My very popular build lately at my shop is an A10 or A8 AMD Trinity APU with the onboard 7000 series graphics, 8GB of 1866 memory, and an SSD. The A10 for example gets a 7.3 WEI rating on processing and 6.9 on gaming and desktop graphics. It plays Rainbox 6 Vegas 2 flawlessly and Starcraft II at very high settings. According to the Crysis 3 specs, it won't even launch on this system. That's ridiculous. That chip only reserves 512MB of video memory and it's not dedicated. Don't they have a low res texture mode for systems like this? I guess they don't want any customers.
We saw this coming and bought 100% of our replacement servers and OSes and CALs and Exchange and Exchange CALs on Nov 30th. We're migrating from 4 older servers down to 2 so this just made up speed up and buy em at the last second instead of waiting 2 more weeks. Take that, Microsoft.
Also, others' claims above aren't far off about companies actually switching. We NEED certain MS-only enterprise apps but at $453 a piece for Office Pro Plus OLP, guess who's testing Libre Office Base with our Access databases this week.
Why did the 2012 version get so unbelievably bulky and slow when everyone knows that has killed dozens of antivirus products in the past? At the same time, the kings of bulky and slow, Symantec, improved their product so much it's not virtually the fastest. My shop would never carry them because I hate them to an unbelievable degree but now we don't carry Kaspersky either. It's just too detrimental to performance. What happened?
Wow, these must be cheap and simplistic if they ended the article with an actual intended release date! That's something you never, ever, ever see with solar panels, magical vehicle engines, and quantum computers. Definitely not....exceeding 90% likely to be vaporware lol.
At least they didn't call him a marketing genius. That term is thrown around a lot when in fact "marketing asshole" would be more effective. Like Steve Jobs, big tobacco, and AOL.
It's very possible that the reason we think touchscreen laptops are a bad idea has nothing to do with Steve Jobs or Apple.
You're right. They're off in la la land thinking you can put together a database of all streets and businesses in the US in less than a year so they'd be the last ones I'd ask about feature design. That said, touchscreens SUCK! How is it a compliment to the mouse and keyboard when I can do any imaginable task faster with a mouse?
Bitcoin isn't credible as it's just too hard for 90% of people
You install the client and hit send to the person's address. What the fuck are they smoking over there? Even at the exchanges you can hit sell at market price for USD. Is a bank wire transfer too complicated after that? Pretty sure companies use them all the time! What a load of crap from an uninformed moron.
"Update: Yes, it's a hoax" it seems 10 out of 10 commentors here did not believe it either, hmmm. I kid you not, I read almost every comment and zero people bought it. Who let this story slip by? It's not some little side story, it's plastic on Mars. You'd think they'd look around for the best article to link to and read up on the amazing discovery, etc. That or notice that the mouseover images on the nav bars are missing. WTF?!
I'll save you the trouble reading. They're idiots. The winner out of all of them was bitdefender? That slows down your system like a damn boat anchor. I've had customers bring in a computer to my shop claiming it had a horrible problem and the only problem was that it had bitdefender. As soon as it was gone, responsive times dropped 10x lower. It's unbelievable how bad that product is. For them to not consider system performance in any way means they obviously have no idea what they're doing. The same goes for Kaspersky. Their new 2013 version is a nightmare for system performance. Norton Internet Security was third so yep, that's how responsible THESE idiots are.
So one little shift in currency or economic variables in the wrong direction and they effectively just gave everyone in India a 20% raise for example. Yeah, that's a great way to run a company. Why don't they pull all their money market funds and put them in bitcoins and gold too. Those are slightly more stable than inter-country economics. Apparently their accounting dept likes to live on the edge.
The real reason is they'll get 10x the volume in calls about why it won't install Office 2010 and some stupid facebook games. That costs a lot of money in staffing.
By the way, smart enough to use Linux = smart enough so not buy form Dell so I'm not sure they necessarily have a solid business plan there regardless.
That reminds me. This coincides pretty closely with icanhascheezburger.com discontinuing the Go Cry Emo Kid sub-blog. I know I was pretty pissed so I could see a Syrian official saying "well screw the whole internet then, there's no point anymore!" and pulling the plug.
"appear[s] to have been knocked off line by heavy fighting earlier this morning." - uhhhh, no. Unless they were specifically all targeting some ruthless fiber optic cable or they managed to level their entire country, I don't think it happened by random chance. 10% of internet connections in Syria would be random chance.
As a pro-open source IT manager for a medium sized company, I can tell you with certainty that besides software compatibility, the #2 problem is letting me do close to everything in a GUI. I don't have time to sit there and type 50 text commands just to install Java or reconfigure some little system setting. Where's the right click, run as root, password prompting super simple sequence?
Also nobody at my company knows how to use Linux, I don't know anything about configure whatever the equivilant of group policy objects there is in Linux land, and I have no way of knowing if sound and video and networking drivers exist for a PC until I buy/build it. Those are other noteworthy obstacles. Honestly, I'd pull a 1980's Apple strategy (but not with schools). I'd try to get home desktops to run Linux first so that it's what people get used to. Then everyone will know how to use it and enterprise software will pop up for it and vendors will write drivers for it just based on that increased volume alone. That solves a lot of problems automatically.
Well, the headline before this chronologically said "Analysts find the Windows 8 beta indicates Windows 8 is designed like crap and everyone hates it and nobody will ever buy it and will avoid it like Vista" so the "sluggish sales" headline was probably written at the same time. It's a pretty direct line of event.
So then logically at once specific point on the border between the dark, icy pole and the blazing surface, it's a beautiful 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Sweeeet.
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Just give all my customers and extra $150 and they will. A better PSU and at least a 550TI are around $150 difference.
My very popular build lately at my shop is an A10 or A8 AMD Trinity APU with the onboard 7000 series graphics, 8GB of 1866 memory, and an SSD. The A10 for example gets a 7.3 WEI rating on processing and 6.9 on gaming and desktop graphics. It plays Rainbox 6 Vegas 2 flawlessly and Starcraft II at very high settings. According to the Crysis 3 specs, it won't even launch on this system. That's ridiculous. That chip only reserves 512MB of video memory and it's not dedicated. Don't they have a low res texture mode for systems like this? I guess they don't want any customers.
We saw this coming and bought 100% of our replacement servers and OSes and CALs and Exchange and Exchange CALs on Nov 30th. We're migrating from 4 older servers down to 2 so this just made up speed up and buy em at the last second instead of waiting 2 more weeks. Take that, Microsoft.
Also, others' claims above aren't far off about companies actually switching. We NEED certain MS-only enterprise apps but at $453 a piece for Office Pro Plus OLP, guess who's testing Libre Office Base with our Access databases this week.
Why did the 2012 version get so unbelievably bulky and slow when everyone knows that has killed dozens of antivirus products in the past? At the same time, the kings of bulky and slow, Symantec, improved their product so much it's not virtually the fastest. My shop would never carry them because I hate them to an unbelievable degree but now we don't carry Kaspersky either. It's just too detrimental to performance. What happened?
OMG RUN, CURIOSITY! IT'S ONE GIANT BOMB!!!!! Seriously, isn't perchlorate a significant component of some high explosives?
Wow, these must be cheap and simplistic if they ended the article with an actual intended release date! That's something you never, ever, ever see with solar panels, magical vehicle engines, and quantum computers. Definitely not....exceeding 90% likely to be vaporware lol.
I wonder if win8 will ever pass the xp market share
It won't even pass Windows 7. Windows "blue" aka 9 is coming out in under a year.
At least they didn't call him a marketing genius. That term is thrown around a lot when in fact "marketing asshole" would be more effective. Like Steve Jobs, big tobacco, and AOL.
And I thought the headline meant they had a cure!
Well, we're not getting disability for it anyway so who gives a crap? lol.
It's very possible that the reason we think touchscreen laptops are a bad idea has nothing to do with Steve Jobs or Apple.
You're right. They're off in la la land thinking you can put together a database of all streets and businesses in the US in less than a year so they'd be the last ones I'd ask about feature design. That said, touchscreens SUCK! How is it a compliment to the mouse and keyboard when I can do any imaginable task faster with a mouse?
And yet we calculated dark matter into existence with 100% accuracy, I'm sure.
What backup plan, if any, should the average nerd have for something like this?
1. Don't run an exit node
2. if 1 fails, fly to Belize and live blog my evasion of the local police
Bitcoin isn't credible as it's just too hard for 90% of people
You install the client and hit send to the person's address. What the fuck are they smoking over there? Even at the exchanges you can hit sell at market price for USD. Is a bank wire transfer too complicated after that? Pretty sure companies use them all the time! What a load of crap from an uninformed moron.
Too bad Apple probably already has a patent on it
"Update: Yes, it's a hoax" it seems 10 out of 10 commentors here did not believe it either, hmmm. I kid you not, I read almost every comment and zero people bought it. Who let this story slip by? It's not some little side story, it's plastic on Mars. You'd think they'd look around for the best article to link to and read up on the amazing discovery, etc. That or notice that the mouseover images on the nav bars are missing. WTF?!
I'll save you the trouble reading. They're idiots. The winner out of all of them was bitdefender? That slows down your system like a damn boat anchor. I've had customers bring in a computer to my shop claiming it had a horrible problem and the only problem was that it had bitdefender. As soon as it was gone, responsive times dropped 10x lower. It's unbelievable how bad that product is. For them to not consider system performance in any way means they obviously have no idea what they're doing. The same goes for Kaspersky. Their new 2013 version is a nightmare for system performance. Norton Internet Security was third so yep, that's how responsible THESE idiots are.
So one little shift in currency or economic variables in the wrong direction and they effectively just gave everyone in India a 20% raise for example. Yeah, that's a great way to run a company. Why don't they pull all their money market funds and put them in bitcoins and gold too. Those are slightly more stable than inter-country economics. Apparently their accounting dept likes to live on the edge.
The real reason is they'll get 10x the volume in calls about why it won't install Office 2010 and some stupid facebook games. That costs a lot of money in staffing.
By the way, smart enough to use Linux = smart enough so not buy form Dell so I'm not sure they necessarily have a solid business plan there regardless.
That reminds me. This coincides pretty closely with icanhascheezburger.com discontinuing the Go Cry Emo Kid sub-blog. I know I was pretty pissed so I could see a Syrian official saying "well screw the whole internet then, there's no point anymore!" and pulling the plug.
"appear[s] to have been knocked off line by heavy fighting earlier this morning." - uhhhh, no. Unless they were specifically all targeting some ruthless fiber optic cable or they managed to level their entire country, I don't think it happened by random chance. 10% of internet connections in Syria would be random chance.
So, in other words, assume the opposite is true.
Lol, sell em off to buy more guns! Now that's an idea. Did anyone check ebay for a listing from around that time for a giant block of addresses?
As a pro-open source IT manager for a medium sized company, I can tell you with certainty that besides software compatibility, the #2 problem is letting me do close to everything in a GUI. I don't have time to sit there and type 50 text commands just to install Java or reconfigure some little system setting. Where's the right click, run as root, password prompting super simple sequence?
Also nobody at my company knows how to use Linux, I don't know anything about configure whatever the equivilant of group policy objects there is in Linux land, and I have no way of knowing if sound and video and networking drivers exist for a PC until I buy/build it. Those are other noteworthy obstacles. Honestly, I'd pull a 1980's Apple strategy (but not with schools). I'd try to get home desktops to run Linux first so that it's what people get used to. Then everyone will know how to use it and enterprise software will pop up for it and vendors will write drivers for it just based on that increased volume alone. That solves a lot of problems automatically.
Well, the headline before this chronologically said "Analysts find the Windows 8 beta indicates Windows 8 is designed like crap and everyone hates it and nobody will ever buy it and will avoid it like Vista" so the "sluggish sales" headline was probably written at the same time. It's a pretty direct line of event.
So then logically at once specific point on the border between the dark, icy pole and the blazing surface, it's a beautiful 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Sweeeet.