"I wonder which presidential candidate would kick Microsoft's ass hardest"
Probably Trump. But you knew that, heh.
I'd love a Trump/Carson ticket just to tweek the lefties. They wouldn't be able to contain themselves. They'd go bat-shit-cloud-cuckoo-land insane. The meltdown would be worthy of selling popcorn and front-row-seat tickets. And Mrs. Clinton would be the most entertaining, as she continuously digs her own hole to fall into. Looking forward to THAT one.
So 8 years of Trump, followed by 8 years of Dr. Carson. Sounds good to me!
Trump was the same one I thought of when I saw that question posted. But that's just because he is certified crazy, not accomplishing much more than packing good kicks to whomever he feels like kicking next and spewing a bunch of hot air. Looking at the top two runners from both parties right now, you have your choice of a liar, a socialist, a lunatic, or an honest, kindhearted doctor who also has good values. Unless someone else makes it to the front, there's only one decent option right now IMHO. While on this topic, I will add that there is an extremely good chance that all this "candidate" stuff is just a distraction and that our current leader won't be leaving the office anytime soon.
Last Edit: Oct 18, 2015 22:41:37 GMT -6 by Techie007
Microsoft, is Windows 10 the best you could do? Really? After promising to listen to our feedback, what a letdown!
OBAKA has certainly done HIS damage with "change for the sake of change" (etc.)
I just can't let you have all of that, so I will make a few points which should be unassailable to reasonable thought.
sorry, it's not "compassion" when it's CONFISCATED WEALTH that is derived from WORK, forcibly TAKEN, then re-distributed to buy votes, in the name of "compassion". I _resist_ OBAKA-CARE by NOT buying HEALTH INSURANCE! EVER! NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER! I don't WANT it, I don't NEED it, and no ninnynanny socialist can MAKE ME! FUCK THEM ALL! MY business is MY business, MY life is MY life, and I'll do physical harm to ANYONE that tries to foist such things upon me. There, how's that?
nobody can justify socialism to ME. I'm too goddamned smart, too goddamned old, and too goddamned world-wise to be fooled.
And my "compassion" is limited to ME. I should be able to KEEP everything _I_ earn, right? Why should some moocher or looter or "politically favored" get MY money?
Because you _KNOW_ that _I_ would NEVER be the recipient of THEIRS!
So it's a one-way pay-off using MY money to buy DEMO-RAT votes.
Socialism fails EVERY time it is tried. Because it STIFLES achievement and REWARDS mediocrity and laziness.
Post by big bad bombastic bob on Oct 18, 2015 22:39:30 GMT -6
tying that back to why Microsoft pooch-screwed windows 10:
THEY! ARE! THINKING! LIKE! COMMUNISTS/SOCIALISTS!
a) they FORCE their way upon others because THEY are "smarter" and "know better" than YOU
b) they TAKE AWAY individuality, individual choice, etc. - "another brick in the wall" the same as EVERYONE ELSE
c) they make it "free" for "the masses" - the same FREE MEDIOCRITY for EVERYBODY! They are so "caring"!!!
the only thing they have not OPENLY done, as far as I am aware, is REWARD MEDIOCRITY at the expense of ACTUAL ACHIEVEMENT. if someone can give a good example of THAT, we can say that the model is complete.
(then again, using Windows 7 profits to develop 8 and 10 *MIGHT* qualify!)
The dirty truth about socialism and communism is that an ELITE BUNCH will always get THEIR "better" while increasing numbers of those "not them" get WORSENING MEDIOCRITY in the name of "fairness", for the lowest common denominator is a Yugo in every apartment carport. Notice I didn't say "garage". That would be "too much" for an individual, since not EVERYBODY can afford a HOUSE to rent or buy. So therefore NOBODY should have one! That's socialism. And communism. Unless you're "the elite". Then you'll have your MANSION, MERCEDES, and plenty of SERVICE PERSONNEL.
tying that back to why Microsoft pooch-screwed windows 10:
THEY! ARE! THINKING! LIKE! COMMUNISTS/SOCIALISTS!
In the fairy tale, the child who points out that the Emperor is an ugly, naked, manipulative SOB suddenly breaks the spell and everyone sees the ruse for what it is.
In the real world NORMAL is redefined and the children who speak up are marginalized.
It's a curse to be able to see so clearly that people just suck, and it DOES affect our lives.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
I just can't let you have all of that, so I will make a few points which should be unassailable to reasonable thought.
sorry, it's not "compassion" when it's CONFISCATED WEALTH that is derived from WORK, forcibly TAKEN, then re-distributed to buy votes, in the name of "compassion". I _resist_ OBAKA-CARE by NOT buying HEALTH INSURANCE! EVER! NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER! I don't WANT it, I don't NEED it, and no ninnynanny socialist can MAKE ME! FUCK THEM ALL! MY business is MY business, MY life is MY life, and I'll do physical harm to ANYONE that tries to foist such things upon me. There, how's that?
nobody can justify socialism to ME. I'm too goddamned smart, too goddamned old, and too goddamned world-wise to be fooled.
And my "compassion" is limited to ME. I should be able to KEEP everything _I_ earn, right? Why should some moocher or looter or "politically favored" get MY money?
Because you _KNOW_ that _I_ would NEVER be the recipient of THEIRS!
So it's a one-way pay-off using MY money to buy DEMO-RAT votes.
Socialism fails EVERY time it is tried. Because it STIFLES achievement and REWARDS mediocrity and laziness.
As soon as we passed child labor laws, invented unions to fight for a forty hour work week and vacation time, and created social security we collectively decided that we needed government to brunt the brutality of pure capitalism. This is called social capitalism or capitalism mixed with socialism. We have lived like this now for something now approaching one hundred years.
And even with this system, we still the highest poverty rates in the world with some 30 million children living in poverty. We also have casino capitalism where Wall Street can steal peoples retirement and home values without consequence. This has personally cost me more than 200 thousand dollars, and I haven't done anything that previous generations have done.
Whether you admit it or not, we are all socialists. We all accept tax cuts, home mortgage deductions, unemployment benefits, Social Security, Medicare etc.
Large states like California, Texas, and New York deliver enough additional income to the federal government to subsidize the other states. If not, the entire south would look like Bangladesh. This is real and is not a joke.
Politics is real simple. It is a matter of where the money goes. Does it go to the lower 99 percent or to the upper 1 percent.
you have your choice of a liar, a socialist, a lunatic, or an honest, kindhearted doctor who also has good values. Unless someone else makes it to the front, there's only one decent option right now IMHO. While on this topic, I will add that there is an extremely good chance that all this "candidate" stuff is just a distraction and that our current leader won't be leaving the office anytime soon.
As I indicated earlier, Socialist is not a dirty word, since it does apply to all of us. You need to look deeper into the "doctor" to see how crazy and non Christian his views really are.
I know that this is a no rules forum, but I won't participate when blatant racism is involved.
I see more of this and I am gone.
Untrue. There will be rules just nothing like most other places. Of course some rules are good. Some are just a means to control people in an effort to assert superiority. Im not a fan of most of the ism's myself however im certain there was no intent to offend. At least i hope not. Hopefully you stay i for one don't want to see you go.
Post by big bad bombastic bob on Oct 19, 2015 18:33:24 GMT -6
Maybe too many people have been conditioned for too long into not being able to laugh at things. Chris Rock has complained that when he performs on college campuses, it's like everyone's afraid to laugh at the jokes. Nobody can take a joke any more, it's all "I'm offended" and similar shit.
I wouldn't want to stomp on any wounds, but I don't wanna walk on eggshells, either.
Thanks man, went back and looked at the dead thread. Looks like mal got in the last word to the deaf. SE really can't let go. Could've had his balls as a keychain, but where would the fun be then?
I now have confirmation that Resident Eagle is one of the lurker guests that listen but say nothing. He told me that I'd never get them on my keychain, on the MS forum of course. Fucking stellar. I called him on it, told him good morning, and invited him to join the discourse here again. I have never found it easier to manipulate the behavior so someone over the age of 10. Too funny. I think he's my new pet project. Lol.
Some of the "gains" reported are because Microsoft by default tweaks the performance settings we performance-savvy users have been tweaking for many years (e.g., disabling the "last accessed" date in the file system by default).
So what you are saying is that M$ is the VW of the software world LoL
It's possible that the tweaks I've done with 3rd party stuff to resurrect a nice look and feel may actually be helping it render more efficiently.
That would be the ultimate irony: A system that looks prettier due to 3rd-party tweaks hooking Windows functions in the background that ends up being more efficient too. Weren't we told that one of the reasons Aero Glass was deprecated was to make things faster and increase battery life? This might be worth measuring sometime!
So it took a year and someone finally posted a list.
A discussion that you are following on Microsoft Community has received a reply from John Whitehouse 55. Title: Will you move to Windows 10 or stay on what you have **Part 3** Reply Why not? 1. It runs on almost any device 2. The Start Menu 3. Secure Boot kills rootkits dead 4. Flip seamlessly between tablet and desktop modes 5. Better battery management 6. Secure alternatives to passwords 7. Customized app store 8. Lightweight Mobile Office apps 9. Separate tasks on virtual desktops 10. Same system requirements as Windows 7
And to do it, they had to lie about the Franken Menu, promote crippled apps as being good, and use phone and tablet features.
Post by big bad bombastic bob on Nov 3, 2015 17:19:16 GMT -6
uh, secure boot doesn't "kill rootkits" - more accurately, it makes it *HARDER* to put a non-windows OS on your system!
there are known (demonstrable) exploits that run code into the hypervisor ring, and then modify ACPI stuff. I read about some of this within the last month, articles on 'the Register' and/or slashdot. don't have a link, though. As I recall it takes advantage of CPU features that were present through 2011 or so.
secure boot certainly will NOT "kill rootkits" doing THAT. but, it WILL intefere with putting Linux or FreeBSD on your computer.
[unless you DISABLE it]
oh, and I can't watch that "Flo" video to get whatever the secret code is. so I have to ask for a NEW CAPTCHA. except it won't GIVE me one. That "video CAPTCHA" is IRRITATING AS FUCK. I'm considering NOT posting any more because of it.
If someone ELSE has seen THAT PARTICULAR 'secret code' video, please let me know what it is, thanks.
oh, and I can't watch that "Flo" video to get whatever the secret code is. so I have to ask for a NEW CAPTCHA. except it won't GIVE me one. That "video CAPTCHA" is IRRITATING AS FUCK. I'm considering NOT posting any more because of it.
If someone ELSE has seen THAT PARTICULAR 'secret code' video, please let me know what it is, thanks.
I have not seen any videos on my end. I do get Canadian-ized banner ads that are targeted to me because of a few websites I've been to when I was logged in with my Windows 10 machine. On my iPad, I just see the Pro-Boards banner ads.
I’ve been thinking about this whole end of support thing for Windows 7 in 2020 and came to the following conclusions:
MS will need to continue to develop, test, and deliver updates to corporate and government clients via multimillion dollar extended contracts as they are doing now for XP
Since they will be delivering this updates, most likely through the existing update service, they will have to actively block others from accessing these updates.
This is most likely anticompetitive, monopolistic behavior, designed to increase revenues by forcing customers to buy (business users) an upgrade to a newer product.
This I think is where the first class action lawsuit from both business users and end users should come from.
Microsoft is in an apologetic mood right now -- what next? 'Sorry for Windows 10'? By Mark Wilson Dec 12, 2015 Sorry may be the hardest word, but it seems to be tripping off Microsoft's tongue quite freely at the moment. Maybe it's the holiday season making the company look at itself, but we've had two apologies in recent days -- first, a semi-apology for stealing OneDrive storage from people, and now it's sorry about the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4.
There are probably plenty of other things Microsoft might want to consider apologizing for while it's at it. How about the forced downloading of Windows 10 -- or the upgrade process that has baffled some? What about an apology for the frankly rubbish launch of Microsoft Edge which still doesn’t have extensions? How about an apology for Windows 10 in general? Someone certainly needs to offer a heartfelt apology for Windows 10 Mobile.
But we could also look a little further back. It's never going to be too late to say sorry for Clippy, and many people would like Microsoft to offer some sort of apology for Skype, 'modern' apps, and years of subjecting people to Internet Explorer. What would you add to the list… and would 'sorry' be good enough?
...and an apology for all the PCs they bricked and irreplaceable files they inadvertently sent into oblivion with their misleading Windows 10 upgrade pressure tactics.
Last Edit: Dec 13, 2015 18:33:39 GMT -6 by Techie007
Microsoft, is Windows 10 the best you could do? Really? After promising to listen to our feedback, what a letdown!
<Rick> Good video. It's almost hard to believe that at one time Windows 98 was the resource hog, but even then, it still ran circles around what Windows 10 can do on today's modern hardware and look a heck of alot better doing it.
May 25, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -6
<Rick> As stated elsewhere, So much for the launch of Windows 11, "The Great Crash." Myself, I had a hard time getting into the site listed above, when I did get in, the video was partly done and then it crashed. There has been many other reports of crashing.
Jun 24, 2021 9:52:33 GMT -6
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<Rick> I see Microsoft has been very quick to pull down reports of site crashing regarding the Launch of Windows 11 on the Microsoft Insiders forum.
Jun 24, 2021 9:57:31 GMT -6
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<Rick> The rebroadcast is working okay.
Jun 24, 2021 11:00:25 GMT -6
<Rick> With reports of people being able to install the dev-edition of Windows 11 on machines not meeting spec, I thought I would give it a what-the-heck try. Lucky me, I'm caught in the downloading, doesn't meet spec, clearing, re-downloading loop on my machine!
Jul 2, 2021 7:08:46 GMT -6
<Rick> I've recently purchased a license for ArcaOS from www.arcanoae.com/ to play with. First impressions, it's still OS/2, but it now has a Linux twist to it.
Jul 2, 2021 7:32:53 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> laptop shit out and am stuck buying a new one. os win11 as fucked as win10 was?
Oct 2, 2021 12:56:10 GMT -6
<Rick> Let's see ..., my impression of Windows 11 is that it is a spruced up version of Windows 10 requiring a 64-bit processor plus a piece of security hardware that is less than 4 years old in order for it to run.
Oct 4, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
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<Rick> On the plus side, Microsoft is supposed to be supporting Windows 10 for some time to come for those of us still using systems with I7 or older processors.
Oct 4, 2021 18:44:35 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> i tried installing win10 om the 'shitout' pc this morning usung media creation. EPIC FAIL! went into an endless bootloop. win7 reinstalled just fine
Oct 21, 2021 11:23:38 GMT -6
<dozrguy> STILL so much bullshit and so little time for the kiddie ideas from the hill. My new laptop (MSI GE 11-UH461) would be an awesome "10" machine but because of Winblows I can only give it a "2"......wasted $3500
Oct 27, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -6
<Rick> Hello. Just checking in.
Mar 17, 2022 10:46:54 GMT -6
<isidroco> Each new w10 update adds >100000 useless files to \Windows\Servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix... folders. Even in a SSD takes time to delete that stuff. In each version they manage to worsen stuff.
Mar 27, 2022 16:14:51 GMT -6
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<dozerguy> still traffic here?
Oct 9, 2022 17:32:44 GMT -6
<Rick> No, there does not seem to be very much traffic these days. I still check in from time to time.
Oct 9, 2022 20:08:58 GMT -6