Comment Re:1 year may have been enough (Score 1) 137
I forgot to add that yes, probably there is a strong element of CYA policy. My company is not as important as MS or
I forgot to add that yes, probably there is a strong element of CYA policy. My company is not as important as MS or
The standard rules are set out here: https://support.microsoft.com/...
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Assuming that IT pros outside of Slashdot are about as smart as IT pros posting on Slashdot, it's quite likely that those PCs have been replaced, reconfigured (remove network card and USB ports, seal the PC case?) or placed in different areas in their networks to mitigate the risks of running XP. Adding extended support at that price needs to be part of the solution, not the only thing they've done. Hopefully they've used that time for deploying and testing new security measures.
I drove a 2011 Mercedes E class that did just that. I called them 'polite headlights'. I'm sure other manufacturers know how to do the same kind of thing.
In other words, you're saying that everyone should be distrusted, except for those who already agree with you. Interesting how the new legislation being considered might satisfy this point of view: by having anti vaccination people all in the same schools their views will be perpetuated no matter what the rest of the people say.
Recently a mother of 7 in Australia was interviewed after all of her children caught whooping cough. She said that after filtering out all mainstream media and medical advice it made sense to not vaccinate, which was something she ended up regretting. Without perfect quarantine and with more kids in vaccine-optional schools, it will be interesting to find the long term effects of this opting-out and how the broad accusations of government and pharma corruption will fit with the predictable increase in case of avoidable disease.
nope, if you need 3 rows of seats, the best is to get a station wagon or people carrier, not a flat-faced 4x4.
If Windows with Bing is a sign of things to come is that there will be a subscription based offering for people who don't get Windows with a new PC. I'd be interested in seeing this go ahead, at the very least to see what's so difficult about getting Windows (and x86 Firefox) on my £99 Hudl2 tablet.
I pressed submit too soon, meant to add that the truly interesting thing will be when Windows with Bing is available in retail and Apple says NOPE, our iPads are off-limits.
He also noted that Microsoft is beginning to adopt a strategy familiar to open source vendors: give away the software, and then sell support and related products.
well I happen to work in a Microsoft "ecosystem" and this is not what I see. What Microsoft is doing is a move toward the freemium model that is so popular with everything mobile and non-x86. Freeware instead of licenses and ad hoc purchases of "Support" don't pay the rent, there's plenty of evidence for that in Linux-based software that never goes from "project" to "product"...
Today you can use the Office applications over the web for free but if you want the more advanced parts, get the credit card ready to sign up for a 12 month subscription, rather than paying license up front with annual maintenance like before.
If Windows with Bing is a sign of things to come is that there will be a subscription based offering for people who don't get Windows with a new PC. I'd be interested in seeing this go ahead, at the very least to see what's so difficult about getting Windows (and x86 Firefox) on my £99 Hudl2 tablet.
So Scully will step out of the shower and realise it was just a dream?
The Russian observers weren't meant to be on board the surveillance craft, but you know how they do things in Soviet Russia...
Indeed. It was a Chinese patient, I think it's because the donor was from Congo.
Sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u... and http://www.shortnews.com/start...
You know, the nonstandard bits of that laptop look quite remarkable. Kudos to Apple to have a product line up with SSD on all laptops. The other manufacturers don't seem to have the guts to do that, let alone change the shape of keys, batteries and touchpads.
And while we are at it, let's eliminate the 24 hr day and 60 minute hour which are based on Sumerian arithmetic. Let's use digital (base 10) time. The primary unit would be the Centon (1/100th of a planetary rotation
That's just silly! We are the generation that grew with the internet tubes, we all use Swatch
e.g.: Usain Bolt did a 100m sprint in under 0.11574074074074073
The UX design "Modern" gets a lot of stick but is well aligned with everything that is widely accepted in present day applications. Just look at the Skype and eBay apps on W8 as good examples of what people can do if they leave "advanced settings" to be done on the website rather than on the standard UI. The Office ribbon was a change that also got a lot of criticism from old time users, but in actual fact works much better than having ALL UI elements on the screen with some grayed out.
As for the App ecosystem, the top 10 apps are not different from the iOS and Android top 10. It's the long tail that is much richer for those 2 markets. Other than developing universal apps or forfeiting any chance of ever getting more than 5% of total PC market share, what is Microsoft to do? Listen to old grumpy people on slashdot?
3. Hackers are capable of accurately predicting anything. The trajectory of a car going over an open drawbridge, the food someone buys at a grocery store, which entrance someone will use at a shopping mall - ANYTHING. Because they have computers.
Spock could do much better. He'd say "this plan has a 4.56% change of getting us out alive" and everyone agreed.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek
