I can't help it.. So, it comes with free beer? That's the feature most of us will be interested in! Even better if it repeals tax increases on beer!
Well it's not much but if you run the html5 test , I get the following out of a possible 555 ponts. With exception of "Qupzilla" I get the same results in Fedora 23 as well.
Chrome - 501
Firefox - 478
Konqueror - 355
Qupzilla - 521 - This is a new browser in Fedora 24
It must be noted that I have only installed Fedora 24 in a virtual machine but not on my hardware yet. So far I have not seen any issues with Fedora 24 and will be installing it after I have done my due diligence such as backups and saving configuration files (normally all in/etc).
Basically, I will do what is called a full file-system installation rather than an update. It looks like all this will take: 1) About 20 minutes for the installation. 2) About 20 minutes to update all my configuration files and get some additional applications. 3) About 30 to 40 minutes for updates. By doing this I will have a nice clean install.
Even though I will have done my user backups I probably won't need them unless I make a mistake (very unlikely) since I don't reformat my user file-systems. Of course, if I do decide to reformat my user file-systems then they will take hours to recover. but even if I go down this path I will still be able to use the system but it won't be optimal until my recovery compleats.
Just think how much more efficient it could be if it didn't have to drag all that telemetry baggage with it all the time!
That is probably how they beat Chrome, since Chrome has a lot more telemetry than Edge.
Did you known Google Chrome does A/B testing with optimizations and architecture redesigns, enabling some at random and then reporting back to Google how often they crash or cause other issues?
Well, Edge does not need as much telemetry as Chrome since most of the telemetry is actually done under Windows 10 which is an operating system.
Also in Chrome, all that you mentioned is normally turned "off" by default. You have to deliberately turn them on if you want them.
It is not off by default, and you can not disable all of it. A lot Chrome features depends on being able to talk to Google.
My apologies I was not aware of A/B testing although now I am aware I have started to read up on it. The following site is where I am currently looking at. This site also leads into the following site.
I am not too sure if A/B testing is all that personally intrusive compared to some features in Chrome which I rightly said were turned off by default. If you as the Chrome browser user felt that Chrome was intrusive then there are ways of locking the browser down even more and even then if you still feel your privacy is being impinged on there are other browsers you can use.
The Edge browser is a Microsoft product that is running under Windows 10 and even if you as the browser user fell this browser was too intrusive and switched to another browser you still have to worry about all the other features of the operating system that are turned on by default. At least most Linux operating systems don't do this so your only source of privacy worry would be Chrome if you have this as your default browser.
Just think how much more efficient it could be if it didn't have to drag all that telemetry baggage with it all the time!
That is probably how they beat Chrome, since Chrome has a lot more telemetry than Edge.
Did you known Google Chrome does A/B testing with optimizations and architecture redesigns, enabling some at random and then reporting back to Google how often they crash or cause other issues?
Well, Edge does not need as much telemetry as Chrome since most of the telemetry is actually done under Windows 10 which is an operating system.
Also in Chrome, all that you mentioned is normally turned "off" by default. You have to deliberately turn them on if you want them.
Exactly! At least with Google I know that they're not tracking anything I do through my web browser. Oh, wait...
With most web browsers under Linux, you actually have a fair bit of control and if you still feel you are being unfairly tracked you can use another browser. The problem with Windows 10 and it's Edge web browser is that the telemetry is actually turned on by default under the operating system and even Edge is suspect as well.
While it is possible to turn off most of the telemetry of Windows 10 , this is normally beyond most users.
Just think how much more efficient it could be if it didn't have to drag all that telemetry baggage with it all the time!
To be fair you can open up your security settings and turn off most of the telemetry baggage, however, that is not the end of it, you also have to edit your registry . You can actually use some third party software (if you trust them) to do this but even after all that you really need to ask yourself "did I really turn off all the telemetry baggage?" Basically, what I just described is way beyond most users and this is fine my Microsoft.
Then Microsoft releases a new update and you may be back to square one. If that is not a description of Malware I don't know what is.
If Microsoft ported Edge to Linux and OS X, it would absolutely destroy Firefox, in my opinion. Firefox is already barely relevant. The latest stats show Firefox only has 6% to 7% of the browser market [caniuse.com], and it has been losing users for a long time.
If Microsoft ported Edge to Linux then hell has just frozen over, although I do feel that most Linux users would prefer not using it considering that the Edge browser does what Microsoft wants not what the Linux user wants.
Many of the remaining Firefox users are using it on Linux or OS X. They aren't using FIrefox because they want to use Firefox; they're using it just because it isn't Chrome, and Firefox is really the only other option they have. Many of these users aren't happy Firefox users, either. They're disgusted by how Firefox's UI has been trashed, how so much unwanted functionality has been forced on them (Hello, Pocket, and even embedded ads!), and how Firefox still feels so much slower than Chrome.
Speak for yourself not everyone is a hater. Personally, I like the minimalistic approach of most web browsers which lets me efficiently use whatever browser is available on Linux and there are plenty available.
In a simple HTML5 test on my Fedora 23 KDE spin machine, out of a score of 555 Firefox got 478, Chrome got 501, Konqueror got 355 and Midori got 356. I could get more browsers but four is good enough. Even after running that test which shows Crome beat Firefox but Firefox was way better for that test than Konqueror or Midori. What does that test mean to me? Well nothing really, if one browser does not display what I want then I will get and/or chose another.
It is no different to me displaying a video. Personally, I normally use VLC (will play the H264 and H265 codecs as well as 10 bit) but there are some videos that are 12 bit which VLC can't display so I choose "mpv Media Player" which will. However, the interface of "mpv" is extremely minimalistic and keyboard driven compared to VLC, but that does not stop me from using it.
Basically, I choose the tools I need to get the job done. If one tool is not pretty but does what I want then I am fine with that.
I bet they've got IR on them for night surveillance. Anyone with IR detection in the same wavelength range could likely spot these suckers on a utility pole at night without a problem.
If the infra-red (IR) cameras are passive which would be the norm then they would be difficult to detect by external means. Passive IR cameras work by detecting an IR source which in the majority of cases is a living creature, they don't emit IR.
Of course, if there is an active IR source to enhance the detectability of the camera then it would be possible to detect the source which may not be near the actual camera itself.
just upgrade to Win 10 and everything will be ok.
let go of your old OS and let MS set you free.
for a limited time only.
Why would I want to install Windows 10 when my perfectly good Fedora 23 distro works perfectly?
If I want to install Malware then Microsoft Windows 10 would be the way to go, after all, take a look at what Windows 10 is doing to get people to "upgrade" and what settings are on by default. Sure you can turn most of these settings to "off" but even after hacking the Registry, which most people can't do, are you quite sure you really have turned everything off?
Of course, we all really know that Big Brother^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Microsoft has our best interests at heart.
Of course, no company would allow a popup request for installing an operating system with a dialog box that has the "Upgrade Now" next to the button marked "OK". If you got something like this then we would assume it was Malware and click the "X" button at the top..... Oh! Wait!:-)
Kind of hard to take you seriously since you reference microsoft as m$
Well having installed Microsoft Windows 10 from ISO onto a virtual machine and having looked at the definition of Malware I do think people who install it are taking a huge risk. I actually have my virtual machine off and if I turn it on it is only for testing purposes however I actually switch off my virtual network. For those who want Windows 10 you could liken them to a frog put in lukewarm water then slowly turn up the heat and the frog won't notice until it's too late.
Yes, I am aware that it is possible to turn off most of the intrusive parts of Windows 10 providing you know what you are doing with the registry (most user have no idea what this even is) or you trust third party software. Even then you won't be able to fully turn off snooping. Still those that think this does not matter have been pretty well parboiled anyway and it's utterly pointless saying anything to them.
Looking at windows 10 it does have a pretty interface providing you don't mind a combination of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Comparing against my machine running Fedora 23 with KDE (Xfce is also great as well) Win10 has limited configuration ability although for most people that's fine. As for applications, I won't deny that Win10 has more but for most applications that run on Win10, I can find an equivalent, maybe not 100% equivalent but it will let me do what I want to do.
Games are probably one of the major issues which faces Linux today however you can get a huge amount of games that are native (please no TuX Racer references it only shows that you are ill-informed) either native, compatibility layer, SteamOS or on a virtual machine that is running Microsoft Windows if you can only get your gaming fix that way. You can even play web based games for those that like this sort of thing. Barring all that there are always consoles.
Before anyone says "specialty applications", I am aware of those as well and all I can say is you are locked in and the water must be getting very hot now, not that you would notice anyway.
Its not 4k gaming, though. Think about what that requires for PC... There is no way they could get a console at a reasonable price that could do that.
No, but you could double the price of a PS4 easily make it work. They said it would be more expensive so don't expect it to only be a $100 or $200 price hike.
Say just for argument sake that the Neo will be able to play 4k games at 60 fps and the machine costs $1000. There definitely would be people who would buy such a machine, however, they would be in the minority because most PS4 owners would not see the value of paying two to four times the price of the PS4 which is good enough for their HDTV.
Maybe if the console owner had a 4k TV they may be tempted but for most people who already have an HDTV why should they replace it when it already works and most TV content today is still 720p or less for most shows unless you pay for a subscription for services that will provide higher graphical content.
did they ever get Skyrim actually working properly on the PS3
If you are referring to the 6MB bug/annoyance then no, but you could work around the issue by turning off all auto-saves and stick with manual saves. The problem with manual saves is if you forget then you may loose hours of playtime if your character died. Still if you are used to the Souls games and even Bloodborne this is not a big deal.
As for the rest of your comment about the Neo, I fully agree.
It really depends on how many they sell. Developers will target the most popular machine, which almost certainly be the standard PS4 for some time, because it's more profitable. The developers I have spoken to say they are targeting the PS4 and planning to simply add some better textures and a few extra shader effects, then bump the resolution to 4k for the Neo. Most people don't even have a 4k TV yet.
Why buy a low-resolution 4k display when you can purchase an 8k display? Admiddltly 8k displays are not exactly cheap but they will come down in price and if 4k is anything to go this will happen fairly quickly.:-)
It may come as a shock to you but the total human population of this planet is a little over 7.1 Billion. There may be a billion HDTV's and monitors but over a billion 4K display units get real!
If all games released from this point on will support both the Neo and Original PS4, then what is the point of buying the Neo if you already have an Original?
The current PS4's can output 4k content although it can't play the new three layer BluRays of which the specifications were only ratified on a year ago. However, the PS4 will not support 4k gaming which requires a powerful graphics card with additional power supply requirements and possibly an increase in CPU power as well. To do this will require a case change since the new machine will require enhanced cooling compared to the original.
At the moment, we still don't have any idea what the specifications of the Neo will be so it would be rather stupid for game developers to even contemplate making games for the Neo until they get those specifications, also it would be rather shortsighted getting a 40 million plus user base offside just to support an enhanced console which is not out yet, so basically nothing has changed.
What part of "British Startup" made you think that the USA's constitutional amendments would have any relevance whatsoever?
If you look at the heading of the article it says. "In late May, an apartment building in Salt Lake City told tenants living in the complex to "like" its Facebook page or they will be in breach of their lease. If you don't know Salt Lake City is in the USA so the main article has relevance.
The cure is worse than the disease, and Orwell would be really shocked.
We have Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Brave new World and THX all in one huge pot controlled by a few in Brussels that in turn are controlled by lobbyists.
I'm starting to think that Brexit is a great idea.
Now all we need is an operating system that installs itself by stealth and can phone home by default, making all those that don't use this operating system, terrorists or worse.
Please tell me you aren't one of those people who believe just because something's provided free of charge, it's therefore exempt from criticism.
This is why I have four web browsers I can call on at a moments notice. I do have Chrome as my default browser but I don't have an issue with having to use a different browser on occasion since most actually support cross-transfer of your bookmarks. Personally, I don't have any issue with Firefox. If you don't like it or any browser for that matter you are perfectly entitled to do so. Constructive criticism I don't mind and I strongly encourage it, however, destructive criticism by swearing with little if any facts at to why the product deserves criticism doesn't achieve anything.
If somebody leaves a bag of dog feces on your porch "for free", along with a note telling you how wonderful it will be when you scatter the contents around your garden, does that mean they're doing you a service?
I was not aware that Firefox was forced on people. You are free to choose to install it, update it or remove it as you see fit. Not only that unlike "dog feces" it really does not leave a bad smell unless you really hate it yet have been rolling in it for a while.
What those words do fit though is "Windows 10" and "yes" I did install it by ISO in a virtual machine since I am not stupid. The sneaky and almost forced upgrade mechanism (see the web for more details) and if you do install it the "phone-home" freatures that are all turned on by default do (again see the web) the same thing that malware does, except Microsoft, tells us it's for our own good.
I was an early adopter of Firefox. I started losing my enthusiasm a couple of years ago, with their decision to progressively get rid of all the things I liked about their browser in a futile effort to become more and more like Chrome.
I use Pale Moon now. Firefox can go eff itself
I have use Firefox since inception and I do agree that they are trying to be more like Crome although personally I always liked the cleaner lines of Chrome especially tabbing although you could probably say the same thing with most modern web browsers.
I run Fedora 23 and if it ain't in the repositories or a repository is not available (eg Chrome, rpmfusion and Handbrake) since I like to get updates when they are available not go hunting for them then I won't use the package, so I won't install Pale Moon. If I am interested in specific software that needs to be manually downloaded then I normally lock it down but never install it on my system.
It is always funny but most of these builds always seem to forget the price of the operating system (assuming Microsoft) and the monitor (like it or not this is essential). If you're a serious gamer you also need a decent keyboard and mouse which aren't exactly cheap, sure you can get cheap ones but they are normally rubbish.
Since most builds don't talk about DVD or BluRay readers I would assume the so called gamer will be downloading games digitally, which is fine. The problem you do have is that you need fairly large capacity storage unless you are only going to be playing a few games. Basically, a 1GB disk is just not large enough and as for an SSD, well you just blew your budget.
In all fairness, any serious PC gamer will opt for a PC build that is over US$1000 (i5, i7 or high-end AMD) and that is not including the monitor. There is nothing wrong with opting for a cheaper PC gaming solution but please don't think that that will automatically put you on parity with a high-end gaming rig.
As far as a PS4 goes I actually use my monitor to switch between it and my SkyLake i7 with 16GB DDR4 RAM machine. Is mine high end? No! It is what could be called fairly high end but there are PC's that are considerably more powerful, it all depends on what you want to use a PC for and how much you wish to spend.
Well that and Linux isn't exactly a great Windows alternative. The Windows 10 silliness really would be a grand opportunity for Apple to release a cheaper Mac Mini.
You are quite right "Linux isn't exactly a great Windows alternative" it is a fantastic MS Windows alternative that really allows you to get your work done and have plenty of time to do other more productive things, like beating that annoying boss in Bloodborne.:-)
On that train of thought, the forced Windows 10 upgrades may be due in part to quickly boost the size of their Windows Store customer base to critical mass and leverage their vendors with high customer numbers.
"Turn your PC into an Xbox" is nothing more than coded language for "sabotage your perfectly good general-purpose computer by infecting it with even more DRM than it already has." The thinking at Microsoft clearly must be "well, the consumers are resisting our attempts to force them to use the Windows Store, so maybe we can force them to the Xbox Live store instead?"
To get an idea of the type of information Windows 10 will send to Microsoft just select your Security settings and peruse them. By default all the settings are turned on unless you explicitly turn them off and even if you turn them off there are other settings that can only be changed in the Registry and good luck with that.
Sure there are third party tools that can help you lock down your Windows 10 machine but now you have the problem of trusting them. Don't just take my word on this do a simple search with the words "Windows 10" and "Privacy", you will get about 18 million hits in Google (Note: I quoted "Windows 10").
For those people that are using a different version of MS Windows (aka. Win7, Win8.1 and back) well except for Windows 8.1 all other versions of Windows are out of mainstream support. You can find this information here. If you are a gamer on Widows OS's like it or not you will have to upgrade especially if you want to play Microsoft-centric games that support DirectX 12.
I am well aware that Google effectively "phones home" but at least you can turn this off or just don't use their browser. With Windows 10 the "phone home" capability is turned on by default and while it is possible to lock down the OS you or your third party software will most likely miss something and turning off an operating system rather defeats the purpose of the operating system.
Windows 10 is a combination of Win7 and Win8.1 (it has tiles on the start menu). It is pretty (ie. subjective) and it appears to work quite well as I would expect it too. If you like that and you don't mind your computer computing usage being sent to the cloud (ie. Microsoft) then be my guest.
Without knowing the exact details, am really glad for the YouTube fix. Was having a *lot* of issues and sometimes multiple-daily crashes when playing YouTube videos in FF recently to the extent that I dedicated Chrome browser to being the YouTube viewer. There definitely was something going on, although I wish they had mentioned more about the details in their blog post today.
Is amazing what Firefox has evolved into - what web browsers themselves have evolved into - and Firefox is really at the forefront of this in good ways although I wish it was more stable.
I have not had an issue with Firefox displaying YouTube videos although I did have a problem with a Chrome update a few months ago and changing one of my Chrome setting which in turn resulted in a strange display of YouTube videos. I did fix the issue since it was a configuration setup in Chrome but having a browser to drop back on enabled me to pinpoint the problem so much quicker.
On my PC I have access to multiple browsers and although I predominately use Chrome I have don't have any issue with using Firefox, Konqueror or Midori. I don't use IE or Edge since I don't run a Microsoft OS except in a virtual machine which is only run for testing purposes.
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I can't help it.. So, it comes with free beer? That's the feature most of us will be interested in! Even better if it repeals tax increases on beer!
Well it's not much but if you run the html5 test , I get the following out of a possible 555 ponts. With exception of "Qupzilla" I get the same results in Fedora 23 as well.
Chrome - 501
Firefox - 478
Konqueror - 355
Qupzilla - 521 - This is a new browser in Fedora 24
It must be noted that I have only installed Fedora 24 in a virtual machine but not on my hardware yet. So far I have not seen any issues with Fedora 24 and will be installing it after I have done my due diligence such as backups and saving configuration files (normally all in /etc).
Basically, I will do what is called a full file-system installation rather than an update. It looks like all this will take: 1) About 20 minutes for the installation. 2) About 20 minutes to update all my configuration files and get some additional applications. 3) About 30 to 40 minutes for updates. By doing this I will have a nice clean install.
Even though I will have done my user backups I probably won't need them unless I make a mistake (very unlikely) since I don't reformat my user file-systems. Of course, if I do decide to reformat my user file-systems then they will take hours to recover. but even if I go down this path I will still be able to use the system but it won't be optimal until my recovery compleats.
Just think how much more efficient it could be if it didn't have to drag all that telemetry baggage with it all the time!
That is probably how they beat Chrome, since Chrome has a lot more telemetry than Edge.
Did you known Google Chrome does A/B testing with optimizations and architecture redesigns, enabling some at random and then reporting back to Google how often they crash or cause other issues?
Well, Edge does not need as much telemetry as Chrome since most of the telemetry is actually done under Windows 10 which is an operating system.
Also in Chrome, all that you mentioned is normally turned "off" by default. You have to deliberately turn them on if you want them.
It is not off by default, and you can not disable all of it. A lot Chrome features depends on being able to talk to Google.
My apologies I was not aware of A/B testing although now I am aware I have started to read up on it. The following site is where I am currently looking at. This site also leads into the following site .
I am not too sure if A/B testing is all that personally intrusive compared to some features in Chrome which I rightly said were turned off by default. If you as the Chrome browser user felt that Chrome was intrusive then there are ways of locking the browser down even more and even then if you still feel your privacy is being impinged on there are other browsers you can use.
The Edge browser is a Microsoft product that is running under Windows 10 and even if you as the browser user fell this browser was too intrusive and switched to another browser you still have to worry about all the other features of the operating system that are turned on by default. At least most Linux operating systems don't do this so your only source of privacy worry would be Chrome if you have this as your default browser.
Just think how much more efficient it could be if it didn't have to drag all that telemetry baggage with it all the time!
That is probably how they beat Chrome, since Chrome has a lot more telemetry than Edge.
Did you known Google Chrome does A/B testing with optimizations and architecture redesigns, enabling some at random and then reporting back to Google how often they crash or cause other issues?
Well, Edge does not need as much telemetry as Chrome since most of the telemetry is actually done under Windows 10 which is an operating system.
Also in Chrome, all that you mentioned is normally turned "off" by default. You have to deliberately turn them on if you want them.
Exactly! At least with Google I know that they're not tracking anything I do through my web browser. Oh, wait...
With most web browsers under Linux, you actually have a fair bit of control and if you still feel you are being unfairly tracked you can use another browser. The problem with Windows 10 and it's Edge web browser is that the telemetry is actually turned on by default under the operating system and even Edge is suspect as well.
While it is possible to turn off most of the telemetry of Windows 10 , this is normally beyond most users.
Just think how much more efficient it could be if it didn't have to drag all that telemetry baggage with it all the time!
To be fair you can open up your security settings and turn off most of the telemetry baggage, however, that is not the end of it, you also have to edit your registry . You can actually use some third party software (if you trust them) to do this but even after all that you really need to ask yourself "did I really turn off all the telemetry baggage?" Basically, what I just described is way beyond most users and this is fine my Microsoft.
Then Microsoft releases a new update and you may be back to square one. If that is not a description of Malware I don't know what is.
If Microsoft ported Edge to Linux and OS X, it would absolutely destroy Firefox, in my opinion. Firefox is already barely relevant. The latest stats show Firefox only has 6% to 7% of the browser market [caniuse.com], and it has been losing users for a long time.
If Microsoft ported Edge to Linux then hell has just frozen over, although I do feel that most Linux users would prefer not using it considering that the Edge browser does what Microsoft wants not what the Linux user wants.
Many of the remaining Firefox users are using it on Linux or OS X. They aren't using FIrefox because they want to use Firefox; they're using it just because it isn't Chrome, and Firefox is really the only other option they have. Many of these users aren't happy Firefox users, either. They're disgusted by how Firefox's UI has been trashed, how so much unwanted functionality has been forced on them (Hello, Pocket, and even embedded ads!), and how Firefox still feels so much slower than Chrome.
Speak for yourself not everyone is a hater. Personally, I like the minimalistic approach of most web browsers which lets me efficiently use whatever browser is available on Linux and there are plenty available.
In a simple HTML5 test on my Fedora 23 KDE spin machine, out of a score of 555 Firefox got 478, Chrome got 501, Konqueror got 355 and Midori got 356. I could get more browsers but four is good enough. Even after running that test which shows Crome beat Firefox but Firefox was way better for that test than Konqueror or Midori. What does that test mean to me? Well nothing really, if one browser does not display what I want then I will get and/or chose another.
It is no different to me displaying a video. Personally, I normally use VLC (will play the H264 and H265 codecs as well as 10 bit) but there are some videos that are 12 bit which VLC can't display so I choose "mpv Media Player" which will. However, the interface of "mpv" is extremely minimalistic and keyboard driven compared to VLC, but that does not stop me from using it.
Basically, I choose the tools I need to get the job done. If one tool is not pretty but does what I want then I am fine with that.
I bet they've got IR on them for night surveillance. Anyone with IR detection in the same wavelength range could likely spot these suckers on a utility pole at night without a problem.
If the infra-red (IR) cameras are passive which would be the norm then they would be difficult to detect by external means. Passive IR cameras work by detecting an IR source which in the majority of cases is a living creature, they don't emit IR.
Of course, if there is an active IR source to enhance the detectability of the camera then it would be possible to detect the source which may not be near the actual camera itself.
just upgrade to Win 10 and everything will be ok. let go of your old OS and let MS set you free.
for a limited time only.
Why would I want to install Windows 10 when my perfectly good Fedora 23 distro works perfectly?
If I want to install Malware then Microsoft Windows 10 would be the way to go, after all, take a look at what Windows 10 is doing to get people to "upgrade" and what settings are on by default. Sure you can turn most of these settings to "off" but even after hacking the Registry, which most people can't do, are you quite sure you really have turned everything off?
Of course, we all really know that Big Brother^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Microsoft has our best interests at heart.
Of course, no company would allow a popup request for installing an operating system with a dialog box that has the "Upgrade Now" next to the button marked "OK". If you got something like this then we would assume it was Malware and click the "X" button at the top. .... Oh! Wait! :-)
Kind of hard to take you seriously since you reference microsoft as m$
Well having installed Microsoft Windows 10 from ISO onto a virtual machine and having looked at the definition of Malware I do think people who install it are taking a huge risk. I actually have my virtual machine off and if I turn it on it is only for testing purposes however I actually switch off my virtual network. For those who want Windows 10 you could liken them to a frog put in lukewarm water then slowly turn up the heat and the frog won't notice until it's too late.
Yes, I am aware that it is possible to turn off most of the intrusive parts of Windows 10 providing you know what you are doing with the registry (most user have no idea what this even is) or you trust third party software. Even then you won't be able to fully turn off snooping. Still those that think this does not matter have been pretty well parboiled anyway and it's utterly pointless saying anything to them.
Looking at windows 10 it does have a pretty interface providing you don't mind a combination of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Comparing against my machine running Fedora 23 with KDE (Xfce is also great as well) Win10 has limited configuration ability although for most people that's fine. As for applications, I won't deny that Win10 has more but for most applications that run on Win10, I can find an equivalent, maybe not 100% equivalent but it will let me do what I want to do.
Games are probably one of the major issues which faces Linux today however you can get a huge amount of games that are native (please no TuX Racer references it only shows that you are ill-informed) either native, compatibility layer, SteamOS or on a virtual machine that is running Microsoft Windows if you can only get your gaming fix that way. You can even play web based games for those that like this sort of thing. Barring all that there are always consoles.
Before anyone says "specialty applications", I am aware of those as well and all I can say is you are locked in and the water must be getting very hot now, not that you would notice anyway.
Its not 4k gaming, though. Think about what that requires for PC... There is no way they could get a console at a reasonable price that could do that.
No, but you could double the price of a PS4 easily make it work. They said it would be more expensive so don't expect it to only be a $100 or $200 price hike.
Say just for argument sake that the Neo will be able to play 4k games at 60 fps and the machine costs $1000. There definitely would be people who would buy such a machine, however, they would be in the minority because most PS4 owners would not see the value of paying two to four times the price of the PS4 which is good enough for their HDTV.
Maybe if the console owner had a 4k TV they may be tempted but for most people who already have an HDTV why should they replace it when it already works and most TV content today is still 720p or less for most shows unless you pay for a subscription for services that will provide higher graphical content.
did they ever get Skyrim actually working properly on the PS3
If you are referring to the 6MB bug/annoyance then no, but you could work around the issue by turning off all auto-saves and stick with manual saves. The problem with manual saves is if you forget then you may loose hours of playtime if your character died. Still if you are used to the Souls games and even Bloodborne this is not a big deal.
As for the rest of your comment about the Neo, I fully agree.
It really depends on how many they sell. Developers will target the most popular machine, which almost certainly be the standard PS4 for some time, because it's more profitable. The developers I have spoken to say they are targeting the PS4 and planning to simply add some better textures and a few extra shader effects, then bump the resolution to 4k for the Neo. Most people don't even have a 4k TV yet.
Why buy a low-resolution 4k display when you can purchase an 8k display? Admiddltly 8k displays are not exactly cheap but they will come down in price and if 4k is anything to go this will happen fairly quickly. :-)
It may come as a shock to you but the total human population of this planet is a little over 7.1 Billion. There may be a billion HDTV's and monitors but over a billion 4K display units get real!
If all games released from this point on will support both the Neo and Original PS4, then what is the point of buying the Neo if you already have an Original?
The current PS4's can output 4k content although it can't play the new three layer BluRays of which the specifications were only ratified on a year ago. However, the PS4 will not support 4k gaming which requires a powerful graphics card with additional power supply requirements and possibly an increase in CPU power as well. To do this will require a case change since the new machine will require enhanced cooling compared to the original.
At the moment, we still don't have any idea what the specifications of the Neo will be so it would be rather stupid for game developers to even contemplate making games for the Neo until they get those specifications, also it would be rather shortsighted getting a 40 million plus user base offside just to support an enhanced console which is not out yet, so basically nothing has changed.
What part of "British Startup" made you think that the USA's constitutional amendments would have any relevance whatsoever?
If you look at the heading of the article it says. "In late May, an apartment building in Salt Lake City told tenants living in the complex to "like" its Facebook page or they will be in breach of their lease. If you don't know Salt Lake City is in the USA so the main article has relevance.
The cure is worse than the disease, and Orwell would be really shocked.
We have Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Brave new World and THX all in one huge pot controlled by a few in Brussels that in turn are controlled by lobbyists.
I'm starting to think that Brexit is a great idea.
Now all we need is an operating system that installs itself by stealth and can phone home by default, making all those that don't use this operating system, terrorists or worse.
We all know that couldn't happen -- Oh wait!!
Please tell me you aren't one of those people who believe just because something's provided free of charge, it's therefore exempt from criticism.
This is why I have four web browsers I can call on at a moments notice. I do have Chrome as my default browser but I don't have an issue with having to use a different browser on occasion since most actually support cross-transfer of your bookmarks. Personally, I don't have any issue with Firefox. If you don't like it or any browser for that matter you are perfectly entitled to do so. Constructive criticism I don't mind and I strongly encourage it, however, destructive criticism by swearing with little if any facts at to why the product deserves criticism doesn't achieve anything.
If somebody leaves a bag of dog feces on your porch "for free", along with a note telling you how wonderful it will be when you scatter the contents around your garden, does that mean they're doing you a service?
I was not aware that Firefox was forced on people. You are free to choose to install it, update it or remove it as you see fit. Not only that unlike "dog feces" it really does not leave a bad smell unless you really hate it yet have been rolling in it for a while.
What those words do fit though is "Windows 10" and "yes" I did install it by ISO in a virtual machine since I am not stupid. The sneaky and almost forced upgrade mechanism (see the web for more details) and if you do install it the "phone-home" freatures that are all turned on by default do (again see the web) the same thing that malware does, except Microsoft, tells us it's for our own good.
I was an early adopter of Firefox. I started losing my enthusiasm a couple of years ago, with their decision to progressively get rid of all the things I liked about their browser in a futile effort to become more and more like Chrome.
I use Pale Moon now. Firefox can go eff itself
I have use Firefox since inception and I do agree that they are trying to be more like Crome although personally I always liked the cleaner lines of Chrome especially tabbing although you could probably say the same thing with most modern web browsers.
I run Fedora 23 and if it ain't in the repositories or a repository is not available (eg Chrome, rpmfusion and Handbrake) since I like to get updates when they are available not go hunting for them then I won't use the package, so I won't install Pale Moon. If I am interested in specific software that needs to be manually downloaded then I normally lock it down but never install it on my system.
It is always funny but most of these builds always seem to forget the price of the operating system (assuming Microsoft) and the monitor (like it or not this is essential). If you're a serious gamer you also need a decent keyboard and mouse which aren't exactly cheap, sure you can get cheap ones but they are normally rubbish.
Since most builds don't talk about DVD or BluRay readers I would assume the so called gamer will be downloading games digitally, which is fine. The problem you do have is that you need fairly large capacity storage unless you are only going to be playing a few games. Basically, a 1GB disk is just not large enough and as for an SSD, well you just blew your budget.
In all fairness, any serious PC gamer will opt for a PC build that is over US$1000 (i5, i7 or high-end AMD) and that is not including the monitor. There is nothing wrong with opting for a cheaper PC gaming solution but please don't think that that will automatically put you on parity with a high-end gaming rig.
As far as a PS4 goes I actually use my monitor to switch between it and my SkyLake i7 with 16GB DDR4 RAM machine. Is mine high end? No! It is what could be called fairly high end but there are PC's that are considerably more powerful, it all depends on what you want to use a PC for and how much you wish to spend.
Well that and Linux isn't exactly a great Windows alternative. The Windows 10 silliness really would be a grand opportunity for Apple to release a cheaper Mac Mini.
You are quite right "Linux isn't exactly a great Windows alternative" it is a fantastic MS Windows alternative that really allows you to get your work done and have plenty of time to do other more productive things, like beating that annoying boss in Bloodborne. :-)
On that train of thought, the forced Windows 10 upgrades may be due in part to quickly boost the size of their Windows Store customer base to critical mass and leverage their vendors with high customer numbers.
You are spot on with that comment.
"Turn your PC into an Xbox" is nothing more than coded language for "sabotage your perfectly good general-purpose computer by infecting it with even more DRM than it already has." The thinking at Microsoft clearly must be "well, the consumers are resisting our attempts to force them to use the Windows Store, so maybe we can force them to the Xbox Live store instead?"
To get an idea of the type of information Windows 10 will send to Microsoft just select your Security settings and peruse them. By default all the settings are turned on unless you explicitly turn them off and even if you turn them off there are other settings that can only be changed in the Registry and good luck with that.
Sure there are third party tools that can help you lock down your Windows 10 machine but now you have the problem of trusting them. Don't just take my word on this do a simple search with the words "Windows 10" and "Privacy", you will get about 18 million hits in Google (Note: I quoted "Windows 10").
For those people that are using a different version of MS Windows (aka. Win7, Win8.1 and back) well except for Windows 8.1 all other versions of Windows are out of mainstream support. You can find this information here. If you are a gamer on Widows OS's like it or not you will have to upgrade especially if you want to play Microsoft-centric games that support DirectX 12.
I am well aware that Google effectively "phones home" but at least you can turn this off or just don't use their browser. With Windows 10 the "phone home" capability is turned on by default and while it is possible to lock down the OS you or your third party software will most likely miss something and turning off an operating system rather defeats the purpose of the operating system.
Windows 10 is a combination of Win7 and Win8.1 (it has tiles on the start menu). It is pretty (ie. subjective) and it appears to work quite well as I would expect it too. If you like that and you don't mind your computer computing usage being sent to the cloud (ie. Microsoft) then be my guest.
Ah! The Troll is strong with this one.
Without knowing the exact details, am really glad for the YouTube fix. Was having a *lot* of issues and sometimes multiple-daily crashes when playing YouTube videos in FF recently to the extent that I dedicated Chrome browser to being the YouTube viewer. There definitely was something going on, although I wish they had mentioned more about the details in their blog post today.
Is amazing what Firefox has evolved into - what web browsers themselves have evolved into - and Firefox is really at the forefront of this in good ways although I wish it was more stable.
I have not had an issue with Firefox displaying YouTube videos although I did have a problem with a Chrome update a few months ago and changing one of my Chrome setting which in turn resulted in a strange display of YouTube videos. I did fix the issue since it was a configuration setup in Chrome but having a browser to drop back on enabled me to pinpoint the problem so much quicker.
On my PC I have access to multiple browsers and although I predominately use Chrome I have don't have any issue with using Firefox, Konqueror or Midori. I don't use IE or Edge since I don't run a Microsoft OS except in a virtual machine which is only run for testing purposes.
"If you're logged in with your Firefox Account, the sidebar will show all your open tabs from your smartphone and other computers"
That seems useful. Get hacked on all your devices at once. If it will speed the luddite uprising, I'm for it.
I hate to burst your bubble but Chrome does this as well and please don't get me started on the Edge Browser. Looks like we are all doomed.