I am unsure why you have taken a combative tone towards me. You are not going to "prove" anything.
1. You're already a considerable user of Windows, because you've amassed a game library
Erm, yeah. I have been using Windows since Windows 95. I do have some experience with Windows 3 and MS-DOS, but I was mostly using my Amiga at that time. I went to XP 64 as soon as it was available. I always assumed that only Richard Stallman only ever used one OS.
2. You don't hold it against Linux, as an OS, that it can't play your games.
The only game I have right now that I can't get to work under Linux is GTA V. It may work, I have not tried and it is not worth the effort. I doubt it does work.
But that was NOT the point I was making about the DLL. The point I was making is that if you do decide to "upgrade" to Windows 10, then for fuck's sake, do a clean install. You may have issues if you do not... so I will ignore the mini-rant about double standards.
As far as the privacy issues, there have been many articles that walk through what those privacy settings mean and how to turn them off.
I have read how to turn them "off". Many of those suggestions were made right here on Slashdot; however, I was saying that I do not trust that they are actually turned off and that there may be further spying measures that none of us are aware of that may not even be able to be turned off. In other words, I do not trust the operating system. Spin that how you will.
Oddly, my experiences generally mirror yours: Early Slackware/Redhat user, moved to OS X, now on Linux Mint 17. About the only difference is Gentoo and Linux From Scratch.
I finally decided to try Windows 10 this weekend. I downloaded the ISO with their tool first, and then decided to try the "upgrade" route. Of course, none of my games work any more. d3dx9.dll (?) is the faulting module after the upgrade. I would hope a clean install would get rid of this issue since the DX9 installer refuses to run on Windows 10. I have to wonder what other latent bugs are left lying about by leaving old dlls in place.
Regardless of all of this, it was as bad as I feared. The whole time I was using Windows 10, I felt like my files were being constantly monitored and my communications and passwords were being slurped up. It felt creepy as hell. I turned off the ability for it to use my webcam and microphone but I do not trust that it is not monitoring all of the time anyways.
Google might be creepy but they are not inside of my computer. This is a whole new level of creepiness... rather like sitting down to take a shit in front of a large audience in a stadium. Or maybe like those old World War 2 movies, trying to escape from the concentration camp while sirens are going off and spotlights are searching for you, trying to stay out of the spotlights. I don't really know, but I could not escape the feeling. It was terrible. Windows 10 is utterly dead to me regardless of the bad upgrade experience. That could like be resolved through a clean install, which is always recommended anyways. No, the real problem is the feeling of utter distrust and exposure. The creepy feeling of constantly being monitored.
I can get a lot of games working on Linux... everything else, Linux is better at so why would I choose Microsoft Windows any more?
What about the drones used by activists to fly over industrial operations breaking the law and get footage of it? Can the industrial operations shoot them down?
Of course. Hopefully the activists were smart enough to capture the video stream live; otherwise, they just lost a drone for no good reason. But yeah, the greedy evil industrialist can shoot the drone down. It is well within their rights. The drone is trespassing, even if for a "good" reason.
Regardless of the global warming and anti-global warming whackos, we are supposed to be mitigating pollution. Air should be breathable and water should be drinkable. Other organism on this planet should be able to survive in our output as well.
It doesn't matter which is cheaper if Linux can only play a very small subset of the games. I certainly wouldn't spend $200+ on a video card and then limit myself in my game selection by refusing to spend an extra $100 on the OS.
It is not about the money. I do have Windows 7 installed on a partition.
I play games on Linux and it is a custom built computer with parts that were grabbed off the shelf without regards to Linux compatibility.
I have a GTX980, a 28 inch 4k monitor, an i7 4770, etc. Not the most expensive but certainly not cheap.
I still choose to play on Linux.
Apparently, according to Steam I am less than.01% of all gamers out there, but I do exist.
Why? I am tired of my devices doing things behind my back. Some devices give you the chance to control some of their nasty behavior if you hunt down the option, but all commercial software has behavior that I find reprehensible.
It is funny that Ubuntu tries to follow along with that mess and that Redhat tries to do vendor lock-in. What a wasteland. Modern computing is just terrible.
I am still trying to figure out why all of those things that you mention require a remote connection or need to be tied in to the "entertainment" system. There should be zero possibility that "remote" commands could be sent to any of those systems. I would go so far as to say those circuits should all be encased in a faraday cage to prevent the circuits themselves from acting like an antenna.
For myself, I am pretty happy with many of the advances; however, I have had issues with drive-by-wire throttles and would hate to see a similar problem with drive-by-wire brakes. Some, dare I say most, of the systems on a vehicle should have a mechanical linkage to fall back on.
For regular mail, I'm like you guys, Google's spam filtering does a fantastic job. I never check my spam folder any more, unless I'm expecting an email and it doesn't arrive, but it's been ages since I had a false positive.
I will check my spam folder from time to time just to see what kind of spam is out there. I always like the 419 style scams. I rarely, very rarely, find any real mail in the spam folder. In fact, the few times I have found real mail in the spam folder, it was spammy in nature not a true communication that I valued.
I hope you did not buy the vehicle that you are having problems with. If so, I would seriously looking at returning it for a full refund as defective merchandise.
I am guessing all new cars are off the list now. GM has OnStar, Ford has shit that remembers where you drive, and Chrysler has buggy, remotely exploitable software. All of them have stuff that let's someone else control your vehicle.
What the fuck? Who would buy something like that? Perhaps the consumer just does not know...
But even at 80% in-house at SpaceX, looks like that remaining 20% still bit them : Seriously, failing at 1/5th the rated failure value? The vendor might as well have given them a cardboard cutout with the word "strut" written on it in sharpie.
Indeed. I wonder if SpaceX can sue the supplier? I wonder what the contract terms were.
Upgrading to new OS immediately after release? Thanks for finding all those zero-day exploits and rare bugs for the rest of us when we eventually upgrade.
Applying ONLY critical patches, and even then only when thoroughly vetted? You're using your computer to do actual work, and can't afford downtime.
Odd. My update patterns do not fit on your axis.
I furiously update and live on the bleeding edge until I find something that works well and the way I would like it to work. I then only update for security purposes or because the software will not run anymore due to changing hardware (X64) or changing software environment (GLIBC).
In other words, what you are saying is most important you, stability, is not what is most important to me, usability. What is most important to a person will determine that person's update patterns.
For others, it is familiarity instead of stability or usability. That is why I find your axis to be limited.
I grew up way before the Internet became a reality to the wide world. Scams are scams. "On the internet" is not enough to garner a patent, it is not enough to garner a new name for an old art: Scam.
If you can fall for a scam on the Internet, you can fall for one through plain old snail mail. The Internet just makes communications quicker and exposure more likely.
Instead, the point is that there exists a systematic, cultural, and longstanding bias against encouraging and fostering scientific and mathematical proficiency in female students
Fuck you. Prove it. I am sick of this shit. When I went to school way way way back in the mists of time, girls were encouraged over boys. My own son dealt with this shit too... and yet girls are STILL not at the top of the heap.
Stop abusing boys. You can not force girls to be on top of the heap... and this is nature: There will be a heap. Deal with it asshole. All you are doing is creating misogyny.
If you are going to be driving wastefully, doing it as efficiently as possible still makes sense.
I *WANT* one of these. Madly and desperately. Tesla heard my only objection left: All Wheel Drive. I have been maneuvering my finances to buy one since the AWD version came out. Now, I am almost willing to mortgage my soul to get one of these. (I would definitely NOT mortgage my soul, it is a figure of speech designed to show how much I want one of these.)
every year there are close to 140,000 jobs requiring a CS degree, but only 40,000 U.S. college graduates major in CS, which means that 100,000 positions go unfilled by domestic talent
Is this statistic really true? Are those 140,000 net new jobs, or just job openings that exist for some period of time during the year?
If it were true, wages would be sky high. Ipso facto, it is not true.
Let's see how the women's soccer team does against the men's soccer team. So the unspoken argument is that you should hire inferior people to fill the role.
Somehow, I do not think that is the message they want to get across.
Uninstall Flash. Just stop using it. Encourage your friends to do the same.
I uninstalled it a couple months ago. I no longer have to worry about updating it or being exposed to the vast amount of vulnerabilities - it should be clear to everyone by now that it is a/major/ vector for infection.
Only a few months ago? At least you removed it... I removed flash from all of my computers back in 2009. I was responsible for vulnerability analysis and noticed that every month, there was at least one vulnerability for flash and another for java. I removed both.
I bought a laptop in 2013 that had Windows 8 on it. The very first thing I did was start patching it and downloading updates. It did not matter, I got a virus less than 4 hours after starting the patching process. How? Through a flash plugin that was not installed in such a way that I could even see that it existed.
I formatted the drive with a vengeance and installed Arch Linux on it... which it is still running to this day. Flash can burn in hell as can Windows 8.
And I prefer CD quality to any form of lossy compression: and have told them apart in ABX testing, up to and including a 320K mp3 example. It was a castanet sound...
Cymbals are also a dead giveaway. Either the "airiness" is lost or they sound too sharp.
One song that ALWAYS shows weaknesses in lossy compression algorithms is "My Name is Mud" by Primus. Something about the mixture of bass and drum really messes with all of the algorithms. I have successfully performed double blind tests and can always pick out the lossless version of that song. Other songs can be much more difficult, but paying attention to the cymbals frequently reveals lossy compression.
Taxing the rich seems the only known way to free the revenue and profits to flow back into the middle- and lower-class consumer. If you have a another way to balance that part of the system of economic flow, I'm all ears.
How will taxing the rich help? The government, any government, will just spend that money on new fighter jets, spying on their population, and redirecting the money in non-taxable form back to the already-wealthy and well-connected.
Tying up all the wealth into a few people and institutions is the root of the problem. Taxing does not address that.
I think you fail to understand the concept of right of way. If you are going too fast to safely stop, you are going too fast.
I think you fail to understand that the laws of physics are non-negotiable. You can't just step in front of a multi-thousand pound vehicle moving at 25 to 30 miles per hour and expect the laws of physics to suddenly change and allow it to stop in under 10 feet. It just can not happen no matter what laws or rules are in place.
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I am unsure why you have taken a combative tone towards me. You are not going to "prove" anything.
1. You're already a considerable user of Windows, because you've amassed a game library
Erm, yeah. I have been using Windows since Windows 95. I do have some experience with Windows 3 and MS-DOS, but I was mostly using my Amiga at that time. I went to XP 64 as soon as it was available. I always assumed that only Richard Stallman only ever used one OS.
2. You don't hold it against Linux, as an OS, that it can't play your games.
The only game I have right now that I can't get to work under Linux is GTA V. It may work, I have not tried and it is not worth the effort. I doubt it does work.
But that was NOT the point I was making about the DLL. The point I was making is that if you do decide to "upgrade" to Windows 10, then for fuck's sake, do a clean install. You may have issues if you do not... so I will ignore the mini-rant about double standards.
As far as the privacy issues, there have been many articles that walk through what those privacy settings mean and how to turn them off.
I have read how to turn them "off". Many of those suggestions were made right here on Slashdot; however, I was saying that I do not trust that they are actually turned off and that there may be further spying measures that none of us are aware of that may not even be able to be turned off. In other words, I do not trust the operating system. Spin that how you will.
Ahem. Neither extreme is good. I am surprised you do not see that.
The world is not black and white.
Oddly, my experiences generally mirror yours: Early Slackware/Redhat user, moved to OS X, now on Linux Mint 17. About the only difference is Gentoo and Linux From Scratch.
I finally decided to try Windows 10 this weekend. I downloaded the ISO with their tool first, and then decided to try the "upgrade" route. Of course, none of my games work any more. d3dx9.dll (?) is the faulting module after the upgrade. I would hope a clean install would get rid of this issue since the DX9 installer refuses to run on Windows 10. I have to wonder what other latent bugs are left lying about by leaving old dlls in place.
Regardless of all of this, it was as bad as I feared. The whole time I was using Windows 10, I felt like my files were being constantly monitored and my communications and passwords were being slurped up. It felt creepy as hell. I turned off the ability for it to use my webcam and microphone but I do not trust that it is not monitoring all of the time anyways.
Google might be creepy but they are not inside of my computer. This is a whole new level of creepiness... rather like sitting down to take a shit in front of a large audience in a stadium. Or maybe like those old World War 2 movies, trying to escape from the concentration camp while sirens are going off and spotlights are searching for you, trying to stay out of the spotlights. I don't really know, but I could not escape the feeling. It was terrible. Windows 10 is utterly dead to me regardless of the bad upgrade experience. That could like be resolved through a clean install, which is always recommended anyways. No, the real problem is the feeling of utter distrust and exposure. The creepy feeling of constantly being monitored.
I can get a lot of games working on Linux... everything else, Linux is better at so why would I choose Microsoft Windows any more?
What about the drones used by activists to fly over industrial operations breaking the law and get footage of it? Can the industrial operations shoot them down?
Of course. Hopefully the activists were smart enough to capture the video stream live; otherwise, they just lost a drone for no good reason. But yeah, the greedy evil industrialist can shoot the drone down. It is well within their rights. The drone is trespassing, even if for a "good" reason.
That is why it was damaged in america in short order, because americans think exactly like this comment.
And europeans think exactly like neo-nazis. WTF over?
What is it we are supposed to be mitigating ?
Regardless of the global warming and anti-global warming whackos, we are supposed to be mitigating pollution. Air should be breathable and water should be drinkable. Other organism on this planet should be able to survive in our output as well.
Very respectfully,
Dave
It doesn't matter which is cheaper if Linux can only play a very small subset of the games. I certainly wouldn't spend $200+ on a video card and then limit myself in my game selection by refusing to spend an extra $100 on the OS.
It is not about the money. I do have Windows 7 installed on a partition.
I play games on Linux and it is a custom built computer with parts that were grabbed off the shelf without regards to Linux compatibility.
I have a GTX980, a 28 inch 4k monitor, an i7 4770, etc. Not the most expensive but certainly not cheap.
I still choose to play on Linux.
Apparently, according to Steam I am less than .01% of all gamers out there, but I do exist.
Why? I am tired of my devices doing things behind my back. Some devices give you the chance to control some of their nasty behavior if you hunt down the option, but all commercial software has behavior that I find reprehensible.
It is funny that Ubuntu tries to follow along with that mess and that Redhat tries to do vendor lock-in. What a wasteland. Modern computing is just terrible.
I am still trying to figure out why all of those things that you mention require a remote connection or need to be tied in to the "entertainment" system. There should be zero possibility that "remote" commands could be sent to any of those systems. I would go so far as to say those circuits should all be encased in a faraday cage to prevent the circuits themselves from acting like an antenna.
For myself, I am pretty happy with many of the advances; however, I have had issues with drive-by-wire throttles and would hate to see a similar problem with drive-by-wire brakes. Some, dare I say most, of the systems on a vehicle should have a mechanical linkage to fall back on.
Why?
Well, because if we get used to doing such things, they become easier to do when it is important.
Why exercise? It is a pure waste of energy.
"We" need to get off of this planet. If not now, when? I am willing to bet then, it will be too late.
"It gets pennies compared to orgs who want to ensure that some mole that no one has ever heard of remains protected."
The EPA has less than half the budget of NASA. "Beggar thy neighbor" is a sucker's game.
LOL. Odd, I thought he was talking the CIA/NSA budgets. It is weird how the same words can be perceived differently by different people.
For regular mail, I'm like you guys, Google's spam filtering does a fantastic job. I never check my spam folder any more, unless I'm expecting an email and it doesn't arrive, but it's been ages since I had a false positive.
I will check my spam folder from time to time just to see what kind of spam is out there. I always like the 419 style scams. I rarely, very rarely, find any real mail in the spam folder. In fact, the few times I have found real mail in the spam folder, it was spammy in nature not a true communication that I valued.
Really, kudos to the Google spam team.
I hope you did not buy the vehicle that you are having problems with. If so, I would seriously looking at returning it for a full refund as defective merchandise.
I am guessing all new cars are off the list now. GM has OnStar, Ford has shit that remembers where you drive, and Chrysler has buggy, remotely exploitable software. All of them have stuff that let's someone else control your vehicle.
What the fuck? Who would buy something like that? Perhaps the consumer just does not know...
But even at 80% in-house at SpaceX, looks like that remaining 20% still bit them : Seriously, failing at 1/5th the rated failure value? The vendor might as well have given them a cardboard cutout with the word "strut" written on it in sharpie.
Indeed. I wonder if SpaceX can sue the supplier? I wonder what the contract terms were.
Updating from daily builds? Hobby OS.
Upgrading to new OS immediately after release? Thanks for finding all those zero-day exploits and rare bugs for the rest of us when we eventually upgrade.
Applying ONLY critical patches, and even then only when thoroughly vetted? You're using your computer to do actual work, and can't afford downtime.
Odd. My update patterns do not fit on your axis.
I furiously update and live on the bleeding edge until I find something that works well and the way I would like it to work. I then only update for security purposes or because the software will not run anymore due to changing hardware (X64) or changing software environment (GLIBC).
In other words, what you are saying is most important you, stability, is not what is most important to me, usability. What is most important to a person will determine that person's update patterns.
For others, it is familiarity instead of stability or usability. That is why I find your axis to be limited.
I grew up way before the Internet became a reality to the wide world. Scams are scams. "On the internet" is not enough to garner a patent, it is not enough to garner a new name for an old art: Scam.
If you can fall for a scam on the Internet, you can fall for one through plain old snail mail. The Internet just makes communications quicker and exposure more likely.
Instead, the point is that there exists a systematic, cultural, and longstanding bias against encouraging and fostering scientific and mathematical proficiency in female students
Fuck you. Prove it. I am sick of this shit. When I went to school way way way back in the mists of time, girls were encouraged over boys. My own son dealt with this shit too... and yet girls are STILL not at the top of the heap.
Stop abusing boys. You can not force girls to be on top of the heap... and this is nature: There will be a heap. Deal with it asshole. All you are doing is creating misogyny.
Nothing like fifteen tons of uncontrollable truck sliding at freeway speeds toward a stupid motorist that cut-off the truck...
I am cool with this. Darwinism in action. My only concern is for the truck driver. :)
If you are going to be driving wastefully, doing it as efficiently as possible still makes sense.
I *WANT* one of these. Madly and desperately. Tesla heard my only objection left: All Wheel Drive. I have been maneuvering my finances to buy one since the AWD version came out. Now, I am almost willing to mortgage my soul to get one of these. (I would definitely NOT mortgage my soul, it is a figure of speech designed to show how much I want one of these.)
every year there are close to 140,000 jobs requiring a CS degree, but only 40,000 U.S. college graduates major in CS, which means that 100,000 positions go unfilled by domestic talent
Is this statistic really true? Are those 140,000 net new jobs, or just job openings that exist for some period of time during the year?
If it were true, wages would be sky high. Ipso facto, it is not true.
Let's see how the women's soccer team does against the men's soccer team. So the unspoken argument is that you should hire inferior people to fill the role.
Somehow, I do not think that is the message they want to get across.
Uninstall Flash. Just stop using it. Encourage your friends to do the same.
I uninstalled it a couple months ago. I no longer have to worry about updating it or being exposed to the vast amount of vulnerabilities - it should be clear to everyone by now that it is a /major/ vector for infection.
Only a few months ago? At least you removed it... I removed flash from all of my computers back in 2009. I was responsible for vulnerability analysis and noticed that every month, there was at least one vulnerability for flash and another for java. I removed both.
I bought a laptop in 2013 that had Windows 8 on it. The very first thing I did was start patching it and downloading updates. It did not matter, I got a virus less than 4 hours after starting the patching process. How? Through a flash plugin that was not installed in such a way that I could even see that it existed.
I formatted the drive with a vengeance and installed Arch Linux on it... which it is still running to this day. Flash can burn in hell as can Windows 8.
And I prefer CD quality to any form of lossy compression: and have told them apart in ABX testing, up to and including a 320K mp3 example. It was a castanet sound...
Cymbals are also a dead giveaway. Either the "airiness" is lost or they sound too sharp.
One song that ALWAYS shows weaknesses in lossy compression algorithms is "My Name is Mud" by Primus. Something about the mixture of bass and drum really messes with all of the algorithms. I have successfully performed double blind tests and can always pick out the lossless version of that song. Other songs can be much more difficult, but paying attention to the cymbals frequently reveals lossy compression.
Taxing the rich seems the only known way to free the revenue and profits to flow back into the middle- and lower-class consumer. If you have a another way to balance that part of the system of economic flow, I'm all ears.
How will taxing the rich help? The government, any government, will just spend that money on new fighter jets, spying on their population, and redirecting the money in non-taxable form back to the already-wealthy and well-connected.
Tying up all the wealth into a few people and institutions is the root of the problem. Taxing does not address that.
I think you fail to understand the concept of right of way. If you are going too fast to safely stop, you are going too fast.
I think you fail to understand that the laws of physics are non-negotiable. You can't just step in front of a multi-thousand pound vehicle moving at 25 to 30 miles per hour and expect the laws of physics to suddenly change and allow it to stop in under 10 feet. It just can not happen no matter what laws or rules are in place.
I am an American who has been alive for a while. At no time did I think "black person" when I saw Jar Jar for the first time.
What that implies is either that the effect intended was not a negative racial stereotype or that racism is effectively dead for mainstream America.
You choose. Either way, the hate-fest ends here.