Chrome should be like Firefox where I can say "shut up you moron, you're not the boss of me" and then I refuse to upgrade. It's my computer, not theirs.
It's still bad. That means if there is a bad update that you must now prevent your computer from rebooting until there's a patch. And Microsoft has shoved out patches that have broken systems.
Does autosave help you if you were in the middle of a raid in a game when the computer decides it must reboot now because Big Brother said it was time? What if you're in the middle of a phone call? I have indeed been in the middle of an online chat where some third party program insisted on rebooting immediately because I clicked the "not now, remind me in ten minutes" button too many times.
So what about the user who doesn't know enough, but is concerned because their dialup line has been spending three days downloading Microsoft's crapware for a mandatory update to some part of the system they never use?
I got the Windows 8 Pro for $14. I'm hoping this allows Windows 10 Pro as Windows 10 Home seems utterly inappropriate for any computer user.
Now I know that Microsoft is always keen on removing more and more options with every release, but usually there's some sort of back door via registry to force the system to act sanely. So, anyone know if you can tweak the registry into disallowing auto-install updates?
So, make the default option to update and install automatically. But they should still allow the OPTION to choose otherwise on the computer that they bought with their own money. Their computer does not belong to Microsoft! Microsoft has no goddamn business screwing with other people's stuff without permission! Only psycopaths would do that without feeling remorse.
The history of Microsoft includes a very long stream of changes that involve removing options. They think you're too dumb to think for yourself so they have decided that you shall not think.
No one can fit into a pair of skinny jeans. Those who appear to fit actually don't, what happens instead is that their testicles are being squeezed so hard they're being pushed up into the brain cavity.
Microsoft has a vested interest in getting every Office user to upgrade, and that is directly opposed to the notion of supporting Office properly so that it continues to work over time or remain backwards/forwards compatible. Microsoft does not do this because it's hard to do but because they don't want to be compatible with themselves. (and now is the time for some junior programmer to pipe up and claim that compatibility is indeed hard because they tried it once)
Is it the job of the coder who's life is hard to decide this, even though they're not even managers or team leaders? No. If programming were easy then any fool with a Microsoft Certificate could do it. Instead they're paying you to do your job so it makes sense to do it.
The problem is that if you use logic about using the best platform for each job, then Windows will always lose. Microsoft does not want this to happen. So they have an army of loyal fans who get into positions of authority at companies in order to mandate the use of Windows for inappropriate things.
It's not up to the programmer. It is easy to support multi platform systems if that is a part of the job. If you're getting paid for it then do it, and the bosses are the ones paying you so it should be their decision whether or not to screw the paying customers by dropping support.
The whole concept just seems amazingly insecure. Even with Windows 7 and XP. Some third party without asking any permission goes and changes the software on your computer. Just because said third party is Microsoft doesn't make it right. They *have* broken things before with their updates. And it is not uncommon for the reboot after update to take a very long time when the time is inconvenient (as in I had 15 minutes to get online and the "please do not shut off your" computer updates took about 20 minutes).
Other companies are following suit. If they see Microsoft doing it then they think it's ok too. Everyone needs to stop and realize that the computer belongs to the person who bought it and that no IT goon at a computer company has the right to muck with it without first asking for permission.
This covers 9 out of 10 companies though. I have never worked anywhere in the last 30 years where the execs didn't screw stuff up in departments they didn't know anything about. People who insist on only working for sane companies may find themselves unemployed much of the time.
Face it, the company's leadership may be stupid, but they're also probably evil so don't feel bad about taking money from them in the form of a paycheck.
The problem is the same with lots of old programs. No one has the budget to throw them all away and rewrite them again, and then convert all the data formats. At least with COBOL there are a lot of people who know that language and the language is not terrible, so it survives with good reason. But MUMPS has few programmers and is a nasty language.
It's a nasty language too. Some is just from the style of the programmers at the time too; lots of spaghetti code, very short variable names, lack of comments. But even with good programmers, the language basically needs a good redesign (or a first design). I know someone who used MUMPS programs to study program complexity.
Youtube still does by default. You can get HTML5 but you have to manually alter the URL to do so. Thus any links you have from social media that head back to Youtube will almost always use Flash.
True. It's not just the routes though, it's the time schedules. I have evolved to avoid rush hours which also means that catching the train or light rail late at night is impossible because it's stopped running or has dropped to once an hour, the shuttles have stopped running, and depending on what it is I'd still have to catch a few bus transfers. My commute is long as it is 45 minutes to an hour on a bad day, but to double it would be ridiculous.
Transit it good when it starts and stops where you want to go. When you are working with a longish commute this is very difficult to manage. When you're retired it's a lot easier, when you're in school it's pretty easy.
I did take the train every day when I spent time in Helsinki. I just felt dumb spending 20 euro each way to take a taxi even though work paid for it. But I wasn't staying long hours working (in Europe they think something's wrong with you if you're at work late no matter that you goofed off during daylight hours), plus the train was easy walking distance from hotel and the office, it was clean and uncrowded, and the walk was pleasant. I would do that every day.
The solution is to turn off the uploading in the preferences. The app is just a front end to display pictures from Google Play. Android is what is uploading the pictures.
I don't have to pay for the ads in newspapers and magazines that I look at in the store; I only pay for it if I buy them. On the internet, I pay for these ads just by clicking on their links and then wondering why my browser is so slow. For mail ads, the advertiser has to pay real money to mail them out (bulk rate though) and it costs me nothing except a couple of seconds to transfer them from the mailbox to the recycle bin; on the internet the advertisers are not paying their fair share of distribution
A newspaper or magazine is going to have a real live person examining every advertisement that wants to be included. The ads are curated in other words. You're not going to see condom ads in Hilights for Kids. On the internet these wannabe-journalist bloggers don't give a shit, they sign up for the "send me free money!" advertising service and relinquish their control over what happens after that (so you go to a gaming blog and see non-sequitur ads about Buicks or direct marketing).
Newspapers and magazines have never infected my computer with malware. They've never had pop-ups that refuse to go away. They never prevented me from turning the page for 10 seconds. They never installed search helpers and other "utilities" without asking for permission. Sure not all web sites are that way, but the majority of them are, and I cant' take the chance here that I'm wrong because the ramifications for a mistake are too high. I don't need to be flashed before I should avert my eyes from a guy in a trenchcoat standing in an alley, I'd rather be proactive about not looking.
I am also NOT subscribing to these sites. If it is a site I will be visiting a lot and which has EARNED my respect then I may unblock it from ads on a trial basis or supply a donation.
Sure maybe some people are innocent victims here, but I'll repeat again: I block ads out of self defense. If you're mad at me for using ad block then you should be even more angry at the anti social attitudes of advertisers and will stop treating them as a source of money for nothing.
Immature teenaged brats will often do things that are seriously screwed up and will get you serious jail time, for things that most people would agree with. But do it online and people will start defending these immature teenage brats as "kids will be kids". Swatting is like pointing a gun at someone and threatening them, then later claiming that it was ok because it was just a prank.
Remember that for this kid has 23 charges filed, and got 16 months. Ten years may be high, I'd go with 5 years jail and 5 years mandatory psychiatric care. Yes his life may be ruined by this but he did the ruining to himself.
If you want quality content, then the internet is the wrong place to look for it.
If the advertisers refuse to play nice then the internet users have no alternative but to protect themselves. Ad block is self defense, pure and simple. So someone with a hobby can't buy a new microphone for the blog, big deal, they should get a real job to pay for their hobby or find something cheaper to do in their off time. Maybe I sound callous, but I am under attack by advertisers and I am not going to surrender so that they can continue stealing my bandwidth and serving me ads that cost them nothing but which costs me real money to receive.
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Fair enough, but if everyone is using the pro version instead of home, why have the home version that just annoys/insults/abuses users?
Because the executives at Microsoft enjoy annoying, insulting, and abusing their users.
Chrome should be like Firefox where I can say "shut up you moron, you're not the boss of me" and then I refuse to upgrade. It's my computer, not theirs.
It's still bad. That means if there is a bad update that you must now prevent your computer from rebooting until there's a patch. And Microsoft has shoved out patches that have broken systems.
Does autosave help you if you were in the middle of a raid in a game when the computer decides it must reboot now because Big Brother said it was time? What if you're in the middle of a phone call? I have indeed been in the middle of an online chat where some third party program insisted on rebooting immediately because I clicked the "not now, remind me in ten minutes" button too many times.
So what about the user who doesn't know enough, but is concerned because their dialup line has been spending three days downloading Microsoft's crapware for a mandatory update to some part of the system they never use?
I got the Windows 8 Pro for $14. I'm hoping this allows Windows 10 Pro as Windows 10 Home seems utterly inappropriate for any computer user.
Now I know that Microsoft is always keen on removing more and more options with every release, but usually there's some sort of back door via registry to force the system to act sanely. So, anyone know if you can tweak the registry into disallowing auto-install updates?
So, make the default option to update and install automatically. But they should still allow the OPTION to choose otherwise on the computer that they bought with their own money. Their computer does not belong to Microsoft! Microsoft has no goddamn business screwing with other people's stuff without permission! Only psycopaths would do that without feeling remorse.
The history of Microsoft includes a very long stream of changes that involve removing options. They think you're too dumb to think for yourself so they have decided that you shall not think.
No one can fit into a pair of skinny jeans. Those who appear to fit actually don't, what happens instead is that their testicles are being squeezed so hard they're being pushed up into the brain cavity.
Use any word processor, then export to PDF (and NOT the adobe pdf shit that lets you edit it or have malware or require certificates to read).
Microsoft has a vested interest in getting every Office user to upgrade, and that is directly opposed to the notion of supporting Office properly so that it continues to work over time or remain backwards/forwards compatible. Microsoft does not do this because it's hard to do but because they don't want to be compatible with themselves. (and now is the time for some junior programmer to pipe up and claim that compatibility is indeed hard because they tried it once)
Is it the job of the coder who's life is hard to decide this, even though they're not even managers or team leaders? No. If programming were easy then any fool with a Microsoft Certificate could do it. Instead they're paying you to do your job so it makes sense to do it.
If you can't get it done with SharePoint, then you're not using enough of it.
The problem is that if you use logic about using the best platform for each job, then Windows will always lose. Microsoft does not want this to happen. So they have an army of loyal fans who get into positions of authority at companies in order to mandate the use of Windows for inappropriate things.
It's not up to the programmer. It is easy to support multi platform systems if that is a part of the job. If you're getting paid for it then do it, and the bosses are the ones paying you so it should be their decision whether or not to screw the paying customers by dropping support.
The whole concept just seems amazingly insecure. Even with Windows 7 and XP. Some third party without asking any permission goes and changes the software on your computer. Just because said third party is Microsoft doesn't make it right. They *have* broken things before with their updates. And it is not uncommon for the reboot after update to take a very long time when the time is inconvenient (as in I had 15 minutes to get online and the "please do not shut off your" computer updates took about 20 minutes).
Other companies are following suit. If they see Microsoft doing it then they think it's ok too. Everyone needs to stop and realize that the computer belongs to the person who bought it and that no IT goon at a computer company has the right to muck with it without first asking for permission.
This covers 9 out of 10 companies though. I have never worked anywhere in the last 30 years where the execs didn't screw stuff up in departments they didn't know anything about. People who insist on only working for sane companies may find themselves unemployed much of the time.
Face it, the company's leadership may be stupid, but they're also probably evil so don't feel bad about taking money from them in the form of a paycheck.
I heard Trump was going to install a wall around the fault lines to prevent earthquakes.
The problem is the same with lots of old programs. No one has the budget to throw them all away and rewrite them again, and then convert all the data formats. At least with COBOL there are a lot of people who know that language and the language is not terrible, so it survives with good reason. But MUMPS has few programmers and is a nasty language.
It's a nasty language too. Some is just from the style of the programmers at the time too; lots of spaghetti code, very short variable names, lack of comments. But even with good programmers, the language basically needs a good redesign (or a first design). I know someone who used MUMPS programs to study program complexity.
Youtube still does by default. You can get HTML5 but you have to manually alter the URL to do so. Thus any links you have from social media that head back to Youtube will almost always use Flash.
True. It's not just the routes though, it's the time schedules. I have evolved to avoid rush hours which also means that catching the train or light rail late at night is impossible because it's stopped running or has dropped to once an hour, the shuttles have stopped running, and depending on what it is I'd still have to catch a few bus transfers. My commute is long as it is 45 minutes to an hour on a bad day, but to double it would be ridiculous.
Transit it good when it starts and stops where you want to go. When you are working with a longish commute this is very difficult to manage. When you're retired it's a lot easier, when you're in school it's pretty easy.
I did take the train every day when I spent time in Helsinki. I just felt dumb spending 20 euro each way to take a taxi even though work paid for it. But I wasn't staying long hours working (in Europe they think something's wrong with you if you're at work late no matter that you goofed off during daylight hours), plus the train was easy walking distance from hotel and the office, it was clean and uncrowded, and the walk was pleasant. I would do that every day.
The solution is to turn off the uploading in the preferences. The app is just a front end to display pictures from Google Play. Android is what is uploading the pictures.
I don't have to pay for the ads in newspapers and magazines that I look at in the store; I only pay for it if I buy them. On the internet, I pay for these ads just by clicking on their links and then wondering why my browser is so slow. For mail ads, the advertiser has to pay real money to mail them out (bulk rate though) and it costs me nothing except a couple of seconds to transfer them from the mailbox to the recycle bin; on the internet the advertisers are not paying their fair share of distribution
A newspaper or magazine is going to have a real live person examining every advertisement that wants to be included. The ads are curated in other words. You're not going to see condom ads in Hilights for Kids. On the internet these wannabe-journalist bloggers don't give a shit, they sign up for the "send me free money!" advertising service and relinquish their control over what happens after that (so you go to a gaming blog and see non-sequitur ads about Buicks or direct marketing).
Newspapers and magazines have never infected my computer with malware. They've never had pop-ups that refuse to go away. They never prevented me from turning the page for 10 seconds. They never installed search helpers and other "utilities" without asking for permission. Sure not all web sites are that way, but the majority of them are, and I cant' take the chance here that I'm wrong because the ramifications for a mistake are too high. I don't need to be flashed before I should avert my eyes from a guy in a trenchcoat standing in an alley, I'd rather be proactive about not looking.
I am also NOT subscribing to these sites. If it is a site I will be visiting a lot and which has EARNED my respect then I may unblock it from ads on a trial basis or supply a donation.
Sure maybe some people are innocent victims here, but I'll repeat again: I block ads out of self defense. If you're mad at me for using ad block then you should be even more angry at the anti social attitudes of advertisers and will stop treating them as a source of money for nothing.
Immature teenaged brats will often do things that are seriously screwed up and will get you serious jail time, for things that most people would agree with. But do it online and people will start defending these immature teenage brats as "kids will be kids". Swatting is like pointing a gun at someone and threatening them, then later claiming that it was ok because it was just a prank.
Remember that for this kid has 23 charges filed, and got 16 months. Ten years may be high, I'd go with 5 years jail and 5 years mandatory psychiatric care. Yes his life may be ruined by this but he did the ruining to himself.
If you want quality content, then the internet is the wrong place to look for it.
If the advertisers refuse to play nice then the internet users have no alternative but to protect themselves. Ad block is self defense, pure and simple. So someone with a hobby can't buy a new microphone for the blog, big deal, they should get a real job to pay for their hobby or find something cheaper to do in their off time. Maybe I sound callous, but I am under attack by advertisers and I am not going to surrender so that they can continue stealing my bandwidth and serving me ads that cost them nothing but which costs me real money to receive.