Why is this labeled troll when its true? RMS jerked off for years and years and never could get Hurd to work and when Linux took off he tried to jump in and take credit, same as he says he "blessed" the forks of eMacs and GCC when IRL the forks were to get away from him because he was holding them back. The simple fact of the matter is you could remove 100% of the GNU stuff from Linux and it will run just fine, remove all the Linux from the GNU stuff and its worthless.
And BTW why does everyone listen to this guy at all anymore after this video came out? Just because the guy had ONE good idea in the GPL does NOT make him a gift to all things FOSS and that video should have ended any thoughts of taking him seriously, after his bragging about being a squatter at MIT (his words) or his "surfing" by using a daemon to fetch pages and ship them to his email on his netbook...which in and of itself is a joke as he has gotten so damned militant that even the OLPC given to him by the foundation wasn't free enough, the ONLY system on the entire planet that met his definition of "free" is a cheapo Chinese craptop from Loongson running MIPS.
But for those that haven't figured it out the reason the press keep sticking a mike in RMS' direction is no different than how they find the fat girl in rollers and a bathrobe to talk about a disaster, they know RMS is batshit and will give them some nice flaming bullshit that will make for good clickbait, but the guy gets more and more batshit and frankly makes the whole FOSS movement look like militant freaks. if there HAS to be a figurehead for FOSS why not Eric Raymond or Torvalds himself? at least they always come up with intelligent arguments and aren't eating toe funk on stage.
As far as RMS goes "I won't be glad he's dead but I'll be glad he's gone" as he is a GNUsense and is the most divisive person I've ever had the misfortune to hear.
Well that is a double edged sword, one of the reasons they opened their specs is because they knew they were about to do a major change to the arch (all cards before 7xxx are VLIW, 7xxx and above are all vector based) and it was simply too expensive to pay a group of devs to support their dead end VLIW tech while the main group worked on vector GPU and APU.
But with 3 HD4850s in my family that are now EOLed as long as the drivers still work? I'm a happy little camper, not like they are gonna squeeze any more performance out of a 5 year old card anyway. But if you wanna bitch at somebody bitch at Torvalds and the fucked up way he has drivers set up on Linux, NOBODY does it that way but him and that is why I can load up a 4 year old Windows driver and it'll run fine whereas a 1 year old Linux driver probably won't work, he set it up all stupid.
Because the average user is a huge market whereas those using niche applications for corner cases are naturally...well niche use cases?
While i would love nothing more than the average user that comes into the shop to need some hexacore or octocore with a monster GPU, as i just love playing with the latest tech, in reality the vast majority that walk through my door would be hard pressed to stress out that entry level Athlon triple with a low end HD5450 that I sell as a base model. Because of this naturally i sell a hell of a lot more base models than i do monster rigs so more of my business is gonna be focused on those customers since they bring in the most sales.
Its really just good business sense which is why I applauded when AMD stopped from making the high end GPUs first and then figuring out how to cut them down but instead went to make mainstream chips that they can then double for the high end market as there just isn't enough buying the really top o' the line stuff to make them the central focus, as much as we PC gamers would wish it were different.
Haven't looked at the latest cards, have you? One of the reasons that AMD went with GCN over their previous VLIW design is that GCN allows for core parking, with core parking when you are doing non GPU intensive jobs the GPU can put to sleep all the cores you no longer need thus bringing the wattage and heat WAY down, down almost to IGP levels without having to be stuck with only IGP levels of performance.
And as far as noise goes most of the cards have a passively cooled variant, can't get more quiet than that and again without giving up the huge performance advantage the discrete cards give you.
I can, try a hardware accelerated desktop in Win 7 or 8 and then try the same without the acceleration, with will be MUCH more responsive and snappy. Also by taking some of that load off the CPU you leave more cycles for the jobs that the user cares about, another benefit.
Yeah but last I checked even a lousy $30 discrete just curbstomps them and likewise the AMD APUs beat them pretty badly in the GPU dept.
So unless they pulled a rabbit out of their hat I'll be telling folks the same thing I have always said about Intel IGPs, which is good for office units and not much else. I mean sure for spreadsheets and basic video they are fine, but IMHO you are better off getting even a low end discrete over using the Intel IGP.
And what is wrong with that? Didn't the FOSS community say "just open the specs and we'll support it" to everyone that would listen? Well here is their chance as AMD can't afford to keep supporting an arch that is no longer used anywhere in house anymore, the old cards used VLIW 4 and the new cards use vector based GCN so its NOT a case of simply backporting, the hardware just is no longer compatible.
Nvidia can support the older cards easier as they haven't had any major changes in the way they do things, with AMD that is simply not the case.
I'm sorry but I have to call bullshit as the Windows drivers have been nothing but rock solid since AMD bought them out and cleaned up the cruft. if you are talking pre-buyout? Then sure i agree 100% as ATI couldn't write a driver to save their lives but AMD fixed the messes (requiring.NET bullshit for the driver GUI? Really ATI?) and since then I've been using AMD cards exclusively in the shop and they have been nothing but stable.
If anybody could tell you if there was a problem with the drivers it would be me as I've put everything from the low end 3200 and 4200 IGPs to the X2s to the 7770s through their paces at the shop and its been nothing but blue skies and rainbows and at home me and both the boys have HD4850s and they just purr like kittens, not a complaint one.
And I've found those that can only insult do so because they don't have anything to say that won't make them sound stupid anyway so they just go full retard. Just FYI but they make a 4 wheel drive as well as a front wheel drive or are you gonna honestly sit there and argue that its impossible to make a 4 wheel drive truck using that motor? or that after 20 years of building small trucks its impossible to make anything smaller than an F-150 now?
Doesn't really matter anyway as the USA isn't gonna do a damned thing about MPG of the country nor anything about AGW unless you count just shipping all the pollution to China for them yellow disposable people to choke on "doing something" because the entire AGW movement has been hijacked, no different than how the grass roots tea party was crushed and replaced by a corp kissing Koch Bros creation.
Honestly it doesn't matter where it is because borders may as well not exist, multinationals get better treatment no matter where you go. Again just like the barons of the middle ages or the robber barons of the 1800s there is one set of laws for them, a different set of laws for you, and things that would have a peasant thrown in PMITA prison gets swept under the rug or just plain ignored if it involves one of the new ruling class.
Look at the poster below you, he paid $25k for his new car that meets all of the requirements. Slap that powertrain into a Ranger size work truck and there ya go, a "people's car/truck" that meets all the requirements NOW and would drop our usage in half NOW by simply getting the poor out of the older gas hogs and into those. I would then make it so that anybody whose main or only vehicle got less than 25 MPG would get a huge discount and if they made less than a certain amount a year, lets say twice the poverty level, then they would be eligible to swap their pig for this one.
if we were to do this along with some other common sense solutions, like making asphalt light colored so roads wouldn't be giant heat sinks and mandating all roofs be a light color so as to reflect more light than absorb? We could see some real progress made but sadly as long as the leeches like Goldman Sachs can't figure out how to make out like Gods from it it just won't be done.
Well the margins are better on installs and HTPC setups that is for sure, if you don't mind another bit of advice? Really easy way to sell folks on 'em is to have a couple set up to let them play with, I try to keep an "entry" level and a "mainstream" level while telling them the sky is the limit on how bad ass they want it. For the entry I have something like this that is just great for your web surfing, video, and casual gaming (although frankly if you buy the parts separate you can get 'em even cheaper, amazon sells the board for $70 and the HTPC cases are pretty cheap) and for the midrange something like this triple or one of their mainstream APUs although I tend to lean towards the Athlon triples as not only can you pair them with a cheap ACC board like an entry Asrock and have a nearly 70% unlock rate (at least that is what I've been seeing, which makes sense as their quad cores have been out for awhile and the tech mature) but you can pick up a $30 refurb HD4770 or HD4830/4850 and have the thing playing Just Cause II and Batman AA demos which just cause folks to drool. Again its cheaper to get the parts separate but seeing the killer 3D game demos playing? Makes it an easy sell, just slap in steam in BPM with some cool demos and they WILL be drooling.
Now as for 48 FPS? I saw a review of the Hobbit by Diamanda Hagan of all people (normally reviews all the mondo bizarre stuff, but her wife is a huge fan of the books so she jumped in) that made a lot of sense. what she said was "The thing people need to remember is that we have been at 24 FPS for nearly a century now, even a small time director like me can tell you that there are schools that teach you film making but its all based on 24 FPS and the steadycam guys alone have spent YEARS, literally years, learning how to pace every single movement they make around 24FPS. Not only that but the lighting people have been trained on proper lighting for 24 FPS, all the makeup..well look at how fake early ST:TNG or DS9 looks on Blue Ray and it wasn't like they went cheap on their effects, it is simply the fact that TV resolution covered up a lot that BD brings into sharp and ugly focus. What people need to understand is this is NOT gonna be an overnight change, its literally gonna take years to learn how to make films properly at 48 FPS because you are pretty much having to throw out a century of teaching and experience and start over, this is gonna be a huge fundamental shift in the way things are done and that is just gonna take a LOT of time"
And if you think about it that makes perfect sense, as all of your film team is gonna have all this exp with the 24 FPS/1080P way of doing things and then suddenly BAM! All your effects look shitty, your pacing seems "off" your set design and costumes are gonna look like a HS play thanks to all the little details that wouldn't have been noticeable before is right there for all to see, so I wouldn't be surprised if some of the first 4K movies end up making people a little sick as the filmmakers have to basically relearn their craft.
Finally as far as 3D goes? I'm already starting to see backlash from the bloggers and critics, even the ones that were originally fine with 3D, so i have a feeling just like in the 50s, 70s, and 90s its about to die out again. i give it another year, maybe 2, and then i have a feeling it'll just peter out like it did before. I recently saw a piece with a studio experimenting with force feedback in the seats so that you could for instance "feel" a shotgun blast and unlike 3D anybody can use this without getting a blinding headache so I wouldn't be surprised to see the studios embrace that or some other gimmick. After all in the end all they want is something that will put butts in seats while letting them charge more and get away with it and 3D will always
Because in case you ain't figured it out friend classism is alive and well in the 21st century, its just wealth has taken the place of birth titles. Its the same result either way, the peasants get one set of laws and the large corps and the wealthy get a different much nicer set.
Hell wasn't it the UK where we saw the MAFIAA altering evidence and they didn't even get a slap on the wrist, nor was the damages against the peasant set aside? if that would have been you then you'd be rotting in a cell right now with an obstruction charge but again because corps like the barons and counts in the old days are just "better class of people" than you they don't even get a slap on the wrist.
Yeah but then you get into a whole nother problem...how much do you have to change to get away with it? I mean there are several bunches that legally have their own spinoffs of FF, Iceweasel by Debian, IceDragon by Comodo, hell there is Pale Moon that is just a guy that wanted an optimized FF and of course under GPL all of that is fine since they aren't using the trademarks, just the GPLed code.
I mean courts have already said Apple can't own the letter "i" or be able to sue anybody who isn't in electronics who happen to have an Apple for a logo, so how much would it take? Surely no court would rule that FF can own the word "Fire" so I bet all they would have to do is change the animal and the logos and they'd be clear of trademarks and lets face it, most folks aren't gonna know what the icon is for FF so they could call it firefalcon or firehunter and many wouldn't know without being told.
Hell i had one customer that kept asking me to "be sure to install bluebird" and I was thinking "WTF is bluebird?" and when i said it out loud in front of my mom she said "Oh she means that blue bird net thingie, like you gave me"...and pointed to the seamonkey logo. I guess to older folks that looks like a bluebird to them, just goes to show that you can never tell what somebody is gonna associate as far as name and app. I wouldn't be surprised if they used a swirly kinda similar to FF they could call it smoking monkey for all it would matter.
How EXACTLY does it do that? And do NOT say the "many eyes" myth as I can show how that one is a myth simply by using common sense and how many LOC you are talking about in your average distro. Hell have YOU done a code audit of FF, Gimp, LO, or any of the other applications that you use?
While FOSS does have its benefits, the main one being that nobody can just abandon a program or force you to upgrade as long as some devs are willing to support it, see KDE Classic for example, finding malware? NOT one of the benefits. Hell we are talking about government spying programs, not script kiddies, so one look at the entries in the obfuscated C contest should show you that your average programmer wouldn't find the shit unless they were specifically told it was there, so just saying that "because the code is out there SOMEBODY has to have done an audit" means exactly jack and squat.>
5 will get you 10 a good 80%+ of the code that goes into your average distro hasn't been looked at by anybody but the programmers themselves, see that infected Quake 3 that sat on damned near every repo for a year and a half or the KDE screensaver bug where it turned out a large chunk of the KDE screensavers hosted at places like KDELook were infected with malware, nobody looked at any of that code for ages and if somebody hadn't looked at their firewall and noticed weird activity (no different than they would have done with non FOSS programs) those would still be infecting folks to this day, it was only AFTER somebody caught the activity that the code was checked for malware. To my knowledge there has never been malware found by just looking at the source code, at least I've never heard of it.
Mind some advice? Next time check out TCL TVs on Amazon. I had a customer that just raved about his TCL (I don't sell the sets, I do the set-ups and sell HTPCs and media tanks to go with 'em) and checking his out...nice picture, damned nice. I ended up picking up one for my mom, had it on my doorstep in 2 days and yeah...great picture, clear sound, its a nice set and pretty damned reasonable on the price.
But where I'm at I pretty much get all walks of life so its pretty easy to gauge the pulse of what the buying public cares about and 3D TV? Really do NOT care a bit. Even the couple I saw that ended up with one (because they couldn't find a set in the size they wanted except a 3D unit) never used the 3D, its just a wasted feature as far as they are concerned.
I do have to wonder if 4K is gonna end up making folks sick like the 3D does, I had a couple of friends see the Hobbit in 48 frames and they said it made them queasy, and that is what I've found when it comes to 3D that there is always one or more family members that 3D makes them queasy so that is the end of that.
The bug, if built with a diesel? Would probably work, but you'd really need to have a small truck to go along with it. There is a reason why Ford is having to wait for Orken to be done with it before they put the last ranger in the museum, its because those little Fords and Chevys make damned good work trucks.
But what is sad is what I'm proposing? It isn't some pie in the sky program requiring tech that isn't off the drawing boards, its all doable NOW with current tech. Can we build a diesel that gets good gas mileage? Yep, can we build something at that price point? I don't see why not, Kia sells cars for a similar price.
The problem is because the leeches at the top that just HAVE to make out like Gods on anything getting done can't figure out how to get their kickbacks so it just doesn't get done, instead we get pointless bullshit proposed like carbon credits which will reward companies for moving to China (since there is ZERO penalty for having things made in a non carbon treaty nation like China) while letting those at the top like Goldman Sachs leech to their black heart's content.
If you want to get right down to it this is why you can't do anything in the states anymore, between the beltway and wall street you got too many hands out wanting their cut for anything to get done that would actually work, just too many thieves and not enough pockets to rob so instead we'll do nothing.
And you NEED a back facing camera...why exactly? hell if i know but it takes less than 4 seconds in Google to find a snap on cam, you can use BT or USB, your choice, that will face any way you like and have a HELL of a lot better resolution over the tablet cam as long as you don't buy the cheapo shit.
But its NOT the users i see pushing for this shit, its the manufacturers because they see mobile as a cash cow where they control the ecosystem and even when you upgrade, simply by making the latest and greatest not supported on that phone or tablet model. Most users i talk to have no desire to do everything on some itty bitty phone screen and they treat tablets like big PMPs, hell the ONLY reason I would argue that laptops and PCs in general is facing a downturn is the core wars have made even the $300 Worst Buy special insanely overpowered compared to what folks actually do so they simply see no reason to upgrade.
But you can't stuff 50 pounds of shit in a 20 pound sack and you can't get a comfortable typing experience on these little fuckers, you just can't. Hell most of my customers had a hard time typing on the 7 and 10 inch netbooks,the 12 inchers seeming to be the sweet spot, these little micro bastards just ain't gonna cut it friend, they just suck for anything longer than a tweet.
Bingo, which is why I have been saying for years we need a "people's car/truck" that runs on diesel (so we can switch to biodiesel down the road) and which gets 40 MPG and sells for less than $25k, after which we THEN offer tax breaks and hell if we gotta just even swap for all the old clunkers that the poor are using which just belch and smoke and blow through gas.
If you have looked at the figures the USA gets a pitiful 14 MPG and it ALL comes down to the poor driving gas hogs, hell even I'm guilty of this as i have two teen boys and an elderly mother whose meds seem to go up if you look at 'em crossways so no way I'm getting rid of my 99 Ranger that runs like new even though...heck its a Ford, Ford and gas mileage just has never gone together so I'm getting MAYBE 19 MPG on a good day.
But if you get rid of the hogs NOW we could cut our usage nearly in half which then buys us more time to work on alternatives like bio-diesel. A win/win in my book.
No sadly he is just stating the truth, a company that "gives away" its product is just gonna have a harder time when it comes to damages VS a company that is charging a set dollar amount.
We could sit here all day arguing about "commies vs money whores" but the simple fact is that FOSS companies? Really not setting any awards when it comes to damages and with a company like this if you don't damage the shit out of their wallets they'll just write it off as "the cost of doing business" and go on their merry way.
You joke (or half joke, can never tell on the net) but THIS, this right here, is why the PC and laptop will NEVER die, trying to input text on one of these little devices is an exercise in frustration and irritation. Hell I'm a two fingered typist (got some fingers broke in a bike wreck and while they play bass decently the curve that the joints are set in don't respond well to typing) and I can positively fly low on a regular keyboard compared to a 100 WPM touch typist on one of those little mini-key jobs, which needless to say is frustrating as hell for them. Dragging along a BT keyboard of course becomes more bulky and a bigger PITA than just carrying a little laptop so we are right back where we started.
I've seen everything from virtual keyboards to the "spin the thing until it lands on the right letter" and frankly nothing has even come close to a full size keyboard and until they do i just don't see anybody giving up their desktops and laptops, no matter how much the OEMs (and MSFT) want to force us onto "ecosystems" where they control everything and get a cut of every sale, it might be good for them but the interface just sucks.
Well they can push all they want, working in a little shop that does a lot of home theater installs i see what folks are buying and its a mix of 720p and 1080p at anywhere from 32in to 50in (with 42in being the sweet spot, but we have a lot of apt dwellers so that makes sense) and no 3D TVs in sight, folks would rather get a larger screen than pay for the 3D capable screen AND pay for extra glasses for something that the content just isn't there. I hear they make a few 3D Blu Ray but since most folks here are still on DVD (Have no desire to re-buy their movie collections, can't say as I blame 'em) the content just isn't there.
What amazes me (maybe because I'm a greybeard) is that folks don't know this is the second or third time they have pushed 3D TV and it never goes anywhere, I remember checking out 3D TV demos in the 80s and for awhile in the late 90s Nvidia pushed 3D TV using their cards and special glasses that IIRC plugged into the card or the PC somehow, both cases nobody cared so the content wasn't there so even less than nobody cared.
With 4K its gonna be even worse than 3D conversion as the vast majority of the entire history of cinema isn't in 4K and never was so they'd have to use some upscaling which IMHO never looks that hot, and I don't see enough filmmakers using 4K until the cams come down from butt puckeringly expensive, I hear one of the 4K RED cam setups is north of a mil for everything you need to support the thing while a regular cam is $100k, pretty big diff there, so I just don't see it happening. This is BD all over again where the majority just does not care and I don't see them coming up with a way to make them care honestly, I really don't.
Well so much for that, thanks anyway. Why anybody is still making IPV4 only routers I don't know, this is one place where the gov really should step in and say "That's it, IPV6 capable or its not brought in" because all an IPV4 router is now is landfill fodder, its pretty damned obvious most places will have IPV6 rolled out in 4 years or less, probably less as the addresses run out.
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Why is this labeled troll when its true? RMS jerked off for years and years and never could get Hurd to work and when Linux took off he tried to jump in and take credit, same as he says he "blessed" the forks of eMacs and GCC when IRL the forks were to get away from him because he was holding them back. The simple fact of the matter is you could remove 100% of the GNU stuff from Linux and it will run just fine, remove all the Linux from the GNU stuff and its worthless.
And BTW why does everyone listen to this guy at all anymore after this video came out? Just because the guy had ONE good idea in the GPL does NOT make him a gift to all things FOSS and that video should have ended any thoughts of taking him seriously, after his bragging about being a squatter at MIT (his words) or his "surfing" by using a daemon to fetch pages and ship them to his email on his netbook...which in and of itself is a joke as he has gotten so damned militant that even the OLPC given to him by the foundation wasn't free enough, the ONLY system on the entire planet that met his definition of "free" is a cheapo Chinese craptop from Loongson running MIPS.
But for those that haven't figured it out the reason the press keep sticking a mike in RMS' direction is no different than how they find the fat girl in rollers and a bathrobe to talk about a disaster, they know RMS is batshit and will give them some nice flaming bullshit that will make for good clickbait, but the guy gets more and more batshit and frankly makes the whole FOSS movement look like militant freaks. if there HAS to be a figurehead for FOSS why not Eric Raymond or Torvalds himself? at least they always come up with intelligent arguments and aren't eating toe funk on stage.
As far as RMS goes "I won't be glad he's dead but I'll be glad he's gone" as he is a GNUsense and is the most divisive person I've ever had the misfortune to hear.
Well that is a double edged sword, one of the reasons they opened their specs is because they knew they were about to do a major change to the arch (all cards before 7xxx are VLIW, 7xxx and above are all vector based) and it was simply too expensive to pay a group of devs to support their dead end VLIW tech while the main group worked on vector GPU and APU.
But with 3 HD4850s in my family that are now EOLed as long as the drivers still work? I'm a happy little camper, not like they are gonna squeeze any more performance out of a 5 year old card anyway. But if you wanna bitch at somebody bitch at Torvalds and the fucked up way he has drivers set up on Linux, NOBODY does it that way but him and that is why I can load up a 4 year old Windows driver and it'll run fine whereas a 1 year old Linux driver probably won't work, he set it up all stupid.
Because the average user is a huge market whereas those using niche applications for corner cases are naturally...well niche use cases?
While i would love nothing more than the average user that comes into the shop to need some hexacore or octocore with a monster GPU, as i just love playing with the latest tech, in reality the vast majority that walk through my door would be hard pressed to stress out that entry level Athlon triple with a low end HD5450 that I sell as a base model. Because of this naturally i sell a hell of a lot more base models than i do monster rigs so more of my business is gonna be focused on those customers since they bring in the most sales.
Its really just good business sense which is why I applauded when AMD stopped from making the high end GPUs first and then figuring out how to cut them down but instead went to make mainstream chips that they can then double for the high end market as there just isn't enough buying the really top o' the line stuff to make them the central focus, as much as we PC gamers would wish it were different.
Haven't looked at the latest cards, have you? One of the reasons that AMD went with GCN over their previous VLIW design is that GCN allows for core parking, with core parking when you are doing non GPU intensive jobs the GPU can put to sleep all the cores you no longer need thus bringing the wattage and heat WAY down, down almost to IGP levels without having to be stuck with only IGP levels of performance.
And as far as noise goes most of the cards have a passively cooled variant, can't get more quiet than that and again without giving up the huge performance advantage the discrete cards give you.
I can, try a hardware accelerated desktop in Win 7 or 8 and then try the same without the acceleration, with will be MUCH more responsive and snappy. Also by taking some of that load off the CPU you leave more cycles for the jobs that the user cares about, another benefit.
Yeah but last I checked even a lousy $30 discrete just curbstomps them and likewise the AMD APUs beat them pretty badly in the GPU dept.
So unless they pulled a rabbit out of their hat I'll be telling folks the same thing I have always said about Intel IGPs, which is good for office units and not much else. I mean sure for spreadsheets and basic video they are fine, but IMHO you are better off getting even a low end discrete over using the Intel IGP.
And what is wrong with that? Didn't the FOSS community say "just open the specs and we'll support it" to everyone that would listen? Well here is their chance as AMD can't afford to keep supporting an arch that is no longer used anywhere in house anymore, the old cards used VLIW 4 and the new cards use vector based GCN so its NOT a case of simply backporting, the hardware just is no longer compatible.
Nvidia can support the older cards easier as they haven't had any major changes in the way they do things, with AMD that is simply not the case.
I'm sorry but I have to call bullshit as the Windows drivers have been nothing but rock solid since AMD bought them out and cleaned up the cruft. if you are talking pre-buyout? Then sure i agree 100% as ATI couldn't write a driver to save their lives but AMD fixed the messes (requiring .NET bullshit for the driver GUI? Really ATI?) and since then I've been using AMD cards exclusively in the shop and they have been nothing but stable.
If anybody could tell you if there was a problem with the drivers it would be me as I've put everything from the low end 3200 and 4200 IGPs to the X2s to the 7770s through their paces at the shop and its been nothing but blue skies and rainbows and at home me and both the boys have HD4850s and they just purr like kittens, not a complaint one.
And I've found those that can only insult do so because they don't have anything to say that won't make them sound stupid anyway so they just go full retard. Just FYI but they make a 4 wheel drive as well as a front wheel drive or are you gonna honestly sit there and argue that its impossible to make a 4 wheel drive truck using that motor? or that after 20 years of building small trucks its impossible to make anything smaller than an F-150 now?
Doesn't really matter anyway as the USA isn't gonna do a damned thing about MPG of the country nor anything about AGW unless you count just shipping all the pollution to China for them yellow disposable people to choke on "doing something" because the entire AGW movement has been hijacked, no different than how the grass roots tea party was crushed and replaced by a corp kissing Koch Bros creation.
Honestly it doesn't matter where it is because borders may as well not exist, multinationals get better treatment no matter where you go. Again just like the barons of the middle ages or the robber barons of the 1800s there is one set of laws for them, a different set of laws for you, and things that would have a peasant thrown in PMITA prison gets swept under the rug or just plain ignored if it involves one of the new ruling class.
Do you still believe in the wonders of the drugs known as "bath salts" which you wrote so many glowing reviews about?
Look at the poster below you, he paid $25k for his new car that meets all of the requirements. Slap that powertrain into a Ranger size work truck and there ya go, a "people's car/truck" that meets all the requirements NOW and would drop our usage in half NOW by simply getting the poor out of the older gas hogs and into those. I would then make it so that anybody whose main or only vehicle got less than 25 MPG would get a huge discount and if they made less than a certain amount a year, lets say twice the poverty level, then they would be eligible to swap their pig for this one.
if we were to do this along with some other common sense solutions, like making asphalt light colored so roads wouldn't be giant heat sinks and mandating all roofs be a light color so as to reflect more light than absorb? We could see some real progress made but sadly as long as the leeches like Goldman Sachs can't figure out how to make out like Gods from it it just won't be done.
Well the margins are better on installs and HTPC setups that is for sure, if you don't mind another bit of advice? Really easy way to sell folks on 'em is to have a couple set up to let them play with, I try to keep an "entry" level and a "mainstream" level while telling them the sky is the limit on how bad ass they want it. For the entry I have something like this that is just great for your web surfing, video, and casual gaming (although frankly if you buy the parts separate you can get 'em even cheaper, amazon sells the board for $70 and the HTPC cases are pretty cheap) and for the midrange something like this triple or one of their mainstream APUs although I tend to lean towards the Athlon triples as not only can you pair them with a cheap ACC board like an entry Asrock and have a nearly 70% unlock rate (at least that is what I've been seeing, which makes sense as their quad cores have been out for awhile and the tech mature) but you can pick up a $30 refurb HD4770 or HD4830/4850 and have the thing playing Just Cause II and Batman AA demos which just cause folks to drool. Again its cheaper to get the parts separate but seeing the killer 3D game demos playing? Makes it an easy sell, just slap in steam in BPM with some cool demos and they WILL be drooling.
Now as for 48 FPS? I saw a review of the Hobbit by Diamanda Hagan of all people (normally reviews all the mondo bizarre stuff, but her wife is a huge fan of the books so she jumped in) that made a lot of sense. what she said was "The thing people need to remember is that we have been at 24 FPS for nearly a century now, even a small time director like me can tell you that there are schools that teach you film making but its all based on 24 FPS and the steadycam guys alone have spent YEARS, literally years, learning how to pace every single movement they make around 24FPS. Not only that but the lighting people have been trained on proper lighting for 24 FPS, all the makeup..well look at how fake early ST:TNG or DS9 looks on Blue Ray and it wasn't like they went cheap on their effects, it is simply the fact that TV resolution covered up a lot that BD brings into sharp and ugly focus. What people need to understand is this is NOT gonna be an overnight change, its literally gonna take years to learn how to make films properly at 48 FPS because you are pretty much having to throw out a century of teaching and experience and start over, this is gonna be a huge fundamental shift in the way things are done and that is just gonna take a LOT of time"
And if you think about it that makes perfect sense, as all of your film team is gonna have all this exp with the 24 FPS/1080P way of doing things and then suddenly BAM! All your effects look shitty, your pacing seems "off" your set design and costumes are gonna look like a HS play thanks to all the little details that wouldn't have been noticeable before is right there for all to see, so I wouldn't be surprised if some of the first 4K movies end up making people a little sick as the filmmakers have to basically relearn their craft.
Finally as far as 3D goes? I'm already starting to see backlash from the bloggers and critics, even the ones that were originally fine with 3D, so i have a feeling just like in the 50s, 70s, and 90s its about to die out again. i give it another year, maybe 2, and then i have a feeling it'll just peter out like it did before. I recently saw a piece with a studio experimenting with force feedback in the seats so that you could for instance "feel" a shotgun blast and unlike 3D anybody can use this without getting a blinding headache so I wouldn't be surprised to see the studios embrace that or some other gimmick. After all in the end all they want is something that will put butts in seats while letting them charge more and get away with it and 3D will always
Because in case you ain't figured it out friend classism is alive and well in the 21st century, its just wealth has taken the place of birth titles. Its the same result either way, the peasants get one set of laws and the large corps and the wealthy get a different much nicer set.
Hell wasn't it the UK where we saw the MAFIAA altering evidence and they didn't even get a slap on the wrist, nor was the damages against the peasant set aside? if that would have been you then you'd be rotting in a cell right now with an obstruction charge but again because corps like the barons and counts in the old days are just "better class of people" than you they don't even get a slap on the wrist.
Yeah but then you get into a whole nother problem...how much do you have to change to get away with it? I mean there are several bunches that legally have their own spinoffs of FF, Iceweasel by Debian, IceDragon by Comodo, hell there is Pale Moon that is just a guy that wanted an optimized FF and of course under GPL all of that is fine since they aren't using the trademarks, just the GPLed code.
I mean courts have already said Apple can't own the letter "i" or be able to sue anybody who isn't in electronics who happen to have an Apple for a logo, so how much would it take? Surely no court would rule that FF can own the word "Fire" so I bet all they would have to do is change the animal and the logos and they'd be clear of trademarks and lets face it, most folks aren't gonna know what the icon is for FF so they could call it firefalcon or firehunter and many wouldn't know without being told.
Hell i had one customer that kept asking me to "be sure to install bluebird" and I was thinking "WTF is bluebird?" and when i said it out loud in front of my mom she said "Oh she means that blue bird net thingie, like you gave me"...and pointed to the seamonkey logo. I guess to older folks that looks like a bluebird to them, just goes to show that you can never tell what somebody is gonna associate as far as name and app. I wouldn't be surprised if they used a swirly kinda similar to FF they could call it smoking monkey for all it would matter.
How EXACTLY does it do that? And do NOT say the "many eyes" myth as I can show how that one is a myth simply by using common sense and how many LOC you are talking about in your average distro. Hell have YOU done a code audit of FF, Gimp, LO, or any of the other applications that you use?
While FOSS does have its benefits, the main one being that nobody can just abandon a program or force you to upgrade as long as some devs are willing to support it, see KDE Classic for example, finding malware? NOT one of the benefits. Hell we are talking about government spying programs, not script kiddies, so one look at the entries in the obfuscated C contest should show you that your average programmer wouldn't find the shit unless they were specifically told it was there, so just saying that "because the code is out there SOMEBODY has to have done an audit" means exactly jack and squat.>
5 will get you 10 a good 80%+ of the code that goes into your average distro hasn't been looked at by anybody but the programmers themselves, see that infected Quake 3 that sat on damned near every repo for a year and a half or the KDE screensaver bug where it turned out a large chunk of the KDE screensavers hosted at places like KDELook were infected with malware, nobody looked at any of that code for ages and if somebody hadn't looked at their firewall and noticed weird activity (no different than they would have done with non FOSS programs) those would still be infecting folks to this day, it was only AFTER somebody caught the activity that the code was checked for malware. To my knowledge there has never been malware found by just looking at the source code, at least I've never heard of it.
Mind some advice? Next time check out TCL TVs on Amazon. I had a customer that just raved about his TCL (I don't sell the sets, I do the set-ups and sell HTPCs and media tanks to go with 'em) and checking his out...nice picture, damned nice. I ended up picking up one for my mom, had it on my doorstep in 2 days and yeah...great picture, clear sound, its a nice set and pretty damned reasonable on the price.
But where I'm at I pretty much get all walks of life so its pretty easy to gauge the pulse of what the buying public cares about and 3D TV? Really do NOT care a bit. Even the couple I saw that ended up with one (because they couldn't find a set in the size they wanted except a 3D unit) never used the 3D, its just a wasted feature as far as they are concerned.
I do have to wonder if 4K is gonna end up making folks sick like the 3D does, I had a couple of friends see the Hobbit in 48 frames and they said it made them queasy, and that is what I've found when it comes to 3D that there is always one or more family members that 3D makes them queasy so that is the end of that.
The bug, if built with a diesel? Would probably work, but you'd really need to have a small truck to go along with it. There is a reason why Ford is having to wait for Orken to be done with it before they put the last ranger in the museum, its because those little Fords and Chevys make damned good work trucks.
But what is sad is what I'm proposing? It isn't some pie in the sky program requiring tech that isn't off the drawing boards, its all doable NOW with current tech. Can we build a diesel that gets good gas mileage? Yep, can we build something at that price point? I don't see why not, Kia sells cars for a similar price.
The problem is because the leeches at the top that just HAVE to make out like Gods on anything getting done can't figure out how to get their kickbacks so it just doesn't get done, instead we get pointless bullshit proposed like carbon credits which will reward companies for moving to China (since there is ZERO penalty for having things made in a non carbon treaty nation like China) while letting those at the top like Goldman Sachs leech to their black heart's content.
If you want to get right down to it this is why you can't do anything in the states anymore, between the beltway and wall street you got too many hands out wanting their cut for anything to get done that would actually work, just too many thieves and not enough pockets to rob so instead we'll do nothing.
And you NEED a back facing camera...why exactly? hell if i know but it takes less than 4 seconds in Google to find a snap on cam, you can use BT or USB, your choice, that will face any way you like and have a HELL of a lot better resolution over the tablet cam as long as you don't buy the cheapo shit.
But its NOT the users i see pushing for this shit, its the manufacturers because they see mobile as a cash cow where they control the ecosystem and even when you upgrade, simply by making the latest and greatest not supported on that phone or tablet model. Most users i talk to have no desire to do everything on some itty bitty phone screen and they treat tablets like big PMPs, hell the ONLY reason I would argue that laptops and PCs in general is facing a downturn is the core wars have made even the $300 Worst Buy special insanely overpowered compared to what folks actually do so they simply see no reason to upgrade.
But you can't stuff 50 pounds of shit in a 20 pound sack and you can't get a comfortable typing experience on these little fuckers, you just can't. Hell most of my customers had a hard time typing on the 7 and 10 inch netbooks,the 12 inchers seeming to be the sweet spot, these little micro bastards just ain't gonna cut it friend, they just suck for anything longer than a tweet.
Bingo, which is why I have been saying for years we need a "people's car/truck" that runs on diesel (so we can switch to biodiesel down the road) and which gets 40 MPG and sells for less than $25k, after which we THEN offer tax breaks and hell if we gotta just even swap for all the old clunkers that the poor are using which just belch and smoke and blow through gas.
If you have looked at the figures the USA gets a pitiful 14 MPG and it ALL comes down to the poor driving gas hogs, hell even I'm guilty of this as i have two teen boys and an elderly mother whose meds seem to go up if you look at 'em crossways so no way I'm getting rid of my 99 Ranger that runs like new even though...heck its a Ford, Ford and gas mileage just has never gone together so I'm getting MAYBE 19 MPG on a good day.
But if you get rid of the hogs NOW we could cut our usage nearly in half which then buys us more time to work on alternatives like bio-diesel. A win/win in my book.
So they'll just switch the name to "foxfire" and most folks won't know the damned difference anyway.
No sadly he is just stating the truth, a company that "gives away" its product is just gonna have a harder time when it comes to damages VS a company that is charging a set dollar amount.
We could sit here all day arguing about "commies vs money whores" but the simple fact is that FOSS companies? Really not setting any awards when it comes to damages and with a company like this if you don't damage the shit out of their wallets they'll just write it off as "the cost of doing business" and go on their merry way.
You joke (or half joke, can never tell on the net) but THIS, this right here, is why the PC and laptop will NEVER die, trying to input text on one of these little devices is an exercise in frustration and irritation. Hell I'm a two fingered typist (got some fingers broke in a bike wreck and while they play bass decently the curve that the joints are set in don't respond well to typing) and I can positively fly low on a regular keyboard compared to a 100 WPM touch typist on one of those little mini-key jobs, which needless to say is frustrating as hell for them. Dragging along a BT keyboard of course becomes more bulky and a bigger PITA than just carrying a little laptop so we are right back where we started.
I've seen everything from virtual keyboards to the "spin the thing until it lands on the right letter" and frankly nothing has even come close to a full size keyboard and until they do i just don't see anybody giving up their desktops and laptops, no matter how much the OEMs (and MSFT) want to force us onto "ecosystems" where they control everything and get a cut of every sale, it might be good for them but the interface just sucks.
Well they can push all they want, working in a little shop that does a lot of home theater installs i see what folks are buying and its a mix of 720p and 1080p at anywhere from 32in to 50in (with 42in being the sweet spot, but we have a lot of apt dwellers so that makes sense) and no 3D TVs in sight, folks would rather get a larger screen than pay for the 3D capable screen AND pay for extra glasses for something that the content just isn't there. I hear they make a few 3D Blu Ray but since most folks here are still on DVD (Have no desire to re-buy their movie collections, can't say as I blame 'em) the content just isn't there.
What amazes me (maybe because I'm a greybeard) is that folks don't know this is the second or third time they have pushed 3D TV and it never goes anywhere, I remember checking out 3D TV demos in the 80s and for awhile in the late 90s Nvidia pushed 3D TV using their cards and special glasses that IIRC plugged into the card or the PC somehow, both cases nobody cared so the content wasn't there so even less than nobody cared.
With 4K its gonna be even worse than 3D conversion as the vast majority of the entire history of cinema isn't in 4K and never was so they'd have to use some upscaling which IMHO never looks that hot, and I don't see enough filmmakers using 4K until the cams come down from butt puckeringly expensive, I hear one of the 4K RED cam setups is north of a mil for everything you need to support the thing while a regular cam is $100k, pretty big diff there, so I just don't see it happening. This is BD all over again where the majority just does not care and I don't see them coming up with a way to make them care honestly, I really don't.
Well so much for that, thanks anyway. Why anybody is still making IPV4 only routers I don't know, this is one place where the gov really should step in and say "That's it, IPV6 capable or its not brought in" because all an IPV4 router is now is landfill fodder, its pretty damned obvious most places will have IPV6 rolled out in 4 years or less, probably less as the addresses run out.