Not to mention the case that brought it before the court is the perfect example of WHY we don't want the fed deciding who is and isn't allowed and the fact that the right wing has a fit, even though the case involved something they like to crow about? Just makes 'em hypocrites in my book.
For those that didn't see the details person was married for years, partner dies, fed takes nearly $400k away from the partner for taxes...that wouldn't have been levied if the partner had a penis. I'm sorry but that is fucked up, either the law is equal or its a sham and deciding to take a pile of money from a widow based on the sex of the corpse would be just as fucked up if they took it based on the skin color or religion of the corpse, that isn't right any way you slice it.
Personally I'm more interested in some of the MIPS chips like the Loognson Dragon that has built in X86 hardware acceleration, supposedly you get 80% of X86 speed when it comes to emulation but while having the longer battery life. Sadly we'll never see it in the states thanks to IP laws but if the chip designed were truly opened up I bet we'd see all kinds of new ideas and approaches. Remember when we had choices in X86 besides AMD and Intel? They had chips like WinChip that were more of a RISC design, you had more media leaning like Cyrix, it gave us a wealth of choice and if that happens with the ARM clones I'm all for it.
Nice to see I'm not the only one to be scratching their head and thinking about how that is supposed to work. But after watching the laws passed with regard to the Internet? Honestly I just think these bozos passing these laws have zero fricking clue as to how this shit actually WORKS. It would be like some government mandate to "back up the Internet"...okay,how?
They make these laws and mandates without asking a single grunt who actually does this for a living "Can we do this, and what would be the cost if we can"...kinda reminds me of some of the bosses i had when i worked corporate, they think you can wave your magic IT wand and all this shit will come to pass when it just. doesn't. work. that way. Let me say if you are an IT grunt in the EU? My condolences pal, sounds like you are gonna be in a world of shit just trying to keep from running afoul of this, when five will get you ten no matter how hard you try it'll end up biting your right on the ass.
Thanks to everyone for the well wishes and prayers, I've never been a big believer in such things but the oldest is Catholic to the bone so just knowing that has lifted his spirits, many thanks.
As for gaming I hope Epic is right, that the days of exclusives are all but gone, because honestly I'm sick and tired of you needing over a thousand bucks in console hardware just to play a handful of exclusives that would just as easily run on any console or PC. According to him only a handful of games made by the console companies themselves, Gears Of War, God Of War, Mario, will be exclusives while the rest will all be multiplatform and that is fine by me, its just stupid to have to spend all that money just so you can play maybe a dozen games you can't get anywhere else.
And while I wouldn't bet the farm on it, its just a gut feeling, I personally feel we are gonna see more and more that will do like you and buy only a single console because it has a handful of exclusives they want and do the rest of the gaming on the PC. Thanks to the downturn and both Intel and AMD just cranking out the chips (because as a former Intel engineer noted here the fabs cost money even when idle and in the case of AMD the fabs provide the best processes for those that give them the most business) the OEMs are gonna be cutting margins to the bone, hell I've gotten quad kits for like $170 and triples for $130 just so these places can move some product. Its really crazy how you can get a pretty bad ass gaming rig for very little money, my youngest plays on an AMD triple with an HD4850 and the whole setup cost less than $300.
As a final note from a guy in the trenches, those that are looking for a truly great gaming card on the cheap? HD7750, thanks to price drops those have been showing up in the mid $70-$80 range and they are nearly as fast as the old HD6850 while using little enough power it is powered just by the PCIe bus (great for those with older systems as you don't have to yank the PSU) and is less than half the heat under load. since my source ran out of the dirt cheap HD4850s I've been using those in my budget gamer PCs and they are just great, AMD's new GCN graphics arch takes a LOT of the load off when decoding 1080P while kicking butt at games, I've put together $350 units using this card and it just blows through games like they were nothing, good temps, great performance, and cheap, what is not to like?
Anyway thanks again to everyone for the well wishes and prayers as it means a lot, it lifted the spirits of my oldest and there aren't words to express how much that means to me. Poor kid was just getting over losing his mom and getting his life together when this happened,poor little guy. You don't realize how quickly your life can change from being good into a day to day struggle for survival until something like this happens. Thank all that is good and decent in the universe for my new GF, bless her little heart, not too many women would get told you have to cancel your third date to take your mom to ER only to find her waiting there when you pull up, just to give you a hand with the paperwork and a shoulder to lean on, bless her little heart, I gotta find a way to make it up to her.
Sadly the rest are all gone or getting there, dad has had to practically close his business as his lungs are starting to fail, we buried my sister in 08 and her husband couldn't take watching his wife slowly die and became a junkie, which is how I ended up raising two boys. Last we heard he has hep c and is end stage so he isn't even able to help himself, and the youngest died on the table when he was being born and ended up with multiple health problems of his own. Thank God for the old stoner down the hall, when i told him about how I was worried about the youngest he managed to pull some strings and get him an apt in my building practically made for him, with all the shelves at the perfect height and close enough to mine I can do the shopping and take him to the docs because he can't drive.
So its just me and the oldest, and frankly if it wasn't for my new GF I'd probably be ready to walk into traffic just from all the stress,certainly not too many girls would spend their third date in an ER at 2AM just to give you a shoulder to lean on, but you'd be surprised how much little things like that matter when you are watching someone you love just fall to pieces like that. You don't realize how truly dark ages our medical tech is until you start dealing with problems in the brain, all our fancy machines and a billion tests yet all they can do is shrug their shoulders, there is just so much we just don't know about how things work in the mind. I feel like a bastard for even thinking this but I almost wish it was dementia, I would rather have the lights on and nobody home than to look into her eyes and see she is in there, there is just no way in hell to communicate in either direction. Whatever it is allows her to get the first couple of words out in a sentence but after that it just turns into random words, like you cut up a newspaper and threw out random phrases, frustrating as hell.
That is what I was thinking, sure these things are made to be in LEO where they will fall after a couple of years but a rocket going up is going so fast that a rock the size of your thumb can do some serious damage. When you look at how badly we have managed LEO so far it doesn't give me much hope for this not ending badly.
Well there is an even better reason to not bother...with the exception of but a handful of titles made by Sony in house pretty much ALL the games will be coming to PC as well.
Sorry I can't find a link ATM but I remember reading one of the big gaming houses talking about this (it may have been Epic, but I've been up all night dealing with a sick mom* so my brain is fuzzy now) who was talking about with the truly insane costs required to make a triple A title they just can't afford to make any game an exclusive anymore. the amount of sales they need to turn a profit on a triple A is just too much, which is why they were talking with others about having either an exclusive launch window or more likely to let each source, console and PC, have DLC exclusives for a set period of time before finally letting them all have it on a "game of the year" release. when you look up how much a Bioshock Infinite or Deus Ex:HR or Borderlands II costs to make you can see why, even if an exclusive game was a hit they would still be lucky to break even, much less make a profit.
*.-BTW if anybody here believes in prayer my mom could sure use some, the docs say there is nothing more that they can do, with this latest incident she has lost the ability to speak which is frustrating as hell for everyone. You can tell she knows what she is trying to say but it comes out as word salad,yet every scan has shown up negative so they don't know WTF is going on, so they just sent her home. There is no tumor, no clot, no block, but one sentence will be perfectly fine and the next just random words. I got to get a couple of hours sleep and then head back, the nephew is watching her but we are both about to drop, so I'm gonna end up having no choice but put her in a home. God you feel like such a bastard having to do that,but what else can you do? You can't stay awake forever.
Because its not? Its a custom APU using GDDR 5 and most likely a baked in ARM DRM chip which AMD bought about a year ago. this thing is about as different from that AMD Hexacore and HD4850 I have in my desktop as my desktop is to a PS2.
The ONLY thing they have in common with an AMD desktop is they both run X86, that's it, you can't even BUY a Jaguar chip yet, not a single product other than the PS4 and XB1 has been announced using it and with AMD being a fabless company you can bet for the next year to year and a half won't nobody else will be getting jaguar chips. The jag is NOT like the Thuban, Bulldozer, or Piledriver, its actually based on the BOBCAT which is a VERY stripped down and streamlined chip designed for netbooks originally, it has a CPU that is frankly weaker than an Athlon 1 of the same MHz that is tightly coupled to a GCN GPU that is designed to take up the load,with the ultimate goal to be have the GPU replace the FP unit and to have the GPU and CPU truly work as a single unit.
So its really not like just grabbing a COTS chip like they did with the Celeron in the original Xbox, which I might add to this very day is the ONLY game console of that generation that does NOT have a functional emulator yet, so if it really was just that simple it would have been done with the Xbox, with the Jag I honestly doubt even the fastest i7 would be able to perfectly emulate the arch, its just too different from a stock x86. You are talking about 4 modules with each having two "kinda sorta" core designed to do integer and some common multimedia tasks connected VERY tightly with a GPU to do the rest and all of it with 8GB of fast as hell GDDR 5, and if I'm right an ARM DRM core designed specifically just for locking it all down...yeah i don't see this one getting copied or emulated anytime soon.
Yeah as someone who has set up security systems for SMBs worrying about private cams? Really pointless and stupid because the cams? Are NOT that good folks, they really aren't. You can make out what kind of car they drive, you can see what roughly they are wearing, maybe you can tell if they are black or white, but you aren't pulling that CSI/NCIS getting a clear picture that looks as good as a mug shot because they just aren't that good.
What pisses me the fuck off is with the NIMBYs you CAN'T BUILD ANYTHING. Nuke? "ZOMFG radiation" Fine,dams? "ZOMG you'll hurt teh fishies", fine wind? "ZOMFG the noise and the dead birds!" alright you PITA how about solar? "ZOMFG you'll destroy habitats in the desert"...FUCK YOU!!!
You wanna know why we are only building NG and coal plants? Because its the only things you CAN build, and then only in places where they mine for coal or NG because the "We need the jobs" can get the public to turn on the NIMBYs. Look at how they let Yucca flats spend billions of fricking dollars building it, but when that billion dollar gravy train shut down? here come the NIMBYs.
I just want to shake these assholes, they suck their fricking latte while using their iPad and Macbooks and then bitch about us building more power plants...where the fuck do you think all the power for all the shit you are running comes from? the fricking electric fairy? Douchebags!
Hell it was frankly better in the old days, as at least then the cops were "honest" in their corruption. My mom worked at a truck stop when she was a teen and she said every week, you could set your watch by it, the local sheriff would come in to have a meal...and leave with an envelope that more or one of the other servers were told to stick under the plate before handing it to him. But she said you didn't get all this head cracking hassling teens bullshit because all the cops cared about was making sure you didn't tear up shit or act crazy and hurt somebody, a far cry from the 'roid monsters you get nowadays.
And for the dumbass AC that said "Oh well, nothing illegal about cops owning pine forests"? If you have a pine forest that is practically NEVER harvested, isn't making squat compared to what that same rich land would make if you used it for something else, yet in county after county you see the cops ALL have the exact same setup? Well it don't take Kojack to solve the case of the peculiar pine forest,especially when you know that the longer and bigger you allow a pine forest to get the more it throws off DEA infrared. my USAF buddy said you could have both meth labs and underground pot farms in those and the DEA won't be able to spot it because the pines just put off too much heat.
The problem with your theory is thus:" A person is smart, people are dumb, dangerous, panicky animals and you know it". Sometimes a line in a movie can capture truth in a bottle and that is what that sentence is, truth.
My mother weighed maybe 130 pounds soaking wet, a little bitty slip of a woman but she could come onto an accident scene and in less than 2 minutes everyone there, including the police, were doing EXACTLY what she said without question...why? Because when you get humans into a herd you have sheep and you have wolves, without an alpha to project authority and take charge the herd WILL adopt a position of cowardice.
Now I'm sure some shrink can explain it better than this old PC fixit guy can but I have seen it time after time, you have a tense situation and the herd will do absolutely nothing until an alpha steps forward to take control of the group. The alpha doesn't even have to be what one would typically think of when you say alpha, but I have seen it over and over. I have seen people refuse to stand up for themselves but when I refused to just kowtow and pointed out "We DO have rights and you have to respect them" I suddenly had the entire group backing me up, the same group that wouldn't have said anything if I wouldn't have stood up first.
Sadly from what I've seen society is breeding more and more sheep, and fewer and fewer wolves. as long as that is the case, and nobody is willing to stand up and be the alpha? Then things will only get worse, because the default temperament of a human herd seems to always default to cowardice.
Nah if its like the rest of the south they'll be locked up in a shithole of a county jail, with wires hanging down and shit falling apart, but it cost the taxpayers millions thanks to good old boy politics, aka massive corruption.
Sadly the whole south is full of little fiefdoms that are corrupt as hell. I had a bud that flew drug interdiction for the USAF and they used to have jokes like "Why does the sheriff of (insert county) bust so many meth labs? because he doesn't want the competition!" rimshot. The feds know this but they know if they were to bust all of the corrupt cops you would end up having to use the National Guard because in a lot of these places you wouldn't have enough cops left to maintain the peace. My USAF friend said ANY fed could find out if a local police force was corrupt by just 30 minutes of looking at the land deeds, why? You'll find tons of pine forests owned by the cops or close relatives of the cops...because pine trees put out enough heat to foil their infrared scans.
I have lived my entire life in the south and one thing you learn, if you get on "the right side" of the local politicians and cops? You have nothing to worry about ever. You try stepping on their toes, rocking the boat? they can turn your world into shit REAL quick, you'd be surprised how many laws are on the books in your average state they can use against you.
And if she lived in NY and the case was in FLA, this would be different....how exactly? You have the right to face your accuser, the court requires you give evidence and be cross examined...that is how these things WORK.
Sure it isn't "push a button and justice comes out" and that is the fricking POINT, we are talking about the most powerful mechanism ANY government has, the right to take your life away from you for years, possibly for your entire remaining life, so you HAVE TO HAVE all these checks and balances to not only punish the guilty but to make as sure as possible we HAVE the guilty. When it goes wrong you are taking a person's life and that time can NEVER be given back, so these protections are 100% REQUIRED to make the system WORK.
But everyone is ignoring the point, which is thanks to blogging you can bypass ALL of these checks and balances and destroy someone with practically no consequences. You ever had a stalker? because I have, around 15 years ago I felt sorry for a girl at the show and bought her some drinks and played a song for her...and ended up with her following me across 4 states, vandalizing my truck, it was hell. Now imagine she had the power of the internet on her side? she could have said any damned thing she wanted and i would have been virtually powerless, especially since she knew when i was done playing shows I went home to recharge and typically spent that time alone getting my thoughts collected.
Everyone talks about the bruises but guess what? My stalker had hurt herself before and could have easily done something similar, how would I be able to "prove" that it didn't happen when you have a herd mentality like the net? The cops wouldn't listen to her because they had enough evidence from previous cases to know she stalked guys, but would the Internet have access to this info? Fuck would they even believe it if they had access? probably not.
You are 100% right friend and for those that want a REAL education in what you are potentially up against I urge you all to go take a good hard look at the entries in the various obfuscated C contests and then realize this...you know for a FACT there is malware in those, yet it is DAMN HARD to spot it. Now think about how you have the endless budgets of governments wanting to spy on their citizens and each other and you have those that create malicious code as a business.
At the end of the day all you can do is keep an eye on your browser and network traffic, see who it is hooking up to, when and why, because with THAT much money involved if a government or group with nefarious intent truly wanted to backdoor a program or even an OS they CAN do so without too much effort required. with the proprietary companies they can just flash a badge and get what they want and with a FOSS project or OS...how many of the projects are gonna turn down a highly skilled coder that volunteers?
What we need is an OEM showing how easy ALL their products with HDMI are. hell I take my $300 netbook and thanks to HDMI when I go over to a friends i can just pop the cable in the side and voila! We are enjoying 1080P movies and Internet TV. All it takes is me showing folks at the shop that it is literally one cable, just a single cable from one to the other and they can play games, surf the net,watch tons of free TV? Its an easy sell.
As for MSFT? If they don't fire Ballmer they'll be dead by 2020, so the OEMs are right to be in talks with Google and ubuntu. as for why MSFT doesn't do it? Because Ballmer only knows a single word right now...APPSTORE. you watch the man talk and he sounds like The Lulu Win 8 Parody. I swear you wanna have a drinking game that will lay your ass out damned quick? watch a Ballmer presentation and take a shot every time he says "apps" "Appstore", "touch" or "touchscreen" and you'll be passed out in 30 minutes! The guy is like a fricking broken record!
The reason he doesn't care is because frankly if PC sales went away tomorrow the man REALLY wouldn't care, because anybody can write programs and sell programs for the PC. No what Ballmer wants is iTunes, he wants something where ONLY things that give him 30% for a "blessing" are allowed to run and anything less? Not worth having. We have seen this time and again in the west, I call it the "iMoney or nothing" strategy and most of the time what you'll get is NOTHING. Look at IBM selling their PC business to Lenovo, before they sold it it was making a solid 8-10% profits per quarter and under Lenovo, who just did a little more advertising? on average 12-14%, just solid and reliable sales. But it isn't "iMoney" and in the fucked up wall Street way if you don't make profits like a Drug Lord you can give it up, its iMoney or nothing!
So i think PCs will end up getting a bounce, either Steam with SteamOS will make it easy and cheap to make gaming PCs that hook into the TV (hell if I didn't have to deal with MSFT gouging my gaming capable PCs would start at like $260) or maybe Google will take that business, android already has a huge chunk of the casual market, wouldn't be much harder to make AAA games run on the platform. MSFT could make PCs have a HUGE comeback, but not as long as Douchey McAppStore is running the show
Yes because all courts that aren't in the USA are just full of illiterate booger pickers, fucking foreigners are too God damned dumb to do anything but take bribes and stink...so I have your racist rant about correct? Please let me know if I missed a few.
Everyone is taking her word AT FACE VALUE and the thought has honestly never crossed ANY OF YOUR MINDS that maybe the cops on the scene didn't find her credible? Or maybe they found the evidence and what she was saying didn't match up? We have seen marks on her, where is the marks on him? If you brain somebody in the head you WILL cause damage, the head bleeds like crazy, did anybody that went to the conference HE was at the next day see an injury on his head or face?
But at least now we can all see where the phrase "Ugly Americans" as only OUR police are competent, only OUR courts work, why every other country is just wild animals, too stupid to do anything, right?
Notice how i got labeled troll for DARING to say she should have let the cops do their job? THIS is EXACTLY what I was talking about, you get this fucking herd mentality and quickly shit spirals and any chance of finding out the truth gets thrown right out the window.
So call me dirty names all you want but its not OUR job to get this guy, that is for the cops and the courts to decide. Excuse the fuck out of me for saying a guy should be in jail if he did attack her, nope lets just take her word long after the event (and any possible evidence gathering) is passed, because nobody has EVER lied, nobody has EVER gotten this shit wrong, why we don't need courts and trials, lets just let nerdrage take care of it...pathetic.
Bullshit, as somebody in the trenches MSFT didn't do anything but capitalize on some seriously DUMB SHIT moves by IBM.
IBM tried to fuck the OEMs over with MCA bus and then followed that with crazy prices for copies of OS/2 to try to force themselves back into the market leader position, the OEMs rightly looked at OS/2 like an STD and stayed the hell away from it. Intel refused to allow second sources for 386 and later (which is why Intel and AMD ended up in court and why the AMD 386 and 486 didn't come out until around the time of the Pentium I, and why Intel started using names instead of numbers) and since IBM had a license to produce 286 chips while the gang of nine were selling 386 and 486 systems by as much as 50% cheaper than IBM old big blue was trying to get premium money for 286 chip based machines and that naturally didn't go over well.
MSFT ended up getting the business because...well nobody else bothered even showing up. BeOS started with the failed AT&T Hobbit chip and went from that to PPC, by the time they got around to offering an X86 version the boat had sailed, and after IBM tried to fuck them multiple times the OEMs wasn't gonna take shit from IBM because naturally you aren't gonna trust the company that fucked them.
A REAL SHILL is frankly as easy to spot as a goth kid in a bible camp, that is because corporate makes them "stay on message" so it never fails you end up with "buzzword bingo" that no normal human actually uses in a day to day conversation. we have seen such gems as "vertical synergy" "enhanced user experience" and so on and so forth. Seriously guys they are REALLY not hard to spot, a real shill is as subtle as old Twitter was when it came to Linux, corporate just won't let them deviate too far from script.
So can we please stop with the whole "Shills trolls vampires" thing already? All it does is derail the conversations which if you truly believe they are there to insure positive feedback for a product YOU JUST HELPED THEM by totally killing any discussion of the product in question. if a person is really shilling any discussion will quickly take apart their position, and as i said they can't help but slip in marketing speak so it will quickly become self evident, why fuck up the conversation for everybody else? Its as pointless as being in the middle of a discussion of chip designs and having somebody scream "NIGGER!" at the top of their lungs...thanks for sharing, please go away now.
The same goes for throwing the "troll" word around, if you think they are full of shit? Then you should be able to produce multiple counter examples and citations to blow away their position. We are SUPPOSED to be geeks here, use your brain and come up with a counter argument. Screaming troll or just answering a post with nothing but mindless insults with nothing to back it up reminds me of those 14 year old CoD players screaming "FAGGOT!" and claiming someone HAS to be cheating to be able to pop a cap in their snot nosed ass. If you think they are wrong? PROVE IT, provide an intelligent counter argument with multiple examples that picks apart any position they had and let everyone see and judge the evidence for themselves.
Personally i think its sad how far this site has fallen, I really do. We used to have 300 post threads where various positions would be argued, pros and cons weighed, even when it was heated you LEARNED and would leave the site better informed than when you left. Now it seems to be all about group think and name calling, one must join the herd and bleat the same talking points endlessly with nothing to back it up, else it quickly turns into "shill troll vampire" name calling. Kinda sad really, and I wonder if that isn't why more and more of the old guard are just walking away.
Citrix didn't get screwed and neither did OS/2, in fact I'd say we'd be using OS/2 right now if it had been put out by any other company than IBM.
I know many will say OS/2 was done in by the "big bad M$" but in reality it actually fits well with my theory that every major success at MSFT is preceded by "And then the other guy did something REALLY dumb" only in the case of OS/2 it wasn't one really dumb thing, it was TWO really REALLY dumb things that did it in.
For those that don't know IBM at the time was royally pissed because the courts ruled there was nothing illegal about taking COTS parts and making an "IBM compatible" as long as they didn't copy the IBM BIOS. So to try to take control of the market back IBM tried to ram through a replacement for the aging ISA bus called MCA that was proprietary as hell and required assraping fees be paid to IBM. Needless to say the other OEMs weren't putting up with that crap and instead what came to be known as the "gang of nine" came up with EISA and had it licensed under RAND. So you can just imagine how little trust the OEMs had for anything coming from IBM, most looked at OS/2 like an offer of plague blankets and avoided it.
But that wasn't the end to the stupidity, nope, if you are gonna go stupid you might as well go full retard and boy did IBM go full retard with their next move. You see Intel around that time had gotten pissed at being required to allow others to make their designs, so called "second sources" that the old guard like IBM demanded, so they flat out refused to let their 386 and later to be second sourced. Now IBM had a license to make the 286 but NOT the 386 or later...can you guess where this is going? Yep while the other OEMs were offering 386 and 486 units for MUCH cheaper prices IBM was demanding premium money for 286 units which considering how fast software was progressing at the time quickly became dinosaurs.
So as someone who actually ran an OS/2 Warp system back in the day YES it was a great OS, YES it was more advanced than Windows but NO it never had a chance because not only did the OEMs not trust IBM any farther than they could chunk a mainframe but right up until the last couple of years, when every store had so much Windows software on shelves it wasn't funny, the ONLY place you were getting OS/2 was on outdated and overpriced IBM hardware.
As I said MSFT won because "and then the other guy did something REALLY dumb" but we have seen that time and time again, where a system that was technically nicer lost because of stupid moves...betamax anyone?
Well I'm a PC gamer too but I have also been keeping a VERY close eye on AMD because those are the chips I use exclusively in the shop. I can tell you that every MHz of speed makes a BIG difference when you are talking about an APU, and the speed difference between plain DDR 3 and GDDR 5 is just unreal, its like comparing DDR 1 to DDR 3, not even close.
So I honestly don't see how 32Mb of SRAM, no matter how fast that SRAM is, is gonna make up for THAT big a speed gaps in memory. Ultimately that SRAM has to be fed from system RAM and I have a feeling that DDR 3 is gonna be a boat anchor around the system, in fact i wouldn't be surprised if multi-platform games have to put brakes on the speed when it comes to XB1 because the RAM it has simply can't push the amount of data the PS4 can.
But either way I'm happy, the money from having a practical lockout on the next gen consoles should give AMD the needed capital to let the new chip designer come up with some really exciting designs, and until then i look forward to jaguar boards hitting the market, they should be great for low power HTPCs and general use PCs.
Because nobody has explained to them how HDMI works. In the old days it was a PITA to hook a PC to a TV, you had to use something like S-Video and it was seriously flaky, folks don't realize that HDMI solved that problem a while back.
Honestly why one of the OEMs haven't done an educational campaign I have no clue, but once people see how HDMI turns any TV into a monitor frankly it isn't a hard sell, and with PC prices never being cheaper you can get a pretty nice system for less than the XB1.
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Not to mention the case that brought it before the court is the perfect example of WHY we don't want the fed deciding who is and isn't allowed and the fact that the right wing has a fit, even though the case involved something they like to crow about? Just makes 'em hypocrites in my book.
For those that didn't see the details person was married for years, partner dies, fed takes nearly $400k away from the partner for taxes...that wouldn't have been levied if the partner had a penis. I'm sorry but that is fucked up, either the law is equal or its a sham and deciding to take a pile of money from a widow based on the sex of the corpse would be just as fucked up if they took it based on the skin color or religion of the corpse, that isn't right any way you slice it.
Personally I'm more interested in some of the MIPS chips like the Loognson Dragon that has built in X86 hardware acceleration, supposedly you get 80% of X86 speed when it comes to emulation but while having the longer battery life. Sadly we'll never see it in the states thanks to IP laws but if the chip designed were truly opened up I bet we'd see all kinds of new ideas and approaches. Remember when we had choices in X86 besides AMD and Intel? They had chips like WinChip that were more of a RISC design, you had more media leaning like Cyrix, it gave us a wealth of choice and if that happens with the ARM clones I'm all for it.
I don't know about that, last time we sent a signal that way it ended up with a transformers ripoff and we certainly don't want that to happen again.
Nice to see I'm not the only one to be scratching their head and thinking about how that is supposed to work. But after watching the laws passed with regard to the Internet? Honestly I just think these bozos passing these laws have zero fricking clue as to how this shit actually WORKS. It would be like some government mandate to "back up the Internet"...okay,how?
They make these laws and mandates without asking a single grunt who actually does this for a living "Can we do this, and what would be the cost if we can"...kinda reminds me of some of the bosses i had when i worked corporate, they think you can wave your magic IT wand and all this shit will come to pass when it just. doesn't. work. that way. Let me say if you are an IT grunt in the EU? My condolences pal, sounds like you are gonna be in a world of shit just trying to keep from running afoul of this, when five will get you ten no matter how hard you try it'll end up biting your right on the ass.
Thanks to everyone for the well wishes and prayers, I've never been a big believer in such things but the oldest is Catholic to the bone so just knowing that has lifted his spirits, many thanks.
As for gaming I hope Epic is right, that the days of exclusives are all but gone, because honestly I'm sick and tired of you needing over a thousand bucks in console hardware just to play a handful of exclusives that would just as easily run on any console or PC. According to him only a handful of games made by the console companies themselves, Gears Of War, God Of War, Mario, will be exclusives while the rest will all be multiplatform and that is fine by me, its just stupid to have to spend all that money just so you can play maybe a dozen games you can't get anywhere else.
And while I wouldn't bet the farm on it, its just a gut feeling, I personally feel we are gonna see more and more that will do like you and buy only a single console because it has a handful of exclusives they want and do the rest of the gaming on the PC. Thanks to the downturn and both Intel and AMD just cranking out the chips (because as a former Intel engineer noted here the fabs cost money even when idle and in the case of AMD the fabs provide the best processes for those that give them the most business) the OEMs are gonna be cutting margins to the bone, hell I've gotten quad kits for like $170 and triples for $130 just so these places can move some product. Its really crazy how you can get a pretty bad ass gaming rig for very little money, my youngest plays on an AMD triple with an HD4850 and the whole setup cost less than $300.
As a final note from a guy in the trenches, those that are looking for a truly great gaming card on the cheap? HD7750, thanks to price drops those have been showing up in the mid $70-$80 range and they are nearly as fast as the old HD6850 while using little enough power it is powered just by the PCIe bus (great for those with older systems as you don't have to yank the PSU) and is less than half the heat under load. since my source ran out of the dirt cheap HD4850s I've been using those in my budget gamer PCs and they are just great, AMD's new GCN graphics arch takes a LOT of the load off when decoding 1080P while kicking butt at games, I've put together $350 units using this card and it just blows through games like they were nothing, good temps, great performance, and cheap, what is not to like?
Anyway thanks again to everyone for the well wishes and prayers as it means a lot, it lifted the spirits of my oldest and there aren't words to express how much that means to me. Poor kid was just getting over losing his mom and getting his life together when this happened,poor little guy. You don't realize how quickly your life can change from being good into a day to day struggle for survival until something like this happens. Thank all that is good and decent in the universe for my new GF, bless her little heart, not too many women would get told you have to cancel your third date to take your mom to ER only to find her waiting there when you pull up, just to give you a hand with the paperwork and a shoulder to lean on, bless her little heart, I gotta find a way to make it up to her.
Sadly the rest are all gone or getting there, dad has had to practically close his business as his lungs are starting to fail, we buried my sister in 08 and her husband couldn't take watching his wife slowly die and became a junkie, which is how I ended up raising two boys. Last we heard he has hep c and is end stage so he isn't even able to help himself, and the youngest died on the table when he was being born and ended up with multiple health problems of his own. Thank God for the old stoner down the hall, when i told him about how I was worried about the youngest he managed to pull some strings and get him an apt in my building practically made for him, with all the shelves at the perfect height and close enough to mine I can do the shopping and take him to the docs because he can't drive.
So its just me and the oldest, and frankly if it wasn't for my new GF I'd probably be ready to walk into traffic just from all the stress,certainly not too many girls would spend their third date in an ER at 2AM just to give you a shoulder to lean on, but you'd be surprised how much little things like that matter when you are watching someone you love just fall to pieces like that. You don't realize how truly dark ages our medical tech is until you start dealing with problems in the brain, all our fancy machines and a billion tests yet all they can do is shrug their shoulders, there is just so much we just don't know about how things work in the mind. I feel like a bastard for even thinking this but I almost wish it was dementia, I would rather have the lights on and nobody home than to look into her eyes and see she is in there, there is just no way in hell to communicate in either direction. Whatever it is allows her to get the first couple of words out in a sentence but after that it just turns into random words, like you cut up a newspaper and threw out random phrases, frustrating as hell.
That is what I was thinking, sure these things are made to be in LEO where they will fall after a couple of years but a rocket going up is going so fast that a rock the size of your thumb can do some serious damage. When you look at how badly we have managed LEO so far it doesn't give me much hope for this not ending badly.
Well there is an even better reason to not bother...with the exception of but a handful of titles made by Sony in house pretty much ALL the games will be coming to PC as well.
Sorry I can't find a link ATM but I remember reading one of the big gaming houses talking about this (it may have been Epic, but I've been up all night dealing with a sick mom* so my brain is fuzzy now) who was talking about with the truly insane costs required to make a triple A title they just can't afford to make any game an exclusive anymore. the amount of sales they need to turn a profit on a triple A is just too much, which is why they were talking with others about having either an exclusive launch window or more likely to let each source, console and PC, have DLC exclusives for a set period of time before finally letting them all have it on a "game of the year" release. when you look up how much a Bioshock Infinite or Deus Ex:HR or Borderlands II costs to make you can see why, even if an exclusive game was a hit they would still be lucky to break even, much less make a profit.
*.-BTW if anybody here believes in prayer my mom could sure use some, the docs say there is nothing more that they can do, with this latest incident she has lost the ability to speak which is frustrating as hell for everyone. You can tell she knows what she is trying to say but it comes out as word salad,yet every scan has shown up negative so they don't know WTF is going on, so they just sent her home. There is no tumor, no clot, no block, but one sentence will be perfectly fine and the next just random words. I got to get a couple of hours sleep and then head back, the nephew is watching her but we are both about to drop, so I'm gonna end up having no choice but put her in a home. God you feel like such a bastard having to do that,but what else can you do? You can't stay awake forever.
Because its not? Its a custom APU using GDDR 5 and most likely a baked in ARM DRM chip which AMD bought about a year ago. this thing is about as different from that AMD Hexacore and HD4850 I have in my desktop as my desktop is to a PS2.
The ONLY thing they have in common with an AMD desktop is they both run X86, that's it, you can't even BUY a Jaguar chip yet, not a single product other than the PS4 and XB1 has been announced using it and with AMD being a fabless company you can bet for the next year to year and a half won't nobody else will be getting jaguar chips. The jag is NOT like the Thuban, Bulldozer, or Piledriver, its actually based on the BOBCAT which is a VERY stripped down and streamlined chip designed for netbooks originally, it has a CPU that is frankly weaker than an Athlon 1 of the same MHz that is tightly coupled to a GCN GPU that is designed to take up the load,with the ultimate goal to be have the GPU replace the FP unit and to have the GPU and CPU truly work as a single unit.
So its really not like just grabbing a COTS chip like they did with the Celeron in the original Xbox, which I might add to this very day is the ONLY game console of that generation that does NOT have a functional emulator yet, so if it really was just that simple it would have been done with the Xbox, with the Jag I honestly doubt even the fastest i7 would be able to perfectly emulate the arch, its just too different from a stock x86. You are talking about 4 modules with each having two "kinda sorta" core designed to do integer and some common multimedia tasks connected VERY tightly with a GPU to do the rest and all of it with 8GB of fast as hell GDDR 5, and if I'm right an ARM DRM core designed specifically just for locking it all down...yeah i don't see this one getting copied or emulated anytime soon.
AMD made a deal about a year ago for an ARM based DRM chip, five will get you ten this and the XB1 is what they bought it for so the odds aren't good.
Yeah as someone who has set up security systems for SMBs worrying about private cams? Really pointless and stupid because the cams? Are NOT that good folks, they really aren't. You can make out what kind of car they drive, you can see what roughly they are wearing, maybe you can tell if they are black or white, but you aren't pulling that CSI/NCIS getting a clear picture that looks as good as a mug shot because they just aren't that good.
What pisses me the fuck off is with the NIMBYs you CAN'T BUILD ANYTHING. Nuke? "ZOMFG radiation" Fine,dams? "ZOMG you'll hurt teh fishies", fine wind? "ZOMFG the noise and the dead birds!" alright you PITA how about solar? "ZOMFG you'll destroy habitats in the desert"...FUCK YOU!!!
You wanna know why we are only building NG and coal plants? Because its the only things you CAN build, and then only in places where they mine for coal or NG because the "We need the jobs" can get the public to turn on the NIMBYs. Look at how they let Yucca flats spend billions of fricking dollars building it, but when that billion dollar gravy train shut down? here come the NIMBYs.
I just want to shake these assholes, they suck their fricking latte while using their iPad and Macbooks and then bitch about us building more power plants...where the fuck do you think all the power for all the shit you are running comes from? the fricking electric fairy? Douchebags!
Hell it was frankly better in the old days, as at least then the cops were "honest" in their corruption. My mom worked at a truck stop when she was a teen and she said every week, you could set your watch by it, the local sheriff would come in to have a meal...and leave with an envelope that more or one of the other servers were told to stick under the plate before handing it to him. But she said you didn't get all this head cracking hassling teens bullshit because all the cops cared about was making sure you didn't tear up shit or act crazy and hurt somebody, a far cry from the 'roid monsters you get nowadays.
And for the dumbass AC that said "Oh well, nothing illegal about cops owning pine forests"? If you have a pine forest that is practically NEVER harvested, isn't making squat compared to what that same rich land would make if you used it for something else, yet in county after county you see the cops ALL have the exact same setup? Well it don't take Kojack to solve the case of the peculiar pine forest,especially when you know that the longer and bigger you allow a pine forest to get the more it throws off DEA infrared. my USAF buddy said you could have both meth labs and underground pot farms in those and the DEA won't be able to spot it because the pines just put off too much heat.
The problem with your theory is thus:" A person is smart, people are dumb, dangerous, panicky animals and you know it". Sometimes a line in a movie can capture truth in a bottle and that is what that sentence is, truth.
My mother weighed maybe 130 pounds soaking wet, a little bitty slip of a woman but she could come onto an accident scene and in less than 2 minutes everyone there, including the police, were doing EXACTLY what she said without question...why? Because when you get humans into a herd you have sheep and you have wolves, without an alpha to project authority and take charge the herd WILL adopt a position of cowardice.
Now I'm sure some shrink can explain it better than this old PC fixit guy can but I have seen it time after time, you have a tense situation and the herd will do absolutely nothing until an alpha steps forward to take control of the group. The alpha doesn't even have to be what one would typically think of when you say alpha, but I have seen it over and over. I have seen people refuse to stand up for themselves but when I refused to just kowtow and pointed out "We DO have rights and you have to respect them" I suddenly had the entire group backing me up, the same group that wouldn't have said anything if I wouldn't have stood up first.
Sadly from what I've seen society is breeding more and more sheep, and fewer and fewer wolves. as long as that is the case, and nobody is willing to stand up and be the alpha? Then things will only get worse, because the default temperament of a human herd seems to always default to cowardice.
Nah if its like the rest of the south they'll be locked up in a shithole of a county jail, with wires hanging down and shit falling apart, but it cost the taxpayers millions thanks to good old boy politics, aka massive corruption.
Sadly the whole south is full of little fiefdoms that are corrupt as hell. I had a bud that flew drug interdiction for the USAF and they used to have jokes like "Why does the sheriff of (insert county) bust so many meth labs? because he doesn't want the competition!" rimshot. The feds know this but they know if they were to bust all of the corrupt cops you would end up having to use the National Guard because in a lot of these places you wouldn't have enough cops left to maintain the peace. My USAF friend said ANY fed could find out if a local police force was corrupt by just 30 minutes of looking at the land deeds, why? You'll find tons of pine forests owned by the cops or close relatives of the cops...because pine trees put out enough heat to foil their infrared scans.
I have lived my entire life in the south and one thing you learn, if you get on "the right side" of the local politicians and cops? You have nothing to worry about ever. You try stepping on their toes, rocking the boat? they can turn your world into shit REAL quick, you'd be surprised how many laws are on the books in your average state they can use against you.
And if she lived in NY and the case was in FLA, this would be different....how exactly? You have the right to face your accuser, the court requires you give evidence and be cross examined...that is how these things WORK.
Sure it isn't "push a button and justice comes out" and that is the fricking POINT, we are talking about the most powerful mechanism ANY government has, the right to take your life away from you for years, possibly for your entire remaining life, so you HAVE TO HAVE all these checks and balances to not only punish the guilty but to make as sure as possible we HAVE the guilty. When it goes wrong you are taking a person's life and that time can NEVER be given back, so these protections are 100% REQUIRED to make the system WORK.
But everyone is ignoring the point, which is thanks to blogging you can bypass ALL of these checks and balances and destroy someone with practically no consequences. You ever had a stalker? because I have, around 15 years ago I felt sorry for a girl at the show and bought her some drinks and played a song for her...and ended up with her following me across 4 states, vandalizing my truck, it was hell. Now imagine she had the power of the internet on her side? she could have said any damned thing she wanted and i would have been virtually powerless, especially since she knew when i was done playing shows I went home to recharge and typically spent that time alone getting my thoughts collected.
Everyone talks about the bruises but guess what? My stalker had hurt herself before and could have easily done something similar, how would I be able to "prove" that it didn't happen when you have a herd mentality like the net? The cops wouldn't listen to her because they had enough evidence from previous cases to know she stalked guys, but would the Internet have access to this info? Fuck would they even believe it if they had access? probably not.
You are 100% right friend and for those that want a REAL education in what you are potentially up against I urge you all to go take a good hard look at the entries in the various obfuscated C contests and then realize this...you know for a FACT there is malware in those, yet it is DAMN HARD to spot it. Now think about how you have the endless budgets of governments wanting to spy on their citizens and each other and you have those that create malicious code as a business.
At the end of the day all you can do is keep an eye on your browser and network traffic, see who it is hooking up to, when and why, because with THAT much money involved if a government or group with nefarious intent truly wanted to backdoor a program or even an OS they CAN do so without too much effort required. with the proprietary companies they can just flash a badge and get what they want and with a FOSS project or OS...how many of the projects are gonna turn down a highly skilled coder that volunteers?
What we need is an OEM showing how easy ALL their products with HDMI are. hell I take my $300 netbook and thanks to HDMI when I go over to a friends i can just pop the cable in the side and voila! We are enjoying 1080P movies and Internet TV. All it takes is me showing folks at the shop that it is literally one cable, just a single cable from one to the other and they can play games, surf the net,watch tons of free TV? Its an easy sell.
As for MSFT? If they don't fire Ballmer they'll be dead by 2020, so the OEMs are right to be in talks with Google and ubuntu. as for why MSFT doesn't do it? Because Ballmer only knows a single word right now...APPSTORE. you watch the man talk and he sounds like The Lulu Win 8 Parody. I swear you wanna have a drinking game that will lay your ass out damned quick? watch a Ballmer presentation and take a shot every time he says "apps" "Appstore", "touch" or "touchscreen" and you'll be passed out in 30 minutes! The guy is like a fricking broken record!
The reason he doesn't care is because frankly if PC sales went away tomorrow the man REALLY wouldn't care, because anybody can write programs and sell programs for the PC. No what Ballmer wants is iTunes, he wants something where ONLY things that give him 30% for a "blessing" are allowed to run and anything less? Not worth having. We have seen this time and again in the west, I call it the "iMoney or nothing" strategy and most of the time what you'll get is NOTHING. Look at IBM selling their PC business to Lenovo, before they sold it it was making a solid 8-10% profits per quarter and under Lenovo, who just did a little more advertising? on average 12-14%, just solid and reliable sales. But it isn't "iMoney" and in the fucked up wall Street way if you don't make profits like a Drug Lord you can give it up, its iMoney or nothing!
So i think PCs will end up getting a bounce, either Steam with SteamOS will make it easy and cheap to make gaming PCs that hook into the TV (hell if I didn't have to deal with MSFT gouging my gaming capable PCs would start at like $260) or maybe Google will take that business, android already has a huge chunk of the casual market, wouldn't be much harder to make AAA games run on the platform. MSFT could make PCs have a HUGE comeback, but not as long as Douchey McAppStore is running the show
Yes because all courts that aren't in the USA are just full of illiterate booger pickers, fucking foreigners are too God damned dumb to do anything but take bribes and stink...so I have your racist rant about correct? Please let me know if I missed a few.
Everyone is taking her word AT FACE VALUE and the thought has honestly never crossed ANY OF YOUR MINDS that maybe the cops on the scene didn't find her credible? Or maybe they found the evidence and what she was saying didn't match up? We have seen marks on her, where is the marks on him? If you brain somebody in the head you WILL cause damage, the head bleeds like crazy, did anybody that went to the conference HE was at the next day see an injury on his head or face?
But at least now we can all see where the phrase "Ugly Americans" as only OUR police are competent, only OUR courts work, why every other country is just wild animals, too stupid to do anything, right?
Notice how i got labeled troll for DARING to say she should have let the cops do their job? THIS is EXACTLY what I was talking about, you get this fucking herd mentality and quickly shit spirals and any chance of finding out the truth gets thrown right out the window.
So call me dirty names all you want but its not OUR job to get this guy, that is for the cops and the courts to decide. Excuse the fuck out of me for saying a guy should be in jail if he did attack her, nope lets just take her word long after the event (and any possible evidence gathering) is passed, because nobody has EVER lied, nobody has EVER gotten this shit wrong, why we don't need courts and trials, lets just let nerdrage take care of it...pathetic.
Bullshit, as somebody in the trenches MSFT didn't do anything but capitalize on some seriously DUMB SHIT moves by IBM.
IBM tried to fuck the OEMs over with MCA bus and then followed that with crazy prices for copies of OS/2 to try to force themselves back into the market leader position, the OEMs rightly looked at OS/2 like an STD and stayed the hell away from it. Intel refused to allow second sources for 386 and later (which is why Intel and AMD ended up in court and why the AMD 386 and 486 didn't come out until around the time of the Pentium I, and why Intel started using names instead of numbers) and since IBM had a license to produce 286 chips while the gang of nine were selling 386 and 486 systems by as much as 50% cheaper than IBM old big blue was trying to get premium money for 286 chip based machines and that naturally didn't go over well.
MSFT ended up getting the business because...well nobody else bothered even showing up. BeOS started with the failed AT&T Hobbit chip and went from that to PPC, by the time they got around to offering an X86 version the boat had sailed, and after IBM tried to fuck them multiple times the OEMs wasn't gonna take shit from IBM because naturally you aren't gonna trust the company that fucked them.
Can we just quit with the "shills trolls vampires" trope already?
A REAL SHILL is frankly as easy to spot as a goth kid in a bible camp, that is because corporate makes them "stay on message" so it never fails you end up with "buzzword bingo" that no normal human actually uses in a day to day conversation. we have seen such gems as "vertical synergy" "enhanced user experience" and so on and so forth. Seriously guys they are REALLY not hard to spot, a real shill is as subtle as old Twitter was when it came to Linux, corporate just won't let them deviate too far from script.
So can we please stop with the whole "Shills trolls vampires" thing already? All it does is derail the conversations which if you truly believe they are there to insure positive feedback for a product YOU JUST HELPED THEM by totally killing any discussion of the product in question. if a person is really shilling any discussion will quickly take apart their position, and as i said they can't help but slip in marketing speak so it will quickly become self evident, why fuck up the conversation for everybody else? Its as pointless as being in the middle of a discussion of chip designs and having somebody scream "NIGGER!" at the top of their lungs...thanks for sharing, please go away now.
The same goes for throwing the "troll" word around, if you think they are full of shit? Then you should be able to produce multiple counter examples and citations to blow away their position. We are SUPPOSED to be geeks here, use your brain and come up with a counter argument. Screaming troll or just answering a post with nothing but mindless insults with nothing to back it up reminds me of those 14 year old CoD players screaming "FAGGOT!" and claiming someone HAS to be cheating to be able to pop a cap in their snot nosed ass. If you think they are wrong? PROVE IT, provide an intelligent counter argument with multiple examples that picks apart any position they had and let everyone see and judge the evidence for themselves.
Personally i think its sad how far this site has fallen, I really do. We used to have 300 post threads where various positions would be argued, pros and cons weighed, even when it was heated you LEARNED and would leave the site better informed than when you left. Now it seems to be all about group think and name calling, one must join the herd and bleat the same talking points endlessly with nothing to back it up, else it quickly turns into "shill troll vampire" name calling. Kinda sad really, and I wonder if that isn't why more and more of the old guard are just walking away.
Citrix didn't get screwed and neither did OS/2, in fact I'd say we'd be using OS/2 right now if it had been put out by any other company than IBM.
I know many will say OS/2 was done in by the "big bad M$" but in reality it actually fits well with my theory that every major success at MSFT is preceded by "And then the other guy did something REALLY dumb" only in the case of OS/2 it wasn't one really dumb thing, it was TWO really REALLY dumb things that did it in.
For those that don't know IBM at the time was royally pissed because the courts ruled there was nothing illegal about taking COTS parts and making an "IBM compatible" as long as they didn't copy the IBM BIOS. So to try to take control of the market back IBM tried to ram through a replacement for the aging ISA bus called MCA that was proprietary as hell and required assraping fees be paid to IBM. Needless to say the other OEMs weren't putting up with that crap and instead what came to be known as the "gang of nine" came up with EISA and had it licensed under RAND. So you can just imagine how little trust the OEMs had for anything coming from IBM, most looked at OS/2 like an offer of plague blankets and avoided it.
But that wasn't the end to the stupidity, nope, if you are gonna go stupid you might as well go full retard and boy did IBM go full retard with their next move. You see Intel around that time had gotten pissed at being required to allow others to make their designs, so called "second sources" that the old guard like IBM demanded, so they flat out refused to let their 386 and later to be second sourced. Now IBM had a license to make the 286 but NOT the 386 or later...can you guess where this is going? Yep while the other OEMs were offering 386 and 486 units for MUCH cheaper prices IBM was demanding premium money for 286 units which considering how fast software was progressing at the time quickly became dinosaurs.
So as someone who actually ran an OS/2 Warp system back in the day YES it was a great OS, YES it was more advanced than Windows but NO it never had a chance because not only did the OEMs not trust IBM any farther than they could chunk a mainframe but right up until the last couple of years, when every store had so much Windows software on shelves it wasn't funny, the ONLY place you were getting OS/2 was on outdated and overpriced IBM hardware.
As I said MSFT won because "and then the other guy did something REALLY dumb" but we have seen that time and time again, where a system that was technically nicer lost because of stupid moves...betamax anyone?
Well I'm a PC gamer too but I have also been keeping a VERY close eye on AMD because those are the chips I use exclusively in the shop. I can tell you that every MHz of speed makes a BIG difference when you are talking about an APU, and the speed difference between plain DDR 3 and GDDR 5 is just unreal, its like comparing DDR 1 to DDR 3, not even close.
So I honestly don't see how 32Mb of SRAM, no matter how fast that SRAM is, is gonna make up for THAT big a speed gaps in memory. Ultimately that SRAM has to be fed from system RAM and I have a feeling that DDR 3 is gonna be a boat anchor around the system, in fact i wouldn't be surprised if multi-platform games have to put brakes on the speed when it comes to XB1 because the RAM it has simply can't push the amount of data the PS4 can.
But either way I'm happy, the money from having a practical lockout on the next gen consoles should give AMD the needed capital to let the new chip designer come up with some really exciting designs, and until then i look forward to jaguar boards hitting the market, they should be great for low power HTPCs and general use PCs.
Because nobody has explained to them how HDMI works. In the old days it was a PITA to hook a PC to a TV, you had to use something like S-Video and it was seriously flaky, folks don't realize that HDMI solved that problem a while back.
Honestly why one of the OEMs haven't done an educational campaign I have no clue, but once people see how HDMI turns any TV into a monitor frankly it isn't a hard sell, and with PC prices never being cheaper you can get a pretty nice system for less than the XB1.