Posts by TidySweep

Microsoft offers to PAY YOU to trade in your old computer for a Windows 10 device

Re: Now you know how much your privacy is worth

@ Stoneshop

No, nope. The price for an upgrade copy of Windows 10 is $0.00 USD. This is for a PERPETUAL license. A year from now they will raise the upgrade's price to probably something like $89.00 USD. Neither price, the 0.00 nor the 89.00 is a subscription price. They are one time prices on a perpetual license, not for a subscription. So, it's just a matter of timing: earlier adopters simply pay less for their perpetual license than people who decide to upgrade a year from now.

Where does Microsoft make its money here? Well, there's a price for Windows 10 on all new systems right now already, hidden in the price of the new computer; there are secondary purchases, e.g. when someone buys a license to Office, or a subscription to Office 365; there are all manner of other software Microsoft sells that runs on Windows, premium services and so on.

The deal on Windows 10 right now sets up a large eco-system of computers and devices running Windows 10, which in turn provides plenty of opportunities for Microsoft (and other companies).

US taxman slammed: Half of the IRS's servers still run doomed Windows Server 2003

Microsoft is Unrealistic

I really think that Microsoft is unrealistic about server software EOL. These businesses put the machines in place and intend to run them indefinitely. It's not like Windows - Easy -Transfer is an option, because it is not. When Microsoft sells an OS to a big corporation, the Microsoft folk should do so well aware that there's no easy upgrade. They should be thinking in terms of quarter centuries (and in some scenarios, longer).

4K catches fire with OTT streamers, while broadcasters burn

You're hitting on the most important issue with television

@ readinthereg : These days when a movie or piece of art or show is claimed to be pushing the envelope, usually it means it is wallowing all the more in the gutter.

In Canada K 2K 4K 8K

Here the big box stores are selling 4K televisions like hotcakes .. but I read that the folks in Japan are well into 8K development. Yet the cable companies have no plans for 4K in the near future; Rogers (the big cable company in the East) plans to send 1080i over the cable lines indefinitely. For 'simple' television, a 1080p television is more than necessary to handle the incoming signal.

When one is in the store, the 4K demos are wonderful 'n all, but at home, the big 1080p TV here seems to be more than enough to enjoy TV, I rarely give it a thought.

Why should we care? Perhaps the truth is that 1080i is enough for general television?

KARMA POLICE: GCHQ spooks spied on every web user ever

Re: Meanwhile, back in the real world....

Well, post your name and your credit card numbers to start with. Oh .. won't do that? But you have nothing to hide, right?

Ahmed's clock wasn't a bomb, but it blew up the 'net and Zuckerberg, Obama want to meet him

Re: @Tidybrain: (most Marks) The name Mohamed has earned its Terrorist Rep

What has race got to do with it?

Re: The name Mohamed has earned its Terrorist Rep

Well, he loved violence, and even made a living from it, so ..

Re: @Tidybrain: (most Marks) The name Mohamed has earned its Terrorist Rep

Well of FBI's 10 most wanted terrorists, 5 have the name Mohamed, and one has the name Ahmed .. none are named Mark.

Re: The name Mohamed has earned its Terrorist Rep

No, most Marks are either reprobate, never believed, or agnostic - just look at London. But most Mohameds and Ahmeds support Jihad to some degree or another.

Re: Why he weas arrested?

Three of the 9/11 terrorists had the name Ahmed, and there was a Mohamed or two or more among them as well.

Ahmed Mohamed is young, he'll get the design right soon enough.

Re: The name Mohamed has earned its Terrorist Rep

LOL You wouldn't see it because you'd be running away so fast.

The name Mohamed has earned its Terrorist Rep

Well, the name Mohammed has sort of earn the reputation .. how many Mohameds have blown themselves and thousands of others up with homemade bombs? Countless. Several of the 9/11 terrorist were named Mohamed and Ahmed.

If a Mohammed brought some weird homemade ticking device doing a count down or count up around me, I'd clear out pretty quick.

Malware links Russians to 7-year global cyberspy campaign

And that's why?

And that's is why Russia wants the likes of iCloud to move the iCloud data of Russians onto Russian soil so as to gain jurisdiction over the data and access it? I know I'm coming across as cynical, but maybe they're not just interesting in protecting their citizens, but spying on them?