This might push most people to centralized password management. Yes, i know about Keepass, but tell that to my mother.:) (And is keepass safe now with the latest news?) I do not think this will be a good thing, because now all of your security will be in one very attractive place.
For the record, WD Purple is a slow ass drive, and WD Black is WORTH THE MONEY!
Any spinning drive is slow as crap these days. SSDs all the way. I only use spinning drives for backups and mass store features.
Unless you need capacity. I need a 2TB drive in my desktop between the development VMs and piles of data. And a 2TB Samgsung is $750, or almost 10 times the cost of the Black!
Agree with you on the games. Just played the Deus Ex series again with the modded upgraded graphics engine in WINE. Good Game!
No doubt! The Linux desktop was way in advance of Windows. Remember the 3D multi desktop cube? And as soon as Linux had the most amazing desktop of any OS, the "Flat Design" craze started... Coincidence? i think not!;)
I almost never boot into my Windows VMs. I did not realise it but I had disconencted the Windows hard drive in my desktop some time ago, and had not tried dual booting back to wWindows sence. (And I found out when I was upgrading my desktop hard drive! For the record, WD Purple is a slow ass drive, and WD Black is WORTH THE MONEY!)
As for the Miscrosoft plan these days... It is called "selling down goodwill" and looks good on a balance sheet for a few years. Then it catches up and often they never recover.
A slashdot summery of a Gizmodo summery of a Vanity Fair article? Is the source really that are to link to when it is the first line of the Gizmodo summery? http://www.vanityfair.com/news...
With that in mind, it appears that new security measures (including reducing cash transactions) are working to reduce crime, but they are not perfect or infallible... just like every security measure ever devised.
It seems that SOMETHING is working to reduce crime. Private gun ownership and concealed carry permits also went up over that time. It may well be that victims shooting back is also a deterrent.
- Back up your data files
- Wipe that abusive shit operating system off your machine
- Install Linux.
Don't look back.
I have had more clients ask about Linux in the past 3 months then in the past three years prior. With everything moving to the cloud, it is actually happening.
Until this situation improves, if it ever does, we still need to have a Windows boot option.
As long as you use the Windows boot option, it will not improve. I have Steam on Linux, and a backlog of games to play that I bought on sale. (Note that borderlands 2 and then borderland the Pre Sequel back to back really is too much...) I will no longer spend money on games that will not run on my computer.
I am seeing a lot more of my commercial clients go back to WhiteBox PCs. It is cheaper, and when you buy enough, you do not have the support issues. "Since I am getting 50 PCs form you, can you throw in 2 extra motherboards for warranty hotswap?" Some even keep a few full desktops in the back for swapping out failures. At the lower prices, they can afford to! (Note: The "lower price" includes the cost of un-fucking each desktop from Dell or HP... Not just the hardware, which is only the beginning!)
Because it pays... At one point Dell was making more from bounties on preinstalled crap then they were from the margin on the computer itself. And people will give away all of there personal information for a $5 off coupon these days. https://www.pcdecrapifier.com/
I used to respect Samsung, but if they keep doing that, I will just buy my next TV from their Chinese competitors, which won't have that issue.
I'm content with TVs being TVs... no WAN connection needed. Plus, there are many devices which do the job better than "smart" TVs. A Roku model, Chromecast, AppleTV, or a HTPC is a lot more useful.
I guess you never had one of their crapware loaded phones or tablets, or this would not surprise you.
Passed it a while ago. Replaced Addblock+ with Pi-hole to catch my droids at home. My Samsung TV is connected to a computer, not the Internet. I run no Windows outside occasional VMs. My Ubuntu has Gnome Panel, and scopes purged. And I no longer watch any broadcast TV or listen to radio.
But lowering my exposure has also lowered my tolerance to almost nothing. I can not watch TV when it is on at a friends house at all. And telemarketers get a rapid "fuckoff" in the first three words.
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This might push most people to centralized password management. Yes, i know about Keepass, but tell that to my mother. :) (And is keepass safe now with the latest news?) I do not think this will be a good thing, because now all of your security will be in one very attractive place.
For the record, WD Purple is a slow ass drive, and WD Black is WORTH THE MONEY!
Any spinning drive is slow as crap these days. SSDs all the way. I only use spinning drives for backups and mass store features.
Unless you need capacity. I need a 2TB drive in my desktop between the development VMs and piles of data. And a 2TB Samgsung is $750, or almost 10 times the cost of the Black!
Agree with you on the games. Just played the Deus Ex series again with the modded upgraded graphics engine in WINE. Good Game!
No doubt! The Linux desktop was way in advance of Windows. Remember the 3D multi desktop cube? And as soon as Linux had the most amazing desktop of any OS, the "Flat Design" craze started... Coincidence? i think not! ;)
Let me know when a Chromebook can actually run software. No, browsing the web, sending mail or writing a letter doesn't count.
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As everything goes to the cloud, local systems have less importance.
I almost never boot into my Windows VMs. I did not realise it but I had disconencted the Windows hard drive in my desktop some time ago, and had not tried dual booting back to wWindows sence. (And I found out when I was upgrading my desktop hard drive! For the record, WD Purple is a slow ass drive, and WD Black is WORTH THE MONEY!)
As for the Miscrosoft plan these days... It is called "selling down goodwill" and looks good on a balance sheet for a few years. Then it catches up and often they never recover.
What is the motivation to write a Linux port if they will get your money anyway?
I think we may have different customers. I have several that have partially switched.
And Androids that are also Linux based. But not a true Linux desktop without work, which was my point.
A slashdot summery of a Gizmodo summery of a Vanity Fair article? Is the source really that are to link to when it is the first line of the Gizmodo summery? http://www.vanityfair.com/news...
Bitcoin has at least one legitimate use:
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/11/7375771/microsoft-supports-bitcoin-payments http://dealbook.nytimes.com/20... http://dealbook.nytimes.com/20...
Your argument is wrong.
Now watch him move the goal posts to say that only a few does not count... Absolute statements are always wrong. :)
With that in mind, it appears that new security measures (including reducing cash transactions) are working to reduce crime, but they are not perfect or infallible... just like every security measure ever devised.
It seems that SOMETHING is working to reduce crime. Private gun ownership and concealed carry permits also went up over that time. It may well be that victims shooting back is also a deterrent.
The do not sell Linux PCs at Best Buy and Sam's club. That makes it beyond a lot of people.
- Back up your data files - Wipe that abusive shit operating system off your machine - Install Linux.
Don't look back.
I have had more clients ask about Linux in the past 3 months then in the past three years prior. With everything moving to the cloud, it is actually happening.
Until this situation improves, if it ever does, we still need to have a Windows boot option.
As long as you use the Windows boot option, it will not improve. I have Steam on Linux, and a backlog of games to play that I bought on sale. (Note that borderlands 2 and then borderland the Pre Sequel back to back really is too much...) I will no longer spend money on games that will not run on my computer.
Or it could be that they do not want to share the spying and add revenue with other companies. That is THEIR market now! :)
No, because the TSA would want to look inside each packet, and would induce latency. ;) And filter nothing anyway...
I am seeing a lot more of my commercial clients go back to WhiteBox PCs. It is cheaper, and when you buy enough, you do not have the support issues. "Since I am getting 50 PCs form you, can you throw in 2 extra motherboards for warranty hotswap?" Some even keep a few full desktops in the back for swapping out failures. At the lower prices, they can afford to! (Note: The "lower price" includes the cost of un-fucking each desktop from Dell or HP... Not just the hardware, which is only the beginning!)
Because it pays... At one point Dell was making more from bounties on preinstalled crap then they were from the margin on the computer itself. And people will give away all of there personal information for a $5 off coupon these days. https://www.pcdecrapifier.com/
Then it goes back in the box and back to the store. Because I do not care about Samsung.
Well, there is precedent... :) http://dilbert.com/search_resu...
not to mention all the spying features built into 'smart' tv's - you think they'd learn something!
They did... That most people are fucking idiots that will trade their privacy for a $5 off coupon.
I used to respect Samsung, but if they keep doing that, I will just buy my next TV from their Chinese competitors, which won't have that issue.
I'm content with TVs being TVs... no WAN connection needed. Plus, there are many devices which do the job better than "smart" TVs. A Roku model, Chromecast, AppleTV, or a HTPC is a lot more useful.
I guess you never had one of their crapware loaded phones or tablets, or this would not surprise you.
Oh, the irony! I can not watch the skit because my add blocker blocks the add in front of it! Hahahahah!
And to complete the idiocy, they can't figure out why sales are down.
I wonder if the next owners will? I actually like the TVs if you do not connect them to the Internet.
Passed it a while ago. Replaced Addblock+ with Pi-hole to catch my droids at home. My Samsung TV is connected to a computer, not the Internet. I run no Windows outside occasional VMs. My Ubuntu has Gnome Panel, and scopes purged. And I no longer watch any broadcast TV or listen to radio.
But lowering my exposure has also lowered my tolerance to almost nothing. I can not watch TV when it is on at a friends house at all. And telemarketers get a rapid "fuckoff" in the first three words.
I am the future advertising has made.