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  1. I wish Neowin had a block feature because all you can do is bitch and whine. You call yourself Oldguru but you sure seem like a clown at computers. If you were a guru you could figure out what was wrong and fix it, but instead you just post negative problems you face every day with Windows 10 without any solutions. Damn you suck.
    5 points
  2. I refuse to believe that Valve are working on any title at all that has a '3' in it.
    4 points
  3. Sorry, but isn't this the mentality that got us here in the first place?
    4 points
  4. Google might be bringing Valve's Steam to Chrome OS

    Remember that Linux is at the core of Chrome OS and Steam has an excellent support for Linux gaming.
    3 points
  5. Disable UAC for specific programs/apps; possible?

    Hello, My guess is that the program is doing something which requires administrative permission. In this case, perhaps involving a driver or a service. In the distant past, I have used JoeWare's CreateProcessAsUser (CPAU) program to do this, but I do not know if that works under Windows 10. WindowsTenForums has a tutorial on how to use Scheduled Tasks to bypass the UAC prompt here. It is a bit of a lengthy/somewhat convoluted process. If you are going to do something like this, be sure to re-test it each time you update the application you are launching without UAC, as its behavior could change, and this could become problematic. Also, keep in mind that once you have allowed a program to run as an administrator, it can make global changes to the system, so be very cautious about what sorts of programs you give these permissions to, and keep an eye on things when you run them for unexpected behaviors/consequences. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    3 points
  6. Facebook puts plans for WhatsApp ads on hold

    👶
    3 points
  7. Facebook puts plans for WhatsApp ads on hold

    "The team that was working on building ads for WhatsApp has been terminated" Hasta la vista 😎👍
    3 points
  8. As of now Windows 7 is more secure than Windows 10

    Yeah not true at all.. You might want to actually read the articles you link to First line!! "Microsoft released a patch for Windows 10 and Server 2016 today" So where do you come up with 30 days?
    3 points
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  10. Would you like to work together sometime to try to solve it? Grampapa Oldguru cant be helped. He's an idiot at computers This idiot makes quarter a million as a software developer which makes you fully qualified retard...no hard feelings Some of the wealthiest "most qualified" software developers I've ever known were not immune to be wholly UNQUALIFIED at diagnosing hardware-related configuration issues... or even comprehending how to effectively scale their applications from tens to millions of concurrent user sessions. [The scaling issue had to do with their limited knowledge of enterprise-scale solutions architecture as opposed to their lucrative {insert-programming-language-here} skillsets.]
    2 points
  11. Facebook puts plans for WhatsApp ads on hold

    The minute I see one ad or privacy-interfering bloatware on it, I will hit the cancel account and uninstall button faster than Space X can travel.
    2 points
  12. Facebook puts plans for WhatsApp ads on hold

    a pity, maybe they see telegram a big rival and adding ads will move more people to it?
    2 points
  13. Climate change is fake news! /s
    2 points
  14. When you are a nerd but not too nerd as to use Latex (the program, not the s&m dress).
    2 points
  15. This stuff isn't free. That's why people don't like it. But if they were sustainable from the start, it would have had very little impact on today's prices. Just like if Governments finally act on doing something about it now, it'll cost more now to act than if they did it 30 years ago. We have been "borrowing" for free the past 30 years, at the cost to the environment. All that we need to do is take the environmental cost into account, which is what being carbon neutral is all about. If we don't we'll be paying a higher price in the future to try and rectify issue we have ignored in the past.
    2 points
  16. are those use only in school or consumer can buy?
    2 points
  17. Tweets but not editable: CEO confirms no edit button coming

    People have to understand that you can't edit them and that is fine but to make fun of someone that doesn't spell something exactly correct is wrong and isn't a big deal. We all make a mistake...if a word has an extra letter or wrong letter but you certainly get what it means then let it go.
    2 points
  18. Streaming to PC is already possible (has been for many years!) Xbox Companion app on Windows.
    2 points
  19. Class One denier right here!
    2 points
  20. Value increases as we get faster ARM SoCs and also more native ARM Windows apps. A future Snapdragon 9c or 10c could have enough performance to run emulated x86 apps at the point where most people are comfortable with. At that point who knows where things go?
    2 points
  21. Every plastic wrapping? Floppy disk? Man when you reach, you REALLY get after it.
    2 points
  22. It's easy to promise things to happen when you know you will be retired by the year you've promised it. The carbon footprint of every CD they've made, every case, every floppy disk, every book, all the plastic wrapping, all the fuel used by employees (including air travel) and shipping, all the power used by their data centers/servers/offices/labs, all the production of their hardware... Complete marketing gimmick.
    2 points
  23. What a load of nonsense.
    2 points
  24. Well done Microsoft. At least you have the cojones to get on the record.
    2 points
  25. Cyberpunk 2077 delayed by five months, now coming in September

    I cant say that I was not expecting it.... Still disappointing but whatever, I would rather have a polished game at the very start then have many patches just to fix broken things
    2 points
  26. Google might be bringing Valve's Steam to Chrome OS

    If it means more support for games in Linux overall then great.
    1 point
  27. is it like that time when they introduced $179 laptop to fight chromebook and everyone thought it will kill the chromebook and that never happened? True, but this is a different time. Chromebooks are not trying for low end pricing, and ChromeOS has bloated enough it needs better hardware than Windows 10. The other newer trend is the rejection and distancing of Google now that more people are aware of what Google is taking. This last part is bigger in school systems than I think is acknowledge in the tech news. I know of several school districts that were invested in ChromOS devices for students. The data Google was still collecting on the children (and still collects) created a lot of concern by parents and genuine worry by educators to dump Chromebooks and replace them with $200-300 Windows 10 Laptops with touchscreens this past year. Previously, everyone was on a anti-Microsoft trend, and just trusted Google, without noticing how invasive their data collection was and how it is used against users.
    1 point
  28. BT partners with Google to offer free Stadia Premiere

    Next level gaming on a hybrid fibre system using old copper cables that are falling apart, that will work well. Bt is only so large because they had the network for next to nothing in the first place and they now own the main network in the UK. BT, awful company, customer service is awful. i use plusnet, which yes is run by Bt, but run a lot better than BT broadband services. Still over the same hybrid system.
    1 point
  29. Facebook puts plans for WhatsApp ads on hold

    I despise "the cloud", more and more each day. Google shutting down services, Google Reader, Some GPhotos features like gdrive integration, Hangouts to become a payed option for "teams". Lots of ads everywhere. Whatsapp possibly payed or using ads. Messenger's spam with all those f%$&$&ing games. Some apps forcing you to give them your phone number (for 2fa reasons, "of course"), and here, I shall include Telegram and even Signal. All these spying on you (I had nice surprises so many times, talking!! about some very specific subject, coming home, and getting ads on google/facebook for exactly that topic). I have to fight back using firefox containers, duckduckgo (which has poor results), encryption and other ######. Each webpage I visit spends more time to send my data to other sites than loading the contents. And most of the contents is ... crap anyway. Yes, there are some tools here and there, but is more and more difficult to separate the clean, simple ones focused on functionality, and the rest of the web. I do get it, people has to make money, but they do anyway, it's just that the limits are pushed more and more and not in my favor, as a consumer. ps: yeah, sure, Huawei is the enemy
    1 point
  30. Would you like to work together sometime to try to solve it? Grampapa Oldguru cant be helped. He's an idiot at computers This idiot makes quarter a million as a software developer which makes you fully qualified retard...no hard feelings Some of the wealthiest "most qualified" software developers I've ever known were not immune to be wholly UNQUALIFIED at diagnosing hardware-related configuration issues... or even comprehending how to effectively scale their applications from tens to millions of concurrent user sessions. [The scaling issue had to do with their limited knowledge of enterprise-scale solutions architecture as opposed to their lucrative {insert-programming-language-here} skillsets.] Indeed. I wear quite a few hats at work being a small startup and all, and more than once I’ve helped our senior software architect out with PC and OS issues. He is just buying into the fallacy that all software developers are experts at everything dealing with a computer, which makes his claim that much more suspect.
    1 point
  31. Cyberpunk 2077 delayed by five months, now coming in September

    What a funny contrast between CDPR and a company like Bethesda... CDPR are willing to delay their biggest & most anticipated title to date by 5 months (not a small period of time), while Bethesda would rather ship a broken mess, than miss a marketing deadline. And then take even longer to fix it.
    1 point
  32. Tweets but not editable: CEO confirms no edit button coming

    The goal is to proofread your max 280 char tweet before sending…
    1 point
  33. One of my all-time favorites!!
    1 point
  34. Google provides a timeline for phasing out Chrome Apps

    https://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps
    1 point
  35. And of course you don't have any younger generation to think of.
    1 point
  36. My favorite PS4 game. Cant wait for the sequel.
    1 point
  37. Can't you mod Gameboy games onto them nowadays? Seriously, I'm all for getting rid of those calculators...
    1 point
  38. Spotify, as of December, had 2x the market share of Apple Music. 108.1 million subscribers vs 54.7 million https://musically.com/2019/12/...re-of-music-streaming-subs/
    1 point
  39. Google makes it easier to silence your Chrome tabs

    From today? It's been there for at least a couple of weeks for me.
    1 point
  40. Cyberpunk 2077 delayed by five months, now coming in September

    Take you're Time CDPR... too many games are Released that are clearly not Ready. we don't want to see 50G day 1 Patches lol
    1 point
  41. Good job MS. I like the direction they are heading to with all the open source and environmental steps.
    1 point
  42. Cyberpunk 2077 delayed by five months, now coming in September

    I fully trust CDPR's position on this one. Sad news as I build a new rig specifically for this game, but I'd rather have a product that is polished.
    1 point
  43. I agree that delays are fine to make the game better. Honestly the only thing that makes me really sad about this is that it further delays any hope of another Witcher game.
    1 point
  44. Cyberpunk 2077 delayed by five months, now coming in September

    NOOOOO!!!!!!!! Well Ok, if it makes the game better.
    1 point
  45. Bose is shrinking its retail store footprint quite significantly

    So, not the same then.
    1 point
  46. New Computer?

    PCPartPicker Part List CPU: *AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ($119.92 @ Amazon) Motherboard: *ASRock B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($89.99 @ Amazon) Memory: *G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($62.99 @ Amazon) Storage: *Western Digital SN750 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($39.71 @ Amazon) Video Card: *ASRock Radeon RX 580 8 GB Phantom Gaming X Video Card ($166.98 @ Newegg) Case: *Cougar MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case ($44.00 @ B&H) Power Supply: *Corsair CXM 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Newegg) Total: $573.58 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available *Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-16 09:38 EST-0500
    1 point
  47. No highs, no lows, must be bose. Their entry level stuff is okay, but their higher end models are certainly not worth the price, and use a lot of the same components the entry range has. Huge profit margins, and extremely mediocre with higher tier options and what you get for that price. As for retail, their sales reps are worse than a used car lot. High pressure, snake oil tactics.. any one who has experience in buying speakers more than a few times can tell you the same thing and for those simple facts, people avoid retail Bose stores or go third party/online.
    1 point
  48. Bose is shrinking its retail store footprint quite significantly

    U never own a Mercedes with Bose system integrated
    1 point
  49. Instagram Direct Messages are coming to the desktop website

    If only Snapchat now.
    1 point
  50. Nokia 7.2 review: A $299 phone that's better than a Moto G7

    I could care less. There will always be someone who complains about something. How the notch looks is probably the least important part of a phone. “Couldn’t”
    1 point