how is the taskman improved? from what I saw of the preview, it had even less useful information than the vista/7 taskman, which in turn had less info than win2k/xp. However, the win2k/xp taskman actually had more useful info than the NT4 taskman. What really got me was the change of memory usage from actual values to percentages... how annoying.
Why the hell are you complaining about an OS you're not going to use?
because he's joining a conversation about it on the internet to voice his opinion?
If you don't want to use the software, why are you moaning about it? I'm not going to use it, either - there's no reason for me to upgrade at the moment.
so you complain about him complaining about an os he's not going to use, but yet you feel the need to post about his post when you also are not planning on using it?
1. Defending something repeatedly without a solid argument doesn't make a good case for it either. Take your own advice.
2. Starting a program should not be a full screen modal interruption on a modern machine. this is fine for tablets....or ms-dos, but not workstations. This trend of forcing users to get used to 'full screen only' again is part of that current dumb-it-down 'undevelopment' race to the bottom. It must stop.
3. The whole point of a gui is avoid having to type repetitive, simple commands. If their design actually takes longer than typing it out, like the playskool menu does, they've failed. The search box is an admission of failure. Just give me a console a-la quake; hit tilde and down comes a prompt ready to go...or leave the start menu alone. It works fine. The windows 7 start menu search is also stupid for the same reasons.
So why should PC douchbaggery be acceptable as 'professional' behavior in business and law while his should be relegated to private interaction? You know, the kind of douchbaggery that includes passive aggressive behavior defending mass misrepresentations of character and truth of certain groups based on fallacies and tropes? PC douchbaggery isn't much different, it just has political backing.
Maybe we should all grow up and realize that, as adults, we are responsible for our reactions to our own feelings and grow thicker skins. Then off color jokes won't cost employers millions, and women (and any other supposed 'oppressed victims'), would truly have the chance to prove themselves equals to engrained cultures on the basis of reality instead of lets-play-pretend and you-can-only-use-one-leg politics.
Or do you just shut up and code? If the latter, why do you give a flying fuck about this?
because women are taking full advantage of this new imbalanced social dynamic. They use it to stick it to people like him who might criticize her work. I have seen this happen. If women work at your employer's place of business, you are in a lottery.. one complaint away from career loss.
That's not what you said. You talked about threats to others' rights and taking responsibility, then equated the meritocratic 'hacker ethos' the parent mentioned as such. That doesn't make sense at all. If people were a bit more preemptive in their computer administration, 'hackers' like him wouldn't have the ability to do what they do, at least not very often. Take responsibility for your own computer systems and you'll be fine. You don't need big daddy government to come in and rescue your PETA website from trollolols.
you're probably the type of douchebag who thinks the definition of freedom means you can do whatever the hell you want without regard to consequences
Hardly. While those defining the limits of 'freedom' get to set them however they want, right? Oh the irony. Tell that to the whiny feminist who wrote that blog entry. Apparently she wants to be considered one of them without earning her stripes. That, or she made gender 'the issue' at one or more of the conferences and got metatrolled for trolling, so she trots out her 'anonymous' (yeah right) claim of someone groping her friend to make her feel better about herself.
Seriously, the fact this comes from a feminist blogsite should at least bring into question the validity of the story. This is like reading a worldnetdaily post about obama's 'relation' with bin laden or saddam hussein because of their names.
His context deliberately misrepresented mine. It was a strawman. The problem is that most of these cases are now defended by self righteous drones attempting white knightery at the expense of some poor sob's career. I never said I supported unwanted groping or real assault. I made that clear in my post.
"Whiny" is demanding 'equality', then when achieving it, demanding special treatment under the guise of perpetual, systemic victimhood. Using your premise, if he has no right to complain, then she definitely doesn't. Women are the most protected, privileged, and celebrated group in western society today. A mere utterance from her can ruin a man's career.. Without burden of proof or justification, society is socio-politically bound to kneejerk to her defense.
The only case were termination is justified is physical assault (which should be the case regardless of gender or type of assault). Verbal statements, directed towards anyone, or simply overheard is not abuse. As adults, others are not responsible for our feelings. We are responsible for our own and how we react to them...at least this is how it should be. As someone who was verbally teased in school, I learned this lesson the hard way. The only thing that worked was standing up for myself tenaciously. Nothing authority figures did made any difference. The same holds true here. In the case of 'hacker ethos', if women aren't respected, then that's because "their mom bought them a 'puter' for christmas" and they haven't "done 'nothin' yet." This would also be true for any men who demanded respect just for existing. This is as it should be. If this feminist is right, and women want more respect in 'hacker culture' (whatever that means, really), then they gotta prove themselves. It is not the job of the culture to cater to them.
It's not just about safety.. It's also about freedom. Unfortunately, politicians love the safe-tards who they've conditioned to fear 'terrorists' or 'pedophiles' or 'rapists' around every corner. They're reliable voters. The definition of 'rape' has expanded from the original 'unwanted sexual act' definition so much that basically she can define it to apply to whatever behavior she chooses in court...and the law backs her play. People like 'mightymartian' are just the useful idiots who reenforce this stupidity because they've been so-trained by the culture. Perhaps they suffer 'man guilt' and want to 'prove' they're not 'like that' at every opportunity, even if it destroys another's career. Or maybe siding with big-brother tyrant just helps him feel empowered as a wannabe little tyrant in a culture that increasingly disenfranchises individual liberty and self worth.
In terms of the article, this is how 'cultural marxism' gets in on the ground floor of a given organization. The trick is to divide the population by differences and attempt to paint one side as oppressed by the other. If no such real difference exists, manufacture it. The traditional 'hacker ethos' is a strict meritocracy, so here feminists come in with the whole "where's the women, huh? where are they" trollfest. Feminism today is cultural marxism divided by gender.
His context deliberately misrepresented mine. It was a strawman. The problem is that most of these cases are now defended by self righteous drones attempting white knightery at the expense of some poor sob's career. I never said I supported unwanted groping or real assault. I made that clear in my post.
"Whiny" is demanding 'equality', then when achieving it, demanding special treatment under the guise of perpetual, systemic victimhood. Using your premise, if he has no right to complain, then she definitely doesn't. Women are the most protected, privileged, and celebrated group in western society today. A mere utterance from her can ruin a man's career.. Without burden of proof or justification, society is socio-politically bound to kneejerk to her defense.
The only case were termination is justified is physical assault (which should be the case regardless of gender or type of assault). Verbal statements, directed towards anyone, or simply overheard is not abuse. As adults, others are not responsible for our feelings. We are responsible for our own and how we react to them...at least this is how it should be. As someone who was verbally teased in school, I learned this lesson the hard way. The only thing that worked was standing up for myself tenaciously. Nothing authority figures did made any difference. The same holds true here. In the case of 'hacker ethos', if women aren't respected, then that's because "their mom bought them a 'puter' for christmas" and they haven't "done 'nothin' yet." This would also be true for any men who demanded respect just for existing. This is as it should be. If this feminist is right, and women want more respect in 'hacker culture' (whatever that means, really), then they gotta prove themselves. It is not the job of the culture to cater to them.
It's not just about safety.. It's also about freedom. Unfortunately, politicians love the safe-tards who they've conditioned to fear 'terrorists' or 'pedophiles' or 'rapists' around every corner. They're reliable voters. The definition of 'rape' has expanded from the original 'unwanted sexual act' definition so much that basically she can define it to apply to whatever behavior she chooses in court...and the law backs her play. People like 'mightymartian' are just the useful idiots who reenforce this stupidity because they've been so-trained by the culture. Perhaps they suffer 'man guilt' and want to 'prove' they're not 'like that' at every opportunity, even if it destroys another's career. Or maybe siding with big-brother tyrant just helps him feel empowered as a wannabe little tyrant in a culture that increasingly disenfranchises individual liberty and self worth.
In terms of the article, this is how 'cultural marxism' gets in on the ground floor of a given organization. The trick is to divide the population by differences and attempt to paint one side as oppressed by the other. If no such real difference exists, manufacture it. The traditional 'hacker ethos' is a strict meritocracy, so here feminists come in with the whole "where's the women, huh? where are they" trollfest. Feminism today is cultural marxism divided by gender.
but when she chops of his penis and dumps it into a garbage disposal, this is grounds for ridiculing him on the morning all woman talk shows? This is what women get away with in our double-standard feminist-derived mangina culture. Until this is fixed and women serve the same harsh sentences men serve for the same crime, it's hard for me to have sympathy. Now, if this is the case because women truly cannot handle responsibility for their behavior, then they are not equals no matter what feminist-apologists say.
Who said it was a justification for any sort of behavior? If you did this simply for stating this in a conversation, the next place you or your company would find yourselves is a wrongful termination lawsuit.
As opposed to the systemic bigotry directed at men as a result of 'equality' and 'diversity 'training' pushed from every institutional orifice? Labeling all men who don't conform as deviants or molesters is par for the course for this kind of activism. It distorts the original intent of organizations, eating them out from the inside like a virus invading a healthy cell, until they become little more than mouth pieces for ideological politics, with their original goals distant seconds. I certainly don't advocate the abuse of anyone, individual to individual, or society to individual. That's why I'm anti 'political correctness.' Selling out to the government so that it acts like a battering ram for your interests while claiming perpetual victimhood is dishonorable to say the least.
Really? The current cultural climate is causing more and more men to walk away from societal trappings, at the expense of society's long term viability. I believe they call it 'going their own way.' They abstain from marriage, from women, in some cases, and most importantly, from any shouldering of traditional responsibilities that women's groups hypocritically hold men to while they rail about 'equality.' The fact is, women are just as likely to physically and psychologically abuse as men are, in the work place, in school, and at home.
The traditional 'hacker ethos' has been a strict meritocracy. You gain respect with accomplishment. Not with penises or vaginas. I'm sure there are women hackers. The only group one can 'blame' for any 'inequality' is women themselves.. Assuming this is unfair just assumes that men and women are interchangeable. We're not. We do not have the "same thoughts and feelings." The genders evolved to be complementary, each with proclivities and imperatives the other lacks or has less of. We did not evolve to be at war with each other.
Lovely. Will you get the order of lenin for this post, comrade? Wow, is this intolerance what's being taught in schools now?..and if this society becomes blatantly hypocritical and incongruent enough with reality to cause mass censure of individual liberty? What then? Should he still submit to the will of the collective as you so 'eloquently' said here?
1. the last thing we need is more search boxes in our GUIs. A search box in a menu system proves that the menu layout has already failed because the designer already knows the user will have trouble finding what he's looking for. The ribbon is a horrid interface. Poking and prodding through icons of various sizes and text fonts is a hell of a lot more annoying than simple lists of options, especially if the option isn't immediately visible due to it failing some pathetic popularity heuristic. Microsoft attempted this first with the old menu system and it was so goddamn annoying, it was usually one of the first options I switched off, not just for me, but for any users I had to support.
2. It's an aggravating modal context switch that's completely illusory and unnecessary, but it does drive the user to be face to face with metro on a regular basis, which is what microsoft really wants out of this. Personally, I don't get the defense of such stupid things, when we already have something that works a lot better: start menus/quicklaunch.
3. There's a difference between checking out a new piece of software, and the resultant discoveries (ie this is cool, or this sucks) the process reveals. What new technologies are you referring to? That shitty overwrought start menu? The hobbled/ribbon'd explorer? The newbified taskman that now requires even more clicks to get at useful info? I will grant you some of the new under the hood improvements are nice, but the gui severely mars that for me.
they act as a sound device with only a digital out. some cards include a cable to wire to your sound board's spdif out instead. There are no analog components for the system noise to interfere with (barring egregious digital noise that creates too much jitter).
Of course, you want as much headroom current as possible, but my understanding was that most output op amps lack the current to drive most sets of speakers/phones because they were really meant to drive a line-in device like amplified computer speakers. If the impedance is low enough, the amps will clip (or create distorted waveforms even before then) because of current limitations.
I'm willing to bet they do, but it's hidden behind a software resample, at least for the dacs behind the analog outs.. I would hope that modern drivers do not resample for the spdif unless it's not a supported frequency/bitrate. I'm talking about the PCM standard here, not the raw output used for ac3/dts.
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to what end?
how is the taskman improved? from what I saw of the preview, it had even less useful information than the vista/7 taskman, which in turn had less info than win2k/xp. However, the win2k/xp taskman actually had more useful info than the NT4 taskman. What really got me was the change of memory usage from actual values to percentages... how annoying.
Why the hell are you complaining about an OS you're not going to use?
because he's joining a conversation about it on the internet to voice his opinion?
If you don't want to use the software, why are you moaning about it? I'm not going to use it, either - there's no reason for me to upgrade at the moment.
so you complain about him complaining about an os he's not going to use, but yet you feel the need to post about his post when you also are not planning on using it?
'better' without clarification is specious at best, and the latter half of your statment is argumentum ad populum.
1. Defending something repeatedly without a solid argument doesn't make a good case for it either. Take your own advice.
2. Starting a program should not be a full screen modal interruption on a modern machine. this is fine for tablets....or ms-dos, but not workstations. This trend of forcing users to get used to 'full screen only' again is part of that current dumb-it-down 'undevelopment' race to the bottom. It must stop.
3. The whole point of a gui is avoid having to type repetitive, simple commands. If their design actually takes longer than typing it out, like the playskool menu does, they've failed. The search box is an admission of failure. Just give me a console a-la quake; hit tilde and down comes a prompt ready to go...or leave the start menu alone. It works fine. The windows 7 start menu search is also stupid for the same reasons.
I might agree with you if the feds weren't a mercenary government that no longer follows the law.
because then your office suite would cost $100,000 instead of $200-500 (or free).
So why should PC douchbaggery be acceptable as 'professional' behavior in business and law while his should be relegated to private interaction? You know, the kind of douchbaggery that includes passive aggressive behavior defending mass misrepresentations of character and truth of certain groups based on fallacies and tropes? PC douchbaggery isn't much different, it just has political backing.
Maybe we should all grow up and realize that, as adults, we are responsible for our reactions to our own feelings and grow thicker skins. Then off color jokes won't cost employers millions, and women (and any other supposed 'oppressed victims'), would truly have the chance to prove themselves equals to engrained cultures on the basis of reality instead of lets-play-pretend and you-can-only-use-one-leg politics.
Or do you just shut up and code? If the latter, why do you give a flying fuck about this?
because women are taking full advantage of this new imbalanced social dynamic. They use it to stick it to people like him who might criticize her work. I have seen this happen. If women work at your employer's place of business, you are in a lottery.. one complaint away from career loss.
That's not what you said. You talked about threats to others' rights and taking responsibility, then equated the meritocratic 'hacker ethos' the parent mentioned as such. That doesn't make sense at all. If people were a bit more preemptive in their computer administration, 'hackers' like him wouldn't have the ability to do what they do, at least not very often. Take responsibility for your own computer systems and you'll be fine. You don't need big daddy government to come in and rescue your PETA website from trollolols.
you're probably the type of douchebag who thinks the definition of freedom means you can do whatever the hell you want without regard to consequences
Hardly. While those defining the limits of 'freedom' get to set them however they want, right? Oh the irony. Tell that to the whiny feminist who wrote that blog entry. Apparently she wants to be considered one of them without earning her stripes. That, or she made gender 'the issue' at one or more of the conferences and got metatrolled for trolling, so she trots out her 'anonymous' (yeah right) claim of someone groping her friend to make her feel better about herself.
Seriously, the fact this comes from a feminist blogsite should at least bring into question the validity of the story. This is like reading a worldnetdaily post about obama's 'relation' with bin laden or saddam hussein because of their names.
As a human being, it's widely available. Welcome to life. Deal with it.
His context deliberately misrepresented mine. It was a strawman. The problem is that most of these cases are now defended by self righteous drones attempting white knightery at the expense of some poor sob's career. I never said I supported unwanted groping or real assault. I made that clear in my post.
"Whiny" is demanding 'equality', then when achieving it, demanding special treatment under the guise of perpetual, systemic victimhood. Using your premise, if he has no right to complain, then she definitely doesn't. Women are the most protected, privileged, and celebrated group in western society today. A mere utterance from her can ruin a man's career.. Without burden of proof or justification, society is socio-politically bound to kneejerk to her defense.
The only case were termination is justified is physical assault (which should be the case regardless of gender or type of assault). Verbal statements, directed towards anyone, or simply overheard is not abuse. As adults, others are not responsible for our feelings. We are responsible for our own and how we react to them...at least this is how it should be. As someone who was verbally teased in school, I learned this lesson the hard way. The only thing that worked was standing up for myself tenaciously. Nothing authority figures did made any difference. The same holds true here. In the case of 'hacker ethos', if women aren't respected, then that's because "their mom bought them a 'puter' for christmas" and they haven't "done 'nothin' yet." This would also be true for any men who demanded respect just for existing. This is as it should be. If this feminist is right, and women want more respect in 'hacker culture' (whatever that means, really), then they gotta prove themselves. It is not the job of the culture to cater to them.
It's not just about safety.. It's also about freedom. Unfortunately, politicians love the safe-tards who they've conditioned to fear 'terrorists' or 'pedophiles' or 'rapists' around every corner. They're reliable voters. The definition of 'rape' has expanded from the original 'unwanted sexual act' definition so much that basically she can define it to apply to whatever behavior she chooses in court...and the law backs her play. People like 'mightymartian' are just the useful idiots who reenforce this stupidity because they've been so-trained by the culture. Perhaps they suffer 'man guilt' and want to 'prove' they're not 'like that' at every opportunity, even if it destroys another's career. Or maybe siding with big-brother tyrant just helps him feel empowered as a wannabe little tyrant in a culture that increasingly disenfranchises individual liberty and self worth.
In terms of the article, this is how 'cultural marxism' gets in on the ground floor of a given organization. The trick is to divide the population by differences and attempt to paint one side as oppressed by the other. If no such real difference exists, manufacture it. The traditional 'hacker ethos' is a strict meritocracy, so here feminists come in with the whole "where's the women, huh? where are they" trollfest. Feminism today is cultural marxism divided by gender.
His context deliberately misrepresented mine. It was a strawman. The problem is that most of these cases are now defended by self righteous drones attempting white knightery at the expense of some poor sob's career. I never said I supported unwanted groping or real assault. I made that clear in my post.
"Whiny" is demanding 'equality', then when achieving it, demanding special treatment under the guise of perpetual, systemic victimhood. Using your premise, if he has no right to complain, then she definitely doesn't. Women are the most protected, privileged, and celebrated group in western society today. A mere utterance from her can ruin a man's career.. Without burden of proof or justification, society is socio-politically bound to kneejerk to her defense.
The only case were termination is justified is physical assault (which should be the case regardless of gender or type of assault). Verbal statements, directed towards anyone, or simply overheard is not abuse. As adults, others are not responsible for our feelings. We are responsible for our own and how we react to them...at least this is how it should be. As someone who was verbally teased in school, I learned this lesson the hard way. The only thing that worked was standing up for myself tenaciously. Nothing authority figures did made any difference. The same holds true here. In the case of 'hacker ethos', if women aren't respected, then that's because "their mom bought them a 'puter' for christmas" and they haven't "done 'nothin' yet." This would also be true for any men who demanded respect just for existing. This is as it should be. If this feminist is right, and women want more respect in 'hacker culture' (whatever that means, really), then they gotta prove themselves. It is not the job of the culture to cater to them.
It's not just about safety.. It's also about freedom. Unfortunately, politicians love the safe-tards who they've conditioned to fear 'terrorists' or 'pedophiles' or 'rapists' around every corner. They're reliable voters. The definition of 'rape' has expanded from the original 'unwanted sexual act' definition so much that basically she can define it to apply to whatever behavior she chooses in court...and the law backs her play. People like 'mightymartian' are just the useful idiots who reenforce this stupidity because they've been so-trained by the culture. Perhaps they suffer 'man guilt' and want to 'prove' they're not 'like that' at every opportunity, even if it destroys another's career. Or maybe siding with big-brother tyrant just helps him feel empowered as a wannabe little tyrant in a culture that increasingly disenfranchises individual liberty and self worth.
In terms of the article, this is how 'cultural marxism' gets in on the ground floor of a given organization. The trick is to divide the population by differences and attempt to paint one side as oppressed by the other. If no such real difference exists, manufacture it. The traditional 'hacker ethos' is a strict meritocracy, so here feminists come in with the whole "where's the women, huh? where are they" trollfest. Feminism today is cultural marxism divided by gender.
but when she chops of his penis and dumps it into a garbage disposal, this is grounds for ridiculing him on the morning all woman talk shows? This is what women get away with in our double-standard feminist-derived mangina culture. Until this is fixed and women serve the same harsh sentences men serve for the same crime, it's hard for me to have sympathy. Now, if this is the case because women truly cannot handle responsibility for their behavior, then they are not equals no matter what feminist-apologists say.
Who said it was a justification for any sort of behavior? If you did this simply for stating this in a conversation, the next place you or your company would find yourselves is a wrongful termination lawsuit.
As opposed to the systemic bigotry directed at men as a result of 'equality' and 'diversity 'training' pushed from every institutional orifice? Labeling all men who don't conform as deviants or molesters is par for the course for this kind of activism. It distorts the original intent of organizations, eating them out from the inside like a virus invading a healthy cell, until they become little more than mouth pieces for ideological politics, with their original goals distant seconds. I certainly don't advocate the abuse of anyone, individual to individual, or society to individual. That's why I'm anti 'political correctness.' Selling out to the government so that it acts like a battering ram for your interests while claiming perpetual victimhood is dishonorable to say the least.
Really? The current cultural climate is causing more and more men to walk away from societal trappings, at the expense of society's long term viability. I believe they call it 'going their own way.' They abstain from marriage, from women, in some cases, and most importantly, from any shouldering of traditional responsibilities that women's groups hypocritically hold men to while they rail about 'equality.' The fact is, women are just as likely to physically and psychologically abuse as men are, in the work place, in school, and at home.
The traditional 'hacker ethos' has been a strict meritocracy. You gain respect with accomplishment. Not with penises or vaginas. I'm sure there are women hackers. The only group one can 'blame' for any 'inequality' is women themselves.. Assuming this is unfair just assumes that men and women are interchangeable. We're not. We do not have the "same thoughts and feelings." The genders evolved to be complementary, each with proclivities and imperatives the other lacks or has less of. We did not evolve to be at war with each other.
Lovely. Will you get the order of lenin for this post, comrade? Wow, is this intolerance what's being taught in schools now? ..and if this society becomes blatantly hypocritical and incongruent enough with reality to cause mass censure of individual liberty? What then? Should he still submit to the will of the collective as you so 'eloquently' said here?
1. the last thing we need is more search boxes in our GUIs. A search box in a menu system proves that the menu layout has already failed because the designer already knows the user will have trouble finding what he's looking for. The ribbon is a horrid interface. Poking and prodding through icons of various sizes and text fonts is a hell of a lot more annoying than simple lists of options, especially if the option isn't immediately visible due to it failing some pathetic popularity heuristic. Microsoft attempted this first with the old menu system and it was so goddamn annoying, it was usually one of the first options I switched off, not just for me, but for any users I had to support.
2. It's an aggravating modal context switch that's completely illusory and unnecessary, but it does drive the user to be face to face with metro on a regular basis, which is what microsoft really wants out of this. Personally, I don't get the defense of such stupid things, when we already have something that works a lot better: start menus/quicklaunch.
3. There's a difference between checking out a new piece of software, and the resultant discoveries (ie this is cool, or this sucks) the process reveals. What new technologies are you referring to? That shitty overwrought start menu? The hobbled/ribbon'd explorer? The newbified taskman that now requires even more clicks to get at useful info? I will grant you some of the new under the hood improvements are nice, but the gui severely mars that for me.
Hey beavis, most of us have tried it, dumbass.. We think it sucks.
1. it's just butt ugly
2. starting a program from a menu shouldn't be a modal context switch.
Maybe "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell" can be changed to explorer.exe.. I don't know as I haven't tried it yet.
they act as a sound device with only a digital out. some cards include a cable to wire to your sound board's spdif out instead. There are no analog components for the system noise to interfere with (barring egregious digital noise that creates too much jitter).
Of course, you want as much headroom current as possible, but my understanding was that most output op amps lack the current to drive most sets of speakers/phones because they were really meant to drive a line-in device like amplified computer speakers. If the impedance is low enough, the amps will clip (or create distorted waveforms even before then) because of current limitations.
I'm willing to bet they do, but it's hidden behind a software resample, at least for the dacs behind the analog outs.. I would hope that modern drivers do not resample for the spdif unless it's not a supported frequency/bitrate. I'm talking about the PCM standard here, not the raw output used for ac3/dts.