Notice how Chrome gets updated all the time and no one complains.
It's also interesting how Slashdot commentators initially heavily criticized Chrome's "spying characteristics" but that criticism seems to have cooled down. Everyone whined how it constantly phones home and yada yada.
It's interesting how cumulative updates have taken a big role in Windows 10. Large packs of updates that service many things. Also it's supposed to make upgrading a fresh OS installation a bit more convenient.
If you want to take a look under the hood, Microsoft provides a list of files (CSV) that KB3140743 patches.
Except that building a Hackintosh is like building a house of cards. You have to make all choices perfectly and find the right combination of things (hardware choices, software modules and other tweaks) so that it works properly and does not crash.
I also have been curious as to why HDDs have never introduced multiple heads. I have visioned it being two heads, placed on opposite sides. Combined with smart NCQ, it could be quite sweet.
Vulkan gives the programmer more control over the graphics pipeline, but the downside is that there is even more work to do than in OpenGL or DirectX, which already are extremely difficult APIs. Well, I guess smaller studios can always use a game engine or graphics engine as a higher level basis, and then big engineering teams can make engines ground up around Vulkan.
I do agree that Linux as a desktop has gotten better since then, especially on laptops.
I have to disagree. These days there are a shitload of problems specifically on laptops: suspend/hibernate, hotkeys/leds, screen brightness adjustment, power management, graphics switching, audio pin mapping, touchpad...
Why do not open source aficionados more often criticize how the firmware of Cisco Systems hardware is not open source? Why is there no worry about backdoors either? There's a lot of yacking about UEFI backdoors, Windows telemetry, NSA surveillance, Facebook datamining... but Cisco seems to get a pass.
I appreciate if they fix stuff reported quickly, but still... as many bugs as possible should be fixed in internal quality assurance, before the product reaches the customer. If an average joe sees a crash here, a glitch there, and some messed formatting, he might not meticulously report them and wait for fixes, but rather quickly reinstall Microsoft Office. Operating systems and office suites are a big game, you just have to be good.
Most of the time, although not all of the time, it is due to either a very poorly formatted document, or using non-standard fonts, or both.
Doesn't matter. That's still denialism. It still does not work. The end user will throw the software in trash. There must be compatibility even for badly-designed documents, because in real life we have those as well.
Often Linux is defended by saying that the BIOS writers simply did a bad job. Well, maybe they did, but at the end of the day, we just want a computer that works. So in the operating system we must write good workarounds for firmware bugs if we want a good user experience.
I suspect that SystemD whiners do not even want to do anything about it. They just want something to whine about. It feels relaxing and is a great way to release some general stress.
It's like a lady watching Bold & Beautiful on the television. She yaks how rubbish the series is and how lame the characters are. But dare you to change the channel...
Are you suggesting that Windows makes a toy computer? Wouldn't a toy GUI consist mostly of big colored squares, dumbed down applications, and a supervisor monitoring your usage patterns?
One day a guy told in Reddit that he was able to access his parents' laptop through Intel ME even though the Ethernet chip was supposedly disabled. Creeepyyy.
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Notice how Chrome gets updated all the time and no one complains.
It's also interesting how Slashdot commentators initially heavily criticized Chrome's "spying characteristics" but that criticism seems to have cooled down. Everyone whined how it constantly phones home and yada yada.
It would be impossible for them to operate with no QA department.
It's interesting how cumulative updates have taken a big role in Windows 10. Large packs of updates that service many things. Also it's supposed to make upgrading a fresh OS installation a bit more convenient.
If you want to take a look under the hood, Microsoft provides a list of files (CSV) that KB3140743 patches.
Say that to the AC, not me. I did not comment about build quality but software unstability.
Except that building a Hackintosh is like building a house of cards. You have to make all choices perfectly and find the right combination of things (hardware choices, software modules and other tweaks) so that it works properly and does not crash.
That's not true at all. IoT simply means an embedded device connected to Internet.
I didn't mean two HDDs but two heads.
I also have been curious as to why HDDs have never introduced multiple heads. I have visioned it being two heads, placed on opposite sides. Combined with smart NCQ, it could be quite sweet.
It probably just means that some user data might be useful later in criminal investigations.
Who saw the name of the library, immediately went "oh, another C buffer attack," and rolled their eyes?
It's interesting how these things go.
If this would have been a vulnerability in MSVCRT, everyone would have mocked Microsoft and Windows.
However as this is a Linux vulnerability, the attention is turned to the used programming language instead.
Something to think about.
Vulkan gives the programmer more control over the graphics pipeline, but the downside is that there is even more work to do than in OpenGL or DirectX, which already are extremely difficult APIs. Well, I guess smaller studios can always use a game engine or graphics engine as a higher level basis, and then big engineering teams can make engines ground up around Vulkan.
I do agree that Linux as a desktop has gotten better since then, especially on laptops.
I have to disagree. These days there are a shitload of problems specifically on laptops: suspend/hibernate, hotkeys/leds, screen brightness adjustment, power management, graphics switching, audio pin mapping, touchpad...
It doesn't matter. We can call them "apps" now. It's just a shorthand.
Blame web and mobile app designers and use a Mac while you can, we are going to flat land of GUI design and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
OS X introduced flat GUI in Yosemite as well...
Windows 7 and Ubuntu Unity are the remaining ones that still look cool.
I don't recall those programs being called apps. Applications maybe, more commonly programs ... but not apps.
"Apps" is shorthand for "applications". Has always been.
Why do not open source aficionados more often criticize how the firmware of Cisco Systems hardware is not open source? Why is there no worry about backdoors either? There's a lot of yacking about UEFI backdoors, Windows telemetry, NSA surveillance, Facebook datamining... but Cisco seems to get a pass.
I appreciate if they fix stuff reported quickly, but still... as many bugs as possible should be fixed in internal quality assurance, before the product reaches the customer. If an average joe sees a crash here, a glitch there, and some messed formatting, he might not meticulously report them and wait for fixes, but rather quickly reinstall Microsoft Office. Operating systems and office suites are a big game, you just have to be good.
Yeah, man! Long term Survival Infinitesimally is what it's all about! Raaaawwwhh!!! Brothers4lyfe...
Most of the time, although not all of the time, it is due to either a very poorly formatted document, or using non-standard fonts, or both.
Doesn't matter. That's still denialism. It still does not work. The end user will throw the software in trash. There must be compatibility even for badly-designed documents, because in real life we have those as well.
Often Linux is defended by saying that the BIOS writers simply did a bad job. Well, maybe they did, but at the end of the day, we just want a computer that works. So in the operating system we must write good workarounds for firmware bugs if we want a good user experience.
Stop whining man. *Do* something about it.
I suspect that SystemD whiners do not even want to do anything about it. They just want something to whine about. It feels relaxing and is a great way to release some general stress.
It's like a lady watching Bold & Beautiful on the television. She yaks how rubbish the series is and how lame the characters are. But dare you to change the channel...
Yeah, that was the crusty joke... although Metro/Modern is called UWP (Universal Windows Platform) these days.
It's a shared object for a toy computer.
Are you suggesting that Windows makes a toy computer? Wouldn't a toy GUI consist mostly of big colored squares, dumbed down applications, and a supervisor monitoring your usage patterns?
Nice silo. :)
One day a guy told in Reddit that he was able to access his parents' laptop through Intel ME even though the Ethernet chip was supposedly disabled. Creeepyyy.
On average, what's the usage percentage of a typical 500 GB laptop HDD?