Posts by regadpellagru

Re: How does it compare to a GTX 970 ITX?

Probably not that great, seeing the only version that won't set your build on fire is severely under-clocked, vs. mitx 970, which some of them are over-clocked.

Re: Guessing games

That's 7: they lost it. They don't know how to make money anymore, after all the debacles.

Give it for free for 1 year (legit W7 & 8 users), maybe. Force cloud usage to rip users off ? why not.

They don't know where they're going ...

Only MS

"The question begs, however, why ALL Foxconn-signed executables are trusted automatically just because they're signed by Verisign."

Indeed, AFAIK, only Microsoft issues windows core executables, so they should really be the only ones to sign them, and no-one else !

Why can joe foxconn get anything installed and validated on Windows is a big problem. How many other companies ? HP, IBM, Lenovo, paypal ? FFS !!

MS has to tighten the bolts of who the f**k can install any package on *their* OS. Windows is MS's OS, shall I remind everyone !

Whatever the OEM deal is, with MS, MS has to keep control of its OS security, and that starts by being the sole responsible for exec's security.

intrusion in the pricing = bad

"Not a bad idea in general, but I'm wary of the part about removing apps because they are more expensive than equivalents. Seems like it would favour new copy-cat apps over the original innovators and it might also favour larger vendors over small independents. Neither of which are a good thing. Vendors should be able to set their own prices."

Agree, upvoted.

This is gonna put down a number of devs. And possibly ol' dear Gabe Newell from Valve.

It's a really surprising move from an US company like MS ...

But, still, they may back this off completely ...

Re: A cow is actually quite dangerous

"Last year 2262 cattle-caused injuries were reported in NZ. Even sheep caused 1500 or so injuries."

No, a cow is not dangerous, unless you're stupid enough to hand over some grass plus your fingers to it , as it's not really clever at making the distinction.

No-one should ever have the need to shoot a cow.

Want it no to walk on your toes ? move away from its path. Want to force it back to the barn ? Use a stick.

End of the problem.

I have wandering cows every single week on my roads, and fortunately, there's no lunatic copper here stupid enough to shoot them, with or without an helicopter.

Re: This sums up the problem:

"Ah yes, the "Call of Halo" genre of FPS. I really, really hate that most FPS games have dumbed down to the 2 weapon limit, linear levels, regen health and checkpoint autosave systems, it has even infested games that used to be better, like Bioshock Infinite and Dead Space 3. Oh, and Duke Nukem Forever, which didn't suck because it should've been released in 1998 ... it sucked because DNF was basically following all the BAD things from the "Call of Halo" genre."

I feel for you, as I'm the same. I made the fatal mistake to play Bioshock Infinite after 1000+ hours of Borderlands 2. A 2 weapons game after the weapin-fest of BL2. Guarantied frustration.

Solution ? Stay away from "Call of Halo", stick to better genre, and don't hesitate to play old games.

Doom 4 is on my radar, but get out if of the "Call of Halo" style.

Re: Home users

"So do I take it that the Windows 10 Home users will have autoupdate (whether they like it or not) so that they can be first to be hit by any screw-up from Microsoft?"

This is becoming more and more obvious. Same goes for W7/W8 adopters within the first year. They'll get it free and will test it before paying customers come.

Note it's the first time MS is stating openly about 2 classes of users: those guinea pigs, and the rest ...

This is really telling !

Re: Industrial espionage

"There is still no evidence that the NSA are spying on German car companies and leaking data to their competitors though."

Read NSA's charter and come back here when you have a clue.

Re: To be fair

"It actually used to be quite good. At least up until gmail came along."

Yes, true, but that was, what ?, 10+ years ago ? I've used them myself but the GUI became terrible, and gmail was indeed ramping up with interesting services, like the POP/IMAP service to consolidate all your ISP-bound email addresses.

Re: Really?

"That was advertised on the App Store as a new free thing you could download and install, not in the update section."

Exactly. And if, like me, you ignored it, it will NEVER come back again unless you request it.

The problem with Windows is all of the fear is here with the "update NOW or you're screwed". MS is taking this as a lever for selling their shit.

But anyway, MS fans will go the MS way ...

Good riddance to them !

"Actually yes.

More specifically, I think that the combined Five Eyes countries - population 448 million, GDP 23 Trillion USD - have access to rather a bit more interception, storage and analysis capability than those mentioned nations."

This. Plus the good support of collaboration inside 5 eyes. This shows the perverse relationship of those 5 nations: give me access mate I need your support locally, and I'll share some of my really nice toys (without being too picky about theyr usage).

Re: Black & White

"It might explain why no country has offered Snowden asylum, despite the fact that he is one of the most obvious cases for it in the last decade or so."

Exactly. Let's remember, although only this german bloke has yet confessed the pressure, it's very likely it was used on other governments as well.

This woud explain France for example blocked the flight from an ambassador, on suspicion Snowden may be in it.

This confession anyway shows how freaking furious the US officials were, when Snowden fled.

Re: Anyone trying with low end hardware

"Is this build working with lesser hardware? For example a Atom D2700 based small PC with 2Gb ram?"

Have you lost it ? This is Redmond,'s policy of N+1 needs 2Xtimes more gear than N. I wouldn't expect 10 to even boot on less than 8GB RAM.

Re: Many years ago..

"Subsequent investigation revealed that the main fuel tank (under a car park) had had a leak for quite a while. There hadn't been a policy of testing the level of fuel (the fuel gauge measured how much fuel had been put into the tank, not how much was actually there) so no-one had actually checked.

Opps.."

One version of this one, I have heard severall times is this:

"refuelling fuel tanks is under facilities dept, people didn't budget it since it's rarely done, and no-one has asked for it, fuel is almost exhausted when the power cut happens". Same results.

Re: Conspiracy of Optimism

"Coders love their half baked poorly crafted code since they made it. "

Well, I think it is worse than that as far as openssl goes:

- they indeed love the undecipherable crap openssl coding is, love the inconsistent API you can short-circuit at will

- none of them understand all parts of the lib

- since it can compile on platforms long gone 25 years ago, no-one touches low-level parts by fear of disrupting WIN16 support, DOS 4 or Ultrix

Another symptom of openssl being out of control is the versioning. 1.02a, 1.02m, 0.9.8zf, seriously, WTF ?

Re: Great...

"How is this going to kill Microsoft off the gaming market? It might hurt Microsoft's aim of DirectX everywhere, but OpenGL runs on Windows, and so will this."

Because, once devs have a non-proprietary alternative to the monopolistic DX, they'll switch to it for more platforms integration. Then MS, will loose more market share, typically the likes like myself who only still have windows because of gaming.

Those will switch to things like SteamOS.

Then, when another reason for loosing Windows (gaming) is there, the question of having it for classical personnal desktop will arise, and given some severe misaps I've seen amongst all my computer illiterate neighbours (win 8, viruses everywhere, vista insta-killed by a patch, etc ...), this would shift more market share to alternatives. A lot of people have fallen to MS's failures in the last 6 years or so ...

Re: Bloody hell, when will this nonsense ever stop?

"For fuck's sake, when are these disreputable practices going to stop? How the hell can we expect the multitudes of nefarious exploits to cease when supposedly reputable companies resort to such treachery by only being one step removed? The excuse being by example.

This disreputable nonsense is truly getting out of hand, it's time we users revolted, big-time."

There's only one way, mate: uninstall the whole shite, and tell every single person you meet in the street how it's an awfull pile of dangerous shit. People are becoming *very* suspicious each time they're bitten by crapware, so they are eventually listening.

Re: $250,000

"$250,000 will barely pay the annual bonus of the marketing 'droid who thought up this scam"

Indeed, and this shows how low the Lenovo customers' security is valued.

F*ck them, for the 20 ongoing years, really.

Re: Some of us don't want...

Well, yes, the service case is very unclear.

pros: contactless, no password, faster

cons: can of security exploits if not done well (and contactless techno opens quite a few)

So far, I failed to see how the cons wins ...