Agreed, but plenty of people who are not fake reviewers think stuff is perfect. Have you never heard anyone saying how perfect their car, camera or the latest version of Windows is? Either they really believe it (because they know no better) or they just don't like to admit they bought a lemon
So the rate of increase is slowing? - that's just awful. But is the rate of the slowing of the increase itself slowing or increasing? - that's what everyone is asking. And is the rate of that increasing (or slowing) of the rate of the slowing of the increase, itself slowing or increasing? How TF can we be drawing graphs and making predictions if they don't tell us these things?
I'm crying a river here for poor Mr Kacouris and my hankies are running out. Let's kickstart a collection for him.
I want to live on a forum with threads not being highjacked by idiots with their own off-topic agendas. They are like the idiots at sports events who creep up to the TV camera and stick a placard with an advert in front of it at a crucial moment.
I expect that it is because all those immigrants that Germany wants to employ cheaply instead of its own workers have been brought up on pirated copies of Windows.
The people Germany is taking in are not "refugees", they are adventurers taking advantage of a situation. The "Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951" does not apply to adventurers. Unless you count as "refugees" guys (and they are mostly young men of fighting age) who are getting away from GFs they have got pregnant, escaping debts they owe, running from petty crimes catching up with them, thinking they can earn more money, or any of he the miriad of other reasons that drives them.
American history proves you wrong. Every country should have a Statue of Liberty. Melting pots make the best societies.
So America has one of the best societies? Not the impression I get from American posters here and the news generally. I would not want to live there, and it is becoming increasingly unpleasant to live in Europe as people like yourself try to make that into a melting pot too.
Microsoft is pushing out new versions because no one has gone for their subscriptions so new versions is how they make money.
Except that's not actually true. And it's the number one thing that makes no sense about Windows 10.
Microsoft makes nearly all of its Windows revenue from OEMs who install it on the computers they sell.... If Microsoft never released a new version of Windows and just kept patching/updating Windows 7, OEMs would still keep selling computers, and there would still be a demand for ~200 million copies of Windows every year.
Why no sense? - because that is exactly what they are doing, but with Windows 10. MS have said they are never going to release a new version of Win10, just [forced] "updates". And they will increasingly push for users to rent Win10 too, as it gives them a steady income (which accountants love). They will probably do this by making the "updates" on non-rental copies inferior to those for rented copies - perhaps basic security only, and on new PCs the rental will kick in after the first month or you will get the black screen.
The basic problem Linux faces is not really the OS or even Office, but compatibility with other legacy windows programs.
The problem exists with Windows and other Microsoft-ware too. I have some data I archived with some MS archive software some years ago. I no longer have the archive software and I can find nothing that will extract it today. You would think that of all things MS would have kept the provision to extract archives made with their own software no matter how long ago.
... remember, in your neighborhood, you are surrounded by a ton of people with a ton of valuable skill sets. Barter where you can a.... I just traded some of my IT time and knowledge for a neighbors expertise in electrical and plumbing
You realise that requires the occurence of a double-co-incidence. The co-incidence that your plumber needed some expertise which you happened to have, and the co-incidence that the value of the expertise they wanted was about the same as the value of the expertise that you wanted.
This particular complaint is about Facebook being a PITA, not about it being insecure. It is both of course, but most of its users don't care about either; only Prof Matt Green is complaining about security here.
Those old keyboards were incredibly loud and you shouldn't need to press keys that hard.
The sound a Model M makes is nothing to do with how hard you press it, and nothing like as bad as nearby people in open offices (see other/. article today) banging on about beer prices in hotels on the Costa del Sol, and re-telling for the 10th time the story of how their holiday luggage was lost on the flight there.
Terminals to IBM mainframes not only had a natural click (built like a Model M?), but actually had a little loudspeaker to give a louder artificial click too - because that is what typists were used to. The speaker could be turned off.
WTF does a Windows key do anyway? Serious question out of curiosity as I've never used one. I have used some modern crap keyboards with one on brief occasions (I usually use a Model M) but never bothered to find out what it does, and whatever that is I have never missed it. In any case I object to having one of Microsoft's trademarks on my desk and in my face. I guess keyboard makers pay MS a royaly to have it there.
Also, you guys have failed to mention that the very "attractiveness" of SDCs will mean that there will be more of them on the road. For example carrying non-drivers who currently use the train, bus or just don't do the journey. Then the fact that the SDC can drop you off "at the door" of the shopping mall or theatre and then you send it off empty to drive to some arbitrary destination and back in time to pick you up again.
Of course, TFA said sharing, but it is unlikely that someone else in your circle will happen to need it from only a short drive away from where you leave it, and anywhere near the same time. I've tried sharing things with others in the past (tools, driveways, vehicles) and I'm through with it - The Tragedy of the Commons kicks in. If you are not sharing with people in your circle, but with strangers, it's called a taxi.
I turn my phone off in a restaurant, and wish that other people would too. In fact I only turn it on occasionally to check for messages or missed calls..
Yes. Buy from System76 or Dell will allow you to buy computers with Ubuntu pre-installed. My employer does this to save money.
I don't see how it saves money. System76 laptops tend to be almost as expensive as Apple, and there's no 11.6" option (hence "limited set of form factors"). Nor can I try the keyboard or screen before buying (hence "sight unseen").
PCs sold with Linux pre-installed, or blank, tend to be more expensive, partly because they don't come riddled with crapware and malware that the maker has been paid to load, but more importantly because they tend to be better quality as the makers know that the buyers are more knowledgable and discerning. A company I have bought from allows you to specify the build to order, to quite a low level.
Don't use windows, so ms products are easily avoidable.
Is there a good way to buy a PC without Windows other than A. buying a Mac, B. buying a GNU/Linux laptop sight unseen in the limited set of form factors offered by System76 and other GNU/Linux specialists, or C. building a desktop instead of a laptop and being stuck at home or at the office while you use it?
There are companies that will sell you a blank desktop or laptop, but you need to search for them as they are not in the high street (which is why Joe Sixpack doesn't bother). Not a question of "desktop instead of a laptop" as I have both, and I expect that most people with a desktop have something portable as well. As long as you are in a fixed place there is nothing nicer to work on than a desktop.
A profound lack of data around a single subject.... inspires people to dig deeper...These will be the target data set because they have the most to gain by spending time/effort there
No. The type of people who are most likely to block ads are the very same people who would be less influenced by them if they did see them.
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No product is five star perfect.
Agreed, but plenty of people who are not fake reviewers think stuff is perfect. Have you never heard anyone saying how perfect their car, camera or the latest version of Windows is? Either they really believe it (because they know no better) or they just don't like to admit they bought a lemon
FTFA :
failing to disclose slowing revenue growth
So the rate of increase is slowing? - that's just awful. But is the rate of the slowing of the increase itself slowing or increasing? - that's what everyone is asking. And is the rate of that increasing (or slowing) of the rate of the slowing of the increase, itself slowing or increasing? How TF can we be drawing graphs and making predictions if they don't tell us these things?
I'm crying a river here for poor Mr Kacouris and my hankies are running out. Let's kickstart a collection for him.
You really want to live in a country like that?
I want to live on a forum with threads not being highjacked by idiots with their own off-topic agendas. They are like the idiots at sports events who creep up to the TV camera and stick a placard with an advert in front of it at a crucial moment.
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most Linux adoption is based upon ideology
Most Windows adoption is based on inertia and sales pressure.
I expect that it is because all those immigrants that Germany wants to employ cheaply instead of its own workers have been brought up on pirated copies of Windows.
The people Germany is taking in are not "refugees", they are adventurers taking advantage of a situation. The "Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951" does not apply to adventurers. Unless you count as "refugees" guys (and they are mostly young men of fighting age) who are getting away from GFs they have got pregnant, escaping debts they owe, running from petty crimes catching up with them, thinking they can earn more money, or any of he the miriad of other reasons that drives them.
American history proves you wrong. Every country should have a Statue of Liberty. Melting pots make the best societies.
So America has one of the best societies? Not the impression I get from American posters here and the news generally. I would not want to live there, and it is becoming increasingly unpleasant to live in Europe as people like yourself try to make that into a melting pot too.
Trump to hang for treason.
Just give the whining, it's become boring. You lost.
Microsoft is pushing out new versions because no one has gone for their subscriptions so new versions is how they make money.
Except that's not actually true. And it's the number one thing that makes no sense about Windows 10.
Microsoft makes nearly all of its Windows revenue from OEMs who install it on the computers they sell.... If Microsoft never released a new version of Windows and just kept patching/updating Windows 7, OEMs would still keep selling computers, and there would still be a demand for ~200 million copies of Windows every year.
Why no sense? - because that is exactly what they are doing, but with Windows 10. MS have said they are never going to release a new version of Win10, just [forced] "updates". And they will increasingly push for users to rent Win10 too, as it gives them a steady income (which accountants love). They will probably do this by making the "updates" on non-rental copies inferior to those for rented copies - perhaps basic security only, and on new PCs the rental will kick in after the first month or you will get the black screen.
It's been tried before and failed.
The basic problem Linux faces is not really the OS or even Office, but compatibility with other legacy windows programs.
The problem exists with Windows and other Microsoft-ware too. I have some data I archived with some MS archive software some years ago. I no longer have the archive software and I can find nothing that will extract it today. You would think that of all things MS would have kept the provision to extract archives made with their own software no matter how long ago.
Libreoffice is actually a perfectly good Office tool.
If that was even remotely true, businesses would save themselves millions of dollars and switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice.
Ah, the "Businessmen are all-seeing, rational, geniuses" fallacy.
It will require a massive amount of energy to run pumps running 24/7 to maintain vacuum.
It would require even more massive amounts of energy to blow air at high speed, even if not the whole 24/7, down 100's of miles of tube at high speed.
OK, OK, it is not a perfect vacuum, we all know that; in fact nothing is a perfect vacuum, not even outer space. OP's point remains unanswered though.
... remember, in your neighborhood, you are surrounded by a ton of people with a ton of valuable skill sets. Barter where you can a.... I just traded some of my IT time and knowledge for a neighbors expertise in electrical and plumbing
You realise that requires the occurence of a double-co-incidence. The co-incidence that your plumber needed some expertise which you happened to have, and the co-incidence that the value of the expertise they wanted was about the same as the value of the expertise that you wanted.
Why should Facebook be "secure"? I don't get it.
This particular complaint is about Facebook being a PITA, not about it being insecure. It is both of course, but most of its users don't care about either; only Prof Matt Green is complaining about security here.
FTFA :
They will be extremely expensive to build," reports Bloomberg
So we have it admitted at last. Previously it has always been claimed that they only cost pocket money.
If lots of your posts keep getting modded down no apparent reason, you just might be the asshole.
Or there could just be lots of assholes modding.
Those old keyboards were incredibly loud and you shouldn't need to press keys that hard.
The sound a Model M makes is nothing to do with how hard you press it, and nothing like as bad as nearby people in open offices (see other /. article today) banging on about beer prices in hotels on the Costa del Sol, and re-telling for the 10th time the story of how their holiday luggage was lost on the flight there.
Terminals to IBM mainframes not only had a natural click (built like a Model M?), but actually had a little loudspeaker to give a louder artificial click too - because that is what typists were used to. The speaker could be turned off.
WTF does a Windows key do anyway? Serious question out of curiosity as I've never used one. I have used some modern crap keyboards with one on brief occasions (I usually use a Model M) but never bothered to find out what it does, and whatever that is I have never missed it. In any case I object to having one of Microsoft's trademarks on my desk and in my face. I guess keyboard makers pay MS a royaly to have it there.
Also, you guys have failed to mention that the very "attractiveness" of SDCs will mean that there will be more of them on the road. For example carrying non-drivers who currently use the train, bus or just don't do the journey. Then the fact that the SDC can drop you off "at the door" of the shopping mall or theatre and then you send it off empty to drive to some arbitrary destination and back in time to pick you up again.
Of course, TFA said sharing, but it is unlikely that someone else in your circle will happen to need it from only a short drive away from where you leave it, and anywhere near the same time. I've tried sharing things with others in the past (tools, driveways, vehicles) and I'm through with it - The Tragedy of the Commons kicks in. If you are not sharing with people in your circle, but with strangers, it's called a taxi.
I turn my phone off in a restaurant, and wish that other people would too. In fact I only turn it on occasionally to check for messages or missed calls..
I have had nothing to do with Microsoft for a long time, apart from having a website that criticises them, and never anything to do with Jobs.
Yes. Buy from System76 or Dell will allow you to buy computers with Ubuntu pre-installed. My employer does this to save money.
I don't see how it saves money. System76 laptops tend to be almost as expensive as Apple, and there's no 11.6" option (hence "limited set of form factors"). Nor can I try the keyboard or screen before buying (hence "sight unseen").
PCs sold with Linux pre-installed, or blank, tend to be more expensive, partly because they don't come riddled with crapware and malware that the maker has been paid to load, but more importantly because they tend to be better quality as the makers know that the buyers are more knowledgable and discerning. A company I have bought from allows you to specify the build to order, to quite a low level.
Don't use windows, so ms products are easily avoidable.
Is there a good way to buy a PC without Windows other than A. buying a Mac, B. buying a GNU/Linux laptop sight unseen in the limited set of form factors offered by System76 and other GNU/Linux specialists, or C. building a desktop instead of a laptop and being stuck at home or at the office while you use it?
There are companies that will sell you a blank desktop or laptop, but you need to search for them as they are not in the high street (which is why Joe Sixpack doesn't bother). Not a question of "desktop instead of a laptop" as I have both, and I expect that most people with a desktop have something portable as well. As long as you are in a fixed place there is nothing nicer to work on than a desktop.
A profound lack of data around a single subject. ... inspires people to dig deeper...These will be the target data set because they have the most to gain by spending time/effort there
No. The type of people who are most likely to block ads are the very same people who would be less influenced by them if they did see them.