I read the Hololens 2 has a better pixel density of 47 pixels/degree of visual field. Not sure if I recall if the units I stated are completely correct, but I have no idea if that's enough to render good font quality at all levels of presentation.
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It would be great if someone would create a fork implementing a modern syntax and implemented as modules for multiple platforms.
If a Tesla gets poor maintenance by an unskilled shop, when the vehicle crashes and kills the driver, Tesla gets the black eye and has to defend itself in the media and in front of the NHTSA. Tesla's stock takes the hit.
When a Mac crashes, it's because Apple's hardware or software has a bug (something in Apple's control). Apple doesn't have an open ecosystem like th.e PC world. When a PC crashes, you also have the hardware manufacturer to blame for faulty hardware. What about OS and other system customizations the manufacturer puts in there? Those coukd crash it too? All the public hears is "My Windows crashed." and Microsoft looks bad.
No fault is brought upon the consumer who thought a $220 PC was going to be a quality machine, not does it fall to the non-brand foreign bargain PC manufacturer for building a $220 that's doomed to provide an awful experience. Instead, the world hears that "Windows Sucks."
Given this, I appreciate why a company would opt to do the things Tesla has done in order to protect its brand. However, I try to avoid doing business with companies who do this, as I value consumer freedom.
If the next train is in 20 minutes and the train is leaving in the next minute, walking down the escalator to make this train just saved me 20 minutes.
They created C# because they wanted a native language for their .NET runtime that integrated seamlessly with Windows. It was obvious that cross platform runtimes were going to be the future and Microsoft couldn't depend on an outside company to drive the technology platform they would be relying on.
The problem with UAC is that 90% of users have no idea when it would be necessay to click "no" when that dialog box shows up. For them, it's the box that always annoys you and you have to just click "yes" to make it go away.
I understand what it's supposed to do, but have had it disabled since it was released, and have saved hours of task interruption it in exchange for no other problems.
One day or one week doing this is no big deal, but if it's your main water source and you do it all the time, you will start demineralizing your body and you'll be short of electrolytes which is known as hyponatremia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia
It can also cause bone density issues during child development.
Free as in "free beer" isn't free. There are many costs beyond the cost of acquisition that are often overlooked.
Usability isn't nearly as good with the FOSS alternatives. Microsoft has a paid team of usability experts designing and testing the usability of features for many different user audiences, including disabled users who rely on special usability features.
People likely have some familiarity with Office applications, so training costs are lower. For the training employees need, there is a large wealth of training resources out there, from free to pricey.
There is also no question about being able to get support in the future, as Office as been around almost 30 years, and is going strong. Office has no real competitors in the marketplace, so as long as there is money to be made in selling word processors, spreadsheets and other office-centric desktop software, those document formats and applications will be supported.
Office has a very flexible plug-in architecture for customization by thousands of software devs who can develop for that.
Microsoft isn't naive to the needs of European governments, they have government editions of their software and cloud services to align their software with government regulations.
The foreign company argument isn't really meaningful these days. No country is an island (except island nations!). Everything in IT is dependent on foreign resources, PC parts from Asia, tech support from India, Software from US companies, cloud services, etc. If you don't want to have to rely on foreign companies, go back to typewriters.
Also, it's a stupid reason to get every American to throw out their TV AGAIN (digital tv transition being first) to give the consumer electronics industry a revenue boost.
The industry has run out of features consumers will pay for (3-D tv, screen size, 4K, HDR) during a significant market maturity price erosion - taking 65" TVs from $2,500 down to $1,000 well equiped in only a few years. To reset the pricing scheme, they get the FCC to create a new mandatory feature so they can reset the pricing and sell millions of devices needlessly.
I fixed this by putting the USB 3.0 thumb drive through the washing machine in my pants pocket. After being washed, the thumb drive no longer works, but my wi-fi is working great now, thanks to the washing machine. Problem gone.
Companies don't want to move to a state whose economic future and viability is in question.
Boston and NYC are all developed expensive. Atlanta still has undeveloped area inside the city limits or old industrial areas that can be removed and replaced.
Chattanooga wouldn't work because they want an international airport and major university.
Atlanta has the world's busiest airport and Georgia Tech (engineering), Emory (business, medicine). Atlanta is also a huge transportation hub of the Southeast.
Detroit is a cesspool, but does have the added advantage of everything being cheap, lots of places to develop, and lots of transportation infrastructure, but no international airport.
It looks like Amazon wrote this RFP for Atlanta.