Like I mentioned in response to the previous poster, I always have my stuff offline. But it's a shadow of the OneDrive contents, so that the sync'ing is automatic. That way, I don't need to remember to sync it, or wonder which version is what.
I have disabled Cortana, or avoid using it in the first place, but SkyDrive/OneDrive has been pretty useful. I agree w/ you about the rebooting after the automatic updates, but while that indeed was an issue 2 years ago, now Windows offers you the option of disabling/defering reboot whenever you want.
This is actually a feature I was waiting for. These days tablets have a small 128 or 256 GB SSD but you can have 1 TB cloud storage which will now be much more useful.
I hope they will add a feature to automatically delete the local copy of a file not used for X days.
I thought that this was already there. Like a couple of years ago, when I had a low end WinBook w/ just 16GB of storage (as opposed to your 'low' of 128 or 256), what I did was have an off-line download of OneDrive (then SkyDrive) on the SD card, which also was the target drives for 'My Documents' and everything else. So that whenever I saved anything, a single operation ensured that there were 2 copies - both one on OneDrive and one on my SD card. Since then, when that WinBook broke down, I could just get everything from that SD card to my next Windows laptop.
Currently, my Windows laptop is an Acer w/ 5GB of storage. So what I did was simply have OneDrive out there offline, but didn't this time bother to keep the SD card in, except for updating all the needed files. That way, if the worst happens to this, my next computer can just get the OneDrive stuff and pick up where it left off. So how is this 'on-demand' 'feature' different from what they already have?
I've received Creator's update on my Lumia, but on my PC, updates gave me the option (so far) to update to Creators Update under their beta program, but not under the official release. I haven't used that PC since yesterday, so don't know if it's arrived by now. I'm ambivalent about it - not opposed to it, but not going out of my way to get it on my laptop.
I always do the updates at the end of a work session, such as end of day. My primary work I do on my TrueOS laptop, so that I don't miss anything while it updates. Why do I have that Windows 10 laptop? For the few things that must have Windows.
I've been reading about problems with the current update, maybe they should fix it first?
Precisely! Also, what's the 'theme' of this OS that warrants the 'Creators' brand? I do have one suggestion for Creators - enable one to play music videos under Groove, instead of Movies, so that they can be played under playlists. Yeah, Windows Media Player does that as well, but it's not available on Windows 10 ARM or in the app store, only from legacy Windows 7.
Actually, Minix sounds like a much better base for Android, given that Google prefers BSD code in the userland, and only uses Linux for the kernel. Had they used Minix, they could have used the complete package under the same license, or even made it proprietary. Given how much Google contributes to the BSDs, I'm surprised that they didn't go that route.
Plan 9 was never microkernel. AT&T/USL's brief experimentation w/ microkernels was w/ Chorus, in the 90s, before Sun acquired that company.
Is the OS Posix compliant at all, or is it a brand new OS done from scratch - something like BeOS, or Apple's attempted Copland or Pink OSs from the 90s? I actually like the idea of an OS that's neither Posix nor Windows.
Not sure that it can displace any of the incumbents - Android or iOS.
I would love to watch certain TV programs live on my computer, just using the internet that I've already paid for!!! Net Neutrality enables that, and stops the ISP or the channel from preventing me from watching it. I don't agree w/ the parts of net neutrality that say, for instance, that you can't accelerate Netflix after having an agreement w/ them. But I do agree w/ the parts of it that say, you can't stop Bob Blow Joe from watching FNC on his computer directly from FNC's website w/o having to log in his ISP's TV subscription
How is the RISC-V platform in performance? Aside from the potential option of tossing 16 cores into a CPU? That, or the OpenRISC CPU - either of them should be able to satisfy one's requirement. Port FreeBSD onto that, and one has a solution
Great point. Besides, one could have all the data one wants about me, but if I'm either broke, or simply refuse to buy anything, what good would all that data about me do?
For the Googles, the Amazons & the Microsofts, it's that proverbial 'numbers game', where they'd find billions of people like me, but w/ a few who are more willing to buy things.
Doesn't matter what they think, or how bad they are. Fact remains that those people whose secondary/tertiary/quadrary/... language is English would speak that w/ people who are not their compatriots. Yeah, there'll be exceptions, like Spaniards talking to Portugese, or Germans talking to Swedes, or Turks talking to Arabs, but otherwise, the number of people who understand and speak English dwarfs those who do the same for French, Spanish, German and all the others.
When people from similar language groups meet, won't that be different? Like if a Frenchman meets a Spaniard, chances are that they'll both understand each other's language somewhat, despite the differences. Similarly for Italian and Portugese. Likewise, when Danes meet Swedes or Germans meet Norwegians, will they still speak English instead of their rather similar languages?
That's b'cos they were conquered successively by the Romans, Byzantines and Turks, and didn't get to express themselves. And by the time they could, they were a shadow of their ancient selves
Was it written in a French-based programming language, or an English one?
Since i am a Greek, when communicating with Barbarians like you i am forced to use a Barbaric language (in my case the -common among Barbarians- language called English) instead of the language of the Gods: Greek!
But a PROGRAMING language based in French or English (or any other "natural" language)? Does such a thing exist? I always though that the -few- "natural" words used in any programing language can easily be translated in any natural language (and even better: use symbols/ideograms instead!) since the syntax/phrasing is so simple: a mathematic language actually.
P.S. Sorry for my English... but then again: it is not my fault that you are barbarians and can not communicate in Greece!
Why don't you (Greeks) then all convert en masse to the religion of the Gods - the Hellenic religion, so to speak? Resume worshipping Zeus, Athena, Aphrodite, et al. After all, that religion is indeed very cultured and has strong parallels to Hinduism, and you'd prove your 'superiority' if you worshipped the same gods whose language you claim to uphold!
Except that that's not the native language of most Indian speakers, except Anglo-Indians, or descendants of Brits who remained in India after 1947. The reason that English is an official language there is that the Indian linguistic population is pretty fragmented, w/ the south being pretty hostile to the idea of Hindi being the official language.
English is the only important language... you go right ahead and believe that
Okay, as someone who worked in Si Valley in the last decade - and I see no reason for that to have changed - the main languages that matter alongside English in the industry were/are Mandarin (maybe some Cantonese), Korean (to satisfy the hordes of Samsung, LG & Hynix), and Japanese. Oh, and Russian too, since Moscow is a major tech center, and Russian is the 2nd language in Israel
Anybody who thinks that languages like French, Arabic or German are anywhere near as relevant is fooling themselves. Spanish & Portuguese are there, for the Latin American market.
Question is: will the French be as valiant in defending their language from being supplanted by Arabic, in the same way that they are vis a vis English? The Moors would be a lot more virulently anti French than the English ever were, even during the 100 years war.
Maybe. But if the EU continues its open doors policies w/ the Mohammedan world much longer, it won't be English against whom they'll be preserving their precious languages. They'll run the risk of being supplanted by Arabic, Turkish and Urdu.
The only language I can imagine the English speaking world get upset about is Mandarin. None of the others come close, and Mandarin just edges out English. Next would be Spanish: (conflating Hindi & Urdu is like conflating Russian & Greek as 1 language), then Maldonesian, then Arabic and so on.
And given that Mandarin is spoken only in China & Taiwan, while English is spoken in the US and its territories, as well as UK and commonwealth countries, it's in no danger of being superseded by Mandarin
If you buy Mac Pros, it has a server CPU - used in this case as a workstation CPU. People who need workstations have to go w/ Xeon. Personally, I think Intel should include ECC in the i3/5/7 CPUs, and for those who don't need that, offer them the Atoms or the Pentiums
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Like I mentioned in response to the previous poster, I always have my stuff offline. But it's a shadow of the OneDrive contents, so that the sync'ing is automatic. That way, I don't need to remember to sync it, or wonder which version is what.
I have disabled Cortana, or avoid using it in the first place, but SkyDrive/OneDrive has been pretty useful. I agree w/ you about the rebooting after the automatic updates, but while that indeed was an issue 2 years ago, now Windows offers you the option of disabling/defering reboot whenever you want.
This is actually a feature I was waiting for. These days tablets have a small 128 or 256 GB SSD but you can have 1 TB cloud storage which will now be much more useful. I hope they will add a feature to automatically delete the local copy of a file not used for X days.
I thought that this was already there. Like a couple of years ago, when I had a low end WinBook w/ just 16GB of storage (as opposed to your 'low' of 128 or 256), what I did was have an off-line download of OneDrive (then SkyDrive) on the SD card, which also was the target drives for 'My Documents' and everything else. So that whenever I saved anything, a single operation ensured that there were 2 copies - both one on OneDrive and one on my SD card. Since then, when that WinBook broke down, I could just get everything from that SD card to my next Windows laptop.
Currently, my Windows laptop is an Acer w/ 5GB of storage. So what I did was simply have OneDrive out there offline, but didn't this time bother to keep the SD card in, except for updating all the needed files. That way, if the worst happens to this, my next computer can just get the OneDrive stuff and pick up where it left off. So how is this 'on-demand' 'feature' different from what they already have?
I've received Creator's update on my Lumia, but on my PC, updates gave me the option (so far) to update to Creators Update under their beta program, but not under the official release. I haven't used that PC since yesterday, so don't know if it's arrived by now. I'm ambivalent about it - not opposed to it, but not going out of my way to get it on my laptop.
I always do the updates at the end of a work session, such as end of day. My primary work I do on my TrueOS laptop, so that I don't miss anything while it updates. Why do I have that Windows 10 laptop? For the few things that must have Windows.
I've been reading about problems with the current update, maybe they should fix it first?
Precisely! Also, what's the 'theme' of this OS that warrants the 'Creators' brand? I do have one suggestion for Creators - enable one to play music videos under Groove, instead of Movies, so that they can be played under playlists. Yeah, Windows Media Player does that as well, but it's not available on Windows 10 ARM or in the app store, only from legacy Windows 7.
Actually, Minix sounds like a much better base for Android, given that Google prefers BSD code in the userland, and only uses Linux for the kernel. Had they used Minix, they could have used the complete package under the same license, or even made it proprietary. Given how much Google contributes to the BSDs, I'm surprised that they didn't go that route.
Plan 9 was never microkernel. AT&T/USL's brief experimentation w/ microkernels was w/ Chorus, in the 90s, before Sun acquired that company.
Is the OS Posix compliant at all, or is it a brand new OS done from scratch - something like BeOS, or Apple's attempted Copland or Pink OSs from the 90s? I actually like the idea of an OS that's neither Posix nor Windows.
Not sure that it can displace any of the incumbents - Android or iOS.
I would love to watch certain TV programs live on my computer, just using the internet that I've already paid for!!! Net Neutrality enables that, and stops the ISP or the channel from preventing me from watching it. I don't agree w/ the parts of net neutrality that say, for instance, that you can't accelerate Netflix after having an agreement w/ them. But I do agree w/ the parts of it that say, you can't stop Bob Blow Joe from watching FNC on his computer directly from FNC's website w/o having to log in his ISP's TV subscription
How is the RISC-V platform in performance? Aside from the potential option of tossing 16 cores into a CPU? That, or the OpenRISC CPU - either of them should be able to satisfy one's requirement. Port FreeBSD onto that, and one has a solution
Great point. Besides, one could have all the data one wants about me, but if I'm either broke, or simply refuse to buy anything, what good would all that data about me do?
For the Googles, the Amazons & the Microsofts, it's that proverbial 'numbers game', where they'd find billions of people like me, but w/ a few who are more willing to buy things.
Doesn't matter what they think, or how bad they are. Fact remains that those people whose secondary/tertiary/quadrary/... language is English would speak that w/ people who are not their compatriots. Yeah, there'll be exceptions, like Spaniards talking to Portugese, or Germans talking to Swedes, or Turks talking to Arabs, but otherwise, the number of people who understand and speak English dwarfs those who do the same for French, Spanish, German and all the others.
When people from similar language groups meet, won't that be different? Like if a Frenchman meets a Spaniard, chances are that they'll both understand each other's language somewhat, despite the differences. Similarly for Italian and Portugese. Likewise, when Danes meet Swedes or Germans meet Norwegians, will they still speak English instead of their rather similar languages?
That's b'cos they were conquered successively by the Romans, Byzantines and Turks, and didn't get to express themselves. And by the time they could, they were a shadow of their ancient selves
As would Brahma, Indra, Surya, Agni, Vayu and others in their pantheon
ROTFL
Was it written in a French-based programming language, or an English one?
Since i am a Greek, when communicating with Barbarians like you i am forced to use a Barbaric language (in my case the -common among Barbarians- language called English) instead of the language of the Gods: Greek!
But a PROGRAMING language based in French or English (or any other "natural" language)? Does such a thing exist? I always though that the -few- "natural" words used in any programing language can easily be translated in any natural language (and even better: use symbols/ideograms instead!) since the syntax/phrasing is so simple: a mathematic language actually.
P.S. Sorry for my English... but then again: it is not my fault that you are barbarians and can not communicate in Greece!
Why don't you (Greeks) then all convert en masse to the religion of the Gods - the Hellenic religion, so to speak? Resume worshipping Zeus, Athena, Aphrodite, et al. After all, that religion is indeed very cultured and has strong parallels to Hinduism, and you'd prove your 'superiority' if you worshipped the same gods whose language you claim to uphold!
Except that that's not the native language of most Indian speakers, except Anglo-Indians, or descendants of Brits who remained in India after 1947. The reason that English is an official language there is that the Indian linguistic population is pretty fragmented, w/ the south being pretty hostile to the idea of Hindi being the official language.
English is the only important language... you go right ahead and believe that
Okay, as someone who worked in Si Valley in the last decade - and I see no reason for that to have changed - the main languages that matter alongside English in the industry were/are Mandarin (maybe some Cantonese), Korean (to satisfy the hordes of Samsung, LG & Hynix), and Japanese. Oh, and Russian too, since Moscow is a major tech center, and Russian is the 2nd language in Israel
Anybody who thinks that languages like French, Arabic or German are anywhere near as relevant is fooling themselves. Spanish & Portuguese are there, for the Latin American market.
Question is: will the French be as valiant in defending their language from being supplanted by Arabic, in the same way that they are vis a vis English? The Moors would be a lot more virulently anti French than the English ever were, even during the 100 years war.
Maybe. But if the EU continues its open doors policies w/ the Mohammedan world much longer, it won't be English against whom they'll be preserving their precious languages. They'll run the risk of being supplanted by Arabic, Turkish and Urdu.
The only language I can imagine the English speaking world get upset about is Mandarin. None of the others come close, and Mandarin just edges out English. Next would be Spanish: (conflating Hindi & Urdu is like conflating Russian & Greek as 1 language), then Maldonesian, then Arabic and so on.
And given that Mandarin is spoken only in China & Taiwan, while English is spoken in the US and its territories, as well as UK and commonwealth countries, it's in no danger of being superseded by Mandarin
How was Mandrake Linux, when it was around?
While the magnitude may be subjective, he was noticably smarter
If you buy Mac Pros, it has a server CPU - used in this case as a workstation CPU. People who need workstations have to go w/ Xeon. Personally, I think Intel should include ECC in the i3/5/7 CPUs, and for those who don't need that, offer them the Atoms or the Pentiums