|
Wheeeeeeeee whoooooop!!!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
|
|
|
|
|
Let see a list of the BEST new/improved features of the BEST OS you ever had...
* Ink - a presentation toy working only on devices with fitting hardware, but not for mouse and keyboard
* Edge extensions - so now a browser that can have extension is a luxury feature?
* Cortana improvements - according to Microsoft every W10 user asked Cortana 7! questions in the last year - the statistics didn't told how many of those questions got a meaningful answer...So now you can get lost using your voice, which is very convenient if you have to shout at Cortana on the London metro for instance...
* New Skype - I'm biased here. After all the pain I had with Skype I can't even make myself to check it 
* New dark theme - so now changing colors and fitting UI to your taste/light is a feature? I thought we were over it like 20 years ago!
* Time zone switching - Automatically! It could be a very good feature for those travel a lot, but for the feature to work for certain you need a device with GPS. Internet connection based location demands an internet connection (which does not switch automatically) and will actually report the location of the ISP - probably way off in a lot of cases...
* Bash - Come on! It is a pure gimmick that will not buy a single Linux fan for Windows. Those are grew with Widows UI will not be eager to do things from a bashed command prompt...
** Project to PC - A classroom like addition - seems to be good...
** Face recognition - Now that's a nice feature. Really. You only have to have the proper camera, but it can be useful...
*** Advertise - Now it is built in. You will have it and you can not turn it off, even you are paying! for W10
If I compare this list to the fanfares Microsoft sounded for this upcoming update the disappointment is even more sounding... For a developer with a working environment, even based on W10 - I can't see any reason to spend a single minute to update (and it takes much more than that)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: For a developer with a working environment, even based on W10 - I can't see any reason to spend a single minute to update (and it takes much more than that)...
I don't know in your version, but the one I installed to test... it only gives you the options "restart automatically" / "programm your own restart" to personalize your windows updates. There is no "let me choose off the list" as there were before :S
If yes... please tell me where.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
It depends on the edition - I have Enterprise and I can configure (not sure to what extent) what and when to update...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
I tried to install the enterprise but it told me only 90 days test, altough I had a valid Win7 enterprise. I got the Win10 Pro though :S
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
Seymour Papert, creator of Logo, Turtle Graphics and pioneer of constructionist education - teaching children through programming (rather than just teaching them programming), has died age 88. Another of the true greats of the field passes on.
In Memory: Seymour Papert | MIT Media Lab[^]
RIP Seymour.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
|
|
|
|
|
On the off-chance you’re alive in 150 years, you could be in for a very bad day, when the asteroid Bennu collides with Earth, unleashing a blast 200 times more powerful than that of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The sky may be falling. Someday.
|
|
|
|
|
150 is very long and technology will improve
|
|
|
|
|
I do not think it will take more than a decade to build a perfect shelter, so I can spend the next 96 years without any trouble...(however created a reminder in my calendar, in case I forgot)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
Dont worry in the movie "Skyfall" all went out fine
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
|
|
|
|
|
I was thinking more on "armagedon" (or however it is written in english)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
You mean my U.S. Presidential candidate won't be here for another 150 years? Crap.
|
|
|
|
|
Putin gave KGB's successor agency two weeks to deal with encrypted services. "I am Vinz, Vinz Clortho, Keymaster of Gozer. Volguus Zildrohar, Lord of the Sebouillia. Are you the Gatekeeper?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: two weeks
And after that?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
The technology is really very simple - they come to your office (or home) and ask you to give them the keys and you give them the keys.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Using a conditional word or phrase in a headline, like "can", pretty much lets you say anything you want.
"Russian spies claim they can now collect neutron stars—but don’t say how."
Putin: Do you have the keys?
Spy who doesn't: Why yes, yes we do.
|
|
|
|
|
The QUIC protocol (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is an entirely new protocol for the web developed on top of UDP instead of TCP. Reliability is over-rated?
|
|
|
|
|
Fail early and fail often?
|
|
|
|
|
I guess. Not quite what I look for in a comm protocol though, but I guess UDP is reliable-enough these days?
TTFN - Kent
|
|
|
|
|
It would be better to educate web developers, so they will able to choose the right protocol for the solution... To force - and Google has a lot of power today to force even stupidity - something, that not definitely better, but different is just wrong!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
The tech giants are eager to rent out their AI breakthroughs to other companies. Welcome to 1984 ... in the Cloud!
Tin foil optional
|
|
|
|
|
I clearly remember the time PC was promoted and mainframes were slandered...Am I too old? Or the fashion-carousel spins too fast?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
"There is a season (turn, turn, turn)"
TTFN - Kent
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
