You seem to have forgotten the Slashdot that isn't in range of the search feature... my exes got together and designed an iPhone app compatible with car systems that are about ready to come out now.
Cell phone is safe when moved to the car radio position... you can't hand dial while driving, but you can voice dial without taking your hands of the wheel. Ideally, most of the car's controls should now be at the steering wheel, and the remainder within reach of your girlfriend.
This is something I wanted for a while... a dedicated device number that maps to my car and not something I carry with me. If people want to reach me and think I'm driving, the car can ring and I don't have to set up Bluetooth. If somebody wants me to do something on the way home without bothering me during the workday, my car can carry the message when I get there.
The government doesn't want anything in general release in these situations. A large old floppy isn't readable or writable by the average Windows computer. This creates "security by obscurity" that makes it harder for a non-authorized command to be run. We don't want some kid playing Thermo-Nuclear War.
But clicking an [X] on an informational box and expecting that to somehow reverse a setting behind the box? No, I don't understand that one.
It's something pop-up ads taught, where a click anywhere in the window, including a false cancel button, lead to a web hit of the ad's target. Parents taught kids to always click the [X] for something they didn't want to see.... that's just wrong here.
It's a case of dumb population not understanding they accepted the download there in the past so they are upgraded by surprise.
Microsoft, by tradition, has too many ways of accomplishing the download of Windows 10. The one under discussion is "You take Windows Updates, so now Win10 is in your download queue..." effectively. You have to reschedule or say never, the [X] icon leaves things as they are and the upgrade happens.
Apple only releases 1-2 SKUs a year of iPhone... while Google has no control of its operating system it hands to vendors who make the Android devices. Big difference there.
BTW... GOOG lost voting rights at Alphabet, Inc. recently... those moved to the new GOOGL stock.
This is standard Microsoft behavior after a sucky project. Expression Web and FrontPage were discontinued, so their final versions were released as free. Outlook had so many mistakes that Outlook 98 was released as a free standalone download.
Now comes the headache-causing Windows 8, so 8.1 was quickly published as a fix, and Windows 10 was given to all 7/8 users for free... it's a rollback more than an upgrade, so that's why Microsoft is only charging for new computers, and there's no paid-for upgrade SKU. There shouldn't be a computer running any prior version left now.
It's called not reading.... it was asking for a request to cancel the upgrade, and [X] made no such request. So much for [X] on a popup window is always safe...
The window in question informed users that Win10 would be downloaded as a Windows Update and then installed at a specific time set by the Windows Update, and then offered a chance to cancel or reschedule. Clicking the [X] dismisses the dialog box with no action taken... but that equated to "Ok" because you needed to take an action to stop the upgrade. It's a violation of standard Windows conventions due to confusion.
Kinda like a "Would you like to repeal the new tax law? Yes/No" ballot question, where Yes leads to a tax cut being repealed to leading to higher taxes, and a No leaves the law the same causing the tax cut to stay in place. Most states trust a state official to prevent this kind of situation from resulting in a confusing ballot question to be sent to voters.
Bottom line... this resembles the "FUI ads" we saw a few years ago, where all of the Windows bar looked like XP's header but was sent in the ads image, causing an attempt to X-out looked like permission to load more pages.
The problem here is that Fox gets to pull down the clip on their claim without any chance to counterclaim that the claim is false... there should be a penalty for false claims.
And yet another top of the line card comes out at $1/GB more or less. With even the smallest cards going for $10 a Best Buy due to shipping and storage prices... can we find some better way of doing this? How about a box of 10 SD cards like floppies at the signoff price for floppies at $10/box?
Multicast is like setting up a cable channel for multiple viewers. If everybody's watching a different movie, or they didn't start at the same time or pause differently, then multicast doesn't work and it goes back to unicast.
Yep, the "have everything" packages that cable and DBS offer everywhere are built so you don't need a Comcast wire to watch NBC and a DirecTV dish to watch Fox.
Netflix/Amazon don't make their own content, they pay for shows that were offered directly to them instead of going through cable networks. Shows like "Fuller House" were offered to the mainstream providers, but nobody accepted.
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Macs have only one source for BIOS: Apple... and Apple is part owned by Microsoft.
How'd you get that to work without Boot Camp?
Slashdot isn't gay... it's just having trouble attracting women.
You seem to have forgotten the Slashdot that isn't in range of the search feature... my exes got together and designed an iPhone app compatible with car systems that are about ready to come out now.
Microsoft enforces their rules at the BIOS level... that's the reason why you can't build your own BIOS chip for Windows anymore.
Cell phone is safe when moved to the car radio position... you can't hand dial while driving, but you can voice dial without taking your hands of the wheel. Ideally, most of the car's controls should now be at the steering wheel, and the remainder within reach of your girlfriend.
This is something I wanted for a while... a dedicated device number that maps to my car and not something I carry with me. If people want to reach me and think I'm driving, the car can ring and I don't have to set up Bluetooth. If somebody wants me to do something on the way home without bothering me during the workday, my car can carry the message when I get there.
The government doesn't want anything in general release in these situations. A large old floppy isn't readable or writable by the average Windows computer. This creates "security by obscurity" that makes it harder for a non-authorized command to be run. We don't want some kid playing Thermo-Nuclear War.
[X] means "get rid of this and change nothing"... "No" is represented by the word "Never" in the pulldown.
But clicking an [X] on an informational box and expecting that to somehow reverse a setting behind the box? No, I don't understand that one.
It's something pop-up ads taught, where a click anywhere in the window, including a false cancel button, lead to a web hit of the ad's target. Parents taught kids to always click the [X] for something they didn't want to see.... that's just wrong here.
It's a case of dumb population not understanding they accepted the download there in the past so they are upgraded by surprise.
Microsoft, by tradition, has too many ways of accomplishing the download of Windows 10. The one under discussion is "You take Windows Updates, so now Win10 is in your download queue..." effectively. You have to reschedule or say never, the [X] icon leaves things as they are and the upgrade happens.
"[X] is always safe!" is an error.
Seems like GOOGL needs an exemption from kidnapping law to make this work. If I'm ever there, short the stock...
Apple only releases 1-2 SKUs a year of iPhone... while Google has no control of its operating system it hands to vendors who make the Android devices. Big difference there.
BTW... GOOG lost voting rights at Alphabet, Inc. recently... those moved to the new GOOGL stock.
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This is standard Microsoft behavior after a sucky project. Expression Web and FrontPage were discontinued, so their final versions were released as free. Outlook had so many mistakes that Outlook 98 was released as a free standalone download.
Now comes the headache-causing Windows 8, so 8.1 was quickly published as a fix, and Windows 10 was given to all 7/8 users for free... it's a rollback more than an upgrade, so that's why Microsoft is only charging for new computers, and there's no paid-for upgrade SKU. There shouldn't be a computer running any prior version left now.
It's called not reading.... it was asking for a request to cancel the upgrade, and [X] made no such request. So much for [X] on a popup window is always safe...
The window in question informed users that Win10 would be downloaded as a Windows Update and then installed at a specific time set by the Windows Update, and then offered a chance to cancel or reschedule. Clicking the [X] dismisses the dialog box with no action taken... but that equated to "Ok" because you needed to take an action to stop the upgrade. It's a violation of standard Windows conventions due to confusion.
Kinda like a "Would you like to repeal the new tax law? Yes/No" ballot question, where Yes leads to a tax cut being repealed to leading to higher taxes, and a No leaves the law the same causing the tax cut to stay in place. Most states trust a state official to prevent this kind of situation from resulting in a confusing ballot question to be sent to voters.
Bottom line... this resembles the "FUI ads" we saw a few years ago, where all of the Windows bar looked like XP's header but was sent in the ads image, causing an attempt to X-out looked like permission to load more pages.
A better penalty would be cash... losing their takedown rights would put a media company out of business.
It seems like this was automatedly cut after Fox aired the clip... it would be nice if Google posted a "why" document for takedowns.
The problem here is that Fox gets to pull down the clip on their claim without any chance to counterclaim that the claim is false... there should be a penalty for false claims.
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Better yet, use full SD cards which aren't much bigger and have a longer life of uses.
And yet another top of the line card comes out at $1/GB more or less. With even the smallest cards going for $10 a Best Buy due to shipping and storage prices... can we find some better way of doing this? How about a box of 10 SD cards like floppies at the signoff price for floppies at $10/box?
Multicast is like setting up a cable channel for multiple viewers. If everybody's watching a different movie, or they didn't start at the same time or pause differently, then multicast doesn't work and it goes back to unicast.
Yep, the "have everything" packages that cable and DBS offer everywhere are built so you don't need a Comcast wire to watch NBC and a DirecTV dish to watch Fox.
Netflix/Amazon don't make their own content, they pay for shows that were offered directly to them instead of going through cable networks. Shows like "Fuller House" were offered to the mainstream providers, but nobody accepted.