Same here. My wife's Win7 is the last version of Windows that she'll get. When Windoze dies, I'll replace it with some version of Linux.
Crap, the mobile version of/. doesn't have a Quote Parent button.
Interesting. I'm too frugal to pay for any of Apple's devices, so I've never seen any of those issues.
Considering how much Microsoft is hell-bent on alienating their users with Win10, and considering what you've just described, where will the desktop computer market go from here?
The recent rash of anti-science and pro-military actions of our government are a direct consequence of Abbot stacking the public service with far right loons when he became PM. Tony was Australia's Trump light, he was (and still is) itching for us to go to war with somebody, it doesn't seem to matter who that somebody is. As with Trump, Abbot (aka the mad monk) is a private school bully boy who drove a xenophobic wedge thru his own party to gain and hold onto personal power.
Then this, quite frankly, serves Australians right for electing these halfwits into government.
So what will be your opinion of America after the upcoming presidential elections? Will you judge us after a moron becomes president, when our only choice was to choose from a pool of morons?
Cybercrime has gone through a rough patch recently because of the fragmentation of its OS base. So many users still on XP, and the higher-end users cycling rapidly through Windows 7, then 8 and 8.1, and now 10. As soon as the majority of users can be migrated to 10 as Microsoft intends, cybercrime will be off and running again.
In other words, Microsoft is shoving Win10 down our throats for the purpose of alienating their user base, thereby limiting the supply of talent for cybercrime organizations.
Too bad advertisements are not required to be 100% truthful. If they were, I could see an ad for this system where a devil on one shoulder whispers "No fans! Ain't that cool?" while an angel on the other shoulder whispers "No fans! You'll have to replace it in 2 years!"
It's the free market at work. If these jobs keep paying better and better, more and more people will get the training to go into the field and balance it out. But that's not happening because...
I teach computer information science at a college. We have a hard time recruiting students into the program because they pretty much all say they don't want to spend years learning how to be a programmer when all of the jobs are being replaced by foreigners or outsourced overseas.
You seem to misunderstand cause and effect.
Being replaced by foreigners is not the free market. It is caused by a government that is bought and paid for by corporations.
Our government sees fit to protect our farmers because they are needed to feed the people. They do not protect the workers because there is no incentive to do that. In fact, since corporations are allowed to pay for their own politicians, our government protects corporations much better than they protect individual workers.
BTW, I also teach computer science classes at a college.
If Mr O'Neill and the rest of these corporate leaders were actually so desperate for qualified tech people, perhaps they could consider starting extensive intern programs.
Perhaps colleges should start turning out people who are qualified to participate in extensive intern programs. Perhaps they could change the ABET accreditation standards for computer science programs back from being "outcome based", and instead actually teach people how to code again. There are maybe two handfuls of universities in the U.S. who have programs that are actually worthwhile, and most of those programs are legacy hold-overs based on what used to be taught in the early to mid 1980's, and not all degree contract options include those now-optional classes.
The problem isn't the colleges. It starts before that. The problem is that our entire education system is broken.
I am an adjunct professor at a local college. Most of my students write at about a 6th-grade level, and some can barely read. Several do not even try, and are content with getting C's. Most cannot follow instructions, and lose points on assignments for silly reasons. Even when I correct their mistakes, they just make the same mistake on the next assignment.
One of my students is close to graduating, and she shouldn't even be in college. She gets D's on most of her papers because she cannot express her thoughts clearly, nor can she connect a cause with an effect. She has written entire paragraphs where I have no idea what she is trying to express or convey.
You are confusing two different types of beta testing.
Microsoft's beta testing is designed to test their software using your environment. Both problems and feedback are expected.
Your beta testing is designed to test your software with stable versions of Windows. In fact, your beta testing should be done with every version of Windows that is supported at the time of your testing. Currently, that means Win7, Win8 and Win10. Most testers do that by having a VM for each version that they need to test. Using VMs makes it easy to roll back the VM to a known good state if problems are encountered, or after testing the installation of your software. For your testing, you should avoid beta versions of Windows.
Right, and you're monitoring your network's (say) 10000 packets/sec link and UPLOADING that data duplicate at 10000 packets/sec to this Cloud service. May work at 100Mbs, not likely to work at 1Gbs. Oh yeah - compression - yeah that solves everything - and latency never matters.
How do startups succeed in getting headlines with ideas that can never work in the real world?
One of our networking guys told me we can't even monitor our network traffic for a single day because the volume would quickly fill our multi-terabyte SAN. Granted, we're a largish company with 350+ users at our corporate office, but still.
Maybe their service is geared towards smaller shops that would have smaller traffic volumes. But then how would smaller shops have the bandwidth for this service? I don't get it.
So who's the bigger fool? Analysts who make SWAGs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_wild-ass_guess) about what the future will look like 25 years from now? Or the people who believe them?
Yeah but we are in the mood to drop bombs on children and pay taxes to spy on everybody.
No, we're not.
Power-hungry government morons do that. We peons have no choice in the matter.
Technically, we could replace those morons with someone else. But the current presidential race proves that our only choices are either morons or liars.
Yes, it's stupid but people have lost over less... see Howard Dean's scream.
Howard Dean's scream showed us that he has anger management issues, and is emotionally unstable. We should all be thankful that he did that before the election rather than after.
It's just bad grammar. Just because "most people do it that way" is merely proof that most people are idiots. It does not justify doing something the wrong way.
The fact that the same usage is seen in modern advertising does not help the situation. The people creating that advertising are probably coddled 20-somethings who were never told they were wrong because their feelings might get hurt.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere, but everyone here new that, you might like to raise the bar of article quality, leave this level for the daily mail crowd
We also knew that, and assume that spelling might be new to you.
Slashdot Mirror
As Mark Twain popularized, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
...will be assimilated!
Not for me, thank you. Plain old rsync works great.
Just amused that it can render rudimentary 3-D graphics, play full screen, full motion video, but I can't even use it to visit Slashdot...
Amazon must have fixed that, because I just responded to a /. post using my new (5th Generation) Fire, and it worked fine.
Same here. My wife's Win7 is the last version of Windows that she'll get. When Windoze dies, I'll replace it with some version of Linux. Crap, the mobile version of /. doesn't have a Quote Parent button.
Interesting. I'm too frugal to pay for any of Apple's devices, so I've never seen any of those issues.
Considering how much Microsoft is hell-bent on alienating their users with Win10, and considering what you've just described, where will the desktop computer market go from here?
...for using Windows 10.
Care to qualify why you think that is?
-Person who's run fanless system for many more than 2 years.
Perhaps because heat kills electronics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The recent rash of anti-science and pro-military actions of our government are a direct consequence of Abbot stacking the public service with far right loons when he became PM. Tony was Australia's Trump light, he was (and still is) itching for us to go to war with somebody, it doesn't seem to matter who that somebody is. As with Trump, Abbot (aka the mad monk) is a private school bully boy who drove a xenophobic wedge thru his own party to gain and hold onto personal power.
Then this, quite frankly, serves Australians right for electing these halfwits into government.
So what will be your opinion of America after the upcoming presidential elections? Will you judge us after a moron becomes president, when our only choice was to choose from a pool of morons?
Cybercrime has gone through a rough patch recently because of the fragmentation of its OS base. So many users still on XP, and the higher-end users cycling rapidly through Windows 7, then 8 and 8.1, and now 10. As soon as the majority of users can be migrated to 10 as Microsoft intends, cybercrime will be off and running again.
In other words, Microsoft is shoving Win10 down our throats for the purpose of alienating their user base, thereby limiting the supply of talent for cybercrime organizations.
Go Microsoft! Keep alienating your users!
SCO = Supply Chain Optimization
If you did not understand the summary, then this site is not for you.
If that was an attempt at humor, you failed.
If you were serious, then please admit yourself to the nearest mental hospital.
Too bad advertisements are not required to be 100% truthful. If they were, I could see an ad for this system where a devil on one shoulder whispers "No fans! Ain't that cool?" while an angel on the other shoulder whispers "No fans! You'll have to replace it in 2 years!"
It's the free market at work. If these jobs keep paying better and better, more and more people will get the training to go into the field and balance it out. But that's not happening because...
I teach computer information science at a college. We have a hard time recruiting students into the program because they pretty much all say they don't want to spend years learning how to be a programmer when all of the jobs are being replaced by foreigners or outsourced overseas.
You seem to misunderstand cause and effect.
Being replaced by foreigners is not the free market. It is caused by a government that is bought and paid for by corporations.
Our government sees fit to protect our farmers because they are needed to feed the people. They do not protect the workers because there is no incentive to do that. In fact, since corporations are allowed to pay for their own politicians, our government protects corporations much better than they protect individual workers.
BTW, I also teach computer science classes at a college.
If Mr O'Neill and the rest of these corporate leaders were actually so desperate for qualified tech people, perhaps they could consider starting extensive intern programs.
Perhaps colleges should start turning out people who are qualified to participate in extensive intern programs. Perhaps they could change the ABET accreditation standards for computer science programs back from being "outcome based", and instead actually teach people how to code again. There are maybe two handfuls of universities in the U.S. who have programs that are actually worthwhile, and most of those programs are legacy hold-overs based on what used to be taught in the early to mid 1980's, and not all degree contract options include those now-optional classes.
The problem isn't the colleges. It starts before that. The problem is that our entire education system is broken.
I am an adjunct professor at a local college. Most of my students write at about a 6th-grade level, and some can barely read. Several do not even try, and are content with getting C's. Most cannot follow instructions, and lose points on assignments for silly reasons. Even when I correct their mistakes, they just make the same mistake on the next assignment.
One of my students is close to graduating, and she shouldn't even be in college. She gets D's on most of her papers because she cannot express her thoughts clearly, nor can she connect a cause with an effect. She has written entire paragraphs where I have no idea what she is trying to express or convey.
You are confusing two different types of beta testing.
Microsoft's beta testing is designed to test their software using your environment. Both problems and feedback are expected.
Your beta testing is designed to test your software with stable versions of Windows. In fact, your beta testing should be done with every version of Windows that is supported at the time of your testing. Currently, that means Win7, Win8 and Win10. Most testers do that by having a VM for each version that they need to test. Using VMs makes it easy to roll back the VM to a known good state if problems are encountered, or after testing the installation of your software. For your testing, you should avoid beta versions of Windows.
Right, and you're monitoring your network's (say) 10000 packets/sec link and UPLOADING that data duplicate at 10000 packets/sec to this Cloud service. May work at 100Mbs, not likely to work at 1Gbs. Oh yeah - compression - yeah that solves everything - and latency never matters.
How do startups succeed in getting headlines with ideas that can never work in the real world?
One of our networking guys told me we can't even monitor our network traffic for a single day because the volume would quickly fill our multi-terabyte SAN. Granted, we're a largish company with 350+ users at our corporate office, but still.
Maybe their service is geared towards smaller shops that would have smaller traffic volumes. But then how would smaller shops have the bandwidth for this service? I don't get it.
I thought it meant a shared TiVo or cloud storage of traffic cameras or some bizarre thing like that. No, it just fucking logs packets.
I came here to say the same thing. I guess I'll go back to what I was doing. Which is nothing.
Thanks to the NSA and the Freedom Act, we're already there.
Kudos to Apple for trying to limit the scope of the problem, but they can't prevent something that already exists.
So who's the bigger fool? Analysts who make SWAGs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_wild-ass_guess) about what the future will look like 25 years from now? Or the people who believe them?
Yeah but we are in the mood to drop bombs on children and pay taxes to spy on everybody.
No, we're not.
Power-hungry government morons do that. We peons have no choice in the matter.
Technically, we could replace those morons with someone else. But the current presidential race proves that our only choices are either morons or liars.
Yes, it's stupid but people have lost over less... see Howard Dean's scream.
Howard Dean's scream showed us that he has anger management issues, and is emotionally unstable. We should all be thankful that he did that before the election rather than after.
No, it never makes sense.
It's just bad grammar. Just because "most people do it that way" is merely proof that most people are idiots. It does not justify doing something the wrong way.
The fact that the same usage is seen in modern advertising does not help the situation. The people creating that advertising are probably coddled 20-somethings who were never told they were wrong because their feelings might get hurt.
...as "10,000 times less."
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere, but everyone here new that, you might like to raise the bar of article quality, leave this level for the daily mail crowd
We also knew that, and assume that spelling might be new to you.