Yea, on the website you basically have the choice of "Really Crap quality", "Regular Crap quality" or "Use your entire data cap". No sane option inbetween.
I'm pretty sure I didn't opt-in to google randomly locking me out of my account for no reason with no way to get it back. Probably something along the lines of "oooh, he's running Linux now. He can't be trusted."
If I have my password, I want to get into my account.
If someone else guesses your password, someone else wants to get into your account. If you reuse your password on another service, and someone else cracks said other service's password database, someone else wants to get into your account. How would you recommend to defend against these attacks other than through 2FA?
How about NOT doing any of those things you mentioned, and having a good password. 2FA may be good for people who actually need it. But for most people it just increases your change of getting locked out of your account. Some people don't want to give up their phone numbers and be "protected."
I wish these companies would stop pushing all this stuff and let me protect my own account. I've been locked out of both Microsoft and Google accounts because of this type of crap. If I have my password, I want to get into my account. Gmail is almost useless now because of this. They just randomly decide they can't authenticate you're account whenever they want to and leave you with no access to your account and no way to contact customer support. Just a bogus recovery process that is designed to always fail. All at random.
The only reason manufactures are putting Windows on their machines is because their customers are already running Windows. It has nothing to do with usability whatsoever.
Right. I'm talking about it from my perspective. I would never stream the Low setting on a HD television. I said two options because after HD the next step lower is 480p which is medium (which by the way, if I'm not mistaking hulu streams 720p at the same bandwidth). The HD (High) option is the problem. There is no way to tell it even to just stream 3GB. If it wan'ts to steam 7GB for Ultra HD it just will. So if it does this, your next best choice to save bandwidth is going from 7GB is.7GB! 480p is where the difference is really noticible.
And by the way, in your case Low quality shouldn't be necessary. Streaming at the Medium quality only takes 1.5 Mbps per stream. That's like 8 shows at a time on a 12 Mbps connection.
I only stream Netflix though mobile hotspots and tethering. I use T-Mobile and have unlimited, but tethering is not unlimited. The problem is Netflix essentially gives you two options for quality, standard 480p which is something like 700MB per hour, and looks bad, or HD, which jumps up to 4-5GB per hour. This is Netflix issue, as I can stream Amazon and Hulu in HD and have it not take anywhere near that much bandwidth. I never understood why they don't offer a 720p HD option which is pretty standard on YouTube and takes around 1.5 GB per hour.
Explain to me what assembly language has to do with anything... Are they teaching kids assembly language? Machine language? Or are they teaching kids high-level language, which last time I checked still requires human involvement. It sounds like you are disagreeing with something but are really just chiming in with information that has nothing to do with the topic. Even if we spoke in plain English to a computer and it "wrote" the code, we are still, you know, programming the computer. It doesn't matter how many levels of translation it goes through. The idea that a computer will code "for his kids" in their lifetime is absurd.
The full hololens experience is three hours of a 3d Cortana asking you to upgrade your computer followed by a 4d blue screen. It's actually pretty nice. Definitely worth 3 grand.
In the future advertisements will start having their own advertisements creating an endless chain of connected advertisements eventually linking back to the original one. This will create an infinite loop and it will be impossible to get to the page. Then someone will create a adchain breaker app, and ad agencies will complain that it is affecting their revenue stream. They will then offer a subscription to viewing their ads.
All the forced upgrades hardly matter in the long run. Windows 10 is gaining market share in the same way that Windows has always maintained a high market share: Forcing their OS onto the computers people buy. The same with Apple. Look at google's ChromeOS. As soon as it was pre-installed, people bought it. Otherwise, nobody would have cared. This is the main reason Linux isn't widely adopted on the desktop. Barely any PCs or laptops come pre-installed with Linux. If it had been, all the hardware compatibility issues with Linux would gradually vanish (at least to the level of Windows issues), because they will have already been worked out before anyone buys the machine. Microsoft has everyone locked into their ecosystem so deep, their software doesn't even have to be any good. Right now they are just in a war against the ghosts of their past. In the end, they will win.
There's always a cap:
http://www.att.com/esupport/ar...
Ranges from 150GB to 1TB (for gigabit service) (which is interesting because at full speed you'd blow the cap in 2 hours)
Also, some people, like myself, use mobile hotspot tethering to stream to their television which Binge-On also claims to support.
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Yea, on the website you basically have the choice of "Really Crap quality", "Regular Crap quality" or "Use your entire data cap". No sane option inbetween.
So it's basically useless for wifi hotspots then? Great.
On what universe does Windows 10 offer a substantial boost in performance? Windows 10 shipped on lower end laptops and netbooks is unusable.
I say let the peasants have wireless.
You mean the peasants that can access the internet when they are away from their house?
So you're saying you're NOT supposed to have to trick an operating system into allowing you to use it?
all they're doing it using Electron to much around with user-interface experiments, not adopt anything Chrome-like
This is informative?
Believe it or not, Yahoo is still ruining their website to this day.
Yea, because Google doesn't have any services that you pay for, right?
I'm pretty sure I didn't opt-in to google randomly locking me out of my account for no reason with no way to get it back. Probably something along the lines of "oooh, he's running Linux now. He can't be trusted."
If I have my password, I want to get into my account.
If someone else guesses your password, someone else wants to get into your account. If you reuse your password on another service, and someone else cracks said other service's password database, someone else wants to get into your account. How would you recommend to defend against these attacks other than through 2FA?
How about NOT doing any of those things you mentioned, and having a good password. 2FA may be good for people who actually need it. But for most people it just increases your change of getting locked out of your account. Some people don't want to give up their phone numbers and be "protected."
I wish these companies would stop pushing all this stuff and let me protect my own account. I've been locked out of both Microsoft and Google accounts because of this type of crap. If I have my password, I want to get into my account. Gmail is almost useless now because of this. They just randomly decide they can't authenticate you're account whenever they want to and leave you with no access to your account and no way to contact customer support. Just a bogus recovery process that is designed to always fail. All at random.
The only reason manufactures are putting Windows on their machines is because their customers are already running Windows. It has nothing to do with usability whatsoever.
No mistake. We're talking about a world where Notepad is 189KB.
Right. I'm talking about it from my perspective. I would never stream the Low setting on a HD television. I said two options because after HD the next step lower is 480p which is medium (which by the way, if I'm not mistaking hulu streams 720p at the same bandwidth). The HD (High) option is the problem. There is no way to tell it even to just stream 3GB. If it wan'ts to steam 7GB for Ultra HD it just will. So if it does this, your next best choice to save bandwidth is going from 7GB is .7GB! 480p is where the difference is really noticible.
And by the way, in your case Low quality shouldn't be necessary. Streaming at the Medium quality only takes 1.5 Mbps per stream. That's like 8 shows at a time on a 12 Mbps connection.
I only stream Netflix through Roku or my Smart TV. Amazon claims to stream at 1080p and still doesn't use as much bandwidth as Netflix.
I only stream Netflix though mobile hotspots and tethering. I use T-Mobile and have unlimited, but tethering is not unlimited. The problem is Netflix essentially gives you two options for quality, standard 480p which is something like 700MB per hour, and looks bad, or HD, which jumps up to 4-5GB per hour. This is Netflix issue, as I can stream Amazon and Hulu in HD and have it not take anywhere near that much bandwidth. I never understood why they don't offer a 720p HD option which is pretty standard on YouTube and takes around 1.5 GB per hour.
Explain to me what assembly language has to do with anything... Are they teaching kids assembly language? Machine language? Or are they teaching kids high-level language, which last time I checked still requires human involvement. It sounds like you are disagreeing with something but are really just chiming in with information that has nothing to do with the topic. Even if we spoke in plain English to a computer and it "wrote" the code, we are still, you know, programming the computer. It doesn't matter how many levels of translation it goes through. The idea that a computer will code "for his kids" in their lifetime is absurd.
it's a nice browser, but it's not really worth using vs Chrome unless you do so for the sake of privacy, at which point you'd be drawn to FireFox.
Opera extensions don't have the same restrictions as Chrome extensions.
The full hololens experience is three hours of a 3d Cortana asking you to upgrade your computer followed by a 4d blue screen. It's actually pretty nice. Definitely worth 3 grand.
What if 1234 unlocks the phone? That would be hilarious.
You can't stop big data from tracking you, the best you can do is make it illegal.
In the future advertisements will start having their own advertisements creating an endless chain of connected advertisements eventually linking back to the original one. This will create an infinite loop and it will be impossible to get to the page. Then someone will create a adchain breaker app, and ad agencies will complain that it is affecting their revenue stream. They will then offer a subscription to viewing their ads.
All the forced upgrades hardly matter in the long run. Windows 10 is gaining market share in the same way that Windows has always maintained a high market share: Forcing their OS onto the computers people buy. The same with Apple. Look at google's ChromeOS. As soon as it was pre-installed, people bought it. Otherwise, nobody would have cared. This is the main reason Linux isn't widely adopted on the desktop. Barely any PCs or laptops come pre-installed with Linux. If it had been, all the hardware compatibility issues with Linux would gradually vanish (at least to the level of Windows issues), because they will have already been worked out before anyone buys the machine. Microsoft has everyone locked into their ecosystem so deep, their software doesn't even have to be any good. Right now they are just in a war against the ghosts of their past. In the end, they will win.
Not really. T-Mobile doesn't care what services are used, just as long as the services meet their bandwidth and video quality requirements.
There's always a cap: http://www.att.com/esupport/ar... Ranges from 150GB to 1TB (for gigabit service) (which is interesting because at full speed you'd blow the cap in 2 hours) Also, some people, like myself, use mobile hotspot tethering to stream to their television which Binge-On also claims to support.