Why don't they focus on the reliability of their service first?
Why not focus on customer support, as a whole, first? They have a well deserved reputation for being one of the worst companies to work with.
Comcast is not any where near 100% reliable, I'd say more like 90%.
They have (or had, for a long time) crap modems that were only part of the problem.
People, businesses and government offices are putting all their eggs in this basket with internet, phone and TV, all coming in on one fat pipe.
When it goes down, they are massively screwed.
And it happens all too often, far more often than DSL. DSL might be slow and crappy but it is more reliable than cable.
Don't get me wrong - Comcast know what they are doing when it comes to slinging massive amounts of data great distances at high speed. They really do, and their internet is amazingly fast.
But why try to go faster when there are too many times it's going nowhere?
This, not to mention their hidden data cap. If they offer this massive bandwidth do they leave the data cap where it is? HMMM???
A simpler solution: press more numbers after you press "enter" on the keypad.
I thought this was old news. I usually hold some of my fingers lightly on the unused keys to warm them up without pressing, but this could be even better to keep the heating times equal.
I appreciate the tactics and countermeasures, but seriously, is this really a concern?
If Mozilla wants their browser share to increase, deprecate the god damned single-threaded engine!!!!
At the moment I use FF for browsing because of the extensions - youtube download, ghostery, noscript, ABP. Also it seems to work well as opposed to Chrome which sorta quit working a while ago for some things. For this, being single threaded doesn't hurt anything.
I use chrome for streaming music. Seems to work well for that. only that. I used to use it exclusively for everything.
But since chrome inherently uses html5 it has broken netflix, audio and video get out of sync almost immediately.
So for streaming netflix and other video I use opera since it still uses silverlight.
To remove the political bugs within mozilla, use the pale moon browser. If they screw up the firefox plugins I wonder if pale moon will continue to work?
summer of 1996 I bought a system for use my senior year of college. Pentium something 200mhz I think, 512 meg HD, and I wanted 16 megs of ram. I was told I had to run 2 identical sticks in parallel so I 'splurged' and got 32 megs.
It really helped because I had to do a large research paper and my copy of word 6.0 really sucked up the memory. I remember running a copy of win95 on it.
This is why building new planes (instead of simply building more of the teen series) is not only wasteful its pointless, the planes we have now can already do more than any human body can take. instead of pissing more money down a rathole for the F35 we should simply buy more of the teen series and if the fighter jocks still want their 1980s "stealth" tech? Just buy the F15 Silent Eagle which the last numbers I saw showed you could buy 3 of them for less than the cost of a single F35 and still have change left over.
Yeah, but the contractors need to justify their existence and that wouldn't be accomplished by just improving on decades old platforms like the F15.
If something is good enough for consumers it will be known and used!
Many web sites complains about ad blocking today, but they have to be aware that they caused the need for adblockers themselves. Too many ads like "Your PC have a problem" hopping like it has Parkinson on the screen is stressful and false. Static ads are actually less of a problem.
Ads with sound and pop-ups covering the whole darn screen are a sure call for adblocker to be installed.
yeah the fake AV malware epidemic that started around 2009 sorta ruined things
Not to mention ads are one of the primary vectors of virus and malware
this. seriously. People ask me (all the time) how to keep from getting viruses on 'teh intertubes" and some people I just don't really get into it with because they aren't really worth the time.
But some people are intelligent enough to understand it and I tell them that to really be safe when browsing is inconvenient and doesn't really require an antivirus.
You have to block ads and scripts and all that stuff, ghostery, noscript and ABP, and those can be really annoying especially noscript. To be even safer you use sandboxie and that's pretty hard core.
But when you do it that way you are safe, no AV required basically. Nothing gets through.
lets play spot the shill. You scored the first point. Good job!
there seems to be a lot of them out right now. Even NPR had a piece that was so bafflingly one sided that if it wasn't paid for by Microsoft, then NPR got ripped off bad...
I think they have a nice OS and it did install easily, but so does 7. Is it better than 7? I don't know. I doubt it, but I don't like having the nuts and bolts hidden so much. Maybe it's more user friendly for the low tech users.
They are probably trying to be like Mac OS. Are trying "free" to be more like Google or Linux?
Either way, windows 7 is supported until at least 2020 so I'll probably just stick to that. My concern with 10 is all the BS they have built in for 'gathering information' and 'learn more about you'.
As an old tyme Windows hater, I'm not getting some of this. On the 29th I reserved my upgrade.
Huh? I find it unlikely that anyone who described themselves as a windows hater would upgrade to the latest version of the OS, much less on release day. You can turn in your card at the main office...
lets play spot the shill. You scored the first point. Good job!
I looked at the image. It was a scathing trainwreck of sentence fragments, poorly encoded screenshots, and vitriol.
so what's the truth? Looking at the graphic I see some "spying" stuff that can be turned off, some spying stuff that can't be turned off, and some crap that will turn itself back on even if you turn it off.
So, what's the truth? What exactly can't be turned off that would be considered "spying"???
I know a guy who thinks that Ubuntu has spyware, and he also thinks win10 has spyware.
Is this like that? An overreaction? Or is this microsoft's attempt to turn into google, only creepier?
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Windows fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of my PC (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this rig, the same operation would take about 2 minutes.
For "British" insert "The entire First World....oh, except for the United States"....
There, fixed that for you..
There are 2 tiers of health care in the UK. The NHS is the socialized medicine and has problems. There is a private system for those who want to pay. Look it up. It isn't a utopia, and neither is Canada nor is Cuba.
Heh. My future had mile-high skyscrapers, colonies on the moon, atomic powered airplanes, fusion power too cheap to meter, and FLYING CARS, goddamit, FLYING FUCKING CARS!
And here it is, the reality of popular open source software. People bitch just as much about it as they do proprietary software.
"You can change the source, you have the power!" Yeah, not so much... nobody is really going to do anything except complain. (Well, except that one guy who is now going to make it his life work to fork it into something he calls Freefox that gets used by around 53 people... but those 53 people are very happy about it.)
Congratulations, I guess, but the so-called 'student loan bubble' or even this article isn't really about you.
See, what you went and did was BUY some QUALIFICATIONS relating directly to a MARKETABLE SKILL SET.
Getting a $80k degree from a private college for something like philosophy, elementary ed, english lit, or even 'psychology' (which requires a masters or doctorate to make any $) is basically choosing to put a financial noose around your neck.
The days of 'XYZ Bachelors degree' = 'automatic middle class income' are gone.
This is because for about 2 generations now the assumption was you either got dirty for a living or went to college and got a white collar job. If you could string 2 sentences together and do long division your parents told you that you JUST HAD TO go to college whether or not you really knew why. It was just what you did.
Now, everyone has done it, 75%+ of the degrees are worthless, cost of higher ed has far outpaced inflation, the government gave away 'free money' to get it, and now countless 20 somethings are basically screwed and no-one knows how to swing a hammer or use a tape measure.
The user interface being set automatically to a touch interface on devices without any touchscreen is idiotic.
Even worse is the polluting of the server products with the same garbage. I don't need, nor want, live tiles on my domain controller. I can't "tap" things, or "bezel swipe" a "charm bar" on a damn VM.
hmmmm, is this server 2012R2 you are referring to?
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Why don't they focus on the reliability of their service first?
Why not focus on customer support, as a whole, first? They have a well deserved reputation for being one of the worst companies to work with.
Comcast is not any where near 100% reliable, I'd say more like 90%.
They have (or had, for a long time) crap modems that were only part of the problem.
People, businesses and government offices are putting all their eggs in this basket with internet, phone and TV, all coming in on one fat pipe.
When it goes down, they are massively screwed.
And it happens all too often, far more often than DSL. DSL might be slow and crappy but it is more reliable than cable.
Don't get me wrong - Comcast know what they are doing when it comes to slinging massive amounts of data great distances at high speed. They really do, and their internet is amazingly fast.
But why try to go faster when there are too many times it's going nowhere?
This, not to mention their hidden data cap. If they offer this massive bandwidth do they leave the data cap where it is? HMMM???
A simpler solution: press more numbers after you press "enter" on the keypad.
I thought this was old news. I usually hold some of my fingers lightly on the unused keys to warm them up without pressing, but this could be even better to keep the heating times equal.
I appreciate the tactics and countermeasures, but seriously, is this really a concern?
really?
If Mozilla wants their browser share to increase, deprecate the god damned single-threaded engine!!!!
At the moment I use FF for browsing because of the extensions - youtube download, ghostery, noscript, ABP. Also it seems to work well as opposed to Chrome which sorta quit working a while ago for some things. For this, being single threaded doesn't hurt anything.
I use chrome for streaming music. Seems to work well for that. only that. I used to use it exclusively for everything.
But since chrome inherently uses html5 it has broken netflix, audio and video get out of sync almost immediately.
So for streaming netflix and other video I use opera since it still uses silverlight.
To remove the political bugs within mozilla, use the pale moon browser. If they screw up the firefox plugins I wonder if pale moon will continue to work?
summer of 1996 I bought a system for use my senior year of college. Pentium something 200mhz I think, 512 meg HD, and I wanted 16 megs of ram. I was told I had to run 2 identical sticks in parallel so I 'splurged' and got 32 megs.
It really helped because I had to do a large research paper and my copy of word 6.0 really sucked up the memory. I remember running a copy of win95 on it.
This is why building new planes (instead of simply building more of the teen series) is not only wasteful its pointless, the planes we have now can already do more than any human body can take. instead of pissing more money down a rathole for the F35 we should simply buy more of the teen series and if the fighter jocks still want their 1980s "stealth" tech? Just buy the F15 Silent Eagle which the last numbers I saw showed you could buy 3 of them for less than the cost of a single F35 and still have change left over.
Yeah, but the contractors need to justify their existence and that wouldn't be accomplished by just improving on decades old platforms like the F15.
If something is good enough for consumers it will be known and used!
Many web sites complains about ad blocking today, but they have to be aware that they caused the need for adblockers themselves. Too many ads like "Your PC have a problem" hopping like it has Parkinson on the screen is stressful and false. Static ads are actually less of a problem.
Ads with sound and pop-ups covering the whole darn screen are a sure call for adblocker to be installed.
yeah the fake AV malware epidemic that started around 2009 sorta ruined things
Not to mention ads are one of the primary vectors of virus and malware
this. seriously. People ask me (all the time) how to keep from getting viruses on 'teh intertubes" and some people I just don't really get into it with because they aren't really worth the time.
But some people are intelligent enough to understand it and I tell them that to really be safe when browsing is inconvenient and doesn't really require an antivirus.
You have to block ads and scripts and all that stuff, ghostery, noscript and ABP, and those can be really annoying especially noscript. To be even safer you use sandboxie and that's pretty hard core.
But when you do it that way you are safe, no AV required basically. Nothing gets through.
Who would want to do all that?
lets play spot the shill. You scored the first point. Good job!
there seems to be a lot of them out right now. Even NPR had a piece that was so bafflingly one sided that if it wasn't paid for by Microsoft, then NPR got ripped off bad...
I think they have a nice OS and it did install easily, but so does 7. Is it better than 7? I don't know. I doubt it, but I don't like having the nuts and bolts hidden so much. Maybe it's more user friendly for the low tech users.
They are probably trying to be like Mac OS. Are trying "free" to be more like Google or Linux?
Either way, windows 7 is supported until at least 2020 so I'll probably just stick to that. My concern with 10 is all the BS they have built in for 'gathering information' and 'learn more about you'.
As an old tyme Windows hater, I'm not getting some of this. On the 29th I reserved my upgrade.
Huh? I find it unlikely that anyone who described themselves as a windows hater would upgrade to the latest version of the OS, much less on release day. You can turn in your card at the main office...
lets play spot the shill. You scored the first point. Good job!
If you had actually looked at the image.
I looked at the image. It was a scathing trainwreck of sentence fragments, poorly encoded screenshots, and vitriol.
so what's the truth? Looking at the graphic I see some "spying" stuff that can be turned off, some spying stuff that can't be turned off, and some crap that will turn itself back on even if you turn it off.
So, what's the truth? What exactly can't be turned off that would be considered "spying"???
I know a guy who thinks that Ubuntu has spyware, and he also thinks win10 has spyware.
Is this like that? An overreaction? Or is this microsoft's attempt to turn into google, only creepier?
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Windows fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of my PC (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this rig, the same operation would take about 2 minutes.
You aren't in DMA mode on your hard drive.
For "British" insert "The entire First World....oh, except for the United States"....
There, fixed that for you..
There are 2 tiers of health care in the UK. The NHS is the socialized medicine and has problems. There is a private system for those who want to pay. Look it up. It isn't a utopia, and neither is Canada nor is Cuba.
Heh. My future had mile-high skyscrapers, colonies on the moon, atomic powered airplanes, fusion power too cheap to meter, and FLYING CARS, goddamit, FLYING FUCKING CARS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This kind of ineptitude is the reason we don't have flying cars yet.
I only read every other comment.
BAM!
I was going to say look to Lenovo but, that would be redundant.
This is the "Me" post.
sorry your post seems to be buggy and annoying I think I'll just skip it.
And here it is, the reality of popular open source software. People bitch just as much about it as they do proprietary software.
"You can change the source, you have the power!" Yeah, not so much... nobody is really going to do anything except complain. (Well, except that one guy who is now going to make it his life work to fork it into something he calls Freefox that gets used by around 53 people... but those 53 people are very happy about it.)
pale moon is already forked from Firefox/Mozilla
https://www.palemoon.org/
and has more than 53 users.
Congratulations, I guess, but the so-called 'student loan bubble' or even this article isn't really about you.
See, what you went and did was BUY some QUALIFICATIONS relating directly to a MARKETABLE SKILL SET.
Getting a $80k degree from a private college for something like philosophy, elementary ed, english lit, or even 'psychology' (which requires a masters or doctorate to make any $) is basically choosing to put a financial noose around your neck.
The days of 'XYZ Bachelors degree' = 'automatic middle class income' are gone.
This is because for about 2 generations now the assumption was you either got dirty for a living or went to college and got a white collar job. If you could string 2 sentences together and do long division your parents told you that you JUST HAD TO go to college whether or not you really knew why. It was just what you did.
Now, everyone has done it, 75%+ of the degrees are worthless, cost of higher ed has far outpaced inflation, the government gave away 'free money' to get it, and now countless 20 somethings are basically screwed and no-one knows how to swing a hammer or use a tape measure.
Whoops.
When the last plumber dies, we're in deep shit.
"Billboard Advertising Banned Products In Russia Hides If It Recognizes Cops"
Can anyone translate that indecipherable gibberish into English?
An electronic billboard that shows ads for banned products changes what it shows when it sees cops coming.
Or - Facial recognition allows black market billboard to avoid the police.
"Billboard Advertising Banned Products In Russia Hides If It Recognizes Cops"
Can anyone translate that indecipherable gibberish into English?
An electronic billboard that shows ads for banned products changes what it shows when it sees cops coming.
Somehow I think the core of google is going to be around for a long time.
Don't think anybody's disagreeing with that. It just that it's started on a journey into irrelevance.
I think we're on the same page then. Cool.
I guess the government needs to do something about this
There ought to be a law!
Like M$, like Yahoo, like Myspace and so on, Google is on its way down
As for fb, don't worry, it too is on its way down --- as nothing stays up forever
so... What are you saying?
Is GMAIL going to go away?
Is search going to go away?
What about google drive? That's a for-pay system (the 100 gigs for $2 a month) is that going away?
Or are you just saying that all the fluff and goofy crap will probably stop?
Because people have been saying Microsoft is dead - for years now.
Somehow I think the core of google is going to be around for a long time.
Google Streams of piss ......
How about launching a product and sticking with it for 10 years or more, you fucking clowns?
Nobody in their right mind chooses a Google product as part of their critical infrastructure ..... because Google keeps closing its products down.
like Gmail?
The user interface being set automatically to a touch interface on devices without any touchscreen is idiotic.
Even worse is the polluting of the server products with the same garbage. I don't need, nor want, live tiles on my domain controller. I can't "tap" things, or "bezel swipe" a "charm bar" on a damn VM.
hmmmm, is this server 2012R2 you are referring to?
Does 'classic shell' run on it?