
Re: Windows
If Microsoft still fully supported Windows 7 Professional and OneDrive then all users would be happy ... me too!
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Before Climate Change appeared we would see hurricanes forming in the southern Atlantic and then flow towards and into the Gulf of Mexico so hurricanes were common every year around Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, once the storms arrived in the gulf they would sail north into the states. But that hasn't been happening much since Climate Change arrived, storms are still created but now just tend to move north up the Atlantic and moving north in the Atlantic they seem to be just local storms, not hurricanes so much.
The most deadly thing in the government world is the concept, which always seems to be followed, that voters think they saw the government specify what they were going to do, and that it would be done. And that is where most of our troubles come from when governments are called successful because they have got the votes. But votes are based upon the government’s ignorance before it was elected.
You are describing a typical "bug" problem (you are upvoted, not the bug), a typical "fix" these days would be to get an email suggesting that you to drink the attached Guinness to fix it ... oh wait, that's Guinnessexe ... was it created by a drinker with a programming problem?
We believe that when the Earth appeared it became covered in water, with only small plants evolving from tiny cells that probably also created evolving bugs. So many plants are similar and some much life (animals and us) has a slightly similar structure ... two legs/two arms, four legs and no arms, only one head and two sexual genetics etc, so we all seem to be related to fish after they appears initially, we're not plants. Working to try and understand all life's evolution is fascinating ... the creation of life on our planet might be an example of life existing everywhere in the universe (icon).
Looking at the craters on the moon I feel so happy that they are on the moon, not on the Earth, We've had a lot of strikes in our planet's 4.6 billion years, but even more strikes could have resulted in a different Earth these days.
An asteroid impact about 66 million years ago removed all our big life (dinosaurs) and resulted in fish walking out of the sea to become us, so strikes change things! Another potential strike might result in us looking at strikes again, are we worried that the fish will need to start walking again in the future?
If you were a woman and Microsoft could upgrade you, would you have four arms and one very big leg? All Windows "upgrades" have been changes that were described as great, but it's often a pain to start using the upgraded Microsoft environment with your original personal item working.
We evolved by sharing knowledge ...
A young girl starting to walk on her rear legs and said, "Oh look Dad, let's eat that" ... and then Dad says, "Yes but we have to kill it first, eating a lion is not as easy as eating apples"
Shared knowledge has always helped everyone until recently.
We have AI these days so I'm cautious of a new website appearing that would have AI encouraging everyone to visit and pay their monthly phone fees when they talk on their phone e.g. EightyAndTea.com
After training then people starting in this environment will "evaluate" the data and determine a conclusion. But the problem is that they don't double check their results to verify the conclusion. The experts are always happy to not just believe their conclusion, until they are verified it ... when they only suspect that it's accurate and check everything. The failure to verify an initial estimate is common everywhere but experts make everything work by double checking everything they think is OK.
In the USA we seem to be seeing similar countrywide effects like the UK as a result of the current presidential election. An effect on DEL that the UK has seen for years now after BREXIT, which occurred in the UK as being such a great election result like the USA has recently seen successfully.
The malware world is making a lot of money ... but where?
Look at Microsoft creating malware fixes to help all users and telling everyone that they need to buy a new computer to use the new version of Windows. I suspect the malware folks are making a lot less money than everyone else working to create and sell malware fixes.
Is there any evidence that Windows 11 with AI running 100% doesn't make SPAM phone calls?
I don't have any evidence but I do suspect that the massive number of junk SPAM calls has started to appear once AI became universally distributed. I've seen nobody saying that AI can stop SPAM calls.
When DEC systems appeared I saw everyone using Apple and MSDOS ... the DEC systems were so much better and way more powerful and DEC was always explaining how their systems worked so well, I wonder if their explanations to help their users resulted in a lot of other companies saying, "Oh look if we do that then our systems will be so much better"
The DEC systems were technically complex and physically complex but quite easy to work on them to resolve problems - that kept me employed to fix things around the world for years!
"We told Microsoft but they consider it a UI issue, not a security issue. So it doesn't meet their bar for servicing as a security update ..."
If we just block all email .LNK files, and other infectious attachments, and make every browser block them too then we might have a slightly better environment.
A major "feature" is that the current Windows versions are getting hacking attempts and are busy working to break them. The hackers have abandoned working to attack the older versions of Windows so if you are using Windows 7 etc then you're quite safe and working well without having to worry about updates ... hacking "updates" and Copilot updates etc.
Monkeys on the moon, See how they bounce from dune to dune, Came a long way in a gold cocoon. All the way from a green balloon. Look out pa, there's monkeys on the moon! Saturn is blinking, Jupiter's winking, All the kids are singing a tune, "Look out pa, there's monkeys on the moon!"
LOL, I've always loved that song, was this a Guinness voice?
So a large rock wandering around our solar system is probably going to be attracted by the large gravity planets well away from us, so this is a good and very helpful discovery. It suggests that the chance of a very large strike on the inner planets (Mercury, Venus and our Earth) is lower because there are three very large, high gravity, planets further away. Since our solar system rotates around our galaxy every 200 million years there are occasional other risks if we pass another solar system.
I've used an iRobot cleaner for years with no network connections at all - it's still working so well and so easy cleaning all the cat fir drops up in the whole house. It would work with a network connection when I bought it but I disconnected every home connection keeping us all safe. I don't think that the iRobot had any issues but I was just shuting down everything.
Is this what happened on Mars 4 billion years ago? The Mars atmosphere started thinning, then the Mars seas disappeared and only a few satellites (ours) on Mars these days. I wonder if aliens are seeing our environment and saying, "Oh look at that again, we've seen it so often."
The icon is for all the doctors I have worked with for years
"Views expressed by participants sometimes changed as they pondered their decisions" is a good description of medical workers doing analysis. I'm not a medical worker, only a technician, but I was taught in my first big job to fix medical Holter monitor (EKG recording) problems. I was told to always think twice, never assume that my "solution" worked, I needed to always verify that it worked, never just think that it worked.
I see quite a bit of AI these days that looks OK but when you review the result they can be small or even major differences from what is 100% accurate, I'd guess that AI makes a "decision" and then just repeats the same procedure to be "accurate" ... that not like thinking twice, it's just running the same routine twice.
I suspect that AI in the medical world can be seen like talking to someone, "You've done a great job chopping down all those trees, this patient has breast cancer so you can fix it." - this is not a joke. Basically just using AI might be helpful making sure the surgery tools had been cleaned for example.
If NASA makes a decision then I will go with it, I worked with a former NASA engineer years ago and was always totally confident in everything he did because he instantly explained every thought or review mistake I had. They are excellent engineers in a "working world" not just a "need more wages by selling data" world. Whatever they do will be excellent, normally much better than everyone else's understandings ... I always thought my understanding was good but always quickly realized that he'd seen, fixed and helped me for years by explaining my wrong view - helping me learn much better
NASA gets the icon.
We're all people on our world so "scientific and technical cooperation" needs to be worldwide to support our future. The risks are the future of our sun in billions of years, it might die and we need to work out a method to move around the universe which will require scientific and technical cooperation worldwide. As fish we originally climbed out of the sea and a few of the fish became monkeys, eventually evolving to walk around our world and these days post on Facebook etc ... lets evolve some more to visit and start to live in other solar systems in the universe.
Brian Cox is very smart, it's always good and helpful to listen to his science views.
So what is the normal AI IQ level? Looking around at AI everywhere is looks like it's IQ level is about 55 to 85, never any higher. We're using AI everywhere these days but never see anything indicating that its' IQ level have been determined, like ours was in school when we were kids.
I'd probably be happier with AI if it was closer to my IQ level or even higher. I expect we'd all feel happier if we knew AI IQ was close to ours.
Use AI to tell you how many feet above the current sea level you need to keep the new AI data-center not flooded ... looking at the current climate change predictions it looks like being at least 35 feet above the sea level would work, so I guess no chance to a setup in the Netherlands?
Early memories of the Pink Floyd concerts had upgraded my hearing ever since. Standing in front of their loud speakers in an performance with Syd Barrett being great has made listening to events ever since to be so easy! I'm sure our problems driving home were only a result of the massive sound level, not what we were smoking.
It's helpful to review the history of everything happening in the past ... for example here's a very old quote that indicates how little we might expect ...
"Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the most reliable Windows ever. To me, this is like saying that asparagus is the most articulate vegetable ever." - Dave Barry
I'm still using Windows 7 Professional everywhere - these days "no updates" keeps everything working fine.
A fun AI search that documents AI functionality is do a search for "ore stabit fortis arare placet ore stat" and you see a load of what are errors ... until you set the search for images.
I lived in Oxford and remember working that out years ago ... you only need to read, and say it, as "o rest a bit for tis a rare place to rest at" ...
AI can't figure that out these days, but I couldn't understand it the first day on the bench either.
I get junk AI spam calls every day in America, I always answer, "HELL ...Oh..." and most of the calls disconnect immediately but my friends reply "Oh it's great to hear you speaking English" and we have happy conversations again ... born in England, I've lived and talked in America for 40 years.
I guess AI is working for its users and helping me too (icon).
I started with a new Intel 8080 microprocessor, having to wire it up and digitally creating a eprom to make it do my work. Then I moved to FORTRAN on new computers, BASIC and C ... languages kept changing to new ones so these days I expect that AI will be replaced in a few years too. That's how our programming environment has evolved for years now with "new" languages ... the older languages were not bad, they just got frequently replaced.
A crew identified as Microsoft appears to have started moonlighting as a operating system replacement player – further evidence that lines are blurring between nation-state profits and financially motivated management making all users discard their computers and buy new computers so they are never seen as cybercriminals, only fancy rich management.
This is not political, this is just a filthy rich coincidence between the USA and China these days.
In the early 80's the company I was working for moved me from doing mechanical repairing to start reviewing the electronics data collected as a result of my mechanical work and I was taught that I must always think twice - the instruction was related to the EKG data that we were collecting "Never assume that data that looks good is good, always verify that the data is accurate because if it's not accurate than you must review your work to fix it"
Learning to always think twice, after working to fix occasional Holter monitor heart rate data problems, in the early days has helped me ever since.
"There are three reasons for becoming a writer AI: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings." - updated from Quentin Crisp (icon) in the days before AI was created.
It's so much easier to unplug the CPU and EPROMS, occasionally replacing a tantalum capacitors too on S100 boards ... the quick fix is normally swap the EPROM and replace the board, then repair the nonworking board with a little soldering. The only complex issue with the old boards is to make sure you plug the component in the right way around. Originally everything was created to be kept working easily after initially being designed to work.
Years ago I was told that a PDP-11 shipped to Brazil was not working so I was flown from the US to Salvador in Brazil with the new CPU board to fix it, when I pulled the original board out I saw that the CPU had one pin loose so I pulled the CPU out and straightened the pins, plugged it in and everything worked. And the people in the lab took me out to dinner every day for a week while we verified it was working well.
Lovely eating Brazilian local food, a big dish of fish soup which enabled us to see the fish at the bottom of the dish when we drank all the soup together - it was great!
Definitely, I remember when Visual BASIC appeared and we saw so many of the same type of issues as we see with AI. I was watching programmers using Visual BASIC coding to create new Basic programs, mostly they worked until they were used. So we're still trying to create stuff that works ... the programming change hasn't effectively changed much.
I'm still personally using Windows 7 Professional, the environment that no longer supports Google Drive and OneDrive is completely secure and works completely easily with no user problems or infection risks. I have to work with the newer versions occasionally to help users but the newer versions are always uncomfortable. I created a lot of applications years ago, starting in the Windows XP environment, that eliminated all Microsoft access requirements (DLL's etc) and the applications still run fine in the current Windows versions because they were written to work in the Windows world, not use Widows.
"There is only one difference between dictatorship and democracy. In democracy, you vote and then take orders, in dictatorship you don't waste time voting." - Joseph Stalin
Has democracy become democrazy these days? It looks like Stalin made an accidentally accurate statement.