You still trust somebody else even if there's a central package manager. Unless you build that package manager yourself, from source code, and analyze every line of code. And #1 and #4 are not mutually exclusive, there are things such as trusted software repositories (been working well for the last two decades), on top of that there's antivirus solutions. If you want to batch resize images, there's a very nice command-line based solution called PhotoResize, there: http://www.rw-designer.com/pic... Yes it takes a bit of searching, but I have no problem with that. Your argument "people are stupid and can't find the right tool" is valid but won't make said stupid people do any better under Linux, mainly because they won't be able to properly use it in the first place.
Of course, that person would also have to put up with the constant malware threats, the nuisance of Windows Update, the lack of a central package manager, and the general asshattery of Microsoft including its desire to spy on its paying customers.
#1 has never been a problem, it's extremely difficult to catch malware if you use legit sources for games, software and media. Fir everything else there's isolated VMs to do crazy stuff on. #2 is NOT a nuisance, if you care to spend 2 minutes configuring it properly. #3 is actually a strong point IMO. #4 is easily avoided if you download one of the many available simple tools and spend 2 minutes clicking on checkboxes.
A lot of actions in history were decried by an elite and received with indifference by everyone else... only to turn into tyrannies or surface later as very bad decisions which affected lots of people.
Not that this particular case fits that model, but it had to be mentioned.
Ergo, the company has reason to believe that the minimal performance improvement does have influence on the buyers choice to buy theirs, instead of someone elses rig.
Absolutely, Joe the Buyer will see 1890 MHz instead of competition's 1850 MHz and will buy ASUS / MSI products instead of competition's. I was merely bringing up the FACT that the PERFORMANCE gain is minimal. I never said a thing about MARKETING impact.
Furthermore, official responses have already been provided by both MSI and ASUS. While I don't condone such practices, it's worth mentioning that the performance impact of OC mode over Gaming mode is minimal: around 0.25%, well within the error margin of benchmarks.
You're a fucking moron. It's not about re-learning parts of the interface. It's about changing processes, document formats, communication methods, etc., etc.
If you don't pair it with loss of productivity due to having to re-learn and adapt your existing stuff to the other solution... then you don't really have a point.
Yes, plenty. If you had alcohol-related problems in the past, companies might refuse to hire you but would give you a different reason anyway. More ominously, targeted advertisement with free coupons for this or that alcoholic beverage will find their way into your mailbox, magazine you subscribe to or local store you shop from. If you suffer from this or that mild disease (or have suffered in the past), targeted advertisement will slam you with related ads. Same if you're overweight or too thin (I'm thin and recently started getting targeted ads in my mailbox). A girl I know has pimples and started receiving targeted ads and getting calls (yes, calls!) from companies selling beauty products ("wanna get rid of them pimples") - I suspect that's caused by her uploading some personal pictures to the cloud from her phone (stored privately but hey, that doesn't stop anyone, does it).
Mindfulness has health benefits. I am not selling anything to you, kind sir, but wouldn't mind if you'd buy some of the mindfulness-related shit I have up for sale...
Wow. Just wow. I have over 500 contacts in my Y!M list, out of which I am usually chatting with about 30 of them. Yahoo Web messenger is horrible. Generally speaking, any messenger that loads in a browser window is horrible. I'm wondering what are the alternatives...
Facebook is a total no-go. Whatsapp requires a valid phone number, many people I know don't want to provide their phone number just for a chat service. Google Talk would be the best alternative I can think of.
That's what one (at the time) well known image storing website did. Imageshack it was. First they said "no more uploading anonymously" so I created an account. Then they said "no more uploading your images for free, you need to buy one subscription model" so I stopped uploading images there. Finally they said "if you don't pay, we'll delete your photos" so I made a ticket saying "fuck you, delete my account" which they did.
Go ello (https://ello.co/) and never look back, fuck Facebook.
If all the advertisers are in Brasil or Portugal, then the app I use in countries where this language isn't spoken should not be displayed. Having them displayed in unintelligible languages does not add any value and is even more annoying than the usual amount.
Here's a definitely non-comprehensive list of issues I see in mobile app ecosystem for $provider:
1. App copycats. There's a gazillion "flappy bird" knock-offs, to the point where the customer says "screw them all". 2. Horrid permission requirements. Granted, most people don't even give a fuck, but those who do slowly teach others, I guess it started to pay off. 3. Phone bloatware: it generates a certain repulsion towards downloading and installing more apps since day one. 4. Retarded ad system for apps. There are too many apps which present you with misleading / unintelligible (aka in other languages) / too flashy / clickbait / straight malevolent ads. "TAP TO REMOVE VIRUS" flashing red+white ad banner on an app with dark background is NOT the way to go. 5. Unsecured in-app purchases on apps for kids - what the fuck.
The above are off the top of my head, I'm sure there's plenty more.
Examples include famine, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, wars, Trump, accidents, murders, insanity, ecological disasters, North Korea, Chernobyl, volcano eruptions, landslides, avalanches... do I need to continue?
Could be that the intent was to create a perfect world and all the above are the bugs.
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You still trust somebody else even if there's a central package manager. Unless you build that package manager yourself, from source code, and analyze every line of code.
And #1 and #4 are not mutually exclusive, there are things such as trusted software repositories (been working well for the last two decades), on top of that there's antivirus solutions.
If you want to batch resize images, there's a very nice command-line based solution called PhotoResize, there: http://www.rw-designer.com/pic...
Yes it takes a bit of searching, but I have no problem with that. Your argument "people are stupid and can't find the right tool" is valid but won't make said stupid people do any better under Linux, mainly because they won't be able to properly use it in the first place.
Offtopic but I have to ask...
Does your engine, by any chance, offer the development infrastructure for supporting space-based 3D games?
Of course, that person would also have to put up with the constant malware threats, the nuisance of Windows Update, the lack of a central package manager, and the general asshattery of Microsoft including its desire to spy on its paying customers.
#1 has never been a problem, it's extremely difficult to catch malware if you use legit sources for games, software and media. Fir everything else there's isolated VMs to do crazy stuff on.
#2 is NOT a nuisance, if you care to spend 2 minutes configuring it properly.
#3 is actually a strong point IMO.
#4 is easily avoided if you download one of the many available simple tools and spend 2 minutes clicking on checkboxes.
A lot of actions in history were decried by an elite and received with indifference by everyone else... only to turn into tyrannies or surface later as very bad decisions which affected lots of people.
Not that this particular case fits that model, but it had to be mentioned.
Ergo, the company has reason to believe that the minimal performance improvement does have influence on the buyers choice to buy theirs, instead of someone elses rig.
Absolutely, Joe the Buyer will see 1890 MHz instead of competition's 1850 MHz and will buy ASUS / MSI products instead of competition's.
I was merely bringing up the FACT that the PERFORMANCE gain is minimal. I never said a thing about MARKETING impact.
Furthermore, official responses have already been provided by both MSI and ASUS.
While I don't condone such practices, it's worth mentioning that the performance impact of OC mode over Gaming mode is minimal: around 0.25%, well within the error margin of benchmarks.
You're a fucking moron.
It's not about re-learning parts of the interface. It's about changing processes, document formats, communication methods, etc., etc.
If you don't pair it with loss of productivity due to having to re-learn and adapt your existing stuff to the other solution... then you don't really have a point.
"better" according to which standards?
Spot on.
There's no such thing as perfect health. :)
If you're in such a perfect health, the government will snatch you one night and experiment on you
Yes, plenty.
If you had alcohol-related problems in the past, companies might refuse to hire you but would give you a different reason anyway. More ominously, targeted advertisement with free coupons for this or that alcoholic beverage will find their way into your mailbox, magazine you subscribe to or local store you shop from.
If you suffer from this or that mild disease (or have suffered in the past), targeted advertisement will slam you with related ads. Same if you're overweight or too thin (I'm thin and recently started getting targeted ads in my mailbox).
A girl I know has pimples and started receiving targeted ads and getting calls (yes, calls!) from companies selling beauty products ("wanna get rid of them pimples") - I suspect that's caused by her uploading some personal pictures to the cloud from her phone (stored privately but hey, that doesn't stop anyone, does it).
When I saw that car I immediately thought of pimps and African country tyrants, maybe with a couple of Arab sheikhs thrown in the mix.
ATT should change their campaign motto to "THANKYOUCOMEAGAIN".
Mindfulness has health benefits.
I am not selling anything to you, kind sir, but wouldn't mind if you'd buy some of the mindfulness-related shit I have up for sale...
Wow. Just wow.
I have over 500 contacts in my Y!M list, out of which I am usually chatting with about 30 of them.
Yahoo Web messenger is horrible. Generally speaking, any messenger that loads in a browser window is horrible.
I'm wondering what are the alternatives...
Facebook is a total no-go. Whatsapp requires a valid phone number, many people I know don't want to provide their phone number just for a chat service. Google Talk would be the best alternative I can think of.
That's what one (at the time) well known image storing website did. Imageshack it was.
First they said "no more uploading anonymously" so I created an account.
Then they said "no more uploading your images for free, you need to buy one subscription model" so I stopped uploading images there.
Finally they said "if you don't pay, we'll delete your photos" so I made a ticket saying "fuck you, delete my account" which they did.
Go ello (https://ello.co/) and never look back, fuck Facebook.
Only the service isn't free. It costs no money, but costs privacy and personal data, which you might attribute a value of zero, but others don't.
Slam the HDDs with a big hammer until data confesses...
If all the advertisers are in Brasil or Portugal, then the app I use in countries where this language isn't spoken should not be displayed.
Having them displayed in unintelligible languages does not add any value and is even more annoying than the usual amount.
Here's a definitely non-comprehensive list of issues I see in mobile app ecosystem for $provider:
1. App copycats. There's a gazillion "flappy bird" knock-offs, to the point where the customer says "screw them all".
2. Horrid permission requirements. Granted, most people don't even give a fuck, but those who do slowly teach others, I guess it started to pay off.
3. Phone bloatware: it generates a certain repulsion towards downloading and installing more apps since day one.
4. Retarded ad system for apps. There are too many apps which present you with misleading / unintelligible (aka in other languages) / too flashy / clickbait / straight malevolent ads. "TAP TO REMOVE VIRUS" flashing red+white ad banner on an app with dark background is NOT the way to go.
5. Unsecured in-app purchases on apps for kids - what the fuck.
The above are off the top of my head, I'm sure there's plenty more.
...and some win.
FUCK YOU.
Now I crave Nutella.
I'm not from the USA - I don't get to vote there, thank God. :)
Not that my country fates any better, mind you
Examples include famine, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, wars, Trump, accidents, murders, insanity, ecological disasters, North Korea, Chernobyl, volcano eruptions, landslides, avalanches... do I need to continue?
Could be that the intent was to create a perfect world and all the above are the bugs.