Next: I go on the net and read about how Microsoft is busy turning the start menu into a big advertising platform.
Has anybody not been able to remove tiles they don't want from their start menu, or not been able to disable the live tiles? I made shit go away if I didn't want to see it there. Ok so there may be some extra demand on those of use who have to set up and support all the relatives who don't work out how to configure their own windows 10 experience, but its not like we are being forced to live with all the scary nasty things that people keep repeating on here.
A better answer to your question is that I haven't found any features of Windows 10 that would warrant my updating from Windows 7.
Alternatively, I have not found any reason not to upgrade. You can still use it in much the same way as win7, stuff was just moved around a bit and made a little stupider. I did not see any reason to use a microsoft cloud login so I retained my local account only.
A friend had a fairly new blu ray drive in his PC, for which the manufacturer decided they couldn't be bothered releasing a win10 driver, so he ended up replacing the device. Otherwise I had no hardware/driver problems myself.
I don't follow the projects or their members that closely, so I couldn't comment on who is a genius or a lackey. I just know that sometimes a.deb includes some configuration that suits the Debian environment, which you may not get if you download the source and build it yourself. I wasn't trying to preach or anything, hey, sometimes we screw up with the code or the implementation of it, tho I wouldn't have expected the subject matter to have got past testing and out into the wild.
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.
He didn't pay for Office. He paid for a license to use Office. I don't think that windows 10 broke that, it simply required proof of said license purchase, which is the one part of your Office pack that you should never throw away, lose, or borrow from somebody else.
$700 should not have been a large portion of the annual income for a business, I would think, if they relied so much on a single workstation. It sounds like it was old enough to require either replacing or a HDD upgrade already. No excusing the unexpected upgrade, but the business seems to be partly at fault for the extent of the damage and down-time.
My L640 is out of power by mid-morning. Have to charge it more than once a day to keep it running. Tried to turn off whatever is sucking up the power but I can't stop it draining daily. And I don't even use the thing... I get a business call on it maybe every 3 weeks, read the email maybe once a week.
The revelation that there may be a stable base of some 16 million Windows Phone users makes it MORE likely I'd develop for Windows Phone, not less.
Yes but how many of them were private sales, to people who may be inclined to purchase some fun apps?
I'm guessing a significant number of them were purchased by businesses as an enterprise solution, which was perceived to mesh in well with their existing Windows solutions. In that situation they have probably locked down the phones so that users may only add apps approved by the organisation, or apps developed in-house for specific custom solutions. In fact my employers handed me a windows 8.1 phone, but it is not even allowed onto the corporate network and thus so far has not been a suitable platform to develop in-house solutions for.
Let it become a fond memory for those who loved it, and forgotten by those that didn't. We seriously don't need it. It was an interesting emulator of OO but not really OO, lacked a lot of features that are now-days built in such as a simple dictionary type, and required a lot of tedious coding which languages like C# have reduced and improved on.
I'm not a VB hater, I used it when my job required it, still have a legacy code base to support until we get round to replacing the old DLLs with some C# alternatives, and I feel that I have a fairly comprehensive knowledge of VB, but it is no longer pleasant or preferable to code in it.
Ads with "Download" buttons in them have been eliminated from the site.
No they have not. I saw a large "Start your download now" ad, with large green download button, top center of the download page just last week. I was very disappointed.
A lot of people abandoned SourceForge because they started bundling crap with all the installers.
No they did not. It was never done to all installers. Can't you even get your facts straight? The revenue related advertising and co-install bundling option was offered to project owners as an option. It was never forced on them. Sometime later on a bad decision was made to repackage projects which looked like they had been abandoned, but even that bad decision affected a relatively small number of projects, not all projects. Admittedly it was a bastardly thing to do to a previously trusted application tho.
It takes time to repair a "handyman special" that's been abused and in need of serious repair. They're doing a good job so far.
A good job? I was disappointed to see a large central ad on their downloads page, just last week, featuring the title "Start your download now" followed by a large green download button.
While somebody familiar with their downloads page will recognize what that is, a less experienced person trying to download my app could make a serious mistake there. I thought somebody said they were going to clean up that kind of crap?
Pretty sure that all the optional feedback settings have been turned off, but still not sure why I should give a shit about some telemetry going back to the software management teams. What is the big deal, actually? There are far too many people using the O/S for Microsoft to be monitoring each and every one of them, it is the big picture of over-all numbers of people and applications and what works and doesn't and such, that matters to them. Why get so rabid about some telemetry? We need real reasons, not paranoia.
I assume the Fedora installer includes the 'non free' driver and firmware bits that Debian excludes because 'non free'. The few hardware issues I have had with Debian installs have been resolved with just a quick web search and a little fiddling round with extra files. As for Ubuntu, I thought they have a driver manager that does a reasonably good job, or was that just for the GPU drivers?
If 2.5 can't even be kept backwards compatible with 2.4, how do they expect people to believe that switching from 2.7 to 3.x is a single easy conversion?
Actually, Guido didn't "fuck up" the transition to Python 3. It was done almost perfectly.
So why are they releasing updates to version 3.4.x after releasing updates to 3.5.x? Are developers now splitting into those who use the 3.4 branch and those who use 3.5? That is, all those who are not still using 2.7 something? How perfect is it exactly?
What I'm most curious about is why the Python community is so much nicer to deal with than the Rust programming language's community.
Damn, and I had just decided to start learning Rust as a non.Net, outside-of-work, new experience. So by the time I get enough idea of what I am doing to need to ask for help, you think I will feel neglected?
I always did enjoy Python tho, maybe I should just go back to that for my non.Net fun.
By the time someone is my age, they should have plenty of experience, be able to apply old tricks to new technologies, and have deep and wide professional network
Unless you have stayed too long in the same vertical amongst the same small set of players. My problem now is most of the network of people I have worked with, those who I have impressed over the years, have retired or clocked out.
It doesn't help that my skills are dependant on hands-on interaction with the data, code etc, and when it comes to a tag-team of interviewers quizzing me with stupid questions I go semi-autistic like a possum in headlights. Hopefully others who have stayed in IT into their 50's are a little better at giving good impressions and selling themselves. I never had to do the hard-sell before I got old.
... Looking at the DEMO App TASKY, the code seems very readable, reminds me of the old Visual Basic Stuff...
Ewww. How can you say that? Visual Basic cannot possibly compare to C#. Horrid outdated language that it is. Personally I have to support still-running code written in VB6, as well as having the pleasure of writing new stuff in C#. The more C# evolves, the uglier it is to take a step back in time and read/update the VB code. (I replace the VB6 components with.Net alternatives every time I have the excuse to do so, but it still won't all go away).
The people that are Xamarin are also the same people that maintain mono for running.Net apps under Linux
For a while now they've been making money by selling a product that allows you to run.Net apps under Android and IOS
I believe parts of the code apply to all operating systems, but the UI parts need to be written for each, as well as various device interfaces and such.
Also the announcement of making the core parts free may not apply to all the deployment and run-time parts of the product. I wouldn't be surprised if there is still a cost involved in getting an app running on IOS.
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Next: I go on the net and read about how Microsoft is busy turning the start menu into a big advertising platform.
Has anybody not been able to remove tiles they don't want from their start menu, or not been able to disable the live tiles? I made shit go away if I didn't want to see it there. Ok so there may be some extra demand on those of use who have to set up and support all the relatives who don't work out how to configure their own windows 10 experience, but its not like we are being forced to live with all the scary nasty things that people keep repeating on here.
A better answer to your question is that I haven't found any features of Windows 10 that would warrant my updating from Windows 7.
Alternatively, I have not found any reason not to upgrade. You can still use it in much the same way as win7, stuff was just moved around a bit and made a little stupider. I did not see any reason to use a microsoft cloud login so I retained my local account only.
A friend had a fairly new blu ray drive in his PC, for which the manufacturer decided they couldn't be bothered releasing a win10 driver, so he ended up replacing the device. Otherwise I had no hardware/driver problems myself.
I don't follow the projects or their members that closely, so I couldn't comment on who is a genius or a lackey. I just know that sometimes a .deb includes some configuration that suits the Debian environment, which you may not get if you download the source and build it yourself. I wasn't trying to preach or anything, hey, sometimes we screw up with the code or the implementation of it, tho I wouldn't have expected the subject matter to have got past testing and out into the wild.
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.
He didn't pay for Office. He paid for a license to use Office. I don't think that windows 10 broke that, it simply required proof of said license purchase, which is the one part of your Office pack that you should never throw away, lose, or borrow from somebody else.
$700 should not have been a large portion of the annual income for a business, I would think, if they relied so much on a single workstation.
It sounds like it was old enough to require either replacing or a HDD upgrade already.
No excusing the unexpected upgrade, but the business seems to be partly at fault for the extent of the damage and down-time.
But was this the systemd developers at fault or the person who build the installation package? .deb.
It sounds more like a lack of configuration with a
My L640 is out of power by mid-morning. Have to charge it more than once a day to keep it running.
Tried to turn off whatever is sucking up the power but I can't stop it draining daily.
And I don't even use the thing... I get a business call on it maybe every 3 weeks, read the email maybe once a week.
... and they've ended up with Bing.
Ouch. That was harsh. : )
I hate microsoft but really, if all you want to do is talk, text, browse a little and do a little email it really don't make a shit what you use.
erm... have you SEEN the horrid crap they provided for a mail app on windows phone?
The revelation that there may be a stable base of some 16 million Windows Phone users makes it MORE likely I'd develop for Windows Phone, not less.
Yes but how many of them were private sales, to people who may be inclined to purchase some fun apps?
I'm guessing a significant number of them were purchased by businesses as an enterprise solution, which was perceived to mesh in well with their existing Windows solutions. In that situation they have probably locked down the phones so that users may only add apps approved by the organisation, or apps developed in-house for specific custom solutions. In fact my employers handed me a windows 8.1 phone, but it is not even allowed onto the corporate network and thus so far has not been a suitable platform to develop in-house solutions for.
Let it become a fond memory for those who loved it, and forgotten by those that didn't.
We seriously don't need it. It was an interesting emulator of OO but not really OO, lacked a lot of features that are now-days built in such as a simple dictionary type, and required a lot of tedious coding which languages like C# have reduced and improved on.
I'm not a VB hater, I used it when my job required it, still have a legacy code base to support until we get round to replacing the old DLLs with some C# alternatives, and I feel that I have a fairly comprehensive knowledge of VB, but it is no longer pleasant or preferable to code in it.
I cringed when I saw this. Please don't bring this formula to /. it is just about the only way anybody can write a headline any more.
Man does xxx with a yyy but what followed next was zzz.
I'm thoroughly sick of seeing this on the web. Please, not here too.
Ads with "Download" buttons in them have been eliminated from the site.
No they have not. I saw a large "Start your download now" ad, with large green download button, top center of the download page just last week. I was very disappointed.
A lot of people abandoned SourceForge because they started bundling crap with all the installers.
No they did not. It was never done to all installers. Can't you even get your facts straight? The revenue related advertising and co-install bundling option was offered to project owners as an option. It was never forced on them. Sometime later on a bad decision was made to repackage projects which looked like they had been abandoned, but even that bad decision affected a relatively small number of projects, not all projects. Admittedly it was a bastardly thing to do to a previously trusted application tho.
It takes time to repair a "handyman special" that's been abused and in need of serious repair. They're doing a good job so far.
A good job? I was disappointed to see a large central ad on their downloads page, just last week, featuring the title "Start your download now" followed by a large green download button.
While somebody familiar with their downloads page will recognize what that is, a less experienced person trying to download my app could make a serious mistake there. I thought somebody said they were going to clean up that kind of crap?
Pretty sure that all the optional feedback settings have been turned off, but still not sure why I should give a shit about some telemetry going back to the software management teams. What is the big deal, actually? There are far too many people using the O/S for Microsoft to be monitoring each and every one of them, it is the big picture of over-all numbers of people and applications and what works and doesn't and such, that matters to them. Why get so rabid about some telemetry?
We need real reasons, not paranoia.
I assume the Fedora installer includes the 'non free' driver and firmware bits that Debian excludes because 'non free'.
The few hardware issues I have had with Debian installs have been resolved with just a quick web search and a little fiddling round with extra files.
As for Ubuntu, I thought they have a driver manager that does a reasonably good job, or was that just for the GPU drivers?
oops, that was 3.5 & 3.4... typing too fast.
If 2.5 can't even be kept backwards compatible with 2.4, how do they expect people to believe that switching from 2.7 to 3.x is a single easy conversion?
Actually, Guido didn't "fuck up" the transition to Python 3. It was done almost perfectly.
So why are they releasing updates to version 3.4.x after releasing updates to 3.5.x?
Are developers now splitting into those who use the 3.4 branch and those who use 3.5? That is, all those who are not still using 2.7 something?
How perfect is it exactly?
What I'm most curious about is why the Python community is so much nicer to deal with than the Rust programming language's community.
Damn, and I had just decided to start learning Rust as a non .Net, outside-of-work, new experience. So by the time I get enough idea of what I am doing to need to ask for help, you think I will feel neglected?
I always did enjoy Python tho, maybe I should just go back to that for my non .Net fun.
By the time someone is my age, they should have plenty of experience, be able to apply old tricks to new technologies, and have deep and wide professional network
Unless you have stayed too long in the same vertical amongst the same small set of players. My problem now is most of the network of people I have worked with, those who I have impressed over the years, have retired or clocked out.
It doesn't help that my skills are dependant on hands-on interaction with the data, code etc, and when it comes to a tag-team of interviewers quizzing me with stupid questions I go semi-autistic like a possum in headlights. Hopefully others who have stayed in IT into their 50's are a little better at giving good impressions and selling themselves. I never had to do the hard-sell before I got old.
... Looking at the DEMO App TASKY, the code seems very readable, reminds me of the old Visual Basic Stuff ...
Ewww. How can you say that? Visual Basic cannot possibly compare to C#. Horrid outdated language that it is. .Net alternatives every time I have the excuse to do so, but it still won't all go away).
Personally I have to support still-running code written in VB6, as well as having the pleasure of writing new stuff in C#. The more C# evolves, the uglier it is to take a step back in time and read/update the VB code. (I replace the VB6 components with
Try C#, it has so many excellent features now.
Also I believe you needed to buy a full separate license for each OS you wanted to target.
Since the article didn't explain things very well
The people that are Xamarin are also the same people that maintain mono for running .Net apps under Linux
For a while now they've been making money by selling a product that allows you to run .Net apps under Android and IOS
I believe parts of the code apply to all operating systems, but the UI parts need to be written for each, as well as various device interfaces and such.
Also the announcement of making the core parts free may not apply to all the deployment and run-time parts of the product. I wouldn't be surprised if there is still a cost involved in getting an app running on IOS.