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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 30, 2015, 01:24:30 PM »
>marks

The average user will install it and love it ...for a few days. You can't trust those dumbasses. So far, I'd rate it a 7-8, but look how much I've gutted it.  I was fine with a filleted 8.1, too.


>service

What's that we say here?  "The power is in the defaults."  I fully expect MS to try some of the xbox subscription service type stuff. That's why this upgrade is free.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 30, 2015, 01:00:27 PM »
Didn't MS cut cpu use way back on W7-8 to counter complaints about Vista being a hog?  It feels like they are trying to slip back into something heavier now.  Just a feeling, no real data to back it up, but some of these old machines might groan under the load.

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Marketing / Re: Amazon Dash
« on: July 30, 2015, 12:18:18 PM »
Amazon starts selling quick-buy Dash Buttons for $5 each

http://www.techspot.com/news/61569-amazon-dash-buttons-5-dollars.html

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 30, 2015, 01:32:01 AM »
Slower to cold boot than W8.1 and waaaay slower to shut down

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 29, 2015, 10:41:15 PM »
Settings > Personalization > Start will allow you to enable or disable a few key features. I nuked “Show most used apps” and “Show recently added apps”. It also allows you to add folders you want to directly access, I added Documents and Photos.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 29, 2015, 10:13:35 PM »
Cortana is baked in.  You can't uninstall but you can turn it off. Done.  Looking at OneDrive next.

>hardware

Nothing special, but very light on peripheral devices -just 3; usb monitor, keyboard, & trackball.
Lenovo media server.  Celeron 1.6ghz, 4g ram

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 29, 2015, 08:05:10 PM »
There is now some sort of MS map program in the default apps for offline map viewing. I dug around and turned off automatic updates.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 29, 2015, 07:57:09 PM »
Did a custom install, turned almost everything off.  Chrome seemed slow, so I went to the Start/Windows icon in the taskbar and found the active app section called "Life at a glance" and killed almost everthing, most of it MS bloatware. For the few I kept, I killed the live tile feature.  Speed seems OK now, maybe a tad slow.

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Hardware & Technology / W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 29, 2015, 04:44:19 PM »
I'm going in.

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Water Cooler / Re: Don't start any long conversations
« on: July 29, 2015, 03:07:56 PM »
I was figuring 36 hrs.

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Marketing / Re: Amazon Prime Members Up to 41 Million, Average Spending $1,100/yr
« on: July 28, 2015, 08:23:28 PM »
Abandon hope all ye who enter here....

This is diabolical. Not the hardware, the  FreeTime ecosystem.

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Kids-Display-Wi-Fi-Kid-Proof/dp/B00LORDAMI/

The Fire HD Kids Edition starts in Amazon FreeTime, which is built from the ground up just for kids. Amazon FreeTime allows you to choose content you’ve purchased to create a personalized experience for each of your children, giving you control over what content each child can access. Kids can seamlessly switch between books, videos, and apps in a simple, fun, and safe environment designed specifically for them. Amazon FreeTime also lets you set daily time limits and educational goals for your child.

Amazon FreeTime:

Blocks access to the built-in web browser
Blocks access to browsing and purchasing Amazon content
Blocks in-app purchases
Disables location-based services
Disables social sharing (Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads)
Requires entry of a password to turn Wi-Fi connectivity on or off

You can choose specific books, videos, and apps for your child to see in Amazon FreeTime from your library or when you purchase new content from Amazon. Prime Instant Video and video rentals cannot be added to your child’s library in Amazon FreeTime. You can select whatever content you feel appropriate, and change your selections at any time. Content that you share in FreeTime will function just like it would normally on your Fire tablet, except that the protections listed above will limit functionality for some apps. Ads are not blocked in ad-supported apps that you share in FreeTime, but children cannot open them.

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Traffic / Re: Google Has Finally Acknowledged That Google+ Isn't Working Out
« on: July 28, 2015, 11:57:05 AM »
Contacts in Gmail (which can feed android) just had a big facelift/reorg on the desktop version. I had noticed it seemed more stand-alone.

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Traffic / Google Has Finally Acknowledged That Google+ Isn't Working Out
« on: July 28, 2015, 02:00:04 AM »
http://www.vice.com/read/google-has-finally-acknowledged-that-google-plus-isnt-working-out-265

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Water Cooler / Re: Floor cleaning robots, which ones are best?
« on: July 28, 2015, 01:25:37 AM »
Ladies & gentlemen, please place your bets...

http://i.imgur.com/YENNZQS.gif

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Water Cooler / Re: GOOGLE QUEST TO CURE DEATH
« on: July 27, 2015, 07:19:12 PM »
Too late for you, MF.

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