Problem is that the default behaviour changed and people used up their cellular data when they absolutely did not want to do so - when they were at home, in range of their home WiFi and used data intensive apps (like watching movies, installing updates etc.) BECAUSE they were sure only WiFi would be used as long as they are in range of their WiFi access point. But WiFi assist means that the phone can switch to cellular data even while you are still in range of your own WiFi, which was never the case before and which was not sufficiently explained by Apple when the iOS update was made available.

Most of them have already been available for a couple years on the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal website: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/fr...

Exactly, this. It allows you to blacklist updates. You then create an update DVD which you use on the clients, or you start the updater from a network share.

Or set up a WSUS server and do not approve the updates responsible for the W10 upgrade (of course not practical for a single private computer, but maybe an option for a school - although I'd hope you'd already have something like that running there...).

Someone else created a script which disables all the currently known telemetry/W10 updates for the Windows online update service. Problem is that these updates sometimes get replaced by a newer update, so you'd have to add updates as they appear (by which time they might already have been automatically installed...).

http://forums.mydigitallife.in...

So some way of updating AFTER the patch day is better, I think.

There will be standard game controllers for the Apple TV. I suppose those would do OK, once games support them. http://www.apple.com/tv/games-...

Still, I think Apple is aiming more for the "casual" gaming crowd.

I know, I am crazy, I actually READ the article. And this info is in there:

Now they have been launched the positive news is KB3075249 and KB3080149 have been classed as ‘Optional’ in Windows Update. This means they won’t install without Windows 7 and Windows 8 users giving them express permission to do so (a key difference to Windows 10).

On the flip side KB3068708 is classified as ‘Recommended’ which means Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs with Windows Update set to automatic will install it by default. That said for the update to appear in the first place you will need to be a participant in Microsoft’s Customer Experience Improvement Program, an opt-in program which already has you agreeing to send user data to the company.

Same problem here, same problem for my parents. I owned a HP colour inkjet printer years ago, cartridges always dried up and I ended up using over half the ink via "cleaning mode" just to make the damn thing work again when I wanted to print a page again after a few weeks. Even worse for my parents, they bought an inkjet printer, I helped set it up, it worked, a couple days later it already had missing lines in the printouts due to clogged-up print heads. Of course my father was pissed, "every time I just want to print out one or two pages, I have to clean the damn printer for five minutes before it works again!"

So I bought a €100 black and white laser printer for my parents, they are happy with it and the 3000 pages toner cartridge will last them forever. I myself had already switched to laser printers years earlier, I bought a colour one last year (previous model to this: http://accessories.us.dell.com... ). Cost me €250, the toner lasts a long time, print quality is very good even for pictures (of course not suitable if you REALLY want to print out glossy photographs on high quality photo paper) and a third party set of toner (all colours) costs about €30.

I think it is not so much about "doing things that piss people off", but instead more about not wanting to find photographs/videos on the internet of themselves undressing before taking a shower/going to bed.

Well, lucky you - because that is exactly how it is. You download the (free) technical preview build ISO http://windows.microsoft.com/e..., install it, and then later on it will be upgraded to a (free) fully licensed copy. Only requirement is that you have to sign up for a Microsoft account (just create some new email address for that).

Or, in easier words, the full version of Windows 10 is free for everybody who participates in the technical preview.

So you based your decision on whether Windows 10 is appropriate for your environment or sends too much information to the Internet on a technical preview which clearly states in the user agreement that it regularly sends usage information about everything back to Microsoft, because it is a technical preview and wants to collect usage data. Got it.

"One should try anything he can in his career, except folkdance and incest."

What an actor, one of the great ones. Nobody could do the sophisticated villain like him. And what a voice! And he definitely led an interesting life - he was in the secret service, and I remember that one scene from the LotR "making of" videos in which Peter Jackson talked about how Christopher Lee explained to him what "someone getting stabbed in the back with a knife" really sounded like. And how Peter Jackson was not all that eager to find out how exactly Lee knew that.

RIP

Like with most things, it is a matter of taste and it also depends on what exactly you tried so far - if all you tried is the mass-produced stuff, it's of course not all that much better than the mass-produced stuff from the US (except maybe for sticking to the Reinheitsgebot). But here in Germany, we also have excellent small, local breweries (some of which even only offer their beer in the pub/restaurant at their brewery). German beer is not only Beck's, Paulaner, Löwenbräu, Warsteiner and so on. There's also stuff like http://www.bergbier.de/biersor... :-)

This. Where I live in Germany, we had pretty much no snow at all the whole winter. "Winter" just did not show up for work this time.

It actually has been done, although as far as I can see only in the "what if" book. It has a chapter "the last human light" which pretty much is this question, just limited to "lights" instead of "device".

And the remaining 2% is recycled pirate corpses.