We are getting to the point where we can't wait 5 or 10 years. We need them cut YESTERDAY.
The problem is inflation right now. When you have the fed printing money to the banks it goes to investors to inflate oil prices, gold, housing, insurance, etc. We pay twice for it. Once in higher prices, twice for the taxes plus interest to pay for the rich people to rip us off. How is that sustainable.
Why is the cost of a home an hour in either direction from DC $1 million? Because of government spending. Cut cut cut. It doesn't matter if it costs jobs as they are paid for by debt from China.
When you pay back investors of government bonds here is what happens. They get a TON of extra capital. Where does it go? Back to the stock market and to the private sector in lines of credit for small business to hire and expand. When a business needs to make payroll they go to the bank and not use their profits. IT is ALWAYS lines of credit. The bank has a choice? Do they loan out the cash to corpA or use the capital to buy government bonds guaranteed by the US constitution? Hmmm, gee I would pick Uncle SAM. Small business owner... screw you etc.
Expansion will come as a result and as interest rates rise insurance companies can lower rates as they do not have shit returns on their capital and need to charge extra to make up as a result. This causes inflation.
How retarded promotional videos like this geared towards PHBs. The marketing and sales people do not want certificates and security as it would make their products look bad and hard to setup.
Easy access and PHB approved so the IT is ordered to do it or find another job. When shit hits the fan you just fire the IT guy.
How is Greece doing? Austerity is a much better deal with 10% unemployment than 28% unemployment and sky high taxes. The US is heading into greece within a few years and if I were a betting man Obama himself will still be president when shit hits the fan if we do not do anything!
Tough, you MUST PAY YOUR BILLS! The fiscal cliff is not good enough we need 10x fiscal cliffs just to break even! We need massive tax hikes, no healthcare except for the most elderly in medicare and we need to cut our military by 1/2 and do that for a good decade.
Sorry, I highly doubt even if the economy fully recovered to the 1990s levels can we pay off this debt let alone break even in this spending.
As the sysadmin I can stick it on a VLAN to keep it away from the computers I'm responsible for, but other than that, my hands are tied.
Until your boss calls and asks why can't he view setup on his phone from the internet like was shown in the promotion video? Please unblock internet access.... then an employee who is trying to get around the facebook firewalling software uses it to browse the internet. Oh, yeah fun times.
The only reason TI is popular is because they pay off textbook makers and contribute to elections for school board executives. $120 for something with 1/5000th of the computing power of a smart phone? A rip off.
When I moved to Canada senior year at highschool they were all dumbfounded why I had such a strange device that costed so much. In this day and age wouldn't an Android shit tablet for the same price with a crippled version of Maple be better?
Call me cynical but I did not understand why 32k of ram more is still a premium for these calculators when I went back to school in 2004. I felt like I was living in 20 years in the past. The profit margins have to be insane
Which is percisely why I am sticking with Windows 7 and Office 2010. MS is still used to being a monopoly where they do not have to worry about their image shattered with a bad product release. Just make it better next time and eventually it will take over.
IE, Windows, NT, and even Office, were not overnight sellers and did suck. It seems MS is like the linux kernel with releases of hardware and software where new exciting but not fully baked ideas need to get rushed out. Sucks? Consumers tell us how and we fix it later etc.
Windows 8 Metro is not a bad concept. It just does not integrate well with the desktop and there is not taskbar or multitasking friendly tiles such as putting more than one tile on the screen outside of Metro etc. Windows 9 will fix this for sure.... hopefully??
Users these days will just buy an IPAD or a Droid after this. MS can't do what they did in the past and use file compatibility games to enforce Windows/Office. Netscape is not going out of business forcing us to use IE 6. We have 2 other browsers and if IE sucks we can switch etc.
The world is changing and MS should do more QA internally and worry about image more.
MSE is beh according to the latest tests run by www.pcmag.com. Windows 7 is a huge improvement over XP and so is IE over past versions. Sandboxing, DEP, and ASLR are standard long as you do not run old ATI drivers.
Windows 8 goes a step further with something called HEAP Spray protection. Since the ram addresses are randomly scattered (unlike XP), the malware can't change specific ram addresses. But a workaround in Windows 7 is to randomly spray ram addresses until you hit gold. With under 4 gigs of ram in the 32 bit version that is fairly easy to figure out if you do not crash the system. Windows 8 prevents this and even enables a double sandbox with this feature in IE 10.
That is the internel different between win 7 and win 8 kernels.
That is Windows Server 2012. Not WIndows 8. For some retarded reason MS named it Windows Server 8 but it has nothing to do with Windows Server 2012 other than using a similiar kernel.
Is there any proof Obama or anyone knew he was planned to be taken down?
Obama was informed by the Pentagon a protest turned violent and Stevens was killed. 2 days later he referred to it as an act of terror as was proven in the presidential elections.
So embassasies got attacked before and terrorists like taking them out. THere is no vast conspiracy. Budget was cut by Ryan and intelligence informed him a protest turned violent and all of the suddent the very fact that Obama did not magically known it was a secret planned attack make him a liar worthy of impeachment?
Intelligence reported it as a protest which is exactly how the attack played out. He referred to it as a terror attack 2 days later. Please give it up? I look at is a fishing expedition to help Romney out and out of desperation this is the best the Republicans could find.
FYI Bush lied on a constant basis and the media did not go after him nearly as much.
THe sole reason the military also banned homosexuals was for the reason of blackmail. Now you can be gay but can't be married to a woman. The reason for sexual conduct is the blackmailing aspect can be used as leverage from foreign agents and governments. Honest is important and so is open transparency unlike your other office or blue collar jobs. I doubt someone is going to use blackmail from a worker at BK to get the secret of how the tomatos and lettuce go on just right from McDonalds.
Can Hyper-V support virtual networks that are host only? One of the cool things about VMWare is I can setup a virtual network to test out Windows 2012 server and Windows XP/7 clients and Exchange installations by making them all host-only and interacting with each other ala a virtual network.
Can you do this under Windows 8 or is it just one copy or multiple copies of win 7 that can't communicate?
I wonder what management is going to do or are doing? I expect they are already underway replacing them. I doubt HP is porting them to x86 or ARM as it maybe too late for those that are retiring these with win32 or Linux equilivent of different applications that do the same tasks. It is not like you can get an emulator for these but these are systems I would not want to invest a penny into anymore as it would be a penny lost 3 years down the road when intel stops production and I can no longer even get motherboards if one server fails.
HP has their heads up their ass if they do not have a migration plan at least so these can be run under virtual machines for decades to come.
Also I would add there is a bug with the 560ti where graphics are jerky and slow. THat is a driver issue as a crappy ati x1400 from 2007 can run Aero smoothly if that is what you are referring too. See if there is a driver update?
I have the opposite issue on my Phenom II 2.6 6-core ghz with an ATI 5750. FOr shit and kick, I tried to put XP on it. That took a whole day finding drivers. XP ran like a DOG.
First issue was the hex-core processor was very ineffecient due to the 11 year old SMP scheduler that was optimized for 2 - 4 core cpus. Threading sucked ass when IE 6 opened the whole computer would wait with an hourglass while it was loading javacript code that caused it to crash.
Second issue was the disk was thrashing like a mofo. Scientifically proven is MS cripplied their SATA driver so it only single tasks with no command-queing PERIOD. XP exgaerbates the problem further by having an ineffecient swaping algorithm that pages to the disk constantly even when plenty of ram is available. If you are lucky and have a business class machine you can get a special SATA driver which your gaming system might have to make it respond fast.
This Asus essentio did not like XP and it felt slower than my old 2006 era machine with XP.
The situation only gets worse for poor saps with SSDs, UEFI firmware, and 8 core systems. XP has no trim support at all and will destroy a SSD if your IT department puts it on there.
Maybe your OEM gaming machine if it doesn't have a non crippled SATA driver may have come with McCrappy and other shitware. In my experience you need a reformat to fully get rid of old versions of that AV software as it will still run and index gigs of files a day even with it uninstalled.
That was 3 years ago and hardware is much newer now so XP would likely be very laggy. Compared to Vista, Windows 7 trounces it HUGELY! 50% better network performance and 25% with HD access. Vista really is a terrible OS whether the service packs fixed many issues or not.
Linux is the other way around. YEars ago Linux has battery and power saving metrics that put WIndows to shame.
Today WIndows 8 runs on 9 year old Pentium IV with ease. Windows Vista can't even run on these. Windows 7 could but not as well as XP unless it was loaded with ram. Windows 8 can.
MacOSX 1.0.0 - 10.3 was slow as hell. 10.6 was fast enough to run on the colored iMacs taht 10.1 could not, hence these users stayed on MacOS classic.
Windows and MacOSX have become less bloated than the previous iterations.
WIndows 7 is much faster and leaner than Windows Vista, which Windows 8 is so lean it puts WIndows 7 to shame on ancient Pentium IVs! Linux has regressed sadly and Windows went through stages of regression but has improved starting with Windows 7.
Slower response times are execuses by those who do not adopt well to change. My hunch is you are an XP user if I were a betting man.;-)
It took me a good week to get used to the ribbon. A month later I didn't have any issues at all whatsoever. It is 2012 and it says more about people who are stubborn and middle aged who hate change than a poor quality inferior UI.
I hate Office2k3 now as it takes me awhile to find things and makes me look incompetent to end users who are behind the times. Study after study shows Ribbon is superior and users now use more functionality. With keyboard shortcut enhancements you do not even need a keyboard with Vista/Office2k7 and later. That is great for laptop users who actually spend the time to learn it. It is pointless to argue today just like saying man DOS was so much better I refuse to use this productivity waster called a mouse. With Dos I can do X! With Dos I can do Y etc.
Remember the Alpha? Slashdot ran on Alpha's for 5 years. They had a new version out and it didn't matter. HP wanted Itanium and purposedly made sure people wouldn't buy it and crippled the product line for the inferior Itanium. Makes you wonder why they bought it?
After Windows 2000 dropped support in RC 3, it didn't matter. Who in their right mind would invest in a dead platform?
This new chip could be 20x faster than a xeon and use 1/10 of the power! No one wants to invest in it and be dumped later by the likes of Oracle.
We already switched.... ok a former customer I worked with already switched.
Thank you Oracle for convincing us that it is dead.
No one will touch it with a 10 foot pole. I hope HP wins the lawsuit agaisnt them and Intel also sued Oracle for damages. When they violated that contract it gave a lot of hurt for those who have invested so much in Itanium.
Basically the mouse is so hypersensitive with insane DPI that you have to run their software to mod it down. The reason the internet is required is because it uses a cloud to load your mouse settings. No you did not misread that?!
It gets worse
The profile and cloud service are several services that depend on each other and take almost a minute on my fast 2.8 ghz Phenom II and meanwhile the cursor is flying all over the machine due to the high dpi settings. Razor made it so light too which excaberates the problem. They have added weights for their $130 and it is their way of saying a Fuck you for being cheap by buying the $80 mouse??? Since when is $80 cheap? So you just have to set their and wayt for your mouse to connect to the cloud to slow down a simple setting. Sigh
This cloud obsession is silly and getting too far. I can't use logitech because they are too small for my hands. Microsoft explorer mosue 2 is big enough but htey no longer have the scroll mouse. Just a touch button that will hurt after rubbing my fingers for several hours. My dying MS mouse I will keep for now as I am disapointed in razor. It is rediculous.
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We are getting to the point where we can't wait 5 or 10 years. We need them cut YESTERDAY.
The problem is inflation right now. When you have the fed printing money to the banks it goes to investors to inflate oil prices, gold, housing, insurance, etc. We pay twice for it. Once in higher prices, twice for the taxes plus interest to pay for the rich people to rip us off. How is that sustainable.
Why is the cost of a home an hour in either direction from DC $1 million? Because of government spending. Cut cut cut. It doesn't matter if it costs jobs as they are paid for by debt from China.
When you pay back investors of government bonds here is what happens. They get a TON of extra capital. Where does it go? Back to the stock market and to the private sector in lines of credit for small business to hire and expand. When a business needs to make payroll they go to the bank and not use their profits. IT is ALWAYS lines of credit. The bank has a choice? Do they loan out the cash to corpA or use the capital to buy government bonds guaranteed by the US constitution? Hmmm, gee I would pick Uncle SAM. Small business owner ... screw you etc.
Expansion will come as a result and as interest rates rise insurance companies can lower rates as they do not have shit returns on their capital and need to charge extra to make up as a result. This causes inflation.
How retarded promotional videos like this geared towards PHBs. The marketing and sales people do not want certificates and security as it would make their products look bad and hard to setup.
Easy access and PHB approved so the IT is ordered to do it or find another job. When shit hits the fan you just fire the IT guy.
Ok.
How is Greece doing? Austerity is a much better deal with 10% unemployment than 28% unemployment and sky high taxes. The US is heading into greece within a few years and if I were a betting man Obama himself will still be president when shit hits the fan if we do not do anything!
Tough, you MUST PAY YOUR BILLS! The fiscal cliff is not good enough we need 10x fiscal cliffs just to break even! We need massive tax hikes, no healthcare except for the most elderly in medicare and we need to cut our military by 1/2 and do that for a good decade.
Sorry, I highly doubt even if the economy fully recovered to the 1990s levels can we pay off this debt let alone break even in this spending.
As the sysadmin I can stick it on a VLAN to keep it away from the computers I'm responsible for, but other than that, my hands are tied.
Until your boss calls and asks why can't he view setup on his phone from the internet like was shown in the promotion video? Please unblock internet access. ... then an employee who is trying to get around the facebook firewalling software uses it to browse the internet. Oh, yeah fun times.
This is 2012. Not 1982 anymore.
The only reason TI is popular is because they pay off textbook makers and contribute to elections for school board executives. $120 for something with 1/5000th of the computing power of a smart phone? A rip off.
When I moved to Canada senior year at highschool they were all dumbfounded why I had such a strange device that costed so much. In this day and age wouldn't an Android shit tablet for the same price with a crippled version of Maple be better?
Call me cynical but I did not understand why 32k of ram more is still a premium for these calculators when I went back to school in 2004. I felt like I was living in 20 years in the past. The profit margins have to be insane
Which is percisely why I am sticking with Windows 7 and Office 2010. MS is still used to being a monopoly where they do not have to worry about their image shattered with a bad product release. Just make it better next time and eventually it will take over.
IE, Windows, NT, and even Office, were not overnight sellers and did suck. It seems MS is like the linux kernel with releases of hardware and software where new exciting but not fully baked ideas need to get rushed out. Sucks? Consumers tell us how and we fix it later etc.
Windows 8 Metro is not a bad concept. It just does not integrate well with the desktop and there is not taskbar or multitasking friendly tiles such as putting more than one tile on the screen outside of Metro etc. Windows 9 will fix this for sure .... hopefully??
Users these days will just buy an IPAD or a Droid after this. MS can't do what they did in the past and use file compatibility games to enforce Windows/Office. Netscape is not going out of business forcing us to use IE 6. We have 2 other browsers and if IE sucks we can switch etc.
The world is changing and MS should do more QA internally and worry about image more.
MSE is beh according to the latest tests run by www.pcmag.com. Windows 7 is a huge improvement over XP and so is IE over past versions. Sandboxing, DEP, and ASLR are standard long as you do not run old ATI drivers.
Windows 8 goes a step further with something called HEAP Spray protection. Since the ram addresses are randomly scattered (unlike XP), the malware can't change specific ram addresses. But a workaround in Windows 7 is to randomly spray ram addresses until you hit gold. With under 4 gigs of ram in the 32 bit version that is fairly easy to figure out if you do not crash the system. Windows 8 prevents this and even enables a double sandbox with this feature in IE 10.
That is the internel different between win 7 and win 8 kernels.
THe ones I saw showed it to find less than 70% of malware. THe 95% was from early 2011. I use Avast for that reason
That is Windows Server 2012. Not WIndows 8. For some retarded reason MS named it Windows Server 8 but it has nothing to do with Windows Server 2012 other than using a similiar kernel.
Is there any proof Obama or anyone knew he was planned to be taken down?
Obama was informed by the Pentagon a protest turned violent and Stevens was killed. 2 days later he referred to it as an act of terror as was proven in the presidential elections.
So embassasies got attacked before and terrorists like taking them out. THere is no vast conspiracy. Budget was cut by Ryan and intelligence informed him a protest turned violent and all of the suddent the very fact that Obama did not magically known it was a secret planned attack make him a liar worthy of impeachment?
How did he lie?
Intelligence reported it as a protest which is exactly how the attack played out. He referred to it as a terror attack 2 days later. Please give it up? I look at is a fishing expedition to help Romney out and out of desperation this is the best the Republicans could find.
FYI Bush lied on a constant basis and the media did not go after him nearly as much.
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THe sole reason the military also banned homosexuals was for the reason of blackmail. Now you can be gay but can't be married to a woman. The reason for sexual conduct is the blackmailing aspect can be used as leverage from foreign agents and governments. Honest is important and so is open transparency unlike your other office or blue collar jobs. I doubt someone is going to use blackmail from a worker at BK to get the secret of how the tomatos and lettuce go on just right from McDonalds.
Can Hyper-V support virtual networks that are host only? One of the cool things about VMWare is I can setup a virtual network to test out Windows 2012 server and Windows XP/7 clients and Exchange installations by making them all host-only and interacting with each other ala a virtual network.
Can you do this under Windows 8 or is it just one copy or multiple copies of win 7 that can't communicate?
I wonder what management is going to do or are doing? I expect they are already underway replacing them. I doubt HP is porting them to x86 or ARM as it maybe too late for those that are retiring these with win32 or Linux equilivent of different applications that do the same tasks. It is not like you can get an emulator for these but these are systems I would not want to invest a penny into anymore as it would be a penny lost 3 years down the road when intel stops production and I can no longer even get motherboards if one server fails.
HP has their heads up their ass if they do not have a migration plan at least so these can be run under virtual machines for decades to come.
Also I would add there is a bug with the 560ti where graphics are jerky and slow. THat is a driver issue as a crappy ati x1400 from 2007 can run Aero smoothly if that is what you are referring too. See if there is a driver update?
I have the opposite issue on my Phenom II 2.6 6-core ghz with an ATI 5750. FOr shit and kick, I tried to put XP on it. That took a whole day finding drivers. XP ran like a DOG.
First issue was the hex-core processor was very ineffecient due to the 11 year old SMP scheduler that was optimized for 2 - 4 core cpus. Threading sucked ass when IE 6 opened the whole computer would wait with an hourglass while it was loading javacript code that caused it to crash.
Second issue was the disk was thrashing like a mofo. Scientifically proven is MS cripplied their SATA driver so it only single tasks with no command-queing PERIOD. XP exgaerbates the problem further by having an ineffecient swaping algorithm that pages to the disk constantly even when plenty of ram is available. If you are lucky and have a business class machine you can get a special SATA driver which your gaming system might have to make it respond fast.
This Asus essentio did not like XP and it felt slower than my old 2006 era machine with XP.
The situation only gets worse for poor saps with SSDs, UEFI firmware, and 8 core systems. XP has no trim support at all and will destroy a SSD if your IT department puts it on there.
Maybe your OEM gaming machine if it doesn't have a non crippled SATA driver may have come with McCrappy and other shitware. In my experience you need a reformat to fully get rid of old versions of that AV software as it will still run and index gigs of files a day even with it uninstalled.
WIndows 7 is much faster and leaner than Windows Vista
Any scientific data to support that assertion? (For me Vista was and is fast enough. I see no difference between 7 and Vista installation)
How about here?
That was 3 years ago and hardware is much newer now so XP would likely be very laggy. Compared to Vista, Windows 7 trounces it HUGELY! 50% better network performance and 25% with HD access. Vista really is a terrible OS whether the service packs fixed many issues or not.
Linux is the other way around. YEars ago Linux has battery and power saving metrics that put WIndows to shame.
Today WIndows 8 runs on 9 year old Pentium IV with ease. Windows Vista can't even run on these. Windows 7 could but not as well as XP unless it was loaded with ram. Windows 8 can.
MacOSX 1.0.0 - 10.3 was slow as hell. 10.6 was fast enough to run on the colored iMacs taht 10.1 could not, hence these users stayed on MacOS classic.
Windows and MacOSX have become less bloated than the previous iterations.
WIndows 7 is much faster and leaner than Windows Vista, which Windows 8 is so lean it puts WIndows 7 to shame on ancient Pentium IVs! Linux has regressed sadly and Windows went through stages of regression but has improved starting with Windows 7.
Slower response times are execuses by those who do not adopt well to change. My hunch is you are an XP user if I were a betting man. ;-)
Oh please
It took me a good week to get used to the ribbon. A month later I didn't have any issues at all whatsoever. It is 2012 and it says more about people who are stubborn and middle aged who hate change than a poor quality inferior UI.
I hate Office2k3 now as it takes me awhile to find things and makes me look incompetent to end users who are behind the times. Study after study shows Ribbon is superior and users now use more functionality. With keyboard shortcut enhancements you do not even need a keyboard with Vista/Office2k7 and later. That is great for laptop users who actually spend the time to learn it. It is pointless to argue today just like saying man DOS was so much better I refuse to use this productivity waster called a mouse. With Dos I can do X! With Dos I can do Y etc.
Still who is going to buy it now?
Remember the Alpha? Slashdot ran on Alpha's for 5 years. They had a new version out and it didn't matter. HP wanted Itanium and purposedly made sure people wouldn't buy it and crippled the product line for the inferior Itanium. Makes you wonder why they bought it?
After Windows 2000 dropped support in RC 3, it didn't matter. Who in their right mind would invest in a dead platform?
This new chip could be 20x faster than a xeon and use 1/10 of the power! No one wants to invest in it and be dumped later by the likes of Oracle.
We already switched. ... ok a former customer I worked with already switched.
Thank you Oracle for convincing us that it is dead.
No one will touch it with a 10 foot pole. I hope HP wins the lawsuit agaisnt them and Intel also sued Oracle for damages. When they violated that contract it gave a lot of hurt for those who have invested so much in Itanium.
Now it doesn't matter as no one will touch it.
Thanks for the warning.
I will avoid them in the future.
... and returned it!
Basically the mouse is so hypersensitive with insane DPI that you have to run their software to mod it down. The reason the internet is required is because it uses a cloud to load your mouse settings. No you did not misread that?!
It gets worse
The profile and cloud service are several services that depend on each other and take almost a minute on my fast 2.8 ghz Phenom II and meanwhile the cursor is flying all over the machine due to the high dpi settings. Razor made it so light too which excaberates the problem. They have added weights for their $130 and it is their way of saying a Fuck you for being cheap by buying the $80 mouse??? Since when is $80 cheap? So you just have to set their and wayt for your mouse to connect to the cloud to slow down a simple setting. Sigh
This cloud obsession is silly and getting too far. I can't use logitech because they are too small for my hands. Microsoft explorer mosue 2 is big enough but htey no longer have the scroll mouse. Just a touch button that will hurt after rubbing my fingers for several hours. My dying MS mouse I will keep for now as I am disapointed in razor. It is rediculous.