I thought it was for enterprise users only, unavailable to home users.
I'm not sure how it will actually work (anyone know?) but I expect the updates will be available on microsoft's website for manual download by anybody. If you have to download it through windows update I should be fine since I'm using win7 Ultimate. Worst case, I can't access them directly but someone helpful will doubtless upload them to the pirate bay.
I don't have any background in design whatsoever, but I know which designs I like and which I don't and I disagree with nearly all of your suggestions.
Take your shitty "this" back to reddit you fucking millenial cocksucker.
I'm not a millenial and I don't use reddit. I strongly agreed with GP's statement but I'd run out of mod points so I gave my approval in written form. If this is a problem for you, no need to cry about it, just ignore it. Simple.
I run windows 7 because I use my PC for gaming. By the time win7 is no longer supported by the latest games I expect steamOS/linux to have caught up on gaming performance/compatibility and I can leave microsoft forever. I refuse to use win8.x or win10 and I highly doubt microsoft will ever make a good OS (like XP or 7) again. Until then...
From October I will be disabling windows update and manually downloading the monthly security-only updates from microsoft.
I will be using WSUS offline and PortableUpdate (for redundancy, they do the same thing) to download all currently available individual updates (minus telemetry and GWX updates) incase I need to format/reinstall win7 in the future. I tried Autopatcher but I find the interface slow and clunky, these two are better.
You missed the point of DRM. The stream of bits coming out of the iPhone can be encrypted and must be decrypted before the DAC can take place. The decryption keys will only exist in approved devices (speakers or headphones).
No YOU missed the point, one can 'simply' capture the audio after the device's DAC (in the analogue domain) with some dissassembly and a soldering iron. Yes the quality of the recording depends on the quality of one's equipment but it only takes one person with a steady hand and studio-quality audio gear to 'rip' (capture then convert back to the digital domain DRM-free) and upload the songs to tomorrow's equivalent of TPB. Job done. Your post was only modded up because you have a 4-figure UID, which you obviously don't deserve. Hand it over.
if an exploit is developed (or purchased) by the US government for foreign intelligence purposes, then the government can decide to withhold the exploit on national security grounds, but as soon as it is employed for any domestic law enforcement purpose (surveillance, intelligence gathering, criminal investigation/prosecution) then the release would be compelled.
Sounds ideal in principle, but whats to stop them just 'saying' they only use the exploit for foreign intelligence. All laws should expect and account for human greed and the 'power corrupts' factor.
If I sleep in I feel fine. If I force myself to get up early for work (which I do most days) then I feel groggy and not-hungry for 2-3 hours, if I force myself to eat something shortly after waking (usually a banana or prawn sandwich) I feel better for those 2-3 hours and gain an appetite for a full meal quicker.
If there were an option for every setting on which users has varying opinions, the preferences page would be so cluttered that you'd get frustrated by the overly complex interface and complain even more loudly about that.
c.f. sawfish vs metacity
So we should abolish all user choice until every interface is basically iOS? No thanks, I prefer a huge selection of well-categorised settings to explore and personalise, its my favourite part of getting new software and usually hardware too (I'm not joking). The only reason I'm still on windows is because I can lose endless hours playing with regedit, who needs videogames? (Ok somewhat joking that time)
Then it's unlikey your child will thrive in the real world. Trust is the basis of any relationship and should be the default position with your own children. When it comes to risks of serious bodily harm (i.e. just giving a child a gun) maybe some restraint is needed but what actual damage can really be done with a smartphone? Yes there's some sick shit on the internet but there are some pretty sick people in the real world too and 10-12yrs old is the perfect time to start learning that lesson.
Shelter your kids if that's what you think is best. My kids will have free reign to climb trees and fall down, to be shocked and disgusted by something on the internet, to lash out in anger and regret it afterwards, to break the law and deal with the consequences. I will always be watching of course, ready to intervene if they're in REAL trouble, but otherwise I would not seek to restrict nor augment my kids' experiences at all, just be there for them at the end.
Default behaviour should be backspace does NOT take you back a page. Leave a setting somewhere obvious to turn that particular function on again. Was that so hard?
If the hardware is there in other countries DONT REMOVE IT specifically for other countries. I'm looking at you, Samsung Galaxy S3 (Europe version has FM radio, US does not)
I was reading these comments wondering wtf everyone was talking about, I'm in the UK with a Galaxy S3 and I use the analogue FM radio all the time, although it needs something plugged into the 3.5mm TRS to work. I just assumed the play store would have some analogue FM radio apps that replace the default samsung one (which works just fine so I never looked before) but I've just checked right now and they're all internet/streaming based (even if they don't advertise that fact). You Americans really do get shafted sometimes don't you?
They fired Juan Williams because he said he was scared of Muslims on airplanes. The only place a blanket statement like that won't get you fired is Fox News, because that's their business model.
A person's emotions are never wrong. It was despicable for NPR to fire Juan Williams for daring to be honest about how he felt.
If he was working for me I'd fire him for being and idiot after saying that, pilot/mechanical failures claim more air-travellers lives. If he's afraid of the plane crashing due to muslims he's barking up the wrong tree and being a rude and offensive asshole about it in a very public way, perfectly firable offence in my book.
If a particular guy on a particular occasion was looking shifty who also happened to be muslim he could have just not mentioned at all the fact the guy happened to be muslim and just said he was afraid of that particular guy and got on a later flight, I could buy that as an emotional response.
But claiming he's afraid of every member of a major religion is not an emotional response, its prejudice. Which, let me be clear, I have no problem with aslong as he keeps it mostly to himself, declaring it as a reason for not getting on an aeroplane (whilst also working for a major radio station) makes him pretty stupid though, whether he intended to cause offence or not. Fired.
I know this might sound sarcastic but I'm actually quite serious...
Wouldn't it be nice if consumers could fairly pay because of a very reliable product they bought a long time ago? Or even if having a product work for a long time was considered something worth bragging about? (as a consumer or a manufacturer)
For example I'm still rocking a smartphone thats 5 years old, its been my main phone/device the entire time and I've never used a case (i.e. much wear and tear), suits me just fine. The manufacturer isn't going to see the benefit if I tell everyone they build reliable products, and I'll be ridiculed because most people _want_ a new phone every year or two.
Speaking as a consumer, if you can guarantee your product will last thrice as long as your competitors, I will pay a hefty premium for that. Unfortunately I'm in the minority, so it will never happen. I'd like to donate a small amount to the company that made my smartphone... if I thought it would make the slightest difference in their future decisions on these matters. I would buy my next phone from them but they have drifted too far towards form-over-function like most hardware manufacturers in the market
Yes I have been careful not to mention whom the manufacturer of my phone is because it doesn't matter, at all.
What's the best way to covertly shift gigabytes of data via Facebook?
Encode the data as a properly formatted.jpg (doesn't matter if the image looks like TV-static or a QR code or similar). Facebook loves 'your pictures' so much it doesn't have the time to check them all by hand and relies on users reporting offensive stuff. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
Because unlike FM Stereo, analog TV left a lot of room for improvement. FM Stereo, for most use cases, really actually is "good enough" considering the vast majority of people aren't audiophiles.
Also, the sketchy RF environment inherent in mobile use (such as in the car or handheld device) isn't well suited for digital. Where an analog signal fades for a split second or you get a moment of static, the digital drops out completely, tries to re-sync the stream and has to buffer before it continues playing.
Some things really are just better suited for a down-and-dirty analog connection.
I would tend to agree but I have first hand anecdotal evidence to the contrary. After installing a DAB in my car I get far more channels that are much easier to search/navigate and the reception is largely the same or possibly better, in the various tunnels and longer under-passes (London) DAB receives slightly better than FM did and regains signal very quickly indeed compared to HDMI for example, but I know it cannot be instantaneous.
Iceland is part of the European Free Trade Association, and geographically Europe is the closest continent, so it is perfectly reasonable to refer colloquially to Iceland as being within Europe, stop being pedantic.
I like using Linux for most things, but Windows 7 is my main OS because it plays all my games reliably, Linux is still lacking in this area. I'd love if this UWP fiasco finally pushed gamers and developers off of Windows for good,
Mod parent up for being correct and concise despite the link doesn't load any actual content. (If I have to enable questionable 3rd party domains in Noscript to see the main content of a page then that page has 'no content').
crowd sourcing as a concept is flawed, wikipedia and its ilk included
Relying on crowd-sourced information for anything mission critical is plain stupid, I agree.
Relying on crown-sourced information for research purposes without checking its citations is a bit silly.
But I challenge you to find a deliberate meaningful error in any wikipedia article on undergraduate-level Physics (apart from that time someone added "Earth is the biggest planet in the world" to the article about Earth, but that's grade-A trolling which doesn't count) or any other objective academic topic. Wikipedia and other crowd sourced databases have their uses and their place, e.g. most other wikis. I'm sure many slashdotters have used Memory Alpha more than once, I've found various videogame wikis invaluable, despite occasional unintentional errors. There's no need to generalise because two Israeli military boys did something very stupid indeed, trusting their lives to an app in more than precarious circumstances.
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I thought it was for enterprise users only, unavailable to home users.
I'm not sure how it will actually work (anyone know?) but I expect the updates will be available on microsoft's website for manual download by anybody. If you have to download it through windows update I should be fine since I'm using win7 Ultimate. Worst case, I can't access them directly but someone helpful will doubtless upload them to the pirate bay.
You are confusing contributing with leading the project.
Actually he's conflating them. You are confusing 'conflate' and 'confuse'.
I don't have any background in design whatsoever, but I know which designs I like and which I don't and I disagree with nearly all of your suggestions.
Take your shitty "this" back to reddit you fucking millenial cocksucker.
I'm not a millenial and I don't use reddit. I strongly agreed with GP's statement but I'd run out of mod points so I gave my approval in written form. If this is a problem for you, no need to cry about it, just ignore it. Simple.
I run windows 7 because I use my PC for gaming. By the time win7 is no longer supported by the latest games I expect steamOS/linux to have caught up on gaming performance/compatibility and I can leave microsoft forever. I refuse to use win8.x or win10 and I highly doubt microsoft will ever make a good OS (like XP or 7) again. Until then...
From October I will be disabling windows update and manually downloading the monthly security-only updates from microsoft.
I will be using WSUS offline and PortableUpdate (for redundancy, they do the same thing) to download all currently available individual updates (minus telemetry and GWX updates) incase I need to format/reinstall win7 in the future. I tried Autopatcher but I find the interface slow and clunky, these two are better.
This. Mod parent up.
You missed the point of DRM. The stream of bits coming out of the iPhone can be encrypted and must be decrypted before the DAC can take place. The decryption keys will only exist in approved devices (speakers or headphones).
No YOU missed the point, one can 'simply' capture the audio after the device's DAC (in the analogue domain) with some dissassembly and a soldering iron. Yes the quality of the recording depends on the quality of one's equipment but it only takes one person with a steady hand and studio-quality audio gear to 'rip' (capture then convert back to the digital domain DRM-free) and upload the songs to tomorrow's equivalent of TPB. Job done. Your post was only modded up because you have a 4-figure UID, which you obviously don't deserve. Hand it over.
if an exploit is developed (or purchased) by the US government for foreign intelligence purposes, then the government can decide to withhold the exploit on national security grounds, but as soon as it is employed for any domestic law enforcement purpose (surveillance, intelligence gathering, criminal investigation/prosecution) then the release would be compelled.
Sounds ideal in principle, but whats to stop them just 'saying' they only use the exploit for foreign intelligence. All laws should expect and account for human greed and the 'power corrupts' factor.
Love it. Mod-up.
What was wrong with RTGs?
...but my personal experience speaks elsewise.
If I sleep in I feel fine. If I force myself to get up early for work (which I do most days) then I feel groggy and not-hungry for 2-3 hours, if I force myself to eat something shortly after waking (usually a banana or prawn sandwich) I feel better for those 2-3 hours and gain an appetite for a full meal quicker.
If there were an option for every setting on which users has varying opinions, the preferences page would be so cluttered that you'd get frustrated by the overly complex interface and complain even more loudly about that.
c.f. sawfish vs metacity
So we should abolish all user choice until every interface is basically iOS? No thanks, I prefer a huge selection of well-categorised settings to explore and personalise, its my favourite part of getting new software and usually hardware too (I'm not joking). The only reason I'm still on windows is because I can lose endless hours playing with regedit, who needs videogames? (Ok somewhat joking that time)
I will not trust my child...
Then it's unlikey your child will thrive in the real world. Trust is the basis of any relationship and should be the default position with your own children. When it comes to risks of serious bodily harm (i.e. just giving a child a gun) maybe some restraint is needed but what actual damage can really be done with a smartphone? Yes there's some sick shit on the internet but there are some pretty sick people in the real world too and 10-12yrs old is the perfect time to start learning that lesson.
Shelter your kids if that's what you think is best. My kids will have free reign to climb trees and fall down, to be shocked and disgusted by something on the internet, to lash out in anger and regret it afterwards, to break the law and deal with the consequences. I will always be watching of course, ready to intervene if they're in REAL trouble, but otherwise I would not seek to restrict nor augment my kids' experiences at all, just be there for them at the end.
Default behaviour should be backspace does NOT take you back a page. Leave a setting somewhere obvious to turn that particular function on again. Was that so hard?
If the hardware is there in other countries DONT REMOVE IT specifically for other countries. I'm looking at you, Samsung Galaxy S3 (Europe version has FM radio, US does not)
I was reading these comments wondering wtf everyone was talking about, I'm in the UK with a Galaxy S3 and I use the analogue FM radio all the time, although it needs something plugged into the 3.5mm TRS to work. I just assumed the play store would have some analogue FM radio apps that replace the default samsung one (which works just fine so I never looked before) but I've just checked right now and they're all internet/streaming based (even if they don't advertise that fact). You Americans really do get shafted sometimes don't you?
A person's emotions are never wrong. It was despicable for NPR to fire Juan Williams for daring to be honest about how he felt.
If he was working for me I'd fire him for being and idiot after saying that, pilot/mechanical failures claim more air-travellers lives. If he's afraid of the plane crashing due to muslims he's barking up the wrong tree and being a rude and offensive asshole about it in a very public way, perfectly firable offence in my book.
If a particular guy on a particular occasion was looking shifty who also happened to be muslim he could have just not mentioned at all the fact the guy happened to be muslim and just said he was afraid of that particular guy and got on a later flight, I could buy that as an emotional response.
But claiming he's afraid of every member of a major religion is not an emotional response, its prejudice. Which, let me be clear, I have no problem with aslong as he keeps it mostly to himself, declaring it as a reason for not getting on an aeroplane (whilst also working for a major radio station) makes him pretty stupid though, whether he intended to cause offence or not. Fired.
The web is 27 years old, how is a 9 year old patent ancient in that context?
...And the whole thing was eerily predicted in the 1998 film 'siege'.
I know this might sound sarcastic but I'm actually quite serious...
Wouldn't it be nice if consumers could fairly pay because of a very reliable product they bought a long time ago? Or even if having a product work for a long time was considered something worth bragging about? (as a consumer or a manufacturer)
For example I'm still rocking a smartphone thats 5 years old, its been my main phone/device the entire time and I've never used a case (i.e. much wear and tear), suits me just fine. The manufacturer isn't going to see the benefit if I tell everyone they build reliable products, and I'll be ridiculed because most people _want_ a new phone every year or two.
Speaking as a consumer, if you can guarantee your product will last thrice as long as your competitors, I will pay a hefty premium for that. Unfortunately I'm in the minority, so it will never happen. I'd like to donate a small amount to the company that made my smartphone... if I thought it would make the slightest difference in their future decisions on these matters. I would buy my next phone from them but they have drifted too far towards form-over-function like most hardware manufacturers in the market
Yes I have been careful not to mention whom the manufacturer of my phone is because it doesn't matter, at all.
What's the best way to covertly shift gigabytes of data via Facebook?
Encode the data as a properly formatted .jpg (doesn't matter if the image looks like TV-static or a QR code or similar). Facebook loves 'your pictures' so much it doesn't have the time to check them all by hand and relies on users reporting offensive stuff. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
Because unlike FM Stereo, analog TV left a lot of room for improvement. FM Stereo, for most use cases, really actually is "good enough" considering the vast majority of people aren't audiophiles.
Also, the sketchy RF environment inherent in mobile use (such as in the car or handheld device) isn't well suited for digital. Where an analog signal fades for a split second or you get a moment of static, the digital drops out completely, tries to re-sync the stream and has to buffer before it continues playing.
Some things really are just better suited for a down-and-dirty analog connection.
I would tend to agree but I have first hand anecdotal evidence to the contrary. After installing a DAB in my car I get far more channels that are much easier to search/navigate and the reception is largely the same or possibly better, in the various tunnels and longer under-passes (London) DAB receives slightly better than FM did and regains signal very quickly indeed compared to HDMI for example, but I know it cannot be instantaneous.
Iceland is part of the European Free Trade Association, and geographically Europe is the closest continent, so it is perfectly reasonable to refer colloquially to Iceland as being within Europe, stop being pedantic.
I like using Linux for most things, but Windows 7 is my main OS because it plays all my games reliably, Linux is still lacking in this area. I'd love if this UWP fiasco finally pushed gamers and developers off of Windows for good,
Mod parent up for being correct and concise despite the link doesn't load any actual content. (If I have to enable questionable 3rd party domains in Noscript to see the main content of a page then that page has 'no content').
crowd sourcing as a concept is flawed, wikipedia and its ilk included
Relying on crowd-sourced information for anything mission critical is plain stupid, I agree. Relying on crown-sourced information for research purposes without checking its citations is a bit silly. But I challenge you to find a deliberate meaningful error in any wikipedia article on undergraduate-level Physics (apart from that time someone added "Earth is the biggest planet in the world" to the article about Earth, but that's grade-A trolling which doesn't count) or any other objective academic topic. Wikipedia and other crowd sourced databases have their uses and their place, e.g. most other wikis. I'm sure many slashdotters have used Memory Alpha more than once, I've found various videogame wikis invaluable, despite occasional unintentional errors. There's no need to generalise because two Israeli military boys did something very stupid indeed, trusting their lives to an app in more than precarious circumstances.