Let me send a rescue time machine to you because you seem to be stuck some time in the 1990's.
One $65 Geforce GT440 running CUDA rendered multiple video effects in Premier 8x faster than a dual 10-core Hyperthreaded Xeon server worth about $10,000. Apple doesn't support CUDA (well, CUDA doesn't support Apple, lol). So using them for video editing is crippling you on speed.
Remember when Apple sued Adobe and Nvidia because they didn't develop CUDA support and lost instantly because it was their own fault? Yeah, that was them angry that half their business model just fell apart.
For audio editing, it's a toss up software-wise but then look at the hardware compatibility of advanced sound cards and the overall price for performance on a mac vs custom PC. It's completely one-sided. I don't know a single video or audio production company around here that uses Macs anymore. Every single one used to though. Now they don't. They're just slow, flashy wastes of time and money.
Oooh, so scared. You obviously don't work in a corporate IT environment because you're talking out your ass. The cheapest barely working software suite is what the bosses approve regardless of my suggestion. We (before I worked here) bought one CRM and the company behind it got bought out 2 years later so all support is gone. It technically doesn't work with IE10 or any modern versions of Firefox. That's what happens in the real world in real IT departments.
You can go work in pretend land where there's infinite money, you make all the decisions yourself, and you can swap out the main software yearly.
IT makes the suggestions. The bosses make the final decisions. I know damn well what one I wanted but they went with the cheaper one. You obviously don't work in a corporate IT department.
Firefox changes versions once a month which is far too often to re-test all of our software so actually the problem isn't on our end, it's on their end.
Except that violates the laws of thermodynamics and chemistry and physics. If you take in less energy in fuel than you use during a day, your body will burn fat instead to keep you running. There are advantages and disadvantages genetically about ease of putting on or losing weight but that one rule still applies to every human on the planet. Stop lying to yourself.
I know plenty of people with Type 1 diabetes so stop reading now if that's you:-P Otherwise, I heard of another great treatment that's super-effective. It's not injectable but it's a lot cheaper. It's called get off your ass, lose some damn weight, and stop eating high-sugar and high-calorie crap all the time. It's proven to be even more effective than injectable non-particles.
It took my company 2 years to test all our software for compatibility with Windows 7. Releasing huge OS alterations repeatedly that close together would be a disaster and businesses would riot. Unfortunately, they're planning on doing something similar.
Simple! I run a computer store and it's costing me money in lost laptop sales because nobody fucking wants it. It's a useless piece of shit that takes 5x more clicks and keystrokes to do anything. Nothing is labeled, nothing is consistent, and I've had 10 year olds to 60 year olds tell me they hate it and find it difficult to use.
You're wrong on both accounts. Booting to the desktop? You press the Esc key and click on Desktop or hit the Windows Key. How hard is that? Even I didn't find that annoying.
As for the start menu, how many clicks does it take in Windows 7 to open the control panel? How about 8? 8 Requires 1 click, keystrokes, another click, and another click. So put a shortcut on the desktop, right? No! Put it on the damn start menu where it belongs!
What these critics all miss is that Microsoft is now betting on the tablet market, and doesn't give a damn what its PC users think.
That is idiotic. They stated they want a "consistent interface" but also one that "works on a tablet or other smaller touch device." Well that means they intend for people to be using a PC too.
Remember Apple computers in the 80's and 90's? They were sold at cost to schools so that people would get used to them and when they get home, they want to use what they're used to for a consistent experience. It turns out the Apple OS was so unstable and utter crap, people wanted anything else and didn't buy Apple computers. The entire thing collapsed and Apple had to resort to "bet elite and better than all your friends" as a marketing tool and rode to success on the backs of self-absorbed morons and incompetent rich people. This is the same thing. 8 is so bad, people don't want it on their PCs or their tablets or phones.
It's even worse than those points. Back to a basic level, nothing is labeled. It's just symbols until you mouse over them and even then, some things are perpetually blank. Then you can't even tell what's clickable and right clickable at all. That's beyond bad UI design.
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. I'm head IT manager so let's use my company as an example. I checked when our bosses wanted to get a mac for media editing (which is comical by itself). It works with exactly zero of our software suites. ZERO. No CRM, no office, no database apps, nothing. In fact, Firefox and Safari don't work with our ASP software either. Macs are toys for clueless rich people and have no place whatsoever in a professional environment. Forget compatibility, just go with cost. It's an idiotic choice.
Indeed. Slashdot users are known for their amazing liking of walled garden software systems, hyper-controlled OS environments, and overpriced crap. Don't even get me started on their customers. It's amazing those butt-scratching apes can find their way to the Apple store or operate a motor vehicle. I cannot believe people would still pay an absurd 2-3x price premium for a system that is 6th in laptop quality, can catch viruses quite often, can run practically no software from a percentage standpoint, is a complete joke at video editing with no CUDA, and releases a paid update that breaks everything one a year. Windows is like Linux by comparison. It's that bad!
If you look at Hulu's gross income as a company vs # of subscribers times the subscription cost, you'd be paying A LOT of money to not see ads. Hulu is basically a miniature TV channel where the per use cost is low and the ad revenues are everything. Netflix is like a horrible business plan that only picks up worthless, awful movies and horribly outdated TV shows then throws in one mega hit once in a while to attempt to impress people. Really, neither work. At $1.99 instead of Netflix prices, Youtube cannot possibly afford to offer anything of value.
So they mention that the gun had to have a steel bar in it to comply with the stupid metal detector laws about all firearms. Um, wouldn't it detect the stack of bullets? It might not detect one I suppose but a couple would set the typical one off.
Ask any computer professional or any focus group of moderately intelligent users and you'll get the same thing. Bring back the start menu, leave the new features that are actually beneficial, dump UEFI, and ditch Tile Land. That's it. After that, it's all set to go. I'd even concede the BIOS-embedded license key because I'm sick of other repair shops than mine playing games with Windows 7 licenses to save money. 1 license = 1 motherboard and enforce that for everyone and I can accept that.
You actually don't need to listen for them. If you watch really carefully, you might be able to see part of your neighborhood blow up. Then you know a drone is overhead.
Fat ass engineer actually, I would assume. Also he's probably offsite and a 3rd party contractor for cost reasons.
I have an idea! Make a local-only computer. Have a display of all settings and readings. Point a webcam at it. Tada, read-only access to all the settings and readings, lol.
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Let me send a rescue time machine to you because you seem to be stuck some time in the 1990's.
One $65 Geforce GT440 running CUDA rendered multiple video effects in Premier 8x faster than a dual 10-core Hyperthreaded Xeon server worth about $10,000. Apple doesn't support CUDA (well, CUDA doesn't support Apple, lol). So using them for video editing is crippling you on speed.
Remember when Apple sued Adobe and Nvidia because they didn't develop CUDA support and lost instantly because it was their own fault? Yeah, that was them angry that half their business model just fell apart.
For audio editing, it's a toss up software-wise but then look at the hardware compatibility of advanced sound cards and the overall price for performance on a mac vs custom PC. It's completely one-sided. I don't know a single video or audio production company around here that uses Macs anymore. Every single one used to though. Now they don't. They're just slow, flashy wastes of time and money.
Oooh, so scared. You obviously don't work in a corporate IT environment because you're talking out your ass. The cheapest barely working software suite is what the bosses approve regardless of my suggestion. We (before I worked here) bought one CRM and the company behind it got bought out 2 years later so all support is gone. It technically doesn't work with IE10 or any modern versions of Firefox. That's what happens in the real world in real IT departments.
You can go work in pretend land where there's infinite money, you make all the decisions yourself, and you can swap out the main software yearly.
And while testing you guarantee it works with Firefox versions 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35... how?
IT makes the suggestions. The bosses make the final decisions. I know damn well what one I wanted but they went with the cheaper one. You obviously don't work in a corporate IT department.
Firefox changes versions once a month which is far too often to re-test all of our software so actually the problem isn't on our end, it's on their end.
Except that violates the laws of thermodynamics and chemistry and physics. If you take in less energy in fuel than you use during a day, your body will burn fat instead to keep you running. There are advantages and disadvantages genetically about ease of putting on or losing weight but that one rule still applies to every human on the planet. Stop lying to yourself.
I know plenty of people with Type 1 diabetes so stop reading now if that's you :-P Otherwise, I heard of another great treatment that's super-effective. It's not injectable but it's a lot cheaper. It's called get off your ass, lose some damn weight, and stop eating high-sugar and high-calorie crap all the time. It's proven to be even more effective than injectable non-particles.
It took my company 2 years to test all our software for compatibility with Windows 7. Releasing huge OS alterations repeatedly that close together would be a disaster and businesses would riot. Unfortunately, they're planning on doing something similar.
I plugged a USB mouse into an ME machine and it blue screened with the microsoft HID driver as the cause. So no, ME was the king of bad OSes, lol.
Simple! I run a computer store and it's costing me money in lost laptop sales because nobody fucking wants it. It's a useless piece of shit that takes 5x more clicks and keystrokes to do anything. Nothing is labeled, nothing is consistent, and I've had 10 year olds to 60 year olds tell me they hate it and find it difficult to use.
You're wrong on both accounts. Booting to the desktop? You press the Esc key and click on Desktop or hit the Windows Key. How hard is that? Even I didn't find that annoying.
As for the start menu, how many clicks does it take in Windows 7 to open the control panel? How about 8? 8 Requires 1 click, keystrokes, another click, and another click. So put a shortcut on the desktop, right? No! Put it on the damn start menu where it belongs!
What these critics all miss is that Microsoft is now betting on the tablet market, and doesn't give a damn what its PC users think.
That is idiotic. They stated they want a "consistent interface" but also one that "works on a tablet or other smaller touch device." Well that means they intend for people to be using a PC too.
Remember Apple computers in the 80's and 90's? They were sold at cost to schools so that people would get used to them and when they get home, they want to use what they're used to for a consistent experience. It turns out the Apple OS was so unstable and utter crap, people wanted anything else and didn't buy Apple computers. The entire thing collapsed and Apple had to resort to "bet elite and better than all your friends" as a marketing tool and rode to success on the backs of self-absorbed morons and incompetent rich people. This is the same thing. 8 is so bad, people don't want it on their PCs or their tablets or phones.
Rarely ever will a CEO admit a mistake. It's the user's fault for not loving it.
And don't forget, they're on record blaming the OEMs for not making enough touchscreen devices. According to MS, it's all their fault. Like 100%.
It's even worse than those points. Back to a basic level, nothing is labeled. It's just symbols until you mouse over them and even then, some things are perpetually blank. Then you can't even tell what's clickable and right clickable at all. That's beyond bad UI design.
I think you mean Windows 95, ME, Vista, 8.
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. I'm head IT manager so let's use my company as an example. I checked when our bosses wanted to get a mac for media editing (which is comical by itself). It works with exactly zero of our software suites. ZERO. No CRM, no office, no database apps, nothing. In fact, Firefox and Safari don't work with our ASP software either. Macs are toys for clueless rich people and have no place whatsoever in a professional environment. Forget compatibility, just go with cost. It's an idiotic choice.
Indeed. Slashdot users are known for their amazing liking of walled garden software systems, hyper-controlled OS environments, and overpriced crap. Don't even get me started on their customers. It's amazing those butt-scratching apes can find their way to the Apple store or operate a motor vehicle. I cannot believe people would still pay an absurd 2-3x price premium for a system that is 6th in laptop quality, can catch viruses quite often, can run practically no software from a percentage standpoint, is a complete joke at video editing with no CUDA, and releases a paid update that breaks everything one a year. Windows is like Linux by comparison. It's that bad!
If you look at Hulu's gross income as a company vs # of subscribers times the subscription cost, you'd be paying A LOT of money to not see ads. Hulu is basically a miniature TV channel where the per use cost is low and the ad revenues are everything. Netflix is like a horrible business plan that only picks up worthless, awful movies and horribly outdated TV shows then throws in one mega hit once in a while to attempt to impress people. Really, neither work. At $1.99 instead of Netflix prices, Youtube cannot possibly afford to offer anything of value.
So they mention that the gun had to have a steel bar in it to comply with the stupid metal detector laws about all firearms. Um, wouldn't it detect the stack of bullets? It might not detect one I suppose but a couple would set the typical one off.
Ask any computer professional or any focus group of moderately intelligent users and you'll get the same thing. Bring back the start menu, leave the new features that are actually beneficial, dump UEFI, and ditch Tile Land. That's it. After that, it's all set to go. I'd even concede the BIOS-embedded license key because I'm sick of other repair shops than mine playing games with Windows 7 licenses to save money. 1 license = 1 motherboard and enforce that for everyone and I can accept that.
You actually don't need to listen for them. If you watch really carefully, you might be able to see part of your neighborhood blow up. Then you know a drone is overhead.
Moneeeeeeey. A $50 billion fighter jet to bomb 3rd world countries is far more beneficial than a 99.9999% secure electrical grid.
Fat ass engineer actually, I would assume. Also he's probably offsite and a 3rd party contractor for cost reasons.
I have an idea! Make a local-only computer. Have a display of all settings and readings. Point a webcam at it. Tada, read-only access to all the settings and readings, lol.
I don't think the military owns or operates hydroelectric dams though
Hmm dunno what kind of copy pasta glitch happened there but it's meant to say 5,000MH/s only one and not 50GH/s lol.