You have to go "create new microsoft account", and then select "skip creating a microsoft account" at the bottom of that page.
It is a deliberately hidden option, and as you say is only presented to the user if they are not connected to the internet. I have used the windows insider feedback tool to scold microsoft for this, I think it would be fantastic for others to do the same.
The problem is with the PC being turned into a toy out of the box, making peoples lives hard in the process.
The thing to remember is that your operating system is actually not made for the end user. It is made for the developer, and it lets developers do useful things like pretend a USB drive is exactly the same as a network share magnetic drive.
What you see on the desktop isn't the OS, it's a graphical file manager. That's useful, I'm happy to have that preinstalled. I'll take a browser as well, so I can use it to bootstrap to the browser I want to use and then remove it.
The problem is that now I also have to take a voice assistant and a cloud sync drive and weather and finance apps and a media player and this and that and the other. Half of them can no longer be uninstalled. The rest I have to spend 15 minutes removing before I can download the browser, media player and p2p sync tool I use.
A lot of people here are sysadmins, which means they are responsible for securing corporate or government information. It isn't possible to uninstall skydrive or cortana, which means these people cannot guarantee that the PC isn't listening to everything in a cabinet meeting, and cannot guarantee it isn't sending every document offsite. The capability to do so lurks in the operating system itself, like an uninvited friend of a friend who can't take a hint.
The ability to remove skydrive has vanished since the previous, despite being the most requested feature on the feedback app, and cortana is now stapled to your startbar, taking up 50% of the space with no apparent way to remove it.
Creating a local account rather than logging in with a microsoft account has been made more confusing by making the UI components for creating a new microsoft account bigger, so that the "log in without a microsoft account" button is pushed off the bottom of the page. Microsoft really wants your grandmother confused and scared so she makes an account without understanding what she's doing.
We still won't see elevators 1km in hight, there's a queuing problem involved.
Basically, if you have 100 floors, and 8 elevators that service all 100, the chances that there will be one a) free to pick you up and b) close to the floor you are on are very low. Even with efficient lift allocation systems, you can end up waiting 15 minutes for a lift.
It is much faster to have 40 elevators, each servicing 20 floors, and change lifts every 20 floors. Yes, if you're going from floor 1 to floor 100, you have to make 4 changes. However, if you're going from floor 1 to floor 18, it'll be a fraction of the wait, and even if you *are* going to floor 100, it will still be much faster on average, even though you have to repeatedly change lifts.
Not everyone needs to know how to strip down an engine, but understanding how and why to replace the oil and radiator fluid in your car will save you a lot of money and headache, and not just because you'll save money on the checkup. Knowing why cars have oil and coolant, and vaguely where it goes is exactly the sort of thing you need to know when your car temp warning hits maximum while you're driving round a car park at 20, as it did for me and a friend a few weeks ago.
I think that coding without engineering is exactly what we should be teaching. We don't need everyone in the whole world to know the difference between a good and bad inheritance scheme. On the other hand, knowing how to write a script that can read in one CSV file and output another could save a lot of work and cure a lot of mistakes.
How many people have jobs that involve spending half an hour every week copy-pasting data from a website to a word document? I'm betting quite a few. A few years of casual python classes in highschool could save a lot of wrist strain.
It's not about making great software architects, it's about developing a grasp of the things you can tell a computer to do, and how to talk to it, so that everyone knows how to instruct their computer to do simple but person specific tasks.
I've been on an anti-account binge for a while. If your game requires me to make a new account, I'll never play it.
It hasn't really affected the quality of my gaming experience. Turns out companies that spend heaps of time making elaborate anti-piracy mechanisms make shit games, who knew?
As a side note, I haven't bought a Ubisoft game for about 4 years, ever since this incident:
Speaking to IncGamers, creative director Stanislas Mettra stated that there are currently no plans to bring the game to PC because of fears that only Pirates will steal the game, and the last thing he wants to hear is any of your incessant ‘bitching’ over the issue.
Again, it hasn't really affected the quality of my gaming experience. Occasionally, I wonder if I'm missing out on assassins creed, but then I go try to play Dishonored, and remember I hate the whole genre.
What if I sell two copies of Custers Revenge to my friend within a picosecond of each other? Is that relevant?
Fastest selling always means "units sold/relevant lifetime" unless you're trying to be dishonest about how successful a product was, which is exactly what microsoft is doing here.
I've used some as well, but only some. This guys argument for a button-only middle button hinges on *every* click-wheel mouse being hard to use, and that's clearly false. I've been through about 5 mice in the last few months trying to find a comfortable replacement for the intellimouse explorer 3.0 (why did they stop making it?), and of all the problems I've had, accidental scrolling while middleclicking never happened.
It honestly sounds like a problem out of a late night infomercial.
Diverting DNS is also snooping. If you're diverting the traffic to a third party server, then the third party server can see when people are attempting to access blocked content.
"Fastest-selling consumer gaming device of all time"? Bullshit.
Citation?
Every xbox 360 sales package contained an xbox 360. Further, every xbox package contained an xbox 360 controller. Not every xbox sales package contained a kinect.
People buy kinects at a maximum ratio of 1 kinect per xbox. Not everyone wants a kinect.
People buy xbox 360 controllers at a maximum ratio of 4 controllers per xbox. In addition, xbox 360 controllers are more likely to break and be repurchased than kinects or xboxes.
There is some minor academic and hobbyist use for kinects outside gaming. However, there is also minor academic and hobbyist use of controllers and xboxes. This will roughly even out.
Ergo, xbox 360s and xbox controllers *must* have sold faster then kinects.
At bare minimum, the order of "fastest selling consumer gaming device of all time" must go 1. xbox 360 controller 2. xbox 360 3. kinect
We haven't even begun to discuss how the wii consistently outsold the xbox and came with both a wiimote and a nunchuck, and we know that this must be true.
I actually see this not as the fault of elected officials, but the fault of software developers.
There is something pretty profoundly wrong with our industry. Someone coded this monstrosity. Someone coded prism. Someone coded a backdoor into every linksys router. Apparently, those someones thought their actions were ok enough to not refuse the job, or they feared that if they didn't do it, they'd be fired and someone else would do it anyway.
We need to take a group stand against unethical software development.
Unfortunately, in this interim bullshittery, I've discovered that Ubuntu is actually much nicer than windows once you get past the learning hill (no longer a cliff).
The only thing that keeps me on windows is video games. I'll be sticking with Windows 7 on my desktop until it goes EOL or I otherwise need to reformat it, and then I'll be moving to Ubuntu on my desktop as well.
The AI we have today is not capable of the kind of malice that people seem to be afraid of with all of these FUD stories
The problem is that this shit is emergent. Is a deep learning algorithm used by insurance companies that increases your income insurance premium if you are black racist, or just responding to the training data you gave it?
"oh, well, it seems like he wasn't really a team player - only posted once every couple of days. better rescind that job offer."
I get this a bit with LinkedIn, I treat it as something of a reverse filter.
I wouldn't want to work at a company with a HR department stupid enough to say something like "we don't hire people who don't use LinkedIn", or in the case of a recent article about Kogan "we don't hire people who use hotmail".
A HR department that can't understand why those are stupid policies probably also won't give me a day off at short notice if I need it, and might try to implement per line committed code metrics for productivity or similarly dodgy "performance management".
That having been said, we really need to look into legislation saying you're not allowed to discriminate your hiring choices based on social media participation. Just because you don't find anything when you search Facebook for me doesn't mean I'm a serial killer.
That's true, but that falls under "robust hardware abstractions".
Windows XP also had poor 64bit support and a very strange way of load balancing multiple cores.
Windows 7's technology with a windows XP skin would be fine. Windows 8/8.1 had fantastic technical improvements. It's really a shame they were wrapped in terrible UI and unwanted ~cloud features~.
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You have to go "create new microsoft account", and then select "skip creating a microsoft account" at the bottom of that page.
It is a deliberately hidden option, and as you say is only presented to the user if they are not connected to the internet. I have used the windows insider feedback tool to scold microsoft for this, I think it would be fantastic for others to do the same.
The problem is with the PC being turned into a toy out of the box, making peoples lives hard in the process.
The thing to remember is that your operating system is actually not made for the end user. It is made for the developer, and it lets developers do useful things like pretend a USB drive is exactly the same as a network share magnetic drive.
What you see on the desktop isn't the OS, it's a graphical file manager. That's useful, I'm happy to have that preinstalled. I'll take a browser as well, so I can use it to bootstrap to the browser I want to use and then remove it.
The problem is that now I also have to take a voice assistant and a cloud sync drive and weather and finance apps and a media player and this and that and the other. Half of them can no longer be uninstalled. The rest I have to spend 15 minutes removing before I can download the browser, media player and p2p sync tool I use.
A lot of people here are sysadmins, which means they are responsible for securing corporate or government information. It isn't possible to uninstall skydrive or cortana, which means these people cannot guarantee that the PC isn't listening to everything in a cabinet meeting, and cannot guarantee it isn't sending every document offsite. The capability to do so lurks in the operating system itself, like an uninvited friend of a friend who can't take a hint.
That's handy I guess. Any way to uninstall it? My uninstall list shows up blank and it's not in the windows components list either.
I see the ~cloud~ is mandatory again.
The ability to remove skydrive has vanished since the previous, despite being the most requested feature on the feedback app, and cortana is now stapled to your startbar, taking up 50% of the space with no apparent way to remove it.
Creating a local account rather than logging in with a microsoft account has been made more confusing by making the UI components for creating a new microsoft account bigger, so that the "log in without a microsoft account" button is pushed off the bottom of the page. Microsoft really wants your grandmother confused and scared so she makes an account without understanding what she's doing.
We still won't see elevators 1km in hight, there's a queuing problem involved.
Basically, if you have 100 floors, and 8 elevators that service all 100, the chances that there will be one a) free to pick you up and b) close to the floor you are on are very low. Even with efficient lift allocation systems, you can end up waiting 15 minutes for a lift.
It is much faster to have 40 elevators, each servicing 20 floors, and change lifts every 20 floors. Yes, if you're going from floor 1 to floor 100, you have to make 4 changes. However, if you're going from floor 1 to floor 18, it'll be a fraction of the wait, and even if you *are* going to floor 100, it will still be much faster on average, even though you have to repeatedly change lifts.
I was going to make a similar comparison.
Not everyone needs to know how to strip down an engine, but understanding how and why to replace the oil and radiator fluid in your car will save you a lot of money and headache, and not just because you'll save money on the checkup. Knowing why cars have oil and coolant, and vaguely where it goes is exactly the sort of thing you need to know when your car temp warning hits maximum while you're driving round a car park at 20, as it did for me and a friend a few weeks ago.
I think that coding without engineering is exactly what we should be teaching. We don't need everyone in the whole world to know the difference between a good and bad inheritance scheme. On the other hand, knowing how to write a script that can read in one CSV file and output another could save a lot of work and cure a lot of mistakes.
How many people have jobs that involve spending half an hour every week copy-pasting data from a website to a word document? I'm betting quite a few. A few years of casual python classes in highschool could save a lot of wrist strain.
It's not about making great software architects, it's about developing a grasp of the things you can tell a computer to do, and how to talk to it, so that everyone knows how to instruct their computer to do simple but person specific tasks.
I've been on an anti-account binge for a while. If your game requires me to make a new account, I'll never play it.
It hasn't really affected the quality of my gaming experience. Turns out companies that spend heaps of time making elaborate anti-piracy mechanisms make shit games, who knew?
As a side note, I haven't bought a Ubisoft game for about 4 years, ever since this incident:
Speaking to IncGamers, creative director Stanislas Mettra stated that there are currently no plans to bring the game to PC because of fears that only Pirates will steal the game, and the last thing he wants to hear is any of your incessant ‘bitching’ over the issue.
Again, it hasn't really affected the quality of my gaming experience. Occasionally, I wonder if I'm missing out on assassins creed, but then I go try to play Dishonored, and remember I hate the whole genre.
What if I sell two copies of Custers Revenge to my friend within a picosecond of each other? Is that relevant?
Fastest selling always means "units sold/relevant lifetime" unless you're trying to be dishonest about how successful a product was, which is exactly what microsoft is doing here.
I've used some as well, but only some. This guys argument for a button-only middle button hinges on *every* click-wheel mouse being hard to use, and that's clearly false. I've been through about 5 mice in the last few months trying to find a comfortable replacement for the intellimouse explorer 3.0 (why did they stop making it?), and of all the problems I've had, accidental scrolling while middleclicking never happened.
It honestly sounds like a problem out of a late night infomercial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Are you tired of accidentally scrolling when you mean to paste?
That's one way to keep international business out of china, I guess...
Draw the line wherever you like, you don't have to work for them
You're right of course, starving on the streets is a perfectly viable option. Don't be intellectually dishonest.
And with your permission and all of that
Because google is known for this approach, of course.
*cough*Glassholes*cough*
Diverting DNS is also snooping. If you're diverting the traffic to a third party server, then the third party server can see when people are attempting to access blocked content.
Hey, I'd be on the board of the Government Grant Money Clock like a shot!
5 minutes to taxpayer funded flights to Hawaii!
Citation?
Every xbox 360 sales package contained an xbox 360. Further, every xbox package contained an xbox 360 controller. Not every xbox sales package contained a kinect.
People buy kinects at a maximum ratio of 1 kinect per xbox. Not everyone wants a kinect.
People buy xbox 360 controllers at a maximum ratio of 4 controllers per xbox. In addition, xbox 360 controllers are more likely to break and be repurchased than kinects or xboxes.
There is some minor academic and hobbyist use for kinects outside gaming. However, there is also minor academic and hobbyist use of controllers and xboxes. This will roughly even out.
Ergo, xbox 360s and xbox controllers *must* have sold faster then kinects.
At bare minimum, the order of "fastest selling consumer gaming device of all time" must go
1. xbox 360 controller
2. xbox 360
3. kinect
We haven't even begun to discuss how the wii consistently outsold the xbox and came with both a wiimote and a nunchuck, and we know that this must be true.
You don't need a citation, use your brain.
Personally I'm a fan of the German stick grenade approach. Hell, why not drone mount them on parrot AR's? Cheaper than missiles.
You might be in public, but you're not in a studio. You have no expectations of broadcasting, either.
I actually see this not as the fault of elected officials, but the fault of software developers.
There is something pretty profoundly wrong with our industry. Someone coded this monstrosity. Someone coded prism. Someone coded a backdoor into every linksys router. Apparently, those someones thought their actions were ok enough to not refuse the job, or they feared that if they didn't do it, they'd be fired and someone else would do it anyway.
We need to take a group stand against unethical software development.
There are considerably less destructive and more awesome ways to generate EMP's then with nukes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Unfortunately, in this interim bullshittery, I've discovered that Ubuntu is actually much nicer than windows once you get past the learning hill (no longer a cliff).
The only thing that keeps me on windows is video games. I'll be sticking with Windows 7 on my desktop until it goes EOL or I otherwise need to reformat it, and then I'll be moving to Ubuntu on my desktop as well.
The AI we have today is not capable of the kind of malice that people seem to be afraid of with all of these FUD stories
The problem is that this shit is emergent. Is a deep learning algorithm used by insurance companies that increases your income insurance premium if you are black racist, or just responding to the training data you gave it?
"oh, well, it seems like he wasn't really a team player - only posted once every couple of days. better rescind that job offer."
I get this a bit with LinkedIn, I treat it as something of a reverse filter.
I wouldn't want to work at a company with a HR department stupid enough to say something like "we don't hire people who don't use LinkedIn", or in the case of a recent article about Kogan "we don't hire people who use hotmail".
A HR department that can't understand why those are stupid policies probably also won't give me a day off at short notice if I need it, and might try to implement per line committed code metrics for productivity or similarly dodgy "performance management".
That having been said, we really need to look into legislation saying you're not allowed to discriminate your hiring choices based on social media participation. Just because you don't find anything when you search Facebook for me doesn't mean I'm a serial killer.
Bet you a dollar the VR software won't work in airplane mode?
That's true, but that falls under "robust hardware abstractions".
Windows XP also had poor 64bit support and a very strange way of load balancing multiple cores.
Windows 7's technology with a windows XP skin would be fine. Windows 8/8.1 had fantastic technical improvements. It's really a shame they were wrapped in terrible UI and unwanted ~cloud features~.
"Sorry, we don't support the Galaxy 4 firmware anymore, better upgrade! Don't forget to link your account to your new device!"
I want a monitor, not a phone, thanks.