That simply isn't ideal anymore. When a critical situation happens, say an earthquake, how long does it take to deploy a person to a breaker unit to manually change its state? They NEED to be networked in today's age to have the level of agility needed to handle a situation.
The entire bloat on disk is about 5MiB in size. For an OS around 20GiB, that is less than 0.1% bloat from this issue. It is also only an issue with a small handful of files (we're talking like 5-10 files total, a bunch of which are just SxS copies of explorer.exe)
This should have just been reported as a simple bug in explorer.exe, not turned into a witch hunt claiming to be THE BLOAT of Windows. This is next to nothing overall.
Just look at the graphs. It is almost possible that these "numbers" are within statistical error. Every single language I've looked at using their graph has the EXACT same trend line, with only a very subtle variation of up/down by a fraction of a percentage.
While this is a dupe, I didn't get the chance to ask the question on my mind last time around.
What about virtual machines? Since in a VM, virtually all CPU feature detection still works, would this mean that a VM running Windows 7 is also fucked for updates without a hack? This isn't just about desktop users. Plenty of us have a simple and light weight Windows 7 install running on VMWare or other hypervisor for the expressed purpose of simple RDP access for admin tasks. Are these VMs running on newer hardware totally fucked for updates now?
This is exactly how I feel about Adobe as well. Every new version of Photoshop since one of the patches to CS6 all the way through the various CC releases has constantly added new bugs and instabilities to the application. It seems like every company going on these very short release cycles dont give two fucks about stability and literally takes YEARS to fix bugs now instead of months.
Because Vista = Server 2008. Some people still need to keep them servers alive for industrial purposes. With browser support fading, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep these machines alive.
As an active user of NORMAL Instagram, I'm going to call absolute total bullshit on this. This is just like how Facebook tried to claim their video service was more popular than YouTube because they set videos to auto-play on the feed AND auto-loop, artificially inflating their view counts. With Instagram now, if you tap on someone's user icon in the normal feed, it'll take you to their stories instead of their profile. This artificially inflates their "stories" user count by taking people to a place they never wanted to go to in the first place (stories vs viewing someone's profile)
I didn't realize that pressing the "F12" key on the keyboard took so much longer in Edge than it did in Chrome.
Also, if you were unaware that F12 was the keyboard shortcut for the dev tools window, it is pretty obvious you've never actually USED Edge then, and are just talkin out your ass, since Edge literally calls it the "F12 Develop Tools" in both the context menu option to open the console as well as the title bar of said console.
"Okay Google... What song is this?" - used to be a voice command to have Google turn on the phone's mic, record a snippet of audio, then report back what song it is. This was prior to Google Assistant, back in them good ol Google Now days. I never asked for GA, it was forced on my phone. This was a feature I used quite frequently to discover new music playing in various places while I traveled. Luckily, manually pressed the mic icon on the home screen reverts back to GN instead of GA. Its just stupid though having to press a button to activate GN now though, because GA took over the voice activation feature on the phone.
I was actually much more impressed with their 3d rendering of the $10 bill on their web site than with the code being there. Their renderer at first I thought was just a nifty spinning flat texture, pretty simple. But if you spin it faster, force is applied to the bill and it starts to bend. A little less simple, but it visually and feels quite nice. Plus the rendering of the holographic material actually looks quite nice on the page, too.
Exactly this. Just earlier today I saw yet another person bitching about the fact they couldn't run YouTube on their phone in the background to play music. My only thought was: "YouTube is a video service that eats considerable amount of resources/battery... why not just use a music service? Like having your own music and Winamp or some shit..."
I'm highly conflicted on this idea now. On one hand, YES, PLEASE, SOMETHING OTHER THAN GREEDY FUCKING CORRUPT AS SHIT ORGANIZATIONS PLEASE RUN OUR INTERNET.
On the other hand, I live in Tacoma, a city that has had government municipal internet since the 90's, and I was on it from then up until a year ago. The problem? The government agencies involved with the local internet is just as fucking corrupt at this point. It wasnt that way when it was built out initially. But now it is also horribly mismanaged and falling further and further behind corporate options. I switched to a symmetrical gigabit fiber connection, because right now the government board is too busy arguing if they should implement gigabit DOCSIS or not (with shit upload still, something I require). Nobody wants to take responsibility for bad accounting and mismanagement of services, while attempting to make back room deals without the public involvement, despite it being a public utility company in charge.
Oh, an in case anyone who ever reads this is actually involved with TPU... Customer account passwords are stored and emailed in plain text. I attempted to file a complaint about this as soon as I found out, and was given a "NOT OUR PROBLEM" attitude.
In the past year, I installed a HDHomeRun on my local network. It is a network connected OTA HDTV tuner with apps available at least on Android. With this setup, yup, sure enough, I have live OTA TV at home on every device in the house.
*OR*, if companies DO give you feedback, it is total made up bullshit. I was recently turned down on a job I was applying for and already had the in-person interview for. Reason? I "didn't have enough experience" with a particular open-source application. Said application is something that I've used daily for 10+ years now, and so far into it that I find bugs, debug them, and submit patches and have them approved. If knowing the software well enough to literally fix it when it goes wrong wasn't enough, then what the hell is!?
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they teach at the Y. Even successful companies to come out of them are still filled with this bullshit nonsense up and down.
As far back as the 90's, uniforms existed in public education. In Washington State, I attended a public school for a year which required them. It was damn entertaining being sent home for wearing bluejeans one day!
I wish I still had it. There was a special edition retail version of Internet Explorer 4.0 PLUS, and I used to have it laying around somewhere. Same feeling, I'm sure!
As Slashdot's resident and probably only Opera Browser user, I'd just like to remind ya'll that the browser has built-in out of the box support for VPN access. There is no complicated or confusing setups. It just works. And remember, Opera Browser is also based on Chrome/Chromium nowadays, so the rendering engine and interface is essentially the same as Chrome otherwise. Additionally, Ad-block is also built in, instead of requiring ad-ons.
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Maybe you missed the memo, but almost every company listed in FTS is a gateway and vocal point of hundreds to thousands of businesses each.
YC by itself: http://yclist.com/
That simply isn't ideal anymore. When a critical situation happens, say an earthquake, how long does it take to deploy a person to a breaker unit to manually change its state? They NEED to be networked in today's age to have the level of agility needed to handle a situation.
The entire bloat on disk is about 5MiB in size. For an OS around 20GiB, that is less than 0.1% bloat from this issue. It is also only an issue with a small handful of files (we're talking like 5-10 files total, a bunch of which are just SxS copies of explorer.exe)
This should have just been reported as a simple bug in explorer.exe, not turned into a witch hunt claiming to be THE BLOAT of Windows. This is next to nothing overall.
Source: The guy uploaded his entire scan dump: https://gist.githubusercontent...
Just look at the graphs. It is almost possible that these "numbers" are within statistical error. Every single language I've looked at using their graph has the EXACT same trend line, with only a very subtle variation of up/down by a fraction of a percentage.
While this is a dupe, I didn't get the chance to ask the question on my mind last time around.
What about virtual machines? Since in a VM, virtually all CPU feature detection still works, would this mean that a VM running Windows 7 is also fucked for updates without a hack? This isn't just about desktop users. Plenty of us have a simple and light weight Windows 7 install running on VMWare or other hypervisor for the expressed purpose of simple RDP access for admin tasks. Are these VMs running on newer hardware totally fucked for updates now?
Please, please tell me why Google Play Music should be free while Bob's Music Shop down the street would cost to stream the exact same songs?
This is exactly how I feel about Adobe as well. Every new version of Photoshop since one of the patches to CS6 all the way through the various CC releases has constantly added new bugs and instabilities to the application. It seems like every company going on these very short release cycles dont give two fucks about stability and literally takes YEARS to fix bugs now instead of months.
Because Vista = Server 2008. Some people still need to keep them servers alive for industrial purposes. With browser support fading, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep these machines alive.
Well, THAT makes sense. Linux doesn't have GPU drivers. Software render all the way!
Technically the virtual console has been there since almost day one. Its just that thus far, it has exclusively been NeoGeo games.
As an active user of NORMAL Instagram, I'm going to call absolute total bullshit on this. This is just like how Facebook tried to claim their video service was more popular than YouTube because they set videos to auto-play on the feed AND auto-loop, artificially inflating their view counts. With Instagram now, if you tap on someone's user icon in the normal feed, it'll take you to their stories instead of their profile. This artificially inflates their "stories" user count by taking people to a place they never wanted to go to in the first place (stories vs viewing someone's profile)
I didn't realize that pressing the "F12" key on the keyboard took so much longer in Edge than it did in Chrome.
Also, if you were unaware that F12 was the keyboard shortcut for the dev tools window, it is pretty obvious you've never actually USED Edge then, and are just talkin out your ass, since Edge literally calls it the "F12 Develop Tools" in both the context menu option to open the console as well as the title bar of said console.
"Okay Google... What song is this?" - used to be a voice command to have Google turn on the phone's mic, record a snippet of audio, then report back what song it is. This was prior to Google Assistant, back in them good ol Google Now days. I never asked for GA, it was forced on my phone. This was a feature I used quite frequently to discover new music playing in various places while I traveled. Luckily, manually pressed the mic icon on the home screen reverts back to GN instead of GA. Its just stupid though having to press a button to activate GN now though, because GA took over the voice activation feature on the phone.
I was actually much more impressed with their 3d rendering of the $10 bill on their web site than with the code being there. Their renderer at first I thought was just a nifty spinning flat texture, pretty simple. But if you spin it faster, force is applied to the bill and it starts to bend. A little less simple, but it visually and feels quite nice. Plus the rendering of the holographic material actually looks quite nice on the page, too.
Exactly this. Just earlier today I saw yet another person bitching about the fact they couldn't run YouTube on their phone in the background to play music. My only thought was: "YouTube is a video service that eats considerable amount of resources/battery... why not just use a music service? Like having your own music and Winamp or some shit..."
I'm highly conflicted on this idea now. On one hand, YES, PLEASE, SOMETHING OTHER THAN GREEDY FUCKING CORRUPT AS SHIT ORGANIZATIONS PLEASE RUN OUR INTERNET.
On the other hand, I live in Tacoma, a city that has had government municipal internet since the 90's, and I was on it from then up until a year ago. The problem? The government agencies involved with the local internet is just as fucking corrupt at this point. It wasnt that way when it was built out initially. But now it is also horribly mismanaged and falling further and further behind corporate options. I switched to a symmetrical gigabit fiber connection, because right now the government board is too busy arguing if they should implement gigabit DOCSIS or not (with shit upload still, something I require). Nobody wants to take responsibility for bad accounting and mismanagement of services, while attempting to make back room deals without the public involvement, despite it being a public utility company in charge.
Oh, an in case anyone who ever reads this is actually involved with TPU... Customer account passwords are stored and emailed in plain text. I attempted to file a complaint about this as soon as I found out, and was given a "NOT OUR PROBLEM" attitude.
In the past year, I installed a HDHomeRun on my local network. It is a network connected OTA HDTV tuner with apps available at least on Android. With this setup, yup, sure enough, I have live OTA TV at home on every device in the house.
*OR*, if companies DO give you feedback, it is total made up bullshit. I was recently turned down on a job I was applying for and already had the in-person interview for. Reason? I "didn't have enough experience" with a particular open-source application. Said application is something that I've used daily for 10+ years now, and so far into it that I find bugs, debug them, and submit patches and have them approved. If knowing the software well enough to literally fix it when it goes wrong wasn't enough, then what the hell is!?
Oath vs OAuth. I see absolutely zero room for any potential confusion there at all in the tech world!
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I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they teach at the Y. Even successful companies to come out of them are still filled with this bullshit nonsense up and down.
I live in Seattle you insensitive clod! Amazon employs half our city!
As far back as the 90's, uniforms existed in public education. In Washington State, I attended a public school for a year which required them. It was damn entertaining being sent home for wearing bluejeans one day!
I wish I still had it. There was a special edition retail version of Internet Explorer 4.0 PLUS, and I used to have it laying around somewhere. Same feeling, I'm sure!
As Slashdot's resident and probably only Opera Browser user, I'd just like to remind ya'll that the browser has built-in out of the box support for VPN access. There is no complicated or confusing setups. It just works. And remember, Opera Browser is also based on Chrome/Chromium nowadays, so the rendering engine and interface is essentially the same as Chrome otherwise. Additionally, Ad-block is also built in, instead of requiring ad-ons.
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