I have it installed on a whole bunch of PCs and tablets. I haven't really had any major problems with it.
Do I have any reason to be excited about it? No, not really. I don't think anything significant has been added to the OS since Windows 7, at least not that I've ever found occasion to use much. Since Windows 8, it's pretty much been about getting the new stuff out of my face.
I find the UI to be clunky and inconsistent. The incessant updates can be annoying -- we're told they're "automatic," but when they actually get installed seems to be anybody's guess, except that it usually seems to happen when I've just switched on the machine to take care of some 10-minute task.
Windows Store/Universal apps are generally to be avoided. Few of them seem to have much value, particularly in a desktop computing scenario. They're either a repurposed version of a web page with an inferior UI (eg Wikipedia), or they're just the usual app store cash grab.
Performance-wise everything seems fine, and maybe a little improved from Windows 8.
If it doesn't sound like I'm really selling you on the upgrade, I guess it's because I'm not. But having taken the plunge, it's not like I have any major regrets. If anything, what's done is done and whether to install Windows 10 is one less thing I need to worry about.
Qualcomm is touting this as some kind of big win, but it's a pyrrhic victory. Not too long ago, Chinese regulators sued Qualcomm for antitrust violations and got a judgment for nearly $1 billion. At the same time, Qualcomm spent several quarters explaining to its shareholders why the revenues it forecast weren't coming in because Chinese companies were using its technology without paying for it. I guess China decided it was time to say, "Hey, Qualcomm -- let's make a deal!"
What is more, there are strains of resistant bacteria that are known as "nosocomial" bacteria. That word means these particular strains are found in hospitals, and pretty much ONLY in hospitals. And you can go to hospitals from coast to coast and you will find these strains in ALL of them. They've evolved to thrive in hospitals. And you can spray down the surgery with as much antiseptic as you want, and you will probably still be able to swab a little bit of it from some surface, somewhere. So yes, hospitals are dangerous places. The longer you spend in one, the more likely you are to acquire some kind of infection, and the infection you get could be a pretty bad one (worse than if you got infected at home).
Well... we lack anything at all to stop it from doing so.
We may lack anything. But she has something... it's called an immune system.
Note, also, that the Reuters story has been corrected. They analyzed the woman's bacteria and noticed it would be resistant to colistin, a "last-resort antibiotic." It's not resistant to all the other ones, too -- unlike what the first version of the story said. It's just that we know bacteria can be resistant to all the other ones, and it wouldn't be so hard for this strain to pick up those other genes, resulting in an unstoppable bacteria. This is not that unstoppable bacteria; but it's proven once again that it is theoretically possible for one to exist.
Similarly, I have a 1st generation Moto X -- a model that's nearly three years old -- and I was recently updated to security patch level 2016-04-01. Sure, nobody's promising me an upgrade to Marshmallow. But I hardly feel abandoned after 18 months. And by next year it will probably be time to start looking at newer models, anyway.
They're trying to position this as a generational thing, like the upcoming generation is going to behave some way that's completely different than all previous ones.
What if it has nothing to do with being a "Millennial"? What if it's just about being young and stupid (or if you prefer, inexperienced)? But I guess that wouldn't play to the gender gap dollar. "Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market..."
That being said, my last three price adjustment requests in the past two weeks have all been denied, which is very odd.
Same. Only time I ever tried it was for a TV -- you know, an item where it would actually be worth getting the difference back -- and they denied it. Said there was no evidence it was retailing for the other price I mentioned, or somesuch (although my receipt might tend to indicate otherwise). I read some reviews and a lot of people apparently had the same experience. The refunds were fulfilled by some third party vendor who was apparently pretty shady (kind of like that godawful OnTrak shipping company that seems to be keeping itself afloat by tossing as many Amazon packages from still-moving vehicles as possible).
I think, though, that Lucas was able to finance Return of the Jedi entirely on his own, and that was a pretty big movie. (For Empire, he started out self-financing but had to approach 20th Century Fox again when cost overruns threatened his loan.)
In fact, after watching the movie, I introduced the game to my daughter again, and she still hasn't really taken to it. While I'm sure they got a huge number of new installs after people watched the movie, I'd be surprised if their long-term player base increases in line with the movies success. Just because the movie is based on a game doesn't mean it's aimed only at the gamers.
It's mentioned in TFA that for future generations of the games, the characters will look like they do in the movie, just like the TV cartoon revamped the style of the characters. The idea is to keep the brand alive by keeping it fresh, giving it a little love from time to time. The long-term goal is that your 9yo will play an Angry Birds game SOMEDAY... for the brand to be as enduring as Mario, essentially.
I always understood the logic to this to be that basically the water keeps your stomach full so you don't feel as hungry. Plus the net benefit of drinking/processing it since it has no calories.
It's just the artificial quantity that's usually the objection. Eight glasses? Where did they come up with that? My stomach may just be smaller than yours, so it's easier to achieve the same effects you describe. It is generally accepted that water aids your body in the elimination of waste in various ways, so drinking it is good for you. But there's no set amount... generally speaking, if you feel thirsty you are dehydrated, so you need to catch up on your water intake (and improve your habits). Otherwise, sip some water throughout the day and you should be fine.
Specific substances are bad in specific doses -- and sometimes for people with specific conditions.
But this is just a fatuous way to weasel out of the overly broad statement you made earlier, that chemicals are not bad for you. The prospect of drinking a bottle of ammonia aside (as that would be silly), mercury and lead can both enter your body via a "normal" diet through various means, and neither is ever good for you, in any quantity.
See, I thought we were over all of this. GNU doesn't stand for anything, end of story. It's just a name given to a group of associated free software projects.
Their business chat / voice / video tool ("Microsoft Lync") has been getting some of their attention, and was recently rebranded "Skype for Business". They may be converging the two, using the Lync code base going forward. To me that makes more sense than maintaining two products that do the same thing.
And yet they did the same thing when they rolled out OneDrive and OneDrive for Business as two products that perform essentially the same functions but don't have full feature parity and are based on completely different backends.
We use Lync (well, formerly known as Lync, now re branded as Skype for Business) for our work IM system. The server is constantly locking up/dumping connections and just generally feels quite unreliable.
Same. All we use Lync for (on OS X, no less) is text IM. Seems pretty basic. Still, pretty much all I have to do is walk away from my desk for half an hour and the connection to the server will have dropped. I won't know this, of course, until I pull up the Lync window to check if I'm still connected. And even though Lync is set to connect automatically, it won't reconnect after a dropped connection without me doing it manually.
I'm not autistic and I don't want to watch all those ads either. Who does?
How about those auto-play ads on Blu-Ray discs that do nothing but tell you how great Blu-Ray discs are... as in, not any specific titles, but the format itself. Uh... guys? Hello?
The computer you bought 3-5 years ago, barring mechanical failure still meets or exceeds your needs for the most part, so why waste the money?
... especially when you realize the drivers for the new hardware won't stop being buggy for another six months, so your upgrade cycle isn't as fast as you think it is.
Notebooks are progresivelly becoming a niche product. Previously, people bought notebooks because they were the ONLY mobile device with capability to browse web, write some documents and perform basic computational tasks. Smartphones and tablets cannibalized Notebooks.
That's weird. I've not seen anybody in an office working on anything but a notebook in years. If I even see a tower sitting in a cube I assume it's a graphics workstation.
On the other hand, contrary to your assertion, I don't know anybody who has the time/patience to build their own PCs except hardcore gamers.
There are four protection mechanisms the software industry has. First, the compiler and minifier: if you publish your software, its hard to find out how it works. Second, non disclosed communication protocols: Often the communication protocols your software uses in order to talk or save stuff or so is not documented, which means only your software can access it.
Are you a software engineer? De-compiling binaries/obfuscated code and reverse engineering wire protocols are both trivial. Security analysts do both daily for malware, for example.
Until we change our legal practices to make sure, the loser pays winner's legal costs by default, the side with a bigger legal budget will keep "winning" before entering the courtroom.
Wait... how does "loser pays" keep the side with the bigger legal budget from winning? Bigger legal budget = more and better lawyers, meaning the little guy will probably lose. Under the "loser pays" system, however, there is a massive penalty for losing. If I sue Google and Google brings its whole legal team to bear against my couple of lawyers, I will not only probably lose but paying Google's legal costs will probably put me out of business. Knowing this, I will never sue to begin with, and once again, Google has won without ever entering a courtroom.
I think it's telling that they gave me a Macbook at work and 90 percent of the software I use on it every day is made by Microsoft and Google.
All Apple really cares about is operating its online stores. The fact that the client for one of those stores turned out to be invasive malware is a trivial oversight.
Ethereum would never be possible without bitcoin—both the technology and the currency—and we see ourselves not as a competing currency but as complementary within the digital ecosystem. Ether is to be treated as "crypto-fuel", a token whose purpose is to pay for computation, and is not intended to be used as or considered a currency, asset, share or anything else.
So all those high paid Apple employees don't pay property taxes on their homes in the area?
"In the area" doesn't necessarily mean the City of Cupertino. Lots of Apple employees live in San Francisco, for example, which is in an entirely different county than Cupertino. And in fact, Apple employs more people in the US than the entire population of Cupertino.
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I have it installed on a whole bunch of PCs and tablets. I haven't really had any major problems with it.
Do I have any reason to be excited about it? No, not really. I don't think anything significant has been added to the OS since Windows 7, at least not that I've ever found occasion to use much. Since Windows 8, it's pretty much been about getting the new stuff out of my face.
I find the UI to be clunky and inconsistent. The incessant updates can be annoying -- we're told they're "automatic," but when they actually get installed seems to be anybody's guess, except that it usually seems to happen when I've just switched on the machine to take care of some 10-minute task.
Windows Store/Universal apps are generally to be avoided. Few of them seem to have much value, particularly in a desktop computing scenario. They're either a repurposed version of a web page with an inferior UI (eg Wikipedia), or they're just the usual app store cash grab.
Performance-wise everything seems fine, and maybe a little improved from Windows 8.
If it doesn't sound like I'm really selling you on the upgrade, I guess it's because I'm not. But having taken the plunge, it's not like I have any major regrets. If anything, what's done is done and whether to install Windows 10 is one less thing I need to worry about.
Qualcomm is touting this as some kind of big win, but it's a pyrrhic victory. Not too long ago, Chinese regulators sued Qualcomm for antitrust violations and got a judgment for nearly $1 billion. At the same time, Qualcomm spent several quarters explaining to its shareholders why the revenues it forecast weren't coming in because Chinese companies were using its technology without paying for it. I guess China decided it was time to say, "Hey, Qualcomm -- let's make a deal!"
What is more, there are strains of resistant bacteria that are known as "nosocomial" bacteria. That word means these particular strains are found in hospitals, and pretty much ONLY in hospitals. And you can go to hospitals from coast to coast and you will find these strains in ALL of them. They've evolved to thrive in hospitals. And you can spray down the surgery with as much antiseptic as you want, and you will probably still be able to swab a little bit of it from some surface, somewhere. So yes, hospitals are dangerous places. The longer you spend in one, the more likely you are to acquire some kind of infection, and the infection you get could be a pretty bad one (worse than if you got infected at home).
Well... we lack anything at all to stop it from doing so.
We may lack anything. But she has something ... it's called an immune system.
Note, also, that the Reuters story has been corrected. They analyzed the woman's bacteria and noticed it would be resistant to colistin, a "last-resort antibiotic." It's not resistant to all the other ones, too -- unlike what the first version of the story said. It's just that we know bacteria can be resistant to all the other ones, and it wouldn't be so hard for this strain to pick up those other genes, resulting in an unstoppable bacteria. This is not that unstoppable bacteria; but it's proven once again that it is theoretically possible for one to exist.
Similarly, I have a 1st generation Moto X -- a model that's nearly three years old -- and I was recently updated to security patch level 2016-04-01. Sure, nobody's promising me an upgrade to Marshmallow. But I hardly feel abandoned after 18 months. And by next year it will probably be time to start looking at newer models, anyway.
They're trying to position this as a generational thing, like the upcoming generation is going to behave some way that's completely different than all previous ones.
What if it has nothing to do with being a "Millennial"? What if it's just about being young and stupid (or if you prefer, inexperienced)? But I guess that wouldn't play to the gender gap dollar. "Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market..."
That being said, my last three price adjustment requests in the past two weeks have all been denied, which is very odd.
Same. Only time I ever tried it was for a TV -- you know, an item where it would actually be worth getting the difference back -- and they denied it. Said there was no evidence it was retailing for the other price I mentioned, or somesuch (although my receipt might tend to indicate otherwise). I read some reviews and a lot of people apparently had the same experience. The refunds were fulfilled by some third party vendor who was apparently pretty shady (kind of like that godawful OnTrak shipping company that seems to be keeping itself afloat by tossing as many Amazon packages from still-moving vehicles as possible).
I think, though, that Lucas was able to finance Return of the Jedi entirely on his own, and that was a pretty big movie. (For Empire, he started out self-financing but had to approach 20th Century Fox again when cost overruns threatened his loan.)
In fact, after watching the movie, I introduced the game to my daughter again, and she still hasn't really taken to it. While I'm sure they got a huge number of new installs after people watched the movie, I'd be surprised if their long-term player base increases in line with the movies success. Just because the movie is based on a game doesn't mean it's aimed only at the gamers.
It's mentioned in TFA that for future generations of the games, the characters will look like they do in the movie, just like the TV cartoon revamped the style of the characters. The idea is to keep the brand alive by keeping it fresh, giving it a little love from time to time. The long-term goal is that your 9yo will play an Angry Birds game SOMEDAY ... for the brand to be as enduring as Mario, essentially.
I always understood the logic to this to be that basically the water keeps your stomach full so you don't feel as hungry. Plus the net benefit of drinking/processing it since it has no calories.
It's just the artificial quantity that's usually the objection. Eight glasses? Where did they come up with that? My stomach may just be smaller than yours, so it's easier to achieve the same effects you describe. It is generally accepted that water aids your body in the elimination of waste in various ways, so drinking it is good for you. But there's no set amount ... generally speaking, if you feel thirsty you are dehydrated, so you need to catch up on your water intake (and improve your habits). Otherwise, sip some water throughout the day and you should be fine.
Specific substances are bad in specific doses -- and sometimes for people with specific conditions.
But this is just a fatuous way to weasel out of the overly broad statement you made earlier, that chemicals are not bad for you. The prospect of drinking a bottle of ammonia aside (as that would be silly), mercury and lead can both enter your body via a "normal" diet through various means, and neither is ever good for you, in any quantity.
See, I thought we were over all of this. GNU doesn't stand for anything, end of story. It's just a name given to a group of associated free software projects.
Their business chat / voice / video tool ("Microsoft Lync") has been getting some of their attention, and was recently rebranded "Skype for Business". They may be converging the two, using the Lync code base going forward. To me that makes more sense than maintaining two products that do the same thing.
And yet they did the same thing when they rolled out OneDrive and OneDrive for Business as two products that perform essentially the same functions but don't have full feature parity and are based on completely different backends.
We use Lync (well, formerly known as Lync, now re branded as Skype for Business) for our work IM system. The server is constantly locking up /dumping connections and just generally feels quite unreliable.
Same. All we use Lync for (on OS X, no less) is text IM. Seems pretty basic. Still, pretty much all I have to do is walk away from my desk for half an hour and the connection to the server will have dropped. I won't know this, of course, until I pull up the Lync window to check if I'm still connected. And even though Lync is set to connect automatically, it won't reconnect after a dropped connection without me doing it manually.
I'm not autistic and I don't want to watch all those ads either. Who does?
How about those auto-play ads on Blu-Ray discs that do nothing but tell you how great Blu-Ray discs are ... as in, not any specific titles, but the format itself. Uh ... guys? Hello?
The computer you bought 3-5 years ago, barring mechanical failure still meets or exceeds your needs for the most part, so why waste the money?
... especially when you realize the drivers for the new hardware won't stop being buggy for another six months, so your upgrade cycle isn't as fast as you think it is.
Notebooks are progresivelly becoming a niche product. Previously, people bought notebooks because they were the ONLY mobile device with capability to browse web, write some documents and perform basic computational tasks. Smartphones and tablets cannibalized Notebooks.
That's weird. I've not seen anybody in an office working on anything but a notebook in years. If I even see a tower sitting in a cube I assume it's a graphics workstation.
On the other hand, contrary to your assertion, I don't know anybody who has the time/patience to build their own PCs except hardcore gamers.
Maybe the H1B drones in India, can benefit from Reading Sacramento Bee or Miami Herald to keep their numbers up.
This isn't about H-1B, it's about outsourcing. By definition there are no "H-1B drones" in India, because H-1B is a US immigration status.
There are four protection mechanisms the software industry has. First, the compiler and minifier: if you publish your software, its hard to find out how it works. Second, non disclosed communication protocols: Often the communication protocols your software uses in order to talk or save stuff or so is not documented, which means only your software can access it.
Are you a software engineer? De-compiling binaries/obfuscated code and reverse engineering wire protocols are both trivial. Security analysts do both daily for malware, for example.
Until we change our legal practices to make sure, the loser pays winner's legal costs by default, the side with a bigger legal budget will keep "winning" before entering the courtroom.
Wait ... how does "loser pays" keep the side with the bigger legal budget from winning? Bigger legal budget = more and better lawyers, meaning the little guy will probably lose. Under the "loser pays" system, however, there is a massive penalty for losing. If I sue Google and Google brings its whole legal team to bear against my couple of lawyers, I will not only probably lose but paying Google's legal costs will probably put me out of business. Knowing this, I will never sue to begin with, and once again, Google has won without ever entering a courtroom.
I would narrow that down to PowerPoint.
FTFY.
I think it's telling that they gave me a Macbook at work and 90 percent of the software I use on it every day is made by Microsoft and Google.
All Apple really cares about is operating its online stores. The fact that the client for one of those stores turned out to be invasive malware is a trivial oversight.
Or is it whack?
From the Ethereum website:
Ethereum would never be possible without bitcoin—both the technology and the currency—and we see ourselves not as a competing currency but as complementary within the digital ecosystem. Ether is to be treated as "crypto-fuel", a token whose purpose is to pay for computation, and is not intended to be used as or considered a currency, asset, share or anything else.
So all those high paid Apple employees don't pay property taxes on their homes in the area?
"In the area" doesn't necessarily mean the City of Cupertino. Lots of Apple employees live in San Francisco, for example, which is in an entirely different county than Cupertino. And in fact, Apple employs more people in the US than the entire population of Cupertino.