or maybe I've finally realised there's more to life than fucking around with stuff when what you have works fine
Sometimes it's necessary for people to fuck around with something that works fine, if only because it can be made better. Heck, Windows 7 works fine for me, but I fuck around with Linux because I want to ensure I have a parachute of sorts if/when Microsoft and Windows become too undesirable to deal with anymore. I might not be ready to jump just yet, but I fuck around with it so I know how things work once I'm ready to pull the trigger.
What about Linux? Are 3D printers going to avoid having Linux support because it's easier to target an API supplied in Windows? I don't disparage Microsoft for creating the API - I'm just concerned about the flow-on effects.
Aero is the composting layer of Windows. That STILL EXISTS in Windows 8 and is what's responsible for the GPU doing all the rendering work. What's removed in the Windows 8 version of Aero is the "glassy" visual characteristic of it. Even though some of the glass and transparency has been removed, I'm certain it's still graphically accelerated underneath to avoid things like tearing that you'd see in say, XP.
Having said that, I agree that Windows 8 looks too flat for its own good. The flat look works fairly well in Android I must admit, but I've gotten accustomed to Windows Vista/7's signature look and don't expect it to be replicated elsewhere, so when that look disappeared in Win 8 it seemed more lifeless than it would have otherwise.
That's interesting. We use NVIDIA drivers here at work because they work very well, whereas Nouveau tends to be incapable of rendering what we want at the speeds we want.
I guess some random can just say anything and assume it has more merit than someone else's experiences. Given I'm also a random, we're at an impasse here.:)
How to you know that Microsoft Word doesn't spy on you?
Let me ask you this: how do you know that God doesn't exist? It's a stupid question because it's very difficult to proof the lack of an existence of something. Rather, the appropriate way to phrase the question is simply: how do you know that God exists? You have to prove your case, not get others to disprove it.
Likewise: how do you know that Microsoft Word is spying on you? The burden of proof is on you to show this is happening. You make the point that the source code is not available, but there are many other ways to analyze the behavior of software, even when closed. Off the top of my head would be Wireshark.
Do you really think, out of the millions (billions?) of Word users, including no doubt some very, very smart security researchers, that someone wouldn't have thought of this very issue and perhaps did some forensics to check to see if Word is somehow spying? If it could be shown that something nefarious was happening, it would be all over the net. But given this hasn't happened, it's more logical (and we geeks pride ourselves on thinking logically and rationally, right?) to assume that it's just a fucking word processor and nothing more.
Am I the only one on the planet who uses the "Recent Items" bit of the Start menu? It's great for loading files you've used recently, such documents or videos you've half-watched. That feature is gone completely in the Start Screen in Windows 8. There's a hack that allows you to create a shortcut to the folder which contains all the recent items, but it's not as simple and easy as one that expands from the Windows 7 Start menu.
There are many, many uses for the existing (mature) Start menu which don't map well to the Start screen. I suppose I could just install a third-party tool, but it seems easier (and cheaper) just to keep using Windows 7 until I've completed my transition to Linux.
Oh please. The fact Microsoft can survive sinking $1 billion in a failed enterprise is enough evidence that they've still got plenty of life in them despite all the hopes and dreams in geekdom in Microsoft collapsing years ago.
In YOUR opinion, of course. You don't speak for those that contributed to the $1B+ box office results of The Avengers, for example. Some people prefer seeing things on the big screen, if only for particular films.
Handcuffs can be a lot of fun though, particularly during certain sexual activities. But if you're unlucky and want to be freed, you might find the handcuffer is more interested in keeping you locked up on the bed while they rifling through your drawers and valuables, leaving you naked and restrained against your will. If you're REALLY unlucky, they might even pee on you while they do it.
Only the paranoid survive. Be paranoid if you need to do this. Sending encrypted email by TOR is sure to be noticed. Leave no trace or connection to home.
Unfortunately, unless you wish to life in permanent stress it's not possible to remain completely paranoid 100% of the time. I doubt it's even possible if you try - you'll become a burnt-out husk of a human being before too long. Humans just aren't designed to handle the stress of worrying about every single action you take every single second of the day. We all make mistakes, we all slip up. And for someone who's trying to hide, all it takes is one lapse of concentration, one unencrypted transmission which can be traced/linked, and that's it.
In the end, if you're worried about your privacy, it's better to do the opposite: hide in plain site. Appear as normal and as boring as possible. It's when you make an active effort to use encryption and hide your tracks that you will appear interesting to those who might have an interest in following you. Blend in, be like everyone else (at least publically).
See, I can accept that. At least you see OS/2's failure as being more than just due to Microsoft's actions. Same thing with Internet Explorer vs Netscape really. People say MS muscled Netscape out with IE being free and bundled with new computers/Windows. But by the time IE 4 came around it WAS better (in performance at least) compared to Netscape Communicator at the time. Heck, I use Firefox now but I distinctly remember using IE by choice because of how much better it was at the time. Netscape just didn't take the threat of competition seriously.
Bah. I hate history when retold by those who lost. MS battled against OS/2 and won, yes, but unethical? No. MS just had the resources and will to play dirty, and evidently IBM did not. That's just modern business and honestly I think most companies nowadays, whether they be MS, Apple or the open-source fan's champion Google, would do exactly the same "unethical" actions necessary to win against the competition.
You pretty much make the point why the XBone should be avoided when you said "It won't prevent me from playing as often as I like as long as the servers are always working..."
This, THIS, THIS is why I have a problem with Internet-based DRM. It creates an artificial lifetime on a product where there doesn't need to be one. The ability to run the product is tied to the ability to authenticate against a server somewhere, which introduces so many points of failure (your net connection, the state of the remote server, the state of your account, etc).
If the product is considered out of maintenance and the authentication servers are taken offline, you're fucked. The vendor MIGHT patch out the requirement for authentication later (if they haven't disappeared entirely), but there's no guarantee they will, compared to something without DRM in which you don't have any need for stress in the first place.
Going towards an increasing level of restriction of consumer rights and a locking-up of software is not something we should be supporting. But a lot of people do, either because they're ignorant of the long term ramifications or simply because they don't give a shit.
The biggest problem I have is that there are a LOT of people who are defending these restrictions with the Xbone for some reason, and I doubt they're all Microsoft shills. Some are fanboys, while others don't see the point of pushing back against aggressive companies. Heck, there's an editorial on Neowin where the author suggests we shouldn't be worried about the privacy issues with the always-on Kinect as we don't have any expectation of privacy anymore. In his words we should just "suck it up and get used to it". How fucked up is that?
"Allies" (at least as far as Governments are concerned) are just partners of convenience. They are not friends, and although they might be allies one day they could easily be enemies the next. Now the Brits might have been acting a bit slimy in their methods (I don't like the idea of well-meaning delegates being tricked into using fake Internet cafes), but it's what's done in the Intelligence business and I d
It is not unusual to spy on your allies - indeed it's expected, plus you'd have to be pretty naive to think your own allies aren't doing the same to you. Again, your allies might end up being your enemies one day, so it's important to keep up with what they are doing. Even with the US/UK alliance, a traditionally strong alliance, the US still felt the need to have its own plan in case war with the Brits became necessary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red)
Yeah, OK I admit that fail bit was definitely uncalled for. My apologies. It's just that I've been amazing and disappointed in Linux for so many years it's doused my interest in converting for a while.
But... the way Microsoft is behaving these days, I'm not going to rule it out at all.
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Sometimes it's necessary for people to fuck around with something that works fine, if only because it can be made better. Heck, Windows 7 works fine for me, but I fuck around with Linux because I want to ensure I have a parachute of sorts if/when Microsoft and Windows become too undesirable to deal with anymore. I might not be ready to jump just yet, but I fuck around with it so I know how things work once I'm ready to pull the trigger.
What about Linux? Are 3D printers going to avoid having Linux support because it's easier to target an API supplied in Windows? I don't disparage Microsoft for creating the API - I'm just concerned about the flow-on effects.
There appears to be some confusion about Aero.
Aero is the composting layer of Windows. That STILL EXISTS in Windows 8 and is what's responsible for the GPU doing all the rendering work. What's removed in the Windows 8 version of Aero is the "glassy" visual characteristic of it. Even though some of the glass and transparency has been removed, I'm certain it's still graphically accelerated underneath to avoid things like tearing that you'd see in say, XP.
Having said that, I agree that Windows 8 looks too flat for its own good. The flat look works fairly well in Android I must admit, but I've gotten accustomed to Windows Vista/7's signature look and don't expect it to be replicated elsewhere, so when that look disappeared in Win 8 it seemed more lifeless than it would have otherwise.
That's interesting. We use NVIDIA drivers here at work because they work very well, whereas Nouveau tends to be incapable of rendering what we want at the speeds we want.
I guess some random can just say anything and assume it has more merit than someone else's experiences. Given I'm also a random, we're at an impasse here. :)
Let me ask you this: how do you know that God doesn't exist? It's a stupid question because it's very difficult to proof the lack of an existence of something. Rather, the appropriate way to phrase the question is simply: how do you know that God exists? You have to prove your case, not get others to disprove it.
Likewise: how do you know that Microsoft Word is spying on you? The burden of proof is on you to show this is happening. You make the point that the source code is not available, but there are many other ways to analyze the behavior of software, even when closed. Off the top of my head would be Wireshark.
Do you really think, out of the millions (billions?) of Word users, including no doubt some very, very smart security researchers, that someone wouldn't have thought of this very issue and perhaps did some forensics to check to see if Word is somehow spying? If it could be shown that something nefarious was happening, it would be all over the net. But given this hasn't happened, it's more logical (and we geeks pride ourselves on thinking logically and rationally, right?) to assume that it's just a fucking word processor and nothing more.
Am I the only one on the planet who uses the "Recent Items" bit of the Start menu? It's great for loading files you've used recently, such documents or videos you've half-watched. That feature is gone completely in the Start Screen in Windows 8. There's a hack that allows you to create a shortcut to the folder which contains all the recent items, but it's not as simple and easy as one that expands from the Windows 7 Start menu.
There are many, many uses for the existing (mature) Start menu which don't map well to the Start screen. I suppose I could just install a third-party tool, but it seems easier (and cheaper) just to keep using Windows 7 until I've completed my transition to Linux.
Oh please. The fact Microsoft can survive sinking $1 billion in a failed enterprise is enough evidence that they've still got plenty of life in them despite all the hopes and dreams in geekdom in Microsoft collapsing years ago.
In YOUR opinion, of course. You don't speak for those that contributed to the $1B+ box office results of The Avengers, for example. Some people prefer seeing things on the big screen, if only for particular films.
Handcuffs can be a lot of fun though, particularly during certain sexual activities. But if you're unlucky and want to be freed, you might find the handcuffer is more interested in keeping you locked up on the bed while they rifling through your drawers and valuables, leaving you naked and restrained against your will. If you're REALLY unlucky, they might even pee on you while they do it.
Not sure where I'm going with this...
OK, this trolling wasn't really as fun as I was expecting. Not sure why people keep trolling if it's no fun.
Unfortunately, unless you wish to life in permanent stress it's not possible to remain completely paranoid 100% of the time. I doubt it's even possible if you try - you'll become a burnt-out husk of a human being before too long. Humans just aren't designed to handle the stress of worrying about every single action you take every single second of the day. We all make mistakes, we all slip up. And for someone who's trying to hide, all it takes is one lapse of concentration, one unencrypted transmission which can be traced/linked, and that's it.
In the end, if you're worried about your privacy, it's better to do the opposite: hide in plain site. Appear as normal and as boring as possible. It's when you make an active effort to use encryption and hide your tracks that you will appear interesting to those who might have an interest in following you. Blend in, be like everyone else (at least publically).
See, I can accept that. At least you see OS/2's failure as being more than just due to Microsoft's actions. Same thing with Internet Explorer vs Netscape really. People say MS muscled Netscape out with IE being free and bundled with new computers/Windows. But by the time IE 4 came around it WAS better (in performance at least) compared to Netscape Communicator at the time. Heck, I use Firefox now but I distinctly remember using IE by choice because of how much better it was at the time. Netscape just didn't take the threat of competition seriously.
Bah. I hate history when retold by those who lost. MS battled against OS/2 and won, yes, but unethical? No. MS just had the resources and will to play dirty, and evidently IBM did not. That's just modern business and honestly I think most companies nowadays, whether they be MS, Apple or the open-source fan's champion Google, would do exactly the same "unethical" actions necessary to win against the competition.
And the best thing is that I dislike both for desktop environments. I just wanted to troll for a change. :)
FUCK BSD!
LINUX 4 LIFE NIGGAZ!
This, THIS, THIS is why I have a problem with Internet-based DRM. It creates an artificial lifetime on a product where there doesn't need to be one. The ability to run the product is tied to the ability to authenticate against a server somewhere, which introduces so many points of failure (your net connection, the state of the remote server, the state of your account, etc).
If the product is considered out of maintenance and the authentication servers are taken offline, you're fucked. The vendor MIGHT patch out the requirement for authentication later (if they haven't disappeared entirely), but there's no guarantee they will, compared to something without DRM in which you don't have any need for stress in the first place.
Going towards an increasing level of restriction of consumer rights and a locking-up of software is not something we should be supporting. But a lot of people do, either because they're ignorant of the long term ramifications or simply because they don't give a shit.
The biggest problem I have is that there are a LOT of people who are defending these restrictions with the Xbone for some reason, and I doubt they're all Microsoft shills. Some are fanboys, while others don't see the point of pushing back against aggressive companies. Heck, there's an editorial on Neowin where the author suggests we shouldn't be worried about the privacy issues with the always-on Kinect as we don't have any expectation of privacy anymore. In his words we should just "suck it up and get used to it". How fucked up is that?
I apologize for the abrupt end to my sentence. Either I forgot to finish what I was typing or the NSA intercepted it and removed impor
"Allies" (at least as far as Governments are concerned) are just partners of convenience. They are not friends, and although they might be allies one day they could easily be enemies the next. Now the Brits might have been acting a bit slimy in their methods (I don't like the idea of well-meaning delegates being tricked into using fake Internet cafes), but it's what's done in the Intelligence business and I d
It is not unusual to spy on your allies - indeed it's expected, plus you'd have to be pretty naive to think your own allies aren't doing the same to you. Again, your allies might end up being your enemies one day, so it's important to keep up with what they are doing. Even with the US/UK alliance, a traditionally strong alliance, the US still felt the need to have its own plan in case war with the Brits became necessary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red)
Yeah, OK I admit that fail bit was definitely uncalled for. My apologies. It's just that I've been amazing and disappointed in Linux for so many years it's doused my interest in converting for a while.
But... the way Microsoft is behaving these days, I'm not going to rule it out at all.
It told me to not pick number 77. Did so anyway, boy was that a mistake.
No iPad support, which is arguably the largest use case scenario.
You have to subscribe to Office 365.
You can't just buy it in the app store.
I honestly can't come up with a way they could have fucked this up any more. Once again MS snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
Your MUM pretty much ruined it. ... that's the best I got. Sorry. :(