My experience of Windows 10 came to me along with a Surface Pro 4.
These are some of the problems I experience daily whilst attempting productive work using the dock and an external monitor:
* Switches itself off and displays a giant thermometer on the SP4 screen if I attempt to switch it back on - the fans don't come on so it overheats ^_^
* The mouse pointer randomly jumps around occasionally because the type cover is closed and bizarrely the touch panel is still active despite my screen configuration being set to 'display on the external monitor only'
* Non-deterministic screen resolution issues abound (often at the same time): 1) text is super-tiny; 2) all other ui is HUGE; 3) font is close to normal size but appears *wrong* / fuzzy / faint - generally this occurs along with: 4) the screen configuration randomly changes from 'external monitor only' (my preference) to mirrored
* Keyboard or mouse stop working for no apparent reason
* Windows updates to fix the drivers for the dock / firmware etc. fail again and again and require googling and low-level hacks to get them to install * Close buttons on windows become non-responsive ! ^_^ * My installation of Office 2013 needs to be 'online repaired' every time I reboot
In short it's a total clusterfuck - way worse than the Windows Mobile 6 thing that sent me towards Android. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and abandon years of experience of using and developing on Windows and embrace the dark side that is Linux / Mac just to get away from this kind of BS. Microsoft: what the hell? You control the hardware, the OS and the software but it still doesn't work. WTF!?! How do I make this right given that this is a £2100 ($2778 current rates) investment for the hardware alone! Aaaaarh (not in a pirate sense:-| )
In another instance, a specific dealership had two different sales people contact me by phone, essentially competing with each other. I didn't like that so I didn't bother calling back either one.
So... you don't want two people competing for your business by offering a lower price?
Uhh, surely they'd just tag-team the customer with a combination of:
* increase price before bartering begins (check, built into the dealership model)
* the appearance that they're operating against each other rather than together
Not necessarily. You *can* influence a large organization *if* they think they can make money off your idea. For example, I was at the NYC Auto Show with my GF -- and we were sitting in one of those giant Fiat-500 looking half-SUV things. And it had a glass roof which we liked.
But my GF complained that the vehicle was too tall, making it difficult for her to get snow off the roof (she prefers station wagons to SUVs, and very few manufacturers make wagons anymore).
So, we were talking with the booth rep, and when she brought up the snow situation, I threw out an idea:
"Why don't you guys run the heating wires through the glass roof, like you do with the back window? Then you can just heat up the glass and all the snow melts away."
I'm telling you now, the guy whipped out an iPad, and typed furiously "defroster for glass roof", and I'm sure in a few years, this feature will appear.
Agreed.
Now the challenge is to express "publicly display our faults in a truthful and complete manner" as a thinly-veiled money-making opportunity.
That's not true. Companies and the people that run them understand more than just profit. I defy you to find a single person in a company who cannot comprehend something other than profit. To claim that profit is all they can understand is absurdly untrue. But there is a nugget of truth in what you say. What is true is that companies and some (not all) of those who run them have a strong tendency to focus on profits excessively, particularly short term profits. They do this to the detriment of all else including the long term health of the company sometimes. It's too glib to say that companies only understand profit but it is fair to say that companies tend to focus on it too hard at times and make bad decisions as a result.
A well managed company has to consider things like the health of their community, the well being of their suppliers, the trust of their customers, etc. All these things sooner or later will impact profits so if company focuses excessively on near term profits then in the long term they will likely be worse off and so will all those who depend on the company - customers, suppliers, community, shareholders and employees.
You appear to be saying it's not true then explaining how actually, it's all about profit, or anything which can affect profit - which is just another way of saying they're *really* serious about profit..
if you contact the execs directly, perhaps if there is a VP of customer service or an ombudsman, contact that person and let them know that you value openness and that you are specifically avoiding giving them your business because of their lack of it. If they hear this from enough people, the will get the message: we are losing out on business because of our approach to blah blah blah
That's great - I agree that targeting someone who might care/have a stake in profits/has power to effect change is probably more effective than talking to someone outside that combined set... but...how do you avoid them doing mental calculations in their heads along the lines of:
customer wants openness
+ customer (and wider society) also values competence, particularly when their lives are at stake
+ competence costs more
+ customer likes cheap = give the customer the appearance of openness*
(*) whether through filtering to prevent serious incompetence being reported or the to extreme of fake-incident reporting
Isn't it the free upgrade which ends today? Surely the harassment (from the intimidating blue re-spawning rectangle) will need to ramp up significantly to continue to drive adoption?
Having a company having to embarrassingly show their inadequacies when a problem effects customers should be public. Because if their value in their IT systems is so low should we trust them with their data? Also being self serving: That embarassment will make sure they hire more staff and put more money in IT funding.
More interestingly (IMO), given that such a path is chosen, how could we appropriately encourage truthful and full disclosure? i.e. what's in it for the business?
"You are required to under threat of onerous penalties" has been shown over centuries to offer little in terms of preventative potential.
product ËprÉ'dÊOEkt/ noun 1. an article or substance that is manufactured or refined for sale. "dairy products" 2. a thing or person that is the result of an action or process. "her perpetual suntan was the product of a solarium" synonyms: result, consequence, outcome, effect, upshot, fruit, by-product, spin-off, legacy, issue "her fear was a product of her emotional insecurity"
Occasionally I see a phone booth and take a quick look inside just for the memory. Almost exclusively they have been repurposed to correct for the absence of public toilets.
Home theatre is best. 4K projector. Comfy seats. Better quality snacks. Free parking. No need to be deafened due to whichever failure in determining the appropriate speaker outputs.
The ability to use an external monitor and not have HUGE UI elements (so large that one must lean backwards to see them) surrounding miniscule text (so small that one must lean-in to one inch from the screen to see them.)
That would be an awesome feature after only a year's additional development effort - considering the apparent difficulty of the task.
You've decided to move some consumers around by blowing the financial wind in the appropriate direction that their little desire-to-save-money sails will push them into your harbour?
Without reading even yhe summary.... This whole emissions-cheating circus couldn't have worked out better if Elon Musk had organised the whole thing himself.
Slashdot Mirror
Otherwise known as business - why single Comcast out?
My experience of Windows 10 came to me along with a Surface Pro 4.
These are some of the problems I experience daily whilst attempting productive work using the dock and an external monitor:
* Switches itself off and displays a giant thermometer on the SP4 screen if I attempt to switch it back on - the fans don't come on so it overheats ^_^
* The mouse pointer randomly jumps around occasionally because the type cover is closed and bizarrely the touch panel is still active despite my screen configuration being set to 'display on the external monitor only'
* Non-deterministic screen resolution issues abound (often at the same time): 1) text is super-tiny; 2) all other ui is HUGE; 3) font is close to normal size but appears *wrong* / fuzzy / faint - generally this occurs along with: 4) the screen configuration randomly changes from 'external monitor only' (my preference) to mirrored
* Keyboard or mouse stop working for no apparent reason
* Windows updates to fix the drivers for the dock / firmware etc. fail again and again and require googling and low-level hacks to get them to install
* Close buttons on windows become non-responsive ! ^_^
* My installation of Office 2013 needs to be 'online repaired' every time I reboot
In short it's a total clusterfuck - way worse than the Windows Mobile 6 thing that sent me towards Android. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and abandon years of experience of using and developing on Windows and embrace the dark side that is Linux / Mac just to get away from this kind of BS. :-| )
Microsoft: what the hell? You control the hardware, the OS and the software but it still doesn't work. WTF!?! How do I make this right given that this is a £2100 ($2778 current rates) investment for the hardware alone! Aaaaarh (not in a pirate sense
Uhh, surely they'd just tag-team the customer with a combination of:
* increase price before bartering begins (check, built into the dealership model)
* the appearance that they're operating against each other rather than together
?
Agreed.
Now the challenge is to express "publicly display our faults in a truthful and complete manner" as a thinly-veiled money-making opportunity.
You appear to be saying it's not true then explaining how actually, it's all about profit, or anything which can affect profit - which is just another way of saying they're *really* serious about profit..
That's great - I agree that targeting someone who might care/have a stake in profits/has power to effect change is probably more effective than talking to someone outside that combined set... but ...how do you avoid them doing mental calculations in their heads along the lines of:
customer wants openness
+ customer (and wider society) also values competence, particularly when their lives are at stake
+ competence costs more
+ customer likes cheap
= give the customer the appearance of openness*
(*) whether through filtering to prevent serious incompetence being reported or the to extreme of fake-incident reporting
?
Isn't it the free upgrade which ends today? Surely the harassment (from the intimidating blue re-spawning rectangle) will need to ramp up significantly to continue to drive adoption?
More interestingly (IMO), given that such a path is chosen, how could we appropriately encourage truthful and full disclosure? i.e. what's in it for the business?
"You are required to under threat of onerous penalties" has been shown over centuries to offer little in terms of preventative potential.
So, they're insulting themselves for assuming their customers are largely clueless?
I invoke *the dictionary*:
product
ËprÉ'dÊOEkt/
noun
1.
an article or substance that is manufactured or refined for sale.
"dairy products"
2.
a thing or person that is the result of an action or process.
"her perpetual suntan was the product of a solarium"
synonyms: result, consequence, outcome, effect, upshot, fruit, by-product, spin-off, legacy, issue
"her fear was a product of her emotional insecurity"
Unless you're in someone's place of business, emptying your pockets at a steady rate, you're not enjoying yourself.
???
Occasionally I see a phone booth and take a quick look inside just for the memory. Almost exclusively they have been repurposed to correct for the absence of public toilets.
Yes. People who have been genetically engineered and grown in a vat, specifically to consume the output of the movie industry.
Home theatre is best. 4K projector. Comfy seats. Better quality snacks. Free parking. No need to be deafened due to whichever failure in determining the appropriate speaker outputs.
The ability to use an external monitor and not have HUGE UI elements (so large that one must lean backwards to see them) surrounding miniscule text (so small that one must lean-in to one inch from the screen to see them.)
That would be an awesome feature after only a year's additional development effort - considering the apparent difficulty of the task.
"Authorities" required to demonstrate the legitimate source of their authority.
You've decided to move some consumers around by blowing the financial wind in the appropriate direction that their little desire-to-save-money sails will push them into your harbour?
People already like to shoot drones down. This is great - shoot the drone and win a prize. God bless the freemarketocracy.
So they are able to subtly encourage you over the line and that's OK.
I suppose that's how the devil can sleep at night too after a day sat on people's shoulders whispering suggestions to commit misdeeds.
Why don't the undercover detectives get charged with:
* Engaging in preparatory acts towards buying stolen credit cards
* Entrapment
Or is everything legal now (in the sense that bribing politicians is legal) ?
Without reading even yhe summary.... This whole emissions-cheating circus couldn't have worked out better if Elon Musk had organised the whole thing himself.
YouTube for Android.... (the app)
I'd like to buy the ability to watch a video on youtube without being forced to listen to their "it's your friend's birthday blah blah blah blah" ad.
Rofl
He's lucky that he wasn't also copying mp3s otherwise the sentence would have been much worse.