So I guess because this is Microsoft, we just make all the jokes that stopped being funny, or true years ago? Then the tinfoilhatists with the "any new tech is loaded to the gills with sly stuff and will steal your life. Any intelligent discussion going on here?
The Internet is about to get REALLY small for you. The sites that have trialed blocking ad blockers have shown that most people will switch it off if the content is blocked.
You are not entitled to content. If you don't like the ads don't view the content, simple as that.
I have had the same experience. FF and Chrome are simply terrible in a touch environment. Pinch to zoom is jerky, and chrome still has high dpi issues. Opera is much better zooming, but does not support the system back button properly. All three have seemed to either ignore that there are these things called "hybrid notebooks" or just didn't care. Edge however, buttery smooth, no high dpi issues, works properly with touch. I use it full time for places I trust, and have opera as a backup.
They are saying it's about what they want to charge, but I don't believe it. They can't say what I think is going on because NDA. What is that? Apple wants some kind of exclusivity, and isn't budging. The TV guys, already having some apps of their own, and selling stuff to hulu and netflix, aren't really desperate to be on the platform the way Apple wanted, they are already there! So they told them to stuff it with any form of exclusive anything.
If it means, "was consensual at the time, and now later I feel bad about it," Then yes, I believe these numbers. If non-consensual is defined by a sane person, then I believe this is hogwash.
Chicago, New York, LA, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco... need I go on. There are plenty of places with affordable and accessible public transportation. I go 10km each way and it's 1 - 1.5 hours each way. But I can do stuff as I am not driving read, pay bills, etc. I actually do most of my life management on the bus, by the time I get home all I have to do is eat dinner and then it's 100% my time. I don't want to spend my time fixing a POS car, or paying insurance on it, which is MORE than my monthly pass, easily. Owning any vehicle of any kind will cost more than a monthly transpo pass. On the weekends when I need to get groceries, I use zipcar, still cheaper than a car, even a POS.
Someone else with some sanity! I have a family full of 16GB users and it's NEVER been an issue. I am the family tech person and have fielded 1 question about running out of storage, in the 5 years I have owned smartphones. Luckily, it was my Android using cousin, and I taught him about microsd. I think it is hard for a lot of slashdotters to wrap their heads around the fact that most people do very little with these 650 dollar devices.
Do you want major Corporations and those with money controlling the content on the web? Because, "I will block all ads, even static images" is how you get Corporations control content.
Ready to pay for "packages of sites? The " war" here hasn't even started and people are acting like its over. Those that can, will go paid. Want it free, you will see something you don't want to to pay for it. Some sites would actually save money if ad blocking people stopped coming. See what Verizon is doing with unlimited customers. Turning people awy can save you money.Lets not talk about how this will disadvantage those already effected by the digital divide.
A lot of very cool things will disappear that are in between needing ads and surviving on paid.
Really, did no one think the advertisers wouldn't have a backup plan? Or ten? Everyone seems to think that they have "won" because ad blocking isnt just for geeks anymore, but the ad companies haven't even really started fighting them yet. The more people resist, the more advertisers are going to push stuff in your face. Why? Because companies are seeing that it's still effective, so they pay for it, and the tracking data is valuable to help plan strategy as well.
I totally agree, the cost is simply too high. I put this in the same category as smartwatches, a nice toy, but not a must have, yet. When this is 100 - 150 I think then you'll start to see some movement.
Nothing is 100% compatible yet, wait, then decide. DX12 is up and running, Vulkan is barely a page right now.
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They have a LOT to do. We have had to switch our clients over to a chip and pin AD login from a regular local account. There is no easy way to do this, We can't apply the new security to the old accounts directly, or so I am told, so we have had to make another account and then "port" the old account data into the new one. Time machine broken, because it is protected by UID, no matching UID no backup, period. Keychain wonkiness, everything you know can go wrong with a keychain, has. Dropbox broken, easily fixed, but still... The best part, when 10.11 comes out no one can update because it will break al the chip and pin stuff and users won't be able to login. We have had to send 2 FAQ's on dealing with the asininity of all of this, and we are still stumbling across issues. One of my co-workers is tasked with something to do with programmers and root, that does not like these new accounts. No, I am not helping with that crap. BTW, when this happened with windows, they just pushed a package that did all the wizardry, which was simply installing a card reader driver, and a script that made sure that if there was a matching local account UID that it inherited that account.
That brings me to the next issue, patch management, or rather the lack of it. When 10.11 comes out we have to hope everyone listens, because otherwise we're playing fun account movement games after downgrading them back to 10.10. users cannot install printers now, we have people bringing their printers in to work, so that we can install them. We have to patch everyone manually as there is no way to manage them with what we have.
IT has been an absolute mess, and the boss, who is normally ok with letting a small thing slide without a ticket, is demanding that every interaction related to this, even 15 seconds, have a ticket so that he can show the massive time costs of this nonsense.
Live in ghetto, am minority, can confirm. We are pretty tough on our 14 year old and DEMAND good grades. His friends parents... not so much. They pretty much check out once their kids hit middle school.
It will kill the internet as we know it. Only those entities with money will be able to post any content. Smaller sites like/. may survive on subscriptions, but many will not. If you think the coroprtization of the internet is bad now...
Been gov't employed for 5 months now, this isn't even hardly the case. There are almost no minority managers, let alone staff, and everyone generally is pulling their own weight.
Does not mean you're wrong, but the entire sphere of government employment isn't as racist as you are or make it out to be.
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Funny how when someone sees a news story that they disagree with it suddenly becomes "PR" or "An Ad."
"ad generator" is a bit much too, but people seem to see ads everywhere these days. I guess when chrome says an update is ready it's an ad now?
What's even funnier is that as these kinds of false attacks intensify, adoption just keeps trucking along.
So non convertible tablet sales are tanking, and they're still going to go ahead with this... OK. So late to the game.
So I guess because this is Microsoft, we just make all the jokes that stopped being funny, or true years ago? Then the tinfoilhatists with the "any new tech is loaded to the gills with sly stuff and will steal your life. Any intelligent discussion going on here?
The Internet is about to get REALLY small for you. The sites that have trialed blocking ad blockers have shown that most people will switch it off if the content is blocked.
You are not entitled to content. If you don't like the ads don't view the content, simple as that.
I have had the same experience. FF and Chrome are simply terrible in a touch environment. Pinch to zoom is jerky, and chrome still has high dpi issues. Opera is much better zooming, but does not support the system back button properly. All three have seemed to either ignore that there are these things called "hybrid notebooks" or just didn't care. Edge however, buttery smooth, no high dpi issues, works properly with touch. I use it full time for places I trust, and have opera as a backup.
They are saying it's about what they want to charge, but I don't believe it. They can't say what I think is going on because NDA. What is that? Apple wants some kind of exclusivity, and isn't budging. The TV guys, already having some apps of their own, and selling stuff to hulu and netflix, aren't really desperate to be on the platform the way Apple wanted, they are already there! So they told them to stuff it with any form of exclusive anything.
If it means, "was consensual at the time, and now later I feel bad about it," Then yes, I believe these numbers. If non-consensual is defined by a sane person, then I believe this is hogwash.
Cook sounds very Blackberrian with this. If he thinks they can fight the entire industry movement, good luck.
Chicago, New York, LA, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco... need I go on. There are plenty of places with affordable and accessible public transportation. I go 10km each way and it's 1 - 1.5 hours each way. But I can do stuff as I am not driving read, pay bills, etc. I actually do most of my life management on the bus, by the time I get home all I have to do is eat dinner and then it's 100% my time. I don't want to spend my time fixing a POS car, or paying insurance on it, which is MORE than my monthly pass, easily. Owning any vehicle of any kind will cost more than a monthly transpo pass. On the weekends when I need to get groceries, I use zipcar, still cheaper than a car, even a POS.
Someone else with some sanity! I have a family full of 16GB users and it's NEVER been an issue. I am the family tech person and have fielded 1 question about running out of storage, in the 5 years I have owned smartphones. Luckily, it was my Android using cousin, and I taught him about microsd. I think it is hard for a lot of slashdotters to wrap their heads around the fact that most people do very little with these 650 dollar devices.
use it. This can be disabled, easily.
Do you want major Corporations and those with money controlling the content on the web? Because, "I will block all ads, even static images" is how you get Corporations control content.
Ready to pay for "packages of sites? The " war" here hasn't even started and people are acting like its over. Those that can, will go paid. Want it free, you will see something you don't want to to pay for it. Some sites would actually save money if ad blocking people stopped coming. See what Verizon is doing with unlimited customers. Turning people awy can save you money.Lets not talk about how this will disadvantage those already effected by the digital divide.
A lot of very cool things will disappear that are in between needing ads and surviving on paid.
Really, did no one think the advertisers wouldn't have a backup plan? Or ten? Everyone seems to think that they have "won" because ad blocking isnt just for geeks anymore, but the ad companies haven't even really started fighting them yet. The more people resist, the more advertisers are going to push stuff in your face. Why? Because companies are seeing that it's still effective, so they pay for it, and the tracking data is valuable to help plan strategy as well.
I totally agree, the cost is simply too high. I put this in the same category as smartwatches, a nice toy, but not a must have, yet. When this is 100 - 150 I think then you'll start to see some movement.
The new service can go talk to them. Pretty simple.
Nothing is 100% compatible yet, wait, then decide. DX12 is up and running, Vulkan is barely a page right now.
They have a LOT to do. We have had to switch our clients over to a chip and pin AD login from a regular local account. There is no easy way to do this, We can't apply the new security to the old accounts directly, or so I am told, so we have had to make another account and then "port" the old account data into the new one. Time machine broken, because it is protected by UID, no matching UID no backup, period. Keychain wonkiness, everything you know can go wrong with a keychain, has. Dropbox broken, easily fixed, but still... The best part, when 10.11 comes out no one can update because it will break al the chip and pin stuff and users won't be able to login. We have had to send 2 FAQ's on dealing with the asininity of all of this, and we are still stumbling across issues. One of my co-workers is tasked with something to do with programmers and root, that does not like these new accounts. No, I am not helping with that crap. BTW, when this happened with windows, they just pushed a package that did all the wizardry, which was simply installing a card reader driver, and a script that made sure that if there was a matching local account UID that it inherited that account.
That brings me to the next issue, patch management, or rather the lack of it. When 10.11 comes out we have to hope everyone listens, because otherwise we're playing fun account movement games after downgrading them back to 10.10. users cannot install printers now, we have people bringing their printers in to work, so that we can install them. We have to patch everyone manually as there is no way to manage them with what we have.
IT has been an absolute mess, and the boss, who is normally ok with letting a small thing slide without a ticket, is demanding that every interaction related to this, even 15 seconds, have a ticket so that he can show the massive time costs of this nonsense.
Live in ghetto, am minority, can confirm. We are pretty tough on our 14 year old and DEMAND good grades. His friends parents... not so much. They pretty much check out once their kids hit middle school.
I think the net neutrality rules prohibit carriers to block this, as it's a legal service.
I have read in a few places that macs get 1/2 the batt life running win 10. I bet that's intentional.
If the ID costs more than $0 then it is a poll tax.
It will kill the internet as we know it. Only those entities with money will be able to post any content. Smaller sites like /. may survive on subscriptions, but many will not. If you think the coroprtization of the internet is bad now...
Been gov't employed for 5 months now, this isn't even hardly the case. There are almost no minority managers, let alone staff, and everyone generally is pulling their own weight.
Does not mean you're wrong, but the entire sphere of government employment isn't as racist as you are or make it out to be.
My sons Moto G disagrees with you, every bit as fast as my Nexus 5. Perhaps you had a dirty flash?