On Jan 1, 2021, they should send out an update that completely uninstalls and removes Flash, period.
Yeah, shame on people actually being able to make choices. It's not like they could just disable it by default if it's already installed and not install it on new machines.
It's easy to beat up on Flash, but I'm very disturbed by the accelerating trend of killing and deleting things on a schedule, rather than letting the market decide. That's especially true when 3rd parties, like Mozilla and Google, can decide when someone else's technology needs to die for the good of the people.
Sounds like what Classic MacOS used to do. Remember when closing a window never actually quit the application? No worries, the OS is smart enough to swap out to virtual memory or some baloney, which never worked well.
Apps in the background are effectively "frozen"
So, at what point does the OS decide to "freeze" an app? Managing the CPU and memory priority of background processes is one of the great, unsolvable problems of OS design. Apple can claim to be really, really good at doing this, but unless the user has some level of control (and every app developer isn't lying and full of crap), iOS can't really do anything better than any other OS.
I'm surprised we don't have a third party stepping up here, like Samsung or Qualcomm, ready to take a crack at the CPU market with this kind of an opportunity.
I would have loved a desktop A1200, too, but sadly no Amiga at the time could have been a huge success. The AGA chipset wasn't competitive and its use of planar graphics was its end, since it couldn't do fast textured 3D.
I remember being sorely disappointed by the performance of the A4000, and how Workbench screen refreshes were noticeably slower than on the stock A1200 (due to the faster CPU slowing down the custom chip timings). I bought the 1200 anyway, and it's still my favorite computer of all time, but man, after I saw the top-of-the-line A4000 struggling to handle just a 16 color desktop, I knew Commodore was done for.
Anti-Beacon just adds some hosts file entries and disables some services. The problem is, doing those things doesn't change how Win10 behaves. It's well-known that, as far as Microsoft 1st-party software is concerned, the hosts file is totally ignored. Try adding Bing to the hosts file and see where that gets you.
I don't even trust the Win10 Task Manager. I have Win10 installed on a test machine with an old hard drive, and one thing that drives me nuts is that I can hear the hard drive thrashing itself like crazy, but Task Manager still tells me there's 0% disk activity. Is Task Manager only reporting non-Microsoft process information, now, or thoughtfully omitting certain things I "don't need to know?"
Windows7 is way more sluggish and unresponsive than XP, thanks to the new desktop compositor. Full-screen games run better in Win7, but anything that runs on the desktop is garbage. Win7 is the first OS I've used since the Classic MacOS days where it regularly misses clicks, so sometimes I have to click multiple times on certain things (notably Explorer folder shortcuts) to get the system to activate them. Desktop games and video editing software run much slower, since the DWM framerates are capped, and updates are inconsistent depending on what application has focus and whether they're visible under Aero glass or not. Unlike what many people will tell you, switching to Basic Mode doesn't fix the problem, as the DWM is mandatory. And, yes, this is a Windows thing, as all my machines have the same problem despite using vastly different hardware. Overall, Windows7 is very sluggish.
Oh, and Microsoft completely broke search and the Explorer status bar. Why is it when I want to search for a file named "myfile", I have to type "*file" because "file" will show zero results? Also, why is search about a zillion times slower than under XP, even though under Win7 file indexing is mandatory?
There are a few things I like about Win7, but I do miss XP. Seriously.
As much as I love my Amiga 1200, I have to say I would have MUCH preferred it to come as a pizza box with an external keyboard than a fully integrated machine. No matter how much you try to cut down the form factor, an integrated keyboard is just too bulky and I don't want more than one cable coming out the back. Plus, as any laptop owner can attest, broken keyboards are a bitch.
Interesting. As an artist, I regularly look at my art upside-down or in mirror image to find mistakes. I'm surprised (but shouldn't be) to know that this technique works with text.
Could you elaborate on this ridiculous level of hyperbole? I'm not religious, but I get the impression Christians consider abortion wrong because they believe a zygote to be a human being, not because murder is okay for everyone except the unborn.
Oh by the way we're doubling our subscription fee starting next month, just so you know.
I wish. At least in that scenario they're telling me ahead of time!
Last time I had a "subscription" was for RealOne a long, long time ago. I had purchased access to watch videos for $25 for one year. Once the subscription was up for renewal, the fee had doubled to $50/yr., but the only way I found out was when I received my VISA statement and saw the new charge. I received no notification about the increase in fee or receipt for the charge. They just doubled the fee on a whim and I never received an e-mail or anything, and had no idea.
When I called Real Inc. to complain about the fee, they told me I only had 10 days from the day of renewal to cancel my subscription. I argued that since I had not been issued a receipt for the charge, and I receive my VISA statement every 30 days, I had no opportunity to dispute the charge within 10 days. It took some stern language with a manager, but I eventually had the fee retracted and my subscription canceled.
I've never had any intention of renting access to content again, let alone renting software.
I have always suspected, and it's now being borne out, that being "into" fast cars was nothing to do with performance, or handling, or engineering. It was about making loud noises and getting dirty and feeling manly.
I can only speak for myself, but the only time I could watch a car race is when there was a decent amount of in-car footage. That really gives you a feel for what the drivers are doing and thinking and how much skill is involved. Watching cars on the track, whether in real life or on TV, isn't that exciting.
If you really want loud and dirty, there's always demolition derbies and skid racing. You don't need massive horsepower for that.:)
Hit the manufacturers with a "life cycle tax" to cover the true cost of the ENTIRE life cycle of the product - including disposal in a landfill or the ocean.
We can't even get that to work with regards to nuclear reactors.
Windows already does a fine job of that. When I upgraded from an XP system to Win7 (separate, all-new machine) and copied my files over, something got messed up with file permissions. I treat my desktop like a temp folder and write files to it all the time, except once I try to delete one of these files, Windows will throw a UAC prompt. No matter how many times I approve the prompt, Windows just keeps demanding admin access. All I have to do is wait 5 minutes, and then I can delete the offending file. The regular filesystem permissions look normal, so I'm guessing it's some advanced group policy nonsense I don't understand.
One of these days I'll get around to reformatting and reinstalling, but I know that's going to take all day. I kinda miss the old days where you could wreck your machine. It was easier to do full system backups.
Free market and businesses are incapable of feeding and clothing every person.
Well, in superpower nations, at least, they certainly can. Whether they should, or whether there's enough wealth distribution to ensure that happens, are different stories.
Personal anecdote, but my coverage through MassHealth is the best coverage I've ever had. Coverage and premiums vary tremendously from state to state. Compared to Mass, the ACA health care available in New Hampshire is a disaster, I hear. That's not the case in my neck of the woods.
Let's look at single payer insurance. California has 39 million residents. They figured single payer costs of $400 billion/yr. That is twice California's current total yearly revenue.
Well, duh. Our health care system is purely for-profit, which means taking advantage of sick people... people in duress who are desperate to get better and know that if they don't, they can't work and are basically fucked. No insurance plan will help if a US medical procedure costs 15-20 times as much as the same procedure in Germany. Most nations in the world have aggressive price control for their health care specifically to prevent profiteering. But here in the US, that's called punishing success, so of course we can't do that, and pharmaceutical companies rank among the most profitable companies in the world because it's a comfortable racket if you can get your foot in the door.
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On Jan 1, 2021, they should send out an update that completely uninstalls and removes Flash, period.
Yeah, shame on people actually being able to make choices. It's not like they could just disable it by default if it's already installed and not install it on new machines.
It's easy to beat up on Flash, but I'm very disturbed by the accelerating trend of killing and deleting things on a schedule, rather than letting the market decide. That's especially true when 3rd parties, like Mozilla and Google, can decide when someone else's technology needs to die for the good of the people.
Sounds like what Classic MacOS used to do. Remember when closing a window never actually quit the application? No worries, the OS is smart enough to swap out to virtual memory or some baloney, which never worked well.
Apps in the background are effectively "frozen"
So, at what point does the OS decide to "freeze" an app? Managing the CPU and memory priority of background processes is one of the great, unsolvable problems of OS design. Apple can claim to be really, really good at doing this, but unless the user has some level of control (and every app developer isn't lying and full of crap), iOS can't really do anything better than any other OS.
I'm surprised we don't have a third party stepping up here, like Samsung or Qualcomm, ready to take a crack at the CPU market with this kind of an opportunity.
They'd do better... especially Qualcomm?
I would have loved a desktop A1200, too, but sadly no Amiga at the time could have been a huge success. The AGA chipset wasn't competitive and its use of planar graphics was its end, since it couldn't do fast textured 3D.
I remember being sorely disappointed by the performance of the A4000, and how Workbench screen refreshes were noticeably slower than on the stock A1200 (due to the faster CPU slowing down the custom chip timings). I bought the 1200 anyway, and it's still my favorite computer of all time, but man, after I saw the top-of-the-line A4000 struggling to handle just a 16 color desktop, I knew Commodore was done for.
Your concept of a "pizza box" may not be the same as mine. The A3000 may have been smaller than the 2000, but it was hardly compact.
Fuck telemetry. I'll trust my legal sanctity to my dashcam, thank you very much.
Spybot Anti-Beacon
Snake oil.
Anti-Beacon just adds some hosts file entries and disables some services. The problem is, doing those things doesn't change how Win10 behaves. It's well-known that, as far as Microsoft 1st-party software is concerned, the hosts file is totally ignored. Try adding Bing to the hosts file and see where that gets you.
I don't even trust the Win10 Task Manager. I have Win10 installed on a test machine with an old hard drive, and one thing that drives me nuts is that I can hear the hard drive thrashing itself like crazy, but Task Manager still tells me there's 0% disk activity. Is Task Manager only reporting non-Microsoft process information, now, or thoughtfully omitting certain things I "don't need to know?"
My dad was on the phone with Microsoft for about 45 minutes regarding this issue. Every time he starts his PC, the icons get screwed up.
Microsoft has apparently been "working" on this for the last two months, to no avail. How do you screw up something like this?
Windows7 is way more sluggish and unresponsive than XP, thanks to the new desktop compositor. Full-screen games run better in Win7, but anything that runs on the desktop is garbage. Win7 is the first OS I've used since the Classic MacOS days where it regularly misses clicks, so sometimes I have to click multiple times on certain things (notably Explorer folder shortcuts) to get the system to activate them. Desktop games and video editing software run much slower, since the DWM framerates are capped, and updates are inconsistent depending on what application has focus and whether they're visible under Aero glass or not. Unlike what many people will tell you, switching to Basic Mode doesn't fix the problem, as the DWM is mandatory. And, yes, this is a Windows thing, as all my machines have the same problem despite using vastly different hardware. Overall, Windows7 is very sluggish.
Oh, and Microsoft completely broke search and the Explorer status bar. Why is it when I want to search for a file named "myfile", I have to type "*file" because "file" will show zero results? Also, why is search about a zillion times slower than under XP, even though under Win7 file indexing is mandatory?
There are a few things I like about Win7, but I do miss XP. Seriously.
As much as I love my Amiga 1200, I have to say I would have MUCH preferred it to come as a pizza box with an external keyboard than a fully integrated machine. No matter how much you try to cut down the form factor, an integrated keyboard is just too bulky and I don't want more than one cable coming out the back. Plus, as any laptop owner can attest, broken keyboards are a bitch.
Last time I used the machine was yesterday, BTW.
Interesting. As an artist, I regularly look at my art upside-down or in mirror image to find mistakes. I'm surprised (but shouldn't be) to know that this technique works with text.
...you have zero problems with killing humans.
Could you elaborate on this ridiculous level of hyperbole? I'm not religious, but I get the impression Christians consider abortion wrong because they believe a zygote to be a human being, not because murder is okay for everyone except the unborn.
"That problem has been fixed in the new version"
Computer industry since day one: 10 things fixed in the new version, 10 things broken. When it comes to bugs, there's no net benefit to upgrading.
10 years ago you could have gotten away with calling OSX "gourmet". Now it's just Trump Steaks.
Oh by the way we're doubling our subscription fee starting next month, just so you know.
I wish. At least in that scenario they're telling me ahead of time!
Last time I had a "subscription" was for RealOne a long, long time ago. I had purchased access to watch videos for $25 for one year. Once the subscription was up for renewal, the fee had doubled to $50/yr., but the only way I found out was when I received my VISA statement and saw the new charge. I received no notification about the increase in fee or receipt for the charge. They just doubled the fee on a whim and I never received an e-mail or anything, and had no idea.
When I called Real Inc. to complain about the fee, they told me I only had 10 days from the day of renewal to cancel my subscription. I argued that since I had not been issued a receipt for the charge, and I receive my VISA statement every 30 days, I had no opportunity to dispute the charge within 10 days. It took some stern language with a manager, but I eventually had the fee retracted and my subscription canceled.
I've never had any intention of renting access to content again, let alone renting software.
I have always suspected, and it's now being borne out, that being "into" fast cars was nothing to do with performance, or handling, or engineering. It was about making loud noises and getting dirty and feeling manly.
I can only speak for myself, but the only time I could watch a car race is when there was a decent amount of in-car footage. That really gives you a feel for what the drivers are doing and thinking and how much skill is involved. Watching cars on the track, whether in real life or on TV, isn't that exciting.
If you really want loud and dirty, there's always demolition derbies and skid racing. You don't need massive horsepower for that. :)
Hit the manufacturers with a "life cycle tax" to cover the true cost of the ENTIRE life cycle of the product - including disposal in a landfill or the ocean.
We can't even get that to work with regards to nuclear reactors.
I think it is far more effective to bombard a company with a thousand individual small claims.
I agree, but if that actually worked, companies wouldn't be so keen on forcing arbitration. They've already run all the numbers.
90F, AC off: 279mi
90F, AC on: 260mi
Just to throw in my useless comment of the day, I'm really impressed the air conditioning unit has that little impact on range.
Nobody said freedom is practical.
Windows already does a fine job of that. When I upgraded from an XP system to Win7 (separate, all-new machine) and copied my files over, something got messed up with file permissions. I treat my desktop like a temp folder and write files to it all the time, except once I try to delete one of these files, Windows will throw a UAC prompt. No matter how many times I approve the prompt, Windows just keeps demanding admin access. All I have to do is wait 5 minutes, and then I can delete the offending file. The regular filesystem permissions look normal, so I'm guessing it's some advanced group policy nonsense I don't understand.
One of these days I'll get around to reformatting and reinstalling, but I know that's going to take all day. I kinda miss the old days where you could wreck your machine. It was easier to do full system backups.
Free market and businesses are incapable of feeding and clothing every person.
Well, in superpower nations, at least, they certainly can. Whether they should, or whether there's enough wealth distribution to ensure that happens, are different stories.
Mitigation experience? Seriously?
Isn't an "experience" just something that happens to you and isn't really under your control?
Personal anecdote, but my coverage through MassHealth is the best coverage I've ever had. Coverage and premiums vary tremendously from state to state. Compared to Mass, the ACA health care available in New Hampshire is a disaster, I hear. That's not the case in my neck of the woods.
Let's look at single payer insurance. California has 39 million residents. They figured single payer costs of $400 billion/yr. That is twice California's current total yearly revenue.
Well, duh. Our health care system is purely for-profit, which means taking advantage of sick people... people in duress who are desperate to get better and know that if they don't, they can't work and are basically fucked. No insurance plan will help if a US medical procedure costs 15-20 times as much as the same procedure in Germany. Most nations in the world have aggressive price control for their health care specifically to prevent profiteering. But here in the US, that's called punishing success, so of course we can't do that, and pharmaceutical companies rank among the most profitable companies in the world because it's a comfortable racket if you can get your foot in the door.
Sad!
It takes a special kind of person to be a ruthless capitalist. Would more schooling have changed his competitive (or anti-competitive) tendencies?