Well, I have zero willingness to let some marketing assholes know more about me so they can try to sell me targeted ads.
That's not my damned problem.
So, you want to make some guesses about who is watching the TV programs I watch and advertise to that? Go ahead. But I'll still fast forward through your ads.
If you expect me to allow your crap to run on my machine and allow you to track me across the internets for your marketing purposes? No, I'll block that shit all day long.
I'm not interested in your damned ads, nor making them more relevant.
The amount of shit embedded in the average web page is bad enough. Having that tracking and ads come directly from within my PC gets a big hell no. I'm not running services to help Microsoft (or anybody else) sell ads.
Not if I don't take every stupid update just because it exists. And never on day one for anything.
They're not forcing you to upgrade either. If they wanted to do that, they'd shove Win 10 down the update mechanism, not a notification applet.
Except what they did is to modify Windows update itself, pushed it out as an "important" update, and then acted like everything was OK.
Which means there is a very good chance they'll eventually push it as a critical update and not give you a choice.
Everything about the way they've done this is shady and dishonest, and smacks of them deciding they are doing this upgrade to us instead of for us.
As I said, it's my damned computer. I will decide when/if to update to Windows 10. And I currently have no interest in updating a brand new machine to Windows 10.
That's some bad news, but probably understandable considering those users aren't the techie types that will make an effort to keep their stuff up to date and secure.
Again, I trust neither their competence nor their motivation. And I fully expect them to cause a very large amount of machines to be fucked up on a monthly basis.
Because there's no way in hell you can expect them to force updates on all machines at the same time and not cause some serious issues. Which is why sane people let everybody else beta test them.
It comes down to who owns the damned machine. If Microsoft is pulling the "it's our OS and the EULA says we can do anything we want"... well, they can fuck off.
It isn't a notification it is a nag screen. Nags are intentionally engineered to be unnecessarily difficult to remove.
Not to mention being exceedingly easy to do by accident.
Because in this case the "WTF is this thing in my status bar" lead to a popup window which basically said "Scheduled my update now".
There is no cancel or piss off and go away. It's basically presented as "OK, we're gonna do it, do you want it now or later?". It sure as hell isn't pitched as a "would you like this?"
It also came in as something worded like "this fixes issues with Windows", when in actuality it's more like "this is a self serving update to push for updates to our new stuff but we'll pass it off as an important system update".
The entire way it was pushed out screamed "we here at Microsoft are assholes, and we will do anything we want with your computer".
Sorry, but if you're embedding your marketing campaigns directly into the fucking OS (it updated the actual Windows update as well as pieces to monitor how the upgrade went) that's just being bastards.
Everything about it screamed "We're Microsoft, we don't give a fuck what you want".
Because I assume they're grossly incompetent, and want to use me as a beta program tester. And I'm not doing that.
They're not doing a good thing. They're doing their best to force people into taking an upgrade they may or may not want, and saddled with that upgrade was some extra crap to find out how badly it went.
Sorry, but I didn't sign up for their beta program, and it's my fucking computer, and not theirs.
Since they can't 100% guarantee me it won't break, and they sure as hell won't help me if it does, I am not here to test out their new experimental version of anything.
This is just more bullshit where Microsoft is trying to act like they own my PC, and have final say on what I do with it.
If they want to offer a free upgrade, fine. But let it be something I initiate, not something they push out with a set of Windows updates which suddenly starts telling me to schedule my fucking upgrade.
But burying it as an update which doesn't say anything about what it's actually doing? Yeah, no, fuck that.
Last week on my Windows 8.1 machine I had to spend time tracking down an update Microsoft pushed out which did nothing more than start nagging you to upgrade to Windows 10 and wants to do it for you.
Fuck that, it's a new computer, and I will upgrade it when I choose, not when some asshole at Microsoft decides I should.
I sure as hell don't trust them to do it competently and let me be a fucking beta tester for it. Not even a little bit.
(If anybody runs into it, KB3035583 needs to be removed)
So basically this is your bullshit way of monetizing our desktops directly and preventing us from using ad blockers?
Fuck you, it's our desktop, we own it. It's not there for you assholes to monetize it and fill it up with advertising shit.
God but the people who sell ads are self entitled assholes.
Placing the ads on our machines directly is a bullshit move. How about we protect our fucking privacy by not having this shit on our machines in the first place.
That, and secret laws, ignoring your Constitutional rights, trumping up a bunch of other charges to bully you into doing what they say... oh, and the massive bit of institutional perjury which is embodies in parallel construction to deny you a proper legal defense.
They'll come down pretty hard on anybody they think is enabling this kind of stuff, and they'll twist and reinterpret the law any way they need to.
Sounds like Mexico just wants to throw money away for appearances' sake.
Given that America has largely dropped out of the space race except for unmanned stuff and what the private sector is doing... I'm glad to see someone is still trying to put stuff on the moon.
Because so far that's a pretty small and exclusive club.
Who you fuck is not a matter for the state to be prosecuting or otherwise interfering with. Because it's none of their damned business.
If battery and murder occur, you have plenty of laws for that.
Boo hoo, divorce can make children sad. Isn't that bloody tragic? So in order to prevent children from being sad we will criminally charge people for adultery, and put their parents in jail... and make the fucking little children sad.
If you think adultery should be an actual crime involving the law, you're a complete idiot.
There are many things society can and should police, but infidelity is not one of them.
Marriage confers all sorts of legal protections and benefits. Having your partner not screw around on you is not one of them.
What bullshit drivel are you spouting? You sound like a bad woman's magazine from the 1800s or something.
All that investment and nothing invested in fast disk? IO blocks almost everything today.
Honestly, this is my personal desktop in my home office, which shares a screen with my work laptop via KVM.
It's not a database server. I simply don't find myself IO bound. When I do, it's a long running task that I usually kick off and walk away from. I have more need of disk space for redundant backups of my stuff, not raw speed.
I wanted responsiveness of the machine due to having loads of memory and CPU available, because 25 years has taught me those are the things which become limitations in a few years when you can no longer buy the right kind of RAM.
I haven't been constrained by CPU speed or disk IO in years.. the only time *that* happens is on a machine which doesn't have enough RAM and pages itself to death.
But enough CPU cores to run lots of concurrency, and lots of RAM to keep is speedy seem to give a machine more longevity than anything else (for me at least).
I don't ever close programs, just put on them on virtual desktops and leave them there -- 6 virtual desktops of two screens means never having to launch an application, and memory isn't the bottleneck.
It replaced a 6 year old Vista box which had 4 CPU cores and 8GB of RAM. And, say what you will about Vista, but if you threw a ton of resources at it, it was surprisingly usable and stable.
Which is precisely why I just doubled it this time. I figure by the time the hardware is dying I'll just swap it out.
CPU -- AMD FX8320E Eight core Motherboard -- ASUS M5A99X EVO R 2.0 Video -- some cheap Gigbyte card RAM -- 16GB HDs -- 2x 1TB (C and D), 2x 2TB for my stuff (second 2TB is mostly for backups) 2x1080p monitors (23" and 22") Windows 8.1 made to look like a "Classic" Windows desktop with Classic Shell
Don't need super performing video, run lots of stuff in VMs just to play with it. (currently running Ubuntu and two different versions of FreeBSD in VirtualBox)
Memory should be bloat proof for the next bunch of years, and the 8 CPUs should keep up.
Nothing last longer than a machine with what sounds like too much CPU and RAM, even if the CPU isn't the fastest on the planet.
Awesome, they arrested some of the many people using the internet to run scams. Woo hoo!
We're all safe! Oh, wait, not so much.
The guy claiming to be from the "Microsoft Service Provider", or the one claiming to lower my credit card, or the duct cleaning guys, or the free cruise... these people still call me, and the internet is still full of spam and malware.
Other than a collective "good, but it's a drop in the bucket", did you expect us to declare a national holiday or something?
In other words, these laws stop no one except maybe one or two goodie-two-shoes. What's the point?
To intimidate researchers into staying quiet, to force them to provide information about exploits so they can use them for their own purposes, to criminalize providing these tools to anybody, and to keep them secret for as long as possible.
You think this is a clumsy attempt to legislate security risks.
I think it's a ham-handed play to claim national security jurisdiction over these things... allowing them to both exploit these things, and be able to use secret provisions to do anything they want to with computer security.
This isn't government ineptness, this is government overreach and a police state.
Anything they want to do, because, terrorism.
Behold my friends... the inexorable creep of the fascist oligarchy.
I keep putting on more tinfoil... but it just... doesn't... fucking... work.
It's almost like the Black Hatters wrote the treaty.
You're almost there... it was Black Hatters... but ones who see themselves as the good guys and want to prevent information about security from being publicly discussed.
Because the only thing they care about is their continuing access to computer systems, and pretending they're doing it for our own good.
This is the shady government agencies taking out the competition, and keeping information secret.
Now, ask yourself... 10 years ago how crazy would that sound?
Because these days, it's not crazy at all.
When they outlaw security, only governments and outlaws will have security. And then they'll be able to find you because you have security.
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. The pretext of keeping us safe is just bullshit window dressing.
Do you think a 4K 21-24" monitor will add much for you?
Unless you set it for jumbo fonts, or have super vision, for many tasks it seems like that would be too small to add much benefit -- at least to me.
I've currently got two 1080p displays on my desk (well, 3 if you count my laptop)... and I'd not want my fonts or windows any smaller.
Now, give me a 40" 4K monitor, and that would be cool. But it seems like a 21-24" 4K monitor is just going to have pixels way too damned small for many of the things I can imagine using them for.
I'm not interested in 4K for TV at all, but for monitors I'd want significantly larger screens before I could see it adding utility. I'd just be squinting at it, which would defeat the purpose.
You know... failed to create corporate wiki in last few weeks of job isn't something you should be judged on.
I'm not saying burn bridges, but don't build them new damned bridges because they've failed to plan for these things.
If they don't have a damned person to clean up the mess, building the infrastructure to plan for the person who may or may not get hired is going way above and beyond.
HD was a moving target for years, and early adopters eventually got screwed as their gear no longer worked.
The movie studios dickered over the HD replacement for DVD.
If they think we're going to buy new TVs and the like every time someone makes it bigger, they're sorely mistaken.
I'm sure it will be beautiful and wonderful, and people with lots of money will rush to run out and drop thousands of dollars on new gear so they can brag to their friends.
And the overwhelming majority of household consumers will yawn, scratch their asses, and wonder what the hell is in it for them.
I find myself with zero motivation to replace any of my TV/stereo stuff just because someone has said "fuck it, we're going to 8K".
But suddenly it seems like every 2-3 years people believe we'll all swap out our existing stuff just because some filmmaker decided to use it.
This will be mostly a non-existent technology for most people.
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Well, I have zero willingness to let some marketing assholes know more about me so they can try to sell me targeted ads.
That's not my damned problem.
So, you want to make some guesses about who is watching the TV programs I watch and advertise to that? Go ahead. But I'll still fast forward through your ads.
If you expect me to allow your crap to run on my machine and allow you to track me across the internets for your marketing purposes? No, I'll block that shit all day long.
I'm not interested in your damned ads, nor making them more relevant.
The amount of shit embedded in the average web page is bad enough. Having that tracking and ads come directly from within my PC gets a big hell no. I'm not running services to help Microsoft (or anybody else) sell ads.
Not if I don't take every stupid update just because it exists. And never on day one for anything.
Except what they did is to modify Windows update itself, pushed it out as an "important" update, and then acted like everything was OK.
Which means there is a very good chance they'll eventually push it as a critical update and not give you a choice.
Everything about the way they've done this is shady and dishonest, and smacks of them deciding they are doing this upgrade to us instead of for us.
As I said, it's my damned computer. I will decide when/if to update to Windows 10. And I currently have no interest in updating a brand new machine to Windows 10.
Again, I trust neither their competence nor their motivation. And I fully expect them to cause a very large amount of machines to be fucked up on a monthly basis.
Because there's no way in hell you can expect them to force updates on all machines at the same time and not cause some serious issues. Which is why sane people let everybody else beta test them.
It comes down to who owns the damned machine. If Microsoft is pulling the "it's our OS and the EULA says we can do anything we want" ... well, they can fuck off.
Not to mention being exceedingly easy to do by accident.
Because in this case the "WTF is this thing in my status bar" lead to a popup window which basically said "Scheduled my update now".
There is no cancel or piss off and go away. It's basically presented as "OK, we're gonna do it, do you want it now or later?". It sure as hell isn't pitched as a "would you like this?"
It also came in as something worded like "this fixes issues with Windows", when in actuality it's more like "this is a self serving update to push for updates to our new stuff but we'll pass it off as an important system update".
The entire way it was pushed out screamed "we here at Microsoft are assholes, and we will do anything we want with your computer".
Sorry, but if you're embedding your marketing campaigns directly into the fucking OS (it updated the actual Windows update as well as pieces to monitor how the upgrade went) that's just being bastards.
Everything about it screamed "We're Microsoft, we don't give a fuck what you want".
Because I assume they're grossly incompetent, and want to use me as a beta program tester. And I'm not doing that.
They're not doing a good thing. They're doing their best to force people into taking an upgrade they may or may not want, and saddled with that upgrade was some extra crap to find out how badly it went.
Sorry, but I didn't sign up for their beta program, and it's my fucking computer, and not theirs.
Since they can't 100% guarantee me it won't break, and they sure as hell won't help me if it does, I am not here to test out their new experimental version of anything.
This is just more bullshit where Microsoft is trying to act like they own my PC, and have final say on what I do with it.
If they want to offer a free upgrade, fine. But let it be something I initiate, not something they push out with a set of Windows updates which suddenly starts telling me to schedule my fucking upgrade.
But burying it as an update which doesn't say anything about what it's actually doing? Yeah, no, fuck that.
That might prove to be difficult.
Last week on my Windows 8.1 machine I had to spend time tracking down an update Microsoft pushed out which did nothing more than start nagging you to upgrade to Windows 10 and wants to do it for you.
Fuck that, it's a new computer, and I will upgrade it when I choose, not when some asshole at Microsoft decides I should.
I sure as hell don't trust them to do it competently and let me be a fucking beta tester for it. Not even a little bit.
(If anybody runs into it, KB3035583 needs to be removed)
I'm pretty sure you neither have an "entourage", nor know what the word means.
"Everybody you know" is NOT an entourage.
So basically this is your bullshit way of monetizing our desktops directly and preventing us from using ad blockers?
Fuck you, it's our desktop, we own it. It's not there for you assholes to monetize it and fill it up with advertising shit.
God but the people who sell ads are self entitled assholes.
Placing the ads on our machines directly is a bullshit move. How about we protect our fucking privacy by not having this shit on our machines in the first place.
Assholes.
That, and secret laws, ignoring your Constitutional rights, trumping up a bunch of other charges to bully you into doing what they say ... oh, and the massive bit of institutional perjury which is embodies in parallel construction to deny you a proper legal defense.
They'll come down pretty hard on anybody they think is enabling this kind of stuff, and they'll twist and reinterpret the law any way they need to.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Because the players here fight dirty.
Given that America has largely dropped out of the space race except for unmanned stuff and what the private sector is doing ... I'm glad to see someone is still trying to put stuff on the moon.
Because so far that's a pretty small and exclusive club.
Oh, bullshit.
Who you fuck is not a matter for the state to be prosecuting or otherwise interfering with. Because it's none of their damned business.
If battery and murder occur, you have plenty of laws for that.
Boo hoo, divorce can make children sad. Isn't that bloody tragic? So in order to prevent children from being sad we will criminally charge people for adultery, and put their parents in jail ... and make the fucking little children sad.
If you think adultery should be an actual crime involving the law, you're a complete idiot.
There are many things society can and should police, but infidelity is not one of them.
Marriage confers all sorts of legal protections and benefits. Having your partner not screw around on you is not one of them.
What bullshit drivel are you spouting? You sound like a bad woman's magazine from the 1800s or something.
While I have no idea of who Xilinx is or why I'd care ... TFA is suggesting Xilinx purchase AMD.
Come on, it's in the first freakin' sentence. At least try.
Hmmm ... so does Australia have a different amount of people with this?
Because this makes it sound like he's literally the sole source:
I'm not sure if that means "if we didn't find it in him we'd not even have it", or if literally every batch of this is physically derived from him.
Can they not cultivate these antibodies?
Because, you know, relying entirely on this one guy seems like bad idea.
Honestly, this is my personal desktop in my home office, which shares a screen with my work laptop via KVM.
It's not a database server. I simply don't find myself IO bound. When I do, it's a long running task that I usually kick off and walk away from. I have more need of disk space for redundant backups of my stuff, not raw speed.
I wanted responsiveness of the machine due to having loads of memory and CPU available, because 25 years has taught me those are the things which become limitations in a few years when you can no longer buy the right kind of RAM.
I haven't been constrained by CPU speed or disk IO in years .. the only time *that* happens is on a machine which doesn't have enough RAM and pages itself to death.
But enough CPU cores to run lots of concurrency, and lots of RAM to keep is speedy seem to give a machine more longevity than anything else (for me at least).
I don't ever close programs, just put on them on virtual desktops and leave them there -- 6 virtual desktops of two screens means never having to launch an application, and memory isn't the bottleneck.
It replaced a 6 year old Vista box which had 4 CPU cores and 8GB of RAM. And, say what you will about Vista, but if you threw a ton of resources at it, it was surprisingly usable and stable.
Which is precisely why I just doubled it this time. I figure by the time the hardware is dying I'll just swap it out.
CPU -- AMD FX8320E Eight core
Motherboard -- ASUS M5A99X EVO R 2.0
Video -- some cheap Gigbyte card
RAM -- 16GB
HDs -- 2x 1TB (C and D), 2x 2TB for my stuff (second 2TB is mostly for backups)
2x1080p monitors (23" and 22")
Windows 8.1 made to look like a "Classic" Windows desktop with Classic Shell
Don't need super performing video, run lots of stuff in VMs just to play with it. (currently running Ubuntu and two different versions of FreeBSD in VirtualBox)
Memory should be bloat proof for the next bunch of years, and the 8 CPUs should keep up.
Nothing last longer than a machine with what sounds like too much CPU and RAM, even if the CPU isn't the fastest on the planet.
Maybe the comic book writers understood just fine, and science is only just catching up.
Honestly, what's there to respond to?
Awesome, they arrested some of the many people using the internet to run scams. Woo hoo!
We're all safe! Oh, wait, not so much.
The guy claiming to be from the "Microsoft Service Provider", or the one claiming to lower my credit card, or the duct cleaning guys, or the free cruise ... these people still call me, and the internet is still full of spam and malware.
Other than a collective "good, but it's a drop in the bucket", did you expect us to declare a national holiday or something?
Awww, how cute. You still think that's true.
These particular dogs of war are slipping their leashes all over the world these days.
If you think your parliament knows everything your agencies are up to, you are sadly delusional.
Better wipe it and start clean.
We'll have to wait for the trickle charger, though.
To intimidate researchers into staying quiet, to force them to provide information about exploits so they can use them for their own purposes, to criminalize providing these tools to anybody, and to keep them secret for as long as possible.
You think this is a clumsy attempt to legislate security risks.
I think it's a ham-handed play to claim national security jurisdiction over these things ... allowing them to both exploit these things, and be able to use secret provisions to do anything they want to with computer security.
This isn't government ineptness, this is government overreach and a police state.
Anything they want to do, because, terrorism.
Behold my friends ... the inexorable creep of the fascist oligarchy.
I keep putting on more tinfoil ... but it just ... doesn't ... fucking ... work.
You're almost there ... it was Black Hatters ... but ones who see themselves as the good guys and want to prevent information about security from being publicly discussed.
Because the only thing they care about is their continuing access to computer systems, and pretending they're doing it for our own good.
This is the shady government agencies taking out the competition, and keeping information secret.
Now, ask yourself ... 10 years ago how crazy would that sound?
Because these days, it's not crazy at all.
When they outlaw security, only governments and outlaws will have security. And then they'll be able to find you because you have security.
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. The pretext of keeping us safe is just bullshit window dressing.
Do you think a 4K 21-24" monitor will add much for you?
Unless you set it for jumbo fonts, or have super vision, for many tasks it seems like that would be too small to add much benefit -- at least to me.
I've currently got two 1080p displays on my desk (well, 3 if you count my laptop) ... and I'd not want my fonts or windows any smaller.
Now, give me a 40" 4K monitor, and that would be cool. But it seems like a 21-24" 4K monitor is just going to have pixels way too damned small for many of the things I can imagine using them for.
I'm not interested in 4K for TV at all, but for monitors I'd want significantly larger screens before I could see it adding utility. I'd just be squinting at it, which would defeat the purpose.
You know ... failed to create corporate wiki in last few weeks of job isn't something you should be judged on.
I'm not saying burn bridges, but don't build them new damned bridges because they've failed to plan for these things.
If they don't have a damned person to clean up the mess, building the infrastructure to plan for the person who may or may not get hired is going way above and beyond.
I predict zero consumer demand for this.
HD was a moving target for years, and early adopters eventually got screwed as their gear no longer worked.
The movie studios dickered over the HD replacement for DVD.
If they think we're going to buy new TVs and the like every time someone makes it bigger, they're sorely mistaken.
I'm sure it will be beautiful and wonderful, and people with lots of money will rush to run out and drop thousands of dollars on new gear so they can brag to their friends.
And the overwhelming majority of household consumers will yawn, scratch their asses, and wonder what the hell is in it for them.
I find myself with zero motivation to replace any of my TV/stereo stuff just because someone has said "fuck it, we're going to 8K".
But suddenly it seems like every 2-3 years people believe we'll all swap out our existing stuff just because some filmmaker decided to use it.
This will be mostly a non-existent technology for most people.