this should be fun.... the update just kicked in (eh.. i did a manual check as i don't want it to start tomorrow morning when i'm in a rush XD) slow crawl... "preparing to install.. .@31% so far. what are the chances it'll finish by the time i go to sleep? XD
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... well, depends on who the person is, doesn't it. if it's a priest or politician or some "family values" person or some such, they'll be blackmailed easily.
surely that'll be him describing some sort of concept, and then other people dumping the money? XD 1 thing about linux... it just ain't consumer friendly enough as long as people looking up how to do stuff is given command line answers. as for mint.. simple things like always keeping numlock on (upon login) requires a separate app instead of being baked into the os settings.. or upgrading from 17->18 not done via gui... just meh.
nothing will happen at the end of the (freebie upgrade) year. they need big install base to sell the other rubbish / collect data, etc. most people get their windows via oem installs on new machines, does anyone really see windows going kaput after 1 year if they don't pony up? no. that'll never happen. win10 being win10 means devices gets lifetime upgrade for free. though of course definition of that is yet to be defined. you can reasonably see free upgrades (on that
interesting phrases.. markets. voting with their wallets. rarely do people do what they say. buy quality / genuine / local products, instead of just puffing hot air about dumping / fake. kind of like people going around various supermarkets looking for cheaper stuff and ignoring the extra petrol / time costs. but yeah. some trademark stuff makes no sense. think there was a recent case where some chinese company that makes accessories with
you forget to mention.. your gender and whether you have kids. does the control panel thing work? i mean, would they not be able to re-enable it anyway. (assuming not your run of the mill perverts.) i think it was mentioned somewhere that taping the mic probably won't do much. of course.. i don't use laptops/phones.. and don't have camera or mic. maybe they can go through the monitor speaker/headphones instead or even those monitor light sens
i was browsing around and was just looking at the bundle. noticed that it isn't using the new steam dynamic bundle pricing thing (where if you already have something in the bundle, the price gets lowered.) giving such gem as price of individual products: £35.62 your cost: £37.99 granted.. that was always the case and applies to most of the compilations out there. especially the paradox ones. seems most companies aren't using t
on the bright side, removing ads (from webpage) is legit in germany (courts ruled so.. multiple times) http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/03/adblocking-and-whitelists-legal-rules-german-court/ so i guess if they move hq to there they'll be safe with the blocking part XD though probably not the hijacking.
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you can argue whether chrome does or doesn't update itself frequently enough. i don't use chrome frequently enough to know (it's like a backup browser for me). but what i was saying is correct. whenever adobe updates flash, chrome punts out a newer version that includes the update, because flash is integrated into chrome edge does something similar, though i think via windowsupdate.. so.. automatic. eg... "Security Update for Adobe Flash Player for Windows 10 Version 1511
a bit below the belt if it displays ad in the same place where the original ads are. now, if it were to have the top edge of the browser (or some other edge) as some sort of permanent ad space where the ad doesn't have anything to do with any site visited that's different. (not in legal terms.. no clue about those. but conceptionally a bit more acceptable) blocking ad is good. this ain't blocking ads.
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firefox doesn't update anything. npapi (the one firefox uses) and activex (ie for win7 and earlier) plugins of flash updates themselves, if you set it to update itself in the adobe flash setting manager... in the windows control panel. edge has flash baked in, like chrome. ditto ie for win 8.1 and win10 (no idea about win 8)... so those get updated when the browser updates itself. for linux (or at least mint) it'll pop up in whichever update manager you
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i see brad is having fun with comments in rps. how many sites is he replying to stuff in? XD
in other news. north fantasyland courts has ordered the fruity company to unlock an iphone belonging to an alleged terrorist. what they didn't tell you is that NF agents stole the iphone off a defense minister of some western country.
what sane government would want an os deployed in gov machines that let a foreign company grab all sorts of info. don't see how it's any sort of surprise. think about it, the us itself is iffy about using foreign made hardware in their infrastructure, citing security concerns.
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the problem isn't whether you use ie or not, but whether something else uses it (eg windows help files). bundling win10 stuff with security update is a really bad thing.
a comment elsewhere reminded me of the dangers of marshalling http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2016/03/australian-grand-prix-nico-rosberg-wins-as-fernando-alonso-survives-huge-crash/#comment-3639803 are they giving you better protection these days?
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i later saw a similar report in the bbc.co.uk buried under the tech section, hence the edit. the reason i was surprised about the ads is quite simple. bbc is paid for by uk tv viewers. basically if you own a tv you have to pay a license fee. in return, the bbc does not do ads (on tv/radio at least) unless you include the ads about their own programs. and i think they don't run ads on their main site (the uk one). i'm guessing they are running ads on the international/a
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bbc does ad??? (not counting their internal stuff that is) === looks like it's bbc.com not the british version? never seen ad on the british version and didn't expect there to be as bbc doesn't do ads over here.... then again. i use ad blockers
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what is a phone?
go get your halo
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how does the igpu + dgpu thing work anyway? i mean, for my machine (970 + 6600) it looks like the igpu is disabled when the 970 is plugged in. can't install driver for it or select it for anything.
High DPI on Windows is viable. - yeah, in windows itself XD. i was playing dawn of war 2 last stand just now (hey, freebie necron last stand dlc for the next few days!). in 1440p, my mouse cursor is so small that i lose track of it half the time. granted it's somewhat old, but it ain't the only one that doesn't have scalable gui. a quick search suggest some fury and 390 have 3 display ports. ==== battle.net has no high dpi supp
here's the weird thing about win10 driver updates.. it's somewhat random as to what it updates. i mean, it has not updated my nvidia drivers yet since nov (i get them direct from nvidia from time to time).. and certainly didn't update realtek sound drivers, even though there are far newer ones in ms catalogue. in fact, i'm not even sure what driver updates it's ever performed (for some reason the reliability report thing cuts off from last month, eve
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/microsoft-monopolise-pc-games-development-epic-games-gears-of-war http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/gears-of-war-developer-epic-games-tim-sweeney-games-industry-fight-microsoft and similar versions
eh? on a 40" (16:9) 4k screen at native resolution, half the programs out there don't follow dpi scaling and you can't see jack because everything is tiny. granted, i'm a bit weird in that i am about a metre from the monitor so i use double dpi on desktop. i'm not really sure 4k works that well in games yet without taxing the cards? though that might change with pascal and polaris. i'm playing most things at 1080 or maybe 1440. even if an old