Windows should have offered long term service support for some of this, isntead of yanking the plug on support whenever there's a newer version. If other smaller companies have to give 10 to 20 years of support for hardware or software, why does Microsoft get off easy? Not everything Microsoft sells is some fluffy consumer device that gets replaced as often as fashions do. If they wanted to get into the embedded market then they should have taken that seriously.
Many of these machines DO get upgraded. A lot of times they expect the customers to pay for this service though with longer term service contracts, while at the same time demanding that they upgrade their machines for an even heftier profit. Places like hospitals or linics don't have budgets to update all their machines, they had a budget a long time ago when they bought the machines but not anymore. These were capital expenditures, you can't just replace them every 5 years, it's like a homeowner being told to get a new roof every five years.
However to be sure, other machines are regularly updated. Ie, networking equipment and smart meters to big utilities, they're paying to keep the old devices running long term. But they're in a different ball game than the dentist in the strip mall using a Windows XP based imaging system (like my dentist).
Wait, which Trump? He's doing a terrible job, or have you not noticed his major free trade gaffes that pissed off every single senior Republican? Of course he seems to be changing his mind at the last minute, and this is his trademark style of deal making - keep threatening until someone blinks and then say "just kidding!" The economic damage to farmers (a core Trump base) is much larger than the tax cuts and his $12 pledge of subsidies isn't going to help much (and giving handouts to farmers just pisses them off, which he would know if he had ever met one).
His management of zero-tolerance at the border was laughably inept, separating parents from children with absolutely no idea how to reunite them sometime in the future (the post office knows how to track packages so maybe they should be in charge of the border?). What the hell were they thinking?
Trump seems to have a major case of a swollen ego and takes everything personally, he offends our allies and kisses our enemies, he seems to always switch his views and agree with whoever the last person he spoke too was which makes predicting his policies impossible, and he seems to pay more attention to conspiracy shows than to his own staff of advisors. He's only around because he's got a small but loyal base that is hoping to see the government burn to ash.
The republicans are also losing some long and short term members who are keeping to their standards and principles. I keep expecting the party to split but they seem to suck it up out of fear of an election backlash if they show any spine. Of course, the democrats are unorganized and inept and can't manage to show a united front, while the republicans will happily embrace the wacky wings of their party and show a united front of strange bedfellows and they beat the drums to get out the vote.
New York seems like it doesn't take what corporations say at face value much, and instead hold them accountable. It's almost as if New York has had extensive experience with organized crime which puts them in the right place to deal with corporations.
I turn my computer off when I'm doing using. As in powering it down. Not power down via the "shutdown" button only, I kill the power to the power strip as well. Which means it cannot upgrade at 3am. So if I happened to be dumb enoug to use Windows 10, it would insist on forcibly upgrading itself after a day or two.
I have seen more than one person on an MMO go link dead for a half hour (during a raid) who then come back cussing out Microsoft because Windows insisted it was the correct time for their extremely slow upgrade process.
But if the update is put off long enough, Windows will forcibly update at the least convenient time for you. I've seen it happen during presentation. You can see videos of a local news weather forecast green-screen background being interrupted by Windows doing an upgrade.
Microsoft hates you, and knows better than you when it should upgrade. The fact that you didn't immediately stop everything and upgrade when commanded to means you're disloyal and disobedient and so it will punish you for this.
It's mainly because Windows has never developed better technology for doing updates. They don't really have the know-how for this probably. It's been clear for a long time that there are not a lot of people at Microsoft whounderstand operating systems, user interfaces, or software design. So stuff is designed in a simplistic way (unless it's a UI), and requiring reboots is the simplistic way of doing upgrades. Windows is design by accretion.
Also, Windows is a feature driven product and improving upgrades is not a revenue generating feature.
It works just fine for me. I have tried some other readers or plugins but they do not provide the feature of live bookmarks in a browser for the purpose of bringing up web based content.
Also, I need PDF support in the browser! Adobe Acrobat is no longer just a reader and is instead bloatware, any third party tool is better than Adobe. Adobe Reader forces me in to a bad experience. I could get a different tool that does this, but why should I when the browser is right there and the URL I just clicked on was from the same browser? With the browser I can put different PDF docs in different tabs. Also Firefox has never attempted to modify a PDF or made a copy of a read-only PDF or any other unnatural act that standalone readers do.
You might even see news articles that your social media profile does not indicate you are normally interested in. It would be horrible if people managed to learn what actually happens in the world.
But no one has really done this. For the only thing I use this Firefox feature for, the URL is *always* to a web page, never to a PDF file or something else. Thus it acts exactly like a dynamic list of bookmarks. If they get rid of this feature, I'll probably stop visiting Slashdot permanently.
(never mind that Firefox already is my normal PDF viewer, given that modern Acrobat Reader is a crime against humanity)
The developers develop Firefox for their own use. The fact that people who are not Mozilla developers also use Firefox is just a quirk. Or at least that seems to be their attitude.
I want the headlines listed, then use the Web as the reader. Because every single one of those live bookmark links is a URL that goes to a web site. Why have a third party reader display a web page when a web browser can do this? I'm not using Firefox RSS like other people use RSS I guess. All I want is a list of titles and when I click on them they go to the URL.
RSS for me just gave me the headlines in a live list of bookmarks. Then I could choose the ones I wanted to look up and open them in their own tabs and throughout the day I would read the articles. This is not at all the same thing as going to a news site's front page and having to scroll down past the fluff to find what I'm interested in. It's a major time saver. I can see the top news story at a glance, I don't have to waste the time to switch over to a new page and wait for it to load.
If they can do this same feature without RSS then that's fine. Or some other Pointcast like feature.
Risk missing posts? Is that a problem somehow? I admit I don't understand RSS much. But with Firefox it's just a list of headlines and I can click on a headline and get the story. I don't care if I miss a headline or that I can't see yesterday's headlines, I'm just browsing the news and this is the best way I've ever found to do this on the web. If people use RSS differently then I don't care, I just want the feature that Firefox has today.
I don't know a lot about RSS. What I do know is that I get a list of recent BBC and Slashdot stores that I can click on. I use this daily.
I have never seen an RSS reader that worked in a similar fashion. If they get rid of this feature i don't think a plugin would being it back. I don't want pictues, I don't want curated news, I don't want summaries, I don't want a browser page full of stories, I don't want anything that looks remotely like a phone's social media news app. I just want the headlines in a list and have it work like any other bookmark.
Sovereign in the sense that the US passed treaties saying so. While it's true that these treaties are not often upheld, the current state of the law in the US is that native American tribes enjoy an amount of sovereignty and autonomy on their reservations.
However the laws of the US override your theory. The constitution takes precedence over "might makes right", and so the treaties we make with the tribes have the force of law (assuming the US attempts to hold up the treaties).
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So if the internet sucks, wouldn't the week make up for it?
They could split off the New York part of TWC into it's own company as hinted in the summary.
Rules are for other people, said every CEO ever.
Windows should have offered long term service support for some of this, isntead of yanking the plug on support whenever there's a newer version. If other smaller companies have to give 10 to 20 years of support for hardware or software, why does Microsoft get off easy? Not everything Microsoft sells is some fluffy consumer device that gets replaced as often as fashions do. If they wanted to get into the embedded market then they should have taken that seriously.
Many of these machines DO get upgraded. A lot of times they expect the customers to pay for this service though with longer term service contracts, while at the same time demanding that they upgrade their machines for an even heftier profit. Places like hospitals or linics don't have budgets to update all their machines, they had a budget a long time ago when they bought the machines but not anymore. These were capital expenditures, you can't just replace them every 5 years, it's like a homeowner being told to get a new roof every five years.
However to be sure, other machines are regularly updated. Ie, networking equipment and smart meters to big utilities, they're paying to keep the old devices running long term. But they're in a different ball game than the dentist in the strip mall using a Windows XP based imaging system (like my dentist).
Wait, which Trump? He's doing a terrible job, or have you not noticed his major free trade gaffes that pissed off every single senior Republican? Of course he seems to be changing his mind at the last minute, and this is his trademark style of deal making - keep threatening until someone blinks and then say "just kidding!" The economic damage to farmers (a core Trump base) is much larger than the tax cuts and his $12 pledge of subsidies isn't going to help much (and giving handouts to farmers just pisses them off, which he would know if he had ever met one).
His management of zero-tolerance at the border was laughably inept, separating parents from children with absolutely no idea how to reunite them sometime in the future (the post office knows how to track packages so maybe they should be in charge of the border?). What the hell were they thinking?
Trump seems to have a major case of a swollen ego and takes everything personally, he offends our allies and kisses our enemies, he seems to always switch his views and agree with whoever the last person he spoke too was which makes predicting his policies impossible, and he seems to pay more attention to conspiracy shows than to his own staff of advisors. He's only around because he's got a small but loyal base that is hoping to see the government burn to ash.
The republicans are also losing some long and short term members who are keeping to their standards and principles. I keep expecting the party to split but they seem to suck it up out of fear of an election backlash if they show any spine. Of course, the democrats are unorganized and inept and can't manage to show a united front, while the republicans will happily embrace the wacky wings of their party and show a united front of strange bedfellows and they beat the drums to get out the vote.
New York seems like it doesn't take what corporations say at face value much, and instead hold them accountable. It's almost as if New York has had extensive experience with organized crime which puts them in the right place to deal with corporations.
I turn my computer off when I'm doing using. As in powering it down. Not power down via the "shutdown" button only, I kill the power to the power strip as well. Which means it cannot upgrade at 3am. So if I happened to be dumb enoug to use Windows 10, it would insist on forcibly upgrading itself after a day or two.
I have seen more than one person on an MMO go link dead for a half hour (during a raid) who then come back cussing out Microsoft because Windows insisted it was the correct time for their extremely slow upgrade process.
But if the update is put off long enough, Windows will forcibly update at the least convenient time for you. I've seen it happen during presentation. You can see videos of a local news weather forecast green-screen background being interrupted by Windows doing an upgrade.
Microsoft hates you, and knows better than you when it should upgrade. The fact that you didn't immediately stop everything and upgrade when commanded to means you're disloyal and disobedient and so it will punish you for this.
It's mainly because Windows has never developed better technology for doing updates. They don't really have the know-how for this probably. It's been clear for a long time that there are not a lot of people at Microsoft whounderstand operating systems, user interfaces, or software design. So stuff is designed in a simplistic way (unless it's a UI), and requiring reboots is the simplistic way of doing upgrades. Windows is design by accretion.
Also, Windows is a feature driven product and improving upgrades is not a revenue generating feature.
Why mail? I use it in Firefox for seeing BBC and Slashdot headlines. Why should that be in mail?
They're trying to say that we have always been at war with Eastasia.
If no one has touched it, then maybe the feature was just right and didn't need mucking with?
It works just fine for me. I have tried some other readers or plugins but they do not provide the feature of live bookmarks in a browser for the purpose of bringing up web based content.
Also, I need PDF support in the browser! Adobe Acrobat is no longer just a reader and is instead bloatware, any third party tool is better than Adobe. Adobe Reader forces me in to a bad experience. I could get a different tool that does this, but why should I when the browser is right there and the URL I just clicked on was from the same browser? With the browser I can put different PDF docs in different tabs. Also Firefox has never attempted to modify a PDF or made a copy of a read-only PDF or any other unnatural act that standalone readers do.
You might even see news articles that your social media profile does not indicate you are normally interested in. It would be horrible if people managed to learn what actually happens in the world.
But no one has really done this. For the only thing I use this Firefox feature for, the URL is *always* to a web page, never to a PDF file or something else. Thus it acts exactly like a dynamic list of bookmarks. If they get rid of this feature, I'll probably stop visiting Slashdot permanently.
(never mind that Firefox already is my normal PDF viewer, given that modern Acrobat Reader is a crime against humanity)
The developers develop Firefox for their own use. The fact that people who are not Mozilla developers also use Firefox is just a quirk. Or at least that seems to be their attitude.
I want the headlines listed, then use the Web as the reader. Because every single one of those live bookmark links is a URL that goes to a web site. Why have a third party reader display a web page when a web browser can do this? I'm not using Firefox RSS like other people use RSS I guess. All I want is a list of titles and when I click on them they go to the URL.
RSS for me just gave me the headlines in a live list of bookmarks. Then I could choose the ones I wanted to look up and open them in their own tabs and throughout the day I would read the articles. This is not at all the same thing as going to a news site's front page and having to scroll down past the fluff to find what I'm interested in. It's a major time saver. I can see the top news story at a glance, I don't have to waste the time to switch over to a new page and wait for it to load.
If they can do this same feature without RSS then that's fine. Or some other Pointcast like feature.
Risk missing posts? Is that a problem somehow? I admit I don't understand RSS much. But with Firefox it's just a list of headlines and I can click on a headline and get the story. I don't care if I miss a headline or that I can't see yesterday's headlines, I'm just browsing the news and this is the best way I've ever found to do this on the web. If people use RSS differently then I don't care, I just want the feature that Firefox has today.
I don't know a lot about RSS. What I do know is that I get a list of recent BBC and Slashdot stores that I can click on. I use this daily.
I have never seen an RSS reader that worked in a similar fashion. If they get rid of this feature i don't think a plugin would being it back. I don't want pictues, I don't want curated news, I don't want summaries, I don't want a browser page full of stories, I don't want anything that looks remotely like a phone's social media news app. I just want the headlines in a list and have it work like any other bookmark.
Sovereign in the sense that the US passed treaties saying so. While it's true that these treaties are not often upheld, the current state of the law in the US is that native American tribes enjoy an amount of sovereignty and autonomy on their reservations.
However the laws of the US override your theory. The constitution takes precedence over "might makes right", and so the treaties we make with the tribes have the force of law (assuming the US attempts to hold up the treaties).
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This is twenty first century America, where stupid is fashionable.