The article seems to only be telling half the story about previous versions of Windows and about sending data "critical" to the operation of Windows.
A. The Customer Experience Program could be opted out of.
B. Windows 10 only sends data "critical" to the operation of the system in the "basic" telemetry setting. It's funny how you can disable it in enterprise. I guess it must not be so critical, huh? I don't care what they do with home versions, but I take issue with not being able to do this in Pro. An individual cannot buy Enterprise.
C. It's not fair to compare this to Google. Google provides their products free of charge. Despite Microsoft giving out a free update, Windows is not free. You can purchase a retail copy.
I'm sorry to criticize your apologist article, Verge, but these are issues that affect the company I work for. I don't care what you do with your personal computer; the government doesn't regulate that.
Upvote this man times a million. Remember how at least the old Linksys stuff used to stack? I wish that was standardized, with additional considerations for cooling and signal. These days, I find myself using a three tier mesh shelf I bought at Staples. It works fairly well, with some slight modification.
This is true, and I understand your sentiment regarding Google services, but there's a difference between letting your friend in whenever they knock, and giving them your keys, even if they're already over most of the time.
You should be happy your device lets you change the language. Many Android devices only have a sparse few local languages on them except outliers like the Xperia. iOS also allows language changes.
I agree. The fools. I work in IT, and have type a lot of things in caps, like certain DNS names, acronyms, and a few other items. At home, I use a Shift-JIS layout for Japanese, and it's one method I switch back and forth between Alpha/Kana/IME input. Right-click has come in handy a few times when my wireless mouse has died and had to go on the charger - then have to re-sync my backup bluetooth mouse.
To extend this discussion - I rarely use my backups. Let's get rid of those!
I started reading the article, because I usually know how these bored housewife stories on the internet go. Imagine my shock when I got to the end and it was still talking business. Even the man with the porn stache called Adam Osborne didn't lead to anything.
I doubt they're that dependent. According to their 2013 earnings (going back a year in light of the article), 26% of their sales are in Energy and Infrastructure, 21% in Electronic Devices (which also includes televisions, tablets, storage, etc.), 19% Community Solutions (I have no idea), and 20% Lifestyle Products & Services (Small appliances, air conditioners, small audio systems, etc.). Just because they're not highly visible overseas anymore doesn't mean they don't make a ton of crap for the home market.
I don't know of many. I know vSphere web console uses it, but I use IE for that. I've also seen a few stores still using it for zoom controls on product images.
I will never understand why they wrote the web vSphere client to use Flash. I do believe HTML5 was coming into the limelight a year or two before it came out. Now we're stuck with a turd since they won't put new features into the fat client. The new GUI is shit anyway. It took me quite a while to figure out which disks attached to a guest were RDMs.
I think for HairWorks 2.0, they should simulate that beautiful mane getting tangled, because we all know you don't have much time for hair care when you're fighting orcs or dungeon creatures.
I think you may have also missed some nuance. I'm talking about civil war games, not "confederate-themed games" Having said that, I use Android, though I'm by no means dedicated. My current platform at least let's me get content from other sources.
While it's certainly fine for them to remove items featuring the confederate flag in non-historical contexts, as least in the sense that they have that right, they have not done any of this on a case-by-case basis. An Ars article has detailed some of the historical uses of the flag in civil war games that were pulled from the Apple store.
Bing will ignore those quotation marks when it feels like it's convenient. You have to put a plus sign in front of your quoted phrase, and even then it gets wonky.
I hadn't bothered reading the new terms of service. Had I read about this before this FCC news, I would have cancelled. They've always been a little shady anyway, always wanting to ride that line between a service and a bank, while not wanting to fall into bank regulations.
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The article seems to only be telling half the story about previous versions of Windows and about sending data "critical" to the operation of Windows.
A. The Customer Experience Program could be opted out of.
B. Windows 10 only sends data "critical" to the operation of the system in the "basic" telemetry setting. It's funny how you can disable it in enterprise. I guess it must not be so critical, huh? I don't care what they do with home versions, but I take issue with not being able to do this in Pro. An individual cannot buy Enterprise.
C. It's not fair to compare this to Google. Google provides their products free of charge. Despite Microsoft giving out a free update, Windows is not free. You can purchase a retail copy. I'm sorry to criticize your apologist article, Verge, but these are issues that affect the company I work for. I don't care what you do with your personal computer; the government doesn't regulate that.
Upvote this man times a million. Remember how at least the old Linksys stuff used to stack? I wish that was standardized, with additional considerations for cooling and signal. These days, I find myself using a three tier mesh shelf I bought at Staples. It works fairly well, with some slight modification.
This is true, and I understand your sentiment regarding Google services, but there's a difference between letting your friend in whenever they knock, and giving them your keys, even if they're already over most of the time.
Here here! I love how much I've worked to secure everything down, only to have to run insecure plugins for the management tools.
I only disable it at work, for reasons. I don't mind ads on slashdot at home. I whitelist it in Kaspersky Anti-Banner.
I didn't meant to hurt you. I didn't mean to thunderstrike you.
You should be happy your device lets you change the language. Many Android devices only have a sparse few local languages on them except outliers like the Xperia. iOS also allows language changes.
That's definitely interesting if true. It makes sense as you explain it, at least.
The uncarrier did it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to pretend T-Mobile is an angel, but I think they've truly changed the industry.
I agree. The fools. I work in IT, and have type a lot of things in caps, like certain DNS names, acronyms, and a few other items. At home, I use a Shift-JIS layout for Japanese, and it's one method I switch back and forth between Alpha/Kana/IME input. Right-click has come in handy a few times when my wireless mouse has died and had to go on the charger - then have to re-sync my backup bluetooth mouse. To extend this discussion - I rarely use my backups. Let's get rid of those!
I can't even get my Android phone to play .mkvs, much less crash it. :(
I started reading the article, because I usually know how these bored housewife stories on the internet go. Imagine my shock when I got to the end and it was still talking business. Even the man with the porn stache called Adam Osborne didn't lead to anything.
I doubt they're that dependent. According to their 2013 earnings (going back a year in light of the article), 26% of their sales are in Energy and Infrastructure, 21% in Electronic Devices (which also includes televisions, tablets, storage, etc.), 19% Community Solutions (I have no idea), and 20% Lifestyle Products & Services (Small appliances, air conditioners, small audio systems, etc.). Just because they're not highly visible overseas anymore doesn't mean they don't make a ton of crap for the home market.
I don't know of many. I know vSphere web console uses it, but I use IE for that. I've also seen a few stores still using it for zoom controls on product images.
I will never understand why they wrote the web vSphere client to use Flash. I do believe HTML5 was coming into the limelight a year or two before it came out. Now we're stuck with a turd since they won't put new features into the fat client. The new GUI is shit anyway. It took me quite a while to figure out which disks attached to a guest were RDMs.
I think for HairWorks 2.0, they should simulate that beautiful mane getting tangled, because we all know you don't have much time for hair care when you're fighting orcs or dungeon creatures.
That's why you buy yourself a nice Pyrex (or similar) measuring cup. Can't help the paint flaking off, though.
Hulu Plus isn't free, bruh.
I think you may have also missed some nuance. I'm talking about civil war games, not "confederate-themed games" Having said that, I use Android, though I'm by no means dedicated. My current platform at least let's me get content from other sources.
While it's certainly fine for them to remove items featuring the confederate flag in non-historical contexts, as least in the sense that they have that right, they have not done any of this on a case-by-case basis. An Ars article has detailed some of the historical uses of the flag in civil war games that were pulled from the Apple store.
Bing will ignore those quotation marks when it feels like it's convenient. You have to put a plus sign in front of your quoted phrase, and even then it gets wonky.
Either way, it still doesn't sound like that much for something billed as being "the biggest."
I hadn't bothered reading the new terms of service. Had I read about this before this FCC news, I would have cancelled. They've always been a little shady anyway, always wanting to ride that line between a service and a bank, while not wanting to fall into bank regulations.
If the ads were good, they wouldn't have to stoop to such evil practices like tracking and targeting.
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