the integrated video recording is WORSE than useless. the bitrate is so terrible (even at its highest quality setting) that the video is completely unusable. literally every other solution i've tried, including free ones like Bandicam, and the free one that came bundled with my video card, do the job far, far better.
i mean... it's fine, i guess. it's stable, anyway. it runs all the programs i've tried so far. HOWEVER:
do your research and make sure you disable all the keyloggers and adware and "data sharing" features that come bundled with it, which are turned on by default. make sure you're ok with having an operating system that will basically constantly advertise at you, trying to steer you towards the MS store. be prepared to have the thing constantly try to link you up with your "Microsoft Account" and use that as your desktop login. Oh, and hope you like ads on your Start menu.
the good news is you can remove the advertisements from Windows Solitaire for just $1.50 per month! what a deal!
Microsoft is assaulting its user base with features and upgrades that they don't want.
hounding, harassing, misleading, and tricking users into doing things they don't want to do is a great way to lose even more market share and foster an even more toxic reputation that Microsoft is unscrupulous and an increasing unnecessary nuisance.
it is hilarious to me that there are actually people here who will defend MS and even blame users for their OS being upgraded against their intentions.
when you have to watch your own system like a hawk and protect it from multiple vectors of attack... from the company that MADE that OS... man, it is time to re-evaluate whether it's worth the hassle at all. amazingly, Microsoft has managed to plant that seed of thought not in rabble-rousing Linux faithful, but average joes and janes who have no desire to become security experts and update ninjas just to keep their machine from changing its operating system on them. good job MS, alienating one of your most faithful demographics.
haha, why are you bothering to defend this horrible practice?
she did not want the upgrade. somehow it wound up on there. there are THOUSANDS of people with the same story. you want to write a book on why she TECHNICALLY must have agreed to install it at some point, fine, but the bottom line is she was tricked into installing it, and her story is an extremely common one. It's a shitty tactic and it's creating millions of brand new microsoft haters who previously didn't really have an opinion on the company.
The messages use a variety of misleading text. For example, my wife was tricked into upgrading to Windows10 because after clicking "no thanks" a certain number of times, it eventually asked her "do you want to upgrade to Windows 10 now, or later?" and she clicked "later", meaning "never", but it installed it later that day, assuming it had permission.
if you want to argue that TECHNICALLY she agreed to install it, fine, but in my opinion when a major avenue of adoption is tricking its users into installing it, that is pretty much the definition of evil.
on my wife's laptop, it had been asking her for months if she wanted to upgrade to Windows 10, and she kept clicking no thanks. Well, last week it tried a new tactic -- it said "do you want to upgrade to Windows 10 now, or later?" she picked "later" (meaning never), but the thing dutifully upgraded to Windows 10 once she walked away! i guess it figured it was "later" and had her permission. (and yes of course she fucking hates it, it adds nothing of value!)
not necessarily sticking up for the console or denying Nintendo's mistakes, but there are some really fun games on that platform. My kids and I have spent countless hours enjoying the hell out of Super Mario Maker, Super Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8, and Super Smash Bros.
yeah, i know, that's a whole lotta mario, and probably a clue to its failure. but they are great games, what can i say.
seriously, phone calls is like 1% of what people use these things for.
in addition to being a portable gaming system, email device, messaging tool, web browser, photo/video camera, walkman, television, alarm clock, weather forecaster, pinball leveler, and about a million other things, the future of this device is clearly moving in the direction of replacing things like photo ID and credit card. the term "smartphone" does not fit. it's like calling a car a "smart chair".
eh, maybe. but if they got rid of all those social wedge issues, what's left? tax breaks for the rich? subsidies for fossil fuels? dirtier air and water? meh.
honestly, those social wedge issues that, while keeping young people, gays, and minorities away, are EXACTLY what keeps the GOP so staunchly in power in the deep south and amongst old people. Those folks march to the polls and vote in every little primary and off-year election and are driven by pure white hot fear and hatred. it's a hell of a motivator, and i assume the GOP believes it can't afford to take the risk of abandoning those troops.
It never ceases to amaze me how many Christians suffer under the insanely moronic misconception that ethical values spring from religion and religion alone.
I mean somehow I doubt better access to broadband is going to solve Mississippi's education problems. I'm willing to bet Massachusetts kids were trouncing Mississippi kids long before the internet came along.
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i don't think anyone's arguing that you're the one paying. you're just a simulated AI (who's been programmed to think he's not).
this, exactly. most of the differences between Windows 7 and Windows 10 are anti-features that don't stop bugging you to use them.
the integrated video recording is WORSE than useless. the bitrate is so terrible (even at its highest quality setting) that the video is completely unusable. literally every other solution i've tried, including free ones like Bandicam, and the free one that came bundled with my video card, do the job far, far better.
i mean ... it's fine, i guess. it's stable, anyway. it runs all the programs i've tried so far. HOWEVER:
do your research and make sure you disable all the keyloggers and adware and "data sharing" features that come bundled with it, which are turned on by default. make sure you're ok with having an operating system that will basically constantly advertise at you, trying to steer you towards the MS store. be prepared to have the thing constantly try to link you up with your "Microsoft Account" and use that as your desktop login. Oh, and hope you like ads on your Start menu.
the good news is you can remove the advertisements from Windows Solitaire for just $1.50 per month! what a deal!
Microsoft is assaulting its user base with features and upgrades that they don't want.
hounding, harassing, misleading, and tricking users into doing things they don't want to do is a great way to lose even more market share and foster an even more toxic reputation that Microsoft is unscrupulous and an increasing unnecessary nuisance.
it is hilarious to me that there are actually people here who will defend MS and even blame users for their OS being upgraded against their intentions.
when you have to watch your own system like a hawk and protect it from multiple vectors of attack ... from the company that MADE that OS ... man, it is time to re-evaluate whether it's worth the hassle at all. amazingly, Microsoft has managed to plant that seed of thought not in rabble-rousing Linux faithful, but average joes and janes who have no desire to become security experts and update ninjas just to keep their machine from changing its operating system on them. good job MS, alienating one of your most faithful demographics.
just ignore the crazy racist.
not everyone who picks up a guitar needs or wants to be a virtuoso. sometimes you just want to sing a ditty for your friends or charm your girlfriend.
the more the merrier.
not force. hound, trick, annoy, mislead, badger, pester, cajole, deceive, manipulate, and confuse, yes, but not force.
haha, why are you bothering to defend this horrible practice?
she did not want the upgrade. somehow it wound up on there. there are THOUSANDS of people with the same story. you want to write a book on why she TECHNICALLY must have agreed to install it at some point, fine, but the bottom line is she was tricked into installing it, and her story is an extremely common one. It's a shitty tactic and it's creating millions of brand new microsoft haters who previously didn't really have an opinion on the company.
The messages use a variety of misleading text. For example, my wife was tricked into upgrading to Windows10 because after clicking "no thanks" a certain number of times, it eventually asked her "do you want to upgrade to Windows 10 now, or later?" and she clicked "later", meaning "never", but it installed it later that day, assuming it had permission.
if you want to argue that TECHNICALLY she agreed to install it, fine, but in my opinion when a major avenue of adoption is tricking its users into installing it, that is pretty much the definition of evil.
my wife can read just fine, and she doesn't need "training". she is a person, not a pet.
on my wife's laptop, it had been asking her for months if she wanted to upgrade to Windows 10, and she kept clicking no thanks. Well, last week it tried a new tactic -- it said "do you want to upgrade to Windows 10 now, or later?" she picked "later" (meaning never), but the thing dutifully upgraded to Windows 10 once she walked away! i guess it figured it was "later" and had her permission. (and yes of course she fucking hates it, it adds nothing of value!)
nasty trick, Microsoft!
not necessarily sticking up for the console or denying Nintendo's mistakes, but there are some really fun games on that platform. My kids and I have spent countless hours enjoying the hell out of Super Mario Maker, Super Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8, and Super Smash Bros.
yeah, i know, that's a whole lotta mario, and probably a clue to its failure. but they are great games, what can i say.
seriously, phone calls is like 1% of what people use these things for.
in addition to being a portable gaming system, email device, messaging tool, web browser, photo/video camera, walkman, television, alarm clock, weather forecaster, pinball leveler, and about a million other things, the future of this device is clearly moving in the direction of replacing things like photo ID and credit card. the term "smartphone" does not fit. it's like calling a car a "smart chair".
eh, maybe. but if they got rid of all those social wedge issues, what's left? tax breaks for the rich? subsidies for fossil fuels? dirtier air and water? meh.
honestly, those social wedge issues that, while keeping young people, gays, and minorities away, are EXACTLY what keeps the GOP so staunchly in power in the deep south and amongst old people. Those folks march to the polls and vote in every little primary and off-year election and are driven by pure white hot fear and hatred. it's a hell of a motivator, and i assume the GOP believes it can't afford to take the risk of abandoning those troops.
Wow ... just one step closer towards man's ultimate dream of being able to teleport small viruses.
It never ceases to amaze me how many Christians suffer under the insanely moronic misconception that ethical values spring from religion and religion alone.
really? how do you maintain a path through the internet that doesn't include any java-based back ends? impressive feat, that.
apparently the failed to take into account the double reverse reciprocal nature of improbability physics. for shame.
the sorry wasn't "sorry you're wrong" but rather "sorry or the obvious response, but it's applicable"
awww someone "just wasn't a good test taker" i see.
I mean somehow I doubt better access to broadband is going to solve Mississippi's education problems. I'm willing to bet Massachusetts kids were trouncing Mississippi kids long before the internet came along.
http://xkcd.com/552/
yep
well according to the supreme court corporations = people and money = free speech so at least the "people" have their "free speech"