The X button means fucking **quit**, not "minimize", you UI retards. If you're going to hijack the last 40 years of WIMP then give users an option to enable / disable this shit. Preferably the default would be OFF.
/Oblg. Microshift joke:
Microsoft Windows: noun, A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.
> For what? Graphics programming? Game programming? Photoshop Work?
[x] Graphics [x] Game Programming [x] Photoshop Work
Check, check, and check.
My day job is WebGL and a MBP is my main dev machine. For anything non-trivial I'll prefer to develop shaders with OSX instead of Windows.
> Only the last one would make any sense to me, no serious developer develops games for the Mac because.
You don't know what the fuck you are talking about W.R.T. game dev.
Look, just because you don't do these things doesn't imply no one else does. I've shipped numerous games. I'm developing a few indie games. They just work across Windows, Mac, and Linux because a) I'm using SDL, and b) I have and use all 3 OS's so it is mandatory that I support all 3.
> I use but I'd still like better graphics performance on the Mac so I'll echo any criticism of Apple's graphics performance.
Agreed. GPU's have always been Apple's sore spot. Give us the nVidia 1050M dammit !
The problem is that multiplayer is completely screwed -- you spawn at some random location in the universe. Want to meet up with your buddy? Yeah, good luck with that.
-- Downvote is NOT I disagree, but adds nothing useful to the discussion.
I guess the take-away is that it doesn't matter if you know you are right; if the government (or business), thinks you are wrong, then they will try everything in their power (and money) to convict you.
> Why is it programmers are the only people who feel breaking into your house to show you how bad your locks are is a reason for congratulations and adoration?
As opposed to the crooks who will just make off with everything because of your shitty security???
"The act of borrowing ideas is integral to the creative process. There are games that came before Infiniminer, and there are games that will come after MineCraft. That's how it works." - Zach Barth, creator of Inifiniminer
Unfortunately it is become more and more complicated to keep one's information off the internet. Multiple solutions are required:
1. Use a hosts file that blocks ads / tracking cookies / spam, etc.. mvps.hosts.txt 2. If you use Chrome always browse in Incognito 3. If on Windows periodically run Spybot Search and Destroy 4. Avoid Fazebook, LinkedIn, and other data-harvesting sites 5. Use Privacy Badger 6. Always deny contacts 7. Stay off the internet as much as possible.
1. It Prevents You from Dealing With Your Own Unhealed Emotions. 2. It Makes You Think That Only The Best âoeGet Picked.â 3. It Tells You Itâ(TM)s Up to Someone Else to See Your True Worth. 4. Portrays Love as an Experience of Lack & Scarcity. 5. It Turns Beauty into an Ugly Competitive Sport.
> Having a small number of options (just as Apple products do) makes consumers very aware of the time in the cycle of their product, so wait for release before buying.
Actually, I just picked up a MacBook Pro last month because I **need** a nVidia GPU for CUDA work. (Current MBP's use an ATI GPU; there is no gurantee Apple will switch back to nVidia.) I wouldn't change a single thing -- the # of ports are perfect -- except swap out the ancient nVida 750M for a more modern GPU. Thankfully we have also an eGPU option such as BizonBox
Exactly. How the fuck are they going to pay for...
* electricity * computer / laptop * ISP / network connection... when they can barely afford food / water ??? Assuming Fazebook pays for 100% of the infrastructure how is them being connected to the internet going to add _anything_ to the global economy??
-- Reddit fucktards: The downvote button is for "This post adds nothing of value to the discussion", not"I disagree."
Ah! Thx! I see I missed a few. Again from dslreports:
KB3050267 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10 KB3065987 - makes âoeimprovementsâ to the windows update client (really just more Win10 bullshit) KB3065988 KB3068707 - Customer experience telemetry points (update appears to be nuked from microsoft.com) KB3068708 - installs telemetry service, prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10 KB3075249 - adds yet more telemetry KB3075851 - makes âoeimprovementsâ to the windows update client (really just more Win10 bullshit) KB3075853 - updated Windows Update stuff for the upgrade process KB3080149 - adds yet more telemetry KB3083225 - ??? KB3083324 - Update Client for Windows 7 KB3083325 - ??? KB3083710 - Windows Update Client for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: October 2015 KB3083711 - Windows Update Client for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2: October 2015 ()
I'll 3rd that too. What _exact_ updates are and are not included?
Courtesy of aurgathor, here is a list of updates to avoid. Doe anyone have a more up-to-date list? TIA
KB2505438 - Slow performance in applications that use the DirectWrite API on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 = It often breaks fonts (see also KB454826) KB2670838 - Platform update for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 = breaks AERO functionality and gives you blurry fonts on some websites KB2922324 - (reportedly pulled, uninstall it anyway if already installed) KB2952664 - Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7 = Windows 7 nagware patch that touts the Windows 10 upgrade KB2976978 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10 KB2977759 - Compatibility update for Windows 7 RTM = W10 Diagnostics Compatibility telemetry KB2990214 - Update that enables you to upgrade from Windows 7 to a later version of Windows
KB3014460 - affects windows 8 only KB3015249 - adds more damn telemetry KB3021917 - Update to Windows 7 SP1 for performance improvements (telemetry) KB3022345 - Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry -> Replaced by KB3080149 KB3035583 - pitches the free Windows 10 upgrade KB3044374 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10 KB3050265 - Windows Update Client for Windows 7: June 2015 = WU service updated to accept upgrade to W10 + other fixes KB3068707 - Customer experience telemetry points (update appears to be nuked from microsoft.com) KB3068708 - Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry KB3075249 - Update that adds telemetry points to consent.exe in Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 KB3080149 - Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry
Well considering id shipped the first Quake killer, aka Quake 2, before anyone else, I don't think UT was as important as id creating the whole FPS genre in the first place.
* Wolfenstein * Doom * Quake * Quake 2
But I *do* have a soft spot for UT -- seeing the introduction running on software rendering and then on the 3Dfx was an amazing experience. Especially those fire dynamic textures !
Someone re-created the castle fly by sequence in WebGL !
A friend of my brother showed me the Doom Alpha. There were monsters but no moving enemies. I was blown away. Same friend a few years later also showed me the 3Dfx. 60 fps, texture mapped. And here our SGI Octane machine at our university had cost 100,000's of dollars. I knew the 3Dfx was literally a game changer.
I got a 386SX16 for graduation. The 386SX16 was so slow I had to shrink the screen down a notch or two to keep the frame rate.:-/
My cousin got one of the new AMD's 486DX4 hot off the press -- IIRC the 80 MHz so I was quite envious:-) But that chip was dam HOT. Playing Doom on a 486 was SO buttery silky smooth.
A colleague friend introduced me to Doom LAN but it was a PITA to travel so I skipped most of the Doom LAN scene. There were TONS of mods for Doom I remember playing. The special mods we called TC for Total Conversion. These mods had custom textures and sound effects. I remember Aliens, Barney, Simpsons, etc.
I held off upgrading to the 486 mobo's due to the VESA Local Bus clusterfuck. Once it became obvious Intel was pushing PCI my father picked up a Pentium 90, Pentium 100, and a Pentium Pro 180 for his business. The latter which of course was "accidently" overclocked to 200 MHz. True story! IIRC I was checking the mobo manual and saw that the motherboard supported a PPro 180 and PPro 200 -- I just had to change a jumper. I checked and saw that it was _already_ set to 200 Mhz but our PPro was a 180 Mhz chip! WHOOPS-a-daisy! That was my first introduction o/c (overclocking) -- I've overclocked every x86 CPU since.:-) Years later I had an Abit BP6 dual Celeron's ~300 o/c to 550 Mhz. Cheap SMP baby!:-)
I used to run glQuake on the Pentium Pro 200 at 512x384 resolution with low-quality mip-maps on the Voodo so I can keep the frame rate high in a fire fight! Of course once I got the Voodoo 2 I could run the proper 640x480.
I got into modding and made a Duke-Nukem mod for Quake. It had tripwires, cameras, hologram. I couldn't get the shrink way working though.
I also did a little bit of map mapping. I made a "smallish" multiplayer map that my brothers and my best friend played for about 3 hours straight. Why? It had no dead ends, and lots of picks to intentional keep the pacing fast.
I used to follow Blue's News and managed to even get a LAN party mentioned. I met a friend of Zoid that way. Many, many, many, weekends playing Quake CTF, ThunderWalker, and eventually TeamFortress, MOO2 (Master of Orion 2), and Diablo 1 & Diablo 2. Once we had a cable modem at home that pretty much killed the LAN party, since I could frag online and kill those LPB (Low Ping Bastards) for once. Spent many weekends playing Quake CTF from 9 am till 9 pm.
> We all had Matrox Milleniums for Doom and related games.
I had a crappy ATI card before I picked up Matrox Millennium to go with my Diamond Monster 3D 3Dfx. Yup, those were very nice for 2D -- it had a _sweet_ VGA DAC that nVidia / 3Dfx coudlnt' touch for years! glQuake was the reason I bought the 3Ffx Voodo, and of course the Voodoo 2. I skipped the TNT Riva and TNT2 to hold out for the GeForce 256.
Oh wow, Matrix was founded in 1976. I see they are still around! How sure how though.
> I was also the first to get a Gravis Ultrasound card.
I'm not surprised! That same friend of my brother who showed me Doom + 3DFx also had one. Dam sweet card! I never picked one up, since I wasn't sure if it was going to become the standard or not.
I'm still bitter that the GUS never became the standard./me shakes fist at the Sound Blaster.
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The X button means fucking **quit**, not "minimize", you UI retards. If you're going to hijack the last 40 years of WIMP then give users an option to enable / disable this shit. Preferably the default would be OFF.
Microsoft Windows: noun, A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.
> For what? Graphics programming? Game programming? Photoshop Work?
[x] Graphics
[x] Game Programming
[x] Photoshop Work
Check, check, and check.
My day job is WebGL and a MBP is my main dev machine. For anything non-trivial I'll prefer to develop shaders with OSX instead of Windows.
> Only the last one would make any sense to me, no serious developer develops games for the Mac because.
You don't know what the fuck you are talking about W.R.T. game dev.
Look, just because you don't do these things doesn't imply no one else does. I've shipped numerous games. I'm developing a few indie games. They just work across Windows, Mac, and Linux because a) I'm using SDL, and b) I have and use all 3 OS's so it is mandatory that I support all 3.
> I use but I'd still like better graphics performance on the Mac so I'll echo any criticism of Apple's graphics performance.
Agreed. GPU's have always been Apple's sore spot. Give us the nVidia 1050M dammit !
Well said! Couldn't have said it better myself.
I picked up a MBP Mid 2014. I wouldn't a single thing except to swap out the GPU from the nVidia 750M for a nVidia 1050M. Leave the dam ports alone!
> and they don't have a shallow catalog like netflix.
FTFY.
DVDs / BlueRays / BitTorrents are a deep catalog (, etc.). Everything else is a joke in comparison.
No, not really.
The problem is that multiplayer is completely screwed -- you spawn at some random location in the universe. Want to meet up with your buddy? Yeah, good luck with that.
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Downvote is NOT I disagree, but adds nothing useful to the discussion.
More random crap on the internet. It is so bad it might actually become a meme.
Wow, that's some major bullshit going on there with "FACT".
* http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
I guess the take-away is that it doesn't matter if you know you are right; if the government (or business), thinks you are wrong, then they will try everything in their power (and money) to convict you.
> Why is it programmers are the only people who feel breaking into your house to show you how bad your locks are is a reason for congratulations and adoration?
As opposed to the crooks who will just make off with everything because of your shitty security???
To be informed is to be forewarned
Indeed! Zach was a total gentleman about it too.
* http://www.wired.com/2013/11/m...
> Of course, its been well established that pop music is super formulaic
Yup, as Axis of Awesome demonstrated with their 4 Four Chord Song
You don't know WTF you are talking about. You're comparing Apples and Oranges.
1. Doom static world
2. Minecraft dynamic world
Minecraft can be summed up in 2 words: Digital Lego
Let me know the last time you could, in-game build structures like Minas Tirith, Hogwart's Castle, etc.
Yes, we all know Minecraft looks like shit. That isn't the point. Repeat after me: user generated content
Unfortunately it is become more and more complicated to keep one's information off the internet. Multiple solutions are required:
1. Use a hosts file that blocks ads / tracking cookies / spam, etc.. mvps.hosts.txt
2. If you use Chrome always browse in Incognito
3. If on Windows periodically run Spybot Search and Destroy
4. Avoid Fazebook, LinkedIn, and other data-harvesting sites
5. Use Privacy Badger
6. Always deny contacts
7. Stay off the internet as much as possible.
I'm sure others will post more tips.
> First off, anyone using the term "SJW" is completely full of shit.
Agreed. Stupid Justice Whiners always lie
> it seems like every straight guy in my office is forced to watch "The Bachelor" with their S.O. every week as part of their "quality time" together.
I guess they have no balls to stand up for themselves if they feel the need to watch unreality crap like that.
Here is a women's perspective:
1. It Prevents You from Dealing With Your Own Unhealed Emotions.
2. It Makes You Think That Only The Best âoeGet Picked.â
3. It Tells You Itâ(TM)s Up to Someone Else to See Your True Worth.
4. Portrays Love as an Experience of Lack & Scarcity.
5. It Turns Beauty into an Ugly Competitive Sport.
> Having a small number of options (just as Apple products do) makes consumers very aware of the time in the cycle of their product, so wait for release before buying.
Actually, I just picked up a MacBook Pro last month because I **need** a nVidia GPU for CUDA work. (Current MBP's use an ATI GPU; there is no gurantee Apple will switch back to nVidia.) I wouldn't change a single thing -- the # of ports are perfect -- except swap out the ancient nVida 750M for a more modern GPU. Thankfully we have also an eGPU option such as BizonBox
Exactly. How the fuck are they going to pay for ...
* electricity ... when they can barely afford food / water ??? Assuming Fazebook pays for 100% of the infrastructure how is them being connected to the internet going to add _anything_ to the global economy??
* computer / laptop
* ISP / network connection
--
Reddit fucktards: The downvote button is for "This post adds nothing of value to the discussion", not"I disagree."
Ah! Thx! I see I missed a few. Again from dslreports:
KB3050267 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10
KB3065987 - makes âoeimprovementsâ to the windows update client (really just more Win10 bullshit)
KB3065988
KB3068707 - Customer experience telemetry points (update appears to be nuked from microsoft.com)
KB3068708 - installs telemetry service, prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10
KB3075249 - adds yet more telemetry
KB3075851 - makes âoeimprovementsâ to the windows update client (really just more Win10 bullshit)
KB3075853 - updated Windows Update stuff for the upgrade process
KB3080149 - adds yet more telemetry
KB3083225 - ???
KB3083324 - Update Client for Windows 7
KB3083325 - ???
KB3083710 - Windows Update Client for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: October 2015
KB3083711 - Windows Update Client for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2: October 2015 ()
Sadly, Microsoft doesn't want to provide a slipstreamed Windows 7 "patch". That way they can force all their malware, adware, and spam ads on you.
Agreed that this should have been done long ago. WhyTF wasn't there a Windows 7 SP2 already?
--
Fuck You Microsoft and your spam upgrades.
I'll 3rd that too. What _exact_ updates are and are not included?
Courtesy of aurgathor, here is a list of updates to avoid. Doe anyone have a more up-to-date list? TIA
KB2505438 - Slow performance in applications that use the DirectWrite API on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 = It often breaks fonts (see also KB454826)
KB2670838 - Platform update for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 = breaks AERO functionality and gives you blurry fonts on some websites
KB2922324 - (reportedly pulled, uninstall it anyway if already installed)
KB2952664 - Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7 = Windows 7 nagware patch that touts the Windows 10 upgrade
KB2976978 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10
KB2977759 - Compatibility update for Windows 7 RTM = W10 Diagnostics Compatibility telemetry
KB2990214 - Update that enables you to upgrade from Windows 7 to a later version of Windows
KB3014460 - affects windows 8 only
KB3015249 - adds more damn telemetry
KB3021917 - Update to Windows 7 SP1 for performance improvements (telemetry)
KB3022345 - Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry -> Replaced by KB3080149
KB3035583 - pitches the free Windows 10 upgrade
KB3044374 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10
KB3050265 - Windows Update Client for Windows 7: June 2015 = WU service updated to accept upgrade to W10 + other fixes
KB3068707 - Customer experience telemetry points (update appears to be nuked from microsoft.com)
KB3068708 - Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry
KB3075249 - Update that adds telemetry points to consent.exe in Windows 8.1 and Windows 7
KB3080149 - Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry
Probably a reference to Atlas Shrugged.
IIRC the rich leave society and start their own where hard work is valued.
> It is illegal to shout "fire" in a crowded theater.
Not if it is actually ON fire -- as you are helping people.
If it isn't on fire, you are inciting property damages.
Stupid repeating every stupid thing as if it where true. Context, is important people.
> Permission to scan said documents?
Adobe's Photoshop (starting back in CS2) already does that shit
The problem is, for every 1 legit case, there are 1,000 illegitimate reasons.
Bend over, Lube Up. Because your illusion of software serving your needs is just that with proprietary software.
--
Fuck You Microsoft and your Ads
> Tell you what, let's joust; you on your horse, and me on my gnu. En garde!
I've spoked my peace.
See what I did there. :-)
Well considering id shipped the first Quake killer, aka Quake 2, before anyone else, I don't think UT was as important as id creating the whole FPS genre in the first place.
* Wolfenstein
* Doom
* Quake
* Quake 2
But I *do* have a soft spot for UT -- seeing the introduction running on software rendering and then on the 3Dfx was an amazing experience. Especially those fire dynamic textures !
Someone re-created the castle fly by sequence in WebGL !
* https://www.shadertoy.com/view...
Sounds similar to my upgrade path as well. :-)
A friend of my brother showed me the Doom Alpha. There were monsters but no moving enemies. I was blown away. Same friend a few years later also showed me the 3Dfx. 60 fps, texture mapped. And here our SGI Octane machine at our university had cost 100,000's of dollars. I knew the 3Dfx was literally a game changer.
I got a 386SX16 for graduation. The 386SX16 was so slow I had to shrink the screen down a notch or two to keep the frame rate. :-/
My cousin got one of the new AMD's 486DX4 hot off the press -- IIRC the 80 MHz so I was quite envious :-) But that chip was dam HOT. Playing Doom on a 486 was SO buttery silky smooth.
A colleague friend introduced me to Doom LAN but it was a PITA to travel so I skipped most of the Doom LAN scene. There were TONS of mods for Doom I remember playing. The special mods we called TC for Total Conversion. These mods had custom textures and sound effects. I remember Aliens, Barney, Simpsons, etc.
I held off upgrading to the 486 mobo's due to the VESA Local Bus clusterfuck. Once it became obvious Intel was pushing PCI my father picked up a Pentium 90, Pentium 100, and a Pentium Pro 180 for his business. The latter which of course was "accidently" overclocked to 200 MHz. True story! IIRC I was checking the mobo manual and saw that the motherboard supported a PPro 180 and PPro 200 -- I just had to change a jumper. I checked and saw that it was _already_ set to 200 Mhz but our PPro was a 180 Mhz chip! WHOOPS-a-daisy! That was my first introduction o/c (overclocking) -- I've overclocked every x86 CPU since. :-) Years later I had an Abit BP6 dual Celeron's ~300 o/c to 550 Mhz. Cheap SMP baby! :-)
I used to run glQuake on the Pentium Pro 200 at 512x384 resolution with low-quality mip-maps on the Voodo so I can keep the frame rate high in a fire fight! Of course once I got the Voodoo 2 I could run the proper 640x480.
I got into modding and made a Duke-Nukem mod for Quake. It had tripwires, cameras, hologram. I couldn't get the shrink way working though.
I also did a little bit of map mapping. I made a "smallish" multiplayer map that my brothers and my best friend played for about 3 hours straight. Why? It had no dead ends, and lots of picks to intentional keep the pacing fast.
I used to follow Blue's News and managed to even get a LAN party mentioned. I met a friend of Zoid that way. Many, many, many, weekends playing Quake CTF, ThunderWalker, and eventually TeamFortress, MOO2 (Master of Orion 2), and Diablo 1 & Diablo 2. Once we had a cable modem at home that pretty much killed the LAN party, since I could frag online and kill those LPB (Low Ping Bastards) for once. Spent many weekends playing Quake CTF from 9 am till 9 pm.
> We all had Matrox Milleniums for Doom and related games.
I had a crappy ATI card before I picked up Matrox Millennium to go with my Diamond Monster 3D 3Dfx. Yup, those were very nice for 2D -- it had a _sweet_ VGA DAC that nVidia / 3Dfx coudlnt' touch for years! glQuake was the reason I bought the 3Ffx Voodo, and of course the Voodoo 2. I skipped the TNT Riva and TNT2 to hold out for the GeForce 256.
Oh wow, Matrix was founded in 1976. I see they are still around! How sure how though.
> I was also the first to get a Gravis Ultrasound card.
I'm not surprised! That same friend of my brother who showed me Doom + 3DFx also had one. Dam sweet card! I never picked one up, since I wasn't sure if it was going to become the standard or not.
I'm still bitter that the GUS never became the standard. /me shakes fist at the Sound Blaster.
Good times, good times. :-)