It's the modern day IE6, they can do whatever they want. Doesn't mean they should, or that they'll always be able to, but it seems likely they'll continue to do so until it starts to hurt their wallet. Or they lose interest in it.
I'm pretty sure most people have already arrived at the conclusion that "upgrade" no longer means what it should, and kind of just see it to mean "a bunch of unwanted and probably breaking/blocking changes that will take considerable time investment to route around.
I generally prefer the use (or at least availability of) keyboard shortcuts, but there's just too much going on in a relatively modern, graphical environment. Having multiple ways of accessing the same functionality may seem redundant to some, at a glance, but is incredibly useful at times. Alt+PrtScr is handy (captures just the current window), as is Alt+WinKey+PrtScr (same, but saves it to a file automatically on Windows 8+)
Horror of horrors! I've heard numerous reports of it being distributed in various venues as an effervescent solution, often leading to eructation and borborygmous!
I've often thought the same way, and it seems like a reasonable way of modelling it. I suspect, however, that the actual nature of it is far weirder (though I have nothing to go on here).
As the AC noted, 15 minutes is on the fast side. Where I work, we've lost many hours due to this crap triggering in the middle of the day, despite active hours being set. Fortunately, we haven't suffered any of the total-breakage no-boot scenarios, though we have had to roll things back a number of times due to forced driver updates.
Seems more likely that 1 in 10 people *claimed* to have deleted their facebook account, regardless of if they took any action at all, or if such action had any useful effect whatsoever.
Same, I like to get connected to an operator and then make hideous noises, or act out extremely awkward scenes with co-conspirators such as 'getting fired'. Nothing too violent, just plain awkward. My father, on the other hand, enjoys engaging them (by giving every indication of a legitimate hook at first) to see how far he can get into their heads. I also enjoy that the dialer on my CM-flashed firephone lets me dump whole exchanges (same-exchange spoofing bullshit is history), or even area codes, and it only takes a few dozen extra entries to work around actually allowing throw a single number from problematic prefixes.
Indeed, it's more like a paper tape saying 'do not enter', as it's pretty easy to bypass (though it does require bypassing windows file protection to patch and/or shim some DLL(s) which were modified by MS to basically say 'nope'). Otherwise, I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about.
It's not always a matter of want. I'll leave the other possible reasons as an exercise to the reader, as they've been played out in the comments a million times over.
I'd be interested to know the last time a company I did not directly pay made any money off of me. Not saying it hasn't happened, just that I'd be interested to know.
I, for one, got a laugh out of this. In actuality, a ghibli appears to be the Libyan Arabic term for a specific hot desert wind (Sirocco), and the studio seems to have taken its name more directly from an Italian fighter aircraft which was named after said wind.
Watched it last night, thanks for the encouragement. Somehow I was very unspoiled to the plot, despite having read about it before. Watched it back to back with Castle of Cagliostro (which I've somehow been putting off for years) for emotional balance.
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It's the modern day IE6, they can do whatever they want. Doesn't mean they should, or that they'll always be able to, but it seems likely they'll continue to do so until it starts to hurt their wallet. Or they lose interest in it.
EA: Enough Already. Good businesses don't operate on principles such as "Well gee bob, we're only screwing 49% of our customers..."
I'm pretty sure most people have already arrived at the conclusion that "upgrade" no longer means what it should, and kind of just see it to mean "a bunch of unwanted and probably breaking/blocking changes that will take considerable time investment to route around.
All the better to slurp you with, my dear!
But grandma! Eyes aren't for slurping!
I don't think you understand how this works, my dear!
I generally prefer the use (or at least availability of) keyboard shortcuts, but there's just too much going on in a relatively modern, graphical environment. Having multiple ways of accessing the same functionality may seem redundant to some, at a glance, but is incredibly useful at times. Alt+PrtScr is handy (captures just the current window), as is Alt+WinKey+PrtScr (same, but saves it to a file automatically on Windows 8+)
Also possible we're not talking about the same Zontar.
I let him crash on my couch at one point, and now he won't leave.
... that the company I work for has the good sense to steer clear of letting FB get its foot in the door here.
Horror of horrors! I've heard numerous reports of it being distributed in various venues as an effervescent solution, often leading to eructation and borborygmous!
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It's sad, but fortunate in some ways. These sorts rarely aspire to much beyond shitposting on internet forums.
I've often thought the same way, and it seems like a reasonable way of modelling it. I suspect, however, that the actual nature of it is far weirder (though I have nothing to go on here).
As the AC noted, 15 minutes is on the fast side. Where I work, we've lost many hours due to this crap triggering in the middle of the day, despite active hours being set. Fortunately, we haven't suffered any of the total-breakage no-boot scenarios, though we have had to roll things back a number of times due to forced driver updates.
Seems more likely that 1 in 10 people *claimed* to have deleted their facebook account, regardless of if they took any action at all, or if such action had any useful effect whatsoever.
Same, I like to get connected to an operator and then make hideous noises, or act out extremely awkward scenes with co-conspirators such as 'getting fired'. Nothing too violent, just plain awkward. My father, on the other hand, enjoys engaging them (by giving every indication of a legitimate hook at first) to see how far he can get into their heads. I also enjoy that the dialer on my CM-flashed firephone lets me dump whole exchanges (same-exchange spoofing bullshit is history), or even area codes, and it only takes a few dozen extra entries to work around actually allowing throw a single number from problematic prefixes.
Indeed, it's more like a paper tape saying 'do not enter', as it's pretty easy to bypass (though it does require bypassing windows file protection to patch and/or shim some DLL(s) which were modified by MS to basically say 'nope'). Otherwise, I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about.
... if this will see widepread abuse if broadly deployed.
It's not always a matter of want. I'll leave the other possible reasons as an exercise to the reader, as they've been played out in the comments a million times over.
Now can they remove the horseshit, seemingly purely consumer-hostile, blockade on updates to older versions of Windows running on newer CPUs?
Doesn't appear to be blocking <a href= tags, but rather things such as iframes that automatically load content.
I'd be interested to know the last time a company I did not directly pay made any money off of me. Not saying it hasn't happened, just that I'd be interested to know.
I have a coworker who apparently agrees. You may be on to something. Or on something. Not mutually exclusive.
You forgot to BOLD your text for redundancy /s
I, for one, got a laugh out of this. In actuality, a ghibli appears to be the Libyan Arabic term for a specific hot desert wind (Sirocco), and the studio seems to have taken its name more directly from an Italian fighter aircraft which was named after said wind.
Watched it last night, thanks for the encouragement. Somehow I was very unspoiled to the plot, despite having read about it before. Watched it back to back with Castle of Cagliostro (which I've somehow been putting off for years) for emotional balance.