I'm in an organization that INSISTS on using Microsoft Excel as an administrative end for an entire ecommerce platform. They want to use it for all of their inventory management. The last major iteration, I finally said "FUCK THIS SHIT", and wrote a quick VBA script that simply copied the current sheet to a new document, saved as XLSX (for those unaware, this format is just a small collection of XML files ZIPed up, with a custom file extension), and then the VBA script uploads this new single-sheet document to an internal web application. Now instead of having to deploy the fuckall bullshit VBA scripts across the entire organization every time a new feature or bug fix is needed, the entire codebase is handled on a centralized server. Hopefully with Microsoft's current Azure focus, they can do something like this close to natively with their new JavaScript implementation. I'm not a fan of MS Office at all, in fact, I'm absolutely sick and tired of having to support it... but if they can at least make something easier, I'm all for it.
I'm going to assume you're a non-Switch owner. Neo Geo and SNK games dominate the landscape in the Switch marketplace, and have since day-one. They're currently the ONLY Virtual Console platform available, and have more released games than I can count.
This has always been due to regionalized legalities with different types of content. Don't like it? Fight to change the laws in your jurisdiction regarding content in video games and online content.
My family recently purchased a used car from a dealership. We looked up the one previous owner, and it turned out to be a rental agency from the next state over. Yeah, in our car we just got? There were over 20 paired cell phones. Knowing that eventually some bullshit law will probably be made to make new owners liable for that data, I just went and cleared everything out before even digging deeper.
For one example, it literally took six months for AMD to fix a critical crash flaw in their drivers effecting Blizzard's Overwatch. Information is documented by Blizzard staff themselves: https://eu.battle.net/forums/e...
When comparing Apple to PC/Microsoft/Windows, and comparing Apple to Google/Android, Apple has always been seen as the higher "quality" product for one very important reason: Apple makes everything and only has higher-end products. In the PC/Android world, there are high-end devices, mid-tier, low-end, extreme-budget devices. Regardless of the outstanding quality of top-tier PC/Android devices out there, their ecosystems as a whole contain the stigma created from their bottom-tier devices. This is why Apple has always seem as "superior" in the multiemedia creation department, despite PCs having absolutely amazing high quality top-tier hardware. I still remember the first time I repaired a Mac computer as a kid, and shocked to see that it used SCSI HDDs instead of IDE. Contrast this to the Microsoft world where the absolute top reason a Windows box will crash will either be faulty hardware or faulty drivers from the hardware manufacturer (both out of MS control, but only reflects upon them and not the hardware vendors)
Since the passing of Steve Jobs, this push to be the best of the best in the hardware world has absolutely faltered. They don't give two fucks about quality anymore, and slowly but surely this is becoming more and more evident every single day. The higher price for assured reliability when purchasing Apple products is no longer there, sadly.
To clarify this: when a user logs in, they have to provide their password. Most likely, their HTTPD was logging the entire POST header of ALL requests, regardless if it potentially stored sensitive information or not. This occurs before the application receives the data and can hash it. This is a potential security issue on virtually every HTTPD that is misconfigured. GitHub just announced pretty the exact same thing earlier this week. Odds are one of these announcements triggered an audit in the other's organization to look for the same misconfiguration and they found it. https://www.zdnet.com/article/...
Facebook (company) is more than just Facebook (website). For instance, they were showing off some new Oculus VR stuff there. Not everyone is into VR gaming, I get that, but it is a hot topic right now that Facebook (company) is heavily involved with. That's the type of stuff at this conference as well.
It is pretty common to have a few clauses in these types of agreements 1) clauses may be updated at any time without notice 2) if [company] is ever purchased by anyone, new company has the same rights that were initially granted to [company]
Whenever a large tech conference happens, there is a burst of posts about that particular company. No different than when Google, Apple, or Microsoft holds major tech conferences. This is the norm of Slashdot and wont change.
I'll add to this. One of the two updates last year had a major incompatibility with AMD drivers. AMD acknowledged this problem being with their drivers themselves. What did they do? Literally took SIX MONTHS to fix the issue. Major games such as Overwatch would randomly crash mid-game within 1-10 minutes of game play (great for a game that literally penalizes you for leaving mid-game). The AMD driver bug also caused issues with Discord, such as massive load times for the app and instabilities with the app. Gaming is one thing, work is another. These driver issues also caused massive stability issues with Photoshop, preventing me from doing major parts of my day-job. I was forced to replace my AMD video card with an nVidia one. The only other option was to revert the entire OS to a previous build (massive undertaking and downtime), because there was no compatible AMD driver that had the fix. If you ran the older build of Windows, you could downgrade to an older and stable driver. Pulling the video card and putting in a nVidia card solved everything instantly.
None of these FUD predictions came true when T-Mobile acquired MetroPCS. Why will it magically come true now that they're STILL the underdog after acquiring Sprint? From TFA, they mention a 3x increase in employees for MetroPCS. Also, we're all nerds here, and looking for stuff that matters: spectrum. They have a huge point in TFA about how T-Mobile and Sprint combined have amazing spectrum to roll out 5G. Coverage issues? They're planning in literally investing billions into infrastructure, this is their plan to compete with the other two major players.
Call me a fanboi all ya want, but honestly I just switched AWAY from T-Mobile this year after having been with them for a decade. Now running on Project Fi, which funny enough, uses both T-Mobile and Sprint towers, so I guess in the end nothing has changed for me!?
T-Mobile has had mini-cell sites for homes for years now too. Back when I was a t-mo user, I was considering getting one, but ended up just not caring.
Also, the reason for wanting one? Wifi calling is often unreliable. Today? Not so much. But back when it was first introduced? it had massive connectivity issues and issues with handoff between wifi and cell. Walk out the front door? Call would be lost.
AMD goes in waves. Beating Intel to the x86-64 market put AMD and Intel at virtually 50% marketshare each. But after Intel started pumping out x86-64 chips to compete, AMD just couldn't keep up the fight. But finally they're swinging things back around again!
So ARM doesn't exist then? Desktop computers are not the only thing running processors. ARM has entirely dominated the mobile space, and is currently making inroads into other markets, especially severs.
To counter this, look at One Note. Microsoft just moved it from Office (paid) to part of Windows (free). The things people are constantly bitching about are bad decisions from two years ago that have already been corrected: such as the ability to easily disable telemetry now, or the ability to set "working hours" in which Windows will not update / restart itself because it may interfere with daily activities. Microsoft has actively been listening and correcting these issues that customers have massively complained about. Why has this not held true in the overall Linux world with SystemD? Myself and countless others have already made the jump away from Linux because of it, to other things like FreeBSD and Illumos.
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I'm in an organization that INSISTS on using Microsoft Excel as an administrative end for an entire ecommerce platform. They want to use it for all of their inventory management. The last major iteration, I finally said "FUCK THIS SHIT", and wrote a quick VBA script that simply copied the current sheet to a new document, saved as XLSX (for those unaware, this format is just a small collection of XML files ZIPed up, with a custom file extension), and then the VBA script uploads this new single-sheet document to an internal web application. Now instead of having to deploy the fuckall bullshit VBA scripts across the entire organization every time a new feature or bug fix is needed, the entire codebase is handled on a centralized server. Hopefully with Microsoft's current Azure focus, they can do something like this close to natively with their new JavaScript implementation. I'm not a fan of MS Office at all, in fact, I'm absolutely sick and tired of having to support it... but if they can at least make something easier, I'm all for it.
I'm going to assume you're a non-Switch owner. Neo Geo and SNK games dominate the landscape in the Switch marketplace, and have since day-one. They're currently the ONLY Virtual Console platform available, and have more released games than I can count.
This has always been due to regionalized legalities with different types of content. Don't like it? Fight to change the laws in your jurisdiction regarding content in video games and online content.
You mean like the SNES Classic including previously never officially released Star Fox 2?
My family recently purchased a used car from a dealership. We looked up the one previous owner, and it turned out to be a rental agency from the next state over. Yeah, in our car we just got? There were over 20 paired cell phones. Knowing that eventually some bullshit law will probably be made to make new owners liable for that data, I just went and cleared everything out before even digging deeper.
Microsoft Sync is in HOW MANY CARS?
For one example, it literally took six months for AMD to fix a critical crash flaw in their drivers effecting Blizzard's Overwatch. Information is documented by Blizzard staff themselves: https://eu.battle.net/forums/e...
Why settle for less? This generation is all about 8k now! Get with the times n00b.
When comparing Apple to PC/Microsoft/Windows, and comparing Apple to Google/Android, Apple has always been seen as the higher "quality" product for one very important reason: Apple makes everything and only has higher-end products. In the PC/Android world, there are high-end devices, mid-tier, low-end, extreme-budget devices. Regardless of the outstanding quality of top-tier PC/Android devices out there, their ecosystems as a whole contain the stigma created from their bottom-tier devices. This is why Apple has always seem as "superior" in the multiemedia creation department, despite PCs having absolutely amazing high quality top-tier hardware. I still remember the first time I repaired a Mac computer as a kid, and shocked to see that it used SCSI HDDs instead of IDE. Contrast this to the Microsoft world where the absolute top reason a Windows box will crash will either be faulty hardware or faulty drivers from the hardware manufacturer (both out of MS control, but only reflects upon them and not the hardware vendors)
Since the passing of Steve Jobs, this push to be the best of the best in the hardware world has absolutely faltered. They don't give two fucks about quality anymore, and slowly but surely this is becoming more and more evident every single day. The higher price for assured reliability when purchasing Apple products is no longer there, sadly.
To clarify this: when a user logs in, they have to provide their password. Most likely, their HTTPD was logging the entire POST header of ALL requests, regardless if it potentially stored sensitive information or not. This occurs before the application receives the data and can hash it. This is a potential security issue on virtually every HTTPD that is misconfigured. GitHub just announced pretty the exact same thing earlier this week. Odds are one of these announcements triggered an audit in the other's organization to look for the same misconfiguration and they found it. https://www.zdnet.com/article/...
Facebook (company) is more than just Facebook (website). For instance, they were showing off some new Oculus VR stuff there. Not everyone is into VR gaming, I get that, but it is a hot topic right now that Facebook (company) is heavily involved with. That's the type of stuff at this conference as well.
It is pretty common to have a few clauses in these types of agreements
1) clauses may be updated at any time without notice
2) if [company] is ever purchased by anyone, new company has the same rights that were initially granted to [company]
I love how every day we're getting closer and closer to having XKCD become reality! https://xkcd.com/1425/
Whenever a large tech conference happens, there is a burst of posts about that particular company. No different than when Google, Apple, or Microsoft holds major tech conferences. This is the norm of Slashdot and wont change.
I'll add to this. One of the two updates last year had a major incompatibility with AMD drivers. AMD acknowledged this problem being with their drivers themselves. What did they do? Literally took SIX MONTHS to fix the issue. Major games such as Overwatch would randomly crash mid-game within 1-10 minutes of game play (great for a game that literally penalizes you for leaving mid-game). The AMD driver bug also caused issues with Discord, such as massive load times for the app and instabilities with the app. Gaming is one thing, work is another. These driver issues also caused massive stability issues with Photoshop, preventing me from doing major parts of my day-job. I was forced to replace my AMD video card with an nVidia one. The only other option was to revert the entire OS to a previous build (massive undertaking and downtime), because there was no compatible AMD driver that had the fix. If you ran the older build of Windows, you could downgrade to an older and stable driver. Pulling the video card and putting in a nVidia card solved everything instantly.
None of these FUD predictions came true when T-Mobile acquired MetroPCS. Why will it magically come true now that they're STILL the underdog after acquiring Sprint? From TFA, they mention a 3x increase in employees for MetroPCS. Also, we're all nerds here, and looking for stuff that matters: spectrum. They have a huge point in TFA about how T-Mobile and Sprint combined have amazing spectrum to roll out 5G. Coverage issues? They're planning in literally investing billions into infrastructure, this is their plan to compete with the other two major players.
Call me a fanboi all ya want, but honestly I just switched AWAY from T-Mobile this year after having been with them for a decade. Now running on Project Fi, which funny enough, uses both T-Mobile and Sprint towers, so I guess in the end nothing has changed for me!?
Wayback Machine confirms the site was pretty much a tourism / travel agency site for France. https://web.archive.org/web/20...
Obvious sarcasm post. WHOOSH. https://xkcd.com/1627/
T-Mobile has had mini-cell sites for homes for years now too. Back when I was a t-mo user, I was considering getting one, but ended up just not caring.
Also, the reason for wanting one? Wifi calling is often unreliable. Today? Not so much. But back when it was first introduced? it had massive connectivity issues and issues with handoff between wifi and cell. Walk out the front door? Call would be lost.
AMD goes in waves. Beating Intel to the x86-64 market put AMD and Intel at virtually 50% marketshare each. But after Intel started pumping out x86-64 chips to compete, AMD just couldn't keep up the fight. But finally they're swinging things back around again!
Oh, there is competing architectures! Just go get an Itanium computer. No problemo at all. It'll run everything just fine!!
So ARM doesn't exist then? Desktop computers are not the only thing running processors. ARM has entirely dominated the mobile space, and is currently making inroads into other markets, especially severs.
Settings > Network > Change connection properties > Metered connection
WOOSH https://xkcd.com/1627/
To counter this, look at One Note. Microsoft just moved it from Office (paid) to part of Windows (free). The things people are constantly bitching about are bad decisions from two years ago that have already been corrected: such as the ability to easily disable telemetry now, or the ability to set "working hours" in which Windows will not update / restart itself because it may interfere with daily activities. Microsoft has actively been listening and correcting these issues that customers have massively complained about. Why has this not held true in the overall Linux world with SystemD? Myself and countless others have already made the jump away from Linux because of it, to other things like FreeBSD and Illumos.