Nope Intel offers millions in bribes....err i man "advertising partnerships" to get benchmark companies and triple A games they think are gonna be big to use ICC.
If you want to see how big a difference using ICC makes over a CPU agnostic compiler like GCC makes? Look at these Vishera benchmarks and then go look at the other sits using windows benches...funny how many of those using windows benches have such horrible scores (one even had the i3 beating the 8350, yeah and my mama is a car) while Linux magically has the FX-8s performing exactly as you would expect them to right between the i5 and i7 depending on how heavily threaded the load is.
Or if you want something really in depth? Just type in "Intel cripple compiler" into your favorite search engine and you will find dozens of pages of researchers testing the Intel compiler and seeing how badly it rigs the code, hell one even took a Via CPU (the only CPU you can softmod the CPUID) and just by changing it to "Genuine Intel" suddenly that Via chip magically gains 35% in benches!
The hilarious part? Intel tried to claim they were merely "optimizing for their own designs because they know what they can do" but the researchers blew that all to hell because the first chip to be crippled? NOT an AMD but...an Intel! The first P4s were getting its ass royally kicked by the cheaper P3s running at the same clock speeds, Intel releases ICC, pays a ton to get benchmark companies to use it and...voila! The next year the exact same P4s against the exact same P3s and the P4s won by nearly 30%! Isn't that amazing?
Don't forget blocking Nvidia from making chipets for Intel chips thus driving Nvidia out of the motherboard business, rigging benches with ICC, and large payments to several gaming companies to get them to use ICC to compile their games. I'm personally betting for their next trick now that Threadripper is tearing them a new asshole they will release a "super cripple" ICC that will make Ryzen chips perform worse than Netburst, after all nobody has bothered asking whether the games Intel is supposedly beating Ryzen with are compiled with ICC, wanna bet that they are?
If there was ever a company that needed to be broken up because of illegal market rigging? Its Intel, they make Gates era MSFT look like it was run by the Care Bears. How the CEO of Intel didn't end up in prison only shows that there is one set of laws for rich people and one set for poor.
Exactly! there is a BIG fricking difference than having a character who simply happens to be "x" than one whose entire reason for being is to be "x". A perfect example of doing it right? Heimdall in the Thor movies. Nobody gives a shit that he is black because he is a well written character who just so happens to be black. He is brave, loyal to his friends, willing to charge in despite extreme danger, one tough SOB. Nobody cares about his skin color because it simply isn't relevant to the story or the character it is simply a trait like being tall or strong which frankly is how it should be if we actually care about people being treated as equals and not objects.
Contrast this with how Hollywood portrays gay people which is still so cringe its pathetic, they always seem to go full Will & Grace stereotype gay. They can't just let a person be a person who just so happens to be gay, nope its "hey did you know I'm gay? Because i'm totally gay, yup as gay as gay can be uh huh that is me" which I have no doubt we'll look back in 20 years and see this virtue signaling for what it is...as racist as anything Amos and Andy did back in the day because they aren't allowed to just be people,normal folks with thoughts and fears and anxieties like everybody else, nope they have to go "magical negro" only its "super happy gay friend".
So if its a case of the Doctor simply ending up with a gender swap this regen, looking down saying something snarky and then moving on like "Oh well at least I'm not white haired anymore, it was making me feel dreadfully old" then it will be great....but considering how many times I've seen the word "diversity" thrown in there which in left wing speak always translates to "hey we're gonna be racist/sexist now, gotta fly the flag and show we are loyal to the cause"? I have a feeling we are gonna be in for some serious cringe.
lets just hope they don't end up killing the show because as we have seen people are REALLY getting fucking sick of being preached at and if the show becomes nothing but left wing politics and virtue signaling? I don't even see hardcore Dr Who fans wanting to tune in for their weekly dose of Who if it becomes nothing but propaganda.
That isn't what pisses me off...if the left wants to claim that the election was rigged against Shillary? Then you HAVE to investigate, which means looking at the fucking voting records!
But isn't it funny that the states having the most of a shitfit are the ones that have been accused in the past of having the "living impaired" voting democrat? I sincerely hope the courts demand that ALL states produce their data so we can see once and for all what is going on...I have a feeling there is gonna be some massive cheating alright, but it ain't gonna be the right, its gonna be the DNC ops that Project Veritas caught bragging about busing illegals to vote in multiple districts and entire cemeteries worth of corpses wearing "I'm with her" shirts shambling their rotten asses into polling booths in heavily democrat states.
Uhhh we haven't been seeing MITM attacks in ages, hell I can't even remember the last time...what we are seeing is state actors which HTTPS ain't gonna do shit about. As McAffee rightly pointed out "Its not the connection to the device its the devices themselves that we are finding are being infected at the source, their production."
And you still haven't answered the other guy who rightly points out why having the Internet require third parties to "vet you" is a BAD IDEA, hell look at Facebook and Twitter censoring and banning those on the right while not saying shit about the "I wish jews and whites would just die!" BLM activists to see why its waaaay too easy for someone to use such a system to push a narrative.
So far you have only offered a nebulous "there MIGHT be a threat maybe" as a positive while completing ignoring a LOT of downsides...sorry but your arguments so far are quite weak and wholly unconvincing...care to try again and answer some of the downsides? Because I'm sure that even you would admit a company like "lets encrypt" run by a whole bunch of companies that have either been caught bowing to governments in the past (Cisco) or make their money spying (Google) is more than a little "problematic".
Glad to see I'm not the only one going "WTH?". I mean can anybody explain to me why the static page I'm looking at with 70s Mego figures NEEDS to be HTTPS? How about the one I'm looking at with the history of Squier guitars? Anyone? Beuller?
For every page that could use HTTPS I'm sure there are at least 1000 where it makes no damned sense at all. If the page is static, you don't log into anything there, its just good old txt and jpg...what good is HTTPS gonna do it?
They are riding two stroke instead of the much cleaner four stroke and that is what is making all the pollution. If you have never owned a two stroke they smoke like crazy, picture a chainsaw motor on 2 wheels and you have an idea how a two stroke bike engine belches smoke.
But yet again its a case of "we have to DO something!" instead of "we have to do something SMART" because the SMART thing to do would be to push four stroke bikes and hybrids NOT simply ban bikes, instead I'm sure this bill treats an electric bike no differently than a two stroke thus effectively banning the solution.
Here is a perfect example of why Linux was never a real competitor to OSX and Windows, instead of actually investing their time and money into an already established OS? Lets just follow a lame trend so old its an XKCD joke.
Because this is EXACTLY what Linux needed, yet another distro with just enough changes to make it incompatible with everyone else...sigh. Can you imagine how kick ass Linux would have been if instead of reinventing the damned wheel 600+ times everyone got together and invested their time into simply making ONE DISTRO that was the absolute best, cleanest, and bug free OS they could possibly build? It would make OSX and Windows look like DOS!
But no, instead we have SSDD, one of 600+ distros to pile on distrowatch which will probably either be dead in less than 3 years or have less users than win98 in 2017, because God forbid people actually work together for the common good instead of more NIH bullshit...sigh.
If we follow your logic we get to blame Linus Torvalds for everything from kernel panics to Heartbleed, it IS his OS after all.
Of course for those of us living in reality and not la la land we all know that OSes are some of the most complex pieces of software ever written, millions upon millions of lines of code that not only has to manage hardware as diverse as a maker board to huge server clusters but also provide the foundation upon which hundreds of thousands of pieces of software is built upon.
Anybody who thinks something as complex as a full featured (as opposed to some stripped down embedded OS) Operating System can be made 100% bug free? Is a fucking idiot that knows jack shit about how OSes actually work or a bleating fanboy desperately trying to wave his little flag for the OS of his choice by attacking the perceived competition, probably because he has serious self esteem issues....so which are you?
Hell they could have done the old "drop a couple flash sticks in the parking lot next to where the PHBs park" trick, you'd be fricking amazed at how often stupid people will just pick up a stick from God knows where and stick it into their PCs.
One thing is for sure whomever they had that didn't make sure they had functional backups, be it IT, be it an MBA (Masters of Being Assholes) that didn't pay for the gear and/or manpower IT needed to have backups, or legal who didn't write a "the user is responsible for their own backups" clause in the contract should be so very FIRED because this is seriously Mickey Mouse amateur hour shit.
I know I won't be buying anymore Take A Deuce games (already had all the GTAs but V and was planning on getting it during the big Steam Summer Sale) because of how big a difference in game quality and length there is between modded and unmodded games.
Take one of my favorite games Freelancer as an example...if you simply play that game vanilla? Then you'll probably get 5-8 hours of gameplay and it'll be linear as can be, but then you start adding the mods and....wow, just wow. Suddenly you have dozens of populated solar systems and factions and alliances and a large MP community. You can actually ROLEPLAY in the modded FL, you can be a miner or a smuggler, a pirate or a bounty hunter, having to watch which territory you are entering in case you are allied with the wrong faction, it turns what was just a straight space action game into much more of an RPG and all that content, dozens of hours worth and still growing? 100% free.
So I won't have games from a company that is modding hostile, off is the direction Take a Deuce can fuck.
Because you are running custom ISA cards driven by custom software and FreeDOS doesn't support any of that?
I've had to throw together Pentium Is for a mill that has a CNC that does very intricate custom columns, the kind of stuff you see in mansions...unfortunately the company that made the hardware went out of business in the mid 80s and with that particular setup it would ONLY run on DOS 3 and ONLY on a system below 233Mhz so I was severely limited in my options but I have run into setups with laser cutters and the like where you could get the controller software to run on 32bit Win 7 with some futzing, 64bit? Not a chance in hell. and when you look up the costs of replacing these systems? Its the kind of numbers that can kill a SMB, we're talking serious 6 figures for a single unit.
So yeah I can see why MSFT still does 32bit in 2017, its because so few realize just how many extremely expensive mission critical hardware runs on 32bit but for whatever reason (company went OOB, company refuses to update trying to force new hardware sales,hell with one large commercial printer I had to build some 32bit systems to support the company had gone through so many hands that frankly there was nobody left who knew enough to support the older units) simply cannot get what they have to have running on 64bit.
After all what good is having a 64bit OS if it leaves your employees sitting on ass because crucial hardware can no longer be used?
Actually the newer laptops with decent hardware, which is what you'd want if you want something that would compete with a Mac? Have surprisingly good touchpads.
A good place to start is the lower end Asus or MSI "gaming" laptops, they have i5s or i7s, decent Nvidia dedicated graphics, between 12-16Gb of RAM (and most can hold 32gb) and cost around half a Macbook while having better hardware. If you want to go nuts? They have i7 monsters for around $1200 that have pretty much every bell and whistle you can want and even though they have the "gamer" tag all that means is that you have powerful enough hardware that if you are a non gamer it should easily give you more than enough power to make you happy for many years.
And if you want to go cheaper or not be stuck with the gamer label the Lenovo Ideapad 700 had a nice trackpad, i5, 12Gb of RAM and a 4Gb Nvidia GPU, just perfect for a Hackentosh. So give a few of the new systems a try, you might like them.
Why can't you go that way on a laptop? If OSX runs then OSX runs and it'll give you a copy of Windows in case you need to boot into Windows for some piece of hardware or software.
I frankly never understood why anybody would want a Macbook after the switch to Intel, Apple has always been sooooo slow WRT updating the hardware and with a Hackentosh easily doable you can have OSX on hardware that isn't behind the curve.
Have you tried running one of the stripped down Linux builds on it? I keep win 8.1 on my netbook for compatibility with certain software and hardware I often need on service calls but when I'm just surfing, watching vids, etc? I run Porteus. Its lightweight on resources, fast, and the best part is its designed to run from flash media so I can just keep it on an SD card and not mess with my 8.1 install.
As one cheap old geezer to another ya can't get cheaper than free, all you need is an old flash stick or in my case a 4Gb MicroSD I had lying around from my last phone paired with a MicroSD to SD adapter. I'm sure you have something like that sitting in a drawer somewhere and with Porteus you can try and if you don't like it? It hasn't affected anything.
Hmmm...where did I hear that same horseshit before? Oh yeah MSFT at the antitrust trial over IE.
Thanks for just providing a perfect example of the hypocrisy, because if a MS spokesman or even fan claimed the same shit you are shoveling when it came to MSFT using the same shit that Bonzibuddy used to shove their browser and make it default, lock OEMs into contracts where they cannot remove gapps (again EXACTLY what MSFT did with the OEM contracts insuring IE was the only browser that came on windows desktops) and going one further and making it so you have to find a way to jailbreak the system just to remove their programs? Everyone would be screaming antitrust as loud as they could.
Again just another example of the blatant hypocrisy when it comes to Google, because if MSFT tried to pull that shit? I guarantee you and everyone else here would be screaming bloody murder!
Amazon isn't a monopoly, Google is. Remember boys and girls antitrust laws say that a monopoly does NOT have to be 100% of the market, just that they are so large and powerful they can wield undue influence on the market...and I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that doesn't think Google has reached that size.
Tell that to all the people that got Chrome shoved onto their system and made the default when they downloaded a completely unrelated program like CCleaner or Java. And how about how they bundle gapps into Android and make it impossible to remove...hmm, where did I see that before? Oh yeah windows and IE. They even ripped a page straight from the MSFT playbook as OEMs can't simply release Android devices free of gapps thanks to the nasty contracts Google pushes.
If MSFT was pulling that shit? People here would be screaming for an investigation and fines....hypocrisy thy name is Slashdot.
You mean like Heartbleed or Shellshock? Or how about the one that not only affected Linux PCs but also affected every Android device from 4.4 on up thus leaving tens of millions vulnerable on devices that will never be patched? Or how about when the Linux Mint site was serving malware? Like that?
Joke all you want about MSFT but at least their OS gets 10 years of patches, you don't see tens of millions of Windows machines at risk because MSFT won't provide patches. Oh and just FYI since the Linux community was so quick to claim "Android is Linux!" you might want to know that by that metric Linux infections are skyrocketing while windows infections are dropping like a stone making Linux the most malware ridden OS on mobile networks which it has been for 3 years running now...congrats!
Well TBF a lot of other banking apps have been pulled, the AE BlueBird app for just one instance. If your bank still supports WinPhone? Great, but a lot of banks don't anymore. As for why? Because it costs money to patch the WinPhone apps and update them to the latest protocols and with so few users per bank (you have to figure you have maybe 5% of WinPhone users that use a particular bank) so that really isn't a bunch of users for the amount of work.
But for the general apps? They can be used by a lot more users and costs nothing to just leave where they are, no point in pulling them.
Exactly all the Lumia owners are still generating revenue through ads and it costs virtually nothing to just leave the storefront up, what with MSFT owning the servers, so why would they take it down? Hell they still have patches and pages up for Win98SE if you know where to look simply because it costs nothing to host a couple Mb worth of files on a server.
And I think Lumia owners won't be losing anymore third party apps either because the ones that require updates? Have already been dropped. Your banking apps and other apps that require constant security updates are already gone so what you have left is screen scrapers like the weather apps and games...again none of these really need any support and they generate revenue from ads so what would be the point in pulling them?
So I'd say Lumia owners have at least 2-3 years left if MSFT comes out with something new, if they don't? Well I've downloaded Win2K patches from MSFT in 2012 so as long as they are getting some revenue from the remaining owners they have no reason to pull the plug.
Oh give me a break! They were trying to push a low fat high fiber diet which is great for 50 year olds but for poor kids whose school lunch may be the only decent meal they get? Not so much. Remember these are FOR KIDS, kids that are burning energy and growing...growing bodies need calories and fat more than some 40 year old parked in front of a PC monitor all day.
The only thing on Obama's rules I agreed with was lowering the salt but even then I could see it causing major issues as its damned hard these days to find any processed food that isn't just loaded all to hell with salt and when you are feeding 400+ kids? You can't just pop over to the farmer's market a couple times a week for sides.
If by "rules" you mean "got a EEE pulled on them by a megacorp that turned Linux into a proprietary OS they control by cutting off support for ASOP, locking crucial APIs behind a playwall, and making GPL V3 verbotten because they can't pull a TiVo with it?" then yeah I suppose it "won" but if that is "winning" I'd sure as fuck hate to see what you would consider a loss.,/p>
Lets see if Android behaves anything like actual Linux, shall we? So you can just replace Android with any old vanilla ARM Linux build, right? Nope and in fact with each passing quarter less and less phones are able to be "rooted" (which is and of itself an insult to Linux, as having to jailbreak your own hardware is the exact opposite of open) unless you use malware like Kingoroot. You can fix it yourself, right? Nope the drivers are all black boxed and again your changes to the Android source certainly isn't gonna run on that phone you pick up in Walmart. How about the community controlling the direction of the OS, where any coder can supply changes for consideration and possibly get them integrated upstream? Bwa ha ha ha ha...not a chance in hell, Google has exactly zero fuck to give about your code or that of the community, especially since it'll probably be GPL V3 which again is verbotten precisely because they can't TiVo it.
Yeah you "won" alright, you won about as much as that Rube trying to beat the hustler playing third card monty in Times Square. Lets face it you got scammed, had, ripped off, and the truly sad part? You are actually cheering for the guy that fucked you! But don't take MY word for it, lets see what RMS and the FSF has to say...yeah not so good, unless you want to run one of only 2 now out of date phones, otherwise you might as well just be on iOS....yeah you "won" there sparky, you are just full of "win".
Why would they do that? It costs them virtually nothing to simply leave it running and continue to get the business of the users that are left, ditto for the apps that are already on there as lets face it many of the "apps" today are just glorified screen scrapers or simple data processing (such as the Weather.com app which is just grabbing the data and ads from the website) so as long as there are still even a couple hundred thousand users out there using it? its still gonna be profitable with as little as they have to support it.
And considering many places are selling Lumiz 640s for $40 which takes great pictures, gets really great battery life, has a nice clear screen and plays vids well? I can see those being hung onto for awhile. Finally look at how long MSFT has supported their failed OSes, Vista anyone? and it costs a hell of a lot more to support a full desktop OS like Vista than a lightweight version of win 10 which they are supporting anyway. So unless some major malware comes out for it (doubtful as malware writers go to where the most users are so Win10 Mobile is probably the most secure mobile OS there is right now) I wouldn't be surprised if MSFT just left things as they are until the users drop so small there won't be anyone left to care.
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Nope Intel offers millions in bribes....err i man "advertising partnerships" to get benchmark companies and triple A games they think are gonna be big to use ICC.
If you want to see how big a difference using ICC makes over a CPU agnostic compiler like GCC makes? Look at these Vishera benchmarks and then go look at the other sits using windows benches...funny how many of those using windows benches have such horrible scores (one even had the i3 beating the 8350, yeah and my mama is a car) while Linux magically has the FX-8s performing exactly as you would expect them to right between the i5 and i7 depending on how heavily threaded the load is.
Or if you want something really in depth? Just type in "Intel cripple compiler" into your favorite search engine and you will find dozens of pages of researchers testing the Intel compiler and seeing how badly it rigs the code, hell one even took a Via CPU (the only CPU you can softmod the CPUID) and just by changing it to "Genuine Intel" suddenly that Via chip magically gains 35% in benches!
The hilarious part? Intel tried to claim they were merely "optimizing for their own designs because they know what they can do" but the researchers blew that all to hell because the first chip to be crippled? NOT an AMD but...an Intel! The first P4s were getting its ass royally kicked by the cheaper P3s running at the same clock speeds, Intel releases ICC, pays a ton to get benchmark companies to use it and...voila! The next year the exact same P4s against the exact same P3s and the P4s won by nearly 30%! Isn't that amazing?
Don't forget blocking Nvidia from making chipets for Intel chips thus driving Nvidia out of the motherboard business, rigging benches with ICC, and large payments to several gaming companies to get them to use ICC to compile their games. I'm personally betting for their next trick now that Threadripper is tearing them a new asshole they will release a "super cripple" ICC that will make Ryzen chips perform worse than Netburst, after all nobody has bothered asking whether the games Intel is supposedly beating Ryzen with are compiled with ICC, wanna bet that they are?
If there was ever a company that needed to be broken up because of illegal market rigging? Its Intel, they make Gates era MSFT look like it was run by the Care Bears. How the CEO of Intel didn't end up in prison only shows that there is one set of laws for rich people and one set for poor.
Exactly! there is a BIG fricking difference than having a character who simply happens to be "x" than one whose entire reason for being is to be "x". A perfect example of doing it right? Heimdall in the Thor movies. Nobody gives a shit that he is black because he is a well written character who just so happens to be black. He is brave, loyal to his friends, willing to charge in despite extreme danger, one tough SOB. Nobody cares about his skin color because it simply isn't relevant to the story or the character it is simply a trait like being tall or strong which frankly is how it should be if we actually care about people being treated as equals and not objects.
Contrast this with how Hollywood portrays gay people which is still so cringe its pathetic, they always seem to go full Will & Grace stereotype gay. They can't just let a person be a person who just so happens to be gay, nope its "hey did you know I'm gay? Because i'm totally gay, yup as gay as gay can be uh huh that is me" which I have no doubt we'll look back in 20 years and see this virtue signaling for what it is...as racist as anything Amos and Andy did back in the day because they aren't allowed to just be people,normal folks with thoughts and fears and anxieties like everybody else, nope they have to go "magical negro" only its "super happy gay friend".
So if its a case of the Doctor simply ending up with a gender swap this regen, looking down saying something snarky and then moving on like "Oh well at least I'm not white haired anymore, it was making me feel dreadfully old" then it will be great....but considering how many times I've seen the word "diversity" thrown in there which in left wing speak always translates to "hey we're gonna be racist/sexist now, gotta fly the flag and show we are loyal to the cause"? I have a feeling we are gonna be in for some serious cringe.
lets just hope they don't end up killing the show because as we have seen people are REALLY getting fucking sick of being preached at and if the show becomes nothing but left wing politics and virtue signaling? I don't even see hardcore Dr Who fans wanting to tune in for their weekly dose of Who if it becomes nothing but propaganda.
That isn't what pisses me off...if the left wants to claim that the election was rigged against Shillary? Then you HAVE to investigate, which means looking at the fucking voting records!
But isn't it funny that the states having the most of a shitfit are the ones that have been accused in the past of having the "living impaired" voting democrat? I sincerely hope the courts demand that ALL states produce their data so we can see once and for all what is going on...I have a feeling there is gonna be some massive cheating alright, but it ain't gonna be the right, its gonna be the DNC ops that Project Veritas caught bragging about busing illegals to vote in multiple districts and entire cemeteries worth of corpses wearing "I'm with her" shirts shambling their rotten asses into polling booths in heavily democrat states.
Uhhh we haven't been seeing MITM attacks in ages, hell I can't even remember the last time...what we are seeing is state actors which HTTPS ain't gonna do shit about. As McAffee rightly pointed out "Its not the connection to the device its the devices themselves that we are finding are being infected at the source, their production."
And you still haven't answered the other guy who rightly points out why having the Internet require third parties to "vet you" is a BAD IDEA, hell look at Facebook and Twitter censoring and banning those on the right while not saying shit about the "I wish jews and whites would just die!" BLM activists to see why its waaaay too easy for someone to use such a system to push a narrative.
So far you have only offered a nebulous "there MIGHT be a threat maybe" as a positive while completing ignoring a LOT of downsides...sorry but your arguments so far are quite weak and wholly unconvincing...care to try again and answer some of the downsides? Because I'm sure that even you would admit a company like "lets encrypt" run by a whole bunch of companies that have either been caught bowing to governments in the past (Cisco) or make their money spying (Google) is more than a little "problematic".
Glad to see I'm not the only one going "WTH?". I mean can anybody explain to me why the static page I'm looking at with 70s Mego figures NEEDS to be HTTPS? How about the one I'm looking at with the history of Squier guitars? Anyone? Beuller?
For every page that could use HTTPS I'm sure there are at least 1000 where it makes no damned sense at all. If the page is static, you don't log into anything there, its just good old txt and jpg...what good is HTTPS gonna do it?
They are riding two stroke instead of the much cleaner four stroke and that is what is making all the pollution. If you have never owned a two stroke they smoke like crazy, picture a chainsaw motor on 2 wheels and you have an idea how a two stroke bike engine belches smoke.
But yet again its a case of "we have to DO something!" instead of "we have to do something SMART" because the SMART thing to do would be to push four stroke bikes and hybrids NOT simply ban bikes, instead I'm sure this bill treats an electric bike no differently than a two stroke thus effectively banning the solution.
Here is a perfect example of why Linux was never a real competitor to OSX and Windows, instead of actually investing their time and money into an already established OS? Lets just follow a lame trend so old its an XKCD joke.
Because this is EXACTLY what Linux needed, yet another distro with just enough changes to make it incompatible with everyone else...sigh. Can you imagine how kick ass Linux would have been if instead of reinventing the damned wheel 600+ times everyone got together and invested their time into simply making ONE DISTRO that was the absolute best, cleanest, and bug free OS they could possibly build? It would make OSX and Windows look like DOS!
But no, instead we have SSDD, one of 600+ distros to pile on distrowatch which will probably either be dead in less than 3 years or have less users than win98 in 2017, because God forbid people actually work together for the common good instead of more NIH bullshit...sigh.
If we follow your logic we get to blame Linus Torvalds for everything from kernel panics to Heartbleed, it IS his OS after all.
Of course for those of us living in reality and not la la land we all know that OSes are some of the most complex pieces of software ever written, millions upon millions of lines of code that not only has to manage hardware as diverse as a maker board to huge server clusters but also provide the foundation upon which hundreds of thousands of pieces of software is built upon.
Anybody who thinks something as complex as a full featured (as opposed to some stripped down embedded OS) Operating System can be made 100% bug free? Is a fucking idiot that knows jack shit about how OSes actually work or a bleating fanboy desperately trying to wave his little flag for the OS of his choice by attacking the perceived competition, probably because he has serious self esteem issues....so which are you?
Hell they could have done the old "drop a couple flash sticks in the parking lot next to where the PHBs park" trick, you'd be fricking amazed at how often stupid people will just pick up a stick from God knows where and stick it into their PCs.
One thing is for sure whomever they had that didn't make sure they had functional backups, be it IT, be it an MBA (Masters of Being Assholes) that didn't pay for the gear and/or manpower IT needed to have backups, or legal who didn't write a "the user is responsible for their own backups" clause in the contract should be so very FIRED because this is seriously Mickey Mouse amateur hour shit.
I know I won't be buying anymore Take A Deuce games (already had all the GTAs but V and was planning on getting it during the big Steam Summer Sale) because of how big a difference in game quality and length there is between modded and unmodded games.
Take one of my favorite games Freelancer as an example...if you simply play that game vanilla? Then you'll probably get 5-8 hours of gameplay and it'll be linear as can be, but then you start adding the mods and....wow, just wow. Suddenly you have dozens of populated solar systems and factions and alliances and a large MP community. You can actually ROLEPLAY in the modded FL, you can be a miner or a smuggler, a pirate or a bounty hunter, having to watch which territory you are entering in case you are allied with the wrong faction, it turns what was just a straight space action game into much more of an RPG and all that content, dozens of hours worth and still growing? 100% free.
So I won't have games from a company that is modding hostile, off is the direction Take a Deuce can fuck.
Because you are running custom ISA cards driven by custom software and FreeDOS doesn't support any of that?
I've had to throw together Pentium Is for a mill that has a CNC that does very intricate custom columns, the kind of stuff you see in mansions...unfortunately the company that made the hardware went out of business in the mid 80s and with that particular setup it would ONLY run on DOS 3 and ONLY on a system below 233Mhz so I was severely limited in my options but I have run into setups with laser cutters and the like where you could get the controller software to run on 32bit Win 7 with some futzing, 64bit? Not a chance in hell. and when you look up the costs of replacing these systems? Its the kind of numbers that can kill a SMB, we're talking serious 6 figures for a single unit.
So yeah I can see why MSFT still does 32bit in 2017, its because so few realize just how many extremely expensive mission critical hardware runs on 32bit but for whatever reason (company went OOB, company refuses to update trying to force new hardware sales,hell with one large commercial printer I had to build some 32bit systems to support the company had gone through so many hands that frankly there was nobody left who knew enough to support the older units) simply cannot get what they have to have running on 64bit.
After all what good is having a 64bit OS if it leaves your employees sitting on ass because crucial hardware can no longer be used?
Actually the newer laptops with decent hardware, which is what you'd want if you want something that would compete with a Mac? Have surprisingly good touchpads.
A good place to start is the lower end Asus or MSI "gaming" laptops, they have i5s or i7s, decent Nvidia dedicated graphics, between 12-16Gb of RAM (and most can hold 32gb) and cost around half a Macbook while having better hardware. If you want to go nuts? They have i7 monsters for around $1200 that have pretty much every bell and whistle you can want and even though they have the "gamer" tag all that means is that you have powerful enough hardware that if you are a non gamer it should easily give you more than enough power to make you happy for many years.
And if you want to go cheaper or not be stuck with the gamer label the Lenovo Ideapad 700 had a nice trackpad, i5, 12Gb of RAM and a 4Gb Nvidia GPU, just perfect for a Hackentosh. So give a few of the new systems a try, you might like them.
Why can't you go that way on a laptop? If OSX runs then OSX runs and it'll give you a copy of Windows in case you need to boot into Windows for some piece of hardware or software.
I frankly never understood why anybody would want a Macbook after the switch to Intel, Apple has always been sooooo slow WRT updating the hardware and with a Hackentosh easily doable you can have OSX on hardware that isn't behind the curve.
Have you tried running one of the stripped down Linux builds on it? I keep win 8.1 on my netbook for compatibility with certain software and hardware I often need on service calls but when I'm just surfing, watching vids, etc? I run Porteus. Its lightweight on resources, fast, and the best part is its designed to run from flash media so I can just keep it on an SD card and not mess with my 8.1 install.
As one cheap old geezer to another ya can't get cheaper than free, all you need is an old flash stick or in my case a 4Gb MicroSD I had lying around from my last phone paired with a MicroSD to SD adapter. I'm sure you have something like that sitting in a drawer somewhere and with Porteus you can try and if you don't like it? It hasn't affected anything.
Uhh you must have missed the memo as MSFT released a patch for all their no longer supported systems including XP SP2 & 3, 2K3, Vista, and Windows 8.
Hmmm...where did I hear that same horseshit before? Oh yeah MSFT at the antitrust trial over IE.
Thanks for just providing a perfect example of the hypocrisy, because if a MS spokesman or even fan claimed the same shit you are shoveling when it came to MSFT using the same shit that Bonzibuddy used to shove their browser and make it default, lock OEMs into contracts where they cannot remove gapps (again EXACTLY what MSFT did with the OEM contracts insuring IE was the only browser that came on windows desktops) and going one further and making it so you have to find a way to jailbreak the system just to remove their programs? Everyone would be screaming antitrust as loud as they could.
Again just another example of the blatant hypocrisy when it comes to Google, because if MSFT tried to pull that shit? I guarantee you and everyone else here would be screaming bloody murder!
Amazon isn't a monopoly, Google is. Remember boys and girls antitrust laws say that a monopoly does NOT have to be 100% of the market, just that they are so large and powerful they can wield undue influence on the market...and I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that doesn't think Google has reached that size.
Tell that to all the people that got Chrome shoved onto their system and made the default when they downloaded a completely unrelated program like CCleaner or Java. And how about how they bundle gapps into Android and make it impossible to remove...hmm, where did I see that before? Oh yeah windows and IE. They even ripped a page straight from the MSFT playbook as OEMs can't simply release Android devices free of gapps thanks to the nasty contracts Google pushes.
If MSFT was pulling that shit? People here would be screaming for an investigation and fines....hypocrisy thy name is Slashdot.
You mean like Heartbleed or Shellshock? Or how about the one that not only affected Linux PCs but also affected every Android device from 4.4 on up thus leaving tens of millions vulnerable on devices that will never be patched? Or how about when the Linux Mint site was serving malware? Like that?
Joke all you want about MSFT but at least their OS gets 10 years of patches, you don't see tens of millions of Windows machines at risk because MSFT won't provide patches. Oh and just FYI since the Linux community was so quick to claim "Android is Linux!" you might want to know that by that metric Linux infections are skyrocketing while windows infections are dropping like a stone making Linux the most malware ridden OS on mobile networks which it has been for 3 years running now...congrats!
Well TBF a lot of other banking apps have been pulled, the AE BlueBird app for just one instance. If your bank still supports WinPhone? Great, but a lot of banks don't anymore. As for why? Because it costs money to patch the WinPhone apps and update them to the latest protocols and with so few users per bank (you have to figure you have maybe 5% of WinPhone users that use a particular bank) so that really isn't a bunch of users for the amount of work.
But for the general apps? They can be used by a lot more users and costs nothing to just leave where they are, no point in pulling them.
Exactly all the Lumia owners are still generating revenue through ads and it costs virtually nothing to just leave the storefront up, what with MSFT owning the servers, so why would they take it down? Hell they still have patches and pages up for Win98SE if you know where to look simply because it costs nothing to host a couple Mb worth of files on a server.
And I think Lumia owners won't be losing anymore third party apps either because the ones that require updates? Have already been dropped. Your banking apps and other apps that require constant security updates are already gone so what you have left is screen scrapers like the weather apps and games...again none of these really need any support and they generate revenue from ads so what would be the point in pulling them?
So I'd say Lumia owners have at least 2-3 years left if MSFT comes out with something new, if they don't? Well I've downloaded Win2K patches from MSFT in 2012 so as long as they are getting some revenue from the remaining owners they have no reason to pull the plug.
Oh give me a break! They were trying to push a low fat high fiber diet which is great for 50 year olds but for poor kids whose school lunch may be the only decent meal they get? Not so much. Remember these are FOR KIDS, kids that are burning energy and growing...growing bodies need calories and fat more than some 40 year old parked in front of a PC monitor all day.
The only thing on Obama's rules I agreed with was lowering the salt but even then I could see it causing major issues as its damned hard these days to find any processed food that isn't just loaded all to hell with salt and when you are feeding 400+ kids? You can't just pop over to the farmer's market a couple times a week for sides.
If by "rules" you mean "got a EEE pulled on them by a megacorp that turned Linux into a proprietary OS they control by cutting off support for ASOP, locking crucial APIs behind a playwall, and making GPL V3 verbotten because they can't pull a TiVo with it?" then yeah I suppose it "won" but if that is "winning" I'd sure as fuck hate to see what you would consider a loss.,/p>
Lets see if Android behaves anything like actual Linux, shall we? So you can just replace Android with any old vanilla ARM Linux build, right? Nope and in fact with each passing quarter less and less phones are able to be "rooted" (which is and of itself an insult to Linux, as having to jailbreak your own hardware is the exact opposite of open) unless you use malware like Kingoroot. You can fix it yourself, right? Nope the drivers are all black boxed and again your changes to the Android source certainly isn't gonna run on that phone you pick up in Walmart. How about the community controlling the direction of the OS, where any coder can supply changes for consideration and possibly get them integrated upstream? Bwa ha ha ha ha...not a chance in hell, Google has exactly zero fuck to give about your code or that of the community, especially since it'll probably be GPL V3 which again is verbotten precisely because they can't TiVo it.
Yeah you "won" alright, you won about as much as that Rube trying to beat the hustler playing third card monty in Times Square. Lets face it you got scammed, had, ripped off, and the truly sad part? You are actually cheering for the guy that fucked you! But don't take MY word for it, lets see what RMS and the FSF has to say...yeah not so good, unless you want to run one of only 2 now out of date phones, otherwise you might as well just be on iOS....yeah you "won" there sparky, you are just full of "win".
Why would they do that? It costs them virtually nothing to simply leave it running and continue to get the business of the users that are left, ditto for the apps that are already on there as lets face it many of the "apps" today are just glorified screen scrapers or simple data processing (such as the Weather.com app which is just grabbing the data and ads from the website) so as long as there are still even a couple hundred thousand users out there using it? its still gonna be profitable with as little as they have to support it.
And considering many places are selling Lumiz 640s for $40 which takes great pictures, gets really great battery life, has a nice clear screen and plays vids well? I can see those being hung onto for awhile. Finally look at how long MSFT has supported their failed OSes, Vista anyone? and it costs a hell of a lot more to support a full desktop OS like Vista than a lightweight version of win 10 which they are supporting anyway. So unless some major malware comes out for it (doubtful as malware writers go to where the most users are so Win10 Mobile is probably the most secure mobile OS there is right now) I wouldn't be surprised if MSFT just left things as they are until the users drop so small there won't be anyone left to care.