Incorrect,

MSFT have transformed from a desktop company to a cloud company. The desktop is now telemetry, add and OEM sales for them. It is still a large part of the organization, but no where near as fragile a personality as it used to be. This is similar to the Amazon Retail/Ec2 relationship. One will eventually overtake the other and when making big bets... you bet on the future.

They have spent quite a bit getting into the cloud architecture (a lot compared to most of the organizations around) and they really don't care about windows anymore. That isn't their lock in these days and it is the same lock in that Amazon ran with several years ago.

There is a reason I can run a bash shell with a debian environment on windows 10 and it isn't because they particularly care about desktop lock in.

That number sounds a bit optimistic. I mean, I moved from far northwest Austin down to San Antonio, both supposedly fiber cities, but nothing has been heard down here for at least two years, and I've heard about nothing but the south side in Austin. Even then I'll probably see it sooner here than I would have in Austin. So my current plan is $0 for 0Gbps, but least I got a T-shirt out of them.

Back when they were known as Gateway 2000 and not just Gateway, they were well regarded as building high quality computers. Of course, no one remembers that, they remember the utter garbage they produced starting in the late 90's, then continued once they were bought by Acer (which is no surprise since Acer is utter garbage), until the brand was mercifully killed off a few years back. Why they decided to revive the name is beyond me. They'd probably have better luck with the eMachines brand which they also own.

LDAP and co

I doubt they use a SO-DIMM. The ram is almost certainly soldered in and non-upgradeable.

honestly so much for Microsoft paying attention to security...

the sooner organisations kill active directory the better but honestly, I don't see how they can right now... talk about antitrust...

suggestions for active directory replacement/alternative?

"On a strap" first became popular when timepieces became small enough for personal use. That should not be possible to patent.

Unfortunately, granting patents has gotten very strange. Patent attorneys are highly paid because they've mastered an arcane bureaucracy full of unpublished rules and pitfalls. It's the breadth and depth of their knowledge of these rules. The result is that ther are many patents which are, frankly, fraudulent, but were granted nonetheless because their authors and their attorneys skirted existing patents and failed to mention or simply lied about their awareness of prior art.Coupled with software patents, which should never have been permitted, patents have lost their meaning.

The GDP has absolutely nothing to do with how developed a country is.

Just double all prices (as Greece did) and you doubled your GPD - oops that was easy.

USA is a third world country, no working infrastructure, no working power grid, no working internet, poisoned tap water etc. p.p. No affordable health care.

Thailand has a low GDP, but is one of the top three rice exporters of the world. The health care system works just like in Germany, or any other first world country.

My internet is faster than my Wifi router, don't actually know how many Gbits it has, my router only has 80Mbit.

China has never claimed to surpass the US in technology.
every country has surpassed USA in technology. You can not even make the landing ropes on your carriers to catch landing plane your self. They are all made in: Germany.
The only thing where USA - perhaps is leading - is Intel. And that not on the technology edge but on market lead. All other CPU architectures are better: and mostly not manufactured in the USA, but in: China.

No. Banning zero rating is absolutely essential for net neutrality to exist. If zero rating is allowed, then net neutrality cannot exist period.

Zero rating is just a shady back door to avoid net neutrality rules by artificially lowering the data cap, and then allowing "free" access to the sites that bribed you to allow it. It is exactly the same thing as charging extra for sites that didn't bribe you. Either way you skew which sites your subscribers have access to, and either way you force companies to pay you for access to your subscribers.

What's the difference between having not enough data allowance to watch movies, except for those from companies that paid your isp extra to be "zero rated" vs having the data allowance, but the sites that didn't pay your isp extra get throttled to unwatchable? It's exactly the same issue.

As long as ISPs get to play favourites and choose for you which sites you have access to, it doesn't matter which method they use, or what they call it, it's anticompetitive either way.

It does how ever offer a cure. Play MMOLRPG, get a toon up to mid level, make real effort, spend weeks on it, make it as good as you can and then DELETE it and start again. Doing that first deletion, like mid toon development, is quite hard, all that effort, wham gone and start again. Now the hard part do it twice more, get them up there and then hit delete, wipe it all out. By the third one, you will be pretty secure from internet addiction and you will go on to do it again and again. Get bored with a toon, hit delete start again, so what, you lost nothing, not really, it is really quite liberating. If it is not fun playing, why play and if it is fun to play, why not delete and start afresh, it's just virtual junk, it doesn't even pollute when you through it away. The only time you can actually own that virtual stuff, is when you choose to delete it, that's your choice, your declaration of ownership of the toon and yourself (the rest of the time they own it and you by it).

This is my opinion too. It is going to be at least 5 years before there is a measurable number of people who can use this speed. Until 2.5gbit or 10gbit switches and motherboards become mainstream 2gbit just isn't that useful to the vast majority of people.

I have about 100mbit down and I rarely use all of that.

I feel like ideas for programmable Braille displays have been around for a long while. Even Braille ebooks.

What's the patent innovation, that it's on a strap?

Is "on a strap" going to be this decade's "on a computer" frivolous patent?

of course they would, but then so would apple, IBM and so would the linux community. The reality is though MS haven't been focused on Windows as it primary revenue stream for the better part of a decade now, Cloud and Productivity suite and products are where they make the majority of their money and as such it is pretty critical for them to not be focused on a single platform.

USB power supplies are supposed to have that kind of stuff. Many of them don't. Especially the dumb as brick wall wart USB power supplies that are just a switching power supply with no smarts whatsoever. Even a lot of computers will let you get away drawing significant amounts of current through a USB port, until you finally reach the point where something goes pop and the magic smoke comes out.

And then there's USB-C, where the spec allows for current levels that most certainly could start a fire, and quite frankly is a bit scary with how cheaply made some USB cables are.

If they are talking abourt pulsometers,then surprise -- you can get one for that is bluetooth enabled for about $40. For at least the last ten years.

>>> include wax and tar
Oh, that'll make the IPA taste better....

They do. Next time do a Google search before commenting, your post will be more informed.

Don't you understand that to be one of the Cool Kids of Slashdot, you gotta do that Apple Hate Thing? Richard Stallman requires it.

But we shouldn't compile that list for them. "They" don't need help selecting a new target.

They do not play a victim card.
They play the white devil card.

Grasp the difference, or don't. Up to you.

. He isn't. if he was truly as paranoid as he makes out to be, he wouldn't be posting on this venue.

If $20 and a wall plug are breaking points I think that potential customer should do a hard second-round review of personal financial health. I don't disagree with you though.

1) If I wanted to do it for free, I’d host it myself, as I already said, just like I host plenty of other stuff. It just wasn’t worth the effort when I was already paying for iCloud storage because...
2) The storage space was already being paid for for use with backups and other cloud access. See the #1 reason I already listed in my first post. This was simply a value-add to an existing subscription.
3) If I cared to share cross-platform, Apple already lets me do that in a variety of ways (e.g. hosted website, direct sharing, etc.), but that isn’t a consideration for us, because...
4) Everyone in my immediate family uses Apple devices already, as I already said. Google apps aren’t installed on most of the grandparents’ devices, but Apple Photos is, including their phones, tablets, and computers. By the time that I’d bother have them installing an extra app, it’d be worth the hassle to just stand up my own service from one of the many open source alternatives out there.

While I wouldn’t recommend my choice for most others, I have no idea how you reached the conclusion that it was the worst possible for my situation unless you deliberately chose to ignore the particulars of my situation that I spelled out in excruciating detail.

Also, Google is hardly free.

Noah's ark was 300 x 50 x 30 cubits, = 450,000.

The Chinese government? Nope ....