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I'm not sure how that contradicts my statement, but even focusing on cores, I doubt market demand would match this strategy. In the past many a CPU was sold that had locked potential. With AMD you could even unlock it. https://www.makeuseof.com/answ...

How is that confusing? You're unaware of Android? A widely used Linux system with a massive rate of piracy?

Point is it is absolutely nothing to do with Linux or "Linux users". If you have alternative statistics on what the piracy rate is on Linux then I'd be happy to see them (and no, your anecdotes are not evidence or statistics).

Who wants iOS when you can install Linux on the phone? Can't quite get that functionality on an Apple phone, can you...

I'll post this again.

And since you are not only ignorant but insulting as well, kindly cram that up your syphilitic asshole you rancid pus ridden blob of dog shit. Then go slap your mother for not flushing fast enough when you were born.

Even if you don't use it, they may have data on you.

I'm in the same boat, though it seems, according to this site, that one can use the GVoice app for VOIP without using one's cell phone plan.

Gesus christ. Do you use this OS? Do you use it regularly? Is it the "Professional" version?

I can set the "Active Hours". The active hours are configured so that within any 24 hour block there will always be a period of time outside the active hours. Microsoft uses this period of time to apply forced updates, some (not all) of which will reboot the system, REGARDLESS OF WHAT IT IS DOING.

How do you not understand this?

Here are some related articles on the topic. Most interest is from users wanting to stop Windows restarting unexpectedly.

https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/stop-windows-automatic-reboots

https://www.maketecheasier.com/stop-windows10-forced-updates/ [Note that Group Policy Editor was later disabled in the "Professional" version]

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-prevent-windows-10-rebooting-after-installing-updates

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/disable-forced-restarts-windows-update/

If you can be bothered to read them, notice that most of these "solutions" involve disabling updates, or, applying registry hacks that may work for the current version, but could be disabled in the next release.

I don't know about you, but I refuse to fight with my OS. I have much better things to do with my time.

[Cue the "Like Post On Slashdot" rebuttal. He he, this is rec time :)]

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/...

Every carrier has an SMS gateway. They could simply require you verify your phone number with their gateway before being able to use it and then that way they could use your real number in the SMS.

This article doesn't have great references, but does state that Itanium isn't impacted. I'd be surprised if it's horrible EPIC architecture is vulnerable in the same ways. I'd also be surprised if it doesn't have a zillion other problems, but it's unlikely anyone cares enough at this point to uncover them. EPIC was an extreme take on "fuck ASM coders, let the compiler do the work." and the ASM coders won by default.

Examples

People are NOT getting silenced.

Correct. What they are shutting down are the bots and fake accounts.

People can still spout their paranoid conspiracy theories and can still troll for lulz, they just have to do so from one account linked to their own name, not 1000 accounts linked to 1000 fake names,

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mollie-tibbetts-death-russia-bots-alliance-securing-democracy-trump-cohen-manafort-a8505241.html
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/spot-russian-bot-social-media/
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/spot-russian-bot-social-media/

Swift and GCC both can compile on windows for Mac OS X/macOS.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/...

But why would you want to do that? Most likely it makes more sense to run the windows stuff you *need* in a VM on a Mac ...

Twitters new group think reinforcement feature!

Seriously. Silcon valley liberals think silencing non-politicallycorrect non-leftist posts will help their side? They will just reinforce their leftist bubble of estrangement from the rest of the country and this will possibly lead to even greater election defeats. Prior to the 2016 election I had some arguments with friends in that bubble. Trying to explain to them that the "blue wall" of the industrial states was nonsense. That many blue collar "democrats" are moderate non-ideologues who are not necessary loyal to the party, they have a certain independence. All things being equal a democratic candidate may have an advantage but if a republican candidate can deliver a "better" message to them they will consider voting for the republican candidate. Ex: the "Reagan Democrats". But no, to the silicon valley types the blue wall was impenetrable, no one could ever vote for a republican, no one could ever let economic fears and concerns be their deciding factor. And on election day they learned how wrong they were. This twitter feature will just silence those outside the bubble, and those inside the bubble will hear fewer "warnings" from outside and have an even deeper sense of false security in the future.

I never found twitter useful personally, but for those that do there are several alternatives. Maybe one will come up as the popular replacement. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/twitter-alternative-social-networks

The standard may support it, but the vast majority of chargers are not going to support 100W. Worse, many offer out of spec power options and many of the existing chargers are broken and possibly dangerous. See, for example:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/...

Further, there's the question of expense. Not only the price of the additional circuitry in the device, but the charger itself. If you look at that link above, for example, the cheapest 60W charger is $39.99. You can pick up a universal charger that has a variety of tips and voltages for half that. Less if you know (or measure) the size of the barrel and buy a specific one.

You need a major corporate player, with a record for privacy invasiveness and stealing ideas as well as a willingness to corrupt the democratic process to feed their ego and an extremely autocratic bent to forcing their asexual peccadillos on the rest of us, to have an inside line on your companies activities. The ability to data mine all your staffs digital discussions. Seriously the company that does evil by it's own definitions, why, just why?

Seriously modern corporation, I would not trust Google with anything, except what it can uniquely provide, Google Maps, for everything else, someone else, they have straight up proven they can not be trusted. For search https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck..., for office apps https://www.libreoffice.org/, browser https://www.waterfoxproject.or... (I know firefox is all chromey but yeah, NAAHHH). Email, seriously serve your own, or if you want more reliable rent a private maintained email server in a local server farm. Messaging https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/..., keeping in mind messaging beyond marketing hype and bullshit, is more counter productive than productive, honestly.

If I were you, I would try to avoid over-engineering the visualizations.

With that in mind, I'd suggest 3-D Maps with Excel (but not Visio).
https://support.office.com/en-...
It's part of Microsoft Office 360 and as a non-profit, you should be able to get a discount for the monthly subscription.

Or you could use a map add-on with Google Sheets.
https://chrome.google.com/webs...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/...

You could even draw or upload your own private map as a layer.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/...

If I were you, I would try to avoid over-engineering the visualizations.

With that in mind, I'd suggest 3-D Maps with Excel (but not Visio).
https://support.office.com/en-...
It's part of Microsoft Office 360 and as a non-profit, you should be able to get a discount for the monthly subscription.

Or you could use a map add-on with Google Sheets.
https://chrome.google.com/webs...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/...

You could even draw or upload your own private map as a layer.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/...

However there is no mytical Apple thing preventing a Mac from booting Linux from an USB stick: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/...

That's the difference between Apple and MS. If you have MSDN Universal you can get old versions of Windows.

Admittedly MSDN Universal costs a tonne of cash and you're only supposed to use the old versions for testing.

MS used to provide digital downloads of old versions via Digital River but they killed that service off when 8 came out and people were using it to get 7

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

Unfortunately Microsoft suffer from Apple envy and have a tendency to copy the things Apple do, usually in a way that makes Windows a less desirable platform.

One example would be not patching old OSs to run on new CPUs and requiring new CPUs for new OSs. I.e. in a very Apple like way they're trying to tie a new OS to new hardware and old OSs to the old hardware.

You mean Windows 7 that won't work with current and next-generation Intel CPU's?

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/...

Block network access on apps which don't need it (like most games). This prevents any data being sent back to the app's mothership, not just microphone data. Both iOS and Android allow you to block specific apps from using cellular data (on the premise of preventing data hog apps from using up your monthly data quota).

On Android you can go a step further and control which individual apps can use cellular data, WiFi for LAN access, or WiFi for Internet access. It may require root though. AFWall+ is one such app. (A side-effect if you've never run the app prior to blocking it can be that it can never download an ad to display.)

There are a few who are skilled enough to write their own code, but it's mostly just copy/paste from the plethora of online cheat sites.

Allowing cheat codes for single-player mode is fine, I like it.

If managers are allowing cheat codes for on-line play, then these fine employees are worth everything you're paying them.

There are a few who are skilled enough to write their own code, but it's mostly just copy/paste from the plethora of online cheat sites.

Facebook has APIs for everything... WTF is this all about? Has no one noticed that you can send Facebook messages through Skype? :)
Anyone can build their own Facebook messenger or pretty much anything they want.
Here:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7...
https://developers.facebook.co...
You're welcome.

Try this scenario.

You're on the train on the way to work and get an email from a colleague. Attached is a zip or 7z archive. Save the file and extract it to your handset. There is multiple docx files in the zip, you are looking through the document and then see a typo and edit the typo and save back the file. Now you arrive in the office and transfer that same edited document onto the work file server over SMB.

On Android it is as easy as doing it on any desktop, you just save the file from your email. Open your file explorer app to the downloads folder and extract the zip then tap the document and open it in one of the many office apps available. Save the file then go back to the file explorer and transfer the file directly onto the SMB share.

On iOS you just stare at the fact the email has a compressed file and cannot proceed.

Zip files unarchive just fine in iOS. You might bone-up on subjects before you make an ass out of your self in a public forum. Especially a Tech forum. Or even Slashdot...

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/o...

Also, before you bash not having native support for common filetypes, remember that Windows STILL doesn't have NATIVE support for PDF. Nor does it NATIVELY support many Archive formats, such as RAR, tar, gzip, etc.

And as a matter of fact, I can't seem to find a list of Archive file Formats that Android NATIVELY supports.

So, what was your point again?

This case is specially bad because it wasn't just once that Lenovo slipped on this... superfish was only the first of 3 times the company was caught red handed with shady tactics:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/n...

It's why I don't recommend their stuff anymore nor I'll ever buy anything from Lenovo ever again.
Unfortunatelly, the overall tech press keeps advertising their shit and falling head over heels for it.

"Systemd, the ever growing cancer that seeks to subsume the entire Linux userland..."

Who benefits from SystemD destructiveness? Red Hat's consulting? Microsoft?

Linux does seem to be moving in the direction of destroying itself. Stories:

9 Lethal Linux Commands You Should Never Run

The top 5 problems with Linux. Quote: "... the community is vastly divided by tribal identity."

Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2017 edition

Are they really graphics cards if you can't do graphics on it?

Graphics cards are different these days. They have APU's not GPU's now. Here's an article to get your familiar with these concepts: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/w...

Windows updates got kinda nicer last few years (after you disable automatic reboot http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/d... ), but all other software updates are still crap.

Every time I run Windows updates, I then have to run a script to rip Telemetry out of my Windows. So, no. Windows updates are now malware. That's not better. You are suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

As the article points out, a big part of the reason is that people disable automatic updates. This should never be done, but I can understand. Automatic updates are rude. They change and break things. Windows updates got kinda nicer last few years (after you disable automatic reboot http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/d... ), but all other software updates are still crap. Every time I run a third-party sofware update (Adobe, Flash, etc.), it breaks and resets things. No I don't want a new UI for Acrobat that makes the icons twice the size (nope, forced). No I don't want the load-at-boot reinstalled (nope. reinstalled. fire msconfig and regedit to get rid of it). No I don't want to reinstall the auto-update (ditto). No I don't want my print settings reset to default (nope, done). And crap like that, every time. This is a price for security that we should not have to pay.

There's more to 64 bit than just the bigger address space. Annoyingly Google don't seem to be giving much away here beyond "stability, performance, and security"

The interwebs seem to support that there's a performance improvement but the difference isn't huge.

The ZDNet article really adds nothing over Google's blog post. Would've made more sense to have the summary link directly to that.

The entire idea hinges on growth of processors.

Not at all. If anything, it depends on the ratio of cost to computational throughput. We can always add more processing power to a robot, it just requires more electricity and hardware which cost money. Neural networks are the masters of efficiency when properly configured, which is probably why they occur in nature. I have no idea why you think we are going to fall short when IBM put an entire mouse brain into a collection of NN processors just a couple years ago.

There is an end to everything. Progress is not guarenteed.

Why do you think anyone would just give up because of Moore's law? If we needed, we would use a different medium than silicon. Hell, we already know how to make superconductive circuits/memory and space is a nice cool environment to keep them superconductive but we don't even need that thanks to massively parallel computing. I think you are declaring failure far too quickly.

>"If the idea sounds familiar, it's because Microsoft attempted to do this with its Microsoft Display Dock that requires a Windows 10 Lumia 950 or 950 XL with Continuum and a USB-C connector"

Nice try giving MS "innovation", but that is not the only example. This has been tried before in many various ways over the years. Here are just a few:

https://www.technobuffalo.com/...

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/d...

http://maruos.com/

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/...

You just won't get it will you?

Shooting the messenger will not change anything. Kill adblock and other addons which are what makes Firefox worth it, and you kill the biggest sellingpoint it has. Yelling at me doesn't change that, but feel free to keep banging the table if it amuses you. And no, the chrome compatible crap which has been suggested does not cut it, not even close. Because that's the entire point. Here is the sob-story.

That's the point of this move, throw out working code under the pretence of "maintainability", replacing it with something far less capable but which makes advertisers happy, and watch the dough rolling in again. I can only conclude that you are either completely naive, or a scumbag advertiser.

I don't nominally have a Facebook account but I care because of the shadow profile of me they have likely built.

Microsoft is synonymous with lack of security. Linked in is synonymous with lack of security.
Windows 10 is spyware. Linkedin is spyware.
Sounds perfect.

This is the sort of thing that happens when a company that had malware and rootkits on it's BIOS reported multiple times don't get enough of a financial backlash to get a hint.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/n...

Protip guys: DON'T BUY STUFF FROM LENOVO.
Just don't buy. It's simple. Lenovo is not an option, period.

They couldn't care less about clients protests, as long as they keep selling their crap filled laptops.
If you buy stuff from them, you'll get what you deserve.

There have been enough warnings already. This here is a drop in the bucket.

"Autodesk Education Community offers some products, such as Autodesk Maya, for the Linux operating system, starting with the 2016 releases." ref

7 Apps That Prove You Don’t Need Adobe Creative Suite on Linux

But no Adobe, Autodesk, Maya etc.

1. Adobe is not a program or product. It's a brand. Are you saying that Photoshop doesn't run on Linux? Because there's alternatives y'know. Or you might be able to run PS CC 2015 under Wine.

2. Autodesk also isn't a program or product. It's a brand. Are you saying that AutoCAD doesn't run on Linux? Because there's alternatives y'know.

3. Maya does install and run natively on Linux

Of course, when it comes to software, Linux supports literally everything except MS Visual Studio.

I assume it can be fixed out of the regular user-interface if one really want it.

I doubt companies HAVE to deal with this shit for machines which absolutely can't have it.

These seem pretty bad since they kinda disable it, I know know if anything have changed with Anniversary update (previously I could at-least pick a date and time when I wanted to upgrade - I'm not allowed to any longer.)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/go...

Seem like when a restart has been scheduled one can go in and change Restart options to a different day now too under update status. I don't seem to be able to have that the default though.

No idea if this old tips work:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/d...
http://answers.microsoft.com/e...
http://tweaks.com/windows/6573...

I'm not sure the later actually work, then again considering the number of hits and that it should be possibly somehow for some people to actually refuse it ...

Guess if nothing else one could block the network connections to Microsoft for checking for updates ..

--Umm, you do realize that SSDs are:

a) WAY expensive for backing things up to, and

b) An un-powered SSD drive will eventually degrade and LOSE ITS DATA in a fairly short amount of time (for Backup purposes)? This gets worse with Triple-level-and-up (TLC) Cell structures, BTW. They basically need an electric refresh to keep the cell structure from flipping to another position.

--Depending on the temperature/humidity it's stored in, SSD degradation could be detected in as low as several months or - if you're lucky - possibly as much as a couple of years. But if you don't fire it up every so often and run a data-consistency check, how would you know if your files are succumbing to bit-rot?

--There are many, many more options for backups that don't cost *nearly* as much as SSDs - that's not really what they're intended for. I can see buying an SSD if you want faster startup times on your PC, are into gaming, or you do a lot of virtualization suspending/resuming (R/W multiple gigabytes) every day. SSD's are designed to be faster than spinning disks, NOT necessarily long-lasting without power.

--For now, it looks like the best thing to do is keep your data online, have multiple rotating backups, store some stuff off-site, and copy data from old-drive to new-drive before it breaks. (I would even say real-time Mirroring or RAIDing is getting to be essential for any disk over 1-2TB.) But if you're storing your main backups on SSD media, you're over-spending *and* may be risking data loss if you don't power up the drive every so often.

--JMHO, but I would look into something like M-DISC for reasonable amounts of long-term archival storage. 4.7GB DVD M-Discs were made to the highest standard; 51% sure about the 25GB Blu-Ray M-Discs, not sure about the 100GB BD-R multi-layer discs. (Cloud backup is OK I guess as long as you don't mind 3-letter-agency snooping and you don't have a slow Internet with data caps, but encryption is definitely recommended before uploading.)

Refs:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/h...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

https://www.maketecheasier.com...

This. Please this. There are too many posts that offer linux as the cure for all ills, the perfect girlfriend who's always in the mood when you are, never gets tired of your body or your jokes, loves sports and video games and kung-fu action flicks, and can eat endless quantities of wings and pizza without adding an ounce to her perfect figure. The Chinese government offers a linux distro. So does North Korea. Gonna consider any of them... safe?

Linux is only as good/secure as the software that runs on it. Sure, a lot of it provided through distros like Ubuntu are open source, which means people could review it for sneaky eavesdropping stuff. But how many people actually do that? And if someone finds a weakness, do they necessarily report it like a nice person would, or might they instead make an exploit and pass it around the darknet?

Open software is just and only that... open. Unless you review all the code you download from Gentoo before you build it into a system, you're operating at least partly (I'd say hugely) on faith. Maybe the faith is more well-founded than the block-box approach of closed-source (trust us, says Microsoft), but FOSS is not a guarantee (e.g., OpenSSL). An argument against FOSS might be that if Microsoft fucks up, its huge institutional customers like federal and state governments, the defense department, European governments, and (perhaps most important) Wall Street titans will call Satya directly (in bed with his perfect girlfriend) and tell him to get his shit together RIGHT FUCKING NOW or else see his company broken apart and endless, endless, endless hours in court and depositions. In contrast, the FOSS maintainer might respond to a critical bug "hey... uhh, my bad, but you know I'm only doing this in my spare time... gotta go... my old lady's on me to mow the grass." Isn't the first thing in a FOSS license a statement of absolutely no warranty? Just sayin'. Ain't nothin' perfect. Nothin'.

This. Please this. There are too many posts that offer linux as the cure for all ills, the perfect girlfriend who's always in the mood when you are, never gets tired of your body or your jokes, loves sports and video games and kung-fu action flicks, and can eat endless quantities of wings and pizza without adding an ounce to her perfect figure. The Chinese government offers a linux distro. So does North Korea. Gonna consider any of them... safe?

Linux is only as good/secure as the software that runs on it. Sure, a lot of it provided through distros like Ubuntu are open source, which means people could review it for sneaky eavesdropping stuff. But how many people actually do that? And if someone finds a weakness, do they necessarily report it like a nice person would, or might they instead make an exploit and pass it around the darknet?

Open software is just and only that... open. Unless you review all the code you download from Gentoo before you build it into a system, you're operating at least partly (I'd say hugely) on faith. Maybe the faith is more well-founded than the block-box approach of closed-source (trust us, says Microsoft), but FOSS is not a guarantee (e.g., OpenSSL). An argument against FOSS might be that if Microsoft fucks up, its huge institutional customers like federal and state governments, the defense department, European governments, and (perhaps most important) Wall Street titans will call Satya directly (in bed with his perfect girlfriend) and tell him to get his shit together RIGHT FUCKING NOW or else see his company broken apart and endless, endless, endless hours in court and depositions. In contrast, the FOSS maintainer might respond to a critical bug "hey... uhh, my bad, but you know I'm only doing this in my spare time... gotta go... my old lady's on me to mow the grass." Isn't the first thing in a FOSS license a statement of absolutely no warranty? Just sayin'. Ain't nothin' perfect. Nothin'.

Interesting. On multiple benchmarks Chrome appears to be faster where it counts - Javascript performance, network performance, rendering speed. It's also better, in terms of standards compliance and accurate rendering.

If Safari really is "running rings" around Chrome on MacOS, that suggests that Apple is either favouring Safari somehow (like Microsoft did by pre-loading a lot of IE on Windows) or crippling Chrome somehow (like they do on iOS by forcing it to use a slower version of Apple's HTML/JS engine).

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/nothing-drms-like-deere-farmers-cant-fix-tractors/

This is why it is suggested to use a hidden crypted partition witihin a crypted partition http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/c...

I keep my smartphone (Samsung Epic 4G, of the Galaxy 1 generation) because no phone available now has the one feature I want to keep: a hardware QWERTY keyboard.

Just get a USB OTG cable and your (Android) smart phone can use any USB keyboard you want.

> You can opt-out of participation.

Considering that facebook builds shadow profiles of people who have chosen not to create accounts I have to call bullshit - a big steaming pile of bullshit - on you.

Dude, you can install Linux, and then Steam for Linux, on a Chromebook.

Ain't no kid learning after that.

Here's a list of 8 I found... can't vouch for it but google said it so it must be true :P http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8...