Either way the artists usually get fucked. They get roughly dick from album sales too.

If you want them to get money, download their music, then go see them in concert. If you can find a show at a venue where Ticketmaster isn't eating it all, that is.

OK, but what about the authentically shoddy Cisco equipment?

You think your kids are going to care for you when you're old? I doubt they can stand to be around you at any age.

It makes you think that intelligent people like intelligent birds?

Vulkan works fine on Windows 7 with Nvidia, up to a certain version anyway when they stopped support. There is no technological reason why it couldn't continue working, only logistical.

That isn't what's happening. They're deciding what purposes the software is fit for. They aren't doing anything to actually prevent them doing it — They're not Apple — but they are stating that doing so is a violation of the license and therefore they can wash their hands of the liability.

China shined on WTO rules in nationalistically anticompetitive ways from day one. If you won't stand for it from Apple, why would you support it from China?

Careful, if you can't spell then your salary may be reduced below fifty cents.

Both things are converging on the same point, an inadequately cooled shiny slab with ARM cores that are crippled by a case design that doesn't adequately radiate heat and a battery that doesn't last the useful life of the device.

" This is outside Microsoft's decision making IMHO"

It isn't.

Dollars to doughnuts that this is however just a ploy to get more money.

> Whatever happened to the goal of Windows 10 being the last version of Windows

That was never intended to actually be true. They said that because IT people with actual discernment were looking at Windows Ten and going "Eh, this version is pants, I think we're gonna stick with Seven for now and see if Microsoft can get their act together for the *next* release." And that would be a disaster, because then they (and more importantly their companies) might not pay Microsoft any money for upgrade licenses for Ten.

Once just about everyone who ever pays for software upgrades let go of Seven and upgraded, the "Ten is the last version" line was promptly dropped, because it was no longer needed.

There is one significant way in which Eleven is better than Ten: the "is your PC ready for the upgrade" check is significantly more realistic about system requirements. Ten will happily install on a system with 8 GB of RAM, which is less than a quarter of what is needed to run it at an even vaguely acceptable level of performance, and it doesn't even *warn* you that there might be a problem. The result, is that the system can't be used for anything because it's too busy swapping, because the core of the OS doesn't fit in physical RAM, let alone any applications (and the Eight/Ten/Eleven virtual memory subsystem is even more pants than the NT/XP/Vista/Seven one). Eleven doesn't have this problem: it actually tells you your PC isn't good enough.

I still say Seven is the best operating system Microsoft has ever produced. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it ends up being the best one Microsoft *will* ever produce.

WhatsApp is owned by the same company as Facebook.

There has never been another company in the entire history of the Earth, that has been caught violating its own stated privacy policy and doing things with user data that it had specifically promised *not* to do, more times than this company.

I'm not saying they're the most evil company ever. They're not. There have been companies that have done worse things to people. Like, participating in genocide, for example. And there are companies that are in bed with totalitarian governments and directly exploit user data for Orwellian surveillance purposes (*cough* ByteDance *cough*). Which is not great.

But when we're talking specifically about whether the company will distribute your data to various third parties after promising that they wouldn't do that, *nobody* has ever had a worse track record for that, than Facebook/Meta. In particular, if a company comes along and offers them money for some user data, for marketing purposes, the only reason the deal would ever break down would be if they don't offer *enough* money. A little thing like "our privacy policy says we won't do that" would never get in the way.

Facts could upset me if they were upsetting facts, but you're not working with any so the question is irrelevant.

Making the radio easily replaceable means requiring a specific form factor. But the trend has been towards devices with big screens and little depth, freeing up a considerable space behind the dash front and center. This makes it much easier to design the HVAC system.

"Consider the $10,000 deposit laws.. If you deposit $10,000 in cash, the bank has to report it to the IRS. Try depositing $9,999..... You think the IRS is going to remain blind to this?"

The law also explicitly calls out "structuring" transactions to avoid these transactions that will go over the reporting amounts.