Sounds like your university or community college website is very outdated.
The reason Java had to be used was because IE 6 didn't support MathML tags (1998 standard I may add) to display equations on webpages. IE 7 fixed that when Vista came out in 2005-2006 which is better late than never.
Even the oldest students who are seniors this year, assuming they bought their computers when they were freshmen back in 2007 had at least IE 7 and probably use IE 8 if they use the default settings in Windows Update. Generation Y folks typically know better and use Chrome or Firefox mostly anyway:-)
The applet serves no purpose anymore and simple 1998 standard html 4.01 will do fine. Or Flash if they want some video. This is 2011 and we will be in 2012 in just a few months. There is no need for that silly requirement due to a poor browser from 2001.
"I don't know what's scarier, the fact that these things run Windows, the fact that the ports weren't sealed off or the fact that some doofus who doesn't know how to check for Autorun viruses and/or wasn't a computer professional didn't see a problem with plugging a flash drive in there."
Was the server made in China? Hmm no conflict of interest there.
When the Chinese outsourced the premier's jet to the US, they were shocked it was bugged in 17 times over by the US government. It doesn't surprise me that China would do the same back to us. In fact, Reagan infected Soviet computer systems with rootkits sold to the Soviet Union causing severe economic damage to their satellites and petrol industries.
More than likely it has a rootkit running on the bios or video card that can't be removed. Someone mentioned the machine is not networked? If it is not networked then how does it send commands to the drones? My guess is the controller is probably carefully sending data to China or Russia as well and using a rootkit to hide it on the controller. China has the best spying agency in the world. They have been known to hack routers and systems to slowly and carefully download CAD drawings over time and then delete themselves without being noticed and being trace-less. They are very thorough and careful.
MozeeToby said it himself these are locked down systems with no hot pluggable media. I know contractors are fucked up but they do have to pass c1 and c2 certifications before winning any top secret contract.
It sounds like you have no idea what you are talking about.
Checking is free and just a note to transfer x to y to different banks. It is not a fee, as it is the customers money and not the banks. I would think this is borderline illegal as the banks have to give your money back if you withdrawl it. This is a sleazy way out where if you owned a business and a customer pays, you are being punished for not being a BOA customer too.
All the banks do is spend it and gamble it away and keep the interest until you withdrawl it back. It is a way to strong arm you, and god forbid if they bought your employers payroll bank/company. Then you get dinged each paycheck for not being a BOA customer. Why are you defending this practice and claiming they are providing a service for you to get money by someone else? That doesn';t make sense
If I could leave BOA I would. Agreements and paying relatives with bank transfers is why I am stuck with them for the short term. Poor people have a hard life
In the past no. The definition of a check is you hand it to one bank and they process it by a transfer to the other from one account to another. What they are doing is saying NO, give us your money so we can gamble it or we will charge you.
If you are a customer or your company uses BOA you get a fee each time you get paid. So I work for free to pay BOA even if I am not a customer. That is rotten and thievery. These are what monopolies do.
If you want to be raped then fine but I will not put up with it. I work hard for my money and I am sorry it is not a service for someone to pay me their own money for christ sakes. Some businesses where I live charge fees if you pay with debit cards or checks for these reasons.
The issue is many organizations are downgrading from Firefox to IE 7 or IE 6 again due to security concerns. Many think because IE is updated that is secure and therefore supported regardless of whether it is insecure by design. Sigh
Firefox 3.6 is unsupported and therefore more insecure than IE 7 according to the PHBs.
There are a lot of ignorant people who stick to old assumptions in I.T. today
Poor people get charged 30% interest by these assholes on their credit cards. That is very long term cash that adds up in volume. Well Fargo beat BOA in the 1980s and 1990s because they focused on the lower classes and opening as many branches as possible while BOA focuses on the uber wealthy and using mathmatical algorithms to figure out how to steal as much money as possible.
I believe that is what trule makes BOA money as I heard 1 trillion in debt owed by credit cards was thrown up in the air.
True the wealthy own 80% of all the money in the US, BOA gives them terrible interest rates compared to competitors because they are just greedy and want to skim it all. My parents have over 1 million with them and they are giving them.016% interest. Come on? They are about to shop elsewhere. Many low balances do add up over time in volume especially.
Maybe if BOA realized that customers are leaving in droves because of the BS they would not have to put in these transaction fees. Smaller banks have become very popular in the past few years and BOA does mathmatical research in keeping people in debt and ripping everyone off to benefit them the most, forgetting it is a 2 way street in the marketplace. Once people pay off their BOA credit cards they will take their money elsewhere.
Credit cards. Home mortgages, car loans, payments to relatives who only have accounts on it etc. BOA are assholes to small businesses that need to process checks from them. They will only process like $50 and will charge you to cash out a customers check, unless of course you have an account with BOA too... wink wink. Citigroup I heard is doing the same thing forcing businesses to have accounts with these aweful people agaisnt their will so the banks can invest and and collect interest off of their money. Crooks
I am paying off as much debt as I can so I can give these assholes the finger. I plan to do that by the end of the month. When I lived in Alaska, most of the banking there were credit unions. They were awesome! AlaskaUSA credit union was the best union out there and I plan to move my money in one. Not all credit unions are great though so you have to shop around. Here in Florida I do not like them but any of them are better in bank of America. I would love to see them die a slow horrible death.
If corruption were not so rampant there would be laws agaisnt the rules of cashing others checks and BOA will die. Many simply are stuck and can't leave. I view my relationship with my bank as that of an abused wife. Save up for years to plan to leave and never go back. Pretty soon BOA will be shocked and dumbfounded when they have no customers left. This time hopefully a tea party president will let them die a horrible death. They do not deserve to be in business
Lazy or ignorant admins at your other place.... not you in particular:-)
IE it is easy to setup zones of protection. Setup the intranet sites in its own DMZ or just configure the MSI to setup IE to use Java for one or two particular sites only. It will then be disabled in the internet zone. I believe even ancient IE 6 has that option if you have the later service packs. Banning flash is obvious too as it serves no work purpose other than people calling saying they can't watch youtube or msnbc during work hours but I think their bosses would chuckle and give you a thumbs up for that one.
JRE is a big threat now should be treated as such.
Ask any IT professional who has migrated to Win 7 and almost every one will say the amount of support issues and malware tickets go down significantly aftewards. Win 7 is much more secure than XP by design and many under the hood things in runtime and at compile time. It is near impossible to peak and poke in a Windows 7 machine with an exploit.
Flash and Java will execute other executables so it bypasses all security.
The old vulnerabilities of putting an activeX control, tricking a RPC, or targetting a buffer overflow in Windows XP or IE 6 are long gone.
IE 9 on Windows 7 and IE 10 in Windows 8 are one of the mose secure web browser out there. Not seriously?
It is compiled with VC 2010 and has crazy ASLR, Dep (data execution prevention), and even checks exception handling at compile times to make sure it not abused. Even if you you could figure out how to do a buffer overrun and poke some bad instructions in ram, its addressing is all randomized so targeting the kernel or a particular dll to execute is all but impossible. This is especially true under WIndows 7 where the whole system has a scrambled layer of ram addresses that is always changing. It is a bitch to do now.
Even IE 8 which is not a modern browser in today's standards (still mediocre), is ok secure wise when patched compared to its horrible past siblings of IE 6 and IE 7.
Modern IE is not IE 6, or IE 7 by a longshot. As I.T. professionals you need to learn newer things. It does not make sense to target Windows or IE vulnerabilities because by the cracker finishes the trojan MS will likely fix it via a Windows update.
Flash however is compiled with adobe's with no such security checks at compile time! Doh. Even worse many users have 2 year old flash 9 still that is never auto updated. You can run bad javascript in PDFs that crossite to a badsite and a whole other nasties. I use Foxit and it even caught a PDF that did just that and had xss cross site scripting protection. Thank God.
Flash is never updated, does not have the resources as MS, and Oracle doesn't give a shit about Java and refuses to patch security glitches. The RMI by its very nature is to allow foreign natively compiled code so no crazy hacks needed.
The solution? Ban flash at work, setup IE to use Java for selected Intranet sites only in a protected zone. It is very easy to setup and any administrator at work should always do that. Youtube is not business productive anyway and is the only real reason to use Flash.;-) You can ban these with Chrome and I assume Firefox as well but you can't do particular sites like IE can. Ms put them there for a reason.
Do these steps and your support will go down by at least 50% at work. Guarantee it.
I disagree. Integrated gpus have such high ram latency that even hidef videos have trouble keeping up.
IE 10 ppr and Firefox 7 have a big difference in performance depending on GPU for sites and ads that take 100% cpu utilization.Metro will show this when Microsoft adds IOS graphical effects. Llamo may not be super fast, but it is lightyears ahead of regular gpus because it is integrated with the CPUs ram controller. If you are on a computer with a decent dedicated video card fire up IE 9 (I know blaspheme here on/.) and do a Google video search and hit the up and down arrow keys if you don't believe me?
See how smooth it is? That is the GPU doing 100% of the work. This would flicker like mad with the integrated controller on a Core i5 or under Chrome. Chrome will fix this by Chrome 16 or 17 so it is coming.
That is what me and Unity are talking about. Fast CPU doesn't make a difference but a good GPU will for the average Joe. Llamo will have a better experience for a fraction of the cost.
I ran Fedora 14 before the gnome 3 fiasco and switched to Windows 7. My system had an ati-5750 and used the fedora ati proprietary drivers and it worked fine. FLuid animations, great video support at 1080p and it never crashed. Was a very stable system. I do admit I did not do gaming or CAD on it. I dual booted to Windows 7 to run Wow or anything like that.
AMD has higher quality hardware and are better cards in my opinion. Its drivers are always so so and conservative compared to Nvidias. I have had 2 nvidia chipsets and cards fail within the last 5 years so I am sticking with ATI. But, I do use Windows more than some slashdotters so that makes a difference too.
Debt made the great moderation as the normal economic cycles were not following the laws of economics due to the inflated money supply. When the bills were due we ended up where we are at today with the fed printing more money and inflating the money supply yet again to pay the debt. Sigh
If you play with IE 9 and IE 10/Windows 8 preview you will see fluid scrolling browsing when you hit hte up or down arrow keys with no flickering. Go to www.google.com videos with a generic search and try that it if you have a nice card? FIrefox 7 is catching up wtih video acceleration but it has slow scroll and will soon have fast scroll. Chrome will eventually have fast scroll with full accelerated html 5 canvas soon too.This is where it will matter for AMDs ALUs.
Average users and not gamers will see transitional graphical effects with Metro applets, smooth video, and animations with Llamo over a more expensive intel unit. I think a portable llamo would be a gret tablet running WIndows 8 for this reason next year.The cpu is no longer the bottleneck in modern systems. It is the hard drive and graphics.
In gaming benchmarks I can get a $2,000 icore 7 xeon with an integrated graphics chip and then setup a $499 Dell with just an i3, but throw in a Raedon 6950. Guess which computer will trounce the benchmarks by a very large margin?
The GPU is what is important in gaming and regular desktop usage with accelerated html 5 browsing and Metro around the corner. CPU is less important. Also like another slashdotter posted you can always add a dedicated card and then crossfire it with the CPU/GPU:-D... now that is a great gaming rig for $600. Even if the results are mediocre at best, the crossfire can make up and make it a great system if I choose to put a dedicated 68x grade ATI card.
AMDs are slower but not by that much. If my 2.8 ghz dekstop is 15% slower I do not care as much if I have a nice GPU and virtualization instructions to run VirtualBOX all for an on sale for $699 system. Intel equilivents were well over $1,000 and I wonder if hte bios turned off the virtualization functions to force me to pay more money to run VMware or virtualbox? I do not own a Llamo, but if I were to buy a new laptop I would certain look into one. It has been proving web browsing is slow on a 3.0 ghz hyperthreaded system with a crappy GPU.
The article was talking about Metro, and the reference to the start menu refers to people hiting the Windows key and typing what they want vs scrolling with the mouse like the old XP way. I do it that way and I believe METRO does as well. I haven't tested it out yet though
It is not going away. The old desktop is still there in Win 8, it just explains why the start menu is not in Metro
When I got a notebook with Vista I hated the start menu.
However, I noticed a difference. When you hit the Windows key you can type the name of the program or file and launch it that way automatically. After a week I loved it. MS is discouring users to use the mouse to browse. I can launch Word in 2 seconds now. Hit the windows key and type wo and then enter DONE.
I go crazy on a Mac or XP box after getting used to that
America had an unfair free ride too. It became the richest country on Earth before it even seperated from England due to huge abundant natural resources while Europe used all of theirs. A shitload of land to sell crops back to Europe at inflated prices. Free timber, coal, iron ore, you name it. All you had to do was work and you got rich. I read somewhere that the average salary in the 1700s was $200,000 in todays prices. That is insane!
Now, that game is over. Resources are more depleted and newer technology means to do more with less land, and also do more with less thanks to the internet and computers.
Today, it is about the demand side of the economic equation of supply and demand. Countries with the lowest prices get the highest demand. Free trade does work for corporations. Just not us out of work if we do not want to be considered losers by society because we serve coffee or mow lawns to pay off our nice college degrees. Coke makes 80% of their profit in these markets. China buys more computers now than the US making Dell and Intel rich. If you put in Tarifs today these companies would simply relocate to Asia refuse to sell back to us and only focus on Asia and South America as they are growth markets.
The biggest economic burden is not free trade destroying jobs. It is the financial crises as Americans overbought when they realized owning that nice 3,5000 square foot home that the Jones had was becoming out of reach. They just borrowed more instead of realizing rather than facing they are not as wealthy as our parents had it. Today banks are scarcely lending lines of credit to business. That is your lifeline and as a result businesses are under extreme pressure not to hire because bad books means no loan = your done.
What we need is for people to pay off their debt and for the goverments to stop spending and raise their interest rates. Then small businesses can hire again. Like I said that is the problem more than outsourcing.With stock prices going down banks are going to force more small to large businesses to go belly up or lay off. All business done today is 80-90% financed through monthly lines of credit. Pretty wacky hu?
They may not buy the crapiest software, but I bet you they sure buy the cheapest.
That is true even if it is the crapiest. Why would I pay an American $30,000 to build a website when I can get it done for $200 in India? Will it be as high quality? Maybe not. I will pay $200 and then pay $5,000 for a consultant to review the work, and simply over work my I.T. staff 70 hours a week for free to debug it. Since the I.T. staff know their jobs can go to India they will be more than happy to work extra for free in this economy. Net savings is $29,000 and a nice bonus to buy a new car from upper management for being so smart:-)
I also ate McDonalds last night. Crappiest? Better than Taco Bell, but it was sure the cheapest. Same concept.
In a deflationary economy you need to focus on costs and not quality or volume. 10 years ago CIOs cared about these things but Wall Street owns the companies and it is essential to think only in 6-10 week quarters. Paying upper middle class salaries is simply not an option anymore for hiring.They wont hire period unless required by a big customer and then will need to get it done as cheap as possible to not offset the share price or sadly make books look good to obtain another month of line of credit from the bank. That is what is happening now as it is the lifeblood of any private business
The eMacs and education edition iMacs are not sold at the store. They are more limited and have slower graphics and lesser icore5 processors than the ones you see at teh Apple store for consumers. But yes it is still $200-$300 more. If it costs someone $75 to $100 an hour to fix it pays for itself over 2 - 3 years
Windows phones sucked for a very long time, and WP7 is having growing pains being brand new.
Better late than never I guess in which Microsoft does very well and ends up being important later. NT and IE sucked and took several years to catch on. Some may argue they still suck, but that is besides the point.:-)
Another poster mentioned non romance language support. It needs to do much catching up. The UI and responsiveness does look neat and if it can be merged with Windows 8 in the future they will be hope of it becoming popular. Especially in corporate environments
Have you seen the Firefox demo's when Firefox 4 came out? All 3D rendered with webgl. Accelerated html 5 is coming and has many uses. I already see the HP add in 3D on slashdot if I use Firefox or IE 9. It is not in Chrome yet as the canvas is not accelerated by default yet.
With decent integrated GPUs that actually do not suck in AMDs and now Intels latest offerings it is certainly doable and coming. MS has demos including a game of scrabble. Mostly 3D is for games, children love Flash games these days and that is turning to HTML 5 as I type this.
In 2 years it will be quite mainstream. My guess is even less. Browsers are being updated very quickly now and even IE now has an annual update. Since IE follows standards in the later releases, many businesses can upgrade with ease annually once their crappy IE 6 intranet sites are updated.
True World of Warcraft in HTML 5 with CSS 3D is not going to happen anytime soon, but many games already do advanced mmos in javascript that are impressive. We will see but my guess is it will be here sooner than you think.
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Sounds like your university or community college website is very outdated.
The reason Java had to be used was because IE 6 didn't support MathML tags (1998 standard I may add) to display equations on webpages. IE 7 fixed that when Vista came out in 2005-2006 which is better late than never.
Even the oldest students who are seniors this year, assuming they bought their computers when they were freshmen back in 2007 had at least IE 7 and probably use IE 8 if they use the default settings in Windows Update. Generation Y folks typically know better and use Chrome or Firefox mostly anyway :-)
The applet serves no purpose anymore and simple 1998 standard html 4.01 will do fine. Or Flash if they want some video. This is 2011 and we will be in 2012 in just a few months. There is no need for that silly requirement due to a poor browser from 2001.
"I don't know what's scarier, the fact that these things run Windows, the fact that the ports weren't sealed off or the fact that some doofus who doesn't know how to check for Autorun viruses and/or wasn't a computer professional didn't see a problem with plugging a flash drive in there."
Was the server made in China? Hmm no conflict of interest there.
When the Chinese outsourced the premier's jet to the US, they were shocked it was bugged in 17 times over by the US government. It doesn't surprise me that China would do the same back to us. In fact, Reagan infected Soviet computer systems with rootkits sold to the Soviet Union causing severe economic damage to their satellites and petrol industries.
More than likely it has a rootkit running on the bios or video card that can't be removed. Someone mentioned the machine is not networked? If it is not networked then how does it send commands to the drones? My guess is the controller is probably carefully sending data to China or Russia as well and using a rootkit to hide it on the controller. China has the best spying agency in the world. They have been known to hack routers and systems to slowly and carefully download CAD drawings over time and then delete themselves without being noticed and being trace-less. They are very thorough and careful.
MozeeToby said it himself these are locked down systems with no hot pluggable media. I know contractors are fucked up but they do have to pass c1 and c2 certifications before winning any top secret contract.
It sounds like you have no idea what you are talking about.
Checking is free and just a note to transfer x to y to different banks. It is not a fee, as it is the customers money and not the banks. I would think this is borderline illegal as the banks have to give your money back if you withdrawl it. This is a sleazy way out where if you owned a business and a customer pays, you are being punished for not being a BOA customer too.
All the banks do is spend it and gamble it away and keep the interest until you withdrawl it back. It is a way to strong arm you, and god forbid if they bought your employers payroll bank/company. Then you get dinged each paycheck for not being a BOA customer. Why are you defending this practice and claiming they are providing a service for you to get money by someone else? That doesn';t make sense
If I could leave BOA I would. Agreements and paying relatives with bank transfers is why I am stuck with them for the short term. Poor people have a hard life
In the past no. The definition of a check is you hand it to one bank and they process it by a transfer to the other from one account to another. What they are doing is saying NO, give us your money so we can gamble it or we will charge you.
If you are a customer or your company uses BOA you get a fee each time you get paid. So I work for free to pay BOA even if I am not a customer. That is rotten and thievery. These are what monopolies do.
If you want to be raped then fine but I will not put up with it. I work hard for my money and I am sorry it is not a service for someone to pay me their own money for christ sakes. Some businesses where I live charge fees if you pay with debit cards or checks for these reasons.
The issue is many organizations are downgrading from Firefox to IE 7 or IE 6 again due to security concerns. Many think because IE is updated that is secure and therefore supported regardless of whether it is insecure by design. Sigh
Firefox 3.6 is unsupported and therefore more insecure than IE 7 according to the PHBs.
There are a lot of ignorant people who stick to old assumptions in I.T. today
Poor people get charged 30% interest by these assholes on their credit cards. That is very long term cash that adds up in volume. Well Fargo beat BOA in the 1980s and 1990s because they focused on the lower classes and opening as many branches as possible while BOA focuses on the uber wealthy and using mathmatical algorithms to figure out how to steal as much money as possible.
I believe that is what trule makes BOA money as I heard 1 trillion in debt owed by credit cards was thrown up in the air.
True the wealthy own 80% of all the money in the US, BOA gives them terrible interest rates compared to competitors because they are just greedy and want to skim it all. My parents have over 1 million with them and they are giving them .016% interest. Come on? They are about to shop elsewhere. Many low balances do add up over time in volume especially.
Fix your security holes first!
Just earlier today it was announced on slashdot that Java exploits count for 10x as much exploits than IE. That is seriously terrible
Maybe if BOA realized that customers are leaving in droves because of the BS they would not have to put in these transaction fees. Smaller banks have become very popular in the past few years and BOA does mathmatical research in keeping people in debt and ripping everyone off to benefit them the most, forgetting it is a 2 way street in the marketplace. Once people pay off their BOA credit cards they will take their money elsewhere.
I don't know.
Credit cards. Home mortgages, car loans, payments to relatives who only have accounts on it etc. BOA are assholes to small businesses that need to process checks from them. They will only process like $50 and will charge you to cash out a customers check, unless of course you have an account with BOA too ... wink wink. Citigroup I heard is doing the same thing forcing businesses to have accounts with these aweful people agaisnt their will so the banks can invest and and collect interest off of their money. Crooks
I am paying off as much debt as I can so I can give these assholes the finger. I plan to do that by the end of the month. When I lived in Alaska, most of the banking there were credit unions. They were awesome! AlaskaUSA credit union was the best union out there and I plan to move my money in one. Not all credit unions are great though so you have to shop around. Here in Florida I do not like them but any of them are better in bank of America. I would love to see them die a slow horrible death.
If corruption were not so rampant there would be laws agaisnt the rules of cashing others checks and BOA will die. Many simply are stuck and can't leave. I view my relationship with my bank as that of an abused wife. Save up for years to plan to leave and never go back. Pretty soon BOA will be shocked and dumbfounded when they have no customers left. This time hopefully a tea party president will let them die a horrible death. They do not deserve to be in business
Lazy or ignorant admins at your other place. ... not you in particular :-)
IE it is easy to setup zones of protection. Setup the intranet sites in its own DMZ or just configure the MSI to setup IE to use Java for one or two particular sites only. It will then be disabled in the internet zone. I believe even ancient IE 6 has that option if you have the later service packs. Banning flash is obvious too as it serves no work purpose other than people calling saying they can't watch youtube or msnbc during work hours but I think their bosses would chuckle and give you a thumbs up for that one.
JRE is a big threat now should be treated as such.
Ask any IT professional who has migrated to Win 7 and almost every one will say the amount of support issues and malware tickets go down significantly aftewards. Win 7 is much more secure than XP by design and many under the hood things in runtime and at compile time. It is near impossible to peak and poke in a Windows 7 machine with an exploit.
Flash and Java will execute other executables so it bypasses all security.
The old vulnerabilities of putting an activeX control, tricking a RPC, or targetting a buffer overflow in Windows XP or IE 6 are long gone.
IE 9 on Windows 7 and IE 10 in Windows 8 are one of the mose secure web browser out there. Not seriously?
It is compiled with VC 2010 and has crazy ASLR, Dep (data execution prevention), and even checks exception handling at compile times to make sure it not abused. Even if you you could figure out how to do a buffer overrun and poke some bad instructions in ram, its addressing is all randomized so targeting the kernel or a particular dll to execute is all but impossible. This is especially true under WIndows 7 where the whole system has a scrambled layer of ram addresses that is always changing. It is a bitch to do now.
Even IE 8 which is not a modern browser in today's standards (still mediocre), is ok secure wise when patched compared to its horrible past siblings of IE 6 and IE 7.
Modern IE is not IE 6, or IE 7 by a longshot. As I.T. professionals you need to learn newer things. It does not make sense to target Windows or IE vulnerabilities because by the cracker finishes the trojan MS will likely fix it via a Windows update.
Flash however is compiled with adobe's with no such security checks at compile time! Doh. Even worse many users have 2 year old flash 9 still that is never auto updated. You can run bad javascript in PDFs that crossite to a badsite and a whole other nasties. I use Foxit and it even caught a PDF that did just that and had xss cross site scripting protection. Thank God.
Flash is never updated, does not have the resources as MS, and Oracle doesn't give a shit about Java and refuses to patch security glitches. The RMI by its very nature is to allow foreign natively compiled code so no crazy hacks needed.
The solution? Ban flash at work, setup IE to use Java for selected Intranet sites only in a protected zone. It is very easy to setup and any administrator at work should always do that. Youtube is not business productive anyway and is the only real reason to use Flash. ;-) You can ban these with Chrome and I assume Firefox as well but you can't do particular sites like IE can. Ms put them there for a reason.
Do these steps and your support will go down by at least 50% at work. Guarantee it.
Go run Firefox on these with lots of addons and then tell me it is a good chip. :-)
That should be the end all of benchmarks
I disagree. Integrated gpus have such high ram latency that even hidef videos have trouble keeping up.
IE 10 ppr and Firefox 7 have a big difference in performance depending on GPU for sites and ads that take 100% cpu utilization.Metro will show this when Microsoft adds IOS graphical effects. Llamo may not be super fast, but it is lightyears ahead of regular gpus because it is integrated with the CPUs ram controller. If you are on a computer with a decent dedicated video card fire up IE 9 (I know blaspheme here on /.) and do a Google video search and hit the up and down arrow keys if you don't believe me?
See how smooth it is? That is the GPU doing 100% of the work. This would flicker like mad with the integrated controller on a Core i5 or under Chrome. Chrome will fix this by Chrome 16 or 17 so it is coming.
That is what me and Unity are talking about. Fast CPU doesn't make a difference but a good GPU will for the average Joe. Llamo will have a better experience for a fraction of the cost.
I ran Fedora 14 before the gnome 3 fiasco and switched to Windows 7. My system had an ati-5750 and used the fedora ati proprietary drivers and it worked fine. FLuid animations, great video support at 1080p and it never crashed. Was a very stable system. I do admit I did not do gaming or CAD on it. I dual booted to Windows 7 to run Wow or anything like that.
AMD has higher quality hardware and are better cards in my opinion. Its drivers are always so so and conservative compared to Nvidias. I have had 2 nvidia chipsets and cards fail within the last 5 years so I am sticking with ATI. But, I do use Windows more than some slashdotters so that makes a difference too.
Debt made the great moderation as the normal economic cycles were not following the laws of economics due to the inflated money supply. When the bills were due we ended up where we are at today with the fed printing more money and inflating the money supply yet again to pay the debt. Sigh
Not just for games too.
If you play with IE 9 and IE 10/Windows 8 preview you will see fluid scrolling browsing when you hit hte up or down arrow keys with no flickering. Go to www.google.com videos with a generic search and try that it if you have a nice card? FIrefox 7 is catching up wtih video acceleration but it has slow scroll and will soon have fast scroll. Chrome will eventually have fast scroll with full accelerated html 5 canvas soon too.This is where it will matter for AMDs ALUs.
Average users and not gamers will see transitional graphical effects with Metro applets, smooth video, and animations with Llamo over a more expensive intel unit. I think a portable llamo would be a gret tablet running WIndows 8 for this reason next year.The cpu is no longer the bottleneck in modern systems. It is the hard drive and graphics.
Link?
In gaming benchmarks I can get a $2,000 icore 7 xeon with an integrated graphics chip and then setup a $499 Dell with just an i3, but throw in a Raedon 6950. Guess which computer will trounce the benchmarks by a very large margin?
The GPU is what is important in gaming and regular desktop usage with accelerated html 5 browsing and Metro around the corner. CPU is less important. Also like another slashdotter posted you can always add a dedicated card and then crossfire it with the CPU/GPU :-D ... now that is a great gaming rig for $600. Even if the results are mediocre at best, the crossfire can make up and make it a great system if I choose to put a dedicated 68x grade ATI card.
AMDs are slower but not by that much. If my 2.8 ghz dekstop is 15% slower I do not care as much if I have a nice GPU and virtualization instructions to run VirtualBOX all for an on sale for $699 system. Intel equilivents were well over $1,000 and I wonder if hte bios turned off the virtualization functions to force me to pay more money to run VMware or virtualbox? I do not own a Llamo, but if I were to buy a new laptop I would certain look into one. It has been proving web browsing is slow on a 3.0 ghz hyperthreaded system with a crappy GPU.
Thats pure FUD.
The article was talking about Metro, and the reference to the start menu refers to people hiting the Windows key and typing what they want vs scrolling with the mouse like the old XP way. I do it that way and I believe METRO does as well. I haven't tested it out yet though
It is not going away. The old desktop is still there in Win 8, it just explains why the start menu is not in Metro
When I got a notebook with Vista I hated the start menu.
However, I noticed a difference. When you hit the Windows key you can type the name of the program or file and launch it that way automatically. After a week I loved it. MS is discouring users to use the mouse to browse. I can launch Word in 2 seconds now. Hit the windows key and type wo and then enter DONE.
I go crazy on a Mac or XP box after getting used to that
America had an unfair free ride too. It became the richest country on Earth before it even seperated from England due to huge abundant natural resources while Europe used all of theirs. A shitload of land to sell crops back to Europe at inflated prices. Free timber, coal, iron ore, you name it. All you had to do was work and you got rich. I read somewhere that the average salary in the 1700s was $200,000 in todays prices. That is insane!
Now, that game is over. Resources are more depleted and newer technology means to do more with less land, and also do more with less thanks to the internet and computers.
Today, it is about the demand side of the economic equation of supply and demand. Countries with the lowest prices get the highest demand. Free trade does work for corporations. Just not us out of work if we do not want to be considered losers by society because we serve coffee or mow lawns to pay off our nice college degrees. Coke makes 80% of their profit in these markets. China buys more computers now than the US making Dell and Intel rich. If you put in Tarifs today these companies would simply relocate to Asia refuse to sell back to us and only focus on Asia and South America as they are growth markets.
The biggest economic burden is not free trade destroying jobs. It is the financial crises as Americans overbought when they realized owning that nice 3,5000 square foot home that the Jones had was becoming out of reach. They just borrowed more instead of realizing rather than facing they are not as wealthy as our parents had it. Today banks are scarcely lending lines of credit to business. That is your lifeline and as a result businesses are under extreme pressure not to hire because bad books means no loan = your done.
What we need is for people to pay off their debt and for the goverments to stop spending and raise their interest rates. Then small businesses can hire again. Like I said that is the problem more than outsourcing.With stock prices going down banks are going to force more small to large businesses to go belly up or lay off. All business done today is 80-90% financed through monthly lines of credit. Pretty wacky hu?
They may not buy the crapiest software, but I bet you they sure buy the cheapest.
That is true even if it is the crapiest. Why would I pay an American $30,000 to build a website when I can get it done for $200 in India? Will it be as high quality? Maybe not. I will pay $200 and then pay $5,000 for a consultant to review the work, and simply over work my I.T. staff 70 hours a week for free to debug it. Since the I.T. staff know their jobs can go to India they will be more than happy to work extra for free in this economy. Net savings is $29,000 and a nice bonus to buy a new car from upper management for being so smart :-)
I also ate McDonalds last night. Crappiest? Better than Taco Bell, but it was sure the cheapest. Same concept.
In a deflationary economy you need to focus on costs and not quality or volume. 10 years ago CIOs cared about these things but Wall Street owns the companies and it is essential to think only in 6-10 week quarters. Paying upper middle class salaries is simply not an option anymore for hiring.They wont hire period unless required by a big customer and then will need to get it done as cheap as possible to not offset the share price or sadly make books look good to obtain another month of line of credit from the bank. That is what is happening now as it is the lifeblood of any private business
The eMacs and education edition iMacs are not sold at the store. They are more limited and have slower graphics and lesser icore5 processors than the ones you see at teh Apple store for consumers. But yes it is still $200-$300 more. If it costs someone $75 to $100 an hour to fix it pays for itself over 2 - 3 years
Windows phones sucked for a very long time, and WP7 is having growing pains being brand new.
Better late than never I guess in which Microsoft does very well and ends up being important later. NT and IE sucked and took several years to catch on. Some may argue they still suck, but that is besides the point. :-)
Another poster mentioned non romance language support. It needs to do much catching up. The UI and responsiveness does look neat and if it can be merged with Windows 8 in the future they will be hope of it becoming popular. Especially in corporate environments
Have you seen the Firefox demo's when Firefox 4 came out? All 3D rendered with webgl. Accelerated html 5 is coming and has many uses. I already see the HP add in 3D on slashdot if I use Firefox or IE 9. It is not in Chrome yet as the canvas is not accelerated by default yet.
With decent integrated GPUs that actually do not suck in AMDs and now Intels latest offerings it is certainly doable and coming. MS has demos including a game of scrabble. Mostly 3D is for games, children love Flash games these days and that is turning to HTML 5 as I type this.
In 2 years it will be quite mainstream. My guess is even less. Browsers are being updated very quickly now and even IE now has an annual update. Since IE follows standards in the later releases, many businesses can upgrade with ease annually once their crappy IE 6 intranet sites are updated.
True World of Warcraft in HTML 5 with CSS 3D is not going to happen anytime soon, but many games already do advanced mmos in javascript that are impressive. We will see but my guess is it will be here sooner than you think.