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811.
by scholia 11y ago
Missed point error. I made no comment about ARM.
812.
by scholia 11y ago
Apple can just buy stuff. It bought Siri, after all.
813.
by scholia 11y ago
Barring an outbreak of hysteria about this device in your home that's basically capable of listening to everything you say....
814.
by scholia 11y ago
> Edit: Meanwhile the "PC" category became largely irrelevant. That's what Intel missed That's a ridiculous claim. 2015 shipments of 288.7 million units (Gartner) may be down but they're still huge: that'
815.
by scholia 11y ago
True ;-)
816.
by scholia 11y ago
I wish a UK bank did that! (Maybe one does, but I haven't heard about it....)
817.
by scholia 11y ago
Thanks for the info. It would be interesting to see Google turn Microsoft down, but I don't expect it will get the chance. Windows 10 works very well on phones....
818.
by scholia 11y ago
Have you looked at the market in China?
819.
by scholia 11y ago
On the plus side, using a card gives you a good list so you can see what you've spent. This makes accounting simpler than using a cash book and accumulating receipts. On the minus side, I use contactless ("wave to pay") all t
820.
by scholia 11y ago
> That won't fly without access to Google's proprietary apps and app store. Microsoft will need to bury this hatchet before they could get that licensing deal. Microsoft could use AOSP or Cyanogen. But is there any known case
821.
by scholia 11y ago
The Magic Quadrant is just the eye-catching bit of what is generally a fairly substantial (15,000-25,000 word) report.
822.
by scholia 11y ago
You can download the whole report from Microsoft (not surprising, since it came out top): https://info.microsoft.com/CO-SQL-CNTNT-FY16-09Sep-14-MQOper... I've posted a big version of the Magic Quadrant here: http:&#x
823.
by scholia 11y ago
Well, there are nightclubs that you can only get into if you are a hip young influencer. Facebook didn't require anything like that, just an .edu email address. That let in a lot of very un-hip people, and a smattering of oldies. If yo
824.
by scholia 11y ago
Or even without Facebook. From the linked BBC story: Consider a robot that was commissioned by the entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt, called Bina 48. The robot is almost identical in appearance to Rothblatt’s wife, and contains a database of
825.
by scholia 11y ago
It actually wasn't limited to "hip young influencers". It started with people who had a Harvard email address (including staff). It expanded via Ivy League universities, then all US universities and colleges, then US high sch
826.
by scholia 11y ago
Hard to say. I can actually see it happening at the moment (my son's school friends are having babies now). Whether that will transfer to the next generation is another matter, but Facebook's user base and engagement levels are st
827.
by scholia 11y ago
The under 18s eventually become the older generation ;-) They leave college, get married, and within a few years they are posting baby pics.....
828.
by scholia 11y ago
Only in the US. World-wide, Google's search market share is around 90%.
829.
by scholia 11y ago
Google launched Orkut at almost exactly the same time as Facebook, and it was initially much more successful. (Google was a huge company, not a dorm-room start-up, and nost people couldn't join Facebook even if they wanted to.) Friends
830.
by scholia 11y ago
However, Google seems to be trailing in third in the cloud, at least for enterprise users. And it seems to be falling well behind AWS and Azure. See, for example, https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2G2O5FC&ct
831.
by scholia 11y ago
That's the default view at imgur.com, isn't it? I hit that page a couple of times a month and haven't even seen any porn....
832.
by scholia 11y ago
There's much more information in the original 125-page paper: Online Privacy and ISPs: ISP Access to Consumer Data is Limited and Often Less than Access by Others http://www.iisp.gatech.edu/sites/default/files
833.
by scholia 11y ago
http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/11/im-sorry-but-your-email-addr...
834.
by scholia 11y ago
It still brings up a EULA....
835.
by scholia 11y ago
But presumably Amazon benefits (saves money) from making more use of hardware resources. It has to have some spare, but not as much spare as a comparable group of non-AWS users would have in total.... Also, presumably, not all the AWS users
836.
by scholia 11y ago
Not much impact on my CPU in Firefox (+5% or so), but it's using 60% of my GPU/graphics card....
837.
by scholia 11y ago
> the EULA dialogue will only appear AFTER the installation is complete This is true, and it's a waste of time, and it creates unnecessary risk. However, if you decline the EULA, it does roll back to your old OS. I've done th
838.
by scholia 11y ago
Got four auto-updated PCs here at home that qualify for the upgrade and it hasn't happened to any of them. And given Microsoft's reliance on people accepting its EULA, I'm pretty sure it would not deliberately bypass that....
839.
by scholia 11y ago
OK, Ed Bott of ZDNet has posted a couple of reg files, DisableOSUpgrade.reg and DisableGWX.reg . Download them, double-click them, and they will change the registry for you. See: How to block Windows 10 upgrades on your business network
840.
by scholia 11y ago
Quick fix: open a command prompt as admin (Ctrl+Shift+Enter) and type: net stop "windows update" That will stop it until you reboot.... After that, uninstall KB3035583 (choose to reboot later when prompted), then run the Disk Cl

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