I haven't found a solitary soul that prefers the UI in Win8 to earlier versions. The best I've heard is "it's not too bad." Thank God we still have Windows 7 Enterprise on the computers at work. I asked the IT guy if they were going to upgrade to 8 and he shuddered and said "NO" very emphatically.
I use a smartphone a lot more than I ever thought I would. It's plenty powerful and the small screen is far more useful than I thought it would be. Having said that, I never use it when I'm home where my tower is. There's no comparison at all in power and usability. The keyboard is king. Everything else is just for when you can't use the keyboard. And my 27 inch monitor is glorious after peering into a 4 inch spot.
I noticed on OS X that my canon i960 no longer worked when I upgraded to 10.8 I searched for a 10.8 driver for the printer but none existed. I then simply installed the old 10.5 driver and....It worked! Perhpas some of the older drivers will work on Windows 10? I really know very little about how drivers work on Windows.
The main reason MS is holding on to old hardware is many businesses still have older hardware. They dread, perhaps unreasonably, any loss to linux or other competitors on this older hardware. We've seen in the past that Micorsoft will do anything to keep Linux from getting a foothold.
One program's author told me he had it sending him certain usage info. I never really got what he was talking about so I muzzled the software. It don't have shit to say no more. I cheerfully paid the Little Snitch author. Wonderful and easy to use software it is.
Nothing is ever 100%. 99.99999 is achievable but not really much fun for daily web surfing and such. The trick is to keep an OS on an Optical disk. I use a linux distro the USAF provides called LPS for banking and such. I boot my laptop from it, do my business and pull the disk and reboot for surfing the Web.
I run little snitch on my Macs and I'm constantly amazed at how many of my programs want to talk to some site or other. It's annoying because I have to research and see why they want to contact these places and what exactly is going on. I find that if I just block them it's almost never a problem though.
This all asumes the army actually fires on it's own people, ultimately "their" people. Not sure how that would play out. I'd bet you'd have the military split as well.
Generally personal firearms are rifles and shotguns limited to semi-automatic fire. Full Auto weapons are heavily regulated. The Constitution has been amended to outlaw slavery and to allow women to vote but the anti-gun people know there is no hope in repealing the second amendment so they try to backdoor ban weapons by Federal Law. It hasn't worked well for them but they still have a much better chance at doing it through legislation than a Constitutional amendment.
I wouldn't go that far. Windows installations routinely get reamed. It's better but I wouldn't call it secure. I've got a secure linux install on a seperate laptop for banking and such and it's locked down like Fort Knox. As I only use it for things I'm paranoid about I'd say it's pretty safe. I'd rather bet on it than Windows.
Only the idiots claimed it was impossible. It was much more unlikely because Windows was designed at the time from the ground up to be backdoored. It was literally defective by design. It has come a long way and malware makers have also gotten much more sophisticated. A lot of them are users of linux and unix systems and naturally enough they now design for those systems as well. One reason is that the newer linux distros are not as security focused as the old days. People routinely log into a user account that has all kinds of priviledges that once were reserved to the root user. The continual drive for the latest and greatest features has led to using the testing branch of debian as well. At this moment I'm on a machine runniing SparkyLinux 3.5 which is derived from the debian testing repos and I'd never use it for banking or anything like that.
The way these dickheads have written laws everybody is guilty of something. There are laws to conflict with laws about other laws. It's gone beyond ridiculous to the point even the judges can't figure it out.
If he thinks the web is anarchic he should try IRC. That's wild west type anarchy. I used to hang out in #amiga_warez on Galaxynet back in the day before I even had a web browser. I remeber one of the early ISPs in town had IRC listed in their brochure as exactly that, the wild west of the internet. The brochure stated that if you didn't like getting attacked to stay away. Interesting and fun times before full comercialization of the internet. Now this cocksucker wants to license web sites. I hope his asshole grows shut.
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When you piss off Congress to the point that they ignore their usual Leftie vs RIghtie tift and decide to work together.....you're fucked.
I haven't found a solitary soul that prefers the UI in Win8 to earlier versions. The best I've heard is "it's not too bad." Thank God we still have Windows 7 Enterprise on the computers at work. I asked the IT guy if they were going to upgrade to 8 and he shuddered and said "NO" very emphatically.
I use a smartphone a lot more than I ever thought I would. It's plenty powerful and the small screen is far more useful than I thought it would be. Having said that, I never use it when I'm home where my tower is. There's no comparison at all in power and usability. The keyboard is king. Everything else is just for when you can't use the keyboard. And my 27 inch monitor is glorious after peering into a 4 inch spot.
Because Microsoft shareholders need money?
I noticed on OS X that my canon i960 no longer worked when I upgraded to 10.8 I searched for a 10.8 driver for the printer but none existed. I then simply installed the old 10.5 driver and....It worked! Perhpas some of the older drivers will work on Windows 10? I really know very little about how drivers work on Windows.
Well....I actually work for the Air Force as a civilian. Thus they already have pretty much all my personal information in my 201 file.
How about mounting the filesytem read-only?
The main reason MS is holding on to old hardware is many businesses still have older hardware. They dread, perhaps unreasonably, any loss to linux or other competitors on this older hardware. We've seen in the past that Micorsoft will do anything to keep Linux from getting a foothold.
One program's author told me he had it sending him certain usage info. I never really got what he was talking about so I muzzled the software. It don't have shit to say no more. I cheerfully paid the Little Snitch author. Wonderful and easy to use software it is.
Nothing is ever 100%. 99.99999 is achievable but not really much fun for daily web surfing and such. The trick is to keep an OS on an Optical disk. I use a linux distro the USAF provides called LPS for banking and such. I boot my laptop from it, do my business and pull the disk and reboot for surfing the Web.
http://www.spi.dod.mil/lipose....
That's what he said, you have to be an idiot.
I run little snitch on my Macs and I'm constantly amazed at how many of my programs want to talk to some site or other. It's annoying because I have to research and see why they want to contact these places and what exactly is going on. I find that if I just block them it's almost never a problem though.
Windows machines don't count. They're designed to be backdoored. Apple's actually are supposed to be secure.
I've found most Mac users seem to respect BSD users. They assume anyone running windows is IQ challenged.
This all asumes the army actually fires on it's own people, ultimately "their" people. Not sure how that would play out. I'd bet you'd have the military split as well.
Generally personal firearms are rifles and shotguns limited to semi-automatic fire. Full Auto weapons are heavily regulated. The Constitution has been amended to outlaw slavery and to allow women to vote but the anti-gun people know there is no hope in repealing the second amendment so they try to backdoor ban weapons by Federal Law. It hasn't worked well for them but they still have a much better chance at doing it through legislation than a Constitutional amendment.
I wouldn't go that far. Windows installations routinely get reamed. It's better but I wouldn't call it secure. I've got a secure linux install on a seperate laptop for banking and such and it's locked down like Fort Knox. As I only use it for things I'm paranoid about I'd say it's pretty safe. I'd rather bet on it than Windows.
Only the idiots claimed it was impossible. It was much more unlikely because Windows was designed at the time from the ground up to be backdoored. It was literally defective by design. It has come a long way and malware makers have also gotten much more sophisticated. A lot of them are users of linux and unix systems and naturally enough they now design for those systems as well. One reason is that the newer linux distros are not as security focused as the old days. People routinely log into a user account that has all kinds of priviledges that once were reserved to the root user. The continual drive for the latest and greatest features has led to using the testing branch of debian as well. At this moment I'm on a machine runniing SparkyLinux 3.5 which is derived from the debian testing repos and I'd never use it for banking or anything like that.
Those do still exist. I saw a laserwriter at my local library hooked up to some ancient Apple box.
Really? I don't know about that, they've been like this around here since the 60's at least. The 50's and earlier were before my time.
Damn. What if you didn't want electricity? They do realize it is entirely possible to live without it? Not a lot of fun maybe but doable. Jeez.
The way these dickheads have written laws everybody is guilty of something. There are laws to conflict with laws about other laws. It's gone beyond ridiculous to the point even the judges can't figure it out.
He'd just shoot his foot.
If he were only a bit more ignorant he could be as fucking stupid as Nancy Pelosi.
If he thinks the web is anarchic he should try IRC. That's wild west type anarchy. I used to hang out in #amiga_warez on Galaxynet back in the day before I even had a web browser. I remeber one of the early ISPs in town had IRC listed in their brochure as exactly that, the wild west of the internet. The brochure stated that if you didn't like getting attacked to stay away. Interesting and fun times before full comercialization of the internet. Now this cocksucker wants to license web sites. I hope his asshole grows shut.