Well, technically I got Win7 from MSDNAA (or whatever it's called nowadays), so it's slightly more free, not taking into account tuition fees. Still feel like a ripoff in the end though.
You don't want to upgrade? Fucking don't, that;s your choice.
That one's the killer here. We're not the one trying our hardest to update these old Win7/Win8 installs here. Too bad the post is hard to read, I'm sure it's all at least that funny.
You can't be wrong by attracting more developers, and that's the first step to have an attractive app store!
Too bad their strategy also involve driving customers away. Pretty sure corporate computers can't use the store (or at least not without getting the wrath of IT) and so called "power" user are slowly moving out of the way. What's left, the "average" user, who is perfectly happy as long as facebook works.
I know the picture is more complex than that, but I was under the impression that business was a large part of MS revenues, and they are doing their best to piss the m off.
Granted, I gave up on these "services", but last time I checked the movies available from publisher's offers were seriously compressed, had DRM making them more or less useless on most devices I use, and lacked most of the content I wanted to see (bonus, obviously, but in some case the original audio track was not available... wtf).
On the other hand, I plop a disc in my computer, click a button, wait an hour and *everything* is available within a click, with no forced trailers, no "stealin is bad" disclaimer, no menu that takes longer to operate than the actual movie, etc. But the main thing: I buy the damn disc, and I have to get a chinese software to use said disc in an effective way. And that's more efficient than any online service I've seen so far.
And for once, I'm happy about it. What's the point of fighting a software that requires the actual disc to be bought to work? Does the publishers really want people to go for the "convenient and cheap" way so bad?
The power these mobs^W associations have in their own countries is bad enough for the consumers, let's not move them to the international level.
Other translation: I'm more than willing to pay for an app that I use regularly and is produced by people that have a fair amount of trust, and strangely enough force-feeding my phone with bloatware, adware and replacing basic functionalities with junk got them out of this fairly exclusive group.
Oh yes, they *did* something right: their app, right before all these "free updates to boost your system plz gib gib". You're telling "4.8 stars", I tell you "4.8 stars based on their previous versions".
I would not have cared if they decided to make it a paid app; I have a handful of these when they feel polished enough. I even paid for a basic SMS app that was just a "downgrade" for the recent stuff google pulled on that.
But the thing here is that they are shoddy. Consumers trust is hard to gain, and when you lose it, it's done. When you have arguably one of the best app on the market that does a lot of things well, there's one thing you don't do: start behaving like it's a chinese ripoff that exist only as an ad channel.
On the point of ES File Explorer: one day, out of the blue, my phone had a notification about "removing trash to boost the performances", or something along the line. It sort of looked like a classic spam message, with no indication that this was from an app. And if dismissed, it comes back quickly. That was ES; and there was no option to disable it. Then, this "extremely useful feature" became the default screen when you open the app, prominently taking a third of the screen to encourage you to use what have all the warnings you're looking for when you look at a scam.
And now, the very same team decided to force-feed you a new lockscreen, with implications that goes well beyond the "showing ad" issue. Android might not be the most secure thing on earth, but I have slightly more trust in the stock lockscreen than in the one provided by some definitely shoddy business.
Seriously, now I've removed all of their apps, found very good replacements that don't do anything funky, even paid for one, and all is well. But I can't understand how you can think "hey, let's force spam and bloatware down people's phones, THEN make a paid version without that" when you could have just done it harmlessly.
They could make the best app ever now, I'm never trusting them again with anything.
Because some places have less than cooperative admins and won't give you the choice of running whatever you want.
I personally develop software that target windows on linux, but I've seen engineers that think it is impossible. And these people can end up having the last word in software choices, sadly.
At some point, we had a nice experiment-thingy called colinux. It was the linux kernel as a windows binary. Obviously they used some "dummy" drivers for networking and stuff, but with an XServer, you could natively run linux binaries on windows.
It was fun. If this is anything like that, AND have no trace of microsoft fuckups, I can really see it work out.
I'm not going to look, but simply knowing that the thing work on multiple systems and have a gazillion of dependencies, I'm certain it is a nightmare to set up.
But that's the point; if someone who need these big changes to happen won't go through it (and I completely understand why, it's not a reproach), asking for the people that didn't need these changes to work on them is kinda rude.
They are working on it (both AMD and NVidia), either by releasing more documentation or by rewriting their binary drivers, now that people actually care;)
It's the same as "write once, run everywhere". Might looks good on paper, but once you get to use the thing you keep falling into cornercases.
Obviously in this case, the "cornercase" is that everyone will have to be dumbed down to fit, but hey, it will be easier right? (No it won't either).
While this is alarming about the state of our legislators' technical knowledge, note that this is only a proposal by people that lack the voting power to make this become an actual law.
But I pretty much like the other comments stating that "if you want access to encrypted data, there, you get all the encrypted data you want". It might be a good idea to coin this idea to other members of parliament to see if they can change the wording to that.
Not only you have to find your VM, you also have to update it to windows 10. And then, you'll have to do your best not to remove this scrap before checking it out.
If I draw a picture of your momma impaled on a post that goes up her ass and out her mouth while the flies buzz around her rotting pussy, would that be OK? Would that be a just a drawing? Would there be nothing wrong with that? How about I draw that up and hang it in a big downtown gallery in New York?
It would be infuriating, it would not feel nice, some people might even get angry for that.
It doesn't change the fact that it's a drawing, that no harm was done, and if you got the clearance to hang that in a gallery, it will probably be recognized as art anyway.
Here's the thing: you can feel however you want about anything, the fact that you dislike it or whatever is your personal take on it, and not always the only way to see things.
I don't have to like something to understand that some people do. As long as there's no harm done to anyone, who cares. As far as I can tell, drawing, reading, watching anime porn doesn't hurt anyone (except maybe the author but I doubt you'd care about them). If you really think a guy (or girl) drawing something in a cramped room is at the same level as kidnapping and abusing someone, then yes, there's a problem somewhere, but I wouldn't say it's on the artist.
Assuming it is like you said, and don't have any physical connection at all (although most of these devices actually do), then it use induction.
Now the article is talking about working at ~1meter around the power source. Does your kettle work when that far away from the base?
One more time, our government (this time the ministry of Culture) say some stupid things without even thinking. I bet one of them sat in front of his computer, tried to type 'À', failed, then decided "I need someone to do this for me".
I also bet this person use Windows, and never asked anyone or searched the web on how to type this kind of characters.
Now, typing special characters (diacritics, elision, this kind of stuff) needs a keyboard combination. On Linux system, you can define a Compose key. On OSX as far as I know, there's something similar to do so. Guess who isn't playing nice with special characters here? Yup. The big champ of OS.
So, either they make a keyboard with a ton of "special character keys" only to allow windows user to type capital diacritics, while removing all the other non special characters, because a 150-key keyboard is not happening, or they man up a bit and ask for all OS providers to give an easy, accessible way to type diacritics. And most of them, having the mean to do so already, will certainly comply.
I think you missed the simple fact that everything was working fine before, without cramming everything in the init process. Power management, in this case, existed before systemd came, and everyone was using that just fine.
The system was flexible, allowed for easy replacement and customization at every step. Only downside? Beyond basic use, you had to touch the config by hand. Now this option simply doesn't exist anymore, and a lot of people believe that whatever systemd does now, it's the only way and that without them nothing would work.
I do that on desktop computers; they don't handle "closing the lid" too well.
But on one laptop suspend did cause troubles (a business laptop), I spent some time looking through the log what module caused the issue and added a pre suspend script that rmmod it before suspend; so far it worked well.
I suppose I was lucky in this regard, but I was ready to look a bit into ACPI tables in case something really bad wasn't already handled by the kernel. Didn't have to though.
Kinda what I, and others, did. I'm still in Windows 7 because "it was there", but I already struggle to keep it "user experience enhancement" free from Windows Update. When someone asks me for help on a W10 system, I give it a quick glance, and if it can't be fixed in two mouseclicks (most of the time it can... some people just don't get computers) I just say "I don't know anything about W10."
I slowly started to install some Ubuntu (for ease of use) on my parents' computers, and that fits most of the requirements they have: internet, flash games, video, music.
Only "niches" left for Windows are some games and stubborn business. But as time pass, the game requirement become less and less relevant, and the business thing usually work in either a VM or a pro computer dedicated to this.
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Well, technically I got Win7 from MSDNAA (or whatever it's called nowadays), so it's slightly more free, not taking into account tuition fees. Still feel like a ripoff in the end though.
You don't want to upgrade? Fucking don't, that;s your choice.
That one's the killer here. We're not the one trying our hardest to update these old Win7/Win8 installs here. Too bad the post is hard to read, I'm sure it's all at least that funny.
You can't be wrong by attracting more developers, and that's the first step to have an attractive app store!
Too bad their strategy also involve driving customers away. Pretty sure corporate computers can't use the store (or at least not without getting the wrath of IT) and so called "power" user are slowly moving out of the way. What's left, the "average" user, who is perfectly happy as long as facebook works.
I know the picture is more complex than that, but I was under the impression that business was a large part of MS revenues, and they are doing their best to piss the m off.
Granted, I gave up on these "services", but last time I checked the movies available from publisher's offers were seriously compressed, had DRM making them more or less useless on most devices I use, and lacked most of the content I wanted to see (bonus, obviously, but in some case the original audio track was not available... wtf).
On the other hand, I plop a disc in my computer, click a button, wait an hour and *everything* is available within a click, with no forced trailers, no "stealin is bad" disclaimer, no menu that takes longer to operate than the actual movie, etc. But the main thing: I buy the damn disc, and I have to get a chinese software to use said disc in an effective way. And that's more efficient than any online service I've seen so far.
And for once, I'm happy about it. What's the point of fighting a software that requires the actual disc to be bought to work? Does the publishers really want people to go for the "convenient and cheap" way so bad?
The power these mobs^W associations have in their own countries is bad enough for the consumers, let's not move them to the international level.
Other translation: I'm more than willing to pay for an app that I use regularly and is produced by people that have a fair amount of trust, and strangely enough force-feeding my phone with bloatware, adware and replacing basic functionalities with junk got them out of this fairly exclusive group.
Oh yes, they *did* something right: their app, right before all these "free updates to boost your system plz gib gib". You're telling "4.8 stars", I tell you "4.8 stars based on their previous versions".
I would not have cared if they decided to make it a paid app; I have a handful of these when they feel polished enough. I even paid for a basic SMS app that was just a "downgrade" for the recent stuff google pulled on that.
But the thing here is that they are shoddy. Consumers trust is hard to gain, and when you lose it, it's done. When you have arguably one of the best app on the market that does a lot of things well, there's one thing you don't do: start behaving like it's a chinese ripoff that exist only as an ad channel. On the point of ES File Explorer: one day, out of the blue, my phone had a notification about "removing trash to boost the performances", or something along the line. It sort of looked like a classic spam message, with no indication that this was from an app. And if dismissed, it comes back quickly. That was ES; and there was no option to disable it. Then, this "extremely useful feature" became the default screen when you open the app, prominently taking a third of the screen to encourage you to use what have all the warnings you're looking for when you look at a scam.
And now, the very same team decided to force-feed you a new lockscreen, with implications that goes well beyond the "showing ad" issue. Android might not be the most secure thing on earth, but I have slightly more trust in the stock lockscreen than in the one provided by some definitely shoddy business.
Seriously, now I've removed all of their apps, found very good replacements that don't do anything funky, even paid for one, and all is well. But I can't understand how you can think "hey, let's force spam and bloatware down people's phones, THEN make a paid version without that" when you could have just done it harmlessly.
They could make the best app ever now, I'm never trusting them again with anything.
Because some places have less than cooperative admins and won't give you the choice of running whatever you want.
I personally develop software that target windows on linux, but I've seen engineers that think it is impossible. And these people can end up having the last word in software choices, sadly.
At some point, we had a nice experiment-thingy called colinux. It was the linux kernel as a windows binary. Obviously they used some "dummy" drivers for networking and stuff, but with an XServer, you could natively run linux binaries on windows. It was fun. If this is anything like that, AND have no trace of microsoft fuckups, I can really see it work out.
I'm not going to look, but simply knowing that the thing work on multiple systems and have a gazillion of dependencies, I'm certain it is a nightmare to set up.
But that's the point; if someone who need these big changes to happen won't go through it (and I completely understand why, it's not a reproach), asking for the people that didn't need these changes to work on them is kinda rude.
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You're free to provide these fixes yourself if you care.
They are working on it (both AMD and NVidia), either by releasing more documentation or by rewriting their binary drivers, now that people actually care ;)
It's the same as "write once, run everywhere". Might looks good on paper, but once you get to use the thing you keep falling into cornercases.
Obviously in this case, the "cornercase" is that everyone will have to be dumbed down to fit, but hey, it will be easier right? (No it won't either).
While this is alarming about the state of our legislators' technical knowledge, note that this is only a proposal by people that lack the voting power to make this become an actual law.
But I pretty much like the other comments stating that "if you want access to encrypted data, there, you get all the encrypted data you want". It might be a good idea to coin this idea to other members of parliament to see if they can change the wording to that.
Not only you have to find your VM, you also have to update it to windows 10. And then, you'll have to do your best not to remove this scrap before checking it out.
Be careful what you wish for. The windows store is a reality and... well it feels like reinventing the wheel one more time could be a good idea there.
If I draw a picture of your momma impaled on a post that goes up her ass and out her mouth while the flies buzz around her rotting pussy, would that be OK? Would that be a just a drawing? Would there be nothing wrong with that? How about I draw that up and hang it in a big downtown gallery in New York?
It would be infuriating, it would not feel nice, some people might even get angry for that.
It doesn't change the fact that it's a drawing, that no harm was done, and if you got the clearance to hang that in a gallery, it will probably be recognized as art anyway.
Here's the thing: you can feel however you want about anything, the fact that you dislike it or whatever is your personal take on it, and not always the only way to see things.
I don't have to like something to understand that some people do. As long as there's no harm done to anyone, who cares. As far as I can tell, drawing, reading, watching anime porn doesn't hurt anyone (except maybe the author but I doubt you'd care about them). If you really think a guy (or girl) drawing something in a cramped room is at the same level as kidnapping and abusing someone, then yes, there's a problem somewhere, but I wouldn't say it's on the artist.
How does "disabling it, removing most of it's functionality, renaming it's app folder then deleting it from existence" rank in term of IA abuse?
Assuming it is like you said, and don't have any physical connection at all (although most of these devices actually do), then it use induction.
Now the article is talking about working at ~1meter around the power source. Does your kettle work when that far away from the base?
One more time, our government (this time the ministry of Culture) say some stupid things without even thinking. I bet one of them sat in front of his computer, tried to type 'À', failed, then decided "I need someone to do this for me".
I also bet this person use Windows, and never asked anyone or searched the web on how to type this kind of characters.
Now, typing special characters (diacritics, elision, this kind of stuff) needs a keyboard combination. On Linux system, you can define a Compose key. On OSX as far as I know, there's something similar to do so. Guess who isn't playing nice with special characters here? Yup. The big champ of OS.
So, either they make a keyboard with a ton of "special character keys" only to allow windows user to type capital diacritics, while removing all the other non special characters, because a 150-key keyboard is not happening, or they man up a bit and ask for all OS providers to give an easy, accessible way to type diacritics. And most of them, having the mean to do so already, will certainly comply.
My bad, I took a shortcut there. Still, how is what systemd provide now better than what was provided before by different projects?
I think you missed the simple fact that everything was working fine before, without cramming everything in the init process. Power management, in this case, existed before systemd came, and everyone was using that just fine.
The system was flexible, allowed for easy replacement and customization at every step. Only downside? Beyond basic use, you had to touch the config by hand. Now this option simply doesn't exist anymore, and a lot of people believe that whatever systemd does now, it's the only way and that without them nothing would work.
I do that on desktop computers; they don't handle "closing the lid" too well.
But on one laptop suspend did cause troubles (a business laptop), I spent some time looking through the log what module caused the issue and added a pre suspend script that rmmod it before suspend; so far it worked well.
I suppose I was lucky in this regard, but I was ready to look a bit into ACPI tables in case something really bad wasn't already handled by the kernel. Didn't have to though.
Kinda what I, and others, did. I'm still in Windows 7 because "it was there", but I already struggle to keep it "user experience enhancement" free from Windows Update. When someone asks me for help on a W10 system, I give it a quick glance, and if it can't be fixed in two mouseclicks (most of the time it can... some people just don't get computers) I just say "I don't know anything about W10."
I slowly started to install some Ubuntu (for ease of use) on my parents' computers, and that fits most of the requirements they have: internet, flash games, video, music.
Only "niches" left for Windows are some games and stubborn business. But as time pass, the game requirement become less and less relevant, and the business thing usually work in either a VM or a pro computer dedicated to this.
To be more fair, if a non-tech-savy relative suddenly lose an app overnight, he's gonna call me to fix it.