Yes, yes, I'm sure you're special, your computer never gets a virus, never has a problem.
Like I said, most people overrate their own abilities. But not you, I'm sure you're special.
The worst attitude in the world is "it won't happen to me".
I suppose you'll be totally safe going back to DOS 5.0. The same logic that says "I don't wanna upgrade, I want to keep my Windows Version XXX forever!" is the same one that people said back then.
Has nothing to do with windows and has nothing to do with being special. Windows has become a religion so has the belief that it takes specialists to service a computer operating system. And that is the whole point the techs removing virus thing is the biggest scam of all, C cleaner, My Clean PC and all the other garbage that goes on with the Windows ecosystem is a charade. A very lucrative charade but a scam non the less. There is absolutely no reason why Windows 10 cannot easily be made to work well on older equipment. If the Linux kernel along with GNU software can run safely on old gear like my IBM t42 that I am posting this from then the only reason why a scaled down re-release of windows, lets call it windows SPARTAN could not be created for sale by Microsoft for older gear instead of the current methodology.
Not everyone is suckered in by the flash and sparkle smoke and mirrors and scare tactics used by the Windows device snake oil industry!
The complaint is that I don't want to change my OS if I don't want to, and that should be my choice - plain and simple.
It is your choice... plain and simple...
However, if you wish to remain connected to the Internet, at some point you're going to have to upgrade if you have any sense.
No amount of "safe surfing" is going to make up for the fact that XP is EOL and 7 will be EOL in 2020.
So don't upgrade, keep using whatever you're using, but be mindful of the consequences.
In my experience, most people overrate their own abilities and skills and underrate the threat. I've cleaned too many infected PCs to be ignorant of the threat.
This is freakin' hilarious. With the reasoning you are using obviously the only thing keeping Microsoft afloat is the pc cleaning business. Therefore combating the evil digital bits is the whole basis for the industry which would make sense because the user can be fleeced every imagined upgrade cycle. There must be really good money in creating annoyances for digital distribution. Essentially what you are saying it is only the black hats that are keeping Microsoft in business.
I USE MY CLEAN PC but it is my own creation and comes on a usb stick that will run good ol' DD cleaner. She is faithful and always works here is her address; dd if=/dev/* of=/dev/sda
I have never had any problems with windows trojans or virus software. But I can see how it keeps the Charlestons of the industry in business!
Perhaps normal people and businesses in general just want to get shit done... But it seems like the hipsters always end up running the show. Somehow companies like Microsoft see that as innovation. After all, trying to enforce Metro on 8 was pretty much a hipster move. Not very good for usability or familiarity in my experience. Then masses of people trying to get shit done had to inform the hipsters at Microsoft that this was a really dumb idea. It's different so it must be good!!!!!!!
Honestly I don't care much about the icons though. Metro was much more annoying. My problem is I don't really know of a good way to change to a different theme for windows. I prefer the colors and contrast of Windows 7 and the previous versions. Instead, Windows 10 TP comes default with funky colors. I don't want a purple desktop. I'm not a 12-year old girl. Reminds me of the Windows XP Fisher Price interface, except that was less annoying, AND you could change it back to windows classic. I'm aware you can change colors, but I've not had good success finding a clean set of colors that have good contrast without hurting the eyes. I don't want to have to spend time coming up with a theme that doesn't look stupid. And maybe I don't care for flat-mode.
Get yourself a wheel with the complimentary colours and pick the drab shades in compliments to the highlighted edges. What happens is the eye does not strain to compensate for the differentiation of the compliments. Instead your eye focuses on the field faster and there is a less jarring effect. This is essentially design eye pablem technique instead of jarring candy effects and is how designers manage to keep their interior designs from annoying prospective customers with jarring visuals.
That was the problem with the red jabbing designs of Win8. When you snap back to the start screen tiles your brain just goes "WTF are you doing?" with this sudden flash of a square box full of sudden choices that I must now consider. It jarred the shit out of users and slowed them down to say the least. At least Windows ten has changed that pile of bullshit. It is actually quite easy to use without having to be so called intuitive by poking you in the eye with the choices you have to make. Cortana search works to an extent for those who do not have a clue. Voice command makes the OS usable for the visually impaired but is not an essential part of the GUI. They are listening to users this time around and are creating an OS that is user friendly enough with all the essential stuff still there for the user that knows how to do things like use and create active directories, format remote volumes, manage data connections etc.
Microsoft is late to the party listening to the core user base but it does seem as if a dose of laxative was give to the stagnant design teams and there was a major shake up in the BSOD Microsmerf yes man culture that prevented innovation at Microsoft during the Ballmer era.
Tiles and Apps don't work? Well, that is at least some good news. Hopefully applications and the start menu work, though.
As it stands how and what you chose to remove or the start is completely up to you. You can pin applications that you use frequently and leave the ones that you don't in the "all programs" choice. Start in 10 is a huge improvement over the layout of any previous version of windows. You can remove excess baggage from the task bar on demand as well and this improves startup performance.
All of the craps that require a tile that talks to the internet like; news, sports, weather, store, onedrive can easily be removed from the start. So can edge and IE 11 is actually quite good for a change and you can still set it up old school. Edge with was called Spartan for some stupid reason is decent with HTML5 and you can ditch flashplayer and use the net just fine the same as Chrome or Firefox.
As far as hardware compatibility goes well My old semi pro but really great M-audio 24/96 delta soundcard is still supported by a windows 7 64 bit driver from Avid that works fine even though it is unscircum.... (OOPS) unsigned by Microsoft.
On a long in the tooth government discard 2009-10 Lenovo core two duo 8400 with intel onboard graphics and a display port out Windows 10 ten boots from a spinning Sata2 7200rpm HDD to full user access without indexing the hell out of the drive after I login and does on average in 30 seconds from cold boot. People can dis Microsoft for many things but they are wrong if they think this is not a version of Windows that is decent, they have actually been listening this time. Somewhat.
Very possible considering the fact that the entire Canadian government web infrastructure and most of the Provincial ones have all become dedicated Microsoft centric infrastructures. The same thing goes for all the crown Corps like the CBC and most universities so the acquisition and dismemberment of BlackBerry at the hands of Microsoft would come as no surprise at all.
It has been the goal of Microsoft to dominate all digital communications in the western world and as far as possible elsewhere. The acquisition, absorption and decimation of all who have stood in the way is almost complete. Acquiring and then dismantling BB makes perfect sense then making certain that there is no competition in Canada other than Google for corporate mail and communications is the icing on the cake for Redmond. Their tactics of using their OS domination position to corner the information market are obvious and very disturbing. ALL HAIL the new and open MICROSOFT! Same as the old.
The statues of the fallen ( and some soon to die as well)
Blackberry
Corel (Word Perfect)
IBM AIX, Lotus software etc and any attempt they made to network businesses with software other than windows based infrastructure
Nokia
HP Unix
good ol' BSD based Hot Mail
Netscape
And a huge number of others who have tried to compete against Microsoft in the digital information technology market. The Scroogle campaign has not to date done much to Bing the Google thing but it is obvious that the campaign to undermine, defame and absorb them is still alive and screwing over the market place! Milo Minderbinder has nothing on Microsoft!
Even if Snowden had never blown the whistle on how the culture of secrecy can run amok and abuse privacy, eventually the NSA would have been caught out because of the Hubris a culture of closed doors creates. This latest revelation about how they tried to do man in the middle attacks on android and IOS devices only goes to prove the fact that the more closed the source is the more vulnerable it is to abuse in the long term. The first post to this thread is woefully wrong and was evidently posted by a zombie in his parents basement trying to score points with his friends.
That being said culturally we are being morally bankrupted more by a culture of fear and secrecy than hackers. Gag orders only work to cause public distrust in the long run and so does a lack of transparency.
The vulnerabilities in these devices will not cause problems long term because their code is transparent the same thing cannot be said about closed source devices. Fortunately Microsoft is transparent and does appreciate users telling them about security flaws otherwise I would never use a Windows device again. Naturally the flaws that exist are harder to fix but at least they do try to make their products and OSes bullet proof from the NSA. Touch wood.
We had to get up and change the channel when I was a teenager. But my best friend didn't they could afford a new-fangled clicker tv. I swear this is true, one day I smoked up, got creative and learned to imitate the clicker sound perfectly and change the channel. I got so good at it when we did the keep up with the Jones' routine that I drove my parents nuts to the point of distraction by throwing the sound and changing the channel on the Electrohome or turning it on or off but that one was really tricky to do. I can see that in the future there are more interesting challenges ahead for those of use who love to mess with the works just for fun.
Thank you Google! I will go out and practice my dog whistle techniques. Like some I am not from this planet I think some of us were put here just for the purpose of shit and giggles.
Certainly not, but perhaps low adoption rate of BSD and Linux on the desktop indicates that the average computer user does not have the attention span necessary to use real operating systems. Thus you have finger painting kindergarten software and OSes like Win8, Android and IOS dominating a market of consumers with lower attention spans than Goldfish. Most of whom could be out classed running Linux or BSD by a trained Rhesus Macaque or properly trained PE teacher for that matter!
No, you don't understand. This study is the run-up point to draft legislation that will pour Ritalin into the nations water supply. Fluoridation set the precedent.
I know which stock I will be purchasing tomorrow.
Your attention span has been altered by your precious bodily fluids being polluted by the Commies. Here is proof of the conspiracy! remember to deny your essence to women, then your attention span will return to normal. Naturally if you are using computer to stimulate your senses all bets are off. As far as Ritalin is concerned it can easily be replaced by an XBOX in every living room a cell phone in every pocket and thousands of true believers walking down the street playing this
There is no mediacenter but, don't worry everything revolves around a trumped up XBOX in_your_face front end. Fortunately the default software that is pinned to the new start menu is optional. If they make it so that the DRM centric front end is always pinned to the start then windows would go for a royal shit and they know it.
Fortunately it is still possible to install VLC, essentially the only media software that makes Windows worth using.
People who think that using freeware is dangerous will have to purchase codecs for windows to play any content other than networked stuff though the XBOX connection gui. Of course Microsoft will slyly intimate that it is dangerous to use anything other than software from the Windows Store.
I am certain that the slavering masses of brain dead dedicated Microsoft fanatics will eat this new bull shit up as usual. Windows is becoming a farce, they are trying to pull the wool over the eyes of their customers again by putting choices in front of them that lead them to think that they need an XBOX and Microsoft account to play media files. I think it will bite them in the ass this time, it is a shame watching a company treat their customers as sheep. They are getting as bad as Apple in this regard. Losing Ballmer has not changed anything and it is foolish to think that there is going to be a cultural shift at Microsoft, otherwise there would be full support for codecs and there would also be standard USB audio 2 device support instead of a patch work of a gazillion drivers as there is now.
Here is hoping that some up and coming company eats their lunch because of their narrow focus on dominating the industry and treating customers as if they are stupid.
Lost my mod points or you would get em. Another problem is that there is a huge number of scanners running out there looking for known back doors. Here is my log trace for the group that seems to be knocking on my routers, interesting how they use stealth attack vectors but do leave the trace if you know where to look;-> Looks like they are mostly from Russia with love LOL Notice my whois is not as root. The router logs on the dos attacks tell the tale and are persistent but timed every few weeks. This is the latest but it tracks to russia the same as the other ones that seem to be knocking on my router thinking there is a server behind it.
I don't understand why Microsoft wants to go down that path. Their big money comes from businesses. They should be trumpeting private clouds (buy Windows server, install on a rack, run all of the cloudy stuff that you want under control of your company) and privacy to actively differentiate themselves from Google.
Correct if they pull it off but the fly in the ointment is the crappy workstation os situation because of legacy ActiveX based software being used on the servers. The problems all started with Danny Drop Tables and Ms Access SQL IE6 and Excel data base hooks into web pages. For instance this abomination that is a legacy of the province of British Columbia where they sell PCs dirt cheap and still put garbage ware with web dlls on their servers. IF it wasn't for governments like BC and other places where they actively lobby and scmooze their way into the hog trough of public money, Microsoft would be in a world of hurt!
You just wait until Win 10 launches and practically insists on MSN and THE CLOUD, Xbox for media integration, your mic as a default on device with cortana and sparton, ten tentacles hooked into your nuts and brains for every web service that defaults to bing,
Ok, yes, that's a problem. But its also not a problem.
I accept Microsoft might develop all that crap. I accept Microsoft might turn all that crap on, or make the default rout. Note I don't necessarily LIKE it.
I also know it all going to be something I can turn off because: enterprise and government.
Those customers aren't going to put up with xbox integration, or MSN cloud signin, or always on microphones, or desktop search talking to bing. Or any of that crap... so I know that not only will I be able to turn it all off, but that it will be pretty easy too. No hacking, probably even GUI tools for it, with preset policy's I can just flip, save, and apply to any computer I buy, easily.
So while I know Microsoft might WANT 'my brainz' I also know they'll ensure they fully support not giving them 'my brainz' in a way that Google never will.
Sure google has apps for enterprise but its a bastard stepchild that is peanuts compared to their search and advertising division.
Microsoft will provide for what the enterprise wants. So when I read about horrible Microsoft feature X... I ask myself "would an enterprise put up with that?" and if the answer is no, I don't worry about it. And so far that's never let me down.
I do worry about Windows as a subsription service. -- Enterprises by and large are already on one. And I figure the 4k drm garbage will be real... enterprises by and large won't give a shit whether the pc's will play hollywood 4k movies or not.
But requiring an MSN account to sign into windows? Yeah I'm not worried about that. Requiring xbox integration? Nope. Not worried. Requiring always on Mic? Nope.
Yes you are correct it will be up to the user to chose as it is with all google services. The way the google search engine works I can turn on anon browsing in both FF and Chrome and google does not give a shit sideways it still does the same job SO I CALL BULLSHIT. Slashdot is starting to become a haven for Microsoft shills. GMAIL does not plaster my ass with adds or track the shit out of me and all this bullshit that has been spread by the SCROOGLE crowd here and elsewhere will eventually come to light when Google gets mad and strikes back by telling consumers the truth about the FUD campaign that Microsoft launched, financed, lobbied in Government and in general started a culture of MUD SLINGING bullshit because they really want to gain traction in web services and advertising revenue.
I am running ten tech preview and even the so called PRO is completely web centric and essentially a PITA to run for purposes like a DAW or workstation. The OS is a bloated mess of integrated web apps that constantly get in the way of everything you try to do with the system and don't work worth shit unless you have connection to the web. Every PC service interface is a royal pain in the ass. BUT I will give them this you can still access control panel but you have to make it work old school to do anything useful and the system configuration utilities are buried so deep that it makes VISTA LOOK GOOD! It can be customized but you have to go at it with a sledge hammer to make into a real operating system. And do follow the links that I posted as that tells the real tale and if it wasn't for Android revenues Microsoft would not even be in the cell phone business because to tell the truth the real dead boat anchor with baggage that they are trying to integrate into the Windows experience is their cell phones. This is what is really going on they are turning into a bi
They already have too much of my online attention. Sharing anything except my searches with them is a non-starter. It doesn't matter how well implemented the service is. Because it's Google, there's just absolutely no way I'm using it.
I won't even look at files people try to share with me through Google. I just say, "Sorry, I don't use Google drive!" I feel so strongly about it I don't even care if it loses me business or friends.
You think Google wants your brains? You just wait until Win 10 launches and practically insists on MSN and THE CLOUD, Xbox for media integration, your mic as a default on device with cortana and sparton, ten tentacles hooked into your nuts and brains for every web service that defaults to bing, the news according to Microsoft, search according to Microsoft, the real web browser relegated to "Windows Accessories". Mark my words if you think Google is invasive with trying to control every aspect of your data and digital communications just wait the real beast is about to be released on the unsuspecting masses of slavering digital consumers!
Just how many Islamists have we killed in Iraq and Afghanistan? Why exactly are we there again?
I bet the body count for Iraqi Islamists killed by US Christians is far higher than the body count of all Christians killed by Islamists over the last 10 years.
The point was; religion and political affiliations are a feeble excuse for the real reasons why we engage in war which inevitably leads to genocides. Genocide and war is an animal base response and is beneath us as a species. Beware of politicians and religious figures that debate this fact. You either ascribe to the theory that we have the ability to evolve beyond war or we continue the primitive struggle for dominance which is coded into us. The equation is simple real humans have choice not to allow war and genocide base humans as primative animals do not.
Yes, but poll numbers show Muslims think Jihad in the name of Islam is perfectly potty, just as long as it isn't Muslims getting whacked. Also, Muslims believe political power comes from Allah, most Western (and Christian, I might add) nations believe political power comes from the people. As long as Muslims indulge themselves in this belief of Allah and political power, they will have no problem killing off non-Muslims, and they will never assimilate into Western nations. They will, instead, look at Western nations as nations not yet taken over.
And the Muslim saying, "if Allah wills it" shows just how morally bankrupt they are. They will never lift themselves above dictatorships or dictatorships masquerading as theocracies. And don't bother pointing at Indonesia as a counterpoint, they periodically have pogroms targeting non-Muslims.
Down to the brass tacks, it is all about dominance and the struggle for resources. We conveniently excuse our brutal primitive tribalism in the name of God, Allah or whatever theology or political system which is publicly currently the rage. Who knows in twenty years Tom Cruise and Scientology might rule the human mind and be used as an excuse to cause wars over resources.
The long and the short of it all is that, killing in the name of God, Allah, the Buddha is blasphemy and bullshit because it is just an excuse for being a mindless coward who subscribes to the religion falsely At least the Nazi's admitted that war was a struggle for resources as they slaughtered the innocent. We are not an advanced species because we are cowards who cannot learn to cope with the fact that we will have to learn to live together to advance as a species!
You know the most exciting thing about Windows 10 is Spartan. Everything else is just Windows and except for being a re fresh again of Windows 8. I am not looking forward to Windows 10 except for Spartan. Early feedbacks tells a story of a browser that is really focused on the here and now. I give Microsoft praise for finally dumping IE for something truly new. I hope its not going to end up riddled with bad code and poorly implemented security. I would think not, given Microsoft's better commitment to security. Although I have been disappointed on how Microsoft of late has pretty dropped the ball on its Security Essentials and Defender products. Will Microsoft throw Spartan out there and forget about it? Or can Microsoft innovate consistently or even gain back any browser users lost to other browsers? I know myself I am fed up with Internet Explorer and anything has to be better.
Sparton will be good for those who are visually impaired. It is designed for voice command. I am thinking of attaching a mic and seeing if I can have some fun with it. But as far as a work desktop interface goes, I do not think that in places like banks, doctors offices and all the other places where professionals use IE and Chrome and things like Citrix every day for real world work you will see them sitting at their desks talking to Sparton and as a file explorer to get their serious work done. The keyboard is not going away any time soon, neither is the mouse because touch screen typing is for finger painters not serious work and that is why many major banks are still USING XP it was still the cheapest and best terminal OS.
Microsoft would shoot themselves in the foot miss and kill themselves if they completely if they do not support mouse and keyboard with Windows 10 and do it really well as a workplace terminal replacement for XP and 7. We will see if they manage to support enough old gear and pull it off. But with this OS I can tell you that 2 gig of ram is now almost impossible and is worse than 7 starter edition so all the 1 gig and 2 gig XP and 7 desktops will have to be dumped. Either they develop it to run on limited resources or they are going be in for a world of hurt next year when they try to peddle it to their real core fan base which is business and governments.
Turns out it is not dead it will rise from the grave and go for brains. The Sparton will have to fight it to the death, seeing that Sparton has no brain to go after, it might just win because you cannot uninstall it either once you cross the line and use a brain dead browser with no home button by default that just keeps popping up all over the place in ten billion window panes that you need to swat at to close or go crazy with the single back button to use!
Bugs shmugs it will work fine for touch screens but on the workplace desktop it will suck! Got news for you Internut Exploiter is still there it is just hidden in preview 10061. The truth is Internet Explorer on 10 is very good indeed and is just a more advanced windowing gui using the same core system dlls. Sparton is a mish mashup of explorer with voice command interpretation capabilities. So any bug that effects the core html/xml etc rendering dlls will effect either browser.
They would shoot themselves in both feet at the same time if they drop IE completely for the final release because Sparton is very much designed for touch screens not advanced use by keyboard and mouse. Sparton will work fine for some things on the desktop but it will be a steep learning curve for the work place users so IE will still reign supreme in places like Government Offices, Banks and the like where it is a religion and the users are zombies who cannot cope with any change!
I threw that intentionally there to give the summary some 1995 feeling. Hehheh.
Hey Microsoft did('nt) fix the start menu OH NOES I AM HAVING AN ACID FLASH BACK VIDEO which is the default player you can still turn off flash in Sparton if you don't want to have Windows 10. There give me the money I fixed a security hole in Sparton for you!
I am running the preview and here is what is going on currently;
Right now many drivers that rely upon things like AMD Catalyst are causing issues. The reason is legacy code that is being dropped or at best slow to update. For instance the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 video card is causing serious issues. Sparton is essentially a browser that is windows explorer so it is just a system integration experience like Chrome OS so anything the calls for legacy driver code for high definition net streaming is problematic system wide.
If AMD does not update some very common radeon drivers for Windows 10 or if the legacy drivers that worked in Win7 cannot be successfully used in Windows 10 then there is going to be a butt tonne of CHEAP great laptops available for us Linux users to scoop up for peanuts! This means either a pile of laptops from 2010-2011 will all be boat anchors or users will just ignore Win10. Tweet #cheap_linux_gear_2016 LOL. Naw Microsoft wouldn't do that would they?
You focus on the wrong word. Go back one more. Suck on *this* rock. Singular, specific. Mars is a second point of existence, where a catastrophic event would need to be several magnitudes larger (Sol going nova, for example), rather than just nuclear holocaust, to wipe out humans. Move beyond the solar system, and we would have more chance of surviving what nature throws at us, and what we throw at each other.
Well put, if I had mod points you would get em! Rather than expounding and expanding upon the theme, but what the heck here goes my karma...
One thing that always struck me as sickening was the implications of a ban on nuclear testing in outer space. If one considers the potential for extra atmospheric atomic power, testing nuclear technology in space is essential. The vacuum of space is the only safe place to constructively explode or experiment with dangerous fissile radioactive materials. Cooling reactions is not a problem neither is super-heating things without causing atmospheric pollution problems. Therefore the technology of metallurgy could advance as rapidly as our computer tech has, so could propulsion tech!
Notice there is no ban on the use of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere or where ever on planet earth during war currently proposed and supported by any of the club of nations that posses nuclear technology. Unless we get to this point of cooperation as a species and we develop as a species in a cooperative way we will never become what we were put here to be. Somehow we cannot simply come to understand the only reason why we kill each other in war has always been caused by primitive tribalism and the fight for resources, religion and social politics are just convenient excuses for the truth about wars.
The human body will need to evolve very quickly to adapt to space in fact we could become a low gravity entity. FOR all those who are scared of these assumptions, consider this question. If we have a brain and all these things are indeed possible then why do we doom ourselves to extinction by not cooperating and rapidly evolving beyond this planet! If all we do with genetics is consume the resources and over populate the planet then indeed we are doomed as a species. Our destiny is to replace ourselves with a species that does not rely upon resources that are not sustainable long term
It's a clump of cells. It can't in any way be described as a human being. It has the potential to become a human being, but you could say the same thing about sperm and eggs. A lot of the debate seems to centre around whether an embryo has a soul or not. It doesn't. Neither does a fully grown human.
It's good to see the Chinese advancing human knowledge since we in the west are too scared to do anything in case somebody dies or somebody is offended. I'm 100% certain the first man on Mars will be a Chinaman. In the west we'd first have to conduct a study to determine the proper makeup of the crew in terms of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc. The project would then focus far too much on safety leading to it going tens of billions over budget and decades late. Meanwhile the Chinese will be focusing on getting things done.
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great..... when a sperm is wasted....GOD GETS QUITE IRATE!
Now if I only could have put a condom on my Cock I would not have had to sell you all for medical experiments!!
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great..... and when a sperm is wasted....GOD GETS QUITE IRATE!
This message is more interesting than modifying embryos to ensure a viable blastocyst. Secondly this in no way could eliminate a disease within a population that carries the genes and does not only replicate by artificial means. But we here in the west discourage humans at a very young age against artificial reproduction methods and warn them that they could easily go blind if they over populate by this method. So I suspect that the Confucian influence in a similar way inhibits the populace from experimenting with non productive means of reproduction the same way it does in some American religious communities where the enjoyment of sex for pleasure is still considered immoral!
I am running a tech preview of 10 and it blows up to over 30 gig in a very short period of time without even downloading movies and the like. Unless 8.1 has disk space limits on install expect your customers to run out of room on the stick in a hurry. The Ubuntu users with less room most likely will not have these issues as they will be smart enough to use expansion cards for storage and Ubuntu does not blow up like a balloon with gobs of update rescue backups.
What I predict will happen is that typical windows users will diss this device because it uses a touch screen centric OS on what will be mostly televisions meaning that the single usb port will have to be occupied by mouse and keyboard for the device to work at all. Secondly it means carrying around these accessories.
All that being said I would buy one of the windows ones only if you can run full a blown linux on it. It could be a killer VLC media end point on my home network with Linux.
I don't know about AMD, but NVidia's Windows drivers are just as up-to-date as their Linux drivers.
AMD drops support for old cards from their proprietary drivers with extreme prejudice. nVidia literally supports cards for years longer than AMD. nVidia also provides direct mobile driver downloads; AMD sometimes provides these, and sometimes hides them. AMD also took all their old architectural documentation down from their website, for a while there every search I made which led to a document on their site was 404ing. Fuck AMD sideways.
You got it, the anon cowherds obviously didn't. I have a really nice gigabyte am2+ mobo which supports hdmi with a radeon which is no longer supported because of there is no kernel 3 series linux driver available from amd and the generic one with mesa sucks, no googleearth etc or effective hdmi mode switching and sensing. So I have to shut off the gpu and run an older Nvidia card which is well supported on it to make it work with anything later than Windows Vista. The onboard radeon is pooched for 3d graphics in both linux and windows because of the way they dropped support for the gpu chip and refused to release the code!
That experience put me off the clowns at AMD for good!
BTW I was being facetious, I am a linux geek, the point was that it does seem that we are becoming more of a test bed target for opengl than windows users are for those who did rtfa the software is for hardware that has not even been released yet and linux kernel 4.2!
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This is SPARTAN!!!!! *kicks messenger into deep hole*
Sorry Spartan you have lost your EDGE! arff arff arrf ;-)
Yes, yes, I'm sure you're special, your computer never gets a virus, never has a problem.
Like I said, most people overrate their own abilities. But not you, I'm sure you're special.
The worst attitude in the world is "it won't happen to me".
I suppose you'll be totally safe going back to DOS 5.0. The same logic that says "I don't wanna upgrade, I want to keep my Windows Version XXX forever!" is the same one that people said back then.
Has nothing to do with windows and has nothing to do with being special. Windows has become a religion so has the belief that it takes specialists to service a computer operating system. And that is the whole point the techs removing virus thing is the biggest scam of all, C cleaner, My Clean PC and all the other garbage that goes on with the Windows ecosystem is a charade. A very lucrative charade but a scam non the less. There is absolutely no reason why Windows 10 cannot easily be made to work well on older equipment. If the Linux kernel along with GNU software can run safely on old gear like my IBM t42 that I am posting this from then the only reason why a scaled down re-release of windows, lets call it windows SPARTAN could not be created for sale by Microsoft for older gear instead of the current methodology.
Not everyone is suckered in by the flash and sparkle smoke and mirrors and scare tactics used by the Windows device snake oil industry!
The complaint is that I don't want to change my OS if I don't want to, and that should be my choice - plain and simple.
It is your choice... plain and simple...
However, if you wish to remain connected to the Internet, at some point you're going to have to upgrade if you have any sense.
No amount of "safe surfing" is going to make up for the fact that XP is EOL and 7 will be EOL in 2020.
So don't upgrade, keep using whatever you're using, but be mindful of the consequences.
In my experience, most people overrate their own abilities and skills and underrate the threat. I've cleaned too many infected PCs to be ignorant of the threat.
This is freakin' hilarious. With the reasoning you are using obviously the only thing keeping Microsoft afloat is the pc cleaning business. Therefore combating the evil digital bits is the whole basis for the industry which would make sense because the user can be fleeced every imagined upgrade cycle. There must be really good money in creating annoyances for digital distribution. Essentially what you are saying it is only the black hats that are keeping Microsoft in business.
I USE MY CLEAN PC but it is my own creation and comes on a usb stick that will run good ol' DD cleaner. She is faithful and always works here is her address; dd if=/dev/* of=/dev/sda
I have never had any problems with windows trojans or virus software. But I can see how it keeps the Charlestons of the industry in business!
Perhaps normal people and businesses in general just want to get shit done... But it seems like the hipsters always end up running the show. Somehow companies like Microsoft see that as innovation. After all, trying to enforce Metro on 8 was pretty much a hipster move. Not very good for usability or familiarity in my experience. Then masses of people trying to get shit done had to inform the hipsters at Microsoft that this was a really dumb idea. It's different so it must be good!!!!!!!
Honestly I don't care much about the icons though. Metro was much more annoying. My problem is I don't really know of a good way to change to a different theme for windows. I prefer the colors and contrast of Windows 7 and the previous versions. Instead, Windows 10 TP comes default with funky colors. I don't want a purple desktop. I'm not a 12-year old girl. Reminds me of the Windows XP Fisher Price interface, except that was less annoying, AND you could change it back to windows classic. I'm aware you can change colors, but I've not had good success finding a clean set of colors that have good contrast without hurting the eyes. I don't want to have to spend time coming up with a theme that doesn't look stupid. And maybe I don't care for flat-mode.
Get yourself a wheel with the complimentary colours and pick the drab shades in compliments to the highlighted edges. What happens is the eye does not strain to compensate for the differentiation of the compliments. Instead your eye focuses on the field faster and there is a less jarring effect. This is essentially design eye pablem technique instead of jarring candy effects and is how designers manage to keep their interior designs from annoying prospective customers with jarring visuals.
That was the problem with the red jabbing designs of Win8. When you snap back to the start screen tiles your brain just goes "WTF are you doing?" with this sudden flash of a square box full of sudden choices that I must now consider. It jarred the shit out of users and slowed them down to say the least. At least Windows ten has changed that pile of bullshit. It is actually quite easy to use without having to be so called intuitive by poking you in the eye with the choices you have to make. Cortana search works to an extent for those who do not have a clue. Voice command makes the OS usable for the visually impaired but is not an essential part of the GUI. They are listening to users this time around and are creating an OS that is user friendly enough with all the essential stuff still there for the user that knows how to do things like use and create active directories, format remote volumes, manage data connections etc.
Microsoft is late to the party listening to the core user base but it does seem as if a dose of laxative was give to the stagnant design teams and there was a major shake up in the BSOD Microsmerf yes man culture that prevented innovation at Microsoft during the Ballmer era.
Tiles and Apps don't work? Well, that is at least some good news. Hopefully applications and the start menu work, though.
As it stands how and what you chose to remove or the start is completely up to you. You can pin applications that you use frequently and leave the ones that you don't in the "all programs" choice. Start in 10 is a huge improvement over the layout of any previous version of windows. You can remove excess baggage from the task bar on demand as well and this improves startup performance.
All of the craps that require a tile that talks to the internet like; news, sports, weather, store, onedrive can easily be removed from the start. So can edge and IE 11 is actually quite good for a change and you can still set it up old school. Edge with was called Spartan for some stupid reason is decent with HTML5 and you can ditch flashplayer and use the net just fine the same as Chrome or Firefox.
As far as hardware compatibility goes well My old semi pro but really great M-audio 24/96 delta soundcard is still supported by a windows 7 64 bit driver from Avid that works fine even though it is unscircum.... (OOPS) unsigned by Microsoft.
On a long in the tooth government discard 2009-10 Lenovo core two duo 8400 with intel onboard graphics and a display port out Windows 10 ten boots from a spinning Sata2 7200rpm HDD to full user access without indexing the hell out of the drive after I login and does on average in 30 seconds from cold boot. People can dis Microsoft for many things but they are wrong if they think this is not a version of Windows that is decent, they have actually been listening this time. Somewhat.
It has been the goal of Microsoft to dominate all digital communications in the western world and as far as possible elsewhere. The acquisition, absorption and decimation of all who have stood in the way is almost complete. Acquiring and then dismantling BB makes perfect sense then making certain that there is no competition in Canada other than Google for corporate mail and communications is the icing on the cake for Redmond. Their tactics of using their OS domination position to corner the information market are obvious and very disturbing. ALL HAIL the new and open MICROSOFT! Same as the old.
The statues of the fallen ( and some soon to die as well)
Blackberry
Corel (Word Perfect)
IBM AIX, Lotus software etc and any attempt they made to network businesses with software other than windows based infrastructure
Nokia
HP Unix
good ol' BSD based Hot Mail
Netscape
And a huge number of others who have tried to compete against Microsoft in the digital information technology market. The Scroogle campaign has not to date done much to Bing the Google thing but it is obvious that the campaign to undermine, defame and absorb them is still alive and screwing over the market place! Milo Minderbinder has nothing on Microsoft!
That being said culturally we are being morally bankrupted more by a culture of fear and secrecy than hackers. Gag orders only work to cause public distrust in the long run and so does a lack of transparency.
The vulnerabilities in these devices will not cause problems long term because their code is transparent the same thing cannot be said about closed source devices. Fortunately Microsoft is transparent and does appreciate users telling them about security flaws otherwise I would never use a Windows device again. Naturally the flaws that exist are harder to fix but at least they do try to make their products and OSes bullet proof from the NSA. Touch wood.
Thank you Google! I will go out and practice my dog whistle techniques. Like some I am not from this planet I think some of us were put here just for the purpose of shit and giggles.
BSD?
Certainly not, but perhaps low adoption rate of BSD and Linux on the desktop indicates that the average computer user does not have the attention span necessary to use real operating systems. Thus you have finger painting kindergarten software and OSes like Win8, Android and IOS dominating a market of consumers with lower attention spans than Goldfish. Most of whom could be out classed running Linux or BSD by a trained Rhesus Macaque or properly trained PE teacher for that matter!
No, you don't understand. This study is the run-up point to draft legislation that will pour Ritalin into the nations water supply. Fluoridation set the precedent.
I know which stock I will be purchasing tomorrow.
Your attention span has been altered by your precious bodily fluids being polluted by the Commies. Here is proof of the conspiracy! remember to deny your essence to women, then your attention span will return to normal. Naturally if you are using computer to stimulate your senses all bets are off. As far as Ritalin is concerned it can easily be replaced by an XBOX in every living room a cell phone in every pocket and thousands of true believers walking down the street playing this
There is no mediacenter but, don't worry everything revolves around a trumped up XBOX in_your_face front end. Fortunately the default software that is pinned to the new start menu is optional. If they make it so that the DRM centric front end is always pinned to the start then windows would go for a royal shit and they know it.
Fortunately it is still possible to install VLC, essentially the only media software that makes Windows worth using.
People who think that using freeware is dangerous will have to purchase codecs for windows to play any content other than networked stuff though the XBOX connection gui. Of course Microsoft will slyly intimate that it is dangerous to use anything other than software from the Windows Store.
I am certain that the slavering masses of brain dead dedicated Microsoft fanatics will eat this new bull shit up as usual. Windows is becoming a farce, they are trying to pull the wool over the eyes of their customers again by putting choices in front of them that lead them to think that they need an XBOX and Microsoft account to play media files. I think it will bite them in the ass this time, it is a shame watching a company treat their customers as sheep. They are getting as bad as Apple in this regard. Losing Ballmer has not changed anything and it is foolish to think that there is going to be a cultural shift at Microsoft, otherwise there would be full support for codecs and there would also be standard USB audio 2 device support instead of a patch work of a gazillion drivers as there is now.
Here is hoping that some up and coming company eats their lunch because of their narrow focus on dominating the industry and treating customers as if they are stupid.
Lost my mod points or you would get em. Another problem is that there is a huge number of scanners running out there looking for known back doors. Here is my log trace for the group that seems to be knocking on my routers, interesting how they use stealth attack vectors but do leave the trace if you know where to look ;-> Looks like they are mostly from Russia with love LOL Notice my whois is not as root. The router logs on the dos attacks tell the tale and are persistent but timed every few weeks. This is the latest but it tracks to russia the same as the other ones that seem to be knocking on my router thinking there is a server behind it.
~$ whois -B 185.94.111.1
inetnum: 185.94.108.0 - 185.94.111.255
netname: RU-QRATOR-20150331
descr: HLL LLC
country: RU
org: ORG-LA267-RIPE
admin-c: LA27-RIPE
tech-c: AA8879-RIPE
status: ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower: MNT-QRATOR
mnt-routes: MNT-QRATOR
changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20150331
source: RIPE
organisation: ORG-LA267-RIPE
org-name: HLL LLC
org-type: LIR
address: 5 Magistralnaya, 8A
address: 123007
address: Moscow
address: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
phone: +78003333522
e-mail: mail@qrator.net
abuse-c: AR16870-RIPE
mnt-ref: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-ref: MNT-QRATOR
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
changed: bitbucket@ripe.net 20150330
source: RIPE
person: Alexander Asimov
address: 5-ya Magistralnaya, 8a
address: 119034 Moscow
address: Russian Federation
notify: aa@highloadlab.com
e-mail: aa@highloadlab.com
mnt-by: MNT-QRATOR
phone: +7-499-241-81-92
nic-hdl: AA8879-RIPE
changed: aa@highloadlab.com 20100623
source: RIPE
person: Lyamin Alex
address: 5-ya Magistralnaya, 8a
address: 119034 Moscow
address: Russian Federation
phone: +7-499-241-8192
e-mail: flx@msu.ru
nic-hdl: LA27-RIPE
notify: flx@msu.ru
changed: ada@comstar.ru 19961219
changed: flx@msu.ru 20000529
mnt-by: MNT-QRATOR
source: RIPE
% Information related to '185.94.111.0/24AS197068'
I don't understand why Microsoft wants to go down that path. Their big money comes from businesses. They should be trumpeting private clouds (buy Windows server, install on a rack, run all of the cloudy stuff that you want under control of your company) and privacy to actively differentiate themselves from Google.
Correct if they pull it off but the fly in the ointment is the crappy workstation os situation because of legacy ActiveX based software being used on the servers. The problems all started with Danny Drop Tables and Ms Access SQL IE6 and Excel data base hooks into web pages. For instance this abomination that is a legacy of the province of British Columbia where they sell PCs dirt cheap and still put garbage ware with web dlls on their servers. IF it wasn't for governments like BC and other places where they actively lobby and scmooze their way into the hog trough of public money, Microsoft would be in a world of hurt!
You just wait until Win 10 launches and practically insists on MSN and THE CLOUD, Xbox for media integration, your mic as a default on device with cortana and sparton, ten tentacles hooked into your nuts and brains for every web service that defaults to bing,
Ok, yes, that's a problem. But its also not a problem.
I accept Microsoft might develop all that crap.
I accept Microsoft might turn all that crap on, or make the default rout. Note I don't necessarily LIKE it.
I also know it all going to be something I can turn off because: enterprise and government.
Those customers aren't going to put up with xbox integration, or MSN cloud signin, or always on microphones, or desktop search talking to bing. Or any of that crap... so I know that not only will I be able to turn it all off, but that it will be pretty easy too. No hacking, probably even GUI tools for it, with preset policy's I can just flip, save, and apply to any computer I buy, easily.
So while I know Microsoft might WANT 'my brainz' I also know they'll ensure they fully support not giving them 'my brainz' in a way that Google never will.
Sure google has apps for enterprise but its a bastard stepchild that is peanuts compared to their search and advertising division.
Microsoft will provide for what the enterprise wants. So when I read about horrible Microsoft feature X... I ask myself "would an enterprise put up with that?" and if the answer is no, I don't worry about it. And so far that's never let me down.
I do worry about Windows as a subsription service. -- Enterprises by and large are already on one. And I figure the 4k drm garbage will be real... enterprises by and large won't give a shit whether the pc's will play hollywood 4k movies or not.
But requiring an MSN account to sign into windows? Yeah I'm not worried about that. Requiring xbox integration? Nope. Not worried. Requiring always on Mic? Nope.
Yes you are correct it will be up to the user to chose as it is with all google services. The way the google search engine works I can turn on anon browsing in both FF and Chrome and google does not give a shit sideways it still does the same job SO I CALL BULLSHIT. Slashdot is starting to become a haven for Microsoft shills. GMAIL does not plaster my ass with adds or track the shit out of me and all this bullshit that has been spread by the SCROOGLE crowd here and elsewhere will eventually come to light when Google gets mad and strikes back by telling consumers the truth about the FUD campaign that Microsoft launched, financed, lobbied in Government and in general started a culture of MUD SLINGING bullshit because they really want to gain traction in web services and advertising revenue.
I am running ten tech preview and even the so called PRO is completely web centric and essentially a PITA to run for purposes like a DAW or workstation. The OS is a bloated mess of integrated web apps that constantly get in the way of everything you try to do with the system and don't work worth shit unless you have connection to the web. Every PC service interface is a royal pain in the ass. BUT I will give them this you can still access control panel but you have to make it work old school to do anything useful and the system configuration utilities are buried so deep that it makes VISTA LOOK GOOD! It can be customized but you have to go at it with a sledge hammer to make into a real operating system. And do follow the links that I posted as that tells the real tale and if it wasn't for Android revenues Microsoft would not even be in the cell phone business because to tell the truth the real dead boat anchor with baggage that they are trying to integrate into the Windows experience is their cell phones. This is what is really going on they are turning into a bi
They already have too much of my online attention. Sharing anything except my searches with them is a non-starter. It doesn't matter how well implemented the service is. Because it's Google, there's just absolutely no way I'm using it.
I won't even look at files people try to share with me through Google. I just say, "Sorry, I don't use Google drive!" I feel so strongly about it I don't even care if it loses me business or friends.
You think Google wants your brains? You just wait until Win 10 launches and practically insists on MSN and THE CLOUD, Xbox for media integration, your mic as a default on device with cortana and sparton, ten tentacles hooked into your nuts and brains for every web service that defaults to bing, the news according to Microsoft, search according to Microsoft, the real web browser relegated to "Windows Accessories". Mark my words if you think Google is invasive with trying to control every aspect of your data and digital communications just wait the real beast is about to be released on the unsuspecting masses of slavering digital consumers!
Just how many Islamists have we killed in Iraq and Afghanistan? Why exactly are we there again?
I bet the body count for Iraqi Islamists killed by US Christians is far higher than the body count of all Christians killed by Islamists over the last 10 years.
The point was; religion and political affiliations are a feeble excuse for the real reasons why we engage in war which inevitably leads to genocides. Genocide and war is an animal base response and is beneath us as a species. Beware of politicians and religious figures that debate this fact. You either ascribe to the theory that we have the ability to evolve beyond war or we continue the primitive struggle for dominance which is coded into us. The equation is simple real humans have choice not to allow war and genocide base humans as primative animals do not.
Yes, but poll numbers show Muslims think Jihad in the name of Islam is perfectly potty, just as long as it isn't Muslims getting whacked. Also, Muslims believe political power comes from Allah, most Western (and Christian, I might add) nations believe political power comes from the people. As long as Muslims indulge themselves in this belief of Allah and political power, they will have no problem killing off non-Muslims, and they will never assimilate into Western nations. They will, instead, look at Western nations as nations not yet taken over.
And the Muslim saying, "if Allah wills it" shows just how morally bankrupt they are. They will never lift themselves above dictatorships or dictatorships masquerading as theocracies. And don't bother pointing at Indonesia as a counterpoint, they periodically have pogroms targeting non-Muslims.
Down to the brass tacks, it is all about dominance and the struggle for resources. We conveniently excuse our brutal primitive tribalism in the name of God, Allah or whatever theology or political system which is publicly currently the rage. Who knows in twenty years Tom Cruise and Scientology might rule the human mind and be used as an excuse to cause wars over resources.
The long and the short of it all is that, killing in the name of God, Allah, the Buddha is blasphemy and bullshit because it is just an excuse for being a mindless coward who subscribes to the religion falsely At least the Nazi's admitted that war was a struggle for resources as they slaughtered the innocent. We are not an advanced species because we are cowards who cannot learn to cope with the fact that we will have to learn to live together to advance as a species!
You know the most exciting thing about Windows 10 is Spartan. Everything else is just Windows and except for being a re fresh again of Windows 8. I am not
looking forward to Windows 10 except for Spartan. Early feedbacks tells a story of a browser that is really focused on the here and now. I give Microsoft praise
for finally dumping IE for something truly new. I hope its not going to end up riddled with bad code and poorly implemented security. I would think not, given Microsoft's better commitment to security. Although I have been disappointed on how Microsoft of late has pretty dropped the ball on its Security Essentials and Defender products. Will Microsoft throw Spartan out there and forget about it? Or can Microsoft innovate consistently or even gain back any browser users lost to other browsers? I know myself I am fed up with Internet Explorer and anything has to be better.
Sparton will be good for those who are visually impaired. It is designed for voice command. I am thinking of attaching a mic and seeing if I can have some fun with it. But as far as a work desktop interface goes, I do not think that in places like banks, doctors offices and all the other places where professionals use IE and Chrome and things like Citrix every day for real world work you will see them sitting at their desks talking to Sparton and as a file explorer to get their serious work done. The keyboard is not going away any time soon, neither is the mouse because touch screen typing is for finger painters not serious work and that is why many major banks are still USING XP it was still the cheapest and best terminal OS.
Microsoft would shoot themselves in the foot miss and kill themselves if they completely if they do not support mouse and keyboard with Windows 10 and do it really well as a workplace terminal replacement for XP and 7. We will see if they manage to support enough old gear and pull it off. But with this OS I can tell you that 2 gig of ram is now almost impossible and is worse than 7 starter edition so all the 1 gig and 2 gig XP and 7 desktops will have to be dumped. Either they develop it to run on limited resources or they are going be in for a world of hurt next year when they try to peddle it to their real core fan base which is business and governments.
Turns out it is not dead it will rise from the grave and go for brains. The Sparton will have to fight it to the death, seeing that Sparton has no brain to go after, it might just win because you cannot uninstall it either once you cross the line and use a brain dead browser with no home button by default that just keeps popping up all over the place in ten billion window panes that you need to swat at to close or go crazy with the single back button to use!
Bugs shmugs it will work fine for touch screens but on the workplace desktop it will suck! Got news for you Internut Exploiter is still there it is just hidden in preview 10061. The truth is Internet Explorer on 10 is very good indeed and is just a more advanced windowing gui using the same core system dlls. Sparton is a mish mashup of explorer with voice command interpretation capabilities. So any bug that effects the core html/xml etc rendering dlls will effect either browser.
They would shoot themselves in both feet at the same time if they drop IE completely for the final release because Sparton is very much designed for touch screens not advanced use by keyboard and mouse. Sparton will work fine for some things on the desktop but it will be a steep learning curve for the work place users so IE will still reign supreme in places like Government Offices, Banks and the like where it is a religion and the users are zombies who cannot cope with any change!
I threw that intentionally there to give the summary some 1995 feeling. Hehheh.
Hey Microsoft did('nt) fix the start menu OH NOES I AM HAVING AN ACID FLASH BACK VIDEO which is the default player you can still turn off flash in Sparton if you don't want to have Windows 10. There give me the money I fixed a security hole in Sparton for you!
I am running the preview and here is what is going on currently;
Right now many drivers that rely upon things like AMD Catalyst are causing issues. The reason is legacy code that is being dropped or at best slow to update. For instance the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 video card is causing serious issues. Sparton is essentially a browser that is windows explorer so it is just a system integration experience like Chrome OS so anything the calls for legacy driver code for high definition net streaming is problematic system wide.
If AMD does not update some very common radeon drivers for Windows 10 or if the legacy drivers that worked in Win7 cannot be successfully used in Windows 10 then there is going to be a butt tonne of CHEAP great laptops available for us Linux users to scoop up for peanuts! This means either a pile of laptops from 2010-2011 will all be boat anchors or users will just ignore Win10. Tweet #cheap_linux_gear_2016 LOL. Naw Microsoft wouldn't do that would they?
You focus on the wrong word. Go back one more. Suck on *this* rock. Singular, specific. Mars is a second point of existence, where a catastrophic event would need to be several magnitudes larger (Sol going nova, for example), rather than just nuclear holocaust, to wipe out humans. Move beyond the solar system, and we would have more chance of surviving what nature throws at us, and what we throw at each other.
Well put, if I had mod points you would get em! Rather than expounding and expanding upon the theme, but what the heck here goes my karma...
One thing that always struck me as sickening was the implications of a ban on nuclear testing in outer space. If one considers the potential for extra atmospheric atomic power, testing nuclear technology in space is essential. The vacuum of space is the only safe place to constructively explode or experiment with dangerous fissile radioactive materials. Cooling reactions is not a problem neither is super-heating things without causing atmospheric pollution problems. Therefore the technology of metallurgy could advance as rapidly as our computer tech has, so could propulsion tech!
Notice there is no ban on the use of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere or where ever on planet earth during war currently proposed and supported by any of the club of nations that posses nuclear technology. Unless we get to this point of cooperation as a species and we develop as a species in a cooperative way we will never become what we were put here to be. Somehow we cannot simply come to understand the only reason why we kill each other in war has always been caused by primitive tribalism and the fight for resources, religion and social politics are just convenient excuses for the truth about wars.
The human body will need to evolve very quickly to adapt to space in fact we could become a low gravity entity. FOR all those who are scared of these assumptions, consider this question. If we have a brain and all these things are indeed possible then why do we doom ourselves to extinction by not cooperating and rapidly evolving beyond this planet! If all we do with genetics is consume the resources and over populate the planet then indeed we are doomed as a species. Our destiny is to replace ourselves with a species that does not rely upon resources that are not sustainable long term
Here is a link to a picture of a proposed prototype replacement humans
It's a clump of cells. It can't in any way be described as a human being. It has the potential to become a human being, but you could say the same thing about sperm and eggs. A lot of the debate seems to centre around whether an embryo has a soul or not. It doesn't. Neither does a fully grown human.
It's good to see the Chinese advancing human knowledge since we in the west are too scared to do anything in case somebody dies or somebody is offended. I'm 100% certain the first man on Mars will be a Chinaman. In the west we'd first have to conduct a study to determine the proper makeup of the crew in terms of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc. The project would then focus far too much on safety leading to it going tens of billions over budget and decades late. Meanwhile the Chinese will be focusing on getting things done.
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great..... when a sperm is wasted....GOD GETS QUITE IRATE!
Now if I only could have put a condom on my Cock I would not have had to sell you all for medical experiments!!
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great..... and when a sperm is wasted....GOD GETS QUITE IRATE!
This message is more interesting than modifying embryos to ensure a viable blastocyst. Secondly this in no way could eliminate a disease within a population that carries the genes and does not only replicate by artificial means. But we here in the west discourage humans at a very young age against artificial reproduction methods and warn them that they could easily go blind if they over populate by this method. So I suspect that the Confucian influence in a similar way inhibits the populace from experimenting with non productive means of reproduction the same way it does in some American religious communities where the enjoyment of sex for pleasure is still considered immoral!
I am running a tech preview of 10 and it blows up to over 30 gig in a very short period of time without even downloading movies and the like. Unless 8.1 has disk space limits on install expect your customers to run out of room on the stick in a hurry. The Ubuntu users with less room most likely will not have these issues as they will be smart enough to use expansion cards for storage and Ubuntu does not blow up like a balloon with gobs of update rescue backups.
What I predict will happen is that typical windows users will diss this device because it uses a touch screen centric OS on what will be mostly televisions meaning that the single usb port will have to be occupied by mouse and keyboard for the device to work at all. Secondly it means carrying around these accessories.
All that being said I would buy one of the windows ones only if you can run full a blown linux on it. It could be a killer VLC media end point on my home network with Linux.
I don't know about AMD, but NVidia's Windows drivers are just as up-to-date as their Linux drivers.
AMD drops support for old cards from their proprietary drivers with extreme prejudice. nVidia literally supports cards for years longer than AMD. nVidia also provides direct mobile driver downloads; AMD sometimes provides these, and sometimes hides them. AMD also took all their old architectural documentation down from their website, for a while there every search I made which led to a document on their site was 404ing. Fuck AMD sideways.
You got it, the anon cowherds obviously didn't. I have a really nice gigabyte am2+ mobo which supports hdmi with a radeon which is no longer supported because of there is no kernel 3 series linux driver available from amd and the generic one with mesa sucks, no googleearth etc or effective hdmi mode switching and sensing. So I have to shut off the gpu and run an older Nvidia card which is well supported on it to make it work with anything later than Windows Vista. The onboard radeon is pooched for 3d graphics in both linux and windows because of the way they dropped support for the gpu chip and refused to release the code!
That experience put me off the clowns at AMD for good!
BTW I was being facetious, I am a linux geek, the point was that it does seem that we are becoming more of a test bed target for opengl than windows users are for those who did rtfa the software is for hardware that has not even been released yet and linux kernel 4.2!