Posts by joed

Re: One other potential use

but why?

plenty of better and cheaper options available that are proven to work with CM

Re: Luckily I spent Saturday downloading all three versions.

"I run a multi-boot OS Machine i.e. Linux / Windows + VM Images of various earlier OSs. 16GB Spare is not something I have lying around even on a fairly large SSD." - you better check your other OSs as MS - via said update - started enforcing removal of incompatible and privacy violating products (they have monopoly for this;).

unfortunately - due to it's closed source nature - BL can't be checked for backdoors. Not an issue for most of applications but definitely a problem for someone that may deal wit 3 letter organizations.

They do use fear, BSA does stand with MS (especially during the extinguish phase of their software lifecycle).

But truly it always with (paid) praises and devotion.

Once you're securely locked in their product/platform/service, another s will hit the fan...

Re: Why

wiper blades melting?

or maybe the rubber just deforming, dust/sand wearing them (and windshields)

Re: Hunt the bastards down and publicly execute them

nah, this would not be wise use of public funds and give away capabilities of big brother. just forget it

Re: A bit of a Dickey move

amd has never made a secret of this "news". Everyone that cared, knew this from the beginning, everyone understood potential shortcoming and everyone else purchased more expensive intel chip.The idea was that in mixed load (real life or not) 8 treads could be executed simultaneously. I won't recall if this best case scenario was more likely to happen than in hypertreaded intel and estimates of what would be performance impact of having this extra fpus present (disabling ht was easy to do and test).

As usual, no love to lawyers and please, do not represent me in your class action or I'll sue you for damages to my preferred chip supplier.

Plus 401k and other retirements schemes we're "encouraged" to save money for the promise of future returns (but no guarantee). Few months back I heard of the same practice being proposed for China to prop their collapsing stock market. If you can't attract investors, legislate them (and the same for the model of health insurance that works mostly to the benefit of insurers).

Re: A diesel Porsche?

unless you're in EU where taxes on engine displacement and gasoline skewed the market towards diesel. It was all fun and games until the rules for diesel emissions got so tough that these could not be truly met on economy car (original reason for diesel). Now, not adding the premium for additional emission systems on luxury cars is somewhat surprising, but doing so would bring undue attention to cheaper product.

Re: I wonder how many

There's media center installer for 8 and 10 floating on the Internet. I've "secured" my copy and it works really well (besides EPG that MS given up on, this requires extra work) and seems mallware-free. One has to install missing codecs on 10 (and 8) but on 10 (test box, broken already while cutting down on telemetry and tile eyesores) WMC window looks better than native one on 8 - no more retarded/gaudy wide window frames.

Still, all my system run with updates set to manual, disabled "install recommended updates the same way..." and other precautions. Needless to say, MS made 10 desktop virtually unusable by shifting some system management files into the Metroland (that breaks while you attempt to restrain this gossiper of OSs).

In general I could care less for Metrocrap (easy to keep it out of sight), hate telemetry (but I can manage or even block it). What I'm really afraid is digital servitude. There's no way I'm going to be singing in to my PC with MS/internet account linked to some services I don't care for and can't control or getting my "approved" software only through the Store. While we may still be able to use local account today it's clear that with next "security" update MS will convert our local account to cloud. I'm not buying into this and games (DXn is the only reason to keeps Windows box outside business settings) is too little to keep me inside MS' walled garden.

Re: pre loading win10

I'd not trust important updates. All my systems have been set to manual, every non-security update checked before approval (and I'll keep an eye on security updates because MS lost my trust). Plus all the CEIP schedules disabled. And 3GB would strangle my "broadband" for longer than I'd care to wait.

Linux on the emergency exit.

I'd wonder about the possibility of a lawsuit. It's no different than divorce and separated parties have equal claims to common assets made during the relationship (whatever they were for Twitter).

Re: America is now actively hostile to EU data residentsy

I bet they just want to look clean (PR) while benefiting from government contract. Just another proof that one (select ones;) can have one's cake and eat it too.

Re: The Lucky? 15

I have no idea in regard to numbers of malicious apps on different platforms. All I know is that the store model is too costly for open/free platform. It's probably low number of apps that helped them catch it and greater popularity would overwhelm Ubuntu team. I'm not a fanboy of other mobile OSes (definitely not Windows;), I just despise walled gardens and believe in mutual responsibility of both sides (OS vendor to provide OS that can be used in secure manner and user that knows better than just to click on next "great" app).

Re: I can't imagine why

I would not call it bad but 2013+ UI got worse, the metro style worse: bland and painfully flat (and MS keeps preaching this). Try to grab/drag the window and you may get lucky (if you figured out the active part of the window). And it lags, feels almost as if the UI was rendered remotely, somewhere in MS cloud - really odd when IM text barely keeps up with you typing it.

And the app seems to have bad habit of locking out user account.

Still better than IE.

Re: Very Appealing

Also the question is if universities (UW is not the 1st one to go after another business) should engage in this kind of practices. Sooner or later their alumni may find themselves unemployable as nobody will like to risk getting them on-board (as every former student may have the "insider" knowledge). US universities make plenty of money as is and should rather concentrate on science and not litigation (maybe with exception of law schools, these are useless by their nature anyway). Not an Apple fan but I simply despise lawsuit happy culture where nobody wins but lawyers.

I was going to say the same thing. HP's laptops are pain to look at straight, and forget about trying to see anything from any side.

Re: Someone should be exempt

I bet GCHQ exempted itself - so someone is.

Re: Privacy issues

I've just realized that by installing extra "functionality" on Windows 7 SP1, MS acted against their own definition of mainstream and extended support. I guess they can do whatever they please.

Re: 2 markets, big difference

Never cared for heated seats. Now, having heated steering wheel option is too much to ask for (maybe once one included all the crap the automaker had on sale). The grass is always greener elsewhere but to me it seems that EU buyers are offered more logical/practical choices while US customer is easily impressed with bling and ends up with big, heavy but often primitive pontoon on 4 wheels (and 72 months of car payments).

Re: How do you know there's scrollable content?

I don't often advocate for "new and improved" functionality in OS, but I'd admit that ever since "discovery" of mouse with the scroll-wheel there's no need for scroll-bar. Huge bright scroll-bars and title-bars definitely add insult to injury in ever since Windows 8 (and burn plasma screen attached to my HTPC). Obviously, user has been protected from his/her own choice on MS platform

Re: Maybe it was also aimed at the new MS data slurping policy...

Possibly. I've been avoiding using smartphone for any serious stuff as I considered it beyond my controls. Now that MS crippled PC to MSC I might as well follow the path of convenience and into Apple walled orchard.

Re: Let he that is without sin...

150kg is quite a lot of mass. It'd be difficult to account for it in extra emission hardware. Quite likely 508 is slightly smaller, weaker structurally or to contrary uses more high strength steel, possibly better engineered or maybe has smaller/lighter rims/wheels and no spare. Anyway, 11% less mass = better efficiency in city. Lower mass and resulting frontal area of the vehicle = better efficiency on the highway (though not as much difference). Things like transmission/gear ratios matter as well.

nothing gets wasted in revolving door, it all comes back (especially to these that sign the contracts;)

Re: Mistake or Hack?

new MS for you.

Just yesterday I installed 10 on brand new box. I cleaned it up/silenced it and then I realized that this system not only has little to offer to me but since I can't trust it I really have no use for it.

As for the update - little surprise. With 7 on extended life support MS will be actively sabotaging it to convince masses to move over to new, "better" offerings (that also suit their vision). Whoever hasn't disabled auto updates yet, got another warning shot now.

Re: 21MPG?

This 33mpg at 100mph - is this computer or actual usage? I cant see this happen even with your imperials gallons. Maybe 33kpg but not 33mpg, or maybe at 100kph and downhill. Not in a brick shaped vehicle.

Re: SHEEPLE!!!

the bending question has already been answered somewhere I can't recall - it'll bend less.

Nice to see it more accessible, 7/10 can't be bad.

i bet fb gets clear text (they have monetize, right;). in this context i have no idea why they even pretend.