Oh, just another stumble for the Mozilla "expets"!!!! Another nail in the coffin for the bloated, outdated old Fire$sucks browser. Put this old cat down, grandma! Nobody user's firefoc's anymore!!!@!! I always use chrome becase chrome is better, faster and more knew!! When will these Firefox fanboys learn the truth of the matter? hm? Windows 10 is better becase it has secure updates. Put XP down! Trust mozilla hacks to add more bloat to their computer codebase by supporting a downlevel OS. Everybody knows that you keep your codebase clean, like google chrome!! But, don't listen to me, listen to these so-called, mozilla expets and their dying browser which is dying becase its bloated and user's too much memory!! it uses over 2gb or memory when im trying to use my computer!! my computer needs that memory to be free at all times or it crasher's!
Remember WinFS: Microsoft's aborted attempt at a relational filesystem? I thought it was a great idea and expected the concept to take off across the board, but it went nowhere.
Such a thing could solve this problem and many others in a more elegant and comprehensive way, at a much lower level of the os/filesystem.
I'm sure there's a good reason it's dead - performance maybe? Anyhow, emulating a default directory structure, permissions, and app-specific directory structure would be trivial to implement on top of such a thing.
+1 for Lazarus; (object) pascal is a dog of a language syntax-wise, but the quality of libraries available for lazarus, and the comprehensiveness of the IDE are exceptionally good.
For C++ programming in Linux, I believe the go-to is code:blocks (as already mentioned), but I use CodeLite which is a younger open-source IDE. It's a very feature rich and slick environment for c++1x/y development but has a bit of a learning curve and takes a bit of tweaking to get it to work the way you want. I've used it to port a visual studio c++14 game from windows to linux (yes, it can import VS2015 projects) and like it a lot. I found code:blocks, by comparison, to be clunky and a little outmoded, though I can't remember why. You will probably find a lot more support for Code:Blocks, however, since it's a much older and widely-used thingy.
VS Code for linux is a "lightweight" development environment, which some prefer, but if you're coming from windows, it will seem like a cut-down version of notepad++ by comparison.
TL;DR: I have used CodeLite for c++14 development in linux and prefer it over the given alternatives.
A microsoft software engineer who can't spell excerpt? Anyway..
For microsoft to force users to surrender telemetry data, and then have the audacity to claim that they respect user privacy, is beyond the pale. You are completely and utterly out of touch with reality. The very fact that you have the opportunity to access users' data without their express permission is the problem; what you do with that data once you've taken it is beside the point.
Is it time to maybe - just as a precaution - have all the hardware manufuacturers of audio input & output chipsets filter out supersonic & subsonic frequencies before the rest of the machine even sees them?
Is there ever a case where someone would want inaudible frequencies to be processed by their device?
How difficult/expensive would it be to put such filters in place? The filters we put on our POTS devices to protect our xDSL seem to be pretty cheap..
Only one tiny reference to Viber? My friends and I agreed to switch to it when Microsoft bought Skype whenever that was. It's pretty much a clone of Skype, it's non-web based and has linux, android and windows clients (not sure about ios/mac). It has video chat also. What's missing here?
Other people have already mentioned a few other skype competitiors so there's nothing really to complain about. Every time microsoft shoots themselves in the foot is a win for the good guys.
I'd also like to point out that most of the (web based) alternatives that people are mentioning do NOT tie in to the POTS in any way, ie. you can't take/make calls to/from a normal phone. I guess that will be somewhat obviated if enough people migrate to an open standard based alternative.
Until the big game studios can develop games with the same or less effort for Linux than for Windows, and get an equal or superior product, gamers will be forced to stay with Windows (even if it means to dual boot).
Currently, games ported to Linux are 1/2 the framerate with the same hardware, lower in graphic quality, or have some kind of unacceptable tradeoff. It's not the developer's fault, it is due to a lack of a competitive open-source directx alternative. Even games that were developed in opengl (Kerbal) or java (Minecraft) from the get-go are inferior when run on Linux.
The open source community has a very unhealthy lack of appreciation for the level of quality its commercial competitors achieve.
Coming from a small-medium business background: If you've been fixing windows networks, you'd be familiar with Active Directory and/or RDP and would know how difficult it is to replicate their functionality outside of a windows environment; SAMBA/LDAP or whatever the mess is called doesn't really come close. Personally, my working life would be much more complex without Microsoft's RDP combined with AD. For many businesses, there is no satisfactory substitute outside of the windows world for these things.
And no, you can't "just use open source project X and Y" because they don't work properly. No, really. No, not in a business environment. No, because it's missing features X, Y and Z. No, businesses are for-profit, they don't have time to do that. No, a command line tool is not more productive than a GUI for end users. No, the online help is not better than windows' documentation, it is either out of date or incomplete. No, No, NO, browser "apps" are not a substitute for native windows software. You can't just "put everything in the cloud and run a chromebook". No, open source databases are not a robust, feature-rich alternative to MSSQL / Oracle.
I'm sure people can counter 100% of this with their own experience (and they'd be right, since everybody's IT needs are different), but that's what I found after spending way too much time looking into it.
This - hold them liable. How can they expect people to potentially allow malware into their systems simply because these ad companies can't be fagged screening the ads they're pushing? Imagine if every 10,000th pack of doritos gave its consumer siphilis. "Hey, people aren't eating doritos, let's make a law to force them to eat doritos." This politician should be taken out the back and shot.
Recently I've had a lot of luck with the windows version of steam running under WINE (1.9.2-staging) through PlayOnLinux. The games do suffer poor performance (generally 30fps rather that 60fps kinda thing) and a tad of input lag, but otherwise seem to run perfectly.
For me, recent improvements to WINE are a more exciting and fruitful development for Linux gaming than the availability of Steam.
This reminds me of "Valley of the Blind" by C.S. Lewis. A seeing man visited a valley full of genetically blind people, and couldn't prove to them that his power of sight was an advantage. I think the message was that if you're superior, or have superior knowlege, you won't necessarily be at an advantage in a (relatively) backwards society. I could be wrong there but that's what I got out of it.
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Oh, just another stumble for the Mozilla "expets"!!!!
Another nail in the coffin for the bloated, outdated old Fire$sucks browser. Put this old cat down, grandma! Nobody user's firefoc's anymore!!!@!! I always use chrome becase chrome is better, faster and more knew!!
When will these Firefox fanboys learn the truth of the matter? hm? Windows 10 is better becase it has secure updates. Put XP down! Trust mozilla hacks to add more bloat to their computer codebase by supporting a downlevel OS. Everybody knows that you keep your codebase clean, like google chrome!!
But, don't listen to me, listen to these so-called, mozilla expets and their dying browser which is dying becase its bloated and user's too much memory!! it uses over 2gb or memory when im trying to use my computer!! my computer needs that memory to be free at all times or it crasher's!
Remember WinFS: Microsoft's aborted attempt at a relational filesystem? I thought it was a great idea and expected the concept to take off across the board, but it went nowhere.
Such a thing could solve this problem and many others in a more elegant and comprehensive way, at a much lower level of the os/filesystem.
I'm sure there's a good reason it's dead - performance maybe? Anyhow, emulating a default directory structure, permissions, and app-specific directory structure would be trivial to implement on top of such a thing.
Ryzen? That's a funny name for an AMD cpu. I would've called it one of:
Farmtractoron
Oxdrawn ploweon *
Slowandsteady winstheraceium *
Structurally soundiun *
External talentftwium *
Cyriximean amdinsteadiun *
Clappedoutbut reliableoldnageon *
Honestly, their marketing people are as talented as their engineers.
* Inserted spaced b/c "lameness filter" didn't like the long words.
+1 for Lazarus; (object) pascal is a dog of a language syntax-wise, but the quality of libraries available for lazarus, and the comprehensiveness of the IDE are exceptionally good.
For C++ programming in Linux, I believe the go-to is code:blocks (as already mentioned), but I use CodeLite which is a younger open-source IDE. It's a very feature rich and slick environment for c++1x/y development but has a bit of a learning curve and takes a bit of tweaking to get it to work the way you want. I've used it to port a visual studio c++14 game from windows to linux (yes, it can import VS2015 projects) and like it a lot. I found code:blocks, by comparison, to be clunky and a little outmoded, though I can't remember why. You will probably find a lot more support for Code:Blocks, however, since it's a much older and widely-used thingy.
VS Code for linux is a "lightweight" development environment, which some prefer, but if you're coming from windows, it will seem like a cut-down version of notepad++ by comparison.
TL;DR: I have used CodeLite for c++14 development in linux and prefer it over the given alternatives.
A microsoft software engineer who can't spell excerpt? Anyway..
For microsoft to force users to surrender telemetry data, and then have the audacity to claim that they respect user privacy, is beyond the pale. You are completely and utterly out of touch with reality. The very fact that you have the opportunity to access users' data without their express permission is the problem; what you do with that data once you've taken it is beside the point.
Is it time to maybe - just as a precaution - have all the hardware manufuacturers of audio input & output chipsets filter out supersonic & subsonic frequencies before the rest of the machine even sees them?
Is there ever a case where someone would want inaudible frequencies to be processed by their device?
How difficult/expensive would it be to put such filters in place? The filters we put on our POTS devices to protect our xDSL seem to be pretty cheap..
Only one tiny reference to Viber? My friends and I agreed to switch to it when Microsoft bought Skype whenever that was. It's pretty much a clone of Skype, it's non-web based and has linux, android and windows clients (not sure about ios/mac). It has video chat also. What's missing here?
Other people have already mentioned a few other skype competitiors so there's nothing really to complain about. Every time microsoft shoots themselves in the foot is a win for the good guys.
I'd also like to point out that most of the (web based) alternatives that people are mentioning do NOT tie in to the POTS in any way, ie. you can't take/make calls to/from a normal phone. I guess that will be somewhat obviated if enough people migrate to an open standard based alternative.
Until the big game studios can develop games with the same or less effort for Linux than for Windows, and get an equal or superior product, gamers will be forced to stay with Windows (even if it means to dual boot).
Currently, games ported to Linux are 1/2 the framerate with the same hardware, lower in graphic quality, or have some kind of unacceptable tradeoff. It's not the developer's fault, it is due to a lack of a competitive open-source directx alternative. Even games that were developed in opengl (Kerbal) or java (Minecraft) from the get-go are inferior when run on Linux.
The open source community has a very unhealthy lack of appreciation for the level of quality its commercial competitors achieve.
Coming from a small-medium business background: If you've been fixing windows networks, you'd be familiar with Active Directory and/or RDP and would know how difficult it is to replicate their functionality outside of a windows environment; SAMBA/LDAP or whatever the mess is called doesn't really come close. Personally, my working life would be much more complex without Microsoft's RDP combined with AD. For many businesses, there is no satisfactory substitute outside of the windows world for these things.
And no, you can't "just use open source project X and Y" because they don't work properly.
No, really.
No, not in a business environment.
No, because it's missing features X, Y and Z.
No, businesses are for-profit, they don't have time to do that.
No, a command line tool is not more productive than a GUI for end users.
No, the online help is not better than windows' documentation, it is either out of date or incomplete.
No, No, NO, browser "apps" are not a substitute for native windows software. You can't just "put everything in the cloud and run a chromebook".
No, open source databases are not a robust, feature-rich alternative to MSSQL / Oracle.
I'm sure people can counter 100% of this with their own experience (and they'd be right, since everybody's IT needs are different), but that's what I found after spending way too much time looking into it.
He's not "exactly wrong", "awhile" was used where "a while" should've been - "awhile" means a short period of time which was not what they meant.
..snobs like you..
"It creates the impression that you compensate for your stupidity with arrogance"
Pull your head in.
This - hold them liable. How can they expect people to potentially allow malware into their systems simply because these ad companies can't be fagged screening the ads they're pushing? Imagine if every 10,000th pack of doritos gave its consumer siphilis. "Hey, people aren't eating doritos, let's make a law to force them to eat doritos." This politician should be taken out the back and shot.
Recently I've had a lot of luck with the windows version of steam running under WINE (1.9.2-staging) through PlayOnLinux. The games do suffer poor performance (generally 30fps rather that 60fps kinda thing) and a tad of input lag, but otherwise seem to run perfectly. For me, recent improvements to WINE are a more exciting and fruitful development for Linux gaming than the availability of Steam.
Given that it links to a Phoronix article, it's hard to argue that it's an ad.. unless Michael Larabel owns shares in CompuLab and paid for it.
This reminds me of "Valley of the Blind" by C.S. Lewis. A seeing man visited a valley full of genetically blind people, and couldn't prove to them that his power of sight was an advantage. I think the message was that if you're superior, or have superior knowlege, you won't necessarily be at an advantage in a (relatively) backwards society. I could be wrong there but that's what I got out of it.