No. Expiring pages were a necessity of a dynamically generated internet. What we're doing is incorporating the cached system from 10 years ago without breaking what we have now.
Thanks for your insight. To make it easier on us in the future can you please list in alphabetical order all the things you don't use so we don't accidentally bother you again?
Product placement is the only "adverts" I typically see in any of the movies I buy. I can't recall a purchased movie I have stopping in the middle to show me an ad. Also, what is a "logo screen"? The movie title? Again, I don't see these and I purchase a lot of content.
I didn't say middle. I've never seen a purchased bluray that allowed you to get to the menu screen without showing you a trailer or an advert. Likewise you get to endure a nice title card for the publisher / studio before you get to the menu. Which is a frigging waste since you get to see it again when you hit play. In general if I open up a downloaded file it starts playing. If I throw in a bluray or a DVD it can be a good minute or two before you have the privilege to actually watch what you bought.
You claim that you've never had this? I call bullshit. The studios even specifically put a requirement into players to make these unskippable for your viewing pleasure. It even has it's own name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Oh. You want to purchase content in a way that you don't actually own it or control how it is delivered.
You missed the point. The point is not always to own something. The point is to get what you want when you pay. Sometimes that means owning a disc, sometimes that means wanting to stream something from a service that is being subscribed to. The problem is the same. Paying a rental fee only to have inaccessible content because of profit margins by publishers is just as bad as DRM at driving people towards piracy.
The closest I come to being "nickle and dimed" for streaming content is for Amazon Prime
Not talking about movies here. So not sure why you are talking about a streaming service. You want nickle and diming? Bethesda charges you $15 to turn your main character blue in Fallout 76,... on a $25 game. And this is not some isolated case about one game or even one publisher. The DLC shit has gotten way out of hand, especially when DLC is contained on the frigging disc itself. This is why so many pirated games come with DLC content pirated too... on the first frigging day of release.
If you buy the DVD, you can play it using many different players, and typically rip it to disk, all without seeing "adverts" or "logo screens".
Is I was like OMG dat Congress woman like totally *destroyed* that equinox CEO. It was so incredible I like literally could not even anymore. I literally died right there and I'm still dying now.
However in America the first Amendment prevents me from being put in jail from my viewpoints
But in China being in America prevents you from jail as well as so much more. If you're afraid of a foreign government more than your own because of a several centuries old piece of paper then you're doing something very wrong.
Amazingly yes your choices are regulated for public health reasons.
But there is a better way. Maybe we can put a kill switch in computer that simply boots a computer that hasn't had an update in 7 days off the internet. That'll teach the anti-vaxxers.
I was saying that critics can have a conflict of interest. Like being employed by the same company that make the money they are critiquing.
In what way are the critical aggregated scores putting critics in the employ of specific movie studios? That doesn't make any sense. Unless you're saying there's a deep underground conspiracy that ensures that critics across a variety of news publishers are secretly being paid by movie studios rather than the news publishers that employ them... all the while randomly panning movies not related to specific publishers to hide their paid services?
As tin foil hat as that sounds at least it is some kind of an explanation, but so far your post or your claim didn't make any kind of sense at all.
So I am required to create a custom installer to avoid installing tons of Microsoft crapware?
Yes that is literally what Microsoft requires people to do when rolling out Enterprise Windows.
Yes, I've done it before, and it's an incredibly convoluted process.
A process that needs to be done once for however many of thousands of machines you process. I mean we are talking about Windows 10 Enterprise here. You do mean this is a work machine managed in a central IT group right? Because there's no other legal way you'd be running that specific version of Windows you are complaining about.
Which brings me back to my point, why would I ever need XBox software on my Enterprise installation?
Hmmm I wonder if there's any companies you can think of that develop games? Nope I can't think of any either.
Every publisher is giving a "good" offer. The level of "goodness" being the system you use to get content is not at all within their control. What I describe is a pure luck that favours the first mover over any other factor of "goodness". E.g. EPIC game store could actually be epic, could actually live up to it's name, could offer cheaper games than competitors and thus meet all of the definitions of "good", but still not be suitable for the reasons I mentioned.
No, the problem is plug-and-play. If the OS didn't install a driver and immediately allow the device to operate as soon as it was plugged in, we wouldn't have this problem.
Not true. There's a myriad of devices in your computer attached to various devices that are completely OS independent and create a security risk. Do you have a driver for your RAM stick?
Larger and larger corporations are coalescing into big, giant. anti-consumer piles of shit.
This is the natural end state of the free market. What people think is endless competition is called the perfect market and is an unstable state in any free market system. The free market when left completely unchecked will ultimately converge to a few mega corporations that own everything.
People heap shit on the EU for not "innovating" mega corporations into existence forgetting that no good comes of it.
There is no one size fits all approach. Enterprise windows allows corporations to control updates, reboots, remove everything including the xbox crap and even the windows store itself.
The real annoying part is that we pro-sumers can't get that good Enterprise version in any legal way.
Or the totally useless "experts" on answers.microsoft.com who tell you to reboot and then run the update troubleshooter.
These people need to be rounded up, taken out behind the shed and shot. I'm not mincing my words. The world is suffering from over population and there are few people quite as utterly useless as the Microsoft "experts".
Then for a fun part it kills off Google, and since it probably rebooted several times in the night without saying, the Google Chrome restore option is gone and all those Tabs with stuff to read are all gone.
Ctrl+Shit+T will restore the previous tab layout, even through multiple reboots, and clean shutdown of Chrome.
No Its not OK, and I have turned off the auto rebooting, but it still does it.
It will do it after 7 days. If you're shutting down at a random unknown time then you've setup something incorrectly or ignored the message which prompts you to go to settings and actually specify precisely *when* you want to install the update.
The only thing I'm missing is a way to reboot the computer without installing the update. That was available previously but I haven't seen that in Windows 10 yet and is annoying if you're trying to fix a network issue at work as a result of connecting your docking station but don't want to interrupt your work for 15min.
Why the hell does Win10 Enterprise have software for XBox anyway?
Because whoever rolled out your Enterprise release to your computer was an idiot? I mean you're talking about the one release where the Xbox software (along with a large portion of what ships with windows) is actually optional.
A lot of the time, I have open files and it just nukes everything. I've never figured out how that's OK.
A lot of the time I have open files so when the message comes up saying there's an update waiting to be installed I specifically delay it for 1 week knowing full well I will at some point reboot my computer and install the update then.
Without piracy you don't get the full experience of owning content: - Movies with adverts - Unskippable logo screens - The privilege of trying to guess which of the 10 streaming services you subscribe to actually has your movie. - The benefit of running 10 game store clients on your computer at the same time, all wanting to run at startup, all just dying to sell you their exclusive bullshit.
But wait there's more. - Wouldn't you rather part with more money being nickle and dimed with DLC? - That RTX2080 is a bit to fast for you? Well Denuvo will happily drop 5-10fps of your framerate and triple the loading time of your game. - Got too much HDD space? Well why not download all the things in all the languages with all the content you won't use rather than get one of those crappy "repacks" at 1/2 the size of a retail game. SSDs are cheap now anyway.
Piracy will never be as convenient as a good, reasonably-priced offer by the original content distributor.
You're missing availability. Piracy is better than having 10 bloody game stores independently running on a PC, multiple different libraries of music that can't talk to each other, multiple different services offering streaming etc.
Price is only one factor. Not only is piracy as convenient as downloading a game on Steam (okay there's an additional click because you need to install the download), but the end result has been shown to actually run better on computers with less bullshit affecting the end user.
Hell I once pirated a game I already owned because the purchased title was just utterly crippled. People used to complain about a 5-10fps hit for enabling anti-aliasing. Where's the same complaint about Denuvo which has been shown repeatedly to offer the same negative performance impact?
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No. Expiring pages were a necessity of a dynamically generated internet. What we're doing is incorporating the cached system from 10 years ago without breaking what we have now.
Thanks for your insight. To make it easier on us in the future can you please list in alphabetical order all the things you don't use so we don't accidentally bother you again?
How many people write and buy pro-vaccination books?
Lots of people. But the difference is in the name those are given: "Peer reviewed articles"
Man if only they didn't get that vaccine they could have died from a preventable disease and be all the better for it!
Product placement is the only "adverts" I typically see in any of the movies I buy. I can't recall a purchased movie I have stopping in the middle to show me an ad. Also, what is a "logo screen"? The movie title? Again, I don't see these and I purchase a lot of content.
I didn't say middle. I've never seen a purchased bluray that allowed you to get to the menu screen without showing you a trailer or an advert.
Likewise you get to endure a nice title card for the publisher / studio before you get to the menu. Which is a frigging waste since you get to see it again when you hit play. In general if I open up a downloaded file it starts playing. If I throw in a bluray or a DVD it can be a good minute or two before you have the privilege to actually watch what you bought.
You claim that you've never had this? I call bullshit. The studios even specifically put a requirement into players to make these unskippable for your viewing pleasure. It even has it's own name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Oh. You want to purchase content in a way that you don't actually own it or control how it is delivered.
You missed the point. The point is not always to own something. The point is to get what you want when you pay. Sometimes that means owning a disc, sometimes that means wanting to stream something from a service that is being subscribed to. The problem is the same. Paying a rental fee only to have inaccessible content because of profit margins by publishers is just as bad as DRM at driving people towards piracy.
The closest I come to being "nickle and dimed" for streaming content is for Amazon Prime
Not talking about movies here. So not sure why you are talking about a streaming service. You want nickle and diming? Bethesda charges you $15 to turn your main character blue in Fallout 76, ... on a $25 game. And this is not some isolated case about one game or even one publisher. The DLC shit has gotten way out of hand, especially when DLC is contained on the frigging disc itself. This is why so many pirated games come with DLC content pirated too ... on the first frigging day of release.
If you buy the DVD, you can play it using many different players, and typically rip it to disk, all without seeing "adverts" or "logo screens".
ahem ... bullshit.
Is I was like OMG dat Congress woman like totally *destroyed* that equinox CEO. It was so incredible I like literally could not even anymore. I literally died right there and I'm still dying now.
I actually prefer everyone having access. Then they can squabble about who is right.
However in America the first Amendment prevents me from being put in jail from my viewpoints
But in China being in America prevents you from jail as well as so much more. If you're afraid of a foreign government more than your own because of a several centuries old piece of paper then you're doing something very wrong.
Remember Huawei isn't being banned in China.
The problem isn't when I plug something into my machine, but when some passerby or government agency plugs something into my machine.
If this is a concern for you then install system services that disable port access. There are plenty out there, even my motherboard came with one.
The whole issue is that this port is like a hooker on the corner on a Saturday night.
Yes but the risk of a hooker doesn't mean we should give up on awesome sex. If you want physical security, use physical security.
Amazingly yes your choices are regulated for public health reasons.
But there is a better way. Maybe we can put a kill switch in computer that simply boots a computer that hasn't had an update in 7 days off the internet. That'll teach the anti-vaxxers.
I was saying that critics can have a conflict of interest. Like being employed by the same company that make the money they are critiquing.
In what way are the critical aggregated scores putting critics in the employ of specific movie studios? That doesn't make any sense. Unless you're saying there's a deep underground conspiracy that ensures that critics across a variety of news publishers are secretly being paid by movie studios rather than the news publishers that employ them... all the while randomly panning movies not related to specific publishers to hide their paid services?
As tin foil hat as that sounds at least it is some kind of an explanation, but so far your post or your claim didn't make any kind of sense at all.
So I am required to create a custom installer to avoid installing tons of Microsoft crapware?
Yes that is literally what Microsoft requires people to do when rolling out Enterprise Windows.
Yes, I've done it before, and it's an incredibly convoluted process.
A process that needs to be done once for however many of thousands of machines you process. I mean we are talking about Windows 10 Enterprise here. You do mean this is a work machine managed in a central IT group right? Because there's no other legal way you'd be running that specific version of Windows you are complaining about.
Which brings me back to my point, why would I ever need XBox software on my Enterprise installation?
Hmmm I wonder if there's any companies you can think of that develop games? Nope I can't think of any either.
I said "good" offer.
Every publisher is giving a "good" offer. The level of "goodness" being the system you use to get content is not at all within their control. What I describe is a pure luck that favours the first mover over any other factor of "goodness". E.g. EPIC game store could actually be epic, could actually live up to it's name, could offer cheaper games than competitors and thus meet all of the definitions of "good", but still not be suitable for the reasons I mentioned.
Firewire, Express Card, Thunderbolt is just the latest iteration of high speed buses that create security problems.
Fortunately it's one I can protect myself against. A thunderbolt device won't randomly download itself into my port while I'm browsing porn.
No, the problem is plug-and-play. If the OS didn't install a driver and immediately allow the device to operate as soon as it was plugged in, we wouldn't have this problem.
Not true. There's a myriad of devices in your computer attached to various devices that are completely OS independent and create a security risk. Do you have a driver for your RAM stick?
Larger and larger corporations are coalescing into big, giant. anti-consumer piles of shit.
This is the natural end state of the free market. What people think is endless competition is called the perfect market and is an unstable state in any free market system. The free market when left completely unchecked will ultimately converge to a few mega corporations that own everything.
People heap shit on the EU for not "innovating" mega corporations into existence forgetting that no good comes of it.
There is no one size fits all approach. Enterprise windows allows corporations to control updates, reboots, remove everything including the xbox crap and even the windows store itself.
The real annoying part is that we pro-sumers can't get that good Enterprise version in any legal way.
Or the totally useless "experts" on answers.microsoft.com who tell you to reboot and then run the update troubleshooter.
These people need to be rounded up, taken out behind the shed and shot. I'm not mincing my words. The world is suffering from over population and there are few people quite as utterly useless as the Microsoft "experts".
Fixing *that* should be a top priority for Microsoft.
Cryptic error messages WAS the fix. The previous error message said "Something went wrong :-(" and left you screwed.
Better than disabling the reboots is disabling the forced updates altogether.
Sex is so much better without a condom. But for some reason I can't shake this fever.
Then for a fun part it kills off Google, and since it probably rebooted several times in the night without saying, the Google Chrome restore option is gone and all those Tabs with stuff to read are all gone.
Ctrl+Shit+T will restore the previous tab layout, even through multiple reboots, and clean shutdown of Chrome.
No Its not OK, and I have turned off the auto rebooting, but it still does it.
It will do it after 7 days. If you're shutting down at a random unknown time then you've setup something incorrectly or ignored the message which prompts you to go to settings and actually specify precisely *when* you want to install the update.
The only thing I'm missing is a way to reboot the computer without installing the update. That was available previously but I haven't seen that in Windows 10 yet and is annoying if you're trying to fix a network issue at work as a result of connecting your docking station but don't want to interrupt your work for 15min.
Why the hell does Win10 Enterprise have software for XBox anyway?
Because whoever rolled out your Enterprise release to your computer was an idiot? I mean you're talking about the one release where the Xbox software (along with a large portion of what ships with windows) is actually optional.
A lot of the time, I have open files and it just nukes everything. I've never figured out how that's OK.
A lot of the time I have open files so when the message comes up saying there's an update waiting to be installed I specifically delay it for 1 week knowing full well I will at some point reboot my computer and install the update then.
Lean to computer right.
Without piracy you don't get the full experience of owning content:
- Movies with adverts
- Unskippable logo screens
- The privilege of trying to guess which of the 10 streaming services you subscribe to actually has your movie.
- The benefit of running 10 game store clients on your computer at the same time, all wanting to run at startup, all just dying to sell you their exclusive bullshit.
But wait there's more.
- Wouldn't you rather part with more money being nickle and dimed with DLC?
- That RTX2080 is a bit to fast for you? Well Denuvo will happily drop 5-10fps of your framerate and triple the loading time of your game.
- Got too much HDD space? Well why not download all the things in all the languages with all the content you won't use rather than get one of those crappy "repacks" at 1/2 the size of a retail game. SSDs are cheap now anyway.
Piracy will never be as convenient as a good, reasonably-priced offer by the original content distributor.
You're missing availability. Piracy is better than having 10 bloody game stores independently running on a PC, multiple different libraries of music that can't talk to each other, multiple different services offering streaming etc.
Price is only one factor. Not only is piracy as convenient as downloading a game on Steam (okay there's an additional click because you need to install the download), but the end result has been shown to actually run better on computers with less bullshit affecting the end user.
Hell I once pirated a game I already owned because the purchased title was just utterly crippled. People used to complain about a 5-10fps hit for enabling anti-aliasing. Where's the same complaint about Denuvo which has been shown repeatedly to offer the same negative performance impact?