Of course Microsoft is slime, but that doesn't change the fact that they have the right to decide how they want their software to be distributed. In their Terms of service for downloading a Windows ISO it says:
Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Services.
If we don't allow them to limit how their OS is distributed then surely we can't insist that the source code needs to be made available when distributing GPL software.
And it seems dangerous to turn a blind eye to making indistinguishable knock-offs of operating system DVDs that could easily be modified to pre-install malware. Microsoft and Dell would not want their logos put on something that wasn't made by them.
It seems that Microsoft has moved on since those days. It's a pity that so many on/. can't do the same and are fixated with how things were 20 years ago.
This is not specific to CPUs and GPUs, but I am sick of model names/numbers being reused for different products. I was browsing Dell's website recently and found it frustrating to find that the Inspiron 3000 series comes in 15" and New 15" varieties. The 15" variety could use either a Celeron or Pentium processor, while the New 15" ones could be either 7th or 8th generation i3, i5 or i7. Why have three 0s in the number if you are never going to change any of those digits?
And don't get me started on the Inspiron 5000 15" and New 15" range or the Inspiron 7000 15" (but no New 15") range. There is also the Nvidia GTX1060, which comes in two varieties that performs differently.
When Exxon funds science that supports their agenda you dismiss it. When the Government funds scientists that supports their agenda you support it. Ponder that.
When the Koch brothers funded climate research that ended up agreeing with those Government scientists, it got dismissed by the denier community who presumed that it would back their agenda. They were not happy that their tamed skeptic-scientist converted to the "other side" while doing his study. Deniers like to call themselves skeptics because it sounds more reasonable and rational, but if anyone ever has their skepticism answered and changes their mind then they are met with outrage and claims of being a left-wing plant.
The big oil companies have been found to hide research against their view and fund the "think tanks" that orchestrate the anti-GW campaigns (the same think tanks that waged the anti-smoking-causes-cancer campaigns). On the other hand, the Government hasn't been proven to have an agenda; that is an idea that currently only exists in the minds of deniers who are desperate to find a reason that the studies keep finding results that they don't like. They don't have any science to fall back on, so they make up conspiracies.
So you essentially don't disagree with any of the points
Did you not read what I said? The OP said "less choice", I said that there was more choice. The OP said "criminalization of normal activities", I said that there was no such thing. So how is that agreeing with those points?
The problem you have is that you think that any solution to an environmental problem must be completely free of adverse side-effects. Nobody ever said banning CFCs would be easy, just like nobody says that a wide-scale change to renewable energy would be as simple as flicking a switch (it wasn't called An Inconvenient Truth for nothing). But the mistake was not the banning of CFCs, the mistake was using them in the first place.
Also, you sound like someone who doesn't understand geography.
You are kidding right? Do you actually think that pollutants rise straight up and then never move from that spot? You sound like someone who has never heard of the wind. The ozone layer was thinning in general, but atmospheric conditions like the polar vortex meant that it was more pronounced over the polar regions. But there were multiple holes found; Tibet was another example.
Anyway, I think you are a bit late in trying to deny the science regarding the ozone depletion. This is a problem that was identified and addressed by the scientific and political communities before it became a major problem. This shows what happens when we don't allow the special interest groups to derail the process. If only we had done this about climate change decades ago.
Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore was criticized by environmentalists when he inherited shares in the company after the death of his father in 1998; however, the shares were immediately sold.
And there you have all you need to know about Slashdot.
Are you referring to the people who simply parrot vague talking points without being able to explain themselves? Yes, I see what you mean.
"Regulations are bad, m'kay?" just sounds like Mr Mackey from Southpark rather than a valid reason to continue harming the planet. Unregulated pollution is what got us into the mess to begin with. But far be it that we confuse your little brain with an extra regulation to follow!
It is hardly some radical left wing movement when it encompasses almost all of the science community and follows practices that has shown to have worked in the past.
* Restrictions
Like the restrictions on the use of CFCs to combat the hole in the ozone layer. Despite the similar nay-sayers of the time, the restrictions didn't cause the world to end - either economically or environmentally!
* Higher Taxes
That is long-established economic principle used to control the behavior of the population. If we are told that lowering income tax on the corporations will increase investment and promote wage growth, then surely increasing taxation on certain items will result in the reduction of demand.
* More regulations
So what? This is just restating the first point, and is not intrinsically bad.
* Less choice
It seems to me that we now have more energy options than ever before, with the addition of renewable energy providers.
* Criminalization of normal activities.
Name on person who has gone to jail due to some climate change law.
While coincidences do happen, this is far too much of a coincidence, especially when you see the primary advocates of the Global Warming hypothesis making scads of money.
This is a no-win situation for the likes of Al Gore. If he didn't put his money where is mouth is he would be labeled a hypocrite who obviously didn't believe in what he was saying. And why is it that the people who find this so objectionable don't also complain about the financial conflict of interest of the big oil companies who wage anti-climate change campaigns?
Tabbed interfaces are just another version of MDI (Multiple Document Interface) windows. Microsoft's file manager from Window 3.1 days used MDI, so I guess they are just copying themselves.
In many ways I imagine the better model would be to to break backwards compatibility and then run legacy apps in a transparent VM. Maybe something like Wine for Legacy Windows?
You mean like Windows XP Mode for Windows 7? It was a Virtual PC environment that ran a copy of Windows XP which was viewed with Remote Desktop to appear as if the application Windows ran on the main desktop. It was a good way to run 16-bit applications on a 64-bit version of Windows.
Of course, the way that you run 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows is through a layer called WoW64. This quite literally stands for Windows on Windows. It is a subsystem that translates the differences between 32- and 64-bit APIs so that the software doesn't notice the changes.
I think where the drone would beat the jetski would be when they have difficulties locating the victim. There have been other Bondi Rescue episodes showing the rescuers searching the ocean for a person who, for all they knew, may have dropped below the surface. Even in the cases when dropping a floatation device would be of minimal value, being able to provide guidance to other lifeguards would be invaluable.
Cool story, but that isn't Windows locking up. The operating system is still working fine. Rather, that is just a crappy application that rudely keeps pushing itself to the top. That is just poor coding.
You could have tried Windows-Tabbing (like Alt-tab but using the Windows key) and then using your mouse to click the close gadget of the thumbnail while you hold down the tab. I haven't needed to test what happens when you do this to a non-responsive application so I can't say for sure whether this works.
Still, this problem does show that launching Task Manager from Ctrl-Alt-Delete menu should act as a top-level interface above all other processes in the same way that the "Lock, Switch user, Sign out, etc" menu works above all applications.
Another alternative to prevent games from crashing the OS all the time is to upgrade from Windows 95. Either that or stop spouting outdated notions of what life is like running Windows.
What and end slashdot status as king of the clickbait?
I think it is more likely that this can be attributed to attempting to make the headline more precise by changing the headline from the original 100+ million figure, but did so by misreading or misunderstanding summary and thinking that 100+ million was related to the 129 million number.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Here is a picture of an IBM XT. As you can see, it has no buttons on the front at all. The IBM AT was the same. According to Wikipedia, IBM didn't add a reset button to their PCs until the early 90s. PC clones did offer this earlier though.
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Microsoft has a long history of this.
Really? What are some examples? And if this is sinister, what benefit would there for Microsoft be considering that they are not competing products?
Of course Microsoft is slime, but that doesn't change the fact that they have the right to decide how they want their software to be distributed. In their Terms of service for downloading a Windows ISO it says:
If we don't allow them to limit how their OS is distributed then surely we can't insist that the source code needs to be made available when distributing GPL software.
And it seems dangerous to turn a blind eye to making indistinguishable knock-offs of operating system DVDs that could easily be modified to pre-install malware. Microsoft and Dell would not want their logos put on something that wasn't made by them.
It seems that Microsoft has moved on since those days. It's a pity that so many on /. can't do the same and are fixated with how things were 20 years ago.
So that was what Trump was talking about when he tweeted "Mission Accomplished".
This is not specific to CPUs and GPUs, but I am sick of model names/numbers being reused for different products. I was browsing Dell's website recently and found it frustrating to find that the Inspiron 3000 series comes in 15" and New 15" varieties. The 15" variety could use either a Celeron or Pentium processor, while the New 15" ones could be either 7th or 8th generation i3, i5 or i7. Why have three 0s in the number if you are never going to change any of those digits?
And don't get me started on the Inspiron 5000 15" and New 15" range or the Inspiron 7000 15" (but no New 15") range. There is also the Nvidia GTX1060, which comes in two varieties that performs differently.
When Exxon funds science that supports their agenda you dismiss it. When the Government funds scientists that supports their agenda you support it. Ponder that.
When the Koch brothers funded climate research that ended up agreeing with those Government scientists, it got dismissed by the denier community who presumed that it would back their agenda. They were not happy that their tamed skeptic-scientist converted to the "other side" while doing his study. Deniers like to call themselves skeptics because it sounds more reasonable and rational, but if anyone ever has their skepticism answered and changes their mind then they are met with outrage and claims of being a left-wing plant.
The big oil companies have been found to hide research against their view and fund the "think tanks" that orchestrate the anti-GW campaigns (the same think tanks that waged the anti-smoking-causes-cancer campaigns). On the other hand, the Government hasn't been proven to have an agenda; that is an idea that currently only exists in the minds of deniers who are desperate to find a reason that the studies keep finding results that they don't like. They don't have any science to fall back on, so they make up conspiracies.
So you essentially don't disagree with any of the points
Did you not read what I said? The OP said "less choice", I said that there was more choice. The OP said "criminalization of normal activities", I said that there was no such thing. So how is that agreeing with those points?
The problem you have is that you think that any solution to an environmental problem must be completely free of adverse side-effects. Nobody ever said banning CFCs would be easy, just like nobody says that a wide-scale change to renewable energy would be as simple as flicking a switch (it wasn't called An Inconvenient Truth for nothing). But the mistake was not the banning of CFCs, the mistake was using them in the first place.
Also, you sound like someone who doesn't understand geography.
You are kidding right? Do you actually think that pollutants rise straight up and then never move from that spot? You sound like someone who has never heard of the wind. The ozone layer was thinning in general, but atmospheric conditions like the polar vortex meant that it was more pronounced over the polar regions. But there were multiple holes found; Tibet was another example.
Anyway, I think you are a bit late in trying to deny the science regarding the ozone depletion. This is a problem that was identified and addressed by the scientific and political communities before it became a major problem. This shows what happens when we don't allow the special interest groups to derail the process. If only we had done this about climate change decades ago.
*cough* Occidental Petroleum *cough*
What about it?
Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore was criticized by environmentalists when he inherited shares in the company after the death of his father in 1998; however, the shares were immediately sold.
Oh yeah, that sounds really damning. /s
And there you have all you need to know about Slashdot.
Are you referring to the people who simply parrot vague talking points without being able to explain themselves? Yes, I see what you mean.
"Regulations are bad, m'kay?" just sounds like Mr Mackey from Southpark rather than a valid reason to continue harming the planet. Unregulated pollution is what got us into the mess to begin with. But far be it that we confuse your little brain with an extra regulation to follow!
It is hardly some radical left wing movement when it encompasses almost all of the science community and follows practices that has shown to have worked in the past.
* Restrictions
Like the restrictions on the use of CFCs to combat the hole in the ozone layer. Despite the similar nay-sayers of the time, the restrictions didn't cause the world to end - either economically or environmentally!
* Higher Taxes
That is long-established economic principle used to control the behavior of the population. If we are told that lowering income tax on the corporations will increase investment and promote wage growth, then surely increasing taxation on certain items will result in the reduction of demand.
* More regulations
So what? This is just restating the first point, and is not intrinsically bad.
* Less choice
It seems to me that we now have more energy options than ever before, with the addition of renewable energy providers.
* Criminalization of normal activities.
Name on person who has gone to jail due to some climate change law.
While coincidences do happen, this is far too much of a coincidence, especially when you see the primary advocates of the Global Warming hypothesis making scads of money.
This is a no-win situation for the likes of Al Gore. If he didn't put his money where is mouth is he would be labeled a hypocrite who obviously didn't believe in what he was saying. And why is it that the people who find this so objectionable don't also complain about the financial conflict of interest of the big oil companies who wage anti-climate change campaigns?
Microsoft doesn't innovate, they copy.
Tabbed interfaces are just another version of MDI (Multiple Document Interface) windows. Microsoft's file manager from Window 3.1 days used MDI, so I guess they are just copying themselves.
One of my first computers had DR DOS 6 on it, and had no problems running Windows 3.1. How much of this is heresay?
It only affects a single beta version of Windows. No shipping version of Windows 3.1 had problems running on DR-DOS.
In many ways I imagine the better model would be to to break backwards compatibility and then run legacy apps in a transparent VM. Maybe something like Wine for Legacy Windows?
You mean like Windows XP Mode for Windows 7? It was a Virtual PC environment that ran a copy of Windows XP which was viewed with Remote Desktop to appear as if the application Windows ran on the main desktop. It was a good way to run 16-bit applications on a 64-bit version of Windows.
Of course, the way that you run 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows is through a layer called WoW64. This quite literally stands for Windows on Windows. It is a subsystem that translates the differences between 32- and 64-bit APIs so that the software doesn't notice the changes.
I think where the drone would beat the jetski would be when they have difficulties locating the victim. There have been other Bondi Rescue episodes showing the rescuers searching the ocean for a person who, for all they knew, may have dropped below the surface. Even in the cases when dropping a floatation device would be of minimal value, being able to provide guidance to other lifeguards would be invaluable.
Cool story, but that isn't Windows locking up. The operating system is still working fine. Rather, that is just a crappy application that rudely keeps pushing itself to the top. That is just poor coding.
You could have tried Windows-Tabbing (like Alt-tab but using the Windows key) and then using your mouse to click the close gadget of the thumbnail while you hold down the tab. I haven't needed to test what happens when you do this to a non-responsive application so I can't say for sure whether this works.
Still, this problem does show that launching Task Manager from Ctrl-Alt-Delete menu should act as a top-level interface above all other processes in the same way that the "Lock, Switch user, Sign out, etc" menu works above all applications.
Another alternative to prevent games from crashing the OS all the time is to upgrade from Windows 95. Either that or stop spouting outdated notions of what life is like running Windows.
I guess you flunked out of high school biology class. Zygote, embryo, and fetus are legitimate scientific terms.
I wonder if whoosh is also a scientific term.
What and end slashdot status as king of the clickbait?
I think it is more likely that this can be attributed to attempting to make the headline more precise by changing the headline from the original 100+ million figure, but did so by misreading or misunderstanding summary and thinking that 100+ million was related to the 129 million number.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Sorry, but you're already living the "dream". This can't extend to Australia because Australia doesn't have net neutrality laws to begin with.
Where's the article about the between-seasons cancellation of Dark Matter, leaving it to end on a massive cliffhanger?
Oh man, I hadn't heard about that. It's a good thing we had a discussion about TV here on /.
My phone is still on iOS 10 and it's affected by this bug.
I have two iPhones in front of me; one with iOS 10 and one with iOS 11. I can easily trigger the bug on 11, but can't make it work at all on 10.
Here is a picture of an IBM XT. As you can see, it has no buttons on the front at all. The IBM AT was the same. According to Wikipedia, IBM didn't add a reset button to their PCs until the early 90s. PC clones did offer this earlier though.
I have already covered the examples from Wikipedia. It was a bust.
That's an extremely low-effort response, especially when I have given a detailed explanation for my position.