My take on this is that in general, republican voters don't care as much about politics and for that reason are less informed, not less intelligent. I've met my share of trump supporters and there's on thing they all had in common: They weren't aware of half of what is going on in the news (when it comes to politics) and they aren't willing to take what they hear against Trump at face value regardless of the sources.
Having said that, other than the blind follower, you need to find a common ground with a Trump supporter before you can't discuss politics. Once you do, you need to understand what they think about it without criticize their opinion. You can then get into a reasonable conversation because you didn't demonize them.
How about you smack the crap out of the people who watch and support shows like Honey Booboo, The Kardashians or any other crappy show of the sort. My point is that you are now part of a minority looking for respectful content that provides a service to the world or at least entertains without diminishing our youths understand of the real world.
It's also that there's six corporate conglomerates who own all the major media in the US. Naturally, these organizations have similar interests
The media is the man in the middle. If you truly care about a topic, take out the man in the middle and go read or watch the actual content being reported on. The white house press conferences are usually on Youtube, the court cases are well documented and often available to the public and then there's the rest of what they report on that for the most part is also available online in raw form.
This generation and the next ones to come need to stop being so gullible. We also need to stop blaming corporations and their money for every problem in our society.
Much like breaking the law and paying a fine has become a cost of doing business, so too has getting hacked and paying a lawsuit settlement become a cost of doing business. No one goes to jail, no one cares. The legal calculus is the same.
Fact is, it's the cost of doing business but at the end of the day shifting that mentality from reactive to pro-active is in the customer's hands. A company will react quickly if customers are known run away from your brand after a security breach.
Been using Rackspace.com. $1 per POP3/IMAP and their support is very responsible. I can actually vouch for them as we have 50+ email boxes with them and we've only had 1 hours of down time in 7 years.
We are however looking at migrating towards Exchange. I really don't want to but the hosted exchange servers are far too expensive for our user count.
One is an expert at domains while the other is an expert at emails. I've never had trouble with dealing with separate domain and web/email providers. The setup is so simple that someone with little domain knowledge can set it up.
You lack arguments and facts, just like the Trump administration. I'm not surprised you support them since facts clearly matter little to you.
But all that doesn't matter because at the end of the day, you, the American low to medium income consumer will be paying for his mistakes, not the rich.
I second this. I once considered the lefts claims and even sided with them. Now it seems they cry wolf too much.
I think you miss understand the meaning of the expression "crying wolf" or you believe the fake news and alternative facts provided by this administration.
All I'll say is that left and left-center have come out and expressed their distrust in a president that is not loved by the majority (didn't win popular vote and has the lowest approval rating after inauguration of any president in history). This is something the right wing rarely do because they don't even believe their own crap.
It's easy to point out a few things he didn't accomplish or managed to finish but that doesn't speak about his capabilities as a leader or what he actually accomplished under a minority congress. If you know anything about Obama's presidency you wouldn't even have tried to post such petty non-sense.
On the flip side, you boast a leader that has shown nothing but distrust in his first 2 weeks in office. Not only does he prioritize his own interest and business but he also believes its more important to use his press secretary to announce things such as "he does not walk the white house in a bath robe", or argue a photo that shows a small crowd at his inauguration. Additionally he has selected a number of leaders who just don't give a damn about the little people.
The irony is that in the position I current occupy, I will highly benefit from Trump's actions yet I do not approve of them. Unfortunately the people have been conned and will need to find out the hard way that their vote was counter productive to their well being.
And if you so strongly believe, why not post under your actual account name instead of anonymously?
I know you're trying to do yet more painting of Trump in a bad light by spreading "fake news" and "alternative facts"
Nobody needs to paint Trump, he does that very well on his own. He literally is the greatest at it.
Heck, look at how many times he has had to backtrack on what he said previously. If you don't know, then you are just another peasant that's been conned into voting for someone who does not have your best interest at heart.
That does not mean it's OK to steal them. Stop trying to rationalize your theft. If they are not available, the are not fucking available. You are not entitled to them, your girlfriend was not born with the god-given right to watch those particular TV shows.
Although I agree with you about the "entitlement" status people have given themselves, I have however changed my view on this topic in recent years.
Content makers must allow streaming services to have more flexibility. I don't see a problem with movies being dealt with the same way music is. Buy a copy for $1 or whatever a reasonable price is. That's a model I can get behind. Fact is, most people are paying upwards for $20/month for movie channels on cable. If they aren't willing to pay the PPV price to own a title then there's no winning with those people.
I was white. intel hires MOSTLY 'for diversity' and I was told flat-out that I was the 'wrong color' and intel needed more non-whites.
Your lack of maturity while speaking about a previous employer tells me one thing but the statement I quoted tells me you are lying. NOT ONE HR department would make the mistake of saying such a thing. Sounds like Trump alternative fact makeup.
Why would we want to give any wiggle room to those who, of their own will opted to be malicious? Isn't trust earned? Why should they get a free pass after screwing up royally?
IMO going to prison is just part 1 of a 2 phase process. Re-integration is probably the hardest part because now you need to earn people's trust again.
Dumb that cars that should be targeting a 15-20 year
The average car in North America is on the road about 10 years. That being said, the tech should not be incrusted into the car. They should drive that tech off smart phones which appear to remain backwards compatible for years. The worst case is that it doesn't support a newer version of the app but at least remains supported with the old app.
The car company in this case was dumb to only include a 2G modem (cost savings I guess). At the time of release of the vehicle, the tech was already on it's way out.
That's it. Whatever they do (within reason) is fine by me as long as I'm informed and given the option to opt out. I think ALL companies should considering taking that approach.
They won't because they keep selling more licenses.
As long as the majority of software built for corporations and enterprises runs on Windows you won't see a decline. The web took a big bite out of Microsoft Windows revenue stream and another big innovation will be required to see a continued decline. Better cross platform support of everything is key for this to happen.
Win10 has reset my preferences for HTML, PDF and JPG files across several updates. Additionally, it takes a LONG time to boot during these updates. I literally walked in to work one morning needing to send an email. After two reboots and logging in, waiting for Outlook to pop up, I finally gave up and composed my email on my phone. No sooner than I got outlook running, the O/S wanted ANOTHER reboot for another queued update.
Sounds like you have a bad install or unsupported hardware. Haven't seen anything like this with any of my systems (4 systems, which 2 are 5 years or older), the 50 windows I support at work or any of my close friends. For the most part most users had very positive things to say about the OS.
As for boot time, my boot time is 8 seconds on my most recent hardware and about 60 seconds on the old hardware. I think something is very wrong with your hardware or drivers.
Now look at this from the perspective of grandma and grandpa who just want to see the grandkids in email..... The IOS devices and even the android devices boot faster and when they do an update you don't even know it because all the apps stay where they were across the update.
Those devices are simpler and are much better suited for the clientele you suggest. Simple internet and computing usage requires nothing more than a tablet.
And we wonder why Win10 is losing market share?????
Where does it say that? Every article that comes out seems to suggest a higher number of users adopting Windows 10. Here's the stat counter for Windows 10. Constant incline. http://gs.statcounter.com/#des...
I'm all for pissing all over a product but it needs to have a foundation to stand on. One bad user experience doesn't tell the full story. I could easily have a biased opinion at the moment because I just had a really bad experience with MS on the licensing side but I try to stay impartial when evaluation a product regardless of my views of said company.
The problem isn't that they are too big to fail, it is that we don't allow them to fail, so they take additional risks where normal sane people wouldn't
"Too big to fail" occurs when a downward spiral is in view should said company fail. GM was a good example of this. GM failing was X number of jobs but the sprinkled impact was 5 - 10 times more jobs. It was cheaper for the government to bail them out and have them pay it back down the road which is what ended happening.
The proper response to "too big to fail" is to start locking people up for their mismanagement under failure to do due diligence. Start locking up CxOs and all the Corporate Board members in jail, and strip them of their fortunes (including all their "protected assets" in trusts). An amoral economy is immoral at heart.
I agree that they should be stripped of MOST of their fortune BUT locked up would depend on whether they were reckless or performed fraud. Plenty of companies have failed due to their inability to innovate which I hardly consider fraudulent or reckless. E.g. Blackberry.
Your setup is unconventional so you fall in the category of people that just have to keep on top of it and keep fixing it. But for the other 99.9% of RX 470 users, it's probably a completely different story.
Keep in mind that the auto driver update is ONLY if you do not meet the minimum driver version. That can get abused by gaming companies but that's is a different story all together.
This might not be a bad thing IF Microsoft prompted you with a dialog box like this first:
I think the whole point of this is to keep users from having to make the decision. In my experience major release drivers from both Nvidia and AMD have been solid. Most of my non technical friends just accept all updates offered to them via Catalyst or the Gforce app (can't remember the name). I myself have been keeping my drivers updated for the last 6 years and have yet to encounter a problem with any video card I've owned.
Knowing Microsoft, though, they'll automatically "upgrade" the driver in the background and leave you scratching your head for awhile when the screen is stuck at 1024x768 resolution after you reboot
Well, the upgrade process remains to be seen but I suspect they will just make it part of the main install which already has a progress indicator. The idea is to not make it the user's problem.
Given that Microsoft is a convicted abusive monopolist it is reasonable to assume malicious intent.
Assumption are for fact free topics. This topic is already well covered and the information passed is exactly what they claimed in their documentation. No malicious intent in the telemetry but people rather cater to the popular movement of hate for corporation rather than be constructive in their arguments. All I'm saying is that it's getting old and childish.
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My take on this is that in general, republican voters don't care as much about politics and for that reason are less informed, not less intelligent. I've met my share of trump supporters and there's on thing they all had in common: They weren't aware of half of what is going on in the news (when it comes to politics) and they aren't willing to take what they hear against Trump at face value regardless of the sources.
Having said that, other than the blind follower, you need to find a common ground with a Trump supporter before you can't discuss politics. Once you do, you need to understand what they think about it without criticize their opinion. You can then get into a reasonable conversation because you didn't demonize them.
How about you smack the crap out of the people who watch and support shows like Honey Booboo, The Kardashians or any other crappy show of the sort. My point is that you are now part of a minority looking for respectful content that provides a service to the world or at least entertains without diminishing our youths understand of the real world.
It's also that there's six corporate conglomerates who own all the major media in the US. Naturally, these organizations have similar interests
The media is the man in the middle. If you truly care about a topic, take out the man in the middle and go read or watch the actual content being reported on. The white house press conferences are usually on Youtube, the court cases are well documented and often available to the public and then there's the rest of what they report on that for the most part is also available online in raw form.
This generation and the next ones to come need to stop being so gullible. We also need to stop blaming corporations and their money for every problem in our society.
Much like breaking the law and paying a fine has become a cost of doing business, so too has getting hacked and paying a lawsuit settlement become a cost of doing business. No one goes to jail, no one cares. The legal calculus is the same.
Fact is, it's the cost of doing business but at the end of the day shifting that mentality from reactive to pro-active is in the customer's hands. A company will react quickly if customers are known run away from your brand after a security breach.
Been using Rackspace.com.
$1 per POP3/IMAP and their support is very responsible. I can actually vouch for them as we have 50+ email boxes with them and we've only had 1 hours of down time in 7 years.
We are however looking at migrating towards Exchange. I really don't want to but the hosted exchange servers are far too expensive for our user count.
Why?
One is an expert at domains while the other is an expert at emails. I've never had trouble with dealing with separate domain and web/email providers. The setup is so simple that someone with little domain knowledge can set it up.
You lack arguments and facts, just like the Trump administration. I'm not surprised you support them since facts clearly matter little to you.
But all that doesn't matter because at the end of the day, you, the American low to medium income consumer will be paying for his mistakes, not the rich.
I second this. I once considered the lefts claims and even sided with them. Now it seems they cry wolf too much.
I think you miss understand the meaning of the expression "crying wolf" or you believe the fake news and alternative facts provided by this administration.
All I'll say is that left and left-center have come out and expressed their distrust in a president that is not loved by the majority (didn't win popular vote and has the lowest approval rating after inauguration of any president in history). This is something the right wing rarely do because they don't even believe their own crap.
It's easy to point out a few things he didn't accomplish or managed to finish but that doesn't speak about his capabilities as a leader or what he actually accomplished under a minority congress. If you know anything about Obama's presidency you wouldn't even have tried to post such petty non-sense.
On the flip side, you boast a leader that has shown nothing but distrust in his first 2 weeks in office. Not only does he prioritize his own interest and business but he also believes its more important to use his press secretary to announce things such as "he does not walk the white house in a bath robe", or argue a photo that shows a small crowd at his inauguration. Additionally he has selected a number of leaders who just don't give a damn about the little people.
The irony is that in the position I current occupy, I will highly benefit from Trump's actions yet I do not approve of them. Unfortunately the people have been conned and will need to find out the hard way that their vote was counter productive to their well being.
And if you so strongly believe, why not post under your actual account name instead of anonymously?
I know you're trying to do yet more painting of Trump in a bad light by spreading "fake news" and "alternative facts"
Nobody needs to paint Trump, he does that very well on his own. He literally is the greatest at it.
Heck, look at how many times he has had to backtrack on what he said previously. If you don't know, then you are just another peasant that's been conned into voting for someone who does not have your best interest at heart.
That does not mean it's OK to steal them. Stop trying to rationalize your theft. If they are not available, the are not fucking available. You are not entitled to them, your girlfriend was not born with the god-given right to watch those particular TV shows.
Although I agree with you about the "entitlement" status people have given themselves, I have however changed my view on this topic in recent years.
Content makers must allow streaming services to have more flexibility. I don't see a problem with movies being dealt with the same way music is. Buy a copy for $1 or whatever a reasonable price is. That's a model I can get behind. Fact is, most people are paying upwards for $20/month for movie channels on cable. If they aren't willing to pay the PPV price to own a title then there's no winning with those people.
I would like to see a reference to said statement. Any company making such a statement would be in court shortly after doing damage control.
This sounds like more "alternative facts" such as what Trump has been doing. Put some references to facts.
I was white. intel hires MOSTLY 'for diversity' and I was told flat-out that I was the 'wrong color' and intel needed more non-whites.
Your lack of maturity while speaking about a previous employer tells me one thing but the statement I quoted tells me you are lying. NOT ONE HR department would make the mistake of saying such a thing. Sounds like Trump alternative fact makeup.
Why would we want to give any wiggle room to those who, of their own will opted to be malicious? Isn't trust earned? Why should they get a free pass after screwing up royally?
IMO going to prison is just part 1 of a 2 phase process. Re-integration is probably the hardest part because now you need to earn people's trust again.
Dumb that cars that should be targeting a 15-20 year
The average car in North America is on the road about 10 years. That being said, the tech should not be incrusted into the car. They should drive that tech off smart phones which appear to remain backwards compatible for years. The worst case is that it doesn't support a newer version of the app but at least remains supported with the old app.
The car company in this case was dumb to only include a 2G modem (cost savings I guess). At the time of release of the vehicle, the tech was already on it's way out.
That's it. Whatever they do (within reason) is fine by me as long as I'm informed and given the option to opt out. I think ALL companies should considering taking that approach.
They won't because they keep selling more licenses.
As long as the majority of software built for corporations and enterprises runs on Windows you won't see a decline. The web took a big bite out of Microsoft Windows revenue stream and another big innovation will be required to see a continued decline. Better cross platform support of everything is key for this to happen.
Win10 has reset my preferences for HTML, PDF and JPG files across several updates. Additionally, it takes a LONG time to boot during these updates. I literally walked in to work one morning needing to send an email. After two reboots and logging in, waiting for Outlook to pop up, I finally gave up and composed my email on my phone. No sooner than I got outlook running, the O/S wanted ANOTHER reboot for another queued update.
Sounds like you have a bad install or unsupported hardware. Haven't seen anything like this with any of my systems (4 systems, which 2 are 5 years or older), the 50 windows I support at work or any of my close friends. For the most part most users had very positive things to say about the OS.
As for boot time, my boot time is 8 seconds on my most recent hardware and about 60 seconds on the old hardware. I think something is very wrong with your hardware or drivers.
Now look at this from the perspective of grandma and grandpa who just want to see the grandkids in email..... The IOS devices and even the android devices boot faster and when they do an update you don't even know it because all the apps stay where they were across the update.
Those devices are simpler and are much better suited for the clientele you suggest. Simple internet and computing usage requires nothing more than a tablet.
And we wonder why Win10 is losing market share?????
Where does it say that? Every article that comes out seems to suggest a higher number of users adopting Windows 10. Here's the stat counter for Windows 10. Constant incline. http://gs.statcounter.com/#des...
I'm all for pissing all over a product but it needs to have a foundation to stand on. One bad user experience doesn't tell the full story. I could easily have a biased opinion at the moment because I just had a really bad experience with MS on the licensing side but I try to stay impartial when evaluation a product regardless of my views of said company.
The problem isn't that they are too big to fail, it is that we don't allow them to fail, so they take additional risks where normal sane people wouldn't
"Too big to fail" occurs when a downward spiral is in view should said company fail. GM was a good example of this. GM failing was X number of jobs but the sprinkled impact was 5 - 10 times more jobs. It was cheaper for the government to bail them out and have them pay it back down the road which is what ended happening.
The proper response to "too big to fail" is to start locking people up for their mismanagement under failure to do due diligence. Start locking up CxOs and all the Corporate Board members in jail, and strip them of their fortunes (including all their "protected assets" in trusts). An amoral economy is immoral at heart.
I agree that they should be stripped of MOST of their fortune BUT locked up would depend on whether they were reckless or performed fraud. Plenty of companies have failed due to their inability to innovate which I hardly consider fraudulent or reckless. E.g. Blackberry.
I've often installed driver through Windows Updates and they never came with the bloat ware.
Your setup is unconventional so you fall in the category of people that just have to keep on top of it and keep fixing it. But for the other 99.9% of RX 470 users, it's probably a completely different story.
Keep in mind that the auto driver update is ONLY if you do not meet the minimum driver version. That can get abused by gaming companies but that's is a different story all together.
Get back to us when you structure your solutions properly so you don't have to have 100+ projects open.
This might not be a bad thing IF Microsoft prompted you with a dialog box like this first:
I think the whole point of this is to keep users from having to make the decision. In my experience major release drivers from both Nvidia and AMD have been solid. Most of my non technical friends just accept all updates offered to them via Catalyst or the Gforce app (can't remember the name). I myself have been keeping my drivers updated for the last 6 years and have yet to encounter a problem with any video card I've owned.
Knowing Microsoft, though, they'll automatically "upgrade" the driver in the background and leave you scratching your head for awhile when the screen is stuck at 1024x768 resolution after you reboot
Well, the upgrade process remains to be seen but I suspect they will just make it part of the main install which already has a progress indicator. The idea is to not make it the user's problem.
Given that Microsoft is a convicted abusive monopolist it is reasonable to assume malicious intent.
Assumption are for fact free topics. This topic is already well covered and the information passed is exactly what they claimed in their documentation. No malicious intent in the telemetry but people rather cater to the popular movement of hate for corporation rather than be constructive in their arguments. All I'm saying is that it's getting old and childish.