> AD doesn't automate a lot of important tasks like setting up wireless connectivity, installing updates and so on.
Checking my machine here, I have a GPO that creates my Corp wireless profile and sets it to auto-connect using the certificate that is auto-enrolled on my machine.
I have another GPO that points me to a corporate update server for Windows updates, but still conveniently leaves the option to check for updates directly from the mother ship.
An IT person had to create those GPOs, is that what you mean by not doing it automatically?
> How can it cost more for the IT department to buy a Dell than someone with a credit card and no business account?
It's really easy to do this.
The expense account guy pays the price of the server.
The IT chargeback includes, if done competently, the cost of the server, the cost of backing it up, including it in DR, rack space, AV+management software, Patching/OS Upgrades, and the cost to securely dispose of the server at EOL.
Which one of these is the real cost of the server?
Due to alleged security concerns, all researchers from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are prohibited from working bilaterally with Chinese citizens affiliated with a Chinese state enterprise or entity.
- Wikipedia: Chinese exclusion policy of NASA
That's why they are rolling their own. The US Congress, in its painfully finite wisdom, locked them out of the ISS program among others.
Related topic: can you send a nastygram to your video card manufacturer and ask them not to publish bad drivers to Windows Update? MS isn't developing these drivers, they are just passing on what the manufacturer provides.
Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft, but this isn't paid shilling. I had the same problem on my personal kit and the above fixed it.
> Half of social security and medicaid is paid BY THE EMPLOYER.Only self employed sole proprietorships pay 15%, or S-corps on their salary...
The argument for this statement is "If the employer didn't have to pay half then they could pay it to the worker. This means that the tax effectively costs the worker the full 15%."
It isn't a strong argument, but it isn't completely wrong.
> Windows 10 build numbers increase monotonically, but because they're not sequential, it's hard to tell whether someone has skipped an update.
All of Windows 10's updates are cumulative, so you don't skip an update. I.e. if you start with the Win10 1607 media released in July of 2016 and install March's update then the box is up-to-date.
My apologies, I don't know. That's not a question I've run into over in the enterprise space.
As a data point, on Win10 1607, I'm able to use the xbox game recorder to pull clips out of VLC and DRM protected streams (Netflix in Firefox, haven't tried it in IE or Edge). (I grok screen recording != screen streaming.)
The Creators Update is the marketing name for Windows 10 1703, build KB4016251 15063.13 aka "RS2"
If I were to guess, I'd think the inspiration for the name is the new content creators features including a 3d modeling app and built-in game streaming with Beam.
Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft, but this comment isn't paid shilling.
My understanding is that it has a gaming mode that throttles all of the background services to give maximum performance to the foreground app. It also has Beam streaming built in, if you like to broadcast your play.
Full disclosure, I work for Microsoft. This isn't paid shilling though, this is me sitting on my couch reading slashdot when I should be getting ready for bed.
I just searched CNN.com for "susan rice" and there is -zero- mention of the accusations against her in the first page of the search results. If I click over to the "Stories" tab, the first result is her denying any spying allegations involving the Brits. I'd love to have a non-conservative opinion on this, and their silence speaks volumes.
Fake news is news that is not true, not news you don't like.
I agree wholeheartedly that laws will come, but I refuse to buy the chicken little drone narrative.
400 meters from where I sit a continuous stream of machines weighing from 500-40,000 kilos roll by at speeds of over 100km/h. They belch smoke and all manner of obnoxious noises. We made laws about how they could be operated and ceded our roads to their use. (Remember when roads were for feet and hooves? No? Neither do I.) Now people look at cars and trucks with little concern. My prediction is that UAV systems will be the same way.
Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft as a platforms PFE. This is my own opinion, and not paid shilling. I'm pleasantly surprised to see we're talking about improvements publicly now. That's a nice change.
If I were to wager, I'd say their algorithm probably maintains a constant speed through curves and up and down hills with a suitable buffer zone in front of their car so that their car(s) dampen the standing waves that are the primary cause of traffic congestion.
Several reasons. 1. It's at the wrong orbital inclination to go to the moon, and the plane change maneuver alone would exceed the life of the existing engines many times over.
2. It isn't designed for the radiation environment of the moon's orbit, and long-term visitors would rapidly hit maximum lifetime exposure limits.
I'm with you on the space pickup truck. Cheap access to space is the cure for many ills.
The problem with keeping the ISS around indefinitely is that the core modules like the Zarya have been there a very long time. They'll be a quarter-century old by 1924, and replacing them effectively means cutting the station in half until the modules are swapped out.
I said: "Assuming that Mr. Trump had contacted Russians or those suspected of being Russians then his network would already be flagged as interesting and you'd already have transcripts."
and today...
Politico: "House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes declared Wednesday that members of Donald Trumpâ(TM)s transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under inadvertent surveillance following Novemberâ(TM)s presidential election."
Computers are today faster than they need to be for nearly all applications the average office runs into.
... or the users have learned to live with it. There are a painful number of spreadsheets out there running real businesses using macros that take minutes or hours to run.
When you can fix those to get them to run in seconds you get really popular. (Perhaps not so popular with the original "developer", but that's part of life, eh?)
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> AD doesn't automate a lot of important tasks like setting up wireless connectivity, installing updates and so on.
Checking my machine here, I have a GPO that creates my Corp wireless profile and sets it to auto-connect using the certificate that is auto-enrolled on my machine.
I have another GPO that points me to a corporate update server for Windows updates, but still conveniently leaves the option to check for updates directly from the mother ship.
An IT person had to create those GPOs, is that what you mean by not doing it automatically?
> How can it cost more for the IT department to buy a Dell than someone with a credit card and no business account?
It's really easy to do this.
The expense account guy pays the price of the server.
The IT chargeback includes, if done competently, the cost of the server, the cost of backing it up, including it in DR, rack space, AV+management software, Patching/OS Upgrades, and the cost to securely dispose of the server at EOL.
Which one of these is the real cost of the server?
Due to alleged security concerns, all researchers from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are prohibited from working bilaterally with Chinese citizens affiliated with a Chinese state enterprise or entity.
- Wikipedia: Chinese exclusion policy of NASA
That's why they are rolling their own. The US Congress, in its painfully finite wisdom, locked them out of the ISS program among others.
I, personally, do not want internet authorities making political decisions. This is a terrible idea.
> Clearly, communicated, in detail, EXACTLY what each and every update fixes.
Like this one?
https://support.microsoft.com/...
>> Win 10 keeps installing "updated" video drivers which don't work on my laptop.
They've published a procedure to fix that permanently so you don't have to keep fighting it.
https://support.microsoft.com/...
Tldr; device manager, find the device, right-click >> Properties >> Driver Tab >> Rollback Driver.
That should block future updates to that driver.
Related topic: can you send a nastygram to your video card manufacturer and ask them not to publish bad drivers to Windows Update? MS isn't developing these drivers, they are just passing on what the manufacturer provides.
Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft, but this isn't paid shilling. I had the same problem on my personal kit and the above fixed it.
> And please note, I'm discussing "long term capital gains", not short term.
Is there a compelling argument for why long-term and short-term capital gains are taxed differently? I'm learning options trading and suffering here.
> Half of social security and medicaid is paid BY THE EMPLOYER.Only self employed sole proprietorships pay 15%, or S-corps on their salary...
The argument for this statement is "If the employer didn't have to pay half then they could pay it to the worker. This means that the tax effectively costs the worker the full 15%."
It isn't a strong argument, but it isn't completely wrong.
Clarification:the exam ref is a book I read for work, not one I would read again for fun.
Recent reads I enjoyed and would read again:
Non-fiction:
> Windows 10 build numbers increase monotonically, but because they're not sequential, it's hard to tell whether someone has skipped an update.
All of Windows 10's updates are cumulative, so you don't skip an update. I.e. if you start with the Win10 1607 media released in July of 2016 and install March's update then the box is up-to-date.
MS is also publishing a running changelog with the build numbers and update info at
https://support.microsoft.com/...
Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft, but this is not paid shilling.
My apologies, I don't know. That's not a question I've run into over in the enterprise space.
As a data point, on Win10 1607, I'm able to use the xbox game recorder to pull clips out of VLC and DRM protected streams (Netflix in Firefox, haven't tried it in IE or Edge). (I grok screen recording != screen streaming.)
The Creators Update is the marketing name for Windows 10 1703, build KB4016251 15063.13 aka "RS2"
If I were to guess, I'd think the inspiration for the name is the new content creators features including a 3d modeling app and built-in game streaming with Beam.
Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft, but this comment isn't paid shilling.
My understanding is that it has a gaming mode that throttles all of the background services to give maximum performance to the foreground app. It also has Beam streaming built in, if you like to broadcast your play.
http://news.xbox.com/2017/01/1...
Full disclosure, I work for Microsoft. This isn't paid shilling though, this is me sitting on my couch reading slashdot when I should be getting ready for bed.
There are two possibilities here.
1. I'm lying.
2. New search results were added to the index after I posted this.
I assert that the latter is true. When I posted this an hour prior to your comment there were no mentions of it.
I just searched CNN.com for "susan rice" and there is -zero- mention of the accusations against her in the first page of the search results. If I click over to the "Stories" tab, the first result is her denying any spying allegations involving the Brits. I'd love to have a non-conservative opinion on this, and their silence speaks volumes.
Fake news is news that is not true, not news you don't like.
I agree wholeheartedly that laws will come, but I refuse to buy the chicken little drone narrative. 400 meters from where I sit a continuous stream of machines weighing from 500-40,000 kilos roll by at speeds of over 100km/h. They belch smoke and all manner of obnoxious noises. We made laws about how they could be operated and ceded our roads to their use. (Remember when roads were for feet and hooves? No? Neither do I.) Now people look at cars and trucks with little concern. My prediction is that UAV systems will be the same way.
That is an intelligent question that, if answered, would pick away at the underpinnings of the "drones are bad" narrative.
Get in the penalty box right now, and don't come out until you've learned your lesson.
Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft as a platforms PFE. This is my own opinion, and not paid shilling. I'm pleasantly surprised to see we're talking about improvements publicly now. That's a nice change.
If I were to wager, I'd say their algorithm probably maintains a constant speed through curves and up and down hills with a suitable buffer zone in front of their car so that their car(s) dampen the standing waves that are the primary cause of traffic congestion.
People could do this if they were taught how.
>> why not put it in orbit around the Moon
Several reasons.
1. It's at the wrong orbital inclination to go to the moon, and the plane change maneuver alone would exceed the life of the existing engines many times over.
2. It isn't designed for the radiation environment of the moon's orbit, and long-term visitors would rapidly hit maximum lifetime exposure limits.
I'm with you on the space pickup truck. Cheap access to space is the cure for many ills.
The problem with keeping the ISS around indefinitely is that the core modules like the Zarya have been there a very long time. They'll be a quarter-century old by 1924, and replacing them effectively means cutting the station in half until the modules are swapped out.
It's non-trivial.
... and I get a cookie for calling it.
I said: "Assuming that Mr. Trump had contacted Russians or those suspected of being Russians then his network would already be flagged as interesting and you'd already have transcripts."
and today...
Politico: "House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes declared Wednesday that members of Donald Trumpâ(TM)s transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under inadvertent surveillance following Novemberâ(TM)s presidential election."
When you have a moment, can you submit a bug over at bugs.php.net?
When you can fix those to get them to run in seconds you get really popular. (Perhaps not so popular with the original "developer", but that's part of life, eh?)