In an interview with U.K.’s The Telegraph, Dell chief executive, Michael Dell explains how inaccurate the phrase has become. “The post-PC era has been great for the PC,” he jokes. “When the post-PC era started there were about 180m PCs being sold a year and now it’s up to over 300m, so I like the post-PC era. For the last 11 quarters in a row, we’ve been gaining share in PCs. Last year we outgrew HP and Lenovo. It’s a business with an installed base of 1.8bn PCs, 600m of them are more than four years old, and as we create new beautiful, thin, powerful PCs that are better than the thing you bought five years ago, people will replace the old ones. And we are getting more and more share of that opportunity each quarter that goes by.” www.winbeta.org/news/dell-chief-executive-not-worried-about-the-post-pc-era
Court documents in Microsoft’s battle with IRS detail how the company moves money offshore to avoid taxes Offshore tax loopholes have existed for far longer than Microsoft’s 30 year existence, and the company certainly isn’t alone in making the most out of maximizing tax relief in an increasingly global economy. In fact, as Directions on Microsoft analyst Wes Miller pointed out on Twitter, Microsoft may have a fiduciary duty to its shareholders to maximize value in the company by minimizing taxes.
However what’s less clear is just exactly how Microsoft uses offshore tax loopholes (or incentives, depending on how you look at it), that is, until now. In a feature article in this Sunday’s Seattle Times, tech journalist Matt Day has taken to a number of documents that have come to light in the ongoing courtroom battle between the IRS and Microsoft to shine a light on the process of moving money from the US or abroad to Puerto Rico, Singapore or Ireland to gain significant tax relief.
Admittedly I didn't research what Trump is specifically suggesting, but who really thinks the US can actually close off access to parts of the Internet to someone who really wants to communicate? Methinks these guys need some technical advisors.
-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.
Honestly, seeing that these radicals do most of their soliciting on social media like Facebook and Twitter, I personally believe that it's less the government or NSA's job to crack down on this, not only because it would require them to have their fingers deep in everyone's private communications, but also would requite a lot of man hours to maintain and monitor. Instead, Facebook and Twitter simply need to write algorithms to detect such communication and soft-block those individuals from communicating with gullible youngsters. Failure to do their job to protect their more gullible users from the radicals should result in severe fines from the DHS.
Trump's comments about "closing off parts of the Internet" is just a hilarious joke to me. He has no idea of what he's talking about! This is not about impressionable youth trying to get out (kids to extremist sites), this is about professional warriors trying to get in (ISIS to our Facebook and Twitter). They'll just proxy in another way and we'll know even less about their real identity.
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Microsoft, is Windows 10 the best you could do? Really? After promising to listen to our feedback, what a letdown!
A smartphone app used by Islamic State (Isis) to spread news and propaganda could be behind the massive attack on the internet's core infrastructure that took place earlier this month, according to several cybersecurity experts.
Analysis of the IS Amaq Agency app has revealed that it was potentially the source of a botnet created to perform a massive DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on root name servers. A more powerful attack in the future could cause significant disruption to internet services and could even temporarily take down the internet.
"Imagine if the internet went down for several days, I believe we would see significant power grid failure and potentially loss of emergency services," Mize tells IBTimes UK. "This could mean the failure of dams and flood controls, power and water distribution, natural gas distribution and control failure, and more.
"Perhaps the most alarming aspect would be to the financial sector. I believe that loss of the internet for even a two week period could cause enough disruption to financial institutions that consumers would lose confidence and this could be catastrophic to the markets. All of this could set up a chain reaction that could send the public in to a panicked tailspin."
Seriously guys, this terrorism problem is a whole lot worse than the media would have us to believe, and I believe it is going to cause our country severe problems very soon. Like terrorist attacks next year that will make what we've seen so far barely even move the needle, eventually culminating in Martial Law before the end of 2016. 9/11 will only be a dim memory. Welcome to the “evolution” of humanity. I am certainly not looking forward to it. “Even so, come, Lord Jesus!”
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Microsoft, is Windows 10 the best you could do? Really? After promising to listen to our feedback, what a letdown!
Post by Locutus deBorg on Dec 20, 2015 16:59:29 GMT -6
"Imagine if the internet went down for several days, I believe we would see significant power grid failure and potentially loss of emergency services," Mize tells IBTimes UK. "This could mean the failure of dams and flood controls, power and water distribution, natural gas distribution and control failure, and more.
"Perhaps the most alarming aspect would be to the financial sector. I believe that loss of the internet for even a two week period could cause enough disruption to financial institutions that consumers would lose confidence and this could be catastrophic to the markets. All of this could set up a chain reaction that could send the public in to a panicked tailspin."
Ha !
they tried to pull the same FUD-Zilla tactics with Y2K
them there dams etc. all have manual overrides / controls if they're so dependent on the net to keep working that's a worse problem actually infecting / overwriting a PLC is more dangerous than a temporary / extended net outage all utilities functioned fine before there ever was any computer controls introduced
banking was done on paper for thousands of years before any computer ever entered the mix
I find the lack of configuration options disturbing !
I felt a great disturbance in the force.. as if millions of win 7 systems suddenly cried out in terror.
I haven't seen too many people who have been pleased by using Microsoft Edge and IE 11 has issues right Out-Of-Box, but we are supposed to be happy with using these products.
<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