Microsoft owns Bing so fat chance. They have a financial incentive for Google to decide the standards and have their progressive web apps and node js tools only use Chromium and not w3c standards
Good to see you back. Problem is everyone and their brother have uefi and secure boot disabled and CSM 1981 bios emulation so they don't see any increase in boot times nor have a recovery partition. But secure boot is evil so that's fine if you ask anyone here
Firefox has joined Netscape and IE as far as I am concerned. No one cares or writes standards to W3C anymore. Only Chrome matters and being Chromium compliant is what is important in 2019. Even MS is going to use Chromium so why bother learning anything else or standards?
Worse, kids today have no memory of IE 6. The hipster millenials do not remember a different computing world with MS as the king setting standards and do not understand how much of a pain getting off IE 6 and VS 6.0 and Win98/XP was with win32 only software before Internet and mobile apps. So they are only caring what Google does and telling customers to download Chrome as they don't even know what W3C is or care.
The problem is it is now 2002 all over again. All other browers are not Chrome compliant as Google sets the standards. Not W3C.
Just replace IE 6 with Chrome.
At work we have to use Chrome as IE 11 has quirks on some business websites. We MANDATE adblock for security and we are SOL if Google does this as people can't get work done without Chrome. Too many bugs in other browsers and the customer just says use Chrome.
Ethics to me is whose money and resources is he using? If someone elses money is used it's stealing. He didn't own it.
Also he is leveraging his position to get away with things other tennets could not and abusing his power. If you or I were landlords we would get the boot etc. Also if we used the company credit card to fund things we would get fired even if we did pay back!
CEO is no different. I hope he gets caught and gets the boot.
Guess what? Outside conservative US theology as I consider this trickle down a cult, a corporation uses government services.
The government creates free trade, infrastructure for power and roads to distribute product. Government funds courts to protect IP and prosecute theives and keep crime in control. Government provides an educated work force.
I am sorry but business uses government more than we do as citizens. They should pay more. Waahh let's fund republican politicians and convince Joe the Plumber that liberals and welfare cheats are the enemy. Not us who created the deficit. Sadly, it worked.
I don't mean to offend conservatives. But rather point out where our corruption in the US government is. Yes, companies use government and should pay taxes.
Nope. That is stealing. Even if you own 99% of something someone else owns that 1%. If you want to use it as your piggy bank fine, go private and buy back the shares.
If you want sweet investor free cash for your company tough. That money wasn't free and belongs to the shareholders
Not apples to oranges. I am a user who likes the way things were in 2009. I love gnome2. Can I get an Ubuntu 9.10 CD to load on a modern Ryzen 2700x with an rtx 2060 GPU? Windows 7 offers that and yet I see is whining and legal threats .
Also Windows 10 was free. What I did was upgrade so Microsoft had the keys to my CPU and motherboard then downgraded back. I waited for awhile long after the free upgrade but was licensed. I moved after I was ready. That is on you if you refused.
Also you're confusing Microsoft 365 with Windows. Windows is free to low cost. The other is for Office and business services like Cloud storage, Skype conferencing, teams, etc. You are free not to subscribe.
I am not a fan boy and use multiple oses. But I like to not support ancient stuff.
One of the problems with publically traded companies is THEY HAVE TO INCREASE SHARE PRICE at all costs. They simple multiple the existing shares into more when they become expensive and Wall Street must always get a 15% indefinitely.
Since their margins can't continue they will simple raise prices to make up. Intel is doing the same to make shareholders happy even if they sell more units. Both have rapid fanboys on youtube watching LinuS Tech Tips, Gamers Nexus, Jayz2cents and so on and are willing to sacrafice and credit card to have the best cards like Apple people (not all but the ones who buy this shit).
It leaves a bad taste in an average smart (not dollar dumb) gamers mouths. It may leave an opportunity for AMD which they laugh at and shun, but Nvidia has been quite scummy these past 2 years and resentment and anger is growing over the PC master race crowd with pricing and being douches.
My PC is a 2014 era i7 4770K. It ran Windows 7 originally, 8.1, and now 10 Pro.
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.
Spyware? MS released what they collect. You can even download a tool to take a peak. It is just telemetry data on crashes,event logs, time spent on programs, battery and CPU life for apps/programs, and no keystroke logger. The only time this is exposed is when you use Cortana as duh, Cortona needs to see what you typed uploaded. All are random ID's not tied to your MS ID for them or anyone to see.
Your cell phone is far more evasive and tracks EVERYTHING WITH your Gmail or AppleID.
Have a link to some firewall software since WIndows2000 doesn't even come with one or UPNP support for ports?
You can get 0wned in a heart beat today and I think Black Ice (If I remember the name as it's been almost 20 years) is what I had to use to keep the bad guys out of Netscape on it with my 56K modem.
I think not. WindowsXP was a real nightmare and more of one due to changes in drivers, security, and things that had to run as a server rather as an admin, and most of all incompatible and different GPO (group policy objects) using admx instead of adm, and of course Internet Explorer 6 which apps still required back in 2014.
These problems are not present in 10.
No one cares about the spyware thing as their phones are far worse. Infact, MS realized what they collected. It is no keystroke logger and more telemetrics on apps crashing, cortana searches if one chooses to use it, and time on apps with an anonymous ID. I always sign up for these in applications (not Windows) so developers can fix bugs. Big deal. Oh and these scary telemetry has been back ported to 7 many years ago.
I am not a MS fanboy but these comments are a little absurd. I heard the same DO NOT TAKE MY XP AWAY!!! silliness back in 2013 here. This is a technology forum and in my opinion is embarrassing to see things like this here rather than on an AARP website. It is no big deal to use WIndows 10. I have been using it at work for a year and a half now and at home since the end of 2016. I survived just fine.
Infact, I enjoy the smaller kernel, less boot times, WSL Linux, and Hyper-V which blows virtualbox out of the water in performance and has great FreeBSD and Linux support without tools right out of the box or kernel of both operating systems.
Windows 7 is going to go meet XP and Windows98 in heaven.
Take the hairyfeey challenge? Take any Linux distro and upgrade 2 major versions and see if it still functions?
Windows has a stable ABI unlike Linux so it breaks far less. The echo chamber on slashdot says otherwise but try it? Xorg and drivers will always fail between kernels and versions
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That's not incompetence. That is freaking lazy web developers coding to just Chrome and ignoring W3c standards.
I swear 15 years ago I saw the same shit on how awesome IE 6 is
Microsoft owns Bing so fat chance. They have a financial incentive for Google to decide the standards and have their progressive web apps and node js tools only use Chromium and not w3c standards
Good to see you back. Problem is everyone and their brother have uefi and secure boot disabled and CSM 1981 bios emulation so they don't see any increase in boot times nor have a recovery partition. But secure boot is evil so that's fine if you ask anyone here
History repeats itself. Out with the old Boss IE 6 and in with the new boss Chrome same as the old boss.
Firefox has joined Netscape and IE as far as I am concerned. No one cares or writes standards to W3C anymore. Only Chrome matters and being Chromium compliant is what is important in 2019. Even MS is going to use Chromium so why bother learning anything else or standards?
Worse, kids today have no memory of IE 6. The hipster millenials do not remember a different computing world with MS as the king setting standards and do not understand how much of a pain getting off IE 6 and VS 6.0 and Win98/XP was with win32 only software before Internet and mobile apps. So they are only caring what Google does and telling customers to download Chrome as they don't even know what W3C is or care.
The problem is it is now 2002 all over again. All other browers are not Chrome compliant as Google sets the standards. Not W3C.
Just replace IE 6 with Chrome.
At work we have to use Chrome as IE 11 has quirks on some business websites. We MANDATE adblock for security and we are SOL if Google does this as people can't get work done without Chrome. Too many bugs in other browsers and the customer just says use Chrome.
We can stomp out socialism and have real freedom. Let's show those Europeans a thing or two?
Throughout history greed wins Everytime. Especially among Americans who consider it socialism to do anything about it
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Ethics to me is whose money and resources is he using? If someone elses money is used it's stealing. He didn't own it.
Also he is leveraging his position to get away with things other tennets could not and abusing his power. If you or I were landlords we would get the boot etc. Also if we used the company credit card to fund things we would get fired even if we did pay back!
CEO is no different. I hope he gets caught and gets the boot.
Guess what? Outside conservative US theology as I consider this trickle down a cult, a corporation uses government services.
The government creates free trade, infrastructure for power and roads to distribute product. Government funds courts to protect IP and prosecute theives and keep crime in control. Government provides an educated work force.
I am sorry but business uses government more than we do as citizens. They should pay more. Waahh let's fund republican politicians and convince Joe the Plumber that liberals and welfare cheats are the enemy. Not us who created the deficit. Sadly, it worked.
I don't mean to offend conservatives. But rather point out where our corruption in the US government is. Yes, companies use government and should pay taxes.
Nope. That is stealing. Even if you own 99% of something someone else owns that 1%. If you want to use it as your piggy bank fine, go private and buy back the shares.
If you want sweet investor free cash for your company tough. That money wasn't free and belongs to the shareholders
There is a difference in ethics between a corporation owning a McDonald's vs the CEO.
Not to say McDonald's is a saint. They have been known to take a few mom and pop ones
Not apples to oranges. I am a user who likes the way things were in 2009. I love gnome2. Can I get an Ubuntu 9.10 CD to load on a modern Ryzen 2700x with an rtx 2060 GPU? Windows 7 offers that and yet I see is whining and legal threats .
Also Windows 10 was free. What I did was upgrade so Microsoft had the keys to my CPU and motherboard then downgraded back. I waited for awhile long after the free upgrade but was licensed. I moved after I was ready. That is on you if you refused.
Also you're confusing Microsoft 365 with Windows. Windows is free to low cost. The other is for Office and business services like Cloud storage, Skype conferencing, teams, etc. You are free not to subscribe.
I am not a fan boy and use multiple oses. But I like to not support ancient stuff.
According to Tech of Tommorow the 2070 and 2060 are great cheap value entry level cards and the price has only went up due to inflation ... lol
The nvidia fanboys took it hook and sinker and how they are geat entry level cards because they are as fast as a 1070ti for less money.
IT is hard to break to them.
One of the problems with publically traded companies is THEY HAVE TO INCREASE SHARE PRICE at all costs. They simple multiple the existing shares into more when they become expensive and Wall Street must always get a 15% indefinitely.
Since their margins can't continue they will simple raise prices to make up. Intel is doing the same to make shareholders happy even if they sell more units. Both have rapid fanboys on youtube watching LinuS Tech Tips, Gamers Nexus, Jayz2cents and so on and are willing to sacrafice and credit card to have the best cards like Apple people (not all but the ones who buy this shit).
It leaves a bad taste in an average smart (not dollar dumb) gamers mouths. It may leave an opportunity for AMD which they laugh at and shun, but Nvidia has been quite scummy these past 2 years and resentment and anger is growing over the PC master race crowd with pricing and being douches.
My PC is a 2014 era i7 4770K. It ran Windows 7 originally, 8.1, and now 10 Pro.
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.
Spyware? MS released what they collect. You can even download a tool to take a peak. It is just telemetry data on crashes,event logs, time spent on programs, battery and CPU life for apps/programs, and no keystroke logger. The only time this is exposed is when you use Cortana as duh, Cortona needs to see what you typed uploaded. All are random ID's not tied to your MS ID for them or anyone to see.
Your cell phone is far more evasive and tracks EVERYTHING WITH your Gmail or AppleID.
Which is why any true geek builds his or her own computer and gets LED lights to get the girls. ok ok I can dream on that last one.
MythTV? Google it? It runs on FreeBSD and can be a great DVR
Have a link to some firewall software since WIndows2000 doesn't even come with one or UPNP support for ports?
You can get 0wned in a heart beat today and I think Black Ice (If I remember the name as it's been almost 20 years) is what I had to use to keep the bad guys out of Netscape on it with my 56K modem.
I think not. WindowsXP was a real nightmare and more of one due to changes in drivers, security, and things that had to run as a server rather as an admin, and most of all incompatible and different GPO (group policy objects) using admx instead of adm, and of course Internet Explorer 6 which apps still required back in 2014.
These problems are not present in 10.
No one cares about the spyware thing as their phones are far worse. Infact, MS realized what they collected. It is no keystroke logger and more telemetrics on apps crashing, cortana searches if one chooses to use it, and time on apps with an anonymous ID. I always sign up for these in applications (not Windows) so developers can fix bugs. Big deal. Oh and these scary telemetry has been back ported to 7 many years ago.
I am not a MS fanboy but these comments are a little absurd. I heard the same DO NOT TAKE MY XP AWAY!!! silliness back in 2013 here. This is a technology forum and in my opinion is embarrassing to see things like this here rather than on an AARP website. It is no big deal to use WIndows 10. I have been using it at work for a year and a half now and at home since the end of 2016. I survived just fine.
Infact, I enjoy the smaller kernel, less boot times, WSL Linux, and Hyper-V which blows virtualbox out of the water in performance and has great FreeBSD and Linux support without tools right out of the box or kernel of both operating systems.
Windows 7 is going to go meet XP and Windows98 in heaven.
TrueOS is a buggy shitfest the first two or 3 times I tried it a few years ago.
If you are going to do FreeBSD at least do something stable and supported. It does require you to go to /usr/ports to get your GUI though
Know any Linux distros from 2009 that run on modern hardware and still supported?
Take the hairyfeey challenge? Take any Linux distro and upgrade 2 major versions and see if it still functions?
Windows has a stable ABI unlike Linux so it breaks far less. The echo chamber on slashdot says otherwise but try it? Xorg and drivers will always fail between kernels and versions
Anything by Oracle ... In 2019 even?!?