This happens in America too, if you're poor. Sometimes if you're middle class. And it's still damned expensive. Also remember than there is more to the world of healthcare than America and Canada. Some countries do very well with their free healthcare which leads to high health outcomes.
I am a bit amazed at how flat earthers seemed to have made a big comeback in the last few years. Way back in the 70s we used to laugh at them for sending out mimeographed newsletters from their Airstream trailer in the desert. Are people getting more stupid or was it always there just below the surface waiting for social media?
I know that almost every time I go to visit my mother, the first thing I do on her computer is uninstall Chrome. I don't think this is because the installer is bypassing privileges, but because when updating some software there is a tiny "opt-out" button that will install Chrome if you're not paying attention or aren't a computer expert. It's a pretty shitty way of promoting a product.
But how do they monetize that? With IE the monetization was easy to see, too many web sites only working with IE means customers are going to keep buy new versions of Windows instead of going to alternatives. Is Edge going to do the same thing? Are there enough web site owners who haven't learned that it was a bad idea to not be portable across the major browsers?
My guess is that some department in Microsoft wanted a better browser and managed to push it through, rather than this being a long term strategy at high levels of Microsoft management.
This doesn't seem practical. I could see them going this way moving forward but they won't be able to force all windows 10 users to start subscribing or else lose their computer. If they do this it would be best to use a different name (Windows 365?) to avoid confusion. Yes, over time they'll see fewer and fewer updates, that's normal as Microsoft hates supporting paying customers (which includes those who paid for a product more than a month prior).
The standard for the home has been "it costs nothing as it comes with your new computer" for a very long time. If they move to requiring subscriptions there will either be mass movement to pirating, a mass movement to installing old Windows versions, or a mass movement off of Windows (which will be hard for most people). Or to be clearer, it will kill the home Windows market outright.
For the enterprise, I could see a lot of corporations following along, there are a lot of sheep like IT people out there who follow along with Microsoft no matter where they go. There are major fortune 500 companies that starting upgrading to Windows 10 the first month it was possible despite the large amount of controvesies in the press. When you got your job by going to a Microsoft class and paying for a Microsoft certificate, and you keep your job by recommending Microsoft, you tend not to be critical of Microsoft...
But there will be some of the better enterprises who will crunch the numbers and realize they're spending more for less quality with Windows on the desktop. For the backoffice there's already been the shift towards alternatives to Windows, so I expect that to just accelerate.
Compare to the competition, all the other operating systems are free or fixed price. If you pay for support for other operating systems, you get actual support. You can call up the customer support department. With Microsoft there is no direct customer support, you only get the fixes that come out with the general customer updates.
Because now you're required to do the extra work if you don't want copyright and instead you want to share with the world. Not everything is worthy of copyrighting, such as my letters I wrote in college to my family.
But under the old systems creators had a very good chance to expolit their creations as well. All that they had to do was to declare that they wanted copyright on their works, it did not require an overload of paperwork. There was no practical reason for the change to make this automatic.
The executive in the US is not elected by the citizens but by electors. The real power should lie with congress to which we vote for our representatives. However power has been shifting towards the executive for most of my life, and congress has not done much to prevent this. Thus the biggest power now lies with person generally elected by the political parties rather than the people. The electoral college doesn't even have the same balance as congress.
The two most populous states actually have a lesser effect on choosing the president than many small states. That's because the two most populous states lean a solid 55% one way or the other and so are "safe" electoral votes that are taken for granted; compaigning in those states is only done for the purpose of fund raising from the party faithful and never to sway the undecided or moderate voters.
If you want your presidential vote to matter you'd do better to live in Iowa or New Hampshire, rather than in California or Texas where the vote is irrelevant. If you want to change this situation however, you need to start paying attention to voting for good congress members rather than only showing up to vote for president and leaving everything else blank.
SCOTUS has been a tool of encroaching executive power under presidents of BOTH parties. Stop being partisan and believing that your particular team is more righteous than the other team.
We're not talking about consensual activities, but the sort of pussy grabbing that would get the average person a stern talking to by the police and a good chance on getting on the sex offender list for life.
The Brexiteers best plan for exit so far is to have no plan at all. Cut the offending limb off first and then hunt around for a tourniquet after. And they bitterly criticize those politicians who are attempting to gracefully perform the difficult task of amputation.
Much of the entire reason for the existence of the EU is to provide stability in Europe which previously had been the focal point of two world wars and countless perennial local wars. Now that peace within Europe has broken out it seems the brexiteers are now disgruntled. That's why they want a fast exit with no plan, because they do not consider Europe to be their friends and neighbors.
The UK is an identical twin of America in this aspect - they want to be an isolated land where they can ignore that fact that people exist on the other side of the walls.
Remember, the Magna Carta only applied to the aristocratic elites. Basically it was an agreement that the king at the top level couldn't push around those on the second level, but it didn't prohibit the the level twos from oppressing everyone below them.
Note that the left vs right spectrum does not necessarily correlate to a liberal vs conservative spectrum. We often tend to conflate them together but that's only because people prefer simple ideas like us versus them, and not more complicated ideas.
So you can be liberal and right wing. Most right wing economic policies are really neoliberalism. But when you start linking social politics together with economic politics, as in the US, you end up with a seriously messed up system. So politican A may agree with politician B with regards to banking policies but will still refuse to cooperate with each other on this issue because differing views on gay marriage.
Ah ok. It seems like the last decade or so most companies have been giving out laptops instead of desktops, so that the one computer is both the main and the mobile computer.
But how can it move files to the cloud when I don't have any cloud account? I also thought you had to manually place files into OneDrive folder before it showed up in OneDrive.
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This happens in America too, if you're poor. Sometimes if you're middle class. And it's still damned expensive. Also remember than there is more to the world of healthcare than America and Canada. Some countries do very well with their free healthcare which leads to high health outcomes.
Now with three blades for a smoother shave!
Or just attend the next flat earth versus hollow earth wrestling match.
I am a bit amazed at how flat earthers seemed to have made a big comeback in the last few years. Way back in the 70s we used to laugh at them for sending out mimeographed newsletters from their Airstream trailer in the desert. Are people getting more stupid or was it always there just below the surface waiting for social media?
In Soviet Russia, government laughs at you!
I know that almost every time I go to visit my mother, the first thing I do on her computer is uninstall Chrome. I don't think this is because the installer is bypassing privileges, but because when updating some software there is a tiny "opt-out" button that will install Chrome if you're not paying attention or aren't a computer expert. It's a pretty shitty way of promoting a product.
But how do they monetize that? With IE the monetization was easy to see, too many web sites only working with IE means customers are going to keep buy new versions of Windows instead of going to alternatives. Is Edge going to do the same thing? Are there enough web site owners who haven't learned that it was a bad idea to not be portable across the major browsers?
My guess is that some department in Microsoft wanted a better browser and managed to push it through, rather than this being a long term strategy at high levels of Microsoft management.
This doesn't seem practical. I could see them going this way moving forward but they won't be able to force all windows 10 users to start subscribing or else lose their computer. If they do this it would be best to use a different name (Windows 365?) to avoid confusion. Yes, over time they'll see fewer and fewer updates, that's normal as Microsoft hates supporting paying customers (which includes those who paid for a product more than a month prior).
The standard for the home has been "it costs nothing as it comes with your new computer" for a very long time. If they move to requiring subscriptions there will either be mass movement to pirating, a mass movement to installing old Windows versions, or a mass movement off of Windows (which will be hard for most people). Or to be clearer, it will kill the home Windows market outright.
For the enterprise, I could see a lot of corporations following along, there are a lot of sheep like IT people out there who follow along with Microsoft no matter where they go. There are major fortune 500 companies that starting upgrading to Windows 10 the first month it was possible despite the large amount of controvesies in the press. When you got your job by going to a Microsoft class and paying for a Microsoft certificate, and you keep your job by recommending Microsoft, you tend not to be critical of Microsoft...
But there will be some of the better enterprises who will crunch the numbers and realize they're spending more for less quality with Windows on the desktop. For the backoffice there's already been the shift towards alternatives to Windows, so I expect that to just accelerate.
Compare to the competition, all the other operating systems are free or fixed price. If you pay for support for other operating systems, you get actual support. You can call up the customer support department. With Microsoft there is no direct customer support, you only get the fixes that come out with the general customer updates.
Right now I'd rather have the movie star actor back instead of the reality TV star. Right now I'd even be happy to have the Quaker back.
Because now you're required to do the extra work if you don't want copyright and instead you want to share with the world. Not everything is worthy of copyrighting, such as my letters I wrote in college to my family.
But under the old systems creators had a very good chance to expolit their creations as well. All that they had to do was to declare that they wanted copyright on their works, it did not require an overload of paperwork. There was no practical reason for the change to make this automatic.
The executive in the US is not elected by the citizens but by electors. The real power should lie with congress to which we vote for our representatives. However power has been shifting towards the executive for most of my life, and congress has not done much to prevent this. Thus the biggest power now lies with person generally elected by the political parties rather than the people. The electoral college doesn't even have the same balance as congress.
The two most populous states actually have a lesser effect on choosing the president than many small states. That's because the two most populous states lean a solid 55% one way or the other and so are "safe" electoral votes that are taken for granted; compaigning in those states is only done for the purpose of fund raising from the party faithful and never to sway the undecided or moderate voters.
If you want your presidential vote to matter you'd do better to live in Iowa or New Hampshire, rather than in California or Texas where the vote is irrelevant. If you want to change this situation however, you need to start paying attention to voting for good congress members rather than only showing up to vote for president and leaving everything else blank.
SCOTUS has been a tool of encroaching executive power under presidents of BOTH parties. Stop being partisan and believing that your particular team is more righteous than the other team.
We're not talking about consensual activities, but the sort of pussy grabbing that would get the average person a stern talking to by the police and a good chance on getting on the sex offender list for life.
The Brexiteers best plan for exit so far is to have no plan at all. Cut the offending limb off first and then hunt around for a tourniquet after. And they bitterly criticize those politicians who are attempting to gracefully perform the difficult task of amputation.
Much of the entire reason for the existence of the EU is to provide stability in Europe which previously had been the focal point of two world wars and countless perennial local wars. Now that peace within Europe has broken out it seems the brexiteers are now disgruntled. That's why they want a fast exit with no plan, because they do not consider Europe to be their friends and neighbors.
The UK is an identical twin of America in this aspect - they want to be an isolated land where they can ignore that fact that people exist on the other side of the walls.
Remember, the Magna Carta only applied to the aristocratic elites. Basically it was an agreement that the king at the top level couldn't push around those on the second level, but it didn't prohibit the the level twos from oppressing everyone below them.
Note that the left vs right spectrum does not necessarily correlate to a liberal vs conservative spectrum. We often tend to conflate them together but that's only because people prefer simple ideas like us versus them, and not more complicated ideas.
So you can be liberal and right wing. Most right wing economic policies are really neoliberalism. But when you start linking social politics together with economic politics, as in the US, you end up with a seriously messed up system. So politican A may agree with politician B with regards to banking policies but will still refuse to cooperate with each other on this issue because differing views on gay marriage.
"Too many idiots" probably applies to every country out there.
And remember, this applies to the copyrights owned by corporations. They don't care about copyrights owned by individual artists.
The vote was indeed to "please trash our economy".
Ah ok. It seems like the last decade or so most companies have been giving out laptops instead of desktops, so that the one computer is both the main and the mobile computer.
Plug in the phone, copy the images to the computer, unplug the phone.
More likely the IMF is scared of having to bail them out when their economy collapses and they come looking for a loan.
One good reason to never use Outlook at home.
But how can it move files to the cloud when I don't have any cloud account? I also thought you had to manually place files into OneDrive folder before it showed up in OneDrive.