Comment Re:WGA? (Score 1) 650
MS promised that they would release a key or some sort of patch that would allow you to install without the server. Where is it?
Can you point out a public location of that promise?
MS promised that they would release a key or some sort of patch that would allow you to install without the server. Where is it?
Can you point out a public location of that promise?
Who decides when the "end of life" of a product is reached? Its maker, or its user?
The maker.
Set up a "multimedia desktop" for my parents in their lounge. The desktop startup/response time of the OS is orders of magnitude faster than any other computer in our family and yet it is on the oldest and slowest hardware.
I think that's one of the problems that Windows has. You were able to setup a specific device for a specific purpose. If there's anything not related to "multimedia desktop" you made sure it wasn't part of the device. If your parents try to do anything on that computer and they can't they'll just say "Well, this device wasn't made to do this". But with a Windows computer, everyone expects it to do something different. Windows has to deal with a really large baseline of functionality because it's expected to do that. Windows Server is different where there's more and more of turning on one feature at a time and having different SKU's with different feature sets, but the client OS can't pull that off.
... is to sell us shit that we do not need. If we 'needed' something, we would find a way to get it.
It's possible that wants sell better than needs.
Yes. If I use IMAP, then why use gmail at all?
Storage and Spam filter.
allowing any schmuck to lay cables throughout your neighborhood is a recipe for disaster.
Why would it be a disaster? If the reason would be "a street would never be in the state of not being torn up!" I'm sure that a competent local government could write laws and regulations that say "A section of street can only be under construction X% of the year, and fines will be implemented against any work that goes beyond the permit date". And then yes, streets might get torn up a bit more, but given that most streets are under repaired in the US right now, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Plus, it's not like there are hundreds of ISP's covering every little town. Ideally we'd have local municipalities realize that they should install the last mile of cable, and then make it property of the home, but for some reason that never happens.
The reality is that as worker productivity has increased by orders of magnitude, worker pay adjusted for inflation has decreased sharply. There's no defense for that.
What if the worker productivity isn't due to anything the workers have done, but from capitol investments the employers have made to increase their employee's productivity?
encourages the use of a good password manager
Lol!
All that would really encourage is people not using the website. If Kellogs.com customer loyalty reward website assigned me a ginourmus password, using characters I don't think I could even find on my phones' keyboard, it would encourage me pretty quickly to not use Kellogs products and seek out the competitors product (which would have a more reasonable password policy) when the difference was negligible to me.
Well, good thing we had all those financial regulations repealed by Clinton.
It was amazing how Clinton was able to single handedly overcome all of the protestations of the Republican controlled House and Senate and just erase the laws of the land at his own whim. It's totally awesome how the Founding Fathers gave the Executive branch that authority.
It would cost very little to operate or use in the modern age of computers.
In other words, it costs too much.
Aren't you curious as to why?
Perhaps the field has changed in the past 25 years? It's possible that the skill set that is currently the successful still set has a certain group self selecting themselves out of the field?
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
