I'm throwing a flag, bullshit on the field. I'm typing this on a first gen Core Celeron (Conroe i think) with 1.5GB of RAM and a 200GB IDE drive in it and Win 7 runs just fine, the only "tweaks" I did was turned off Aero because i have a black windows basic theme I prefer and that was it, runs fine.
If you are running anything older than that most likely you are running a P4 and the amount of heat and power those things blow through make them well worth upgrading to something a little newer. If you want to turn an ancient P4 into a Win 7 capable box on the cheap I'd suggest an AMD Bobcat board, those can be had for around $80 on Amazon and not only do they curbstomp a P4 but they use less power under full load than a P4 does idling, well worth the switch.
OMG are you REALLY gonna drag out the old "Its not the OS, its the kernel" bullshit? Really? because by that logic windows is 100% bug free as well since no bug that I know of attacks the WinNT kernel but the stuff above it as well.
I'm sorry dude but that bullshit won't fly, a kernel with nothing else is fricking worthless and every. single. mainstream. distro all come with the SAME APPS over and over AND OVER so that shit ain't gonna fly. Firefox, Chromium, Gimp, Libre office, you'll find those on pretty much every mainstream desktop distro there is so if any of those are pwned then yes Virginia Linux is pwned.
Uhhh..friend? I REALLY hate to break the news to ya but he really has no choice as the bubble that has been blown in the stock market can NOT be let out easy, its grown so big all it can do is pop and when it does? Its gonna make the great depression look like a flash crash. In fact if we have less than a full blown civil war, with ethnic cleansing and mass killings and the Libya style free for all? I'll be amazed.
Watch the video if you are brave enough and note exactly WHAT caused the bubble...401K and 403B, enacted when? Mid 80s under Reagan. By forcing all that money into the market he grew a monster only when the top 5% sent the jobs overseas and turned the USA into a "temp nation" instead of letting the bubble blow then each POTUS threw more money at it and kicked the can, hoping it wouldn't blow on their watch.
So even though I'm a true fiscal conservative, which means I don't think we should be doing squat we can't pay for and that includes the bloated monster that is the military if I were in Obama's shoes? I'd so do the same damned thing, because when this bubble bursts your money is gonna be worth as much as a Zimbabwe dollar and Obama KNOWS this, he just wants to get out of office before it blows. Personally I'm betting on a 2020-2025 timeline and I bet this is why you are seeing this shift towards fascism, the ones on top KNOW its gonna blow and want to have the infrastructure in place to have a Stasi style crackdown to try to stay in power.
Uhhh...you wanna explain how a million infected devices is 0.1% Miss AC? because i REALLY want to hear the logic hoops you pull out of your behind to explain the evidence away, i REALLY do.
Like it or not Android, which every Linux advocate has claimed as their own from day one, proves beyond a reasonable doubt what so many of us have said for so long...OSes are some of the most complex code ever written and because man is fallible there IS bugs which WILL be exploited once a target becomes big enough which tada! Is EXACTLY what happened when Linux on mobile went mainstream with Android.
So welcome to the club, the coffee is in the back, ignore the guy rocking in the corner as that is Mac who felt like you he had magic armor and then he got a beatdown from macDefender and Guardian and is still traumatized. I don't know what they did to him but considering he's been like that for awhile and keeps muttering "You shore are purty"? Probably best not to ask.
I'm sorry you are wrong, Vista and 7 brought a LOT to the table, in fact a LOT of the teething problems with Vista were due to the increased security and no longer running as admin, both were sorely needed. Contrast this with XP that will let ANYTHING from anywhere run, local, web, it don't care where its from it ALL runs at the same rights as the user and many programs simply won't run well or at all if you remove admin rights.
On top of that 7 brought a lot of good changes, for examples Homegroups make setting up file sharing on a LAN as easy as putting in a single password, Windows Remote Assistance is a lifesaver and is easy enough to use I've walked little old ladies over the phone through the steps to let me remote in and fix their PCs, jumplists and breadcrumbs make getting around the file system a breeze, it finally brought a sane memory manager to Windows, unlike XP which will slam the swap while plenty of memory is free 7 will use that free mem for caching most used programs, its just a much better OS all around.
That said lets cut through the bullshit and talk about the REAL reason so many are hanging onto XP for dear life...Windows 8. They claim Win 8 is "easy to use" but that is bullshit, I have given it to Joe Average and seen the frustration, even my own dad who wanted a new Core i3 laptop and got Win 8 with it lasted a whole 4 days before I had to put Start8 in and from the way he is talking I'll probably be ordering a copy of Win 7 for him before the end of the week. XP was low resource, relatively stable, and simple to navigate. Win 8 is bloated by metro and all the bling, comes with fricking ads by default which is just disgusting and shows how low MSFT has sunk when you can't even buy an ad free version of the damned OS from MSFT themselves, and Win 8.1 just adds insult to injury by not only not fixing the problems the average user has with the OS but they added a Goatse by saying "We brought back the start screen!" only to have it...drumroll...take you back to the fucking metro you were trying to get away from!
But if you want to stay on XP...why not? as long as you have a REAL firewall instead of that one way only joke firewall in XP, along with a decent AV which I would recommend Comodo Internet Security Free as it has firewall and AV rolled into one (you can have just one or the other if you don't need both) and can integrate with Comodo dragon and Icedragon browsers to add sandboxing of the browser which of course is the largest attack vector there is.
But if you don't want to get stuck with Win 8 you might want to get a Win 7 system now because once MSFT pulls the plug I'm sure companies will begin phasing out support for XP just as they did for Win2K. Of course none of this applies if you are using XP offline but if that is the case none of this really matters anyway, its all moot.
Sigh...interesting? Really? Does nobody here know how this stuff works? okay let me break it down, you see NOBODY makes a GPU by themselves, NOBODY, its ALL cross licensed, again going back to S3 texture compression and going up through the modern like tesselation, its ALL controlled by one of a half dozen or so GPU makers and they ALL require an NDA.
NOW do you understand why those patents preclude FOSS? Because if I own a patent on X and the ONLY WAY I will let you use X is to sign an NDA you can't then FOSS it can you? Even the two players that are FOSS friendly, AMD and Intel, are NOT FOSS friendly to each other, fo example there are parts of the AMD GPU that they can't give the FOSS guys because Intel owns the rights and won't give them permission.
But guys like me tried to warn everybody, that unlike X86 where the CPU can do the heavy lifting you HAVE to have a decent GPU to share the load on mobile and its all cross licensed and patented and proprietary as hell, did anybody listen? Nope, so enjoy your future, a future of appstores and code about as useful as the code supplied with tiVos because ALL that shit is proprietary as hell.
"I believe the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs, well I believe the puppet on the right has MY interests at heart...hey wait a minute, there is one guy controlling both puppets!" Bill Hicks.
If anybody believes the POTUS is much more than a mouthpiece I have a bridge you might be interested in. Sure they can cheer lead for their masters and make things worse, but make things better at the cost of even a cent to the top 5% or Wall Street? Not happening. Old Bill did what he did when he was Guv of AR, he gave his donors what they asked for with a smile on his face,knowing he'd be out of there before any shit hit the fan.
The only comfort some of you may be able to take away from nearly half a century of selling out to Wall Street is a collapse in inevitable as you can see by the graphs at the 3.30 mark, the downside being of course with nearly half of your population getting some form of assistance when that bubble bursts and the checks no longer come you can expect our very own Arab Spring. The only reason they have been able to tilt things as far out of whack as they have is the safety nets make sure the peasants have bread and circuses, when that bubble bursts which will make the depression look like a flash crash? Well if I was rich I'd be saying "Get to teh choppa!" before I ended up against a wall because it WILL get ugly.
As in "Give the rich more money and they'll be "job creators" instead of shipping the cash along with the money overseas to avoid taxes" and we have seen how well 40 years of "trickle upon" has worked, with 5% holding more than 80% of the nation's wealth (last I checked, probably higher now) with the rest having to fight for the scraps.
And for those that still believe republican and conservative are words that go together remember it was Ronnie that said deficits don't mean anything and tripled the debt under his watch, Dubya was just following in his footsteps. the fiscal conservatives were run out of the tent under Ronnie in favor of the bible thumpers and neocons and frankly the party never did recover.
Sorry dude but under his administration they had ketchup declared a vegetable under the school lunch program so they wouldn't have to provide more food for the kids, he also gave a speech about how the "poor" (read blacks) would buy a 50c orange with a $10 food stamp and use the change to buy vodka because he didn't even know that you didn't GET change over 99c with food stamps at that time.
Uhhh...and why EXACTLY would Google do that, especially when doing so would cripple their devices as NOBODY is making a top tier GPU that isn't patented up the ying yang and I would argue that even making one is impossible thanks to patents?
In this case frankly there is nothing anybody can do, there is NO top tier mobile GPU being produced that isn't patented and cross licensed up the ying yang, from texture compression on up is ALL patented 6 ways to Sunday and all of Google's money can't fix that.
Thanks for giving the perfect example of why AC posting needs to be banned, a good 90% of the AC posts are just like yours, little girlie men who sit in their basements and scream NIGGER! because they can't get any in a women's prison with a fistful of pardons. Go back to halo little bitch, the grownups are talking.
Lived in 6 states all over the south and honestly? NEVER met a sport hunter, not once. Oh there are plenty that will have the head stuffed and mounted but most folks ain't gonna be eating the head, the rest of the deer from the hide on up? That is used, even the bones are often used in soups. In fact I'd say most look down upon sport hunters as wasteful so the few i met that didn't want the meat gave it away to places like soup kitchens that could use it so nothing went to waste.
And frankly who cares if it DID turn out to be a minority, that is still thousands that YOU would be forcing to starve because YOU don't like something. if you REALLY care about this issue you should be pushing to allow steel rounds NOT to ban lead, which again I wouldn't trust this administration, whose AG frankly needs to be looking at treason charges for the Fast & Furious false flag op, to do a damned thing when it comes to guns, they have already proven they will risk tens of thousands of American and Mexican lives by arming terrorists to push their agenda, they can NOT be trusted in ANY way when it comes to this issue.
SSDs suffer from the hot/crazy scale and if anything they have gotten worse with each shrink and unlike HDDs the majority of SSDs failures I have seen had ZERO WARNING, it literally went from working yesterday to "flip a switch and its gone" and unlike HDDs which you can often get data off of a dying one with SSDs you don't get dying, you get perfect and then paperweight. This is why I only recommend them when the person is gonna be keeping everything in the cloud or is gonna be religious about backups, otherwise its just too risky. Hell you can't even do a trick similar to the old "swap platters to get one last shot at the data" bit because the controllers have encryption so if you managed to get the chips off all you'd get is gibberish.
And keyboards is why I think the desktop/laptop will never die, it only takes typing a long email on a tablet or talking into one and having to fix a bazillion errors for people to see the value of the traditional keyboard and mouse. There is a reason why the keyboard and mouse have lasted this long folks, they have tried everything from touchscreens to voice command since the late 80s and nobody has come up with an input method that works better than a good old keyboard, not even close.
You sir have OBVIOUSLY never been poor because I have lived my life in rural areas and I can tell you there are still a great many people that if it weren't for fish and game supplementing their diet they would be considered starving right now. If you wanna bitch that in America people shouldn't be going hungry, even though they are? you are welcome to do so but it don't change reality and the reality is that fish and game help keep the rural peasants from starving.
Anybody who buys that "We're in a recovery" horseshit BTW really needs to come to the flyover states, here it looks like something from an end of the world flick, boarded up store fronts everywhere, business districts that look like Escape From New York because of all the abandoned and decaying buildings, the few that are working aren't getting more than 25 hours a week and everybody and their dog is trying to get on the dole just to keep from becoming homeless. Its seriously bad out here folks, if it weren't for hunting and fishing things would be even worse.
Why did this get marked flamebait when its true? The ATF has banned copper and brass, even though I seriously doubt it would penetrate any modern BPV, so you are basically left with nothing BUT lead.
And do not forget this is the same administration that cooked up Fast & Furious which if that isn't a classic false flag I don't know what is, and then tried to blame it on Bush, again all trying to ban guns. So anybody who takes this administration at face value on this subject is either a partisan hack or frankly hasn't bothered looking at the evidence as its pretty damned obvious that if the Obama administration had their way there wouldn't be a second amendment right now.
You don't need to, because i thought we already solved this problem with kittenauth ages ago? I mean with kittenauth any human can tell you "Which kitten has a black patch on the right eye" or "Which kitten has a bobtail" but a spambot isn't gonna be able to figure out squat from that. Of course i suppose you could pay some Chinese a buck an hour to answer but you could do that to CAPTCHA as well, and at least this way we get to see kittens.
The way i look at it is its better that he spend it on local stupid shit as opposed to buying Russian fighter jets like Travolta so he can play "Top Gun 4 Real" or buying some insanely fast sports car that he'd probably total in a month. Of course we all know he might as well have bought an 8-track factory so a fool and his money comes to mind, but considering how much crazy dangerous shit you can buy with that money buying a newspaper? kinda tame actually.
Exactly and this is why I tell people to trust what the Wikipedia says about as much as they trust the gas station attendant down the road with 3 teeth and a junior HS education, because too many with an agenda have taken over the place and a handful of mods pretty much own the place, I'll use my own personal anecdote as an example...
When I first heard of Wikipedia i thought it was a good idea, a crowd sourced encyclopedia where you could take each bit of knowledge that each person knows like the back of their hand and turn it into this giant knowledge bank, very cool I thought so i decided to help where I could. Now when I just fixed spelling errors? Not a problem,same with fixing obvious vandalism, but then I found my first and only serious error. It wasn't even on a topic that was important, just a TV show but it said the character X did Y and I thought those who hadn't really watched the show would find it interesting to know that was NOT what was written, instead it was corporate meddling.
I knew this because the DVD box set has both the director and writer complain about this at length as well as both the writer's and director's websites again complain about this at length, so at the end of the paragraph I put a little addendum stating this as well as providing citations...only to watch it disappear in less than an hour, no explanation. When I tried to ask the one who made it disappear WTF was going on? Nothing. So I put it back up only to have him scream "Not notable!" and place it back, when I asked what more he needed, quite politely I might add, when you have both the writer of the episode who has created the character as well as the director say "This is not what we wanted"? Banned for 30 days. I looked at his history and found this guy pretty much doesn't like anybody of a certain sexual orientation and goes out of his way to remove any mention of that orientation in popular sci-fi/horror media, when i pointed this out to the admins? Don't care, he is part of the deletionist clic and therefor can do what he wants.
That is when I did a little research of my own and found out about the deletionist sect and how many with an agenda was ruling from on high, this was before it was found that a Scientologist was controlling the Scientology page and a few guys on the payroll of major corps were controlling the corporate pages to minimize negative information but despite those few high profile deletionists being wiped out the sect still remains and more pages than ever are controlled by the sect.
So anybody who uses Wikipedia as a source of information more controversial than what wires to swap to make a crossover cable? They really need to know they are reading from a source that is as biased as HuffPo or Drudge, only worse as with those you KNOW which biases they have whereas with the sects you have no idea what biases a sect member has, who they may be working for, or what they are changing just out of a personal bias like I saw.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster" Friedrich Nietzsche
Kinda sad we lost so many good men in WWII fighting the jack booted bullshit only to have the jack booted bullshit take root here, but lets face it, fascism never died it just became more corporate friendly. Instead of being ruled by the state like the old fashioned kind the new fascism has the state and corporation become one, with a revolving door between the halls of power and the MIC that Ike tried to warn us about and I have no doubt the corps are the ones doing a LOT of the data gathering, no pesky constitutional protections to worry about if you get megacorp to do the spying in return for a buttload of cash.
I don't know if this will give any comfort or not but the current system is built on a house of cards doomed to collapse and when it does the system as we know it WILL be destroyed, the only question is when and due to the size of the bubble if it makes it past 2025 frankly I'll be amazed. Of course the part that should make the rest of the planet stain their tighty whities is this question...what happens after the collapse? You are talking about the most heavily armed military in history, with 5 times the carriers of anybody else, more nukes than anybody knows what to do with, and an insane amount of weaponry stockpiled all over the country.
I know many will disagree but I don't think the USA will go silently into that good night and break up like the USSR, instead taking a page from the crazy Austrian and using the "bread and jobs" bit along with the strong nationalism of the citizens to do the whole "We'll take Poland!" bit only with Poland replaced by resource rich South America. It really wouldn't be hard, a couple of false flags that cause plenty of bloodshed, get the MSM to rally round the flag, the people would take the bait hook,line,and sinker.
And I'll tell you like I tell the insurance scammer, "Stick that fine print up your ass" because if you need a fucking lawyer because you've made it such a damned legal nightmare? Then screw you, your business should be banned by the government for being a scam.
And the sad part is YOU KNOW its a scam, don't try to tell me you don't, because if it wasn't a fucking scam you wouldn't need 40 pages of fine print to hide all the fucking gotchas in! You'd just make a simple easy to read contract and be done with it, but noooo, you have to put an assload of fine print so people THINK they are getting one thing and in reality getting another, to me that is a textbook definition of a scam and the contracts and insurance weasels can all be thrown in a fire, make the world a better place.
Well to quote the guy at SFDebris when talking about ST 5 and the excuses people made for it...I don't care because it still sucks and the excuses aren't gonna make it not suck".
And ironically if you wanted to try a GOOD version of Vista? try the hacker version called "Tiny Vista" which kept the newer kernel while stripping out as much of the buggy shit as they could and they damned near made it as stable as XP X64, not quite, but almost.
And I have to STRONGLY disagree about the core being good, because from the amount of "refresh my PC" jobs I've had to do for customers that were foolish enough to go out and buy windows 8? I am 100% CONVINCED that that feature was NOT put in there as a convenience, but was instead put in there because there is a serious corruption issue that the devs couldn't pin down. Now I'm not gonna waste my time doing traces and seeing what in the bowels of the OS is broken, but from just what I've seen and comparing those that killed metro for something like Classic Shell versus those that kept metro I'd say a combination of the bolted on metro bullshit combined with their appstore DRM garbage is to blame, but in any case i haven't seen a MSFT OS shit itself this much since WinME, yes its THAT bad and it seems to be the luck of the draw as to whether your hardware will cause it to shit a lot or a little.
But at the end of the day what you and I think isn't what matters, its what the customers think, and Win 8 gets a giant DO NOT WANT from customers and I believe Win 8.1 is doomed to more of the same, hell it may get it worse for that Goatse that MSFT put in where they say "Hey we brought back the start menu!" only to click on it and have it cockslap you with the metro UI you were trying to get away from, talk about giving customers the finger! Mark my words if they don't change course 2020 when Win 7 goes EOL it'll be EOL for MSFT as well, it'll be like RIM, a company with legacy customers only and even they will be looking for the escape route.
Too bad so sad but I can tell you that Win 8? Its not getting any better because the majority hate it worse than Vista. I have stopped even bothering with win 8 products because folks will buy something that has half the power for the same price that has Win 7 and devs aren't gonna waste time on something where the majority of users will never be, so you basically got the Sega Dreamcast of OSes, loved by some, but never with the numbers to get critical mass.
Then you'd end up with a phone that would cost $3k a pop and wouldn't get more than a handful of users at best, look at how OpenMoko went down the tubes when they could only offer their phones at an non-subsidized price. Then there is the fact that your OpenRISC/FPGA solution would have shitty battery life, would probably run hotter, and even if you avoided patented hardware when it comes to video damned near every technique is patented from texture compression on up.
So I'm sorry friend but I seriously doubt it would work. Nobody benefits from GPL purity is it ends with a device so expensive only a handful can afford it and so underpowered or bad on battery life only a GPL purist would want it, you really have to do a balancing act when it comes to these phones and without decently powerful chips so that it can compete at least halfway decently against the other smartphones it'll be DOA, making the whole discussion moot.
Can anybody show me how to ban these AC posts without banning low modded actual users? because I have found the AC posts here are beyond useless, its the equivalent of the 14 year old Halo players screaming NIGGER into their mikes full blast but sadly too many legitimate users that dare go against groupthink get downmodded as trolls, even when their posts are insightful, so I don't want to start surfing at plus 1 as you end up with nothing but karma whoring circlejerks.
So if anybody has a script or extension, preferably one that works in Chromium based browsers i would be most grateful as it would mean i don't have to wade through a sea of shit just to see legitimate posts, thanks.
Well all I have to say is....welcome to the club Linux guys, now that you have officially made it to the big time you too will have every malware writer on the planet gunning for ya. Coffee and donuts are in the back, try to just ignore the guy rocking and mumbling in the corner, that is the Apple guy and he is still kinda in shock after spending all that money on gear only to get pwned by MacGuardian.
Seriously though what did anybody expect? You have an OS that 1.- Has both the OS and the apps capable of updating, 2.- Have access to the web and finally 3.- No antivirus or protections for the OS and applications.....these things are a malware writers wet dream, just cook up a low resource bit of nasty to run in the background and you can using it for spying on the network, sending spam, keylogging, the malware guys probably ought to bake a cake and be sending to the guy that came up with the idea of Smart TVs because he couldn't have given them a better prezzie if he wrapped it in a bow.
But the best part, the part that makes the irony all moist and delicious? I have several customers with Smart TVs and after the "gotta get my money's worth by playing with the new toy" period wears off they ALL quit using the things because frankly they just suck and really don't serve a purpose in most households. After all they got smartphones and tablets and PCs set top boxes like the WDTVs and Roku boxes and they ALL do the web thing better than these TVs because you have to use really low power chips to keep it from heating the hell out of the set so what you end up with is frankly a subpar surfing device.
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I'm throwing a flag, bullshit on the field. I'm typing this on a first gen Core Celeron (Conroe i think) with 1.5GB of RAM and a 200GB IDE drive in it and Win 7 runs just fine, the only "tweaks" I did was turned off Aero because i have a black windows basic theme I prefer and that was it, runs fine.
If you are running anything older than that most likely you are running a P4 and the amount of heat and power those things blow through make them well worth upgrading to something a little newer. If you want to turn an ancient P4 into a Win 7 capable box on the cheap I'd suggest an AMD Bobcat board, those can be had for around $80 on Amazon and not only do they curbstomp a P4 but they use less power under full load than a P4 does idling, well worth the switch.
OMG are you REALLY gonna drag out the old "Its not the OS, its the kernel" bullshit? Really? because by that logic windows is 100% bug free as well since no bug that I know of attacks the WinNT kernel but the stuff above it as well.
I'm sorry dude but that bullshit won't fly, a kernel with nothing else is fricking worthless and every. single. mainstream. distro all come with the SAME APPS over and over AND OVER so that shit ain't gonna fly. Firefox, Chromium, Gimp, Libre office, you'll find those on pretty much every mainstream desktop distro there is so if any of those are pwned then yes Virginia Linux is pwned.
Uhhh..friend? I REALLY hate to break the news to ya but he really has no choice as the bubble that has been blown in the stock market can NOT be let out easy, its grown so big all it can do is pop and when it does? Its gonna make the great depression look like a flash crash. In fact if we have less than a full blown civil war, with ethnic cleansing and mass killings and the Libya style free for all? I'll be amazed.
Watch the video if you are brave enough and note exactly WHAT caused the bubble...401K and 403B, enacted when? Mid 80s under Reagan. By forcing all that money into the market he grew a monster only when the top 5% sent the jobs overseas and turned the USA into a "temp nation" instead of letting the bubble blow then each POTUS threw more money at it and kicked the can, hoping it wouldn't blow on their watch.
So even though I'm a true fiscal conservative, which means I don't think we should be doing squat we can't pay for and that includes the bloated monster that is the military if I were in Obama's shoes? I'd so do the same damned thing, because when this bubble bursts your money is gonna be worth as much as a Zimbabwe dollar and Obama KNOWS this, he just wants to get out of office before it blows. Personally I'm betting on a 2020-2025 timeline and I bet this is why you are seeing this shift towards fascism, the ones on top KNOW its gonna blow and want to have the infrastructure in place to have a Stasi style crackdown to try to stay in power.
Uhhh...you wanna explain how a million infected devices is 0.1% Miss AC? because i REALLY want to hear the logic hoops you pull out of your behind to explain the evidence away, i REALLY do.
Like it or not Android, which every Linux advocate has claimed as their own from day one, proves beyond a reasonable doubt what so many of us have said for so long...OSes are some of the most complex code ever written and because man is fallible there IS bugs which WILL be exploited once a target becomes big enough which tada! Is EXACTLY what happened when Linux on mobile went mainstream with Android.
So welcome to the club, the coffee is in the back, ignore the guy rocking in the corner as that is Mac who felt like you he had magic armor and then he got a beatdown from macDefender and Guardian and is still traumatized. I don't know what they did to him but considering he's been like that for awhile and keeps muttering "You shore are purty"? Probably best not to ask.
I'm sorry you are wrong, Vista and 7 brought a LOT to the table, in fact a LOT of the teething problems with Vista were due to the increased security and no longer running as admin, both were sorely needed. Contrast this with XP that will let ANYTHING from anywhere run, local, web, it don't care where its from it ALL runs at the same rights as the user and many programs simply won't run well or at all if you remove admin rights.
On top of that 7 brought a lot of good changes, for examples Homegroups make setting up file sharing on a LAN as easy as putting in a single password, Windows Remote Assistance is a lifesaver and is easy enough to use I've walked little old ladies over the phone through the steps to let me remote in and fix their PCs, jumplists and breadcrumbs make getting around the file system a breeze, it finally brought a sane memory manager to Windows, unlike XP which will slam the swap while plenty of memory is free 7 will use that free mem for caching most used programs, its just a much better OS all around.
That said lets cut through the bullshit and talk about the REAL reason so many are hanging onto XP for dear life...Windows 8. They claim Win 8 is "easy to use" but that is bullshit, I have given it to Joe Average and seen the frustration, even my own dad who wanted a new Core i3 laptop and got Win 8 with it lasted a whole 4 days before I had to put Start8 in and from the way he is talking I'll probably be ordering a copy of Win 7 for him before the end of the week. XP was low resource, relatively stable, and simple to navigate. Win 8 is bloated by metro and all the bling, comes with fricking ads by default which is just disgusting and shows how low MSFT has sunk when you can't even buy an ad free version of the damned OS from MSFT themselves, and Win 8.1 just adds insult to injury by not only not fixing the problems the average user has with the OS but they added a Goatse by saying "We brought back the start screen!" only to have it...drumroll...take you back to the fucking metro you were trying to get away from!
But if you want to stay on XP...why not? as long as you have a REAL firewall instead of that one way only joke firewall in XP, along with a decent AV which I would recommend Comodo Internet Security Free as it has firewall and AV rolled into one (you can have just one or the other if you don't need both) and can integrate with Comodo dragon and Icedragon browsers to add sandboxing of the browser which of course is the largest attack vector there is.
But if you don't want to get stuck with Win 8 you might want to get a Win 7 system now because once MSFT pulls the plug I'm sure companies will begin phasing out support for XP just as they did for Win2K. Of course none of this applies if you are using XP offline but if that is the case none of this really matters anyway, its all moot.
Sigh...interesting? Really? Does nobody here know how this stuff works? okay let me break it down, you see NOBODY makes a GPU by themselves, NOBODY, its ALL cross licensed, again going back to S3 texture compression and going up through the modern like tesselation, its ALL controlled by one of a half dozen or so GPU makers and they ALL require an NDA.
NOW do you understand why those patents preclude FOSS? Because if I own a patent on X and the ONLY WAY I will let you use X is to sign an NDA you can't then FOSS it can you? Even the two players that are FOSS friendly, AMD and Intel, are NOT FOSS friendly to each other, fo example there are parts of the AMD GPU that they can't give the FOSS guys because Intel owns the rights and won't give them permission.
But guys like me tried to warn everybody, that unlike X86 where the CPU can do the heavy lifting you HAVE to have a decent GPU to share the load on mobile and its all cross licensed and patented and proprietary as hell, did anybody listen? Nope, so enjoy your future, a future of appstores and code about as useful as the code supplied with tiVos because ALL that shit is proprietary as hell.
"I believe the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs, well I believe the puppet on the right has MY interests at heart...hey wait a minute, there is one guy controlling both puppets!" Bill Hicks.
If anybody believes the POTUS is much more than a mouthpiece I have a bridge you might be interested in. Sure they can cheer lead for their masters and make things worse, but make things better at the cost of even a cent to the top 5% or Wall Street? Not happening. Old Bill did what he did when he was Guv of AR, he gave his donors what they asked for with a smile on his face,knowing he'd be out of there before any shit hit the fan.
The only comfort some of you may be able to take away from nearly half a century of selling out to Wall Street is a collapse in inevitable as you can see by the graphs at the 3.30 mark, the downside being of course with nearly half of your population getting some form of assistance when that bubble bursts and the checks no longer come you can expect our very own Arab Spring. The only reason they have been able to tilt things as far out of whack as they have is the safety nets make sure the peasants have bread and circuses, when that bubble bursts which will make the depression look like a flash crash? Well if I was rich I'd be saying "Get to teh choppa!" before I ended up against a wall because it WILL get ugly.
As in "Give the rich more money and they'll be "job creators" instead of shipping the cash along with the money overseas to avoid taxes" and we have seen how well 40 years of "trickle upon" has worked, with 5% holding more than 80% of the nation's wealth (last I checked, probably higher now) with the rest having to fight for the scraps.
And for those that still believe republican and conservative are words that go together remember it was Ronnie that said deficits don't mean anything and tripled the debt under his watch, Dubya was just following in his footsteps. the fiscal conservatives were run out of the tent under Ronnie in favor of the bible thumpers and neocons and frankly the party never did recover.
Sorry dude but under his administration they had ketchup declared a vegetable under the school lunch program so they wouldn't have to provide more food for the kids, he also gave a speech about how the "poor" (read blacks) would buy a 50c orange with a $10 food stamp and use the change to buy vodka because he didn't even know that you didn't GET change over 99c with food stamps at that time.
Uhhh...and why EXACTLY would Google do that, especially when doing so would cripple their devices as NOBODY is making a top tier GPU that isn't patented up the ying yang and I would argue that even making one is impossible thanks to patents?
In this case frankly there is nothing anybody can do, there is NO top tier mobile GPU being produced that isn't patented and cross licensed up the ying yang, from texture compression on up is ALL patented 6 ways to Sunday and all of Google's money can't fix that.
Thanks for giving the perfect example of why AC posting needs to be banned, a good 90% of the AC posts are just like yours, little girlie men who sit in their basements and scream NIGGER! because they can't get any in a women's prison with a fistful of pardons. Go back to halo little bitch, the grownups are talking.
Lived in 6 states all over the south and honestly? NEVER met a sport hunter, not once. Oh there are plenty that will have the head stuffed and mounted but most folks ain't gonna be eating the head, the rest of the deer from the hide on up? That is used, even the bones are often used in soups. In fact I'd say most look down upon sport hunters as wasteful so the few i met that didn't want the meat gave it away to places like soup kitchens that could use it so nothing went to waste.
And frankly who cares if it DID turn out to be a minority, that is still thousands that YOU would be forcing to starve because YOU don't like something. if you REALLY care about this issue you should be pushing to allow steel rounds NOT to ban lead, which again I wouldn't trust this administration, whose AG frankly needs to be looking at treason charges for the Fast & Furious false flag op, to do a damned thing when it comes to guns, they have already proven they will risk tens of thousands of American and Mexican lives by arming terrorists to push their agenda, they can NOT be trusted in ANY way when it comes to this issue.
SSDs suffer from the hot/crazy scale and if anything they have gotten worse with each shrink and unlike HDDs the majority of SSDs failures I have seen had ZERO WARNING, it literally went from working yesterday to "flip a switch and its gone" and unlike HDDs which you can often get data off of a dying one with SSDs you don't get dying, you get perfect and then paperweight. This is why I only recommend them when the person is gonna be keeping everything in the cloud or is gonna be religious about backups, otherwise its just too risky. Hell you can't even do a trick similar to the old "swap platters to get one last shot at the data" bit because the controllers have encryption so if you managed to get the chips off all you'd get is gibberish.
And keyboards is why I think the desktop/laptop will never die, it only takes typing a long email on a tablet or talking into one and having to fix a bazillion errors for people to see the value of the traditional keyboard and mouse. There is a reason why the keyboard and mouse have lasted this long folks, they have tried everything from touchscreens to voice command since the late 80s and nobody has come up with an input method that works better than a good old keyboard, not even close.
You sir have OBVIOUSLY never been poor because I have lived my life in rural areas and I can tell you there are still a great many people that if it weren't for fish and game supplementing their diet they would be considered starving right now. If you wanna bitch that in America people shouldn't be going hungry, even though they are? you are welcome to do so but it don't change reality and the reality is that fish and game help keep the rural peasants from starving.
Anybody who buys that "We're in a recovery" horseshit BTW really needs to come to the flyover states, here it looks like something from an end of the world flick, boarded up store fronts everywhere, business districts that look like Escape From New York because of all the abandoned and decaying buildings, the few that are working aren't getting more than 25 hours a week and everybody and their dog is trying to get on the dole just to keep from becoming homeless. Its seriously bad out here folks, if it weren't for hunting and fishing things would be even worse.
Why did this get marked flamebait when its true? The ATF has banned copper and brass, even though I seriously doubt it would penetrate any modern BPV, so you are basically left with nothing BUT lead.
And do not forget this is the same administration that cooked up Fast & Furious which if that isn't a classic false flag I don't know what is, and then tried to blame it on Bush, again all trying to ban guns. So anybody who takes this administration at face value on this subject is either a partisan hack or frankly hasn't bothered looking at the evidence as its pretty damned obvious that if the Obama administration had their way there wouldn't be a second amendment right now.
You don't need to, because i thought we already solved this problem with kittenauth ages ago? I mean with kittenauth any human can tell you "Which kitten has a black patch on the right eye" or "Which kitten has a bobtail" but a spambot isn't gonna be able to figure out squat from that. Of course i suppose you could pay some Chinese a buck an hour to answer but you could do that to CAPTCHA as well, and at least this way we get to see kittens.
The way i look at it is its better that he spend it on local stupid shit as opposed to buying Russian fighter jets like Travolta so he can play "Top Gun 4 Real" or buying some insanely fast sports car that he'd probably total in a month. Of course we all know he might as well have bought an 8-track factory so a fool and his money comes to mind, but considering how much crazy dangerous shit you can buy with that money buying a newspaper? kinda tame actually.
Exactly and this is why I tell people to trust what the Wikipedia says about as much as they trust the gas station attendant down the road with 3 teeth and a junior HS education, because too many with an agenda have taken over the place and a handful of mods pretty much own the place, I'll use my own personal anecdote as an example...
When I first heard of Wikipedia i thought it was a good idea, a crowd sourced encyclopedia where you could take each bit of knowledge that each person knows like the back of their hand and turn it into this giant knowledge bank, very cool I thought so i decided to help where I could. Now when I just fixed spelling errors? Not a problem,same with fixing obvious vandalism, but then I found my first and only serious error. It wasn't even on a topic that was important, just a TV show but it said the character X did Y and I thought those who hadn't really watched the show would find it interesting to know that was NOT what was written, instead it was corporate meddling.
I knew this because the DVD box set has both the director and writer complain about this at length as well as both the writer's and director's websites again complain about this at length, so at the end of the paragraph I put a little addendum stating this as well as providing citations...only to watch it disappear in less than an hour, no explanation. When I tried to ask the one who made it disappear WTF was going on? Nothing. So I put it back up only to have him scream "Not notable!" and place it back, when I asked what more he needed, quite politely I might add, when you have both the writer of the episode who has created the character as well as the director say "This is not what we wanted"? Banned for 30 days. I looked at his history and found this guy pretty much doesn't like anybody of a certain sexual orientation and goes out of his way to remove any mention of that orientation in popular sci-fi/horror media, when i pointed this out to the admins? Don't care, he is part of the deletionist clic and therefor can do what he wants.
That is when I did a little research of my own and found out about the deletionist sect and how many with an agenda was ruling from on high, this was before it was found that a Scientologist was controlling the Scientology page and a few guys on the payroll of major corps were controlling the corporate pages to minimize negative information but despite those few high profile deletionists being wiped out the sect still remains and more pages than ever are controlled by the sect.
So anybody who uses Wikipedia as a source of information more controversial than what wires to swap to make a crossover cable? They really need to know they are reading from a source that is as biased as HuffPo or Drudge, only worse as with those you KNOW which biases they have whereas with the sects you have no idea what biases a sect member has, who they may be working for, or what they are changing just out of a personal bias like I saw.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster" Friedrich Nietzsche
Kinda sad we lost so many good men in WWII fighting the jack booted bullshit only to have the jack booted bullshit take root here, but lets face it, fascism never died it just became more corporate friendly. Instead of being ruled by the state like the old fashioned kind the new fascism has the state and corporation become one, with a revolving door between the halls of power and the MIC that Ike tried to warn us about and I have no doubt the corps are the ones doing a LOT of the data gathering, no pesky constitutional protections to worry about if you get megacorp to do the spying in return for a buttload of cash.
I don't know if this will give any comfort or not but the current system is built on a house of cards doomed to collapse and when it does the system as we know it WILL be destroyed, the only question is when and due to the size of the bubble if it makes it past 2025 frankly I'll be amazed. Of course the part that should make the rest of the planet stain their tighty whities is this question...what happens after the collapse? You are talking about the most heavily armed military in history, with 5 times the carriers of anybody else, more nukes than anybody knows what to do with, and an insane amount of weaponry stockpiled all over the country.
I know many will disagree but I don't think the USA will go silently into that good night and break up like the USSR, instead taking a page from the crazy Austrian and using the "bread and jobs" bit along with the strong nationalism of the citizens to do the whole "We'll take Poland!" bit only with Poland replaced by resource rich South America. It really wouldn't be hard, a couple of false flags that cause plenty of bloodshed, get the MSM to rally round the flag, the people would take the bait hook,line,and sinker.
And I'll tell you like I tell the insurance scammer, "Stick that fine print up your ass" because if you need a fucking lawyer because you've made it such a damned legal nightmare? Then screw you, your business should be banned by the government for being a scam.
And the sad part is YOU KNOW its a scam, don't try to tell me you don't, because if it wasn't a fucking scam you wouldn't need 40 pages of fine print to hide all the fucking gotchas in! You'd just make a simple easy to read contract and be done with it, but noooo, you have to put an assload of fine print so people THINK they are getting one thing and in reality getting another, to me that is a textbook definition of a scam and the contracts and insurance weasels can all be thrown in a fire, make the world a better place.
Well to quote the guy at SFDebris when talking about ST 5 and the excuses people made for it...I don't care because it still sucks and the excuses aren't gonna make it not suck".
And ironically if you wanted to try a GOOD version of Vista? try the hacker version called "Tiny Vista" which kept the newer kernel while stripping out as much of the buggy shit as they could and they damned near made it as stable as XP X64, not quite, but almost.
And I have to STRONGLY disagree about the core being good, because from the amount of "refresh my PC" jobs I've had to do for customers that were foolish enough to go out and buy windows 8? I am 100% CONVINCED that that feature was NOT put in there as a convenience, but was instead put in there because there is a serious corruption issue that the devs couldn't pin down. Now I'm not gonna waste my time doing traces and seeing what in the bowels of the OS is broken, but from just what I've seen and comparing those that killed metro for something like Classic Shell versus those that kept metro I'd say a combination of the bolted on metro bullshit combined with their appstore DRM garbage is to blame, but in any case i haven't seen a MSFT OS shit itself this much since WinME, yes its THAT bad and it seems to be the luck of the draw as to whether your hardware will cause it to shit a lot or a little.
But at the end of the day what you and I think isn't what matters, its what the customers think, and Win 8 gets a giant DO NOT WANT from customers and I believe Win 8.1 is doomed to more of the same, hell it may get it worse for that Goatse that MSFT put in where they say "Hey we brought back the start menu!" only to click on it and have it cockslap you with the metro UI you were trying to get away from, talk about giving customers the finger! Mark my words if they don't change course 2020 when Win 7 goes EOL it'll be EOL for MSFT as well, it'll be like RIM, a company with legacy customers only and even they will be looking for the escape route.
Too bad so sad but I can tell you that Win 8? Its not getting any better because the majority hate it worse than Vista. I have stopped even bothering with win 8 products because folks will buy something that has half the power for the same price that has Win 7 and devs aren't gonna waste time on something where the majority of users will never be, so you basically got the Sega Dreamcast of OSes, loved by some, but never with the numbers to get critical mass.
Then you'd end up with a phone that would cost $3k a pop and wouldn't get more than a handful of users at best, look at how OpenMoko went down the tubes when they could only offer their phones at an non-subsidized price. Then there is the fact that your OpenRISC/FPGA solution would have shitty battery life, would probably run hotter, and even if you avoided patented hardware when it comes to video damned near every technique is patented from texture compression on up.
So I'm sorry friend but I seriously doubt it would work. Nobody benefits from GPL purity is it ends with a device so expensive only a handful can afford it and so underpowered or bad on battery life only a GPL purist would want it, you really have to do a balancing act when it comes to these phones and without decently powerful chips so that it can compete at least halfway decently against the other smartphones it'll be DOA, making the whole discussion moot.
Can anybody show me how to ban these AC posts without banning low modded actual users? because I have found the AC posts here are beyond useless, its the equivalent of the 14 year old Halo players screaming NIGGER into their mikes full blast but sadly too many legitimate users that dare go against groupthink get downmodded as trolls, even when their posts are insightful, so I don't want to start surfing at plus 1 as you end up with nothing but karma whoring circlejerks.
So if anybody has a script or extension, preferably one that works in Chromium based browsers i would be most grateful as it would mean i don't have to wade through a sea of shit just to see legitimate posts, thanks.
Well all I have to say is....welcome to the club Linux guys, now that you have officially made it to the big time you too will have every malware writer on the planet gunning for ya. Coffee and donuts are in the back, try to just ignore the guy rocking and mumbling in the corner, that is the Apple guy and he is still kinda in shock after spending all that money on gear only to get pwned by MacGuardian.
Seriously though what did anybody expect? You have an OS that 1.- Has both the OS and the apps capable of updating, 2.- Have access to the web and finally 3.- No antivirus or protections for the OS and applications.....these things are a malware writers wet dream, just cook up a low resource bit of nasty to run in the background and you can using it for spying on the network, sending spam, keylogging, the malware guys probably ought to bake a cake and be sending to the guy that came up with the idea of Smart TVs because he couldn't have given them a better prezzie if he wrapped it in a bow.
But the best part, the part that makes the irony all moist and delicious? I have several customers with Smart TVs and after the "gotta get my money's worth by playing with the new toy" period wears off they ALL quit using the things because frankly they just suck and really don't serve a purpose in most households. After all they got smartphones and tablets and PCs set top boxes like the WDTVs and Roku boxes and they ALL do the web thing better than these TVs because you have to use really low power chips to keep it from heating the hell out of the set so what you end up with is frankly a subpar surfing device.