Yes, but you brought you own device and continue to use it. You're not one of those high-maintenance customers who needs to upgrade their iPhone every time a new ones comes out, or throws a huge fit if you get a scratch on the casing and wants the whole phone replaced, etc. So you're not the same sort of customer the AC is referring to. Customers who raise operating costs for carriers and make them raise prices for everyone.
MANY THINGS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO METRO AND CAN NO LONGER BE ACCESSED OUTSIDE METRO, INCLUDING SYSTEM FUCKING PROPERTIES AND RESTART THE COMPUTER.
Calm down, Frances. It's people like you that make Slashdot employ these lame post content filters.
System Properties: Open a Windows Explorer window, Right-click the Computer in the left hand side-bar, Choose Properties.
Just like you did from the old Start Menu in previous Windows OSes. No Metro Start Screen involved.
Or if you mean the Control Panels window, once you're in an Explorer window you can click the "Computer" tab at the top and there's a Control Panels button on the Ribbon interface at the top. Can't remember if you have to highlight Computer on the sidebar for that tab to appear or not and I'm at work right now. The Ribbon interface may have replaced the menus in Win7, but I don't really consider it part of Metro itself since it's more something borrowed from Office.
As for Restarting the computer, I use the Charms icon for Settings to reach the command. I guess this is Metro but it's not a stupid trip to the Start Screen.
I'd suggest you pin more apps to your Desktop Taskbar if you're having to jump to the Start screen that much....or get a Windows 8 Start Menu utility like Classic Shell....or go back to Windows 7, no one's holding a gun to your head to use it.
I use it because of the under-the-hood improvements, and I spend little if any time on the Start Screen.
It could be that all those occupations are deserving of higher pay. Companies would not last long without competent workers, just like they would not last long without competent management, but the pay difference is not even close to being in proportion. Profit would be impossible if nobody was taking the time to determine what products a company makes, what services it provides, or what markets it operates in; profit would be equally impossible if nobody were taking the time to make products, provide customers with service, or actually work in those target markets..
It's because of marketers. They're go good at selling themselves they've convinced companies that they're the only employees worth anything because they bring in revenue directly, and everyone else is just a liability or other "cost of doing business", so those roles should be taken care of for as little cost as possible and the people fulfilling them are easily replaceable cogs. They also then in turn get themselves promoted into higher management positions at the company and soon the company is being run by the marketers (Ballmer being a prime example).
This, as you point out, ignores that the marketers would have no doohickeys to sell without the people in the "lower positions" making them. And most consumers would not buy complicated doohickeys from a company that did not offer support staffed by competent people. I disagree with the inverse, though. Companies have been making products and selling them and growing as a business for centuries without dedicated marketing departments bombarding people with advertising. A well made product that fulfills a need for an audience, made by a company that stands behind it will be successful and allow a business to grow without positive promotional pressure.
I think Google should comply, just to make it apparent to the studios how dumb they're being.
Imagine when the marketing arm of the studio inquires as to why the legitimate sites are not appearing and Google tells them they're gone because they told Google to take it down.
Now some may say it saved music from free, but in singles were free like music videos and radio once was, lwe mat still have album sales. No one knows because every freaked instead of looking for other market solutions, so music is worth nothing now.
No, that wouldn't have helped. The problem with album sales is what it has been for 30 years now -- poor quality of music. It's become a situation where most of the good tracks on an album are the singles. So releasing the singles for free isn't going to increase sales of the full album.
No, in fact I see the opposite on Hulu quite often. The advertisements are of such poor quality I sometimes wonder how Hulu tricked companies into paying for the placement.
Wouldn't the support contract cover fixing all of these broken locks? Or is it inherently part of the system to be hackable? Or are all the support dollars for nothing?
They might be treating the situation as "the hardware is functioning correctly as it was designed" and therefore the fix is a new "higher security level" product. Kind of like how if someone figures out how to pick a 5-pin lock the maker isn't on the hook to give you a new 7-pin lock or a design that uses different arrangement of the pins to prevent the original method from working.
If this was a pure software venerability the picture might be different, but since replacing the board is requirement they could be framing this as "the lock is as good as we could make it for this product" and the hotel must be needing a "better" lock for their application.
Very likely there exists a patent which covers some aspect of the board design for fitting in that slot, or interfacing with the remaining mechanism, etc.
You probably could easily design a board to fit, but it would be seconds before Onity filed an infringement lawsuit, voided support contracts, etc.
Voiding support contracts on hardware we've replaced? O_o If you mean other systems related to this, something tells me they wouldn't support it at that point anyway even if they weren't upset about a patent infringement on the board design.
They test for psychopaths when selecting managers. How else would we get the psychopath managers we have now?
The companies don't test looking for psychopathic people. Psychopathic people are good at selling themselves and standing on other people to further their own ambitions, so they have an easier time getting into those types of positions. Remember that the psychopath desires status and power, so the person who might be more appropriate for the position sadly might be someone who isn't even interested in the job because it doesn't match the things they do value..
I think you'd need to be pretty desperate to download a pirate copy of Windows 8 when you can get a legitimate upgrade on current systems(bought this year) for $14.95 or on any system for $39. It's pretty sad.
Actually, it's funny you mention that because there was a little "issue" with that promotion, too. The system for giving out keys didn't really verify anything. So you could lie about the age/make of your computer and give a fake Windows 7 serial and then get a real Windows 8 serial.
Two mistakes in upgrade offer systems for Windows 8, both of which happen to have the effect of increasing adoption of the new OS. How interesting...
I find it hard to believe that the management of HP failed to uncover fraud of this magnitude during their evaluation in the purchase of Autonomy. What this really means is management failed to do their due diligence in evaluating Autonomy...
That's pretty much how I read the summary. HP makes a bad purchasing decision, and later management makes the excuse that Autonomy "tricked them" in some way into buying them. I even heard it in the voice of a couple kids on the playground in my head.
Classic Shell does more than Start8, including the automatically log-in to Desktop trick, and it's free and open source.
There was a comparison article on c|net or somewhere of different "Start Menu" utilities on Windows 8, and Classic Shell actually used the least memory compared to other free and shareware software by a good margin. Unfortunately it doesn't support virtual machines, or the developers wont provide support for installs on VM's at least the article author found.
...But to have one of our own betray the community like this is beyond our comprehension."
I find this quote rather amusing. Didn't this project start in part because of the carriers denying smartphone owners updated versions of the Android OS to help drive sales of new handsets instead?
And now one of their people is trying to extort $10,000 out of them.
Plus they will use it as an excuse to prevent people from doing their own recording. "You can turn that camera off now, this incident is already being recorded by our glasses cameras should the record be needed".
I have only 300 minutes, and often have half of those remaining at the end of a usage cycle. I'm on a grandfathered rate plan I've kept for a decade now because it gives me free first-incoming-minute and 50 free incoming text messages (which I use for automated alerts from my bank mostly).
I sometimes wonder if I should just move a prepaid plan instead.
Because it costs less to follow the unfair rules than it does to get them changed. And most people don't have the time or energy to navigate the legal system (when they aren't required to do so as a defendant).
Maybe someone should begin a Kickstarter fund to sue AT&T for their bandwidth usage calculation practices.
An independent site can be visited by anyone with Internet access. This group will always be larger than Facebook's membership. Much larger. Why limit yourself?
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Yes, but you brought you own device and continue to use it. You're not one of those high-maintenance customers who needs to upgrade their iPhone every time a new ones comes out, or throws a huge fit if you get a scratch on the casing and wants the whole phone replaced, etc. So you're not the same sort of customer the AC is referring to. Customers who raise operating costs for carriers and make them raise prices for everyone.
Hourly updates on McAfee seem superfluous.
My school's free AV software was Sophos, and it would check for updates every 10 minutes.
WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG.
MANY THINGS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO METRO AND CAN NO LONGER BE ACCESSED OUTSIDE METRO, INCLUDING SYSTEM FUCKING PROPERTIES AND RESTART THE COMPUTER.
Calm down, Frances.
It's people like you that make Slashdot employ these lame post content filters.
System Properties:
Open a Windows Explorer window,
Right-click the Computer in the left hand side-bar,
Choose Properties.
Just like you did from the old Start Menu in previous Windows OSes.
No Metro Start Screen involved.
Or if you mean the Control Panels window, once you're in an Explorer window you can click the "Computer" tab at the top and there's a Control Panels button on the Ribbon interface at the top. Can't remember if you have to highlight Computer on the sidebar for that tab to appear or not and I'm at work right now. The Ribbon interface may have replaced the menus in Win7, but I don't really consider it part of Metro itself since it's more something borrowed from Office.
As for Restarting the computer, I use the Charms icon for Settings to reach the command. I guess this is Metro but it's not a stupid trip to the Start Screen.
I'd suggest you pin more apps to your Desktop Taskbar if you're having to jump to the Start screen that much. ...or get a Windows 8 Start Menu utility like Classic Shell. ...or go back to Windows 7, no one's holding a gun to your head to use it.
I use it because of the under-the-hood improvements, and I spend little if any time on the Start Screen.
It could be that all those occupations are deserving of higher pay. Companies would not last long without competent workers, just like they would not last long without competent management, but the pay difference is not even close to being in proportion. Profit would be impossible if nobody was taking the time to determine what products a company makes, what services it provides, or what markets it operates in; profit would be equally impossible if nobody were taking the time to make products, provide customers with service, or actually work in those target markets..
It's because of marketers. They're go good at selling themselves they've convinced companies that they're the only employees worth anything because they bring in revenue directly, and everyone else is just a liability or other "cost of doing business", so those roles should be taken care of for as little cost as possible and the people fulfilling them are easily replaceable cogs. They also then in turn get themselves promoted into higher management positions at the company and soon the company is being run by the marketers (Ballmer being a prime example).
This, as you point out, ignores that the marketers would have no doohickeys to sell without the people in the "lower positions" making them. And most consumers would not buy complicated doohickeys from a company that did not offer support staffed by competent people.
I disagree with the inverse, though. Companies have been making products and selling them and growing as a business for centuries without dedicated marketing departments bombarding people with advertising. A well made product that fulfills a need for an audience, made by a company that stands behind it will be successful and allow a business to grow without positive promotional pressure.
I think Google should comply, just to make it apparent to the studios how dumb they're being.
Imagine when the marketing arm of the studio inquires as to why the legitimate sites are not appearing and Google tells them they're gone because they told Google to take it down.
Would the GNU icon really be appropriate for a story about Linux and not the Hurd itself?
Yes, but for every door that closes, a new one opens elsewhere.
Now some may say it saved music from free, but in singles were free like music videos and radio once was, lwe mat still have album sales. No one knows because every freaked instead of looking for other market solutions, so music is worth nothing now.
No, that wouldn't have helped. The problem with album sales is what it has been for 30 years now -- poor quality of music. It's become a situation where most of the good tracks on an album are the singles. So releasing the singles for free isn't going to increase sales of the full album.
lemme go submit this to Pud at fuckedcompany.com... brb
Kthxbai.
No, in fact I see the opposite on Hulu quite often. The advertisements are of such poor quality I sometimes wonder how Hulu tricked companies into paying for the placement.
Wouldn't the support contract cover fixing all of these broken locks? Or is it inherently part of the system to be hackable? Or are all the support dollars for nothing?
They might be treating the situation as "the hardware is functioning correctly as it was designed" and therefore the fix is a new "higher security level" product. Kind of like how if someone figures out how to pick a 5-pin lock the maker isn't on the hook to give you a new 7-pin lock or a design that uses different arrangement of the pins to prevent the original method from working.
If this was a pure software venerability the picture might be different, but since replacing the board is requirement they could be framing this as "the lock is as good as we could make it for this product" and the hotel must be needing a "better" lock for their application.
Very likely there exists a patent which covers some aspect of the board design for fitting in that slot, or interfacing with the remaining mechanism, etc.
You probably could easily design a board to fit, but it would be seconds before Onity filed an infringement lawsuit, voided support contracts, etc.
Voiding support contracts on hardware we've replaced? O_o
If you mean other systems related to this, something tells me they wouldn't support it at that point anyway even if they weren't upset about a patent infringement on the board design.
Well the most appropriate place to check into a social networking service called FourSquare would be a structure made entirely of cubes I would think.
They test for psychopaths when selecting managers. How else would we get the psychopath managers we have now?
The companies don't test looking for psychopathic people. Psychopathic people are good at selling themselves and standing on other people to further their own ambitions, so they have an easier time getting into those types of positions. Remember that the psychopath desires status and power, so the person who might be more appropriate for the position sadly might be someone who isn't even interested in the job because it doesn't match the things they do value..
I think you'd need to be pretty desperate to download a pirate copy of Windows 8 when you can get a legitimate upgrade on current systems(bought this year) for $14.95 or on any system for $39. It's pretty sad.
Actually, it's funny you mention that because there was a little "issue" with that promotion, too. The system for giving out keys didn't really verify anything. So you could lie about the age/make of your computer and give a fake Windows 7 serial and then get a real Windows 8 serial.
Two mistakes in upgrade offer systems for Windows 8, both of which happen to have the effect of increasing adoption of the new OS. How interesting...
The compilation albums are collage, obviously. You clearly don't understand the artistic genius of AC/DC!
I find it hard to believe that the management of HP failed to uncover fraud of this magnitude during their evaluation in the purchase of Autonomy. What this really means is management failed to do their due diligence in evaluating Autonomy...
That's pretty much how I read the summary. HP makes a bad purchasing decision, and later management makes the excuse that Autonomy "tricked them" in some way into buying them. I even heard it in the voice of a couple kids on the playground in my head.
Bah, link didn't come out
Here it is.
Classic Shell does more than Start8, including the automatically log-in to Desktop trick, and it's free and open source.
There was a comparison article on c|net or somewhere of different "Start Menu" utilities on Windows 8, and Classic Shell actually used the least memory compared to other free and shareware software by a good margin. Unfortunately it doesn't support virtual machines, or the developers wont provide support for installs on VM's at least the article author found.
Sadly the chase scene was exactly what popped to mind when I read the title as well.
...But to have one of our own betray the community like this is beyond our comprehension."
I find this quote rather amusing.
Didn't this project start in part because of the carriers denying smartphone owners updated versions of the Android OS to help drive sales of new handsets instead?
And now one of their people is trying to extort $10,000 out of them.
Is greed beyond the comprehension of CM?
Plus they will use it as an excuse to prevent people from doing their own recording. "You can turn that camera off now, this incident is already being recorded by our glasses cameras should the record be needed".
I have only 300 minutes, and often have half of those remaining at the end of a usage cycle. I'm on a grandfathered rate plan I've kept for a decade now because it gives me free first-incoming-minute and 50 free incoming text messages (which I use for automated alerts from my bank mostly).
I sometimes wonder if I should just move a prepaid plan instead.
Why is everyone so complacent about this crap?
Because it costs less to follow the unfair rules than it does to get them changed.
And most people don't have the time or energy to navigate the legal system (when they aren't required to do so as a defendant).
Maybe someone should begin a Kickstarter fund to sue AT&T for their bandwidth usage calculation practices.
A billion users on Facebook happened.
An independent site can be visited by anyone with Internet access. This group will always be larger than Facebook's membership. Much larger.
Why limit yourself?