Probably because they know it's borked so they're doing a slow rollout, fixing the problems the early adopters find before they push it via update. That or they're just stupid which is entirely possible.
File recovery issue with chkdsk - you're absolutely right it's a pain and useless in many cases. That is a failing. However, it's rare that you ever get those files most of the time it's fixing indexing/journal issues and don't have to chunk files.
>number of command line tools
There are orders of magnitude more of these in Linux than under Windows, and they actually work. Your argument is specious at best. You are using your ignorance of the tools themselves to argue that they don't exist.
You're making my point for me. Even if they do exist you've got to go hunting for the right one, then learn how to use it properly or you'll fuck up the system even more. With 3 commands (chkdsk, sfc, nfc) and a couple GUIs (msconfig, services.msc, etc) I can diagnose/fix most common non-malware issues with Win7. Sure I may be ignorant of some of the Linux equivalents but in my experience 99% of the problems I've run into on Linux require specific knowledge of specific files/flags which quite frankly I don't have time for. In my youth I may have, like I used to have time to mess around with autoexec.bat, but now I need the system to work so I can work.
> I couldn't even find anyone who'd even heard of the issue before.
What, that X crashes?
No, boots to a terminal with no error message, I have to go hunting through various log files (without an "EventViewer" to make it easy) to figure out why it's booting to the terminal instead of to the desktop. When I finally did find the right log file, the error message was too generic for anyone to help me, it was just a non-descript problem with the theme files which, instead of just gracefully failing to display the theme I'd selected, it failed outright.
>One I was able to track down to a problem with specific laptops refusing to resume from hibernate
So now it's not X crashing but resuming from Hibernation? So which problem is it really?
I never said "crashing", I said refusing to boot to the desktop - whether by crash or failure to resume the result is the same.
>The other the only advice I could get was "reinstall".
This is blatantly false or you were not even asking in Linux fora, or you were calling up the useless HP or Dell tech support.
I should rephrase that - "Windows was the only thing that did what I needed it to and didn't fail in such a way that it wasn't quick and easy to recover from". There were a few chkdsk/f that I had to run to be able to boot during that period but it was a quick fix and didn't require me to re-install, spend hours on support forums tracking down issues, or require hours of work to re-configure my preferences.
I triple booted a MacBook Pro for 18 months to try all 3 systems. OSX does what it does well but it doesn't do much. Ubuntu failed 3 times during that period. Windows was the only thing that did what I needed it to and didn't fail. Ultimately the hardware failed at 18 months (couldn't handle the video processing load I was putting on it and seemed to have issues with the PMC drivers which resulted in excess heat even on idle)
4 different systems all have hardware problems and all had different failure points? Riiiiight
I'm talking about simple things like sfc/scannow, chkdsk/f, nfc winsock reset. Some tools exist but not enough. The last 2 problems I had with linux, I couldn't even find anyone who'd even heard of the issue before. One I was able to track down to a problem with specific laptops refusing to resume from hibernate - it took them 6+ months before they patched that problem. The other the only advice I could get was "reinstall".
The start menu is not outdated. While I personally used Launchy the start menu provided a compact access point to all the needed functions. The metro system is a glorified desktop with shortcuts. I stopped using desktop shortcuts back in 98se. They're clutter, inefficient to access/read, and time consuming to manage. Tiles are no different. The worst part though, when you do need to access things like the Control Panel, if you haven't created a tile for it, there's no visible way to get to it for non-techie users. Pre-8.1 it was only accessible via searching, which search itself is not visible so you must know it exists to use it, or via WinKey+X. Post 8.1 they've added a right-click on the start button which performs the same function as WinKey+X but it's still not visible.
By "repair itself" I mean have the tools available to diagnose problems and repair them without having to lose all the configurations you've applied to the system.
I've tried to switch to Linux 4 times now in an attempt to get away from Windows. Every time there's some random problem that prevents me from booting to the desktop. I could spend hours researching the resolution to it, or I could re-install. As bad as Windows is, there's never been a time in recent memory where I couldn't get it to boot to the desktop with very little trouble. Back in 98se days, sure I had to re-install a few times, but XP/7 I never had the need.
This does NOT actually uninstall the files from your computer, it simply "uninstalls" the tile. This applies to bullshit/bundled apps + advertising. The files remain on your system, you'll still be prompted to update them (which re-installs the tile) and in all they take up several GB of data on my system. I had to go in, change viewing permissions to find the hidden apps folder, change the ownership of the folders, change the permissions to give admin full control, then manually delete them - even then there were files I couldn't delete for some reason and I would still be prompted (though I know how to stop that now via PowerShell).
You're not kidding - things I've found wrong with it so far (less than 5 hours of use):
- Takes 1-2 hours to install [facepalm]
- Corrupts some Win8 Xbox game saves
- Adds UEFI watermark which can only be removed by installing an update (requires reboot too)
- Changes your folder/theme settings without permission
- Changes the folders setup in Windows Explorer to promote Skydrive (ya right!) and buries everything useful at the bottom
- Re-installs all the garbage you've spent hours uninstalling (bing/news/finance/etc)
- Doesn't restore the start button, just adds a button to bring up the full screen start
- Creates interface lag/"hiccuping" across all programs
- Removes the lease offensive drop corner\
- Enabled touchpad clicking on my mouse, despite the ELAN options showing it as disabled
- Forces powder blue backgrounds on tiles which make reading difficult (no personalization option to change it)
- Pins IE to the taskbar
Everything in Win8/8.1 is counter to productivity and just makes me want to switch to a new OS, unfortunately I wasn't able to downgrade this system to Win 7 64bit and I'm still not confident in Linux's ability to remain stable/repair itself easily without having to frequently re-install.
Buy domain Get cheap hosting solution or email only solution Setup clients and forget about it
That said, it doesn't matter since email is rarely done via PGP and PGP isn't overly secure either (nothing is these days). Honestly, for now, it's a losing battle. Until the email standard is completely re-written and secured properly it won't matter.
Interested and actually following through are two different things. CS programs in Canada that started with 400+ students now run consistently at 40 per year. There's a very very tiny segment of the population who are able to program/have the interest - very few of those will want to go into cybersecurity because it's such a high risk job. One breach and you could lose your job & have great difficulty finding another. Problem is, eventually there will be a breach because there are always new vectors, no code can ever be perfectly secure, etc.
Wow that is a fucking insult and a half. $42k/y? The national average wage in the US is $43k, someone who can program (really program) is rare so add 50%, someone among those who can program who's good enough to hack? add another 50%. Someone who is trust worthy, somehow managed to learn to hack without being arrested/sued/put on some watch list that prevents them from obtaining security clearance, is willing to work for "the man", and has an ivy league education, add another 25-50%. $120,000-$145,000 is what a job with Raytheon should be worth.
Exactly my point - the game accepts mouse input and performs the action it wants based on that input. If the game wants mouse acceleration it'll add it regardless of any controller settings. You can add them on the driver level as well but if you set the driver to have mouse acceleration games with it will double the effect since they expect standard mouse input. Sure some devs may account for this but the entire point of controllers/consoles is standardization so that the complexity is reduced. If they're having to account for everyone's personalized driver settings it'll devolve into just another PC.
That's built into the game, not the controller which means you'll be at the mercy of the developer as to whether or not the controller will be of any use
Your right thumb is going to get insanely sore doing that swiping motion to look around quickly. Button presses + motion will be hard/impossible, as will button combos and I guarantee the underside/LS/RS buttons will get clicked accidentally or you'll end up hurting your hands trying not to press them.
Law's like Canada's anti-circumvention for digital locks. While they may not have any sure-fire way of preventing access, they will have a legal bat to beat you with if you're caught doing it. Publishers can find another mechanism to publish, like Netflix or other closed source programs.
If you loved the old design, you'll hate the new design...
FTFY.
Agreed. I left Digg because of a crappy redesign, I came here. Now they want to make it yet another crappy 2 column blog style instead of thinking about how their readers use their site. This goes live I go elsewhere (or just give up on this style of site).
True. It really varies by the individual, amount of sleep, consecutive days of intensive work, etc.
As a person with an executive function disorder it's much much easier for me to work for extended periods of time because I don't recognize the time passing. I'll go until I can't go anymore. That said it takes me a while to get into "code mode" so a schedule which is interrupted by meetings and other crap means a huge loss of productivity for me.
Borderlands was a success because it was fun to play and fairly unique. D2 was fun because of building different types of characters with different gear setups. D3 eliminates that in a huge way so no matter what they do with the loot system the build system is so boring and stupid that it doesn't matter what loot you get. I found it closer to Dark Kingdoms or RAW in terms of gameplay than any sort of Diablo game. D3 console version isn't always online which is nice.
I thought the mafia was quite good at 'disposal' tasks. Rum runners were quite good at creating transportation routes... I think you're on to something;)
In terms of corporations investing millions of dollars to fund a project it's a little harder to recoup those costs. A low budget film these days costs over a million, sub-million dollar movies are now considered "micro" budgets. There needs to be a way to serve both interests without making the consumer a target for litigation/jail/internet cutoff.
No, there isn't. A corporation does not have an inherent right to make a profit.
That said, the experience of watching a movie on a big theater screen is not easily duplicated at home.
Actually they do. They don't have a guarantee of profit, but they do have the right to make one. Personally I prefer the home experience - no jerks talking/on their cell phones/out of focus images/bad speakers/crap on the screen/glow of closed captioning light/commercials/overpriced crappy junk food/parking/line waiting/etc
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Probably because they know it's borked so they're doing a slow rollout, fixing the problems the early adopters find before they push it via update. That or they're just stupid which is entirely possible.
File recovery issue with chkdsk - you're absolutely right it's a pain and useless in many cases. That is a failing. However, it's rare that you ever get those files most of the time it's fixing indexing/journal issues and don't have to chunk files.
>number of command line tools
There are orders of magnitude more of these in Linux than under Windows, and they actually work. Your argument is specious at best. You are using your ignorance of the tools themselves to argue that they don't exist.
You're making my point for me. Even if they do exist you've got to go hunting for the right one, then learn how to use it properly or you'll fuck up the system even more. With 3 commands (chkdsk, sfc, nfc) and a couple GUIs (msconfig, services.msc, etc) I can diagnose/fix most common non-malware issues with Win7. Sure I may be ignorant of some of the Linux equivalents but in my experience 99% of the problems I've run into on Linux require specific knowledge of specific files/flags which quite frankly I don't have time for. In my youth I may have, like I used to have time to mess around with autoexec.bat, but now I need the system to work so I can work.
> I couldn't even find anyone who'd even heard of the issue before.
What, that X crashes?
No, boots to a terminal with no error message, I have to go hunting through various log files (without an "EventViewer" to make it easy) to figure out why it's booting to the terminal instead of to the desktop. When I finally did find the right log file, the error message was too generic for anyone to help me, it was just a non-descript problem with the theme files which, instead of just gracefully failing to display the theme I'd selected, it failed outright.
>One I was able to track down to a problem with specific laptops refusing to resume from hibernate
So now it's not X crashing but resuming from Hibernation? So which problem is it really?
I never said "crashing", I said refusing to boot to the desktop - whether by crash or failure to resume the result is the same.
>The other the only advice I could get was "reinstall".
This is blatantly false or you were not even asking in Linux fora, or you were calling up the useless HP or Dell tech support.
Fuck you - I participated here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/568711 as well as a few forums/lists where ultimately it was found to be a kernel issue
I should rephrase that - "Windows was the only thing that did what I needed it to and didn't fail in such a way that it wasn't quick and easy to recover from". There were a few chkdsk /f that I had to run to be able to boot during that period but it was a quick fix and didn't require me to re-install, spend hours on support forums tracking down issues, or require hours of work to re-configure my preferences.
I triple booted a MacBook Pro for 18 months to try all 3 systems. OSX does what it does well but it doesn't do much. Ubuntu failed 3 times during that period. Windows was the only thing that did what I needed it to and didn't fail. Ultimately the hardware failed at 18 months (couldn't handle the video processing load I was putting on it and seemed to have issues with the PMC drivers which resulted in excess heat even on idle)
4 different systems all have hardware problems and all had different failure points? Riiiiight
I'm talking about simple things like sfc /scannow, chkdsk /f, nfc winsock reset. Some tools exist but not enough. The last 2 problems I had with linux, I couldn't even find anyone who'd even heard of the issue before. One I was able to track down to a problem with specific laptops refusing to resume from hibernate - it took them 6+ months before they patched that problem. The other the only advice I could get was "reinstall".
The start menu is not outdated. While I personally used Launchy the start menu provided a compact access point to all the needed functions. The metro system is a glorified desktop with shortcuts. I stopped using desktop shortcuts back in 98se. They're clutter, inefficient to access/read, and time consuming to manage. Tiles are no different. The worst part though, when you do need to access things like the Control Panel, if you haven't created a tile for it, there's no visible way to get to it for non-techie users. Pre-8.1 it was only accessible via searching, which search itself is not visible so you must know it exists to use it, or via WinKey+X. Post 8.1 they've added a right-click on the start button which performs the same function as WinKey+X but it's still not visible.
Tried Ubuntu 4 times, always ended up at a terminal with it refusing to boot to desktop.
By "repair itself" I mean have the tools available to diagnose problems and repair them without having to lose all the configurations you've applied to the system.
I've tried to switch to Linux 4 times now in an attempt to get away from Windows. Every time there's some random problem that prevents me from booting to the desktop. I could spend hours researching the resolution to it, or I could re-install. As bad as Windows is, there's never been a time in recent memory where I couldn't get it to boot to the desktop with very little trouble. Back in 98se days, sure I had to re-install a few times, but XP/7 I never had the need.
This does NOT actually uninstall the files from your computer, it simply "uninstalls" the tile. This applies to bullshit/bundled apps + advertising. The files remain on your system, you'll still be prompted to update them (which re-installs the tile) and in all they take up several GB of data on my system. I had to go in, change viewing permissions to find the hidden apps folder, change the ownership of the folders, change the permissions to give admin full control, then manually delete them - even then there were files I couldn't delete for some reason and I would still be prompted (though I know how to stop that now via PowerShell).
You're not kidding - things I've found wrong with it so far (less than 5 hours of use):
- Takes 1-2 hours to install [facepalm]
- Corrupts some Win8 Xbox game saves
- Adds UEFI watermark which can only be removed by installing an update (requires reboot too)
- Changes your folder/theme settings without permission
- Changes the folders setup in Windows Explorer to promote Skydrive (ya right!) and buries everything useful at the bottom
- Re-installs all the garbage you've spent hours uninstalling (bing/news/finance/etc)
- Doesn't restore the start button, just adds a button to bring up the full screen start
- Creates interface lag/"hiccuping" across all programs
- Removes the lease offensive drop corner\
- Enabled touchpad clicking on my mouse, despite the ELAN options showing it as disabled
- Forces powder blue backgrounds on tiles which make reading difficult (no personalization option to change it)
- Pins IE to the taskbar
Everything in Win8/8.1 is counter to productivity and just makes me want to switch to a new OS, unfortunately I wasn't able to downgrade this system to Win 7 64bit and I'm still not confident in Linux's ability to remain stable/repair itself easily without having to frequently re-install.
Buy domain
Get cheap hosting solution or email only solution
Setup clients and forget about it
That said, it doesn't matter since email is rarely done via PGP and PGP isn't overly secure either (nothing is these days). Honestly, for now, it's a losing battle. Until the email standard is completely re-written and secured properly it won't matter.
Interested and actually following through are two different things. CS programs in Canada that started with 400+ students now run consistently at 40 per year. There's a very very tiny segment of the population who are able to program/have the interest - very few of those will want to go into cybersecurity because it's such a high risk job. One breach and you could lose your job & have great difficulty finding another. Problem is, eventually there will be a breach because there are always new vectors, no code can ever be perfectly secure, etc.
Wow that is a fucking insult and a half. $42k/y? The national average wage in the US is $43k, someone who can program (really program) is rare so add 50%, someone among those who can program who's good enough to hack? add another 50%. Someone who is trust worthy, somehow managed to learn to hack without being arrested/sued/put on some watch list that prevents them from obtaining security clearance, is willing to work for "the man", and has an ivy league education, add another 25-50%. $120,000-$145,000 is what a job with Raytheon should be worth.
I don't think it quite hits the rank of the top 10 here: http://science.discovery.com/famous-scientists-discoveries/big-100-medicine.htm though it is very admirable.
Exactly my point - the game accepts mouse input and performs the action it wants based on that input. If the game wants mouse acceleration it'll add it regardless of any controller settings. You can add them on the driver level as well but if you set the driver to have mouse acceleration games with it will double the effect since they expect standard mouse input. Sure some devs may account for this but the entire point of controllers/consoles is standardization so that the complexity is reduced. If they're having to account for everyone's personalized driver settings it'll devolve into just another PC.
That's built into the game, not the controller which means you'll be at the mercy of the developer as to whether or not the controller will be of any use
Your right thumb is going to get insanely sore doing that swiping motion to look around quickly. Button presses + motion will be hard/impossible, as will button combos and I guarantee the underside/LS/RS buttons will get clicked accidentally or you'll end up hurting your hands trying not to press them.
There's one major reason it's bad to have it:
Law's like Canada's anti-circumvention for digital locks. While they may not have any sure-fire way of preventing access, they will have a legal bat to beat you with if you're caught doing it. Publishers can find another mechanism to publish, like Netflix or other closed source programs.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010302015322/http://slashdot.org/
Mod up.
I hadn't gotten as far as the comments section cause I hated the design so much. It's completely unreadable in that format.
If you loved the old design, you'll hate the new design...
FTFY.
Agreed. I left Digg because of a crappy redesign, I came here. Now they want to make it yet another crappy 2 column blog style instead of thinking about how their readers use their site. This goes live I go elsewhere (or just give up on this style of site).
lol
True. It really varies by the individual, amount of sleep, consecutive days of intensive work, etc.
As a person with an executive function disorder it's much much easier for me to work for extended periods of time because I don't recognize the time passing. I'll go until I can't go anymore. That said it takes me a while to get into "code mode" so a schedule which is interrupted by meetings and other crap means a huge loss of productivity for me.
Borderlands was a success because it was fun to play and fairly unique. D2 was fun because of building different types of characters with different gear setups. D3 eliminates that in a huge way so no matter what they do with the loot system the build system is so boring and stupid that it doesn't matter what loot you get. I found it closer to Dark Kingdoms or RAW in terms of gameplay than any sort of Diablo game. D3 console version isn't always online which is nice.
I thought the mafia was quite good at 'disposal' tasks. Rum runners were quite good at creating transportation routes... I think you're on to something ;)
In terms of corporations investing millions of dollars to fund a project it's a little harder to recoup those costs. A low budget film these days costs over a million, sub-million dollar movies are now considered "micro" budgets. There needs to be a way to serve both interests without making the consumer a target for litigation/jail/internet cutoff.
No, there isn't. A corporation does not have an inherent right to make a profit.
That said, the experience of watching a movie on a big theater screen is not easily duplicated at home.
Actually they do. They don't have a guarantee of profit, but they do have the right to make one. Personally I prefer the home experience - no jerks talking/on their cell phones/out of focus images/bad speakers/crap on the screen/glow of closed captioning light/commercials/overpriced crappy junk food/parking/line waiting/etc