|
Paradoxish posted:lol if you don't launch literally all apps by just hitting winkey and typing (a feature which has been a part of the OS since vista) A surprising number of people don't use that feature. I haven't learned a thing about Windows or browsed the start menu since they added proper search. There is now zero reason to browse to control panel or other random menus or even the folder structure if you have half decent file names and set up indexing in the right places. And now I click "troubleshoot this" when I have problems like no internet connectivity and half the time it actually fixes it.
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 00:49
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 14, 2024 11:31 |
|
|
blowfish posted:No that's my supervisor. Putting a control panel shortcut on the desktop and installing classic shell fix objectively bad UI decisions that make computers harder to use  People don't radically remodel the control layouts of cars every few years, and when they make an attempt (Toyota Echo) the result is usually received negatively. I will probably never stop using desktop PCs as long as they exist because there is no machine that you have as much control over as a desktop, but gently caress the desktop (especially gaming) PC upgrade cycle. Paradoxish posted:lol if you don't launch literally all apps by just hitting winkey and typing (a feature which has been a part of the OS since vista) My keyboard has only 101 keys, none of which are a Windows key. I can't say I miss having a Windows key either, the drat thing only annoyed me when I hit it instead of Ctrl or Alt. Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Feb 16, 2016 |
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 02:09
|
|
|
I remember hearing about stuff like this after windows 10 first came out. Is that sort of thing still an issue? That (and some of the privacy stuff) is pretty much all that is keeping me from updating at this point.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 03:12
|
|
|
FilthyImp posted:When personal computing has roots in kits you build yourself, or components that can be swapped out by the consumer, its logical that rolling any of that back (much less forcing programs into walled gardens) would be met with hesitation. Phones are still in the early days of their lifecycle really. I'd guess in about 5 years you'll be able to build your own fairly easily and cheaply. Right now phones are still in the 486, first gen. Pentium chipset era. Cicero posted:Apparently recent video game DRM efforts have actually gotten very effective, though: They broke it like 3 weeks after this.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 04:16
|
|
|
sbaldrick posted:Phones are still in the early days of their lifecycle really. I'd guess in about 5 years you'll be able to build your own fairly easily and cheaply. Right now phones are still in the 486, first gen. Pentium chipset era. I don't know about this. Standardizing the components so that anyone can just read an instruction manual and plug in a bunch of wires and circuit boards together would probably mean that there'd be more overhead/waste in the design and the cell phone would have to be bigger, use more electricity, etc. Smartphones still don't really have great battery life, and I'd be shocked if people would be willing to compromise (battery life x performance x 1/size) for customization. silence_kit fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Feb 16, 2016 |
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 05:55
|
|
|
I got an email today from LinkedIn with the title "Your expertise is requested". I knew the odds of it being an actual consultation request were pretty abysmal, but I wasn't anything THAT bad:quote:Based on your LinkedIn profile and your professional expertise you've been selected to participate in a short 7-9 minute research study that LinkedIn is conducting about your various types of travel and your preferences when you are traveling. They've got to be circling the drain if they are down to tricking people into filling surveys for revenue.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 08:15
|
|
|
Woolie Wool posted:I can't tell you how many times I've seen nerds get pissed off when someone complains about Windows 10 upgrades because that person doesn't want the bother and risk (and for business, expense) of migrating to Windows 10 when his/her current system is just fine for the job. Would agree with you if it wasn't the fact that upgrading an OS in an enterprise environment or even just installing basic rear end updates can sometimes non-stop break some old as poo poo programs the enterprise relies on for day to day usage. Yea, it's more of a problem of companies running programs with code being held together by scotch tape than the OS though. The issue becomes less severe in non-networked equipment like a lot of portable medical imaging equipment. What is the point in upgrading an endoscope system for example (something used to look down a person's throat) if the company software works flawlessly on XP, the image quality looks good on XP, and the only result in upgrading the system to win 10 is the possibility of incompatibility issues, and performance issues with the systems older hardware? I don't know if something exists already, but it would be cool if a future version of windows incorporated VMs that ran off of virtual hardware configurations so all a companies dogshit legacy software could be spooled up in separate VMs running older OS versions independent of the higher level OS.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 10:24
|
|
|
sbaldrick posted:Phones are still in the early days of their lifecycle really. I'd guess in about 5 years you'll be able to build your own fairly easily and cheaply. Right now phones are still in the 486, first gen. Pentium chipset era. Counterpoint: Laptops, a long-standing product that's become well known for being assembled piecewise by the consumer. Literally the only thing I can think of that has any sort of consumer-assembly mentality is the desktop PC, and even then part sales are absolutely dwarfed by pre-built. Enthusiast PC is an aberration, not a trend. Name one thing that people put together from parts in anything but the nichiest of niche markets. About the only thing that you could say is built from components is home theater - TV, cabling, speakers, bluray, etc all sold separately. The trend for building in most industries is the opposite - when it first starts people build their own (bikes, cars, planes, radio, etc), then mass-market becomes the norm, and eventually it's just a few tinkerers doing it for fun. And no, Denuvo still isn't cracked, not that PC games are much of a market anymore.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 15:24
|
|
|
Woolie Wool posted:People don't radically remodel the control layouts of cars every few years, and when they make an attempt (Toyota Echo) the result is usually received negatively. I will probably never stop using desktop PCs as long as they exist because there is no machine that you have as much control over as a desktop, but gently caress the desktop (especially gaming) PC upgrade cycle. Eh, I've been PC gaming since Windows 3.1, and at least since Quake, there was a 2 year PC upgrade cycle to keep up with the most recent games, but my last computer was 4 years, and this one's been 4 years so far with no plans to upgrade There definitely was a long period before the control layout of cars was standardized, and I think we're getting there with computers too.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 15:33
|
|
|
WhiskeyJuvenile posted:Eh, I've been PC gaming since Windows 3.1, and at least since Quake, there was a 2 year PC upgrade cycle to keep up with the most recent games, but my last computer was 4 years, and this one's been 4 years so far with no plans to upgrade My last computer I had for...like 7 or 8 years I think. Ran everything fine. I replaced the video card once and it didn't run games at as pretty a level as a newer box but it worked. The only reason it got replaced was because it died.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 15:41
|
|
|
ToxicSlurpee posted:The only reason it got replaced was because it died. Yeah, I do a moderate amount of gaming on my PC and I've basically only replaced parts over the last several years as they've died or if a really, really good deal popped up. I remember the constant upgrade cycle of the 90s and early 00s, and things are just a lot different now. The idea of a 4+ year old midrange computer still being capable of playing games maxed out would have been unthinkable back then.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 16:46
|
|
|
Paradoxish posted:Yeah, I do a moderate amount of gaming on my PC and I've basically only replaced parts over the last several years as they've died or if a really, really good deal popped up. I remember the constant upgrade cycle of the 90s and early 00s, and things are just a lot different now. The idea of a 4+ year old midrange computer still being capable of playing games maxed out would have been unthinkable back then. Well that's primarily because we reached a point where upping the clock speed on a computer got far too energy intensive. I was reading a page (posted earlier in this thread I believe) where they mentioned that a 7 GHz Intel prototype ran at 150 watts of waste heat. Now advances are simply additive instead of exponential in consumer computers. Barring a huge shift in development, an i5 is going to run most games for the next five years.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 16:53
|
|
|
Harik posted:Counterpoint: Laptops, a long-standing product that's become well known for being assembled piecewise by the consumer. In fact pretty much anything where small size is at all a consideration isn't going to be built out of standardised form factor parts like a PC is. PCs can be bulky as hell and full of empty space and noone cares, that's why discrete motherboards and graphics cards and psus and so on can be a thing. (I guess Project Ara is a longshot but I don't rate its chances)
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 17:05
|
|
|
Performance per watt and efficiency are the drivers of CPU development because a room full of servers is relatively cheap but the electricity to both run and cool them is not.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 18:30
|
|
|
Avalanche posted:Would agree with you if it wasn't the fact that upgrading an OS in an enterprise environment or even just installing basic rear end updates can sometimes non-stop break some old as poo poo programs the enterprise relies on for day to day usage. Yea, it's more of a problem of companies running programs with code being held together by scotch tape than the OS though. You're actually agreeing with me, the allcaps and hurf durf smiley indicate sarcasm.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 18:55
|
|
|
Avalanche posted:I don't know if something exists already, but it would be cool if a future version of windows incorporated VMs that ran off of virtual hardware configurations so all a companies dogshit legacy software could be spooled up in separate VMs running older OS versions independent of the higher level OS. Turns out some internet voodoo in 7 made it unreliable. 
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 22:22
|
|
|
Avalanche posted:Would agree with you if it wasn't the fact that upgrading an OS in an enterprise environment or even just installing basic rear end updates can sometimes non-stop break some old as poo poo programs the enterprise relies on for day to day usage. Yea, it's more of a problem of companies running programs with code being held together by scotch tape than the OS though. Wasn't this basically Windows XP mode in Windows 7? I mean, you had to download it separately, but once installed it let you install XP programs in the XP VM and launch them from 7 (which handled all of the VM stuff in the background).
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2016 22:53
|
|
|
Harik posted:Name one thing that people put together from parts in anything but the nichiest of niche markets.
|
|
#
?
Feb 17, 2016 03:48
|
|
|
g0del posted:Anything from Ikea.
|
|
#
?
Feb 17, 2016 04:42
|
|
|
cheese posted:I love going to the Palo Alto Ikea and watching people who are obviously tech engineers making six figures buying 150 dollar dressers that they are going to have to spend 2 hours putting together. It was part of their pre-marriage counseling.
|
|
#
?
Feb 17, 2016 06:04
|
|
|
Aramis posted:I got an email today from LinkedIn with the title "Your expertise is requested". I knew the odds of it being an actual consultation request were pretty abysmal, but I wasn't anything THAT bad: That's actually garden-variety user research. They're trying to get directed feedback from actual users instead of dropping money for dime-a-dozen responses from poor people scrounging for scraps on UX survey sites.
|
|
#
?
Feb 17, 2016 06:10
|
|
|
Avalanche posted:Would agree with you if it wasn't the fact that upgrading an OS in an enterprise environment or even just installing basic rear end updates can sometimes non-stop break some old as poo poo programs the enterprise relies on for day to day usage. Yea, it's more of a problem of companies running programs with code being held together by scotch tape than the OS though. I spent about three months unfucking all of the problems caused by migrating a ton of scientific equipment PCs from XP to 7. Hopefully the 32-bit to 64-bit jump will be the worst hurdle, but holy poo poo I never want to upgrade an OS again, as far as the workplace is concerned 10 can eat a dick. Slanderer posted:Wasn't this basically Windows XP mode in Windows 7? I mean, you had to download it separately, but once installed it let you install XP programs in the XP VM and launch them from 7 (which handled all of the VM stuff in the background). If it had to communicate with anything the VM failed miserably.
|
|
#
?
Feb 17, 2016 09:54
|
|
|
Uber is burning cash at a rate of $1 billion per year to try to take over the "ride sharing" market in China.
|
|
#
?
Feb 17, 2016 19:46
|
|
|
Bastard Tetris posted:I spent about three months unfucking all of the problems caused by migrating a ton of scientific equipment PCs from XP to 7. Hopefully the 32-bit to 64-bit jump will be the worst hurdle, but holy poo poo I never want to upgrade an OS again, as far as the workplace is concerned 10 can eat a dick. It won't be. Unless you are very lucky your software will be using a a ton of deprecated API's from 1996.
|
|
#
?
Feb 17, 2016 20:33
|
|
|
NihilismNow posted:It won't be. Unless you are very lucky your software will be using a a ton of deprecated API's from 1996. Or older, if it's scientific or medical equipment.
|
|
#
?
Feb 17, 2016 20:48
|
|
|
NihilismNow posted:It won't be. Unless you are very lucky your software will be using a a ton of deprecated API's from 1996. This. I'm currently watching exactly this unfold as a slow motion train wreck, wherein the process of upgrading a single computer has now taken three months and eaten up like a hundred man hours with no end in sight.
|
|
#
?
Feb 17, 2016 20:57
|
|
I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
|
cheese posted:I love going to the Palo Alto Ikea and watching people who are obviously tech engineers making six figures buying 150 dollar dressers that they are going to have to spend 2 hours putting together. We'll have you looked at the price of real furniture? IKEA furniture is cheaper than the equivalent raw lumber at Home Depot.
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 02:09
|
|
|
Things look worse and worse at Zenefits.Farhad Majoo at the New York Times posted:In particular, Zenefits may be among the first of several cautionary tales to highlight a sobering lesson: For a start-up, growing too quickly can produce just as spectacular a failure as growing too slowly.
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 02:26
|
|
|
NihilismNow posted:It won't be. Unless you are very lucky your software will be using a a ton of deprecated API's from 1996. Or if you need to run any 16bit executables, since they killed support for that in 64 bit windows 7
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 03:27
|
|
|
Slanderer posted:Or if you need to run any 16bit executables, since they killed support for that in 64 bit windows 7 They've never had 16 bit support in 64 bit versions, even in XP.
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 03:40
|
|
|
NihilismNow posted:It won't be. Unless you are very lucky your software will be using a a ton of deprecated API's from 1996. Looks like I'm lucky, the issues are pretty much entirely SQL-based. 
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 10:02
|
|
|
duz posted:They've never had 16 bit support in 64 bit versions, even in XP. VMs all the way down
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 10:17
|
|
|
Aramis posted:I got an email today from LinkedIn with the title "Your expertise is requested". I knew the odds of it being an actual consultation request were pretty abysmal, but I wasn't anything THAT bad: Their growth numbers were based on fake Chinese accounts, its like Facebook. Sooner or later you can only prebook revenues for so long before eventually the statements and growth estimates mismatch. LNKD works great for datamining, until you start getting over 200 linkd requests a day from random bots, at which time it becomes a myspace with degree references.
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 10:17
|
|
|
Hal_2005 posted:Their growth numbers were based on fake Chinese accounts, its like Facebook. Sooner or later you can only prebook revenues for so long before eventually the statements and growth estimates mismatch. LNKD works great for datamining, until you start getting over 200 linkd requests a day from random bots, at which time it becomes a myspace with degree references. I feel less bad about not ever touching my LinkedIn account after I set it up years ago, except to update info occasionally
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 11:27
|
|
|
duz posted:They've never had 16 bit support in 64 bit versions, even in XP. And yet WINE has no problem running 16-bit Windows executables under 64-bit Linux. Welcome to our modern bizarro-world where Linux is more backwards-compatible with Windows than Windows is.
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 19:55
|
|
|
just to go back to this statement from zenefits re: loving up the Jet.com account:quote:“We are not the best vendor for 1,000-employee companies like Jet," Kenneth Baer, a spokesperson for Zenefits, said in a statement to the San Francisco Business Times. Who the gently caress lets a statement like this out? How does an actual person with the job title "spokesperson" talk to the press this way? Here's a freebie for you, Kenneth, just spitballing here: "Jet is one of our earliest clients and our biggest success story. We're extremely proud to be part of their growth process and we're working with them to find an enterprise solution that meets their needs."
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 20:44
|
|
|
Startup Promising Cash For Weddings Pivots To Crowdfunding Platform, Infuriates Couples http://consumerist.com/2016/02/17/startup-promising-cash-for-weddings-pivots-to-crowfunding-platform-infuriates-couples/ quote:The news went out around December: a startup in Seattle would give engaged couples loans for their weddings, and some couples receive $10,000 toward their wedding expenses with no obligation to pay it back… for as long as the couple stays together. Then it abruptly changed the entire business model when it launched.
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 21:08
|
|
|
Marissa Mayer closes down another of her signature Yahoo programs. Times headline: "Yahoo Closes Online Magazines, a Costly Experiment by Marissa Mayer".quote:Marissa Mayer, the embattled chief executive of Yahoo, is gutting one of her signature projects: A cluster of digital magazines devoted to topics like food, autos, real estate, travel and technology. Mayer made a couple of big bets. She's formally given up on this one. She's taken a major writedown on another big bet, Tumblr. Investors think the only value in Yahoo is their Alibaba holding. Why does she still have a job?
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 21:10
|
|
|
shrike82 posted:Startup Promising Cash For Weddings Pivots To Crowdfunding Platform, Infuriates Couples lmfao
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 21:11
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 14, 2024 11:31 |
|
|
shrike82 posted:Startup Promising Cash For Weddings Pivots To Crowdfunding Platform, Infuriates Couples Who the hell thought that that would be a good idea at all? I get that most marriages end in divorce but unless people are betting over double what they're getting loaned that business is guaranteed to fail right out the gate.
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2016 21:43
|
|