Windows 8.1 is definitely an improvment over Windows 7 here. However I've heard no one mention how much better Windows 10 is vers Windows 8.1 in this regard. Or ANY regard for that matter. The most popular reason I've been given is "you're going to have to upgrade eventually anyway so you may as well upgrade now." Which is silly since I've got another 8 years left of support on the current OS.
I do not trust that list! Look at what's on it. "ui.skype.com"? Is that telemetry, or something necessary if you want to use Skype? The doubleclick.net, that's an advertising site, not telemetry from Microsoft. I get the feeling someone just went whole hog on this list and included every outgoing connection that was seen in a certain time period rather than actually filtering it down to only the Microsoft telemetry and spying.
And surprise, surprise, the typical Pro-Windows IT types who can never bad mouth anything Microsoft ever does, almost always run Enterprise. Shove them on Windows 10 Home for awhile and see how they like it.
Oner person in a raid goes link dead and vanishes for an hour. Comes back and says "sorry Windows decided now was a good time to apply updates..." Also a supplier in a meeting was getting ready to project some slides, started cursing, then said slides weren't available until after Windows finished updating.
But even with Enterprise, you can not skip upgrades. You can defer indefinitely, but if you want update number N then you need to have update N-1. (I've noticed that last week's Tuesday updates had a very large number of updates that said things like "all future updates will require this update to be applied".)
It's been shown that writing something down helps you remember it more. If you just listen then you've probably forgotten most of it by the time the lecture is over.
And that's writing it down, which meant pen and paper most likely, not sure how it compares to typing it in. As for stylus, sheesh, stop being so elite and get a friggin pad of paper. College is expensive enough without getting the latest conspicuous consumption toy.
This is very true for most OEM suppliers. Many products are a combination of many OEM parts and you can't have each OEM supplier insist on it's own rules, especially if all those OEM rules would conflict with each other. Apple got away with it because it's their own phone, Google doesn't own any of the phones except for Nexus. Microsoft gets away with it because you don't argue with the giant gorilla who wants your banana.
Well, first off the subject really confused me. I thought the issue was someone not pushing out security updates even when none was required. Ie, like Microsoft's Tuesday updates make me wonder if they come out with pointless and unnecessary updates just so that they can have something every week, what do you do every month if you have no security patch to shove out?
But reading the article it is *nothing* like that, the "monthly" thing is just a red herring. Basically they're not incorporating patches that they've already received. But that's probably like many phone vendors. I've only had one Android update on my Samsung in a year, and when I had HTC I only had a few handfuls of updates. If Googl really is pushing out vital security updates every month then Google should start advertising that fact.
Microsoft just has an enormous amount of leverage and gets its way with its partners Most places you have to beg and plead for partners and customers to accept your updates, then wait patiently for several months while they test the hell out of it in their own labs. Windows is an exception in many ways. Also phone makers have a lot of significant integration with the core OS which is not the case with Windows where the partners don't do much beyond adding some annoy-ware and an occasional optional driver. You can't put off-the-shelf android onto a phone the same way you can put off-the-shelf windows onto a PC. So the phone makers have to do the integration of these fixes, make sure they don't break anything, etc. If Google pushed out an upgrade itself it would likely break a lot of phones.
Agreed. I never wanted a wireless keyboard from the first day they existed, for three reasons. The pain of having to change and hunt down batteries, the utter and complete lack of security, and because it's pointless to be wireless. So other people just NOW realized there were security problems? Were these the same people who were surprised that their parents could see their drunken party photos on facebook?
The trick is to fool newcomers. Ie, new to PC gaming, they think Steam is the way to go for getting mods, the location for "official" forums, etc, while all the old timers say "no!" and try to correct them. But over time the focus starts shifting. So MS thinks they can do the same thing: Supply something that they claim is easier and lure in newcomers who don't know any different. After awhile they say "Steam? Can't I just use the Windows Store? Why go with the extra complication?", and Steam ends up being for only oldtimers and treated as irrelevant.
Except that on the Apple Mac platform (not iphone/ipad, but osx) the walled garden is not walled. You never have to use the store on OSX. At one point there was a snag in that you couldn't get the basic dev command lines tools except in the store (necessary to build an alternative development environment), but they fixed that. There are definitely moves on Apple's part to try and close the wall, but they're no where near as restrictive as what Microsoft is aiming itself to be. As long as there's a way to write code and run it on your own machine then there's no way to lock it up (thus the push from Microsoft to get Windows-friendly UEFI).
there is no way, even if TPB had a whole team of crack video editors, that they could make something watchable out of Star Trek Beyond in the time it's been available..
They'd probably need a crack team of script writers too.
Those articles are wrong. Netflix removes the movies becuase they lost the license to show those movies. Ie, a lot of movies I wanted to see have an exclusive streaming license only on Starz.
It's like with cable or satellite subscriptions - movie selections are abysmal if you want choice. You wait until the movies come out, watch them during that short window, then the same movie wont' be on cable/satellite for several years. Netflix is a huge improvement right off the bat. If you really need to see the latest releases then sub to hbo for a month or something like that. There's just no reasonable comparison that makes Netflix worse than cable/satellite, the only argument is Netflix vs other streaming services, or what's the proper collection of streaming services that's sufficient (if one by itself isn't good enough).
"mainstream" is in eye of beholder. Psycho is mainstream, it's not new, it's not modern superhero fluff, but it's still mainstream. And Netflix is full of mainstream stuff, just not the recently released movies. And you won't get those movies on any subscription streaming service at this price. If you want that, you get cable or you go premium, pay per view, cable, etc.
Hillary has no control over this. It's the Democratic National Committee that was hacked. It has zero top secret emails stored, it's not a government agency. It's bad to be hacked but it's no different than any other private club out there.
The problem is there's no one clean doing the accusations. The corrupt and dishonest are accusing others of being corrupt and dishonest. And yes, these are molehills turned into mountains. First Hillary says she doesn't like to bake cookies 24 years ago and it was instantly seen as a sign that she was wasn't worthy to be a first lady. Essentially a non-story but it was blown out of proportion and instant hate was generated which has yet to die down.
I don't like the democrats and these emails confirm some of what I don't like. But sheesh, such a minor thing about in party fighting, big deal.
The world won't get much done if there aren't eggheads discovering new ways to do things. You do realize Slashdot is news for nerds, right? So arguments about "not cool enough for me" don't hold a lot of weight.
This is research. Relevance to fashion is not important. All of the "relevant" languages got their start from people researching and using a wide variety of programming languages.
Agreed. I've run across so much code where I knew exactly what it was doing, only I had no idea why it was doing it. Sometimes it's an obscure feature for just one customer, so if you change it you get angry calls. Doesn't help that most of the code was originally written people who weren't trained in computer science or programming.
Slashdot Mirror
That game runs on Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, and PlayStation Vita. It was also released in 2013, which was before Windows 10 was available.
Windows 8.1 is definitely an improvment over Windows 7 here. However I've heard no one mention how much better Windows 10 is vers Windows 8.1 in this regard. Or ANY regard for that matter. The most popular reason I've been given is "you're going to have to upgrade eventually anyway so you may as well upgrade now." Which is silly since I've got another 8 years left of support on the current OS.
I do not trust that list! Look at what's on it. "ui.skype.com"? Is that telemetry, or something necessary if you want to use Skype? The doubleclick.net, that's an advertising site, not telemetry from Microsoft. I get the feeling someone just went whole hog on this list and included every outgoing connection that was seen in a certain time period rather than actually filtering it down to only the Microsoft telemetry and spying.
And surprise, surprise, the typical Pro-Windows IT types who can never bad mouth anything Microsoft ever does, almost always run Enterprise. Shove them on Windows 10 Home for awhile and see how they like it.
Oner person in a raid goes link dead and vanishes for an hour. Comes back and says "sorry Windows decided now was a good time to apply updates..." Also a supplier in a meeting was getting ready to project some slides, started cursing, then said slides weren't available until after Windows finished updating.
But even with Enterprise, you can not skip upgrades. You can defer indefinitely, but if you want update number N then you need to have update N-1. (I've noticed that last week's Tuesday updates had a very large number of updates that said things like "all future updates will require this update to be applied".)
It's been shown that writing something down helps you remember it more. If you just listen then you've probably forgotten most of it by the time the lecture is over.
And that's writing it down, which meant pen and paper most likely, not sure how it compares to typing it in. As for stylus, sheesh, stop being so elite and get a friggin pad of paper. College is expensive enough without getting the latest conspicuous consumption toy.
To be fair, the Windows 10 on it is doing the most spying of all.
This is very true for most OEM suppliers. Many products are a combination of many OEM parts and you can't have each OEM supplier insist on it's own rules, especially if all those OEM rules would conflict with each other. Apple got away with it because it's their own phone, Google doesn't own any of the phones except for Nexus. Microsoft gets away with it because you don't argue with the giant gorilla who wants your banana.
Well, first off the subject really confused me. I thought the issue was someone not pushing out security updates even when none was required. Ie, like Microsoft's Tuesday updates make me wonder if they come out with pointless and unnecessary updates just so that they can have something every week, what do you do every month if you have no security patch to shove out?
But reading the article it is *nothing* like that, the "monthly" thing is just a red herring. Basically they're not incorporating patches that they've already received. But that's probably like many phone vendors. I've only had one Android update on my Samsung in a year, and when I had HTC I only had a few handfuls of updates. If Googl really is pushing out vital security updates every month then Google should start advertising that fact.
Microsoft just has an enormous amount of leverage and gets its way with its partners Most places you have to beg and plead for partners and customers to accept your updates, then wait patiently for several months while they test the hell out of it in their own labs. Windows is an exception in many ways. Also phone makers have a lot of significant integration with the core OS which is not the case with Windows where the partners don't do much beyond adding some annoy-ware and an occasional optional driver. You can't put off-the-shelf android onto a phone the same way you can put off-the-shelf windows onto a PC. So the phone makers have to do the integration of these fixes, make sure they don't break anything, etc. If Google pushed out an upgrade itself it would likely break a lot of phones.
I suspect the vast majority of people wanting a wireless keyboard only wanted it because it was new and cool, and not for any practical reasons.
Agreed. I never wanted a wireless keyboard from the first day they existed, for three reasons. The pain of having to change and hunt down batteries, the utter and complete lack of security, and because it's pointless to be wireless. So other people just NOW realized there were security problems? Were these the same people who were surprised that their parents could see their drunken party photos on facebook?
The trick is to fool newcomers. Ie, new to PC gaming, they think Steam is the way to go for getting mods, the location for "official" forums, etc, while all the old timers say "no!" and try to correct them. But over time the focus starts shifting. So MS thinks they can do the same thing: Supply something that they claim is easier and lure in newcomers who don't know any different. After awhile they say "Steam? Can't I just use the Windows Store? Why go with the extra complication?", and Steam ends up being for only oldtimers and treated as irrelevant.
Except that on the Apple Mac platform (not iphone/ipad, but osx) the walled garden is not walled. You never have to use the store on OSX. At one point there was a snag in that you couldn't get the basic dev command lines tools except in the store (necessary to build an alternative development environment), but they fixed that. There are definitely moves on Apple's part to try and close the wall, but they're no where near as restrictive as what Microsoft is aiming itself to be. As long as there's a way to write code and run it on your own machine then there's no way to lock it up (thus the push from Microsoft to get Windows-friendly UEFI).
Where's the kickstarter for this so I can sign up?
there is no way, even if TPB had a whole team of crack video editors, that they could make something watchable out of Star Trek Beyond in the time it's been available..
They'd probably need a crack team of script writers too.
For that price you could get cable but cable has a worse movie selection than any streaming service.
Those articles are wrong. Netflix removes the movies becuase they lost the license to show those movies. Ie, a lot of movies I wanted to see have an exclusive streaming license only on Starz.
It's like with cable or satellite subscriptions - movie selections are abysmal if you want choice. You wait until the movies come out, watch them during that short window, then the same movie wont' be on cable/satellite for several years. Netflix is a huge improvement right off the bat. If you really need to see the latest releases then sub to hbo for a month or something like that. There's just no reasonable comparison that makes Netflix worse than cable/satellite, the only argument is Netflix vs other streaming services, or what's the proper collection of streaming services that's sufficient (if one by itself isn't good enough).
"mainstream" is in eye of beholder. Psycho is mainstream, it's not new, it's not modern superhero fluff, but it's still mainstream. And Netflix is full of mainstream stuff, just not the recently released movies. And you won't get those movies on any subscription streaming service at this price. If you want that, you get cable or you go premium, pay per view, cable, etc.
Hobbies can make you money. The IRS has a category for this.
Hillary has no control over this. It's the Democratic National Committee that was hacked. It has zero top secret emails stored, it's not a government agency. It's bad to be hacked but it's no different than any other private club out there.
The problem is there's no one clean doing the accusations. The corrupt and dishonest are accusing others of being corrupt and dishonest. And yes, these are molehills turned into mountains. First Hillary says she doesn't like to bake cookies 24 years ago and it was instantly seen as a sign that she was wasn't worthy to be a first lady. Essentially a non-story but it was blown out of proportion and instant hate was generated which has yet to die down.
I don't like the democrats and these emails confirm some of what I don't like. But sheesh, such a minor thing about in party fighting, big deal.
She got the position because she essentially came in second during the democratic primaries, not because of a conspiracy.
The world won't get much done if there aren't eggheads discovering new ways to do things. You do realize Slashdot is news for nerds, right? So arguments about "not cool enough for me" don't hold a lot of weight.
This is research. Relevance to fashion is not important. All of the "relevant" languages got their start from people researching and using a wide variety of programming languages.
Agreed. I've run across so much code where I knew exactly what it was doing, only I had no idea why it was doing it. Sometimes it's an obscure feature for just one customer, so if you change it you get angry calls. Doesn't help that most of the code was originally written people who weren't trained in computer science or programming.