Windows 10 includes telemetry but that is spyware!
Why do people write crap like this? Reading through the comments, it appears this feature is pretty well hated - which means people like it about as much as they like W10. Which is not much at all.
Of course, but I build my own PCs and over time have gone through maybe 10 different generations/models of nVidia GPUs on about 8 generations/versions of motherboard/CPUs. I game often and try many differnet things, and can tell you I've NEVER had a problem with nVidia drivers.
So you are like 99.999999 percent of users, and every Granma out there
You are just like the tool that brags about how Windows ten has never been a problem always updates perfectly, and is compelled for some reason to come in and brag about it whenever the hundreds of people who had a computer that worked one day, got a backup, and it broke on them. Thanks for being a boor, and completely unhelpful tool.
Because everything is just that simple. Never give feedback, never take feedback, and if you don't like the color of their webpages, go away.
The problem with your simplistic view of life is that people often actually like feedback.
And when we get to altering historic photographs, it gets a little into the area of politics.
Part of the horror of that photograph is that a little kid gets napalmed, her clothes burnt off, and someone is worried that some folks want to fuck her. That's sick on so many levels that someone thinking that is a good reason to censor the "naughty bits" comes off as projection. multi-creepy.
So feedback is not only appropriate but the right thing to do.
Even if its "Fuck you Facebook, I'm unsubscribing because you are a bunch of projecting censoring hacks that want to alter history".
The end of the "Rule of Law" story, I guess you mean? Shame. It had its problems, but on average I was a fan. The sequel, "Despotic and Arbitrary Kleptocracy", sounds like it's going to suck.
I rather like "Return to the Caves". Zero taxes, zero services, zero guvmint and the strongest and most violent win.
This is the one where we skip right to Einstein's WW4 scenario.
Vista was okay in the end. Getting there was awful. Being forced to be an early adopter, it was kinda fun to tell the people that forced me to implement it that they needed to buy new printers and scanners because Vista didn't have drivers for them. Fortunately, there were minutes taken, and my dire warnings about Vista were all down in a way they couldn't blame me unless they went back and committed a crime.
Seven was so much better that it gets crap today,
7 was a nicely workable OS. It wasn't perfect, none is, but it functioned almost as well as XP, without the security issues. I dumped 10 and went back to 7 for what I still need Windows for today.
They're buying Samsung because Samsung are soooo good at software. The marriage of those crappy devs and HP's massive bloatware is just what the industry needs!
We have an HP all-in-one 'pro' printer at home. It's actually pretty good, but the scanner stopped working the other day, just saying "cannot connect to server".
I have one too, and it's been okay except that the power supply puts out way too much RFI. Now that's a niche problem, and I just unplug it when I use the affected item. Earlier HP printers had a problem of locking up when there was a printer issue, then randomly printing out what was causing the problem later.
But yeah, its kinda hard to come up with the next big need in printing. Its not that everything is solved, but we're pretty darned far along the path of diminishing returns.
This isn't some 2 bit pointless local hockey team that would barely rate a mention in the local rag. This has been a major story for the past X days on every communications medium, radio, TV, newspapers, internet.
Way to not get it You win one big whooshie.
The point is you can advertise as much as you want, and people will miss all of it. Has nothing to do with your assessment of our league, which was by the way, rather large, but with people in general.
point at just about any tech or news site in the world and it will almost certainly have rated a mention. It has been mentioned on everything from local news reports to international media and press releases.
The problem is people do miss stuff. Some people are not interested in Tech. Didn't you catch all those early 2000's commercials where the important looking person spouts "Just tell me the right thing to buy!" ?
That you or I might read and look and know is irrelevant. My wife hand't heard of the problem until I told her yesterday. A lot of people don't give a crap about tech. They just want a cellphone that works and doesn't kill them.
Samsung can only do that if the person allows themselves to be notified.
You hit on the important part of the effort. If Samsung makes a diligent attempt to contact the person, they have covered themselves. If the person they are trying to contact doesn't open their mail, well that's now the individual's fault.
I've had a few recalls on my Jeep, and that's the metric - they contact me, and it is my choice and responsibility after that.
Side note: oftentimes Slashdotters believe that companies are acting in their self-interests by avoiding recall notices. In fact, it might be the opposite. Jeep has been pretty diligent in making recalls, and that has helped with me trusting them. If Samsung thinks that news reports or online gossip are all that is needed, I'd not trust them with a device that has the energy density of a modern cellphone or tablet. They have made strides and alerted media to get as many people informed as possible ahead of the big inevitable recall.
The most hilarious part is that, while this is happening, Apple removes the headphone jack and suddenly everyone is freaking our like it is the fucking end of the world.
Sense of proportion. Get some.
Hopefully the headphone jacks are fireproof. The headphone jack outrage has quieted down a little bit now. since there's a good comeback.
And it's all Apple's fault that that little boy burnt himself on that exploding Galaxy phone. He was listening to music, and his parent's gaddamned iPhone 7 didn't have an earphone jack to plug his Dora the Explorer headphones into. Fscking hipsters anyhow!
Surely they're aware of the recall. They gave a child in their care a device that is known it catch on fire under normal use.
Why would they be proven to be aware? The only way to prove that a person knows, or has a good presumption of knowing that the Samsungs like to go kablooey, is if Samsung does due dilegence and sends each owner a physical thing that explains the problem.
So they are running out to buy the brand new Note 7 but they aren't technology minded? Not defending Samsung as they made a defective product and they should be accountable for that. But it has been all over the front pages of newspapers, web sites and everywhere on the internet. I haven't looked for it as it doesn't affect me but I have seen it on TV more than a dozen times and god knows how many times on various websites.
Which means what? Here's what actually happens. When I was the president of a youth hockey organization, an adult came to a board meeting, and told us we had a terrible failing in getting the word out about ourselves.
"You need to have newspaper advertisements, ads in the local magazines, ads in all the rinks and on television. And brochures!"
So I pulled out the receipts for all of the above, and told him where he could find the brochures. His only reply was that we needed to find better ways and times so he could see them note: this is disregarding how the person knew to come in to see us anyhow, but the point is, saturation doesn't prove that someone saw something.
Samsung can only cover itself by notifying everyone who has one of their burning phones personally.
If the end result is "nope, we can't deploy this," it's probably time to reevaluate the suitability of that operating system with regard to your business use case. -PCP
This is just precious. Next explain how you, the erstwhile IT guy, goes about telling the people who decided long ago that they were going to go with the gold standard of the industry, Microsoft - that they have to change their Operating system.
I've related my Vista OS support nightmare many times in here. It involves experts, a shitload of wasted money, dismissals, horrible infighting, and eventual desperation. And an ultimatum by yours truly to fix the system, or wallow in the shithole they put themselves in - which indeed involved a different OS. Your nice clean everyone working in harmonious harmony and blissful coexistence is a nice story, brah. I fear that my experience is not all that unusual.
> I think most iPhone users have migrated away from corded headphones a long time ago.
Why would you think that? More likely they have a mix, like I do. I have my expensive Bose NR set for airplanes that is wired, and several cheaper earplugs; my current fave is a Jabra on ear set that does Bluetooth or plugs in (handy when power dies), but often I am just using the built in speaker (90% of the time)
I don't think you are actually disconfirming what I wrote. Its hard of course, for us to apply our individual uses of smartphones. You have your 90 percent use of the built-in speaker. I've never used a plugin, and listen and talk with a Logitech bluetooth when I need a headset. Mostly I base my opinion on seeking people jogging and working out. A cord is a PITA in that case. Used to see a lot of cords, not too many lately.
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And yet this is ok because it's Google.
Windows 10 includes telemetry but that is spyware!
Why do people write crap like this? Reading through the comments, it appears this feature is pretty well hated - which means people like it about as much as they like W10. Which is not much at all.
but how to you feel if that info was passed to the FBI / CIA / NSA / ETC?
As long as the phone has a headphone jack, he's okay with it.
Your 60 percent of a phone has a headphone jack.
Of course, but I build my own PCs and over time have gone through maybe 10 different generations/models of nVidia GPUs on about 8 generations/versions of motherboard/CPUs. I game often and try many differnet things, and can tell you I've NEVER had a problem with nVidia drivers.
So you are like 99.999999 percent of users, and every Granma out there
You are just like the tool that brags about how Windows ten has never been a problem always updates perfectly, and is compelled for some reason to come in and brag about it whenever the hundreds of people who had a computer that worked one day, got a backup, and it broke on them. Thanks for being a boor, and completely unhelpful tool.
Don't use FB... problems solved.
Because everything is just that simple. Never give feedback, never take feedback, and if you don't like the color of their webpages, go away.
The problem with your simplistic view of life is that people often actually like feedback.
And when we get to altering historic photographs, it gets a little into the area of politics.
Part of the horror of that photograph is that a little kid gets napalmed, her clothes burnt off, and someone is worried that some folks want to fuck her. That's sick on so many levels that someone thinking that is a good reason to censor the "naughty bits" comes off as projection. multi-creepy.
So feedback is not only appropriate but the right thing to do.
Even if its "Fuck you Facebook, I'm unsubscribing because you are a bunch of projecting censoring hacks that want to alter history".
The end of the "Rule of Law" story, I guess you mean? Shame. It had its problems, but on average I was a fan. The sequel, "Despotic and Arbitrary Kleptocracy", sounds like it's going to suck.
I rather like "Return to the Caves". Zero taxes, zero services, zero guvmint and the strongest and most violent win.
This is the one where we skip right to Einstein's WW4 scenario.
Vista wasn't bad if you jumped through its hoops.
Vista was okay in the end. Getting there was awful. Being forced to be an early adopter, it was kinda fun to tell the people that forced me to implement it that they needed to buy new printers and scanners because Vista didn't have drivers for them. Fortunately, there were minutes taken, and my dire warnings about Vista were all down in a way they couldn't blame me unless they went back and committed a crime.
Seven was so much better that it gets crap today,
7 was a nicely workable OS. It wasn't perfect, none is, but it functioned almost as well as XP, without the security issues. I dumped 10 and went back to 7 for what I still need Windows for today.
They're buying Samsung because Samsung are soooo good at software. The marriage of those crappy devs and HP's massive bloatware is just what the industry needs!
We have an HP all-in-one 'pro' printer at home. It's actually pretty good, but the scanner stopped working the other day, just saying "cannot connect to server".
I have one too, and it's been okay except that the power supply puts out way too much RFI. Now that's a niche problem, and I just unplug it when I use the affected item. Earlier HP printers had a problem of locking up when there was a printer issue, then randomly printing out what was causing the problem later.
But yeah, its kinda hard to come up with the next big need in printing. Its not that everything is solved, but we're pretty darned far along the path of diminishing returns.
This isn't some 2 bit pointless local hockey team that would barely rate a mention in the local rag. This has been a major story for the past X days on every communications medium, radio, TV, newspapers, internet.
Way to not get it You win one big whooshie.
The point is you can advertise as much as you want, and people will miss all of it. Has nothing to do with your assessment of our league, which was by the way, rather large, but with people in general.
point at just about any tech or news site in the world and it will almost certainly have rated a mention. It has been mentioned on everything from local news reports to international media and press releases.
The problem is people do miss stuff. Some people are not interested in Tech. Didn't you catch all those early 2000's commercials where the important looking person spouts "Just tell me the right thing to buy!" ?
That you or I might read and look and know is irrelevant. My wife hand't heard of the problem until I told her yesterday. A lot of people don't give a crap about tech. They just want a cellphone that works and doesn't kill them.
Samsung can only do that if the person allows themselves to be notified.
You hit on the important part of the effort. If Samsung makes a diligent attempt to contact the person, they have covered themselves. If the person they are trying to contact doesn't open their mail, well that's now the individual's fault.
I've had a few recalls on my Jeep, and that's the metric - they contact me, and it is my choice and responsibility after that.
Side note: oftentimes Slashdotters believe that companies are acting in their self-interests by avoiding recall notices. In fact, it might be the opposite. Jeep has been pretty diligent in making recalls, and that has helped with me trusting them. If Samsung thinks that news reports or online gossip are all that is needed, I'd not trust them with a device that has the energy density of a modern cellphone or tablet. They have made strides and alerted media to get as many people informed as possible ahead of the big inevitable recall.
Zune had all the earmarks of being designed by a committee.
I actually like the Lumia name and it would sway my decision in its favor >_
Windows phones aren't that bad either if you aren't a teenager who needs all the latest apps, or a hacker hackity hacking roots away.
And the Zune was freaking awesome. And Windows Vista was just too smart for the users.
Although on the surface, it looks like a nice phone....
The results will be exactly the same.
The most hilarious part is that, while this is happening, Apple removes the headphone jack and suddenly everyone is freaking our like it is the fucking end of the world.
Sense of proportion. Get some.
Hopefully the headphone jacks are fireproof. The headphone jack outrage has quieted down a little bit now. since there's a good comeback.
And it's all Apple's fault that that little boy burnt himself on that exploding Galaxy phone. He was listening to music, and his parent's gaddamned iPhone 7 didn't have an earphone jack to plug his Dora the Explorer headphones into. Fscking hipsters anyhow!
Look, I just want the machine to put ink on paper. I don't want any innovation here, and certainly not from HP's driver team.
Ain't that the truth! HP puts more crap in more places than anything else I've seen except maybe Office. and some of the old Norton's AV stuff.
Nothing like a Revo uninstall to illustrate that.
Will these printers have a headphone jack?
the business model. If you want good reviews, you have to pay Yelp. Don't these people understand the system?
Failure of a device. Nobody cares how fast the processor is if they can't plug their headphones in.
Umm, no. If you need a headphone jack, Buy a Samsung Galaxy. Those are pretty hot right now.
Surely they're aware of the recall. They gave a child in their care a device that is known it catch on fire under normal use.
Why would they be proven to be aware? The only way to prove that a person knows, or has a good presumption of knowing that the Samsungs like to go kablooey, is if Samsung does due dilegence and sends each owner a physical thing that explains the problem.
There's a lot involved in these sorts of batteries in consumer devices, plenty of blame to share.
And eventually some janitor and the new guy in the mailroom will be fired, and the CEO will get a nice bonus.
So they are running out to buy the brand new Note 7 but they aren't technology minded? Not defending Samsung as they made a defective product and they should be accountable for that. But it has been all over the front pages of newspapers, web sites and everywhere on the internet. I haven't looked for it as it doesn't affect me but I have seen it on TV more than a dozen times and god knows how many times on various websites.
Which means what? Here's what actually happens. When I was the president of a youth hockey organization, an adult came to a board meeting, and told us we had a terrible failing in getting the word out about ourselves.
"You need to have newspaper advertisements, ads in the local magazines, ads in all the rinks and on television. And brochures!"
So I pulled out the receipts for all of the above, and told him where he could find the brochures. His only reply was that we needed to find better ways and times so he could see them note: this is disregarding how the person knew to come in to see us anyhow, but the point is, saturation doesn't prove that someone saw something.
Samsung can only cover itself by notifying everyone who has one of their burning phones personally.
If the end result is "nope, we can't deploy this," it's probably time to reevaluate the suitability of that operating system with regard to your business use case. -PCP
This is just precious. Next explain how you, the erstwhile IT guy, goes about telling the people who decided long ago that they were going to go with the gold standard of the industry, Microsoft - that they have to change their Operating system.
I've related my Vista OS support nightmare many times in here. It involves experts, a shitload of wasted money, dismissals, horrible infighting, and eventual desperation. And an ultimatum by yours truly to fix the system, or wallow in the shithole they put themselves in - which indeed involved a different OS. Your nice clean everyone working in harmonious harmony and blissful coexistence is a nice story, brah. I fear that my experience is not all that unusual.
How in hell do I avoid shell shock, ransomware, but still no releases bringing in bugs all at the same time??
Proper change management and deployment processes, with integrated automated testing (including security auditing/validation)
8 hours of sleep a night, belief in the power of prayer, and probiotics, and a good account with your psychic friend helps too.
> I think most iPhone users have migrated away from corded headphones a long time ago.
Why would you think that? More likely they have a mix, like I do. I have my expensive Bose NR set for airplanes that is wired, and several cheaper earplugs; my current fave is a Jabra on ear set that does Bluetooth or plugs in (handy when power dies), but often I am just using the built in speaker (90% of the time)
I don't think you are actually disconfirming what I wrote. Its hard of course, for us to apply our individual uses of smartphones. You have your 90 percent use of the built-in speaker. I've never used a plugin, and listen and talk with a Logitech bluetooth when I need a headset. Mostly I base my opinion on seeking people jogging and working out. A cord is a PITA in that case. Used to see a lot of cords, not too many lately.
Would someone please shoot all the UI designers who think they have the one answer to rule them all.
This! As well, throw in the people who say that there are too many distros, and that the cure is........
Another distro.