Actually I've found it to be the opposite, its NOT people are not dealing with a PC, its that they are up to their asses in PCs and they just are insanely overpowered. I mean when your average Best Buy $300 special is a triple core desktop or dual core laptop, how many average Joes are gonna need more?
Which is why I find it kinda shitty that Worst Buy has been palming off AMD E-series laptops and desktops, this is NOT a chip that should be bought for anything but a netbook or a low power roles like a desktop downloader/file server, yet they are palming these off as "dual core laptops" and a lot of folks that don't know any better are getting burnt. For those that don't know the AMD E-Series is just a Bobcat dual core, barely better than an Atom CPU wise and while it does have a better GPU sticking this in a 15 inch laptop with DVD burner? NOT gonna be a nice experience once they get it home and try putting a little software on it, and what's worse is they are coming with Win 8 which is just a boat anchor on a weak chip like that, it makes the old Celery laptops they used to sell look good.
But as far as OpenGL...I have a feeling either the console makers or maybe Google will just fork the damned thing, lets face it that is kinda what OpenGL ES is anyway, cutting some of the cruft, so I could see them making an "OpenGL Gamer" and just leaving the original to the CAD guys.
Well that makes sense, I don't have any customers using that software, they are all using Comodo AV which hasn't had a problem with this. I uninstalled anyway, just in case, but none of the systems showed any kind of issues so I figured it was a corner case thing.
Exactly, we saw the same thing with DirectX 9 which went from A-C and DirectX 10 and 10.1, MSFT just doesn't jump numbers like they did in the past, which you'd THINK everybody would be happy about? Isn't it the FOSS way to only change the version number for a major release, and do minor releases for bug fixes and minor features?
Meh if MSFT doesn't fire Ballmer I figure they'll be dead in 5 anyway, they have been flip flopping all over the place, Win 8/RT is a flop, its been a trainwreck for the past couple of years. Personally I'm glad about DirectX, that means when I switch out my HD4850 for an HD7770 in a month or two it should last as long or longer than the HD4850, can't beat 3 years on a $60 card.
All it shows me is HR is next to fucking worthless if that is the kind of metrics they are using. After all going by that logic my 71 year old dad must be the bestest hire on the planet since he hasn't used IE in nearly a decade and has two of the more offbeat browsers (Comodo Dragon and IceDragon) so he obviously has to be hyper-net cool.
Of course in real life he still hasn't figured out how to work his Android phone and is not real happy I can't reach through the line all the way to Redmond to slap some "God damned common sense" as he put it into MSFT. Never thought I'd see the day he'd give up that damned Windows messenger AND his Hotmail in the same week, thanks MSFT, glad I don't have to support that shit anymore.
Personally I'm for this, I mean why should they sit on their high horses, or make that high llamas, on the top of the world and look down on us? If we all have to eat, drink, and breathe chemicals so some "job creators" can make an extra 3% profit per quarter than by God so should they. Spoiled, that's what they are!
And just to piss off both sides how much you wanna bet that Rev Al Gore will come out with a PPT that shows all you need to fix this is cap and trade? Oh the fact that he will make a couple of billion off of this without it costing him a cent since his carbon shell corps make farting around in a one man Lear jet "carbon neutral" is totally a coincidence, he's doing it to save the planet and puppies and all things good, totally selfless.
They are making MONEY off you dumbass. Think Google is a fucking charity? they are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts? That is one thing MSFT got right, the Google mailman commercials because that is EXACTLY what they are fucking doing, they are going through YOUR MAIL to find out more data to sell to their REAL customers which are the advertisers.
So if you wanna give shit away for free? Sucker every minute yadda yadda, me I want a God damned cut. You can bet your last dollar they are making more off of me than I am making off of them but at least I'm getting SOMETHING out of the deal, you aren't even getting a fucking thank you. What is sad is you think that search engine and email is actually for your benefit and not to give them more sources of datamining, that's kinda sad.
She WANTED Windows 8? And she is your GF? You may want to see other people because if her tastes are THAT bad she'll be the type that will try to force you to watch The Host and the Twicrap, just got rid of one of those a few months ago and I know I'm better off.
And you are gonna have to work on a version of Windows in a language you don't speak? BWA HA HA HA...damn, sucks to be you, from what I hear non English Windows is a translators nightmare as a lot of technical crap just doesn't translate worth a crap. Good luck buddy, you'll need it.
What is useful? Another posted his CLI doesn't work, and for another neither he nor MSFT said WHAT HARDWARE CAUSES THE FAULT which frankly without THAT knowledge is worth fuck and all because I've applied the patch to a couple dozen bog standard desktops and laptops and? I got nothing. Its gotta either be a funky driver or a piece of funky hardware that is causing this because if its anything bog standard I usually run into it but so far AMD, Intel and Nvidia graphics, Realtek and Sigmatel sound, AMD and Intel chipsets (don't have any Nvidia chipsets on hand ATM) and I haven't seen squat, just been another patch Tues round here.
Oh I did have to reboot my old nettop a couple of times but considering the fact the hard drive already has some bad sectors and the entire system is older than dirt and I'm just waiting on the hardware to finally die because i REALLY don't want to deal with one of my own machines on top of all the other machines I got to deal with? I honestly can't say it was the patch, might have just tried to write to a failing sector. Its an old XP box and XP never was great at dealing with failing sectors...meh its working fine now, left it on for 3 days and its still going when I came in so who cares.
So if anybody knows what actual hardware or software actually causes the thing it would be nice to know, then I'd at least know if any of these systems are at risk, because right now they seem to be running fine and the 2 that got picked up I haven't heard squat from the owners so I'm guessing they are running fine as well.
A bit of advice? if you don't have a Win 7 license lying around you need to at the very least put one of the third party start replacements on it, it'll help keep you from pulling your hair out. Oh and if her PC cost less than $900? Better learn the "refresh my PC" steps because you'll use it A LOT. Personally I think they put that in there NOT to help the user but because they had a serious flaw that they just couldn't fix it in time.
Look up Mechwarrior bug on YouTube dude, I'm sure you'll find it. Might be funny to watch, NOT funny when you are playing as it totally just ruins the game.
I love Hammer horror and yeah...its got some of the Hammer vibe, but I think Universal themselves strictly because the vamps remind you of the classic universal vamps. It really reminded me of the classic universal vamps, the whole "count suck your blood" kind of things but thanks to the just AMAZING soundtrack and the use of shadow it makes it just as creepy as a classic hammer or universal pic, this great sense of "I'm just a guy in the big dark scary place".
And what turned me off Linux was the whole driver breakage thing. If it worked BEFORE the update it had damned well better work AFTER the update and since all the guts started really getting tinkered with? Its like that De Icaza or whatever his name said he just gave up on sound and wireless working for any length of time. That kind of shit I just can not stand, my nettop XP box is finally dying after 8 years of service with ZERO broken drivers and that is what I'm looking for, I have to deal with enough broken shit during the day when I get home I am not "Googling for fixes" or any of that bullshit.
But if you like horror, the "Holy crap!" jump out your seat kind instead of the modern Saw just drown the screen in blood crap? You'll love the game, it feels like a classic horror movie, the sounds, the music, its all about building that tension so that when you actually run into a nasty you will be having a serious fight or flight, damned good game and because it was put out by a little house most folks have never even heard of it. Personally I'd put it in the top 3 of truly scary games.
Dude there was DOS based PDAs, one I remember even had a GEM GUI, damned if I can think of its name offhand.
That does NOT change the fact that its all just copying each other, its as old as the hills and just as common.
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I don't know. I have a tolerance of a bull rhino but if you have never taken squat? Don't forget the Indians ate a tree bark that turned out to be aspirin, and you know that there wasn't shit compared to like a BC powder but it worked well enough for them to keep it for centuries. I mean its practically impossible to compare what we feel to what they felt because frankly we are exposed to chemicals in the womb, you just know your mom was taking aspirin and other drugs while she was pregnant, their bodies were pristine compared to the chemical sewer that is modern man.
Hell I read somewhere you can't even find a river in the USA that won't test positive for chemicals, from hormones to mental treatment drugs, we really can't tell how they were able to treat themselves by looking at us because we just swim in chemicals constantly, everything we eat and drink is chemicals so naturally our tolerances are gonna be just crazy compared to them. Look at how the peasants in the Andes mountains chew on coca leaves which I've been told by chewing you aren't even get what we get in an energy drink as far as effect but it works for them, who knows how little it took for somebody who had never so much as taken a drop of anything?
I'm waiting for the board to punt kick his ass like a 30 yard field return because frankly the ONLY person hurting MSFT IS MSFT, Ballmer is so damned clueless he thinks aping what was hot 3 years ago will work (it won't) and that he can use the old lame ass EEE strategy to sell tablets (really REALLY won't) and is just burning the fricking business.
Bring in someone which has common sense and they can not only stop the downward spiral they could actually grow the company. Problem is Ballmer just reads the stupid tech press and tries to be hip and trendy and they forget these are the SAME PRESS that said we'd be buying everything from catfood to caskets online during the dotbomb, remember? Think Jobs gave a rat's ass what the press said? they told him an iPhone was stupid, remember? they ALL said that...who is laughing now?
Quit giving a shit what the press says, listen to the customers, build what they want...how fricking hard is that?
8 digit UID dude? Yeah been building these things since Ronnie Raygun was in the oval office so i think i know not to be going to "www.dumbass.com" and thinking if I hit the clown I can win an iPod.
But frankly the last few years, since I switched my customers over to a low rights mode browser and have sandboxing by default on the browser? They have to be REALLY fucking stupid to get infected, I mean clicking through a dozen "yes I'm an idiot" boxes to install the damned bug. If they just surf normally and don't try to force through browser blocks? Then its really not a problem anymore, in fact I'd say a good 90% of the viruses i see they KNEW it was iffy but they decided to do it anyway. They were offered a "free" game, or porn, or something where they say "I thought this might be iffy"...then WTF are you doing? Why did you run it? They wanted to see the dancing bunny dude, and no OS on the planet is gonna save you from stupid.
And they should ALL be kissing Palm's ass because they were there first!
fuck guys how old is the saying "standing on the shoulders of giants" anyway? the entire history of tech is one guy ripping somebody else off and doing it better, frankly that scene in Pirates of Silicon Valley could have described ALL of the electronics industry, because there Jobs was bitching about Gates doing the same damned thing he did which was rip off Xerox. they ALL do it, they ALL see an idea somebody else had and make a better spin on it, its ALL the same shtick folks.
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Actually IIRC, and its been years since I read this, but opium poppies were used for pain killers for ages before they were refined into what we know as morphine, kinda like how the Romans would proscribe a trip to the spa for those having mental problems and it turns out later that the baths were loaded with lithium.
If they stay on the current course? I'm personally predicting 5 years, as it seems like everyone is looking at exit strategies. I mean you have the OEMs starting to sell Chromebooks which selling PCs without Windows would have been the kiss of death not even 5 years ago, Ballmer refuses to listen to the consumers which have made it clear their Apple ripoff strategy is a DO NOT WANT, and finally if rumors are true the X720 is gonna be torpedoed not by bad hardware but by bad management.
Just on inertia they could go another 3-5 but after that they are fucked, its obvious business alone isn't gonna be enough to keep them at their current bloated size and its even more obvious that they suck balls when it comes to consumers, so I give it 5 if Ballmer stays in charge.
Meh if you are using a browser in low rights mode with sandboxing who fricking cares. To me that is the bigger take from this, as even Google wasn't right 100% of the time, none of them are, so its better not to have the browser running with the same rights as the user so you don't have to depend on some search engine saving your ass.
Personally I use Bing simply because I've made $20 in gift cards from doing the same searches at the shop i would have done anyway. if these companies are gonna be making money off the data I generate why shouldn't I get a cut? At least with bing I do get a cut, don't get jack shit from google.
Yeah after trying IPV4 multicast I'll believe that shit when I see it. Don't even get me fricking started on IPV6, they could have easily and simply made it backwards compatible and we would have already switched over by now, hassle free, but no. God fucking forbid something be made with fucking common sense in this world, nope, lets make it hex just to make sure it breaks every God damned thing out there, is a royal PITA to read which makes troubleshooting more of a PITA, and thus make fucking sure that everyone will drag their feet for years rather than deal it with...great job guys, great fucking job.
Ya know I'm starting to feel like Cassandra here, I really am. Only instead of being cursed with seeing the future I'm the only one that has been cursed with common sense and the world is full of completely clueless people that just walk from one really stupid idea to another without the ability to see what could go wrong, since naturally I am the only one with common sense. I mean surely they grabbed people that had actually been outside their cubicle once or twice to design IP V6, yes? I mean surely somebody could see how making something that isn't compatible with THE MOST POPULAR AND LARGEST NETWORK ON THE PLANET could be a fucking problem, right? Why? Why in the fuck would you do that? Every day just dumb, stupid, ignorant shit that you just KNOW isn't gonna work, yet billions are shit away on them...why? Is common sense really a God damned superpower now?
Thanks for posting absolutely nothing but a long rambling "Works for me" which of course doesn't require any kind of citations or proof since you pulled it out your ass, feel free to post more useless nothing in the future.
Uhhh...so don't buy games from their shitty live service? There, problem solved. I know several people who don't even have Internet and their X360 plays just fine, you stick in the disc and it goes which is why they bought a console instead of a PC.
But we'll see who is right, personally I'm predicting this will be another Windows 8 megabomb (if you haven't seen the figures PC sales went from going down 9% a year to 18% last year which most are blaming Win 8 for) but as I said it fits nicely into my theory that the ONLY time you see MSFT gain is when the sentence is preceded by "And then the other guy did something REALLY dumb" because barring a moron for a competitor MSFT is so full of PHBs and are so focused on Wall Street instead of making good products that they end up shooting themselves in the foot.
But you are missing the big picture friend, there are like 6 or 7 companies with fabs making chips, one mentioned Sandisk which are a possibility but the Sansa media players would likely make them not as attractive, I would put my money on Micron.Tech, they got the fabs, got the capacity and since they primarily make flash for other devices you don't have any product lines to kill.
So the point is with the huge pile o' cash Apple is sitting on this could actually turn into a positive because they could just buy one of the smaller companies, use their output exclusively for a couple years and then if the tech changes too much so it will cost a ton to get them up to current tech? just sell 'em, its not like the output of previous gen fabs aren't being used today so they could get most of their money back and fix the problem easily.
Because unless he was drunk it was douchebaggery and most folks hate douchebags?
Of course the bigger problem for MSFT is the cat is now out the bag which means they won't get the early adopters that actually read the Internet, especially since Sony made it VERY clear after the whole thing broke that the PS4 will NOT be online only. But considering this is the same company that has given us such "hits" as Zune, Kin, Zune Market (boy THAT was fucking retarded, they had with playsforsure a growing rental business that was looking like it could compete with the Apple model and just shot it in the head for a lame appstore ripoff), shoving the X360 out with a billion dollar flaw, paying insane amounts for an ad company that went nowhere and for Yahoo Search which likewise did squat, and finally the twin clusterfucks of Win 8 and WinRT? Honestly doing stupid market killing shit isn't even a surprise anymore, hell its practically their SOP.
Frankly the only thing shocking about the whole thing is that it took us this long to find out MSFT was gonna do something retarded and kill any lead they had in the market, I swear they must have run anybody with a brain out of that company for a bunch of PHBs that sit around reading The Financial Times and throw any buzzwords they see into PPTs for new products. It really shouldn't be a surprise though, it even fits perfectly into my theory that every major success with that company can be preceded with "And then the other guy did something REALLY dumb" as the reason the X360 took off was Sony hamstringing the PS4 with a $600 price that was twice what the market would bear. Now that Sony has grown a brain its time for MSFT to shoot itself in the foot once again, because God forbid they capitalize on past success instead of killing any forward momentum playing buzzword bingo.
The problem with your theory is this: In 2011 there really wasn't as much stuff using those chips as there are now. In 2011 only the most high end TVs were "smart TVs", now even the low end sets have some smart features which means flash, hell pretty much every thing with a screen now uses flash memory and with so many appliance makers out there if Samsung wants to play hardball I seriously doubt it'll be hard to find takers for those chips.
But Apple is sitting on such a mound of capital I'm shocked they just haven't had their own fab built, not like their usage of flash chips is gonna go down at any point in the next several years barring some breakthrough in storage tech so if Apple has to scramble for chips i could easily see them either building their own or buying one of the smaller fabs for themselves. After all wouldn't be the first time, look at how they bought PA Semi so they could bring chip design in house.
I don't know if I'd bet the farm on that Hoss, in 2011 Flash prices were pretty volatile and there was fabs being built and shrinks happening so I wouldn't be surprised if Apple chose to wait until things were more stable before signing a long term contract of such high value.
At the end of the day Apple can get bit in the ass by a sudden change in the market, no different than anybody else. I mean I'm sure Dell and the rest of the OEMs wished they had bought a year's supply of hard drives before the flood but it just didn't make sense at the time because sizes were going up and prices down, sometimes shit does just happen ya know. Hell considering how fricking loyal Apple fans are they could probably raise prices 30%+ to cover the cost of getting the flash and still make crazy profit so I'm really not seeing this actually hurting the company, if flash gets tight the ones I see it hurting are those Droid tablets that are in a race to the bottom right now.
Gotta give Jobs credit, nice thing about marketing your company as a high end brand is people expect it to be expensive so passing on the costs to the consumer really isn't as hard for them as it is a Dell or HP that have razor thin margins.
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Actually I've found it to be the opposite, its NOT people are not dealing with a PC, its that they are up to their asses in PCs and they just are insanely overpowered. I mean when your average Best Buy $300 special is a triple core desktop or dual core laptop, how many average Joes are gonna need more?
Which is why I find it kinda shitty that Worst Buy has been palming off AMD E-series laptops and desktops, this is NOT a chip that should be bought for anything but a netbook or a low power roles like a desktop downloader/file server, yet they are palming these off as "dual core laptops" and a lot of folks that don't know any better are getting burnt. For those that don't know the AMD E-Series is just a Bobcat dual core, barely better than an Atom CPU wise and while it does have a better GPU sticking this in a 15 inch laptop with DVD burner? NOT gonna be a nice experience once they get it home and try putting a little software on it, and what's worse is they are coming with Win 8 which is just a boat anchor on a weak chip like that, it makes the old Celery laptops they used to sell look good.
But as far as OpenGL...I have a feeling either the console makers or maybe Google will just fork the damned thing, lets face it that is kinda what OpenGL ES is anyway, cutting some of the cruft, so I could see them making an "OpenGL Gamer" and just leaving the original to the CAD guys.
Well that makes sense, I don't have any customers using that software, they are all using Comodo AV which hasn't had a problem with this. I uninstalled anyway, just in case, but none of the systems showed any kind of issues so I figured it was a corner case thing.
Exactly, we saw the same thing with DirectX 9 which went from A-C and DirectX 10 and 10.1, MSFT just doesn't jump numbers like they did in the past, which you'd THINK everybody would be happy about? Isn't it the FOSS way to only change the version number for a major release, and do minor releases for bug fixes and minor features?
Meh if MSFT doesn't fire Ballmer I figure they'll be dead in 5 anyway, they have been flip flopping all over the place, Win 8/RT is a flop, its been a trainwreck for the past couple of years. Personally I'm glad about DirectX, that means when I switch out my HD4850 for an HD7770 in a month or two it should last as long or longer than the HD4850, can't beat 3 years on a $60 card.
All it shows me is HR is next to fucking worthless if that is the kind of metrics they are using. After all going by that logic my 71 year old dad must be the bestest hire on the planet since he hasn't used IE in nearly a decade and has two of the more offbeat browsers (Comodo Dragon and IceDragon) so he obviously has to be hyper-net cool.
Of course in real life he still hasn't figured out how to work his Android phone and is not real happy I can't reach through the line all the way to Redmond to slap some "God damned common sense" as he put it into MSFT. Never thought I'd see the day he'd give up that damned Windows messenger AND his Hotmail in the same week, thanks MSFT, glad I don't have to support that shit anymore.
Personally I'm for this, I mean why should they sit on their high horses, or make that high llamas, on the top of the world and look down on us? If we all have to eat, drink, and breathe chemicals so some "job creators" can make an extra 3% profit per quarter than by God so should they. Spoiled, that's what they are!
And just to piss off both sides how much you wanna bet that Rev Al Gore will come out with a PPT that shows all you need to fix this is cap and trade? Oh the fact that he will make a couple of billion off of this without it costing him a cent since his carbon shell corps make farting around in a one man Lear jet "carbon neutral" is totally a coincidence, he's doing it to save the planet and puppies and all things good, totally selfless.
They are making MONEY off you dumbass. Think Google is a fucking charity? they are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts? That is one thing MSFT got right, the Google mailman commercials because that is EXACTLY what they are fucking doing, they are going through YOUR MAIL to find out more data to sell to their REAL customers which are the advertisers.
So if you wanna give shit away for free? Sucker every minute yadda yadda, me I want a God damned cut. You can bet your last dollar they are making more off of me than I am making off of them but at least I'm getting SOMETHING out of the deal, you aren't even getting a fucking thank you. What is sad is you think that search engine and email is actually for your benefit and not to give them more sources of datamining, that's kinda sad.
She WANTED Windows 8? And she is your GF? You may want to see other people because if her tastes are THAT bad she'll be the type that will try to force you to watch The Host and the Twicrap, just got rid of one of those a few months ago and I know I'm better off.
And you are gonna have to work on a version of Windows in a language you don't speak? BWA HA HA HA...damn, sucks to be you, from what I hear non English Windows is a translators nightmare as a lot of technical crap just doesn't translate worth a crap. Good luck buddy, you'll need it.
What is useful? Another posted his CLI doesn't work, and for another neither he nor MSFT said WHAT HARDWARE CAUSES THE FAULT which frankly without THAT knowledge is worth fuck and all because I've applied the patch to a couple dozen bog standard desktops and laptops and? I got nothing. Its gotta either be a funky driver or a piece of funky hardware that is causing this because if its anything bog standard I usually run into it but so far AMD, Intel and Nvidia graphics, Realtek and Sigmatel sound, AMD and Intel chipsets (don't have any Nvidia chipsets on hand ATM) and I haven't seen squat, just been another patch Tues round here.
Oh I did have to reboot my old nettop a couple of times but considering the fact the hard drive already has some bad sectors and the entire system is older than dirt and I'm just waiting on the hardware to finally die because i REALLY don't want to deal with one of my own machines on top of all the other machines I got to deal with? I honestly can't say it was the patch, might have just tried to write to a failing sector. Its an old XP box and XP never was great at dealing with failing sectors...meh its working fine now, left it on for 3 days and its still going when I came in so who cares.
So if anybody knows what actual hardware or software actually causes the thing it would be nice to know, then I'd at least know if any of these systems are at risk, because right now they seem to be running fine and the 2 that got picked up I haven't heard squat from the owners so I'm guessing they are running fine as well.
A bit of advice? if you don't have a Win 7 license lying around you need to at the very least put one of the third party start replacements on it, it'll help keep you from pulling your hair out. Oh and if her PC cost less than $900? Better learn the "refresh my PC" steps because you'll use it A LOT. Personally I think they put that in there NOT to help the user but because they had a serious flaw that they just couldn't fix it in time.
Look up Mechwarrior bug on YouTube dude, I'm sure you'll find it. Might be funny to watch, NOT funny when you are playing as it totally just ruins the game.
I love Hammer horror and yeah...its got some of the Hammer vibe, but I think Universal themselves strictly because the vamps remind you of the classic universal vamps. It really reminded me of the classic universal vamps, the whole "count suck your blood" kind of things but thanks to the just AMAZING soundtrack and the use of shadow it makes it just as creepy as a classic hammer or universal pic, this great sense of "I'm just a guy in the big dark scary place".
And what turned me off Linux was the whole driver breakage thing. If it worked BEFORE the update it had damned well better work AFTER the update and since all the guts started really getting tinkered with? Its like that De Icaza or whatever his name said he just gave up on sound and wireless working for any length of time. That kind of shit I just can not stand, my nettop XP box is finally dying after 8 years of service with ZERO broken drivers and that is what I'm looking for, I have to deal with enough broken shit during the day when I get home I am not "Googling for fixes" or any of that bullshit.
But if you like horror, the "Holy crap!" jump out your seat kind instead of the modern Saw just drown the screen in blood crap? You'll love the game, it feels like a classic horror movie, the sounds, the music, its all about building that tension so that when you actually run into a nasty you will be having a serious fight or flight, damned good game and because it was put out by a little house most folks have never even heard of it. Personally I'd put it in the top 3 of truly scary games.
Dude there was DOS based PDAs, one I remember even had a GEM GUI, damned if I can think of its name offhand.
That does NOT change the fact that its all just copying each other, its as old as the hills and just as common.
I don't know. I have a tolerance of a bull rhino but if you have never taken squat? Don't forget the Indians ate a tree bark that turned out to be aspirin, and you know that there wasn't shit compared to like a BC powder but it worked well enough for them to keep it for centuries. I mean its practically impossible to compare what we feel to what they felt because frankly we are exposed to chemicals in the womb, you just know your mom was taking aspirin and other drugs while she was pregnant, their bodies were pristine compared to the chemical sewer that is modern man.
Hell I read somewhere you can't even find a river in the USA that won't test positive for chemicals, from hormones to mental treatment drugs, we really can't tell how they were able to treat themselves by looking at us because we just swim in chemicals constantly, everything we eat and drink is chemicals so naturally our tolerances are gonna be just crazy compared to them. Look at how the peasants in the Andes mountains chew on coca leaves which I've been told by chewing you aren't even get what we get in an energy drink as far as effect but it works for them, who knows how little it took for somebody who had never so much as taken a drop of anything?
I'm waiting for the board to punt kick his ass like a 30 yard field return because frankly the ONLY person hurting MSFT IS MSFT, Ballmer is so damned clueless he thinks aping what was hot 3 years ago will work (it won't) and that he can use the old lame ass EEE strategy to sell tablets (really REALLY won't) and is just burning the fricking business.
Bring in someone which has common sense and they can not only stop the downward spiral they could actually grow the company. Problem is Ballmer just reads the stupid tech press and tries to be hip and trendy and they forget these are the SAME PRESS that said we'd be buying everything from catfood to caskets online during the dotbomb, remember? Think Jobs gave a rat's ass what the press said? they told him an iPhone was stupid, remember? they ALL said that...who is laughing now?
Quit giving a shit what the press says, listen to the customers, build what they want...how fricking hard is that?
8 digit UID dude? Yeah been building these things since Ronnie Raygun was in the oval office so i think i know not to be going to "www.dumbass.com" and thinking if I hit the clown I can win an iPod.
But frankly the last few years, since I switched my customers over to a low rights mode browser and have sandboxing by default on the browser? They have to be REALLY fucking stupid to get infected, I mean clicking through a dozen "yes I'm an idiot" boxes to install the damned bug. If they just surf normally and don't try to force through browser blocks? Then its really not a problem anymore, in fact I'd say a good 90% of the viruses i see they KNEW it was iffy but they decided to do it anyway. They were offered a "free" game, or porn, or something where they say "I thought this might be iffy"...then WTF are you doing? Why did you run it? They wanted to see the dancing bunny dude, and no OS on the planet is gonna save you from stupid.
And they should ALL be kissing Palm's ass because they were there first!
fuck guys how old is the saying "standing on the shoulders of giants" anyway? the entire history of tech is one guy ripping somebody else off and doing it better, frankly that scene in Pirates of Silicon Valley could have described ALL of the electronics industry, because there Jobs was bitching about Gates doing the same damned thing he did which was rip off Xerox. they ALL do it, they ALL see an idea somebody else had and make a better spin on it, its ALL the same shtick folks.
Actually IIRC, and its been years since I read this, but opium poppies were used for pain killers for ages before they were refined into what we know as morphine, kinda like how the Romans would proscribe a trip to the spa for those having mental problems and it turns out later that the baths were loaded with lithium.
If they stay on the current course? I'm personally predicting 5 years, as it seems like everyone is looking at exit strategies. I mean you have the OEMs starting to sell Chromebooks which selling PCs without Windows would have been the kiss of death not even 5 years ago, Ballmer refuses to listen to the consumers which have made it clear their Apple ripoff strategy is a DO NOT WANT, and finally if rumors are true the X720 is gonna be torpedoed not by bad hardware but by bad management.
Just on inertia they could go another 3-5 but after that they are fucked, its obvious business alone isn't gonna be enough to keep them at their current bloated size and its even more obvious that they suck balls when it comes to consumers, so I give it 5 if Ballmer stays in charge.
Meh if you are using a browser in low rights mode with sandboxing who fricking cares. To me that is the bigger take from this, as even Google wasn't right 100% of the time, none of them are, so its better not to have the browser running with the same rights as the user so you don't have to depend on some search engine saving your ass.
Personally I use Bing simply because I've made $20 in gift cards from doing the same searches at the shop i would have done anyway. if these companies are gonna be making money off the data I generate why shouldn't I get a cut? At least with bing I do get a cut, don't get jack shit from google.
Yeah after trying IPV4 multicast I'll believe that shit when I see it. Don't even get me fricking started on IPV6, they could have easily and simply made it backwards compatible and we would have already switched over by now, hassle free, but no. God fucking forbid something be made with fucking common sense in this world, nope, lets make it hex just to make sure it breaks every God damned thing out there, is a royal PITA to read which makes troubleshooting more of a PITA, and thus make fucking sure that everyone will drag their feet for years rather than deal it with...great job guys, great fucking job.
Ya know I'm starting to feel like Cassandra here, I really am. Only instead of being cursed with seeing the future I'm the only one that has been cursed with common sense and the world is full of completely clueless people that just walk from one really stupid idea to another without the ability to see what could go wrong, since naturally I am the only one with common sense. I mean surely they grabbed people that had actually been outside their cubicle once or twice to design IP V6, yes? I mean surely somebody could see how making something that isn't compatible with THE MOST POPULAR AND LARGEST NETWORK ON THE PLANET could be a fucking problem, right? Why? Why in the fuck would you do that? Every day just dumb, stupid, ignorant shit that you just KNOW isn't gonna work, yet billions are shit away on them...why? Is common sense really a God damned superpower now?
Thanks for posting absolutely nothing but a long rambling "Works for me" which of course doesn't require any kind of citations or proof since you pulled it out your ass, feel free to post more useless nothing in the future.
Uhhh...so don't buy games from their shitty live service? There, problem solved. I know several people who don't even have Internet and their X360 plays just fine, you stick in the disc and it goes which is why they bought a console instead of a PC.
But we'll see who is right, personally I'm predicting this will be another Windows 8 megabomb (if you haven't seen the figures PC sales went from going down 9% a year to 18% last year which most are blaming Win 8 for) but as I said it fits nicely into my theory that the ONLY time you see MSFT gain is when the sentence is preceded by "And then the other guy did something REALLY dumb" because barring a moron for a competitor MSFT is so full of PHBs and are so focused on Wall Street instead of making good products that they end up shooting themselves in the foot.
But you are missing the big picture friend, there are like 6 or 7 companies with fabs making chips, one mentioned Sandisk which are a possibility but the Sansa media players would likely make them not as attractive, I would put my money on Micron.Tech, they got the fabs, got the capacity and since they primarily make flash for other devices you don't have any product lines to kill.
So the point is with the huge pile o' cash Apple is sitting on this could actually turn into a positive because they could just buy one of the smaller companies, use their output exclusively for a couple years and then if the tech changes too much so it will cost a ton to get them up to current tech? just sell 'em, its not like the output of previous gen fabs aren't being used today so they could get most of their money back and fix the problem easily.
Because unless he was drunk it was douchebaggery and most folks hate douchebags?
Of course the bigger problem for MSFT is the cat is now out the bag which means they won't get the early adopters that actually read the Internet, especially since Sony made it VERY clear after the whole thing broke that the PS4 will NOT be online only. But considering this is the same company that has given us such "hits" as Zune, Kin, Zune Market (boy THAT was fucking retarded, they had with playsforsure a growing rental business that was looking like it could compete with the Apple model and just shot it in the head for a lame appstore ripoff), shoving the X360 out with a billion dollar flaw, paying insane amounts for an ad company that went nowhere and for Yahoo Search which likewise did squat, and finally the twin clusterfucks of Win 8 and WinRT? Honestly doing stupid market killing shit isn't even a surprise anymore, hell its practically their SOP.
Frankly the only thing shocking about the whole thing is that it took us this long to find out MSFT was gonna do something retarded and kill any lead they had in the market, I swear they must have run anybody with a brain out of that company for a bunch of PHBs that sit around reading The Financial Times and throw any buzzwords they see into PPTs for new products. It really shouldn't be a surprise though, it even fits perfectly into my theory that every major success with that company can be preceded with "And then the other guy did something REALLY dumb" as the reason the X360 took off was Sony hamstringing the PS4 with a $600 price that was twice what the market would bear. Now that Sony has grown a brain its time for MSFT to shoot itself in the foot once again, because God forbid they capitalize on past success instead of killing any forward momentum playing buzzword bingo.
The problem with your theory is this: In 2011 there really wasn't as much stuff using those chips as there are now. In 2011 only the most high end TVs were "smart TVs", now even the low end sets have some smart features which means flash, hell pretty much every thing with a screen now uses flash memory and with so many appliance makers out there if Samsung wants to play hardball I seriously doubt it'll be hard to find takers for those chips.
But Apple is sitting on such a mound of capital I'm shocked they just haven't had their own fab built, not like their usage of flash chips is gonna go down at any point in the next several years barring some breakthrough in storage tech so if Apple has to scramble for chips i could easily see them either building their own or buying one of the smaller fabs for themselves. After all wouldn't be the first time, look at how they bought PA Semi so they could bring chip design in house.
I don't know if I'd bet the farm on that Hoss, in 2011 Flash prices were pretty volatile and there was fabs being built and shrinks happening so I wouldn't be surprised if Apple chose to wait until things were more stable before signing a long term contract of such high value.
At the end of the day Apple can get bit in the ass by a sudden change in the market, no different than anybody else. I mean I'm sure Dell and the rest of the OEMs wished they had bought a year's supply of hard drives before the flood but it just didn't make sense at the time because sizes were going up and prices down, sometimes shit does just happen ya know. Hell considering how fricking loyal Apple fans are they could probably raise prices 30%+ to cover the cost of getting the flash and still make crazy profit so I'm really not seeing this actually hurting the company, if flash gets tight the ones I see it hurting are those Droid tablets that are in a race to the bottom right now.
Gotta give Jobs credit, nice thing about marketing your company as a high end brand is people expect it to be expensive so passing on the costs to the consumer really isn't as hard for them as it is a Dell or HP that have razor thin margins.