It was shipped with Win 7 Home X64 and Splashtop Linux along with 4Gb of RAM, so no MSFT didn't force them out because as I said it was a whole $60 more to get a netbook with a decent APU, plenty of RAM and the ability to add more. It even came with hardware VM support so I can have a PuppyLinux VM I can use if I need to do some banking on the go. Oh and despite not being updated in 4 years as Splashtop went out of business? Splashtop Linux still boots in under 4 seconds and is great for when I just want to check the weather or watch a little YouTube.
That is why I've hung onto my Asus EEE PC for dear life. I can run any OS from BSD to Ubuntu (came with a dual boot Win 7 X64 and Splashtop Linux which still works great), the battery after 6 years still gets nearly 4 hours and if I decide to replace it? $20 and two tabs and I can swap it in 30 seconds. Oh and an AMD APU which means I can do 1080P over HDMI so when I'm not using it for work its an ULV HTPC.
If we could get a new model with the same features? I'd be the first in line. Hell AMD even has a perfect chip for the job, the socket AM1 APU have a max of 15w for the top o the line quad and most of the time is sub 9w and its the same APU that was used in the PS4 so its got more than enough muscle to do HD video, slap that in a 12in netbook with an unlocked UEFI so I can install any OS I want? Hell yeah sign me up!
That Chuwi? Yeah its running the same shit Atom CPU you can get in a $100 convertible that comes with a keyboard and has a touchscreen so I really wouldn't call that a "bargain".
Anybody who has used an Atom can tell you there is a reason why they are so cheap, its because they are absolute dogshit, I'd rather have an old Athlon X2 or C2D laptop than a brand new Atom because they are soooooo fucking slow, its just painful to use. If you really want one of those POS "laptops"? Get the $100 convertible, its the same size as the original EEE and since you only spent $100 on it you won't feel so bad about how shitty it is.
Uhhh my AMD netbook is rocking 8Gb of RAM and came with 4Gb and Win 7 X64, maybe you shouldn't have been buying those crap Intel Atom netbooks? At the time it was only $60 more to get the AMD one and when I'm not using it on house calls I can use it as an HTPC with full 1080P over HDMI.
The reason you saw so many of the crap Atoms is Intel was product dumping, its the same reason you see so many of those Intel Atom convertibles so cheap now. But Atom was shit then, its still shit now, if you are gonna get a netbook? Don't make it an Atom if you don't want it to be crippled and blow ass, heck the AMD netbook chips even support hardware VM and ECC memory if you needed it so no segmenting the market like Intel always does.
that if you are a software company whose software doesn't fall under the "blessed trinity" then it would be SUICIDE to go FOSS as you won't be able to make enough to keep the lights on!
Ever wonder why no FOSS game has taken game of the year? Why after all these years the only "competition" to Photoshop that is FOSS is literally some kid's school project? Why all those niche applications like medical diagnosis and billing are never FOSS, or why programs like GnuCash are a bad joke compare to commercial products like Quicken and Quickbooks from a decade ago? The answer is actually quite simple which is FOSS works on the blessed trinity and if your software doesn't fit that model you have no chance to survive and your company will go under. We've seen it happen time and time again, in everything from Windows to Linux game converters to repos for commercial software to OSes themselves, if it doesn't fit the trinity model? It has zero chance.
This is why FOSS will never become the dominant license, why despite MSFT doing everything short of making a high res Goatse as the default wallpaper Windows 10 continues to grow while Linux is flatline, it all comes down to the trinity simply not working for the vast majority of software out there and without the software people want and need to do their jobs? You might as well be offering to trade their PC for a potato. For those that do not know what the blessed trinity is, its 1.- Selling services, 2.- Selling hardware, and 3.- e-begging. And if your software, which more than 95% of the software used daily by hundreds of millions qualify, doesn't work under this model? Then FOSS is suicide because you simply cannot make enough money to keep the lights on in FOSS if you don't fit the trinity model.
I really wish it wasn't so, Windows 10 is such a nightmare it actually makes the thought of the return of the Ballmernator look like the return of Steve Jobs to Apple, and Google and Apple are racing to see which one can become the most Stasi like when it comes to gathering data, but as long as FOSS is so politicized and rigid that an individual or company cannot sell more than a single copy of their software before someone else gives it away for free? Then FOSS will stay exactly where it is, a niche tool mainly used by multinationals as a way to avoid licensing fees on their servers and to not have to pay for the software which they use on their hardware...which is of course #2 on the trinity..
I'm sorry but they robbed everyone in America by committing bribery and stealing the Public Domain from We, The People, so ask me how much I give a fuck. Until We, The People actually get a seat at the table and copyrights become what the constitution spelled out which was a LIMITED PERIOD instead of Valenti's "forever minus a single day"? Excuse me if I don't feel bad if someone mugs a fucking thief.
Its a total scam dude, that is why Amazon is being sued over Prime. Log out and then look at the prices of several items, note them then log back in and see what the prices are. You'll find your Amazon Prime membership will often raise the prices on items so you aren't saving shit, its just a shell game and all you are really getting for the $100 a year is the streaming service.
Personally I don't think their content is worth anywhere near a c-note a year so I passed on it but YMMV.
Uhhh you might want to look up the history of the CIA, the amount of murders of politicians and political leaders that didn't kiss the corporate ring of some multi-national? Is just staggering, nearly every action they did that resulted in "regime change" was to benefit some corp that was exploiting the people or the resources of some weaker country. They follow the "war is a racket" playbook and make sure that greedyco doesn't have to worry about any pesky peasants actually wanting to be treated right or using their own resources.
I wasn't talking about selling 3D printers, I was talking about selling 3D printing SERVICES. Do you have ANY idea how many laptops I've junked because they needed one stupid little plastic piece that would cost more than the laptop is worth on eBay, if I could even find one? Hell I would have practically lived at the local Shack if i could just have them measure the part and whip me off a replacement!
But frankly they really had nothing to lose because it was obvious to anybody with common sense that selling fricking cellphones (cellphones? really? When you can buy those things anywhere and the margins are razor thin?) and drones was just not gonna cut it, too many places already sell those.
But if they would have gone to selling services AND maker stuff? they could have become the Kinko's of plastic!
I can explain why Sears is still open, lawnmowers and washer/dryer combos. You get those from some place like Walmart or Lowes it doesn't matter how much money you spend its still gonna be junk that will be lucky if it lasts a year and a half, but you buy those at Sears? They cost a little more but you get 5 year warranties that you will never need because it'll easily last past that with seriously heavy use.
Yeah I never understood that, it seems so easy to save Radio Shack, just offer 3D printing services and have all of the maker stuff, maybe host some classes on how to make cool stuff with the devices? There ya go, job done. Instead they ended up with the exact same shit you can get at any Walmart Supercenter, except you can also get everything from cookies to cough syrup at the Supercenter as well as cellphones and drones so there really was no point in going to Radio Shack.
Its a damned shame because back in the day I loved shopping at RS. Anybody else remember Tandy? My very first mixing board was a Tandy, they had a little 4 channel 50w powered mixer with mike and a pair of speakers, took a real beating for years and years before the power amp finally cooked. I used to go there for everything from caps to guitar jacks and at one time about half my electronics were Tandy. I'll have to go to my local RS before they close, I hear they have brought Tandy back for things like PC keyboards...I'll have to grab one for nostalgia before they close, just a damned shame.
Switch to Pale Moon, it is what FF USED to be before they decided to become a shitty Chrome clone. Nearly all your extensions work (for the few that don't work with the latest they have a handy link to a known working version and you can always contact the devs of your favorite extensions like I did and ask them to add Pale Moon support), it handles like the old FF, they even have a Linux version so if you want the same browser on both Windows and Linux with your bookmarks synced between the two? Its not a problem.
I switched nearly 2 years ago and I can tell you its really good and unlike FF they actually LISTEN TO THE USERS and don't take a steaming dump on the UI every other release like FF does.
Sigh, are you REALLY this dense or are you just trolling? Its a tax break FOR THE OEMS who then pass the savings onto YOU in the form of lower prices...is that really too hard to understand?
And it is trivial to forgo the tax break, most OEMs do offer a "clean PC" option these days and all the PCs in the MSFT store are 100% vanilla Windows...and guess what? They cost around $80 more because they are no longer getting that money from the trialware providers! Capitalism, what a concept, huh?
Actually we know it due to Wikileaks and FOIA requests. Obama asked in July of a FISA court to bug Trump and was turned down, then went back in October and the request was approved.
For anybody that isn't as biased as this HRC sycophant? Just look up "Obama FISA Trump" and read the documents yourself. Basically Obama had such a raging hard on for trying to blame the fact that HRC was a truly horrid candidate on Russia that he had Trump bugged hoping to find some big conspiracy between Trump, Wikileaks, and Russia. Ironically according to a British Ambassador it was a Bernie supporter in the DNC that leaked all the info because he was disgusted at the corrupt cabal of HRC plus the DNC conspiring to rig the primary against Bernie and Trump didn't have a clue about any of it.
So keep smelling your own farts and pretending its roses but here is a simple fact that will make you sick, Trump? Is gonna keep stomping the dogshit out of the Dems and the press for the next 8 years because of one simple little fact.,...THEY CANNOT STOP LYING....That is it, all they would have to do to leave Trump completely helpless and unable to fight back is simply stop lying but the dems and DNC have gotten so damned corrupt they simply cannot do it. And everytime they lie their lackeys in the press grab it and inflate the shit to Dr Insaneo proportions, look at the Wall where they went from 5 billion to suddenly the press claiming "Its a trillion dollars ZOMFG!" so now all Trump has to do is come in below that number and he is under budget and looks like the big winner...again...all because the dems just can't be fucking honest but instead have to go for the "ZOMFG Trump is literally Hitler warrgarble!" bullshit which makes THEM look like the whack-a-doodles.
I was a Bernie guy so I don't have a dog in this race but I have to say I'm enjoying the hell out of this, our MSM has been corrupt as fuck for decades and thanks to wikileaks we now know they were blowing the top brass at the DNC and even handing Hillary questions and running articles by her before they ran so if there is any group that needs to be crushed by the Trumpocalypse? Its the DNC. And on a positive note maybe we can get a real third party like the Green Party going once everyone has seen how fricking worthless and corrupted the DNC has become and they get bitchslapped for the next 8 years, if that happens? Then Trump was a positive change and you whinging politically correct girlie men can go cry in your safe space for all I care.
If all the latest review of the new Intel octocore were focused solely on DOS performance and kept harping on how its bad for DOS, would you consider that a fair and unbiased review? AMD has repeatedly said in every one of their tech talks The Ryzen 7 is designed to compete with the $1100 Intel chips....now do you see ANYBODY recommending $1100 Intel 16 thread chips for gaming? Have you ever seen a single article claiming the $1100 Intel chip is a gaming CPU? Can you find a single article saying this?
Of course you can't because that is fucking stupid, the Intel chip is a gasp! shock! a WORKSTATION CPU and everyone knows this. Meanwhile what did you see the focus at the Ryzen 7 demos by AMD? Yep tools like Blender and Photoshop which is WORKSTATION LOADS. They also made it clear the gaming chips are the R3s and R5s being released later this year.
So yeah sorry but these "reviews" focusing on a metric that a chip wasn't designed for is about as fair and unbalanced as Faux News. Again show me a single article when Intel released their $1100 chips that focused on their gaming performance, hell I bet you'd be hard pressed to find an article that even mentioned gaming because nobody would consider $1100 workstation CPUs as gaming chips.
I take it you aren't old enough to remember Lotus 123? God that makes me feel ancient, but the reason your AI wouldn't do it is because it will always be a niche application as there is a very limited subset of people that are gonna actually WANT an AI on their PC, most will think its creepy or weird and say "do not want".
OTOH when Lotus 123 hit? ZOMFG suddenly EVERYBODY had to have Lotus 123, from the smallest business to the biggest corp you weren't shit if you weren't using 123. Every personal computer that couldn't run 123 raced to come up with a 123 knock off to say "see we can run it too!" and people were upgrading and chunking PCs at an alarming rate (and this at a time when a good PC could cost $3k+) because they couldn't run 123, it was frigging nuts man!.
The price isn't good because of a little fact that Linux fanboys don't want to admit after making the falsehood a meme....in reality there is NO Windows tax, its in fact a tax BREAK because the OEMs get paid by third parties to put their trialware into the OS. This is why MSFT has been selling trialware free PCs in their store and offering Windows for certain designs (such as 7in convertibles) at lower prices or even free with the stipulation that there is no trialware as it slows Windows down.
Speaking of convertibles,has anybody had any luck installing Linux on one? Because I've seen 10 inch Intel Atom quad convertibles going for as little as $89 and if you could get a really light Linux like Puppy on one of those? That would be a kick ass netbook/tablet to have around. I know Puppy on my 2011 AMD netbook is crazy fast and its just a dual core (albeit with a decent AMD GPU) so having a quad version that is also a touchscreen tablet? Would be seriously awesome.
Uhh there was one busted in Australia not too long ago who was raping, torturing, and murdering kids on a private darknet PPV. I can't remember the guy's name but they gave the "genre" a name..."hurtcore" because it was as much about causing pain and suffering as it was the rape. The article I read about the case said it was shit that made "A Serbian Film" look tame and it was all real.
I don't want to search too actively for the terms that would bring up the article for obvious reasons but I did find an article about their web admin being busted where they mention hurtcore.
They have had a Linux build for ages and is in a lot of repos. I've been using it on my netbook (dual boot Win 7 and Puppy) and it works quite nicely in both Windows and Puppy, smooth and pretty solid.
I would also argue the money isn't there to make the insane investment required to make that "next leap" in chip tech.
If you look at reports on how old the average PC in the field is? You are looking at 4-7 years and the reason why is obvious...software hasn't kept up with hardware. Even gamers these days can have 7+ year old CPUs and play the latest games at 1080P so there really isn't a huge market** just begging for a new CPU as sales from Intel and AMD have shown. Now if some new "killer app" like the next Lotus 123 comes up? This may change but so far I've seen nothing on the horizon that would fill that slot.
**.- Before any of you that do some niche job like wave simulation or 3D rendering scream "But I needs moar power!"? You and your ilk are less than 2% max of the market, just too niche to be a big enough market to support the insane amount of R&D required to make that next leap.
The "bad" review? Was from hothardware....you ever went to that site without adblock? Last time I did the entire page was NOTHING but Intel ads.
From what I've seen there is 4 sites you should never listen to, hothardware, Ars Technica, and the worst are Tom's Hardware (where their "expert" told a person asking what CPU to buy for GAMING that he should buy a Pentium dual core over a lower priced AMD X6 even though he admitted that most games the person wanted to play required a quad) and Anandtech who went so far as to drop several new triple A titles from their benchmark that so happened to play better on AMD hardware and replaced them with older titles that were expressly built with Nvidia Gameworks (which has been shown to have "cripple AMD" code baked in)...you wanna guess who their biggest advertiser is?
Its sad that I have to even say this but you really have to do some digging before you can actually take any "news" as credible as we have had so many cozy deals with advertisers and companies affiliated with those they are reviewing that a good chunk of what you see and hear these days is just corporate propaganda or FUD.
Guys that want to brag about their ePeen. I have a couple of customers that buy that insane gamer shit and yeah, they just want to brag about how big their ePeen is. It doesn't matter that if I did a blind test with their ePeen with their $1000 CPU and $700 GPU and my gamer PC with a $145 octocore and $150 GPU they wouldn't be able to tell the difference as both rigs will max out the framerate of the monitor, all they care about is being able to brag about getting some insanely high number in some benchmark nobody gives a fuck about.
But hey its their money and if they are happy to spend it? I'm happy to take it.
Nope just solder a couple of wires to the serial on the board to enable debug, that's about it. If you don't mind doing that? You basically have an Rpi style device with USB and SD card support for $9.
I'd think about getting one for myself but frankly I have an entire bucket filled with Intel Atom netbooks over in the corner so if I need a cheap HTPC or file server? Well ya really can't top $0 and they don't even need a HDD (just boot puppy off an SD Card) so they are completely silent and lets be honest, an Atom dual really doesn't pull enough juice to really worry about the difference between it and an ARM device and with the netbook I can always pop open the lid if I need to do some tweaking.
They removed shell access to the Pogoplug starting in Sept of 2016 so you are stuck with the shit OS they come with unless you break out a soldering iron so I'd avoid the Pogoplug unless you know for a fact its an old one. This is why they are currently selling for $9 on Amazon, once word got out the only way you could flash Linux on them was to break out solder the buyers dried up, they can't give 'em away now.
Isn't this true of all the materials they have come up with that is superconducting? It always has some ridiculous requirement, temps so low as to never be useful, insane pressures, they just can't seem to find anything that would in a million years ever be of any practical use.
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It was shipped with Win 7 Home X64 and Splashtop Linux along with 4Gb of RAM, so no MSFT didn't force them out because as I said it was a whole $60 more to get a netbook with a decent APU, plenty of RAM and the ability to add more. It even came with hardware VM support so I can have a PuppyLinux VM I can use if I need to do some banking on the go. Oh and despite not being updated in 4 years as Splashtop went out of business? Splashtop Linux still boots in under 4 seconds and is great for when I just want to check the weather or watch a little YouTube.
That is why I've hung onto my Asus EEE PC for dear life. I can run any OS from BSD to Ubuntu (came with a dual boot Win 7 X64 and Splashtop Linux which still works great), the battery after 6 years still gets nearly 4 hours and if I decide to replace it? $20 and two tabs and I can swap it in 30 seconds. Oh and an AMD APU which means I can do 1080P over HDMI so when I'm not using it for work its an ULV HTPC.
If we could get a new model with the same features? I'd be the first in line. Hell AMD even has a perfect chip for the job, the socket AM1 APU have a max of 15w for the top o the line quad and most of the time is sub 9w and its the same APU that was used in the PS4 so its got more than enough muscle to do HD video, slap that in a 12in netbook with an unlocked UEFI so I can install any OS I want? Hell yeah sign me up!
That Chuwi? Yeah its running the same shit Atom CPU you can get in a $100 convertible that comes with a keyboard and has a touchscreen so I really wouldn't call that a "bargain".
Anybody who has used an Atom can tell you there is a reason why they are so cheap, its because they are absolute dogshit, I'd rather have an old Athlon X2 or C2D laptop than a brand new Atom because they are soooooo fucking slow, its just painful to use. If you really want one of those POS "laptops"? Get the $100 convertible, its the same size as the original EEE and since you only spent $100 on it you won't feel so bad about how shitty it is.
Uhhh my AMD netbook is rocking 8Gb of RAM and came with 4Gb and Win 7 X64, maybe you shouldn't have been buying those crap Intel Atom netbooks? At the time it was only $60 more to get the AMD one and when I'm not using it on house calls I can use it as an HTPC with full 1080P over HDMI.
The reason you saw so many of the crap Atoms is Intel was product dumping, its the same reason you see so many of those Intel Atom convertibles so cheap now. But Atom was shit then, its still shit now, if you are gonna get a netbook? Don't make it an Atom if you don't want it to be crippled and blow ass, heck the AMD netbook chips even support hardware VM and ECC memory if you needed it so no segmenting the market like Intel always does.
that if you are a software company whose software doesn't fall under the "blessed trinity" then it would be SUICIDE to go FOSS as you won't be able to make enough to keep the lights on!
Ever wonder why no FOSS game has taken game of the year? Why after all these years the only "competition" to Photoshop that is FOSS is literally some kid's school project? Why all those niche applications like medical diagnosis and billing are never FOSS, or why programs like GnuCash are a bad joke compare to commercial products like Quicken and Quickbooks from a decade ago? The answer is actually quite simple which is FOSS works on the blessed trinity and if your software doesn't fit that model you have no chance to survive and your company will go under. We've seen it happen time and time again, in everything from Windows to Linux game converters to repos for commercial software to OSes themselves, if it doesn't fit the trinity model? It has zero chance.
This is why FOSS will never become the dominant license, why despite MSFT doing everything short of making a high res Goatse as the default wallpaper Windows 10 continues to grow while Linux is flatline, it all comes down to the trinity simply not working for the vast majority of software out there and without the software people want and need to do their jobs? You might as well be offering to trade their PC for a potato. For those that do not know what the blessed trinity is, its 1.- Selling services, 2.- Selling hardware, and 3.- e-begging. And if your software, which more than 95% of the software used daily by hundreds of millions qualify, doesn't work under this model? Then FOSS is suicide because you simply cannot make enough money to keep the lights on in FOSS if you don't fit the trinity model.
I really wish it wasn't so, Windows 10 is such a nightmare it actually makes the thought of the return of the Ballmernator look like the return of Steve Jobs to Apple, and Google and Apple are racing to see which one can become the most Stasi like when it comes to gathering data, but as long as FOSS is so politicized and rigid that an individual or company cannot sell more than a single copy of their software before someone else gives it away for free? Then FOSS will stay exactly where it is, a niche tool mainly used by multinationals as a way to avoid licensing fees on their servers and to not have to pay for the software which they use on their hardware...which is of course #2 on the trinity..
I'm sorry but they robbed everyone in America by committing bribery and stealing the Public Domain from We, The People, so ask me how much I give a fuck. Until We, The People actually get a seat at the table and copyrights become what the constitution spelled out which was a LIMITED PERIOD instead of Valenti's "forever minus a single day"? Excuse me if I don't feel bad if someone mugs a fucking thief.
Its a total scam dude, that is why Amazon is being sued over Prime. Log out and then look at the prices of several items, note them then log back in and see what the prices are. You'll find your Amazon Prime membership will often raise the prices on items so you aren't saving shit, its just a shell game and all you are really getting for the $100 a year is the streaming service.
Personally I don't think their content is worth anywhere near a c-note a year so I passed on it but YMMV.
Uhhh you might want to look up the history of the CIA, the amount of murders of politicians and political leaders that didn't kiss the corporate ring of some multi-national? Is just staggering, nearly every action they did that resulted in "regime change" was to benefit some corp that was exploiting the people or the resources of some weaker country. They follow the "war is a racket" playbook and make sure that greedyco doesn't have to worry about any pesky peasants actually wanting to be treated right or using their own resources.
I wasn't talking about selling 3D printers, I was talking about selling 3D printing SERVICES. Do you have ANY idea how many laptops I've junked because they needed one stupid little plastic piece that would cost more than the laptop is worth on eBay, if I could even find one? Hell I would have practically lived at the local Shack if i could just have them measure the part and whip me off a replacement!
But frankly they really had nothing to lose because it was obvious to anybody with common sense that selling fricking cellphones (cellphones? really? When you can buy those things anywhere and the margins are razor thin?) and drones was just not gonna cut it, too many places already sell those.
But if they would have gone to selling services AND maker stuff? they could have become the Kinko's of plastic!
I can explain why Sears is still open, lawnmowers and washer/dryer combos. You get those from some place like Walmart or Lowes it doesn't matter how much money you spend its still gonna be junk that will be lucky if it lasts a year and a half, but you buy those at Sears? They cost a little more but you get 5 year warranties that you will never need because it'll easily last past that with seriously heavy use.
Yeah I never understood that, it seems so easy to save Radio Shack, just offer 3D printing services and have all of the maker stuff, maybe host some classes on how to make cool stuff with the devices? There ya go, job done. Instead they ended up with the exact same shit you can get at any Walmart Supercenter, except you can also get everything from cookies to cough syrup at the Supercenter as well as cellphones and drones so there really was no point in going to Radio Shack.
Its a damned shame because back in the day I loved shopping at RS. Anybody else remember Tandy? My very first mixing board was a Tandy, they had a little 4 channel 50w powered mixer with mike and a pair of speakers, took a real beating for years and years before the power amp finally cooked. I used to go there for everything from caps to guitar jacks and at one time about half my electronics were Tandy. I'll have to go to my local RS before they close, I hear they have brought Tandy back for things like PC keyboards...I'll have to grab one for nostalgia before they close, just a damned shame.
Switch to Pale Moon, it is what FF USED to be before they decided to become a shitty Chrome clone. Nearly all your extensions work (for the few that don't work with the latest they have a handy link to a known working version and you can always contact the devs of your favorite extensions like I did and ask them to add Pale Moon support), it handles like the old FF, they even have a Linux version so if you want the same browser on both Windows and Linux with your bookmarks synced between the two? Its not a problem.
I switched nearly 2 years ago and I can tell you its really good and unlike FF they actually LISTEN TO THE USERS and don't take a steaming dump on the UI every other release like FF does.
Sigh, are you REALLY this dense or are you just trolling? Its a tax break FOR THE OEMS who then pass the savings onto YOU in the form of lower prices...is that really too hard to understand?
And it is trivial to forgo the tax break, most OEMs do offer a "clean PC" option these days and all the PCs in the MSFT store are 100% vanilla Windows...and guess what? They cost around $80 more because they are no longer getting that money from the trialware providers! Capitalism, what a concept, huh?
Actually we know it due to Wikileaks and FOIA requests. Obama asked in July of a FISA court to bug Trump and was turned down, then went back in October and the request was approved.
For anybody that isn't as biased as this HRC sycophant? Just look up "Obama FISA Trump" and read the documents yourself. Basically Obama had such a raging hard on for trying to blame the fact that HRC was a truly horrid candidate on Russia that he had Trump bugged hoping to find some big conspiracy between Trump, Wikileaks, and Russia. Ironically according to a British Ambassador it was a Bernie supporter in the DNC that leaked all the info because he was disgusted at the corrupt cabal of HRC plus the DNC conspiring to rig the primary against Bernie and Trump didn't have a clue about any of it.
So keep smelling your own farts and pretending its roses but here is a simple fact that will make you sick, Trump? Is gonna keep stomping the dogshit out of the Dems and the press for the next 8 years because of one simple little fact.,...THEY CANNOT STOP LYING....That is it, all they would have to do to leave Trump completely helpless and unable to fight back is simply stop lying but the dems and DNC have gotten so damned corrupt they simply cannot do it. And everytime they lie their lackeys in the press grab it and inflate the shit to Dr Insaneo proportions, look at the Wall where they went from 5 billion to suddenly the press claiming "Its a trillion dollars ZOMFG!" so now all Trump has to do is come in below that number and he is under budget and looks like the big winner...again...all because the dems just can't be fucking honest but instead have to go for the "ZOMFG Trump is literally Hitler warrgarble!" bullshit which makes THEM look like the whack-a-doodles.
I was a Bernie guy so I don't have a dog in this race but I have to say I'm enjoying the hell out of this, our MSM has been corrupt as fuck for decades and thanks to wikileaks we now know they were blowing the top brass at the DNC and even handing Hillary questions and running articles by her before they ran so if there is any group that needs to be crushed by the Trumpocalypse? Its the DNC. And on a positive note maybe we can get a real third party like the Green Party going once everyone has seen how fricking worthless and corrupted the DNC has become and they get bitchslapped for the next 8 years, if that happens? Then Trump was a positive change and you whinging politically correct girlie men can go cry in your safe space for all I care.
If all the latest review of the new Intel octocore were focused solely on DOS performance and kept harping on how its bad for DOS, would you consider that a fair and unbiased review? AMD has repeatedly said in every one of their tech talks The Ryzen 7 is designed to compete with the $1100 Intel chips....now do you see ANYBODY recommending $1100 Intel 16 thread chips for gaming? Have you ever seen a single article claiming the $1100 Intel chip is a gaming CPU? Can you find a single article saying this?
Of course you can't because that is fucking stupid, the Intel chip is a gasp! shock! a WORKSTATION CPU and everyone knows this. Meanwhile what did you see the focus at the Ryzen 7 demos by AMD? Yep tools like Blender and Photoshop which is WORKSTATION LOADS. They also made it clear the gaming chips are the R3s and R5s being released later this year.
So yeah sorry but these "reviews" focusing on a metric that a chip wasn't designed for is about as fair and unbalanced as Faux News. Again show me a single article when Intel released their $1100 chips that focused on their gaming performance, hell I bet you'd be hard pressed to find an article that even mentioned gaming because nobody would consider $1100 workstation CPUs as gaming chips.
I take it you aren't old enough to remember Lotus 123? God that makes me feel ancient, but the reason your AI wouldn't do it is because it will always be a niche application as there is a very limited subset of people that are gonna actually WANT an AI on their PC, most will think its creepy or weird and say "do not want".
OTOH when Lotus 123 hit? ZOMFG suddenly EVERYBODY had to have Lotus 123, from the smallest business to the biggest corp you weren't shit if you weren't using 123. Every personal computer that couldn't run 123 raced to come up with a 123 knock off to say "see we can run it too!" and people were upgrading and chunking PCs at an alarming rate (and this at a time when a good PC could cost $3k+) because they couldn't run 123, it was frigging nuts man!.
The price isn't good because of a little fact that Linux fanboys don't want to admit after making the falsehood a meme....in reality there is NO Windows tax, its in fact a tax BREAK because the OEMs get paid by third parties to put their trialware into the OS. This is why MSFT has been selling trialware free PCs in their store and offering Windows for certain designs (such as 7in convertibles) at lower prices or even free with the stipulation that there is no trialware as it slows Windows down.
Speaking of convertibles,has anybody had any luck installing Linux on one? Because I've seen 10 inch Intel Atom quad convertibles going for as little as $89 and if you could get a really light Linux like Puppy on one of those? That would be a kick ass netbook/tablet to have around. I know Puppy on my 2011 AMD netbook is crazy fast and its just a dual core (albeit with a decent AMD GPU) so having a quad version that is also a touchscreen tablet? Would be seriously awesome.
Uhh there was one busted in Australia not too long ago who was raping, torturing, and murdering kids on a private darknet PPV. I can't remember the guy's name but they gave the "genre" a name..."hurtcore" because it was as much about causing pain and suffering as it was the rape. The article I read about the case said it was shit that made "A Serbian Film" look tame and it was all real.
I don't want to search too actively for the terms that would bring up the article for obvious reasons but I did find an article about their web admin being busted where they mention hurtcore.
They have had a Linux build for ages and is in a lot of repos. I've been using it on my netbook (dual boot Win 7 and Puppy) and it works quite nicely in both Windows and Puppy, smooth and pretty solid.
I would also argue the money isn't there to make the insane investment required to make that "next leap" in chip tech.
If you look at reports on how old the average PC in the field is? You are looking at 4-7 years and the reason why is obvious...software hasn't kept up with hardware. Even gamers these days can have 7+ year old CPUs and play the latest games at 1080P so there really isn't a huge market** just begging for a new CPU as sales from Intel and AMD have shown. Now if some new "killer app" like the next Lotus 123 comes up? This may change but so far I've seen nothing on the horizon that would fill that slot.
**.- Before any of you that do some niche job like wave simulation or 3D rendering scream "But I needs moar power!"? You and your ilk are less than 2% max of the market, just too niche to be a big enough market to support the insane amount of R&D required to make that next leap.
The "bad" review? Was from hothardware....you ever went to that site without adblock? Last time I did the entire page was NOTHING but Intel ads.
From what I've seen there is 4 sites you should never listen to, hothardware, Ars Technica, and the worst are Tom's Hardware (where their "expert" told a person asking what CPU to buy for GAMING that he should buy a Pentium dual core over a lower priced AMD X6 even though he admitted that most games the person wanted to play required a quad) and Anandtech who went so far as to drop several new triple A titles from their benchmark that so happened to play better on AMD hardware and replaced them with older titles that were expressly built with Nvidia Gameworks (which has been shown to have "cripple AMD" code baked in)...you wanna guess who their biggest advertiser is?
Its sad that I have to even say this but you really have to do some digging before you can actually take any "news" as credible as we have had so many cozy deals with advertisers and companies affiliated with those they are reviewing that a good chunk of what you see and hear these days is just corporate propaganda or FUD.
Guys that want to brag about their ePeen. I have a couple of customers that buy that insane gamer shit and yeah, they just want to brag about how big their ePeen is. It doesn't matter that if I did a blind test with their ePeen with their $1000 CPU and $700 GPU and my gamer PC with a $145 octocore and $150 GPU they wouldn't be able to tell the difference as both rigs will max out the framerate of the monitor, all they care about is being able to brag about getting some insanely high number in some benchmark nobody gives a fuck about.
But hey its their money and if they are happy to spend it? I'm happy to take it.
Nope just solder a couple of wires to the serial on the board to enable debug, that's about it. If you don't mind doing that? You basically have an Rpi style device with USB and SD card support for $9.
I'd think about getting one for myself but frankly I have an entire bucket filled with Intel Atom netbooks over in the corner so if I need a cheap HTPC or file server? Well ya really can't top $0 and they don't even need a HDD (just boot puppy off an SD Card) so they are completely silent and lets be honest, an Atom dual really doesn't pull enough juice to really worry about the difference between it and an ARM device and with the netbook I can always pop open the lid if I need to do some tweaking.
They removed shell access to the Pogoplug starting in Sept of 2016 so you are stuck with the shit OS they come with unless you break out a soldering iron so I'd avoid the Pogoplug unless you know for a fact its an old one. This is why they are currently selling for $9 on Amazon, once word got out the only way you could flash Linux on them was to break out solder the buyers dried up, they can't give 'em away now.
Isn't this true of all the materials they have come up with that is superconducting? It always has some ridiculous requirement, temps so low as to never be useful, insane pressures, they just can't seem to find anything that would in a million years ever be of any practical use.