He has "history" in the name of his blog and he thinks that knights expected to fight dragons? I mean, it is like that in a manga but not in real life.
Quite a few knights in the day were nobles who had large landed estates to manage but were expected to impress their peasants in time of war. They were lucky enough to go to war with heavy armor and mounted on a horse whereas the peasants might get some weapon that is easy to handle without a lot of training like a spear.
Maybe I'm being too generous, but I didn't take that to be meant in a literal, historical sense. I mean for the purpose of metaphor, a literary trope is just as good as factually accurate history. The point is that people can relate.
> He has "history" in the name of his blog and he thinks that knights expected to fight dragons? I mean, it is like that in a manga but not in real life.
I mean, "experimental history", so I don't expect real, academic history... that said, yeah, that was an insane analogy to make. Knights weren't, as a rule, wandering monster-slayers - anywhere or ever, as far as I know.
Knights' bravery was tested on the battlefield, where they would have a very good expectation of survival until approximately post-Agincourt (where it became more socially acceptable to execute wealthy enemies instead of capturing and ransoming them). But that's also an extremely high-level description which may be so generalized as to be inaccurate.
> Medieval knights used to wander around hoping for honorable adventures to pop up so that they could demonstrate their bravery.
That is a loose pop historical way of describing the chivalric tradition, but it did exist in some fashion. The dragon reference also exists in a passage that is being airily allegorical, you're all being overly anal about accuracy.
It's an x64 CPU running most of Windows with plentiful and fully supported USB ports. Why CAN'T I print from my Xbox? I can print with my phone, so why not my Xbox?
I'm sure there's something about "windows print subsystems are pretty terrible and we should excise them from anything we can" and "reduce code to reduce bugs" but like.... There's no technical reason it can't
You go to print a document. Your printer is temporarily unavailable. The print job hits the spooler and sits in a queue. You get bored and launch a game. The printer becomes available. The print driver has to convert the job to PCL or whatever proprietary format the printer uses. Your game hangs or even worse crashes because it's not really designed to run with background tasks on the same cores.
Who do you blame, especially since the usual diagnostic tools of a PC with a full operating system aren't available?
It's a feature very few people will use with lots of sharp edges that people accept on a PC but would find intolerable on a video game console.
It's not running "most of Windows". In particular, as far as I know (no insider knowledge), it's not running any of the Win32 APIs (USER, etc.). So that rules out any printers which require coordination with their desktop app (which, to be honest, to get full functionality is still a shockingly high number of them). It's highly unlikely the XBox hypervisor implements any of the printing APIs, even UWP because this is a video game console, and not only does almost no one own a networked printer, an even smaller group of essentially no one has a printer, opens documents on their video game console, and wants to print them.
Features aren't free. What Xbox feature would you drop to have an engineer go implement printing APIs on them? Is that the best use of their time?
Due to the input device most people will use (controller), apps that work best on Xbox are those used to consume content like photos or videos.
You might be viewing something and want to print it, but that's clearly not desirable enough for Microsoft to build print functionality into the Xbox UI.
I mean, it has USB ports. If I can plug it in, I'd like to be able to use it _somehow_ , even if that means installing another app that does direct port/device access or w/e . ie, it should be possible (but not necessarily super easy)
The explicit point of video game consoles is to be a locked down experience, not a PC. Hardware access is generally used for piracy, which game developers do not like.
Hope I'm not too late, thank you for doing this AMA!
I would love to hear your thoughts on the 50% ownership requirement of the E-2 visa, which I imagine can be restrictive when raising capital or splitting among co-founders. Can you outline generally how you advise your clients on this? For example, do you go the route of finding investors of the same nationality as the E-2 holder?
A final larger question would be does the requirement apply for the whole duration of the visa? If so, how is this tracked?
Here, success can be an enemy of the E-2 visa if the company receives additional funding that dilutes the ownership interest below 50%. The E-2 is a great options for many founders/companies but at the outset, a contingency immigration plan should be put in place to deal with the loss of the E-2 (such as the O-1 or green card).
La La Land: The rainbow emoji and cocktail emoji represent the colorful and musical theme of the movie, and the police officer emoji represents the main character's job as a jazz pianist who falls in love with an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.
Singapore has a major problem in this regard, with loud sometimes expensive cars revving up to the allowed speed limit (50-90km/h) on very short stretches of road.
Particularly irksome given the high population density within earshot, and all the stranger given the fairly strict laws in Singapore which only recently outlawed electric scooters on the roads among other immediate effect measures.
Wonder if they'll follow suit with this, though the prevalence of the modded/sports car culture for showing off and the fact that having a car at all is rightfully seen as a privilege given the sky-high costs of ownership probably make it harder to do so.
