Comment you can avoid it completely, actually (Score 1) 492
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
Then they give everyone's data away.
LOL, most of us don't have problems adapting to new tech. It's when the new tech is a pile of shit that makes people not want to adapt the new tech.
Hopefully he is just trolling. Otherwise dumb as a rock.
Fuck you. I had no problems with Windows 8. The problem was, is, and always will be idiots like you who are just not intelligent enough to adapt to even the smallest changes.
IBM mainframes in the 70's
MS-DOS
AmigOS
AmigaDOS
Apple since mid 80s
Windows since 3.1
Vista stunk, and windows 8 damn near killed the desktop industry it was so bad. Others? not too bad. W10 so far? Not too bad at all.
No - sorry, AC. if you cannot see that Windows 8 is a hot steaming pile of shit, Its your lack of intelligence. Not those with the ability and experience to judge it.
It's a moo point. -JT
Careful, you're going to encourage that "cows say MOO!" guy.
Irregardless of you're opinion, it's a mute point.
Mute? you insensitive clod! Think of the unfortunate who can't have aural sex.
Perhaps that's the deal Microsoft intends to offer to its customers with Windows 10. I don't believe either one is an acceptable approach. For sure, you can always say to the customer, let me control everything in exchange I will guarantee you a more secure platform. Even if it is not true, it is very unlikely next door guy will notice.
1. Install Firefox
2. Open Firefox 3. Select Firefox as your default browser.
This is one of the weirdest non-issues I've seen in about forever. Would it be better if say, Microsoft would make Vivaldi the default browser so you'd have to download Vivaldi because it doen't come with Windows 10?
Or have we become so stupid and lazy that it's too much trouble, or too confusing to check a check box that shows up the first time you open the program?
As an old tyme Windows hater, I'm not getting some of this. On the 29th I reserved my upgrade.
Huh? I find it unlikely that anyone who described themselves as a windows hater would upgrade to the latest version of the OS, much less on release day. You can turn in your card at the main office...
On a sacrificial computer, and because I had a support task to perform that was on a Windows ten computer. Some times ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
Agreed. Most of my serious stuff is Linux.
I just made the comment because these young guppies haven't seen the carnage we've seen. We've been around.
Ain't that the troof!
I've stored up a lifetime's worth of nasty Windows memories, with some highlites of them making perfectly good peripherals obsolete, update hell, the removal of employees previously free version of Office, Ribbons, and Windows 8. And so much more! My hatred runs deep.
So I did need to do some Windows 10 support already - not a 10 problem, but that was the guy's OS. So I got W10 installed on a sacrificial computer. Took 4 hours to become proficient enough to not embarrass myself.
And damn - it isn't bad at all. I feel dirty for saying that, but I gotta be honest here. I didn't have one "What the hell?" moment.
I'm beginning to think that some of their arrogant "We'll tell you what you like" attitude might have gone away with the new owner of the LA Clippers.
Looking at how the update was going to be done, I left the machine on overnight idling.
On the thirtieth, I was notified I was ready, and upgraded. Could not have been easier.
I would have thought that reserving on rollout day would have put me in a long waiting line, and of course there would be a lot of serverhammer (c) on the first few days.
The whole process was flawless, and thank gawdd for that. My original plan was to wait until near the end of the update cycle and see how things were going. Make a decision on staying with 7 or not. But a fellow I was doing some software/hardware troubleshooting with foolishly updated to W10 thinking it would fix his problem, so I needed to know a little about ten before I took remote control of his computer
The results stunned me. Everything just worked. I didn't have to go to the web to figure out simple things like I did in W8. After 4 hours of playing around in it, I was ready to support it. Windows 8 was so nasty, I refused to support it.
Perhaps a Ballmerless company grew some balls here, listened to it's customers, and did it right. Really a tough job taking the steaming pile of shit that was W8, and turning it into something a confirmed Unix like devotee such as myself likes.
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After updating a sacrificial computer to W10, I installed Firefox. When it opened it told me it was not my default browser and to check a box if I wanted it to be default.
Am I going to get carpal tunnel for that one click? Regardless, I cried all night long, lost my self esteem, and became bulimic.
Thanks Obama!
Most memorable was oncemanyl years go, I used a towing service that was "covered". Two weeks later, my insurance bill went up over twice the amount of the tow. No accidents, no tickets, nothing at all to raise it - and since I was paying twice a year at the time, they were quadrupling their punishment that I had the audacity to take some of their money. Cry me a fucking river insurance companies.
My point was that it's a compound word, and that can help parse out saying foreign words sometimes.
"Or paid to have their house wired using the special cable?"
I really, really, really would like to find out how one starts such a contracting business.
I would be *delighted* to rewire your house with "cost is no object" cables. My service invoice will be comparable.
Actually from the OP and not just a stupid editor: "Cykelslangen (pronounced soo-cool-klag-en) " (fault of Wired.com)
Cykels Langen - there is precisely zero chance that's pronounced soo-cool-klag-en.
More likely, with a usually wierd euro-pronounciation of the "y" it's soocles-langen.
I'm American, and I'm honestly not sure why Americans are SO BAD at pronouncing foreign words. Do we just see an unfamiliar collection of letters and what, just give up?
Happiness is twin floppies.
