Don't forget Samsung as well who still to this date haven't really done anything with Stagefright. And Google still hasn't really completely patched against it for how long now? These phones are starting to be worse than Windows 98 full of malware and spyware.
UL is not an excellent example. UL standards are 20 years behind European IEC standards and a good 10 years behind most NFPA standards. You'll find the whole world now follows the IEC and European self-certification than UL because of UL's nonsense. They have no intention of fixing this and they have made it clear they don't want to work with Europe at all ever since UL went from non-profit to for-profit company and became UL LLC. UL also does not lower your insurance rates, at least all the insurance companies I deal with for my facility, they don't care. UL is mostly like a parasite within our government and OSHA. They've done more harm to the US market and safety in the past 10 years than they ever have.
Now, if you mentioned FM Global, then yes, they list products and they're also an insurance company, while lowering your rates if you use them.
I don't really care, I just block everything in my firewall now ever since all the android hacks. And now with this Microsoft crap, I'm all ready for it. If it's doing something I didn't approve of, it's not going through.
And who's going to enforce that? Police usually don't give a damn to enforce EPA rules. This is why all this stuff happens. US Government agencies don't ever work together, they're all against each other. Police and EPA is no exception. This is why the aftermarket is so huge and there isn't enough people in customs to check every package to see if it complies with EPA rules, because they don't care either (Which is why Amazon is full of this stuff, even illegal).
Started ad blocking when I saw the first moving ad that would avoid your mouse cursor to close it back in the 90's. Haven't stopped ad blocking, nothing has changed since back then. Ads still contain malware and viruses. And as you have discovered, it makes low powered computers completely useless for browsing the web unless you do block all the ads and movies.
These threats of websites going to pay wall sites if you ad-block are just empty threats that will never happen, and hasn't happened, because they know the amount of money they will get from that will be practically zero, since no one will use them. Seriously, these paywall threats have been going on since the 90's.
The funny thing is, most people won't even notice or care, especially when the guy has a safety vest and hardhat on, they'll just think it's a worker. Hell, even the employees who work there won't even notice because they don't care anymore.
Civilization V, Witcher 2, Cities Skylines, Left 4 Dead 2, Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, War Thunder, Borderlands 2, Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor (I was surprised with this one)... The list keeps growing lately. What was that about AAA games not being on linux? Granted, not all the popular games are on linux, but quite a bit of them are already.
VMWare solves all this for me. All the software that are Windows specific run just fine in VMware while I can enjoy my linux desktop. As for games, well, quite a bit of games that I like now work on linux thanks to Steam.
I'm getting sick and tired of this. The stuff that so many engineers and technical people have been touting for so many years is happening right before our eyes. I'm still waiting for the phone armageddon which is already happening with so many phones being hacked (Even your old phone won't help you here with the baseband exploits). Pretty soon we'll be tossing all our phones in the garbage.
These people touting the exploits end up getting laughed out of IEEE conferences by manufacturers and their butt buddies, that's how bad it is.
Until the industry decides to take things seriously, nothing is going to change.
One of my buddies business had a problem with this with his measly 1.5mbit line (Yes, that's all you can get, telepacific is terrible with a high cost). He had 50 computers downloading Windows 10 without anyone's consent. It was hogging up all the bandwidth and he was unable to even use his email. When I took a look at it, you could do nothing to prevent it other than blocking it in the firewall. Windows was showing nothing (Not even showing in Windows update that it was downloading something) and turning off BITS did absolutely nothing to stop it (It would magically force it back on). I had to put a firewall rule to block this update.
Microsoft Windows is behaving more like malware than an update.
Because the Raspberry Pi is now being used more than what they intended it to be used for. I'm actually using them in an industrial and commercial setting for display purposes and a touchscreen for machines. It's rock stable, no fans, doesn't break and being able to use python, Ethernet/IP (Yes, I wrote my own library for that because no one will because of the stupid licenses) and ModbusTCP, or even using the GPIO for input/outputs, and make my own UI interface is a big plus. It looks a thousand times better than Panelview, cheaper and faster.
Sure they do. It's called facebook. More women use facebook than anything else. You're more likely to find a cheating partner on facebook than anywhere else without having to pay anything. And facebook would protect your damn privacy from your spouse more so than Ashley Madison ever would. So what's the point of Ashley Madison?
Not as bloated as MSOffice. There's nothing wrong with using either of them, but these people expected miracles from moving out of a proprietary system to an open system without putting any effort whatsoever into it. I don't have a problem with using libreoffice in my work environment because I forced everyone else to use it exclusively. Works great. Any old excel file/programs were simply converted to work right in libreoffice (Yes, surprise, you actually have to do some work to migrate to a different system!). And I don't have anyone send me any MSOffice files.
Meanwhile, have you tried opening an old document file in MSOffice with a recent copy of MSOffice? Absolute disaster just the same. I've seen some places have Office 97 and Office 360 together because the old docs don't look right in the new Office or some functionality removed. If you don't have the time, money or effort to properly migrate, then yeah, you're going to have problems no matter what. A lot of these businesses could have easily just hired some college kid part time to help them migrate, but they don't want too. A lot of these places don't even have any plans on how to properly migrate in the first place. Not even any plans to make sure updating MSOffice doesn't screw up everything.
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Don't forget Samsung as well who still to this date haven't really done anything with Stagefright. And Google still hasn't really completely patched against it for how long now? These phones are starting to be worse than Windows 98 full of malware and spyware.
UL is not an excellent example. UL standards are 20 years behind European IEC standards and a good 10 years behind most NFPA standards. You'll find the whole world now follows the IEC and European self-certification than UL because of UL's nonsense. They have no intention of fixing this and they have made it clear they don't want to work with Europe at all ever since UL went from non-profit to for-profit company and became UL LLC. UL also does not lower your insurance rates, at least all the insurance companies I deal with for my facility, they don't care. UL is mostly like a parasite within our government and OSHA. They've done more harm to the US market and safety in the past 10 years than they ever have.
Now, if you mentioned FM Global, then yes, they list products and they're also an insurance company, while lowering your rates if you use them.
I don't really care, I just block everything in my firewall now ever since all the android hacks. And now with this Microsoft crap, I'm all ready for it. If it's doing something I didn't approve of, it's not going through.
And who's going to enforce that? Police usually don't give a damn to enforce EPA rules. This is why all this stuff happens. US Government agencies don't ever work together, they're all against each other. Police and EPA is no exception. This is why the aftermarket is so huge and there isn't enough people in customs to check every package to see if it complies with EPA rules, because they don't care either (Which is why Amazon is full of this stuff, even illegal).
Started ad blocking when I saw the first moving ad that would avoid your mouse cursor to close it back in the 90's. Haven't stopped ad blocking, nothing has changed since back then. Ads still contain malware and viruses. And as you have discovered, it makes low powered computers completely useless for browsing the web unless you do block all the ads and movies.
These threats of websites going to pay wall sites if you ad-block are just empty threats that will never happen, and hasn't happened, because they know the amount of money they will get from that will be practically zero, since no one will use them. Seriously, these paywall threats have been going on since the 90's.
And? Lets talk numbers here. How much of that 0.7% of sales equates to dollar amount? I don't see it as a huge effort for nothing.
It makes you wonder what else they're blocking.
Please Nvidia and AMD, fix SLI and Crossfire so it actually works properly in linux.
Like? I have Wargames, Shadow of Mordor, Civ 5....
The funny thing is, most people won't even notice or care, especially when the guy has a safety vest and hardhat on, they'll just think it's a worker. Hell, even the employees who work there won't even notice because they don't care anymore.
Polycarbonate safety glasses that you can get anywhere. There you go.
Civilization V, Witcher 2, Cities Skylines, Left 4 Dead 2, Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, War Thunder, Borderlands 2, Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor (I was surprised with this one)... The list keeps growing lately. What was that about AAA games not being on linux? Granted, not all the popular games are on linux, but quite a bit of them are already.
VMWare solves all this for me. All the software that are Windows specific run just fine in VMware while I can enjoy my linux desktop. As for games, well, quite a bit of games that I like now work on linux thanks to Steam.
"Seriously, are Americans REALLY this fucking stupid in general?"
Yes.
I'm getting sick and tired of this. The stuff that so many engineers and technical people have been touting for so many years is happening right before our eyes. I'm still waiting for the phone armageddon which is already happening with so many phones being hacked (Even your old phone won't help you here with the baseband exploits). Pretty soon we'll be tossing all our phones in the garbage.
These people touting the exploits end up getting laughed out of IEEE conferences by manufacturers and their butt buddies, that's how bad it is.
Until the industry decides to take things seriously, nothing is going to change.
One of my buddies business had a problem with this with his measly 1.5mbit line (Yes, that's all you can get, telepacific is terrible with a high cost). He had 50 computers downloading Windows 10 without anyone's consent. It was hogging up all the bandwidth and he was unable to even use his email. When I took a look at it, you could do nothing to prevent it other than blocking it in the firewall. Windows was showing nothing (Not even showing in Windows update that it was downloading something) and turning off BITS did absolutely nothing to stop it (It would magically force it back on). I had to put a firewall rule to block this update.
Microsoft Windows is behaving more like malware than an update.
If this is a problem, you have more serious issues to worry about, such as looking for a mental institution to house you.
Because the Raspberry Pi is now being used more than what they intended it to be used for. I'm actually using them in an industrial and commercial setting for display purposes and a touchscreen for machines. It's rock stable, no fans, doesn't break and being able to use python, Ethernet/IP (Yes, I wrote my own library for that because no one will because of the stupid licenses) and ModbusTCP, or even using the GPIO for input/outputs, and make my own UI interface is a big plus. It looks a thousand times better than Panelview, cheaper and faster.
I would love the Raspberry Pi to have a better processor that's comparable to modern tablets or the Intel Compute Stick.
It's pretty decent for me. Frequent security patches and extremely easy to update with little to no downtime at all.
I'm still asking the same question. Why would I want this?
Sure they do. It's called facebook. More women use facebook than anything else. You're more likely to find a cheating partner on facebook than anywhere else without having to pay anything. And facebook would protect your damn privacy from your spouse more so than Ashley Madison ever would. So what's the point of Ashley Madison?
Not as bloated as MSOffice. There's nothing wrong with using either of them, but these people expected miracles from moving out of a proprietary system to an open system without putting any effort whatsoever into it. I don't have a problem with using libreoffice in my work environment because I forced everyone else to use it exclusively. Works great. Any old excel file/programs were simply converted to work right in libreoffice (Yes, surprise, you actually have to do some work to migrate to a different system!). And I don't have anyone send me any MSOffice files.
Meanwhile, have you tried opening an old document file in MSOffice with a recent copy of MSOffice? Absolute disaster just the same. I've seen some places have Office 97 and Office 360 together because the old docs don't look right in the new Office or some functionality removed. If you don't have the time, money or effort to properly migrate, then yeah, you're going to have problems no matter what. A lot of these businesses could have easily just hired some college kid part time to help them migrate, but they don't want too. A lot of these places don't even have any plans on how to properly migrate in the first place. Not even any plans to make sure updating MSOffice doesn't screw up everything.
It still wouldn't solve their problem. They did a hybrid solution which was obviously going to be a disaster.
Precisely. Otherwise you're screwed.