It was an on /. a week ago http://tech.slashdot.org/story... but there has been a correction to the article it linked to:

"Correction: Windows 10 will be a one-time upgrade, free for the first year of release, and there will not be a subscription model attached, as this post initially reported."
http://mashable.com/2015/01/21...

Second reply, different day.

I'm going to try it out, I was loaned a brand new Acer Aspire 64 bit laptop. It's Win8, so I've been prepping it for Win8.1 then thought hell, might as well go on to Win10. I had much more to add but after reading the agreement it's best left unsaid, and the tape over the web cam stays.

But may disable mobile phones permanently? That's harsh.

Had a hell of a scare, hotmail.com is my e-mail address, https://account.live.com/ kept verifying me by sending E-mail that said if it's really me don't do anything, wrong. This went on for over an hour, the account itself in jeopardy.

The scare? I rarely log into MS yet most of my E-mail goes to hotmail.com (https://account.live.com ?) then forwarded elsewhere. Been like that for a very long time, they now have a second e-mail address to verify me by; but hell they've been forwarding to it for just as long... Wonder how Bing is holding up...

* Hotmail didn't have POP3, the other address did, I download all of my E-mail to read with Forte's Agent 6.

One could only purchase programs at Radio Shack and ours was lacking in that area, It's how I got into assembly language it showed up there one day.

The game "Asylum" was part of the package I was given, complete the entire game, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... I had diagrams of the layout put some work into it, Our Radio Shack never carried games either.

To mail order something was just something I/we never did, never an option, never came to mind. Now everything comes from NewEgg.com.

I knew putting an age down was going to get replies, I change it up many times before the submit :}

Most likely your better hackers learned the trade as teens, me something else always comes up I have to attend to, I did lean the structure of C++ all that to jump into Java which I just never really got anywhere with.

Retired and I skipped Algebra in school and it wasn't easy to pick up later, I really needed that Algebra class.

I don't wish to be "stuck" with Win10 as it's going subscription after a year free. I'm used to dual booting always have, it allows a choice.

Should be a way do this (EasyBCD), I'll figure it out (not asking).

Thanks for the update on the updates. :)

I run Windows because of the games I play, sometimes up till 6 AM.

I also have problems installing Linux or to be exact it's placement, three hard drives, and a 2TB USB UEFI drive which pretty much does what it wants to under a bios system.

I create three partitions meant to be swap, main, and storage; formatted in advanced to be such. I get one partition being used and a swap file created elsewhere.

There's more but it doesn't bode well for me or my abilities (which I consider to be, well able) to mention.

I've just said the heck with it and use CyWin64.

"This is a full build, and it will be installed as an in-place upgrade, so you’ll go through those colorful “installing your apps” screens again. This is because your account is being re-provisioned after the upgrade."

So you lose your current OS, not being able to install it elsewhere.

"You’ll notice that there is not a separate “Check Now” button here. This is because the button to check for WU updates now also checks for new builds."

I don't see any problems here... Unless your still able to select your updates. Else a future /. article will be of a bad update that took out all participants.

While studies show that a gamma ray burst most likely hit the earth causing the "The Ordovician–Silurian extinction events"= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...–Silurian_extinction_events. The extinction occurred 443.4 million years ago, during one of the most significant diversifications in Earth history."

Yet we survived as an intelligent life form.

Or survival has been protected in no small way by the fact were in a fairly unpopulated spiral of the galaxy. The closer to the center of the galaxy, the more populated (with stars) it becomes and chances of any intelligent life greatly reduced.

Now with the Andromeda galaxy fast approaching things could change, but Earth will be long gone or uninhabitable.

To note: one large star very far away when it goes black hole, it's polar emissions has us targeted, but it's not expected to happen for quite sometime so as not of any concern; again Earth pry won't have any life at that time.

Almost everything produced in the U.S. uses high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) rather than sugar and there is a difference. Being a LOT of Mexican stores around I go to them as anything sold there is authentic and made of real sugar, and my source of Coca-Cola for one.

"The use of HFCS in the United States is partially attributable to government tariffs that maintain domestic sugar prices at above the global price and subsidies to corn growers that lower the cost of the primary ingredient in HFCS, corn. Since 1797 there have been a system of sugar tariffs and sugar quotas in the United States that maintains the price of imported sugar at levels up to twice the global price" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

EA.COM now Origin.com started this with the Battle Field series. Steam, most don't mind always running as it's been operating for so long, I remember the /. article about Stream coming; being an on-line service, I tried to find it a few months ago with no luck, but it wasn't being accepted even back then.

Now a gamer can have numerous front doors running switching back and forth between games, A lot of needless overhead.

Origin doesn't have any requirement to be running. I just exit it when a game starts, 2.5 years later it complains about not being sync'd which again can be ignored, once a week I'll sync my games. Most are now following Steam's example (I only know of Steam and Origin, little about UBI.). Well just that UBI just shot themselves in the foot, yet again.

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I not only requested but had to call for the BF3 box (3 CD's are included), Yet all the first CD does is start downloading the game from Origin and many other mirrors.

Executive Order 12333
https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/...

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Executive Order 12333
https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/...

11:30 pm here PST (-800)

What a shame...

Mathematics is under rated. I wish I'd of spent more time with it (progressing courses), but it's too late.