Good question. Rollerblinds to achieve maximum darkness, no LEDs shining in the room. Fresh air, fresh sheets. Comfortable temperature. Maybe watch an ASMR video to relax before going to sleep. Eat a bit before going to sleep. Medication can be very helpful too. Just my two cents.
I hardly think there was just one guy that came up with the enlightenment "hey everybody, let's do this tile shit" but the UI was a result of larger design process. It's still rather stupid, I agree.
I said engineers and designers, any kind of people at Microsoft really. My point being that, while we rigorously want to find a figurehead to blame, we might not even know the names of the people inside the company who had the power to affect the core decisions which shaped the form of Windows 8. The ideas have probably come from various people in several meetings, that had many sub-managers and key people of the Windows team approving them.
It's just so painful to flip back and forth between the classic desktop and Modern UI.
Also, the integration is half-baked: you have two Control Panels, two places to pin apps (taskbar and start screen), two Internet Explorers, and it ships with a mishmash of desktop/modern apps. It just feels more like running two virtual machines instead of one OS.
The live tiles are a fun toy to watch social media, that's all there is for me.
The only reasonable explanation is really, really bad leadership.
Why would that be the only reasonable explanation? Windows 8 is the result of choices made by several engineers and designers. I bet there are lots of people inside Microsoft who have had their say on it, not only Ballmer or Sinofsky.
The problem is, they don't market them very well. All of the PCs and laptops are lined up in a row and you could walk right by one and not know it is a touch screen.
That could be easily mitigated by putting an inch by inch sticker on the wrist rest which reads "With Touch!"
I find Windows 7 (and 8) fall seriously short in those areas that actually matter in day-to-day usage: file management, WiFi configuration, software updates, disk management, device driver installation, system cleanup, and a few others. All those are unnecessarily complicated and tedious on Windows.
What? Tools for system cleanup could be better (a third party tool such as CCleaner sometimes comes handy). But otherwise you're spouting crap.
Did Bill Gates run over your dog or something? Back in the day MS made unstable, insecure and incompatible products, and we didn't like the company. Now they have brushed up and make much more usable stuff, so it starts to look like a viable solution again. It's just business.
We live with knowing that the locks we use in our homes could be picked, and if someone *really* wanted to take the time and the risk or spend the money, they could probably get in in various ways, just like we never achieve 100% safety from other crimes. That doesn't mean our safety measures are worthless though.
Well said. Often when there is a story about some security solution in/. someone comes up with a method to work around it. However that does not automatically mean that the invention is useless! It might still be a nice addition to the pack of tools.
GTA IV was a bit creeping. As the detail had reached a point where you could realistically shoot driver on the wheel, it made you actually feel a bit bad about some of Niko Bellic's actions. But I guess it adds to the atmosphere too. Very fun game, can't wait for V.
I don't see anyone blaming Google for it. I don't know if it's HP's fault either.
Although, as this has been discovered now, as the next step Google could protect the printer users a bit by disabling this kind of search results. I'm pretty sure that many of those printers are misconfigured to be public and the script kiddies are loading their weapons already.
I guess it's the bit same than when searching for "confidential filetype:pdf" and you realize that instead of spicy conspiracy secrets most of the stuff is actually quite boring.
If you really have been doing this for years, you may want to go check to see if any seeders are left. Yeah, you could get seeders at first, but once people realize its a bad file they are gone.
But what if you encoded your backup in some real porn movie using steganography! That would be quite interesting.
No matter how badass the graphics card is, the instructions all have to pass through the CPU.
I wonder if even those could be offloaded to the hardware? We got hardware T&L, programmable shaders, could we next send a copy of whole drawing command loops to the GPU?
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Some people just don't sleep well.
Good question. Rollerblinds to achieve maximum darkness, no LEDs shining in the room. Fresh air, fresh sheets. Comfortable temperature. Maybe watch an ASMR video to relax before going to sleep. Eat a bit before going to sleep. Medication can be very helpful too. Just my two cents.
I hardly think there was just one guy that came up with the enlightenment "hey everybody, let's do this tile shit" but the UI was a result of larger design process. It's still rather stupid, I agree.
I said engineers and designers, any kind of people at Microsoft really. My point being that, while we rigorously want to find a figurehead to blame, we might not even know the names of the people inside the company who had the power to affect the core decisions which shaped the form of Windows 8. The ideas have probably come from various people in several meetings, that had many sub-managers and key people of the Windows team approving them.
Herb Sutter is cool, he sometimes has quite interesting stuff at Channel 9.
It's just so painful to flip back and forth between the classic desktop and Modern UI.
Also, the integration is half-baked: you have two Control Panels, two places to pin apps (taskbar and start screen), two Internet Explorers, and it ships with a mishmash of desktop/modern apps. It just feels more like running two virtual machines instead of one OS.
The live tiles are a fun toy to watch social media, that's all there is for me.
The only reasonable explanation is really, really bad leadership.
Why would that be the only reasonable explanation? Windows 8 is the result of choices made by several engineers and designers. I bet there are lots of people inside Microsoft who have had their say on it, not only Ballmer or Sinofsky.
The problem is, they don't market them very well. All of the PCs and laptops are lined up in a row and you could walk right by one and not know it is a touch screen.
That could be easily mitigated by putting an inch by inch sticker on the wrist rest which reads "With Touch!"
I find Windows 7 (and 8) fall seriously short in those areas that actually matter in day-to-day usage: file management, WiFi configuration, software updates, disk management, device driver installation, system cleanup, and a few others. All those are unnecessarily complicated and tedious on Windows.
What? Tools for system cleanup could be better (a third party tool such as CCleaner sometimes comes handy). But otherwise you're spouting crap.
It creates jobs, and from that viewpoint can be seen as ethical.
Did Bill Gates run over your dog or something? Back in the day MS made unstable, insecure and incompatible products, and we didn't like the company. Now they have brushed up and make much more usable stuff, so it starts to look like a viable solution again. It's just business.
It's just modern life. I don't see anything terribly wrong with Reddit or Twitter. High-quality nerdy stuff can be stuff from those services too.
We live with knowing that the locks we use in our homes could be picked, and if someone *really* wanted to take the time and the risk or spend the money, they could probably get in in various ways, just like we never achieve 100% safety from other crimes. That doesn't mean our safety measures are worthless though.
Well said. Often when there is a story about some security solution in /. someone comes up with a method to work around it. However that does not automatically mean that the invention is useless! It might still be a nice addition to the pack of tools.
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Half-Life got that covered...
GTA IV was a bit creeping. As the detail had reached a point where you could realistically shoot driver on the wheel, it made you actually feel a bit bad about some of Niko Bellic's actions. But I guess it adds to the atmosphere too. Very fun game, can't wait for V.
The original URL seems to have even the screen resolution included. All the junk they include in the query these days...
I don't see anyone blaming Google for it. I don't know if it's HP's fault either.
Although, as this has been discovered now, as the next step Google could protect the printer users a bit by disabling this kind of search results. I'm pretty sure that many of those printers are misconfigured to be public and the script kiddies are loading their weapons already.
Oh, I see. If you nuke the original search and type in "inurl:hp/device/this.LCDispatcher" yourself, you get all the results.
I only get 73. It ends at page 8.
I guess it's the bit same than when searching for "confidential filetype:pdf" and you realize that instead of spicy conspiracy secrets most of the stuff is actually quite boring.
If you really have been doing this for years, you may want to go check to see if any seeders are left. Yeah, you could get seeders at first, but once people realize its a bad file they are gone.
But what if you encoded your backup in some real porn movie using steganography! That would be quite interesting.
Thanks Microsoft for trying to use DirectX as a stick to force people to switch from XP to Vista. Hey, kind of like Window 8.
Same thing with Internet Explorer.
Sadly enough, doing the coke+mentos trick inside your stomach won't cause the stuff shoot out from your mouth. That would just have been cool.
No matter how badass the graphics card is, the instructions all have to pass through the CPU.
I wonder if even those could be offloaded to the hardware? We got hardware T&L, programmable shaders, could we next send a copy of whole drawing command loops to the GPU?
Ah, yes. I was slightly incorrectly thinking about the Amazon Shopping Lens.
Exactly. That is what you are "supposed to say" but those might be completely ineffective tools for solving the issue.