When I have been asked by "average persons" about the upgrade, I explain the data harvesting that Microsoft will be doing to them and their family.
And depending on how you ask this question, the answer will be what YOU want it to be. The "data harvesting" is well documented and is on the same level as Facebook, Google, DuckDuckGo, etc.
This telemetry has been common place in software since XP (at least). Any "user experience" reporting, crash feedback, or online knowledge base/help system is gathering the same data that Windows 10 is.
You seem to be a little misinformed. DuckDuckGo advertises itself as "The search engine that doesn't track you. Learn More."
Telemetry may be common, but not by an Operating System. Users can easily choose not to use Facebook or Google. Choosing a different operating system, however, is much more complex.
A friend of mine had W10 forced on him recently. He didn't notice an option to cancel the "upgrade", although it could have been there. After W10 was installed, his Office 2010 demanded the product key. He couldn't find his original installation media, so he couldn't use Office. He had something that he needed to do in Word, so he looked for alternatives. Another friend suggested OpenOffice, and he installed it just fine. He called me for help using OO, since he knows I use it in Linux. I helped him resolve his technical issue, and we have another happy non-Microsoft user.
Since he paid for Office, he should be able to use it for as long as he wants to. The fact that W10 breaks an existing installation is silly and underhanded.
Go Microsoft! Keep shooting yourself in the foot. Class action lawsuits rarely accomplish anything more than making a few lawyers richer than they already are. With that in mind, the best chance that Linux fans have is for Microsoft to alienate their customers so badly that they look for non-Microsoft alternatives. So far, Microsoft is doing a wonderful job of alienating their users.
Really? It makes sense to you to try to patch your guest OSes by connecting to the update site with a completely different host OS?
No, it makes sense to look at data on a website using a application that communicates in an agnostic protocol called HTTP
But yes.. if I can pull down an install file once to local storage and locally distribute it to the needed systems what does it matter what the intermediate OS is?
It is good security practice to open questionable links in a completely different host OS. Thanks to the malware known as Windows 10, all links that point to Microsoft should be tested with a non-Windows OS.
Sucks if you were one of the 10 or so deaths from what would have been a minor accident, but it's similar to vaccines. Millions of lives have been saved from vaccines, but if you are one of the rare people who has a serious reaction to a vaccine.
Citation needed.
Nobody has ever died from a vaccine. A couple of coincidental deaths that happened close to the time that someone received a vaccine do not prove that the vaccine caused the death.
Anybody that's used LibreOffice recently knows that it's equal or better to MSOffice in just about every respect; the compatibility with OOXML has been particularly good since version 5. But you wouldn't know it from the flood of slashdotters that came in here a minute after the story was posted to talk about how bad LO is, in vague and undescribed ways.
Wrong. LO sucks at rendering XML documents from MS Office. Even version 5 sucks.
Disclaimer: I hate M$. I hope the crapware known as Win10 cripples M$ so badly that they actually start to provide decent products at decent prices.
LO can't even render simple tables correctly. I get both Word and Excel documents from both my university and my employer. The formatting of every XML document looks different on LO (even version 5) than it does in Office, regardless of how simple or complex the original document is.
LO sucks so badly that I tried to uninstall it from my desktop Linux distro, but I can't because "dependency hell" would uninstall the world. So instead I installed WPS Office, which does a MUCH better job of rendering XML.
If you have a panic attack whenever you see a cop, that would seem to warrant an examination of your own life. Don't ride dirty. Don't have guns, drugs or drug paraphernalia on you or in your car.
If the legal system was fair and just, then you would be correct. Unfortunately, that utopia does not exist. Thanks to 9/11 and paranoia, you can get put in jail for 48 hours without being charged with anything. And if you do get unjustly charged, you could still be stuck in jail until your day in court, which could be months away. Does that sound like "innocent until proven guilty?" Not to me, it doesn't. It sounds more like "guilty until proven innocent."
Here's another example: a relative of mine is a fireman. He's worked with cops for his entire career. He's been a 911 dispatcher, an ambulance driver, and a fireman. Even he doesn't trust cops. Why? Because if they want to pull you over, then can and they will. And if they want to fuck up your day, perhaps your life, they can and they will.
Not all nudity is porn, however, most nudity that is porn portrays abusive behavior and feeds a need in the viewer that probably is not healthy.
Bullshit. Just because some of it portrays abusive behavior doesn't mean that most of it does.
I've done a lot of counseling sessions with people whose relationships and lives were ruined by the persons addiction to porn.
So what? Just because.001% of the population is addicted to porn doesn't mean porn is evil. People with addictive personalities will become addicted to whatever is most convenient: sugar, drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, smoking, porn/sex, etc. Should all of those be banned as well?
Add in that every Android device I have ever owned has been able to talk ActiveSync to an Exchange server in like forever via the standard Mail app it is even less useful.
The headline makes it sound like you have not been able to connect to an Exchange server previously.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
The only real news is that Google fanboys (if there are any) can now use their favorite email app to access their Exchange email.
Yeah, it's pretty sad. Everything has aligned, and the numbers add up. They're boxed in.
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For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
For all intents and purposes, your sig is an example of why we have a problem. Lazy fucktards who think "you knew what I meant" is the same thing as "communication."
The reason Apple can charge so much and reap such large profit margins is that they sell fashion, more than electronics. The consumer electronics market tends to be pretty price sensitive and competitive, so you need to keep price, and thus margins, down to compete. However fashion doesn't work like that. High prices can actually be seen as a good thing as they confer status, and people don't shop on price, they want the fashionable brand.
Well, Apple made their stuff stylish. It is fashionable to be seen with a shiny Mac laptop. It is fashionable to be seen with an iPod, with white visible earbuds and the cord hanging out in front of your shirt so everyone knows you have one. They are status symbols. As such, people tolerate and even embrace higher prices. That lets Apple make great margins where other companies can't.
Why is the parent modded as flamebait? Because it's correct?
No, actually we have not. People are not more stupid or lazy than before. But many people find that the skills that can acquire given their talents are not in demand anymore. That is quite a different problem.
Do you have any evidence to back that claim? I suspect that you do not.
As an adjunct professor in the U.S., my experience supports the claim. Most of my students have the grammatical skills of a 6th grader, and many only do the minimum amount of work that is required to pass the class.
What are you, 12? The "M$" shit is getting old. I've seen that crap for 20 fucking years.
What are you, 10?
Just because a fucking abbreviation has been used for 20 years, it can no longer be used?
M$ is a behemoth and a corporate bully. I hope the malware known as Windows 10 cripples M$ to the point that they lose all clout within their industry.
There, I said it - M$, M$, M$
If you have something legitimate to bring to the conversation, then please do so. If not, then shut the fuck up.
Given the hardware specs of the current phone, along with wifi and LTE, I could see myself using this phone for years and years to come if I can get replacement batteries for it.
My wife has this extended battery in her S5, and I have this larger one in mine. Both work great, and last longer than the stock batteries do. Mine lasts longer than hers, but of course the larger battery makes the phone heavier. Also, the non-standard back cover that my larger battery requires makes my phone no longer waterproof.
If you are concerned about the size that you need being discontinued, it might be worth buying one before you really need it.
I heard about this guy and his robot on the radio today, but their version was slightly different. The radio version said the guy was just trying to make a "female robot" and that it "just happens" to resemble Scarlett Johansson.
Same here. I used to subscribe to their streaming service, but their movie selection is tiny. The snail-mail service has MANY more movies to choose from.
Who do you think did the study? People who continually make typos.
Every study and every statistic must be taken with a grain of salt. Personally, I don't believe the results of any study or survey because every one is biased in some way. Either the authors are biased in what they are trying to discover or "prove" or the choice of participants is biased. Regardless of who you survey, or how many people you survey, you are only getting results from people who respond to surveys, which is not the entire population. It doesn't matter if the survey is done over the phone, by mail, or over the Internet. The only thing any survey ever proves is that the results of the survey only apply to the people who were surveyed. It says absolutely zero about the general population.
As Mark Twain popularized, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
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When I have been asked by "average persons" about the upgrade, I explain the data harvesting that Microsoft will be doing to them and their family.
And depending on how you ask this question, the answer will be what YOU want it to be. The "data harvesting" is well documented and is on the same level as Facebook, Google, DuckDuckGo, etc. This telemetry has been common place in software since XP (at least). Any "user experience" reporting, crash feedback, or online knowledge base/help system is gathering the same data that Windows 10 is.
You seem to be a little misinformed. DuckDuckGo advertises itself as "The search engine that doesn't track you. Learn More."
Telemetry may be common, but not by an Operating System. Users can easily choose not to use Facebook or Google. Choosing a different operating system, however, is much more complex.
The result?
2. The old office suite no longer worked.
A friend of mine had W10 forced on him recently. He didn't notice an option to cancel the "upgrade", although it could have been there. After W10 was installed, his Office 2010 demanded the product key. He couldn't find his original installation media, so he couldn't use Office. He had something that he needed to do in Word, so he looked for alternatives. Another friend suggested OpenOffice, and he installed it just fine. He called me for help using OO, since he knows I use it in Linux. I helped him resolve his technical issue, and we have another happy non-Microsoft user.
Since he paid for Office, he should be able to use it for as long as he wants to. The fact that W10 breaks an existing installation is silly and underhanded.
Go Microsoft! Keep shooting yourself in the foot. Class action lawsuits rarely accomplish anything more than making a few lawyers richer than they already are. With that in mind, the best chance that Linux fans have is for Microsoft to alienate their customers so badly that they look for non-Microsoft alternatives. So far, Microsoft is doing a wonderful job of alienating their users.
Oh, how nice. Grandpa over here is bringing back the M$ way of typing Microsoft.
It's idiotic and adds nothing to the discussion. I bet you spell America as Amerika too... Yawn.
Grow up, AC. "M$" is just a frigging abbreviation. Yes, it is usually used negatively, but it's still just an abbreviation.
Using your "logic" we should stop calling desktop computers "PCs". After all, that "ancient" term was first used several decades ago.
Idiots. Everywhere I turn, nothing but idiots.
Really? It makes sense to you to try to patch your guest OSes by connecting to the update site with a completely different host OS?
No, it makes sense to look at data on a website using a application that communicates in an agnostic protocol called HTTP
But yes .. if I can pull down an install file once to local storage and locally distribute it to the needed systems what does it matter what the intermediate OS is?
It is good security practice to open questionable links in a completely different host OS. Thanks to the malware known as Windows 10, all links that point to Microsoft should be tested with a non-Windows OS.
To the editors: It's a sharing app, not a group-sharing app.
When I first read the headline, I thought it was describing a malicious bank that was attacking somebody or something.
I guess I need to read more content before I jump to conclusions. Or maybe the editors/authors should learn to create better headlines.
Yikes, now people are worrying about mass adoption of technology that isn't even available to the general public yet.
/.) need to get a life.
The authors of the article (and whoever submitted the article to
Sucks if you were one of the 10 or so deaths from what would have been a minor accident, but it's similar to vaccines. Millions of lives have been saved from vaccines, but if you are one of the rare people who has a serious reaction to a vaccine.
Citation needed.
Nobody has ever died from a vaccine. A couple of coincidental deaths that happened close to the time that someone received a vaccine do not prove that the vaccine caused the death.
Please stop spreading FUD.
See http://www.snopes.com/politics...
I guarantee that the winning numbers will be some combination of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0.
For you, since you did not post as AC, my discounted consulting fee is only 45% of your winnings. I accept Bitcoin and Paypal.
Anybody that's used LibreOffice recently knows that it's equal or better to MSOffice in just about every respect; the compatibility with OOXML has been particularly good since version 5. But you wouldn't know it from the flood of slashdotters that came in here a minute after the story was posted to talk about how bad LO is, in vague and undescribed ways.
Wrong. LO sucks at rendering XML documents from MS Office. Even version 5 sucks.
Disclaimer: I hate M$. I hope the crapware known as Win10 cripples M$ so badly that they actually start to provide decent products at decent prices.
LO can't even render simple tables correctly. I get both Word and Excel documents from both my university and my employer. The formatting of every XML document looks different on LO (even version 5) than it does in Office, regardless of how simple or complex the original document is.
LO sucks so badly that I tried to uninstall it from my desktop Linux distro, but I can't because "dependency hell" would uninstall the world. So instead I installed WPS Office, which does a MUCH better job of rendering XML.
...so I can not buy their paper.
Wait, I can not buy their paper from home!
I hope you go bankrupt, assholes. Wait, that wouldn't be fair to the remaining employees. Now I don't know who to root for.
Fuck it, I hate everybody!
If you have a panic attack whenever you see a cop, that would seem to warrant an examination of your own life. Don't ride dirty. Don't have guns, drugs or drug paraphernalia on you or in your car.
If the legal system was fair and just, then you would be correct. Unfortunately, that utopia does not exist. Thanks to 9/11 and paranoia, you can get put in jail for 48 hours without being charged with anything. And if you do get unjustly charged, you could still be stuck in jail until your day in court, which could be months away. Does that sound like "innocent until proven guilty?" Not to me, it doesn't. It sounds more like "guilty until proven innocent."
Here's another example: a relative of mine is a fireman. He's worked with cops for his entire career. He's been a 911 dispatcher, an ambulance driver, and a fireman. Even he doesn't trust cops. Why? Because if they want to pull you over, then can and they will. And if they want to fuck up your day, perhaps your life, they can and they will.
Not all nudity is porn, however, most nudity that is porn portrays abusive behavior and feeds a need in the viewer that probably is not healthy.
Bullshit. Just because some of it portrays abusive behavior doesn't mean that most of it does.
I've done a lot of counseling sessions with people whose relationships and lives were ruined by the persons addiction to porn.
So what? Just because .001% of the population is addicted to porn doesn't mean porn is evil. People with addictive personalities will become addicted to whatever is most convenient: sugar, drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, smoking, porn/sex, etc. Should all of those be banned as well?
Seppuku or harakiri.
Add in that every Android device I have ever owned has been able to talk ActiveSync to an Exchange server in like forever via the standard Mail app it is even less useful.
The headline makes it sound like you have not been able to connect to an Exchange server previously.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
The only real news is that Google fanboys (if there are any) can now use their favorite email app to access their Exchange email.
Yeah, it's pretty sad. Everything has aligned, and the numbers add up. They're boxed in.
-- For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
For all intents and purposes, your sig is an example of why we have a problem. Lazy fucktards who think "you knew what I meant" is the same thing as "communication."
The same people who forked Firefox into Palemoon also forked Thunderbird into Fossamail.
The reason Apple can charge so much and reap such large profit margins is that they sell fashion, more than electronics. The consumer electronics market tends to be pretty price sensitive and competitive, so you need to keep price, and thus margins, down to compete. However fashion doesn't work like that. High prices can actually be seen as a good thing as they confer status, and people don't shop on price, they want the fashionable brand.
Well, Apple made their stuff stylish. It is fashionable to be seen with a shiny Mac laptop. It is fashionable to be seen with an iPod, with white visible earbuds and the cord hanging out in front of your shirt so everyone knows you have one. They are status symbols. As such, people tolerate and even embrace higher prices. That lets Apple make great margins where other companies can't.
Why is the parent modded as flamebait? Because it's correct?
No, actually we have not. People are not more stupid or lazy than before. But many people find that the skills that can acquire given their talents are not in demand anymore. That is quite a different problem.
Do you have any evidence to back that claim? I suspect that you do not.
As an adjunct professor in the U.S., my experience supports the claim. Most of my students have the grammatical skills of a 6th grader, and many only do the minimum amount of work that is required to pass the class.
What are you, 12? The "M$" shit is getting old. I've seen that crap for 20 fucking years.
What are you, 10?
Just because a fucking abbreviation has been used for 20 years, it can no longer be used?
M$ is a behemoth and a corporate bully. I hope the malware known as Windows 10 cripples M$ to the point that they lose all clout within their industry.
There, I said it - M$, M$, M$
If you have something legitimate to bring to the conversation, then please do so. If not, then shut the fuck up.
Given the hardware specs of the current phone, along with wifi and LTE, I could see myself using this phone for years and years to come if I can get replacement batteries for it.
My wife has this extended battery in her S5, and I have this larger one in mine. Both work great, and last longer than the stock batteries do. Mine lasts longer than hers, but of course the larger battery makes the phone heavier. Also, the non-standard back cover that my larger battery requires makes my phone no longer waterproof.
If you are concerned about the size that you need being discontinued, it might be worth buying one before you really need it.
I heard about this guy and his robot on the radio today, but their version was slightly different. The radio version said the guy was just trying to make a "female robot" and that it "just happens" to resemble Scarlett Johansson.
Same here. I used to subscribe to their streaming service, but their movie selection is tiny. The snail-mail service has MANY more movies to choose from.
Who do you think did the study? People who continually make typos.
Every study and every statistic must be taken with a grain of salt. Personally, I don't believe the results of any study or survey because every one is biased in some way. Either the authors are biased in what they are trying to discover or "prove" or the choice of participants is biased. Regardless of who you survey, or how many people you survey, you are only getting results from people who respond to surveys, which is not the entire population. It doesn't matter if the survey is done over the phone, by mail, or over the Internet. The only thing any survey ever proves is that the results of the survey only apply to the people who were surveyed. It says absolutely zero about the general population.
As Mark Twain popularized, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
WTF is "Mr. Robot"?