HTML and Javascript. The reason everyone is moving away from 3rd party browser plugins is primarily compatibility, with a side of security and reliability. Frankly, for anything I'm working on Java is never an option because everything has to be compatible with phones and tablets.
The only places you can still use Java on web applications is for internal company applications at a company that mandates the client configuration and with bring your own device very popular these days those places are a dying breed. And as for desktop applications those Applet in a window apps were always awful, regardless of if they were Java, Flash or Sliverlight.
I don't know about that, my 70 year old father asked for a tablet for Christmas two years ago and after a month or so it was his go-to computing device. It might have taken him a few weeks to get the touchscreen down, but he now loves the thing. I didn't even have to show him how to use it, it figured it out on his own.
This sounds like another example of "wrong tool for the task". If they have Office, wouldn't it make sense to do this in Access, all the controls are in there already. You could have your "messaging app" written in about an hour and messages wouldn't take 40 seconds. Also, you won't hit the issue Excel does as your workbook expands. The solution in the article won't scale very well and will eventually corrupt the "server" worksheet.
It's not the age of the platform as a whole, but the age of the feature-set. PHP has been updated many times (as is still not considered state of the art), and includes full class support among other things. ColdFusion is very much behind the times feature-wise. I work with a wide variety of programming languages, including ColdFusion and I would not recommend it for future projects. Adobe is just barely keeping the product alive at this point and you can be more productive using other tools.
If you're one of those guys who "only knows ColdFusion", start learning Python, .NET MVC, Node.JS or Ruby on Rails. ColdFusion has passed its best before date at this point.
What did I say about Linux? But since you brought it up, I might as well pick apart that man page. Salting is industry standard practice, if it wasn't salting the password it would be an issue. You don't get extra points for doing things that are standard practice, you lose them for not doing them.
So, to follow that up. SHA512 is better than NTLM, but if Microsoft is going to change to a new hash, they should go for best in class and not just the trailing edge of what's considered passable today.
I think it would be much less likely in America, even if there weren't any more rules. The average American who is asked to undress and lie down on a table when they're in to witness their wife giving birth says "no way in hell".
P.S. I don't think this guy should have to pay a dime, in the USA he would be able to sue the hospital for damages.
"Every 2nd freaking update decides to change my keyboard to UK layout"
Mine keeps trying to change the layout to the Canadian Multilingual layout, a layout that no one uses anywhere. 90% of Canada uses the US layout and the other 10% uses the Canadian French keyboard layout. I keep going in to the control panel and deleting it and it keeps coming back.
If you have a problem, try a fresh install. I've found it generally solves any upgrade-related issues with Windows 10.
Anyone who says any Linux distro is easier to install or update than Windows is crazy. My most recent Linux install (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) was the easiest install I've ever done, but still I couldn't get Nvidia's switchable graphics to work, even on proprietary drivers. I had to try 4 different driver versions (all of which came from Ubuntu "tested" repositories) before I could get one that actually worked. I also get a "Something has crashed" error every time I log in, but it doesn't seem to cause any issues.
The last time I installed Fedora (last year) it took me weeks before everything was working properly. And you know what I think about in-place distro upgrades? Backup backup backup. I think only 1/4 to 1/2 of the times I've tried one of those has it worked properly. At this point I only do it if I have time to do a reinstall.
To sum that up, linux is really useful, but it's not as easy to install or update as Windows, Mac OS, Android or iOS. But hey, pretty much every distro beats FreeBSD!
I actually prefer Gnome 3 to any other Linux desktop environment. Yes, a few years ago it was buggy as hell and weirdly slow for no reason, but they've corrected that now.
My primary reason for liking Gnome 3 is that the interface gets out of your way. All you have to constantly visible widgets is the bar at the top of the screen. I don't want a huge grab-bag of UI elements plastered across the screen all the time (XCFE is good for this as well). Everything looks good and it's easy to customize. Support for High-DPI screens is pretty good too as is touchscreen support, both of which matter to me because I primarily use it on a 15" 4K laptop with a touchscreen.
I'm currently using Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 and it's working for me. I don't like the unmovable shortcut menu, unified menus (yes I know this is optional now) and overall feeling of self-righteous smugness about the design. It's about at Apple level of telling me what I want. Integration with 3rd party apps can be poor as well, with menus in the wrong place and small graphical annoyances.
I'm not saying you should use Gnome 3, just that I like it. If you don't I recommend XFCE or Cinnamon.
That's idiotic, who else could have put the equivalent of a mid-range discrete GPU on the same chip as a x86 CPU equivalent to the one in the PS4?
Oh right, no one. And your idea that AMD hasn't done anything interesting since the K6-II is just as stupid. AMD lead Intel in performance from the launch of the Athlon until the launch of the Core 2.
Maybe next time you should mention some of the stupid things AMD has done recently, like selling the same "high-end" chip series for 4 years despite it not even being competitive at launch. Or how they've now lost the lead they had on Intel in iGPUs.
I guess this is what happens when you don't listen to your customers and release 4 generations of CPUs that aren't significantly faster than the previous one. Devoting 60% plus of the die to graphics that are still worthless is not a great strategy. Most people would be happy with 1/4 of that for the GPU and everyone else buys a discrete GPU anyway.
I don't know, if you're not undead, you can't be a real vampire.
P.S. destroying a vampire is not illegal because it can't be classified as murder. Do you really want to tell people you're a vampire? It gives them plenty excuse to murder you and claim they thought you were a real vampire. Vampires also can't vote and have no human rights.
Microsoft has bungled the sales and marketing of Windows Phone from day one. They dropped support for all Windows Phone 7 handsets, after saying they wouldn't and that included devices that were only a few months old. Updates for the OS were slow and lacking in features and marketing support was functionally non-existent. Microsoft seems to think that people will buy it's phones based on name recognition alone and that's just not going to happen. Right now Windows Phone is in the state it needed to be at at launch, more than 4 years ago. Not only that they keep changing the SDK you need to develop to. Windows Phone 7, 8 and now 10 have different tooling and APIs. Sure, some of the code ported over easy, but only if you were lucky. The result is that what is a fairly new OS overall has to ship with 3 sets of APIs to support all existing apps.
The interface design behind Windows Phone was a great idea, that they've been slowly making worse with each version. Everyone else Microsoft has bungled badly. You hear a lot about "App Support", as if more apps is all that would be needed to make Windows Phone competitive. that's silly, Apps come if you sell enough phones, not before (and constantly changing your platform so that apps need to be constantly rewritten doesn't help). Take it from a previous Windows Phone (and current iOS and Android) developer, apps will only show up if we think they'll sell. I don't develop for Windows Phone (or BlackBerry) anymore because it's not worth my time. You need a compelling product to make those sales and people need to want that product. Microsoft doesn't know how to market hardware and it almost doesn't matter how good their hardware is, they can't seem to move it.
I actually liked Windows Phone, but Microsoft has done everything possible to torpedo the OS. They've spent millions integrating the Windows Phone and Windows codebases with little benefit, all the while not adding anything useful to Windows Phone and actually making the interface worse.
They also lost all of their biggest supporters when they dropped support of ALL Windows Phone 7 devices, some of which were only a few months old, when they launched Windows Phone 8 and the whole thing has been down hill ever since. Now, in following BlackBerry into the realm of giving up entirely they've essentially admitted that they think that their phones are totally doomed. What happened to hyping universal apps? Might as well just give up at this point.