Right, which is why I won't buy anything from Oculus given Palmer Luckey (their illustrious founder) bankrolling a pro-Trump shitposting group during the election cycle. https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech...
"The stream of racist, sexist, and economically illiterate memes appearing in support of Donald Trump during this years' interminable American presidential election is being bankrolled in part by the 24-year-old inventor of Oculus Rift."
"they are fine with the cheap worker from fuckistan lowering my salary but if i use their online store to buy some digital shit in the fuckistan currency because its better for me, then i get banned"
Sounds like the Free Market is saying your labour is worth less than "Fuckistani" labour.
Why should society have to step in to artificially inflate your salary?
Kaby Lake isn't even a new architecture. People did some sleuthing and discovered it's literally a new stepping of Skylake, given a new CPUID string to signify it's a "new generation" of Intel Core CPUs. The reality is it's just Skylake with HEVC decode blocks added to the GPU, and a 100/200MHz clock bump. https://www.cpchardware.com/co...
People have benched the i7-6700K and 7700K at the same clocks and lo and behold, the results were identical on every bench they ran...because they are literally two different steppings of the same CPU.
Incidentally, Coffee Lake also isn't a "new" architecture - it's Cannon Lake fabbed on an iteration of the 14nm process that's been used since Broadwell.
Are you kidding? Windows XP was absolutely eviscerated by early-2000s techies for being a "Fischer Price OS" which looked like it was made for toddlers.
MS has rarely changed their design language without fierce initial criticism from tech enthusiasts and media:
* Windows 95 (Classic shell, 1995): derided upon release for being bloated, slow, clunky and unnecessarily changing "something which already works well" * Windows 98/2000 (Classic shell, 1998-2000): a mild refinement of 95's UI which was warmly received by the tech media and enthusiasts.
Fast forward to XP's launch in 2001: people started saying Windows 98/2000's UI was excellent, but that Windows 3.1's UI was still the best MS UI.
* Windows XP (Luna, 2001): derided upon release for looking like a Fischer Price / Teletubby OS made for 3-year-olds. Pretty much nobody liked it. * Windows XP SP2 (Luna, 2004): some minor UI changes later, Windows XP is recognised as having a usable UI.
Fast forward to Vista's launch in 2006: people started saying Windows XP's UI was excellent, but Windows 9x's UI was still the best MS UI.
* Windows Vista (Vista-style, 2006): derided upon release for being bloated, slow, clunky and unnecessarily changing "something which already works well" * Windows 7 (Vista-style, 2009): won near-universal acclaim for its UI changes, with the review tagline often being, "This is what Windows 8 should've looked like."
Fast forward to Windows 8's launch in 2012: people started saying Windows 7's UI was excellent, but Windows XP's Luna was still the best MS UI.
* Windows 8.x (Metro, 2012-2013): derided upon release, still considered shit for everything except touch devices * Windows 10 (Metro, 2015): won near-universal acclaim for its UI changes, with the review tagline often being, "This is what Windows 8 should've looked like."
Fast forward to 2017 when MS releases screenshots of a new UI prototype: people saying Windows 10's UI was excellent, but Windows 7's UI is still the best MS UI.
There is a general pattern here: "Windows [n]'s UI is shit. Why are they changing Windows [n-1]'s excellent UI? Still, Windows [n-2]'s UI was the best MS ever made."
The same people who bitched about 9x in 1995 are the same people who bitched about XP while lauding 9x's UI as excellent, and then bitched about Vista while lauding XP's UI as excellent. The only outlier is Windows 8.x, which will likely always be seen as a UX disaster. All other Windows releases (Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 10) are now widely considered to have had good/great/excellent UIs.
People like you also complained about the UI changes in Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.x, 10 and now these prototypes. Out of that list, the only one which is still regarded as a UX disaster is Windows 8.x. All others have retrospectively been recognised as generally good iterations on previous UI design.
The proof of the pudding? The most popular Linux DEs still imitate Windows' UI to this day. Give it 15 years and the 2032 release of Gnome will feature the same design language that you see in those prototypes.
"Microsoft increasingly reminds me of old Soviet times, where everyone knew the system was mostly done for and artificially propped up"
People like you have been predicting Microsoft's demise since at least 1995's introduction of Windows 95, and certainly every year since.
Yet here Microsoft are, in 2017, still one of the world's biggest companies but now with a much bigger portfolio of products, many of which are recognised as one of the best in a particular market:
* Cloud computing: Azure
* Online office productivity: Office 365
* Hypervisors: Hyper-V
* Systems administration: System Center
* Scripting languages / shells: Powershell
* IDEs: Visual Studio
* Programming languages: C#
* Graphics APIs: DirectX
* CMS: SharePoint Server
* Email: Exchange Server
* RDBMS: SQL Server
* Note-taking: OneNote
* Project management: MS Project
* Diagramming: MS Visio
* Games consoles: Xbox family
* Video games: Forza, Halo, Gears of War, Age of Empires, Crackdown, Killer Instinct, etc.
* Antivirus: Windows Defender
* 2-in-1 laptops: Surface Pro
What you've done is perfectly illustrate the anti-MS argument of my computing lifetime. "MICRO$HAFT ARE TOAST...I swear...I know I'm right...this time....!!!!".
So, for the last 20 years, Microsoft expanded into the above markets and received widespread acclaim for the products listed. Yet the anti-MS zealots still live in their reality distortion field, where Microsoft is dead and the world's biggest Linux distro isn't a locked-down fork named Android.
This "breach notification site" SOLD password caches to third parties - and even cracked the password hashes before selling them. Why doesn't the summary mention this? This site sold people's credentials passwords to spammers, fraudsters and other malicious actors: https://arstechnica.co.uk/secu...
"The takeaway is that simply emulating the x86 instruction set results in about a 100x slowdown for an equivalent clock rate. So, although this is an interesting technology demonstration, I seriously doubt it will prove useful outside of a small set of applications. It will certainly not be a satisfactory gaming platform."
Sounds like you didn't read the article or watch the embedded video, where MS show x86 Photoshop and x86 World of Tanks being emulated on Windows 10 ARM and a Snapdragon (835?) SoC - and running fine.
"and the rise of a true conservative backlash in Europe has the liberal establishment there scared as fuck"
"the left-wing establishment"
So Angela Merkel is a liberal? David Cameron is a liberal? Both are conservatives (big and small C) and both are strongly pro-European and pro-migration. David Cameron called the EU referendum and campaigned for a Remain vote, as did most right-wing MPs.
Conservatives took the UK into the EU in 1992 and have been pro-European and pro-immigration because immigration lowers the wages paid out by their friends in the corporate world.
Slashdot really is a swamp sometimes. Garbage like the above is modded Insightful, blaming "the left" for policies enacted by Conservative governments.
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Right, which is why I won't buy anything from Oculus given Palmer Luckey (their illustrious founder) bankrolling a pro-Trump shitposting group during the election cycle. https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech...
"The stream of racist, sexist, and economically illiterate memes appearing in support of Donald Trump during this years' interminable American presidential election is being bankrolled in part by the 24-year-old inventor of Oculus Rift."
Oculus and Luckey can go fuck themselves.
"they are fine with the cheap worker from fuckistan lowering my salary but if i use their online store to buy some digital shit in the fuckistan currency because its better for me, then i get banned"
Sounds like the Free Market is saying your labour is worth less than "Fuckistani" labour.
Why should society have to step in to artificially inflate your salary?
Kaby Lake isn't even a new architecture. People did some sleuthing and discovered it's literally a new stepping of Skylake, given a new CPUID string to signify it's a "new generation" of Intel Core CPUs. The reality is it's just Skylake with HEVC decode blocks added to the GPU, and a 100/200MHz clock bump. https://www.cpchardware.com/co...
People have benched the i7-6700K and 7700K at the same clocks and lo and behold, the results were identical on every bench they ran...because they are literally two different steppings of the same CPU.
Incidentally, Coffee Lake also isn't a "new" architecture - it's Cannon Lake fabbed on an iteration of the 14nm process that's been used since Broadwell.
Are you kidding? Windows XP was absolutely eviscerated by early-2000s techies for being a "Fischer Price OS" which looked like it was made for toddlers.
MS has rarely changed their design language without fierce initial criticism from tech enthusiasts and media:
* Windows 95 (Classic shell, 1995): derided upon release for being bloated, slow, clunky and unnecessarily changing "something which already works well"
* Windows 98/2000 (Classic shell, 1998-2000): a mild refinement of 95's UI which was warmly received by the tech media and enthusiasts.
Fast forward to XP's launch in 2001: people started saying Windows 98/2000's UI was excellent, but that Windows 3.1's UI was still the best MS UI.
* Windows XP (Luna, 2001): derided upon release for looking like a Fischer Price / Teletubby OS made for 3-year-olds. Pretty much nobody liked it.
* Windows XP SP2 (Luna, 2004): some minor UI changes later, Windows XP is recognised as having a usable UI.
Fast forward to Vista's launch in 2006: people started saying Windows XP's UI was excellent, but Windows 9x's UI was still the best MS UI.
* Windows Vista (Vista-style, 2006): derided upon release for being bloated, slow, clunky and unnecessarily changing "something which already works well"
* Windows 7 (Vista-style, 2009): won near-universal acclaim for its UI changes, with the review tagline often being, "This is what Windows 8 should've looked like."
Fast forward to Windows 8's launch in 2012: people started saying Windows 7's UI was excellent, but Windows XP's Luna was still the best MS UI.
* Windows 8.x (Metro, 2012-2013): derided upon release, still considered shit for everything except touch devices
* Windows 10 (Metro, 2015): won near-universal acclaim for its UI changes, with the review tagline often being, "This is what Windows 8 should've looked like."
Fast forward to 2017 when MS releases screenshots of a new UI prototype: people saying Windows 10's UI was excellent, but Windows 7's UI is still the best MS UI.
There is a general pattern here: "Windows [n]'s UI is shit. Why are they changing Windows [n-1]'s excellent UI? Still, Windows [n-2]'s UI was the best MS ever made."
The same people who bitched about 9x in 1995 are the same people who bitched about XP while lauding 9x's UI as excellent, and then bitched about Vista while lauding XP's UI as excellent. The only outlier is Windows 8.x, which will likely always be seen as a UX disaster. All other Windows releases (Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 10) are now widely considered to have had good/great/excellent UIs.
People like you also complained about the UI changes in Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.x, 10 and now these prototypes. Out of that list, the only one which is still regarded as a UX disaster is Windows 8.x. All others have retrospectively been recognised as generally good iterations on previous UI design.
The proof of the pudding? The most popular Linux DEs still imitate Windows' UI to this day. Give it 15 years and the 2032 release of Gnome will feature the same design language that you see in those prototypes.
"Microsoft increasingly reminds me of old Soviet times, where everyone knew the system was mostly done for and artificially propped up"
People like you have been predicting Microsoft's demise since at least 1995's introduction of Windows 95, and certainly every year since. Yet here Microsoft are, in 2017, still one of the world's biggest companies but now with a much bigger portfolio of products, many of which are recognised as one of the best in a particular market:
* Cloud computing: Azure
* Online office productivity: Office 365
* Hypervisors: Hyper-V
* Systems administration: System Center
* Scripting languages / shells: Powershell
* IDEs: Visual Studio
* Programming languages: C#
* Graphics APIs: DirectX
* CMS: SharePoint Server
* Email: Exchange Server
* RDBMS: SQL Server
* Note-taking: OneNote
* Project management: MS Project
* Diagramming: MS Visio
* Games consoles: Xbox family
* Video games: Forza, Halo, Gears of War, Age of Empires, Crackdown, Killer Instinct, etc.
* Antivirus: Windows Defender
* 2-in-1 laptops: Surface Pro
What you've done is perfectly illustrate the anti-MS argument of my computing lifetime. "MICRO$HAFT ARE TOAST...I swear...I know I'm right...this time....!!!!".
So, for the last 20 years, Microsoft expanded into the above markets and received widespread acclaim for the products listed. Yet the anti-MS zealots still live in their reality distortion field, where Microsoft is dead and the world's biggest Linux distro isn't a locked-down fork named Android.
This "breach notification site" SOLD password caches to third parties - and even cracked the password hashes before selling them. Why doesn't the summary mention this? This site sold people's credentials passwords to spammers, fraudsters and other malicious actors: https://arstechnica.co.uk/secu...
"The takeaway is that simply emulating the x86 instruction set results in about a 100x slowdown for an equivalent clock rate. So, although this is an interesting technology demonstration, I seriously doubt it will prove useful outside of a small set of applications. It will certainly not be a satisfactory gaming platform."
Sounds like you didn't read the article or watch the embedded video, where MS show x86 Photoshop and x86 World of Tanks being emulated on Windows 10 ARM and a Snapdragon (835?) SoC - and running fine.
"and the rise of a true conservative backlash in Europe has the liberal establishment there scared as fuck" "the left-wing establishment" So Angela Merkel is a liberal? David Cameron is a liberal? Both are conservatives (big and small C) and both are strongly pro-European and pro-migration. David Cameron called the EU referendum and campaigned for a Remain vote, as did most right-wing MPs. Conservatives took the UK into the EU in 1992 and have been pro-European and pro-immigration because immigration lowers the wages paid out by their friends in the corporate world. Slashdot really is a swamp sometimes. Garbage like the above is modded Insightful, blaming "the left" for policies enacted by Conservative governments.