Microsoft is being cowardly here. Most people want seamless Internet access sharing with their contacts. Most people do not want automatic intranet access sharing, and that needs to be addressed with technical solutions. People who want to opt out should have this option, but default should meet needs of an average user. By bailing out, Microsoft is showing corporate conformity rather than brilliance.
If your car breaks down and you take a payday loan to get it fixed and not lose what job you have, it's a positive development for you even if you have to pay extra $20 on pay day. If you end up taking a loan before every paycheck, not so much.
Bottom line, even low income / high risk individuals can benefit from access to some kind of legal credit, even on lousy terms. Lots in developing world don't, hence the movement to provide microloans.
In the ideal world, payday lenders would be akin to credit unions, paying moderate salaries to local employees and redistributing any additional income between the same members who occasionally take the loans.
But even if such things do not exist yet, we should think twice before saying no to people with urgent need of immediate extra cash. Otherwise, they will have no choice but to go to the mob, where loans will cost an arm and a leg. And I mean, literally if you don't pay up.
For casual reads, it equally doesn't matter if the paper book spine falls apart, or if the service eventually goes out of bussiness. For something you are planning to keep in family library and read to your grandchildren - buy an actual hardcover book.
Robots are nowhere close to meeting our needs in ecologically sustainable manner. If anything, agriculture needs more labor intensive but less polluting human touch. Then we got to cleanup the cesspool we left on the planet. Spaceports, high speed trains and wind farms also do not build or maintain themselves at the moment.
Once all of this is done, working 3 days a week on long term average is very healthy to allow folks to take care of children and parents as well as have interests other than work. After all of this done, some future generation can discuss dropping cash, crypto currency or whatever from helicopters.
My browser does not require reboots to self-update. On the other hand, my software DVR, video transcoding jobs or Plex server do not take well to reboots. Also, this is my computer and gaming is a pure leisure activity where threshold of inconvenience is pretty low. I want to pause the game and then instantly pick it up exactly where I left it a couple of days later. Not log in, then sit through 5 minutes of "working on updates", then wait for game to load, then restart from last savepoint. Every other computing device I have manages to not harass me somehow, and so did the gaming PC till Windows 10.
In any case, if these were infrequent interruptions for highly exploitable security holes, I wouldn't mind. It's just that Microsoft is pushing random crap every few days, often with the effect of breaking previously working software and hardware.
Windows 10 Home does not have manual updates option. This registry hack is the only manual update option available. Besides it's not like updates are urgent if the computer is behind built in firewall and NAT, and only used for Steam games.
Like this. Note that to change the registry key, you need to first take its ownership and then give yourself permission to edit it, while running regedit as Administrator. No more updates. Poof!
No, really. Do you type your essays on a phone? You could, but the device is not made for the task and you are going to have a frustrating experience. Watches are for scrolling through a few notifications, not interactive apps. What is needed is a fully water/dust proof device with WiFi access, payment support and reliable weekend battery life. Maybe also ability to unlock my house door. Apple watch is not it yet, and neither are other smartwatches. But if such a thing existed, it would finally make it practical to leave cellphone, wallet and keys at home for a short while.
It sounds to me like you have both logically available choices - accept analytics by running Chrome and have your crash/performance/malware issues fixed by others, or install open source Chromium and fix it yourself. As for other claims about collection/misuse of your personal data, you are assuming that everyone is always out to get you without a concrete proof. I would recommend using SSL to order Domino's pizzas all the same.
If now is not the time, it will never be. Windows 10 is essentially only good for gaming. For every other task, a Chromebook or a MacBook, depending on your budget and preferences, does the job better while being less annoying. Yes, they also have frequent software updates, limitations and analytics. But they are not obnoxious in normal daily use. Every time I want to use my gaming box, it has logged me out and I have to sit through 10 minutes of "working on updates" until I can start Portal.
Video card and game manufacturers should partner with distributors like Steam and commit to same day Linux releases for titles and drivers. Invest in Vulcan and whatever is the most promising replacement for X11 until performance/stability is as good as DirectX. Then there will be no more reasons for people to get abused by their computers.
Or at least have no clue what capitalism is. It has nothing to do with taxes / social programs. It's simply about who decides to open a burger joint - anyone who can come up with the "capital" or your local minister of food services. It is certainly possible to support regulations, or nationalization of specific industries like healthcare. But someone needs to tell millenials they are not getting their rose gold iPhone in a fully/mostly planned economy.
To improve lifestyle of a large fraction of people, more necessities such as healthy food, housing and medicines need to be produced. Basic income can potentially stimulate production, but we would need to remove other obstacles first. For example bureaucracy and NIMBY mentality need to be busted to build sufficient housing in Silicon Valley. Otherwise increasing supply of money will just raise prices and everyone is back where they started. It certainly does not sound like 10% of people can produce everything for everyone at current level of technology, and especially not in an ecologically sustainable way.
At most, basic income with very low overhead of making payments can be cheaper than the bureaucracy of managing eligibility and providing single purpose services (like shelters) for a small fraction of the poor. We need something else to solve large scale poverty.
What does any of this have to do with TV? Keep the wires as either a municipal utility or a regulated regional monopoly with capped rates. Allow anyone interested to offer content or provide end user customer service on equal basis. Apps will be on every cheap smart TV and streaming box in no time and high value networks will be motivated to offer standalone services rather than subsidize unpopular channels.
Unlike current US Congress, Netherlands laws can be changed over time to reflect new developments. Got any ideas for cars cleaner than electric ones charged with wind power?
Suppose you just developed a new app. Today you have to buy ads on search engines and other places where you can only guess user interests. It's far better to advertise to users already search app store for appropriate keywords and who have matching interests. It will probably cost less money and you spam fewer Android users and others who are not interested in this category of apps.
If your livelyhood really depends on the data, you can invest time to recover it after rm -rf/. Come up with patterns to identify your database records on disk blocks. A few will be split between blocks which are non continuous, but most can be found and dumped from raw device. Then exploit relationship between different records to identify outdated data. Finally, offer suppliers and customers a healthy discount to log in and correct remaining errors. After all, the value of a business is in human relationships more than any single hard drive.
Paper money actually has a lot of shortcoming for the users - theft, forgery, arbitrary inflation. Even if cash was solving privacy problems effectively, it can not be used to buy anything online. Since you have to show up for every transaction, your risks of getting photographed, detained or simply mugged are much higher than when money is exchanged over Internet.
We should be embracing technology and using it to solve privacy and stable value problems rather than going luddite. Bitcoin is only the first attempt at cryptocurrency and we can learn from its problems to develop something robust enough for mainstream use.
So I am not nearly as excited as when the first, admitedly revolutionary, iPad came out. Too bad they have not released anything remarkable after that. Apple should have licensed older, established products to partners while focusing on truly mind blowing technology to build in house. Then we could be talking about fully practical iPad VR today.
Good to know it's getting better, last time I tried ~3 years back I had to run xrandr shell scripts and remember to plug each display into correct port. Then laptop would go to sleep and do something random on wake up.
There are monthly news of publicly available iOS and Android exploits that give attacker access to device data, location and microphone. NSA itself snooped on cell phone of German head of state. Do we really want a likelihood that foreign intelligence agencies and even resourceful journalists are able to eavesdrop on everything top US government officials do? And the newer and "smarter" a technology is, the harder it is to be confident that it doesn't contain security weaknesses. Windows CE was probably the right way to go at that time, apparently a modified Galaxy S4 is used now.
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Microsoft is being cowardly here. Most people want seamless Internet access sharing with their contacts. Most people do not want automatic intranet access sharing, and that needs to be addressed with technical solutions. People who want to opt out should have this option, but default should meet needs of an average user. By bailing out, Microsoft is showing corporate conformity rather than brilliance.
If your car breaks down and you take a payday loan to get it fixed and not lose what job you have, it's a positive development for you even if you have to pay extra $20 on pay day. If you end up taking a loan before every paycheck, not so much.
Bottom line, even low income / high risk individuals can benefit from access to some kind of legal credit, even on lousy terms. Lots in developing world don't, hence the movement to provide microloans.
In the ideal world, payday lenders would be akin to credit unions, paying moderate salaries to local employees and redistributing any additional income between the same members who occasionally take the loans.
But even if such things do not exist yet, we should think twice before saying no to people with urgent need of immediate extra cash. Otherwise, they will have no choice but to go to the mob, where loans will cost an arm and a leg. And I mean, literally if you don't pay up.
For casual reads, it equally doesn't matter if the paper book spine falls apart, or if the service eventually goes out of bussiness. For something you are planning to keep in family library and read to your grandchildren - buy an actual hardcover book.
Only if you kill the humans you would otherwise feed.
Robots are nowhere close to meeting our needs in ecologically sustainable manner. If anything, agriculture needs more labor intensive but less polluting human touch. Then we got to cleanup the cesspool we left on the planet. Spaceports, high speed trains and wind farms also do not build or maintain themselves at the moment.
Once all of this is done, working 3 days a week on long term average is very healthy to allow folks to take care of children and parents as well as have interests other than work. After all of this done, some future generation can discuss dropping cash, crypto currency or whatever from helicopters.
My browser does not require reboots to self-update. On the other hand, my software DVR, video transcoding jobs or Plex server do not take well to reboots. Also, this is my computer and gaming is a pure leisure activity where threshold of inconvenience is pretty low. I want to pause the game and then instantly pick it up exactly where I left it a couple of days later. Not log in, then sit through 5 minutes of "working on updates", then wait for game to load, then restart from last savepoint. Every other computing device I have manages to not harass me somehow, and so did the gaming PC till Windows 10.
In any case, if these were infrequent interruptions for highly exploitable security holes, I wouldn't mind. It's just that Microsoft is pushing random crap every few days, often with the effect of breaking previously working software and hardware.
Windows 10 Home does not have manual updates option. This registry hack is the only manual update option available. Besides it's not like updates are urgent if the computer is behind built in firewall and NAT, and only used for Steam games.
Like this. Note that to change the registry key, you need to first take its ownership and then give yourself permission to edit it, while running regedit as Administrator. No more updates. Poof!
You are welcome.
No, really. Do you type your essays on a phone? You could, but the device is not made for the task and you are going to have a frustrating experience. Watches are for scrolling through a few notifications, not interactive apps. What is needed is a fully water/dust proof device with WiFi access, payment support and reliable weekend battery life. Maybe also ability to unlock my house door. Apple watch is not it yet, and neither are other smartwatches. But if such a thing existed, it would finally make it practical to leave cellphone, wallet and keys at home for a short while.
It sounds to me like you have both logically available choices - accept analytics by running Chrome and have your crash/performance/malware issues fixed by others, or install open source Chromium and fix it yourself. As for other claims about collection/misuse of your personal data, you are assuming that everyone is always out to get you without a concrete proof. I would recommend using SSL to order Domino's pizzas all the same.
This still makes the PC reboot at night and then do lengthy "working on updates" thingy after logging in next time.
If now is not the time, it will never be. Windows 10 is essentially only good for gaming. For every other task, a Chromebook or a MacBook, depending on your budget and preferences, does the job better while being less annoying. Yes, they also have frequent software updates, limitations and analytics. But they are not obnoxious in normal daily use. Every time I want to use my gaming box, it has logged me out and I have to sit through 10 minutes of "working on updates" until I can start Portal.
Video card and game manufacturers should partner with distributors like Steam and commit to same day Linux releases for titles and drivers. Invest in Vulcan and whatever is the most promising replacement for X11 until performance/stability is as good as DirectX. Then there will be no more reasons for people to get abused by their computers.
Or at least have no clue what capitalism is. It has nothing to do with taxes / social programs. It's simply about who decides to open a burger joint - anyone who can come up with the "capital" or your local minister of food services. It is certainly possible to support regulations, or nationalization of specific industries like healthcare. But someone needs to tell millenials they are not getting their rose gold iPhone in a fully/mostly planned economy.
To improve lifestyle of a large fraction of people, more necessities such as healthy food, housing and medicines need to be produced. Basic income can potentially stimulate production, but we would need to remove other obstacles first. For example bureaucracy and NIMBY mentality need to be busted to build sufficient housing in Silicon Valley. Otherwise increasing supply of money will just raise prices and everyone is back where they started. It certainly does not sound like 10% of people can produce everything for everyone at current level of technology, and especially not in an ecologically sustainable way.
At most, basic income with very low overhead of making payments can be cheaper than the bureaucracy of managing eligibility and providing single purpose services (like shelters) for a small fraction of the poor. We need something else to solve large scale poverty.
What does any of this have to do with TV? Keep the wires as either a municipal utility or a regulated regional monopoly with capped rates. Allow anyone interested to offer content or provide end user customer service on equal basis. Apps will be on every cheap smart TV and streaming box in no time and high value networks will be motivated to offer standalone services rather than subsidize unpopular channels.
Your book is out of print
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Unlike current US Congress, Netherlands laws can be changed over time to reflect new developments. Got any ideas for cars cleaner than electric ones charged with wind power?
Suppose you just developed a new app. Today you have to buy ads on search engines and other places where you can only guess user interests. It's far better to advertise to users already search app store for appropriate keywords and who have matching interests. It will probably cost less money and you spam fewer Android users and others who are not interested in this category of apps.
If your livelyhood really depends on the data, you can invest time to recover it after rm -rf /. Come up with patterns to identify your database records on disk blocks. A few will be split between blocks which are non continuous, but most can be found and dumped from raw device. Then exploit relationship between different records to identify outdated data. Finally, offer suppliers and customers a healthy discount to log in and correct remaining errors. After all, the value of a business is in human relationships more than any single hard drive.
Paper money actually has a lot of shortcoming for the users - theft, forgery, arbitrary inflation. Even if cash was solving privacy problems effectively, it can not be used to buy anything online. Since you have to show up for every transaction, your risks of getting photographed, detained or simply mugged are much higher than when money is exchanged over Internet.
We should be embracing technology and using it to solve privacy and stable value problems rather than going luddite. Bitcoin is only the first attempt at cryptocurrency and we can learn from its problems to develop something robust enough for mainstream use.
"You can shoot media to the sets using the Vizio SmartCast app, either from the included Android tablet remote, or any other iOS or Android device"
Most people have a charged phone around with them these days.
So I am not nearly as excited as when the first, admitedly revolutionary, iPad came out. Too bad they have not released anything remarkable after that. Apple should have licensed older, established products to partners while focusing on truly mind blowing technology to build in house. Then we could be talking about fully practical iPad VR today.
Good to know it's getting better, last time I tried ~3 years back I had to run xrandr shell scripts and remember to plug each display into correct port. Then laptop would go to sleep and do something random on wake up.
There are monthly news of publicly available iOS and Android exploits that give attacker access to device data, location and microphone. NSA itself snooped on cell phone of German head of state. Do we really want a likelihood that foreign intelligence agencies and even resourceful journalists are able to eavesdrop on everything top US government officials do? And the newer and "smarter" a technology is, the harder it is to be confident that it doesn't contain security weaknesses. Windows CE was probably the right way to go at that time, apparently a modified Galaxy S4 is used now.