Short-term it might make more profit, but long term it's like selling one's investments for cash. This is a terrible mistake for Microsoft.
Yes, but not for the people running it.
By the time the brain drain has it's long term effects, the executives will have jumped away, in come cases into retirement, with their golden parachutes. It's only the long-term investors and loyal employees who will have to deal with how it ruins the company.
When they signed their contract they missed that checkbox that said "change my employment preference to lock to this company". There was so much legalese to scroll through.
I'd be just as happy if they'd leave gmail alone. It was fine years ago without all the ****.
You could also just set up your Gmail in a normal email client and then not be effected by the whims of the UI designers/marketing department. It will stay the same on your side.
If you watch the video he gives the sub a top speed of two miles per hour, and equates it with a fast walk. I bet someone can swim faster than that on their own, and it would be a better (full body) workout, too. So it sounds like a lose-lose situation to take the sub.
So we're watching what you watch, and putting targeted ads in your selected programs. So now you can be told to watch what you're watching, while you're watching it. We've seen what you've seen and will see to it you see it again. See?
Instead of wearing myself out kicking my legs swimming and pushing myself through the water, I can now kick my legs peddling and wear myself out pushing myself and a humongous piece of wood through the water with me.
I don't see how fumbling around with USB sticks is much better.
I use a YubKey NEO-n. It's a tiny device, only extends from the USB port by a millimeter or so... just enough that you can touch it to activate it. I just leave it plugged into my laptop all the time, so there's no "fumbling with USB sticks", I just run my finger along the side of the laptop until it hits the key. It's extremely convenient.
Doesn't leaving the device plugged into your laptop all the time defeat the purpose of two-factor authentication? If someone steals your laptop they have your key now, same is if you left your one-time pad as a text document on the desktop.
Why isn't there a national standard for the duration of the yellow light?
Well, ignoring that this is a local jurisdictional issue (traffic laws are not nationally legislated), the correct length of time for a yellow light will be influenced by speeds traveled through the Intersection, local traffic load at that intersection, and weather conditions common at that location.
Until Microsoft has a production release, it's not even fair to compare the two.
Agreed. Not to use the old joke, but in this case comparing a pre-release beta build to a finished, released product is an apples to oranges comparison (or maybe apples to lemons would be more appropriate).
No, try a MacBook Air, running iOS, but with a regular Ethernet jack on it, too.
Why the MacBook Air? Because its so lightweight and gets such great battery life now -- would probably do even better if running iOS instead of full OSX.
Why iOS? Because it's much harder for the average computer illiterate person to screw up the machine, and it still lets them get on the Internet, use Facebook, access email, and play games, which is all they really care about anyway.
Why an Ethernet jack? Because wi-fi simply isn't good enough sometimes. Also what if the wireless router gets its settings wiped and needs to be reconfigured? WPS is not the answer. Also Internet technical support is not going to troubleshoot connectivity issues over wi-fi and take the results seriously.
I believe you're thinking of Ghostery, actually. And that's if you have the Ghostrank feature turned on, which helps the makers financially, but it is disabled by default.
Disconnect is showing 16 counters for me too.
- 12 content-related requests from Google
- 3 Google social-related requests
- One analytics request from ComScore
I seem to remember there was a restriction that the iMac had to be turned on to act as a monitor. So you would be wasting the power of running the machine just to use the screen. Has that changed?
Yes, that's exactly what Comcast is going to do -- by giving a bunch of money to the only person who really matters in this whole thing -- the City Manager.
Tick this box to break the internet? Those kinds of options just cause user frustration. Security should not be optional.
How about those users not mess around with checkboxes if they don't know what they're doing to start with, leaving them for those people who do. That's the whole point of segregating settings into "basic" and "advanced" sections.
This pandering-to-the-morons thing is starting to put all of us at risk.
He is supposed to HIRE someone that is. Just like you hire someone to install a water heater, or electrical lines. If you are deploying COMMERCIALLY, you should hire someone who knows what the fuck they are doing, or dont bother.
Most coffee shop owners are too cheap to do that. They'll just buy a basic home router from a retailer, hook it up, and then when things don't work properly they call their ISP and complain about how their Internet service problems are costing them business.
If you need any pointers, we have a bunch of books with accounts on stopping tyranny by governments that don't listen to you. You might want to save the tea for yourselves, though.
Question is - which one does 'HP' have more faith in?
Just watch and see which side they transfer all their debt to. It's a classic play called "leave your shareholders holding the bag for your mismanagement of the original company".
If it's a preview and they're using the same key for all the installations, why bother with a fucking key in the first place?
I'm sure the software phones home occasionally to validate the key. Once they reach commercial release (or maybe even the next major stage of development), they can revoke the key so folks can't just use this alpha release as a free copy of Windows.
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Short-term it might make more profit, but long term it's like selling one's investments for cash.
This is a terrible mistake for Microsoft.
Yes, but not for the people running it.
By the time the brain drain has it's long term effects, the executives will have jumped away, in come cases into retirement, with their golden parachutes. It's only the long-term investors and loyal employees who will have to deal with how it ruins the company.
When they signed their contract they missed that checkbox that said "change my employment preference to lock to this company". There was so much legalese to scroll through.
I'd be just as happy if they'd leave gmail alone. It was fine years ago without all the ****.
You could also just set up your Gmail in a normal email client and then not be effected by the whims of the UI designers/marketing department. It will stay the same on your side.
If you watch the video he gives the sub a top speed of two miles per hour, and equates it with a fast walk. I bet someone can swim faster than that on their own, and it would be a better (full body) workout, too. So it sounds like a lose-lose situation to take the sub.
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We head you like TV!
So we're watching what you watch, and putting targeted ads in your selected programs.
So now you can be told to watch what you're watching, while you're watching it.
We've seen what you've seen and will see to it you see it again. See?
Instead of wearing myself out kicking my legs swimming and pushing myself through the water, I can now kick my legs peddling and wear myself out pushing myself and a humongous piece of wood through the water with me.
I don't see how fumbling around with USB sticks is much better.
I use a YubKey NEO-n. It's a tiny device, only extends from the USB port by a millimeter or so... just enough that you can touch it to activate it. I just leave it plugged into my laptop all the time, so there's no "fumbling with USB sticks", I just run my finger along the side of the laptop until it hits the key. It's extremely convenient.
Doesn't leaving the device plugged into your laptop all the time defeat the purpose of two-factor authentication? If someone steals your laptop they have your key now, same is if you left your one-time pad as a text document on the desktop.
Why isn't there a national standard for the duration of the yellow light?
Well, ignoring that this is a local jurisdictional issue (traffic laws are not nationally legislated), the correct length of time for a yellow light will be influenced by speeds traveled through the Intersection, local traffic load at that intersection, and weather conditions common at that location.
...the ANU tractor beam relies on the energy of the laser heating up the particles and the air around them.
Oh, boy. It cooks you as it moves you.
Sounds like a great formula for a space rotisserie.
Can we have our transparency back?
Until Microsoft has a production release, it's not even fair to compare the two.
Agreed. Not to use the old joke, but in this case comparing a pre-release beta build to a finished, released product is an apples to oranges comparison (or maybe apples to lemons would be more appropriate).
No, try a MacBook Air, running iOS, but with a regular Ethernet jack on it, too.
Why the MacBook Air? Because its so lightweight and gets such great battery life now -- would probably do even better if running iOS instead of full OSX.
Why iOS? Because it's much harder for the average computer illiterate person to screw up the machine, and it still lets them get on the Internet, use Facebook, access email, and play games, which is all they really care about anyway.
Why an Ethernet jack? Because wi-fi simply isn't good enough sometimes. Also what if the wireless router gets its settings wiped and needs to be reconfigured? WPS is not the answer. Also Internet technical support is not going to troubleshoot connectivity issues over wi-fi and take the results seriously.
I have Adblock Plus set to block social stuff, too. Maybe it's filtering some stuff before Disconnect gets it.
I believe you're thinking of Ghostery, actually.
And that's if you have the Ghostrank feature turned on, which helps the makers financially, but it is disabled by default.
I prefer the old Battletech/Mechwarrior line from the 90's, "Information is Ammunition".
It's only a matter of time before the walkers go rogue and a special task force has to be formed to stop them.
You forgot the part where the task force is made up of high-schoolers, and a trip to the beach is required as part of the mission.
Are you sure that's sixteen separate companies?
Disconnect is showing 16 counters for me too.
- 12 content-related requests from Google
- 3 Google social-related requests
- One analytics request from ComScore
Looks like two companies to me.
I seem to remember there was a restriction that the iMac had to be turned on to act as a monitor. So you would be wasting the power of running the machine just to use the screen. Has that changed?
Vote with your money.
Yes, that's exactly what Comcast is going to do -- by giving a bunch of money to the only person who really matters in this whole thing -- the City Manager.
Tick this box to break the internet? Those kinds of options just cause user frustration. Security should not be optional.
How about those users not mess around with checkboxes if they don't know what they're doing to start with, leaving them for those people who do.
That's the whole point of segregating settings into "basic" and "advanced" sections.
This pandering-to-the-morons thing is starting to put all of us at risk.
He is supposed to HIRE someone that is. Just like you hire someone to install a water heater, or electrical lines. If you are deploying COMMERCIALLY, you should hire someone who knows what the fuck they are doing, or dont bother.
Most coffee shop owners are too cheap to do that. They'll just buy a basic home router from a retailer, hook it up, and then when things don't work properly they call their ISP and complain about how their Internet service problems are costing them business.
...look no further then this key $. Forcing corporations to collect data costs money, lots of it.
Yeah... like they aren't collecting the data anyway for their own marketing uses.
If you need any pointers, we have a bunch of books with accounts on stopping tyranny by governments that don't listen to you. You might want to save the tea for yourselves, though.
Question is - which one does 'HP' have more faith in?
Just watch and see which side they transfer all their debt to. It's a classic play called "leave your shareholders holding the bag for your mismanagement of the original company".
If it's a preview and they're using the same key for all the installations, why bother with a fucking key in the first place?
I'm sure the software phones home occasionally to validate the key. Once they reach commercial release (or maybe even the next major stage of development), they can revoke the key so folks can't just use this alpha release as a free copy of Windows.