I personally thought that this part of the world was very desolate till I visited years ago..... One thing I learnt is that life continues even in places where the likes of main stream media do not cover...
You did not think that life continues in places the media does not cover? You need to visit a place personally to know there is life there? That's ridiculous.
If these African nations can bypass the stage with modern technology, they might invent and evolve new forms of living with the nature and building developed economies and advanced technologies over a minimally disturbed ecosystem.
Sounds like Heaven - right here and now, in Tanzania did they say? I'm packing up and heading there - what are their immigration laws like?
Oh wait, I just saw the "if" and "might" - are we in the future tense here?
Now average people know what venture capital people feel like with most startups.
No. This was not like venture capitalism; instead it was people buying something that had yet to be manufactured, tested, and independently reviewed. It is like, but worse than, going into a shop, paying for something you see on the shelf, and then you throw a dice and you only receive the item if you get a six.
And they are not "average people", they are idiots who don't know how best to spend their money... oh wait..
Advertising isn't a trillion-dollar global industry because it doesn't work.
Nice double negative. It does work for the advertising agencies. They are paid the $trillions by manufacturing corporations (or by middlemen down the line from them like importers). However the manufactures & co are wasting huge amounts of money - because the Ad industry is good at talking them out of it.
Suppose I want to buy a car. Among others, Ford and Fiat, say, are both advertising against each other. However much one is spending, and it is huge, and how "effective" it is, it is levelled by the other. So their money is for nothing, they are in a pointless arms race.
Now I don't need ads to be told of the existence of Ford or Fiat. Their badges are on their cars everywhere (I've no issue with that) and have been since great-grandad was sat on a pottie. If car makers did not advertise at all people would still buy one or other of their cars. I would choose on the basis of reviews, but even if I did it on the basis of adverts it would mean that the other company's ad money was wasted on me - and multiply that by everyone else who buys a car. Even if one brand's ads are "successful", it means the rival brand's ad money is wasted.
I don't know anyone who buys a car because they saw an advert. They buy one because they replace it every two or three years, frightened of an older car breaking down, or because they have an older car that has broken down, or because they have a change of need (new job needs a car commute).
One day the manufacturers might realise this waste of money, I hope, and end the massive useless "tax" on things that is advertising expenditure. Until then the Ad companies are laughing at our expense and the gullibility of manufacturers.
Another historical precedent:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Anyway, these moderen companies don't need to use armed force. They have found ways of making people surrender happily.
when rtb61 wrote "Absolutely do not run Windows 10", and you think rtb61 didn't have Linux in mind, which of the following replacements for Windows 10 do you think rtb61 had in mind for production use?
Windows 7, whose security updates terminate on January 14, 2020
Windows 8.1, whose mainstream support terminates on January 9, 2018, and whose security updates terminate on January 10, 2023
[etc]
I have no idea what rtb61 had in mind; I am not him. But if you like Windows go with 7 or 8.1 FTTB and see what developments there have been as they approach those end dates. 28 months or more is a long time in this business and you never know - Microsoft may have been ordered to stop spying by then. I'm using Win7 for games and scam baiting myself.
more often than not they advertise stuff to either after you've bought it or decided you don't want it
Better still (or worse, depending on how you see it) they advertise stuff you are selling yourself, and you have looked at ads for it to see what prices your rivals are selling it for.
I'm not getting any ads from running Windows, and whatever "super duper" private information you think Microsoft is collection [sic] they can have because I'm still not seeing ads.
No ads? That's amazing, tell us how you do it. There is no "thinking" that Microsoft are collecting data about you via Windows 10, it is a fact. Whether you care or not is up to you.
Linux sucks and will never be mainstream.
The post you are replying to never mentioned Linux. Isn't this going off-topic anyway?
Everytime you block something, they've accomplished their mission - getting it before your eyes... - they only need to win once.
If they only need once why do they keep showing the same advert on TV for months or years? Eg everyone in the UK must have seen a certain particularly annoying advert for insurance over a thousand times. If you are right they could have saved themselves a lot of money by showing it just for a few days, say.
And what have they achived by getting it before my eyes? I am more likely to be pissed off by it, the more so the more intrusive it is. There are certain brands I make a point of not buying because their adverts were so annoying.
They often have your IP geolocatable to your house, or at least the neighborhood. That's how they always manage to have sexy singles available to chat in your tiny-ass town.
That's funny, because they seem to think I live in a place that is actually 200 miles from here. I have not corrected them. Also I get notified, with nice pictures, of lonely sex-starved MILFs who live "Only 400 away". 400 yards? 400 miles? Must be miles because no-one lives with 400 yards of me except an old farmer.
Interfering with someone's computer without their permission is a criminal offence in Europe. In the UK it comes under the Computer Misuse Act. It just seems that no-one (other than, in Germany, the Baden-Wurtenberg consumer rights center) has the bottle to pursue this.
CMA 1990 introduced the following three new offences into UK criminal law:
unauthorised access to computer material;
unauthorised access with intent to commit a further offence;
Unauthorised acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, operation of computer, etc (as amended by the Police and Justice Act 2006).
I would consider converting Windows 7 to Windows 10 shows an intent to impair.
Keep a copy in an outhouse. Furthermore I am not near a river, and the chance of falling into a sink hole is around 1 in 10,000,000 and even then stuff is probably retrievable.
Putting yourself on the list is the first step. The second steps is to complain when someone calls you. And then, when someone calls you, try to get some information from them before you tell them you're on the list. Information such as the name and location of the company, a callback number, or other details. Add this information to the complaint
Exactly this. You will need to play along like you are interested in order to get their details. Don't just curse and slam the phone down - they are not at all bothered by that.
One-and-a-half million spam calls and only 133 people complained? That's pathetic, like the fine. I am in the TPS register and complain to them about every spam call I get, if I can ascertain who it is from by playing along to get their details (not always easy). I've never heard of the TPS ever doing anything whatever before, so even $65,000 is something.
I hardly get any spam calls now as I live in a rural area. When I was in a city I got far more, which seems to show that most spammers just work through numbers in numerical order after the area code, rather than using a list of actual numbers. That is not worth it in a rural area where the area code is sparsely populated with actual phone numbers.
How does the Receiver has to pay anything to be annoyed ? I just can't understand this. In France only the caller has to pay the bill.
It has come up before here that, incredibly, in the USA the receiver pays part of the call cost. Lunacy. Here in the UK (and anywhere else sane in this respect) it works the same as in France.
What a bitter and twisted person you are making comments towards someone who's doing so much good in the world.
He is "doing good" with money got by shady business practices. A little bit of it is mine (Microsoft Windows tax on new PCs) which should not have gone to him because I don't use Windows. He is like a bank robber who drops some loose change in the charity box by the door as he leaves. But I'd prefer to choose my own charities to donate to, not Gates' charities.
he is absolutely free to direct his foundations... in the areas where he wants to make an impact
How about he first refunds to his victims the money he made by abuse of monopoly and shady business practices? For example Gates has had some of my money in that I've had to buy PCs pre-loaded with Windows even though I did not want it and never used it. If he were the saint we are supposed to believe, he should commission a independent financial review to calculate what he should give back to his "customers". Then do what he likes with the rest.
Why mod up? Why insightful? He might control it but he's not spending it on beer and hookers; it's not his money.
It would not be physically possible to spend $4.6 billion on beer and hookers.
Take hookers, each hired at $2500 a day for the remaining 20 years of his life. Do the math : that would be over 300 hookers available 24/7. He could not even get them all in the bedroom let alone do anything else. And that is not even touching the rest of his fortune. As an alternative, I leave it as an excercise to the reader to work out how much beer he would have to drink, but I guess it would float the Titanic and a fraction of it would certainly kill him.
Strangely, the sales people never made a big thing of 64-bit. Every other advance, like processor speed, was a reason, according to the sales hype, to toss your previous PC and buy a new one. But there was scarcely a whisper about 64-bit.
When I was buying a new motherboard and processor around 2008 it was even quite difficult to work out from the advertising whether they were 64-bit or not. It was like some conspiracy to keep it quiet. Was that because Microsoft were so slow at catching up with 64-bit that they instructed the hardware makers to play 64-bit down, in case it shone out as an advantage for Linux?
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I personally thought that this part of the world was very desolate till I visited years ago. .... One thing I learnt is that life continues even in places where the likes of main stream media do not cover...
You did not think that life continues in places the media does not cover? You need to visit a place personally to know there is life there? That's ridiculous.
If these African nations can bypass the stage with modern technology, they might invent and evolve new forms of living with the nature and building developed economies and advanced technologies over a minimally disturbed ecosystem.
Sounds like Heaven - right here and now, in Tanzania did they say? I'm packing up and heading there - what are their immigration laws like?
Oh wait, I just saw the "if" and "might" - are we in the future tense here?
Now average people know what venture capital people feel like with most startups.
No. This was not like venture capitalism; instead it was people buying something that had yet to be manufactured, tested, and independently reviewed. It is like, but worse than, going into a shop, paying for something you see on the shelf, and then you throw a dice and you only receive the item if you get a six.
And they are not "average people", they are idiots who don't know how best to spend their money ... oh wait ..
Advertising isn't a trillion-dollar global industry because it doesn't work.
Nice double negative. It does work for the advertising agencies. They are paid the $trillions by manufacturing corporations (or by middlemen down the line from them like importers). However the manufactures & co are wasting huge amounts of money - because the Ad industry is good at talking them out of it.
Suppose I want to buy a car. Among others, Ford and Fiat, say, are both advertising against each other. However much one is spending, and it is huge, and how "effective" it is, it is levelled by the other. So their money is for nothing, they are in a pointless arms race.
Now I don't need ads to be told of the existence of Ford or Fiat. Their badges are on their cars everywhere (I've no issue with that) and have been since great-grandad was sat on a pottie. If car makers did not advertise at all people would still buy one or other of their cars. I would choose on the basis of reviews, but even if I did it on the basis of adverts it would mean that the other company's ad money was wasted on me - and multiply that by everyone else who buys a car. Even if one brand's ads are "successful", it means the rival brand's ad money is wasted.
I don't know anyone who buys a car because they saw an advert. They buy one because they replace it every two or three years, frightened of an older car breaking down, or because they have an older car that has broken down, or because they have a change of need (new job needs a car commute).
One day the manufacturers might realise this waste of money, I hope, and end the massive useless "tax" on things that is advertising expenditure. Until then the Ad companies are laughing at our expense and the gullibility of manufacturers.
Another historical precedent :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Anyway, these moderen companies don't need to use armed force. They have found ways of making people surrender happily.
We could help if he gives us a link.
when rtb61 wrote "Absolutely do not run Windows 10", and you think rtb61 didn't have Linux in mind, which of the following replacements for Windows 10 do you think rtb61 had in mind for production use?
I have no idea what rtb61 had in mind; I am not him. But if you like Windows go with 7 or 8.1 FTTB and see what developments there have been as they approach those end dates. 28 months or more is a long time in this business and you never know - Microsoft may have been ordered to stop spying by then. I'm using Win7 for games and scam baiting myself.
more often than not they advertise stuff to either after you've bought it or decided you don't want it
Better still (or worse, depending on how you see it) they advertise stuff you are selling yourself, and you have looked at ads for it to see what prices your rivals are selling it for.
I'm not getting any ads from running Windows, and whatever "super duper" private information you think Microsoft is collection [sic] they can have because I'm still not seeing ads.
No ads? That's amazing, tell us how you do it. There is no "thinking" that Microsoft are collecting data about you via Windows 10, it is a fact. Whether you care or not is up to you.
Linux sucks and will never be mainstream.
The post you are replying to never mentioned Linux. Isn't this going off-topic anyway?
Everytime you block something, they've accomplished their mission - getting it before your eyes... - they only need to win once.
If they only need once why do they keep showing the same advert on TV for months or years? Eg everyone in the UK must have seen a certain particularly annoying advert for insurance over a thousand times. If you are right they could have saved themselves a lot of money by showing it just for a few days, say.
And what have they achived by getting it before my eyes? I am more likely to be pissed off by it, the more so the more intrusive it is. There are certain brands I make a point of not buying because their adverts were so annoying.
They often have your IP geolocatable to your house, or at least the neighborhood. That's how they always manage to have sexy singles available to chat in your tiny-ass town.
That's funny, because they seem to think I live in a place that is actually 200 miles from here. I have not corrected them. Also I get notified, with nice pictures, of lonely sex-starved MILFs who live "Only 400 away". 400 yards? 400 miles? Must be miles because no-one lives with 400 yards of me except an old farmer.
Interfering with someone's computer without their permission is a criminal offence in Europe. In the UK it comes under the Computer Misuse Act. It just seems that no-one (other than, in Germany, the Baden-Wurtenberg consumer rights center) has the bottle to pursue this.
From this :-
CMA 1990 introduced the following three new offences into UK criminal law:
unauthorised access to computer material;
unauthorised access with intent to commit a further offence;
Unauthorised acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, operation of computer, etc (as amended by the Police and Justice Act 2006).
I would consider converting Windows 7 to Windows 10 shows an intent to impair.
Since there are no Austrian car makers ....
Steyr. They made my Jeep.
To be resistant to fire problems, swap multiple disks through a fireproof safe.
people like you are LOSERS because you inevitably end up saying "oops I lost the data"
Citation ?
Keep a copy in an outhouse. Furthermore I am not near a river, and the chance of falling into a sink hole is around 1 in 10,000,000 and even then stuff is probably retrievable.
Putting yourself on the list is the first step. The second steps is to complain when someone calls you. And then, when someone calls you, try to get some information from them before you tell them you're on the list. Information such as the name and location of the company, a callback number, or other details. Add this information to the complaint
Exactly this. You will need to play along like you are interested in order to get their details. Don't just curse and slam the phone down - they are not at all bothered by that.
One-and-a-half million spam calls and only 133 people complained? That's pathetic, like the fine. I am in the TPS register and complain to them about every spam call I get, if I can ascertain who it is from by playing along to get their details (not always easy). I've never heard of the TPS ever doing anything whatever before, so even $65,000 is something.
I hardly get any spam calls now as I live in a rural area. When I was in a city I got far more, which seems to show that most spammers just work through numbers in numerical order after the area code, rather than using a list of actual numbers. That is not worth it in a rural area where the area code is sparsely populated with actual phone numbers.
How does the Receiver has to pay anything to be annoyed ? I just can't understand this. In France only the caller has to pay the bill.
It has come up before here that, incredibly, in the USA the receiver pays part of the call cost. Lunacy. Here in the UK (and anywhere else sane in this respect) it works the same as in France.
What a bitter and twisted person you are making comments towards someone who's doing so much good in the world.
He is "doing good" with money got by shady business practices. A little bit of it is mine (Microsoft Windows tax on new PCs) which should not have gone to him because I don't use Windows. He is like a bank robber who drops some loose change in the charity box by the door as he leaves. But I'd prefer to choose my own charities to donate to, not Gates' charities.
he is absolutely free to direct his foundations ... in the areas where he wants to make an impact
How about he first refunds to his victims the money he made by abuse of monopoly and shady business practices? For example Gates has had some of my money in that I've had to buy PCs pre-loaded with Windows even though I did not want it and never used it. If he were the saint we are supposed to believe, he should commission a independent financial review to calculate what he should give back to his "customers". Then do what he likes with the rest.
Why mod up? Why insightful? He might control it but he's not spending it on beer and hookers; it's not his money.
It would not be physically possible to spend $4.6 billion on beer and hookers.
Take hookers, each hired at $2500 a day for the remaining 20 years of his life. Do the math : that would be over 300 hookers available 24/7. He could not even get them all in the bedroom let alone do anything else. And that is not even touching the rest of his fortune. As an alternative, I leave it as an excercise to the reader to work out how much beer he would have to drink, but I guess it would float the Titanic and a fraction of it would certainly kill him.
Strangely, the sales people never made a big thing of 64-bit. Every other advance, like processor speed, was a reason, according to the sales hype, to toss your previous PC and buy a new one. But there was scarcely a whisper about 64-bit.
When I was buying a new motherboard and processor around 2008 it was even quite difficult to work out from the advertising whether they were 64-bit or not. It was like some conspiracy to keep it quiet. Was that because Microsoft were so slow at catching up with 64-bit that they instructed the hardware makers to play 64-bit down, in case it shone out as an advantage for Linux?
Who runs 32 bit...in 2017? How about (at least) the 140,000,000 people still running Windows XP*.
Windows XP was available in 64-bit
Is there actually anything of real quality that Microsoft produces?
Advertising
Another prediction that won't come true. From Vice.com no less, the bastion of academic thought.
The link did not work for me, But I wanted to know why a financial investment company is supposed to be an authority on global warming.