I want to stick with 7. But MS seems intent to forcing 10 uppon us with windows update. First I had to remove and block KB3035583, yesterday I see this: KB3040272 in the list of updates which, according to MS, does this: "This update helps Microsoft make improvements to the current operating system in order to ease the upgrade experience to the latest version of Windows."
Blocked that as well, you never know what they spam you with when they think almost everyone installed it. I don't even trust them not to call something like that a "security update" at some point.
This is why I usually wait a month or two before applying windows updates, I get to hear the horror stories of problems people might be having and know what to avoid.
I paid $520 Billion dollars, that's billion with a 'B', to have the most modern and well equipped military in the world. If you're paying Microsoft to keep Exchange 2003 up to day, I am starting to doubt that I'm getting my money's worth here. Hell, when was the last time you even won a war?
I think we won the cold war, but I'm not sure it was a victory for the better.
...Personally, I wouldn't recommend using a 3rd party Email provider at all. I would just buy my own domain name and figure out my own hosting solution for the email. Even if you just forward the email to GMail (This is what I do),...
If you don't recommend a 3rd party email service, why are you forwarding your emails to Gmail? Seems to defeat the purpose of not using 3rd party emails services.
One just needs to fire up a random twitch stream hosted by a female. There is a VERY high chance that you'll look right down her cleavage because SHE positioned the webcam that way. Most webcams by men stop at the shoulders or right below.....
I know it is the fault of men because some watch it and by doing so are forcing her to expose her boobs.
Poor exploited women!
How is the fault of men if a lady decides to show her cleavage on a twitch stream? Just because we might want to stare at tits all the time doesn't mean she needs to give in to what we want. Women have choices and one of those choices is how much eye candy she is willing to provide to people around her.
Sure, you might make more money if you show lots of cleavage, but that a society problem of using sex to sell everything. It still comes down to the woman's choice.
I agree, in US fewer and fewer games are banned (as a percent of all video games). This is because the number of avenues for games publishing is mushrooming, opening the door for many devs to publish games that wouldn't have gotten wide exposure before. At the same time, the costs of game development is dropping, creating a space for indie devs who aren't making the next AAA shooter.
This creates a vibrant scene where we're seeing games about topics that would have been unthinkable before, because they would have been considered unviable and not worth the investment. Games about censorship. Games about cancer. Games about all sorts of topics, including ones that would be banned under traditional media, either by a govt agency or through self-censorship.
It's the golden age of gaming!
I do not agree with this being the Golden Age of Gaming. With the exception Nintendo, we have console companies that trying to bring PC gaming to the masses, with crappier hardware, questionable controls, a higher price and NO mod ability. Then the PC gets the crappy ports of the console games with the developers shitting on PC users.
I don't even want to get started about the mobile game market. While there are a few gems, it's mostly copy cat crap, and finding the good stuff is like finding a needle in a haystack. On top of that, the in app purchase nags and other ways to get your money blow.
PC side, we got developers that demand DRM, do some crappy Always Online Connection crap, which backfires, but then they keep doing that same thing, fore release after release. PC developers out right lying to their customers, saying something isn't possible when it damn well was. We got MS who says every few years about how they are going to be supporting PC gaming, and then never goes thru with anything.
We've always have Indy Game Developers on the PC, it's just with the last 2 generation of Consoles, all the big developers think they need to do it Hollywood style, big triple AAA titles that have to sell 20 million units to make a profit. And guess what? That hasn't changed much in the last 20 years.
Not only is this about ripping off authors, but it's about Amazon snooping on what you are doing. How will they know you read a page in an ebook unless they have 24/7 access to what you are reading with your ereader/tablet. Does it stop there? Do they start putting IoT in everything they sell? If I buy a toilet plunger, will it be recording what goes on in the bathroom so Amazon knows when to send me toilet paper & diarrhea meds?
Fuck this shit and fuck Amazon for even suggesting it.
Yes, and the libraries love it when you bring in your home computer. I'm sorry, I'm poor, I can not afford a laptop or a tablet, but I did get a free computer off craigslist, so where can I set this up at the library?
You go enjoy the library, I avoid them because of the people that go there.
You misunderstand. Stephen Elop just fulfilled his destiny created by Steve Ballmer: Appear competent while being incompetent, and destroy the world's largest handset manufacturer by making sure it never picks up Android so that it becomes an easy takeover target.
Now that his destiny has been fulfilled, Microsoft no longer needs his services.You misunderstand. Stephen Elop just fulfilled his destiny created by Steve Ballmer: Appear competent while being incompetent, and destroy the world's largest handset manufacturer by making sure it never picks up Android so that it becomes an easy takeover target.
Now that his destiny has been fulfilled, Microsoft no longer needs his services.
A few things to note about nintendo portable backwards compatibility.
1: They tend to drop support for games from older generations. The game boy micro and later don't support GB/GBC games. The DSi and later don't support GBA games. 2: The DS doesn't have a link cable port so while you can play GBA games you can't use link cable (or wireless, see below) in them 3: The DSi and later don't have a GBA style cart slot, so game features that rely on that slot (for example transferring pokemon from GBA versions) can't be used on the DS. 4: There is no hardware abstraction on the wireless. This means that a GBA game can't use the wireless on the DS at all. It also means only games that were released after the DSi can use WPA, older games are stuck with wep or no security.
While the cart slot might not take the older games anymore, the handheld is still hardware compatible with those systems. Which is why we can take a VC (Virtual Console) game (GBA, DSi) and inject a different GBA or DSi into it and it still runs (providing you use the same side rom). Currently we have a CFW (Custom FirmWare) called Pasta that allows the GBA & DSi to be run.
As for the GBA using wireless, the GBA never used wireless, so not using the DSi or 3DS wireless isn't even a surprise.
tl;dr 3DS hardware is still compatible with GBA/DSi, hackers got those games to work on the 3DS.
You drone on about "history". Meanwhile, many of us LIVED through those years and yes indeed most of us non-kludge clone users would have viewed the branding of our chosen alternative as an INSULT.
Commie users certainly would have viewed their machine being called a "PC" as an insult. PCs were a brand associated with IBM and later Microsoft. It represented the ultimate in crapulence unworthy success.
I don't think DOS users in those days would have been happy to have their machines lumped in with Apples or Ataris either.
The generic non-brand terms were "home computer" and "microcomputer".
Some of us actually lived this shit and aren't just regurgitating bad wikipedia articles.
Yes, I also lived the era. Here's the deal, PC has always meant Personal Computer. Very few computers actually used 'PC' in their name, because that is generally all those companies produced, computers for personal use. When IBM came along with their IBM PC, it was to disguise that they weren't referring to one of their servers, or big business machines they sold. IBM PC meant it was a computer for personal use.
And that being said, everyone I knew in Seattle and online called IBM PC "compatables". That was because hardly anyone actually own an IBM, but they owned an IBM "Compatible" computer. We also referred to these computers as "Dos" machines, since that was the OS we used to play games on it.
So while people do mistakenly think PC means x86 instruction set compatible computer, the truth of the matter is, that was wrong. We knew it at the time, we didn't care. But now later in life, it's doing an injustice to the old machines because people think the PC started with MS in the 1990's.
You have fun with the High Tech VR stuff, and hope to the gods you do not play the Seahawks this year. Russel Wilson practices with Low Tech Real Life Technology.
While I understand you do not want to be extradited, are you actually planning on showing up for trial if it happens? And what are you plans when the USA grabs you and puts you in jail at that point?
Everybody expect free services. Nobody want to pay for anything, and they all expect privacy. Maybe it's time to wake up. Facebook, Google, Amazon or Apple are not charities, they are for-profit companies. They must find way to monetize their users' data. At the same time, Facebook probably wouldn't have been if it had been paywall'ed.
And yet Facebook/Google make most their profits on users data. Apple sells hardware/software mainly and Amazon is just trying to be the goto place for everything.
I think the problem is, we aren't getting a good enough return on the data we are giving them. I don't feel my data has done anything to improve my life or online services, but I sure as fuck know there are a lot of people living the cushy life by selling mine & others user data.
While google does provide some services, not exactly sure anyone is getting there money's worth using them.
I can't understand how head transplants are even helpful in the real world. I can understand limb transplants, livers, kidneys, but heads? How often does someone lose their head and there is another head ready to take it's place? Seems to me like this is one thing that will almost never have use for anything practical if it's even possible.
Despite advances, these figures show that FPS in 4K is still not ready for prime-time even on top-class cards.
When there are cards that can handle it, I'll think about upgrading my 1920x1200 monitor. Until then, I'll wait it out, and so can my aging graphics card.
Part of the problem is that at higher resolutions it becomes more important to use high graphics settings (high res textures, better lighting effects, further draw distance), not less. So if you're interested in 4K gaming, you'll want to do it with everything turned up to 11. The exception to this rule is anti-aliasing, which decreases in value the higher the resolution.
All 4k'rs I know use SLI. (They have have nvidia cards,980's). I wouldn't be surprised if some of them got the new card. Me, i'm cool with my 1080p and my 970.
The industry was created to cover the cost of production and distribution. Both of which today are much cheaper and can me made by individuals who have not "made it" yet.
I don't agree. While I don't work in the music business, I have friends that do, some successful, some not.
The music industry wants you to think it costs a lot to put out your own albums, and it doesn't. It never has. Smart artists, like Steve Albini, figured this out, and produced their own music. Cost was a few thousand dollars.
Distributing is where the record companies have it made, until internet, because they already had a presence in store and with advertising, as long as they felt your work was worth being advertised.
When you come to the record company with no demo, no master, and they sign you a contract, you end up paying way more then you would otherwise for getting that master done, and generally, unless your first album does really good, you don't make any money and don't pay off your debt to them. So you make a second album, increasing debt, etc... Sort of like borrowing money from a loanshark.
So before the internet, you could make a master, print out records/tapes for relatively cheap, but selling them was the hard part.
Now with the internet, honestly, you'd be a fool to sign on with any major recording company.
I find it amazing that not only is cable TV a "right", deserved by all, now broadband is also a "right".
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Overreact much?
Cable TV isn't considered a right and the Government does not give it away to poor people. Poor, can't afford Cable TV? Life sucks, you get over the air.
All of downtown Seattle is wired for Broadband. If your building isn't wired, it's isn't because the cable companies. Be really hard for all the business there to just use dial up. And seeing as I've known people who has lived in the various parts of downtown Seattle, and they all have broadband, even the crappy places.
I'm not a fan of the cable companies or the monopolies, but I don't understand this need to lie.
It's not a crime to have your car parked somewhere if you have a suspended/revoked license
Nope, it's a crime to drive the car though with a suspended/revoked license. I hope they have proof that the owner actually drove the car there and didn't have a friend drive it for him.
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Since when did we decide that it's OK for computers to make those type of decisions--and not allow human beings to reverse it?
It hasn't happened. It's an excuse companies are using to get away with bullshit.
I want to stick with 7. But MS seems intent to forcing 10 uppon us with windows update. First I had to remove and block KB3035583, yesterday I see this: KB3040272 in the list of updates which, according to MS, does this: "This update helps Microsoft make improvements to the current operating system in order to ease the upgrade experience to the latest version of Windows."
Blocked that as well, you never know what they spam you with when they think almost everyone installed it. I don't even trust them not to call something like that a "security update" at some point.
This is why I usually wait a month or two before applying windows updates, I get to hear the horror stories of problems people might be having and know what to avoid.
I paid $520 Billion dollars, that's billion with a 'B', to have the most modern and well equipped military in the world. If you're paying Microsoft to keep Exchange 2003 up to day, I am starting to doubt that I'm getting my money's worth here. Hell, when was the last time you even won a war?
I think we won the cold war, but I'm not sure it was a victory for the better.
THIS
...Personally, I wouldn't recommend using a 3rd party Email provider at all. I would just buy my own domain name and figure out my own hosting solution for the email. Even if you just forward the email to GMail (This is what I do), ...
If you don't recommend a 3rd party email service, why are you forwarding your emails to Gmail? Seems to defeat the purpose of not using 3rd party emails services.
Never thought I'd say this, but looks like Public Transportation might be the better choice.
oh fuck me, I realized after i posted my reply you were being sarcastic.
I can make excuses, but I fucked up there, please point at and ridicule me!
One just needs to fire up a random twitch stream hosted by a female. There is a VERY high chance that you'll look right down her cleavage because SHE positioned the webcam that way. .....
Most webcams by men stop at the shoulders or right below
I know it is the fault of men because some watch it and by doing so are forcing her to expose her boobs.
Poor exploited women!
How is the fault of men if a lady decides to show her cleavage on a twitch stream? Just because we might want to stare at tits all the time doesn't mean she needs to give in to what we want. Women have choices and one of those choices is how much eye candy she is willing to provide to people around her.
Sure, you might make more money if you show lots of cleavage, but that a society problem of using sex to sell everything. It still comes down to the woman's choice.
I agree, in US fewer and fewer games are banned (as a percent of all video games). This is because the number of avenues for games publishing is mushrooming, opening the door for many devs to publish games that wouldn't have gotten wide exposure before. At the same time, the costs of game development is dropping, creating a space for indie devs who aren't making the next AAA shooter.
This creates a vibrant scene where we're seeing games about topics that would have been unthinkable before, because they would have been considered unviable and not worth the investment. Games about censorship. Games about cancer. Games about all sorts of topics, including ones that would be banned under traditional media, either by a govt agency or through self-censorship.
It's the golden age of gaming!
I do not agree with this being the Golden Age of Gaming. With the exception Nintendo, we have console companies that trying to bring PC gaming to the masses, with crappier hardware, questionable controls, a higher price and NO mod ability. Then the PC gets the crappy ports of the console games with the developers shitting on PC users.
I don't even want to get started about the mobile game market. While there are a few gems, it's mostly copy cat crap, and finding the good stuff is like finding a needle in a haystack. On top of that, the in app purchase nags and other ways to get your money blow.
PC side, we got developers that demand DRM, do some crappy Always Online Connection crap, which backfires, but then they keep doing that same thing, fore release after release. PC developers out right lying to their customers, saying something isn't possible when it damn well was. We got MS who says every few years about how they are going to be supporting PC gaming, and then never goes thru with anything.
We've always have Indy Game Developers on the PC, it's just with the last 2 generation of Consoles, all the big developers think they need to do it Hollywood style, big triple AAA titles that have to sell 20 million units to make a profit. And guess what? That hasn't changed much in the last 20 years.
It is not the Golden Age of Gaming.
Not only is this about ripping off authors, but it's about Amazon snooping on what you are doing. How will they know you read a page in an ebook unless they have 24/7 access to what you are reading with your ereader/tablet. Does it stop there? Do they start putting IoT in everything they sell? If I buy a toilet plunger, will it be recording what goes on in the bathroom so Amazon knows when to send me toilet paper & diarrhea meds?
Fuck this shit and fuck Amazon for even suggesting it.
Libraries offer free internet access.
Yes, and the libraries love it when you bring in your home computer. I'm sorry, I'm poor, I can not afford a laptop or a tablet, but I did get a free computer off craigslist, so where can I set this up at the library?
You go enjoy the library, I avoid them because of the people that go there.
You misunderstand. Stephen Elop just fulfilled his destiny created by Steve Ballmer: Appear competent while being incompetent, and destroy the world's largest handset manufacturer by making sure it never picks up Android so that it becomes an easy takeover target.
Now that his destiny has been fulfilled, Microsoft no longer needs his services.You misunderstand. Stephen Elop just fulfilled his destiny created by Steve Ballmer: Appear competent while being incompetent, and destroy the world's largest handset manufacturer by making sure it never picks up Android so that it becomes an easy takeover target.
Now that his destiny has been fulfilled, Microsoft no longer needs his services.
Why did you repeat yourself 3 times?
The only thing that scares me is that you can buy a harddrive that might have it's firmware modified so they always have a backdoor into your system.
A few things to note about nintendo portable backwards compatibility.
1: They tend to drop support for games from older generations. The game boy micro and later don't support GB/GBC games. The DSi and later don't support GBA games.
2: The DS doesn't have a link cable port so while you can play GBA games you can't use link cable (or wireless, see below) in them
3: The DSi and later don't have a GBA style cart slot, so game features that rely on that slot (for example transferring pokemon from GBA versions) can't be used on the DS.
4: There is no hardware abstraction on the wireless. This means that a GBA game can't use the wireless on the DS at all. It also means only games that were released after the DSi can use WPA, older games are stuck with wep or no security.
While the cart slot might not take the older games anymore, the handheld is still hardware compatible with those systems. Which is why we can take a VC (Virtual Console) game (GBA, DSi) and inject a different GBA or DSi into it and it still runs (providing you use the same side rom). Currently we have a CFW (Custom FirmWare) called Pasta that allows the GBA & DSi to be run.
As for the GBA using wireless, the GBA never used wireless, so not using the DSi or 3DS wireless isn't even a surprise.
tl;dr 3DS hardware is still compatible with GBA/DSi, hackers got those games to work on the 3DS.
You drone on about "history". Meanwhile, many of us LIVED through those years and yes indeed most of us non-kludge clone users would have viewed the branding of our chosen alternative as an INSULT.
Commie users certainly would have viewed their machine being called a "PC" as an insult. PCs were a brand associated with IBM and later Microsoft. It represented the ultimate in crapulence unworthy success.
I don't think DOS users in those days would have been happy to have their machines lumped in with Apples or Ataris either.
The generic non-brand terms were "home computer" and "microcomputer".
Some of us actually lived this shit and aren't just regurgitating bad wikipedia articles.
Yes, I also lived the era. Here's the deal, PC has always meant Personal Computer. Very few computers actually used 'PC' in their name, because that is generally all those companies produced, computers for personal use. When IBM came along with their IBM PC, it was to disguise that they weren't referring to one of their servers, or big business machines they sold. IBM PC meant it was a computer for personal use.
And that being said, everyone I knew in Seattle and online called IBM PC "compatables". That was because hardly anyone actually own an IBM, but they owned an IBM "Compatible" computer. We also referred to these computers as "Dos" machines, since that was the OS we used to play games on it.
So while people do mistakenly think PC means x86 instruction set compatible computer, the truth of the matter is, that was wrong. We knew it at the time, we didn't care. But now later in life, it's doing an injustice to the old machines because people think the PC started with MS in the 1990's.
my 2 cents.
You have fun with the High Tech VR stuff, and hope to the gods you do not play the Seahawks this year. Russel Wilson practices with Low Tech Real Life Technology.
Go Hawks!
While I understand you do not want to be extradited, are you actually planning on showing up for trial if it happens? And what are you plans when the USA grabs you and puts you in jail at that point?
You are NOT sharing music if you are paying for it. The summary clearly states that songs cost a dime or less.
Everybody expect free services. Nobody want to pay for anything, and they all expect privacy. Maybe it's time to wake up. Facebook, Google, Amazon or Apple are not charities, they are for-profit companies. They must find way to monetize their users' data. At the same time, Facebook probably wouldn't have been if it had been paywall'ed.
And yet Facebook/Google make most their profits on users data. Apple sells hardware/software mainly and Amazon is just trying to be the goto place for everything.
I think the problem is, we aren't getting a good enough return on the data we are giving them. I don't feel my data has done anything to improve my life or online services, but I sure as fuck know there are a lot of people living the cushy life by selling mine & others user data.
While google does provide some services, not exactly sure anyone is getting there money's worth using them.
I can't understand how head transplants are even helpful in the real world. I can understand limb transplants, livers, kidneys, but heads? How often does someone lose their head and there is another head ready to take it's place? Seems to me like this is one thing that will almost never have use for anything practical if it's even possible.
Despite advances, these figures show that FPS in 4K is still not ready for prime-time even on top-class cards.
When there are cards that can handle it, I'll think about upgrading my 1920x1200 monitor. Until then, I'll wait it out, and so can my aging graphics card.
Part of the problem is that at higher resolutions it becomes more important to use high graphics settings (high res textures, better lighting effects, further draw distance), not less. So if you're interested in 4K gaming, you'll want to do it with everything turned up to 11. The exception to this rule is anti-aliasing, which decreases in value the higher the resolution.
All 4k'rs I know use SLI. (They have have nvidia cards,980's). I wouldn't be surprised if some of them got the new card. Me, i'm cool with my 1080p and my 970.
fuck, totally replied to the wrong comment. my bad. I'm stoned and doing 5 things at once.
The industry was created to cover the cost of production and distribution. Both of which today are much cheaper and can me made by individuals who have not "made it" yet.
I don't agree. While I don't work in the music business, I have friends that do, some successful, some not.
The music industry wants you to think it costs a lot to put out your own albums, and it doesn't. It never has. Smart artists, like Steve Albini, figured this out, and produced their own music. Cost was a few thousand dollars.
Distributing is where the record companies have it made, until internet, because they already had a presence in store and with advertising, as long as they felt your work was worth being advertised.
When you come to the record company with no demo, no master, and they sign you a contract, you end up paying way more then you would otherwise for getting that master done, and generally, unless your first album does really good, you don't make any money and don't pay off your debt to them. So you make a second album, increasing debt, etc... Sort of like borrowing money from a loanshark.
So before the internet, you could make a master, print out records/tapes for relatively cheap, but selling them was the hard part.
Now with the internet, honestly, you'd be a fool to sign on with any major recording company.
I find it amazing that not only is cable TV a "right", deserved by all, now broadband is also a "right".
/ Yo dude, check out my guv'mint subsidised Facebook post! // Yo dude, you should look into some guv'mint subsidised belts /// Yo dude, check out the brusin' I layed on my baby mama for telling me I should buy a belt!!
Overreact much?
Cable TV isn't considered a right and the Government does not give it away to poor people. Poor, can't afford Cable TV? Life sucks, you get over the air.
Nice try though.
All of downtown Seattle is wired for Broadband. If your building isn't wired, it's isn't because the cable companies. Be really hard for all the business there to just use dial up. And seeing as I've known people who has lived in the various parts of downtown Seattle, and they all have broadband, even the crappy places.
I'm not a fan of the cable companies or the monopolies, but I don't understand this need to lie.
It's not a crime to have your car parked somewhere if you have a suspended/revoked license
Nope, it's a crime to drive the car though with a suspended/revoked license. I hope they have proof that the owner actually drove the car there and didn't have a friend drive it for him.