I don't have half an hour to install the latest firmware on each of the windows in my house. Either have it connect to a gateway that is responsible for enforcing security. Or make updates truly automatic and unnoticeable. Like hot swap of OS kernel and transparent restart of processes using comprehensive saved UI state.
If my physical windows start behaving like Windows 10, I am going on a serious case of gadget rage and publishing it on Youtube!
How did these distributions get to the state where they include 80s CPU emulator by default? For users with decent Internet connection, base install should be something like ChromeOS, with only video/audio codecs widely used at present. Then have an easy way to install extra stuff as needed. It's not only for security, stability, memory/storage use and performance is also affected by having a boatload of crap installed by default. And don't forget the amount/frequency of high priority updates.
I don't know about technicalities, but for me as end user the value of Android is a choice of great hardware with familiar, reliable software. And I have stopped buying anything from Samsung because of abundance of crap an difficulty of its removal. For the millionth time, I do not want to open a web link in e-mail with "Internet". OnePlus somehow manages to add customizations without shoving them into my face.
If your voice assistant is so great, offer it as a download and I might try it out. So long as you convince me that it's not trivially hacked to send everything I say to Putin like Yahoo mail. Whatever you say about the larger issues, in this particular case restraint is needed to save Samsung from itself.
And it's high time to end this stupidity. Have only one type of "visa" - work visa, meaning that you somehow support yourself and pay for your kids schooling, medical care and so on. Sanctuary cities can apply for visas for their undocumented populations if they want, but then they take full responsibility for supporting them and any damage from crimes they commit.
Then if someone is in the country for a decade, stays of trouble, doesn't try to use welfare, learns English and civics, just offer them and their minor kids citizenship. Chances are they will keep doing what they are doing, which is good for the country. No automatic birth citizenship.
This way we are welcoming as many people to visit and work as we can as long as they are being net benefit. But we are only welcoming people to stay permanently when they have proven themselves.
If you make movies available for decent price on a wide selection of platforms, pirates will be those who are unlikely to be your customers anyway. Current attitude make pirates out of parents who can not justify $100 for babysitter, tickets, gas, parking and a small popcorn just to watch a two hour non-kid movie. Longer term, folks will just find something on Netflix/Amazon/HBO rather than taking legal and malware risk digging up torrents. And never go back to traditional studios that make them wait months to rent a movie everyone is talking about.
I am not even considering gazillion games and upcoming VR entertainment that is competing for the same leisure time as movies.
Users want a voice assistant when they are in living room, far away from the PC. Just like when iPhone was released, Microsoft has no clue that users might want to do something other than editing documents for printing on a desktop.
I can not guarantee that this is the best fit for the original poster, as I did not personally try running a VM on those. But in general Chromebooks are great Linux laptops for those who value battery life/form factor/versatility over raw power. ChromeOS is great for web browsing, movie watching and, these days, Android apps/games. Then for everything else, you can run Crouton or dual boot Linux from USB. All in all, that's a lot of different uses from a single unit of hardware.
Being welcomed to a country you are not citizen of is not a human right. We can consider pros and cons to ourselves vs humanitarian benefits of admitting a particular immigrant of from a particular country where terrorism and other crime is more common than in US.
Refusing to have a rational discussion on this subject without accusations of hate and racism is how we got Trump.
I find this article and the one two stories down really explain a lot together. When people say they are high on Jesus, they are not kidding! Very low blood flow to the brain.
Uber drivers undercut and killed Taxis with rock bottom rates, now they want more money? Sorry, but you are stuck with what no longer regulated market will bear. If Uber, which is not making much profit, raises driver pay, they will have to raise fares and then customers will take Lyft or drive.
The only alternative is to offer more premium product like fancier cars, better certified drivers, snack and beverage service etc.
Still I would not use the word "fraud" unless there are more active attempts to mislead, like app description implying that this is actual Microsoft software.
I don't know, what would you call a bundle of Microsoft Excel templates so that interested users can possibly find it? Fraud seems to be too sensationalist, the real problem is that actual office is not available and less relevant results thus bubble up to top. An informational message from Apple would easily solve the problem. Of course an actual deal with Microsoft to resell Office would be even better.
If you are waiting for businesses to not use even a single shred of paper, the answer is probably never, and there is no good reason to. There are still people riding horses and in some cases, like mounted police, it makes practical sense compared to cars or motorcycles. If nothing else, we can't cleanse our behinds with LCD screens.
If the question is using huge amounts of paper for everyday business collaboration, that's out for at least the last decade. The holdouts are either bureaucratic government agencies or businesses where record keeping is such a tiny part of the whole operation that it's not worth worrying how it is done.
Just run Bootcamp and shrink MacOSX partition to almost nothing. No need to wonder if you like this specific hardware and can accept the price point. On the other hand Windows land has many more form factors and features to choose from, though I am not sure if there is an exact combination like Macbook Pro.
I grudgingly suffer through login screen, "working on updates" and various nag popups like trying Office 365 to run Steam games not available elsewhere. But who would want that just to do web browsing and basic productivity tasks? My "desktop" is $265 Intel Compute Stick running Ubuntu connected to $500 45 inch 4K TV. I can walk away for two weeks and come back to find things exactly as I left them, without any nag screens. My laptop is a Chromebook Flip that again does not aggregate me and that runs a decent selection of Android games and Ubuntu for when I need it.
Microsoft also used to sell drama-free operating systems that ran a large selection of apps. Windows 2000 was about the pinnacle, though XP is Ok if you forget about activation issues. Windows 7 is decent from UI point of view, but quicky chews up globs of disk space in mysterious directories like WinSXS. Everything afterwards is just obnoxious.
Something that snaps to the bottom of the laptops and adds extra battery, storage and a boatload of ports. Then when you need ultimate portability take the laptop out and live without movies or whatever you were storing on the extra hard drive for a little while. People are overthinking such things, solutions have been there forever for smartphones.
All of the other problems can be solved with redundancy, fault isolation, defense in depth, argument and result verification, approximate solutions, backups and so on. Threading problems even in most naive code are rare in practice. You are probably running something in a thread because it's quite slow, and the probability it will finish and try to update a shared data structure just when you are using it is low. The trick is to avoid writing corrupted data to database if it does happen.
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I don't have half an hour to install the latest firmware on each of the windows in my house. Either have it connect to a gateway that is responsible for enforcing security. Or make updates truly automatic and unnoticeable. Like hot swap of OS kernel and transparent restart of processes using comprehensive saved UI state.
If my physical windows start behaving like Windows 10, I am going on a serious case of gadget rage and publishing it on Youtube!
How did these distributions get to the state where they include 80s CPU emulator by default? For users with decent Internet connection, base install should be something like ChromeOS, with only video/audio codecs widely used at present. Then have an easy way to install extra stuff as needed. It's not only for security, stability, memory/storage use and performance is also affected by having a boatload of crap installed by default. And don't forget the amount/frequency of high priority updates.
Mr Obama, tear down this wall! Once pot is legal across 50 states, Trump will face an enormous backlash trying to change that.
I don't know about technicalities, but for me as end user the value of Android is a choice of great hardware with familiar, reliable software. And I have stopped buying anything from Samsung because of abundance of crap an difficulty of its removal. For the millionth time, I do not want to open a web link in e-mail with "Internet". OnePlus somehow manages to add customizations without shoving them into my face.
If your voice assistant is so great, offer it as a download and I might try it out. So long as you convince me that it's not trivially hacked to send everything I say to Putin like Yahoo mail. Whatever you say about the larger issues, in this particular case restraint is needed to save Samsung from itself.
If you are playing the other team. impregnating is probably not your top priority?
This is ripe for bored teenagers sitting by the highway and messing with random drivers.
There are no jobs in US for 90% of world population. There are however for the most talented/hardworking ones.
And it's high time to end this stupidity. Have only one type of "visa" - work visa, meaning that you somehow support yourself and pay for your kids schooling, medical care and so on. Sanctuary cities can apply for visas for their undocumented populations if they want, but then they take full responsibility for supporting them and any damage from crimes they commit.
Then if someone is in the country for a decade, stays of trouble, doesn't try to use welfare, learns English and civics, just offer them and their minor kids citizenship. Chances are they will keep doing what they are doing, which is good for the country. No automatic birth citizenship.
This way we are welcoming as many people to visit and work as we can as long as they are being net benefit. But we are only welcoming people to stay permanently when they have proven themselves.
If you make movies available for decent price on a wide selection of platforms, pirates will be those who are unlikely to be your customers anyway. Current attitude make pirates out of parents who can not justify $100 for babysitter, tickets, gas, parking and a small popcorn just to watch a two hour non-kid movie. Longer term, folks will just find something on Netflix/Amazon/HBO rather than taking legal and malware risk digging up torrents. And never go back to traditional studios that make them wait months to rent a movie everyone is talking about.
I am not even considering gazillion games and upcoming VR entertainment that is competing for the same leisure time as movies.
Users want a voice assistant when they are in living room, far away from the PC. Just like when iPhone was released, Microsoft has no clue that users might want to do something other than editing documents for printing on a desktop.
They found that there is plenty of pr0n on Internet and people really want to read it for the articles, but can't at work. PC police strikes again!
I can not guarantee that this is the best fit for the original poster, as I did not personally try running a VM on those. But in general Chromebooks are great Linux laptops for those who value battery life/form factor/versatility over raw power. ChromeOS is great for web browsing, movie watching and, these days, Android apps/games. Then for everything else, you can run Crouton or dual boot Linux from USB. All in all, that's a lot of different uses from a single unit of hardware.
Lies like that most terrorist attacks on American soil are being committed by a particular demographic?
Being welcomed to a country you are not citizen of is not a human right. We can consider pros and cons to ourselves vs humanitarian benefits of admitting a particular immigrant of from a particular country where terrorism and other crime is more common than in US.
Refusing to have a rational discussion on this subject without accusations of hate and racism is how we got Trump.
I find this article and the one two stories down really explain a lot together. When people say they are high on Jesus, they are not kidding! Very low blood flow to the brain.
Uber drivers undercut and killed Taxis with rock bottom rates, now they want more money? Sorry, but you are stuck with what no longer regulated market will bear. If Uber, which is not making much profit, raises driver pay, they will have to raise fares and then customers will take Lyft or drive.
The only alternative is to offer more premium product like fancier cars, better certified drivers, snack and beverage service etc.
The planet is not coming back to old normal and we got to do what we have to do to mitigate the effects right?
Still I would not use the word "fraud" unless there are more active attempts to mislead, like app description implying that this is actual Microsoft software.
I don't know, what would you call a bundle of Microsoft Excel templates so that interested users can possibly find it? Fraud seems to be too sensationalist, the real problem is that actual office is not available and less relevant results thus bubble up to top. An informational message from Apple would easily solve the problem. Of course an actual deal with Microsoft to resell Office would be even better.
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That's the most realistic solution to strengthen the role of popular vote, since it does not require unanimous adoption by every state.
If you are waiting for businesses to not use even a single shred of paper, the answer is probably never, and there is no good reason to. There are still people riding horses and in some cases, like mounted police, it makes practical sense compared to cars or motorcycles. If nothing else, we can't cleanse our behinds with LCD screens.
If the question is using huge amounts of paper for everyday business collaboration, that's out for at least the last decade. The holdouts are either bureaucratic government agencies or businesses where record keeping is such a tiny part of the whole operation that it's not worth worrying how it is done.
Just run Bootcamp and shrink MacOSX partition to almost nothing. No need to wonder if you like this specific hardware and can accept the price point. On the other hand Windows land has many more form factors and features to choose from, though I am not sure if there is an exact combination like Macbook Pro.
I grudgingly suffer through login screen, "working on updates" and various nag popups like trying Office 365 to run Steam games not available elsewhere. But who would want that just to do web browsing and basic productivity tasks? My "desktop" is $265 Intel Compute Stick running Ubuntu connected to $500 45 inch 4K TV. I can walk away for two weeks and come back to find things exactly as I left them, without any nag screens. My laptop is a Chromebook Flip that again does not aggregate me and that runs a decent selection of Android games and Ubuntu for when I need it.
Microsoft also used to sell drama-free operating systems that ran a large selection of apps. Windows 2000 was about the pinnacle, though XP is Ok if you forget about activation issues. Windows 7 is decent from UI point of view, but quicky chews up globs of disk space in mysterious directories like WinSXS. Everything afterwards is just obnoxious.
Something that snaps to the bottom of the laptops and adds extra battery, storage and a boatload of ports. Then when you need ultimate portability take the laptop out and live without movies or whatever you were storing on the extra hard drive for a little while. People are overthinking such things, solutions have been there forever for smartphones.
All of the other problems can be solved with redundancy, fault isolation, defense in depth, argument and result verification, approximate solutions, backups and so on. Threading problems even in most naive code are rare in practice. You are probably running something in a thread because it's quite slow, and the probability it will finish and try to update a shared data structure just when you are using it is low. The trick is to avoid writing corrupted data to database if it does happen.