Unless you want to run 32-bit Windows or run in Test Signing Mode, most people aren't going to be able to run the kernel mode components of a self-built driver. (User mode components would still work with a few annoying warnings, but I'm not sure how much of what they're releasing is user mode and how much is kernel mode.)
And to think that ad companies wonder why ad blockers are so prevalent.
"Gosh, we are purveyors of annoying content that nobody wants and we use every dirty trick in the book, including exploiting browser bugs, to get our content in front of faces. Why do people hate us so much?"
HR: "We need someone with 5 years experience with Tech A, 10 years with Tech b, and two years with Tech C." Recruiter/Candidate: "Okay, (we can find that|that's me). What's the rate?" HR: "We pay $12/hour. No benefits or overtime." Recruiter/Candidate: "Thanks, but no thanks." HR: "Woe is us, we can't find anyone to fill this position!"
Not a lot. They periodically cull code that's required to work on older processors, but most systems do that. It's not unlike how Linux dropped support for the original 386 some years back. Windows continues to work on parts much older than these processors. (Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 with EM64T. Windows 10 won't work on processors that lack PAE, NX and SSE2.)
The sticking point with these particular parts is the integrated PowerVR GPU. Imagination Technologies has a history of leaving their non-Apple customers to fend for themselves in terms of drivers. It's the same reason Linux doesn't work very well on the systems in question.
All other things being equal, a mugger is just as likely to take your credit card as they are your cash. (It's usually "give me your wallet," not "give me your cash.") In terms of physical danger, there is no difference. In terms of financial risk, with cash, whatever they buy is courtesy of you. With credit cards, whatever they buy is courtesy of your bank. (Assuming you report the card stolen as soon as you are able, anyway.)
It all comes down to risk assessment. If you live in a place where such crimes are prevalent (or if you're prone to losing your wallet,) choose the option that ultimately ends up being someone else's money.
To be fair to them, up until the last decade or so, enterprises were their bread and butter.
Before the iPhone, how many people did you know who had a smart phone (Palm, Blackberry, WinCE, etc) that *wasn't* issued by work? I knew one person who had a non-work smartphone.
Internet Explorer is similar. Around the time Firefox was an upstart, many business-critical apps were being written around IE and ActiveX. To the average CTO, adding features like tabbed browsing just looks like "increased training burden" and "increased testing costs." So Microsoft was probably right when they said "Our customers don't want tabbed browsing."
The assumption was that the consumer market would continue to be happy with the crumbs of the enterprise market. Turns out they were wrong about that and in both cases and they had to play catch up.
When Firefox (and later Chrome) hit the market and started decimating their market share, the just said "meh, businesses still love us." By the time they woke up, all they could do was damage control. Now they bitch and whine about how "browser monocultures" are the worst thing ever.
If this catches on, I'm looking forward to the flood of cheap Windows 10 tablets that will have support dropped after two years because the BSP for their SoC is no longer being updated or maintained.
Granted, I expect Microsoft to do marginally better with Windows on ARM than Google does with Android because Microsoft has much tighter control over the Windows ecosystem. But at the end of the day, if you want to play in the ARM playground, you're going to get burned by short chip life cycles.
On the other hand, I could be completely wrong. Please, someone prove me wring. I'm tired of being a cynic.
Every car I've owned could do 0-60 in less than 10s with the biggest engine being 2.8l (a '83 Capri). Even my shitbox 13 year old Opel Astra Club 1.6 can do it and that's not even close to a luxury car.
This. So much this. With only the driver (no passengers or cargo,) I'm pretty sure *most* commuter cars could do 0-60 in 10. Especially modern ones.
Load one up with four people and a trunk full of suitcases and not so much. But that's not the normal operating mode of most commuter cars.
Most people respond well to "Oh, I don't use Facebook." While a follow up question of "Why not?" isn't enough to elicit condescension, a good condescending remark shuts down people who want to push it.
Over the last half decade or so, my friends self-sorted into two groups: The group the makes having Facebook a prerequisite for friendship and the group that does not. Surprisingly, most of them ended up in the latter group.
The real problem is my extended family. "Well, you'd KNOW that if you were on Facebook." is a common refrain. Comments like that make me glad I live three timezones away from them.
Facebook: Facebook not existing would actually make my life better because then I wouldn't have to hear condescending "Oh, you're not on Facebook" comments from... everyone ever.
Apple: I don't use any of their products. (Though I like that they provide a check on the Microsoft and Google platforms.)
Amazon: I'll answer this as soon as I'm done buying something on Amazon.
Microsoft: Professionally, no getting around this. At home, the number of things keeping me on the Windows platform is vanishingly small. (Basically a combination of Ubuntu getting better and more things supporting it and Windows getting worse.)
Alphabet: Losing Search and Android would be troublesome. All the other services I use have reasonable replacements from other companies.
I was going to reply with "CreateProcess() isn't exactly fast." When compared with fork() in modern Linux, it isn't. But when I started digging into the Cygwin source to find the CreateProcess (or NtCreateProcess) that I knew it would inevitably call, I found it buried a lot deeper than I expected.
Obviously, since WSL isn't open source, I can't dig into it and see what they're doing. But if I had to guess, I'd imagine they're doing something in kernel space that makes fork() at least as fast as CreateProcess().
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There's very little point.
Unless you want to run 32-bit Windows or run in Test Signing Mode, most people aren't going to be able to run the kernel mode components of a self-built driver. (User mode components would still work with a few annoying warnings, but I'm not sure how much of what they're releasing is user mode and how much is kernel mode.)
And to think that ad companies wonder why ad blockers are so prevalent.
"Gosh, we are purveyors of annoying content that nobody wants and we use every dirty trick in the book, including exploiting browser bugs, to get our content in front of faces. Why do people hate us so much?"
Every election I've voted in since 2012 has used optical scan ballots.
Also fairly common:
HR: "We need someone with 5 years experience with Tech A, 10 years with Tech b, and two years with Tech C."
Recruiter/Candidate: "Okay, (we can find that|that's me). What's the rate?"
HR: "We pay $12/hour. No benefits or overtime."
Recruiter/Candidate: "Thanks, but no thanks."
HR: "Woe is us, we can't find anyone to fill this position!"
Not a lot. They periodically cull code that's required to work on older processors, but most systems do that. It's not unlike how Linux dropped support for the original 386 some years back. Windows continues to work on parts much older than these processors. (Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 with EM64T. Windows 10 won't work on processors that lack PAE, NX and SSE2.)
The sticking point with these particular parts is the integrated PowerVR GPU. Imagination Technologies has a history of leaving their non-Apple customers to fend for themselves in terms of drivers. It's the same reason Linux doesn't work very well on the systems in question.
Just noticed that I typed "Anniversary" instead of "Creator's."
Oh well.
Cortana can still be disabled with a registry tweak as of the Anniversary Update. (Or through Group Policies if you have the Pro version.)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search]
AllowCortana=dword:00000000
Is it bullshit that we have to do that? Signs point to yes.
Are they going to take that away in Fall Creator's? Reply hazy. Try again.
All other things being equal, a mugger is just as likely to take your credit card as they are your cash. (It's usually "give me your wallet," not "give me your cash.") In terms of physical danger, there is no difference. In terms of financial risk, with cash, whatever they buy is courtesy of you. With credit cards, whatever they buy is courtesy of your bank. (Assuming you report the card stolen as soon as you are able, anyway.)
It all comes down to risk assessment. If you live in a place where such crimes are prevalent (or if you're prone to losing your wallet,) choose the option that ultimately ends up being someone else's money.
To be fair to them, up until the last decade or so, enterprises were their bread and butter.
Before the iPhone, how many people did you know who had a smart phone (Palm, Blackberry, WinCE, etc) that *wasn't* issued by work? I knew one person who had a non-work smartphone.
Internet Explorer is similar. Around the time Firefox was an upstart, many business-critical apps were being written around IE and ActiveX. To the average CTO, adding features like tabbed browsing just looks like "increased training burden" and "increased testing costs." So Microsoft was probably right when they said "Our customers don't want tabbed browsing."
The assumption was that the consumer market would continue to be happy with the crumbs of the enterprise market. Turns out they were wrong about that and in both cases and they had to play catch up.
It's the same thing that happened to IE.
When Firefox (and later Chrome) hit the market and started decimating their market share, the just said "meh, businesses still love us." By the time they woke up, all they could do was damage control. Now they bitch and whine about how "browser monocultures" are the worst thing ever.
It depends on the region. In New England, yes. In the Mid-Atlantic, not so much.
The excuse for me is "Wegmans is not open right now." The follow-up question is "Why are you going grocery shopping between 12AM and 6AM?"
They want to turn Whole Foods into Wegmans?
I'm... actually okay with that.
Carry on.
I second this.
We've had Tool Assisted Speed Runs for years.
I mean, the new tool they've developed for doing TAS is pretty cool, I guess.
If this catches on, I'm looking forward to the flood of cheap Windows 10 tablets that will have support dropped after two years because the BSP for their SoC is no longer being updated or maintained.
Granted, I expect Microsoft to do marginally better with Windows on ARM than Google does with Android because Microsoft has much tighter control over the Windows ecosystem. But at the end of the day, if you want to play in the ARM playground, you're going to get burned by short chip life cycles.
On the other hand, I could be completely wrong. Please, someone prove me wring. I'm tired of being a cynic.
I feel like most of the votes cast in 2016 for the two main candidates were against the other candidate rather than for the one they voted for.
Ah, yes. Good old "ctty nul." If you hated someone enough, you can always add this to their AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
ctty nul /u
echo y|format c:
I tried it in the server contemporaries to 7 and 8.1. (2008R2 and 2012R2)
Nearly immediate BSOD in both cases.
Story at 11.
Oof. I had no idea the rest of the world was so terrible that the average weight was only 20kg. I'll make sure to donate more to MSF in the future!
Every car I've owned could do 0-60 in less than 10s with the biggest engine being 2.8l (a '83 Capri). Even my shitbox 13 year old Opel Astra Club 1.6 can do it and that's not even close to a luxury car.
This. So much this. With only the driver (no passengers or cargo,) I'm pretty sure *most* commuter cars could do 0-60 in 10. Especially modern ones.
Load one up with four people and a trunk full of suitcases and not so much. But that's not the normal operating mode of most commuter cars.
Even my 4-cyl crossover can do 0-60 in 8.5.
Most people respond well to "Oh, I don't use Facebook." While a follow up question of "Why not?" isn't enough to elicit condescension, a good condescending remark shuts down people who want to push it.
Over the last half decade or so, my friends self-sorted into two groups: The group the makes having Facebook a prerequisite for friendship and the group that does not. Surprisingly, most of them ended up in the latter group.
The real problem is my extended family. "Well, you'd KNOW that if you were on Facebook." is a common refrain. Comments like that make me glad I live three timezones away from them.
Facebook: Facebook not existing would actually make my life better because then I wouldn't have to hear condescending "Oh, you're not on Facebook" comments from... everyone ever.
Apple: I don't use any of their products. (Though I like that they provide a check on the Microsoft and Google platforms.)
Amazon: I'll answer this as soon as I'm done buying something on Amazon.
Microsoft: Professionally, no getting around this. At home, the number of things keeping me on the Windows platform is vanishingly small. (Basically a combination of Ubuntu getting better and more things supporting it and Windows getting worse.)
Alphabet: Losing Search and Android would be troublesome. All the other services I use have reasonable replacements from other companies.
I was going to reply with "CreateProcess() isn't exactly fast." When compared with fork() in modern Linux, it isn't. But when I started digging into the Cygwin source to find the CreateProcess (or NtCreateProcess) that I knew it would inevitably call, I found it buried a lot deeper than I expected.
https://cygwin.com/git/gitweb....
Obviously, since WSL isn't open source, I can't dig into it and see what they're doing. But if I had to guess, I'd imagine they're doing something in kernel space that makes fork() at least as fast as CreateProcess().