They should just solve all wars and conflicts with Dance Dance Revolution. I've been saying it for years. That or Starcraft II if it's a korean conflict.
That's the strange part! Update 1 was what, 3 weeks ago or something? They supported Vista SP1 past SP2's release for like months and months and months. I've never seen them kill something so fast ever. Even XP SP2 was supported extremely long. And this is their latest product! I have a feeling this is going to be a Vista rerun where they cut their losses and kill everything once 9 is released. For example, Vista can run IE9 but not IE10 or 11 because MS didn't want to stick any money into making it work (that's not the excuse they gave but it's the realistic one). I'm selling 100% Windows 7 at my shop because it outnumbers 8.1 and that's that. They'll be forced to support it past the current end date of 2020 so no problem there. As for 8.1, they're going to bury it so fast it'll make your head spin. So I just simply cannot sell it on new PCs.
"...are casting doubt on AV, suggesting a focus on data loss prevention might be better"
Oh yes, prevent your data from being deleted or Cryptolocker-ed while you're a spam-sending robot with all your credit card numbers and login passwords being recorded by a rootkit. Great strategy.
I think they're only talking about their own software. In the last quarter's test at AV-Test, Avast (which is free) detected 100% of known samples and 98% of unknown virus samples. I never figured out how they obtained over 100 "unknown" samples of malware without reporting it to antivirus companies but I think it was an ongoing zero day, detect them as they're released type of thing.
So you assign it a time rating. When someone steals the entire password, the ones with associated with the shortest time limits will basically say "brute force these ones." It's the stupidest idea ever.
I'm faster, stronger, and better armed than fat and lazy police officers first of all. Second, I don't actually have to follow the laws like they do. What is the thief going to do, call the cops? And third, my friend had his iPhone stolen and the police refused to follow the find my iphone app to get it back. So he got me and some friends to go get it back. Simple as that. They cops are too busy/lazy/afraid of law suits to do a damn thing.
I haven't heard a darn thing about the government getting out their government crow bar and prying Bing out of Windows 8. I am soooo sick of removing it manually in as many places as possible on my customers' new laptops!
Tracfone, those others I can't think of, and some other startups are all crushing traditional carriers. They operate cheaper, leaner, meaner, and more fair with more customer appeal. Everyone is losing customers left and right to ones like them. In several years, there won't even be carriers if they don't get their shit together.
This is the first time I've ever seen that someone actually DID SOMETHING real and effective to make things better. It's about time. I think he'll have no problem getting people behind him. This is just like Microsoft. They piss EVERYONE off with Windows 8, just doing whatever they want and making everyone's lives horrible. Then Windows 9 details come out and they act shocked that everyone is getting behind it and it will succeed. Getting rid of some of the complete and utter crooked bullshit in DC is "what the customer wants" right now. Supply and demand. He's going to get some serious money.
Seriously? Like you need to encourage these people. Just let them get hacked and get rid of their internet-connected XP machines already. They're 7+ years old! If they're using them for web surfing AND using IE8 to do it, you should not be assisting people that stupid.
It's not secret that if you pay MS money, they'll keep patching XP and if you don't, they'll pretend like they're not patching it but I STILL think they shouldn't do anything to help people who are that dumb.
Well they're clearly a bunch of moron rednecks but they're still right. What if the watch runs out of batteries? What if somehow the signal is disrupted? What if you take the weapon off someone who's robbing a bank and now it won't fire? Guns do what they do and there's no need to cripple them in this way. It's the PEOPLE with the guns that need work. Stop selling them to idiots with mental problems or people who, oh I don't know, maybe send letters to places saying they're going to kill everyone.
They demonstrated and mentioned several concept cars on Top Gear (england) where it was a full electric car that had a diesel generator in it. It wasn't as good as realtime but it'd give you some miles in a pinch. It was relatively quiet and they said it was over 100MPG effective in most models.
Another inaccurate article. It even contradicts itself. The spend fuel rods will cost money whether the plant is decommissioned or not. To decommission a power plant, you remove all the radioactive stuff, destroy all the sensitive nuclear equipment, and knock down the building like any other building.
That's not even it. The problem is they're not even a follower. Every other release of everything they've ever made is good and designed for what customers want. The other alternate releases are them going completely off the rails and doing whatever they want despite the way the industry is going. Like "everyone should touch their PC." As it turns out, no. Just no. And they lost several billion because of "no" on that one. If they ACTUALLY followed industry trends instead of trying and failing to predict them, they wouldn't be in such deep shit right now.
I basically build computers for a living so let me point out that they're utterly wrong. If you put in a Kaveri A10 with DDR3-2400, that's right, more than 2x the speed of boring original 1066, you will get acceptable gaming performance if you turn down the settings a little bit. Since they almost definitely did not do that despite it being the actual stock memory controller frequency of the chip, there's your performance problem. Going from 1600 to 2133 RAM on a Richland APU for example brings the Windows 7 speed rating from 6.1 to 6.7 instantly and that's before overclocking.
As for heat, everything they said is wrong. The golden rule is the less cubic feet you have, the less cubic feet per minute you need the fans to blow at to swap out the air out of the case every X seconds (typically 5). Small cases actually are much easier to cool with less powerful fans. You put in one single 45CFM 92mm Silenx fan in a mini-itx case and it simply will not overheat nor will you hear the fan. If the case was designed for 40mm fans only or something, it was designed by morons who need to go back to the drawing board and put in a 92mm fan.
Yay, now they can spend less on content licensing for stuff I actually want to see in favor of them streaming things I don't want to see EVEN FASTER. Yay! Oh wait, I'm not a Verizon customer so actually they're just plain wasting my money with no benefit. Awesome. Why don't they really piss me off and add ads too to pay for the priority bandwidth. Ads for Verizon even. That'd complete the cycle of stupidity pretty nicely.
By the way, I'm deeply confused. Netflix does not send data above 3 megabits. I have a 15 megabit connection. Time Warner can throttle it 75% and it won't make a difference. So who cares.
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They should just solve all wars and conflicts with Dance Dance Revolution. I've been saying it for years. That or Starcraft II if it's a korean conflict.
That's the strange part! Update 1 was what, 3 weeks ago or something? They supported Vista SP1 past SP2's release for like months and months and months. I've never seen them kill something so fast ever. Even XP SP2 was supported extremely long. And this is their latest product! I have a feeling this is going to be a Vista rerun where they cut their losses and kill everything once 9 is released. For example, Vista can run IE9 but not IE10 or 11 because MS didn't want to stick any money into making it work (that's not the excuse they gave but it's the realistic one). I'm selling 100% Windows 7 at my shop because it outnumbers 8.1 and that's that. They'll be forced to support it past the current end date of 2020 so no problem there. As for 8.1, they're going to bury it so fast it'll make your head spin. So I just simply cannot sell it on new PCs.
"...are casting doubt on AV, suggesting a focus on data loss prevention might be better"
Oh yes, prevent your data from being deleted or Cryptolocker-ed while you're a spam-sending robot with all your credit card numbers and login passwords being recorded by a rootkit. Great strategy.
I think they're only talking about their own software. In the last quarter's test at AV-Test, Avast (which is free) detected 100% of known samples and 98% of unknown virus samples. I never figured out how they obtained over 100 "unknown" samples of malware without reporting it to antivirus companies but I think it was an ongoing zero day, detect them as they're released type of thing.
So you assign it a time rating. When someone steals the entire password, the ones with associated with the shortest time limits will basically say "brute force these ones." It's the stupidest idea ever.
I should make a competing plugin where all it does is block Facebook completely. That'd probably be about as effective.
I'm faster, stronger, and better armed than fat and lazy police officers first of all. Second, I don't actually have to follow the laws like they do. What is the thief going to do, call the cops? And third, my friend had his iPhone stolen and the police refused to follow the find my iphone app to get it back. So he got me and some friends to go get it back. Simple as that. They cops are too busy/lazy/afraid of law suits to do a damn thing.
I haven't heard a darn thing about the government getting out their government crow bar and prying Bing out of Windows 8. I am soooo sick of removing it manually in as many places as possible on my customers' new laptops!
I was thinking the star cluster was a bachelorette party :-P
Tracfone, those others I can't think of, and some other startups are all crushing traditional carriers. They operate cheaper, leaner, meaner, and more fair with more customer appeal. Everyone is losing customers left and right to ones like them. In several years, there won't even be carriers if they don't get their shit together.
This is the first time I've ever seen that someone actually DID SOMETHING real and effective to make things better. It's about time. I think he'll have no problem getting people behind him. This is just like Microsoft. They piss EVERYONE off with Windows 8, just doing whatever they want and making everyone's lives horrible. Then Windows 9 details come out and they act shocked that everyone is getting behind it and it will succeed. Getting rid of some of the complete and utter crooked bullshit in DC is "what the customer wants" right now. Supply and demand. He's going to get some serious money.
But they can be and are not bought by intelligent IT workers who review them ahead of time.
Seriously? Like you need to encourage these people. Just let them get hacked and get rid of their internet-connected XP machines already. They're 7+ years old! If they're using them for web surfing AND using IE8 to do it, you should not be assisting people that stupid.
It's not secret that if you pay MS money, they'll keep patching XP and if you don't, they'll pretend like they're not patching it but I STILL think they shouldn't do anything to help people who are that dumb.
Who the hell robs a bank alone? You deserve to have your gun stolen if you're that dumb. It's usually a team.
You're in Europe, aren't you? We can't do that here in the US.
All of it?
Well they're clearly a bunch of moron rednecks but they're still right. What if the watch runs out of batteries? What if somehow the signal is disrupted? What if you take the weapon off someone who's robbing a bank and now it won't fire? Guns do what they do and there's no need to cripple them in this way. It's the PEOPLE with the guns that need work. Stop selling them to idiots with mental problems or people who, oh I don't know, maybe send letters to places saying they're going to kill everyone.
"to discover whether the laws of physics...may have changed"
No.
For every 1 iPhone, there are 6 android phones. That is all the further you need to read into what this article is seeming to imply.
They demonstrated and mentioned several concept cars on Top Gear (england) where it was a full electric car that had a diesel generator in it. It wasn't as good as realtime but it'd give you some miles in a pinch. It was relatively quiet and they said it was over 100MPG effective in most models.
Another inaccurate article. It even contradicts itself. The spend fuel rods will cost money whether the plant is decommissioned or not. To decommission a power plant, you remove all the radioactive stuff, destroy all the sensitive nuclear equipment, and knock down the building like any other building.
That's not even it. The problem is they're not even a follower. Every other release of everything they've ever made is good and designed for what customers want. The other alternate releases are them going completely off the rails and doing whatever they want despite the way the industry is going. Like "everyone should touch their PC." As it turns out, no. Just no. And they lost several billion because of "no" on that one. If they ACTUALLY followed industry trends instead of trying and failing to predict them, they wouldn't be in such deep shit right now.
I basically build computers for a living so let me point out that they're utterly wrong. If you put in a Kaveri A10 with DDR3-2400, that's right, more than 2x the speed of boring original 1066, you will get acceptable gaming performance if you turn down the settings a little bit. Since they almost definitely did not do that despite it being the actual stock memory controller frequency of the chip, there's your performance problem. Going from 1600 to 2133 RAM on a Richland APU for example brings the Windows 7 speed rating from 6.1 to 6.7 instantly and that's before overclocking.
As for heat, everything they said is wrong. The golden rule is the less cubic feet you have, the less cubic feet per minute you need the fans to blow at to swap out the air out of the case every X seconds (typically 5). Small cases actually are much easier to cool with less powerful fans. You put in one single 45CFM 92mm Silenx fan in a mini-itx case and it simply will not overheat nor will you hear the fan. If the case was designed for 40mm fans only or something, it was designed by morons who need to go back to the drawing board and put in a 92mm fan.
Well, at least it has live human people and not animations or 100% robots or dogs or some crazy crap like that.
Yay, now they can spend less on content licensing for stuff I actually want to see in favor of them streaming things I don't want to see EVEN FASTER. Yay! Oh wait, I'm not a Verizon customer so actually they're just plain wasting my money with no benefit. Awesome. Why don't they really piss me off and add ads too to pay for the priority bandwidth. Ads for Verizon even. That'd complete the cycle of stupidity pretty nicely.
By the way, I'm deeply confused. Netflix does not send data above 3 megabits. I have a 15 megabit connection. Time Warner can throttle it 75% and it won't make a difference. So who cares.