Firefox allows you to control the look of the scrollbar. It appeared to me as this thin strip about 5px wide almost the same colour as the background grey, also without any up/down arrows. I think I was in some A|B testing as it's gone now.
EVERY cert test I've ever taken tests not knowledge of the subject/product, but the ability to do rote memorization of the training materials, even if it's wrong. It's all a moneymaking scam.
Agreed. I took a JavaScript course and they insisted that the Java reserve words were also reserve words in JS, despite that version of JS being scrapped. They went so far as to include it in the final exam. The course was also 9 years out of date.
The recommendation was that people use Pro instead of Home to workaround the automatic install issue, presumably that's for everyone because in Microsoft's and the AC mind everyone is in the same situation and there will never be any bugs/failures/oddities/malware/times you want to use your computer & not install updates, etc.
The plain and simple fact is the folks that wrote the fucking OS likely DO know better than the average idiot who doesn't even know what Windows Update is, or why they should do it, which is why it is turned on automagically for that particular crowd.
Retard and be paranoid all you want in the enterprise. Scrutiny is far more critical there. I'd prefer not to continue to populate the earth with massive botnets due to ignorance, or more specifically mentalities like yours.
You do realize the irony here right? The "folks that wrote the fucking OS" are pushing out patches because they fucked up something and need to fix it. Even in the past 6 months MS has had to pull patches because they were breaking peoples systems. You want that on a mass scale?
Make the entire folder read-only. Done. But this begs the question: what kind of anal retentive asshole would not want to receive Windows security updates? Why is this even an issue? If I upgrade to Windows 10, I want every security update the second it comes out. Sooner, if possible.
It's not the wanting of the security updates more than the timing of security updates. I set aside a time to handle this sort of maintenance, do it all at once and then I'm done with it until the next time. I don't want to be dealing with it on their schedule. I certainly don't want to be in the middle of a project/game/anything and all the sudden my system tells me I have X minutes before it reboots for a security update. I don't care if it can be postponed, I don't even want the warning to interrupt what I'm doing.
MS's approach actually seems sensible to me and for the better good. 1) If you know enough about patches to delay them, and manually manage them you should probably be using Windows Pro anyways.
There are innumerable times where it's just inconvenient to install patches. Then there's issues like early Win8 patches were causing system instability. Then there's the out of date drivers that are wanting to be installed when you've already installed ones that are multiple versions newer - it just doesn't know that.
2) This will help discourage businesses from using Windows home in the business which is a good thing.
Except that the more the two differ the less work you'll be able to get your employees to do at home/more training you'll have to do hiring new employees/etc
3) Hopefully this will create better communication with MS and 3rd party software vendors so they can release updates which don't break things. (which is less likely to happen to home users anyways... in my experience it's the highly custom proprietary software inside of companies that usually breaks)
hahaha - you're kidding right?
4) this has an easy work around... use the Pro version instead of Home, which is what I normally recommend anyways. I used to charge 2x the hourly rate to work on home versions of XP, Vista.... not as bad with Win 7, etc... but still...
Fair enough, but if everyone is using the pro version instead of home, why have the home version that just annoys/insults/abuses users?
Also I would add business. I know business versions are unaffected by this, but it could still be a sign of things to come. The average office cemented themselves into the Microsoft ecosystem decades ago. Off the top of my head I could count at least a dozen critical applications my company absolutely can't live without that are Windows only.
How many have been tried with windows emulation on Linux?
The users. They can vote with their wallets, and refuse to use Microsoft software if they don't like it.
Wallets don't impact free products. Sure I can refuse to install it, which I am for the foreseeable future, but the impact of that decision to the company is near zero.
My roommate bought one that came with Vista in 2007, it had better specs, and she would swear at it non-stop because it would always be running something in the background/slow doing nothing but word processing. Does my anecdote trump yours?
I'm on Win8.1, I'd upgrade to Win7 if I could, Win10 isn't touching my system until I can confirm without a doubt that it doesn't suck as much as Win8.1. If that's the case, it'll get installed but no way am I subscribing to the yearly release Microsoft wants. My next system will be Microsoft free.
Vista was crap. Driver issues aside, they simply screwed it up early on and it wasn't until about 18-24 months later, once they patched the code that was causing major bottlenecks, that the system started to stabilize. It was a clusterfuck before then.
Windows 7 is not without its issues either. There was an incredibly simple paradigm that let me teach "how to use a computer" to the computer illiterate: Left click selects (ie focus), right click gives you the options (ie: context), and double click starts things (ie: executes).
Vista botched this and it's been steadily getting worse with each successive release. Now it matters where you right click to get context, left clicking sometimes executes sometimes selects sometimes does nothing, focus is 'sort of given' on simply mousing over but if you right click it doesn't consistently give you the right context of a 'sort of in focus item'. Don't even get me started on the 'sort of focus' + 'actual focus' + context button inconsistencies. Then there's the oddities, like doing a multi-select - sometimes it drags, sometimes it multi-selects, mostly though if the first item has 'actual focus' you cannot start a multi-select on that item without first de-selecting it or going to the keyboard. If you multi-select and right click an "empty space" outside the multi-select you lose your multi-select, the first item selected or last item "used" gets a 3rd kind of focus, and you get a default context menu but if you do an identical such space inside the multi-select you get a completely different context menu.
There are consistencies but they are so fractured and so many that it becomes impossible to know what's going to happen when you perform identical actions in slightly different contexts.
Then there's the mess that is USB. I constantly bump into the problem that devices won't work unless I either put them in the last port used or manually tell Windows to forget about the device. I'm sure that's partly my fault for not selecting the "safely remove device" option but how hard is it to set a timer to check for the presence of a device that was plugged in and if it's not there/not responding, delete it from the registry.
I could go on but chances are you'll find reasons why my problems are not really problems and I should just get used to it. Problem is, I don't like bad functionality. I can put up with bad visual design as long as it works intuitively, consistently, and without special knowledge. I cannot say that of anything Microsoft has put out since XP.
The phone isn't requiring you to know what a service/daemon/TSR etc is. It simply requires that you know that the backup program backs up what you tell it to and the photo program does other things with photos. Just because the user changed the backup settings in the photo app does not mean that the backup app will suddenly revert those changes when you uninstall the photo app.
What's the saying? "Can't fix stupid", "Stupid is as stupid does", "Everything happens for a reason, sometimes that reason is you're stupid and you make bad decisions"... or simply http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-con...
The one thing I don't get is that flights are constantly over weight, or at least that's their excuse for jacking up baggage fees, so how do they expect to handle the extra weight from 80 more people?
Where did you get that idea from? They jack up baggage fes because they can, no other reason.
Oh it's one of the default lines that Canadian carriers trot out when they added fees to more than 1 checked bag, then baggage in general, and so on. They never seem to have the room/weight capacity for luggage but always for passengers and freight.
It isn't about getting more seats in a plane, it's about doing so without making people uncomfortable.
This looks like it would work fine if everyone knew each other - but would suck if you had an annoying seat mate. Who wants to be forced to look at them - or have them look at you?
This design violates current social norms for personal space. As such I dislike it.
Seriously. I can fit hundreds more in a plane if I put everyone laying down grouped by height/weight. How do they expect people to get in and out? Worst of all, can you imagine the creepy guys staring at the women in front of them all flight long? I'm a man and it creeps me out.
The one thing I don't get is that flights are constantly over weight, or at least that's their excuse for jacking up baggage fees, so how do they expect to handle the extra weight from 80 more people?
They may have turned it on in the app but it's just toggling a global setting that can be accessed from multiple locations/apps. The app itself isn't performing any backup, it's just an ease of access setting within the app for the backup function. At best it might need a better description within the app.
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The update issue doesn't exist for enterprise systems. Just the consumer and SB-oriented Home and Pro versions.
So you want me to pay enterprise pricing to keep the ability to have control over my own home system? No thank you.
I wonder how much Microsoft paid to Dice in order to get this article placed here?
Probably not much, they'll do anything for a dollar.
All I know for sure, Win10 isn't touching any system I work on until the update issue is backtracked on.
Firefox allows you to control the look of the scrollbar. It appeared to me as this thin strip about 5px wide almost the same colour as the background grey, also without any up/down arrows. I think I was in some A|B testing as it's gone now.
EVERY cert test I've ever taken tests not knowledge of the subject/product, but the ability to do rote memorization of the training materials, even if it's wrong. It's all a moneymaking scam.
Agreed. I took a JavaScript course and they insisted that the Java reserve words were also reserve words in JS, despite that version of JS being scrapped. They went so far as to include it in the final exam. The course was also 9 years out of date.
More Dice clickbait. Fuck off samzenpus.
And give me my fucking scrollbar back!!! Not everyone uses trackpad scrolling (disable mine as it never behaves as it should due to lousy drivers)
Yes, you are supposed to stay updated with the latest Bing Bar! (buried in the Windows Essentials auto-update with no way not to install it)
The Irony is No OS, No Software of any kind has been released bug free, Ever.
No OS, sure. Software has been released bug free... it's just so simple/old now that few people remember... unless you count that "game" in a tweet ;)
The recommendation was that people use Pro instead of Home to workaround the automatic install issue, presumably that's for everyone because in Microsoft's and the AC mind everyone is in the same situation and there will never be any bugs/failures/oddities/malware/times you want to use your computer & not install updates, etc.
Either option really. Many people just say "we need windows" without trying to see if they can operate/do minor updates to allow it to run elsewhere.
OK, troll, let's try this again.
The plain and simple fact is the folks that wrote the fucking OS likely DO know better than the average idiot who doesn't even know what Windows Update is, or why they should do it, which is why it is turned on automagically for that particular crowd.
Retard and be paranoid all you want in the enterprise. Scrutiny is far more critical there. I'd prefer not to continue to populate the earth with massive botnets due to ignorance, or more specifically mentalities like yours.
You do realize the irony here right? The "folks that wrote the fucking OS" are pushing out patches because they fucked up something and need to fix it. Even in the past 6 months MS has had to pull patches because they were breaking peoples systems. You want that on a mass scale?
Make the entire folder read-only. Done. But this begs the question: what kind of anal retentive asshole would not want to receive Windows security updates? Why is this even an issue? If I upgrade to Windows 10, I want every security update the second it comes out. Sooner, if possible.
It's not the wanting of the security updates more than the timing of security updates. I set aside a time to handle this sort of maintenance, do it all at once and then I'm done with it until the next time. I don't want to be dealing with it on their schedule. I certainly don't want to be in the middle of a project/game/anything and all the sudden my system tells me I have X minutes before it reboots for a security update. I don't care if it can be postponed, I don't even want the warning to interrupt what I'm doing.
5) Most "home" users won't even notice the change and will just go on with their day.
They won't, it's the geeks who support them that will suffer.
MS's approach actually seems sensible to me and for the better good.
1) If you know enough about patches to delay them, and manually manage them you should probably be using Windows Pro anyways.
There are innumerable times where it's just inconvenient to install patches. Then there's issues like early Win8 patches were causing system instability. Then there's the out of date drivers that are wanting to be installed when you've already installed ones that are multiple versions newer - it just doesn't know that.
2) This will help discourage businesses from using Windows home in the business which is a good thing.
Except that the more the two differ the less work you'll be able to get your employees to do at home/more training you'll have to do hiring new employees/etc
3) Hopefully this will create better communication with MS and 3rd party software vendors so they can release updates which don't break things. (which is less likely to happen to home users anyways... in my experience it's the highly custom proprietary software inside of companies that usually breaks)
hahaha - you're kidding right?
4) this has an easy work around... use the Pro version instead of Home, which is what I normally recommend anyways. I used to charge 2x the hourly rate to work on home versions of XP, Vista.... not as bad with Win 7, etc... but still...
Fair enough, but if everyone is using the pro version instead of home, why have the home version that just annoys/insults/abuses users?
Also I would add business. I know business versions are unaffected by this, but it could still be a sign of things to come. The average office cemented themselves into the Microsoft ecosystem decades ago. Off the top of my head I could count at least a dozen critical applications my company absolutely can't live without that are Windows only.
How many have been tried with windows emulation on Linux?
The users. They can vote with their wallets, and refuse to use Microsoft software if they don't like it.
Wallets don't impact free products. Sure I can refuse to install it, which I am for the foreseeable future, but the impact of that decision to the company is near zero.
My roommate bought one that came with Vista in 2007, it had better specs, and she would swear at it non-stop because it would always be running something in the background/slow doing nothing but word processing. Does my anecdote trump yours?
I'm on Win8.1, I'd upgrade to Win7 if I could, Win10 isn't touching my system until I can confirm without a doubt that it doesn't suck as much as Win8.1. If that's the case, it'll get installed but no way am I subscribing to the yearly release Microsoft wants. My next system will be Microsoft free.
I have no knowledge of what the app says/doesn't say. As I stated in a previous post, "At best it might need a better description within the app.".
Vista was crap. Driver issues aside, they simply screwed it up early on and it wasn't until about 18-24 months later, once they patched the code that was causing major bottlenecks, that the system started to stabilize. It was a clusterfuck before then.
Windows 7 is not without its issues either. There was an incredibly simple paradigm that let me teach "how to use a computer" to the computer illiterate: Left click selects (ie focus), right click gives you the options (ie: context), and double click starts things (ie: executes).
Vista botched this and it's been steadily getting worse with each successive release. Now it matters where you right click to get context, left clicking sometimes executes sometimes selects sometimes does nothing, focus is 'sort of given' on simply mousing over but if you right click it doesn't consistently give you the right context of a 'sort of in focus item'. Don't even get me started on the 'sort of focus' + 'actual focus' + context button inconsistencies. Then there's the oddities, like doing a multi-select - sometimes it drags, sometimes it multi-selects, mostly though if the first item has 'actual focus' you cannot start a multi-select on that item without first de-selecting it or going to the keyboard. If you multi-select and right click an "empty space" outside the multi-select you lose your multi-select, the first item selected or last item "used" gets a 3rd kind of focus, and you get a default context menu but if you do an identical such space inside the multi-select you get a completely different context menu.
There are consistencies but they are so fractured and so many that it becomes impossible to know what's going to happen when you perform identical actions in slightly different contexts.
Then there's the mess that is USB. I constantly bump into the problem that devices won't work unless I either put them in the last port used or manually tell Windows to forget about the device. I'm sure that's partly my fault for not selecting the "safely remove device" option but how hard is it to set a timer to check for the presence of a device that was plugged in and if it's not there/not responding, delete it from the registry.
I could go on but chances are you'll find reasons why my problems are not really problems and I should just get used to it. Problem is, I don't like bad functionality. I can put up with bad visual design as long as it works intuitively, consistently, and without special knowledge. I cannot say that of anything Microsoft has put out since XP.
The phone isn't requiring you to know what a service/daemon/TSR etc is. It simply requires that you know that the backup program backs up what you tell it to and the photo program does other things with photos. Just because the user changed the backup settings in the photo app does not mean that the backup app will suddenly revert those changes when you uninstall the photo app.
What's the saying? "Can't fix stupid", "Stupid is as stupid does", "Everything happens for a reason, sometimes that reason is you're stupid and you make bad decisions"... or simply http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-con...
And why aren't there baby seats - it can't be safe to be on the lap in the event of a crash... it's like they want babies to die.
Yeah, they're bullshitting you.
Ya think? Probably why they're part of an anti-trust suit now.
Where did you get that idea from? They jack up baggage fes because they can, no other reason.
Oh it's one of the default lines that Canadian carriers trot out when they added fees to more than 1 checked bag, then baggage in general, and so on. They never seem to have the room/weight capacity for luggage but always for passengers and freight.
It isn't about getting more seats in a plane, it's about doing so without making people uncomfortable.
This looks like it would work fine if everyone knew each other - but would suck if you had an annoying seat mate. Who wants to be forced to look at them - or have them look at you?
This design violates current social norms for personal space. As such I dislike it.
Seriously. I can fit hundreds more in a plane if I put everyone laying down grouped by height/weight. How do they expect people to get in and out? Worst of all, can you imagine the creepy guys staring at the women in front of them all flight long? I'm a man and it creeps me out.
The one thing I don't get is that flights are constantly over weight, or at least that's their excuse for jacking up baggage fees, so how do they expect to handle the extra weight from 80 more people?
They may have turned it on in the app but it's just toggling a global setting that can be accessed from multiple locations/apps. The app itself isn't performing any backup, it's just an ease of access setting within the app for the backup function. At best it might need a better description within the app.