Microsoft is preparing it's release of Windows 10 Game Mode which has been in testing since 2009 under the code name "Windows 7". Testers have reported that this revolutionary new version of Windows will allow you to control the Windows Update experience, it won't download apps or transmit telemetry in the background, and it will have a menu that's easier to manage.
It's interesting that you view "not being a horrific racist" as a political alignment.
Either you're intellectually dishonest or you're not aware of Twitter's shenanigans over the past year where they'd allowed horrifically racist commentary like "white people must die" or anti-Christian commentary yet banned the accounts of white people who communicated even the lightest of philosophical questions on race or religion.
It's either all racist or it's not. It's either all anti-religious or it's not. Twitter became a selective judge and jury as to what constituted as racist based on the race and/or religion of the source and target.
Maybe they've cleaned up their act since the summer, when you could easily find #BlackLivesMatters quotes that literally cried for the death of white people or from other groups crying for Allah to kill people... but the damage is already done. Twitter's actions stated 'this is who we are, this is who we support, this is who we don't support.'
Explain how Trump exists so "bigly" on Twitter if it is such a rabid "SJW platform".
It's still used by celebrities, record labels, television shows, etc., to broadcast a message to the people that still effectively utilize said platform which, according to Edison Research last year, is 7% of the American population (which is what I assume you mean by 'bigly').
It's been clear to a number of us that Twitter's primary users are more on the social side of the spectrum, lean more to the left, are engaged more in arts and all that, but all of the news snippets over the past year or so seem to come out after the company articulated publicly that they are more or less an SJW platform, that they're going to selectively ban questionable comments under the guise of anti-racism, etc., etc.
Maybe I'm wrong but the timelines literally suggest that Twitter's failure was its political alignment rather than providing a neutral grounds for socializing.
This was the first thing I thought about when I saw the title and figured that since this is a site driven by social involvement, I would see plenty of SJWs praising this decision. Fortunately my sanity is kept intact and Slashdot has proven the community hosts people with a clue.
What I want to know is whether or not the focus is on racist commentary or the EU focus itself is racist, against white people?
How long did the plethora of #BlackLivesMatters posts inspiring the literal death of white people stay intact while people like Milo had their accounts removed? I saw it for months despite white people who officially complained to Twitter. I wouldn't be surprised if they're still up there. A few minutes ago I could easily find "fuck white people" comments; Can you easily find the same comments attacking black people?
It's a crock to suggest entrepreneurship is low with millennials because of low consumer confidence - it's low with millennials because of ideas like this, ideas that foster the poor work ethic that fails to drive millennials to move forward, ideas that an entrepreneur needs a safety net to be an entrepreneur. A common factor found in the biographies of famous entrepreneurs is a history of failed business attempts and living poor while trying to get their dream off the ground. The difference between then and now is that they didn't broadcast their failures on social media and blame everyone else.
As someone with entrepreneurship in his blood I can tell you that consumer confidence doesn't dissuade us from taking risks and steamrolling ahead regardless of confidence levels felt by others. Later in life we may learn to interpret ideas like consumer confidence but even then, it probably won't stop us from trying.
While your version of Chrome doesn't "include Facebook", there are other advertised-as 'slim' Chrome builds that have integrated functions that are not extensions one can disable similarly to this one.
I'll have to evaluate the difference between Chromium and Chrome as I'd just assumed one was an eventual stepping stone to the other with all these unwanted bits included. Thanks for the suggestion!
I use Chrome to, oddly enough, browse the internet on a seemingly leaner browser. Are there any slimmed down versions of Chrome that don't include Chromecasting or Hangouts or Facebook or etc., etc. I'm looking for a lean 64-bit build of Chrome.
Yea, I was surprised too. Here in my city there's a buy and sell group on Facebook with something like 11,000 people and there's dudes regularly selling different 'android boxes for free TV', touting how people can watch movies in theatres with the simple click of a remote. I've heard from plenty of people over the last year or so that they're cutting the cord... and replacing it with piracy.
Despite the possibility that I may have engaged in youthful piracy myself, my blip on the radar is nothing like huge mobs of adults that are depriving content creators of their income to create more content and this concerns me. I often wonder if shows like Firefly or Stargate were cancelled due to the higher likelihood of piracy.
Typical post-Gates Microsoft, blame the testers rather than the recipients of the feedback. I have a feeling they're ignoring all the valid feedback as it doesn't fit their narrative and justify what they're paying their developers.
"With Windows 8 we hear your negative feedback but we don't care for it since we know what's better for you and you're going to like it. Or not use it. It's your choice."
As someone who's been beta testing and feedbacking Microsoft products since they had beta tests, I threw in the towel with Windows 8 because they ignored the feedback concerning actual bugs and typographical errors.
Screw you Microsoft, you should have listened when people cared more than you claim to.
I'm guessing you have a specific hate-on for military people as I haven't seen anyone complain when people who are not members of the armed forces are credited for acting heroically while their jobs are referenced. Do you get upset when your fellow countrymen beat their chests about a pipe fitter that saves the lives of others?
No fear and none of your left or right wing BS, many of us just don't like it, we don't like drones hovering around our homes engaging in actions that aren't as obvious as a human's actions. We have the ability to interact with people that trespass on our property but we don't have the ability to discern the functionality of a drone hovering around us. Furthermore, I don't feel safe with the idea of an unlicensed heavy object falling from the sky and harming children... or me for that matter.
Are you asking me to compile a list of pedestrian deaths in a specific area or relay the many instances where I narrowly avoided killing someone because they were breaking the rules of the road? My favorite is when a young mother is talking on her cell phone and walks out into oncoming traffic that has an advance green.
Certainly I could list these for you but you should be able to read the inferences based on data collected between 2002 - 2006 - "Roughly 71% (or 4,519 crashes) involved pedestrians crossing streets. A plurality of pedestrian KSI crashes occurred when pedestrians were crossing streets with the signal (i.e. during the âoeWalkâ phase), which occurred in roughly 27% (or 1,712 crashes)." (ref: New York City Pedestrian Safety Study & Action Plan: Technical Supplement)
So of the thousands of people killed while walking the street, only 27% of them were while a "Walk" symbol was displayed and of those, 21% was tied to "Pedestrian's error / confusion" for a total of, at least, 1,578 deaths.
One of the biggest annoyances I have in every big city I drive in, including NYC (and Toronto, Chicago, etc.) is that pedestrians walk when it has a 'don't walk' symbol with the impunity of someone that's protected by law from drivers, protected like a force shield that will prevent anyone from hitting them blissfully walking across the street while texting.
Sure, it's against the law to run people over despite their inability to follow signs but at the same time if more pedestrians did what they were supposed to, we'd have a lot fewer deaths.
When was the last time you've seen someone get a ticket for jaywalking?
Isn't this idea an aspect of reducing the amount of accidental clicks on malware advertisements? If so, why don't they just stop hosting malware or scam sites. There are certain keywords for legitimate services or products that are always guaranteed to give top hits in malware.
I was anti-ribbon back in 2007 as well, until I read a blog post by a Microsoft programmer that basically said, "look dummy, every single item you had access to with these cumbersome menus is available on screen." Certainly I wouldn't accept that at face value so I opened up Office 2003 and tried to find an equivalent function I couldn't find in 2007 and in doing that, I realized it really was 'all there' and shortly thereafter became a devout Follower of the Ribbon.
... what you call downgrading, I call upgrading. I haven't experienced a bug in Office 2010 since SP1 yet Office 2013 is missing features and has plenty of bugs. Oh, and yes, the garish color as you relay AND THE RIBBON SHOUTING HOME AND VIEW, THAT'S FIXED WHEN YOU UPGRADE TO OFFICE 2010.
Based on what I'm seeing on the topic of Office 2016, it seems this will be more of the same - rife with bugs for regular users and more gimmicky touch options for the small handful of people that use them? I wonder if they'll upgrade 2016 with a feature missing from 2013 that highlights folders hosting unread emails in bold with the total number of unread emails. Maybe this version will be a reason to upgrade from 2010... ? One can hope that after 6 years they can make a decent product that people might want.
I'm glad you were moderated 'insightful' rather than 'funny' because there's nothing funny about the truism of upgrading Windows 8.1 with Windows 7 SP1.
Nobody is forcing anyone to pirate the content... the only thing that drives anyone to pirate content merely because it isn't being delivered to them under their preferred terms is a sense of entitlement to that content.
I think you may be missing the point here - they are actually paying for that content right now and they want to continue to pay for that content.
What's the argument? Not a lot of apps? That's an argument in its favor with the federal government.
Have you ever put a Blackberry owner in a room with a Google or iPhone zealot? Certainly the majority of people use their phone and plenty think it's great without trying to convince everyone they need to switch immediately, but this woman comes from Google's Google Glass division, so of course she'll claim that moving anyone towards Google is an 'upgrade'. I'm certainly interested to hear her explain how moving from, arguably, the most secure phone, to the phone with the most malware is an 'upgrade'.
Yea, constructing that paragraph was a bit rough on limited sleep. I believe the options for most of the folks I know are American Netflix vs. Pirating content. It wasn't uncommon for older folks to ask a younger relative to give them a year's worth of shows on an external hard drive to plug into their TV / Blu-ray / WD TV Live but Netflix became so popular that requests for pirated content diminished. Basically, cheap legal streaming replaced piracy since it was easier to legally obtain content... why not, it was only $8 a month or some such. A 'young feller' would come by and setup a VPN or DNS service on a router and see-ya-later, around $150 a year and they had access to plenty of content without a hassle.
Most of our cable/sat content is American (less CanCon) which is why we are used to it.
Yea, folks that live within a few hours of the border are used to American content since 99% of their TV comes from the US. There are millions of Canadians that primarily consume US content since there's more of it available. I knew as much about the United States gubernatorial elections as I did about our domestic elections.
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Microsoft is preparing it's release of Windows 10 Game Mode which has been in testing since 2009 under the code name "Windows 7". Testers have reported that this revolutionary new version of Windows will allow you to control the Windows Update experience, it won't download apps or transmit telemetry in the background, and it will have a menu that's easier to manage.
It's interesting that you view "not being a horrific racist" as a political alignment.
Either you're intellectually dishonest or you're not aware of Twitter's shenanigans over the past year where they'd allowed horrifically racist commentary like "white people must die" or anti-Christian commentary yet banned the accounts of white people who communicated even the lightest of philosophical questions on race or religion.
It's either all racist or it's not. It's either all anti-religious or it's not. Twitter became a selective judge and jury as to what constituted as racist based on the race and/or religion of the source and target.
Maybe they've cleaned up their act since the summer, when you could easily find #BlackLivesMatters quotes that literally cried for the death of white people or from other groups crying for Allah to kill people... but the damage is already done. Twitter's actions stated 'this is who we are, this is who we support, this is who we don't support.'
Explain how Trump exists so "bigly" on Twitter if it is such a rabid "SJW platform".
It's still used by celebrities, record labels, television shows, etc., to broadcast a message to the people that still effectively utilize said platform which, according to Edison Research last year, is 7% of the American population (which is what I assume you mean by 'bigly').
It's been clear to a number of us that Twitter's primary users are more on the social side of the spectrum, lean more to the left, are engaged more in arts and all that, but all of the news snippets over the past year or so seem to come out after the company articulated publicly that they are more or less an SJW platform, that they're going to selectively ban questionable comments under the guise of anti-racism, etc., etc.
Maybe I'm wrong but the timelines literally suggest that Twitter's failure was its political alignment rather than providing a neutral grounds for socializing.
This was the first thing I thought about when I saw the title and figured that since this is a site driven by social involvement, I would see plenty of SJWs praising this decision. Fortunately my sanity is kept intact and Slashdot has proven the community hosts people with a clue.
What I want to know is whether or not the focus is on racist commentary or the EU focus itself is racist, against white people?
How long did the plethora of #BlackLivesMatters posts inspiring the literal death of white people stay intact while people like Milo had their accounts removed? I saw it for months despite white people who officially complained to Twitter. I wouldn't be surprised if they're still up there. A few minutes ago I could easily find "fuck white people" comments; Can you easily find the same comments attacking black people?
It's a crock to suggest entrepreneurship is low with millennials because of low consumer confidence - it's low with millennials because of ideas like this, ideas that foster the poor work ethic that fails to drive millennials to move forward, ideas that an entrepreneur needs a safety net to be an entrepreneur. A common factor found in the biographies of famous entrepreneurs is a history of failed business attempts and living poor while trying to get their dream off the ground. The difference between then and now is that they didn't broadcast their failures on social media and blame everyone else. As someone with entrepreneurship in his blood I can tell you that consumer confidence doesn't dissuade us from taking risks and steamrolling ahead regardless of confidence levels felt by others. Later in life we may learn to interpret ideas like consumer confidence but even then, it probably won't stop us from trying.
While your version of Chrome doesn't "include Facebook", there are other advertised-as 'slim' Chrome builds that have integrated functions that are not extensions one can disable similarly to this one.
I'll have to evaluate the difference between Chromium and Chrome as I'd just assumed one was an eventual stepping stone to the other with all these unwanted bits included. Thanks for the suggestion!
I use Chrome to, oddly enough, browse the internet on a seemingly leaner browser. Are there any slimmed down versions of Chrome that don't include Chromecasting or Hangouts or Facebook or etc., etc. I'm looking for a lean 64-bit build of Chrome.
Yea, I was surprised too. Here in my city there's a buy and sell group on Facebook with something like 11,000 people and there's dudes regularly selling different 'android boxes for free TV', touting how people can watch movies in theatres with the simple click of a remote. I've heard from plenty of people over the last year or so that they're cutting the cord... and replacing it with piracy.
Despite the possibility that I may have engaged in youthful piracy myself, my blip on the radar is nothing like huge mobs of adults that are depriving content creators of their income to create more content and this concerns me. I often wonder if shows like Firefly or Stargate were cancelled due to the higher likelihood of piracy.
Typical post-Gates Microsoft, blame the testers rather than the recipients of the feedback. I have a feeling they're ignoring all the valid feedback as it doesn't fit their narrative and justify what they're paying their developers.
"With Windows 8 we hear your negative feedback but we don't care for it since we know what's better for you and you're going to like it. Or not use it. It's your choice."
As someone who's been beta testing and feedbacking Microsoft products since they had beta tests, I threw in the towel with Windows 8 because they ignored the feedback concerning actual bugs and typographical errors.
Screw you Microsoft, you should have listened when people cared more than you claim to.
If .sis exists as an extension, I'm going to lose it.
I'm guessing you have a specific hate-on for military people as I haven't seen anyone complain when people who are not members of the armed forces are credited for acting heroically while their jobs are referenced. Do you get upset when your fellow countrymen beat their chests about a pipe fitter that saves the lives of others?
No fear and none of your left or right wing BS, many of us just don't like it, we don't like drones hovering around our homes engaging in actions that aren't as obvious as a human's actions. We have the ability to interact with people that trespass on our property but we don't have the ability to discern the functionality of a drone hovering around us. Furthermore, I don't feel safe with the idea of an unlicensed heavy object falling from the sky and harming children... or me for that matter.
Are you asking me to compile a list of pedestrian deaths in a specific area or relay the many instances where I narrowly avoided killing someone because they were breaking the rules of the road? My favorite is when a young mother is talking on her cell phone and walks out into oncoming traffic that has an advance green.
Certainly I could list these for you but you should be able to read the inferences based on data collected between 2002 - 2006 - "Roughly 71% (or 4,519 crashes) involved pedestrians crossing streets. A plurality of pedestrian KSI crashes occurred when pedestrians were crossing streets with the signal (i.e. during the âoeWalkâ phase), which occurred in roughly 27% (or 1,712 crashes)." (ref: New York City Pedestrian Safety Study & Action Plan: Technical Supplement)
So of the thousands of people killed while walking the street, only 27% of them were while a "Walk" symbol was displayed and of those, 21% was tied to "Pedestrian's error / confusion" for a total of, at least, 1,578 deaths.
One of the biggest annoyances I have in every big city I drive in, including NYC (and Toronto, Chicago, etc.) is that pedestrians walk when it has a 'don't walk' symbol with the impunity of someone that's protected by law from drivers, protected like a force shield that will prevent anyone from hitting them blissfully walking across the street while texting. Sure, it's against the law to run people over despite their inability to follow signs but at the same time if more pedestrians did what they were supposed to, we'd have a lot fewer deaths. When was the last time you've seen someone get a ticket for jaywalking?
Isn't this idea an aspect of reducing the amount of accidental clicks on malware advertisements? If so, why don't they just stop hosting malware or scam sites. There are certain keywords for legitimate services or products that are always guaranteed to give top hits in malware.
It takes more than Photoshop skills to earn the title of UX Designer.
Perhaps this designer is using MS Paint, maybe that's the problem here...?
I was anti-ribbon back in 2007 as well, until I read a blog post by a Microsoft programmer that basically said, "look dummy, every single item you had access to with these cumbersome menus is available on screen." Certainly I wouldn't accept that at face value so I opened up Office 2003 and tried to find an equivalent function I couldn't find in 2007 and in doing that, I realized it really was 'all there' and shortly thereafter became a devout Follower of the Ribbon.
... what you call downgrading, I call upgrading. I haven't experienced a bug in Office 2010 since SP1 yet Office 2013 is missing features and has plenty of bugs. Oh, and yes, the garish color as you relay AND THE RIBBON SHOUTING HOME AND VIEW, THAT'S FIXED WHEN YOU UPGRADE TO OFFICE 2010.
Based on what I'm seeing on the topic of Office 2016, it seems this will be more of the same - rife with bugs for regular users and more gimmicky touch options for the small handful of people that use them? I wonder if they'll upgrade 2016 with a feature missing from 2013 that highlights folders hosting unread emails in bold with the total number of unread emails. Maybe this version will be a reason to upgrade from 2010... ? One can hope that after 6 years they can make a decent product that people might want.
I'm glad you were moderated 'insightful' rather than 'funny' because there's nothing funny about the truism of upgrading Windows 8.1 with Windows 7 SP1.
Nobody is forcing anyone to pirate the content... the only thing that drives anyone to pirate content merely because it isn't being delivered to them under their preferred terms is a sense of entitlement to that content.
I think you may be missing the point here - they are actually paying for that content right now and they want to continue to pay for that content.
What's the argument? Not a lot of apps? That's an argument in its favor with the federal government.
Have you ever put a Blackberry owner in a room with a Google or iPhone zealot? Certainly the majority of people use their phone and plenty think it's great without trying to convince everyone they need to switch immediately, but this woman comes from Google's Google Glass division, so of course she'll claim that moving anyone towards Google is an 'upgrade'. I'm certainly interested to hear her explain how moving from, arguably, the most secure phone, to the phone with the most malware is an 'upgrade'.
Yea, constructing that paragraph was a bit rough on limited sleep. I believe the options for most of the folks I know are American Netflix vs. Pirating content. It wasn't uncommon for older folks to ask a younger relative to give them a year's worth of shows on an external hard drive to plug into their TV / Blu-ray / WD TV Live but Netflix became so popular that requests for pirated content diminished. Basically, cheap legal streaming replaced piracy since it was easier to legally obtain content... why not, it was only $8 a month or some such. A 'young feller' would come by and setup a VPN or DNS service on a router and see-ya-later, around $150 a year and they had access to plenty of content without a hassle.
Most of our cable/sat content is American (less CanCon) which is why we are used to it.
Yea, folks that live within a few hours of the border are used to American content since 99% of their TV comes from the US. There are millions of Canadians that primarily consume US content since there's more of it available. I knew as much about the United States gubernatorial elections as I did about our domestic elections.