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Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by Mithaldu » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:29 PM UTC

akoumis wrote: post #277

Mithaldu wrote: post #275

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> I wouldn't be surprised if Google announced a real desktop OS It has taken MS almost all it has to get Windows to the point where it currently is, while the best thing Google can claim is to have made a browser using someone else's engine, while skipping 90% of the features that other browsers have. This works for the web, but on the OS front they cannot compete.

Sorry which features is it lacking in? https://html5test.com/compare/browser/chromemobile-44/firefo...

User interface customizability. It has almost none whatsoever. The rendering engine and what it supports doesn't matter, since Webkit wasn't made by Google.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by TheGuyWhoCodes » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:32 PM UTC

miffe wrote: post #278

TheGuyWhoCodes wrote: post #269

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It's so nice for KVM and Xen to support this. I'd wish virtualbox would support pci pass-through. Virtualbox being the default and most used vm with vagrant it would be awesome to spin up a linux vm with pci pass-through, so you can have a machine learning vm with cuda.

VirtualBox does support PCI passthrough. See https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#pcipassthrough

I have never seen someone who actually got it to work. I read somewhere where it might be possible with a Linux host and a Linux guest. If anyone was ever successful with a windows host and a Linux guest I'd love to read how...

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by gnud » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:33 PM UTC

bduerst wrote: post #180

sevensor wrote: post #80

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Many of their older games work great under Wine / DOSBox.

Definitely. I was talking about their galaxy client.

Really? The best thing about GOG for me is that I don't have to install yet another crappy client.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by LordKano » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:35 PM UTC

cm2187 wrote: post #53

freddref wrote: post #27

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It's more prevalent than you would expect. People pay for cable and magazines. People even pay to become walking ads when they buy brand name clothing. edit: comma

When I was still reading paper magazine, the first thing I did when I received a new issue of The Economist was to shake it over a garbage bin to remove all the inserts and tear up the card board insert in the middle...

For a while, there were people who used to drop them all in the mail.

Force the publishers and advertisers to pay the postage for them with the idea of making it less profitable to include them with the magazines in the first place.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by proactivesvcs » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:41 PM UTC

recursive wrote: post #261

proactivesvcs wrote: post #148

Malware straight to the lock screen now? Wow. This behaviour just goes to show the advertising industry still has no idea about real-world concerns and opinions on advertising. I wonder how long it'll take for this to start getting farmed out to malware brokers/bidding platforms that Microsoft's MSN uses, such as AppNexus, AdSpirit etc.

In your opinion, what is malware?

Microsoft's advertising. Specifically, those they choose to do business with allowing exploit kits to deliver malware payload, such as cryptolocker-style viruses.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by plaguuuuuu » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:45 PM UTC

cmdrfred wrote: post #276

paler wrote: post #262

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I'm happy to hear that gaming works well, and apparently my decidedly older CPU (AMD Phenom X4 965) supports the technology as well, which is interesting to learn. However, my main reason for needing Windows is for music recording and mixing via Cubase and other DAW software. This requires really low-latency access to my USB and PCI sound cards. Does anyone have experience with running applications like this in a VM?…

I have found that a lot of the audio editing software you can get away with quite low specs. I record my podcasts on a 8 year old laptop running Windows XP. It rarely connects to the internet and I record to a thumb drive that is backed up so there is nothing to lose on it. In this particular case something similar might be the best option. For pod-casting anything over 2 or 3 ms in my headphones throws me off my gam…

Unlike podcasts, music recording and mixing is extremely CPU intensive. Especially if you run a lot of analog simulating synths and stuff.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by a3n » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:58 PM UTC

gargravarr wrote: post #14

cm2187 wrote: post #9

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Except windows isn't free. Even users who upgraded for free initially paid for a windows license (at least outside of China).

Paying for the privilege of seeing adverts. So fundamentally MS. I'm so glad Win7 will be supported until 2020.

When cable TV first came out, way back in the previous century, one of the benefits was supposedly going to be no commercials. Because you're paying to receive it. Now I'd guess more commercials are delivered via cable (and all those channels) than broadcast.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by Sideloader » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 11:00 PM UTC

One aspect of OS X I've always appreciated is the absence of bundled bloatware and obtrusive advertising. Sure, you can disable the ads and uninstall any unwanted software Microsoft is aggressively pushing on you, but how many people actually do this?

Most of my parent's friends that I've helped to resolve OS issues don't even try to find out how to switch off or delete Windows annoyances. Their machines are bogged down with junk that they don't want or need and some suffer silently while others complain loudly, but very few from either camp take the initiative and learn how the OS works.

I don't know what percentage of the Windows owning public is unable or unwilling to wrest control of their OS from default setting tyranny, but anecdotal evidence suggests it's a not insignificant number.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by kozukumi » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 11:02 PM UTC

Ever since switching to Windows 10 I have found myself using Ubuntu more and more. To the point where I mostly boot Windows 10 once a week just to keep it and some software up to date.

I like some things about Windows 10, for example the new snap features for programs is nice, overall the system looks quite nice as well. Their virtual desktop implementation is kind of lacking but at least it is there. Explorer is actually quite decent these days as well.

However it just keeps pissing me off. I use SumatraPDF as my PDF reader, it is a great program. I can't think of a time when it hasn't worked perfectly yet for the 5th time now Windows has helpfully informed me it had to restore Edge as the default PDF reader for "reasons", of course I have no idea what these reasons are!

I have Office 2016 installed and yet the stupid "Get Office 365" bullshit constantly nags me and reinstalls itself when the Store does some background updating. I had to hunt down a bloody PowerShell command to force remove it.

Oh yes and in Microsoft's infinite wisdom they auto-install Twitter and Candy Crush Saga on my so-called "Professional" version of Windows which I paid for on a new machine!

Honestly it is a fucking horrible experience. Their own modern Universal apps are garbage. They release these totally shit apps with the idea that "oh we can update constantly via the Store!" but the apps they are releasing are just plain awful. I have used tech demos that work better ffs.

I honestly can't stand the Windows 10 experience. The new way of doing things is just horrible. I end up using Windows 10 just like I used Windows 7/8 with Win32 apps because there are still not any good Universal apps as the platform is just garbage by the looks of it. I mean if the maker of the platform can't even make decent apps what does that say about the platform?!

Ubuntu isn't perfect but at least it doesn't fuck with me every other day to the point where I just want to walk away from the computer.

Yes Linux still has some rough around the edges but I have found that installing Chrome makes everything web-related "just work" as well as on Windows. Netflix? Check! Flash? Check! Also TIS-100 has a Linux version so that keeps me happy :)

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by alanh » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 11:04 PM UTC

treehau5 wrote: post #178

dangrossman wrote: post #84

Microsoft added the Spotlight feature last year, and this is pretty much exactly what it was billed as: if you don't have a lock screen image of your own, you get random wallpaper images from Bing, and also occasional app offers and tips. You can upvote/downvote the offers to personalize the suggestions in the future. It's an app discovery mechanism, and you can turn it off by picking your own lock screen image. I do…

Amazon Kindle does the exact same thing with their "Special Offers"

This comment should be unreadably light gray by now. Amazon’s ads are such as explicit part of what a customer is buying that it’s in the title of the product Amazon is selling: “Kindle WITH SPECIAL OFFERS.” Microsoft isn't even calling these “ads” in the SPECIFIC FEATURE TOGGLE that controls it.

“Exact same,” my ass. You ought to be ashamed.