Yes, they do. An OEM wireless manager is mostly the same thing that ships with the OS. It is reinventing the wheel. However, applications, poems and fonts all serve different needs.
Maybe have a first boot installer that lets people choose which of the Lenovo and 3rd party programs to install defaulting to none.
I have wanted something like that for a long time. Create an image which contains just the OS and the manufacturer-specific drivers, and then put an option to install all the other crap.
On Windows startup, you would get: "Thanks for purchasing a Lenovo product! As an option, we offer you a free selection of additional software. This includes: blah blah blah. Would you like to install this software?" [Yes] [No] [Ask Me Later]
To the contrary, I love bloatware because it means other people are subsidizing my PC that I'm going to be installing a fresh OS upon receiving anyway.
Even the OEM recovery media (that comes on a DVD or that you have to recreate yourself with an included tool) contains the same crapware. So you would need to buy a separate Windows copy for that purpose, increasing the total cost.
True. While I can confirm the Windows bug, Linux desktops are absolutely full of little glitches like that. Even while Windows is filled with all sorts of crusty crap, at least it works predictably for the most part.
I can confirm that bug in Windows 7 and I have seen it in Windows 8 too. It has occasionally happened to me after deleting all files from a folder. One of the files remains in the folder view, even though it has been deleted already. The view seems to not be refreshed properly.
They probably already went so far with the Modern UI strategy that they can't go back. They are now using that as the base to try to make something useful. At least things are more unified than in Windows 8, which featured a unelegant mix of classic Windows widgets and Modern stuff.
I guess operating systems acquiring HiDPI support is one of the reasons going for the flat look. Vector graphics are easy to scale. But maybe some genius will eventually come up with a system that both scales well and looks cool. Some might also say that good appearance isn't the be-all and end-all, but we had quite nice thing going on with Aero, so why go backwards in evolution. The window zoom animations look really good in Windows 10 though.
If you are into synchronized Christmas light displays on a budget, you can't beat a mix of Vixen, X Lights/Nutcracker for content creation and loaded on a Raspberry for scheduling and playback.
That sounds pretty cool. What are these softwares and what's the workflow?
Ok, let's assume you get the data files pulled from the PS4 disk. You now have hypothetical files like r_gamedata_0001.gbr (15 GB), r_gamedata_0002.gbr (13 GB), r_gamedata_0003.gbr (10 GB), r_actor.gbr (4 GB). You open them in hex editor and they look like complete mush. Now what? I hope you have your coffee machine ready.
As to the GF4MX. Wasn't it pretty obvious if you did ANY research that it wasn't the same as a GF4? Or am I being too logical and reasonable again?
Yep, I know. My main point was just to show some Slashdot discussion from the old times. I tried to find something close to the GF4MX and the discussion was what I found with a quick search.
It does work. There's 4GB of RAM. It's fully usable. It's just slower.
Imagine if you bought an 8-pack of cola cans and 1 of those cans was always a bit shittier tasting than the others. Would you accept the explanation "there's 8 cans of cola, they are fully drinkable".
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At least physical media allows you to own the product.
Much more websites offer Twitter feeds than RSS feeds these days.
Then what difference would there be between "Not Now" and "Ask Me Later"?
Agreed, trashy advertisements can ruin a website. But even then I personally do not turn on an ad blocker but I leave the site completely.
Then don't follow such celebrities. You can use it to see @slashdot topics as well, for example.
Twitter is great for following the headlines. It's like an improved RSS reader.
Yes, they do. An OEM wireless manager is mostly the same thing that ships with the OS. It is reinventing the wheel. However, applications, poems and fonts all serve different needs.
Maybe have a first boot installer that lets people choose which of the Lenovo and 3rd party programs to install defaulting to none.
I have wanted something like that for a long time. Create an image which contains just the OS and the manufacturer-specific drivers, and then put an option to install all the other crap.
On Windows startup, you would get: "Thanks for purchasing a Lenovo product! As an option, we offer you a free selection of additional software. This includes: blah blah blah. Would you like to install this software?" [Yes] [No] [Ask Me Later]
To the contrary, I love bloatware because it means other people are subsidizing my PC that I'm going to be installing a fresh OS upon receiving anyway.
Even the OEM recovery media (that comes on a DVD or that you have to recreate yourself with an included tool) contains the same crapware. So you would need to buy a separate Windows copy for that purpose, increasing the total cost.
Using an ad blocker is cheating. It is roughly the same thing as pirating: you deprive the author from profit.
If they ported Visual Studio to Linux and OS/X
I actually suspect that that could happen sometime in the future.
I noticed that too. It looks a bit wonky.
OP here. There's a screenshot in the article. :)
True. While I can confirm the Windows bug, Linux desktops are absolutely full of little glitches like that. Even while Windows is filled with all sorts of crusty crap, at least it works predictably for the most part.
No, I have seen it happen in normal folders.
I can confirm that bug in Windows 7 and I have seen it in Windows 8 too. It has occasionally happened to me after deleting all files from a folder. One of the files remains in the folder view, even though it has been deleted already. The view seems to not be refreshed properly.
They probably already went so far with the Modern UI strategy that they can't go back. They are now using that as the base to try to make something useful. At least things are more unified than in Windows 8, which featured a unelegant mix of classic Windows widgets and Modern stuff.
I'll throw some screenshots here so people can compare easily.
- Windows 3.1
- Windows 95
- Windows 7
- Windows 10 new icons from the article
- Windows 10 new Recycle Bin and Control Panel icons
I guess operating systems acquiring HiDPI support is one of the reasons going for the flat look. Vector graphics are easy to scale. But maybe some genius will eventually come up with a system that both scales well and looks cool. Some might also say that good appearance isn't the be-all and end-all, but we had quite nice thing going on with Aero, so why go backwards in evolution. The window zoom animations look really good in Windows 10 though.
If you are into synchronized Christmas light displays on a budget, you can't beat a mix of Vixen, X Lights/Nutcracker for content creation and loaded on a Raspberry for scheduling and playback.
That sounds pretty cool. What are these softwares and what's the workflow?
Ok, let's assume you get the data files pulled from the PS4 disk. You now have hypothetical files like r_gamedata_0001.gbr (15 GB), r_gamedata_0002.gbr (13 GB), r_gamedata_0003.gbr (10 GB), r_actor.gbr (4 GB). You open them in hex editor and they look like complete mush. Now what? I hope you have your coffee machine ready.
It's becoming too complicated to verify everything. Last week it was revealed how NSA has a spyware kit for firmwares of all HDD brands. It's getting pretty crazy.
As to the GF4MX. Wasn't it pretty obvious if you did ANY research that it wasn't the same as a GF4? Or am I being too logical and reasonable again?
Yep, I know. My main point was just to show some Slashdot discussion from the old times. I tried to find something close to the GF4MX and the discussion was what I found with a quick search.
It does work. There's 4GB of RAM. It's fully usable. It's just slower.
Imagine if you bought an 8-pack of cola cans and 1 of those cans was always a bit shittier tasting than the others. Would you accept the explanation "there's 8 cans of cola, they are fully drinkable".
Here's an old Geforce 4 discussion from 2001 in Slashdot, for those who want to compare.