KB4480970 on Windows 7 Professional. Kept getting a message that the connection couldn't be made and it may be because the password expired. Happened when attempting to connect to it from 2 difference devices (another desktop and a smartphone) which both were able to connect to it previously. Heck, I used Remote Desktop to install the update on the remote computer and after the restart to finish the install, it would no longer connect. Had to get out a keyboard and mouse to attach to it, login, and uninstall KB4480970. Now it works fine again.
Experienced this issue with remote desktop which the update killed. Found others were experiencing the same. Uninstall the update and remote desktop works again.
I completely agree. We use to joke about friends with hard drive after hard drive full of movies, porn, whatever and refer to them as hoarders. Heck, there were plenty of those guys burning everything to CD-Rs because hard drive storage was so expensive. We called them hoarders back in the late '90s, early '00s. I just thought it seemed wrong that the article mentions that the term wasn't used until 2015. It was certainly LONG before that.
There's no way 2015 was the first time the term "digital hoarding" was used. It shows up in Google Trends as far back as 2008 and the Wikipedia entry for the topic was created in early 2014.
I'm not saying companies shouldn't provide a free product to let people kick the tires. The loss comes when they continue providing those services to users for long periods. Someone that just uses your free version year after year and never upgrades to the paid service isn't doing much to help your business unless they're recommending it to others who are buying. This is why companies look at the churn and upgrade rates. It's likely Pingdom found that not enough free users were upgrading to justify continuing to give away the service for free and the resources/cost it incurred from doing such.
And did the free version get you to upgrade and go with the paid version? If not, you're just costing them resources and money and it should be easy to see why they may want to get rid of freeloaders impacting their bottomline. Free versions can be a way to get people in the door but unless you can convert a good portion of them, they don't really do much but leech resources from you.
Sharing your password with someone else cost Netflix more than piracy. With shared passwords, Netflix not only makes any money on the content but they also have to foot the bill for the streaming bandwidth and servers to accommodate the countless additional users who contribute nothing to them. And let's be honest, most who share a password now aren't going to go and download all the things they binge watch from the service. A very small percentage may download some of it but most will consider buying the service if they value the ease of use and catalog of content it offers.
To be fair, Amazon was selling a ton of cables that didn't meet the spec and were putting devices in danger of being legitimately damaged. Still, it'd doubtful they'll be able to prevent such junk on the platform as they still allow all kinds of counterfeit product for sale on their site. https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Because I'm going to spend all day going from one friend's site to another to another..... rather than a single site to find out what's going on with all my friends and family.
That was my point. It's unlikely YOU will get to define who gets blocked and who doesn't. It's far more likely that the phone providers will get to pick and choose who gets blocked and who doesn't. As others have pointed out, it wouldn't be surprising if we see spammers be allowed to flood your phone as they do now as long as they pay for the ability to do so without being blocked.
Exactly. They don't want to be dependent on others and have to pay others for their tech. If you can do something yourself and save the money, why not? Apple has been very successful in designing their own processors over the past years. It's not at all surprising they're looking to expand that into the other components to the point they could eventually own all the component design. I'm sure all phone makers would love to go this route.
Who is defining "unwanted"? Could your phone provider block all messages or certain messages as "unwanted" unless you agree to pay for a tiered or premium service?
This is the same story that made rounds on Facebook over a year ago, telling people to put their keys in their microwave when they're at home to prevent people stealing their car. https://www.foxnews.com/tech/w...
No one has been able to prove their existence (because they don't actually exist). Thousands of security folks who have these very same systems and have been completely unable to find these imaginary chips. There has yet to be any actual evidence of the existence of these chips other than a couple anonymous sources. I've got 500 anonymous sources who say Man Bear Pig exists so it must be true.
We've got tons in Minnesota. They suck. But dragon flies and bats feed on them as a main source of food in many areas here. If they go away, what happens to the dragon flies and bats?
Dell was a client of mine and I one visited their Round Rock headquarters. I had my Mac laptop in meetings and one of the directors I worked with mentioned it wasn't a deal breaker for them but if I was up on the C-level floor and they saw an Apple computer, you'd be escorted from the building. Seems a bit strange that they're so hardcore against anything Apple, yet they're perfectly fine with visitors using Toshiba, Sony, Lenovo, and any other brand of Windows laptop, which seems more directly in competition with them.
And yet their homepage is still white. A blog post some years ago calculated that a black Google homepage would save 750 megawatt-hours a year. http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/20...
That wasn't retracted at the request of Apple. It was retracted because NPR found that they had misreported but there was no request for retraction made by Apple. Swing and a miss. Try again.
As I said, the unprecedented piece is that they have never asked for a story to be retracted. They may have not agreed with the press around Job's and his health issues, but they never asked to have those stories removed. Unless you can provide evidence of another instance where they specifically asked for a story to be retracted, then the use of "unprecedented" by the author of this story and in the headline are valid. While your original comment was about others not understanding the meaning of the word, it would seem you're the one that doesn't understand the meaning.
Unprecedented is the fact that Apple has never before asked a publication to retract their story, even in multiple instances when those stories have been shown to be false or even completely fabricated. So, yes, in this case it is unprecedented.
Apple and other companies have responded. It would seem Bloomberg has done little to provide any evidence over the past year, while these companies have investigated and found nothing of substance to the claims. Apple's response in particular is strongly worded and makes it clear that they find these claims to be baseless.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
I find myself saying the name of my phone a whole zero times daily. I'm far more concerned about things like the actual functionality of a phone than the name. If it does what I need it to do, they can name it whatever they like and it really doesn't matter one bit to me.
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KB4480970 on Windows 7 Professional. Kept getting a message that the connection couldn't be made and it may be because the password expired. Happened when attempting to connect to it from 2 difference devices (another desktop and a smartphone) which both were able to connect to it previously. Heck, I used Remote Desktop to install the update on the remote computer and after the restart to finish the install, it would no longer connect. Had to get out a keyboard and mouse to attach to it, login, and uninstall KB4480970. Now it works fine again.
Experienced this issue with remote desktop which the update killed. Found others were experiencing the same. Uninstall the update and remote desktop works again.
I completely agree. We use to joke about friends with hard drive after hard drive full of movies, porn, whatever and refer to them as hoarders. Heck, there were plenty of those guys burning everything to CD-Rs because hard drive storage was so expensive. We called them hoarders back in the late '90s, early '00s. I just thought it seemed wrong that the article mentions that the term wasn't used until 2015. It was certainly LONG before that.
There's no way 2015 was the first time the term "digital hoarding" was used. It shows up in Google Trends as far back as 2008 and the Wikipedia entry for the topic was created in early 2014.
I'm not saying companies shouldn't provide a free product to let people kick the tires. The loss comes when they continue providing those services to users for long periods. Someone that just uses your free version year after year and never upgrades to the paid service isn't doing much to help your business unless they're recommending it to others who are buying. This is why companies look at the churn and upgrade rates. It's likely Pingdom found that not enough free users were upgrading to justify continuing to give away the service for free and the resources/cost it incurred from doing such.
And did the free version get you to upgrade and go with the paid version? If not, you're just costing them resources and money and it should be easy to see why they may want to get rid of freeloaders impacting their bottomline. Free versions can be a way to get people in the door but unless you can convert a good portion of them, they don't really do much but leech resources from you.
Sharing your password with someone else cost Netflix more than piracy. With shared passwords, Netflix not only makes any money on the content but they also have to foot the bill for the streaming bandwidth and servers to accommodate the countless additional users who contribute nothing to them. And let's be honest, most who share a password now aren't going to go and download all the things they binge watch from the service. A very small percentage may download some of it but most will consider buying the service if they value the ease of use and catalog of content it offers.
To be fair, Amazon was selling a ton of cables that didn't meet the spec and were putting devices in danger of being legitimately damaged. Still, it'd doubtful they'll be able to prevent such junk on the platform as they still allow all kinds of counterfeit product for sale on their site. https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Because I'm going to spend all day going from one friend's site to another to another..... rather than a single site to find out what's going on with all my friends and family.
That was my point. It's unlikely YOU will get to define who gets blocked and who doesn't. It's far more likely that the phone providers will get to pick and choose who gets blocked and who doesn't. As others have pointed out, it wouldn't be surprising if we see spammers be allowed to flood your phone as they do now as long as they pay for the ability to do so without being blocked.
Exactly. They don't want to be dependent on others and have to pay others for their tech. If you can do something yourself and save the money, why not? Apple has been very successful in designing their own processors over the past years. It's not at all surprising they're looking to expand that into the other components to the point they could eventually own all the component design. I'm sure all phone makers would love to go this route.
I can certainly see that happening. Unwanted until you pay to be wanted.
Who is defining "unwanted"? Could your phone provider block all messages or certain messages as "unwanted" unless you agree to pay for a tiered or premium service?
This is the same story that made rounds on Facebook over a year ago, telling people to put their keys in their microwave when they're at home to prevent people stealing their car. https://www.foxnews.com/tech/w...
No one has been able to prove their existence (because they don't actually exist). Thousands of security folks who have these very same systems and have been completely unable to find these imaginary chips. There has yet to be any actual evidence of the existence of these chips other than a couple anonymous sources. I've got 500 anonymous sources who say Man Bear Pig exists so it must be true.
We've got tons in Minnesota. They suck. But dragon flies and bats feed on them as a main source of food in many areas here. If they go away, what happens to the dragon flies and bats?
Dell was a client of mine and I one visited their Round Rock headquarters. I had my Mac laptop in meetings and one of the directors I worked with mentioned it wasn't a deal breaker for them but if I was up on the C-level floor and they saw an Apple computer, you'd be escorted from the building. Seems a bit strange that they're so hardcore against anything Apple, yet they're perfectly fine with visitors using Toshiba, Sony, Lenovo, and any other brand of Windows laptop, which seems more directly in competition with them.
And yet their homepage is still white. A blog post some years ago calculated that a black Google homepage would save 750 megawatt-hours a year. http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/20...
That wasn't retracted at the request of Apple. It was retracted because NPR found that they had misreported but there was no request for retraction made by Apple. Swing and a miss. Try again.
As I said, the unprecedented piece is that they have never asked for a story to be retracted. They may have not agreed with the press around Job's and his health issues, but they never asked to have those stories removed. Unless you can provide evidence of another instance where they specifically asked for a story to be retracted, then the use of "unprecedented" by the author of this story and in the headline are valid. While your original comment was about others not understanding the meaning of the word, it would seem you're the one that doesn't understand the meaning.
Unprecedented is the fact that Apple has never before asked a publication to retract their story, even in multiple instances when those stories have been shown to be false or even completely fabricated. So, yes, in this case it is unprecedented.
I can just picture the initial testing being like ants under a magnifying glass. Oooops, still trying to get that dialed in guys.
Apple and other companies have responded. It would seem Bloomberg has done little to provide any evidence over the past year, while these companies have investigated and found nothing of substance to the claims. Apple's response in particular is strongly worded and makes it clear that they find these claims to be baseless. https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
I find myself saying the name of my phone a whole zero times daily. I'm far more concerned about things like the actual functionality of a phone than the name. If it does what I need it to do, they can name it whatever they like and it really doesn't matter one bit to me.
They've had TweetDeck on Mac for more than 10 years. I still use it daily.