That doesn't change my original point though which is if FOSS users want to be supported they really need to put their money where their mouth is, AMD has bent over backwards to do every single thing the community asked for and when everyone sees piles of "LOL i just buy Nvidia" posts and AMD doesn't see any sales gain from supporting you, why should anybody else? opening chips cost money, paying devs to help with FOSS drivers and to help Coreboot costs money as well and if all AMD gets for supporting FOSS is a bunch of hypocritical "LOL use Nvidia" consumers? well the next company that thinks about supporting FOSS will look at AMD's numbers and see its just not worth it.
And seriously unless you are one of the 2% that is doing constant heavy duty number crunching like the one guy we had on here doing fluid wave simulations? AMD will do everything you need it to AND save you a nice chunk of change. I've been using and selling AMD exclusively for the past 5 years and myself, my family, and my customers couldn't be happier. I paid just $105 for the Phenom X6 I'm typing this on and it'll just blow through any job I can come up with and having 6 cores? VERY nice, you don't realize how nice until you start really throwing the multitasking at one but it sure is sweet. My customers are likewise happy because they get more cores and better graphics chips for less money and for day to day tasks and even gaming the AMD chips have power to spare.
So the ball is in your court FOSS supporters and you really have no excuse. You said "open the code and we'll support you"? They did that. You said "We want open hardware"? They are paying to add extra devs to the FOSS driver teams and has been supporting coreboot. They have done everything asked of them so if the community just ignores all their effort? well the next big company that comes along simply won't support you, as they will see its just not worth the expense.
So in other words...no. There are SOME models, which ones fuck if you or me or anybody knows because you'd have to take the chips out and actually test to see if they were REALLY secure wiping or feeding your BS like in TFA, but its NOT any specific vendor or model or anything that is predictable...great.
Ya know I used to get pissed at the guys that would waste perfectly good working HDDs by taking a.357 to the thing when we have easy peasy ways to wipe those but with SSDs? they may actually have a point. it probably saves the vendors an assload of money as well since nobody will be sending back failed drives to get it replaced under warranty. i know my gamer customers just throw away the drives after smashing them even if they are under warranty because there is no way to wipe them and they don't want to risk their data being stolen by some third world refurb center. At least with a HDD as long as it wasn't completely tits up I could usually zero out a drive before sending it in, with these I think I'd opt for the.357 approach too.
I just don't get what your beef is, I really don't. Don't think an E350 can cut it? Fine spend 5-6 times that amount and get a second battery for the car, honestly I do NOT care. But when you are talking about running something off a car you better be VERY picky on the power budget or have a hell of a battery, that is all I'm saying.
Again if money is no object? Buy an AMD A6 quad core and use that instead. Surely a quad core with full GP-GPU support would do what you are complaing the E350 don't do, heck you can put a crypto engine into an FPGA and put it on the PCI bus if that is what melts your butter Hoss.
Look man there is about a thousand ways this can be done so giving a rat's behind about the chip? who cares, seriously. You can put an FPGA on the PCI and use the Bobcat, you can do the same with the cell PCIe and both of those will support any dang crypto you want. you can go with a ULV Intel or AMD desktop chip, pretty much any of the Athlons or Core2s would again let you run ANY crypto that makes you happy. Now as you pointed out he wants to keep it from the cop's prying eyes...and? Hell a Truecrypt volume can do THAT, that ain't brain surgery.
If you think another chip is better? I don't really see how it matters now anyway, the guy probably just bought some 99c "security" app for his iPhone the same day he posted the damned thing anyway so its really not gonna matter because nobody is gonna build the dang thing anyway! This is like getting irked because you think I picked the wrong QB in a fantasy football game...honestly who cares? it was a simple ask/. thought exercise that other than me responding to you probably hasn't had a single post in days. Its dead Jim, let it RIP.
Hell its as old as civilization itself...how old is the "bread and circuses" line again? You ever see the interview with Hitler's personal driver, who was there from the start? he said they did NOT follow him because they agreed with him, in fact most thought he was batshit, the reason they followed him is he promised and delivered bread and jobs when they had none, they even showed picture of the leadership handing out food baskets and toys at Xmas!
This is why I can't get along with the right, especially the libertarians, as how hard is it to see the ONLY REASON why the poor aren't fucking KILLING YOU is that they have food, a place to sleep, and cheap entertainment, ala bread and circuses from all those centuries ago? Hell if I were in charge I'd be making pot legal and cheap tomorrow NOT because it is the right thing to do (although eliminating so called "sin crimes is) but because a buzzed poor person is a whole lot less likely to want to kill your dumb rich ass. Ever read "Brave New World"? Keep the population fed and medicated and they become pretty easy to manage.
But I agree that its gonna blow, the ONLY reason I give it another decade is that the right has become SO damned arrogant that they might as well change their mascot to Monty Burns, which means that pushing through the massive gutting to social programs will be a LOT harder than it could have been. I mean when they think that Mittens, who was literally the "upper class twit" from the Monty Python sketches, could actually WIN? hell they wouldn't have even got as much as they did if there wasn't so much pure racism still simmering. I mean the man thought he was being "homey" when he talked about he had to...gasp! Drive a brand new luxury car in HS that was fugly! And his wife said they could relate to the poor because when they were at their ivy league college they had to..OMG...live on the dividends from the stock? Can you believe it?
But what convinced me they will destroy the country and if they are lucky will be fleeing like the fall of Saigon, if not be lined against the wall, was the cheering the idea of a poor kid dying who didn't have insurance. When I saw that I said "There ya go, the perfect metaphor for the greed on wheels that has taken over the business and government sectors of this country". These are the ones that will outsource every last job, pay only part time minimum wage to those that are left, cut every social service so those "stinking rabble" won't get a cent of their "earned wealth" while bribing congress to pass every poor fucking law they possibly can and will be shocked, totally completely shocked when those very same poor they have shit on for years are dragging them from their homes and hanging them from the tree.
To those that say it can never happen I merely say...how long did the leaders of Libya and Egypt hold power? How long did the nobles rule France for? You can NOT turn the USA into a third world hellhole without getting third world hellhole problems, simple as that. Look at how the ultra wealthy in Brazil live like prisoners behind walled communities with armed guards and have to worry about their choppers being shot down by an RPG because the starving masses would like nothing more than to kill them, hell look at how we have ever growing slums in the USA that the cops won't go into in broad daylight without getting killed. this country is sitting on a powderkeg, the poor can plainly see those at the top living like Gods while it gets harder and harder to even feed themselves, if you have nothing to live for you also have nothing left to lose, its not gonna take much to set the whole thing off, its really not.
If you don't mind being disturbed by a simple lecture you should watch the end of America by Naomi wolf, who is now on the watchlist for daring to speak on the constitution BTW, points out how many of the same plays that previous dictatorships have used to turn free societies into police states are being done ri
Uhhh...any time you add layers to something performance is gonna suffer friend, if it didn't everything from your browser to your video player would just be throwaway VMs so bugs would be a thing of the past.
Again for Plants Vs Zombies, Angry Birds and Cut The Rope? I'm sure this will be fine and dandy, heck it'll probably be fine and dandy for older games to like Q3 Arena but until I see something with the graphics quality of Just Cause II or Bioshock Infinite running on this? Well just color me skeptical, after all we've all heard these kinds of promises before.
Well, and again correct me if I'm wrong, just a humble fixit guy here...ain't that what a fork is for Hoss? if a company just isn't running a project in the direction the majority wants the project gets forked and either the original stays the champ or it withers and dies ala Open Office?
Because what you are describing to me sounds like OpenGL is ripe for a good forking, let those that need the old cruft support the original version while a new version that takes the best gaming stuff from the desktop and mobile versions goes their own way and let the best OpenGL win.
Yeah and how many Apple users are running on anything but the latest OSX version? pretty much none, the numbers are so low as to be meaningless. Now compare that to how many Windows users are running the latest and "greatest" (man I nearly choked writing that, Win 8 is a turd) compared to previous versions? last figures had Win 8 at less than 3%, it fact Vista has twice as many users as Windows 8 does and that is after a 4 billion dollar marketing campaign and a holiday season.
So I'm sorry but saying "Apple does it!" really doesn't help if you aren't Apple and your customers don't behave like Apple customers. Oh don't get me wrong I'm sure Ballmer is sitting in Redmond clicking his ruby slippers and going "There is no place like Cupertino" but that ain't gonna magically change the entire windows ecosystem, no matter how much Ballmer might want to be the CEO at Apple.
Because you can't give away somebody else's IP without getting sued and possibly having your chips blacklisted? For those that don't know HDCP is property of Intel which means AMD had to sign a license agreement and NDA to allow their systems to support HDCP. Of course this gives Intel two advantages when it comes to their drivers, one they don't have to worry about IP since they own it and two because they've been ahead of AMD both on IPC and die shrinks they were able to keep HDCP pretty much a separate module in the designs VS AMD who used parts of their GPU for HDCP which is why they had to be VERY careful not to step into the IP minefield when they went about opening their chips.
Now personally i think it sucks balls that we ALL have to pay for this DRM being baked into the chips when so few of us are watching content protected by HDCP but as long as big media has a giant stiffie for DRM we are all just gonna have to accept it. I do hope this gets Linux users to put their money where their mouths are and support AMD, I don't know how many "LOL use Nvidia" posts I've seen from Linux users which you just have to be gobsmacked when you realize here is the guys that spend so much time talking about "freedom" while supporting the most FOSS unfriendly company there is. I mean there is a reason why Torvalds gave Nvidia the bird ya know, and it wasn't his way of saying they were #1. AMD has done every single thing the FOSS community asked, they are opening their chips, helping out with Coreboot support, they are probably one of the most FOSS friendly hardware companies there is so lets hope they see that support rewarded, otherwise companies are gonna look at the lack of support AMD got and decide that there is nothing to gain from being open.
You can forget it friend, any time you get an article involving the "big three", Apple, Google, or MSFT, the apologists brigade will be out in force. It doesn't matter what TFA says, it can show with hard data that Apple is lax on security, Google is going apeshit with datamining or windows 8 makes Vista look like a hit, doesn't matter, because for some damned reason these people treat the corps like ballclubs and will rush to their defense. I used to think it was some form of buyer's remorse, you know they paid too much money for their latest toy and are now rushing to defend it so they don't feel foolish? But I've seen the same behavior when the product is free so now I have NO idea why somebody who doesn't have stock would treat some megacorp like a ballclub.
As for TFA this is something I figured would be a problem once we switched to flash memory, with every die shrink the amount of cycles the flash memory can take before dying gets worse and these companies don't want to be getting a ton of "I wiped my phone and now half the storage is gone!" complaints and returns and of course even if you DID do a full wipe with the way wear leveling works by remapping and lying to the OS I don't know how trustworthy a wipe would really be except to keep Joe Clueless who buys the thing on eBay from getting the data.
So has anybody really done any extensive testing on how easy or hard it is to get a secure wipe with flash memory? I know that supposedly when a cell fails its stuck in a "read only" state and the drive just remaps to some of the spare cells so how hard would it be to get the data off those "dead" cells anyway? At the shop I have been avoiding SSDs simply because of how many failures my gamer customers have seen from the tech (kinda reminds me of the first years of HDDs and how often they went tits up back then) but it would be nice to know how well a wipe on flash memory would actually work.
Uhhh it OpenGL ES and its being supported in the BROWSER which unless they changed things by default is running in low rights mode anyway...yeah I really don't think anybody is gonna be seeing performance that rivals a DirectX game installed on the hardware Hoss. This will be fine for "cut the rope" style games, which frankly Flash worked fine for until Apple slit its throat ( and we have yet to see a replacement that can fill all the roles Flash was good at in a similar footprint, its all either bloated as hell like HTML V5 video or just doesn't have the features that flash had like good animation support) but I don't see anybody cooking up the next Bioshock on this, sorry.
Now correct me if I'm wrong but isn't OpenGL ES a much wimpier subset of OpenGL cooked up for cellphones and consoles NOT for desktops? That was the way I had always heard it explained which if so makes all the hubub just one more "ZOMFG we can be like the iPhone!" as far as I'm concerned.
Is anybody else tired of the mobile bubble yet? I personally can't wait until it pops, its getting about as asinine as the height of the dotbomb. You got VCs throwing money at pretty much anything with iPhone or Android in the name or description, you got the press doing a giant circle jerk on how "mobile is teh future yo!"...all I can think of is how it sounds no different than how we were all going to do everything on the web, from buying groceries to caskets and pretty much any company that had.com in the name was getting stupid money thrown at them.
Maybe its just me but I'm getting the feeling its the same old bubble song and dance all over again.
That ain't gonna change the fact it has a bullseye the size of Texas painted on it Hoss. Every malware writer knows that IE is the "grandma browser" and grandma is clueless so if you want your malware to last longer and infect systems where it won't be found for ages? Go after IE. The fact that it takes a seriously nasty bug to get MSFT to patch IE out of cycle just makes it that much more of a juicy target since the other guys patch the second they have a reason to.
This is why I give my customers a couple of browsers and let them choose, usually one Moz variant and one Chromium based (Now its Dragon/IceDragon but its been Pale Moon and Chromium in the past) with ABP and make it clear they are taking a risk if they choose IE, because its just too juicy a target for the bad guys. That fact that MSFT refuses to backport to their still supported OSes just seals the deal as far as I'm concerned, any company that would tie the browser, the biggest attack vector on a PC, into some scheme to try to force sales? Isn't a company i want to trust when it comes to browsers.
I think we'll just keep on poisoning the third world sadly. Ever see a video of the place where most of our PCs end up? Its this little cesspool in Bumfuck Africa where the sky is black from the burning motherboards as the peasants try to get enough metals out of them to survive another week, its really sad and pathetic and the ones "working" there will probably be dead of cancer or heavy metal poisoning by the time they are 30.
We could go into the "why" it has happened, I would argue what we are seeing is the fruits of nearly 40 years of Reaganomics and insider dealing but the why really doesn't matter, all that matters is that thanks to laws like DMCA they'll make it so you keeping that older system? Illegal for pretty much anything but using as a doorstop. How could they do that? Simple just look at how any site that shows an easy way to unlock an Xbox-1, even though those have been abandoned by MSFT for half a decade, get a C&D and sued if they don't comply. What you'll have will be just like game consoles, locked down hardware with locked down OSes that all it takes is the next version to use a different set of APIs and then suddenly you can't get any software for it and the latest website features won't work. You can use it for a doorstop but that will be it, hardware without software isn't worth shit.
And do NOT get me started on JavaScript unless you want to hear a rant, I think JS is the biggest clusterfuck ever heaped upon computing. It was a weak and pisspoor language that used the name of a more popular product just to get its smelly foot in the door, the guys making it never had the word security even cross their minds much less be taken into consideration and now we just keep bolting more and more shit on top of a crapfuck language and wonder why we have so many exploits and why it sucks resources like Charlie Sheen sucks up coke. Its a bad idea, it SHOULD have been replaced 10 years ago with something designed for the job and with security features baked in but until some big corp like Google says "Okay enough is enough" we'll just keep putting bandaids on bullet wounds. Hell have you tried HTML V5 video yet? Frankly you have to have dedicated hardware just to run the damned thing or its a slideshow, I've seen 2.5GHz C2D chips struggle their asses off just to render a slideshow out of that mess, when the same chip can do 1080P Flash, its just another clusterfuck which surprise! being brought to you by the very same corps that want you to throw everything away every 3 years. Why am I not surprised?
I'm sorry but you lost me, are you talking about the chips in TFA or some other chips? Because i have never heard a GPU referred to as a "multi-dsp-line chip" so you might as well have said "I wonder if the fleegal will be a good flimjam" for all the sense that sentence made.
Now if you are asking if some funky job you have can be done on a GP-GPU like the newer Nvidia and AMD chips? While I'm no expert in the new chips, especially the new Nvidia designs, preferring AMD, from the look of what I have seen it comes down to whether your code can be broken down in a way that will fit the new arch well. For a nice read on how at least AMD is doing it here you go it even has a code sample to show the difference between the old and new arches.
But the reason the older cards are faster than the new cards basically comes down to this: The old cards were great at graphics and ONLY graphics, but since mobile is hot and in mobile weaker chips with longer battery life is the order of the day what these new designs do is allow more of the load to be taken by the GPU. Now if all you wanted to do is game this is bad as you now have a weaker chip since its no longer focused totally on gaming, but it will be useful for more tasks besides just gaming as it will become easier with each rev to write agnostic code and have the APU split the load in such a way as to give you the quickest performance.
So I can see what they are going for, even though I love to game my GPU is gaming maybe 25% of the time at most, the rest of the time its just blowing power. the new chips will be shut down all the parts you don't need on the fly to drop power usage and on those jobs where the GPU could do it quicker it'll fire it back up, run the code, and then go back into a low power state.
Since I don't know anything about how CFD code is laid out you'll have to look a little deeper into the designs but the nice thing is since both are going Open-CL you will only have to write the code once and then run it on any of the new chips by either company. If you are not a gamer and just want to see if your code will run faster on a GP-GPU I'd suggest an HD7750, those are a good midrange/ upper midrange on performance and can be had for around $70 or so if you shop around. It would probably be the absolute cheapest you could get and still have enough performance to really see if it'll give your program a kick in the pants.
Because not to be too fucking blunt it makes you a dumbass or a hipster douche? I mean if you need a fucking laptop BUY A LAPTOP because if you are buying a product whose sole reason for being is TOUCH and then buying a damned keyboard just to get the thing to do what you need? Either you are VERY thick or more likely you are the hipster douche that wants to be seen with what is "cool" and a Macbook Air just isn't douchey enough.
Sorry to be so blunt folks but sometimes the level of stupid just warrants it. To use the famed/. car analogy buying a touch centered device only to go out and buy a keyboard and use it like a laptop is like buying a Kia and then dropping a Hemi in it so it'll pull your boat...just BUY WHAT YOU NEED DUMBASS! If you need a truck don't buy a fucking Kia, if 95%+ of what you need to get done can't be done by poking buy a fucking laptop! This mental disconnect is as pathetic as watching a Christian jump through logic hoops trying to explain why Easter is a Christian holiday while a guy in a bunny suit passes out eggs beside him, if you need to poke things buy a fucking tablet, if you need to type things buy a fucking laptop! Why is that so damned hard?
Common Sense...it truly is a God damned superpower. BTW has "Oww my balls!" become the smash hit reality show yet?
Meh AMD has been doing the same thing, use the 48xx or 58xx if you want crazy framerates while being able to cook supper on the chips, the 6xx and 7xxx don't get the high framerates but also don't have the high heat.
I figure the "ZOMFG its all gotta be mobile like teh iPhone yo!" bubble will pop like every other bubble and things will go back to normal but until then I have a feeling both AMD and Nvidia are gonna be so busy playing low power limbo to see how long they can go that pretty much everything but the top tier cards will be crap. I mean sure using less power is fine but not if it makes my games look shitty or stutter.
Actually no need for a fourth as that fits the first rule just fine, selling a non GPL version is a SERVICE that you offer to those that like the software but not the GPL, no different than how you can buy the serices of the dev to make alterations which are not shared or like Adobe making dev tools that interact with the free version. In all cases its not the shrink wrapping of GPL software as the software itself has NO value, its the things that tie into it.
Now some take offense at me saying it has no value but just because something is free of cost doesn't mean you don't want it, air is free but without it you'd be none too happy, its just not something you can package up and sell easily which is why so many companies get into trouble with the GPL, because that mindset simply does not work in this context.
And what I meant with adobe is that readers simply aren't a business to them, unlike MPEG-LA they aren't gonna sue your ass if you make a PDF reader or something that can play Flash because as you note the specs are right there, help thyself. That is because Adobe knows the money is NOT in the player, its in those that want to create content so they sell tools to make developing content in those formats easier. This also has precedents with the history of GPL, such as selling custom versions or dev tools and fits perfectly in the first rule as you are NOT selling the GPL software in and of itself, you are selling either tools to make working with that GPL software easier or are selling the ability to remove the GPL license as a service to some company that doesn't like/can't use the GPL in their product. This fits perfectly as you are selling support with the dev tools which makes working with the format easier or services like license changes with the proprietary version.
My point with the blessed three wasn't to condemn the GPL or say its shit, its to point out that it has parameters one must follow if one wants to be a success. the reason you haven't seen the next Bioshock come from a GPL source or a desktop that rivals the polish and ease of use of Win 7 or OSX (don't get me started on win 8, Ballmer is snorting waaay too much dope if he thinks he can sell that Edsel) is simply because you can't fit those programs under the blessed three which is why so many companies like Xandros and Mandriva have failed and why I think Canonical will be dead by 2015, its simply because nobody has been able to figure out any way other than the blessed three to make a profitable business using GPLed software. Now if you follow the blessed three? The sky is the limit, just look at Red hat, or the vendors of NAS boxes or a billion other pieces of hardware. In ALL of the cases its NOT the GPL software in and of itself that is being sold, its the services or the hardware being sold.
My argument is simply that when software is truly "free" that you can't make your living by sticking that free product in a box and selling it, it just doesn't work. In fact the closest I've ever seen to anyone being able to do that was the services that sold CDs of GPLed software during the 90s to those on dialup but even then one could argue they fit into the blessed three as you were paying more for their time putting it on a physical disc and shipping it to you than you were for what was on the disc because the GPL makes that truly "free" in pretty much every sense of the word. Why anyone would get shirty (not meaning you, just the attitude I've gotten for saying this) for pointing out what RMS made quite clear was the POINT of the GPL, to make software truly free and available to all that want it? Well it leaves me scratching my noggin.
Then again I still can't figure out why Christians get all shirty when you point out that Easter and Xmas don't have shit to do with Jesus, one is a fertility ceremony and the other the Roman winter solstice celebration, so maybe its just me.
But that's not the fault of having the ABILITY to upgrade, its simply that software hasn't kept up with hardware, that's all. my youngest is gaming on an Athlon triple that was originally built as a spare, just a system to have in the closet if one of the family suffered a broken system because I got tired of hearing "How long is it gonna take" but when my hand me down Phenom II quad had a memory stick go tits up (and naturally the Phenom II had DDR 2 and the Athlon DDR 3 so i couldn't just snatch the stick) I handed that to him and said it'd be a week...its been over a year and now the Phenom II is in the closet. Why did he stick with the weaker triple over a quad? Because its more power than his games use and by the time the part was shipped he already had moved his software over and was happy.
So its not the ability to upgrade that is the problem, its just that for some people that need never arises. if your kid only surfs and plays basic games? that C2Q will be extreme overkill and will probably last many years as is. I have a 2003 Sempron 2GHz in the shop I use as a nettop...why? Because for the jobs I have that machine for downloading drivers, looking up solutions to problems and basic web surfing? It works just fine. in fact I'm gonna have to gut it this summer NOT because it can't do the job but because XP is EOL next year and there simply isn't drivers for its hardware with windows 7, planned obsolescence bit me in the ass. Oh and don't say Linux as I have too damned much Windows only software that Linux won't cut the mustard. But thanks to COTS I can just slap a Bobcat board in it for like $100 counting RAM and tada! Another 7 years of use out of the box.
So what you are talking about isn't really connected to losing the ability to upgrade, you simply haven't had any jobs that make it worth the trouble. Now imagine if the RAM was soldered to the board so that C2Q only had 1GB of memory...wouldn't be giving it to your kid would you? Now THAT is the problem, because even simple upgrades like adding memory are being threatened by those who make more money by forcing folks to throw away before its needed. as i tell folks "Imagine that your fridge had a 5 year clock and at the end of that five years the compressor locked solid and you had to throw the whole thing away....would you buy it? Then why would you pay the same money for a cellphone with a timer on it? " Hell they don't even give you the fucking courtesy of the timer because at LEAST you could then make choices based on life of the product, just ask those poor dumb bastards that are stuck with WinPhone 7 and 2 year contracts how they feel. that thing didn't have many apps to start with but they sold it on "more are coming!" yet now that they have killed WinPhone 7 those people paid for nothing, they have no better than a dumb phone at a smartphone price.
Yeah its great for those at the top which is really all those numbers are talking to. Fuck WWI was great if you were a defense industry insider, not so much if you were the poor fucks getting sent to the front.
This is why I think this country has at most another decade before a giant collapse, you can't tilt things that far out of balance before something either whacks it back into balance or it collapses outright. This is why I'm amazed at the right constantly trying to cut help for the poor as its that and that alone and that keeps them from KILLING YOU morons, they outnumber you by something like 10,000 to 1 and is about as smart as the white slave owners in Jamaica going "food? fuck 'em just whip them a little harder" or the "let them eat cake" bit...yeah, keep it up Sparky, just keep it up, I'm sure it will all work out fine.../facepalm/
Steve Jobs was an asshole. I'm sorry but he was, hate me ALL you want but you look at the man's shitstory and its back stabbing and douchebaggery, hell he even ripped off Woz by lying on how much they got from Atari for a game WOZ MADE and snitched when he got caught selling blue boxes.
Sadly you look at the history of the so called "titans of industry" and what you find is a texbook filled with sociopaths, from Edison torturing animals and even killing people to try to descredit AC to Gates screwing over those that went into business with him its ALL about being the biggest dickbag you can possibly be, those with any feelings for anybody other than themselves need not apply.
Dude you thought the 70s were bad? at least the men weren't wearing more lipstick than the women and wearing snakeskin parachute pants. at least the fugly tastes of the 70s were mostly indoors, those horrible tastes moved to clothes in the 80s and you couldn't escape. Hell my neon yellow Warlock bass and parachute pants were CONSERVATIVE back then man, I was probably the most conservatively dressed musician at the time, the entire decade was blinding colors and horrible fashions.
Because that is the bullshit these schools tell these green ass kids to get them to rack up a $100K plus in debt they can never escape? They hauled a body out of the apt building across the way just a few days ago, 25 year old kid hung himself because he was buried alive in student loans he can never pay and couldn't escape. i know many that have "gone underground" and get paid cash and barter just because they are buried alive. I also have a nephew that the school fucked up his paperwork after he was there for 2 years, now he has $37k in debt and no degree to show for it.
So yeah, I can see the frustration, don't blame them a bit. Student loans need to be reformed so that they can file bankruptcy when they have been fucked and get out from under (and believe me bankruptcy is NO picnic but they should at least have the option which they did before 06) or I have a feeling they are gonna be picking up more bodies as all these kids find their lives are ruined and all that money they were tricked into signing for is just wasted cash.
Welcome to the "free trade is a fucking lie" club, coffee and donuts are in the back. You are supposed to "compete" with countries that literally let their factories pour toxic waste out the back door and throw away their people when they naturally get sickened by their waste as 'disposable people" yet we consider this "fair"trade? Yeah its about as fair as putting your HS football team against the Broncos and having the refs paid off just in case your HS gets lucky on a play.
Bimbo Newton Crosby. We old timers have seen these bubbles a billion times and they really aren't hard to spot. Salaries go crazy even when there is no real clear path to success? A market flooded with wannabes? All the press practically slobbering all over the page about what a "game changer' and how "its the future!"...its a bubble. Its the exact same thing we saw with the "it'll all be thin clients" of the 90s, the dotbomb, to a lesser degree the E-Reader craze of the 90s, its the same dance just a different tune.
All these VCs throwing assloads of money at iOS development will see their money go quicker than coke around Charlie Sheen and the press will turn and the bubble will burst, simple as that. The only question is when. I just wouldn't be betting my life on mobile development if I were you, I have a feeling its gonna be as bad as trying to sell used Sun systems in 2002, the market is gonna end up ass deep in guys that all went chasing the gold rush and don't have shit to fall back on, just like we were ass deep in "web designers" in 2003.
Actually if you read TFA you would see the entire post was about a cop just hitting the erase and wiping the evidence. Now if you know anything about the law then you know a cop pushing a button and a cop taking someone's property and destroying it are two VERY different things,and while a cop can easily get away with just using the phone and hitting erase he better have a DAMN good reason for destroying private property.
Yet again XKCD points out the folly of geeks overthinking the problem. Sure you can build a $30,000 foolproof system that uses cellular to blast every second to a secure server that is locked down tighter than a nun's thighs, but it'll cost $30,000 and be a PITA. Now anybody who actually comes HERE to ask for help? He ain't got that kind of budget Hoss. If you want to ADD killer crypto to a Bobcat? They make a cell crypto processor that will run on any PCI-E slot. It'll add $300 to the cost and raise the shit out of your power budget but if you wanna get anal retentive about it? There ya go Hoss, there's your answer.
But for what TFA was obviously asking for, which is something a cop can't erase without taking it out and just smashing the thing? It'll do the job and won't break the bank. If you want heavier? Get the card or a Liano based and deal with the higher power use. Again this ain't rocket science Hoss, quit trying to overthink it.
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That doesn't change my original point though which is if FOSS users want to be supported they really need to put their money where their mouth is, AMD has bent over backwards to do every single thing the community asked for and when everyone sees piles of "LOL i just buy Nvidia" posts and AMD doesn't see any sales gain from supporting you, why should anybody else? opening chips cost money, paying devs to help with FOSS drivers and to help Coreboot costs money as well and if all AMD gets for supporting FOSS is a bunch of hypocritical "LOL use Nvidia" consumers? well the next company that thinks about supporting FOSS will look at AMD's numbers and see its just not worth it.
And seriously unless you are one of the 2% that is doing constant heavy duty number crunching like the one guy we had on here doing fluid wave simulations? AMD will do everything you need it to AND save you a nice chunk of change. I've been using and selling AMD exclusively for the past 5 years and myself, my family, and my customers couldn't be happier. I paid just $105 for the Phenom X6 I'm typing this on and it'll just blow through any job I can come up with and having 6 cores? VERY nice, you don't realize how nice until you start really throwing the multitasking at one but it sure is sweet. My customers are likewise happy because they get more cores and better graphics chips for less money and for day to day tasks and even gaming the AMD chips have power to spare.
So the ball is in your court FOSS supporters and you really have no excuse. You said "open the code and we'll support you"? They did that. You said "We want open hardware"? They are paying to add extra devs to the FOSS driver teams and has been supporting coreboot. They have done everything asked of them so if the community just ignores all their effort? well the next big company that comes along simply won't support you, as they will see its just not worth the expense.
So in other words...no. There are SOME models, which ones fuck if you or me or anybody knows because you'd have to take the chips out and actually test to see if they were REALLY secure wiping or feeding your BS like in TFA, but its NOT any specific vendor or model or anything that is predictable...great.
Ya know I used to get pissed at the guys that would waste perfectly good working HDDs by taking a .357 to the thing when we have easy peasy ways to wipe those but with SSDs? they may actually have a point. it probably saves the vendors an assload of money as well since nobody will be sending back failed drives to get it replaced under warranty. i know my gamer customers just throw away the drives after smashing them even if they are under warranty because there is no way to wipe them and they don't want to risk their data being stolen by some third world refurb center. At least with a HDD as long as it wasn't completely tits up I could usually zero out a drive before sending it in, with these I think I'd opt for the .357 approach too.
I just don't get what your beef is, I really don't. Don't think an E350 can cut it? Fine spend 5-6 times that amount and get a second battery for the car, honestly I do NOT care. But when you are talking about running something off a car you better be VERY picky on the power budget or have a hell of a battery, that is all I'm saying.
Again if money is no object? Buy an AMD A6 quad core and use that instead. Surely a quad core with full GP-GPU support would do what you are complaing the E350 don't do, heck you can put a crypto engine into an FPGA and put it on the PCI bus if that is what melts your butter Hoss.
Look man there is about a thousand ways this can be done so giving a rat's behind about the chip? who cares, seriously. You can put an FPGA on the PCI and use the Bobcat, you can do the same with the cell PCIe and both of those will support any dang crypto you want. you can go with a ULV Intel or AMD desktop chip, pretty much any of the Athlons or Core2s would again let you run ANY crypto that makes you happy. Now as you pointed out he wants to keep it from the cop's prying eyes...and? Hell a Truecrypt volume can do THAT, that ain't brain surgery.
If you think another chip is better? I don't really see how it matters now anyway, the guy probably just bought some 99c "security" app for his iPhone the same day he posted the damned thing anyway so its really not gonna matter because nobody is gonna build the dang thing anyway! This is like getting irked because you think I picked the wrong QB in a fantasy football game...honestly who cares? it was a simple ask /. thought exercise that other than me responding to you probably hasn't had a single post in days. Its dead Jim, let it RIP.
Hell its as old as civilization itself...how old is the "bread and circuses" line again? You ever see the interview with Hitler's personal driver, who was there from the start? he said they did NOT follow him because they agreed with him, in fact most thought he was batshit, the reason they followed him is he promised and delivered bread and jobs when they had none, they even showed picture of the leadership handing out food baskets and toys at Xmas!
This is why I can't get along with the right, especially the libertarians, as how hard is it to see the ONLY REASON why the poor aren't fucking KILLING YOU is that they have food, a place to sleep, and cheap entertainment, ala bread and circuses from all those centuries ago? Hell if I were in charge I'd be making pot legal and cheap tomorrow NOT because it is the right thing to do (although eliminating so called "sin crimes is) but because a buzzed poor person is a whole lot less likely to want to kill your dumb rich ass. Ever read "Brave New World"? Keep the population fed and medicated and they become pretty easy to manage.
But I agree that its gonna blow, the ONLY reason I give it another decade is that the right has become SO damned arrogant that they might as well change their mascot to Monty Burns, which means that pushing through the massive gutting to social programs will be a LOT harder than it could have been. I mean when they think that Mittens, who was literally the "upper class twit" from the Monty Python sketches, could actually WIN? hell they wouldn't have even got as much as they did if there wasn't so much pure racism still simmering. I mean the man thought he was being "homey" when he talked about he had to...gasp! Drive a brand new luxury car in HS that was fugly! And his wife said they could relate to the poor because when they were at their ivy league college they had to..OMG...live on the dividends from the stock? Can you believe it?
But what convinced me they will destroy the country and if they are lucky will be fleeing like the fall of Saigon, if not be lined against the wall, was the cheering the idea of a poor kid dying who didn't have insurance. When I saw that I said "There ya go, the perfect metaphor for the greed on wheels that has taken over the business and government sectors of this country". These are the ones that will outsource every last job, pay only part time minimum wage to those that are left, cut every social service so those "stinking rabble" won't get a cent of their "earned wealth" while bribing congress to pass every poor fucking law they possibly can and will be shocked, totally completely shocked when those very same poor they have shit on for years are dragging them from their homes and hanging them from the tree.
To those that say it can never happen I merely say...how long did the leaders of Libya and Egypt hold power? How long did the nobles rule France for? You can NOT turn the USA into a third world hellhole without getting third world hellhole problems, simple as that. Look at how the ultra wealthy in Brazil live like prisoners behind walled communities with armed guards and have to worry about their choppers being shot down by an RPG because the starving masses would like nothing more than to kill them, hell look at how we have ever growing slums in the USA that the cops won't go into in broad daylight without getting killed. this country is sitting on a powderkeg, the poor can plainly see those at the top living like Gods while it gets harder and harder to even feed themselves, if you have nothing to live for you also have nothing left to lose, its not gonna take much to set the whole thing off, its really not.
If you don't mind being disturbed by a simple lecture you should watch the end of America by Naomi wolf, who is now on the watchlist for daring to speak on the constitution BTW, points out how many of the same plays that previous dictatorships have used to turn free societies into police states are being done ri
Uhhh...any time you add layers to something performance is gonna suffer friend, if it didn't everything from your browser to your video player would just be throwaway VMs so bugs would be a thing of the past.
Again for Plants Vs Zombies, Angry Birds and Cut The Rope? I'm sure this will be fine and dandy, heck it'll probably be fine and dandy for older games to like Q3 Arena but until I see something with the graphics quality of Just Cause II or Bioshock Infinite running on this? Well just color me skeptical, after all we've all heard these kinds of promises before.
Well, and again correct me if I'm wrong, just a humble fixit guy here...ain't that what a fork is for Hoss? if a company just isn't running a project in the direction the majority wants the project gets forked and either the original stays the champ or it withers and dies ala Open Office?
Because what you are describing to me sounds like OpenGL is ripe for a good forking, let those that need the old cruft support the original version while a new version that takes the best gaming stuff from the desktop and mobile versions goes their own way and let the best OpenGL win.
Yeah and how many Apple users are running on anything but the latest OSX version? pretty much none, the numbers are so low as to be meaningless. Now compare that to how many Windows users are running the latest and "greatest" (man I nearly choked writing that, Win 8 is a turd) compared to previous versions? last figures had Win 8 at less than 3%, it fact Vista has twice as many users as Windows 8 does and that is after a 4 billion dollar marketing campaign and a holiday season.
So I'm sorry but saying "Apple does it!" really doesn't help if you aren't Apple and your customers don't behave like Apple customers. Oh don't get me wrong I'm sure Ballmer is sitting in Redmond clicking his ruby slippers and going "There is no place like Cupertino" but that ain't gonna magically change the entire windows ecosystem, no matter how much Ballmer might want to be the CEO at Apple.
Because you can't give away somebody else's IP without getting sued and possibly having your chips blacklisted? For those that don't know HDCP is property of Intel which means AMD had to sign a license agreement and NDA to allow their systems to support HDCP. Of course this gives Intel two advantages when it comes to their drivers, one they don't have to worry about IP since they own it and two because they've been ahead of AMD both on IPC and die shrinks they were able to keep HDCP pretty much a separate module in the designs VS AMD who used parts of their GPU for HDCP which is why they had to be VERY careful not to step into the IP minefield when they went about opening their chips.
Now personally i think it sucks balls that we ALL have to pay for this DRM being baked into the chips when so few of us are watching content protected by HDCP but as long as big media has a giant stiffie for DRM we are all just gonna have to accept it. I do hope this gets Linux users to put their money where their mouths are and support AMD, I don't know how many "LOL use Nvidia" posts I've seen from Linux users which you just have to be gobsmacked when you realize here is the guys that spend so much time talking about "freedom" while supporting the most FOSS unfriendly company there is. I mean there is a reason why Torvalds gave Nvidia the bird ya know, and it wasn't his way of saying they were #1. AMD has done every single thing the FOSS community asked, they are opening their chips, helping out with Coreboot support, they are probably one of the most FOSS friendly hardware companies there is so lets hope they see that support rewarded, otherwise companies are gonna look at the lack of support AMD got and decide that there is nothing to gain from being open.
You can forget it friend, any time you get an article involving the "big three", Apple, Google, or MSFT, the apologists brigade will be out in force. It doesn't matter what TFA says, it can show with hard data that Apple is lax on security, Google is going apeshit with datamining or windows 8 makes Vista look like a hit, doesn't matter, because for some damned reason these people treat the corps like ballclubs and will rush to their defense. I used to think it was some form of buyer's remorse, you know they paid too much money for their latest toy and are now rushing to defend it so they don't feel foolish? But I've seen the same behavior when the product is free so now I have NO idea why somebody who doesn't have stock would treat some megacorp like a ballclub.
As for TFA this is something I figured would be a problem once we switched to flash memory, with every die shrink the amount of cycles the flash memory can take before dying gets worse and these companies don't want to be getting a ton of "I wiped my phone and now half the storage is gone!" complaints and returns and of course even if you DID do a full wipe with the way wear leveling works by remapping and lying to the OS I don't know how trustworthy a wipe would really be except to keep Joe Clueless who buys the thing on eBay from getting the data.
So has anybody really done any extensive testing on how easy or hard it is to get a secure wipe with flash memory? I know that supposedly when a cell fails its stuck in a "read only" state and the drive just remaps to some of the spare cells so how hard would it be to get the data off those "dead" cells anyway? At the shop I have been avoiding SSDs simply because of how many failures my gamer customers have seen from the tech (kinda reminds me of the first years of HDDs and how often they went tits up back then) but it would be nice to know how well a wipe on flash memory would actually work.
Uhhh it OpenGL ES and its being supported in the BROWSER which unless they changed things by default is running in low rights mode anyway...yeah I really don't think anybody is gonna be seeing performance that rivals a DirectX game installed on the hardware Hoss. This will be fine for "cut the rope" style games, which frankly Flash worked fine for until Apple slit its throat ( and we have yet to see a replacement that can fill all the roles Flash was good at in a similar footprint, its all either bloated as hell like HTML V5 video or just doesn't have the features that flash had like good animation support) but I don't see anybody cooking up the next Bioshock on this, sorry.
Now correct me if I'm wrong but isn't OpenGL ES a much wimpier subset of OpenGL cooked up for cellphones and consoles NOT for desktops? That was the way I had always heard it explained which if so makes all the hubub just one more "ZOMFG we can be like the iPhone!" as far as I'm concerned.
Is anybody else tired of the mobile bubble yet? I personally can't wait until it pops, its getting about as asinine as the height of the dotbomb. You got VCs throwing money at pretty much anything with iPhone or Android in the name or description, you got the press doing a giant circle jerk on how "mobile is teh future yo!"...all I can think of is how it sounds no different than how we were all going to do everything on the web, from buying groceries to caskets and pretty much any company that had .com in the name was getting stupid money thrown at them.
Maybe its just me but I'm getting the feeling its the same old bubble song and dance all over again.
That ain't gonna change the fact it has a bullseye the size of Texas painted on it Hoss. Every malware writer knows that IE is the "grandma browser" and grandma is clueless so if you want your malware to last longer and infect systems where it won't be found for ages? Go after IE. The fact that it takes a seriously nasty bug to get MSFT to patch IE out of cycle just makes it that much more of a juicy target since the other guys patch the second they have a reason to.
This is why I give my customers a couple of browsers and let them choose, usually one Moz variant and one Chromium based (Now its Dragon/IceDragon but its been Pale Moon and Chromium in the past) with ABP and make it clear they are taking a risk if they choose IE, because its just too juicy a target for the bad guys. That fact that MSFT refuses to backport to their still supported OSes just seals the deal as far as I'm concerned, any company that would tie the browser, the biggest attack vector on a PC, into some scheme to try to force sales? Isn't a company i want to trust when it comes to browsers.
I think we'll just keep on poisoning the third world sadly. Ever see a video of the place where most of our PCs end up? Its this little cesspool in Bumfuck Africa where the sky is black from the burning motherboards as the peasants try to get enough metals out of them to survive another week, its really sad and pathetic and the ones "working" there will probably be dead of cancer or heavy metal poisoning by the time they are 30.
We could go into the "why" it has happened, I would argue what we are seeing is the fruits of nearly 40 years of Reaganomics and insider dealing but the why really doesn't matter, all that matters is that thanks to laws like DMCA they'll make it so you keeping that older system? Illegal for pretty much anything but using as a doorstop. How could they do that? Simple just look at how any site that shows an easy way to unlock an Xbox-1, even though those have been abandoned by MSFT for half a decade, get a C&D and sued if they don't comply. What you'll have will be just like game consoles, locked down hardware with locked down OSes that all it takes is the next version to use a different set of APIs and then suddenly you can't get any software for it and the latest website features won't work. You can use it for a doorstop but that will be it, hardware without software isn't worth shit.
And do NOT get me started on JavaScript unless you want to hear a rant, I think JS is the biggest clusterfuck ever heaped upon computing. It was a weak and pisspoor language that used the name of a more popular product just to get its smelly foot in the door, the guys making it never had the word security even cross their minds much less be taken into consideration and now we just keep bolting more and more shit on top of a crapfuck language and wonder why we have so many exploits and why it sucks resources like Charlie Sheen sucks up coke. Its a bad idea, it SHOULD have been replaced 10 years ago with something designed for the job and with security features baked in but until some big corp like Google says "Okay enough is enough" we'll just keep putting bandaids on bullet wounds. Hell have you tried HTML V5 video yet? Frankly you have to have dedicated hardware just to run the damned thing or its a slideshow, I've seen 2.5GHz C2D chips struggle their asses off just to render a slideshow out of that mess, when the same chip can do 1080P Flash, its just another clusterfuck which surprise! being brought to you by the very same corps that want you to throw everything away every 3 years. Why am I not surprised?
I'm sorry but you lost me, are you talking about the chips in TFA or some other chips? Because i have never heard a GPU referred to as a "multi-dsp-line chip" so you might as well have said "I wonder if the fleegal will be a good flimjam" for all the sense that sentence made.
Now if you are asking if some funky job you have can be done on a GP-GPU like the newer Nvidia and AMD chips? While I'm no expert in the new chips, especially the new Nvidia designs, preferring AMD, from the look of what I have seen it comes down to whether your code can be broken down in a way that will fit the new arch well. For a nice read on how at least AMD is doing it here you go it even has a code sample to show the difference between the old and new arches.
But the reason the older cards are faster than the new cards basically comes down to this: The old cards were great at graphics and ONLY graphics, but since mobile is hot and in mobile weaker chips with longer battery life is the order of the day what these new designs do is allow more of the load to be taken by the GPU. Now if all you wanted to do is game this is bad as you now have a weaker chip since its no longer focused totally on gaming, but it will be useful for more tasks besides just gaming as it will become easier with each rev to write agnostic code and have the APU split the load in such a way as to give you the quickest performance.
So I can see what they are going for, even though I love to game my GPU is gaming maybe 25% of the time at most, the rest of the time its just blowing power. the new chips will be shut down all the parts you don't need on the fly to drop power usage and on those jobs where the GPU could do it quicker it'll fire it back up, run the code, and then go back into a low power state.
Since I don't know anything about how CFD code is laid out you'll have to look a little deeper into the designs but the nice thing is since both are going Open-CL you will only have to write the code once and then run it on any of the new chips by either company. If you are not a gamer and just want to see if your code will run faster on a GP-GPU I'd suggest an HD7750, those are a good midrange/ upper midrange on performance and can be had for around $70 or so if you shop around. It would probably be the absolute cheapest you could get and still have enough performance to really see if it'll give your program a kick in the pants.
Because not to be too fucking blunt it makes you a dumbass or a hipster douche? I mean if you need a fucking laptop BUY A LAPTOP because if you are buying a product whose sole reason for being is TOUCH and then buying a damned keyboard just to get the thing to do what you need? Either you are VERY thick or more likely you are the hipster douche that wants to be seen with what is "cool" and a Macbook Air just isn't douchey enough.
Sorry to be so blunt folks but sometimes the level of stupid just warrants it. To use the famed /. car analogy buying a touch centered device only to go out and buy a keyboard and use it like a laptop is like buying a Kia and then dropping a Hemi in it so it'll pull your boat...just BUY WHAT YOU NEED DUMBASS! If you need a truck don't buy a fucking Kia, if 95%+ of what you need to get done can't be done by poking buy a fucking laptop! This mental disconnect is as pathetic as watching a Christian jump through logic hoops trying to explain why Easter is a Christian holiday while a guy in a bunny suit passes out eggs beside him, if you need to poke things buy a fucking tablet, if you need to type things buy a fucking laptop! Why is that so damned hard?
Common Sense...it truly is a God damned superpower. BTW has "Oww my balls!" become the smash hit reality show yet?
Meh AMD has been doing the same thing, use the 48xx or 58xx if you want crazy framerates while being able to cook supper on the chips, the 6xx and 7xxx don't get the high framerates but also don't have the high heat.
I figure the "ZOMFG its all gotta be mobile like teh iPhone yo!" bubble will pop like every other bubble and things will go back to normal but until then I have a feeling both AMD and Nvidia are gonna be so busy playing low power limbo to see how long they can go that pretty much everything but the top tier cards will be crap. I mean sure using less power is fine but not if it makes my games look shitty or stutter.
Actually no need for a fourth as that fits the first rule just fine, selling a non GPL version is a SERVICE that you offer to those that like the software but not the GPL, no different than how you can buy the serices of the dev to make alterations which are not shared or like Adobe making dev tools that interact with the free version. In all cases its not the shrink wrapping of GPL software as the software itself has NO value, its the things that tie into it.
Now some take offense at me saying it has no value but just because something is free of cost doesn't mean you don't want it, air is free but without it you'd be none too happy, its just not something you can package up and sell easily which is why so many companies get into trouble with the GPL, because that mindset simply does not work in this context.
And what I meant with adobe is that readers simply aren't a business to them, unlike MPEG-LA they aren't gonna sue your ass if you make a PDF reader or something that can play Flash because as you note the specs are right there, help thyself. That is because Adobe knows the money is NOT in the player, its in those that want to create content so they sell tools to make developing content in those formats easier. This also has precedents with the history of GPL, such as selling custom versions or dev tools and fits perfectly in the first rule as you are NOT selling the GPL software in and of itself, you are selling either tools to make working with that GPL software easier or are selling the ability to remove the GPL license as a service to some company that doesn't like/can't use the GPL in their product. This fits perfectly as you are selling support with the dev tools which makes working with the format easier or services like license changes with the proprietary version.
My point with the blessed three wasn't to condemn the GPL or say its shit, its to point out that it has parameters one must follow if one wants to be a success. the reason you haven't seen the next Bioshock come from a GPL source or a desktop that rivals the polish and ease of use of Win 7 or OSX (don't get me started on win 8, Ballmer is snorting waaay too much dope if he thinks he can sell that Edsel) is simply because you can't fit those programs under the blessed three which is why so many companies like Xandros and Mandriva have failed and why I think Canonical will be dead by 2015, its simply because nobody has been able to figure out any way other than the blessed three to make a profitable business using GPLed software. Now if you follow the blessed three? The sky is the limit, just look at Red hat, or the vendors of NAS boxes or a billion other pieces of hardware. In ALL of the cases its NOT the GPL software in and of itself that is being sold, its the services or the hardware being sold.
My argument is simply that when software is truly "free" that you can't make your living by sticking that free product in a box and selling it, it just doesn't work. In fact the closest I've ever seen to anyone being able to do that was the services that sold CDs of GPLed software during the 90s to those on dialup but even then one could argue they fit into the blessed three as you were paying more for their time putting it on a physical disc and shipping it to you than you were for what was on the disc because the GPL makes that truly "free" in pretty much every sense of the word. Why anyone would get shirty (not meaning you, just the attitude I've gotten for saying this) for pointing out what RMS made quite clear was the POINT of the GPL, to make software truly free and available to all that want it? Well it leaves me scratching my noggin.
Then again I still can't figure out why Christians get all shirty when you point out that Easter and Xmas don't have shit to do with Jesus, one is a fertility ceremony and the other the Roman winter solstice celebration, so maybe its just me.
But that's not the fault of having the ABILITY to upgrade, its simply that software hasn't kept up with hardware, that's all. my youngest is gaming on an Athlon triple that was originally built as a spare, just a system to have in the closet if one of the family suffered a broken system because I got tired of hearing "How long is it gonna take" but when my hand me down Phenom II quad had a memory stick go tits up (and naturally the Phenom II had DDR 2 and the Athlon DDR 3 so i couldn't just snatch the stick) I handed that to him and said it'd be a week...its been over a year and now the Phenom II is in the closet. Why did he stick with the weaker triple over a quad? Because its more power than his games use and by the time the part was shipped he already had moved his software over and was happy.
So its not the ability to upgrade that is the problem, its just that for some people that need never arises. if your kid only surfs and plays basic games? that C2Q will be extreme overkill and will probably last many years as is. I have a 2003 Sempron 2GHz in the shop I use as a nettop...why? Because for the jobs I have that machine for downloading drivers, looking up solutions to problems and basic web surfing? It works just fine. in fact I'm gonna have to gut it this summer NOT because it can't do the job but because XP is EOL next year and there simply isn't drivers for its hardware with windows 7, planned obsolescence bit me in the ass. Oh and don't say Linux as I have too damned much Windows only software that Linux won't cut the mustard. But thanks to COTS I can just slap a Bobcat board in it for like $100 counting RAM and tada! Another 7 years of use out of the box.
So what you are talking about isn't really connected to losing the ability to upgrade, you simply haven't had any jobs that make it worth the trouble. Now imagine if the RAM was soldered to the board so that C2Q only had 1GB of memory...wouldn't be giving it to your kid would you? Now THAT is the problem, because even simple upgrades like adding memory are being threatened by those who make more money by forcing folks to throw away before its needed. as i tell folks "Imagine that your fridge had a 5 year clock and at the end of that five years the compressor locked solid and you had to throw the whole thing away....would you buy it? Then why would you pay the same money for a cellphone with a timer on it? " Hell they don't even give you the fucking courtesy of the timer because at LEAST you could then make choices based on life of the product, just ask those poor dumb bastards that are stuck with WinPhone 7 and 2 year contracts how they feel. that thing didn't have many apps to start with but they sold it on "more are coming!" yet now that they have killed WinPhone 7 those people paid for nothing, they have no better than a dumb phone at a smartphone price.
Yeah its great for those at the top which is really all those numbers are talking to. Fuck WWI was great if you were a defense industry insider, not so much if you were the poor fucks getting sent to the front.
This is why I think this country has at most another decade before a giant collapse, you can't tilt things that far out of balance before something either whacks it back into balance or it collapses outright. This is why I'm amazed at the right constantly trying to cut help for the poor as its that and that alone and that keeps them from KILLING YOU morons, they outnumber you by something like 10,000 to 1 and is about as smart as the white slave owners in Jamaica going "food? fuck 'em just whip them a little harder" or the "let them eat cake" bit...yeah, keep it up Sparky, just keep it up, I'm sure it will all work out fine.../facepalm/
Steve Jobs was an asshole. I'm sorry but he was, hate me ALL you want but you look at the man's shitstory and its back stabbing and douchebaggery, hell he even ripped off Woz by lying on how much they got from Atari for a game WOZ MADE and snitched when he got caught selling blue boxes.
Sadly you look at the history of the so called "titans of industry" and what you find is a texbook filled with sociopaths, from Edison torturing animals and even killing people to try to descredit AC to Gates screwing over those that went into business with him its ALL about being the biggest dickbag you can possibly be, those with any feelings for anybody other than themselves need not apply.
Dude you thought the 70s were bad? at least the men weren't wearing more lipstick than the women and wearing snakeskin parachute pants. at least the fugly tastes of the 70s were mostly indoors, those horrible tastes moved to clothes in the 80s and you couldn't escape. Hell my neon yellow Warlock bass and parachute pants were CONSERVATIVE back then man, I was probably the most conservatively dressed musician at the time, the entire decade was blinding colors and horrible fashions.
Because that is the bullshit these schools tell these green ass kids to get them to rack up a $100K plus in debt they can never escape? They hauled a body out of the apt building across the way just a few days ago, 25 year old kid hung himself because he was buried alive in student loans he can never pay and couldn't escape. i know many that have "gone underground" and get paid cash and barter just because they are buried alive. I also have a nephew that the school fucked up his paperwork after he was there for 2 years, now he has $37k in debt and no degree to show for it.
So yeah, I can see the frustration, don't blame them a bit. Student loans need to be reformed so that they can file bankruptcy when they have been fucked and get out from under (and believe me bankruptcy is NO picnic but they should at least have the option which they did before 06) or I have a feeling they are gonna be picking up more bodies as all these kids find their lives are ruined and all that money they were tricked into signing for is just wasted cash.
Welcome to the "free trade is a fucking lie" club, coffee and donuts are in the back. You are supposed to "compete" with countries that literally let their factories pour toxic waste out the back door and throw away their people when they naturally get sickened by their waste as 'disposable people" yet we consider this "fair"trade? Yeah its about as fair as putting your HS football team against the Broncos and having the refs paid off just in case your HS gets lucky on a play.
Bimbo Newton Crosby. We old timers have seen these bubbles a billion times and they really aren't hard to spot. Salaries go crazy even when there is no real clear path to success? A market flooded with wannabes? All the press practically slobbering all over the page about what a "game changer' and how "its the future!"...its a bubble. Its the exact same thing we saw with the "it'll all be thin clients" of the 90s, the dotbomb, to a lesser degree the E-Reader craze of the 90s, its the same dance just a different tune.
All these VCs throwing assloads of money at iOS development will see their money go quicker than coke around Charlie Sheen and the press will turn and the bubble will burst, simple as that. The only question is when. I just wouldn't be betting my life on mobile development if I were you, I have a feeling its gonna be as bad as trying to sell used Sun systems in 2002, the market is gonna end up ass deep in guys that all went chasing the gold rush and don't have shit to fall back on, just like we were ass deep in "web designers" in 2003.
Actually if you read TFA you would see the entire post was about a cop just hitting the erase and wiping the evidence. Now if you know anything about the law then you know a cop pushing a button and a cop taking someone's property and destroying it are two VERY different things,and while a cop can easily get away with just using the phone and hitting erase he better have a DAMN good reason for destroying private property.
Yet again XKCD points out the folly of geeks overthinking the problem. Sure you can build a $30,000 foolproof system that uses cellular to blast every second to a secure server that is locked down tighter than a nun's thighs, but it'll cost $30,000 and be a PITA. Now anybody who actually comes HERE to ask for help? He ain't got that kind of budget Hoss. If you want to ADD killer crypto to a Bobcat? They make a cell crypto processor that will run on any PCI-E slot. It'll add $300 to the cost and raise the shit out of your power budget but if you wanna get anal retentive about it? There ya go Hoss, there's your answer.
But for what TFA was obviously asking for, which is something a cop can't erase without taking it out and just smashing the thing? It'll do the job and won't break the bank. If you want heavier? Get the card or a Liano based and deal with the higher power use. Again this ain't rocket science Hoss, quit trying to overthink it.