I don't understand the logic behind pardoning Manning but not Snowden.
Let me help you understand: Manning confessed to his crimes, faced the music and accepted consequences of her actions. She has expressed remorse, and admits what she did was wrong.
Snowden has admitted to his crimes, but he is fugitive. He has not faced the music, he has not accepted the consequences of his actions. Snowden insist what he did was right and he did it in the right way. This is the fly in the soup for a pardon. If Snowden ever expects to return to the USA, he's going to have to face the consequences of what he did and accept the punishment fitting to his crime. What he did may have been a GOOD THING for the world, but it was still a crime and just because it good intention, doesn't make it any less of a crime.
The HRC loss can be firmly placed on HRC, The Democrats, the MSM and a few RINOs, By all measures, Trump should have lost, and "bigly", but enough people hated HRC, the Democrats and the MSM to... actually... not vote for them. I know, it is SHOCKING that Trump won. But consider that HRC was the ONLY candidate the DNC could have put up that he could actually beat.
This isn't the Russians fault at all. But keep on blaming them all you can, and you'll never really understand why the Democrats keep losing... bigly.
This is a half-truth. Yes, Hillary is very corrupt and unlikable and cheated in the primaries. She did lots of underhanded things. HOWEVER, Russian interference REVEALED these truths about Hillary which consequentially caused her to lose the election to a bumbling idiot, but that's besides the point.
Russians played a part here, regardless of how awful HRC is. Good or bad? I dunno. Right now it just is. She is corrupt and Russian interference revealed it. Let's be honest with ourselves here.
What I find amusing is how the MPAA screams bloody murder with every new game-changing technology, and yet, they still seem to make $$$ hand-over-fist in every instance of their crying foul of some technology. They whined about VCR's and it turned into a huge boom for them with people buying/renting movies. They whined about piracy sapping their sales, when the reverse was happening, piracy drove sales upwards! Now they screaming about streaming while in backrooms they make huge profit making deals with streaming services like Hulu and Netflix.
It used to be that movies in general got cheaper to buy with each year after they came out but I keep seeing ones on the shelf that are the same price as when they were new. Marvel has been particularly greedy, a copy of "The Avengers" should not be costing the same as "Captain American: Civil War".
I call bullshit on this. Price has nothing to do with it anymore. I dunno about you, but I don't even stop by the $5 bin of DVD's and Blurays in Walmart anymore. It has nothing to do with the price. Why should I buy it, take it home, find a place to put it, when I can just click on some stuff and watch it without all the hassle of the physical object?
Let's see, I can buy a physical copy of a movie, store it in my home, fetch it when I want to watch it and stick it in some player and play it. I still have to put it away afterwards, and have a place in my home to keep my movies. Even if I copied the physical disc to a home entertainment server so I don't have to fetch it every time, I still have to store it somewhere.
OR
I go to a website with my computer (or smart TV), click a few times and a movie plays. I don't have to store it, I don't have to rip it, I don't have to buy it. I get all the perks with none of the disadvantages (I can watch the movie whenever I want.)
Just going on the propensity for laziness of the human race, this is a no brainer. OF COURSE DVD and Bluray sales are going to suffer. Did they really need to do a study for this?
Yeah, not so convinced that's how this will play out this time. Windows 10 seems to be positioned as the 'Last Windows' we'll ever get, they'll just keep upgrading it. M$ has never made much off direct consumer sales, it's OEM sales that generate the big bucks for M$ and that will continue regardless of making another Windows version or just continuous updates to Windows 10.
There's some speculation of M$ moving to a subscription based OS, where you have to pay x per x period of time to use it, but I think the rejection of this idea will be so difficult to overcome, they won't pursue it. Microsoft is facing serious competition now, in the consumer world, and they're alarmed. You really think they wanted to GIVE AWAY Windows 10 for free? Android is scaring them. Linux is frightening them. The competition's price is unbeatable: Free. They're worried.
Doesn't help that the whole desktop PC, at least in the consumer world, really seems to be teetering on the edge of obsolesce honestly. IMHO. Desktop PC's are going to go back to the hobbist / diehards, mainstream is moving to mobile: tablets, smartphones.
I legitimately hope that you and your family suffer horrible, debilitating accidents if you ever try to defend Windows 10's spying and forced upgrade tactics.
Considering this level of hostility over an opinion, I must conclude you are either a malware author who doesn't want to see more secure systems, or you're a Republican. Either way, that much anger, you really should seek help.
Not paid by anyone. I just think the hoopla over telemetry is unwarranted. It's hype over something that isn't much of anything. People only care about this issue because techweenies keep bringing it up as some sort of evil overlord ordeal when it's really nothing so sinister, nor glamorous, it's just stupid statistics that no one should honestly give a flying f about.
Holy smokes, the bashing on Windows 10 is alarmingly prolific here. So I'll just chime in, yet again, with my experiences with Windows 10, and perhaps address some of the bashing I'm seeing, cuz I think it's really excessive and mostly unsubstantiated complaints.
First my experience: It works. That is my basic two word conclusion on Windows 10. It does what I ask it to do, and it doesn't seem to have stability problems on my systems, or any system I've installed it on. For clarity, I refurbish old laptops, and I install Windows 10 on every one of them. As far back as Celeron and Core Duo CPU systems (along with AMD Turion64 X2's.) These are 5-10 year old laptops and Windows 10 runs like a champ on them. It's faster in every use case I've tested (web browsing, watching videos, using LibreOffice applications.) Windows 10 also seems to like Windows 7 and 8 drivers, so finding drivers for old hardware, while challenging at times, is possible. And they work in Windows 10 without issue, from my experience.
Now on to some bashing, we'll start with force updates that everyone complains the most about. Sorry, but this is a necessary evil, because muggles won't f'ing upgrade their systems, leaving them vulnerable and they just don't give a flying f. The only way to address this needless insecurity is to force updates. Personally I don't mind, I like to be running latest and greatest anyway, but just keep in mind, its the idiots who refuse to upgrade their crap that brought this upon us all. Deal with it. For drivers causing PROBLEMS when updated (I've had this too), Microsoft has since day 1 had a tool to disable updates on specific hardware in your machine. So stop whining and use that tool when necessary.
Insecure computers connected to the internet AFFECT ALL OF US, and since that includes way too many non-technical (aka muggles) people, who refuse to update when asked to, we have to force you, to protect ALL OF US from YOUR insecure system.
Next: Spying. Telemetry. Malware. So much accusations. Has anyone actually taken apart the packets being sent to M$ to see what the hell is being sent? I didn't think so, I haven't seen any reporting on precisely what is being sent. But I have a pretty good educated guess. Usage statistics, performance markers, errors that occur, those are the basic things that're sent home. Probably shoved into a giant database along with every other computer that reports back. I highly doubt anyone can successfully take telemetry data out of this database and tie it back to some individual. So who cares? The data they're collecting is almost certainly aggregated and filed into huge DB's, it's helping M$ engineers design better updates to address issues we don't even know about. At the enhanced level of reporting (which you can turn off) it also supposedly sends info on what applications you're using, and how long they're running. Again.. why does this bother anyone? Do you really think you're so important that someone actually cares what you're doing with your PC? Again, probably all shoved into a DB and used to better understand what users do with their computers, not to spy on you. You're not that important, sorry.
Telemetry isn't exclusive to Microsoft. Debian Linux has been doing telemetry since, uh, well since I started using it, in 1999 or 2000. True, it's completely optional and it asks you during installation if you'd like to participate. But somehow, because you can optout easily, its ok that Linux does Telemetry. Talk about double standard.
About the only legitimate complaint about Windows 10 I can agree with is already over with...the overly aggressive upgrade campaign with some underhanded UI choices to trick people into upgrading. That was bad and uncalled for, but it's also over now, so can't really bitch about this anymore.
Network saturation. This is a new complaint I'm seeing posted here. Not sure what people are doing, but I do not experience this problem. I often have 4, 5, sometimes 6, laptops doing u
Cassettes degrade with every play. Much more so than vinyl, which can be played with a good player with minimal wear. Cassettes however... I used to use them a lot as a teen, they wear out pretty fast.
Think it's the same reason why 8-tracks really never saw a revival. That old school magnetic media is really crummy, and worn tapes don't sound better, they sound like crap. Nothing nostalgic about magnetic damage to the tape from repeated playback.
Personally, I'd only interested in original CD's if I was collecting an old format, since that high quality CD sound never degrades.
What else do they look for? Credit card numbers? Tax records? Other identity theft info? Anything embarrassing they can ransom?
I'd be much more concerned about what they can/will put on there to implicate you. Rewards do funny things to people, they become most shady when money is involved. I wonder how many instances of planting of illegal items, reporting it and collecting the $$$ occurs.
Your slip is most amusing. Because that was exactly what I was going to point out.. what's the difference? Desktop CPU / Desktop Computer, you really can't have one without the other, can you? So they're rather interchangeable, IMHO.
Amuses me you're willing you argue it this far. There's no difference. To speak of one is to speak of both. Silly.
it's not important if software still runs on your computer, the problem is that after 5-6 years, I don't see a need to upgrade, because the new chip is hardly faster. I would expect the calculations to be 2x as fast. So I would love to buy a new pc, yes everything works, but if I have to wait less long for something I would love to upgrade... The only thing happening here, is I pay 1000$ and I probably won't notice any difference...
This was the entire gist of my post. If new offerings are only a marginal improvement over what I have now, and I'm likely not to notice much of a change in performance, why should I upgrade? And this is a self-perpetuating problem. The more times they release lackluster improvements, the more times we opt not to upgrade, they lose more profit and decide against developing better cuz better isn't selling.
I am definitely a bit underwhelmed by the release of the new CPUs from Intel. They're not really all that much better than Sandy Bridge i7s, which is what I have (2 of them.)
Is the desktop computer dead? Na. But it may be dying. The improvements we've come to expect over the years has definitely slowed down quite a bit compared to previous jumps in performance.
Have we reached some kind of 'peak' in designing faster and faster CPU's? I definitely think a kick to the pocket book of Intel is this underwhelming release. If Intel and/or other manufacturers cannot convince users to upgrade their computers it could definitely be trouble for the desktop computer. I certainly don't feel like I need to upgrade, my i7-2600 based PC seems to run anything/everything I throw at it, quite well. Lackluster performance in new generation of computers isn't very wise, because you're going to need a bigger jump to convince people to upgrade. It's of course not helping that older Core series (and Core2's for that matter) are STILL running todays browsers, operating systems and various software quite well. Should be noted, AMD Turion X2s are also about on par with Core2's. Still running todays stuff pretty handily. That hurts the manufacturers a lot, used to be you had to upgrade, now its more like, "might be nice to upgrade, but not really necessary." The more times they release something new and it's lackluster, the more it hurts, cuz people will be in the mindset, like me, "That's not a big improvement, I'll wait for the next big thing." I certainly feel no compelling reason to jump to this new CPU. 600mhz of performance, for the price of basically replacing my entire PC? Na, pass.
One could get the impression the desktop is a dying breed of computer, I suppose. Certainly seems like things are headed in a different direction (mobile computing, tablets, etc) for mainstream consumers. But I definitely feel like the industry can and will cater to whichever group of people will earn them the most profit. That seems to be mobile computing right now. And it seems like the news reflects this. Seeing much bigger jumps in performance in the mobile CPU offerings (Qualcomm's Snapdragon CPU are darn impressive!)
You could legally install your game on multiple computers and make backups.
You do know you can do that with Steam, too. Install on as many computers as you want, frankly. And it has game backup built right in. Try using something before criticizing it, eh?
I think if we just put an end to anyone who is a climate change denier, we'd reverse climate change really quick, so much hot air coming out of that group of people.
In the Linux world there is the option to automatically download and install security updates. No user intervention required.
Your statement is flawed. An option requires user intervention to enable.
Microsoft used to allow this with Windows, but eventually began abusing it by including Telemetry related updates so the masses started turning off Automatic Updates.
I can guarantee you are completely wrong here. Not about the abuse part, Microsoft clearly collects information from Windows machines. But you even say the word telemetry to the average muggle, they're going to give you a blank stare. People turned off automatic updates because an update interrupted them at some point and they went 'this is stupid and annoying. i'm turning it off.'
I bet a lot of other automatic update disablings come from the 'it aint broke so dont fix it' crowd too.
Another big open sore in my opinion is pirated Widnows copies which Microsoft has decided don't qualify for updates, so these are out there, vulnerable as swiss cheese.
Bottom line is, given a choice, most muggles will skip updates when offered, especially if nothing is obviously wrong.
And this is why Microsoft went the route of forced updates. There simple is no other way to get muggles to update their crap unless you force the matter.
No, this is not "exactly what Apple does and has been doing since the first days of the Macintosh".
Actually, yes, it is. Always has been. It's exactly what makes Apple attractive. They make a fairly idiot proof computer for people who want to do -things- on a computer but don't want to ever know how to actually use it. This has been Apple's marketing since day 1 of the Macintosh. Apple is the computer for non-computer people. Sadly, in making their crap idiot proof, it's also rather draconian and offputting to computer enthusiasts.
Have you ever tried to disassemble an iMac? Those things are next to indestructible. They make their software much the same way. As a result, just like the iMac, MacOS isn't exactly "user-servicable."
Hmm.. Fascinating stuff, I guess. But I'm not sure I would have chose the word "broad" to describe the level of information requested by at least some of these NSL's. I looked at a few, two of them simply wanted name, address and length of service, nothing else. Another asked for that, and a history of communication transactions, even goes out of the way to say 'don't give us subject lines, or content, we can't look at that," and for a very specific datetime window.
So, not exactly pleased with puffing up this by saying 'broad access', when as far as I can tell, it's anything but.
I'm growing more and more concerned about Apple's leadership, and I say this as somebody who spent almost thirteen years working there. This is not normal Apple behavior. Something is very, very wrong in Cupertino.
Been spending those thirteen years in the utility closet? This is EXACTLY what Apple does and has been doing since the first days of the Macintosh. You will use their computer in the way they intend, and no other way, and if it does something unexpected, it's YOUR FAULT, and they'll fix it so you can't do what you did.
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I don't understand the logic behind pardoning Manning but not Snowden.
Let me help you understand: Manning confessed to his crimes, faced the music and accepted consequences of her actions. She has expressed remorse, and admits what she did was wrong.
Snowden has admitted to his crimes, but he is fugitive. He has not faced the music, he has not accepted the consequences of his actions. Snowden insist what he did was right and he did it in the right way. This is the fly in the soup for a pardon. If Snowden ever expects to return to the USA, he's going to have to face the consequences of what he did and accept the punishment fitting to his crime. What he did may have been a GOOD THING for the world, but it was still a crime and just because it good intention, doesn't make it any less of a crime.
The HRC loss can be firmly placed on HRC, The Democrats, the MSM and a few RINOs, By all measures, Trump should have lost, and "bigly", but enough people hated HRC, the Democrats and the MSM to ... actually ... not vote for them. I know, it is SHOCKING that Trump won. But consider that HRC was the ONLY candidate the DNC could have put up that he could actually beat.
This isn't the Russians fault at all. But keep on blaming them all you can, and you'll never really understand why the Democrats keep losing ... bigly.
This is a half-truth. Yes, Hillary is very corrupt and unlikable and cheated in the primaries. She did lots of underhanded things. HOWEVER, Russian interference REVEALED these truths about Hillary which consequentially caused her to lose the election to a bumbling idiot, but that's besides the point.
Russians played a part here, regardless of how awful HRC is. Good or bad? I dunno. Right now it just is. She is corrupt and Russian interference revealed it. Let's be honest with ourselves here.
What I find amusing is how the MPAA screams bloody murder with every new game-changing technology, and yet, they still seem to make $$$ hand-over-fist in every instance of their crying foul of some technology. They whined about VCR's and it turned into a huge boom for them with people buying/renting movies. They whined about piracy sapping their sales, when the reverse was happening, piracy drove sales upwards! Now they screaming about streaming while in backrooms they make huge profit making deals with streaming services like Hulu and Netflix.
Enough of the whining!
DVDs were out of my budget when studios decided I would be forced to watch several minutes of crap I couldn't skip.
This. AC got it right on the nose here. Blurays are even worse with the unskipable ads.
It used to be that movies in general got cheaper to buy with each year after they came out but I keep seeing ones on the shelf that are the same price as when they were new. Marvel has been particularly greedy, a copy of "The Avengers" should not be costing the same as "Captain American: Civil War".
I call bullshit on this. Price has nothing to do with it anymore. I dunno about you, but I don't even stop by the $5 bin of DVD's and Blurays in Walmart anymore. It has nothing to do with the price. Why should I buy it, take it home, find a place to put it, when I can just click on some stuff and watch it without all the hassle of the physical object?
Let's see, I can buy a physical copy of a movie, store it in my home, fetch it when I want to watch it and stick it in some player and play it. I still have to put it away afterwards, and have a place in my home to keep my movies. Even if I copied the physical disc to a home entertainment server so I don't have to fetch it every time, I still have to store it somewhere.
OR
I go to a website with my computer (or smart TV), click a few times and a movie plays. I don't have to store it, I don't have to rip it, I don't have to buy it. I get all the perks with none of the disadvantages (I can watch the movie whenever I want.)
Just going on the propensity for laziness of the human race, this is a no brainer. OF COURSE DVD and Bluray sales are going to suffer. Did they really need to do a study for this?
Yeah, not so convinced that's how this will play out this time. Windows 10 seems to be positioned as the 'Last Windows' we'll ever get, they'll just keep upgrading it. M$ has never made much off direct consumer sales, it's OEM sales that generate the big bucks for M$ and that will continue regardless of making another Windows version or just continuous updates to Windows 10.
There's some speculation of M$ moving to a subscription based OS, where you have to pay x per x period of time to use it, but I think the rejection of this idea will be so difficult to overcome, they won't pursue it. Microsoft is facing serious competition now, in the consumer world, and they're alarmed. You really think they wanted to GIVE AWAY Windows 10 for free? Android is scaring them. Linux is frightening them. The competition's price is unbeatable: Free. They're worried.
Doesn't help that the whole desktop PC, at least in the consumer world, really seems to be teetering on the edge of obsolesce honestly. IMHO. Desktop PC's are going to go back to the hobbist / diehards, mainstream is moving to mobile: tablets, smartphones.
I legitimately hope that you and your family suffer horrible, debilitating accidents if you ever try to defend Windows 10's spying and forced upgrade tactics.
Considering this level of hostility over an opinion, I must conclude you are either a malware author who doesn't want to see more secure systems, or you're a Republican. Either way, that much anger, you really should seek help.
How much does Satya pay you per post?
Not paid by anyone. I just think the hoopla over telemetry is unwarranted. It's hype over something that isn't much of anything. People only care about this issue because techweenies keep bringing it up as some sort of evil overlord ordeal when it's really nothing so sinister, nor glamorous, it's just stupid statistics that no one should honestly give a flying f about.
Holy smokes, the bashing on Windows 10 is alarmingly prolific here. So I'll just chime in, yet again, with my experiences with Windows 10, and perhaps address some of the bashing I'm seeing, cuz I think it's really excessive and mostly unsubstantiated complaints.
First my experience: It works. That is my basic two word conclusion on Windows 10. It does what I ask it to do, and it doesn't seem to have stability problems on my systems, or any system I've installed it on. For clarity, I refurbish old laptops, and I install Windows 10 on every one of them. As far back as Celeron and Core Duo CPU systems (along with AMD Turion64 X2's.) These are 5-10 year old laptops and Windows 10 runs like a champ on them. It's faster in every use case I've tested (web browsing, watching videos, using LibreOffice applications.) Windows 10 also seems to like Windows 7 and 8 drivers, so finding drivers for old hardware, while challenging at times, is possible. And they work in Windows 10 without issue, from my experience.
Now on to some bashing, we'll start with force updates that everyone complains the most about. Sorry, but this is a necessary evil, because muggles won't f'ing upgrade their systems, leaving them vulnerable and they just don't give a flying f. The only way to address this needless insecurity is to force updates. Personally I don't mind, I like to be running latest and greatest anyway, but just keep in mind, its the idiots who refuse to upgrade their crap that brought this upon us all. Deal with it. For drivers causing PROBLEMS when updated (I've had this too), Microsoft has since day 1 had a tool to disable updates on specific hardware in your machine. So stop whining and use that tool when necessary.
Insecure computers connected to the internet AFFECT ALL OF US, and since that includes way too many non-technical (aka muggles) people, who refuse to update when asked to, we have to force you, to protect ALL OF US from YOUR insecure system.
Next: Spying. Telemetry. Malware. So much accusations. Has anyone actually taken apart the packets being sent to M$ to see what the hell is being sent? I didn't think so, I haven't seen any reporting on precisely what is being sent. But I have a pretty good educated guess. Usage statistics, performance markers, errors that occur, those are the basic things that're sent home. Probably shoved into a giant database along with every other computer that reports back. I highly doubt anyone can successfully take telemetry data out of this database and tie it back to some individual. So who cares? The data they're collecting is almost certainly aggregated and filed into huge DB's, it's helping M$ engineers design better updates to address issues we don't even know about. At the enhanced level of reporting (which you can turn off) it also supposedly sends info on what applications you're using, and how long they're running. Again.. why does this bother anyone? Do you really think you're so important that someone actually cares what you're doing with your PC? Again, probably all shoved into a DB and used to better understand what users do with their computers, not to spy on you. You're not that important, sorry.
Telemetry isn't exclusive to Microsoft. Debian Linux has been doing telemetry since, uh, well since I started using it, in 1999 or 2000. True, it's completely optional and it asks you during installation if you'd like to participate. But somehow, because you can optout easily, its ok that Linux does Telemetry. Talk about double standard.
About the only legitimate complaint about Windows 10 I can agree with is already over with...the overly aggressive upgrade campaign with some underhanded UI choices to trick people into upgrading. That was bad and uncalled for, but it's also over now, so can't really bitch about this anymore.
Network saturation. This is a new complaint I'm seeing posted here. Not sure what people are doing, but I do not experience this problem. I often have 4, 5, sometimes 6, laptops doing u
Cassettes degrade with every play. Much more so than vinyl, which can be played with a good player with minimal wear. Cassettes however... I used to use them a lot as a teen, they wear out pretty fast.
Think it's the same reason why 8-tracks really never saw a revival. That old school magnetic media is really crummy, and worn tapes don't sound better, they sound like crap. Nothing nostalgic about magnetic damage to the tape from repeated playback.
Personally, I'd only interested in original CD's if I was collecting an old format, since that high quality CD sound never degrades.
What else do they look for? Credit card numbers? Tax records? Other identity theft info? Anything embarrassing they can ransom?
I'd be much more concerned about what they can/will put on there to implicate you. Rewards do funny things to people, they become most shady when money is involved. I wonder how many instances of planting of illegal items, reporting it and collecting the $$$ occurs.
X already did this like what, 30, 40 years ago?
Instead of futzing around with a 1.26 GiB torrent, you can just watch it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Appreciated, alas, the YouTube video has a lot of audio deadtime. Someone blundered the upload or something. It's not watchable.
Your slip is most amusing. Because that was exactly what I was going to point out.. what's the difference? Desktop CPU / Desktop Computer, you really can't have one without the other, can you? So they're rather interchangeable, IMHO.
Amuses me you're willing you argue it this far. There's no difference. To speak of one is to speak of both. Silly.
it's not important if software still runs on your computer, the problem is that after 5-6 years, I don't see a need to upgrade, because the new chip is hardly faster. I would expect the calculations to be 2x as fast. So I would love to buy a new pc, yes everything works, but if I have to wait less long for something I would love to upgrade... The only thing happening here, is I pay 1000$ and I probably won't notice any difference...
This was the entire gist of my post. If new offerings are only a marginal improvement over what I have now, and I'm likely not to notice much of a change in performance, why should I upgrade? And this is a self-perpetuating problem. The more times they release lackluster improvements, the more times we opt not to upgrade, they lose more profit and decide against developing better cuz better isn't selling.
Are people reading challenged.
You certainly are. The blasted TITLE of this article reads: Is the desktop CPU dead?
Think before you post, eh?
I am definitely a bit underwhelmed by the release of the new CPUs from Intel. They're not really all that much better than Sandy Bridge i7s, which is what I have (2 of them.)
Is the desktop computer dead? Na. But it may be dying. The improvements we've come to expect over the years has definitely slowed down quite a bit compared to previous jumps in performance.
Have we reached some kind of 'peak' in designing faster and faster CPU's? I definitely think a kick to the pocket book of Intel is this underwhelming release. If Intel and/or other manufacturers cannot convince users to upgrade their computers it could definitely be trouble for the desktop computer. I certainly don't feel like I need to upgrade, my i7-2600 based PC seems to run anything/everything I throw at it, quite well. Lackluster performance in new generation of computers isn't very wise, because you're going to need a bigger jump to convince people to upgrade. It's of course not helping that older Core series (and Core2's for that matter) are STILL running todays browsers, operating systems and various software quite well. Should be noted, AMD Turion X2s are also about on par with Core2's. Still running todays stuff pretty handily. That hurts the manufacturers a lot, used to be you had to upgrade, now its more like, "might be nice to upgrade, but not really necessary." The more times they release something new and it's lackluster, the more it hurts, cuz people will be in the mindset, like me, "That's not a big improvement, I'll wait for the next big thing." I certainly feel no compelling reason to jump to this new CPU. 600mhz of performance, for the price of basically replacing my entire PC? Na, pass.
One could get the impression the desktop is a dying breed of computer, I suppose. Certainly seems like things are headed in a different direction (mobile computing, tablets, etc) for mainstream consumers. But I definitely feel like the industry can and will cater to whichever group of people will earn them the most profit. That seems to be mobile computing right now. And it seems like the news reflects this. Seeing much bigger jumps in performance in the mobile CPU offerings (Qualcomm's Snapdragon CPU are darn impressive!)
You could legally install your game on multiple computers and make backups.
You do know you can do that with Steam, too. Install on as many computers as you want, frankly. And it has game backup built right in. Try using something before criticizing it, eh?
I think if we just put an end to anyone who is a climate change denier, we'd reverse climate change really quick, so much hot air coming out of that group of people.
In the Linux world there is the option to automatically download and install security updates. No user intervention required.
Your statement is flawed. An option requires user intervention to enable.
Microsoft used to allow this with Windows, but eventually began abusing it by including Telemetry related updates so the masses started turning off Automatic Updates.
I can guarantee you are completely wrong here. Not about the abuse part, Microsoft clearly collects information from Windows machines. But you even say the word telemetry to the average muggle, they're going to give you a blank stare. People turned off automatic updates because an update interrupted them at some point and they went 'this is stupid and annoying. i'm turning it off.'
I bet a lot of other automatic update disablings come from the 'it aint broke so dont fix it' crowd too.
Another big open sore in my opinion is pirated Widnows copies which Microsoft has decided don't qualify for updates, so these are out there, vulnerable as swiss cheese.
Bottom line is, given a choice, most muggles will skip updates when offered, especially if nothing is obviously wrong.
And this is why Microsoft went the route of forced updates. There simple is no other way to get muggles to update their crap unless you force the matter.
No, this is not "exactly what Apple does and has been doing since the first days of the Macintosh".
Actually, yes, it is. Always has been. It's exactly what makes Apple attractive. They make a fairly idiot proof computer for people who want to do -things- on a computer but don't want to ever know how to actually use it. This has been Apple's marketing since day 1 of the Macintosh. Apple is the computer for non-computer people. Sadly, in making their crap idiot proof, it's also rather draconian and offputting to computer enthusiasts.
Have you ever tried to disassemble an iMac? Those things are next to indestructible. They make their software much the same way. As a result, just like the iMac, MacOS isn't exactly "user-servicable."
Hmm.. Fascinating stuff, I guess. But I'm not sure I would have chose the word "broad" to describe the level of information requested by at least some of these NSL's. I looked at a few, two of them simply wanted name, address and length of service, nothing else. Another asked for that, and a history of communication transactions, even goes out of the way to say 'don't give us subject lines, or content, we can't look at that," and for a very specific datetime window.
So, not exactly pleased with puffing up this by saying 'broad access', when as far as I can tell, it's anything but.
I'm growing more and more concerned about Apple's leadership, and I say this as somebody who spent almost thirteen years working there. This is not normal Apple behavior. Something is very, very wrong in Cupertino.
Been spending those thirteen years in the utility closet? This is EXACTLY what Apple does and has been doing since the first days of the Macintosh. You will use their computer in the way they intend, and no other way, and if it does something unexpected, it's YOUR FAULT, and they'll fix it so you can't do what you did.