Google harvests your data to sell you ads. The data is one of the most valuable things they own. They'll begrudgingly hand it to the government on demand, but they won't sell it to anyone else, because then they lose the value of that data.
Neither are a good place to store data, but I certainly trust Google more than Microsoft.
Clearly my old XP machine never hibernated, because it went through the BIOS screen and POST when it started up. It must have just guessed what applications were running and what I was doing in them so it could start them up again each time.
Had this part been on the plane at the time of a "gentle" ditching, it likely would have been dragged to the bottom with the rest.
It's a flap (and high-speed aileron). In a 'gentle' ditching, it would have been one of the first things to hit the sea, at over 100mph. I'd be amazed if it wouldn't be one of the first things to be torn off the plane, after the engines.
Hopefully Boeing can work out whether the damage is consistent with ditching or an uncontrolled impact, but I wouldn't make any claims yet myself.
Apparently this also applies to driver updates, which have a much greater chance to brick your system, or at least prevent games you played yesterday from running today.
Devices working perfectly in other OSes is no indicator that the device is no at fault. Witness the vast amount of crap laptop hardware, whose disastrous ACPI implementations only worked because their Windows drivers were chock-full of workarounds.
Back when I was writing Windows drivers for plugin cards, there were certain motherboards that we'd detect and switch the motherboard bus to the slowest possible speed, because the chipset was a heap of junk that didn't work properly at higher speeds. Anyone who said 'but it works on Windows!' clearly had no idea that it only worked because we'd intentionally turned off most of the features.
Amazingly enough it seems like the best way to reduce crime is to simply reclassify it.
Much simpler to not record it in the first place. Given how useless the British cops have become, many people I know there wouldn't even bother reporting a crime to them unless they needed a crime number to make an insurance claim.
The UK has hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras in use on public streets.
Actually, I was there a few months ago, and the local newspaper said they were turning off a lot of the CCTV in town, but, don't worry, because CCTV hadn't actually reduced crime rates anyway.
Except 'cloud gaming' has been tried, and doesn't work. For strategy or point-and-click adventure games, maybe, but for FPS games--which are typically the ones that need the CPU and GPU power--the network lag is simply too high.
The only way to make it work is to have servers local to every subscriber to keep ping times low, and then you've lost all the cost benefits of 'The Cloud!'.
Less than 3 1/2 years later, no more iOS updates were available on it (5.1.1 was the last version) and over time apps stopped supporting this version of the OS.
That's about the same time as there was between buying our XP netbook and Microsoft dropping support for XP.
(Not that it mattered, as I stuck an SSD in there and installed Linux soon after buying it)
I think you should just be honest with people who ask you to help them with their PC and admit you know nothing about Windows.
This is the great thing about the way Microsoft keep changing the Windows UI. Now, when people ask me to help them, I can quite honestly say I don't have a clue about Windows.
I think Google were just rushing to get a competitor out before Apple took over the mobile market and they lost all their ad revenue there.
Now, they look set to lose the market to Windows--which is something I never thought I'd say--if they don't find a way to push security fixes to phones without having to go through the manufacturer and carrier.
Unless systemd is implemented in a really retardo way (which it may very well be), I don't see the big deal, other than "Change Bad!"
Uh, systemd comes from the same guy who gave us Pulseaudio. How many years did that take to become usable?
And, unlike pulseaudio, you can't just uninstall systemd and run your operating system without it.
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If Win 10 doesn't work better than Win 7 on my theater/gaming PC, I'll just reinstall Win 7, Chrome, Plex, and Steam, and I'm done.
You do realize that this is a one-way transition, and Microsoft apparently invalidate your Windows 7 key after you 'upgrade', right? Otherwise I'd have considered pulling the OS drive from my gaming PC and at least trying out Windows 10 on a new drive so I could easily go back.
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... or more forced obsolescence ?
Obviously not. Since anyone running Windows 7 can have a free 'upgrade' to Windows 10, there's no chance of Microsoft releasing DX12.
The real question is whether enough gamers will fall for the 'free upgrade' that no-one will release DX12-only games until 2025, or whether most will stick to Windows 7 until they buy a new PC.
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Google harvests your data to sell you ads. The data is one of the most valuable things they own. They'll begrudgingly hand it to the government on demand, but they won't sell it to anyone else, because then they lose the value of that data.
Neither are a good place to store data, but I certainly trust Google more than Microsoft.
Clearly my old XP machine never hibernated, because it went through the BIOS screen and POST when it started up. It must have just guessed what applications were running and what I was doing in them so it could start them up again each time.
Had this part been on the plane at the time of a "gentle" ditching, it likely would have been dragged to the bottom with the rest.
It's a flap (and high-speed aileron). In a 'gentle' ditching, it would have been one of the first things to hit the sea, at over 100mph. I'd be amazed if it wouldn't be one of the first things to be torn off the plane, after the engines.
Hopefully Boeing can work out whether the damage is consistent with ditching or an uncontrolled impact, but I wouldn't make any claims yet myself.
So, basically, it only sends all your stuff to Microsoft if you don't turn off that 'feature'?
Apparently this also applies to driver updates, which have a much greater chance to brick your system, or at least prevent games you played yesterday from running today.
I've been running Windows 10 on a couple of systems that are six years old. Boot and shutdown times markedly better than Windows 7.
As I understand it, that's because Window 8 and above don't actually shut down, they do some weird partial hibernate thing.
Besides, my Windows 7 box boots in under ten seconds anyway. Most of that is in the BIOS.
Devices working perfectly in other OSes is no indicator that the device is no at fault. Witness the vast amount of crap laptop hardware, whose disastrous ACPI implementations only worked because their Windows drivers were chock-full of workarounds.
Back when I was writing Windows drivers for plugin cards, there were certain motherboards that we'd detect and switch the motherboard bus to the slowest possible speed, because the chipset was a heap of junk that didn't work properly at higher speeds. Anyone who said 'but it works on Windows!' clearly had no idea that it only worked because we'd intentionally turned off most of the features.
Amazingly enough it seems like the best way to reduce crime is to simply reclassify it.
Much simpler to not record it in the first place. Given how useless the British cops have become, many people I know there wouldn't even bother reporting a crime to them unless they needed a crime number to make an insurance claim.
Criminals, like everyone else, need light to see what they're doing.
Not when I'm wearing my night-vision goggles.
The UK has hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras in use on public streets.
Actually, I was there a few months ago, and the local newspaper said they were turning off a lot of the CCTV in town, but, don't worry, because CCTV hadn't actually reduced crime rates anyway.
The move to electric is a natural evolution, and will have a significant impact.
Uh, no. Our ancestors 'evolved' from electric car drivers to ICE car drivers, because electric cars sucked.
They'll continue to suck, for most drivers, until there's a dramatic improvement in battery storage and charging.
Except 'cloud gaming' has been tried, and doesn't work. For strategy or point-and-click adventure games, maybe, but for FPS games--which are typically the ones that need the CPU and GPU power--the network lag is simply too high.
The only way to make it work is to have servers local to every subscriber to keep ping times low, and then you've lost all the cost benefits of 'The Cloud!'.
Did you even read the summary? They announced an app for XBox One that lets you stream you PC games to your console.
That's great!
Oh, hang on. I don't have a console.
Not to mention the film crew standing behind the camera...
Less than 3 1/2 years later, no more iOS updates were available on it (5.1.1 was the last version) and over time apps stopped supporting this version of the OS.
That's about the same time as there was between buying our XP netbook and Microsoft dropping support for XP.
(Not that it mattered, as I stuck an SSD in there and installed Linux soon after buying it)
Windows 8 was there last chance to prevent themselves from being a niche: the standard enterprise desktop product.
But do enterprise users actually want the Windows 10 interface?
This site says you can go back, but only within one month:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how...
God, that start menu looks hideous.
Invalidates the Windows 7 license?
I've seen a number of people make that claim (at least one poster does up above), but I haven't seen a definitive source for it.
This is what happens when you let an advertising agency write your software.
I think you should just be honest with people who ask you to help them with their PC and admit you know nothing about Windows.
This is the great thing about the way Microsoft keep changing the Windows UI. Now, when people ask me to help them, I can quite honestly say I don't have a clue about Windows.
I think Google were just rushing to get a competitor out before Apple took over the mobile market and they lost all their ad revenue there.
Now, they look set to lose the market to Windows--which is something I never thought I'd say--if they don't find a way to push security fixes to phones without having to go through the manufacturer and carrier.
Unless systemd is implemented in a really retardo way (which it may very well be), I don't see the big deal, other than "Change Bad!"
Uh, systemd comes from the same guy who gave us Pulseaudio. How many years did that take to become usable?
And, unlike pulseaudio, you can't just uninstall systemd and run your operating system without it.
If Win 10 doesn't work better than Win 7 on my theater/gaming PC, I'll just reinstall Win 7, Chrome, Plex, and Steam, and I'm done.
You do realize that this is a one-way transition, and Microsoft apparently invalidate your Windows 7 key after you 'upgrade', right? Otherwise I'd have considered pulling the OS drive from my gaming PC and at least trying out Windows 10 on a new drive so I could easily go back.
... or more forced obsolescence ?
Obviously not. Since anyone running Windows 7 can have a free 'upgrade' to Windows 10, there's no chance of Microsoft releasing DX12.
The real question is whether enough gamers will fall for the 'free upgrade' that no-one will release DX12-only games until 2025, or whether most will stick to Windows 7 until they buy a new PC.
Or you could use an iPhone, which doesn't even support MKV.
I'm going back to my old Samsung, which doesn't even play videos, and is barely capable of displaying image files.