Why? Microsoft's customers want to serve you ads, so they're providing the service. How's that saying go? If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product?
I have looked through the EULA before I did an upgrade and I don't remember anything in there about my system to be used for advertisements from third parties. Yes, there was a section about sharing information and diagnostics, but not this. Perhaps I am wrong and I missed it, but I certainly would of thought hard if this section was in there...
Nothing in the world is ever free, so I agree with you to a degree. But even in that case MS should of been quite clear and upfront about this. Google, for all their ills and faults at least get this right: They are open about tracking and what information they share with others. This is certainly new for Microsoft as far as I am aware. Which is why I feel like they are acting dishonestly.
No, I do not own a Kindle and I was not aware that Amazon also pushes adds. Thank you for pointing it out though: This will definitely be a point to take into consideration if I ever find myself shopping for an e-book reader.
Yes, you do have a good point. Majority of customers do only look at the sticker price and accept adds. However, it is still a very disappointing direction that Microsoft as an industry leader is taking. I do not know if the Professional version has the adds as well or not. If it does, then Microsoft does not even give you an option to get addware-free version of their core product.
I do not want to get into a political debate regarding how much this should be regulated. It is sufficient to say that in my view, this is a new low for an OS vendor. My slim hope is that this will cause other players to gain more market share in the desktop arena.
Alas, if you want to stay current/work in the IT industry, you better get familiar with Windows 10. This is the next major version, so it is the target platform to develop for.
I use Debian myself for my main usage, but keep a Windows laptop for testing/learning on what real-world uses. Windows 7 was excellent and the "upgrade" to 10 was a sad day indeed. But one has to stay current in the industry trends:-(
The outrage is not that you are somehow trapped with this... "feature". The real fury is Microsoft's attitude towards its customers.
Why is that now companies see pushing unwanted adds on to our hardware as perfectly acceptable? In the past this was a category of malware! Why is that I now need to know and take conscious effort to make sure I disable such settings, lest bandwidth I pay for will be wasted. When administrators will be deploying on mass scale, this will become yet another thing they need to remember to script to be disabled.
Is it because it is a free upgrade? User paid for Windows 7/8 she upgraded from. Also what about professional version that one paid for: Is that setting off by default? Really, no one even asked for Microsoft to have their next major version to be free* in the first place!
This is just bad faith from the creator to the consumer.
*Free as in no money. You will pay in other ways...
Alas this was always the case with games based on licenses of other media. This is a very good basic summary of why quality is not the priority when making these kind of games: Shovelware
Sadly, even the common non-Nazi Wehrmacht soldiers were quite indoctrinated by the propaganda. They were committing atrocities on the eastern front even without leadership/encouragement by the SS units.
You have just gave me a perfect example how unique (and from my perspective: weird) Japanese culture is. Never heard of Hatsune Miku thing before.... Thanks.
However there are also advantages. It is more stable and easier to get a policy through if there are only two parties involved. Imagine what mess it will be if there are 8 different parties that have to vote on a bill.
I have just tried reading the Tachyonic antitelephone wikipedia page and I am even more confused! Particularly since it heavily uses Lorentz transformation, which is also way over my head...
Would anyone please explain in simpler terms without the maths involved? Or is it one of these areas that just can't be explained without it?
Causality breaking is subtle. For a simple one-way trip, in your reference frame, nothing will seem wrong, but from another reference frame you may appear to go back in time. If you have two pairs of ansibles (FTL telephones), each pair moving relative to the other, it's possible to send a message round trip (FTL to your connection, normal space to another endpoint, FTL to its connection, back to you) in such a way that you receive it before you send it.
Sorry, my English is terrible, so I don't quite get it.
An example would be good. Let us say that Alice is communicating with Bob who is on a planet 12 light years away with messages that travel at 4*c speed. All the while Alice is travelling towards it at 3*c.
I am not sure how this "FTL to your connection, normal space to another endpoint, FTL to its connection, back to you" would end up reaching Alice before she sends the message.
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You are "anti Islamic?" Seriously? If an atheist said they were "anti-Christian", people would be all over them. if a Christian said they were "anti-Jew", then there would be a huge backlash. We seem to have reached the point where antisemitism put people in the same bucket as white supremacists or the KKK or other now-vilified groups.
And yet you claim to be "anti Islamic", and nobody calls you out on it.
That is a very good point. Only now that I have noticed how discrimination against Islam is widespread, but not frowned upon. At least you called it out.
Thank you.
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Years ago, they added politics to Slashdot. People didn't like it. Yet, they recently asked what folks wanted to do to improve Slashdot. A number of people said to get rid of the politics. And yet, here were are...
You can setup your Slashdot settings to filter out any stories that are under Politics category. Everybody wins.
"SJW" is becoming a very good indicator of a comment not worth reading. Has anyone yet came up with some technical solution that hides posts with that word in it?
Sure, we can just wait for moderation, but some of us prefer reading at -1.
Except for some countries who never signed that treaty: India, Pakistan, Israel. North Korea is also no longer a signatory (they withdrew in 2003). Shouldn't there be sanctions against the other three?
Touche!
That is a very good point. I guess Israel is immune because US has such close relations with that state. No idea why the hypocrisy regarding India and Pakistan.
Looking at the NK's current state, I don't think they have much to lose. Really, becoming part of China is the best case scenario for their population. So much hatred between them and South Korea due to both side's propaganda, that reunification seems practically impossible. Whole generation been raised on hatred.
Sadly, the longer this stalemate takes the more damage eventual conflict will inflict on both parts of the Korean peninsula.
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Why? Microsoft's customers want to serve you ads, so they're providing the service. How's that saying go? If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product?
I have looked through the EULA before I did an upgrade and I don't remember anything in there about my system to be used for advertisements from third parties. Yes, there was a section about sharing information and diagnostics, but not this. Perhaps I am wrong and I missed it, but I certainly would of thought hard if this section was in there...
Nothing in the world is ever free, so I agree with you to a degree. But even in that case MS should of been quite clear and upfront about this. Google, for all their ills and faults at least get this right: They are open about tracking and what information they share with others. This is certainly new for Microsoft as far as I am aware. Which is why I feel like they are acting dishonestly.
Do you have a kindle? Amazon does the same thing.
No, I do not own a Kindle and I was not aware that Amazon also pushes adds. Thank you for pointing it out though: This will definitely be a point to take into consideration if I ever find myself shopping for an e-book reader.
Yes, you do have a good point. Majority of customers do only look at the sticker price and accept adds. However, it is still a very disappointing direction that Microsoft as an industry leader is taking. I do not know if the Professional version has the adds as well or not. If it does, then Microsoft does not even give you an option to get addware-free version of their core product.
I do not want to get into a political debate regarding how much this should be regulated. It is sufficient to say that in my view, this is a new low for an OS vendor. My slim hope is that this will cause other players to gain more market share in the desktop arena.
Forgot to click the post AC box! Oh shi---!%$^^%#$NO CARRIER
No you clicked it perfectly: It is the systemd on your router that stripped it
Alas, if you want to stay current/work in the IT industry, you better get familiar with Windows 10. This is the next major version, so it is the target platform to develop for.
I use Debian myself for my main usage, but keep a Windows laptop for testing/learning on what real-world uses. Windows 7 was excellent and the "upgrade" to 10 was a sad day indeed. But one has to stay current in the industry trends :-(
Exactly! You hit the nail straight on the head!
Unfortunately this (Very brief, detail-poor) article does not state if this is only in Home edition or if all versions are affected.
The outrage is not that you are somehow trapped with this ... "feature". The real fury is Microsoft's attitude towards its customers.
Why is that now companies see pushing unwanted adds on to our hardware as perfectly acceptable? In the past this was a category of malware! Why is that I now need to know and take conscious effort to make sure I disable such settings, lest bandwidth I pay for will be wasted. When administrators will be deploying on mass scale, this will become yet another thing they need to remember to script to be disabled.
Is it because it is a free upgrade? User paid for Windows 7/8 she upgraded from. Also what about professional version that one paid for: Is that setting off by default? Really, no one even asked for Microsoft to have their next major version to be free* in the first place!
This is just bad faith from the creator to the consumer.
*Free as in no money. You will pay in other ways...
Alas this was always the case with games based on licenses of other media. This is a very good basic summary of why quality is not the priority when making these kind of games: Shovelware
Spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised!
Sadly, even the common non-Nazi Wehrmacht soldiers were quite indoctrinated by the propaganda. They were committing atrocities on the eastern front even without leadership/encouragement by the SS units.
Wehrmacht War Crimes
You have just gave me a perfect example how unique (and from my perspective: weird) Japanese culture is. Never heard of Hatsune Miku thing before. ... Thanks.
However there are also advantages. It is more stable and easier to get a policy through if there are only two parties involved. Imagine what mess it will be if there are 8 different parties that have to vote on a bill.
I have just tried reading the Tachyonic antitelephone wikipedia page and I am even more confused! Particularly since it heavily uses Lorentz transformation, which is also way over my head...
Would anyone please explain in simpler terms without the maths involved? Or is it one of these areas that just can't be explained without it?
Causality breaking is subtle. For a simple one-way trip, in your reference frame, nothing will seem wrong, but from another reference frame you may appear to go back in time. If you have two pairs of ansibles (FTL telephones), each pair moving relative to the other, it's possible to send a message round trip (FTL to your connection, normal space to another endpoint, FTL to its connection, back to you) in such a way that you receive it before you send it.
Sorry, my English is terrible, so I don't quite get it.
An example would be good. Let us say that Alice is communicating with Bob who is on a planet 12 light years away with messages that travel at 4*c speed. All the while Alice is travelling towards it at 3*c.
I am not sure how this "FTL to your connection, normal space to another endpoint, FTL to its connection, back to you" would end up reaching Alice before she sends the message.
You are "anti Islamic?" Seriously? If an atheist said they were "anti-Christian", people would be all over them. if a Christian said they were "anti-Jew", then there would be a huge backlash. We seem to have reached the point where antisemitism put people in the same bucket as white supremacists or the KKK or other now-vilified groups.
And yet you claim to be "anti Islamic", and nobody calls you out on it.
That is a very good point. Only now that I have noticed how discrimination against Islam is widespread, but not frowned upon. At least you called it out.
Thank you.
Years ago, they added politics to Slashdot. People didn't like it. Yet, they recently asked what folks wanted to do to improve Slashdot. A number of people said to get rid of the politics. And yet, here were are...
You can setup your Slashdot settings to filter out any stories that are under Politics category. Everybody wins.
I am forever grateful to the people that developed Flashblock. Without that handy plugin the web is an unbearable place.
"SJW" is becoming a very good indicator of a comment not worth reading. Has anyone yet came up with some technical solution that hides posts with that word in it?
Sure, we can just wait for moderation, but some of us prefer reading at -1.
Except for some countries who never signed that treaty: India, Pakistan, Israel. North Korea is also no longer a signatory (they withdrew in 2003). Shouldn't there be sanctions against the other three?
Touche!
That is a very good point. I guess Israel is immune because US has such close relations with that state. No idea why the hypocrisy regarding India and Pakistan.
What right does the US has to invade North Korea?
According to Wikipedia, US and South Korea are in a military alliance.
From what I understand, North and South Korea are currently in a state of war.
Based on these two factors, US does not need any extra international justification to once against wage war on North Korea.
Looking at the NK's current state, I don't think they have much to lose. Really, becoming part of China is the best case scenario for their population. So much hatred between them and South Korea due to both side's propaganda, that reunification seems practically impossible. Whole generation been raised on hatred.
Sadly, the longer this stalemate takes the more damage eventual conflict will inflict on both parts of the Korean peninsula.
Please make a separate article once-in-a-while detailing what you guys changed/improved. You will get much better feedback in a much more usable form.
Instead of playing with the time values (Which can get complicated fast...), how about disable the edit functionality the second it has a reply.
If user was already editing when a reply was posted, give them "Sorry, reply was posted" and discard.
Disable the edit button if the post has any replies.
I can write a comment and lose all the earlier mod points, or just try to find a suitable downmod and let the stupidity stand unchallenged.
Third option: You just take a deep breath and move on. Focus on moderating further threads.
Let others reply and correct. You are not the only being on this site. xkcd 386 is supposed to be a joke!
Even if something wrong does end up as +5 insightful, nothing is ever perfect. Let is go.
YES! This has been such a big, annoying issue since as far as I can remember!