You may want to ask Linus how well his platter of rust is doing after he switched to SSD and it died?
VMWare Workstation is designed for things like this. Needless to say my clients do not want to pay for a big ass server to host my VMs to learn. I work in I.T. and did help desk. Trust me virii are always a problem.
I hate AV software and some updates are not perfect but it is well worth the price. True I could switch to Linux as a host? But people pay me to support Windows and I run Wow and SWTOR and Office. Sigh
Thankfully I do not run a server like this, but I emulate what I have at work and home projects. Each domain I create is 30 gigs each. Several with one with SCCM 2010, SCCM 2012, Client copy (80 gig each) etc, and they add up. Any IT guy worth his salt has something like this to keep things up.
There are over 130+ updates on my Win 7 sp1 which is only 2 years old and represents +200 security holes and exploits! God help you if you use the older win 7 rtm or worse XP without a single patch. I have financial data and hundreds of gigs of data and vms so a reimage due to a virus is unconscionable.
Well then that CPU is effectively fucked, as I can tell ya that folks HATE Windows 8. Can't say as I blame 'em, I spent half the night having to hack the living shit out of Win 8 to make it into a system that was actually usable. For those that want to know how here are the steps and note that you can NOT "just add Start8 and be done", not by a long shot!
I use Win8 on my desktop. I learned to ignore charms and use start button on the keyboard. I also do not use any metro apps. That is about it.I do not see why win8 is such a big problem. I see win8-specific stuff maybe 20-30 seconds a day max. It is entertaining to see people pissed for no reason but man.. relax. Get a beer or something. We lived through XP mickey mouse interface with unremovable moviemaker. We can handle charms, apps and metro. Man up!
I see the same reaction with XP loyalists such as these in pages 2 - 15 in this article? Besides the 1st comment titled UPGRADE!! everyone is bitching and moaning on how only XP can do this only XP can do that and they site examples like show desktop doesn't exist!! It does it is that rectangle on the right. No sticky keys OMG.. uh enable them and they are there. One of them was a CIO who bashed those on modern operating systems saying he makes sure all his workplace computers are 12 years old because they are "familiar to him". Are you serious? What kind of CIO does nothing for 12 years? They love their blues and greens and that grassed hill in the background more than they want to change.
Change is hard and I bet if MS removed METRO in Windows 9 you would be irritated too because you are used to the limitation and annoyance of Windows 8 Modern by this time frame too right?
In reality though the complaints agaisn't 8 on a desktop with a mouse and keyboard are real. I do not get why I would click on the news tile and have no menu or functions and would have to move the mouse all over for just 3 of them full screen? Aero glass is gone and so is aero snap and Windows 7 instant search. That is a bummer too for multitaskers. Sure if someone put a gun to my head Hairy and I *could* use it but it is not optimized for desktops.
I could get used to Windows 8.1 and Metro if I could get aero back, stacked tiles similiar to programs in the Windows 7 task bar, better control with a task bar for Metro and mouse integration. I would still feel uncomfortable because I do not like change but your argument then would be more valid. XP was a great OS for its time and anyone could get rid of that fisher price UI. It did not remove any functionality from Windows 98 with the exception of poorly written dos apps in assembly.
Sorry but the patent trolls who sue everybody will make you sign a NDA making your work closed source if you make hardware. So the days of having it in the kernel are over.
Microkernels and exokernels are what acemics say are supperior and the wave of the future.
Regardless what OS doesn't use abi and api for driver development? I cant think of any modern OS? How about Mac users wanting a driver that works throughout versions? With the exception of the split between powerpc and x86 it is true on that platform. Not just Windows users.
Who wants this? I, hairyfeet, and others who want things to just work and have given up putting linux on customer machines. How do I know that atheros wifi or ati driver will work when they click upgrade? My guess is this is the issue Intel has and is paying money in constant r&d and QA.
Windows 2000 can run drivers from XP and even Windows Server 2003. Yours break during a simple patch or a distro update.
I used to own a mom popIT business and customers would always return later after an update as their screens would go black due to X or an ati driver breaking. Switch them to Windows and the problem goes away.
I don' t understand how you think this is a good thing? Linux is foss so drivers will never not be supported unlike other oses. I think you assume your printer will always work. How do you know a driver will work during an update or distro upgrade?
X was really hated here on slashdot in the early days 12 years ago! I guess modern hardware hides its issues with bloat and a client and server relationship. It was made for dumb terminals and it shows. Low latency for things like glx openGL has had issues and many hacks just to get it to work mediocre wise.
When will Linux finally use standard ABIs and APIs for drivers just like very other OS on the planet?
Why can't you just use one driver written a few years ago and use it universally across all distros due to this? The other free BSDs have this and you can install the extra compat libraries to accomplish this. I guess RMS thinks that is oppressive and wants opensource hardware even though patent holders from the likes of the h.264 consortorium forbid it!
Before I get flamed remember the article mentioned ATI and NVidia drivers as well so Intel is not the asshole here. Rather they different kernels and distros being redone requiring new QA and recompiling with every release.
There is a reason many old time linux users like myself only run CentOS in a VM Now. It is because Redhat provides ABIs and APIs that do not change for 5 years. Unfortunately it also means an out of date distro as well which is not fair to non server users (even a few server users who need a newer app or framework.)
It is fairly rare but getting more common as Apple adds more complex things and folders sadly.
As I said I am a Windows 7 user and a former Linux user and not a fanboi. I went to school late in my life and saw all the students using Macs. If you have no must have business app the mac is a better value.
I hated Windows with a passion for years, though NT was a nice start MS plagued it with garbage like registry editors, buggy MFC classes, proprietary browsers, and no real cohesive design with all of its components. Not as bad as Linux, but still you can tell there is a war between the Office and Windows groups and why the tablet PC was crippled by the office group. Then the IPAD came why MS bickered with itself.
The active X/com/win32, office, and then the Windows kernel are distinct. Where as Apple everything has a unified vision and designed to work together well.
3 out of 40 programs that act Windows like is much better than 40 out of 40 with Windows. Even sourceforge includes adware/malware with their free software installers and it drives me damn crazy. For non technical and semi technical users Apple is a better bet if you can afford it and do not have a must have win32 app for work.
Could this explain why a hacked version of Firefox with NSA homing was discovered?
What are the odds of the NSA inserting malware to track users and then send the info to the FBI for prosecution? Could a user using a legit torrent hit a node and have this spyware installed from installing CENTOS for example?
If you have to run cleaners then why switch to the Mac?
I can see why mac users are all saddled up while Windows users are sratching their heads thinking it is normal, but man if this is becoming a problem why pay the premium?
You do realize that's not the App store, but Apple's store where they ship you a box with the software?
I notice you ignored the second link: Which shows that malware can and has been uploaded to the app store, which was my original point; The OP said that nothing like Parallels Desktop could be in the app store because it was too "low level".
I'd consider something that steals my credit card info and takes over my browser pretty "low level". The reason why Parallels Desktop isn't in the app store is because it loads kernel modules, not because the app store is somehow 'more secure'.
But hey... I already got a -1 everywhere else for pointing out that it's not all sunshine and kittens in AppleLand and got furious anger and rage from the fanboys... so what's a missed point between slashdotters?
You have no idea how bad you have it with Windows. I say this as a Windows 7 user too. The reason it is a big deal is former Windows users who switched to the Mac left XP/Vista because of this kind of crap!
Registry entries, malware, every free app including malware to slow down yoursystem including sourceforge using i3, eyecandy, ask, or whatever michevious crap! With a mac you want to transfer MS Office to a newer computer? Just copy the files to your phone and copy them back and run them. That is it. No fancy installers, no bizaare registry entries, simple folders, nothing hidden. It is what could have been if neophytes did not pick Windows back in the 1990s.
So if the Mac turns into windows why spend 2x for the switch. I almost was one of them when I seriously considered it 3 years ago. In the end I could not justify the cost sadly and the non upgrade options if I want to game plus my software like Office would need to be repurchased.
I hear the Linux users on here laughing at Windows users. But I no longer run Linux as I had beta quality experience with ATI drivers breaking during updates and terrible guis like gnome 3.
While Apple still has bugs like in its store it is known as a superior platform and people on the west coast use it heavily in universities. In the east it is more 50/50 windows vs mac. They are better if you can afford one and do not mind limited upgrades.
Arstechnica.com mentioned this a few years ago for a MacOSX centric review. Windows seamless mode is available in the Windows version and I just assumed it was in the mac version as well. I stand corrected then if it is not there.
I wonder if Virtualbox is more crippled in non MS operating systems then?
Performance wise at least on Windows 7 it has to go with Virtualbox on my 2.6 ghz system. Perhaps on a newer icore7 extreme this might not be true?
Apple itself does this kind of crap. Back when QuickTime was necessary to view some online video, they'd bundle iTunes and not allow you to remove it.
Everyone does this, this happens all the time. I really don't know what the big deal is, I've installed many programs that had extra crap I didn't want and this is nothing new. Use a different product if you don't like the package. Firefox didn't ask me if I wanted their update service installed either, it's probably an NSA spy machine.
Difference is that is a Windows problem. Macs are better in that you have simple folders and no registry. To back up a program you copy it to a source then copy it back and run it. No install programs that install malware. Windows users are just used to bad things.
Citation? This was modded to +4 based on popularity as I have seen VB just as fast as VM workstation. Actually VB slows down the host less than the $250 workstation! I only use vm workstation because of nesting support so I can run HyperV type 1 bare metal virtualizers. But I am an extreme niche here. To run office VB is a better value.
According to Arstechnica one of the posters mentioned these sites that host them are having scalability problems and are losing money handling it.
I am rather cynical and think there is a reason for using these torproject servers. How possible is it to insert malware into streaming torrents through a faulty node? I do not trust torrents and many sites which have 3 download now buttons and only 1 is the correct one and the rest install malware on your computer.
If anything it will cause your ISP to mod your network connection down as they now have the excuse it must be malware as torrents are brutal on routers (even really expensive ones) due to the amount of ram and cpu work for huge freaking constantly changing tables of IP addresses. I have fiber and even FIOS downgrades my connection to 1 meg a second as soon as it detects a torrent. I have given up using them from CentOS as it is faster to download it from an FTP server at this point.
It is exactly a fear of change. The people who use Yahoo Groups are older and have been using it for over a decade. Most older people have a greater resistance to change than younger people.
This reminds me of how car manufacturers are finally realizing that it's stupid to keep trying to market new cars to young people -- they're just not interested. It's the boomers who are still buying new cars, and it's much more effective to direct their marketing at that generation than the kids. Yahoo should try to understand who their users are and cater to their needs instead of the audience they wish they had.
I am confused. Your post just contradicted itself as you say only older people buy new things like cars while claiming older people do not like change??
Younger people are not buying new cars as the economic recession never fully ended for youngsters. Jobs out of school that used to pay $35k now pay $23k or $12/hr... if you are lucky! Insurance for both your car and health are up 200% from 1993!! Cost of gas up 75% since 1993 too. A record low amount of teenage employment is here too.
If a car is needed for a crap job then a crap car that the car companies do not see as a profit is more economical instead.
Now combine this when we needed cars to chat with your friends can now be done via your smartphone. Add facebook and skype on a home computer too? So you do not need a car to be social anymore right? So the people now who buy cars need them for work and tend to be older with more disposable income.
The auto industry still is not making sales as good as 2006/2007 even with improvements for these reasons. More out of work people mean less people drive and the demand is just to get to work. Not for a social life as you were in a prison without one in the old days.
I do not use Yahoo anymore and not since 2005 timeframe.
It does not filter porn spammers, I have to use an ancient Yahoo email address, and seperate websites and forums have more features and a better UI. I doubt Yahoo would change something for the sake of it. You are used to one way of doing it and it is a power issue as you did not upgrade it yourself. Your nature is to resist because it is change.Ask any business consultant how hard it is to sell new ideas and processes to companies losing money.
People will fight tooth and nail and explain how long they have been doing their job. Not how much money they are losing.
The UI change probably has new features you have not used yet or was updated for a reason.
If you want me to come to your group or use any Yahoo services again I need a reason. That will be very hard as I do not like change from the sites I use now etc.
as a Programmer I view complaining as a good thing, because people don't complain about what they don't care about. That said, not striking a balance recognizing changes users hate / hoping they don't leave, ends up in things like digg.com
I know people who whine about upgrading from IE 8 because they are familiar with this menus. Many of them are also XP diehards who view Windows 7 as eyecandy. Does that mean we all should downgrade because some people do not like new things?
Most of the corps are switching or have switched and the rest are home users who like the way something looks pixel by pixel and any change requires psychological intervention. Not all of us are like this of course but a good 15% of all users hate upgrades even if they are improvements because they are familiar with the old way.
Now if 100% of all users hate your product like Windows 8 that is another story. My hunch is only grandmas and those set in their ways even use Yahoo Groups anymore so these are the demographics who accept crappy and spammy service while the rest of us who live for improvements have went to websites long ago.
That's a nice bromide... and it's easy to blame unspecified 'people' but it's bullshit in this case. Over the last few months, Yahoo! has been rolling out change after ill thought out change in page layout, UI, and functionality. They're trying to be 'hip' and 'modern' and failing miserably while alienating their existing userbase.
I use Yahoo Groups daily, and it really needs to incorporate modern features.
Like what? And more importantly why? The system worked, and worked well.
Now explain to me how it is not a fear of change? Wired is not exactly Neophyte monthly but the fact that people are so angry and will fight tooth and nail to resist a poorly made 12 year old operating system because they do not like the colors and icons of Windows 7 is amazing!
It doesn't matter what you do. People will find fault with anything new if it is something out of their control. Me? I have no idea what yahoo groups did as I left sometime early to mid last of the last decade! Tired of porn spammers every 10 minutes drove me physchologically insane so my guess is only older neoyphtes keep using it out of habit.
Maybe their could be something wrong? Maybe not. All I know is no matter what anything does people whine and cry about change whether it is a browser, OS, website, API, whatever.
I appreciate your vintage gear, but really: there have been a few technological advances since 1967 that are worth upgrading to; not just "novel". Please don't argue that your CRT and VCR are just as good as a Blu-ray player and LCD.
DVI had these things sorted out before HDM became popular when Vista came out 5 years ago. It infuriating many users who have spent thousands upgrading only to not be able to watch blurays?!
Also many conference rooms and expensive projects at work have digital conections that work fine without HDMI and replacing these will be very expensive for no benefit other than forced obscelence.
Since HDMI is still evolving it means a sunken investment to upgrade as HDMI 2.1 will replace obsoluting the same gear that works fine again.
Color my cynical but I see all this hype with 3D TV and movies and cable companies looking at these silly things as a way to extort money from $50 a month to $199 for HD. WIth 4K HD here comes $499 a month, now add conference rooms and TV makers,... oh I guess greenRay DVDs are needed so now Sony can make even MORE $$$ for these etc. Sadly idiots wil pay for these too and then wonder how they are just barely making it with their middle class salaries and how they could have bought a brand new car for the monthly bills they keep paying for such garbage with minor improvements of what they had.
That is a little unfair. Gold connectors do in fact do provide benefits of low resistance connections without corrosion problems because of golds properties. It can also be applied in quite a thin layer so can also be fairly cheap too.
Have you seen the price of gold recently? In the old days yes with analog signals there was a scientific loss of quality, but you could not tell with a human ear unless the cables were really corroded.
With digital it works or does not. 1 or 0 as no shades exist in digital compared to audio where the signal degrades.
I could buy 10 cables for the price of 1 gold so it makes no economic sense. Name me one gold HDMI seller for under $100 for a 4 foot cable?
Professionals use professional cables for high end equipment which are not the HDMI stuff we see for consumers.
3820x2160 is merely Quad-1080p - which at least is sane.
4096x2160 is 17:9 (ish) - I don't see the point in this resolution.
I await the pointless 5040x2160 monitors (21:9, the "new shiny standard" for widescreen monitors).
You think BestBuy was greedy?
Just watch as Hollywood and TV producers try to shovel this crap on next! The 3D TVs, TVs with apps, and all sorts of ugly non sense to charge for premiums. Cox and Time Warner would love to charge $499 a month for TV with all sooo brilliant 5k!
You know there will be suckers lining for this too as always.
$199 a month per TV in addition to the $499 a month. At $700 a month you can fucking trade that in for a car! But consumers will of course pay for it with their 30% interest credit cards and then whine how they are soo broke and can't retire. Sigh... ok going off topic here but just a dark observation I have made when it comes to consumables in the past 10 years I have seen.
Now I am considered a money waster by these people for buying $250 video cards and decent computers every 4 years too.
But when stuff like this comes out marketers always look for a way to exploit it. I am fine with regular HD and nothing else but perhaps I am a minority?
Wake me up when non Apple monitors support it? I do not need to throw out a perfecting good monitor because HDMI works fine and is more of a standard. I wont pay $2,000 for a 4k monitor.
Also what part of audio issues like rebooting to get sound back did you not read? The realtek chip in my GPU just works so for $10 the HDMI cable is a good investment.
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You may want to ask Linus how well his platter of rust is doing after he switched to SSD and it died?
VMWare Workstation is designed for things like this. Needless to say my clients do not want to pay for a big ass server to host my VMs to learn. I work in I.T. and did help desk. Trust me virii are always a problem.
I hate AV software and some updates are not perfect but it is well worth the price. True I could switch to Linux as a host? But people pay me to support Windows and I run Wow and SWTOR and Office. Sigh
Thankfully I do not run a server like this, but I emulate what I have at work and home projects. Each domain I create is 30 gigs each. Several with one with SCCM 2010, SCCM 2012, Client copy (80 gig each) etc, and they add up. Any IT guy worth his salt has something like this to keep things up.
Are ypu nuts?!
There are over 130+ updates on my Win 7 sp1 which is only 2 years old and represents +200 security holes and exploits! God help you if you use the older win 7 rtm or worse XP without a single patch. I have financial data and hundreds of gigs of data and vms so a reimage due to a virus is unconscionable.
The link is here to give you an idea on how much people just hate change.
Well then that CPU is effectively fucked, as I can tell ya that folks HATE Windows 8. Can't say as I blame 'em, I spent half the night having to hack the living shit out of Win 8 to make it into a system that was actually usable. For those that want to know how here are the steps and note that you can NOT "just add Start8 and be done", not by a long shot!
I use Win8 on my desktop. I learned to ignore charms and use start button on the keyboard. I also do not use any metro apps. That is about it.I do not see why win8 is such a big problem. I see win8-specific stuff maybe 20-30 seconds a day max. It is entertaining to see people pissed for no reason but man.. relax. Get a beer or something. We lived through XP mickey mouse interface with unremovable moviemaker. We can handle charms, apps and metro. Man up!
I see the same reaction with XP loyalists such as these in pages 2 - 15 in this article? Besides the 1st comment titled UPGRADE!! everyone is bitching and moaning on how only XP can do this only XP can do that and they site examples like show desktop doesn't exist!! It does it is that rectangle on the right. No sticky keys OMG .. uh enable them and they are there. One of them was a CIO who bashed those on modern operating systems saying he makes sure all his workplace computers are 12 years old because they are "familiar to him". Are you serious? What kind of CIO does nothing for 12 years? They love their blues and greens and that grassed hill in the background more than they want to change.
Change is hard and I bet if MS removed METRO in Windows 9 you would be irritated too because you are used to the limitation and annoyance of Windows 8 Modern by this time frame too right?
In reality though the complaints agaisn't 8 on a desktop with a mouse and keyboard are real. I do not get why I would click on the news tile and have no menu or functions and would have to move the mouse all over for just 3 of them full screen? Aero glass is gone and so is aero snap and Windows 7 instant search. That is a bummer too for multitaskers. Sure if someone put a gun to my head Hairy and I *could* use it but it is not optimized for desktops.
I could get used to Windows 8.1 and Metro if I could get aero back, stacked tiles similiar to programs in the Windows 7 task bar, better control with a task bar for Metro and mouse integration. I would still feel uncomfortable because I do not like change but your argument then would be more valid. XP was a great OS for its time and anyone could get rid of that fisher price UI. It did not remove any functionality from Windows 98 with the exception of poorly written dos apps in assembly.
I hate metro and the latest atoms force you to use Windows 8. The SOI is proprietary and linux and Windows 7 support are not existant.
If Intel has drivers for this one I will withdrawl my compliant
Sorry but the patent trolls who sue everybody will make you sign a NDA making your work closed source if you make hardware. So the days of having it in the kernel are over.
Microkernels and exokernels are what acemics say are supperior and the wave of the future.
Regardless what OS doesn't use abi and api for driver development? I cant think of any modern OS? How about Mac users wanting a driver that works throughout versions? With the exception of the split between powerpc and x86 it is true on that platform. Not just Windows users.
Who wants this? I, hairyfeet, and others who want things to just work and have given up putting linux on customer machines. How do I know that atheros wifi or ati driver will work when they click upgrade? My guess is this is the issue Intel has and is paying money in constant r&d and QA.
Windows 2000 can run drivers from XP and even Windows Server 2003. Yours break during a simple patch or a distro update.
I used to own a mom popIT business and customers would always return later after an update as their screens would go black due to X or an ati driver breaking. Switch them to Windows and the problem goes away.
I don' t understand how you think this is a good thing? Linux is foss so drivers will never not be supported unlike other oses. I think you assume your printer will always work. How do you know a driver will work during an update or distro upgrade?
Nvidia uses a hack to get around this.
I thought they were switching to Wayland anyway.
X was really hated here on slashdot in the early days 12 years ago! I guess modern hardware hides its issues with bloat and a client and server relationship. It was made for dumb terminals and it shows. Low latency for things like glx openGL has had issues and many hacks just to get it to work mediocre wise.
When will Linux finally use standard ABIs and APIs for drivers just like very other OS on the planet?
Why can't you just use one driver written a few years ago and use it universally across all distros due to this? The other free BSDs have this and you can install the extra compat libraries to accomplish this. I guess RMS thinks that is oppressive and wants opensource hardware even though patent holders from the likes of the h.264 consortorium forbid it!
Before I get flamed remember the article mentioned ATI and NVidia drivers as well so Intel is not the asshole here. Rather they different kernels and distros being redone requiring new QA and recompiling with every release.
There is a reason many old time linux users like myself only run CentOS in a VM Now. It is because Redhat provides ABIs and APIs that do not change for 5 years. Unfortunately it also means an out of date distro as well which is not fair to non server users (even a few server users who need a newer app or framework.)
It is fairly rare but getting more common as Apple adds more complex things and folders sadly.
As I said I am a Windows 7 user and a former Linux user and not a fanboi. I went to school late in my life and saw all the students using Macs. If you have no must have business app the mac is a better value.
I hated Windows with a passion for years, though NT was a nice start MS plagued it with garbage like registry editors, buggy MFC classes, proprietary browsers, and no real cohesive design with all of its components. Not as bad as Linux, but still you can tell there is a war between the Office and Windows groups and why the tablet PC was crippled by the office group. Then the IPAD came why MS bickered with itself.
The active X/com/win32, office, and then the Windows kernel are distinct. Where as Apple everything has a unified vision and designed to work together well.
3 out of 40 programs that act Windows like is much better than 40 out of 40 with Windows. Even sourceforge includes adware/malware with their free software installers and it drives me damn crazy. For non technical and semi technical users Apple is a better bet if you can afford it and do not have a must have win32 app for work.
Could this explain why a hacked version of Firefox with NSA homing was discovered?
What are the odds of the NSA inserting malware to track users and then send the info to the FBI for prosecution? Could a user using a legit torrent hit a node and have this spyware installed from installing CENTOS for example?
If you have to run cleaners then why switch to the Mac?
I can see why mac users are all saddled up while Windows users are sratching their heads thinking it is normal, but man if this is becoming a problem why pay the premium?
You do realize that's not the App store, but Apple's store where they ship you a box with the software?
I notice you ignored the second link: Which shows that malware can and has been uploaded to the app store, which was my original point; The OP said that nothing like Parallels Desktop could be in the app store because it was too "low level".
I'd consider something that steals my credit card info and takes over my browser pretty "low level". The reason why Parallels Desktop isn't in the app store is because it loads kernel modules, not because the app store is somehow 'more secure'.
But hey... I already got a -1 everywhere else for pointing out that it's not all sunshine and kittens in AppleLand and got furious anger and rage from the fanboys... so what's a missed point between slashdotters?
You have no idea how bad you have it with Windows. I say this as a Windows 7 user too. The reason it is a big deal is former Windows users who switched to the Mac left XP/Vista because of this kind of crap!
Registry entries, malware, every free app including malware to slow down yoursystem including sourceforge using i3, eyecandy, ask, or whatever michevious crap! With a mac you want to transfer MS Office to a newer computer? Just copy the files to your phone and copy them back and run them. That is it. No fancy installers, no bizaare registry entries, simple folders, nothing hidden. It is what could have been if neophytes did not pick Windows back in the 1990s.
So if the Mac turns into windows why spend 2x for the switch. I almost was one of them when I seriously considered it 3 years ago. In the end I could not justify the cost sadly and the non upgrade options if I want to game plus my software like Office would need to be repurchased.
I hear the Linux users on here laughing at Windows users. But I no longer run Linux as I had beta quality experience with ATI drivers breaking during updates and terrible guis like gnome 3.
While Apple still has bugs like in its store it is known as a superior platform and people on the west coast use it heavily in universities. In the east it is more 50/50 windows vs mac. They are better if you can afford one and do not mind limited upgrades.
Ok.
Arstechnica.com mentioned this a few years ago for a MacOSX centric review. Windows seamless mode is available in the Windows version and I just assumed it was in the mac version as well. I stand corrected then if it is not there.
I wonder if Virtualbox is more crippled in non MS operating systems then?
Performance wise at least on Windows 7 it has to go with Virtualbox on my 2.6 ghz system. Perhaps on a newer icore7 extreme this might not be true?
Apple itself does this kind of crap. Back when QuickTime was necessary to view some online video, they'd bundle iTunes and not allow you to remove it.
Everyone does this, this happens all the time. I really don't know what the big deal is, I've installed many programs that had extra crap I didn't want and this is nothing new. Use a different product if you don't like the package.
Firefox didn't ask me if I wanted their update service installed either, it's probably an NSA spy machine.
Difference is that is a Windows problem. Macs are better in that you have simple folders and no registry. To back up a program you copy it to a source then copy it back and run it. No install programs that install malware. Windows users are just used to bad things.
Because VirtualBox is slow and lacks features.
Citation? This was modded to +4 based on popularity as I have seen VB just as fast as VM workstation. Actually VB slows down the host less than the $250 workstation! I only use vm workstation because of nesting support so I can run HyperV type 1 bare metal virtualizers. But I am an extreme niche here. To run office VB is a better value.
Can these sites handle the relays?
According to Arstechnica one of the posters mentioned these sites that host them are having scalability problems and are losing money handling it.
I am rather cynical and think there is a reason for using these torproject servers. How possible is it to insert malware into streaming torrents through a faulty node? I do not trust torrents and many sites which have 3 download now buttons and only 1 is the correct one and the rest install malware on your computer.
If anything it will cause your ISP to mod your network connection down as they now have the excuse it must be malware as torrents are brutal on routers (even really expensive ones) due to the amount of ram and cpu work for huge freaking constantly changing tables of IP addresses. I have fiber and even FIOS downgrades my connection to 1 meg a second as soon as it detects a torrent. I have given up using them from CentOS as it is faster to download it from an FTP server at this point.
Now explain to me how it is not a fear of change?
It is exactly a fear of change. The people who use Yahoo Groups are older and have been using it for over a decade. Most older people have a greater resistance to change than younger people.
This reminds me of how car manufacturers are finally realizing that it's stupid to keep trying to market new cars to young people -- they're just not interested. It's the boomers who are still buying new cars, and it's much more effective to direct their marketing at that generation than the kids. Yahoo should try to understand who their users are and cater to their needs instead of the audience they wish they had.
I am confused. Your post just contradicted itself as you say only older people buy new things like cars while claiming older people do not like change??
Younger people are not buying new cars as the economic recession never fully ended for youngsters. Jobs out of school that used to pay $35k now pay $23k or $12/hr ... if you are lucky! Insurance for both your car and health are up 200% from 1993!! Cost of gas up 75% since 1993 too. A record low amount of teenage employment is here too.
If a car is needed for a crap job then a crap car that the car companies do not see as a profit is more economical instead.
Now combine this when we needed cars to chat with your friends can now be done via your smartphone. Add facebook and skype on a home computer too? So you do not need a car to be social anymore right? So the people now who buy cars need them for work and tend to be older with more disposable income.
The auto industry still is not making sales as good as 2006/2007 even with improvements for these reasons. More out of work people mean less people drive and the demand is just to get to work. Not for a social life as you were in a prison without one in the old days.
I do not use Yahoo anymore and not since 2005 timeframe.
It does not filter porn spammers, I have to use an ancient Yahoo email address, and seperate websites and forums have more features and a better UI. I doubt Yahoo would change something for the sake of it. You are used to one way of doing it and it is a power issue as you did not upgrade it yourself. Your nature is to resist because it is change.Ask any business consultant how hard it is to sell new ideas and processes to companies losing money.
People will fight tooth and nail and explain how long they have been doing their job. Not how much money they are losing.
The UI change probably has new features you have not used yet or was updated for a reason.
If you want me to come to your group or use any Yahoo services again I need a reason. That will be very hard as I do not like change from the sites I use now etc.
as a Programmer I view complaining as a good thing, because people don't complain about what they don't care about. That said, not striking a balance recognizing changes users hate / hoping they don't leave, ends up in things like digg.com
I know people who whine about upgrading from IE 8 because they are familiar with this menus. Many of them are also XP diehards who view Windows 7 as eyecandy. Does that mean we all should downgrade because some people do not like new things?
Most of the corps are switching or have switched and the rest are home users who like the way something looks pixel by pixel and any change requires psychological intervention. Not all of us are like this of course but a good 15% of all users hate upgrades even if they are improvements because they are familiar with the old way.
Now if 100% of all users hate your product like Windows 8 that is another story. My hunch is only grandmas and those set in their ways even use Yahoo Groups anymore so these are the demographics who accept crappy and spammy service while the rest of us who live for improvements have went to websites long ago.
That's a nice bromide... and it's easy to blame unspecified 'people' but it's bullshit in this case. Over the last few months, Yahoo! has been rolling out change after ill thought out change in page layout, UI, and functionality. They're trying to be 'hip' and 'modern' and failing miserably while alienating their existing userbase.
Like what? And more importantly why? The system worked, and worked well.
Really? Go read the highest rating comments at the bottom of this article?
Now explain to me how it is not a fear of change? Wired is not exactly Neophyte monthly but the fact that people are so angry and will fight tooth and nail to resist a poorly made 12 year old operating system because they do not like the colors and icons of Windows 7 is amazing!
It doesn't matter what you do. People will find fault with anything new if it is something out of their control. Me? I have no idea what yahoo groups did as I left sometime early to mid last of the last decade! Tired of porn spammers every 10 minutes drove me physchologically insane so my guess is only older neoyphtes keep using it out of habit.
Maybe their could be something wrong? Maybe not. All I know is no matter what anything does people whine and cry about change whether it is a browser, OS, website, API, whatever.
I appreciate your vintage gear, but really: there have been a few technological advances since 1967 that are worth upgrading to; not just "novel". Please don't argue that your CRT and VCR are just as good as a Blu-ray player and LCD.
DVI had these things sorted out before HDM became popular when Vista came out 5 years ago. It infuriating many users who have spent thousands upgrading only to not be able to watch blurays?!
Also many conference rooms and expensive projects at work have digital conections that work fine without HDMI and replacing these will be very expensive for no benefit other than forced obscelence.
Since HDMI is still evolving it means a sunken investment to upgrade as HDMI 2.1 will replace obsoluting the same gear that works fine again.
Color my cynical but I see all this hype with 3D TV and movies and cable companies looking at these silly things as a way to extort money from $50 a month to $199 for HD. WIth 4K HD here comes $499 a month, now add conference rooms and TV makers, ... oh I guess greenRay DVDs are needed so now Sony can make even MORE $$$ for these etc. Sadly idiots wil pay for these too and then wonder how they are just barely making it with their middle class salaries and how they could have bought a brand new car for the monthly bills they keep paying for such garbage with minor improvements of what they had.
1080P for life for me!
That is a little unfair. Gold connectors do in fact do provide benefits of low resistance connections without corrosion problems because of golds properties. It can also be applied in quite a thin layer so can also be fairly cheap too.
Have you seen the price of gold recently? In the old days yes with analog signals there was a scientific loss of quality, but you could not tell with a human ear unless the cables were really corroded.
With digital it works or does not. 1 or 0 as no shades exist in digital compared to audio where the signal degrades.
I could buy 10 cables for the price of 1 gold so it makes no economic sense. Name me one gold HDMI seller for under $100 for a 4 foot cable?
Professionals use professional cables for high end equipment which are not the HDMI stuff we see for consumers.
1920 multiplied by 2 is 3820.
3820x2160 is merely Quad-1080p - which at least is sane.
4096x2160 is 17:9 (ish) - I don't see the point in this resolution.
I await the pointless 5040x2160 monitors (21:9, the "new shiny standard" for widescreen monitors).
You think BestBuy was greedy?
Just watch as Hollywood and TV producers try to shovel this crap on next! The 3D TVs, TVs with apps, and all sorts of ugly non sense to charge for premiums. Cox and Time Warner would love to charge $499 a month for TV with all sooo brilliant 5k!
You know there will be suckers lining for this too as always.
$199 a month per TV in addition to the $499 a month. At $700 a month you can fucking trade that in for a car! But consumers will of course pay for it with their 30% interest credit cards and then whine how they are soo broke and can't retire. Sigh ... ok going off topic here but just a dark observation I have made when it comes to consumables in the past 10 years I have seen.
Now I am considered a money waster by these people for buying $250 video cards and decent computers every 4 years too.
But when stuff like this comes out marketers always look for a way to exploit it. I am fine with regular HD and nothing else but perhaps I am a minority?
Wake me up when non Apple monitors support it? I do not need to throw out a perfecting good monitor because HDMI works fine and is more of a standard. I wont pay $2,000 for a 4k monitor.
Also what part of audio issues like rebooting to get sound back did you not read? The realtek chip in my GPU just works so for $10 the HDMI cable is a good investment.