You know the kind where someone posts something like the story expecting to be -1 with 10 angry responses, but instead gets +5 funny for being bluntly so obvious that its not serious.
If the NSA did break it I would have fun making destroy_america_plan.tor or mall_of_america_attack_bitcoin_account.tor and have just a pic of the goatse guy for NSA's enjoyment. For the slashdotters who werent here 12 years and remember the goatse troll go google goatse.ru and let me know if that would be cruel and unusual punishment?
The fact that it runs on low end luminas with 512 megs of ram and single core cpus and runs decently where gingerbread wont even boot is why I wrote that. I have a galaxy s1 with similiar hardware with the exception of a dual core arm and its barely functional with Android 2.3 which is obsolete.
Windows 8 kernel uses less than 20 megs of ram. Try having linux run with that
Windows is not vista or xp anymore. They have gotten their act together with the exception of Metro. 8.1 runs on 10 year old systems fine with the exception of a real video driver.
I would be interested. I get real Onenote support and better integration for exchange at work. On the weekends its android time. Metro may suck on a big computer screen but is fine for cell phones.
The Windows kernel is lighter than linux and snappy too.
So instead of OEMS only caring about Windows, designing hardware only tested for Windows, only supporting Windows, signing Windows in the hardware boot device,and even including Windows where someone has to manually go into the bios and install a second bootloader to run Linux has now changed to carriers only caring about linux, designing phones just for linux/Android, only supporting Linux, and even signing linux to run Android on top, now has to listen to an angry MS who feels its soo unfair that no one will even stock their products on the shelf nor care and are begging just for the opportunity to dual boot!... No cost too as well according to NEOwin!
Wow. Couldnt happen to a nicer company. It is amazing how fast this happened. Windows CE was gearing up for a monopoly and beating blackberry just a few years ago to.... well this?
I dare anyone, especially after mr. Snowden's revelations, to contradict mr. Stallman's points.
i'll bite. If SAAS and proprietary is so bad then why does the free market let it not only exist but thrive with some corps willing to pay millions for it! XP die hards love their OS so much they wont switch. Even though Linux is free. Same with Office.
Most teenage girls do not care about hacking their phones. They are willing to pay Apple handsomely. My opinion is very unpopular here but the free market says otherwise for everyone else. People are willing to work hard and sacrafice to pay for such clouds and software. If RMS were right the software industry would be struggling.
In the original you did not see Luke jump 4 stories in the air like the jedi episode 1. Infact the jump in episode 5 from just 6 feet in the air impressed Darth Vader when he tried to freeze him.
Now every Jedi can magically do 4 somersaults many stories in the air on command, survive re-entry and falling back to Earth at 200 mph and being totally unhurt in a 1 trillion ton ship, mysteriously jump in the air from flying taxis at 100 mph and catching a grip and using the force to land in another convertible totally unhurt some 900 feet below. When you see this shit your brain desensitizes the content so it is no big deal as it knows it is fake at this point.
You sensed real fear with the light-saber of losing a limb in the originals. They were slow and precise fencing with careful concentration aided by the force. The new ones they just wank them around everywhere fast like nothing and it ruins it and takes away any concept of a real fight.
The original script of Star Wars included Batman (Abrams style) like effects and Luke as a 50 year old general with lots of action all over. The studios felt it was too unrealistic and lacked a story line. Totally opposite of every annoying action movie today!
My advice would be to Instead focus on things like big ships without advanced graphics and cinematics that can't be done with every kid with Blender or a pirated copy of Maya. Make new aliens and concepts with a great story lines. I like how the Millennium Falcon had grinding noises when it opened and closed which gave the appearance of it being bandaided over with Hans Solo using parts from anywhere he could. No metallic SGI ships with no models that are flawless. I like the sounds that were not all computerized but make from TV sets and other improvised devices that made them look realistic in a non computer way.
The Matrix 1 was fucking awesome for its time but now it is annoying as we seen everything. I like J Abrams but he is too fucked on bass and things getting blown up. Star Wars Episode 5 was my favorite as Lucas was not involved in the writing or directing as much. It really showed when Darth Vader came out as his father to Luke!
I have a feeling this will be a disaster of epic proportions but I could be wrong hopefully.
I hear them on hear saying how crappy Windows 7 is because aero brings thier GTX 680s to a crawl. Funny my parents Intel GMA 950 integratred 2007 era graphics run aero fine. Again driver issues.
I only had one bug with my ati drivers and if you base your data from 10 years ago then it is obsolete.
Yeah like the hot grits down your pants, Natalie Portman naked and petrified, gay niggers association, penis bird registrations in ASCI, and of course who could have forgotten Goatse I mean LITERALLY forget! Ahoot one goatse troll had a +3 and got +90 responses with MY EYES?!! By a moderator trying to be funny.
No I dont miss those days as we tend to remember only the good ones
Round wheels for an automobile would be patented and so would using 4 of them and a wheel to steer etc.
They would file an injunction taking Ford out of the market claiming he had to use square wheels only and a rope and yore to steer. Ford would go out of business while appealing and would loose.
More and more Chrome is reminding me of IE from the humble IE 4 which was the best browser to the jaguarnut of IE 6 which still has not completely died off yet in China and some corporate portals.
Chrome rushes to throw HTML 5 and CSS 3 features not standardized on W3C so they can pass HTML5test and calls them HTML 5 and CSS 3 but really are made just like box model and CSS were invented by IE. The W3C in the end decided to make it a little different which is why when Firefox went one way the corps hung onto IE 6 instead.
This NACL and plugins is all 21st activeX to me. If MS did this for IE 11 everyone would be screaming bloody murder.
A former client of mine is buying only Surfaces for these reasons for the executives who are whining for IPADS. They want to control them via GPO and have them use Office because that is what the IT department is familiar with.
Not too sure if it will catch on as these things are useless without GPS and LTE for the traveler! As soon as he or she leaves the office they are stuck with a door stop to read ebooks, but can't get directions, book flights, or even check email until they put in a wifi key at the hotel.
MS really is selling these like they are laptops without the keyboard and missed the point of the Ipad 1 and iPhone 1. Yes I put 1, as Steve Jobs mentioned what they could do from day one as a digital assistant. MS just brings a product out not knowing what the customer wants in the hope people will buy it because it is from Microsoft. Hey it worked in the past right?
Have you ever used a Surface? I don't own one (I'm lucky to have a used $200 Fujitsu convertible), but they are seriously competitive hardware. The OS feels very tablet-like (how can anyone complain otherwise while still complaining about Windows 8 being 'designed for a tablet and not appropriate for a desktop"), and unlike an iPad, I don't have to relearn everything just to use it -- I already understand the interface because I have Win8 on my laptop. Contrary to what the ads say, iPads are a pain to use & learn. The Surface touchscreen works very nicely (I've yet to use an Android tablet that works as smoothly), and the Pro's addition of a pressure-sensitive stylus opens it up to the art community in a way that is largely under-addressed (in my opinion, they should be advertising this feature a LOT more). The ability to run desktop applications on the pro is unprecedented among tablets, yet it's not overbearing; the thing is first and foremost a tablet, and the average user won't even use the desktop app functionality (which is why they regular Surface doesn't have it). I don't own one, and honestly my OS of choice is Ubuntu (even though it is very clumsy with touchscreens, hopefully Ubuntu Touch will be better, and will operate on x86 machines), but given the choice between an iPad, an Android tablet, and a Surface Pro, I'd take the Surface, no question. The real problems with them are the lack of acceptance from the general public and the resulting poor app selection. The tablet experience itself is actually very good -- and compared with an iPad in a keyboard case, the Surface feels much more classy to the touch. Hopefully in a couple years I'll be able to afford a Surface on eBay... but of course that means people need to be out there buying them now and upgrading like they do with Apple products lol. The real rub is that MS is trying to switch roles here. The Android tablets are the XP of the tablet world, with the interface everyone knows and the affordability and ubiquity. MS is instead making high-end devices that feel expensive and are expensive. The usual MS crowd hates them on principle because it's not low-quality off-brand junk. The high-end market are all in love with their hipsterish Apple devices and hate MS on principle that they're 'the man'. MS has to cut out their own groove, and it's not easy. It's a bad situation for MS, but one that isn't easily avoided.
It is not just cheap priced that people flock to the Android tablets.
It is the fact that I can use LTE and GPS so I can navigate with Google maps, get weather reports, local news, find hotels, check traffic conditions, etc. Pads are heavily used by travelers for these services over a huge clunky laptop and are a must have for any expensive tablet.
I can't think of any comparison with computers. Sun Microsystems had limited ugly shit that was expensive that offered less than Linux and XP in the early 2000s but at least it could handle amazing server oriented tasks slowly but stable. I can't think of what the surface is really good for besides editing office files.
1080P is great for $399 tablets, but terrible for $999+!
Otherwise it still has not caught up to the Iphone and Ipad 1 yet.
Sad and not worth the premium without a 150 DPI or the ability to use Bing Maps with a navigator, zagots guide, hotel finder, weather reports, or uses that every traveler must have before investing the big bucks.
Sadly just a month ago such a comment would be modded -1 offtopic or -1 flamebait as the equailivant of that crazy guy drunk talking to himself on the subway.
Slightly different topic, this algorithm seems very strong as it is what slashdotters say is a perfect encryption mathmatical algorithm. It is Elispse based so there are more numbers to guess and the seed process is very stenious to make it harder to crack. It seems like the best one which is why BASE libraries use it just on that evidence. Can a mathmatician or crypto expert explain why this NSA endorsed algorithm has so many problems compared to SHA-2 or BES?
Who the hell uses it? I know legacy apps but it makes more sense to me to keep old OS/2 in VMWare workstation or ESXi server and virtualize it to have it run older programs. No one cares what features it will include because it is obsolete and users would leave if they could.
Like 16-bit DOS applications and Windows XP, all things eventually reach end of life.
Get over it and move on to something else.
PDP-11 support is still a big business as many businesses wont leave them to run their mission critical factories and expect endless support. They run XP too and will do so for many years to come right up there with IE 6.
That is like saying Windows 1.0 is soo much better than Windows 8.Or being hung is soo much better than being stabbed.
I prefer neither when you compare gnome-shell and KDE 4. KDE 3.5.x may it rest in peace. I kept obsolete versions of FreeBSD 4.x for years to keep running KDE 3.x but it was time to move on many years ago.
What a shame since Linux had such great promise in its day. It is time to move on now for me.
Sorry I wont click your link as it ends in.cx. Old timer slashdotters know what happens you go clicking around in those links. Something that can not ever be forgotten appears
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You know the kind where someone posts something like the story expecting to be -1 with 10 angry responses, but instead gets +5 funny for being bluntly so obvious that its not serious.
If the NSA did break it I would have fun making destroy_america_plan.tor or mall_of_america_attack_bitcoin_account.tor and have just a pic of the goatse guy for NSA's enjoyment. For the slashdotters who werent here 12 years and remember the goatse troll go google goatse.ru and let me know if that would be cruel and unusual punishment?
The fact that it runs on low end luminas with 512 megs of ram and single core cpus and runs decently where gingerbread wont even boot is why I wrote that. I have a galaxy s1 with similiar hardware with the exception of a dual core arm and its barely functional with Android 2.3 which is obsolete.
Windows 8 kernel uses less than 20 megs of ram. Try having linux run with that
Windows is not vista or xp anymore. They have gotten their act together with the exception of Metro. 8.1 runs on 10 year old systems fine with the exception of a real video driver.
Lumina is slower, single core, and has more limited ram. Only the higher end models would run Gingerbread decent.
Windows runs better on that hardware for most models
I would be interested. I get real Onenote support and better integration for exchange at work. On the weekends its android time. Metro may suck on a big computer screen but is fine for cell phones.
The Windows kernel is lighter than linux and snappy too.
So instead of OEMS only caring about Windows, designing hardware only tested for Windows, only supporting Windows, signing Windows in the hardware boot device,and even including Windows where someone has to manually go into the bios and install a second bootloader to run Linux has now changed to carriers only caring about linux, designing phones just for linux/Android, only supporting Linux, and even signing linux to run Android on top, now has to listen to an angry MS who feels its soo unfair that no one will even stock their products on the shelf nor care and are begging just for the opportunity to dual boot! ... No cost too as well according to NEOwin!
Wow. Couldnt happen to a nicer company. It is amazing how fast this happened. Windows CE was gearing up for a monopoly and beating blackberry just a few years ago to. ... well this?
I dare anyone, especially after mr. Snowden's revelations, to contradict mr. Stallman's points.
i'll bite. If SAAS and proprietary is so bad then why does the free market let it not only exist but thrive with some corps willing to pay millions for it! XP die hards love their OS so much they wont switch. Even though Linux is free. Same with Office.
Most teenage girls do not care about hacking their phones. They are willing to pay Apple handsomely. My opinion is very unpopular here but the free market says otherwise for everyone else. People are willing to work hard and sacrafice to pay for such clouds and software. If RMS were right the software industry would be struggling.
In the original you did not see Luke jump 4 stories in the air like the jedi episode 1. Infact the jump in episode 5 from just 6 feet in the air impressed Darth Vader when he tried to freeze him.
Now every Jedi can magically do 4 somersaults many stories in the air on command, survive re-entry and falling back to Earth at 200 mph and being totally unhurt in a 1 trillion ton ship, mysteriously jump in the air from flying taxis at 100 mph and catching a grip and using the force to land in another convertible totally unhurt some 900 feet below. When you see this shit your brain desensitizes the content so it is no big deal as it knows it is fake at this point.
You sensed real fear with the light-saber of losing a limb in the originals. They were slow and precise fencing with careful concentration aided by the force. The new ones they just wank them around everywhere fast like nothing and it ruins it and takes away any concept of a real fight.
The original script of Star Wars included Batman (Abrams style) like effects and Luke as a 50 year old general with lots of action all over. The studios felt it was too unrealistic and lacked a story line. Totally opposite of every annoying action movie today!
My advice would be to Instead focus on things like big ships without advanced graphics and cinematics that can't be done with every kid with Blender or a pirated copy of Maya. Make new aliens and concepts with a great story lines. I like how the Millennium Falcon had grinding noises when it opened and closed which gave the appearance of it being bandaided over with Hans Solo using parts from anywhere he could. No metallic SGI ships with no models that are flawless. I like the sounds that were not all computerized but make from TV sets and other improvised devices that made them look realistic in a non computer way.
The Matrix 1 was fucking awesome for its time but now it is annoying as we seen everything. I like J Abrams but he is too fucked on bass and things getting blown up. Star Wars Episode 5 was my favorite as Lucas was not involved in the writing or directing as much. It really showed when Darth Vader came out as his father to Luke!
I have a feeling this will be a disaster of epic proportions but I could be wrong hopefully.
I think this states the problem perfectly.
Take a look at it right here.
You can take .
There is another robot character and another dog like companion and of course a totally even more evil dark lord and emperor.
NVidia drivers tend to be worse nowdays.
I hear them on hear saying how crappy Windows 7 is because aero brings thier GTX 680s to a crawl. Funny my parents Intel GMA 950 integratred 2007 era graphics run aero fine. Again driver issues.
I only had one bug with my ati drivers and if you base your data from 10 years ago then it is obsolete.
For paying $225 a month ago for an ATI 7850 with just 1 gig of ram.
Tell that to Tomshardware and others who use x87 benchmarks and games like skyrim showing an AMD 8 core being handed a smackdown by an i3?
No one believes in AMD anymore
Yeah like the hot grits down your pants, Natalie Portman naked and petrified, gay niggers association, penis bird registrations in ASCI, and of course who could have forgotten Goatse I mean LITERALLY forget! Ahoot one goatse troll had a +3 and got +90 responses with MY EYES?!! By a moderator trying to be funny.
No I dont miss those days as we tend to remember only the good ones
Round wheels for an automobile would be patented and so would using 4 of them and a wheel to steer etc.
They would file an injunction taking Ford out of the market claiming he had to use square wheels only and a rope and yore to steer. Ford would go out of business while appealing and would loose.
More and more Chrome is reminding me of IE from the humble IE 4 which was the best browser to the jaguarnut of IE 6 which still has not completely died off yet in China and some corporate portals.
Chrome rushes to throw HTML 5 and CSS 3 features not standardized on W3C so they can pass HTML5test and calls them HTML 5 and CSS 3 but really are made just like box model and CSS were invented by IE. The W3C in the end decided to make it a little different which is why when Firefox went one way the corps hung onto IE 6 instead.
This NACL and plugins is all 21st activeX to me. If MS did this for IE 11 everyone would be screaming bloody murder.
A former client of mine is buying only Surfaces for these reasons for the executives who are whining for IPADS. They want to control them via GPO and have them use Office because that is what the IT department is familiar with.
Not too sure if it will catch on as these things are useless without GPS and LTE for the traveler! As soon as he or she leaves the office they are stuck with a door stop to read ebooks, but can't get directions, book flights, or even check email until they put in a wifi key at the hotel.
MS really is selling these like they are laptops without the keyboard and missed the point of the Ipad 1 and iPhone 1. Yes I put 1, as Steve Jobs mentioned what they could do from day one as a digital assistant. MS just brings a product out not knowing what the customer wants in the hope people will buy it because it is from Microsoft. Hey it worked in the past right?
Have you ever used a Surface? I don't own one (I'm lucky to have a used $200 Fujitsu convertible), but they are seriously competitive hardware. The OS feels very tablet-like (how can anyone complain otherwise while still complaining about Windows 8 being 'designed for a tablet and not appropriate for a desktop"), and unlike an iPad, I don't have to relearn everything just to use it -- I already understand the interface because I have Win8 on my laptop. Contrary to what the ads say, iPads are a pain to use & learn. The Surface touchscreen works very nicely (I've yet to use an Android tablet that works as smoothly), and the Pro's addition of a pressure-sensitive stylus opens it up to the art community in a way that is largely under-addressed (in my opinion, they should be advertising this feature a LOT more). The ability to run desktop applications on the pro is unprecedented among tablets, yet it's not overbearing; the thing is first and foremost a tablet, and the average user won't even use the desktop app functionality (which is why they regular Surface doesn't have it).
I don't own one, and honestly my OS of choice is Ubuntu (even though it is very clumsy with touchscreens, hopefully Ubuntu Touch will be better, and will operate on x86 machines), but given the choice between an iPad, an Android tablet, and a Surface Pro, I'd take the Surface, no question. The real problems with them are the lack of acceptance from the general public and the resulting poor app selection. The tablet experience itself is actually very good -- and compared with an iPad in a keyboard case, the Surface feels much more classy to the touch. Hopefully in a couple years I'll be able to afford a Surface on eBay... but of course that means people need to be out there buying them now and upgrading like they do with Apple products lol.
The real rub is that MS is trying to switch roles here. The Android tablets are the XP of the tablet world, with the interface everyone knows and the affordability and ubiquity. MS is instead making high-end devices that feel expensive and are expensive. The usual MS crowd hates them on principle because it's not low-quality off-brand junk. The high-end market are all in love with their hipsterish Apple devices and hate MS on principle that they're 'the man'. MS has to cut out their own groove, and it's not easy. It's a bad situation for MS, but one that isn't easily avoided.
It is not just cheap priced that people flock to the Android tablets.
It is the fact that I can use LTE and GPS so I can navigate with Google maps, get weather reports, local news, find hotels, check traffic conditions, etc. Pads are heavily used by travelers for these services over a huge clunky laptop and are a must have for any expensive tablet.
I can't think of any comparison with computers. Sun Microsystems had limited ugly shit that was expensive that offered less than Linux and XP in the early 2000s but at least it could handle amazing server oriented tasks slowly but stable. I can't think of what the surface is really good for besides editing office files.
1080P is great for $399 tablets, but terrible for $999+!
Otherwise it still has not caught up to the Iphone and Ipad 1 yet.
Sad and not worth the premium without a 150 DPI or the ability to use Bing Maps with a navigator, zagots guide, hotel finder, weather reports, or uses that every traveler must have before investing the big bucks.
Yep NSA did play a hand in this insecure logarithm.
Sadly just a month ago such a comment would be modded -1 offtopic or -1 flamebait as the equailivant of that crazy guy drunk talking to himself on the subway.
Slightly different topic, this algorithm seems very strong as it is what slashdotters say is a perfect encryption mathmatical algorithm. It is Elispse based so there are more numbers to guess and the seed process is very stenious to make it harder to crack. It seems like the best one which is why BASE libraries use it just on that evidence. Can a mathmatician or crypto expert explain why this NSA endorsed algorithm has so many problems compared to SHA-2 or BES?
Because thats when XP goes EOL. Then the oldersters who love being obsolete as hip we be soo out of style.
It is still updated?!
Who the hell uses it? I know legacy apps but it makes more sense to me to keep old OS/2 in VMWare workstation or ESXi server and virtualize it to have it run older programs. No one cares what features it will include because it is obsolete and users would leave if they could.
Like 16-bit DOS applications and Windows XP, all things eventually reach end of life.
Get over it and move on to something else.
PDP-11 support is still a big business as many businesses wont leave them to run their mission critical factories and expect endless support. They run XP too and will do so for many years to come right up there with IE 6.
Software does not die if it works.
That is like saying Windows 1.0 is soo much better than Windows 8.Or being hung is soo much better than being stabbed.
I prefer neither when you compare gnome-shell and KDE 4. KDE 3.5.x may it rest in peace. I kept obsolete versions of FreeBSD 4.x for years to keep running KDE 3.x but it was time to move on many years ago.
What a shame since Linux had such great promise in its day. It is time to move on now for me.
Sorry I wont click your link as it ends in .cx. Old timer slashdotters know what happens you go clicking around in those links. Something that can not ever be forgotten appears
I run Windows XP and Windows 7
Same kernel right?