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  1. When Facebook requests it, it will open on its own.
    4 points
  2. Seeing the PS5 is backwards compatible with PS4 games and the PS4Pro and PS5 Digital retailing for the same as per the article, this makes sense.
    3 points
  3. Alphabet workers announce the formation of a union

    Because they're massively exploited. Work 100 hours a week, aren't paid hourly but earn a "salary" (usually), are always on call and never get a moment to breathe. This. It amazes me how little people understand that you aren’t super well paid if you work insane hours. I worked through Christmas. And New Years. Am I super well paid? Not anymore. A 40 hour week? Sure, I do ok.
    3 points
  4. Alphabet workers announce the formation of a union

    Because they're massively exploited. Work 100 hours a week, aren't paid hourly but earn a "salary" (usually), are always on call and never get a moment to breathe.
    3 points
  5. Microsoft job listing hints at Sun Valley UI overhaul for Windows

    Lol. They haven't even finished the current Win 10 design. Is this going to be like the Azure PowerShell modules where there are three of them all unfinished?
    3 points
  6. Alphabet workers announce the formation of a union

    Guess what, there are good and bad unions and there are good and bad people in unions. Guess what there isn't? Corporations that operate for the good of their employees, or corporations that provide for their workers more than even the most ###### union. This is a debate that makes no sense. You have unions (protectors of humans) and you have werewolves (corporations) that want to eat and exploit the humans. Even the shittiest unions (protectors of humans) are better than werewolves that don't give a ###### about the people and will use and eat them. People that bitch about unions are too used to living in a deregulated countiry (like the USA) where there is no active labor party or labor advocates. In economics you can't have anti-labor business, with nothing to protect labor. You either have political movement or Unions or you have horrible slave labor working conditions. Pick any country and these basic concepts apply and describe the country rather generically but accurately.
    3 points
  7. Alphabet workers announce the formation of a union

    Apparently someone fully invested in Corporate America Kool Aid (tm). Literally all of what you wrote is wrong, except for the fact that occasionally unions protect ###### workers, just like corporate America frequently protects ###### managers. But the US manufacturing industry was not crushed by unions, it was crushed by free trade.
    3 points
  8. Alphabet workers announce the formation of a union

    Union work is quite a bit larger in scope than just striking and pay. I'm self employed and belong to a union because they offer legal advice which I otherwise couldn't afford. On top of that they give me lots of discounts at cinemas and on products if I ever want to take advantage of them. On balance, I think you're better off being in a union than not. It's like the UK's NHS, you pay a certain amount each year in tax to maintain the health system even if you never use it that year but when you do end up using it you aren't lumped with an enormous bill; safety in numbers.
    3 points
  9. Minecraft Earth is shutting down before it's even two years old

    Kind of hard to keep a AR going if you're locked inside and can't freely go out whenever you want. But I think these type of AR games have seen their time in the spotlight.
    2 points
  10. Augmented reality = the hype is gone. Next, AI and ML. ps: Those technologies have the potential but they are not yet there. Instead, we see a lot of shady companies and many shady executives trying to earn easy money giving nothing but smoke and mirrors.
    2 points
  11. Sony discontinues most PlayStation 4 models to make room for PlayStation 5

    Only partially backwards compatible. Not almost fully, like the Xbox. What?
    2 points
  12. This is more likely to keep hackers from figuring out how to break the PS lockdowns. Older hardware becomes easier to hack as time goes on. And if Sony still sold the older units, then they would become more enticing, and Sony would lose out on game sales income. PS5 production is still not good and supplies are very limited.
    2 points
  13. They truly don't have a clue. I'm honestly not expecting anything spectacular at all
    2 points
  14. It's sarcasm that implies that the current apps are terrible and whatever we get can't be worse than what we have right now. What are you talking about? They just work fine, they're not terrible at all. Different strokes for different folks, we had a chat among the staff before publishing this article, and most of us agreed that these are pretty bad apps. can we have some details from the stuff why are they bad? compared to what?
    2 points
  15. They haven't even applied their current UI in a uniform manner. This is just going to fragment the UX even further. They'd better add back in keyboard navigation. The current keyboard experience for stuff like Photos is horrible. Also let there be a bigger indication of which is the active window. Get dark mode to apply everywhere, and Office to listen to the system preference and not have redundant settings.
    2 points
  16. Yes! As the above mentioned tweet is mine
    2 points
  17. Alphabet workers announce the formation of a union

    Apparently someone fully invested in Corporate America Kool Aid (tm). Literally all of what you wrote is wrong, except for the fact that occasionally unions protect ###### workers, just like corporate America frequently protects ###### managers. But the US manufacturing industry was not crushed by unions, it was crushed by free trade. Actually it's not wrong... I worked several years for a well-known Fortune 500 manufacturing company, and I saw first-hand how the union financially ruins the company. Demanded wages ran rampant (else strike), leading the company to close plants, fire a huge chunk of the workforce, and massively cut benefits. This company is still struggling the stay afloat. People can sleep on the job and the union will protect them, work can't be done unless the correct person handles the tools, people get "promoted" since they can't be fired, etc. The health and culture difference of a union vs non-union shop is dramatic. It's all fun and games for the employees that tend to get higher wages and union protection.... until the company finds loopholes to cut heads and level the playing field. This isn't some big secret. The US auto industry was corrupted by the same games... Replace union workers with 'lazy slaves', and notice everything you say doesn't change. These are BS myths told by business majors that are clueless to economics, labor forces, manufacturing, etc. This is crap they tell themselves to make their predatory mentality seem less ruthless. These are freaking people's lives you are playing with, all to test or push an agenda that is designed to increase wealth for a worthless few. This is no longer a philosophical debate, there are actual facts and numbers that dismiss every subjective example you use. We have the numbers of supply side and top down economics for the past 40 years, we no longer need to pretend it is 'theory'. It is crap and works like crap and harms the work forces around the world. and benefits a small few. When people look at Apple's cash or worth and wonder how mass stockpiling like this can happen, and allowed to happen in a way that is demonstrably a harm to the economy and society it exists - the answer is simple, supply side/trickle down BS of 40 years, with corporates only adhering to profit motives instead of operating in the interest of the community they exist, as corporations existed just 30-40 years ago.
    2 points
  18. Agreed. Have you ever read what the reason was MS pulled it in the first place? Something something we want one UI that scales from phones to wall mounted devices... Something something mobile devices aren't powerful enough for Aero - so we can't have it for desktops either... It's amazing how MS messed up the UI since Win7...
    2 points
  19. Outlook Express was not a bad app, I used it myself
    2 points
  20. Smaller footprint in storage, but being a hybrid web app and having to run a browser engine they'll be much heavier in memory usage. Mail currently using ~35MB RAM, open a pretty empty outlook.com in Edge, ~250MB RAM.
    2 points
  21. Microsoft job listing hints at Sun Valley UI overhaul for Windows

    And at the end... tools like the Windows Vista and Windows 8 scanning apps will remain, unchanged. Windows 2000-era dialog boxes will still be present. Old icons will appear throughout.
    2 points
  22. Microsoft details the features added to OneDrive in December

    I care, thx.
    1 point
  23. Desktops Thread: 1Q 2021

    OS: Windows 10 Pro v2004 Background: Black solid color ( link ) Settings: Hidden icons with auto hide taskbar on.
    1 point
  24. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    The TFRs (Temporary Flight Restrictions) were updated Static fire: Wednesday, Jan 6 TFR: Friday, Jan 8 (alt: unlimited) https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_1_1073.html TFR: Saturday, Jan 9 (alt: unlimited) https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_1_1076.html
    1 point
  25. AI and ML are pretty broad terms, I don't see those going away anytime soon as they have uses in many areas. If you're saying they're hyped, I don't think it matters since those who care enough to dig into them are developers anyways. AI and ML as far as gaming goes are already showing what they can do with DLSS 2.0 for example. And if a game developer could tap into ML more for their games who knows what it could mean as far as how we interact with future NPCs in games going forward. This all comes down to the ability of your hardware though.
    1 point
  26. I think you've answered your question ... now you just have to budget for it. Just sucks right now...seems like everything I would recommend are out of stock. For example the Seasonic Focus line (fairly low price but gets very good reviews). B&H does have a Seasonic Focus Platinum 750w for $145 in stock.
    1 point
  27. I believed that Xbox will start off this generation better, due to advertised power superiority over PS5, than the last one which was very close to sales numbers of PS4 and seeing Xbox is doing much worse this time around surprised me, it surprised me even more seeing PS5 has the performance edge over the Series X. I guess the demand for PS5 could have brought PS4's premature death.
    1 point
  28. A canceled Windows Core OS build has reportedly leaked online

    my RT1 is collecting dust since 6 years. Mediocre porformance, no real use case to turn it on. The touch cover I tried maybe 2-3 times in the 3yrs of active use. What a waste of that 100-150 dollars (or ripoff if you like). could be a nice terminal for a home server... or a clock, spotify player etc. There is not much to do with them, but there is something to do with them I wonder if any online app is still supporting Windows RT 8.x? I suspect all companies dropped such support similar to WP8/WM10, many years ago.
    1 point
  29. Hulu picks up 14 new live TV channels in new ViacomCBS deal

    There is not enough content on each network to justify having a subscription all year. Really you only need one or two at a time. Sign up for CBS All Access for 1 or 2 months. Catch up on all the shows. Cancel. Sign up for HBO Max for 1 or 2 months. Catch up on all the shows. Cancel, Move to the next service.
    1 point
  30. Property Tax question

    I'd probably call a tax firm, lawyer over asking Neowin honestly, but unless you have documentation proving what you say, save yourself the grief and pay it.. maybe you can negotiate the late fee off if you pay it all up front. Assuming you have a mortgage, It might be worth opening an escrow account with a bank that handles all your property tax/house payments for you.
    1 point
  31. It's sarcasm that implies that the current apps are terrible and whatever we get can't be worse than what we have right now. What are you talking about? They just work fine, they're not terrible at all. Different strokes for different folks, we had a chat among the staff before publishing this article, and most of us agreed that these are pretty bad apps.
    1 point
  32. The outlook team often thinks their financial power equates to knowing better compared to Windows engineers, and they reinvent crap all the time and break things. Custom dialogs in the Win9x era that broke Window's adaptable dialogs to todays Office 365 clientst that bypass the Windows DWM for rendering and are doing twice the work and is why the 'Tabbed' ui and other projects had to be pulled, as it mainly broke Office by using Windows rendering conventions and APIs/hooks. I always thought it was weird each version of Office broke Access. While Access got more powerful it was always at the expense of compatibility. I had clients who would whip up their own little Access db to automate tasks and I would always dread the upgrades to a new Office version. Finally the law from HQ came down - we will not support your homebrew stuff and are upgrading. Now we only load Access components/runtimes and strictly limit the application itself.
    1 point
  33. Property Tax question

    Unless you have it documented with evidence that they said it, you are fighting a losing battle. I would still call, but I would prepare yourself now for potential pushback. Definitely call though.
    1 point
  34. Alphabet workers announce the formation of a union

    Why do super well paid software engineers need a labor union?
    1 point
  35. You know what I don't understand! TV channels charge the users and also get paid by ads, and after all that the price keeps on getting higher and higher. People give load of crap to google but with all the engineering and servers (investment) it's still free with ads : )
    1 point
  36. Outlook Express was not a bad app, I used it myself Until I could afford it (the Office '97 suite) I used and quite liked Outlook Express. Even after going with Outlook '98 (since '97 was a disaster they released '98 as a free disc) I used it as my Usenet newsreader for years. I never knew they did this. I was stuck using office 97...so what was wrong with outlook then? Cleverclogs, your avatar is broke! How strange! I hadn't changed it. Have replaced!
    1 point
  37. I completely disagree. They perform extremely well for me and have features you can't find on so-called "full" Outlook.
    1 point
  38. Outlook Express was not a bad app, I used it myself Until I could afford it (the Office '97 suite) I used and quite liked Outlook Express. Even after going with Outlook '98 (since '97 was a disaster they released '98 as a free disc) I used it as my Usenet newsreader for years. I never knew they did this. I was stuck using office 97...so what was wrong with outlook then? I'm guessing it was just unstable and the UI was ugly. I tried using '97, hated it and went back to Express. Once I got the free '98 disc in the mail I decided to try again and stuck with it. The side note, is there were technically quite a few issues with Outlook in this timeframe, and Outlook Express was a better client in various deployment models. For example, Outlook Express could use a shared folder database location, with transactional management of content, where Outlook itself could not share its folders at the local level. So in a lot of non-exchange based network deployments, it was easier/better for smaller offices to use Outlook Express, as users could move from station to station without issues, where Outlook would lock their folders to specific sign-in location. Just crazy that the Win32 in-app team was smarter than the Office team at the time, and this has often been true in the last 25 years. The outlook team often thinks their financial power equates to knowing better compared to Windows engineers, and they reinvent crap all the time and break things. Custom dialogs in the Win9x era that broke Window's adaptable dialogs to todays Office 365 clientst that bypass the Windows DWM for rendering and are doing twice the work and is why the 'Tabbed' ui and other projects had to be pulled, as it mainly broke Office by using Windows rendering conventions and APIs/hooks.
    1 point
  39. That's the only reason I use it but both Mail & Calendar are absolute dogs
    1 point
  40. Microsoft reportedly replacing Windows 10's Mail and Calendar apps with something good

    Edit: Forgot to mention, the Xbox app, which uses React Native and is much liter. The new outlook might use that as well. Or it might use WebView, which you can read about below. You are assuming it will use Electron, which are apps that load a full instance of the browser for each app, which hofs extra RAM. However, I am not sure if you are aware of Windows WebView2, which just released. This integrates Edge rendering engine directly in Windows rather than run the engine on top of an external Win32 app. This means you can hypothetically have infinite number of apps without needing to load infinite instances of Edge/Chromium’s blink rendering engine. WebView2 essentially the classic WebView for win32 apps which, until now, used Internet Explorer’s tridant engine. Even in the XP days, you had apps that made use of HTML content using webview (I.e. pop cap games product registration window). WebView2 swaps out the IE engine for Edge’s Another interesting thing is because it’s part of the OS, you may need to separately update WebView to future versions just like you do with .NET framework. Microsoft allows developers to also download a fixed version of WebView2 and use it for their app, which will allow the app to run on PCs that doesn’t have WebView2 installed, outdated version of WebView. This is also useful for enterprise apps want to endures an update to Windows suddenly doesn’t create compatibility issues. In the case of fixed versions, it will bloat your app as it is packaged with the engine and loads its own copy of the engine at runtime rather than use the one in Windows.
    1 point
  41. Qualcomm announces its first Snapdragon 4 series 5G chipset

    At current rates, it will be two years before 5G is practical. Right now, having a phone that supports 5G is nothing more than bragging rights.
    1 point
  42. Ya, but Windows devices with less than 4GB RAM are still being sold.
    1 point
  43. Don't think PWA\Electron solution is something good at least from the user perspective.🙄
    1 point
  44. Just bring Aero back man!
    1 point
  45. Microsoft job listing hints at Sun Valley UI overhaul for Windows

    With 10X on the way, MS is probably just adding (or replacing) someone to add a few bells and whistles. I wouldn't expect much from this hire.
    1 point
  46. HP OMEN 30L review: RTX 3080 power in a stylish chassis

    Ignore the nm process and look at performance and if it's what you need. Choosing a CPU over its nm process is silly. Yes, why worry about value or electricity? Feed me! I am not sure why anyone would be looking at Intel processors right now.
    1 point
  47. HP OMEN 30L review: RTX 3080 power in a stylish chassis

    Ignore the nm process and look at performance and if it's what you need. Choosing a CPU over its nm process is silly. it's 11% faster than a 3700x while using almost double the power and costs almost double. I stand by my comment.
    1 point
  48. Windows 10 Alarms & Clock app gets a major redesign for Insiders

    This is nice and all, but what I really want to know is if notifications will only show if the PC is awake and a handy link to "show more" about that incredibly important topic that I need to see everywhere and at all times.
    1 point
  49. Windows 10 Alarms & Clock app gets a major redesign for Insiders

    They haven't even finished implementing the Fluent UI and they're already switching to a new UI??
    1 point
  50. Max: The Curse of Brotherhood (1 Free Code) Xbox One

    Max: The Curse of Brotherhood Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is a classic action-adventure. At its core it is a platformer filled with puzzles. Max must start on a quest to save his brother who is kidnapped to a hostile world. His only chance to succeed is to stay courageous and use the powers of his marker to manipulate the environment. Unleash th... more info: https://store.xbox.com/en-US/Xbox-One/Games/Max-The-Curse-of-Brotherhood/1d6640d3-3441-42bd-bffd-953d7d09ff5c I have ONE code redeemable for the Max: Curse of the Brotherhood game download for Xbox One. Redemption is subject to terms and conditions available at http://support.xbox.com/en-US/browse/my-account/xbox-live-membership. PM me if anyone needs it. FIRST PM gets the code. thanks
    1 point