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Comment Tell me again, why do I need Windows 10? (Score 1) 214

I downloaded, installed, updated and worked with the Windows 10 previews. I am tremendously underwhelmed.

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The Start menu takes up nearly half the screen with large icons, yet truncates the text for those large icons because the text has not been allocated enough room. Really, really poor UI design.

I lost control of the Windows Update process, there were no options for me to select besides, ~allow Microsoft to brick my computer at any time~.

My versions of Windows 7 are supported with security updates until 2020.

So tell me again, why do I want to dump Windows 7 and move to Windows 10? To please Microsoft is not a valid answer.

Comment Really? (Score 3, Insightful) 435

The Atlantic has an article asking whether autonomous cars need windows....

There are windows on space capsules.

There are windows on railroad passenger cars.

There are windows in houses.

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My guess is that people, in general, like to look outside.

Comment Re:Talk the talk, but doesn't walk the walk... (Score 1) 133

So you reference an article that's ten years old?...

Yes. The article's true. An oldie but a goodie.

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Given all the recent problems with Windows Update, and that Microsoft wants to use home users as beta test sites for future Windows Updates, I would think the 10 year old article is pretty close to reality nowadays.

Comment Model errors (Score 5, Insightful) 525

...It's a well-kept secret, but 95 per cent of the climate models ... have been found ... to be in error....

Yes, most, if not all, of the climate are in error. They do not forecast the global climate with 100% accuracy.

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They never will forecast the global climate with 100% accuracy. So they will always be in error.

However, they currently are accurate enough to forecast a future climate that has problems, and time is running out to prevent those problems from growing so large that they are all but irreversible.

The question is, do we start to address global warming now? Or do we wait until the models have 100% accuracy, at which time it will be too late to do anything about the problem.

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