How do you know it's the partial list other than an anti closed source tinfoil argument? There's one thing true, regardless of what happens people will bitch. MS could pay the source tomorrow and some twat will post about us not knowing of that source code is really what was shipped.
This. Slashdot is the only page out of the daily news that I CAN'T read while my laptop is in portrait mode. Seeing 3 words per line down the side followed by mostly empty space is a disgrace for a website targeted at nerds.
While I have no doubt the ad code is deliberate in the adverts, I highly doubt it was deliberately targeted at HTC phone owners. Why the hell would you use the keyboard app to display apps when you control the full code to the entire OS?
More likely this was to enable free ad supported versions of HTC's keyboard to be used on other phones (TouchPal keyboard is quite a popular app on the Play Store) and accidentally pushed to HTC phone users as well.
It makes no sense to add these "features" into an easily replaceable part of the customer's OS if your goal is to screw the customer.
MPC-HC has been incredibly feature complete for a long time. I mean the list of fixes, changes, and features look impressive with each release but frankly I'm running a 3 year out of date version on my desktop and compared to my laptop running something very recent... errr.... the buttons look a bit different...?
For the longest time it has truly excelled at it's core feature: The ability to play videos via a small footprint media player.
Oh behalf of the many users: Thanks for your hard efforts over the years, and thanks for not turning it into a steaming turd as much of the rest of the world seems to embrace change for changes sake. I see the abandoning of this project after its long stability in design and core purpose as part of its success story.
Killed it how? It said nothing about users and everything about developers. Whether you use VLC or MPC-HC is irrelevant to the developers working on the project.
It is a feature complete media player which by all accounts has changed very little in the last 4 years. Maybe the fact that it works well killed it.
Side note: Some parts of VLC infuriate me so I still use MPC-HC though I have both installed. I think maybe once ever 3-5 months I come across and old poorly encoded WMV that plays in VLC but not in MPC-HC which is why I keep it around.
Screwing how? When an open source project dies it typically continues working. When a closed source project dies the company folds, the license servers get taken offline and you no longer have a working product.
I just checked. I am running version 1.5.0 of MPC-HC. A quick look on project history shows that was released in November 2014. Still works 100% fine.
He honestly considers himself the smartest person in the room.
When parliament is sitting, he is right. When he's talking to a journalist, he's trumped by homeless guy sleeping next to the highschool dropout holding the microphone.
Windows 10 has high DPI support... too bad 99% of Microsoft apps don't actually support it.
Please list them so we can audit your 99% number. Because the way I see it the only things that don't support high DPI is some older MSI installers, and some of the management console things. Pretty much everything user facing does support high DPI and has for a while.
Go ahead, try and install it on a 5400 RPM laptop if you dare (with 6 GB of RAM and >2.5 GHZ processor) and it'll run like a pile of cow dung. It will literally spend HOURS doing nothing but running telemetry, superfetch, "application compatibility", and windows defender.
Well yes, just like when you install Linux the first thing it does is update the slocate database. The thing is after those first few hours it runs just fine, and certainly faster and leaner than all its predecessors. Incidentally I have no problem running it on a machine lower specced than yours. 4800RPM drive, 4GB of ram and a 2GHz machine. No problem here. Just don't try and run the latest Adobe CC software on it.
I've been manually disabling Windows Defender on that laptop.
Why? It is the leanest antivirus software there is. The initial scan when you first install the system takes a little while and then there is literally no reason to disable it other than stupidity or because a corporate overlord has a contract with Mcafee.
Add that Windows 10 will reboot "quietly" without telling you
No it won't. You sound like you have a massive hardware issue. Or maybe its a PEBCAK issue where you've set the computer to automatically reboot without warning, like set your active hours to midnight instead of during the day and turned off the function that gives you the reboot warning, deferral options etc. Except even then it prompts you.
Oh wait, with this recent Creators Update, Microsoft found out people were doing that, and MOVED THE PAGE. So now, it's another 3 clicks of pages, to get to the button that disables defender. A "subtle" act of conditioning to make it harder for lazy people to modify from Microsoft's godlike will for our lives.
Oh no, a feature most people shouldn't use, that is irrelevant for nearly everyone is no longer front and centre of a redesigned menu. Help help I'm being oppressed!
Microsoft has literally designed a operating system that can't actually run... on modern hardware.
literally lt()rli/Submit adverb in a literal manner or sense; exactly.
Maybe you need to learn english. Not sure if you should do that before or after learning how to use a computer.
Waiting 20 seconds for a page to load on a machine with GIGAHERTZ processors is pure lunacy. And it's happened to every single laptop with a slower hard drive at our company. Do they even TEST their software? Is anyone running the ship? Who thought these decisions would be a good idea?
Agreed. It seems there is a common factor here. You.
And yeah, my job is literally installing and maintaining their software. So I AM allowed to complain. If I could convince every client to magically switch to Linux overnight, I would. Linux has plenty of problems but the difference is... they're actually reported and solvable.
Normally I don't suggest people quit their day job, but in this case it may be for the best.
My role in IT was to stop people buying hardware and software without thinking
I would argue buying hardware and software is part of the IT role. Even if it's end-user specific stuff it is the IT department who should vet and procure the software. Otherwise you end up with a clusterf***k of licenses and hardware requiring drivers that would be impossible to properly manage from an audit, security, or even desktop imaging point of view.
Yes, you are in public, but there is a qualitative difference between randomly noticing someone's face in a public place, and a systemic collection of everyone's biometric data in a single central government database.
You mean like in passports, drivers licenses, and then logging the fact that you were there by... errr... checking ID at the gate?
I'm trying to figure out what you're hoping to avoid here, but I think you lost this battle before it even started.
Systemd is 100% deterministic if you RTFM and setup your startup settings correctly. Absolutely need NFS at startup? Well set the service to wait-online for network dependency (not a default setting in most distros).
With systemd, it's a lottery whether the system will come up correctly configured or not. That's plain stupid, and a massive regression. I've also had other instances where the boot hangs indefinitely; this is also beyond ridicule.
I'm going to go with the "or not" part considering you're locking up a boot indefinitely. Maybe consider setting up the timeouts if you have your services as part of the critical boot path, I mean we were only just talking about the "A start job is running" messages which is exactly what this does. Or better still realise that systemd is not sysvinit and read the manual anew. Forget on how you think you should be setting up something like NFS and actually set it up the way it is recommended, and if you haven't read such a guide, then you've set it up incorrectly.
Changes in OSes require changes in configurations, and if your system is not acting in a deterministic way then you have yourself to blame (along with your previous reading material).
The man who tech companies hailed as a boon to the entire tech industry as a former chairman of Ozemail during the rise of the internet. Here's a man who should "get it.".
Ozemail went under during the dot.com crash, but hey I'm sure he had nothing to do with that. Maybe they tried to use some of that that strange mathematical thing.
Consumers want what? Consumers want speed and convenience. I don't think there's any consumer that at all thinks the process of showing an ID or a boarding pass would actually improve either of the two things they care about.
The checking of ID / boarding passes has never been the limiting factor when boarding the plane. All this would achieve is moving more people from the queue outside the gate to the queue inside the airbridge or worse on the tarmac as we wait for several hundred people to one after the other get their shit together, find some space in an overhead compartment, sit down, and then stand up again when the next person needs to move past them.
If airlines wanted to speed up boarding that would abolish priority boarding and board by seat row only and additionally actually enforce which rows they are boarding. Though they pretty much have given up on priority anyway since every schmuck has a priority card now. Heck I flew in a flight once where there were 7 people who *didn't* have priority boarding, and then some business class passenger got upset when the airline refused to let him push infront of the other priority passengers. But I digress.
The IFPI probably is the most "European" but within the EU most countries have their own. The thing is even among the blood suckers of the world theirs a hierarchy of aggressive stupidity. It takes an American to endlessly file strings of lawsuits ever time someone hurts their feelings, or in some cases even when they don't.
Except when it's not. And the Gnome depends on systemd myth was debunked pretty much the day it showed up thanks to a clueless guy seeing a package listed with both gnome and systemd in the title and going spastic online.
You'd think with their entire hardware division in the PC side focused towards one single product line they would be able to resolve basic stuff. But no. In the interest of maintaining an efficient production line they are also focusing on backwards compatibility,.... except when they don't.
The Type Cover 4 and the new Surface Type Covers are the only ones sold on the MS website. Both list compatibility with the earlier Pro 3. Both cause the Pro 3 to lockup for about 8 seconds when waking from connected standby with the cover flipped backwards making their premier tablet unusable as a tablet while the keyboard is attached.
Microsoft is aware of the problem Microsoft is aware of the exact hardware details of the problem (relating to applying power to the type cover to identify it's orientation). Microsoft has been aware for this since December 2015. Microsoft has been promising a fix for this since January 2016 Fuck Microsoft for not being able to even get ONE PRODUCT right.
I really hate that I love everything else about this tablet/laptop/slate/whateverthefucktheycallitrightnow enough that I'll probably buy another when it breaks. The bug is infuriating.
You like letting your vendors make your decisions for you, fine. But don't try to pretend that isn't what it is.
You really stuck it to them by giving them your money and then changing operating systems TWICE before you found a setup you were happy with. I'm sure they'll consider your preference based on a generic complaint on Slashdot in the future.
Thankyou for your feedback sucker... err I mean valued customer.
Sarcasm aside you hit the nail on the head but for all the wrong reasons. This IS exactly an accounting gimmick designed specifically to drive investment in green energy. If I pay extra on my bill I don't expect a green electron to flow down my cable instead of a black one, but I do expect that money to be transferred to a green energy project.
Enough green energy projects start up, eventually the black electrons go away completely as the coal plants are no longer viable as customers pay a bit extra to ensure that they don't receive money.
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How do you know it's the partial list other than an anti closed source tinfoil argument? There's one thing true, regardless of what happens people will bitch. MS could pay the source tomorrow and some twat will post about us not knowing of that source code is really what was shipped.
Everything comes with faith, even open source.
This. Slashdot is the only page out of the daily news that I CAN'T read while my laptop is in portrait mode. Seeing 3 words per line down the side followed by mostly empty space is a disgrace for a website targeted at nerds.
While I have no doubt the ad code is deliberate in the adverts, I highly doubt it was deliberately targeted at HTC phone owners. Why the hell would you use the keyboard app to display apps when you control the full code to the entire OS?
More likely this was to enable free ad supported versions of HTC's keyboard to be used on other phones (TouchPal keyboard is quite a popular app on the Play Store) and accidentally pushed to HTC phone users as well.
It makes no sense to add these "features" into an easily replaceable part of the customer's OS if your goal is to screw the customer.
APK is that you?
MPC-HC has been incredibly feature complete for a long time. I mean the list of fixes, changes, and features look impressive with each release but frankly I'm running a 3 year out of date version on my desktop and compared to my laptop running something very recent ... errr.... the buttons look a bit different...?
For the longest time it has truly excelled at it's core feature: The ability to play videos via a small footprint media player.
Oh behalf of the many users: Thanks for your hard efforts over the years, and thanks for not turning it into a steaming turd as much of the rest of the world seems to embrace change for changes sake. I see the abandoning of this project after its long stability in design and core purpose as part of its success story.
How is this possible?
Because the vast majority of users have little to no use case for such an incredibly niche concept?
Killed it how? It said nothing about users and everything about developers. Whether you use VLC or MPC-HC is irrelevant to the developers working on the project.
It is a feature complete media player which by all accounts has changed very little in the last 4 years. Maybe the fact that it works well killed it.
Side note: Some parts of VLC infuriate me so I still use MPC-HC though I have both installed. I think maybe once ever 3-5 months I come across and old poorly encoded WMV that plays in VLC but not in MPC-HC which is why I keep it around.
Screwing how? When an open source project dies it typically continues working. When a closed source project dies the company folds, the license servers get taken offline and you no longer have a working product.
I just checked. I am running version 1.5.0 of MPC-HC. A quick look on project history shows that was released in November 2014. Still works 100% fine.
I wish I could always feel this screwed.
Don't joke about serious matters. Australia has a long history of proudly fighting ineffective wars
He honestly considers himself the smartest person in the room.
When parliament is sitting, he is right. When he's talking to a journalist, he's trumped by homeless guy sleeping next to the highschool dropout holding the microphone.
Windows 10 has high DPI support... too bad 99% of Microsoft apps don't actually support it.
Please list them so we can audit your 99% number. Because the way I see it the only things that don't support high DPI is some older MSI installers, and some of the management console things. Pretty much everything user facing does support high DPI and has for a while.
Go ahead, try and install it on a 5400 RPM laptop if you dare (with 6 GB of RAM and >2.5 GHZ processor) and it'll run like a pile of cow dung. It will literally spend HOURS doing nothing but running telemetry, superfetch, "application compatibility", and windows defender.
Well yes, just like when you install Linux the first thing it does is update the slocate database. The thing is after those first few hours it runs just fine, and certainly faster and leaner than all its predecessors. Incidentally I have no problem running it on a machine lower specced than yours. 4800RPM drive, 4GB of ram and a 2GHz machine. No problem here. Just don't try and run the latest Adobe CC software on it.
I've been manually disabling Windows Defender on that laptop.
Why? It is the leanest antivirus software there is. The initial scan when you first install the system takes a little while and then there is literally no reason to disable it other than stupidity or because a corporate overlord has a contract with Mcafee.
Add that Windows 10 will reboot "quietly" without telling you
No it won't. You sound like you have a massive hardware issue. Or maybe its a PEBCAK issue where you've set the computer to automatically reboot without warning, like set your active hours to midnight instead of during the day and turned off the function that gives you the reboot warning, deferral options etc. Except even then it prompts you.
Oh wait, with this recent Creators Update, Microsoft found out people were doing that, and MOVED THE PAGE. So now, it's another 3 clicks of pages, to get to the button that disables defender. A "subtle" act of conditioning to make it harder for lazy people to modify from Microsoft's godlike will for our lives.
Oh no, a feature most people shouldn't use, that is irrelevant for nearly everyone is no longer front and centre of a redesigned menu. Help help I'm being oppressed!
Microsoft has literally designed a operating system that can't actually run... on modern hardware.
literally
lt()rli/Submit
adverb
in a literal manner or sense; exactly.
Maybe you need to learn english. Not sure if you should do that before or after learning how to use a computer.
Waiting 20 seconds for a page to load on a machine with GIGAHERTZ processors is pure lunacy. And it's happened to every single laptop with a slower hard drive at our company. Do they even TEST their software? Is anyone running the ship? Who thought these decisions would be a good idea?
Agreed. It seems there is a common factor here. You.
And yeah, my job is literally installing and maintaining their software. So I AM allowed to complain. If I could convince every client to magically switch to Linux overnight, I would. Linux has plenty of problems but the difference is... they're actually reported and solvable.
Normally I don't suggest people quit their day job, but in this case it may be for the best.
My role in IT was to stop people buying hardware and software without thinking
I would argue buying hardware and software is part of the IT role. Even if it's end-user specific stuff it is the IT department who should vet and procure the software. Otherwise you end up with a clusterf***k of licenses and hardware requiring drivers that would be impossible to properly manage from an audit, security, or even desktop imaging point of view.
Yes, you are in public, but there is a qualitative difference between randomly noticing someone's face in a public place, and a systemic collection of everyone's biometric data in a single central government database.
You mean like in passports, drivers licenses, and then logging the fact that you were there by ... errr... checking ID at the gate?
I'm trying to figure out what you're hoping to avoid here, but I think you lost this battle before it even started.
Startup should be deterministic and consistent.
Systemd is 100% deterministic if you RTFM and setup your startup settings correctly. Absolutely need NFS at startup? Well set the service to wait-online for network dependency (not a default setting in most distros).
With systemd, it's a lottery whether the system will come up correctly configured or not. That's plain stupid, and a massive regression. I've also had other instances where the boot hangs indefinitely; this is also beyond ridicule.
I'm going to go with the "or not" part considering you're locking up a boot indefinitely. Maybe consider setting up the timeouts if you have your services as part of the critical boot path, I mean we were only just talking about the "A start job is running" messages which is exactly what this does.
Or better still realise that systemd is not sysvinit and read the manual anew. Forget on how you think you should be setting up something like NFS and actually set it up the way it is recommended, and if you haven't read such a guide, then you've set it up incorrectly.
Changes in OSes require changes in configurations, and if your system is not acting in a deterministic way then you have yourself to blame (along with your previous reading material).
The man who tech companies hailed as a boon to the entire tech industry as a former chairman of Ozemail during the rise of the internet. Here's a man who should "get it.".
Ozemail went under during the dot.com crash, but hey I'm sure he had nothing to do with that. Maybe they tried to use some of that that strange mathematical thing.
Hire competent C developers and you should be good to go.
And yet we have yet to see any sizable program be truly bug free. So are you taking a dig at C programmers or programmers in general?
Consumers want what? Consumers want speed and convenience. I don't think there's any consumer that at all thinks the process of showing an ID or a boarding pass would actually improve either of the two things they care about.
The checking of ID / boarding passes has never been the limiting factor when boarding the plane. All this would achieve is moving more people from the queue outside the gate to the queue inside the airbridge or worse on the tarmac as we wait for several hundred people to one after the other get their shit together, find some space in an overhead compartment, sit down, and then stand up again when the next person needs to move past them.
If airlines wanted to speed up boarding that would abolish priority boarding and board by seat row only and additionally actually enforce which rows they are boarding. Though they pretty much have given up on priority anyway since every schmuck has a priority card now. Heck I flew in a flight once where there were 7 people who *didn't* have priority boarding, and then some business class passenger got upset when the airline refused to let him push infront of the other priority passengers. But I digress.
The IFPI probably is the most "European" but within the EU most countries have their own. The thing is even among the blood suckers of the world theirs a hierarchy of aggressive stupidity. It takes an American to endlessly file strings of lawsuits ever time someone hurts their feelings, or in some cases even when they don't.
Yes. It's the agreement that is binding, not the contract.
You should look up the definition of contract. I'll help: A legally binding agreement between two or more parties.
Except when it's not. And the Gnome depends on systemd myth was debunked pretty much the day it showed up thanks to a clueless guy seeing a package listed with both gnome and systemd in the title and going spastic online.
You'd think with their entire hardware division in the PC side focused towards one single product line they would be able to resolve basic stuff. But no. In the interest of maintaining an efficient production line they are also focusing on backwards compatibility, .... except when they don't.
The Type Cover 4 and the new Surface Type Covers are the only ones sold on the MS website. Both list compatibility with the earlier Pro 3. Both cause the Pro 3 to lockup for about 8 seconds when waking from connected standby with the cover flipped backwards making their premier tablet unusable as a tablet while the keyboard is attached.
Microsoft is aware of the problem
Microsoft is aware of the exact hardware details of the problem (relating to applying power to the type cover to identify it's orientation).
Microsoft has been aware for this since December 2015.
Microsoft has been promising a fix for this since January 2016
Fuck Microsoft for not being able to even get ONE PRODUCT right.
I really hate that I love everything else about this tablet/laptop/slate/whateverthefucktheycallitrightnow enough that I'll probably buy another when it breaks. The bug is infuriating.
You like letting your vendors make your decisions for you, fine. But don't try to pretend that isn't what it is.
You really stuck it to them by giving them your money and then changing operating systems TWICE before you found a setup you were happy with. I'm sure they'll consider your preference based on a generic complaint on Slashdot in the future.
Thankyou for your feedback sucker ... err I mean valued customer.
Companies: No they aren't strict enough. We should ensure that an employee who doesn't want to work for us never works anywhere again!!!
Employees: Too strict, can't feed family, hate job, help!
This is totally not an accounting gimmick
Sarcasm aside you hit the nail on the head but for all the wrong reasons. This IS exactly an accounting gimmick designed specifically to drive investment in green energy. If I pay extra on my bill I don't expect a green electron to flow down my cable instead of a black one, but I do expect that money to be transferred to a green energy project.
Enough green energy projects start up, eventually the black electrons go away completely as the coal plants are no longer viable as customers pay a bit extra to ensure that they don't receive money.
Accounting, yes
Gimmick, no.