I'm actually going to defend Apple removing that useless battery life time estimate meter, as it was never reliable to begin with.
On my older MacBook Pro, it would wildly overestimate my remaining runtime by several hours if I was doing something CPU intensive like playing a game.
I hope that they put it back when they finally fix it, though.
They make a device called a "Snuglet" that strengthens the Magsafe 2 connector to the point where you need to give a meaningful tug to get it to disconnect. It's around $20, but totally worth it.
Hell, I'd bet that the other social media outlets like Facebook and Reddit would start a bidding war to become Trump's new official mouthpiece. I'm sure that they is good money to be made in selling ads to his followers.
Wikipedia's fundraising activities seem to get more obnoxious every year. This year I got a nasty-gram from "Jimmy Wales" asking why I haven't given my annual donation yet.
I already did, dumb ass, but I submitted it from a different e-mail address this year. But, hey... if you're going to give me an attitude about it, I certainly won't bother donating next year.
I thought that the South Korea was considered to be to gold standard for broadband. Last I heard, they were paying the equivalent for $50 a month for Gigabit level residential access and around the same price for 50 Megabit 4G wireless broadband.
Of course, that's a hell of a lot easier in a country that small with a population that dense.
This might not be a bad thing IF Microsoft prompted you with a dialog box like this first:
"We detected that you're using $GRAPHICSCARD driver $OLDVERSION. This game requires driver version $NEWVERSION. Would you like us to upgrade it?"
Knowing Microsoft, though, they'll automatically "upgrade" the driver in the background and leave you scratching your head for awhile when the screen is stuck at 1024x768 resolution after you reboot.
Now that you can no longer buy Windows 7 licenses, I'm sure that Windows 10 license sales will go up.
Actual Windows 10 installations will probably not go up nearly as much, though, because many of those licenses will be used to activate with Windows 7 with the downgrade rights of the license.
Most people in the US already use Windows, Office, and Facebook. If they are trying to brainwash the next generation of people to use their products, they'll get more bang for their buck in developing nations that are still modernizing.
It will probably never happen, mostly because running a truly nation-wide presidential campaign would be even more expensive than fighting it out in a handful of battleground states. It would cost tens of billions of dollars to run months of 24/7 attack ads against your competitor in all 50 states, and even the biggest of the big money donors don't want to foot that bill.
That used to be the case, but the Microsoft of 2016 is different than the Microsoft of 1996 or even 2006. Instead of trying to destroy Linux, they now support it!
If you want to run Linux servers, you can install them with several different supported distributions in Azure. If you want to run a bash shell under Windows 10, they now offer one that's based off of Ubuntu.
Hell... even if you wanted to get rid of your old Windows 2008 system running SQL Server, they'll be offering a version of SQL Server that runs on Linux as well.
I'm still not a fan of how they are trying to cram Windows 10 down everyone's throats, but they do a much better job of playing nice with open source projects now.
Yeah, I'm finding it hard to believe that these glass solar singles are actually cheaper than asphalt ones. The asphalt ones cost about a buck a square foot.
The reason that Windows 10 disables older Anti-Virus software when upgrading is that the older Anti-Virus software is incompatible with 10 and can cause the system to crash if you continue to use it. Rather than give the user no anti-virus protection at all, they enable Defender and notify the user with a system tray pop-up that their old Anti-Virus software needs to be upgraded before it will work.
There really isn't anything sinister going on here.
The problem there was that the early Windows CE and Windows Mobile devices were horrid. The UI sucked, the OS was buggy as hell, and the hardware designs were clunky. I gave up using mine after it crashed and lost all of it's data for the fourth time.
Has everyone actually applied these patches, though? I'd imagine that AWS has already patches all of their RDS instances that they manage for companies, but have all of the smaller organizations that use MySQL as an embedded database?
I don't think that a lot of people said that Windows 7 sucked when it came out. Actually, they mostly praised it, and said how much of an improvement it was over Windows Vista.
Likewise, Windows 10 seems like a huge improvement over Windows 8.
Honestly, it's not all that hard to get hardcore gamers to join a new platform. All you need to do is offer them a few older quality PC games for free (or a highly discounted price), and they'll install the client to download them.
Hey... it worked for EA with Origin, right? I didn't want to put that crap on my PC, but I did to get those games.
Don't forget that there are a bunch of 50+ programmers out there who have become resistant to change as well. I've worked with a few who seemingly refuse to learn new technology because they think that it's "just a fad" and the way they do things now are better.
It seems to be a particular problem in shops that are moving to open source tools, and the developers are stuck in the Microsoft mindset of doing things. Which is odd, because even Microsoft is supporting open source products now.
I love how they basically gave the middle finger to people who have a ton of USB devices that still use the full size USB port, or people who connect to monitors or projectors using HDMI. It looks like I'd have to buy a half dozen adapter cables if I wanted to use one of these laptops at work.
I'm curious why IBM stopped buying Lenovo systems and started getting Mac hardware. Was it some sort of payback at Lenovo for them getting into the enterprise server business and cutting into their market share?
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The first gen 4G chipsets had horrid battery life. I'd imagine that the first gen 5G chipsets will as well.
Apple usually tends to wait for the 2nd gen chipsets before they upgrade their handsets.
I can't argue with that statement. I'm starting to wonder if Apple's slogan should be changed from "Think Different" to "We have an adapter for that!"
I'm actually going to defend Apple removing that useless battery life time estimate meter, as it was never reliable to begin with.
On my older MacBook Pro, it would wildly overestimate my remaining runtime by several hours if I was doing something CPU intensive like playing a game.
I hope that they put it back when they finally fix it, though.
Yeah, this seems like a minor issue.
Apple will patch the Safari battery drain issue, Consumer Reports will retest it, and Apple will get their Recommended product statuses back.
The real problem is how this issue got out in the field to begin with. Someone in Apple's QA team is probably going to get fired over this.
They make a device called a "Snuglet" that strengthens the Magsafe 2 connector to the point where you need to give a meaningful tug to get it to disconnect. It's around $20, but totally worth it.
Hell, I'd bet that the other social media outlets like Facebook and Reddit would start a bidding war to become Trump's new official mouthpiece. I'm sure that they is good money to be made in selling ads to his followers.
Wikipedia's fundraising activities seem to get more obnoxious every year. This year I got a nasty-gram from "Jimmy Wales" asking why I haven't given my annual donation yet.
I already did, dumb ass, but I submitted it from a different e-mail address this year. But, hey... if you're going to give me an attitude about it, I certainly won't bother donating next year.
I thought that the South Korea was considered to be to gold standard for broadband. Last I heard, they were paying the equivalent for $50 a month for Gigabit level residential access and around the same price for 50 Megabit 4G wireless broadband.
Of course, that's a hell of a lot easier in a country that small with a population that dense.
This might not be a bad thing IF Microsoft prompted you with a dialog box like this first:
"We detected that you're using $GRAPHICSCARD driver $OLDVERSION. This game requires driver version $NEWVERSION. Would you like us to upgrade it?"
Knowing Microsoft, though, they'll automatically "upgrade" the driver in the background and leave you scratching your head for awhile when the screen is stuck at 1024x768 resolution after you reboot.
I've been hearing promises of $2,000 Bitcoin due to $BIGECONOMICNEWSEVENT for awhile now. It never seems to pan out.
Honestly, I'd be impressed if it gets back to $1,000 like it did during the 2013 bubble.
Now that you can no longer buy Windows 7 licenses, I'm sure that Windows 10 license sales will go up.
Actual Windows 10 installations will probably not go up nearly as much, though, because many of those licenses will be used to activate with Windows 7 with the downgrade rights of the license.
The last report I saw said that they were using 36% of all Internet traffic, and that was in early 2016 before they had a bunch of 4K offerings:
http://fortune.com/2015/10/08/...
Most people in the US already use Windows, Office, and Facebook. If they are trying to brainwash the next generation of people to use their products, they'll get more bang for their buck in developing nations that are still modernizing.
It will probably never happen, mostly because running a truly nation-wide presidential campaign would be even more expensive than fighting it out in a handful of battleground states. It would cost tens of billions of dollars to run months of 24/7 attack ads against your competitor in all 50 states, and even the biggest of the big money donors don't want to foot that bill.
That used to be the case, but the Microsoft of 2016 is different than the Microsoft of 1996 or even 2006. Instead of trying to destroy Linux, they now support it!
If you want to run Linux servers, you can install them with several different supported distributions in Azure. If you want to run a bash shell under Windows 10, they now offer one that's based off of Ubuntu.
Hell... even if you wanted to get rid of your old Windows 2008 system running SQL Server, they'll be offering a version of SQL Server that runs on Linux as well.
I'm still not a fan of how they are trying to cram Windows 10 down everyone's throats, but they do a much better job of playing nice with open source projects now.
Yeah, I'm finding it hard to believe that these glass solar singles are actually cheaper than asphalt ones. The asphalt ones cost about a buck a square foot.
The reason that Windows 10 disables older Anti-Virus software when upgrading is that the older Anti-Virus software is incompatible with 10 and can cause the system to crash if you continue to use it. Rather than give the user no anti-virus protection at all, they enable Defender and notify the user with a system tray pop-up that their old Anti-Virus software needs to be upgraded before it will work.
There really isn't anything sinister going on here.
The problem there was that the early Windows CE and Windows Mobile devices were horrid. The UI sucked, the OS was buggy as hell, and the hardware designs were clunky. I gave up using mine after it crashed and lost all of it's data for the fourth time.
Has everyone actually applied these patches, though? I'd imagine that AWS has already patches all of their RDS instances that they manage for companies, but have all of the smaller organizations that use MySQL as an embedded database?
I don't think that a lot of people said that Windows 7 sucked when it came out. Actually, they mostly praised it, and said how much of an improvement it was over Windows Vista.
Likewise, Windows 10 seems like a huge improvement over Windows 8.
Honestly, it's not all that hard to get hardcore gamers to join a new platform. All you need to do is offer them a few older quality PC games for free (or a highly discounted price), and they'll install the client to download them.
Hey... it worked for EA with Origin, right? I didn't want to put that crap on my PC, but I did to get those games.
Don't forget that there are a bunch of 50+ programmers out there who have become resistant to change as well. I've worked with a few who seemingly refuse to learn new technology because they think that it's "just a fad" and the way they do things now are better.
It seems to be a particular problem in shops that are moving to open source tools, and the developers are stuck in the Microsoft mindset of doing things. Which is odd, because even Microsoft is supporting open source products now.
Don't forget full size USB ports, DisplayPort, and HDMI connectors!
One thing that Apple certainly isn't killing: adapter cables.
I love how they basically gave the middle finger to people who have a ton of USB devices that still use the full size USB port, or people who connect to monitors or projectors using HDMI. It looks like I'd have to buy a half dozen adapter cables if I wanted to use one of these laptops at work.
I'm curious why IBM stopped buying Lenovo systems and started getting Mac hardware. Was it some sort of payback at Lenovo for them getting into the enterprise server business and cutting into their market share?