Microsoft software is so bad at security that it is individually the reason for the existence of most anti-malware products. I don't see how this move helps anyone.
And at least Google don't have a whole line up of enterprise products that 'only' work with chrome. The hours lost supporting web apps with ActiveX integrations and creating desktop links that ensure internet explorer was called to perform the job at hand from business wide soe's
You ask for customer references. To be fair, this is the same process used to find good construction companies, architects, handymen, whatever. If customers experience a shit service, they will tell you. If the business can't provide actual industry contacts, they disqualify themselves. The great thing is, experience is subjective and can't be considered slander
Going by Microsoft's recent track record, the 'troubleshooter' is likely to delete windows and all user files to 'correct the problem', so in many ways you will get you wish - telemetry and auto updates will be removed
In my line of work, I often have to reslice company logos and other reasonably asinine muti-layer image and photo manipulation to rebrand major customer facing enterprise applications. I might need to do that once every 3 months (I mostly do infrastructure, not graphic design), so the cost of a monthly photoshop license when CS2 would be more than capable of doing the job is simply out of the question. That said, GIMP has come a long way in the past few years, so that is now my image manipulator of choice.
Similarly, Draw.IO kicks MS Visio to the curb, its also free.
And lets not forget how much better Google Docs and Libre Office are at handling Microsoft documents than Microsoft's Word Online is (no broken selection UI bugs like Office365 Word). Libre Office Calc is much more capable than Office365's Microsoft Excel - particularly when performing multiple copy/paste operations. This AND Open Office applications tend not employ lunatic UI designers who insist on presenting every menu item as a picture as though every user was an illiterate child (yet still insist on presenting a 'floppy disk' icon as a save button!!!). Instead they tend to respect Microsoft Windows' design language featuring pull-down menus.
I'm sure there are some people that will subject themselves to advertisements willingly, but I think Amazon may be missing out on the consumer segment that uses their products. In my country the antenna was unplugged about 17 years ago. We own a television (multiple in fact - can't get rid of them) and yet we don't take advantage of the free television on offering and instead pay for streaming services that don't have advertisements. So, it makes me wonder who is buying Amazon Fire tv units for their television units in order to receive the benefit of accessing an advertising supported service typically available for free to television units without the requirement of owning an Amazon Fire tv unit in addition to a television unit.
I guess as another example, last time I bought someone a Kindle Paperwhite, I didn't even consider buying them the slightly cheaper 'Ad' supported model because why would I pay good money for something so that a marketing company can lie to my friends? If Amazon sent out an Ad supported model of the Kindle Paperwhite 'for free', I am sure a lot of consumers would take them up on that offer, but when you ask people to essentially pay for a product that comes with Ads, your pushing a product with very little value.
But they still don't sell any of their hardware to Australia, so thats a bit of a missed opportunity for Steam. I've been hanging out to get a Steam Machine since almost 100% of my gaming is via in-home streaming. I've been waiting for ages for their Vive to be available as well... and their Steam controller (although I eventually caved last year and now have a really good DS4 controller - and as a result probably won't bother trying to find a Steam controller now I've mastered this) but unfortunately, since they don't sell them here I now have an Oculus on the way.
And I guess this is always going to be the problem with Steam. If they can't make their products available to international markets like their competition can (in this case, Sony or Facebook), then their products are always going to be niche obscurities with their exception of their first party titles (HL3 anyone?). And to be fair, Steam's name is garbage in Australia due to the way they keep screwing us which is why the ACCC keeps dragging them over the coals.
I was so happy to throw money at Google for their new Pixel phone, until I discovered it was being manufactured by LG. LG seem to have lost their momentum after the LG G3, with newer models being so defective as to not bother with, I couldn't justify another handset from this manufacturer. I wish Huwai made more stuff like the Nexus 6P
If you search for 'documents' on an OSX machine it take you to documents on your computer. If you search 'documents' on a windows computer, it will open a non-default web browser, a substandard search engine and start searching for your local files on the web
I think when you approach it from the point of view that the protagonist is in many ways the victim of his dreams which have in-turn been spun by Ana, many aspects of the film that the Vice editor took issue with suddenly make a lot of sense. The more I think about the film, the more I think a second viewing is necessary to thoroughly appreciate the story arc and the motives of the characters that exist in that world. If anything, the film suffers the same problems of the first film, in that the visuals and audio obscure the plot, but I'd argue the multiple layers actually elevate enjoyment.
Engun's comment is very concise. I would add that I believe the premise of Kurzweil's argument is flawed. We have not replaced all of the jobs in human history already. Jobs such as teaching, customer service (markets, traders etc), prostitution and people at the start of the food chain have always had to exist. Sure, those jobs may have become augmented throughout time to improve volume, but have never come even close to becoming significantly displaced. I'm unsure as to how he is deriving his numbers.
You know, the forced updates that break open files and running processes logging critical data doesn't even both me so much. Its this god awful Delivery Optimization service that ships with Windows 10. Its like Windows Server Update Services where it will cache a bunch of updates that other computers in your organization might need. Unfortunately its completely broken.
I have 4 Win 10 PCs in the house. All of them routinely download more than 10GB worth of patches for the other machines in the house that are already 100% up to date. Instead of filling up the server drives though, it downloads to tablets as well taking up the tiny SSD drives. Its an absolute joke.
It used to be that this service could be stopped and disabled, however after the Anniversary update it automatically re-enables itself and MS have removed the 'stop' option, so if you want to turn it off you will either need to go hunting for the process image or restart the computer. As none of the computers in the house require these updates, this service only manages to fill up disks and cause our netflix to stall while our data is hoovered up. By most definitions this service is actually a virus.
We all knew that "Childporn" is merely a smokescreen for "We want to spy on lots of people". This is really just the proof that convicting CP offenders is a vastly distant priority to what they actually want to be doing.
I would agree, except that Java may fall into 'emulation' categories being that code fundamentally compiles to bytecode and is emulate by the runtime environment, thus java runtimes need to be developed for all platforms that need to run Java.
Unlike useful applications like Picasa that Google just dumped unceremoniously without patching significant bugs like its inability to scale previews to different resolutions.
A year? Try 3 months. The best part- bought this through Kogan. Their solution was to replace the handset with a totally inferior Samsung unit. I will never buy a Kogan/LG phone again.
I understand that clauses like "It would still allow LinkedIn's rivals access to its software such as its Outlook program and give hardware makers the option of installing competing professional social networks on computers". I mean, technically you CAN use Google's Search Engine with Microsoft Windows 10. But at the same time, you need to install a non-MS browser, and even then, if you use Cortana, there is no way for you, as an Enterprise Administrator, to uninstall Microsoft's Pornographic Search Engine: BING. I for one will be closing my LinkedIn account and escape the Microsoft lock in which has traditionally been one of the primary selling points of using Linked In.
"We pay our security companies to undermine global computer security and then blame other countries for stealing our unprotected secrets. Lets nuke someone for taking advantage of our own ignorance" - United States Government.
Yahoo can and should take fiscal responsibility for any users who suffered financial hardship as a result of not being informed their details have been out in the wild for over two years, I guess in addition to any international governments who have had to pay insurance on stolen funds etc.
I do remember D1 having one of the most rewarding multiplayer experiences of all of the Diablo games. I think the slower walking helped keep players from moving too far apart too quickly. D1 and D2 were both great fun to play direct, but the feature seemed to have been dropped in favour of just the stupid Battle.net alternative, so I'm afraid I'm really not sad to see that rubbish go. Hopefully this will mark a turning point in Blizzards decision to take games that don't need to be online...offline, and then perhaps Diablo 3 will become a good game for single player and maybe even multiplayer if they would be so good as to re-add direct connects.
But one of the biggest mistakes the MPAA ever made was ensuring that every single big screen movie that landed in a cinema was accompanied with a lengthy ad from the MPAA asking audiences whether they would pay money for an inferior copy.... which was then followed by an inferior copy. The advertising was so effective, that every time I am about to purchase a movie rather than downloading it, I ask myself "would I really pay money for an inferior copy?", at which stage I realise that would be friggin stupid and I go an download I high quality version for free. Unfortunately, this behavior is trained, by the very people who don't want me downloading good quality versions rather than seeing things at the cinema. As such, its hard to consider legal punishments are fair when the same industry suing pirates are the same industry that created the pirates.
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Also an attack vector: https://www.cyberscoop.com/cri...
Microsoft software is so bad at security that it is individually the reason for the existence of most anti-malware products. I don't see how this move helps anyone.
Probably someone with a great sense of humour. A visionary perhaps? Jesus Christ, vampire slayer was great
And at least Google don't have a whole line up of enterprise products that 'only' work with chrome. The hours lost supporting web apps with ActiveX integrations and creating desktop links that ensure internet explorer was called to perform the job at hand from business wide soe's
You ask for customer references. To be fair, this is the same process used to find good construction companies, architects, handymen, whatever. If customers experience a shit service, they will tell you. If the business can't provide actual industry contacts, they disqualify themselves. The great thing is, experience is subjective and can't be considered slander
Going by Microsoft's recent track record, the 'troubleshooter' is likely to delete windows and all user files to 'correct the problem', so in many ways you will get you wish - telemetry and auto updates will be removed
In my line of work, I often have to reslice company logos and other reasonably asinine muti-layer image and photo manipulation to rebrand major customer facing enterprise applications. I might need to do that once every 3 months (I mostly do infrastructure, not graphic design), so the cost of a monthly photoshop license when CS2 would be more than capable of doing the job is simply out of the question. That said, GIMP has come a long way in the past few years, so that is now my image manipulator of choice.
Similarly, Draw.IO kicks MS Visio to the curb, its also free.
And lets not forget how much better Google Docs and Libre Office are at handling Microsoft documents than Microsoft's Word Online is (no broken selection UI bugs like Office365 Word). Libre Office Calc is much more capable than Office365's Microsoft Excel - particularly when performing multiple copy/paste operations. This AND Open Office applications tend not employ lunatic UI designers who insist on presenting every menu item as a picture as though every user was an illiterate child (yet still insist on presenting a 'floppy disk' icon as a save button!!!). Instead they tend to respect Microsoft Windows' design language featuring pull-down menus.
I'm sure there are some people that will subject themselves to advertisements willingly, but I think Amazon may be missing out on the consumer segment that uses their products. In my country the antenna was unplugged about 17 years ago. We own a television (multiple in fact - can't get rid of them) and yet we don't take advantage of the free television on offering and instead pay for streaming services that don't have advertisements. So, it makes me wonder who is buying Amazon Fire tv units for their television units in order to receive the benefit of accessing an advertising supported service typically available for free to television units without the requirement of owning an Amazon Fire tv unit in addition to a television unit. I guess as another example, last time I bought someone a Kindle Paperwhite, I didn't even consider buying them the slightly cheaper 'Ad' supported model because why would I pay good money for something so that a marketing company can lie to my friends? If Amazon sent out an Ad supported model of the Kindle Paperwhite 'for free', I am sure a lot of consumers would take them up on that offer, but when you ask people to essentially pay for a product that comes with Ads, your pushing a product with very little value.
But they still don't sell any of their hardware to Australia, so thats a bit of a missed opportunity for Steam. I've been hanging out to get a Steam Machine since almost 100% of my gaming is via in-home streaming. I've been waiting for ages for their Vive to be available as well... and their Steam controller (although I eventually caved last year and now have a really good DS4 controller - and as a result probably won't bother trying to find a Steam controller now I've mastered this) but unfortunately, since they don't sell them here I now have an Oculus on the way.
And I guess this is always going to be the problem with Steam. If they can't make their products available to international markets like their competition can (in this case, Sony or Facebook), then their products are always going to be niche obscurities with their exception of their first party titles (HL3 anyone?). And to be fair, Steam's name is garbage in Australia due to the way they keep screwing us which is why the ACCC keeps dragging them over the coals.
Wikipedia is constantly in flux. How is it possible to cite a source that may change the next day?
I was so happy to throw money at Google for their new Pixel phone, until I discovered it was being manufactured by LG. LG seem to have lost their momentum after the LG G3, with newer models being so defective as to not bother with, I couldn't justify another handset from this manufacturer. I wish Huwai made more stuff like the Nexus 6P
If you search for 'documents' on an OSX machine it take you to documents on your computer. If you search 'documents' on a windows computer, it will open a non-default web browser, a substandard search engine and start searching for your local files on the web
I think when you approach it from the point of view that the protagonist is in many ways the victim of his dreams which have in-turn been spun by Ana, many aspects of the film that the Vice editor took issue with suddenly make a lot of sense. The more I think about the film, the more I think a second viewing is necessary to thoroughly appreciate the story arc and the motives of the characters that exist in that world. If anything, the film suffers the same problems of the first film, in that the visuals and audio obscure the plot, but I'd argue the multiple layers actually elevate enjoyment.
Engun's comment is very concise. I would add that I believe the premise of Kurzweil's argument is flawed. We have not replaced all of the jobs in human history already. Jobs such as teaching, customer service (markets, traders etc), prostitution and people at the start of the food chain have always had to exist. Sure, those jobs may have become augmented throughout time to improve volume, but have never come even close to becoming significantly displaced. I'm unsure as to how he is deriving his numbers.
You know, the forced updates that break open files and running processes logging critical data doesn't even both me so much. Its this god awful Delivery Optimization service that ships with Windows 10. Its like Windows Server Update Services where it will cache a bunch of updates that other computers in your organization might need. Unfortunately its completely broken.
I have 4 Win 10 PCs in the house. All of them routinely download more than 10GB worth of patches for the other machines in the house that are already 100% up to date. Instead of filling up the server drives though, it downloads to tablets as well taking up the tiny SSD drives. Its an absolute joke.
It used to be that this service could be stopped and disabled, however after the Anniversary update it automatically re-enables itself and MS have removed the 'stop' option, so if you want to turn it off you will either need to go hunting for the process image or restart the computer. As none of the computers in the house require these updates, this service only manages to fill up disks and cause our netflix to stall while our data is hoovered up. By most definitions this service is actually a virus.
I guess I'll wait to see how this plays out first. I'm not paying over $500 for a dodgy screen.
We all knew that "Childporn" is merely a smokescreen for "We want to spy on lots of people". This is really just the proof that convicting CP offenders is a vastly distant priority to what they actually want to be doing.
I would agree, except that Java may fall into 'emulation' categories being that code fundamentally compiles to bytecode and is emulate by the runtime environment, thus java runtimes need to be developed for all platforms that need to run Java.
Unlike useful applications like Picasa that Google just dumped unceremoniously without patching significant bugs like its inability to scale previews to different resolutions.
A year? Try 3 months. The best part- bought this through Kogan. Their solution was to replace the handset with a totally inferior Samsung unit. I will never buy a Kogan/LG phone again.
Someone finally turned up to pick up all of the Auschwitz IT junk. "Repurpose for the elderly" they said.
I understand that clauses like "It would still allow LinkedIn's rivals access to its software such as its Outlook program and give hardware makers the option of installing competing professional social networks on computers". I mean, technically you CAN use Google's Search Engine with Microsoft Windows 10. But at the same time, you need to install a non-MS browser, and even then, if you use Cortana, there is no way for you, as an Enterprise Administrator, to uninstall Microsoft's Pornographic Search Engine: BING. I for one will be closing my LinkedIn account and escape the Microsoft lock in which has traditionally been one of the primary selling points of using Linked In.
"We pay our security companies to undermine global computer security and then blame other countries for stealing our unprotected secrets. Lets nuke someone for taking advantage of our own ignorance" - United States Government.
Yahoo can and should take fiscal responsibility for any users who suffered financial hardship as a result of not being informed their details have been out in the wild for over two years, I guess in addition to any international governments who have had to pay insurance on stolen funds etc.
I do remember D1 having one of the most rewarding multiplayer experiences of all of the Diablo games. I think the slower walking helped keep players from moving too far apart too quickly. D1 and D2 were both great fun to play direct, but the feature seemed to have been dropped in favour of just the stupid Battle.net alternative, so I'm afraid I'm really not sad to see that rubbish go. Hopefully this will mark a turning point in Blizzards decision to take games that don't need to be online...offline, and then perhaps Diablo 3 will become a good game for single player and maybe even multiplayer if they would be so good as to re-add direct connects.
But one of the biggest mistakes the MPAA ever made was ensuring that every single big screen movie that landed in a cinema was accompanied with a lengthy ad from the MPAA asking audiences whether they would pay money for an inferior copy.... which was then followed by an inferior copy. The advertising was so effective, that every time I am about to purchase a movie rather than downloading it, I ask myself "would I really pay money for an inferior copy?", at which stage I realise that would be friggin stupid and I go an download I high quality version for free. Unfortunately, this behavior is trained, by the very people who don't want me downloading good quality versions rather than seeing things at the cinema. As such, its hard to consider legal punishments are fair when the same industry suing pirates are the same industry that created the pirates.