Are you upgrading to Windows 10?

[ven]

Circumstantially, mythbusters has proven that you can indeed polish a turd.

:laughing: i am sure i remember that one,can even buy turd polish on ebay...........probably no different for most of the stuff on there :laughing:

I look forward to YOUR video demonstrating it

 

[moldyoldy]

Ref Browsers: My brother uses nearly all of the common browsers because of varying compatibility with sites that he visits: Firefox, Chrome, Opera, IE11, maybe Safari in there somewhere. For my usage, I also observe odd incompatibilities and use primarily the first 3 and set all of them to delete history, if I am not already in an 'incognito' or 'private' mode as well as being inside of a Sandbox (Sandboxie).

However, MS has given plenty of warning that browsers are not the future: Apps with a designated purpose are => similar to apps as found for Android and iOS. A closer look at how my ChromeOS operates already shows that future by how it uses the Chrome browser for relatively unconventional activities. and per Google, many Android apps are supposed to be ported to the ChromeOS. I do not have any Apple device anymore, but I hear similar stories about comparable operations between an iPhone and iPad and Safari.

As for MAC ID usage: an acquaintance lives near the Washington Beltway (Beltway Bandit). per his comments, there is a roadway nearby that measures the average speed of a vehicle based on any MAC IDs picked up from that vehicle at two different points. If the vehicle speed is too fast, the traffic lights ahead go on red longer. Therefore he keeps his WiFi on his iPAD and iPhone OFF unless being used! For that matter, many of the traffic monitoring businesses use the MAC ID from passing cars to determine traffic speeds, not just cameras and road surface sensors. Even a casual glance at any news-media traffic monitoring site or any Maps program (eg:Google Maps) with the traffic flow enabled should notice the surprising coverage they offer. There are simply not that many sensors in the road surfaces or cameras in all of the locations to give the detailed flow info. All of the drivers are not using WAZE or Google Maps with their GPS enabled. Near Nashville, I observed nearly minute-by-minute changes in the Google-recommended route that I should take to bypass the traffic jams going past downtown Nashville.

Back to the basics: We all carry around portable radios in our pockets. Turn off any transmissions not needed! The benefit is prolonged run-time on batteries.

Back to the original topic: No one in my extended family is switching to Win 10 any time soon, over 18 people. The more computer astute of them, typically the grown sons, have stated that they will wait to see what MS kicks out in the first Service Pack release, or whatever/however MS designates it..

 

[more_vampires]

Circumstantially, mythbusters has proven that you can indeed polish a turd.

I missed that episode. They actually made Windows 95 secure?1??!?!

 

[InfinitusEquitas]

Have been using W10 across four computers for a little while now. Only had issues with one so far, with audio drivers. Fortunately there is an enthusiast who put out a fixed driver that restored more than basic functionality. (I'm not quite an audiophile, but do prefer to use dedicated soundcards.)

 

[recDNA]

Anybody try updating an Alienware computer? The software is unique so I suspect there could be issues.

 

[NoNotAgain]

As for MAC ID usage: an acquaintance lives near the Washington Beltway (Beltway Bandit). per his comments, there is a roadway nearby that measures the average speed of a vehicle based on any MAC IDs picked up from that vehicle at two different points. If the vehicle speed is too fast, the traffic lights ahead go on red longer. Therefore he keeps his WiFi on his iPAD and iPhone OFF unless being used! For that matter, many of the traffic monitoring businesses use the MAC ID from passing cars to determine traffic speeds, not just cameras and road surface sensors. Even a casual glance at any news-media traffic monitoring site or any Maps program (eg:Google Maps) with the traffic flow enabled should notice the surprising coverage they offer. There are simply not that many sensors in the road surfaces or cameras in all of the locations to give the detailed flow info. All of the drivers are not using WAZE or Google Maps with their GPS enabled. Near Nashville, I observed nearly minute-by-minute changes in the Google-recommended route that I should take to bypass the traffic jams going past downtown Nashville.
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Traffic monitoring companies aren't using MAC addresses. They use the hand-off data from cell phone tower to tower. The MAC address is a rather low powered devise that only broadcasts when pinged. Your phone supplies the MEID number for the transfer from tower to tower.

 

[moldyoldy]

Thanks NoNotAgain. I had forgotten about the MEID (CDMA) and IMEI (GSM) numbers & cell tower handoffs.

However my acquaintance engineer works for a traffic management company which does use MAC ids. He did not mention what proportion of their traffic flow info is retrieved from which system - company proprietary info. He identified one other company that he recalled used MAC ids in their info sources.

 

[dc38]

Ladies and gents...copypaste
http://youtu.be/yiJ9fy1qSFI

 

[sidecross]

Stay away from Windows 10 unless you enjoy solving problems!

 

[moldyoldy]

Microsoft is not the only company that indulges in surreptitious surveillance. How about Washington State? perhaps a laudable effort, but YMMV!

 

[PhotonWrangler]

I used my PD35 to look for another light tonight. Couldn't find it.

Of course it was a black light, so maybe they cancelled each other out.

**Edit**

I just realized that I posted this in the wrong thread. Mods, please feel free to move this to this thread.

 

[markr6]

I'm still using 7, not updating to 10 yet. Can't decide.

Looks like there's a big update though:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/12/technology/microsoft-windows-10-update/index.html

 

[more_vampires]

I'm still using 7, not updating to 10 yet. Can't decide.

Looks like there's a big update though:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/12/technology/microsoft-windows-10-update/index.html

For example, after the update, IT managers will get control over how their Windows 10 devices get updated within their organization.

Lol! The year 1999 called and they want their Windows NT back! Oh lol! Top secret: Microsoft is secretly installing Windows NT under the hood of Windows 10!

 

[Speedfreakz]

I'm not happy that you can not control windows 10 updates. I'm also worried about some older hardware not working

 

[sidecross]

I installed Windows 10 and wish I never did! It is nothing but a problem for me and it took away much more than could give. Read up from different sources be fore making this change.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

If you don't like WIndows 10, you can roll your computer back to Win 7 or 8 but you have to do it within 30 days of upgrading to 10.

 

[Kestrel]

I'm not happy that you can not control windows 10 updates. [...]

If you're talking about from prior versions of Windows, I'm trying this product out tonight and will report back:

http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html

One aspect of the above is that since Windows 7 & 8 can secretly download the (multi-GB) Win 10 installation files without any approvals, the above freeware not only notifies me at what point of the process this is in but gives me the option of eliminating what has been downloaded so far.

 

[Camo5]

Had 8.1, went to 10, then back to 8.1. Windows 10 uses a bing-only cortana, compatibility is an issue, and touchscreens will feel right at home. Steer clear on regular computers.

 

[Borad]

My "notification to upgrade could come as soon as a few days or weeks" is what the "Get Windows 10" icon keeps telling me. No details about what component is causing the problem. I want the upgrade because of a few random annoyances that I'm hoping will be fixed but I'm not optimistic it will come or that I'll like it.

 

[mcbrat]

Did the upgrade on a Dell Laptop that was running 7 and a HP laptop that was running 8. not using the new browser, as it had some issues with my favorites. otherwise, everything else is running okay.

My "main" machine though is still an old custom built one running XP just keeps on a chugging, and is still faster than the laptops...

don't think it will work on my Toshiba Libretto though still running 98SE on it