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Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple

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Re: Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple

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Post by jamesrcole »

croon wrote: post #212
jamesrcole wrote: post #76

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Speaking for myself, I hate headphone cables. They always get knotted up when stored away, and they're always getting caught on things while I'm wearing the headphones. I'm looking forwards to when wireless headphones are more ubiquitous and cheaper.

Sure, headphone cables are a mess. So use wireless ones instead. For me; not having to ever charge my headphones far outweigh that hassle. As well as any issues with pairing and sound quality. > I'm looking forwards to when wireless headphones are more ubiquitous and cheaper. So wait for that before you remove the port. Otherwise we're just trading 3.5mm cable hassles for Lightning adapter/cable hassles.

>>> I'm looking forwards to when wireless headphones are more ubiquitous and cheaper.

> So wait for that before you remove the port.

Err, I was stating my personal opinion on wireless headphones. I'm not Apple.

Obviously people have different preferences on removing the port. I'm glad that it will help push the availability of wireless headphones, and speed up their marketplace penetration.

> Otherwise we're just trading 3.5mm cable hassles for Lightning adapter/cable hassles.

Again, for my own situation, I wouldn't have any Lightning adapter/cable hassles.

Re: Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple

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Post by bdcravens »

xenobioticants wrote: post #141
ggus wrote: post #98

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Or is it? I use LittleSnitch too, and my Mac does A LOT of shady requests. Every time I use Spotlight! Everytime I log in.. heck, even the keyboard service has to make internet requests!

Here you go: # Privacy: don’t send search queries to Apple # Safari defaults write com.apple.Safari UniversalSearchEnabled -bool false defaults write com.apple.Safari SuppressSearchSuggestions -bool true # Spotlight defaults write com.apple.spotlight orderedItems -array \ '{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_WEBSEARCH";}' \ '{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_SPOTLIGHT_SUGGESTIONS";}' Also turn off Dictation in System Preferenc…

The fact that such hacks (which really aren't known beyonds developers) are necessary makes a very loud statement.

Re: Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple

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Post by eth0up »

ubernostrum wrote: post #87
UK-AL wrote: post #84

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"Let's completely forget that Microsoft 'upgrades' your OS without your permission, spies on you, embeds ads into the Start Menu, and their OEMs like Lenovo will listen in on everything you do at the hardware level. In my opinion, these are actual reasons a company should completely fail and dissolve." - an google and apple don't do this?

The general argument is that Apple, because their profit margin is in the hardware, has no motive to collect and sell personal information to advertisers. And in line with that, Apple has focused on the security and privacy features of their stack. Google is, for better or worse, still an advertising company. Selling you a phone isn't how they make money; getting you to send information about yourself to them (in ord…

>.... getting you to send information about yourself to them (in order to provide more accurate ad targeting) is how they make money.

This is a common and generally accepted interpretation of Google that I conjecture contrary to. To restrict such an unprecedented glut of data solely to marketing would seem prohibitively wasteful. Access to intellectual property[1], psychology/social trends, biometrics[2], political, economic, and myriad otherwise private/personal details, etc., collectively and individually comprise a colossal repository useful for predicting, manipulating and understanding (in entirely novel ways) all these very subjects. From intel (e.g. gov) to legislation (e.g. ALEC), the implied applications are many. Perhaps ads are the primary ostensive means of income for Google presently, but opportunity elsewhere abounds. And maybe I've got it all wrong and marketing is the root directory of humanity.

1. Considerations: Exchange of unencrypted prospective patent data pre-patent; google edu domains; unclaimed conceptual material, etc.

2. Voice, face.

Re: Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple

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Post by bdcravens »

s_ngularity wrote: post #90
nicky0 wrote: post #74

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It wasn't always the case, but you are now allowed to run macOS in a VM on Apple hardware.

Source on this? A quick google search didn't turn up anything

Look in the marketing for any of the VM vendors (I installed 10.12 in Parallels a couple of days ago)

Re: Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple

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Post by besselheim »

curt15 wrote: post #172
besselheim wrote: post #83

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Anonymised telemetry reports are not the same as being spied upon. Anyway, Apple has the same kind of thing in iOS and OS X.

Is there any official documentation of what exactly is reported? For instance, what does Windows send to domains like ad.doubleclick.net? It's rather curious that Microsoft builds such extraordinary defenses against the user interfering with telemetry like hardcoding certain DNS lookups and tricking the user into thinking that the hosts file actually works ( http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30676597-Complete-Win10-bl…

There's this Technet article, which also tells you how to dial it down or disable it: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/itpro/windows/manage/con...

I don't see the problem with ignoring the hosts file, if that is indeed what is happening. It's not really intended as a blocking mechanism.

Re: Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple

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Post by benaadams »

bluejekyll wrote: post #209
whoops1122 wrote: post #202

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I would also like to add, Microsoft are and had been innovative, they may not making some digital woman who you could talk to on the phone, but how to make OS more efficient and take the advantage on all the new hardware, how to fit windows this giant monsters on all the new hardware, in itself is pretty amazing.

> Windows this giant monstwe Yeah. Honestly, I don't want Windows. What I want is a really solid durable hardware platform for running Unix. One day maybe I will try a surface with Linux, I wonder if MS has crippled that or not. Anyone know?

Can just use ubuntu xenial directly from Windows https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...

Re: Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple

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Post by [deleted] »

my123 wrote: post #182
cma wrote: post #178

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One big issue is still the 260-character path-name limitation. Deep source directories choke on that, especially if you copy them around for backup, etc. You end up abbreviating class names in the file names and mess up searchability. You end up using single letter directories like 'C:\b\' instead of 'C:\backup\', etc. as workarounds. It all feels very MS DOS.

This limit never existed in the NT kernel, it's a Win32 SubSystem limit that can be workarounded with \??\ at the beginning of the path

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Re: Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple

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Post by benaadams »

notalaser wrote: post #85
jfoutz wrote: post #15

There's no real underdog now. Microsoft has a pretty consistent track record of looking at other companies making money, and making a microsoft version of that. Bing, xbox, azure, and zune are pretty obvious examples. Surface doesn't seem to fit that mold at all. They're giving every indication of doing something new. I can't think of a real underdog right now. Apple had this sort of desperation to do something good,…

I've been reading all these Mac-related posts lately because I'm very seriously considering getting one. Why, you ask? Precisely because this: > A linux laptop with flawless hardware support. is hardly cutting it for me anymore, and I've used Linux for a very long time (basically, since Be Inc. was still around and BeOS was still being sold, since we're dabbling in nostalgia). You can get a Linux laptop with flawless…

Tried using ubuntu xenial directly from Windows 10? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...

Re: Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple

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Post by bluejekyll »

benaadams wrote: post #236
bluejekyll wrote: post #209

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> Windows this giant monstwe Yeah. Honestly, I don't want Windows. What I want is a really solid durable hardware platform for running Unix. One day maybe I will try a surface with Linux, I wonder if MS has crippled that or not. Anyone know?

Can just use ubuntu xenial directly from Windows https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...

yeah, I know about the Linux compatibility in Windows. But I don't want Windows ;)

So Linux is good enough for me, but on the Laptop there are still many issues, like waking from sleep. Apple has an excellent product, but on the day that I decide that I need to switch, then I'll probably also try to contribute to help fix the Linux issues.

Re: Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than Apple

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Post by aq3cn »

xenobioticants wrote: post #141
ggus wrote: post #98

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Or is it? I use LittleSnitch too, and my Mac does A LOT of shady requests. Every time I use Spotlight! Everytime I log in.. heck, even the keyboard service has to make internet requests!

Here you go: # Privacy: don’t send search queries to Apple # Safari defaults write com.apple.Safari UniversalSearchEnabled -bool false defaults write com.apple.Safari SuppressSearchSuggestions -bool true # Spotlight defaults write com.apple.spotlight orderedItems -array \ '{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_WEBSEARCH";}' \ '{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_SPOTLIGHT_SUGGESTIONS";}' Also turn off Dictation in System Preferenc…

You can go to group policy (gpedit.exe) in Windows 10 pro to switch off most of privacy related settings. There is a good description written for every settings.
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