WiFi has been wonky for me since Windows 8. Windows 10 upgrade actually reduced the number of WiFi failures for me. Still a lot more problematic than Windows 7 though. Got to the point where I just ran a wire to my main desktop because the connection would be lost once every few days and requires a reboot to get it back.
Dude, seriously?! You're trying too hard to pull Apple into this. My dad's iPhone 4S and iPad 3 got iOS 9. Those are ancient phone and tablet. While my cousin Lumia never got the WM8 update, it was stuck at the original WM 7/7.5. So if anything it's MSFT that's forcing people to buy new hardware to get updates.
Thanks for the DDG info. Didn't know about it. DDG is now my default search engine on every device since it doesn't get in the way with overbearing ads.
I tried out the Vive recently at a Microsoft store. Excellent controls, unnoticeable latency, and low resolution. The resolution was so low it reminds me of watching the original Wing Commander 3/4 interlacing videos.
I wouldn't buy it at $800. $300 is ok for something like this.
Issue 1) is probably related to Windows Preview trying to display RAW images as I was copying them from the hard drive to external USB. I was doing a quick drag and drop of 500GB of vacation photos (RAW+JPEG). A quick shutdown of BOINC and a reboot fixed the problem, but I never had this problem with Windows 7 Pro.
Issue 2) relates to how Windows 10 understands folder permission and policy defined by Windows 7 Pro machine. Again, when viewing the folder on a client Win7 or Mac OS X (even Apple TV), all subfolders are display correctly. It's only when I view a folder from a Windows 10 machine, multiple machines. So it's not a hardware problem, just how Windows 10 is following Windows 7 permission and policy. Problem goes away when I upgraded the hosting machine to Windows 10.
Issue 3) is fixed with a reboot but not easily repeatable. Can't figure out the pattern when File Explorer refuse a right click context-menu. And it's only File Explorer.
Issue 4) I have no clue what can cause it. Windows 10 feels like doing something with my GTX 970 drivers while I'm asleep.
1) I upgraded my gaming computer from Windows 7 Pro to Win10 Pro a few weeks ago. I went to do a basic copy to external storage of a large group of files for cold storage (roughly 500GB). I do this every few months but last night, it gave me out of memory error (RAM) during the copy. I've never had a that kind of error under any previous version of Windows.
2) Previously I was running a mix environment of Mac OS X, Windows 7 Pro, and Windows 10. When I share a folder on Windows 7, the Mac OS X picks up the subfolders correctly. But Windows 10 machines will decide to show only half or sometimes only one of the subfolders. After upgrading all my windows machine to Win10, the problem went away. Can't help but think MSFT is sabotaging Windows 7.
3) Sometimes on Windows 10 machines, I can't right click on the File Explorer icon to open another instance of File Explorer.
4) After each patch Tuesday, several of my machines will decide to go to 640 x 480 when they boot up the next morning. Not a huge deal, but gets annoying to redo the resolution every Wednesday. No driver issues or anything, the machines just feel like booting Windows 10 at 640 x 480.
My Google Map on iOS has been doing ads on and off for at least 18 months now. Usually it's a slightly larger dot that you think it's a search result but it's a sponsored location. One time I searched for a donut shop and selected the first result without looking. It routed me to a hotel. When I looked more carefully it was a sponsored result. Sometimes when I search for a business and I know the exact name, the first few results aren't that business it's a competitor. I think a couple months ago it routed me to a location of a competitor of a business in the same category without showing me an indication that it was sponsored pin. Couple of times Google Maps move the business I was looking for down very low on the list even when I was really close to the location (less than 3 blocks away) and pushed me to businesses much further away. I think I was looking for a Japanese BBQ place that time. I knew the name but forgot where it was. I was in the complex next door. The dot for the business was there just smaller than the other (probably sponsored) business.
It works very similar to the initial ads on Bing Maps for iOS when that first came out back 2009(?).
I thought the point of a Chromebook was to make it affordable by making it a stripped down and not needing a powerful CPU. 32 GB eMMC is pretty stripped down, and Pentium. So you're paying a premium for thinnest while having none of the advantages of a full OS. Explain to me why I want this over a tablet or a laptop with a full OS? Plus, it's an HP. I've never had an HP laptop last more than 2 years.
Are you sure that's just not a defective drive? I've put the same SSD in a MacBook Pro 13 2011 and some random Toshiba laptop (Windows 8.1) for my sisters in law, both with the 240GB version of the drive. Seems to work perfectly fine and they've been running for a couple years without issues.
I need the most following to be available before I get into VR (Oculus Rift or Vive): 1) Flight simulation games: Falcon level of details 2) Space combat: Wing Commander or Freespace game 3) Racing games: arcade or realistic doesn't matter much to me 4) Descent Underground 5) good controls
No!!! My high school physics teacher can't be wrong!!! I refuse to believe it. Of course, the man did get marry 4 times so there's that. But he had reasonably good taste and did bang all the decent looking teachers on campus. All of his daughters were pretty hot.
I've been noticing it's doing the same thing with Safari on Mac. If you have Adblock on, the ad videos are unskippable. Turn off or pause adblock and there's no video ads.
Lost another SSD over the weekend. Crucial m4 512GB. Lost detection of the drive by the computer (Win 7 desktop), plugged it in through a USB adaptor and it's still not detected (Windows and Mac). That's 3 in the last 18 months.
That being said I run everything on SSD: 2 HTPC, 2 desktops, 2 MacBooks, 2 Windows laptop.
I can't find the common factor that causes the failures. It would just be working one day, then next day fail detection by the computer and it's all gone.
The new version of Google Maps is erratic. Mouse zoom is sporadic and inconsistent. Sometimes when you search specific business by name, it still gives you the "sponsored" results first. The problem is not that it gives "sponsored" result, it SOMETIMES gives "sponsored" results. It's trying to trick you into clicking on the "sponsored" results and it's really annoying.
It's both too much information and not enough information at the same time. Search for something and it gives you too many irrelevant results. Look on the map and it's doesn't show enough information for me to make a decision. It's everything I hated about Bing Maps when that first came out.
I guess it's a good thing that aliens won't need to invade us for water. May I suggest they take some things that I'm sure aren't available anywhere else in the universe. Please take people who are famous for being famous such as an heiress to a hotel fortune, her friend with the big butt and friend's husband.
Yes, if they (or you) were to live and work in the US in the future. I have friends and relatives in just this situation. They worked outside the US, met someone, lived there for a really long time, lost their job and moved back to the US. If the children had not been US citizens this would have been a lot more difficult.
No, for all other cases. It's just not worth the tax nightmare.
Every government tries to spy on every other government. Don't be surprised by it. Don't be surprised when they get caught doing it. How many Israeli spies have the US caught in the last 30 years? And the US is suppose to be Israel's BFF.
My wife loves her iPad. She doesn't get on her laptop now unless she needs Firefox to access her work's website. For everything else, she uses the iPad. Shopping, watching movies, trip planning, and so on.
My parents can only use their iPads because they've never use a computer in their life. My mother will try to pinch and zoom on my computer monitor to make pictures bigger.
Do they need the latest iPad every time Apple comes out with a new one? Hell no. My father is perfectly happy on his iPad 3, he gets his news, Netflix, and DirecTV app. My mother is happy on her iPad 4 because she can watch Youtube, music, and looking up new recipes. My wife is fine with her iPad Air, and she's not getting a new one because I just bought that last year.
Only person without an iPad is me. I have no need for them, I get things done on my laptop or desktop. I don't need trimmed down apps, I do need full applications and a real keyboard.
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WiFi has been wonky for me since Windows 8. Windows 10 upgrade actually reduced the number of WiFi failures for me. Still a lot more problematic than Windows 7 though. Got to the point where I just ran a wire to my main desktop because the connection would be lost once every few days and requires a reboot to get it back.
Dude, seriously?! You're trying too hard to pull Apple into this. My dad's iPhone 4S and iPad 3 got iOS 9. Those are ancient phone and tablet. While my cousin Lumia never got the WM8 update, it was stuck at the original WM 7/7.5. So if anything it's MSFT that's forcing people to buy new hardware to get updates.
Thanks for the DDG info. Didn't know about it. DDG is now my default search engine on every device since it doesn't get in the way with overbearing ads.
I tried out the Vive recently at a Microsoft store. Excellent controls, unnoticeable latency, and low resolution. The resolution was so low it reminds me of watching the original Wing Commander 3/4 interlacing videos.
I wouldn't buy it at $800. $300 is ok for something like this.
Issue 1) is probably related to Windows Preview trying to display RAW images as I was copying them from the hard drive to external USB. I was doing a quick drag and drop of 500GB of vacation photos (RAW+JPEG). A quick shutdown of BOINC and a reboot fixed the problem, but I never had this problem with Windows 7 Pro.
Issue 2) relates to how Windows 10 understands folder permission and policy defined by Windows 7 Pro machine. Again, when viewing the folder on a client Win7 or Mac OS X (even Apple TV), all subfolders are display correctly. It's only when I view a folder from a Windows 10 machine, multiple machines. So it's not a hardware problem, just how Windows 10 is following Windows 7 permission and policy. Problem goes away when I upgraded the hosting machine to Windows 10.
Issue 3) is fixed with a reboot but not easily repeatable. Can't figure out the pattern when File Explorer refuse a right click context-menu. And it's only File Explorer.
Issue 4) I have no clue what can cause it. Windows 10 feels like doing something with my GTX 970 drivers while I'm asleep.
1) I upgraded my gaming computer from Windows 7 Pro to Win10 Pro a few weeks ago. I went to do a basic copy to external storage of a large group of files for cold storage (roughly 500GB). I do this every few months but last night, it gave me out of memory error (RAM) during the copy. I've never had a that kind of error under any previous version of Windows.
2) Previously I was running a mix environment of Mac OS X, Windows 7 Pro, and Windows 10. When I share a folder on Windows 7, the Mac OS X picks up the subfolders correctly. But Windows 10 machines will decide to show only half or sometimes only one of the subfolders. After upgrading all my windows machine to Win10, the problem went away. Can't help but think MSFT is sabotaging Windows 7.
3) Sometimes on Windows 10 machines, I can't right click on the File Explorer icon to open another instance of File Explorer.
4) After each patch Tuesday, several of my machines will decide to go to 640 x 480 when they boot up the next morning. Not a huge deal, but gets annoying to redo the resolution every Wednesday. No driver issues or anything, the machines just feel like booting Windows 10 at 640 x 480.
My Google Map on iOS has been doing ads on and off for at least 18 months now. Usually it's a slightly larger dot that you think it's a search result but it's a sponsored location. One time I searched for a donut shop and selected the first result without looking. It routed me to a hotel. When I looked more carefully it was a sponsored result. Sometimes when I search for a business and I know the exact name, the first few results aren't that business it's a competitor. I think a couple months ago it routed me to a location of a competitor of a business in the same category without showing me an indication that it was sponsored pin. Couple of times Google Maps move the business I was looking for down very low on the list even when I was really close to the location (less than 3 blocks away) and pushed me to businesses much further away. I think I was looking for a Japanese BBQ place that time. I knew the name but forgot where it was. I was in the complex next door. The dot for the business was there just smaller than the other (probably sponsored) business.
It works very similar to the initial ads on Bing Maps for iOS when that first came out back 2009(?).
I thought the point of a Chromebook was to make it affordable by making it a stripped down and not needing a powerful CPU. 32 GB eMMC is pretty stripped down, and Pentium. So you're paying a premium for thinnest while having none of the advantages of a full OS. Explain to me why I want this over a tablet or a laptop with a full OS? Plus, it's an HP. I've never had an HP laptop last more than 2 years.
Are you sure that's just not a defective drive? I've put the same SSD in a MacBook Pro 13 2011 and some random Toshiba laptop (Windows 8.1) for my sisters in law, both with the 240GB version of the drive. Seems to work perfectly fine and they've been running for a couple years without issues.
half = 1/2, inverse is 2
2^3 = 8
$799 is almost $800, therefore Half Life 3 is coming.
If Valve releases HL3 with support for Vive, it's going to make VR mainstream. HL2 helped Steam, HL3 would help VR.
I need the most following to be available before I get into VR (Oculus Rift or Vive):
1) Flight simulation games: Falcon level of details
2) Space combat: Wing Commander or Freespace game
3) Racing games: arcade or realistic doesn't matter much to me
4) Descent Underground
5) good controls
No!!! My high school physics teacher can't be wrong!!! I refuse to believe it. Of course, the man did get marry 4 times so there's that. But he had reasonably good taste and did bang all the decent looking teachers on campus. All of his daughters were pretty hot.
If companies complain about ad-blocking, they should move to a pay wall. Let's see how that works out for them.
I've been noticing it's doing the same thing with Safari on Mac. If you have Adblock on, the ad videos are unskippable. Turn off or pause adblock and there's no video ads.
Standard shut-off procedure. Windows 7 => Shutdown in Start Menu. Mac OS X => Shutdown in Toolbar.
Lost another SSD over the weekend. Crucial m4 512GB. Lost detection of the drive by the computer (Win 7 desktop), plugged it in through a USB adaptor and it's still not detected (Windows and Mac). That's 3 in the last 18 months.
RIP
Muskin Chronos 120GB (Windows 7 laptop)
Crucial m4 512GB (MacBook Pro 2012)
Crucial m4 512GB (Windows 7 desktop)
That being said I run everything on SSD: 2 HTPC, 2 desktops, 2 MacBooks, 2 Windows laptop.
I can't find the common factor that causes the failures. It would just be working one day, then next day fail detection by the computer and it's all gone.
The new version of Google Maps is erratic. Mouse zoom is sporadic and inconsistent. Sometimes when you search specific business by name, it still gives you the "sponsored" results first. The problem is not that it gives "sponsored" result, it SOMETIMES gives "sponsored" results. It's trying to trick you into clicking on the "sponsored" results and it's really annoying.
It's both too much information and not enough information at the same time. Search for something and it gives you too many irrelevant results. Look on the map and it's doesn't show enough information for me to make a decision. It's everything I hated about Bing Maps when that first came out.
I guess it's a good thing that aliens won't need to invade us for water. May I suggest they take some things that I'm sure aren't available anywhere else in the universe. Please take people who are famous for being famous such as an heiress to a hotel fortune, her friend with the big butt and friend's husband.
So far very disappointed.
Is the new MacBook for you?
Are you posting on Slashdot?
If yes => NO!!
If no => maybe
Yes, if they (or you) were to live and work in the US in the future. I have friends and relatives in just this situation. They worked outside the US, met someone, lived there for a really long time, lost their job and moved back to the US. If the children had not been US citizens this would have been a lot more difficult.
No, for all other cases. It's just not worth the tax nightmare.
Every government tries to spy on every other government. Don't be surprised by it. Don't be surprised when they get caught doing it. How many Israeli spies have the US caught in the last 30 years? And the US is suppose to be Israel's BFF.
Lenovo is going to come off my recommendation list. That list is getting shorter and shorter everyday.
Or you know, you could just hop on a plane to Colorado.
My wife loves her iPad. She doesn't get on her laptop now unless she needs Firefox to access her work's website. For everything else, she uses the iPad. Shopping, watching movies, trip planning, and so on.
My parents can only use their iPads because they've never use a computer in their life. My mother will try to pinch and zoom on my computer monitor to make pictures bigger.
Do they need the latest iPad every time Apple comes out with a new one? Hell no. My father is perfectly happy on his iPad 3, he gets his news, Netflix, and DirecTV app. My mother is happy on her iPad 4 because she can watch Youtube, music, and looking up new recipes. My wife is fine with her iPad Air, and she's not getting a new one because I just bought that last year.
Only person without an iPad is me. I have no need for them, I get things done on my laptop or desktop. I don't need trimmed down apps, I do need full applications and a real keyboard.