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Oh I see what you mean. I didn't think of it that way. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Evidently, since there are no other sanctioned outlets besides the app store to buy apps through, that app store is a monopoly.
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Yup, the only "sanctioned outlet" is one that is available globally to everyone with a device that requires it.
There are plenty of product vendors who only have one "sanctioned outlet", or who only sell through their own outlet. That does not constitute a monopoly.
We sure 'nuff need cowboy stores on top of apple's global outlet, and stores set up by hackers to infect machines, and stores that don't do enough to check that the apps they're distributing haven't been hacked.
Everything else (music, videos, etc.) is available elsewhere, and the app makers set the price for their apps, not apple, so the apps won't be cheaper elsewhere.
I don't like apple, but they're in the right, and are not even infringing any monopoly laws.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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PC shipments have now declined for 5 years in a row, with between 260 and 270 million machines shipped during 2016 according to Gartner and IDC. It's almost like a five year-old computer is good enough these days
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the only ones that want new ones are programmers and security researchers.
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I barely push 10-20% doing most stuff. Only gaming really puts any stress on desktops anymore. I haven't had a need to upgrade, really.
modified 15-Jan-17 14:49pm.
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Unless Intel comes with new hardware, not much reasons to upgrade. No surprises there
--edit
We seem to be stuck with 64 bits. When is 512 bits Windows coming?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
modified 13-Jan-17 18:09pm.
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My work PC is 5 (ish) years old and it is sufficient.
If needed to be upgraded, I could probably swap in new parts as it was state of the art at the time.
I'd rather be phishing!
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What everyone would like us to believe is that PC sales are in decline because everyone wants to use their phone for all their computing needs.
The reality, however, is that everyone is clinging on to windows XP and 7 machines, because 8 and 10 are such cr@p.
You can't argue with the timeline.
Mobile computing didn't knock a big chunk off of the desktop market; bad choices, awful UI "innovations", and inferior operating systems from microsoft did.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You are correct - unless you are in a position to recompile / rewrite your code to take advantage of the latest instructions.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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My current rig was built in late 2009 when Weven came out, so that makes it over 7 years old. I swapped out the spinning os hdd for a ssd a little over a year ago with a fresh upgrade to 10. It's now better than ever and still easily handles whatever I throw at it. There just haven't been enough hardware improvements, with the exception of ssd, to warrant a new box. My previous rebuild/replace rate was around 3 years until the current one. I think I can get another years or so out of it. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's almost like a five year-old computer is good enough these days
Probably about right! I upgrade my PC in 2013 (wrote about it here: Major Component Upgrades with a twist, benchmarks and all!) and only now am I considering upgrading the GPU again to get some better video processing performance.
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In this post, Joy Clark, a consultant at innoQ, claims that simplicity is key to creating and maintaining good software and explains why the functional programming approach offers a great way to achieve it. KISS the software
But no simpler!
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Send simple artificial intelligence...urgentz!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Two years ago, Google bought Launchpad Toys, the company behind the popular Toontastic kids app for iOS that allows you — whether you are a kid or not — to easily tell your stories through animations. Coming soon - CodeProject: The Movie
In 3D
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Yahoo is releasing the tool that helped the company perform Continuous Delivery at scale into the open-source community. Collapsing your corporation available separately
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Am I puerile to snigger at their choice of "screw" in their product name?
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Yahoo! 
Not at all. Or maybe it's just we both are.
TTFN - Kent
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Get your mind out of the gutter.
It's blocking my periscope. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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D-Wave releases problem-solving tool to open source in a bid to build quantum development environment Oh good, now I can use it on the quantum computer I'm building in my garage
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One set of neurons in the amygdala, the brain's center of emotion and motivation, cues the animal to pursue prey. Another set signals the animal to use its jaw and neck muscles to bite and kill. I think I saw that movie once
Not sure how this one got past the ethics boards
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So the elephants are right?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
modified 12-Jan-17 23:24pm.
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Proposed rules for robots and AI in Europe include a push for a general basic income for humans, and ‘human rights’ for robots “Oh, are robots so different from men, mentally?”
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We should give the robots basic income too. That would solve a problem of autonomous Google car accident. It will just be paid from its account, as it will be responsible under the law. On another note: So this means we're developing robots to be basically our "slaves", but now the robots will have rights too. Probably a good idea to make them look the least humanoid and also dumb in all the aspects other than required by their profession.
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You're assuming that robots will want an income because you want one. That's transference.
Why should a robot want income?
We want an income for:
0: Food/health
1: Lodgings
2: Raising offspring
3: Transport
4: Entertainment
We don't use money for anything else.
- Item 0 doesn't apply to robots, unless some greedy w@nker decides to charge them personally for electricity and maintenance.
- Item 1 doesn't apply to robots, unless some greedy w@nker decides to charge them personally for it.
- Item 2 doesn't apply to robots.
- Item 3 doesn't apply to robots, unless some greedy w@nker decides to charge them personally for it
- Item 4 doesn't apply to robots, unless some greedy w@nker decides to charge them personally for Internet access.
So, as we can see, any robot-related problems in the future are really not about, and won't be caused by, robots.
They'll be about, and caused by, greedy w@nkers.
Adding robots to the world doesn't change a damned thing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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