God isn't that the truth and the royal bitch is the entire thing comes down to MSFT having no idea what their own strengths are so that aping Apple is hamstringing the entire company.
Look at playsforsure, which to me is a perfect example of MSFT taking a growing market and burning it to the ground trying to be Apple, right before the Zune came out the playsforsure market was growing like mad, you could buy playsforsure devices at every price point, from the $20 gumstix MP3 players at the checkout counter to $300 PMPs, and because there was a rich ecosystem both on the hardware and the software side it was growing thanks to good old competition and with every sale MSFT was getting a cut....what happened? Most likely Ballmer or one of his PHBs said "Its not like Apple, they get a BIG cut and we only get a small one because we aren't in control, we need to fix this!" and promptly destroyed the whole fucking thing.
This is gonna piss off the FOSS advocates when i point this out but what has always sold MSFT tech is how OPEN it was, how you quickly got competition and economies of scale so you have every price point and possible consumer covered. Anybody could write Windows software, any website could sell Windows software, you had all this competition which compared to the locked down centralized control of Apple was appealing, but now Ballmer is shitting all over that because HE wants to be Apple, HE wants a "Microsoft ecosystem" where he gets a 30% cut of everything, and its fucking slaughtering the company because its throwing out everything that MSFT was strong at, plenty of competition and open systems, and leaning on everything they sucked at, making "ecosystems" and tying everything together.
I don't know why you got modded down since buying companies and tech and shitting all over them and making them worthless? Been their MO for several years now. Zune, Kin, Sidekick, killing the profitable playsforsure for the DOA Zune market, if its one thing MSFT is good at its taking a lesser player on the field and totally ruining it. I'm shocked that Amazon's stock didn't go up more at the announcement as nook has been the only competition they've had in eReaders and MSFT will kill them dead, most likely by getting rid of the cheap hardware and going "herps derp, they'll buy a $1000 MSFT Surface cuz of the Nook, we're special! herpa de derpa". because MSFT is gonna sell at Apple prices or die dammit!...of course it looks like the "or die dammit!" is what is gonna happen in reality.
Poor MSFT shareholders, it must be frustrating as hell to watch the company be run off the rails by an incompetent CEO that has the biggest shareholder as his BFF so no matter how he shits on the company he can't be fired. I've seen many saying that "when things get bad enough Bill will come back!"...no he won't, Jobs had his massive ego tied into his company, Bill has cashed out enough stock he could live like a God if MSFT burned to the ground. More likely he'll quietly cash out and walk away,he doesn't care about his old company anymore, its nothing like Jobs and Apple.
You are welcome. Ever wonder what happens to the computers Best Buy takes on trade in? There ya go, they are tested by GS and bagged up and put on Cowboom.
Sadly you just answered your question, it was on Vista. Vista was WinME II, where a lot of tech that worked good in later versions was first tested and all the bugs worked out. You basically paid for a beta OS, sorry. Don't feel bad though as i got it for reporting bugs and tried to run it for a year so i do feel your pain.
I do believe they changed the name in Win 7, could be wrong, in any case the tech works damned good now and why other OSes haven't implemented it is beyond me as it really does speed up systems with large RAM pools which pretty much covers every desktop and laptop made in the last 5 years.
Thank you for showing that you are just a racist douchebag, I made sure to bookmark your post so that anytime anyone thinks you are anything else i can point out that you sir are nothing but a bigot.
The guy was bragging about banging 16 year olds at his compund, the SO/GF/fucktoy whatever was basically his bitch and wouldn't say boo no matter what he did, which again he bragged about, this guy is a fucking sociopath and they are making him out to be a hero? that is FUCKED up, no matter how you slice it, and it makes me feel a little dirty that my fellow Americans have sank so god damned low morally that a fucking scumbag like this CAN be seen as a hero. When I was growing up he would have been seen as what he is, a jailbait banging murder suspect.
Because I shouldn't fucking HAVE to, because this scumbag was headlines for something like 2 months? Nothing I am saying is "a revelation", the scumbag was blogging the whole fucking time and talking a mile a minute, bragging about the guns, the dope, the underage girls he was banging, this is NOT a nice person or even someone you'd ever want to meet, and they are making him out to be a hero for skipping out on a murder charge?
And notice how i get modded down for the fact i pointed out that saying because the police aren't Americans they are looked at as incompetent, which just smacks of racism? again this whole thing is just ugly and fucked up and to me shows why Americans aren't really liked in most places, arrogant racist douchebaggery runs rampant.
Everyone here is making jokes, but why should she have to use an artificial in the first place? What happened to those hand transplants we were hearing so much about, while I remember that one basically went out drinking and screwing around and didn't take care of the hand and ended up losing it last i heard the other one is doing fine. So unless she is still taking this med, which if it kills the extremities I don't she how she will be able to have any hands at all as the stumps will be the extremities now, I don't see why somebody like this wouldn't be a good candidate for a hand transplant.
Now as far as the feet there are choices, a more natural look or the blades which give you more of a bouncy step and of course there is also that wheelchair the Israeli engineer developed for those that had lost the ability to walk from IEDs, for those that haven't seen it its supposed to retail for less than $25k and allow you to strap in and push a button and it'll stand you up and give you two wheels to roll on like a Segway. Its pretty cool, the video i saw for it had a former soldier using it to putter around his kitchen and even shop at the mall by himself using the thing so it sounds like it might be a good option if she is gonna be doing a lot of standing and painting.
Citation please? Because the only failures i have heard of is those using already depreciated crypto like DES or SHA, have yet to hear of anybody breaking into 512bit AES, in fact last I heard that the length of time required to brute force a 512bit AES using an 8 digit password of the usual numbers, characters, and symbols and properly hashed was on the order of longer than the sun will survive, were talking tens of billions of years.
Throwing more hardware at it only gets you to a certain point, after that if you don't find a hole in the crypto you can throw every GPU on the planet at it and run into a brick wall. this of course doesn't mean you shouldn't think ahead, given how powerful systems are today 1024bit or even 2048bit is doable and the number of years required to break that with 100 Blue gene supercomputers is frankly insane. Remember friend you don't have infinite time here, that database won't be good forever so unless you have a citation I don't see how one could crack it even if you were given say a year to do so, the numbers were are talking about are just too insanely huge.
Exactly, the man is a sociopath and his own blogs show what he is saying here to be a fucking LIE. For anybody who believes this clown I'd suggest they look up what his blogs were in the weeks prior to the murder, he was bragging about how bath salts were giving him super hard ons that let him fuck the shit out of the little 16 year olds at his compound.
I live in a town that was hard hit by bath salts and this ain't pot guys, this shit is paranoia and violence in a baggie, it has more in line with PCP and meth than it does with pot or acid. the fact that the guy was bragging about doing a drug known to cause paranoia and violent bursts of rage, bragging about how many guns he has, and the guy he had several months worth of arguments winds up dead, don't you think if that had happened in the USA he'd be up on charges?
I don't know what is worse, the fact that so many here act like because it happened in south america it don't count because "herpa derp they have to be corrupt and incompetent, no way they can run an investigation or trial, stupid brownskins herps de derp" or the fact that so many have been modded insightful for saying it. Frankly I hope they just didn't think before modding up and were just going by the interview without looking into the background, I'd hate to think racism and classism is that strong here at Slashdot.
Thank you, and the racism here is fucking disgusting, does ANYBODY think if he was any color OTHER than White or even poor you'd see so many defending him?
He was BRAGGING about doing shitloads of a drug that causes RAMPANT paranoia and has been named a mitigating factor in several violent crimes due to the sudden fears of persecution and violent thoughts it can cause, BRAGGING about his little compund and all the underage pussy he was banging, and the guy that ONLY he had a major problem with, who he had had a major altercation NOT THREE DAYS before the murder ends up with a bullet in the back of the head and guess who had BRAGGED about all the guns he had?
Yet the arguments we are seeing here defending him basically boil down to "How dare those fucking brownskins think they can question or charge a rich white man,hell its South America so they MUST be fucking retarded and incompetent, so three cheers for whitey"...its fucking disgusting is what it is. A man is dead, he left a family mourning his loss, yet here so many rush to treat this junkie jailbait fucking scumbag as some sort of hero? BULLSHIT, the guy that saved those women in Ohio is a hero, this is just another scumbag that walked away from any possible investigation thanks to having plenty of money to throw around. To me this is nothing but a white OJ, another person trading money and minor celebrity to avoid the possibility of doing time. hell I have more respect for OJ, at least HE was there for a trial and was found not guilty, this bozo made sure there won't be any possibility of a trial.
Racist much? why didn't you call them fucking peasants and a banana republic while you were at it? Funny how if the USA goes after somebody, like how Assange is locked up like an animal in that embassy well that is all hearts and flowers, but some cranked up junkie fucking 16 year olds skips out on a murder investigation in another country that is perfectly fine, those stupid fucking brownskins couldn't possibly do a fair investigation, fuck they probably couldn't even spell it, right?
And folks wonder where the phrase "Ugly Americans" comes from.
We will never know since he hampered a police investigation, now will we? And lets look at the facts, 1.- he was bragging about doing massive amounts of a drug that causes RAMPANT paranoia, fears of persecution, and has been known to cause black outs and violent bursts of rage, not unlike meth or PCP, this is NOT a nice drug friend, 2.- he had had repeated arguments with the neighbor which was frankly getting tired of his firing off guns and acting like a wildass, 3.- he had a large gun collection which we don't even know if the police were able to recover it, nor if any of it was missing, 4.-Less than a week after his last knock down drag out with his neighbor, which from what the cops said was VERY heated and with lots of threats, during a week where he was again BRAGGING about how much of a VERY dangerous and mind altering substance he was doing the neighbor ends up dead.
Now if YOU were the cops, who would you want to talk to first, strangers and neighbors who had no history with the guy, or the one that had repeatedly threatened the dead man while bragging about how much dope he was taking? the sad part is this is a perfect example of how there is one set of laws for the rich, one set of laws for the poor, because even if the cops would have gotten to question him he would have gotten bail and if charges were filed a top notch lawyer, whereas a poor person would have spent a year in jail waiting for a trial and then if they were lucky got a public pretender that didn't just tell them to plead guilty, not to mention nobody would be cheering the poor guy for skipping the country, in fact many would be calling for the USA to hand him over.
Either way making this douchebag's escape out as "wacky hi-jinks" is fucking WRONG, it is just as wrong as it would be to call the Ohio scumbags "mac daddies" for keeping 3 women chained in the basement. A man is dead, his family is mourning, and the #1 suspect is laughing his ass off and giving interviews like he never existed...that is FUCKED up, i don't care how you feel about the man personally.
While WinModems and WinPrinters do indeed suck and were all about penny pinching and dumping all the work on the CPU, if they do this right? Frankly it would make a LOT of sense.
Since Vista Windows has had Readycache keeping lists of most used programs and more importantly HOW they are used so that RAM is better utilized. For example Windows knows that I use WMP and my browser during the week while I'm using WMC and Steam on the weekend so it knows which to have loaded into memory on which days, and Readyboost is already baked in to do a similar thing with any fast flash stick to add a buffer using the flash for faster small file reads instead of the HDD.
So in this case you have Windows doing all this work whether WD uses it or not so all they'd be doing is duplicating what is already running on the system so why not use it? By using Readycache the drive can just be told by Windows "he uses this on these days and that on others, and here is a list of the things he uses most often regardless" and if you clone from an existing drive it can be faster on the very first boot by simply getting the info from Readycache and loading it to the SSD portion while activating Readyboost. Most importantly unlike the caching software I've seen from Sandisk I've NEVER heard of anybody left with a system that wouldn't boot because Readycache or Readyboost fails,because its designed to fail safe. if Windows can't read the cache? it just goes to the original files on the HDD, no harm no foul.
If they are just using Readycache and Readyboost it makes sense, especially if it lowers the price on the drive. if its using those systems what you would have is a three tier system, 1.- RAM cache, 2.- SSD cache, 3.- HDD and unlike a "pure" SSD not only will large sizes not be wallet breaking but if the entire SSD portion fails mid boot all it should do is slow the system back down to HDD levels. If they price this right I know as a system builder I'll be taking a serious look at this, it sounds like just the right combo of speed and reliability that would be perfect for my home users and SMBs where having a speed boost is nice but NOT at the risk of losing any data. hell they slap this on a 2TB HDD and have it at a decent price i might have to see about getting it myself, sounds nice.
Nice to see I'm not the only one scratching my head trying to figure out WHY you would want to do this instead of...you know,actually doing it smart by using salted hashes? I mean correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the whole point was to make it so even if they got it they couldn't use it because it would take too long to decrypt, so how exactly would these "honeywords" work, unless you suspect somebody on the inside is stealing from you in which case i think you have bigger problems.
I'm personally gonna wait and see, last I checked they were a little more locked down than a I care for. To me if I can't install any OS that is compatible? Then its an oversized cellphone, and last I checked you can ONLY install certain flavors of Linux by jumping through a page and a half of CLI hacks and they won't even let you dual boot between Linux and ChromeOS, that just sucks.
That is why I'll be babying the hell out of my 1215B, it came with both Win 7 HP and Linux based Expressgate for when i just need to whip off an email or surf, still gets about 4 hours after 3 years on the battery, and with 8GB of RAM all my programs are preloaded into RAM which lets the HDD park and save power. Oh and the Bobcat APU is actually powerful enough I can play me some Portal 2 or GTA:VC if I feel like it.
But if you just want a SFF to run Linux on Cowboom has used atom EEEs starting at $95, I've pointed a couple of friends to Cowboom for netbooks and they are quite happy,in fact one has been using his Dell Mini he picked up there as his go to portable for 2 years now and not a single problem. Ironically they have also started carrying the Chromebooks, although last I checked a new Chromebook is only $225 so its not really worth getting a used one. Its just a damned shame they locked them down so much because frankly if you could put windows on them for the software that won't run anywhere else and then boot into ChromeOS the rest of the time frankly it'd be more attractive.
As others have noted but just to confirm its "small to medium business" which I personally define as less than 50 people all told, your doctor's offices,printing shops,construction companies, all the little guys that aren't big enough to have a full time IT guy so they call me. Its a HELL of a lot better work as they actually LISTEN instead of just expecting you to "make do" with some half assing and "time is money" bullshit instead of being able to do the job RIGHT.
But I do apologize for using the lingo without clarifying, i get to talking shop and my vocabulary tends to be a little more shorthand than most and I sometimes forget that not everybody speaks the same lingo as I do. For future reference SMBs you already now know, there is also SOHO which is small office/home office, that is usually your family business type, and when talking turkey i often mention GP/GPO and AD, which is Group Policy/Group Policy Objects which are used to set permissions across many machines and AD stands for Active Directory which enforces rules and permissions.
Notice they didn't ask him about the "bath salts" which he was talking about how great it was for weeks...which just FYI also causes major paranoia as a side effect.
This whole "story" frankly makes me a little sick, treating this guy like he was doing something great when he was running from a MURDER CHARGE, lets not forget that folks, he had an argument with the neighbor, he was doing a drug that causes paranoia and fear of persecution, and the neighbor ended up dead...frankly it don't take Kojack to see who should be the #1 suspect, and just because the guy is rich does NOT mean he should just walk away.
That would be nice, I on the other hand was working for a consulting company hired to do these jobs and we were constantly drilled on "time is money, get in, get done, get out" which frankly is a recipe for disaster but you know the old saying, penny wise and pound foolish. I don't know how many times i thought "With such a little time and planning this will be a LOT less messy" but when brought up? Time is money, yadda yadda yadda.
Preach brother! Its ALWAYS those"little somethings" you never have cross your mind that bite you right in the ass, hell even sticking to strictly SMBs and consumers there were several times switching everybody over to Win 7 had me reaching for the BC powder, the only thing that made it bearable was "Hey at least you aren't working corporate and having to do a Win98 SE to WinXP migration again"...groan.
And you are right, of all the headaches the custom software is usually the least painful. Oh its not pleasant by ANY means, but at least one can usually get the data out or if worse comes to worse hire somebody to come clean up the code and fix the damned thing. I had this one company who had this mess of software bought from little company that did inventory management and payroll and I ended up having to isolate a single winNT 4 Server and a couple of Win98 boxes because it turned out that since they had bought the stuff the company had been bought by a company that didn't give a rat's ass about either of those programs so their answer was basically "Don't look at us, we don't support that, tough luck" so it would have required paying a group to sit there and take 5 fricking years worth of data BY HAND out of this thing because naturally this crap didn't have something simple and logical like data export, nope that would make sense!...groan.
Anybody who says "just upgrade" has NO fucking idea what that JUST entails, not even close. The Win9X to WinXP rollouts took so damned much out of me my boys actually staged an intervention on me, they set me down and said "You never smile anymore, you are white as a corpse, you have constant headaches and you hardly even eat anymore because your stomach is always upset. Our dad is gone, our mom is dying of cancer, and grandma is old and in bad health, we can't afford to lose you, you are all we have" which of course was like a bucket of icewater being poured on my head. I gave my 2 weeks the next day and just to show you how fucking ungrateful those bastards were they were like "Or you're leaving, don't bother with a 2 week then, just clean out your desk and pick up your check" well fuck you too assholes.
I may not make as much now working PC shop but fuck it, at least I'm happy, my color is back, and I spend my days helping people that actually listen and are grateful. I feel sorry for ANY guy having to do a major rollout like that, I frankly wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy!
Oh he'd have enjoyed the hell out of it! I remember seeing years ago a "masters of movie magic" about Harryhausen and Winston and you could tell by listening to their stories that they loved the hell out of their work, you got the impression they probably would have done it for free if they had to,because they just loved making the creatures come alive.
RIP Mr Harryhausen, I think I'll fire up some Golden Voyage Of Sinbad, I was lucky enough to see that at the drive in when i was a kid and his work still looks cool. I think I cheered for every monster, especially the statue with the swords, too awesome!
I don't think Apple and Google killed the netbook, I think it was MSFT and Intel. it was widely reported when the first Windows netbooks came out that MSFT was letting them have XP Home for just $10, then they went to $35 for Win 7 starter which thanks to that "inability to change the desktop" bullshit it wasn't real popular but if the OEM wanted to put on Win 7 HP? That was $50! and if the rumors are correct the reason you saw the plug pulled on netbooks last Xmas was MSFT made it clear that there would be NO win 8 starter, just Home, and that was $65!
When i bought my EEE AMD E350 netbook it was $350 WITH 8GB of RAM AND a sleeve, when I heard about them being canceled i looked into getting a second one as a spare...$518! I could buy a 15 inch quad core laptop for $420!
AMD simply couldn't provide enough chips thanks to the OEMs using their Bobcats in all in ones and full sized laptops and Intel obviously wanted to push Ultrabooks instead of netbooks. MSFT at the same time was following Ballmer's delusions that if you raise the price on Windows you can take Apple customers (yeah right) so they likewise wanted netbooks dead because its hard to push people to $1000 touchscreen laptops when they have dual core netbooks for $250-350.
so I don't think it was Apple and Google that done the deed, it was Intel and MSFT making sure the OEMs couldn't make any margins at all on netbooks so they could push the "ultrabook Win 8 Experience"...and we all saw how THAT turned out, the OEMs said they didn't sell enough to worry about, which is why you see places like Tiger saying "You don't want to switch? We got Win 7 laptops here!" at the sane price of $375-$650.
Uhhh...Miss AC? Yeah the E1800 chip IS new hardware, you can go to wally world or best Buy and find a half a dozen of 'em, just because its new hardware does NOT mean win 8 will run on it, after all they have new versions of the Atom chip out but I sure as fuck wouldn't want to run Vista...err I mean win 8 on it.
Uhhh...you ever actually TRY to switch over a large firm with a shitload of one off and small company software to a new OS? that shit AIN'T fun, hell I'd rather get kicked in the nuts with steel toed boots, the pain won't last as long.
It never fails, you end up with software made by companies that aren't around anymore, or those real asshole companies whose answer to everything is "shell out several thou for new licenses" (Quickbooks I'm looking at YOU) and that is IF you can buy new licenses and get the damned thing to work, you'd be surprised how many SMBs end up with "some program written by Chuck who don't work here anymore" that was only supposed to be a quick and dirty "hold us over until next quarter" but ends up becoming this mission critical house of cards that you are afraid to look at funny or it'll fall down. Then of course there is the hardware, there is nothing like having to tell middle management that all those personal printers they got for the managers have to be shitcanned because there isn't drivers for the new OS, and again that is if you are lucky and its just something like a printer,not some multi thousand dollar piece of hardware that the company doesn't support on the latest and greatest..
Now I can see giving them a browser and using GP to keep IE 6 strictly on the Intranet, that makes sense and won't give middle management a coronary when they get the bill, but all those"oh you should just upgrade" are obviously people that have never actually done a large rollout because if they had they'd know that there is NO "just" when it comes to a large business, you are talking weeks to months of slow, tedious, headache inducing work and it is NOT a pleasant experience for anybody involved. That is why I don't do corp no more, got tired of the ulcers and the headaches, not for all the tea in China would I want to do another upgrade rollout, no chance in hell.
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God isn't that the truth and the royal bitch is the entire thing comes down to MSFT having no idea what their own strengths are so that aping Apple is hamstringing the entire company.
Look at playsforsure, which to me is a perfect example of MSFT taking a growing market and burning it to the ground trying to be Apple, right before the Zune came out the playsforsure market was growing like mad, you could buy playsforsure devices at every price point, from the $20 gumstix MP3 players at the checkout counter to $300 PMPs, and because there was a rich ecosystem both on the hardware and the software side it was growing thanks to good old competition and with every sale MSFT was getting a cut....what happened? Most likely Ballmer or one of his PHBs said "Its not like Apple, they get a BIG cut and we only get a small one because we aren't in control, we need to fix this!" and promptly destroyed the whole fucking thing.
This is gonna piss off the FOSS advocates when i point this out but what has always sold MSFT tech is how OPEN it was, how you quickly got competition and economies of scale so you have every price point and possible consumer covered. Anybody could write Windows software, any website could sell Windows software, you had all this competition which compared to the locked down centralized control of Apple was appealing, but now Ballmer is shitting all over that because HE wants to be Apple, HE wants a "Microsoft ecosystem" where he gets a 30% cut of everything, and its fucking slaughtering the company because its throwing out everything that MSFT was strong at, plenty of competition and open systems, and leaning on everything they sucked at, making "ecosystems" and tying everything together.
I don't know why you got modded down since buying companies and tech and shitting all over them and making them worthless? Been their MO for several years now. Zune, Kin, Sidekick, killing the profitable playsforsure for the DOA Zune market, if its one thing MSFT is good at its taking a lesser player on the field and totally ruining it. I'm shocked that Amazon's stock didn't go up more at the announcement as nook has been the only competition they've had in eReaders and MSFT will kill them dead, most likely by getting rid of the cheap hardware and going "herps derp, they'll buy a $1000 MSFT Surface cuz of the Nook, we're special! herpa de derpa". because MSFT is gonna sell at Apple prices or die dammit!...of course it looks like the "or die dammit!" is what is gonna happen in reality.
Poor MSFT shareholders, it must be frustrating as hell to watch the company be run off the rails by an incompetent CEO that has the biggest shareholder as his BFF so no matter how he shits on the company he can't be fired. I've seen many saying that "when things get bad enough Bill will come back!"...no he won't, Jobs had his massive ego tied into his company, Bill has cashed out enough stock he could live like a God if MSFT burned to the ground. More likely he'll quietly cash out and walk away,he doesn't care about his old company anymore, its nothing like Jobs and Apple.
You are welcome. Ever wonder what happens to the computers Best Buy takes on trade in? There ya go, they are tested by GS and bagged up and put on Cowboom.
Sadly you just answered your question, it was on Vista. Vista was WinME II, where a lot of tech that worked good in later versions was first tested and all the bugs worked out. You basically paid for a beta OS, sorry. Don't feel bad though as i got it for reporting bugs and tried to run it for a year so i do feel your pain.
I do believe they changed the name in Win 7, could be wrong, in any case the tech works damned good now and why other OSes haven't implemented it is beyond me as it really does speed up systems with large RAM pools which pretty much covers every desktop and laptop made in the last 5 years.
No I speak the truth and you sir are a racist and now everyone can see it for themselves.
Thank you for showing that you are just a racist douchebag, I made sure to bookmark your post so that anytime anyone thinks you are anything else i can point out that you sir are nothing but a bigot.
The guy was bragging about banging 16 year olds at his compund, the SO/GF/fucktoy whatever was basically his bitch and wouldn't say boo no matter what he did, which again he bragged about, this guy is a fucking sociopath and they are making him out to be a hero? that is FUCKED up, no matter how you slice it, and it makes me feel a little dirty that my fellow Americans have sank so god damned low morally that a fucking scumbag like this CAN be seen as a hero. When I was growing up he would have been seen as what he is, a jailbait banging murder suspect.
Because I shouldn't fucking HAVE to, because this scumbag was headlines for something like 2 months? Nothing I am saying is "a revelation", the scumbag was blogging the whole fucking time and talking a mile a minute, bragging about the guns, the dope, the underage girls he was banging, this is NOT a nice person or even someone you'd ever want to meet, and they are making him out to be a hero for skipping out on a murder charge?
And notice how i get modded down for the fact i pointed out that saying because the police aren't Americans they are looked at as incompetent, which just smacks of racism? again this whole thing is just ugly and fucked up and to me shows why Americans aren't really liked in most places, arrogant racist douchebaggery runs rampant.
Everyone here is making jokes, but why should she have to use an artificial in the first place? What happened to those hand transplants we were hearing so much about, while I remember that one basically went out drinking and screwing around and didn't take care of the hand and ended up losing it last i heard the other one is doing fine. So unless she is still taking this med, which if it kills the extremities I don't she how she will be able to have any hands at all as the stumps will be the extremities now, I don't see why somebody like this wouldn't be a good candidate for a hand transplant.
Now as far as the feet there are choices, a more natural look or the blades which give you more of a bouncy step and of course there is also that wheelchair the Israeli engineer developed for those that had lost the ability to walk from IEDs, for those that haven't seen it its supposed to retail for less than $25k and allow you to strap in and push a button and it'll stand you up and give you two wheels to roll on like a Segway. Its pretty cool, the video i saw for it had a former soldier using it to putter around his kitchen and even shop at the mall by himself using the thing so it sounds like it might be a good option if she is gonna be doing a lot of standing and painting.
Citation please? Because the only failures i have heard of is those using already depreciated crypto like DES or SHA, have yet to hear of anybody breaking into 512bit AES, in fact last I heard that the length of time required to brute force a 512bit AES using an 8 digit password of the usual numbers, characters, and symbols and properly hashed was on the order of longer than the sun will survive, were talking tens of billions of years.
Throwing more hardware at it only gets you to a certain point, after that if you don't find a hole in the crypto you can throw every GPU on the planet at it and run into a brick wall. this of course doesn't mean you shouldn't think ahead, given how powerful systems are today 1024bit or even 2048bit is doable and the number of years required to break that with 100 Blue gene supercomputers is frankly insane. Remember friend you don't have infinite time here, that database won't be good forever so unless you have a citation I don't see how one could crack it even if you were given say a year to do so, the numbers were are talking about are just too insanely huge.
Exactly, the man is a sociopath and his own blogs show what he is saying here to be a fucking LIE. For anybody who believes this clown I'd suggest they look up what his blogs were in the weeks prior to the murder, he was bragging about how bath salts were giving him super hard ons that let him fuck the shit out of the little 16 year olds at his compound.
I live in a town that was hard hit by bath salts and this ain't pot guys, this shit is paranoia and violence in a baggie, it has more in line with PCP and meth than it does with pot or acid. the fact that the guy was bragging about doing a drug known to cause paranoia and violent bursts of rage, bragging about how many guns he has, and the guy he had several months worth of arguments winds up dead, don't you think if that had happened in the USA he'd be up on charges?
I don't know what is worse, the fact that so many here act like because it happened in south america it don't count because "herpa derp they have to be corrupt and incompetent, no way they can run an investigation or trial, stupid brownskins herps de derp" or the fact that so many have been modded insightful for saying it. Frankly I hope they just didn't think before modding up and were just going by the interview without looking into the background, I'd hate to think racism and classism is that strong here at Slashdot.
Thank you, and the racism here is fucking disgusting, does ANYBODY think if he was any color OTHER than White or even poor you'd see so many defending him?
He was BRAGGING about doing shitloads of a drug that causes RAMPANT paranoia and has been named a mitigating factor in several violent crimes due to the sudden fears of persecution and violent thoughts it can cause, BRAGGING about his little compund and all the underage pussy he was banging, and the guy that ONLY he had a major problem with, who he had had a major altercation NOT THREE DAYS before the murder ends up with a bullet in the back of the head and guess who had BRAGGED about all the guns he had?
Yet the arguments we are seeing here defending him basically boil down to "How dare those fucking brownskins think they can question or charge a rich white man,hell its South America so they MUST be fucking retarded and incompetent, so three cheers for whitey"...its fucking disgusting is what it is. A man is dead, he left a family mourning his loss, yet here so many rush to treat this junkie jailbait fucking scumbag as some sort of hero? BULLSHIT, the guy that saved those women in Ohio is a hero, this is just another scumbag that walked away from any possible investigation thanks to having plenty of money to throw around. To me this is nothing but a white OJ, another person trading money and minor celebrity to avoid the possibility of doing time. hell I have more respect for OJ, at least HE was there for a trial and was found not guilty, this bozo made sure there won't be any possibility of a trial.
Racist much? why didn't you call them fucking peasants and a banana republic while you were at it? Funny how if the USA goes after somebody, like how Assange is locked up like an animal in that embassy well that is all hearts and flowers, but some cranked up junkie fucking 16 year olds skips out on a murder investigation in another country that is perfectly fine, those stupid fucking brownskins couldn't possibly do a fair investigation, fuck they probably couldn't even spell it, right?
And folks wonder where the phrase "Ugly Americans" comes from.
We will never know since he hampered a police investigation, now will we? And lets look at the facts, 1.- he was bragging about doing massive amounts of a drug that causes RAMPANT paranoia, fears of persecution, and has been known to cause black outs and violent bursts of rage, not unlike meth or PCP, this is NOT a nice drug friend, 2.- he had had repeated arguments with the neighbor which was frankly getting tired of his firing off guns and acting like a wildass, 3.- he had a large gun collection which we don't even know if the police were able to recover it, nor if any of it was missing, 4.-Less than a week after his last knock down drag out with his neighbor, which from what the cops said was VERY heated and with lots of threats, during a week where he was again BRAGGING about how much of a VERY dangerous and mind altering substance he was doing the neighbor ends up dead.
Now if YOU were the cops, who would you want to talk to first, strangers and neighbors who had no history with the guy, or the one that had repeatedly threatened the dead man while bragging about how much dope he was taking? the sad part is this is a perfect example of how there is one set of laws for the rich, one set of laws for the poor, because even if the cops would have gotten to question him he would have gotten bail and if charges were filed a top notch lawyer, whereas a poor person would have spent a year in jail waiting for a trial and then if they were lucky got a public pretender that didn't just tell them to plead guilty, not to mention nobody would be cheering the poor guy for skipping the country, in fact many would be calling for the USA to hand him over.
Either way making this douchebag's escape out as "wacky hi-jinks" is fucking WRONG, it is just as wrong as it would be to call the Ohio scumbags "mac daddies" for keeping 3 women chained in the basement. A man is dead, his family is mourning, and the #1 suspect is laughing his ass off and giving interviews like he never existed...that is FUCKED up, i don't care how you feel about the man personally.
While WinModems and WinPrinters do indeed suck and were all about penny pinching and dumping all the work on the CPU, if they do this right? Frankly it would make a LOT of sense.
Since Vista Windows has had Readycache keeping lists of most used programs and more importantly HOW they are used so that RAM is better utilized. For example Windows knows that I use WMP and my browser during the week while I'm using WMC and Steam on the weekend so it knows which to have loaded into memory on which days, and Readyboost is already baked in to do a similar thing with any fast flash stick to add a buffer using the flash for faster small file reads instead of the HDD.
So in this case you have Windows doing all this work whether WD uses it or not so all they'd be doing is duplicating what is already running on the system so why not use it? By using Readycache the drive can just be told by Windows "he uses this on these days and that on others, and here is a list of the things he uses most often regardless" and if you clone from an existing drive it can be faster on the very first boot by simply getting the info from Readycache and loading it to the SSD portion while activating Readyboost. Most importantly unlike the caching software I've seen from Sandisk I've NEVER heard of anybody left with a system that wouldn't boot because Readycache or Readyboost fails,because its designed to fail safe. if Windows can't read the cache? it just goes to the original files on the HDD, no harm no foul.
If they are just using Readycache and Readyboost it makes sense, especially if it lowers the price on the drive. if its using those systems what you would have is a three tier system, 1.- RAM cache, 2.- SSD cache, 3.- HDD and unlike a "pure" SSD not only will large sizes not be wallet breaking but if the entire SSD portion fails mid boot all it should do is slow the system back down to HDD levels. If they price this right I know as a system builder I'll be taking a serious look at this, it sounds like just the right combo of speed and reliability that would be perfect for my home users and SMBs where having a speed boost is nice but NOT at the risk of losing any data. hell they slap this on a 2TB HDD and have it at a decent price i might have to see about getting it myself, sounds nice.
Nice to see I'm not the only one scratching my head trying to figure out WHY you would want to do this instead of...you know,actually doing it smart by using salted hashes? I mean correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the whole point was to make it so even if they got it they couldn't use it because it would take too long to decrypt, so how exactly would these "honeywords" work, unless you suspect somebody on the inside is stealing from you in which case i think you have bigger problems.
I'm personally gonna wait and see, last I checked they were a little more locked down than a I care for. To me if I can't install any OS that is compatible? Then its an oversized cellphone, and last I checked you can ONLY install certain flavors of Linux by jumping through a page and a half of CLI hacks and they won't even let you dual boot between Linux and ChromeOS, that just sucks.
That is why I'll be babying the hell out of my 1215B, it came with both Win 7 HP and Linux based Expressgate for when i just need to whip off an email or surf, still gets about 4 hours after 3 years on the battery, and with 8GB of RAM all my programs are preloaded into RAM which lets the HDD park and save power. Oh and the Bobcat APU is actually powerful enough I can play me some Portal 2 or GTA:VC if I feel like it.
But if you just want a SFF to run Linux on Cowboom has used atom EEEs starting at $95, I've pointed a couple of friends to Cowboom for netbooks and they are quite happy,in fact one has been using his Dell Mini he picked up there as his go to portable for 2 years now and not a single problem. Ironically they have also started carrying the Chromebooks, although last I checked a new Chromebook is only $225 so its not really worth getting a used one. Its just a damned shame they locked them down so much because frankly if you could put windows on them for the software that won't run anywhere else and then boot into ChromeOS the rest of the time frankly it'd be more attractive.
As others have noted but just to confirm its "small to medium business" which I personally define as less than 50 people all told, your doctor's offices,printing shops,construction companies, all the little guys that aren't big enough to have a full time IT guy so they call me. Its a HELL of a lot better work as they actually LISTEN instead of just expecting you to "make do" with some half assing and "time is money" bullshit instead of being able to do the job RIGHT.
But I do apologize for using the lingo without clarifying, i get to talking shop and my vocabulary tends to be a little more shorthand than most and I sometimes forget that not everybody speaks the same lingo as I do. For future reference SMBs you already now know, there is also SOHO which is small office/home office, that is usually your family business type, and when talking turkey i often mention GP/GPO and AD, which is Group Policy/Group Policy Objects which are used to set permissions across many machines and AD stands for Active Directory which enforces rules and permissions.
Notice they didn't ask him about the "bath salts" which he was talking about how great it was for weeks...which just FYI also causes major paranoia as a side effect.
This whole "story" frankly makes me a little sick, treating this guy like he was doing something great when he was running from a MURDER CHARGE, lets not forget that folks, he had an argument with the neighbor, he was doing a drug that causes paranoia and fear of persecution, and the neighbor ended up dead...frankly it don't take Kojack to see who should be the #1 suspect, and just because the guy is rich does NOT mean he should just walk away.
That would be nice, I on the other hand was working for a consulting company hired to do these jobs and we were constantly drilled on "time is money, get in, get done, get out" which frankly is a recipe for disaster but you know the old saying, penny wise and pound foolish. I don't know how many times i thought "With such a little time and planning this will be a LOT less messy" but when brought up? Time is money, yadda yadda yadda.
Preach brother! Its ALWAYS those"little somethings" you never have cross your mind that bite you right in the ass, hell even sticking to strictly SMBs and consumers there were several times switching everybody over to Win 7 had me reaching for the BC powder, the only thing that made it bearable was "Hey at least you aren't working corporate and having to do a Win98 SE to WinXP migration again"...groan.
And you are right, of all the headaches the custom software is usually the least painful. Oh its not pleasant by ANY means, but at least one can usually get the data out or if worse comes to worse hire somebody to come clean up the code and fix the damned thing. I had this one company who had this mess of software bought from little company that did inventory management and payroll and I ended up having to isolate a single winNT 4 Server and a couple of Win98 boxes because it turned out that since they had bought the stuff the company had been bought by a company that didn't give a rat's ass about either of those programs so their answer was basically "Don't look at us, we don't support that, tough luck" so it would have required paying a group to sit there and take 5 fricking years worth of data BY HAND out of this thing because naturally this crap didn't have something simple and logical like data export, nope that would make sense!...groan.
Anybody who says "just upgrade" has NO fucking idea what that JUST entails, not even close. The Win9X to WinXP rollouts took so damned much out of me my boys actually staged an intervention on me, they set me down and said "You never smile anymore, you are white as a corpse, you have constant headaches and you hardly even eat anymore because your stomach is always upset. Our dad is gone, our mom is dying of cancer, and grandma is old and in bad health, we can't afford to lose you, you are all we have" which of course was like a bucket of icewater being poured on my head. I gave my 2 weeks the next day and just to show you how fucking ungrateful those bastards were they were like "Or you're leaving, don't bother with a 2 week then, just clean out your desk and pick up your check" well fuck you too assholes.
I may not make as much now working PC shop but fuck it, at least I'm happy, my color is back, and I spend my days helping people that actually listen and are grateful. I feel sorry for ANY guy having to do a major rollout like that, I frankly wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy!
Oh he'd have enjoyed the hell out of it! I remember seeing years ago a "masters of movie magic" about Harryhausen and Winston and you could tell by listening to their stories that they loved the hell out of their work, you got the impression they probably would have done it for free if they had to,because they just loved making the creatures come alive.
RIP Mr Harryhausen, I think I'll fire up some Golden Voyage Of Sinbad, I was lucky enough to see that at the drive in when i was a kid and his work still looks cool. I think I cheered for every monster, especially the statue with the swords, too awesome!
I don't think Apple and Google killed the netbook, I think it was MSFT and Intel. it was widely reported when the first Windows netbooks came out that MSFT was letting them have XP Home for just $10, then they went to $35 for Win 7 starter which thanks to that "inability to change the desktop" bullshit it wasn't real popular but if the OEM wanted to put on Win 7 HP? That was $50! and if the rumors are correct the reason you saw the plug pulled on netbooks last Xmas was MSFT made it clear that there would be NO win 8 starter, just Home, and that was $65!
When i bought my EEE AMD E350 netbook it was $350 WITH 8GB of RAM AND a sleeve, when I heard about them being canceled i looked into getting a second one as a spare...$518! I could buy a 15 inch quad core laptop for $420!
AMD simply couldn't provide enough chips thanks to the OEMs using their Bobcats in all in ones and full sized laptops and Intel obviously wanted to push Ultrabooks instead of netbooks. MSFT at the same time was following Ballmer's delusions that if you raise the price on Windows you can take Apple customers (yeah right) so they likewise wanted netbooks dead because its hard to push people to $1000 touchscreen laptops when they have dual core netbooks for $250-350.
so I don't think it was Apple and Google that done the deed, it was Intel and MSFT making sure the OEMs couldn't make any margins at all on netbooks so they could push the "ultrabook Win 8 Experience"...and we all saw how THAT turned out, the OEMs said they didn't sell enough to worry about, which is why you see places like Tiger saying "You don't want to switch? We got Win 7 laptops here!" at the sane price of $375-$650.
Uhhh...Miss AC? Yeah the E1800 chip IS new hardware, you can go to wally world or best Buy and find a half a dozen of 'em, just because its new hardware does NOT mean win 8 will run on it, after all they have new versions of the Atom chip out but I sure as fuck wouldn't want to run Vista...err I mean win 8 on it.
Uhhh...you ever actually TRY to switch over a large firm with a shitload of one off and small company software to a new OS? that shit AIN'T fun, hell I'd rather get kicked in the nuts with steel toed boots, the pain won't last as long.
It never fails, you end up with software made by companies that aren't around anymore, or those real asshole companies whose answer to everything is "shell out several thou for new licenses" (Quickbooks I'm looking at YOU) and that is IF you can buy new licenses and get the damned thing to work, you'd be surprised how many SMBs end up with "some program written by Chuck who don't work here anymore" that was only supposed to be a quick and dirty "hold us over until next quarter" but ends up becoming this mission critical house of cards that you are afraid to look at funny or it'll fall down. Then of course there is the hardware, there is nothing like having to tell middle management that all those personal printers they got for the managers have to be shitcanned because there isn't drivers for the new OS, and again that is if you are lucky and its just something like a printer,not some multi thousand dollar piece of hardware that the company doesn't support on the latest and greatest..
Now I can see giving them a browser and using GP to keep IE 6 strictly on the Intranet, that makes sense and won't give middle management a coronary when they get the bill, but all those"oh you should just upgrade" are obviously people that have never actually done a large rollout because if they had they'd know that there is NO "just" when it comes to a large business, you are talking weeks to months of slow, tedious, headache inducing work and it is NOT a pleasant experience for anybody involved. That is why I don't do corp no more, got tired of the ulcers and the headaches, not for all the tea in China would I want to do another upgrade rollout, no chance in hell.