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proof of concept
Mar 6, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

a 10$ word I bust out for special occasions :tipshat:

woah my eyes just turned into dollar signs

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Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe

Hobohemian posted:

I still have 7. Suck it losers.

the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
One who lacks gorm

Section 31
Mar 4, 2012
Your every move will be observed. :getin:

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

the jokes on you: I added MH370 to the list of news items I want Cortana to update me on periodically; soon I will steal your place as resident GBS MH370 expert :twisted:

Strudel Man
May 19, 2003
ROME DID NOT HAVE ROBOTS, FUCKWIT

Tautologicus posted:

In Pro you can defer updates. I went through all kinds of rigamarole just to get the pro version once i found this out.
Wait, you have to get a higher-tier version in order to not update?

Irony.

proof of concept posted:

woah my eyes just turned into dollar signs
c. 1746, also in early use gaumless, gawmless, "wanting sense, stupid," a British dialectal word, from gome "notice, understanding" (c. 1200), from Old Norse gaumr "care, heed" (of unknown origin); + -less.

That is a pretty cool word.

Strudel Man fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Aug 5, 2015

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot
my biggest beef with windows 10 so far is that I was in the middle of working on something with music playing when the loving superfetch optimization service decided to kick in, locking the machine up for five minutes and making the music slur; I thought the loving processor had just melted down :argh:

Pomp
Apr 3, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

SeXReX posted:

jokes on them, I got locked out of internet banking because they made me use a 30 character password that combined a bunch of stupid rules about numbers and special characters which I immediately forgot

use a password manager you dummy idiot fucker

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Moon Atari posted:

Microsoft so bad at managing the press even if they somehow released the perfect operating system they would get slammed.

But everyone liked 7.

old fat bird
Oct 27, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
I'm the retard that agreed to the free OS without reading the finer details, I got a free Windows Phone when they came out because you just had to trade in an old lovely phone basically with no contract. It's two years later and I can't browse websites anymore or access the bank because no one supports the lovely fail phone. This is you in two years Windows 10 users.

burritolingus
Nov 6, 2007

by Ralp
Windows 10? Ha you suckers are way behind I'm already on Windows 2000 :smug:

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

really not looking forward to 7 going EOL

TheMostFrench
Jul 12, 2009

Stop for me, it's the claw!



I haven't really read about Windows 10 at all. Why does it exist? Are they just trying to recover from Windows 8? I thought that's what the 8.1 update was for.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

TheMostFrench posted:

I haven't really read about Windows 10 at all. Why does it exist? Are they just trying to recover from Windows 8? I thought that's what the 8.1 update was for.

short version: microsoft has a huge amount of idle software engineers and the world has millions of people willing to buy fake penis and breast enlargement pills. now the idle engineers think they have found a way to reach all these penis/breast people with penis/breast ads and make lots of money.

AbbadonOfHell
Jul 16, 2004
You know I would try to think of something funny to put here but ill just pass on that and threaten people with a + 2 board with a nail in it.

Helpimscared posted:

But I disabled all of the spying stuff

I just hear that as, "But I poop from there."

freelop
Apr 28, 2013

Where we're going, we won't need fries to see



Pomp posted:

use a password manager you dummy idiot fucker

Even easier if you just put all your passwords into a jpg and upload them to imgur you only need to remember 1 password and you can view all your passwords on any device.
You can even use your birthdate as a password

plain blue jacket
Jan 13, 2014

IT DOESN'T STOP
IT NEVER STOPS

freelop posted:

Even easier if you just put all your passwords into a jpg and upload them to imgur you only need to remember 1 password and you can view all your passwords on any device.
You can even use your birthdate as a password

At the risk of someone hacking my password and finding out I'm a millennial? No loving thanks

solar energy panel
Apr 30, 2007
How do i remove the stupid "upgrade to windows 10" square on the toolbar? I WILL NEVER DO IT.

the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Lt. Tanaka posted:

How do i remove the stupid "upgrade to windows 10" square on the toolbar? I WILL NEVER DO IT.

Task manager and disable it from starting up.

Astrobastard
Dec 31, 2008



Winky Face

Lt. Tanaka posted:

How do i remove the stupid "upgrade to windows 10" square on the toolbar? I WILL NEVER DO IT.

You open the upgrade windonw, hit the burger icon and theres an option in there to unsubscribe

midnightclimax
Dec 3, 2011

by XyloJW

Lt. Tanaka posted:

How do i remove the stupid "upgrade to windows 10" square on the toolbar? I WILL NEVER DO IT.

remove a specific update and/or add a registry key, there are guides out there

AntifaSupersoldier
Jul 30, 2003

Reality is what you can get away with
Hell Gem
Looking forward to all the Jareds going to jail thanks to windows 10

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



its true. the key difference between windows 7/8 and 10 is that in 10 they acknowledge the NSA backdoors and let you turn them off in the privacy settings

Sanctum
Feb 14, 2005

Property was their religion
A church for one

burritolingus posted:

Windows 10? Ha you suckers are way behind I'm already on Windows 2000 :smug:
Does win2k still get auto-infected with backdoors and poo poo the moment you connect to the internet, or has it been so long that the machine elves just stopped bothering and now win2k is usable once again because of total obsolescence?

Someday. Someday... :smith:

spiky butthole
May 5, 2014
I only half read the op so does this mean my computer now knows when I spunk on the keyboard?

Lucky Guy
Jan 24, 2013

TY for no bm

I don't have windows 10, so I'll just have to tell Microsoft what kind of porn i watch directly

its midget porn, 24/7

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

captain poopfister posted:

I only half read the op so does this mean my computer now knows when I spunk on the keyboard?

there is an algorithm that tries to asses your current state at all times, using all the OS data available. this way they can guess what type situation is causing you to buy poo poo and what may be the best target ad for your line of work or your hobbies. there is a special state called "private time", which is triggered by you opening a porn related site and your gps location not moving for 2-3 min. the state is kept until cortana hears a moaning sound or you start moving again. your jerk-off time is saved and once there is enough data to state your average jerk-off time within a confidence interval of 95% you are selected for premature ejaculation meds ads.

5er
Jun 1, 2000

Qapla' to a true warrior! :patriot:

Lucky Guy posted:

I don't have windows 10, so I'll just have to tell Microsoft what kind of porn i watch directly

its midget porn, 24/7

That's disrespectful. They prefer 'little person erotica'.

Unguided posted:

But everyone liked 7.

Yup.

Windows 8 wasn't a 'mismanagement of the press', and neither was Vista. Vista was bloated, and Windows 8 was Microsoft's go at the Apple / Nintendo mentality of 'you will take these lovely new features that got approved through a poorly managed consumer opinion testing process, and you will like them, and if you don't like them gently caress you we are the future and you're going to like them.'
They were disliked appropriately on merit of their own virtues; the press didn't have to spin so much as simply report.

FlimFlam Imam
Mar 1, 2007

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams
Well, ladies and gentleman, it looks as if we have no recourse. It's been a fun journey but now has come the time in which we must destroy our computers and go silently into that dark night.

Destroy them tonight for the safety and health of our children.

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

can anyone recommend websites for good, wholesome, healthy people? i am afraid of being thought of as a degenerate by microsoft, so i need to prove them wrong by frequenting websites that are for people who are not angry, or depressed. what are those websites

Nuclearmonkee
Jun 10, 2009


Mr. Pumroy posted:

can anyone recommend websites for good, wholesome, healthy people? i am afraid of being thought of as a degenerate by microsoft, so i need to prove them wrong by frequenting websites that are for people who are not angry, or depressed. what are those websites

pornhub

Lucky Guy
Jan 24, 2013

TY for no bm

5er posted:

That's disrespectful. They prefer 'little person erotica'.


lol if you jerk it to respectful porn

Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747

Mr. Pumroy posted:

can anyone recommend websites for good, wholesome, healthy people? i am afraid of being thought of as a degenerate by microsoft, so i need to prove them wrong by frequenting websites that are for people who are not angry, or depressed. what are those websites

https://www.reddit.com/

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Mr. Pumroy posted:

can anyone recommend websites for good, wholesome, healthy people? i am afraid of being thought of as a degenerate by microsoft, so i need to prove them wrong by frequenting websites that are for people who are not angry, or depressed. what are those websites

don't bother, it's too late. If you posted in d&d on a win10 machine its all in your file forever now. if you need security clearance as an american or a visa as a eurofag, nobody is going to read your file and try to get balanced picture. there is already a one strike policy in place, once something looks remotely fishy about you, you are out. my condolences, you should probably stop posting if you work in education, politics or security related staff. Damage control may help. also, don't gently caress with people working at microsoft, there is a good chance they can manage to get their hands on your file and ruin your life. also police, they can probably too. and nerdy people that are too much into "online security". also, north Koreans and chinese. also Russians.

ballistics statistics
Nov 27, 2003

:shepface:God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title:shepface:


TheMostFrench posted:

I haven't really read about Windows 10 at all. Why does it exist? Are they just trying to recover from Windows 8? I thought that's what the 8.1 update was for.

Controlling the appstore and taking a % cut of every sale makes a shitload of money these days. Windows 7 doesn't have an appstore. 8 was trashed so badly when it first came out that even 8.1 fixing most of the major issues wasn't enough to get people using it. So instead of 8.2 we got Windows 9. Apparently a lot of legacy programs use the version info for Windows to set certain flags, and supposedly only used the first digit of the Windows version, so it coming back as version 9.anything would make the program assume that it was running on 95/98 and break. I personally haven't seen any proof of this, but that's the story going around. So here we are, Windows 10 instead. They're basically giving it away to everyone, even pirates if you signed up for the beta test, so they can get the sweet appstore cut.

E: Could be it's Win 10 instead of 9 just purely for marketing purposes as well since it's going up against OSX.

ballistics statistics fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Aug 5, 2015

RaDaMaNt
Apr 24, 2012
Is this the worst windows yet?

Dial-a-Dog
May 22, 2001

ThaGrandCow posted:


E: Could be it's Win 10 instead of 9 just purely for marketing purposes as well since it's going up against OSX.
It's absolutely this. It's the same idiot reason they released the Xbox One instead of Xbox 3, because they didn't want to appear to be one version behind their competition. The version info story is absurd, they could easily have had Windows just report its version as Windows Nine, or literally anything other than Windows 9 if that was a real issue.

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
Controversial view: I like Windows 10, and if you think its going to get any info from you that facebook/google/NSA doesn't already have, you are an idiot

midnightclimax
Dec 3, 2011

by XyloJW

ElGroucho posted:

Controversial view: I like Windows 10, and if you think its going to get any info from you that facebook/google/NSA doesn't already have, you are an idiot

Yeah defeatism is great. Just bend over, spread your butt cheeks, it's all poo poo anyway.

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ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

ThaGrandCow posted:

They're basically giving it away to everyone, even pirates if you signed up for the beta test, so they can get the sweet appstore cut.

when are these chucklefucks going to realize people put up with windows' poo poo expressly because they dont want some central app store controlling what they can and cant install

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