It seems to me that Microsoft needs to rename their windows editions to properly reflect the changes in feature sets:
Windows 10 Home => Windows 10 Games and Web-browsing Only Edition Windows 10 Pro => Gimped But Still Somewhat Usable Edition Windows 10 Enterprise => We Rape Your Wallet If You Want The Same Control You Used To Enjoy with Previous Professional Editions Edition
Is this not the same Hyperloop One that is having massive political infighting right now, with lawsuits being slung back and forth and serious management shenanigans?
I hope the employees of this factory are getting paid very well for the employment uncertainty they're facing.
Would you mind video recording your face while watching an Apple unveiling? If you think this is bad, I would love to see your reaction to an iOS keynote. Hell, people have written entire articles just talking about a *font change*.
And here I was, smugly sitting in my chair thinking that I will never ever have a need for Windows 10, and then they have to go and add a full Ubuntu kernel as a subsystem.
The question is, are the power user features they are throwing in worth the price of admission? (ie: all the privacy invasion and generally taking control of the computer away from me). Right now I'm still having to lean towards "no".
How is it "half-assed"? It actually is much more tightly integrated and seamless to the point that you can just run ELF binaries on Windows, you cannot do that with Cygwin so you can build and debug the exact same binaries that you run on both platforms.
The implementation is also a proper subsystem, unlike Cygwin which sits on top of the Win32 subsystem. For example look at fork() in cygwin that has to use Win32's CreateProcess because Win32 doesn't have the concept of fork. This makes it prone to various failures because it's a pretty nasty hack to make it work, since Subsystem for Linux is a proper subsystem it isn't burdened by incompatibilities in the design of Win32 and POSIX APIs or having to be a kludge to make Win32 kind of work like POSIX.
Do you have any links to this effect? I had heard that they would be adding bash, and thought that was kinda cool but whatev. But if they're adding an entire linux subsystem, then that's something else entirely.
Until Microsoft decides that we have to at least give them permission before they shove their hand up to the elbow into my computers lower colon, I will never use Windows 10.
So I can't even hazard a guess as to what's gonna happen this election. The US has a choice between a politician so sleezy as to be a caricature of a cliche politician, and a narcicistic psychopath who would quite happily plunge the world into world war 3 if someone makes fun of the size of his hands.
I mean, really? W. T. F.?
The only real option is if the entire country banded together and voted for an independent, but I just don't see that happening cause all the majority of people can see is the romantic idea of what their "team" represents, rather than look at what's actually happening.
Fair point. My post assumes that have the ability to root the device in the first place.
S'why I gave up on android and went to Apple. If my choices are all companies that are going to treat me like an abusive control-freak boyfriend who teabags my wallet just for fun, then I may as well pick the ones that uses a condom while screwing me.
I don't know if this is still the case, but Microsoft would go so far as to give resellers unreasonable incentives, IIRC even paying them in some cases, to only sell Windows machines. Basically Microsoft made everyone offers they couldn't refuse. And boy did they win big with that gamble.
I remember when the whole IE antitrust thing was going on, I was scratching my head and going, "But... But... What about all this". Oh well.
Have you looked at the sheer amount of shovelware the average PC comes with? It's breathtaking. And a lot of it can be oddball stuff that you've never heard of before, by manufacturers you may well not have heard of. So you are forced to either reinstall the OS from scratch so you have a known clean system, or you have to vet every odd thing you find in your Programs and Features window, and even then hope that there is nothing else installed. And hopefully that's the end of it, which may not be the case. Lenovo has already been caught shoving insecure crapware into the UEFI bios that windows will automatically install whether you want it or not.
Unless you purchase the Enterprise version of Windows 10, you cannot disable telemetry. Period. You cannot disable updates. Period. Microsoft also has the power to extract any and all data from your machine, remotely, without needing your consent first. You flat out do not have control of your own computer anymore if you use Windows 10. And incidentally, some US gov't judge has declared that people no longer have an expectation of privacy when using their computers in their own home. You do the math there.
What happens in Europe will stay in Europe. When Europe ruled that Microsoft bundled their media player and whatnot illegally, Microsoft released Windows N, which was only available in Europe (and MSDN subscribers if you wanna get picky). The rest of the world still got the regular version.
If France/Europe/whatever is successful with this, I imagine Microsoft will simply do the same thing again.
it will refuse to boot or will boot in a limited capacity mode (presumably akin to safe mode)
It's right there in the summary... underlined no less.
I'm more concerned about the fact that I may not be able to replace the stock android with a custom firmware. Thanks to all the crapware that manufacturers insist on pre-installing on most handsets, and their refusal to provide updates, you're basically forced to use a custom firmware just to have a usable phone.
Yes, I know you could always just stick with a Nexus branded device, but then you'd miss out on potentially interesting innovations provided by another manufacturer.
Google should never have permitted the android ecosystem to become a dichotomy of "You can get updates, or you can get a cool device, but not both."
Know what would be really news about Facebooks mobile app?
If they figure out how to reduce it's footprint by an order of magnitude. Between the main Facebook app, and their stupid Messenger app, you're looking at approximately 750 MEGAbytes of space. What in the great name of the Holy Chicken Wing of Vega could it possibly be doing that justifies a footprint in the same range as a AAA mobile game?
I don't know if this is because Zuckerberg considers developers with bonafied credentials (like having a CS degree) to be overrated, bad project management, or if they simply don't care.
Regardless of the reasons, I've completely dumped everything facebook from my phone cause I would rather use the space for things that *I* want. If I need facebook, I will use their web site. And since Facebook refuses to allow mobile users to use messenger through their website, I've dropped messenger completely.
Unless they run their backhaul on wireless, then 5G wouldn't make the slightest difference. AFAIK, once the wireless packets hit the towers, it then goes underground via physical networks, which is orders of magnitude more bandwidth than wireless ever could.
And regardless, I believe at least one carrier has already admitted that they've already got plenty of infrastructure to handle the job. The only reason they force such low caps, is because they're allowed to get away with it.
Who is actually asking for this? As it stands, current cellular networks are capable of doing everyone a person could reasonably need, short of downloading 4k uncompressed bukake porn.
Oh wait, that's right. Networks want to make it as easy as possible for you to blow through your absurdly and arbitrarily tiny data quotas. They need to get their lobbyist money somehow, so they can convince the gov't that even those caps are too large.
That's like saying that during the 1940s the Jewish tourist industr in Germany was the "hottest in history".
And, like typical short term thinking corporate drones, they have sacrificed long term viability for short term benefit. Between the unprecedented powers that Microsoft has granted itself over people's computers, the stealing of basic ownership rights people used to enjoy with their computers for the past several decades, and the sheer obnoxiousness of this rollout, has basically destroyed mindshare in a way I never thought possible.
I know that I'm going to be sticking with Windows 7 until I have no other choice.
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It seems to me that Microsoft needs to rename their windows editions to properly reflect the changes in feature sets:
Windows 10 Home => Windows 10 Games and Web-browsing Only Edition
Windows 10 Pro => Gimped But Still Somewhat Usable Edition
Windows 10 Enterprise => We Rape Your Wallet If You Want The Same Control You Used To Enjoy with Previous Professional Editions Edition
Is this not the same Hyperloop One that is having massive political infighting right now, with lawsuits being slung back and forth and serious management shenanigans?
I hope the employees of this factory are getting paid very well for the employment uncertainty they're facing.
Ah, ok. Thank you for the clarification.
Would you mind video recording your face while watching an Apple unveiling? If you think this is bad, I would love to see your reaction to an iOS keynote. Hell, people have written entire articles just talking about a *font change*.
Oh god damn it...
And here I was, smugly sitting in my chair thinking that I will never ever have a need for Windows 10, and then they have to go and add a full Ubuntu kernel as a subsystem.
The question is, are the power user features they are throwing in worth the price of admission? (ie: all the privacy invasion and generally taking control of the computer away from me). Right now I'm still having to lean towards "no".
How is it "half-assed"? It actually is much more tightly integrated and seamless to the point that you can just run ELF binaries on Windows, you cannot do that with Cygwin so you can build and debug the exact same binaries that you run on both platforms.
The implementation is also a proper subsystem, unlike Cygwin which sits on top of the Win32 subsystem. For example look at fork() in cygwin that has to use Win32's CreateProcess because Win32 doesn't have the concept of fork. This makes it prone to various failures because it's a pretty nasty hack to make it work, since Subsystem for Linux is a proper subsystem it isn't burdened by incompatibilities in the design of Win32 and POSIX APIs or having to be a kludge to make Win32 kind of work like POSIX.
Do you have any links to this effect? I had heard that they would be adding bash, and thought that was kinda cool but whatev. But if they're adding an entire linux subsystem, then that's something else entirely.
I found this after a cursory google search, but better links are welcome:
http://www.infoworld.com/artic...
You know, it amazes me how some people will go out of their way to intentionally miss the point.
I want control of my f__king computer back.
Until Microsoft decides that we have to at least give them permission before they shove their hand up to the elbow into my computers lower colon, I will never use Windows 10.
Why would I do that? This is slashdot. :)
Google the term "teabagging"
Just be prepared to quickly close your browser window again.
So I can't even hazard a guess as to what's gonna happen this election. The US has a choice between a politician so sleezy as to be a caricature of a cliche politician, and a narcicistic psychopath who would quite happily plunge the world into world war 3 if someone makes fun of the size of his hands.
I mean, really? W. T. F.?
The only real option is if the entire country banded together and voted for an independent, but I just don't see that happening cause all the majority of people can see is the romantic idea of what their "team" represents, rather than look at what's actually happening.
Wow, asking which is better, Verizon or Comcast?
That's like asking, "Which is better? Clinton or Trump?"
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Now I made myself sad.
You forgot:
Work will set you free.
Because Facebook's userbase is limited primarily to only a few countries. WhatsApp basically has the rest.
By having both, Facebook basically has an almost world wide monopoly on messenger services.
https://www.similarweb.com/blo...
Fair point. My post assumes that have the ability to root the device in the first place.
S'why I gave up on android and went to Apple. If my choices are all companies that are going to treat me like an abusive control-freak boyfriend who teabags my wallet just for fun, then I may as well pick the ones that uses a condom while screwing me.
I don't know if this is still the case, but Microsoft would go so far as to give resellers unreasonable incentives, IIRC even paying them in some cases, to only sell Windows machines. Basically Microsoft made everyone offers they couldn't refuse. And boy did they win big with that gamble.
I remember when the whole IE antitrust thing was going on, I was scratching my head and going, "But... But... What about all this". Oh well.
But they arn't.
Have you looked at the sheer amount of shovelware the average PC comes with? It's breathtaking. And a lot of it can be oddball stuff that you've never heard of before, by manufacturers you may well not have heard of. So you are forced to either reinstall the OS from scratch so you have a known clean system, or you have to vet every odd thing you find in your Programs and Features window, and even then hope that there is nothing else installed. And hopefully that's the end of it, which may not be the case. Lenovo has already been caught shoving insecure crapware into the UEFI bios that windows will automatically install whether you want it or not.
Unless you purchase the Enterprise version of Windows 10, you cannot disable telemetry. Period. You cannot disable updates. Period. Microsoft also has the power to extract any and all data from your machine, remotely, without needing your consent first. You flat out do not have control of your own computer anymore if you use Windows 10. And incidentally, some US gov't judge has declared that people no longer have an expectation of privacy when using their computers in their own home. You do the math there.
What happens in Europe will stay in Europe. When Europe ruled that Microsoft bundled their media player and whatnot illegally, Microsoft released Windows N, which was only available in Europe (and MSDN subscribers if you wanna get picky). The rest of the world still got the regular version.
If France/Europe/whatever is successful with this, I imagine Microsoft will simply do the same thing again.
I'm out of mod points, or I would have modded parent insightful.
it will refuse to boot or will boot in a limited capacity mode (presumably akin to safe mode)
It's right there in the summary... underlined no less.
I'm more concerned about the fact that I may not be able to replace the stock android with a custom firmware. Thanks to all the crapware that manufacturers insist on pre-installing on most handsets, and their refusal to provide updates, you're basically forced to use a custom firmware just to have a usable phone.
Yes, I know you could always just stick with a Nexus branded device, but then you'd miss out on potentially interesting innovations provided by another manufacturer.
Google should never have permitted the android ecosystem to become a dichotomy of "You can get updates, or you can get a cool device, but not both."
Oh, on the contrary. It is very *well* concieved and implemented.
It was conceived to be privacy destroying nightmare, and they did a fantastic job building it.
Know what would be really news about Facebooks mobile app?
If they figure out how to reduce it's footprint by an order of magnitude. Between the main Facebook app, and their stupid Messenger app, you're looking at approximately 750 MEGAbytes of space. What in the great name of the Holy Chicken Wing of Vega could it possibly be doing that justifies a footprint in the same range as a AAA mobile game?
I don't know if this is because Zuckerberg considers developers with bonafied credentials (like having a CS degree) to be overrated, bad project management, or if they simply don't care.
Regardless of the reasons, I've completely dumped everything facebook from my phone cause I would rather use the space for things that *I* want. If I need facebook, I will use their web site. And since Facebook refuses to allow mobile users to use messenger through their website, I've dropped messenger completely.
Unless they run their backhaul on wireless, then 5G wouldn't make the slightest difference. AFAIK, once the wireless packets hit the towers, it then goes underground via physical networks, which is orders of magnitude more bandwidth than wireless ever could.
And regardless, I believe at least one carrier has already admitted that they've already got plenty of infrastructure to handle the job. The only reason they force such low caps, is because they're allowed to get away with it.
Who is actually asking for this? As it stands, current cellular networks are capable of doing everyone a person could reasonably need, short of downloading 4k uncompressed bukake porn.
Oh wait, that's right. Networks want to make it as easy as possible for you to blow through your absurdly and arbitrarily tiny data quotas. They need to get their lobbyist money somehow, so they can convince the gov't that even those caps are too large.
That's like saying that during the 1940s the Jewish tourist industr in Germany was the "hottest in history".
And, like typical short term thinking corporate drones, they have sacrificed long term viability for short term benefit. Between the unprecedented powers that Microsoft has granted itself over people's computers, the stealing of basic ownership rights people used to enjoy with their computers for the past several decades, and the sheer obnoxiousness of this rollout, has basically destroyed mindshare in a way I never thought possible.
I know that I'm going to be sticking with Windows 7 until I have no other choice.