It's best practice to wipe a machine as soon as it comes in and to only put back what's absolutely necessary. If the audio works with the windows driver, they wouldn't have put this HP junk back on.
I used to do this.... until I started purchasing Windows 7 'downgrade' computers with a windows 10 license... and no COA or media for either. Windows 10 licensing works great, until you actually have to do something with it. Try re-installing either OS on one of those PCs. I dare you.
Look at the "meat" in question, next time you're at subway. Every one of the "chicken" pieces is the same size, same shape, and has the same "grill" marks on it. Oven roasted chicken? More like toaster-oven-warmed chicken flavored food product.
Lol I've upgraded at least 20 machines to win10, all of it went flawlessly and the OS actually reaps performance benefits on older machines
Performance benefits.... like not being able to run smoothly on 2GB RAM? Or like pretending to shut down faster by turning off the monitor while the PC still chugs away? Or like pretending to start up faster by never really shutting down (sleep mode), and STILL taking longer to resume from sleep than a win7 computer takes to BOOT...?
I sincerely doubt the UIs are getting worse year after year. If that were the case, we would have unusable devices by now.
What is really happening is that people are resisting change. The new thing is different---unfamiliar and possibly confusing. That doesn't mean it's worse, but it does mean people will react negatively.
I highly suspect you of being a microsoft employee.
No, really. This is what they believe is going on in people's heads.
YES, the windows UI has been getting worse over time. 98 was an improvement over 95, and 2K was an improvement over 98, but it's all downhill from there.
That being said, the CORE of the operating system has gotten consistently better, with caveats. Vista was more stable, but fucked gaming performance, and performance overall (my HDD light stayed on so constantly I'm surprised it didn't burn out).
Windows 7, our favorite fucking hero, was an unplanned response to Vista hate. It was basically a fixed version of Vista. Vista SP3. UI was good, but bloated, slow, and candy-coated compared to XP.
Windows 8-- more improvements to the core, which users don't see or care about.... and more dookie UI choices. And how many users got tricked into updating to 8.1 by hearing the rumor that 8.1 "fixed" the start menu...?
Windows 10: This is the Idiocracy version of Vista. Shit performance, it spies on you, and puts ads in the start menu. Installs updates whenever it wants (often when you're working).
We don't need the CIA reading my texts and emails to prevent America from turning into the 3rd world shitstorm Europe is becoming. We just need to think carefully about our immigration / refugee policy.
Do you pay for a domain? Do you pay for hosting? Were those guys you paid money to huge, soul-less corporations, or neighborhood ma&pa domain registrar and hosting shoppes?
How the fuck do you run a website when you can't THINK?!
A more accurate description: Comcast is being paid by you and me to deliver the internet, including netflix. But comcast sells movies, so netflix is a competitor. So they decided to limit the traffic from netflix to their customers, so that netflix movie quality would be terribly but comcast movie quality would be good.
Netflix offers free caches to solve this problem, and free peering to solve this problem, but comcast doesn't want to solve this problem, because to them it is a feature.
In a free market we could move to another ISP. In my case, I could also use Verizon... who is doing the same crap as comcast. ISPs are a natural monopoly, based on the economics and physics of running cables.
With net neutrality, all companies can compete based on quality. Without net neutrality, vertically-integrated ISPs have an major advantage. Now, you may like government picking winners and losers, but I'm a fan of market competition, so I choose net neutrality.
TL;DR-- Netflix wants us to care about their problem.
Who the fuck are these hypothetical businesses who get more than they pay for? You are aware that businesses pay for bandwidth, then pay for uploaded bytes, yes?
Of course, most businesses use a service for hosing. S3, godaddy, whatever. So then instead of paying for internet directly, they pay a provider, and then THAT company is paying for both bandwidth and upload.... No one is getting anything for free.
It'll make it impossible for the ordinary man in the street to set up a website without going though some gigantic organization like Facebook or Amazon or whatever.
Why is it every gloom&doom prediction I see about net neutrality is WHERE WE ALREADY ARE...?!
Net Neutrality aimed to make the playing field even for everyone.
"Net Neutrality" became a thing as a result of Netflix trying (and failing) to bully Comcast into peering agreements by appealing to the public.
Funny how all the big companies (with insane ISP bills) support net neutrality.
THEY ARE NOT FIGHTING FOR CHEAPER INTERNET FOR EVERYONE.... they are fighting for cheaper internet for themselves. Regardless of who wins, WE GET NOTHING.
'Extremism' and 'cyberbullying' are the two best pretexts so far, aside from your kiddie porn I suppose. We desperately need the indelible internet and mesh networks to combat this.
Funny how Eschelon, PRISM, Carniviore, etc. were put in place to catch pedos.... but we still are infested with em.
This is just the latest chapter in the cucks who TRY to run the world refining their censorship methods.
The election wasn't hacked by Russia. It was hacked by multiple parties within the 'deep state'. CIA supported their Dixie Mafia candidate (Clinton), and the FBI supported their old guard rich bastard candidate (Trump).
Meanwhile, the NSA was doing whatever they could to increase the LULZ, because LULZ and a paycheck are all NSA employees give any fucks about.
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I used to do this.... until I started purchasing Windows 7 'downgrade' computers with a windows 10 license... and no COA or media for either. Windows 10 licensing works great, until you actually have to do something with it. Try re-installing either OS on one of those PCs. I dare you.
Wasn't it kaspersky that identified an NSA rootkit a few months back? Yep, they sure are a threat.
Slashdot needs a -1 "non sequitur"
GP was telling the truth. Go find the archived 4chan threads of them strategizing this shit in real time as it happened.
Waiting for a Windows version code-named "Kano".
SONYA WINS. FLAWLESS VICTORY.
Smoker here.
Every hour is excessive. I burn one about once every 2. I could go longer if needed, but management is ok with current.
Smoking the cigarette takes 5. Total time depends on how far the smoker needs to travel to get to the leper colony.
I'd call XP SP2 best ever, but 7 is a close 2nd.
Look at the "meat" in question, next time you're at subway. Every one of the "chicken" pieces is the same size, same shape, and has the same "grill" marks on it. Oven roasted chicken? More like toaster-oven-warmed chicken flavored food product.
BUTTERS?!?! YOU'RE GROUNDED!
Frosty Piss. Sad.
Performance benefits.... like not being able to run smoothly on 2GB RAM? Or like pretending to shut down faster by turning off the monitor while the PC still chugs away? Or like pretending to start up faster by never really shutting down (sleep mode), and STILL taking longer to resume from sleep than a win7 computer takes to BOOT...?
I highly suspect you of being a microsoft employee.
No, really. This is what they believe is going on in people's heads.
YES, the windows UI has been getting worse over time. 98 was an improvement over 95, and 2K was an improvement over 98, but it's all downhill from there.
That being said, the CORE of the operating system has gotten consistently better, with caveats. Vista was more stable, but fucked gaming performance, and performance overall (my HDD light stayed on so constantly I'm surprised it didn't burn out).
Windows 7, our favorite fucking hero, was an unplanned response to Vista hate. It was basically a fixed version of Vista. Vista SP3. UI was good, but bloated, slow, and candy-coated compared to XP.
Windows 8-- more improvements to the core, which users don't see or care about.... and more dookie UI choices. And how many users got tricked into updating to 8.1 by hearing the rumor that 8.1 "fixed" the start menu...?
Windows 10: This is the Idiocracy version of Vista. Shit performance, it spies on you, and puts ads in the start menu. Installs updates whenever it wants (often when you're working).
No it won't, and no they won't.
Google is already widely known to be indefensibly reprehensible..... and yet we still use their products.
Apologist!
False dichotomy.
We don't need the CIA reading my texts and emails to prevent America from turning into the 3rd world shitstorm Europe is becoming. We just need to think carefully about our immigration / refugee policy.
-1 troll?! Really?!
Here's your fucking troll:
IDIOTS WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECT DOWNVOTE TRUTH. Go research where this shit came from and who supports it.
Do you pay for a domain? Do you pay for hosting? Were those guys you paid money to huge, soul-less corporations, or neighborhood ma&pa domain registrar and hosting shoppes?
How the fuck do you run a website when you can't THINK?!
Good thing you didn't have to deal with any of those soul-less corporations to have the privilege of a web presence.
TL;DR-- Netflix wants us to care about their problem.
Who the fuck are these hypothetical businesses who get more than they pay for? You are aware that businesses pay for bandwidth, then pay for uploaded bytes, yes?
Of course, most businesses use a service for hosing. S3, godaddy, whatever. So then instead of paying for internet directly, they pay a provider, and then THAT company is paying for both bandwidth and upload.... No one is getting anything for free.
Why is it every gloom&doom prediction I see about net neutrality is WHERE WE ALREADY ARE...?!
"Net Neutrality" became a thing as a result of Netflix trying (and failing) to bully Comcast into peering agreements by appealing to the public.
Funny how all the big companies (with insane ISP bills) support net neutrality.
THEY ARE NOT FIGHTING FOR CHEAPER INTERNET FOR EVERYONE.... they are fighting for cheaper internet for themselves. Regardless of who wins, WE GET NOTHING.
Funny how Eschelon, PRISM, Carniviore, etc. were put in place to catch pedos.... but we still are infested with em.
This is just the latest chapter in the cucks who TRY to run the world refining their censorship methods.
The election wasn't hacked by Russia. It was hacked by multiple parties within the 'deep state'. CIA supported their Dixie Mafia candidate (Clinton), and the FBI supported their old guard rich bastard candidate (Trump).
Meanwhile, the NSA was doing whatever they could to increase the LULZ, because LULZ and a paycheck are all NSA employees give any fucks about.
Maybe YOU don't have free will, you meat-robot NPC, but I assure you I do.