It takes me 2 seconds more to find my program in metro than in rocketdock or start menu pinned. But for others i'm sure 10+ seconds if they don't know where they placed their programs. Windows 8 is definitely better then windows 7 is some areas including file transfers. It took me a total of 3 1/2 hours to install windows 7(OS 30 minutes flash drive) os and do all the necessary updates including sp1. Windows 8(OS 8 minutes by flash drive) took me 1 hour including installing all updates(15+) of my drivers and applications(12).
Metro for now belongs on tablets, touchscreens, and lcd tv monitors. Metro will remain as a toy until they get professional applications like office, photoshop, coreldraw, autocad, visual studio, etc... to run. Plus, they need to make metro run 2 apps at the same time for people with dual monitors.
What pisses me off about all windows is the expensive single license. Now, office 2013 will no longer be on a media or just an iso you will get a key code to install office 2013 from either microsoft or their online partners which will be bound to one machine unless you contact microsoft to transfer the license over to another one or something.
I'm disappointed with Ubuntu's because of the spy ware, you can remove the amazon search but I read somewhere that Canonical still get's all your key strokes. I have become in favor of mint kde and looking at opensuse again as well. I think in the end for linux distro's to keep up float it will become spy ware.
Humans still have not evolved enough to stop these childish "oppression over other" games. It's seems to me that people just love to oppress and impose their own ideology(laws, religion, controlling your lifestyle, etc...) over another, ego problem. Well, what was the reason behind the overzealous prosecution of Aaron? Was it because the prosecutors are sociopath's(huge ego's) and just love to oppress or was it to make a name for themselves and climb up the corporate ladder(ego problem again). But than we have Aaron trying to impose his own ideology on MIT and JSTOR dictating what they can and can't do with the documents and such. It's same thing with people who download mp3's and movies illegally because they don't agree with the owners pricing scheme or terms of use of the product even though nobody is forcing them to buy it. People will do whatever it takes to feed their own ego.
Norway has 4.9 million population. U.S is higher because we have 300+million living here with lots of sociopath's living among us. Maybe compare it to NYC 8 million population, 319 homicides in 2012 vs 29 Norway which is still bad for NYC. But in 2011 you had that idiot Breivik who massacred total 77 people included man, women, and children in the name of Nationalism. Every country throughout history had their degenerates.
Kde is most stable on mint and kubuntu distros. Unity crashes and freezes once in a while same with the rest of the gui's and distros. The crashes and freezes reminds me of windows98 and XP issues. You want reliability go with kde using either mint or kubuntu. I have tried lxde, xfce, mate, cinnamon and they are all buggy and occasionally slow down.
But, I also had metroUI for windows 8 freeze on me a couple of times but the difference is that it did not crash the whole OS. The only thing I had to do to make metro work again is hit the Windows key to go into desktop and hit the key again to go into metro.
Why not blame c/c++ or objective-c for Windows, Linux, OSX for not being 100% secure? Java's virtual machine is just that a virtual pc with it's own computer language. Or why not blame intel or amd for not having a more smarter cpu's working in conjunction with OS's to monitor incoming and outgoing instructions, like intels Execute Disable Bit which prevents buffer overflow. Look how hackable adobe and autocad products are you can run all these free on your machine with key generators and such. You want to blame someone blame the hacker themselves no OS or application is 100% foolproof.
Yes, poor me, poor us the victims of u.s aggression. U.S starves a million Iraqi's through sanctions(poor us the people boo hoo), U.S kills democratic leaders around the world and installs dictators that leads to thousands of man, women, and children dead(poor us the people boo hoo), U.S starts a war based on lies against the Iraqi's which leads to hundreds of thousands dead(poor us the people boo hoo), U.S and their overzealous drug policies punish and imprison people for years making them work for pennies in prison because it's not right to get high(poor us the people boo hoo) U.S and their sick policies have left millions dead in the middle east for the past 3 decades and hundreds of thousands including south america(poor us the people boo hoo) U.S law enforcement have killed 100's for the past 2 decades and also abused it's citizens and yet the Colorado and Connecticut shootings call for banning firearms for u.s citizens(poor us the people boo hoo)
The u.s is very damn corrupt as any other government in the world because it's run by people. When people get into any office or law enforcement some primitive instinct triggers in their brain and now they think they are above everybody else and that they can abuse you and break the laws, including prosecutors who want to make a name for themselves by sending 18 year old johnny to prison for the rest of his life for smoking a joint.
We need a fourth branch of government run just by the people to monitor the activities of the other 3 branches because our government right now isn't working anymore.
The blaming game in the U.S, and it usually starts with women blaming things. First it was literature, than alcohol and pot, than comics, than movies/tv, and now video games. What's next? Why not blame our hands which does the killing so have them cut off, why not our legs which takes us to places where we commit the killings so cut those off, why not our eyes which we use to choose a victim and than kill them so have eyes gouged out, finally why not our brains which is the consciousness or soul of the body which causes the pains and miseries in this world so scoop everybody's brains out of the skull.
People can't come to realization that some people on this planet are a bunch of fucking psychotic assholes, period.
Windows 8 as an OS is not bad and pretty much on par with Windows 7 in performance. I like how you can scan your hard disks without scheduling on boot and doing it in dos mode. MS essentials is as good as any commercial ant-virus software on the market. Sorry, don't want to buy an upgrade I don't want to waste hours installing windows 7 than windows 8 on top of it if my hard drive suddenly crashes. The only Windows 8 pro full versions I could find are OEM's on newegg and amazon. The Metro Store has a 3 or 4 things that I use but the majority of the apps are complete crap. I'm using the final evaluation which will expire soon. I will stick with windows 7 for development and gaming but eventually will run it in virtualbox under linux and hopefully steam for linux will have some excellent pc game ports.
Microsoft pricing for single license is still ridiculous and the prices will jump in the $200 range and over for pro upgrade and full pro. Firefox still crapping out on Windows 7 and Windows 8 but on Linux Mint 13 or Ubuntu 12.04 no problems.
Scientology is not a cult nor a religion but a big money scam. Their #1 priority is to drain their members bank accounts just like so many mega churches here in the u.s do. Religion like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam started as a personal belief systems but turned into political tool to control people. Even our u.s constitutional laws are being used against us by the oligarchy. Regardless of religion or government common laws the power hungry will always find ways to control the masses.
I see on the web that Linus Torvalds might have from $2million to $20 million dollars or even $150, well, this one is a stretch. There have been about 8,000+ who contributed to the linux kernel and yet he is the one walking rich while the rest get shit and their heads chewed by Torvalds. This guy should have said "Fuck You asshole" to linus and walk away from the project.
A few month's ago I build myself an amd machine and purchased an asrock icafe 870 r2.0 because it was cheap and because it ran my phenom iix6 processor. The windows 7 and 8 both 64-bit had trouble running on this board even with MS south bridge drivers or from AMD, it kept on freezing constantly. But with any linux distros(opensuse, ubuntu, mint, fedora) it ran excellent, no issues. I later decided to go into the motherboard bios and change the storage settings from IDE compatibility to SATA mode only and reinstall windows 7 and weeks later windows 8 with the latest amd south bridge drivers, now there were no issues on both of these MS OS's. I think the open source generic drivers for linux except for video(some amd) work much better out of the box than windows. If intel and amd cpu internal specifications are available freely to developers why not gpu's? Are they afraid somebody will create their own modified directx api for linux?
with multicore cpu's, gigabytes of ram, usb flash stick greater than 16gb, nobody needs to run 200mb linux live distro we can run 4gb+ and we wouldn't see any major hits to performance. I have run small distros to large distros on netbooks and laptops just don't see the benefit of using something as small as this one with no libreoffic or other apps included. This is no longer the 90's or 2000's, we can fit a big ass distro on a usb flash disk with all the software we need.
Computer Desktops were relatively new in the 80's and popularized in the 90's and I was just fascinated by them but I stopped in the middle of last decade and i was just satisfied with the multicore chips by intel and amd. I don't think it's worth sacrificing the earth or our health over these new junky technology products like the ipad, iphone, or any pc tablet like the windows surface for that matter it's just too damn much. China is a complete polluted shit hole because of this. I think we are all getting ourselves mentally tired with all these technology distractions. One day the tech bobble will burst or an emf bomb.
Folks, this is just about power grab nothing more. It's in human nature to oppress one another and it's been done by tribes and governments throughout history. This government is not absolute, and when the government gets even more worse than this, the people will not take it anymore and will eventually have to overthrow it.
I used to draw guns in my notebook when I was a kid and I don't own any guns in real life. The kid and his parents not only need to sue but file charges against the state and federal government for kidnapping and the act of terror. We the people, really need to start evaluating this government that we have now and see if its worth keeping it or just form a new one, but, this time with real checks and balances not the bullshit we have now.
So now we have states doing whatever the fuck they wanna do without regards to the constitution. Talking smack online is a crime now. That's what New Yorkers need, NYPD swat breaking into your home and threatening to blow your head off if you move and scare the living shit out of your family, oh yeah and the shooting of pets. Came from a communist country but it was never so bad(nanny state) like here in the U.S. I think these Oligarchies really need to go, they are just using any excuse to take away more rights. But who cares anyway, a country is just an ideology with virtual borders. Why the fuck should anybody listen to a bunch of guys dressed in clown suits wearing those mentally retarded badges calling themselves law enforcement. I think we need a new form of government because this one is just out of control.
You can also check out this http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=16 website. It has tutorials on programming by video which is great for a newbie to learn quickly and get the basic idea, afterwards you will be comfortable in advancing yourself but not with this site try other sites like dr.dobbs for advance algorithms and such. I think windows 8 has an app that organizes everything in thenewboston.org tutorials very nicely just type c++ programming search in app store and you will find it.
With linux it took me sometime to learn(learn the command line) how to fix problems through the terminal. In the beginning I wasted hours just hunting down the solutions(my point of view it was fragmented all over the internet) online to the problems I was having with linux but afterwards it got easier and I started fixing things a lot faster. It's actually a lot easier to fix linux problems today than windows problems. Microsoft problems and solutions are broad and vague, it could be anything causing windows going flaky but linux is just straight forward with the problems and solutions.
I understand the frustration. First time I used it I had no idea what to do. I could not find the control panel, I did not know about the charm bar or how to access the metroUI until I hit the Windows Key, afterwards did not know how to close the metro apps, did not know how to shut down the pc. It took some time and got used to it, but yeah, the new OS GUI interaction is not as obvious as with the previous versions. Once in a while MetroUI freezes which I can easily rid off by simply hitting the windows key. And I just don't see any performance boost over windows 7. Maybe they should had released this as a service pack without the metroUI and release the metroUI for windows 7 as an option for those who want to use touchscreen or just web apps on the desktop.
What a bunch of bullshit. Please!Please!Please! already, stop blaming objects for the death's, objects are not alive or have any conscious but we humans have both attributes. Dumb shits! Humans have been killing each other for centuries. Yeah, blame video games for Hitlers decision to wipe out 10 million people, oh wait there were no video games back then.
What about the 1920's Bath School Massacre in Michigan? # 3 bombs went off killing 38 elementary school children, 2 teachers, and four other adults with 58 injured. This atrocity was executed by the school board treasurer Andre Kehoe, age 55. Why? he was angry after being defeated in 1926 election for township clerk.
The columbine shootings, Colorado Movie shootings, and this one at the Connecticut school, all done by people who had nothing in life, felt like a bunch of losers, so they took their rage on innocent people, because life was not fair to them boo fucking hoo. Same with that Kehoe idiot. Fucking spoiled brats.
It's amazing how fast Obama jumped to blaming guns and yet he is going around the world backing up psychopath's(rebel fighters or Al-Qaeda bullshit bla bla crap) removing governments and as a result thousands and thousands of people dead including children. What happened to the fast and furious program? I read that it lead to 68 college students massacred in Mexico by drug cartels in one night same spot. Why did the FBI allow the gun owners to sell the weapons to the drug cartels in the first place?
Windows 8 is basically a tweaked windows 7 with a new start menu. I don't understand why people think windows 7 is for work and windows 8 is not professional enough to be used in a work environment. If you can get your work done in 7 than 8 should be no problem. For xp, vista, and 7 I never used the start menu I always found myself using a docking system to access my programs as quickly as possibly. In kubuntu or mint kde on my dual monitor I always created a third taskbar and just pin whatever program I want on to their and afterwards hide it. I actually prefer metro, gnome 3, and unity(basically a dock) over any of the old start menu taskbars.
When windows 95 came out people were reluctant to make the huge leap to a new interface and it was the same with xp, vista, 7, and now 8. It's same thing with people and software companies scared of moving from windows to a linux distro, mint is more stable and faster than ubuntu.
Netflix has a large variety of movies and tv shows plus you can hold the dvd's for more than 4 days unlike the verizon/redbox and blockbuster which charge you for lateness and other stupid fees. Yeah, netflix movie selection is not that great but it's still better than what's on TV. Netflix TV shows is not that bad plus they have some new TV shows on there. Netflix should had never made that Disney deal they could had used that $300 million to add more TV shows or newer movies, bring back stargate sgu.
Running netflix in wine is not that bad but it seems to me that the frames drop and starts looking choppy. Although, in mint 13 kde it runs better than ubuntu 12.04. I'm gonna try it again, still better than nothing.
zsnes, snes9x, rocknesx final, are the best nintendo emulators. Fusion is the best genesis and sms emulator. This guy should give his collection the the "angry video game nerd".
The only main concern with linux is the gpu drivers the rest of the hardware like wi-fi, sound, nic, are well supported either by linux open source drivers or the manufacturer themselves like marvell, realtek, broadcom. Best thing to do before buying a laptop mainly for using with linux is to go to nvidia, ati, or intel website and see which mobo gpu they support for linux. That's pretty much it.
From what I can tell is that Nvidia and Amd(ati) have pretty great driver support for linux. The main difference between these 2 right now is that the "tear free" option is in the amd catalyst interface, not sure if nvidia has this option in their driver interface now but you can enable this by modifying the/ect/X11/xorg.conf and a few things in the nvidia driver interface than compiz. I'm using amd gpu now so i forgot the process in enabling tear free in nvidia.
For easy friendly linux distro use go with mint, ubuntu, kubuntu, opensuse, debian, PCLinuxOS, and fedora which every version has all the latest packages but it's still experimental based distro.
The amazon search feature is useless and it does not work. It also ruins your internal files and applications searches. I think you can remove the amazon feature. But, ubuntu 12.04 has amazon search as well, but, it's placed in the last tab of the unity dash. What i understand is that ubuntu only queries your searches it does not grab any system or personal info and sells it to third parties like the way google and facebook does it. If it does snoop into your privacy I say FUCK YOU to that rich stupid ass oligarch motherfucker for selling out. And I was amazed that canonical was asking for donations when downloading that bloated broken ubuntu 12.10 which is really still in a beta stage. Ubuntu 12.04 works beautifully, 12.10 unity without proper video drivers can't be run, no more 2d support either i think it uses mesa which is so damn slow.
one problem i have with linux is that it's too internet dependent. I can't find some full application installers(.rpm or.deb)which i need for the linux you have to either download it through repositories or compile the source code which is especially a pain if you can't upgrade the dependencies with no internet connection. But with windows, I can download and save in storage; vlc, gimp, blender, inkscape, etc... and install it later on without any internet connection needed. Especially when you have TWC, comcast, dsl providers fucking people through the ass for their shitty ass internet services. Lucky that I have FIOS in my neighborhood, but might be moving out of the state in a few month's.
But, I find that the linux distros i tried like opensuse, ubuntu, mint, all run faster than windows 7 and 8, and especially firefox which fly's on linux and runs slow on windows. I would be happy if steam got activision to bring cod games over to linux especially cod4mw1 which i play the most. I was able to run netflix on ubuntu but failed in mint 13 kde, which is fine and will solve it. But if there is a netflix native and games are coming to linux than there is no need to use windows full time anymore, i will just run windows in a virtualbox for development.
Ha, got myself a phenom ii x6@2700(3200 turbo core), ddr3 8gb stick(up to 32gb ram), 512GB Hard Drive, radeon hd 6570 1gb(shitty 128 bit bus), asrock motherboard am3+ socket, large heatsync and fan for cpu, for $420 a few month's ago. and it runs excellent especially vmware. Intel was too damn expensive.
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It takes me 2 seconds more to find my program in metro than in rocketdock or start menu pinned. But for others i'm sure 10+ seconds if they don't know where they placed their programs. Windows 8 is definitely better then windows 7 is some areas including file transfers. It took me a total of 3 1/2 hours to install windows 7(OS 30 minutes flash drive) os and do all the necessary updates including sp1. Windows 8(OS 8 minutes by flash drive) took me 1 hour including installing all updates(15+) of my drivers and applications(12).
Metro for now belongs on tablets, touchscreens, and lcd tv monitors. Metro will remain as a toy until they get professional applications like office, photoshop, coreldraw, autocad, visual studio, etc... to run. Plus, they need to make metro run 2 apps at the same time for people with dual monitors.
What pisses me off about all windows is the expensive single license. Now, office 2013 will no longer be on a media or just an iso you will get a key code to install office 2013 from either microsoft or their online partners which will be bound to one machine unless you contact microsoft to transfer the license over to another one or something.
I'm disappointed with Ubuntu's because of the spy ware, you can remove the amazon search but I read somewhere that Canonical still get's all your key strokes. I have become in favor of mint kde and looking at opensuse again as well. I think in the end for linux distro's to keep up float it will become spy ware.
Humans still have not evolved enough to stop these childish "oppression over other" games. It's seems to me that people just love to oppress and impose their own ideology(laws, religion, controlling your lifestyle, etc...) over another, ego problem. Well, what was the reason behind the overzealous prosecution of Aaron? Was it because the prosecutors are sociopath's(huge ego's) and just love to oppress or was it to make a name for themselves and climb up the corporate ladder(ego problem again). But than we have Aaron trying to impose his own ideology on MIT and JSTOR dictating what they can and can't do with the documents and such. It's same thing with people who download mp3's and movies illegally because they don't agree with the owners pricing scheme or terms of use of the product even though nobody is forcing them to buy it. People will do whatever it takes to feed their own ego.
Norway has 4.9 million population. U.S is higher because we have 300+million living here with lots of sociopath's living among us. Maybe compare it to NYC 8 million population, 319 homicides in 2012 vs 29 Norway which is still bad for NYC. But in 2011 you had that idiot Breivik who massacred total 77 people included man, women, and children in the name of Nationalism. Every country throughout history had their degenerates.
Kde is most stable on mint and kubuntu distros. Unity crashes and freezes once in a while same with the rest of the gui's and distros. The crashes and freezes reminds me of windows98 and XP issues. You want reliability go with kde using either mint or kubuntu. I have tried lxde, xfce, mate, cinnamon and they are all buggy and occasionally slow down.
But, I also had metroUI for windows 8 freeze on me a couple of times but the difference is that it did not crash the whole OS. The only thing I had to do to make metro work again is hit the Windows key to go into desktop and hit the key again to go into metro.
I hope ubuntu 13.04 fixes a lot of issues.
Why not blame c/c++ or objective-c for Windows, Linux, OSX for not being 100% secure? Java's virtual machine is just that a virtual pc with it's own computer language. Or why not blame intel or amd for not having a more smarter cpu's working in conjunction with OS's to monitor incoming and outgoing instructions, like intels Execute Disable Bit which prevents buffer overflow. Look how hackable adobe and autocad products are you can run all these free on your machine with key generators and such. You want to blame someone blame the hacker themselves no OS or application is 100% foolproof.
Yes, poor me, poor us the victims of u.s aggression.
U.S starves a million Iraqi's through sanctions(poor us the people boo hoo),
U.S kills democratic leaders around the world and installs dictators that leads to thousands of man, women, and children dead(poor us the people boo hoo),
U.S starts a war based on lies against the Iraqi's which leads to hundreds of thousands dead(poor us the people boo hoo),
U.S and their overzealous drug policies punish and imprison people for years making them work for pennies in prison because it's not right to get high(poor us the people boo hoo)
U.S and their sick policies have left millions dead in the middle east for the past 3 decades and hundreds of thousands including south america(poor us the people boo hoo)
U.S law enforcement have killed 100's for the past 2 decades and also abused it's citizens and yet the Colorado and Connecticut shootings call for banning firearms for u.s citizens(poor us the people boo hoo)
The u.s is very damn corrupt as any other government in the world because it's run by people. When people get into any office or law enforcement some primitive instinct triggers in their brain and now they think they are above everybody else and that they can abuse you and break the laws, including prosecutors who want to make a name for themselves by sending 18 year old johnny to prison for the rest of his life for smoking a joint.
We need a fourth branch of government run just by the people to monitor the activities of the other 3 branches because our government right now isn't working anymore.
The blaming game in the U.S, and it usually starts with women blaming things. First it was literature, than alcohol and pot, than comics, than movies/tv, and now video games. What's next? Why not blame our hands which does the killing so have them cut off, why not our legs which takes us to places where we commit the killings so cut those off, why not our eyes which we use to choose a victim and than kill them so have eyes gouged out, finally why not our brains which is the consciousness or soul of the body which causes the pains and miseries in this world so scoop everybody's brains out of the skull.
People can't come to realization that some people on this planet are a bunch of fucking psychotic assholes, period.
Windows 8 as an OS is not bad and pretty much on par with Windows 7 in performance. I like how you can scan your hard disks without scheduling on boot and doing it in dos mode. MS essentials is as good as any commercial ant-virus software on the market. Sorry, don't want to buy an upgrade I don't want to waste hours installing windows 7 than windows 8 on top of it if my hard drive suddenly crashes. The only Windows 8 pro full versions I could find are OEM's on newegg and amazon. The Metro Store has a 3 or 4 things that I use but the majority of the apps are complete crap. I'm using the final evaluation which will expire soon. I will stick with windows 7 for development and gaming but eventually will run it in virtualbox under linux and hopefully steam for linux will have some excellent pc game ports.
Microsoft pricing for single license is still ridiculous and the prices will jump in the $200 range and over for pro upgrade and full pro. Firefox still crapping out on Windows 7 and Windows 8 but on Linux Mint 13 or Ubuntu 12.04 no problems.
Scientology is not a cult nor a religion but a big money scam. Their #1 priority is to drain their members bank accounts just like so many mega churches here in the u.s do. Religion like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam started as a personal belief systems but turned into political tool to control people. Even our u.s constitutional laws are being used against us by the oligarchy. Regardless of religion or government common laws the power hungry will always find ways to control the masses.
I see on the web that Linus Torvalds might have from $2million to $20 million dollars or even $150, well, this one is a stretch. There have been about 8,000+ who contributed to the linux kernel and yet he is the one walking rich while the rest get shit and their heads chewed by Torvalds. This guy should have said "Fuck You asshole" to linus and walk away from the project.
A few month's ago I build myself an amd machine and purchased an asrock icafe 870 r2.0 because it was cheap and because it ran my phenom iix6 processor. The windows 7 and 8 both 64-bit had trouble running on this board even with MS south bridge drivers or from AMD, it kept on freezing constantly. But with any linux distros(opensuse, ubuntu, mint, fedora) it ran excellent, no issues. I later decided to go into the motherboard bios and change the storage settings from IDE compatibility to SATA mode only and reinstall windows 7 and weeks later windows 8 with the latest amd south bridge drivers, now there were no issues on both of these MS OS's. I think the open source generic drivers for linux except for video(some amd) work much better out of the box than windows. If intel and amd cpu internal specifications are available freely to developers why not gpu's? Are they afraid somebody will create their own modified directx api for linux?
with multicore cpu's, gigabytes of ram, usb flash stick greater than 16gb, nobody needs to run 200mb linux live distro we can run 4gb+ and we wouldn't see any major hits to performance. I have run small distros to large distros on netbooks and laptops just don't see the benefit of using something as small as this one with no libreoffic or other apps included. This is no longer the 90's or 2000's, we can fit a big ass distro on a usb flash disk with all the software we need.
Computer Desktops were relatively new in the 80's and popularized in the 90's and I was just fascinated by them but I stopped in the middle of last decade and i was just satisfied with the multicore chips by intel and amd. I don't think it's worth sacrificing the earth or our health over these new junky technology products like the ipad, iphone, or any pc tablet like the windows surface for that matter it's just too damn much. China is a complete polluted shit hole because of this. I think we are all getting ourselves mentally tired with all these technology distractions. One day the tech bobble will burst or an emf bomb.
Folks, this is just about power grab nothing more. It's in human nature to oppress one another and it's been done by tribes and governments throughout history. This government is not absolute, and when the government gets even more worse than this, the people will not take it anymore and will eventually have to overthrow it.
I used to draw guns in my notebook when I was a kid and I don't own any guns in real life. The kid and his parents not only need to sue but file charges against the state and federal government for kidnapping and the act of terror. We the people, really need to start evaluating this government that we have now and see if its worth keeping it or just form a new one, but, this time with real checks and balances not the bullshit we have now.
So now we have states doing whatever the fuck they wanna do without regards to the constitution. Talking smack online is a crime now. That's what New Yorkers need, NYPD swat breaking into your home and threatening to blow your head off if you move and scare the living shit out of your family, oh yeah and the shooting of pets. Came from a communist country but it was never so bad(nanny state) like here in the U.S. I think these Oligarchies really need to go, they are just using any excuse to take away more rights. But who cares anyway, a country is just an ideology with virtual borders. Why the fuck should anybody listen to a bunch of guys dressed in clown suits wearing those mentally retarded badges calling themselves law enforcement. I think we need a new form of government because this one is just out of control.
You can also check out this http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=16 website. It has tutorials on programming by video which is great for a newbie to learn quickly and get the basic idea, afterwards you will be comfortable in advancing yourself but not with this site try other sites like dr.dobbs for advance algorithms and such. I think windows 8 has an app that organizes everything in thenewboston.org tutorials very nicely just type c++ programming search in app store and you will find it.
With linux it took me sometime to learn(learn the command line) how to fix problems through the terminal. In the beginning I wasted hours just hunting down the solutions(my point of view it was fragmented all over the internet) online to the problems I was having with linux but afterwards it got easier and I started fixing things a lot faster. It's actually a lot easier to fix linux problems today than windows problems. Microsoft problems and solutions are broad and vague, it could be anything causing windows going flaky but linux is just straight forward with the problems and solutions.
I understand the frustration. First time I used it I had no idea what to do. I could not find the control panel, I did not know about the charm bar or how to access the metroUI until I hit the Windows Key, afterwards did not know how to close the metro apps, did not know how to shut down the pc. It took some time and got used to it, but yeah, the new OS GUI interaction is not as obvious as with the previous versions. Once in a while MetroUI freezes which I can easily rid off by simply hitting the windows key. And I just don't see any performance boost over windows 7. Maybe they should had released this as a service pack without the metroUI and release the metroUI for windows 7 as an option for those who want to use touchscreen or just web apps on the desktop.
What a bunch of bullshit. Please!Please!Please! already, stop blaming objects for the death's, objects are not alive or have any conscious but we humans have both attributes. Dumb shits! Humans have been killing each other for centuries. Yeah, blame video games for Hitlers decision to wipe out 10 million people, oh wait there were no video games back then.
What about the 1920's Bath School Massacre in Michigan? # 3 bombs went off killing 38 elementary school children, 2 teachers, and four other adults with 58 injured. This atrocity was executed by the school board treasurer Andre Kehoe, age 55. Why? he was angry after being defeated in 1926 election for township clerk.
The columbine shootings, Colorado Movie shootings, and this one at the Connecticut school, all done by people who had nothing in life, felt like a bunch of losers, so they took their rage on innocent people, because life was not fair to them boo fucking hoo. Same with that Kehoe idiot. Fucking spoiled brats.
It's amazing how fast Obama jumped to blaming guns and yet he is going around the world backing up psychopath's(rebel fighters or Al-Qaeda bullshit bla bla crap) removing governments and as a result thousands and thousands of people dead including children. What happened to the fast and furious program? I read that it lead to 68 college students massacred in Mexico by drug cartels in one night same spot. Why did the FBI allow the gun owners to sell the weapons to the drug cartels in the first place?
Windows 8 is basically a tweaked windows 7 with a new start menu. I don't understand why people think windows 7 is for work and windows 8 is not professional enough to be used in a work environment. If you can get your work done in 7 than 8 should be no problem. For xp, vista, and 7 I never used the start menu I always found myself using a docking system to access my programs as quickly as possibly. In kubuntu or mint kde on my dual monitor I always created a third taskbar and just pin whatever program I want on to their and afterwards hide it. I actually prefer metro, gnome 3, and unity(basically a dock) over any of the old start menu taskbars.
When windows 95 came out people were reluctant to make the huge leap to a new interface and it was the same with xp, vista, 7, and now 8. It's same thing with people and software companies scared of moving from windows to a linux distro, mint is more stable and faster than ubuntu.
Netflix has a large variety of movies and tv shows plus you can hold the dvd's for more than 4 days unlike the verizon/redbox and blockbuster which charge you for lateness and other stupid fees. Yeah, netflix movie selection is not that great but it's still better than what's on TV. Netflix TV shows is not that bad plus they have some new TV shows on there. Netflix should had never made that Disney deal they could had used that $300 million to add more TV shows or newer movies, bring back stargate sgu.
Running netflix in wine is not that bad but it seems to me that the frames drop and starts looking choppy. Although, in mint 13 kde it runs better than ubuntu 12.04. I'm gonna try it again, still better than nothing.
zsnes, snes9x, rocknesx final, are the best nintendo emulators. Fusion is the best genesis and sms emulator. This guy should give his collection the the "angry video game nerd".
The only main concern with linux is the gpu drivers the rest of the hardware like wi-fi, sound, nic, are well supported either by linux open source drivers or the manufacturer themselves like marvell, realtek, broadcom. Best thing to do before buying a laptop mainly for using with linux is to go to nvidia, ati, or intel website and see which mobo gpu they support for linux. That's pretty much it.
From what I can tell is that Nvidia and Amd(ati) have pretty great driver support for linux. The main difference between these 2 right now is that the "tear free" option is in the amd catalyst interface, not sure if nvidia has this option in their driver interface now but you can enable this by modifying the /ect/X11/xorg.conf and a few things in the nvidia driver interface than compiz. I'm using amd gpu now so i forgot the process in enabling tear free in nvidia.
For easy friendly linux distro use go with mint, ubuntu, kubuntu, opensuse, debian, PCLinuxOS, and fedora which every version has all the latest packages but it's still experimental based distro.
The amazon search feature is useless and it does not work. It also ruins your internal files and applications searches. I think you can remove the amazon feature. But, ubuntu 12.04 has amazon search as well, but, it's placed in the last tab of the unity dash. What i understand is that ubuntu only queries your searches it does not grab any system or personal info and sells it to third parties like the way google and facebook does it. If it does snoop into your privacy I say FUCK YOU to that rich stupid ass oligarch motherfucker for selling out. And I was amazed that canonical was asking for donations when downloading that bloated broken ubuntu 12.10 which is really still in a beta stage. Ubuntu 12.04 works beautifully, 12.10 unity without proper video drivers can't be run, no more 2d support either i think it uses mesa which is so damn slow.
one problem i have with linux is that it's too internet dependent. I can't find some full application installers(.rpm or .deb)which i need for the linux you have to either download it through repositories or compile the source code which is especially a pain if you can't upgrade the dependencies with no internet connection. But with windows, I can download and save in storage; vlc, gimp, blender, inkscape, etc... and install it later on without any internet connection needed. Especially when you have TWC, comcast, dsl providers fucking people through the ass for their shitty ass internet services. Lucky that I have FIOS in my neighborhood, but might be moving out of the state in a few month's.
But, I find that the linux distros i tried like opensuse, ubuntu, mint, all run faster than windows 7 and 8, and especially firefox which fly's on linux and runs slow on windows. I would be happy if steam got activision to bring cod games over to linux especially cod4mw1 which i play the most. I was able to run netflix on ubuntu but failed in mint 13 kde, which is fine and will solve it. But if there is a netflix native and games are coming to linux than there is no need to use windows full time anymore, i will just run windows in a virtualbox for development.
Ha, got myself a phenom ii x6@2700(3200 turbo core), ddr3 8gb stick(up to 32gb ram), 512GB Hard Drive, radeon hd 6570 1gb(shitty 128 bit bus), asrock motherboard am3+ socket, large heatsync and fan for cpu, for $420 a few month's ago. and it runs excellent especially vmware. Intel was too damn expensive.