AMD could help itself a great deal by focusing on open-source support. Intel does a pretty damn good job supporting open-source with drivers, but they lack top-end graphics hardware. nVidia provides a solid binary, but their *NIX support lags behind Windows.
If AMD becomes the number #1 graphics hardware on Linux, it could help even out their hot/cold CPU offerings.
Yeah the person is going over board with talk of wiping his laptop and all that noise.
But what is with all the vitriol? He's a "cheap bastard". He has horrid working habits. His life is hollow and he should read a book? How any of that was deduced from one post on/. is beyond me.
My advice, as someone who has written AUP for companies: If your company policy is that ridiculous, you should question working there. Odds are it is not. My guess is if you get your work done they really won't give a rats arse. The laptop is their property, a worker is not. If they cannot accept you checking YouTube or/. while off the clock (including a quick break here and there), they're crazy.
But, should you seriously just want to avoid it: Make a bootable Linux USB drive and encrypt/home
Windows 7 has done me well. I am still running an install I performed in Feb of 2010 (purely gaming install).
In fact, I put the hard drive in a new i7 box I put together last year. Ran a "repair install" tool and it's been working fine ever since.
I was wiping WinXP every 6-12 months, so color me impressed.
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Perhaps you'd have more luck paying Microsoft for the privilege of dealing with compatibility problems version to version (or even same version, diff desktop).
Your three complaints don't quite go far enough to suggest it truly is an "unusable mess". You're bitching that it didn't work with your companies custom template? And PDF export didn't work for you. I've exported to PDF many times without any problems. Maybe what your exporting is the problem (perhaps another custom template your company uses)?
I have deployed both Office 2k3-2k10 and Open/LibreOffice at businesses. User complaints were pretty much even. No one has the perfect office suite out there. Being a free software product, LibreOffice is pretty damn good.
Instead of whining about how free software developers have failed to provide you with free software that works exactly as you require, why not work with them to solve them?
Yeah, data mining w/o direct consent should be illegal.
As we better understand the mechanisms of consciousness and the brain and realize this shit it possible, it should also be made illegal.
it is ridiculous that one could use these to manipulate you into buying more stuff. It goes against much of what the founding fathers of the US were against. An individuals mind must be their own.
Same goes for the propaganda networks posing as "news" programming on television. It's blatant co-opting of an individuals own faculties.
To reduce the concentration of wealth to so few, you don't tax them more. They'll find a way around it. The fix is simple: Corporations are not people and they can and should be limited in what they are allowed to do.
There's no practical reason Newscorp should be allowed to own TV, radio and print. The big banks should not be all-in-one financial centers. The only benefit these situations provide is allowing a few folks to make insane amounts of money.
And because I know people will be all: That's telling people how to live! It isn't. What experience or freedom in life would Rupert Murdoch miss out on if, instead of being worth billions amassed through a media empire that owns TV, radio, print... he were merely worth millions from TV alone?
On the flip side, consolidation has cost people jobs, has effectively enslaved people in countries with low wages and unsafe working environments, has cut people's access to social programs... All to reduce redundancy, increase profits and put more money into already insanely wealthy people's pockets.
A free society does not serve rich masters. A free society tells rich masters "Fuck off. You've had your fill."
I am out of touch with each countries individual stance on ACTA. Could this be a good thing if enough countries are against it. A wait could afford more time to bring holdouts in line?
US corruption is different, but more pervasive than "paying off the cable guy." It's global.
The US government has twisted entire countries to do its bidding. We've installed tin pot dictators that suppress their entire country in order to please the US. Kind of hard to pay off that level of corruption with an extra $5.
DARPA does some amazing things but they need to exert a little self restraint and focus on things that will payoff in less than a millenium.
You don't feel the research and development would create anything useful in the short term? The space program of the 60's didn't achieve anything for us in the last 30 years?
Let's just keep focusing on our own short-term gain. That seems to be working out well.
Maybe... make copyright non-transferable under any condition other than heirs (and make adopting a corporation as a heir/child illegal)
Meh, still no good. Heirs should be contributing their own work, not living off yours.
Copyright should only be 3-5 years anyway. Afterall, if you're not making money on something after that point, it's time to reconsider your career. No one else gets special protections of their income source. If you're a shit mechanic or Blockbuster, you go out of business (well I suppose the big banks are another exception).
What grinds my gears is most of these patent/copyright companies are using public services while avoiding taxes. They want us to foot the bill for their protection.
I've soured on even giving them my eyeballs. Cancelled Netflix and I use to pirate under the premise it was "civil disobedience". I realized I just didn't care. The shit filled up drives and I never watched or listened to it. I spend the money I save not buying their crap on local shows and events. Screw 'em.
Has the TSA ever caught a terrorist or found a bomb, ever?
People have gotten on their flights with loaded pistols in their carry-on (easy Google find). The whole operation should have been shutdown the minute that happened.
I was honestly shocked by who and how many people use GoDaddy. I'm talking friends that are IT folk, people that trashed their name over their well established list of shenanigans.
To me this is another sign of how screwed up things are. GoDaddy has a history of being shady, but people don't care. They ignore the evidence until something like SOPA hits, then it's all "GoDaddy is GoBaddy! Boycott! Boycott!"
And it isn't like it will do much to anyone but GoDaddy. The RIAA/MPAA companies, the real villains, are who we should be boycotting. Why aren't people canceling their cable and Netflix or Hulu+?
This whole GoDaddy thing is just one big circle jerk. We're sticking it to a company that is known to be shit to feel better about ourselves, but it won't really do anything. It's easy and costs $7-10 dollars.
If it can be held to a citizen that ignorance of the law does not excuse them from liability for breaking it, we should hold our elected officials to account for legislation they vote for in ignorance of sound judgement and reason.
Note I say "we". It's obvious Congress is not listening. It is up to the people to make them.
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AMD could help itself a great deal by focusing on open-source support. Intel does a pretty damn good job supporting open-source with drivers, but they lack top-end graphics hardware. nVidia provides a solid binary, but their *NIX support lags behind Windows.
If AMD becomes the number #1 graphics hardware on Linux, it could help even out their hot/cold CPU offerings.
Would a customer that bought it on iTunes have bought it if it wasn't on iTunes?
Sometimes I remember George Carlin & Hunter S. Thompson are both dead now.
I get sad when I do that.
Yeah the person is going over board with talk of wiping his laptop and all that noise.
But what is with all the vitriol? He's a "cheap bastard". He has horrid working habits. His life is hollow and he should read a book? How any of that was deduced from one post on /. is beyond me.
My advice, as someone who has written AUP for companies: If your company policy is that ridiculous, you should question working there. Odds are it is not. My guess is if you get your work done they really won't give a rats arse. The laptop is their property, a worker is not. If they cannot accept you checking YouTube or /. while off the clock (including a quick break here and there), they're crazy.
But, should you seriously just want to avoid it: Make a bootable Linux USB drive and encrypt /home
Imagine waiting a half second for each character of the (text) file you requested to appear on your screen.
The original definition of #firstworldproblems
And if you flip the d and b around a bit, cut the o open and straighten... OMG!
*dons tinfoil hat*
Cause you Linux nerds know you want to put it in a VM at least. Avoid their .exe downloader thing.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso
Windows 7 has done me well. I am still running an install I performed in Feb of 2010 (purely gaming install).
In fact, I put the hard drive in a new i7 box I put together last year. Ran a "repair install" tool and it's been working fine ever since.
I was wiping WinXP every 6-12 months, so color me impressed.
Perhaps you'd have more luck paying Microsoft for the privilege of dealing with compatibility problems version to version (or even same version, diff desktop).
Your three complaints don't quite go far enough to suggest it truly is an "unusable mess". You're bitching that it didn't work with your companies custom template? And PDF export didn't work for you. I've exported to PDF many times without any problems. Maybe what your exporting is the problem (perhaps another custom template your company uses)?
I have deployed both Office 2k3-2k10 and Open/LibreOffice at businesses. User complaints were pretty much even. No one has the perfect office suite out there. Being a free software product, LibreOffice is pretty damn good.
Instead of whining about how free software developers have failed to provide you with free software that works exactly as you require, why not work with them to solve them?
Yeah, data mining w/o direct consent should be illegal.
As we better understand the mechanisms of consciousness and the brain and realize this shit it possible, it should also be made illegal.
it is ridiculous that one could use these to manipulate you into buying more stuff. It goes against much of what the founding fathers of the US were against. An individuals mind must be their own.
Same goes for the propaganda networks posing as "news" programming on television. It's blatant co-opting of an individuals own faculties.
Breaking up conglomerates is the solution.
To reduce the concentration of wealth to so few, you don't tax them more. They'll find a way around it. The fix is simple: Corporations are not people and they can and should be limited in what they are allowed to do.
There's no practical reason Newscorp should be allowed to own TV, radio and print. The big banks should not be all-in-one financial centers. The only benefit these situations provide is allowing a few folks to make insane amounts of money.
And because I know people will be all: That's telling people how to live! It isn't. What experience or freedom in life would Rupert Murdoch miss out on if, instead of being worth billions amassed through a media empire that owns TV, radio, print... he were merely worth millions from TV alone?
On the flip side, consolidation has cost people jobs, has effectively enslaved people in countries with low wages and unsafe working environments, has cut people's access to social programs... All to reduce redundancy, increase profits and put more money into already insanely wealthy people's pockets.
A free society does not serve rich masters. A free society tells rich masters "Fuck off. You've had your fill."
Until Y Combinator kills Hollywood.
I am out of touch with each countries individual stance on ACTA. Could this be a good thing if enough countries are against it. A wait could afford more time to bring holdouts in line?
I expect Venezuela and similar countries will be gaining a lot of hosting companies in the next few years.
Until wireless carriers stop nickle and diming for data, apps are going to be the way of the foreseeable future.
Install all you want on wifi, it keeps data tx/rx needs smaller while on the go.
US corruption is different, but more pervasive than "paying off the cable guy." It's global.
The US government has twisted entire countries to do its bidding. We've installed tin pot dictators that suppress their entire country in order to please the US. Kind of hard to pay off that level of corruption with an extra $5.
DARPA does some amazing things but they need to exert a little self restraint and focus on things that will payoff in less than a millenium.
You don't feel the research and development would create anything useful in the short term? The space program of the 60's didn't achieve anything for us in the last 30 years?
Let's just keep focusing on our own short-term gain. That seems to be working out well.
Are people actually choosing to like reality TV?
Or are they choosing to simply watch what the media companies offer?
Maybe... make copyright non-transferable under any condition other than heirs (and make adopting a corporation as a heir/child illegal)
Meh, still no good. Heirs should be contributing their own work, not living off yours.
Copyright should only be 3-5 years anyway. Afterall, if you're not making money on something after that point, it's time to reconsider your career. No one else gets special protections of their income source. If you're a shit mechanic or Blockbuster, you go out of business (well I suppose the big banks are another exception).
What grinds my gears is most of these patent/copyright companies are using public services while avoiding taxes. They want us to foot the bill for their protection.
I've soured on even giving them my eyeballs. Cancelled Netflix and I use to pirate under the premise it was "civil disobedience". I realized I just didn't care. The shit filled up drives and I never watched or listened to it. I spend the money I save not buying their crap on local shows and events. Screw 'em.
No one forces you to have immature twats on your Facebook friends list, FYI.
GoDaddy has a history of being shifty. They shouldn't have used them in the first place. They're riding the anti-GoDaddy sentiment for PR reasons.
I just changed my profile pic to one where I'm showing my palm, sole of my shoe, and patting my head.
I have no clue how to incorporate those other things at the same time.
Has the TSA ever caught a terrorist or found a bomb, ever?
People have gotten on their flights with loaded pistols in their carry-on (easy Google find). The whole operation should have been shutdown the minute that happened.
I was honestly shocked by who and how many people use GoDaddy. I'm talking friends that are IT folk, people that trashed their name over their well established list of shenanigans.
To me this is another sign of how screwed up things are. GoDaddy has a history of being shady, but people don't care. They ignore the evidence until something like SOPA hits, then it's all "GoDaddy is GoBaddy! Boycott! Boycott!"
And it isn't like it will do much to anyone but GoDaddy. The RIAA/MPAA companies, the real villains, are who we should be boycotting. Why aren't people canceling their cable and Netflix or Hulu+?
This whole GoDaddy thing is just one big circle jerk. We're sticking it to a company that is known to be shit to feel better about ourselves, but it won't really do anything. It's easy and costs $7-10 dollars.
If it can be held to a citizen that ignorance of the law does not excuse them from liability for breaking it, we should hold our elected officials to account for legislation they vote for in ignorance of sound judgement and reason.
Note I say "we". It's obvious Congress is not listening. It is up to the people to make them.