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The search for an ongoing revenue stream is one of the most destructive forces in the tech industry. It leads to some very customer-hostile experiences.
My fave is "subscription headphones": https://www.nuraphone.com/products/nuranow
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1. Windows 7 was supported with security updates for over 10 years (2009-2020). Second to only Windows XP (13 years) 2. They offered free upgrades to Windows 10 for a long time (a year?) 3. Replacement cycles for consumer desktops/laptops are short relative to OS cycles, with some internet stats saying ~5 years on average. 4. You can still run Windows 7, you just won't get security updates. You're free to repair it o…
As an aside the free upgrade still works. You can get it from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=616447 . Just updated my grandma's computer two days ago from Windows 7.
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The search for an ongoing revenue stream is one of the most destructive forces in the tech industry. It leads to some very customer-hostile experiences.
My fave is "subscription headphones": https://www.nuraphone.com/products/nuranow
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Not that I agree with them, but some of the rationales I heard: That it makes a company liable in case someone repairs their truck and it blows up, since they can't prove that the two were related. Also to consider: the machine blows up after a repair, but it's not related to that. That it might force companies to publish business secrets: with machine being full of computers nowadays, they might be forced to reveal…
> That it makes a company liable in case someone repairs their truck and it blows up Is this the case for auto shops now? > That it might force companies to publish business secrets There are many, many ways to compile and preserve business secrets in blobs, but there's probably a fundamental issue if you're dependent on that. > someone finds a flaw in the API, uses it to ruin other people's machines, and then the co…
>If you can't handle a support call, don't take my money.
Was there a promise of support at the time of purchase? If so, then yeah, that's a problem worth caring about. If not, then why give them money?
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Windows 7 is due to stop being updated very soon, all the while the only alternative is to downgrade into Windows 10.j sure don't call that "basically forever".
1. Windows 7 was supported with security updates for over 10 years (2009-2020). Second to only Windows XP (13 years) 2. They offered free upgrades to Windows 10 for a long time (a year?) 3. Replacement cycles for consumer desktops/laptops are short relative to OS cycles, with some internet stats saying ~5 years on average. 4. You can still run Windows 7, you just won't get security updates. You're free to repair it o…
So basically forever = 10 years as far as you are concerned? I have an elixir of immortality that you might be interested in.
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Depending on the plant, you'll get either of the two species used to make the hybrid instead of the hybrid itself.
Thank you, and excuse my naivete here. So what makes the hybrid route the optimal way to produce these GM plants, rather than cross-breeding in a way that survives reproduction? Do we know GM crops to always be hybrids of this nature?
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The app ecosystem is just a matter of time, once there exists a solid foundation. We need the breakthrough device that will make it possible to get started. Consider Linux on the desktop. For about a decade after it became popular (late 90s) ie till late 2000s, the user experience was crappy, and the app ecosystem was sparse. But they developed so well over the next ten years that in many ways Linux today is more use…
95% of the market does not find Linux more user-friendly than Windows/MacOS. While Linux was getting its shoelaces tied, ChromeOS showed up and put the lie to the dream that any user-controlled Linux would satisfy the market's needs. 2020 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
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Your comment on GM crops is technically correct but also misleading. Most crops are already grown from hybrid seeds. For reasons of genetics, hybrid seeds cannot be reused in the next season. It's also quite a time-consuming process to reuse seeds, which makes the whole process less cost effective anyway. GM crops have not had a significant effect on this issue.
> For reasons of genetics, hybrid seeds cannot be reused in the next season. Can you provide supporting evidence/materials to back this claim?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_techno...