The last time we had this much debt and high market valuations was last decade. This time around instead of homes the junk derivitives are car loans, payday centers, and other places. I read it is over 2 trillion in bad car loans that are flipped each year as poor folks with low credit like my boss with a 550 score can get a $30,000 truck no money down no problem... still at %22 interest though. Foreign debt as well in the EU with bonds for countries like Greece, Italy, and Spain.
Add to this the market valuations and a dangerous president (please Republican viewers this is not a liberal rant) who is anti globalization & china and a possible broken up EU with France and Italy possible leaving it if more far alt-right leaders get elected and I predict a disaster!
The only thing keeping us afloat it seems is China and people flipping things and offshoring debt. Once tarrifs come into play again with Trump and a falling apart of the EU if La Penne and Germany's future alt-right leader leave will stop the gravy train and the cards will collapse.
I've had no joy getting it to work on Centos. Plus it has a dependency on the gstreamer-plugins-bad package. Does that ring a bell?
For the corner case that mencoder & ffmpeg couldn't handle it's not worth it.
CentOS is kind of old. Which is not a problem as that is more meant for servers. Have you tried getting it to work on a more desktop friendly up to date distro such as Linux Mint?
Pretty sure they had an interview recently where the developer said he was tempted to do that sort of thing but concluded that it wasn't the right direction. He wanted to focus on being the best legacy os possible for maximum compatibility, not to be a dos box competitor with new features.
Alright I won't bother using it then. Some may have an old IBM 286 AT lying around like my Dad, but for the rest of us on modern hardware we want a VM so our host can run a more modern OS. A shame..
Hairyfeet had a youtube video which showed someone upgrading from an AMD 8350 to an i7 4790K and you know what? Only a 2% difference! Reason being is the AMD had 8 cores and most video work can take advantage of multiple cores. Adobe Premiere showed slight favoring to the AMD cpu on some of the workloads and close to even on the rest.
Handbrake got caught taking money from Intel to use non IEEE compliant x87 FPU code and Intel optimizations so parts of the CPU are disabled when run on AMD systems to make Intels look faster.
For gaming yes Intel is better. For running multiple cores AMD has an 8 core... ok actually Intel now has one too with Broadwell-E for a very expensive $1700 per CPU price which should beat the shit of an AMD but still.
I find it astounding that an i7 2600 laptop running at 2.2 ghz can outperform an AMD 8350 at 4.4 ghz at Handbreak. Meanwhile in other tasks there are no such strange anomalies. My guess is they are using an Intel compiler and getting paid by Intel to make sure performance is crippled on AMD as handbreak is used a lot for benchmarks
Did you all know what the MBA program was invented for? Not financial accountants, but engineers. Yep, it was for engineers who designed the products and moved up, but lacked a solid business understanding to take charge at the top levels.
In the old days people like THomas Edison or even colonel Sanders made the products that people wanted. No really people bought shit from great products or services, not thought leaders. So they sold stuff and wanted to lead their companies by making great things to obtain marketshare and learn the management and business with an MBA to lead. 2 things changed in the 1980s 1. Shareholders won over the CEO's on who owns the companies. That is Wall Street 2. The share price value increase became the goal. Not increase sales or make more money or increase product quality. 3. The result is Wall Street took over the board of directors and valued accountants with no product sense or cares to increase the share price at all costs.
So now the MBA program is for young folks who want a career in financial engineering to make spreadsheets read by computer programs to make their Wall Street brokers rich. WHere does IT fit in this? It doesn't. Just keep what we have up and give the bonuses to the finance guys for thinking of new plans to raise the price each quarter etc.
It's reality. The CEO wants the workers to leave and already has a replacement ready to go. No point other than a no rehireable status from HR.
What bargaining is there when someone else is ready to do the job for much cheaper and walking out will have zero impact. For this to work India needs to unionize too which isn't going to happen
IF the offer isn't acceptable, the CEO can just go find another job. That's what you expect the workers to do, isn't it? So what happens when there's a counter offer and the CEO doesn't like it? CEOs don't produce anything, so he needs workers, and he isn't much of a CEO with no workers to be executive over. So rather redundant.
But, hey, he can just continue with the current contract.
First off the CEO is only accountable to the board of directors. Not to tech workers. No IT labor? Great that is what the CEO wants and India is here to give them what they want. IF they walk out then Phnjaab flies on a plane to quickly take the lead and get his team in Bangalore up to speed within a day or 2.
Everything will be back to normal and the IT guys forgotten either way.
How can you bargain when someone else is ready to jump right in for pennies on the dollar ready to tackle where your team has left off? The board of directors only cares about raising the share price for the next quarter so they can get their bonuses. This means cutting costs while increasing revenue from people going on cruises. Not from overpaying guys to do tape backups and fixing pcs.
It's a two way street. What's the CEO got to offer them? And if the CEO's offer is not good enough, then why shouldn't they unionize to get a better offer?
Ok either hire us back or WE ALL QUIT!...ceo: Uhm wait? Aren't you all leaving anyway? Is that not what I agreed? There is the door. I can have Pnjaab tomorrow who can pick up where you left off and he can have his team in Bangalore up to speed withing a few days. Thanks.... oh and no asshole no severance check for you and your team and a unrehirable status from HR as a result.
I disagree it needs a lot of work and was outdated the last time I tried it in a VM last year. DosBox keeps moving ahead. What it needs are: - modern drivers - modern VM support and drivers for things like Hyper-v/KMS, VMware, and Bhyve as most of us would run it in a VM in 2016 - A better more modern file manager/shell - Multimedia support or at least pseudo drivers for those who like to run it in a VM
I will download a copy this weekend to take a look to see if anything got better. So far it is DosBox
Has anyone even tried Cortana? It sounded cool and useful according to the hype until I tried it. So far Google Now is not advertised and the only thing as close to Star Treks LCARS where it can actually do useful things like tell me when a restaurant closes or give traffic updates or when my next flight is while I am driving. Google Now **actually useful **
Google knows where I live, work, where airport is if I travel, what flight I am, when restaurants in my area close etc.
All the geeks in my IT department say OK Google when does X close? Or OK Google how far is X when looking at traffic while we drive. Amazon already lost and I see no value in such a device. Our phones know all the information based on habits and can even track traffic
If they got passed highschool and got educated and decided to better themselves they wouldn't have been replaced by automation. They have no one to blame but themselves as a hedge fund manager is a job for highschool kids that anyone can do. It was never meant to support a family
I love the AMD GPU hardware but I regret buying my RX 470. I am stuck on Windows 8.1 because of drivers crashing SWTOR and Hyper-V Virtual machines on 10
It most certainly is appropriate. Can your mom run IE 8 from 2009? If so then it can handle Firefox. No you did not misread that?! Firefox is so far behind and all everyone does is whine about change when they try to do catch-up.
Now Firefox can run in lowrights mode in %apodata% in your mom's profile and have this new cutting edge technology called a sandbox like what every other browser had since last decade.
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Sounds about right. Dave Ramsey quoted a statistic that only 15 to 17% pay cash for their cars. Meaning the rest couldn't afford them
The last time we had this much debt and high market valuations was last decade. This time around instead of homes the junk derivitives are car loans, payday centers, and other places. I read it is over 2 trillion in bad car loans that are flipped each year as poor folks with low credit like my boss with a 550 score can get a $30,000 truck no money down no problem ... still at %22 interest though. Foreign debt as well in the EU with bonds for countries like Greece, Italy, and Spain.
Add to this the market valuations and a dangerous president (please Republican viewers this is not a liberal rant) who is anti globalization & china and a possible broken up EU with France and Italy possible leaving it if more far alt-right leaders get elected and I predict a disaster!
The only thing keeping us afloat it seems is China and people flipping things and offshoring debt. Once tarrifs come into play again with Trump and a falling apart of the EU if La Penne and Germany's future alt-right leader leave will stop the gravy train and the cards will collapse.
What do you all think?
I've had no joy getting it to work on Centos. Plus it has a dependency on the gstreamer-plugins-bad package. Does that ring a bell?
For the corner case that mencoder & ffmpeg couldn't handle it's not worth it.
CentOS is kind of old. Which is not a problem as that is more meant for servers. Have you tried getting it to work on a more desktop friendly up to date distro such as Linux Mint?
OpenSource program gets paid by Intel to cripple AMD performance? This is your guess based upon poor performance of your CPU? Good grief....
Oh really?
Yes it is not a vast conspiracy that intel cheats with some popular benchmarks.
Pretty sure they had an interview recently where the developer said he was tempted to do that sort of thing but concluded that it wasn't the right direction. He wanted to focus on being the best legacy os possible for maximum compatibility, not to be a dos box competitor with new features.
Alright I won't bother using it then. Some may have an old IBM 286 AT lying around like my Dad, but for the rest of us on modern hardware we want a VM so our host can run a more modern OS. A shame ..
I know Intel overall is superior per clock tick.
Hairyfeet had a youtube video which showed someone upgrading from an AMD 8350 to an i7 4790K and you know what? Only a 2% difference! Reason being is the AMD had 8 cores and most video work can take advantage of multiple cores. Adobe Premiere showed slight favoring to the AMD cpu on some of the workloads and close to even on the rest.
Handbrake got caught taking money from Intel to use non IEEE compliant x87 FPU code and Intel optimizations so parts of the CPU are disabled when run on AMD systems to make Intels look faster.
For gaming yes Intel is better. For running multiple cores AMD has an 8 core ... ok actually Intel now has one too with Broadwell-E for a very expensive $1700 per CPU price which should beat the shit of an AMD but still.
I find it astounding that an i7 2600 laptop running at 2.2 ghz can outperform an AMD 8350 at 4.4 ghz at Handbreak. Meanwhile in other tasks there are no such strange anomalies. My guess is they are using an Intel compiler and getting paid by Intel to make sure performance is crippled on AMD as handbreak is used a lot for benchmarks
Here is what happened
Did you all know what the MBA program was invented for? Not financial accountants, but engineers. Yep, it was for engineers who designed the products and moved up, but lacked a solid business understanding to take charge at the top levels.
In the old days people like THomas Edison or even colonel Sanders made the products that people wanted. No really people bought shit from great products or services, not thought leaders. So they sold stuff and wanted to lead their companies by making great things to obtain marketshare and learn the management and business with an MBA to lead. 2 things changed in the 1980s
1. Shareholders won over the CEO's on who owns the companies. That is Wall Street
2. The share price value increase became the goal. Not increase sales or make more money or increase product quality.
3. The result is Wall Street took over the board of directors and valued accountants with no product sense or cares to increase the share price at all costs.
So now the MBA program is for young folks who want a career in financial engineering to make spreadsheets read by computer programs to make their Wall Street brokers rich. WHere does IT fit in this? It doesn't. Just keep what we have up and give the bonuses to the finance guys for thinking of new plans to raise the price each quarter etc.
It's reality. The CEO wants the workers to leave and already has a replacement ready to go. No point other than a no rehireable status from HR.
What bargaining is there when someone else is ready to do the job for much cheaper and walking out will have zero impact. For this to work India needs to unionize too which isn't going to happen
IF the offer isn't acceptable, the CEO can just go find another job. That's what you expect the workers to do, isn't it? So what happens when there's a counter offer and the CEO doesn't like it? CEOs don't produce anything, so he needs workers, and he isn't much of a CEO with no workers to be executive over. So rather redundant.
But, hey, he can just continue with the current contract.
First off the CEO is only accountable to the board of directors. Not to tech workers. No IT labor? Great that is what the CEO wants and India is here to give them what they want. IF they walk out then Phnjaab flies on a plane to quickly take the lead and get his team in Bangalore up to speed within a day or 2.
Everything will be back to normal and the IT guys forgotten either way.
How can you bargain when someone else is ready to jump right in for pennies on the dollar ready to tackle where your team has left off? The board of directors only cares about raising the share price for the next quarter so they can get their bonuses. This means cutting costs while increasing revenue from people going on cruises. Not from overpaying guys to do tape backups and fixing pcs.
I'm not sure what he has to offer the CEO
It's a two way street. What's the CEO got to offer them? And if the CEO's offer is not good enough, then why shouldn't they unionize to get a better offer?
Ok either hire us back or WE ALL QUIT! ...ceo: Uhm wait? Aren't you all leaving anyway? Is that not what I agreed? There is the door. I can have Pnjaab tomorrow who can pick up where you left off and he can have his team in Bangalore up to speed withing a few days. Thanks .... oh and no asshole no severance check for you and your team and a unrehirable status from HR as a result.
Lousy entitled cost centers pfft
I thought this was a post about the NVidia update process?
Where IE 6 was what your Mom used when she met your dad
I disagree it needs a lot of work and was outdated the last time I tried it in a VM last year. DosBox keeps moving ahead. What it needs are:
- modern drivers
- modern VM support and drivers for things like Hyper-v/KMS, VMware, and Bhyve as most of us would run it in a VM in 2016
- A better more modern file manager/shell
- Multimedia support or at least pseudo drivers for those who like to run it in a VM
I will download a copy this weekend to take a look to see if anything got better. So far it is DosBox
Has anyone even tried Cortana? It sounded cool and useful according to the hype until I tried it. So far Google Now is not advertised and the only thing as close to Star Treks LCARS where it can actually do useful things like tell me when a restaurant closes or give traffic updates or when my next flight is while I am driving. Google Now **actually useful **
No the problem is when she talks and won't shut up when it's your turn to listen
Your phone has this hardware. Try saying ok Google and asking her how far something is away?
Google won.
Google knows where I live, work, where airport is if I travel, what flight I am, when restaurants in my area close etc.
All the geeks in my IT department say OK Google when does X close? Or OK Google how far is X when looking at traffic while we drive. Amazon already lost and I see no value in such a device. Our phones know all the information based on habits and can even track traffic
Sounds like an emacs junky trying to validate why his editor is the be all end all. Can atom.io or vi create c automatically? Well mine can
If they got passed highschool and got educated and decided to better themselves they wouldn't have been replaced by automation. They have no one to blame but themselves as a hedge fund manager is a job for highschool kids that anyone can do. It was never meant to support a family
I love the AMD GPU hardware but I regret buying my RX 470. I am stuck on Windows 8.1 because of drivers crashing SWTOR and Hyper-V Virtual machines on 10
It most certainly is appropriate. Can your mom run IE 8 from 2009? If so then it can handle Firefox. No you did not misread that?! Firefox is so far behind and all everyone does is whine about change when they try to do catch-up.
Now Firefox can run in lowrights mode in %apodata% in your mom's profile and have this new cutting edge technology called a sandbox like what every other browser had since last decade.
Oh please can the hardware run IE 8 and Chrome 1.0 circa 2009?
If yes then you're fine. Firefox is now catching up to IE 8 security and performance which is why I left it
That would drive me crazy. How can you keep track of which is which?
Just saying ...