A completely stupid comparison given the risk of death by deer is avoidable and entirely in control of the person being (not) killed. Unless you're suggesting that kids in classrooms get randomly visited by savage deers leaving a bloodbath in its wake.
Don't abuse statistics. There is a big difference between dying due to your action, and dying randomly while doing a mandatory societal activity due to cultural stupidity.
You want your private phone to be under the âoeremote wipeâ purview of your corporate / government security officer? No thanks.
Why? You can wipe my phone right now and I would lose nothing. Honestly people who keep critical important things they may want to lose on a mobile device that is taken everywhere in public and a big target for thieves are basically asking for it.
Do you think your security officer wants to make it even easier for you to misappropriate company proprietary / government classified information? I donâ(TM)t see this as being a remotely acceptable configuration for anyone but the most freewheeling Silicon Valley startup with âoefirst nameâ email addresses.
I can see you don't have a clue how systems like Knox or other secure systems that link corporate accounts on personal devices work.
Guess it depends on how you look at it; I can see it both ways.
I really can't see it as a Windows problem. What you and the GP talk about are the reasons people don't switch to something else. That is not only not a Windows problem, it's a Windows strength. Combined with a general hate of change for the casual computer user very few people see being tied to windows with their favorite piece of hardware / software as a "problem". The only people who seem to have any problem with it at all are those people who recommend that these people change what they do.
Same with your example now. Device problems may be "because" of Windows, but they are not Windows problems. They are Linux problems. Windows users have not problems with these devices.
The bundling of the OS with devices is also not a Windows problem. Again a problems caused by MS, but not an inherent problem. You're failing to see this from the only perspective that matters: That of the user.
So was Intel. Now if you put down your 20/20 hindsight and realise that the decision and optimisation they made had no at the time known risk, not even in a lab you may have made that optimisation too. Just like everyone except for AMD did.
Sure as fuck not by linear extrapolation. There is not a single thing linear in the power generation industry, not size of plants, not cost, and sure as heck not your doom and gloom "I care about a few birds" scenario.
There was, contrarily, knowledge that they were doing the checks in the wrong order deliberately to eke out more performance.
I can't believe you dare to go online to post this. Don't you understand the deliberate security risks of connecting to a network? Are you some kind of crazy person?
The actual problem today is drivers for consumer hardware periphery. You have a programmable mouse? Consider yourself lucky if you get it to work as a two-button mouse, let alone actually find a way to program those extra buttons. Flight sticks? Steering wheels? Head tracking device? Programmable keyboards?
I consider myself a fairly active gamer and I can say I have zero of those devices. What keeps me from gaming on Linux is the lack of games on Linux.
The mass market no longer buy PCs. They are content consumers they buy Apple and Android.
Not at all. The mass market is saturated with devices. Everyone owns PCs and laptops. PCs are still bought, the difference is the mass market isn't growing for either devices anymore.
Both PCs and phones / tablets will continue to be bought on a replacement basis when the previous device breaks. People just generally don't take their desktop and drop it into the toilet so the mobile devices will forever appear to have higher sales numbers. This has nothing to do with the "market" as in the people who actually use the device.
1) Nations will all gather together and try to buy Windows from Microsoft. That would be cheaper than paying monthly. Or, 2) Nations will gather together and contribute to ReactOS [reactos.org], a free operating system that runs Windows programs.
Ok crazy SciFi writer, put the pen down. Nations don't do anything other than subscribe to MS's complete suite of services of which they are already getting perpetual Windows upgrades and paying a monthly fee for each machine.
Are you implying that beats is somewhere near the top quality in its price range with that sentence? You sound like a very glass half full kind of guy who's too kind to label the frigging horrible waste of money for what it is.
Sigh, I have got to stop drinking and posting at the same time. Wrong country. But same goal. India has a plan to do 20% renewable energy by 2020. What's the USA's plan, throw baby seals into coal power plants to make the coal look greener?
You can be as unimpressed as you want. It along with other projects elevated India to one of the countries with the highest level alternative energy generation in the world.
Just remember to be even less impressed with whatever country you *think* is better.
It also will implode if you dare attach it to a network, instantly owned by malware. At the very least XP needs to be isolated until you install SP3. When you install SP3 you've got bugger chance of running it on 64MB of RAM.
They decided to do security checks later than, for example, AMD.
Yes when you're a time lord and can happily bounce around between 2018 and the time you made the decision then you could knowingly have introduced a security vulnerability.
However since that is just BBC fantasy the reality is they chose to optimise the timing of the security check like many other vendors with the knowledge that no such side channel exploit exists. That isn't deliberately compromising security anymore than you aren't deliberately compromising your security by not living in a bank vault.
And running a modern desktop on a Raspberry Pi is like a "quick" trip to the DMV. There's no such thing. Modern Linux variants are painfully slow on the Raspberry Pi unless you cut out all modernity and restrict your options to software specifically catering for low hardware performance.
Looks like the whole idiocy of closing the analog hole is alive and well,
Don't put conspiracy theories in places which could more easily be explained by standard business practices. There's not "analog hole" to close in the headphone / audio world because the very signal that is required to create pressure waves is ideal for running right into recording equipment at high quality.
More accurately: His Cookness owns a company that produces a fuckload of poor quality bluetooth headphones and speakers and wants to force his customers down the path of more bluetooth.
Which at the time pushed them significantly in front of AMD.
Despite the confusing name, all 'core' Intel chips have one common feature- ZERO hardware protection of interthread memory access.
A distinction that produced a speed advantage for many years with no security downsides.
Intel offers far more cores (and hyper-threading per core) than Intel per dollar.
I know right? It's like AMD hasn't been in the race for so long that you can't even talk them up right.
When IBM slected Intel to provide the dreadful 16-bit processor for IBM's home PC, every other chip company had better 16-bit designs, and some vastly better (Motorola). IBM selected Intel precisely because its chip was so awful (and thus didn't compete with IBM proprietary hardware).
LOL. Or maybe it's because the 68000 was so very good and fast it was printing erratas at record rates. The wonderful thing about being years ahead in performance and features is that you're also years behind in debugging. Thank god the 68000 wasn't chosen, it may have ended the personal computer. By the time your awesome Motorola chip (which made its way into Apple and Commodore machines) came to market with a stable design, Intel was already on the second generation 16bit.
Since that date Intel's 'lead' has been a pure consequence of Intel outspending the competition by thousands to one in R+D
Oh how terrible. How dare companies invest.
Samsung and GF are now ahead of Intel
They are nothing of the sort. The entire industry is in line with each other in production.
Unless you game at 120 Hz, there is literally no reason to buy Intel today.
WTF? Why would your game refresh rate matter? Why would doing something that doesn't rely on the CPU matter? Hell if you're into gaming you're far better off buying AMD. There are plenty of other reasons to buy Intel, single threading performance, management features, faster high-end products.
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Who the hell would download an app to buy a ticket?
Someone wanting to go to a concert? Installing an app is a frigging low bar for people these days.
A student is more likely to be killed by a deer
A completely stupid comparison given the risk of death by deer is avoidable and entirely in control of the person being (not) killed. Unless you're suggesting that kids in classrooms get randomly visited by savage deers leaving a bloodbath in its wake.
Don't abuse statistics. There is a big difference between dying due to your action, and dying randomly while doing a mandatory societal activity due to cultural stupidity.
Talk about treating the symptoms while screwing the poor rather than solving the underlying problem!
You want your private phone to be under the âoeremote wipeâ purview of your corporate / government security officer? No thanks.
Why? You can wipe my phone right now and I would lose nothing. Honestly people who keep critical important things they may want to lose on a mobile device that is taken everywhere in public and a big target for thieves are basically asking for it.
Do you think your security officer wants to make it even easier for you to misappropriate company proprietary / government classified information? I donâ(TM)t see this as being a remotely acceptable configuration for anyone but the most freewheeling Silicon Valley startup with âoefirst nameâ email addresses.
I can see you don't have a clue how systems like Knox or other secure systems that link corporate accounts on personal devices work.
Guess it depends on how you look at it; I can see it both ways.
I really can't see it as a Windows problem. What you and the GP talk about are the reasons people don't switch to something else. That is not only not a Windows problem, it's a Windows strength. Combined with a general hate of change for the casual computer user very few people see being tied to windows with their favorite piece of hardware / software as a "problem". The only people who seem to have any problem with it at all are those people who recommend that these people change what they do.
Same with your example now. Device problems may be "because" of Windows, but they are not Windows problems. They are Linux problems. Windows users have not problems with these devices.
The bundling of the OS with devices is also not a Windows problem. Again a problems caused by MS, but not an inherent problem. You're failing to see this from the only perspective that matters: That of the user.
I am managing my risk responsibly
So was Intel. Now if you put down your 20/20 hindsight and realise that the decision and optimisation they made had no at the time known risk, not even in a lab you may have made that optimisation too. Just like everyone except for AMD did.
Sure as fuck not by linear extrapolation. There is not a single thing linear in the power generation industry, not size of plants, not cost, and sure as heck not your doom and gloom "I care about a few birds" scenario.
Oh man if only we could murder people en mass via blogs the world would be a better place.
There was, contrarily, knowledge that they were doing the checks in the wrong order deliberately to eke out more performance.
I can't believe you dare to go online to post this. Don't you understand the deliberate security risks of connecting to a network? Are you some kind of crazy person?
Nope, just one who doesn't understand risk.
The problems you are listing are Windows problems and not Linux problems. It's like you are complaining that your Ford parts don't fit on your new GM.
They aren't windows problems. Windows doesn't have problems. They are problems of people suggesting that users switch to Linux.
The actual problem today is drivers for consumer hardware periphery. You have a programmable mouse? Consider yourself lucky if you get it to work as a two-button mouse, let alone actually find a way to program those extra buttons. Flight sticks? Steering wheels? Head tracking device? Programmable keyboards?
I consider myself a fairly active gamer and I can say I have zero of those devices. What keeps me from gaming on Linux is the lack of games on Linux.
The mass market no longer buy PCs. They are content consumers they buy Apple and Android.
Not at all. The mass market is saturated with devices. Everyone owns PCs and laptops. PCs are still bought, the difference is the mass market isn't growing for either devices anymore.
Both PCs and phones / tablets will continue to be bought on a replacement basis when the previous device breaks. People just generally don't take their desktop and drop it into the toilet so the mobile devices will forever appear to have higher sales numbers. This has nothing to do with the "market" as in the people who actually use the device.
1) Nations will all gather together and try to buy Windows from Microsoft. That would be cheaper than paying monthly. Or, 2) Nations will gather together and contribute to ReactOS [reactos.org], a free operating system that runs Windows programs.
Ok crazy SciFi writer, put the pen down. Nations don't do anything other than subscribe to MS's complete suite of services of which they are already getting perpetual Windows upgrades and paying a monthly fee for each machine.
So can I. Today for instance I saw 4 Teslas. Two on the way to work, one in the parking lot, and one on the way home.
I know as a Texan this may be news to you, but there's more to the world than Texas.
but never the top quality in its price range.
Are you implying that beats is somewhere near the top quality in its price range with that sentence? You sound like a very glass half full kind of guy who's too kind to label the frigging horrible waste of money for what it is.
Sigh, I have got to stop drinking and posting at the same time. Wrong country. But same goal. India has a plan to do 20% renewable energy by 2020. What's the USA's plan, throw baby seals into coal power plants to make the coal look greener?
You forgot about the birds. We can't dare kill a bird.
100GW / 400MW * 6000 = 1.5 million
That has got to be the dumbest misapplication of maths I have ever seen. And I've seen some pretty dumb shit posted on Slashdot before.
You can be as unimpressed as you want. It along with other projects elevated India to one of the countries with the highest level alternative energy generation in the world.
Just remember to be even less impressed with whatever country you *think* is better.
Remember XP requires just a Pentium and 64MB RAM.
It also will implode if you dare attach it to a network, instantly owned by malware. At the very least XP needs to be isolated until you install SP3. When you install SP3 you've got bugger chance of running it on 64MB of RAM.
They decided to do security checks later than, for example, AMD.
Yes when you're a time lord and can happily bounce around between 2018 and the time you made the decision then you could knowingly have introduced a security vulnerability.
However since that is just BBC fantasy the reality is they chose to optimise the timing of the security check like many other vendors with the knowledge that no such side channel exploit exists. That isn't deliberately compromising security anymore than you aren't deliberately compromising your security by not living in a bank vault.
And running a modern desktop on a Raspberry Pi is like a "quick" trip to the DMV. There's no such thing. Modern Linux variants are painfully slow on the Raspberry Pi unless you cut out all modernity and restrict your options to software specifically catering for low hardware performance.
Looks like the whole idiocy of closing the analog hole is alive and well,
Don't put conspiracy theories in places which could more easily be explained by standard business practices. There's not "analog hole" to close in the headphone / audio world because the very signal that is required to create pressure waves is ideal for running right into recording equipment at high quality.
Or pay $9 for a lightning to analogue hole adapter.
More accurately: His Cookness owns a company that produces a fuckload of poor quality bluetooth headphones and speakers and wants to force his customers down the path of more bluetooth.
.... whose display quality doesn't become lousy after 6-12 months of usage?
Yes, basically all of them other than the pieces of shit listed in the article and that crappy Pixel thing Google released.
Though my Galaxy S4 is showing very minor signs of burn-in after 5 years.
After Intel's laughable Netburst initiative
Which at the time pushed them significantly in front of AMD.
Despite the confusing name, all 'core' Intel chips have one common feature- ZERO hardware protection of interthread memory access.
A distinction that produced a speed advantage for many years with no security downsides.
Intel offers far more cores (and hyper-threading per core) than Intel per dollar.
I know right? It's like AMD hasn't been in the race for so long that you can't even talk them up right.
When IBM slected Intel to provide the dreadful 16-bit processor for IBM's home PC, every other chip company had better 16-bit designs, and some vastly better (Motorola). IBM selected Intel precisely because its chip was so awful (and thus didn't compete with IBM proprietary hardware).
LOL. Or maybe it's because the 68000 was so very good and fast it was printing erratas at record rates. The wonderful thing about being years ahead in performance and features is that you're also years behind in debugging. Thank god the 68000 wasn't chosen, it may have ended the personal computer. By the time your awesome Motorola chip (which made its way into Apple and Commodore machines) came to market with a stable design, Intel was already on the second generation 16bit.
Since that date Intel's 'lead' has been a pure consequence of Intel outspending the competition by thousands to one in R+D
Oh how terrible. How dare companies invest.
Samsung and GF are now ahead of Intel
They are nothing of the sort. The entire industry is in line with each other in production.
Unless you game at 120 Hz, there is literally no reason to buy Intel today.
WTF? Why would your game refresh rate matter? Why would doing something that doesn't rely on the CPU matter? Hell if you're into gaming you're far better off buying AMD. There are plenty of other reasons to buy Intel, single threading performance, management features, faster high-end products.
Intel was always a lousy company
Haters gonna hate.