I think the main advantage of Youtube is that they do a much better job of pushing stuff you want to see. You can subscribe to channels and then they show you a list of all tne new stuff in your channels each day. You can sign up for notifications so you never miss a new video. They can recommend new channels to you based on channels you are interested in.
Netflix seems to be terrible at promoting the content on their service. Every day I go on there and see the same shows and movies being pushed for months at a time. Sometimes I'll go exploring and find that there are great movies on there that they just never tell you about, even if I've watched many similar movies.
The only way to find these movies, especially when viewing in an app is to search by title, but almost nobody searches by title because so many movies just aren't there. When I want to find stuff they aren't pushing, I go to the web interface, where you can click on the name of actor/director/writer and see all the other content that they have for that person. This feature seems to be absent from the apps, and it's kind of a shame, because there is plenty of good content on Netflix, but much of it is impossible to find.
There's probably a lot of people who never use their 25Mbit service because they never use anything that takes 25Mbit. If you're just browsing web pages you don't even register as having used any significant amount of bandwidth. Even watch Netflix or Youtube in 1080p won't put you much over 5 Mbit.
This is basically how I am reading the article. People pay for a service or the government mandates that a certain portion of people need broadband, but there's a lot of poeple who would be perfectly fine with even something like 1 Mbit service. Because their entire internet is simply email and facebook.
At one point Windows machines had drivers for USB CD ROM Drives by Flash storage came out later, so they didn't have drivers for flash storage. Some flash storage drives would present themselves as a CD Rom drive and a flash storage drive. The CD Drive would contain the drives which would be installed, because autoplay, and the flash drive would work after the drivers started working. Sounds like a pretty good solution to me. It would be nice if more USB devices presented themelves as flash drives or CD drives so that basic drivers could be installed. This would be super useful for things like wifi/ethernet USB devices, but might also be useful for other things like printers, so you could install the basic drivers, or just run a program that would get the drivers off the web without having to go search for them.
HTTPS was never designed to verify if a website is trustworthy or validate that they will do good things with the data you send to them. The only thing is does is ensure that you can be sure you're talking to the actual website you asked for based on the URL and that nobody else read or changed the data sent by the server as it traversed over the network.
If we really want to protect things like user credit card numbers we should have a system where we don't have to send our credit card details to a website that we want to do business with. This would work similar to PayPal in which you can do a payment to a third party website without actually giving them your credit card number, except PayPal would be replaced by a Visa/MC/AMEX service.
I want an option to put tabs on the side, along the left or right. We all have widescreen monitors, but very few pages actually need the full width of the monitor. We should have the option of putting tabs vertically along the side of the monitor to make more efficient use of space.
If you're talking desktops, it's probably well over 80%. Most people with Macs probably use the laptops, and very few people use a separate keyboard with their laptop. The iMac models come with a keyboard, so the market for aftermarket keyboards on Macs is probably quite small.
Personally I like the feel of mechanical keyboards, but others are free to use whatever they like. I just don't understand the cost associated with higher end membrane keyboards. With mechanical keyboards the high price is somewhat justified, but with membrane keyboards the cost of building them is very cheap, but anything remotely good stilll costs as much as a mechanical keyboard.
While I agree that not everyone wants a PC in their living room, it can actually work out of the better. I got a small form factor Dell Optiplex for $150 from ebay and it's now the primary device I use on my TV for everything. It can run Netflix, Youtube, play off any streaming website. I can watch downloaded movies. I have Plex installed so there's a nice interface for all my locally stored content. You can run emulators for old game systems. You can use it for steamlink. You can play DVDs on it. You could upgrade the optical drive and play BluRays if you wanted to. You could basically run all your stuff off a single PC and it doesn't take up any more space than a cable box.
Might even need a fewer developers if they didn't hire a bunch of new kids right out of college who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. I can't even really see how a company like Amazon would even use 25,000 programmers. They can't possibly have that much code, and the code they do have is probably rather complicated and probably can't even be understood by new CS grads.
ProtonMail offers various pricing tiers for ProtonVPN, ranging from free to $24 per month. Those who choose not to pay can access three countries' servers...
Sure they have over a million users, but those may just be people who were interested in the service and tried out the free offering. It says nothing about how many users are paying to use the service.
But things don't have to be 100% to be secure. Many people don't even use disk encryption and just assume their computer isn't going to be stolen. Things like user passwords on regular computers don't actually provide any real security as you can just put the disk in a different machine and read the data directly. Just because the security isn't 100% unbreakable doesn't mean it isn't useful.
I have an Android phone that gives me over a week without charge. The trick is no never register a Google account on the device. It's an old phone with a degraded battery. I reset the device, gave it to my kid in middle school so she can call and message me if needed. She hardly ever charges the thing. If you skip the part about registering it to a Google account, it doesn't phone home at all, and saves a ton of battery life.
Theses are things that can be fixed without bloating the entire OS though. They could add TRIM support, allow disks over 2TB, and other features like TLS 1.2 without making the operating system that much bigger. It's a 32 bit OS, so you can't really get over 4GB of ram without some big changes, but there's a lot of machines that don't need more than 4 GB of RAM. They're still selling computers with 4 GB of RAM as of this day.
You could just not tax businesses at all. Every dollar that businesses pay in taxes is a dollar that they could be paying their employees, or being used to lower their prices, or investing in growing.
A sandbox in terms of computers just means that there are strict limitations on what it can do. It doesn't define what those restrictions are supposed to be. Making it run in a sandbox actually makes it better because it mean that the virus scanner can read ll the system files while actually not running as administrator/root and thereby not being able to write to the file or do other things it's not supposed to be doing. Running a virus scanner as root is actually a very bad idea. What you actually want to do is give it only very specific access to the things you need it to do.
Here's the thing, as far as I see it, they just seem like they are adding bloat without really changing the functionality that much. I just put Windows XP on an old machine with an SSD and that operating system just flies. I was just going back because of nostalgia, and don't plan to use it on a day to day basis. However, that computer is quite fast and a more modern operating system really wouldn't give it that much extra functionality. Also, the install footprint is much smaller.
In the summary it says it will show up if it detects you connecting to insecure wireless networks. So you won't even see the ad on your home or work machines. Mostly just laptops if you take them to to the local coffee shop.
As Someone who bought the Surface 2 RT, I'm kind of torn about whether or not Windows on ARM will ever pan out. One of the big reasons for going with Windows is that it supports so much software. This new thing will have much better support because of x86 emulation, and it looks like they aren't locking it down like they did with Windows RT, but it still won't be good as having a true x86 machine.
On the other hand, having used Windows RT, I have to say it has a lot of advantages over Android and iOS, and having Windows 10 would give even more advantages. Having a real windowed operating system that can display N applications on the screen at the same time is a huge plus. Being able to mount a network drive and having any application be able to access that data without any special programming is a huge plus. Being able to go to a command line and run batch files when you need to is a big plus. There's not even a menu option for viewing the source code of a web page in Android, and you don't get all the web development tools on Android either. Android and iOS have a long way to come before they can say they truly work as an alternative to Windows, Linux, or MacOS.
Speaking of "evil" it reminds me a lot of the "Evil Bit". Let's just just make a thing that we send to web sites so that they don't track us. Of course, everyone will comply and nobody would ever track them if you asked them not to. They actually directly link to the Do Not Track article right in the Evil Bit Article.
every console game ever released still works on its respective hardware.
Every PC will continue to work on period correct hardware as well. Commander Keen didn't stop working on 386 computers all of a sudden. You can go find a 386 and a copy of MS-DOS and it runs just fine. Not only that but new games continue to come out for old PCs People are still making Commodore 64 and MS-DOS Games (don't ask my why, but it does happen). Now, will these old games run on the latest Intel i7 with Windows 10? No, but you won't get a game from a PS1 to play on a PS4 either. Obviously nobody can guarantee that a game will work on a machine that doesn't even exist yet, running an operating system that doesn't try to support decades old software.
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I think the main advantage of Youtube is that they do a much better job of pushing stuff you want to see. You can subscribe to channels and then they show you a list of all tne new stuff in your channels each day. You can sign up for notifications so you never miss a new video. They can recommend new channels to you based on channels you are interested in.
Netflix seems to be terrible at promoting the content on their service. Every day I go on there and see the same shows and movies being pushed for months at a time. Sometimes I'll go exploring and find that there are great movies on there that they just never tell you about, even if I've watched many similar movies.
The only way to find these movies, especially when viewing in an app is to search by title, but almost nobody searches by title because so many movies just aren't there. When I want to find stuff they aren't pushing, I go to the web interface, where you can click on the name of actor/director/writer and see all the other content that they have for that person. This feature seems to be absent from the apps, and it's kind of a shame, because there is plenty of good content on Netflix, but much of it is impossible to find.
It's not just UK/Europe though. Even though I live in North American, I still have to click throw all the warnings about cookies and data protection.
There's probably a lot of people who never use their 25Mbit service because they never use anything that takes 25Mbit. If you're just browsing web pages you don't even register as having used any significant amount of bandwidth. Even watch Netflix or Youtube in 1080p won't put you much over 5 Mbit.
This is basically how I am reading the article. People pay for a service or the government mandates that a certain portion of people need broadband, but there's a lot of poeple who would be perfectly fine with even something like 1 Mbit service. Because their entire internet is simply email and facebook.
At one point Windows machines had drivers for USB CD ROM Drives by Flash storage came out later, so they didn't have drivers for flash storage. Some flash storage drives would present themselves as a CD Rom drive and a flash storage drive. The CD Drive would contain the drives which would be installed, because autoplay, and the flash drive would work after the drivers started working. Sounds like a pretty good solution to me. It would be nice if more USB devices presented themelves as flash drives or CD drives so that basic drivers could be installed. This would be super useful for things like wifi/ethernet USB devices, but might also be useful for other things like printers, so you could install the basic drivers, or just run a program that would get the drivers off the web without having to go search for them.
HTTPS was never designed to verify if a website is trustworthy or validate that they will do good things with the data you send to them. The only thing is does is ensure that you can be sure you're talking to the actual website you asked for based on the URL and that nobody else read or changed the data sent by the server as it traversed over the network.
If we really want to protect things like user credit card numbers we should have a system where we don't have to send our credit card details to a website that we want to do business with. This would work similar to PayPal in which you can do a payment to a third party website without actually giving them your credit card number, except PayPal would be replaced by a Visa/MC/AMEX service.
That's what my second monitor is for.
I want an option to put tabs on the side, along the left or right. We all have widescreen monitors, but very few pages actually need the full width of the monitor. We should have the option of putting tabs vertically along the side of the monitor to make more efficient use of space.
If you're talking desktops, it's probably well over 80%. Most people with Macs probably use the laptops, and very few people use a separate keyboard with their laptop. The iMac models come with a keyboard, so the market for aftermarket keyboards on Macs is probably quite small.
Personally I like the feel of mechanical keyboards, but others are free to use whatever they like. I just don't understand the cost associated with higher end membrane keyboards. With mechanical keyboards the high price is somewhat justified, but with membrane keyboards the cost of building them is very cheap, but anything remotely good stilll costs as much as a mechanical keyboard.
While I agree that not everyone wants a PC in their living room, it can actually work out of the better. I got a small form factor Dell Optiplex for $150 from ebay and it's now the primary device I use on my TV for everything. It can run Netflix, Youtube, play off any streaming website. I can watch downloaded movies. I have Plex installed so there's a nice interface for all my locally stored content. You can run emulators for old game systems. You can use it for steamlink. You can play DVDs on it. You could upgrade the optical drive and play BluRays if you wanted to. You could basically run all your stuff off a single PC and it doesn't take up any more space than a cable box.
Might even need a fewer developers if they didn't hire a bunch of new kids right out of college who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. I can't even really see how a company like Amazon would even use 25,000 programmers. They can't possibly have that much code, and the code they do have is probably rather complicated and probably can't even be understood by new CS grads.
Sure they have over a million users, but those may just be people who were interested in the service and tried out the free offering. It says nothing about how many users are paying to use the service.
5G wireless is coming, hopefully it will alleviate some of the problems.
But things don't have to be 100% to be secure. Many people don't even use disk encryption and just assume their computer isn't going to be stolen. Things like user passwords on regular computers don't actually provide any real security as you can just put the disk in a different machine and read the data directly. Just because the security isn't 100% unbreakable doesn't mean it isn't useful.
I have an Android phone that gives me over a week without charge. The trick is no never register a Google account on the device. It's an old phone with a degraded battery. I reset the device, gave it to my kid in middle school so she can call and message me if needed. She hardly ever charges the thing. If you skip the part about registering it to a Google account, it doesn't phone home at all, and saves a ton of battery life.
Theses are things that can be fixed without bloating the entire OS though. They could add TRIM support, allow disks over 2TB, and other features like TLS 1.2 without making the operating system that much bigger. It's a 32 bit OS, so you can't really get over 4GB of ram without some big changes, but there's a lot of machines that don't need more than 4 GB of RAM. They're still selling computers with 4 GB of RAM as of this day.
You could just not tax businesses at all. Every dollar that businesses pay in taxes is a dollar that they could be paying their employees, or being used to lower their prices, or investing in growing.
A sandbox in terms of computers just means that there are strict limitations on what it can do. It doesn't define what those restrictions are supposed to be. Making it run in a sandbox actually makes it better because it mean that the virus scanner can read ll the system files while actually not running as administrator/root and thereby not being able to write to the file or do other things it's not supposed to be doing. Running a virus scanner as root is actually a very bad idea. What you actually want to do is give it only very specific access to the things you need it to do.
Here's the thing, as far as I see it, they just seem like they are adding bloat without really changing the functionality that much. I just put Windows XP on an old machine with an SSD and that operating system just flies. I was just going back because of nostalgia, and don't plan to use it on a day to day basis. However, that computer is quite fast and a more modern operating system really wouldn't give it that much extra functionality. Also, the install footprint is much smaller.
In the summary it says it will show up if it detects you connecting to insecure wireless networks. So you won't even see the ad on your home or work machines. Mostly just laptops if you take them to to the local coffee shop.
Won't be as good as far as compatibility with existing x86 software.
As Someone who bought the Surface 2 RT, I'm kind of torn about whether or not Windows on ARM will ever pan out. One of the big reasons for going with Windows is that it supports so much software. This new thing will have much better support because of x86 emulation, and it looks like they aren't locking it down like they did with Windows RT, but it still won't be good as having a true x86 machine.
On the other hand, having used Windows RT, I have to say it has a lot of advantages over Android and iOS, and having Windows 10 would give even more advantages. Having a real windowed operating system that can display N applications on the screen at the same time is a huge plus. Being able to mount a network drive and having any application be able to access that data without any special programming is a huge plus. Being able to go to a command line and run batch files when you need to is a big plus. There's not even a menu option for viewing the source code of a web page in Android, and you don't get all the web development tools on Android either. Android and iOS have a long way to come before they can say they truly work as an alternative to Windows, Linux, or MacOS.
Speaking of "evil" it reminds me a lot of the "Evil Bit". Let's just just make a thing that we send to web sites so that they don't track us. Of course, everyone will comply and nobody would ever track them if you asked them not to. They actually directly link to the Do Not Track article right in the Evil Bit Article.
I seriously think the next TV I buy will just be a projector. The only way to stay away from all this smart TV nonsense.
Every PC will continue to work on period correct hardware as well. Commander Keen didn't stop working on 386 computers all of a sudden. You can go find a 386 and a copy of MS-DOS and it runs just fine. Not only that but new games continue to come out for old PCs People are still making Commodore 64 and MS-DOS Games (don't ask my why, but it does happen). Now, will these old games run on the latest Intel i7 with Windows 10? No, but you won't get a game from a PS1 to play on a PS4 either. Obviously nobody can guarantee that a game will work on a machine that doesn't even exist yet, running an operating system that doesn't try to support decades old software.