Only the total entropy. An individual item can have decreased entropy if something related to has increased entropy (but by even more). The Picture of Dorian Gray is an example.
How could it be an interstellar probe? The nearest star is over 4 light years away. Are they suggesting some civilization managed to build a probe that can travel at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light?
Why would they need to suggest that? Perhaps it was sent on its way tens of thousands of years ago.
Never heard of it called the "Mona Lisa" effect. The effect is well know however, in particular from the WW1 "Your country needs you" recruiting poster which has Lord Kitchener both looking and pointing at "YOU". This picture still has the power to haunt:-
Except that Microsoft has always made most of its Windows revenues from volume licensing and preinstallation on new PCs anyway,
But they are not going to say no to getting additional revenue in any other way they can. Especially as not so many people buy new PCs these days. Not since the days of Windows 95/98/ME do most people buy a newer off-the-shelf copy of Windows for an existing PC - as your own anecdote confirms. Instead they buy a new PC with the newer Windows pre-installed, as you also say. But they generally do so because they want the newer copy of Windows, not because they need a new PC*. The them the OS is the PC (they see it as something hard-wired within), and they don't want it to be "out-of-date".
Therefore the OP's scenario of MS execs killing or deprecating a Windows version in order to boost sales of a new version, albeit as a pre-installed copy on a new PC, is valid.
* Of course they might think they need a new PC because the old one has clogged and slowed with malware, adware and viruses. They attribute this to the PC being "old".
.... Let me guess.... 5 years from now, you are running Win10 and are happy with it.
Let me guess : in 5 years time, if you are running Win10 you will be having to pay for it by rental, otherwise left entirely behind with updates and be force-fed with nagging and adware crap. And you won't be happy with it.
I can assure you that Windows 8.1/10 are remarkable faster and lighter. Especially once you turn the BIOS off and put on UEFI mode on an SSD. What took 35 to 45 seconds takes 6 seconds on Windows 10 because it doesn't do bios 1981 emulation bullshit when it loads the operating system.
So you really are Bill Gates then. I had thought your name here was just a joke.
BTW, I don't give a shit how long my OS takes to load, I rarely turn my PC off. That comment is addressed to systemd fans too BTW.
Per TFA, it is free until the given date, which is in the future. Parent was referring to the present. As for the present, the answer is that updates can be turned off.
Technicality it is a hardwood, because it has small leaves. Softwood has broad leaves
You got that the wrong way round. This botanical definition does not necessarily align with physically hard and soft; botanically, balsa is a hardwood.
What I don't get is why would such annoying behaviour make anyone want to buy the crap being advertised? Or why anyone would think it would sell more of the crap. My Pavlov dog-like reaction would to recoil from what was being shoved in my face and fucking up my usage.
A far bigger privacy concern is Google's spyware itself.
The story here is making your device unusable by turning it into a billboard. Not much to do with privacy. We know privacy is another concern , but don't hijack this thread because of it.
Companies think they always have to keep "innovating", *no matter what*, because otherwise they'd all be the same, and there would be no reason to not just buy the cheapest one.
Mod this up.
Most "innovation" is to add to the number of marketing tick boxes and is not needed or used by the buyers, even though the buyers think they do. Remember in video-recorder days the joke (but true) that many people had the clock display taped over because they could not be bothered to set the time and did not want the flashing. I have a camera with so many buttons, menus and modes that it's insane - yet camera review sites rate cameras by that number and it influences people, even though the buyers don't understand the modes afterwards.
Guess they should have realized they were pricing themselves out of the market earlier.
They are selling them too cheap. Hipsters know that at that price they must be trash, taking quality as proportional to price cubed. Now if they charged $20k the Apple fans would be flocking to re-mortgage their houses for one.
To be clear: You can't buy windows 7 so the fact it took this long for win10 to out pace it is a pretty good indication of just how badly it sucks.
Not to mention that MS "upgraded" so many Win7/8 users to Win10 unwittingly by dirty tricks. I'm amazed that it has taken this long for 10 to overtake 7. Fortunately Win7 is still available for download from pirate sites.
You know people said the same thing when physical currency was introduced.... physical currency was just stolen by people with bigger muscles and weapons instead of hacking skills.
Citation for what was said then? Physical money (coins) replaced bartered physical objects (sacks of corn, chunks of metal) so the possibility of stealing was not new at the time when coins were introduced.
Fortunately, there is a physical limit to what the "bigger muscled" guys can steal from me because I don't carry all the money I own on me all the time. Typically I might have only about 0.01% of it, so that's all they could take - the rest is buried in a secret place in my garden (LoL). OTOH your entire wealth in digital form can be stolen all in one go.
They ring numbers at random or working through numerically. Same as "Windows" scammers. By your responding on the phone they were able to mark you as worth hassling in the future too.
BTW, the people who work in this way for charity are usually professionals and are paid by the charity typically half of what they can raise. The British crook Jeffrey Acher made his first million that way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Ageing has to exist because entropy is entropy.
Only the total entropy. An individual item can have decreased entropy if something related to has increased entropy (but by even more). The Picture of Dorian Gray is an example.
How could it be an interstellar probe? The nearest star is over 4 light years away. Are they suggesting some civilization managed to build a probe that can travel at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light?
Why would they need to suggest that? Perhaps it was sent on its way tens of thousands of years ago.
Never heard of it called the "Mona Lisa" effect. The effect is well know however, in particular from the WW1 "Your country needs you" recruiting poster which has Lord Kitchener both looking and pointing at "YOU". This picture still has the power to haunt :-
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Except that Microsoft has always made most of its Windows revenues from volume licensing and preinstallation on new PCs anyway,
But they are not going to say no to getting additional revenue in any other way they can. Especially as not so many people buy new PCs these days. Not since the days of Windows 95/98/ME do most people buy a newer off-the-shelf copy of Windows for an existing PC - as your own anecdote confirms. Instead they buy a new PC with the newer Windows pre-installed, as you also say. But they generally do so because they want the newer copy of Windows, not because they need a new PC*. The them the OS is the PC (they see it as something hard-wired within), and they don't want it to be "out-of-date".
Therefore the OP's scenario of MS execs killing or deprecating a Windows version in order to boost sales of a new version, albeit as a pre-installed copy on a new PC, is valid.
* Of course they might think they need a new PC because the old one has clogged and slowed with malware, adware and viruses. They attribute this to the PC being "old".
Telemetry had been added to Windows 7 some time ago. You should check.
I turned off Win7 updates some time ago. I will check anyway.
Completely meaningless if your software is only supported on Windows 7 .... I run into this many times in the medical software industry.
Get back to me if I ever have a career change into the medical software industry.
.... Let me guess.... 5 years from now, you are running Win10 and are happy with it.
Let me guess : in 5 years time, if you are running Win10 you will be having to pay for it by rental, otherwise left entirely behind with updates and be force-fed with nagging and adware crap. And you won't be happy with it.
Billly Gates wrote :-
I can assure you that Windows 8.1/10 are remarkable faster and lighter. Especially once you turn the BIOS off and put on UEFI mode on an SSD. What took 35 to 45 seconds takes 6 seconds on Windows 10 because it doesn't do bios 1981 emulation bullshit when it loads the operating system.
So you really are Bill Gates then. I had thought your name here was just a joke.
BTW, I don't give a shit how long my OS takes to load, I rarely turn my PC off. That comment is addressed to systemd fans too BTW.
It isn't Microsoft's fault as to what crap applications are installed on said laptop.
I don't think he said it was all their fault.
Per TFA, it is free until the given date, which is in the future. Parent was referring to the present. As for the present, the answer is that updates can be turned off.
Technicality it is a hardwood, because it has small leaves. Softwood has broad leaves
You got that the wrong way round. This botanical definition does not necessarily align with physically hard and soft; botanically, balsa is a hardwood.
Now that he has learned to speak Mandarin I wish he'd keep to it.
What I don't get is why would such annoying behaviour make anyone want to buy the crap being advertised? Or why anyone would think it would sell more of the crap. My Pavlov dog-like reaction would to recoil from what was being shoved in my face and fucking up my usage.
If you install an app and get full screen ads, just uninstall it.
And how would you necessarily know which app was doing it?
A far bigger privacy concern is Google's spyware itself.
The story here is making your device unusable by turning it into a billboard. Not much to do with privacy. We know privacy is another concern , but don't hijack this thread because of it.
And pray you don't have teenagers that just want to watch something for five minutes, go do something else, come back to watch something else ...
You seriously think they will bother to roll it up? In my experience they don't even bother to switch off.
You don't get it. It's for hipsters, not practical purposes.
Thanks for that block of gibberish. I'll use it as metadata for my website, it might bring me some hits.
Companies think they always have to keep "innovating", *no matter what*, because otherwise they'd all be the same, and there would be no reason to not just buy the cheapest one.
Mod this up.
Most "innovation" is to add to the number of marketing tick boxes and is not needed or used by the buyers, even though the buyers think they do. Remember in video-recorder days the joke (but true) that many people had the clock display taped over because they could not be bothered to set the time and did not want the flashing. I have a camera with so many buttons, menus and modes that it's insane - yet camera review sites rate cameras by that number and it influences people, even though the buyers don't understand the modes afterwards.
There's no longer anything particularly innovative, that's the problem.
What? Wasn't having no audio jack innovative? And have you forgotten the ones that came bent? - brilliant that idea.
Guess they should have realized they were pricing themselves out of the market earlier.
They are selling them too cheap. Hipsters know that at that price they must be trash, taking quality as proportional to price cubed. Now if they charged $20k the Apple fans would be flocking to re-mortgage their houses for one.
To be clear: You can't buy windows 7 so the fact it took this long for win10 to out pace it is a pretty good indication of just how badly it sucks.
Not to mention that MS "upgraded" so many Win7/8 users to Win10 unwittingly by dirty tricks. I'm amazed that it has taken this long for 10 to overtake 7. Fortunately Win7 is still available for download from pirate sites.
Would you bother to read 'Bridge closes when man climbs to top'?
Because it is a major bridge (one of the two motorway bridges into South Wales), and taking your "you" to mean me I use this bridge most days.
You know people said the same thing when physical currency was introduced. ... physical currency was just stolen by people with
bigger muscles and weapons instead of hacking skills.
Citation for what was said then? Physical money (coins) replaced bartered physical objects (sacks of corn, chunks of metal) so the possibility of stealing was not new at the time when coins were introduced.
Fortunately, there is a physical limit to what the "bigger muscled" guys can steal from me because I don't carry all the money I own on me all the time. Typically I might have only about 0.01% of it, so that's all they could take - the rest is buried in a secret place in my garden (LoL). OTOH your entire wealth in digital form can be stolen all in one go.
They ring numbers at random or working through numerically. Same as "Windows" scammers. By your responding on the phone they were able to mark you as worth hassling in the future too.
BTW, the people who work in this way for charity are usually professionals and are paid by the charity typically half of what they can raise. The British crook Jeffrey Acher made his first million that way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...