What we're looking at here is a scenario that runs: GP had a working computer with a working SSD array. Microsoft forced an update. GP's SSD array stopped working.
Slashdot? Try the Microsoft support forums, or just turn on the news.
Anything used by hundreds of millions of people is going to get that level of attention...
Try going to the Ford or GM forums, you'll see endless complaints from unhappy owners, that doesn't mean that the odds of me getting a good truck are poor.
So do I, and these are the people who come to me saying they are sick of doing system restores.
I must live a blessed life!:) If you say that happens, fair enough, I have no reason to doubt you... all I can do is say that my experience is different, but perhaps my circle of contacts is different in some way, it isn't large enough to be "the market" as a whole of course.
That doesn't make it any less the most complained about and bug riddled OS that MS has released.
Citation needed...
And I say that seriously, with no snark... The complaints on Slashdot frankly don't count, the Linux zealots here really aren't unbiased enough to have an objective viewpoint.
I deal every day with people who wouldn't know a MHz from a GHz, they just want to use their computer and get on with life. Without exception, Windows 10 works fine, I don't see all the problems with it that others do, and this includes running it on everything from brand new machines to 10 year old Core2Duo machines.
People love to complain, but I'm just not seeing the issue... And complaints about privacy don't count when it comes to "crashes and bugs", that is a separate issue and one that I find to be rather hypocritical coming from people with Google accounts and Android phones and who use credit cards and reward cards and who drive cars that track them anyway...
MS is way late to this party...
I personally drive a GM truck that has OnStar, I carry an iPhone with location services turned on, I use GMail for everything, and I pay for everything everywhere with plastic. I would be completely delusional to think that somehow Microsoft is going to be the source of all my privacy woes. That ship has sailed and isn't coming back.
So many "M$ is dead, we're all moving to Linux" comments...
Yea, I heard that 15 years ago when Windows XP came out, then Vista, then 8...
For all of you who seem to think "everyone is running Linux these days" because your SMALL CIRCLE OF LINUX FRIENDS ARE, I have a news flash for you:
You aren't the center of the world
Normal people haven't even HEARD of Linux, much less know what the hell it is... you all live in your little bubble and think your family and friends are "normal people", but they aren't...
All I have to do is look at the marketshare of Linux on the desktop to know what is happening there... call me when it passes Mac OS X and then I'll be remotely interested, until then it is and remains a server OS.
You are truly right, for any system that hasn't had an OS upgraded since 15th June 2015.
I have Windows 10 running on 20 computers that I own, and I've installed it on about 100 computers that I don't own in the past year...
I have yet to have a problem with it, it is rock solid... as good as, if not better than Windows 7 when it launched, and far easier to use than Windows 8...
Most of the 20 that I own have been updated to the Anniversary Update, also working perfectly...
In my experience, users tend to blame Windows for just about everything, even when Windows isn't remotely to blame...
While it is possible you're correct, I've learned to assume when someone says "Windows broke my computer" that usually it is "anything BUT Windows broke my computer"
The irony is that for all the nonsense you just typed, you STILL aren't reading, because you didn't bother to understand the OP you replied to, and no, you didn't get YOUR money back, you got someone else's money back.
But go on being an idiot, the world is full of them...
It sounds like you've never had money stolen from a bank account via a debit card, and I hope you never have to go through that. But I can tell you it's a pain in the ass. Due to that situation, where I did very much get my money back, I never use a debit card, only a credit card.
You aren't listening... The bank didn't get your money back, the bank gave you some of its own money...
I absolutely love iDrive. I have used it for years.
The features look nice, the size just isn't enough...
I have 26TB backed up with BackBlaze, that level of storage would be expensive with most other services...
I also use CrashPlan for critical files, but they throttle after awhile making backing up that much data impossible. They claim they don't, but they are lying about that.
Carbonate also throttles, but at least they are honest about it. BackBlaze doesn't and will run 10 threads to backup faster.
However, I am disappointed by your cynicism about what is possible.
It isn't cynicism, it is acceptance of reality...
We're all standing on the Titanic, the bow is low in the water, and most people are still talking about how the ship can't sink. I'm standing there looking at the bow thinking, "this ship sunk the minute it hit that iceburg, it is just a matter of time".
This is understandable and, at times, I too get completely discouraged and feel that we are way past the point of no return on runaway CO2. I do not feel that we should just give up and not try.
What happens if we are? What is the point of moving the deck chairs around the ship when the whole thing is going to be at the bottom of the Atlantic in a few hours?
The sooner everyone accepts the future, the sooner we can plan for it. Such as taking fire axes and start ripping up the deck to create make-shift life rafts...
It may be a futile effort but I think we should make the effort.
The efforts to try and stop what is going to happen could be better put to use preparing for what will happen.
When I bought my Tesla and solar PV, I (half in jest) said that I justified it because I was doing if for my granddaughter.
Yes, I understand that, it makes you feel better. But don't kid yourself, it won't change anything. If you think it will, then you have simply not looked at the numbers. When the ship fills with water, it will sink, it is math.
In order to stabilize CO2 concentrations at about 450 ppm by 2050, global emissions would have to decline by about 60% by 2050. Industrialized countries greenhouse gas emissions would have to decline by about 80% by 2050.
Now ask yourself what it would take to cut CO2 output by 80% in the next 35 years across all industrialized nations.
A few EVs on the road isn't going to do it... 100% EVs on the road isn't going to do it (and that has zero chance of happening).
We'd have to all turn off our air conditioners, get rid of half our stuff, change our basic way of life.
This is simply not going to happen.
We must make that effort and it starts with each individual making the effort. It may be futile. It may be too late... but we must make the effort.
No, and that is the point I'm trying to make... we must NOT make that effort... We have limited resources, if we spend them trying to keep the ship from sinking, then we AREN'T preparing for the future without the ship...
We could instead be preparing for a future where the climate changes, where crop lands change and move, and where people need to move inland from the coasts... The efforts trying to stop it are preventing the efforts to prepare for it...
The US should seriously consider to act act like an asshole less often and clean up their own justice and prison system instead, rather than bullying other countries and their businesses.
Rest assured that there are plenty of Americans who agree with you...
Sadly, they have no voice in the government, since it is all run by special interests...
Which is why I continue to be amazed how many Americans will vote for Clinton, when it is so clear that she is bought and paid for by big money...
An EV powered by 100% coal electricity would still emit less pollution than an ICE.
That is debatable, depends on the coal plant in question...
But for the moment, lets pretend what you say is 100% true...
However, of course, the US only gets about 35% of its electricity from coal and I get all of my electricity from solar so much less pollution.
Good for you, but so what? I get all my power from coal, and another 1/3 of the US gets it from natural gas, cleaner, but not by enough...
You seem to be saying that since I've changed to a Tesla that it won't change anything. However, I haven't bought gasoline for 18 months so it definitely changed something. The more people who buy EVs, the less gasoline is used. Seems simple enough.
No, it really didn't change anything, it just made you feel better. Hang on, before you start typing...
Did the CO2 levels in the air go down? No? Did they go up ever so slower because of you? Perhaps, but you might be shocked to learn no, it really didn't.
Your lack of gas use has helped hold down the price of oil and thus the price of gas. So other people have been able to afford to use more.
Think about that statement for a minute. If everyone driving an EV and otherwise trying to save gas wasn't bothering, gas prices would clearly be higher, thus restricting further use. But with cheap gas, some people are inclined to buy a truck or SUV and just keep driving, thus negating your benefit.
Further, even if you cut gas use in half, taking 200 years to burn it all instead of 100 years isn't going to change the total amount of gas burned, it will just take slightly longer, and from the climate's point of view, 100 years and 200 years are the same thing.
The only real solution to CO2 is to leave the oil in the ground and the only way to do that is to stop burning it completely. A small fraction of people driving EVs isn't going to change one very simple fact...
We're going to burn EVERY DROP OF OIL IN THE GROUND THAT WE CAN FIND.
Now think about THAT for a minute... because unless you can change that, your Tesla doesn't change anything.
---
Finally, have you looked up what it would take to just stop CO2 from going up, much less to bring it back down? If you haven't, you might want to, the numbers are sobering. In short, we are WAY past the point of no return on runaway CO2 levels, there is zero chance that we're going to stop this at 500 or even 600 PPM CO2 levels. The changes required to do it are far too extreme and simply would not be acceptable to the masses.
Slashdot Mirror
What we're looking at here is a scenario that runs: GP had a working computer with a working SSD array. Microsoft forced an update. GP's SSD array stopped working.
Correlation is not causation...
Slashdot? Try the Microsoft support forums, or just turn on the news.
Anything used by hundreds of millions of people is going to get that level of attention...
Try going to the Ford or GM forums, you'll see endless complaints from unhappy owners, that doesn't mean that the odds of me getting a good truck are poor.
So do I, and these are the people who come to me saying they are sick of doing system restores.
I must live a blessed life! :) If you say that happens, fair enough, I have no reason to doubt you... all I can do is say that my experience is different, but perhaps my circle of contacts is different in some way, it isn't large enough to be "the market" as a whole of course.
That doesn't make it any less the most complained about and bug riddled OS that MS has released.
Citation needed...
And I say that seriously, with no snark... The complaints on Slashdot frankly don't count, the Linux zealots here really aren't unbiased enough to have an objective viewpoint.
I deal every day with people who wouldn't know a MHz from a GHz, they just want to use their computer and get on with life. Without exception, Windows 10 works fine, I don't see all the problems with it that others do, and this includes running it on everything from brand new machines to 10 year old Core2Duo machines.
People love to complain, but I'm just not seeing the issue... And complaints about privacy don't count when it comes to "crashes and bugs", that is a separate issue and one that I find to be rather hypocritical coming from people with Google accounts and Android phones and who use credit cards and reward cards and who drive cars that track them anyway...
MS is way late to this party...
I personally drive a GM truck that has OnStar, I carry an iPhone with location services turned on, I use GMail for everything, and I pay for everything everywhere with plastic. I would be completely delusional to think that somehow Microsoft is going to be the source of all my privacy woes. That ship has sailed and isn't coming back.
People who would do a good job as President can't get elected because... reasons...
I want a man of honor, integrity, duty, and respect to be President... or a woman, I don't care which...
I REALLY want someone who served for 20+ years in the military, I'd LOVE for Collin Powell to be President, he is someone I'd respect...
So many "M$ is dead, we're all moving to Linux" comments...
Yea, I heard that 15 years ago when Windows XP came out, then Vista, then 8...
For all of you who seem to think "everyone is running Linux these days" because your SMALL CIRCLE OF LINUX FRIENDS ARE, I have a news flash for you:
You aren't the center of the world
Normal people haven't even HEARD of Linux, much less know what the hell it is... you all live in your little bubble and think your family and friends are "normal people", but they aren't...
All I have to do is look at the marketshare of Linux on the desktop to know what is happening there... call me when it passes Mac OS X and then I'll be remotely interested, until then it is and remains a server OS.
I have no idea if Trump will do or even can do half of what he says, he might be full of crap...
I think anyone who says they "know" what Trump will or won't do is talking out of their butt...
But I do know that Clinton is evil, I can look at 35 years of history to see it, so why would I ever vote for her?
Our options suck, but they have been this way for some time...
You are truly right, for any system that hasn't had an OS upgraded since 15th June 2015.
I have Windows 10 running on 20 computers that I own, and I've installed it on about 100 computers that I don't own in the past year...
I have yet to have a problem with it, it is rock solid... as good as, if not better than Windows 7 when it launched, and far easier to use than Windows 8...
Most of the 20 that I own have been updated to the Anniversary Update, also working perfectly...
The phones should be setup to charge to 80% and stop there.
Then offer a special "overcharge" feature that charges it to 100%.
But label the 80% charge "100" and the 100% level as 120 (no percentages)
People would like the 'new' feature. Everyone would instinctively understand that charging past "100" would be bad.
^ We have a winner!
We pay more, so he doesn't have to. Let's go back to the 1972 tax structure, and see how you like *that*, Cook - you'd be in the 72% tax bracket....
The world isn't 1972 anymore, the old tax code wouldn't work today... it probably wouldn't even be legal, given newer trade agreements...
Six months ago Windows 10 ate my SSD array.
In my experience, users tend to blame Windows for just about everything, even when Windows isn't remotely to blame...
While it is possible you're correct, I've learned to assume when someone says "Windows broke my computer" that usually it is "anything BUT Windows broke my computer"
I'm right more often than I'm not...
Nope, I'm reading.
The irony is that for all the nonsense you just typed, you STILL aren't reading, because you didn't bother to understand the OP you replied to, and no, you didn't get YOUR money back, you got someone else's money back.
But go on being an idiot, the world is full of them...
It sounds like you've never had money stolen from a bank account via a debit card, and I hope you never have to go through that. But I can tell you it's a pain in the ass. Due to that situation, where I did very much get my money back, I never use a debit card, only a credit card.
You aren't listening... The bank didn't get your money back, the bank gave you some of its own money...
I absolutely love iDrive. I have used it for years.
The features look nice, the size just isn't enough...
I have 26TB backed up with BackBlaze, that level of storage would be expensive with most other services...
I also use CrashPlan for critical files, but they throttle after awhile making backing up that much data impossible. They claim they don't, but they are lying about that.
Carbonate also throttles, but at least they are honest about it. BackBlaze doesn't and will run 10 threads to backup faster.
The best solution is to have multiple copies on external local drives.
If the drives are physically in the same place as the computer, it isn't a backup.
Fire, theft, etc.
Backblaze is what I use, if your backup isn't off-site, then it isn't really backup...
You can also burn to DVDs or BR or use external hard drives and move them offsite, but that takes time and effort...
Two drives with copies of the same files sitting side by side is not backup.
However, I am disappointed by your cynicism about what is possible.
It isn't cynicism, it is acceptance of reality...
We're all standing on the Titanic, the bow is low in the water, and most people are still talking about how the ship can't sink. I'm standing there looking at the bow thinking, "this ship sunk the minute it hit that iceburg, it is just a matter of time".
This is understandable and, at times, I too get completely discouraged and feel that we are way past the point of no return on runaway CO2. I do not feel that we should just give up and not try.
What happens if we are? What is the point of moving the deck chairs around the ship when the whole thing is going to be at the bottom of the Atlantic in a few hours?
The sooner everyone accepts the future, the sooner we can plan for it. Such as taking fire axes and start ripping up the deck to create make-shift life rafts...
It may be a futile effort but I think we should make the effort.
The efforts to try and stop what is going to happen could be better put to use preparing for what will happen.
When I bought my Tesla and solar PV, I (half in jest) said that I justified it because I was doing if for my granddaughter.
Yes, I understand that, it makes you feel better. But don't kid yourself, it won't change anything. If you think it will, then you have simply not looked at the numbers. When the ship fills with water, it will sink, it is math.
So let me share some math with you...
https://www.climatecommunicati...
Page 4...
In order to stabilize CO2 concentrations at about 450 ppm by 2050, global emissions
would have to decline by about 60% by 2050. Industrialized countries greenhouse gas
emissions would have to decline by about 80% by 2050.
Now ask yourself what it would take to cut CO2 output by 80% in the next 35 years across all industrialized nations.
A few EVs on the road isn't going to do it... 100% EVs on the road isn't going to do it (and that has zero chance of happening).
We'd have to all turn off our air conditioners, get rid of half our stuff, change our basic way of life.
This is simply not going to happen.
We must make that effort and it starts with each individual making the effort. It may be futile. It may be too late... but we must make the effort.
No, and that is the point I'm trying to make... we must NOT make that effort... We have limited resources, if we spend them trying to keep the ship from sinking, then we AREN'T preparing for the future without the ship...
We could instead be preparing for a future where the climate changes, where crop lands change and move, and where people need to move inland from the coasts... The efforts trying to stop it are preventing the efforts to prepare for it...
The US should seriously consider to act act like an asshole less often and clean up their own justice and prison system instead, rather than bullying other countries and their businesses.
Rest assured that there are plenty of Americans who agree with you...
Sadly, they have no voice in the government, since it is all run by special interests...
Which is why I continue to be amazed how many Americans will vote for Clinton, when it is so clear that she is bought and paid for by big money...
An EV powered by 100% coal electricity would still emit less pollution than an ICE.
That is debatable, depends on the coal plant in question...
But for the moment, lets pretend what you say is 100% true...
However, of course, the US only gets about 35% of its electricity from coal and I get all of my electricity from solar so much less pollution.
Good for you, but so what? I get all my power from coal, and another 1/3 of the US gets it from natural gas, cleaner, but not by enough...
You seem to be saying that since I've changed to a Tesla that it won't change anything. However, I haven't bought gasoline for 18 months so it definitely changed something. The more people who buy EVs, the less gasoline is used. Seems simple enough.
No, it really didn't change anything, it just made you feel better. Hang on, before you start typing...
Did the CO2 levels in the air go down? No? Did they go up ever so slower because of you? Perhaps, but you might be shocked to learn no, it really didn't.
Your lack of gas use has helped hold down the price of oil and thus the price of gas. So other people have been able to afford to use more.
Think about that statement for a minute. If everyone driving an EV and otherwise trying to save gas wasn't bothering, gas prices would clearly be higher, thus restricting further use. But with cheap gas, some people are inclined to buy a truck or SUV and just keep driving, thus negating your benefit.
Further, even if you cut gas use in half, taking 200 years to burn it all instead of 100 years isn't going to change the total amount of gas burned, it will just take slightly longer, and from the climate's point of view, 100 years and 200 years are the same thing.
The only real solution to CO2 is to leave the oil in the ground and the only way to do that is to stop burning it completely. A small fraction of people driving EVs isn't going to change one very simple fact...
We're going to burn EVERY DROP OF OIL IN THE GROUND THAT WE CAN FIND.
Now think about THAT for a minute... because unless you can change that, your Tesla doesn't change anything.
---
Finally, have you looked up what it would take to just stop CO2 from going up, much less to bring it back down? If you haven't, you might want to, the numbers are sobering. In short, we are WAY past the point of no return on runaway CO2 levels, there is zero chance that we're going to stop this at 500 or even 600 PPM CO2 levels. The changes required to do it are far too extreme and simply would not be acceptable to the masses.
If you don't put a cost on the fossil fuel CO2 ICE cars emit, it's expensive.
If you do, it's a bargain.
So do I put a cost on the coal used to produce the power the Tesla would use if I bought one?
Changing to a Tesla isn't going to change the outcome of the oil consumption, unless EVERYONE did it and we replace all billion cars in the world...
You're kidding yourself if you think a few people buying EVs will change anything...
The solar panels could be free, it doesn't really matter, because the other parts aren't getting cheaper.
Labor, inverters, wiring, permits, etc. cost more than the panels do.
You could give me 10kw of panels free and it still wouldn't make sense to put them up.
Actually, having worked with customers for many years, the customer is often not right.
The customer is often a complete and total idiot.
However, no matter how stupid the customer is, there is something that he/she always is...
The customer...
You missed the per dollar part...
And I've driven a Tesla, it is nice, but not worth the crazy price tag.
Vista was not NEARLY as bad as people like to remember...
After SP1 and some decent hardware, it was fine...
Budget cuts.
We seem to have the money for more tanks and aircraft carriers...
Voyager was cheap! Build one less Aircraft Carrier and double NASA's budget!
These were amazing missions that provided a TON of data and knowledge for the price.
With modern tech, do the same missions, same planets, new info!