I can just tell any client ignore 20% of your sales from these users? Wow...
No they wont change as they are set in their ways and many do not know what a browser is. That blue E is how you get to Google is all they know. Many do not want to install software they never heard off and find that act threatening! IE is what they know it works and if you do not support it on your website a competitor will.
The corps in my example above have intranet apps that only work in IE 6 or IE 8. Fat chance they will use something else after spending millions leaving IE 6 which works fine to IE 8 so you can have pretty divs in ohhh and ahhh HTML 5 and css 3 glory.
HTML 4 and flash are both here to stay for a very long time.
Good luck trying to get these corps who just blew $10,000,000 upgrading to IE 8 in the last 6 months to throw out their investment because some geeks want cool translucent and animated css 3 divs. Try convincing old people and those who got hit hard in the great recession who are underemployed and work at Walmart (20% of the workforce still!) who are stuck with XP and IE 8 and can't afford a new computer?
HTML 5 is going no where until 2019 or 2020 when Windows 7 hits EOL sadly.
Maybe I am a pessimist but after seeing how the horrible IE 6 lived on for year after year last decade I see why change what works? IE 8 is more secure and doesn't crash as easily so there will be pressure to hold onto IE 8 longer than IE 6.
Intranet apps today still do not follow w3c. Only old MS standards.
IE 10 != IE 6 by a longshot! It is the most caught up version of IE yet that supports HTML 5, CSS 3, and has great hardware acceleration and loads up sites as fast if not faster than Chrome. It is the only browser that is double sandboxed against hep spray attacks, as well as ASLR, and DEP.
I am not an IE fan nor am I even using it right now (Chrome), but for using shitty ancient web apps optimized for IE 7 and IE 8 is it the only option. Also only IE is enterprise grade with.MSI and group policies and AD integration so you can manage 9,000 easily with different settings for different OUs and groups such as one for faculty, another for students etc.
If you have a problem with this go harass Mozilla for not making Firefox enterprise friendly. Until that time comes we are staying IE only. With the later releases following standards and behaving like Chrome and Firefox it is not a big of an issue as it once was.
Most just run them through a search program that ranks resumes like search engines. Those with the highest hits get interviewed. That is the game and yes they love.docs because they want to edit them and highlight things and email them to groups of different people.
Also if they use IE 6 or IE 7 it may not render properly due to bugs and will make you look bad if they see margins all over the place which IE 6 probably inherited from Word.
You will need to click +40 times in the upper right hand corner over and over and over and over and over until you get to each app if you are in Metro or if one of your apps is in Metro mode.
Wow does it suck! That was my pet peeve.
Metro could work with a task bar on a bigger screen with aero peak and the ability to resize tiles. If MS did this I would probably upgrade to Windows 8. I agree with others. It is a cute cell phone OS. But for real work its new terrible start/search and lack of taskbar means it is not ready for real work.
Seriously, I don't... I still have my keyboard from 1993 because these new ones stink.
More seriously - I use my computer for work. Not kids, not watching videos, not games, WORK. Windows XP/7 is better at getting work done than Windows 8.
Hopefully microsoft pulls their heads out of their butts on this and allows a quick setting change to "I have no use for metro, thanks."
So do I - real work. I do not play games on a PC; prefer a 4:3 aspect if I can get it because no movies, etc. I do not even listen to music. But real work is generally done in applications like Word, Excel, AutoCAD, ERP, etc. Not the Windows operating system, but the apps loaded from it. Beyond loading an app, or managing files, what other real work is done in the Operating system? Very little. And I find Windows 8 about as good for that Windows 7. Plus it loads faster and finds printers nearby.
You mean you never read a spreadsheet and want to research something you see like ACME sales 2009 while typing a report in Word? Or be working on autocad and think, shoot what did the customer request again and need to open word or IE/Chrome to take a peak without losing your screen of your drawing when referencing tiny details?
Auto peak, snap, and side by side, are key Windows 7 features mixed with the instant search. What many ignorant slashdotters fail to realize is when you are presented with a start screen is it ruins your multitasking in your brain and destroys your attention span and train of thought. What if your drawing had 10 things you wanted to check briefly? You would forget them as the start screen would reset your attention span and would lose your drawing.
By having your work still open and using search with translucent Windows and instant search you can be referencing something or having 2 things together and not lose your train of thought.
The Windows 7 desktop is the best Redmond has ever made. You can access quick information FAST and still have your views protected with jimp lists and stacking. Stacking and jumplists for Windows 8? Silly that is what Metro is for!
No I do not want to smudge my finger across my tiny 9 inch screen over and over like an autistic person in a cycle for each app opened! You can keep your Windows 8 desktop. Me? I am sticking with Windows 7. The best version ever made.
FYI in Windows 8 when I type in "resume" I have to then cancel using the fast keyboard and go back to the mouse as it is too stupid to know the difference between power-settings and Resume-Chron-10-14-12! In Windows 7 I just hit the arrow key up or down in 1/3 of a second to differentiate. So much better and superior to Windows 8.
Being forced to upgrade by end of lifing support does not make Win7 any less 'good enough for me', it just means taking the option away.
Not sure what you are going on about with being 'left behind'. I am skeptical many businesses out there refuse to interoperate with other businesses because they are not running the latest and greatest software. I still see, for instance, a great deal of standardization on.DOC rather then.docx, and I do not recall seeing any companies saying 'sorry, your file format is out of date, no business for you'.
Until last year I always downgraded my resumes to.doc for these reasons. Today I use docx. If it can not be read or has formatting issues then you are a company that is not important.
In the good old days it was businesses that forced us to upgrade and it was the other way around. When the boss shows off he has office XP which can not be read properly under Office 97 he figures anyone else who does not have the latest and greatest is not important. It forced IT to constantly upgrade. Now the opposite is true but is starting to change slowly as my example above back to where it was.
I am hoping corps stop supporting IE 6 and forcing suppliers and vendors to use it. One company does it for some crappy Oracle ERP app and all 6 other companies that use their login then have to downgrade which forces there customers to downgrade and hold the whole internet back 10 years, until consumer websites wont even load anymore.
Congratulations. This is the 50th comment I've read in this thread that suggests violence as the one and only solution. And all describe how happy they would be. Best thing to do and only thing that comes to your mind is to just kill the people you don't like. You seem to see the world exactly like Adam Lanza did.
Violence is acceptable as far as I am concerned. Difference is we do not kill children. But they are free to have their acts of anger and vengence and we are free to respond. Perfectly fair. I wouldn't kill them, but rough them up.
Was it ok to let OBL live after what he did? FYI I was in lower manhatten and heard the terrors and screams of those who fell to their deaths. Such people can not continue and deserve what they get.
Runs Wow and SWTOR perfectly fine. Wow can run at 30 fps almost full screen on max settings. True under medium high is more like its settings but it is fine. I bought it on sale for cheap 2 years ago and is perfectly fine. No I would not want to run the latest crysis on it but for Adobe dreamweaver, photoshop, h.264 movies, and a few games it rocks!
I do plan to upgrade it this spring if finances are in my favor to a 7770 or a 7850. My only issues are I do HDMI only and occasionally some of the drivers assume I have a TV with the annoying black edge underscan. Sometimes the fps drop too in the later driver releases too but it works fine compared to my nvidia cards.
Thats exactly what it was. Sound failed and teh boards are sensitive and Toshiba wont replace it as a recall. Just give anaother defective board. We became an ATI house as a result afterwards and our problems went away.
He mentioned Linux so I am not too sure. My ati 5750 ran fine but that was Fedore 13 (2010 - March 2011 before I quit Linux again) and Ubuntu 10.4... I think?!
I do not know if it would run today and this user is mentioning Linux. In such a case never go with AMD/ATI as they fired their last Linux driver developer if I recall properly?! Or perhaps he was the chipset or AMD cpu driver/optimizer guy for the Linux kernel?
If you are running Windows then ATI would be a better bet. Android SDK runs on Mac, Windows, or Linux so it doesnt matter what your host OS is, but many slashdotters are convinced it will run better on a real OS similiar to the phone. What most do not realize is it is emulated in a VM anyway.
When we see these Microsoft stories it's really heartwarming to see proponents of one business division pushing the others under the bus - ensuring their counterparts will respond in kind.
It reminds us that Microsoft is a dozen warlords more at war with each other than with us.
While they seek dominance over each other we might have progress.
With this woman, who admits the goal of Metro is to kill the mouse, where we see a sea of people reaching across smearing their 8 inch tiny monitors in the office all day filing repetitive injuries in OSHA is every PHB's dream!
I happen to agree. Sinsosky was the man who killed the tablet 10 years ago with a crippled font and no Office touch support because he didn't like it. He and this woman above are now crippling their enterprise products.
Windows 8 has some awesome raid, volume storage, restore, and mobile features, and yes you can still use GPO without AD in Windows 8 with active sync. These are cool features for laptop and tablet users on the go. Just the annoying gui kills it! Windows Server 2012 is a finally a decent server OS for a VM environment unlike its past versions too. But they put the METRO gui on it. I do not care on a server but many IT admins will stick with obsolete server operating systems after shitting their pants with METRO and ignoring everything else 2012 has there-after.
Windows 8 demand on touch is so high OEMs can not meet it!
We bash it on slashdot, but consumers will refuse to touch Windows 8 on a non touch screen device and it makes sense to go all tiny screen and touch as this is where the market is heading and what the OS is optimized for touch over mouse on purpose
HP is pretty darn bad if you ask me. I find that shocking.
It is no wonder consumers have switched to Lenovo, Asus, and Samsung. A few buy HP, but I do not see people seek Dells like they did in 2003. Samsung and Asus are innovative and generally do not break unless you buy a crap model.
HP is going down if rumors are correct that shareholder activist and raider iKahn is making his moves on shutting down HP and sellings its assets.
After that Dell will be the sole and only player left. People laugh at Dell but I would not be surprised if their share price goes up once HP is down. No one else who buys over 10 units buy from anyone else.
Server 2012 is fucking awesome. As a server I do not give a crap over if it has a metro start screen instead of a start button. It is not a desktop where you stare at it all day. It is a decent upgrade from Server 2008.
All the major retailers say they can not keep up with demand on touch devices with Windows 8! It is flying off the shelves for these users who are used to their phones regardless of what slashdotters say.
Neowin.net, zdnet.com, and even Tomshardware are running stories.
True Windows 8 is not fit for geeks or for traditional power users and sells crappy on such legacy systems, but devices such as Lennovo's flipscreen can not keep up with demand.
FYI you can get group policies with AD fine with the surface. You get them through active sync when you log in with an Exchange 2013 account. The other stuff for AD is not worthy as it is static and not dynamic nor designed for the mobile needs of devices that change networks all the time.
It is not speech it is an act at this point but an act.
Not protected.
They can have their own racist sermons and I do not care. They can say whatever they feel right. However if they tell and harass these teachers and childrens families that they are going to hell and provoke them then I am grabbing the ditch diggers shovel and beating them up senseless and I assume the families would be more than happy to join.
I have never had instability. But there are a few quirks. My via soundchip with my AMD board is crap so I switched to HDMI and that is where I had a few glitches where the drivers assume I own a TV and not a LCD screen. It zooms out and creates a black edge as TVs overscan and include this black edge for some strange reason that is hidden and zoomed back in when you watch TV so you never know.
One driver version did have that fps bug where if you spun around in a game the fps were good but it would appear jerky. The latest beta drivers solved that. Other than that I had no problems whatsoever. I am just cautious upgrading the drivers as some releases slow down games a little and some speed them up.
If you run VMWare and lots of things in parrellel get AMD. Best multitasking and virtualization. Especially in Windows it is fine. If you run Linux and love your 3d effects get nvidia but be careful where you buy the card from and make sure you have a decent PSU. One of my nvidia cards destroyed itself and the PSU! They are a little louder too but if you all you do is watch movies and write software and do not game then who cares. Intel can do basic 3d effects unless my knowledge is outdated and HD 4000 is not supported?
My 3d effects ran fine with my ATI radaen but who knows with the latest versions.
My ex bought an nvida chipset gaming laptop from Toshiba. BIG MISTAKE. It blackscreens all the time and we went through 3 boards. Sometimes a BSOD will appear and whine about some driver.
My POS phone can't even sync with my computer. I was dissapointed in Android until I found out the one I purchased had DRM AT&T software to cripple it. I can't sync anything without outlook, can't backup files, can't even upgrade as a result of this attrocity.
My cap makes using Dropbox an issue. However I do not think it is supported on my ancient version of Android.
I plan to get a dumb phone next when my contract expires. I got ripped off. However, I have spoken to more recent galaxy S users who say they have none of my problems. The Galaxy1 is a rippoff and makes me wish I got something else.
The Lumia can sync with Outlook and files on your computer so it is a plus and not crippled like my dumbphone galaxy is. I know I am probably going to be modded down into an oblivion for this reply, but it is just my bad experience with mine and my frustrations over the years. Maybe yours is better?
Hairyfeet is one of my favorite posters. He is direct and pisses people off but funny because he is right. I do not know how he does not get -1 when I try to say the same things I am considered a troll.
Your post shows exactly why I wrote that piece. Google buffer overflows, stack smashing, out of bounds exceptions and so on? You do not have to click anything to get infected. All it takes is a an infected ad to exploit one of the techniques above and you are 0wned. Slashdot had one last year. If you came to slashdot last spring you got owned if you ran Windows without an AV.
Your knowledge is from the 1990s. There are so many ways to get code to run on outdated software it is not funny. Google drive by downloads?
Issue is flash is outdated and filled with holes on Linux with no hardware acceleration. Even Mac was a second class citizen until last year in that regard which is shocking considering how many Adobe users are hardcore Mac users.
I have come to the conclusion that if you need to do anything with multimedia then Windows is a better solution. Or a Mac if you have more money and like Unix but want usability and more commercial apps.
Also have you tried VMWare or Virtualbox? VMWare workstation is competitively prices and has decent graphics support with its VMWare tools. Virtualbox has its tools too but I have not tried them on Linux. VNC is slow.
If you PC is old consider buying a new with hardware virtualization. You will not know how you lived without htem unless you use one. A cheap AMD has virtualization for even its cheapest piledriver cpu and chipset. qemu is not the best.
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So IE has a 0% marketshare!
I can just tell any client ignore 20% of your sales from these users? Wow ...
No they wont change as they are set in their ways and many do not know what a browser is. That blue E is how you get to Google is all they know. Many do not want to install software they never heard off and find that act threatening! IE is what they know it works and if you do not support it on your website a competitor will.
The corps in my example above have intranet apps that only work in IE 6 or IE 8. Fat chance they will use something else after spending millions leaving IE 6 which works fine to IE 8 so you can have pretty divs in ohhh and ahhh HTML 5 and css 3 glory.
HTML 4 and flash are both here to stay for a very long time.
Ha!
Good luck trying to get these corps who just blew $10,000,000 upgrading to IE 8 in the last 6 months to throw out their investment because some geeks want cool translucent and animated css 3 divs. Try convincing old people and those who got hit hard in the great recession who are underemployed and work at Walmart (20% of the workforce still!) who are stuck with XP and IE 8 and can't afford a new computer?
HTML 5 is going no where until 2019 or 2020 when Windows 7 hits EOL sadly.
Maybe I am a pessimist but after seeing how the horrible IE 6 lived on for year after year last decade I see why change what works? IE 8 is more secure and doesn't crash as easily so there will be pressure to hold onto IE 8 longer than IE 6.
Intranet apps today still do not follow w3c. Only old MS standards.
Wow that info is outdated.
IE 10 != IE 6 by a longshot! It is the most caught up version of IE yet that supports HTML 5, CSS 3, and has great hardware acceleration and loads up sites as fast if not faster than Chrome. It is the only browser that is double sandboxed against hep spray attacks, as well as ASLR, and DEP.
I am not an IE fan nor am I even using it right now (Chrome), but for using shitty ancient web apps optimized for IE 7 and IE 8 is it the only option. Also only IE is enterprise grade with .MSI and group policies and AD integration so you can manage 9,000 easily with different settings for different OUs and groups such as one for faculty, another for students etc.
If you have a problem with this go harass Mozilla for not making Firefox enterprise friendly. Until that time comes we are staying IE only. With the later releases following standards and behaving like Chrome and Firefox it is not a big of an issue as it once was.
Most just run them through a search program that ranks resumes like search engines. Those with the highest hits get interviewed. That is the game and yes they love .docs because they want to edit them and highlight things and email them to groups of different people.
Also if they use IE 6 or IE 7 it may not render properly due to bugs and will make you look bad if they see margins all over the place which IE 6 probably inherited from Word.
Nope.
You will need to click +40 times in the upper right hand corner over and over and over and over and over until you get to each app if you are in Metro or if one of your apps is in Metro mode.
Wow does it suck! That was my pet peeve.
Metro could work with a task bar on a bigger screen with aero peak and the ability to resize tiles. If MS did this I would probably upgrade to Windows 8. I agree with others. It is a cute cell phone OS. But for real work its new terrible start/search and lack of taskbar means it is not ready for real work.
Seriously, I don't... I still have my keyboard from 1993 because these new ones stink.
More seriously - I use my computer for work. Not kids, not watching videos, not games, WORK. Windows XP/7 is better at getting work done than Windows 8.
Hopefully microsoft pulls their heads out of their butts on this and allows a quick setting change to "I have no use for metro, thanks."
So do I - real work. I do not play games on a PC; prefer a 4:3 aspect if I can get it because no movies, etc. I do not even listen to music. But real work is generally done in applications like Word, Excel, AutoCAD, ERP, etc. Not the Windows operating system, but the apps loaded from it. Beyond loading an app, or managing files, what other real work is done in the Operating system? Very little. And I find Windows 8 about as good for that Windows 7. Plus it loads faster and finds printers nearby.
You mean you never read a spreadsheet and want to research something you see like ACME sales 2009 while typing a report in Word? Or be working on autocad and think, shoot what did the customer request again and need to open word or IE/Chrome to take a peak without losing your screen of your drawing when referencing tiny details?
Auto peak, snap, and side by side, are key Windows 7 features mixed with the instant search. What many ignorant slashdotters fail to realize is when you are presented with a start screen is it ruins your multitasking in your brain and destroys your attention span and train of thought. What if your drawing had 10 things you wanted to check briefly? You would forget them as the start screen would reset your attention span and would lose your drawing.
By having your work still open and using search with translucent Windows and instant search you can be referencing something or having 2 things together and not lose your train of thought.
The Windows 7 desktop is the best Redmond has ever made. You can access quick information FAST and still have your views protected with jimp lists and stacking. Stacking and jumplists for Windows 8? Silly that is what Metro is for!
No I do not want to smudge my finger across my tiny 9 inch screen over and over like an autistic person in a cycle for each app opened! You can keep your Windows 8 desktop. Me? I am sticking with Windows 7. The best version ever made.
FYI in Windows 8 when I type in "resume" I have to then cancel using the fast keyboard and go back to the mouse as it is too stupid to know the difference between power-settings and Resume-Chron-10-14-12! In Windows 7 I just hit the arrow key up or down in 1/3 of a second to differentiate. So much better and superior to Windows 8.
Being forced to upgrade by end of lifing support does not make Win7 any less 'good enough for me', it just means taking the option away.
Not sure what you are going on about with being 'left behind'. I am skeptical many businesses out there refuse to interoperate with other businesses because they are not running the latest and greatest software. I still see, for instance, a great deal of standardization on .DOC rather then .docx, and I do not recall seeing any companies saying 'sorry, your file format is out of date, no business for you'.
Until last year I always downgraded my resumes to .doc for these reasons. Today I use docx. If it can not be read or has formatting issues then you are a company that is not important.
In the good old days it was businesses that forced us to upgrade and it was the other way around. When the boss shows off he has office XP which can not be read properly under Office 97 he figures anyone else who does not have the latest and greatest is not important. It forced IT to constantly upgrade. Now the opposite is true but is starting to change slowly as my example above back to where it was.
I am hoping corps stop supporting IE 6 and forcing suppliers and vendors to use it. One company does it for some crappy Oracle ERP app and all 6 other companies that use their login then have to downgrade which forces there customers to downgrade and hold the whole internet back 10 years, until consumer websites wont even load anymore.
This madness needs to stop.
Congratulations. This is the 50th comment I've read in this thread that suggests violence as the one and only solution. And all describe how happy they would be. Best thing to do and only thing that comes to your mind is to just kill the people you don't like. You seem to see the world exactly like Adam Lanza did.
Violence is acceptable as far as I am concerned. Difference is we do not kill children. But they are free to have their acts of anger and vengence and we are free to respond. Perfectly fair. I wouldn't kill them, but rough them up.
Was it ok to let OBL live after what he did? FYI I was in lower manhatten and heard the terrors and screams of those who fell to their deaths. Such people can not continue and deserve what they get.
Runs Wow and SWTOR perfectly fine. Wow can run at 30 fps almost full screen on max settings. True under medium high is more like its settings but it is fine. I bought it on sale for cheap 2 years ago and is perfectly fine. No I would not want to run the latest crysis on it but for Adobe dreamweaver, photoshop, h.264 movies, and a few games it rocks!
I do plan to upgrade it this spring if finances are in my favor to a 7770 or a 7850. My only issues are I do HDMI only and occasionally some of the drivers assume I have a TV with the annoying black edge underscan. Sometimes the fps drop too in the later driver releases too but it works fine compared to my nvidia cards.
Thats exactly what it was. Sound failed and teh boards are sensitive and Toshiba wont replace it as a recall. Just give anaother defective board. We became an ATI house as a result afterwards and our problems went away.
He mentioned Linux so I am not too sure. My ati 5750 ran fine but that was Fedore 13 (2010 - March 2011 before I quit Linux again) and Ubuntu 10.4 ... I think?!
I do not know if it would run today and this user is mentioning Linux. In such a case never go with AMD/ATI as they fired their last Linux driver developer if I recall properly?! Or perhaps he was the chipset or AMD cpu driver/optimizer guy for the Linux kernel?
If you are running Windows then ATI would be a better bet. Android SDK runs on Mac, Windows, or Linux so it doesnt matter what your host OS is, but many slashdotters are convinced it will run better on a real OS similiar to the phone. What most do not realize is it is emulated in a VM anyway.
When we see these Microsoft stories it's really heartwarming to see proponents of one business division pushing the others under the bus - ensuring their counterparts will respond in kind.
It reminds us that Microsoft is a dozen warlords more at war with each other than with us.
While they seek dominance over each other we might have progress.
With this woman, who admits the goal of Metro is to kill the mouse, where we see a sea of people reaching across smearing their 8 inch tiny monitors in the office all day filing repetitive injuries in OSHA is every PHB's dream!
I happen to agree. Sinsosky was the man who killed the tablet 10 years ago with a crippled font and no Office touch support because he didn't like it. He and this woman above are now crippling their enterprise products.
Windows 8 has some awesome raid, volume storage, restore, and mobile features, and yes you can still use GPO without AD in Windows 8 with active sync. These are cool features for laptop and tablet users on the go. Just the annoying gui kills it! Windows Server 2012 is a finally a decent server OS for a VM environment unlike its past versions too. But they put the METRO gui on it. I do not care on a server but many IT admins will stick with obsolete server operating systems after shitting their pants with METRO and ignoring everything else 2012 has there-after.
Windows 8 demand on touch is so high OEMs can not meet it!
We bash it on slashdot, but consumers will refuse to touch Windows 8 on a non touch screen device and it makes sense to go all tiny screen and touch as this is where the market is heading and what the OS is optimized for touch over mouse on purpose
HP is pretty darn bad if you ask me. I find that shocking.
It is no wonder consumers have switched to Lenovo, Asus, and Samsung. A few buy HP, but I do not see people seek Dells like they did in 2003. Samsung and Asus are innovative and generally do not break unless you buy a crap model.
HP is going down if rumors are correct that shareholder activist and raider iKahn is making his moves on shutting down HP and sellings its assets.
After that Dell will be the sole and only player left. People laugh at Dell but I would not be surprised if their share price goes up once HP is down. No one else who buys over 10 units buy from anyone else.
Server 2012 is fucking awesome. As a server I do not give a crap over if it has a metro start screen instead of a start button. It is not a desktop where you stare at it all day. It is a decent upgrade from Server 2008.
All the major retailers say they can not keep up with demand on touch devices with Windows 8! It is flying off the shelves for these users who are used to their phones regardless of what slashdotters say.
Neowin.net, zdnet.com, and even Tomshardware are running stories.
True Windows 8 is not fit for geeks or for traditional power users and sells crappy on such legacy systems, but devices such as Lennovo's flipscreen can not keep up with demand.
FYI you can get group policies with AD fine with the surface. You get them through active sync when you log in with an Exchange 2013 account. The other stuff for AD is not worthy as it is static and not dynamic nor designed for the mobile needs of devices that change networks all the time.
It is not speech it is an act at this point but an act.
Not protected.
They can have their own racist sermons and I do not care. They can say whatever they feel right. However if they tell and harass these teachers and childrens families that they are going to hell and provoke them then I am grabbing the ditch diggers shovel and beating them up senseless and I assume the families would be more than happy to join.
Flame war right here :-)
I have never had instability. But there are a few quirks. My via soundchip with my AMD board is crap so I switched to HDMI and that is where I had a few glitches where the drivers assume I own a TV and not a LCD screen. It zooms out and creates a black edge as TVs overscan and include this black edge for some strange reason that is hidden and zoomed back in when you watch TV so you never know.
One driver version did have that fps bug where if you spun around in a game the fps were good but it would appear jerky. The latest beta drivers solved that. Other than that I had no problems whatsoever. I am just cautious upgrading the drivers as some releases slow down games a little and some speed them up.
If you run VMWare and lots of things in parrellel get AMD. Best multitasking and virtualization. Especially in Windows it is fine. If you run Linux and love your 3d effects get nvidia but be careful where you buy the card from and make sure you have a decent PSU. One of my nvidia cards destroyed itself and the PSU! They are a little louder too but if you all you do is watch movies and write software and do not game then who cares. Intel can do basic 3d effects unless my knowledge is outdated and HD 4000 is not supported?
My 3d effects ran fine with my ATI radaen but who knows with the latest versions.
My ex bought an nvida chipset gaming laptop from Toshiba. BIG MISTAKE. It blackscreens all the time and we went through 3 boards. Sometimes a BSOD will appear and whine about some driver.
DRM software on it wont let me sync it to any computer. I tried that route.
My POS phone can't even sync with my computer. I was dissapointed in Android until I found out the one I purchased had DRM AT&T software to cripple it. I can't sync anything without outlook, can't backup files, can't even upgrade as a result of this attrocity.
My cap makes using Dropbox an issue. However I do not think it is supported on my ancient version of Android.
I plan to get a dumb phone next when my contract expires. I got ripped off. However, I have spoken to more recent galaxy S users who say they have none of my problems. The Galaxy1 is a rippoff and makes me wish I got something else.
The Lumia can sync with Outlook and files on your computer so it is a plus and not crippled like my dumbphone galaxy is. I know I am probably going to be modded down into an oblivion for this reply, but it is just my bad experience with mine and my frustrations over the years. Maybe yours is better?
Does that mean I can finally root and upgrade my crappy Galaxy S1 with Android 2.1 yet? Fucking AT&T
Hairyfeet is one of my favorite posters. He is direct and pisses people off but funny because he is right. I do not know how he does not get -1 when I try to say the same things I am considered a troll.
Sigh
Your post shows exactly why I wrote that piece. Google buffer overflows, stack smashing, out of bounds exceptions and so on? You do not have to click anything to get infected. All it takes is a an infected ad to exploit one of the techniques above and you are 0wned. Slashdot had one last year. If you came to slashdot last spring you got owned if you ran Windows without an AV.
Your knowledge is from the 1990s. There are so many ways to get code to run on outdated software it is not funny. Google drive by downloads?
Issue is flash is outdated and filled with holes on Linux with no hardware acceleration. Even Mac was a second class citizen until last year in that regard which is shocking considering how many Adobe users are hardcore Mac users.
I have come to the conclusion that if you need to do anything with multimedia then Windows is a better solution. Or a Mac if you have more money and like Unix but want usability and more commercial apps.
Also have you tried VMWare or Virtualbox? VMWare workstation is competitively prices and has decent graphics support with its VMWare tools. Virtualbox has its tools too but I have not tried them on Linux. VNC is slow.
If you PC is old consider buying a new with hardware virtualization. You will not know how you lived without htem unless you use one. A cheap AMD has virtualization for even its cheapest piledriver cpu and chipset. qemu is not the best.