cubercaleb

I was thinking that, but the side said I would need my product, which as I said, I don't have.

The other day I got a HP laptop (yes, it was the best for it's price) that came with Windows 10. Today, wanted to get rid of all the crapware that came with it, I decided to to a recovery/reinstall of the OS to get rid of the garbage software. Of course, the reinstall process stuck at 0% for an hour (more like it couldn't display the proper percentage). I decided to restart the machine. This cause the OS to pop up a lovely error message, which I circumvented with the help from this post: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/error-message-the-computer-restarted-unexpectedly/b770f14d-e345-e011-90b6-1cc1de79d2e2?auth=1 . Afterwards my laptop was stuck in a reboot loop (no error message) which it would get to the % installed (64% or so) then it would immediately restart. Trying to get into safe mode, cmd, or regedit doesn't help, as well... it just restarts. Having no idea what else to do. I came here for suggestions. No, I do not have the installation CD, or a Product Key, and yes I have another PC with windows that I can use, but this one might as well be bricked. Any help would be great, thanks.

Interesting, I'm still on Windows 8.1, nor do I plan on upgrading my main PC, but I might try it on my laptop.

I would presume they do this for legal reasons, and It's not like Google and Microsoft aren't doing the same thing. Regardless the information is most likely being used to make Siri better, because as I said, Apple doesn't rely on selling information for money. Also, don't act like Microsoft is any better, Windows 10 is known to phone home to Microsoft with plenty of information, and those updates were pushed to 7/8 as well

In Windows 8/7 you can go into windows features an turn off IE (which I always do for security reasons), can't you do the same with Photos?

Unlike Google which relies entirely on selling your data to the NSA and advertising companies for money, and to some extend Microsoft now that they are going down the free route, Apple doesn't have this problem and actually respects your privacy.

Most Android phones don't last longer than a few hours, In fact most modern phones can't even go a full day with out being full charged the night before and having a recharge at some point in the day. The iPhone gets away with a battery half as large as most flagship android phones, and an IPS screen. Meanwhile, phones like the Droid Turbo which have ~4000mah batteries and crappy OLED displays with horrible color shift and pink whites are still not that much better than most others.

Not really underutilized more than programmers just not caring about about the performance of their programs. Not many devs looks at the dis-assembly produced by the compiler and compare it to the instructions they would would have needed to take place for a give piece of code to execute. Not many people thing about maximally utilizing the cache, or writing their algorithms in a way that best fits performance instead of best fitting a programming paradigm they mentally subscribe to. The rise of higher level, interpreted, garbage collected programming languages that run in virtual machines doesn't help this in any way. Sadly very few devs care about the performance of their software because they would rather have the users time be spend executing their slow software as opposed to their own time spend writing better code. In a world where CPU's got exponentially faster each year, the data workload didn't increase as much, and resources such as power weren't constrained on mobile devices, the less this would be a problem. Sadly, none of those things are true. CPU's have stagnated in the past few years, memory workloads keep getting bigger, and the fastest growing place in the industry (mobile) has severe constraints on resources.

People still except CPU's to get exponentially faster every year... Ha, not until we get SDRAM and cache misses become less frequent because of it.

If I wanted my taskbar to annoyingly pop in and out of existence with a slow animation I would do that, but no thanks. Also, I don't think you understand the problem.

Hey guys, I recently reinstalled windows 8.1 and I'm still in the process of getting everything set up and to my liking. today I tried to watch some videos full screen and I noticed some problem for Netflix, Youtube, and MPC-HC, I found that clicking on another window on my other monitor will cause the taskbar to pop up over the video that is playing full screen, which is quite annoying. On my old install of Windows I believe I had some piece of software that disabled this behavior, but I forget what it was. I don't want to install display fusion, nor do I want to pay for it. I just need a simple solution to this annoying problem.

Remind me why what purpose we need genuine AI for?

The "AI"will only be able to do what it's told, period, we don't machines that are solely designed to farm crops to do anything intellectually complex, same with factory working machines, or whatever. The "AI's" extend of what it can do is limited by what it is designed to do, period. You can't tell a machine to kill a human if it doesn't have any concept of what a human or murder is, let alone the ability to do so.

Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds?

Ohh but it is. Why would I use Python when I can use something like C/C++, which is faster and powerful. Sacrificing performance because of a choice of language should never be an option. It's not about "The right tool for the job", it's about having a good, solid, powerful tool, and a bunch of horrible ones. I'll choose the powerful one every time because I know my programs will be far more efficient than anything written in high level languages, and I have the ability to do low level optimizations that other languages don't provide. It infuriates me that people willingly choose less powerful, slower languages due to their laziness, thus putting a burden of performance/time on the end users machine. There is no reason that a web browser should ever be more demanding than a game like Crysis 3, Battlefield 4, or whatever AAA photo realistic game you can think of, yet somehow chrome/firefox are the most demanding pieces of software I've had to use. If programmers actually cared enough they would ditch all the high level crap that exists today, but it doesn't seem like that will happen.