Why does anyone need constant upgrades? Even a business? Why risk breaking what someone is working on because some 'upgrade' changed the way something works? No one wants that. No one has needed 'software as a service' before, it's a 'solution in search of a problem' at best, and it's only real purpose is to suck more money out of everyone's pockets and into Microsoft's pockets. Renting thing is never cheaper over the long term.
But Tom, didn't you get the memo? You're not allowed to have any say in how your computer works, that's solely up to Microsoft! They know we're all silly children who couldn't possibly make such complicated and important decisions, computers are serious business and we're just not smart enough or responsible enough to be allowed to handle that! You should be grateful that your Friend, Microsoft, is there to handle all that for you!
That's the new Miscreant-o-sodomite business model: Make everyone pay for everything, forever.
Fuck this whole 'software-as-a-service' bullshit, fuck it sideways with a rusty chainsaw, I say.
That has nothing to do with failed tech, it has to do with the imminent sunset of the internal combustion engine, and how impossible it is to create one that isn't contributing to human-caused global warming, or at the very least, contributing to air pollution in general. Fully electric vehicles are going to be the future, but we're just not quite there yet.
Because if you're smart you'll stop using Microsoft products completely, or at least minimize it as much as possible. Or do you want to live in a Microsoft-only world, where you don't even have control anymore of your own hardware? That's what they want, why make it easy for them? Get Linux and take back control.
Intimately familiar with Larry Niven's works. I think you're thinking of Puppeteer technology, that allowed entire audio-visual surveillance and communications devices to be literally sprayed onto surfaces; it was described as looking quite a bit like a spiderweb.
I don't think this is a new or ground-breaking development, considering that we've had the ability to draw conductors with a pen for quite some time now. Not particularly cheap, and tricky to solder to or otherwise connect to, but you could draw quite a few antennas with it. I'd bet good money I could, for instance, draw an HDTV antenna on a piece of cardboard with this, and it'd have decent gain. The 300-to-75-ohm balun would be a challenge, though, probably have to just buy one of those. Now, imagine a special print cartridge for an inkjet printer, or special toner for a laser printer, or a plotter pen. Just design the antenna you want in CAD then print it straight onto whatever.
..and it's not necessarily having to do with your health. Seriously, the W.H.O. comes off as more of a political activist organization than it does anything else, they just leverage health issues to further their overall agenda. Not interested in anyone telling me how I should live my life.
If you disable Cortana you'll disable most of the search functions. There's also a 'Windows Search' system service you can Stop and set to 'Disable' so it won't run again. None of this should be a problem for you if you already know where all your stuff is.
Disabling Cortana is actually very easy. You open Task Manager, and a File Explorer window. Find the Cortana folder, and the Cortana thread running in memory. Try to rename the Cortana folder (add '.bak' to the end); it'll prevent you but ask if you want to 'Try again'; switch to the Task Manager window, do an End Task on Cortana, then quick go back to Explorer and click on 'Try Again'; there's a window of time the folder is unlocked, and if you hit it just right, you'll rename it, and Cortana won't be able to be re-started. Congratulations, Cortana is now disabled. If you need to put it back you can re-rename the folder and Windows will re-start Cortana automatically.
Meanwhile, in a saner world, I'm getting the kinks worked out of using Ubuntu 18.04 with a Virtualbox install of Windows 8 (to support the whole TWO Windows-only apps I need to keep using), and IDGAF about Windows 10 -- and never will. Why aren't you doing the same?
Before any of you SDC fanbois start gushing about how impressive and wonderful this is and how it somehow proves that SDCs are more than they really are (which they're not): This is a train (even if they're calling it a 'tram'), it runs on a track (not maneuvering around freely on an open public road), and there's still a human being watching over it for when it screws up, so (hopefully) no one dies. The article claiming how it's a 'milestone for autonomous vehicles' is just more hype that's appropos of nothing. It's probably go $1,000,000 worth of sensors and software running it, so it can do marginally better than a human operator. Not all that impressive, not impressed, nothing to see here, really; moving along..
But NiteHawk214, Facebook is dirt, and nobody should be using it. It's a metastatic cancer on our civilization and should be excised with great prejudice.
I don't trust Facebook as far as I can throw it, and in something like this they have to be absolutely pristine about it -- and in the current socio-political climate that's almost impossible. If you take pro-Trump messages off because you trace them back to fake accounts held by foreign operatives, the Trump supporters will scream that it's 'censorship'; if you leave them in, the anti-Trump groups will claim they're not doing their job properly. It would be better overall if Facebook removed ALL political speech than to prune any part of it, but that won't work either. Overall I'd just as soon that Facebook closed it's doors and went away, it's cancerous all around and should just die.
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You really should stop using bold in your posts so much. I'm sure I'm not the only one that finds this annoying.
Oh, no, that's not a bug, it's a feature! Annoying you is just bonus points! xD xD xD
Why does anyone need constant upgrades? Even a business? Why risk breaking what someone is working on because some 'upgrade' changed the way something works? No one wants that. No one has needed 'software as a service' before, it's a 'solution in search of a problem' at best, and it's only real purpose is to suck more money out of everyone's pockets and into Microsoft's pockets. Renting thing is never cheaper over the long term.
But Tom, didn't you get the memo? You're not allowed to have any say in how your computer works, that's solely up to Microsoft! They know we're all silly children who couldn't possibly make such complicated and important decisions, computers are serious business and we're just not smart enough or responsible enough to be allowed to handle that! You should be grateful that your Friend, Microsoft, is there to handle all that for you!
That's the new Miscreant-o-sodomite business model: Make everyone pay for everything, forever.
Fuck this whole 'software-as-a-service' bullshit, fuck it sideways with a rusty chainsaw, I say.
For purposes of this overall subject any alleged German 'superiority' of their tech is irrelevant.
That has nothing to do with failed tech, it has to do with the imminent sunset of the internal combustion engine, and how impossible it is to create one that isn't contributing to human-caused global warming, or at the very least, contributing to air pollution in general. Fully electric vehicles are going to be the future, but we're just not quite there yet.
They show a pic of the so-called 'autonomous tram', and it's on a track. Must be a German thing to call it a 'tram'.
Because if you're smart you'll stop using Microsoft products completely, or at least minimize it as much as possible. Or do you want to live in a Microsoft-only world, where you don't even have control anymore of your own hardware? That's what they want, why make it easy for them? Get Linux and take back control.
True, I have little sympathy if you can't play your vidya games. Don't you have anything better to do?
Open Task Manager, Processes (or Details) tab, look for Cortana, right-click on it, 'open folder', it'll open an Explorer window pointed at it.
I'd hope they'd dismantle them for all those new parts and drivetrain and just scrap the body.
Intimately familiar with Larry Niven's works. I think you're thinking of Puppeteer technology, that allowed entire audio-visual surveillance and communications devices to be literally sprayed onto surfaces; it was described as looking quite a bit like a spiderweb.
I don't think this is a new or ground-breaking development, considering that we've had the ability to draw conductors with a pen for quite some time now. Not particularly cheap, and tricky to solder to or otherwise connect to, but you could draw quite a few antennas with it. I'd bet good money I could, for instance, draw an HDTV antenna on a piece of cardboard with this, and it'd have decent gain. The 300-to-75-ohm balun would be a challenge, though, probably have to just buy one of those. Now, imagine a special print cartridge for an inkjet printer, or special toner for a laser printer, or a plotter pen. Just design the antenna you want in CAD then print it straight onto whatever.
..and it's not necessarily having to do with your health. Seriously, the W.H.O. comes off as more of a political activist organization than it does anything else, they just leverage health issues to further their overall agenda. Not interested in anyone telling me how I should live my life.
'Nuff said.
If you disable Cortana you'll disable most of the search functions. There's also a 'Windows Search' system service you can Stop and set to 'Disable' so it won't run again. None of this should be a problem for you if you already know where all your stuff is.
Disabling Cortana is actually very easy. You open Task Manager, and a File Explorer window. Find the Cortana folder, and the Cortana thread running in memory. Try to rename the Cortana folder (add '.bak' to the end); it'll prevent you but ask if you want to 'Try again'; switch to the Task Manager window, do an End Task on Cortana, then quick go back to Explorer and click on 'Try Again'; there's a window of time the folder is unlocked, and if you hit it just right, you'll rename it, and Cortana won't be able to be re-started. Congratulations, Cortana is now disabled. If you need to put it back you can re-rename the folder and Windows will re-start Cortana automatically.
Meanwhile, in a saner world, I'm getting the kinks worked out of using Ubuntu 18.04 with a Virtualbox install of Windows 8 (to support the whole TWO Windows-only apps I need to keep using), and IDGAF about Windows 10 -- and never will. Why aren't you doing the same?
So run Linux and a copy of Windows 8.1 in a virtual machine.
Before any of you SDC fanbois start gushing about how impressive and wonderful this is and how it somehow proves that SDCs are more than they really are (which they're not): This is a train (even if they're calling it a 'tram'), it runs on a track (not maneuvering around freely on an open public road), and there's still a human being watching over it for when it screws up, so (hopefully) no one dies. The article claiming how it's a 'milestone for autonomous vehicles' is just more hype that's appropos of nothing. It's probably go $1,000,000 worth of sensors and software running it, so it can do marginally better than a human operator. Not all that impressive, not impressed, nothing to see here, really; moving along..
Don't be evil, be SUPER EVIL
But NiteHawk214, Facebook is dirt, and nobody should be using it. It's a metastatic cancer on our civilization and should be excised with great prejudice.
I don't trust Facebook as far as I can throw it, and in something like this they have to be absolutely pristine about it -- and in the current socio-political climate that's almost impossible. If you take pro-Trump messages off because you trace them back to fake accounts held by foreign operatives, the Trump supporters will scream that it's 'censorship'; if you leave them in, the anti-Trump groups will claim they're not doing their job properly. It would be better overall if Facebook removed ALL political speech than to prune any part of it, but that won't work either. Overall I'd just as soon that Facebook closed it's doors and went away, it's cancerous all around and should just die.
That would signal the end of the Internet, and begin the era of Walled_Gardens_2p0. Face it, we're almost there right now, globally-speaking.
OOK OOK Marxists OOK OOK *throws feces*
You should go look up what the definition of 'Marxism' is, moron.
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