The service runs in the background and launches iTunes when the phone is plugged in. It's quite handy.
That feature is built into Windows (at least Vista+). A user can decide which action to take when a specific device is plugged in; no extra services required.
I used iTunes for the first few years after it came out; then after the issue it had updating and messing up drivers I uninstalled it. The perf on my machine was significantly better. Because of that I've kept it uninstalled and haven't looked back.
The problem with being the man in the middle is that, sooner or later, you are going to get cut out.
Except for in the case of dealerships where they've been able to get their backwards business model enshrined into the local laws of every state, county and city in the US.
It's basically a legalized pyramid scheme, that was created in the hopes of ensuring that the local municipality has some "good" jobs. Episode 435: Why Buying A Car Is So Awful is a very informative listen.
Looks like a pretty blatant act of political corruption to me.
The only REAL problem here, is that in the US, this kind of corruption is perfectly legal.
Not in this case. This is a case of "What else can a state do?" States have limited options on how to encourage business in their state. Generally 'job creating' measures really mean 'taking jobs from other states'. The net jobs created in the US are 0, and the different states fight over some job relocations. In this instance the state legislature is trying to look good to their local small businesses (ie car dealerships) by enacting protectionist legislation. Even if they didn't get any campaign donations, they can use this act at "I protect local businesses" in their next campaign.
I don't think that too many people are arguing that machines which are essential tool controllers should be upgraded. They probably should have been Windows Embedded in the first place, but XP was what a lot of people could get their hands on, and minds wrapped around. While I'm sure Microsoft would love the sale of an upgrade, I don't think that they're targeting those computers.
It's the Information Worker, clicking away at internal web apps, and visiting websites that NetApp tracks, that has some people scratching their heads as to why those machines aren't getting upgraded.
Where's the incentive to improve the software on a subscription model?
You have to attract new customers and keep the existing ones. With an online subscription a customer didn't sink tons of money upfront to get the product, it's a monthly cost. So if a customer sees someone else providing a better monthly ROI, they would just switch who they get their subscription from. Plus there were lots of "cloud" companies that really struggled with the recession; while it was easy to sign up new customers pre 2008, once budgets were tightened, cloud service were being dropped right and left. So the incentive is to provide a higher monthly ROI, or else you'll get dropped.
I'm old enough to remember the pre-cellphone days...and I actually remember thinking "nobody is going to carry a phone with them all the time; who needs to talk on the phone that much that they would carry a phone everywhere they go, that would be so self-important that people will be embarrassed, I mean who's going to just whip out their phone wherever they are and start talking to someone, what a dork".
I also thought that nobody would ever use bluetooth headsets, for the same reason.
In 10-15 years, people will probably read these old/. posts and they will sound just as out-of-touch as my prediction that nobody would need to carry a phone with them.
If Microsoft could force upgrades, why are so many systems not running Windows 8 yet?
So is the plan for an organization to move to an Open Source OS, never have an upgrade, and then the users can complain how old the system is?
The completely fraudulent idea that has been pushed for the last 20 years is that if you give everyone in America a PhD, everyone will earn what a tenured professor makes. What actually happens is that if you give everyone in America a PhD, you have PhDs mopping floors for a living.
You have the Greek riots. From what I remember in the news, one of the reasons why so many of the young were unemployed was that because of the free education they all went to University for free and all got PhDs and all have a dream to get a government job that they can't get fired from. They won't take anything less.
What if the drive contains the evidence that they know you have, but it also contains other evidence that they do NOT know you have, which one would have precedence? If decrypting the drive will give them access to other evidence that would incriminate you in another crime.
I suspect that it work just like a warrant. When the cops get a warrant for searching a property, it's scoped to specific evidence. If they find something which is out of scope, they can't collect it as evidence.
it's extremely jarring because it serves no other purpose than to tie you into metro apps downloaded through the marketplace.
That may not be true. What's the point of booting into a computer without running any programs? There is rarely is one. So by landing at the application launcher first, the user can start by launching their applications immediately. So instead of loading up to a non-responsive desktop while the CPU churns and disk pages from all of the on-boot, on-log in tasks, pressing the Windows button, hoping that it'll remain open long enough to start that first task; in Windows 8 the user gets a responsive Start Screen to launch their first application.
The closest possible device would be tranquilizer darts, which are usually fired from shotguns. They aren't very accurate, so you have to get pretty close. Plus, they take a while to work. Sometimes minutes.
Every tranq dart I've seen fired hits it's target, in the neck on the first shot, and the target either faints immediately, or gets drowsy and is down in at least ten seconds. Where'd you get your information? Not Hollywood? ppphhhffff!
You know you can customize Windows 8 to have a start button and a start menu just like Win7. If you do that (if that's what you're generally concerned about), what else makes Windows 8 so bad?
I think some genius decided that since 90% of people never turn off their computer that everyone else can be ignored.
You can actually read about why they made the decision at Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8. And it's not that 90% never shutdown a computer, 50% do. But the main reason why isn't to save power, some people just like starting over every day. The reason why hibernate was removed was because people are getting so much RAM that it's taking way too long to write it to disk and read it back for it to be a performance advantage. End users have a much better experience if they sleep their computer, and then the computer goes from sleep to hibernate after a few hours.
wait, you don't like the start menu button because it takes up space, yet you tolerate the full screen metro bullshit? In fact, the start menu itself takes almost no space at all unless it's accessed.
Having search boxes on menus and windows is just a crutch that demonstrates the design sucks. The point is to see what you're looking for and interact with it in a graphically intuitive way. Switching back and forth from keyboard and mouse (or touch) is clunky, slow, and stupid.
He's saying that the Start Button takes up space, even when he's not using it. The Start Screen only takes up space when he's using it, so it's no big deal; it goes away once it's no longer being used.
Switching back and forth from the mouse and keyboard is stupid, that why you should keep your hands on the keyboard.
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it doesn't require a re-install every couple of months.
I can't even think of any time where I've had to do a re-install of Windows. I had a hard drive die on me once, but any OS would need to be reinstalled after that. What are you doing wrong?
The LucasArts point and click games were generally funny. I can't think of any other games being funny. Maybe it's because so many games are made in Japan, and Eastern humor is different than Western humor, but I can't think of a any game having even generated a chuckle out of me since playing the LucasArts games. Even the Monkey Island Tales, while somewhat entertaining, wouldn't be described as funny.
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The service runs in the background and launches iTunes when the phone is plugged in. It's quite handy.
That feature is built into Windows (at least Vista+). A user can decide which action to take when a specific device is plugged in; no extra services required.
I used iTunes for the first few years after it came out; then after the issue it had updating and messing up drivers I uninstalled it. The perf on my machine was significantly better. Because of that I've kept it uninstalled and haven't looked back.
The problem with being the man in the middle is that, sooner or later, you are going to get cut out.
Except for in the case of dealerships where they've been able to get their backwards business model enshrined into the local laws of every state, county and city in the US.
I don't understand the dealership model anyway
It's basically a legalized pyramid scheme, that was created in the hopes of ensuring that the local municipality has some "good" jobs. Episode 435: Why Buying A Car Is So Awful is a very informative listen.
Looks like a pretty blatant act of political corruption to me.
The only REAL problem here, is that in the US, this kind of corruption is perfectly legal.
Not in this case. This is a case of "What else can a state do?" States have limited options on how to encourage business in their state. Generally 'job creating' measures really mean 'taking jobs from other states'. The net jobs created in the US are 0, and the different states fight over some job relocations. In this instance the state legislature is trying to look good to their local small businesses (ie car dealerships) by enacting protectionist legislation. Even if they didn't get any campaign donations, they can use this act at "I protect local businesses" in their next campaign.
So it can either be attractive OR look like you.
If they said 'XOR' I'd see you're point, but they didn't. It's obviously a logical OR, not a colloquial one.
Clearly TFA's numbers are bullshit because you don't top Amazon by selling less than 5,000 units.
Unless less than 5000 units have been sold on Amazon.
There's no battle going on. Google Docs is nowhere near Microsoft Office. If there is a battle, it's only on the Google side.
You don't think that Microsoft released Office 365 to combat Google Docs?
Anyone in the US could use Microsoft Windows Media ASF Viewer.
I don't think that too many people are arguing that machines which are essential tool controllers should be upgraded. They probably should have been Windows Embedded in the first place, but XP was what a lot of people could get their hands on, and minds wrapped around. While I'm sure Microsoft would love the sale of an upgrade, I don't think that they're targeting those computers.
It's the Information Worker, clicking away at internal web apps, and visiting websites that NetApp tracks, that has some people scratching their heads as to why those machines aren't getting upgraded.
Where's the incentive to improve the software on a subscription model?
You have to attract new customers and keep the existing ones. With an online subscription a customer didn't sink tons of money upfront to get the product, it's a monthly cost. So if a customer sees someone else providing a better monthly ROI, they would just switch who they get their subscription from. Plus there were lots of "cloud" companies that really struggled with the recession; while it was easy to sign up new customers pre 2008, once budgets were tightened, cloud service were being dropped right and left. So the incentive is to provide a higher monthly ROI, or else you'll get dropped.
I'm old enough to remember the pre-cellphone days...and I actually remember thinking "nobody is going to carry a phone with them all the time; who needs to talk on the phone that much that they would carry a phone everywhere they go, that would be so self-important that people will be embarrassed, I mean who's going to just whip out their phone wherever they are and start talking to someone, what a dork". I also thought that nobody would ever use bluetooth headsets, for the same reason. In 10-15 years, people will probably read these old /. posts and they will sound just as out-of-touch as my prediction that nobody would need to carry a phone with them.
The problem could be your username.
each and every forced upgrade cycle.
If Microsoft could force upgrades, why are so many systems not running Windows 8 yet?
So is the plan for an organization to move to an Open Source OS, never have an upgrade, and then the users can complain how old the system is?
The completely fraudulent idea that has been pushed for the last 20 years is that if you give everyone in America a PhD, everyone will earn what a tenured professor makes. What actually happens is that if you give everyone in America a PhD, you have PhDs mopping floors for a living.
You have the Greek riots. From what I remember in the news, one of the reasons why so many of the young were unemployed was that because of the free education they all went to University for free and all got PhDs and all have a dream to get a government job that they can't get fired from. They won't take anything less.
By reading the source code. Isn't that what open source is for?
What if the drive contains the evidence that they know you have, but it also contains other evidence that they do NOT know you have, which one would have precedence? If decrypting the drive will give them access to other evidence that would incriminate you in another crime.
I suspect that it work just like a warrant. When the cops get a warrant for searching a property, it's scoped to specific evidence. If they find something which is out of scope, they can't collect it as evidence.
it's extremely jarring because it serves no other purpose than to tie you into metro apps downloaded through the marketplace.
That may not be true. What's the point of booting into a computer without running any programs? There is rarely is one. So by landing at the application launcher first, the user can start by launching their applications immediately. So instead of loading up to a non-responsive desktop while the CPU churns and disk pages from all of the on-boot, on-log in tasks, pressing the Windows button, hoping that it'll remain open long enough to start that first task; in Windows 8 the user gets a responsive Start Screen to launch their first application.
The closest possible device would be tranquilizer darts, which are usually fired from shotguns. They aren't very accurate, so you have to get pretty close. Plus, they take a while to work. Sometimes minutes.
Every tranq dart I've seen fired hits it's target, in the neck on the first shot, and the target either faints immediately, or gets drowsy and is down in at least ten seconds. Where'd you get your information? Not Hollywood? ppphhhffff!
You know you can customize Windows 8 to have a start button and a start menu just like Win7. If you do that (if that's what you're generally concerned about), what else makes Windows 8 so bad?
I think some genius decided that since 90% of people never turn off their computer that everyone else can be ignored.
You can actually read about why they made the decision at Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8. And it's not that 90% never shutdown a computer, 50% do. But the main reason why isn't to save power, some people just like starting over every day. The reason why hibernate was removed was because people are getting so much RAM that it's taking way too long to write it to disk and read it back for it to be a performance advantage. End users have a much better experience if they sleep their computer, and then the computer goes from sleep to hibernate after a few hours.
wait, you don't like the start menu button because it takes up space, yet you tolerate the full screen metro bullshit? In fact, the start menu itself takes almost no space at all unless it's accessed.
Having search boxes on menus and windows is just a crutch that demonstrates the design sucks. The point is to see what you're looking for and interact with it in a graphically intuitive way. Switching back and forth from keyboard and mouse (or touch) is clunky, slow, and stupid.
He's saying that the Start Button takes up space, even when he's not using it. The Start Screen only takes up space when he's using it, so it's no big deal; it goes away once it's no longer being used.
Switching back and forth from the mouse and keyboard is stupid, that why you should keep your hands on the keyboard.
it doesn't require a re-install every couple of months.
I can't even think of any time where I've had to do a re-install of Windows. I had a hard drive die on me once, but any OS would need to be reinstalled after that. What are you doing wrong?
Win 8 reviews worried me.
Gone also is the Aero/Glass look for the Classic look.
You do know that Win 8 doesn't have Aero/Glass, right? If you're really trying to avoid Aero it sounds like you might like Win 8.
Why would I want to do this if I'm on the plane? Suicide wish?
The LucasArts point and click games were generally funny. I can't think of any other games being funny. Maybe it's because so many games are made in Japan, and Eastern humor is different than Western humor, but I can't think of a any game having even generated a chuckle out of me since playing the LucasArts games. Even the Monkey Island Tales, while somewhat entertaining, wouldn't be described as funny.