Please tell me you are joking. The reason why I advocate more people buy AMD is because frankly X86 has gotten so incredibly powerful on BOTH sides of the aisle that I think its more important to have competition than to win some benchmark and the difference is like going from insaneo speed to ludicrous speed.
I mean look at some of the chips both have been putting out, even 7 years ago you would have had to spend just insane amounts of money to get anywhere near this performance and now you can get these sub 20w CPUs with multiple cores and GPUs that do full 1080p? Honestly people really need to take a moment to just stop and appreciate how fucking GOOD we have it right now. Hell even the Atom chip when paired with ION made for a pretty decent HTPC that used less power than a first gen P4 doing nothing, now Intel puts out these chips that just get totally incredible amounts of IPC and at an average of only 55w? That is just crazy, hell my Pentium D used more than that just sitting on the fricking desktop doing nothing.
So I would say if anything the slowdown in PC sales and the reason i recommend AMD is because Intel upped the game so damned high that even a low end chip is like a top fuel funny car and just blows through any job your average user can come up with without breaking a sweat. If Intel wouldn't have kept raising the bar with the tick tock cycle I wouldn't be able to buy 6 core CPUs for just $100 or get my customers damned nice laptops for less than $500 delivered.
The amount of power we get today just blows my mind and if you would have told me a decade ago I'd be typing on a website while listening to music, burning a DVD and doing a transcode and NOTHING would lag? Yeah I'd tell you to go back to your Star trek fanfic but here we are, where even the lowest laptop can do 1080P and multitask like crazy and our desktops are just monsters. I predict in 3 years, maybe less, we'll see ARM peter out as they aren't able to scale the IPC while Intel will just scale down a Core2 to where it uses like 2w max and runs rings around the ARM, it'll be like having a supercomputer in your pocket, just incredible.
It doesn't change the fact that Apple and MSFT have ALWAYS seemed to have a little game called "Who can fuck the consumer worst" going between each other. Honestly I don't know WTH is going on with Apple not being investigated for iTunes since they pretty much fucking own the PMP market (last numbers I saw had it at over 90%) and almost no business will ever reach 100%. This is why the official definition includes having undue influence and control over a market which seeing how many companies roll over and play dead if faced with Apple such as Adobe bailing on Flash when Steve said no Flash, or how Opera for the first time in their history is having to use webkit and put out a lame ass Opera "skin" because they can't get their actual product on a locked down Apple controlled device, just blows my fucking mind.
But frankly this whole "RDF" idea has always just blown my fucking mind, you take 3 companies, Apple, Google, and MSFT, have them all do the exact same anti-competitive behavior and one or more of them will be lauded while the others condemned, for the same fucking shit! Apple is just as big of a monopolistic douchebag as MSFT, Google has shown "do no evil" is just "think different" in a geek friendly wrapper, yet nobody will fucking acknowledge or do a damned thing about it as long as the "right" company is doing the fucking. MSFT locks their tablet? Rightly pointed out as shitty, Apple been doing the same for years? Well that's just protecting the users! Google makes their own flavor of UEFI on "their" ChromeBooks (since you don't really control it I'd call it a rental more than a purchase) that is so fucking nasty that you can't even boot a bog standard Linux X86 distro on X86 hardware? Oh that's perfectly okay while just the thought that MSFT uses the same trick while giving you the incredibly easy option to disable? Well Whargarrbl its the end of the planet.
Don't get me wrong I think ALL of these anti-competitive lock in horseshit needs to go DIAF, I'm just sick and fucking tired of it being perfectly okay for the corp to kick you in the nuts as long as the corp is wearing the right logo on their shirt. A kick in the nuts is a kick in the nuts is a kick in the nuts, I don't give a rat's ass what logo shirt they are wearing.
Oh don't worry, they aren't gonna "step up or starve" which completely ignores the fucking fact that I just pointed out you can't educate your way out of this as those going from the graduation line to the unemployment line prove so nicely.
No what will happen is the poor will rise up and execute anybody with money unless we have our very own crazy Austrian who'll say "Its not YOUR fault there is no jobs, it is the evil OTHER that has taken your God given rights FROM you!" and he'll take Poland, in this case Poland being resource rich South America. Why do you think rabid xenophobia is being hammered more and more by the press? Because those in power realize that when the student loan followed by the massive stock market bubble burst, which will take away their ability to print money and leave them in the same boat as those now dead dictators at the start of the Arab Springs they'll have to have 1.- A scapegoat and 2.- Something that will let them manufacture jobs out of thin air. As we saw in WWII the massive mobilization of the working age males into soldiers combined with war industry can take care of the later pretty damned well.
But feel free to ignore it, just remember when you turn on the news sometime between now and 2020 and see the riots as the stock market crashes and burns to think about the words of Lenin: "A capitalist will sell you the rope that you intend to hang him with" which is why no truly capitalist country has lasted very long history wise, those at the top end up voting more and more for themselves and less and less for the poor until they get a little hair cut like they did in France a couple of centuries ago.
Its coming, can't be stopped, the bubbles are too big, too many without a job and nothing better to do than join the angry mob, you have been warned.
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No matter whether you are embarrassed or impressed its just more proof that "many eyes" myth is just that, a total myth.
I'll get hate for saying it but fuck it frankly it has amazed me that myth has hung on as long as it did because it makes some pretty glaring assumptions that even a moment's thought would show just don't work and while I often don't agree with their conclusions on some issues one thing FOSS advocates usually do is follow logic to its conclusion.
The "many eyes" myth makes some pretty easy to punch through assumptions, 1.- That because something CAN happen means it HAS happened. This would be like claiming that somebody has climbed K2 wearing bunny slippers because theoretically somebody could climb K2 wearing bunny slippers. Just because something is POSSIBLE does NOT make it probable or even likely 2.- That all the projects out there, no matter how small or hidden from sight, will get the same attention. I bet every FOSS advocate on the planet has used LO/OO.o multiple times...show of hands, how many of you have actually LOOKED at the freely available source code? How many of you have submitted changes to that code? And that is one of the most popular FOSS programs on the planet, what are the odds that little subsystem hidden away in the middle of most distros has been read and edited by ANYBODY other than the guys maintaining it?
The ONLY real advantages source code brings has nothing to do with bugs, it has to do with that fact that 1.- if you have the skills and free time or 2.- Have the money to hire somebody else's free time and skills you can take a product that is EOL or doesn't run on the platform you want and make it do as you will. LO doesn't run on MIPS? You can port it or pay somebody to port it. For some reason you need Gnome 1 to run on the latest kernel? You can hire a dev team and make it so. But that doesn't magically do a damned thing about bugs, as this along with the KDELook malware or the fact that even kernel.org ended up hacked proves. Having code has its advantages but making bugs disappear? NOT one of them.
Oh and I'm sorry but the "Linus rant" was a Christian Bale douchebag rant that was completely uncalled for. The guy was working on an extremely complex subsystem with some pretty serious issues, he asks a simple question about why a value returned HAS to be X while pointing out that in the subsystem he is working on dozens of drivers do NOT return X so the application in question is gonna fucking crash anyway, and instead of taking the exact same amount of time to say "It has to be thus because" he goes superdouche. I'm sorry but I don't care if you are Bob the mailman or the fucking pope, nobody gets a license to be a douchebag and that rant was total douchebag. It was quite obvious the little prick just expects a "yes master" to anything he says, no questions asked, and when this guy dares to ask what is frankly a damned good question he gets shit on? Nope, sorry, Linus is a douchebag and deserved to be called on it.
If the other spec is based on HTML V5 video frankly I don't blame MSFT in this case as it is HORRIBLY broken. Not only can HTML V5 video not do even 30% of the roles Flash was doing frankly its performance is just piss awful, you choose any browser you want and at any resolution a Flash video at the same res will play smoother with less dropped frames and a HELL of a lot less resource usage. You can play Flash SD video smoothly on a 1.8GHz Sempron and it'll be smooth as butter, no matter how low res you make HTML V5 video its gonna be a slideshow on anything less than a dual core, its just terrible.
Frankly what we need is some little geek company to tell both groups to fuck right off and actually come up with a true Flash replacement, something that will do all the roles that Flash did like video and games and animation while using equal or lesser resources than Flash at the same resolution. Because honestly if St. Steve wouldn't have said "Down with Flash!" while quietly ignoring the fact that it allowed designers to bypass his sacred appstore? Frankly we wouldn't even be talking about replacing Flash now except for hypothetically because so far every "solution" to the Flash problem I've seen is worse than Flash across the board, CPU, bandwidth, memory, you name it it sucks worse.
Are you HONESTLY gonna compare C++ to Java when it comes to security? Really? Sure you don't want to take that back before we hand you your "I don't know WTF I'm talking about" sign?
Go to ANY security website where they rank programs, your choice, I prefer Securina but there are a couple of others out there, and compare the amount of bugs in any given period, say 3 years, between Java and C++ as well as the severity. Frankly the only program that comes anywhere close to java on sheer shitstorm scale is Adobe Reader, last I checked even Flash isn't as bad on number of "Can take over your computer" bugs. Which if you think about it makes perfect sense, nothing more dangerous than a badly written framework as by its very nature its designed to run other people's code.
Show me ONCE, just once mind you, where Homeland Security has put out an adviser recommending removal or disabling of C++, just once. Frankly C++ on its worst day isn't even in the same ballpark, hell its not even the same sport as Java, Java is a security nightmare and has been almost since the very beginning. if you don't like C++ there is a dozen other languages out there and NONE of them are as dangerous to have on your system as Java, none.
The better example anyway would be how long either FB or a real book is remembered compared to movie lines, since most people get their entertainment through movies more than books. Here let me throw out a few and I bet most of you will be able to fill in the blanks..
" I've had it with these motherfucking... "And I shall strike down with great vengeance and furious anger.." "Houston we've got.."But being as this is a.44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question:.."
Now I bet a hell of a lot of you, even if you haven't seen the movies those lines are from in several years if at all, could fill in the blank instantly without a bit of trouble. The simple fact is most books? Don't really have great quotable parts that stick in your head and while some tweeting twittering FB shitting crap might last for a little while I bet that's not saying anything about how good or memorable the tweets are but how lame the new writers are in the post twilight era. But if you want quotable, if you want long term retention even years after it was last saw nothing comes close to a well written movie. Hell why do you think links to this site should come with warnings about how its a black hole of time suckage? Because we have all seen so many movies and shows we know all the tropes, just not the names for 'em.The truly memorable just isn't in the written word anymore, its on the screen. Game of riddles anyone?
Because you and your friends actually have to get off your asses and do something, whereas with DDOS you can just as easily use a botnet or even get stupid people to click on a link trying to win a "prize" and block the business?
I would also point out that you can be arrested for public nuisance doing what you suggest, just as the protesters that tried to block abortion clinics ended up being hauled off. Nobody is saying you can't protest but be ready to pay the penalty if you do which sadly in this day and age is usually a life of second class citizenship.
I'm sorry but you can't change a corrupt system by working within that system. the answer as to why should be obvious, the system is corrupt! By your logic if enough people played 3 card monty they'd find the lady, when IRL there is no lady to find. in the case of IP laws you have billion dollar corporations that not only offer juicy bribes but even if you manage to "throw the bums out" the "bum" just gets a cushy lobbyist job with the ones he took the bribes from thus showing the next bum the value of "playing ball" and doing what he/she is told. Its totally Kayfabe, its a total sham, and pretending you can fix a rigged game by playing it is simply insanity.
I'd urge you to watch the truth about voting but I have found those that believe in the fairy tales of occupy protests and making little banners will simply never let go of the delusion, no matter how obvious reality is on the fact it doesn't work. I'll end with this...the people that worked and slaved and sold cookies to get Obama elected, did they get their "hope and change" or did they see the vast majority of Bush's policies continued by Obama? Know why Obama signed off on all those things? because like a pro wrestler he shuts up and reads the cue card, that's why. The same people that were running the show during Bush are running the show during Obama, the same power brokers who have been there for ages. This is why protests will never work, you're protesting Ronald McDonald like he is the one who made your cheeseburger when he is just the smiling face, the real owners just use Ronald to give you someone to love/hate that isn't them.
Actually a lot of what is "lost" is actually thrown or given away so the military can blow through their budgets. Its pretty common knowledge that if you spend less you get less in next year's budget so when my grandfather was in the Air Force he was constantly bringing home nice stuff right before the fiscal year was up because they needed to "blow the budget". I know one year I saw brand new theater seats sitting out by the dumpster and when I asked my grandfather he said they had changed out the theater seats something like 5 times in 5 years because if they couldn't blow the budget any other way that was always an easy one to do.
Kinda sad but that is our bloated wasteful military for ya, its like Dilbert only with salutes...ohh and kickbacks.
Or he could have just used C++ like every other game on the planet and thus saved all those users from getting pwned.
Frankly until that damned game came out I had pretty much gotten rid of Java for my users and they didn't have a bit of trouble living without it, then along comes that damned game and suddenly they have Java again and here comes the malware. I hope whomever wrote that game learned his lesson and uses something else for his next game because the way Java sticks the plugin into the browser by default makes it too risky for home users.
If Canvas sucks as bad as HTML V5 does at replacing Flash i can think of a reason, its a pig. You name which implementation you want and we'll compare it to Flash and no matter the size HTML V5 will suck MORE CPU, MORE RAM, and in many cases where Flash will play just fine HTML V5 will stutter like watching flash over dialup.
So while I long for the day when the ONLY thing you'll need is a browser frankly HTML V5 just doesn't cut the mustard and isn't suitable for purpose yet. It sucks too many cycles, gives poor performance, doesn't do a third of what Flash does, and if St. Steve hadn't said it sucked (while the fanboys ignored the fact that Flash let devs bypass his golden calf appstore so he kinda had a conflict of interest) we honest;y wouldn't even be talking about HTML V5 video as a possible replacement for Flash, much less anything else. Its just not even alpha quality ATM, certainly not ready for the masses.
Well as I posted when the band aid patch that is now busted was put out it could take 2 years to fix the actual problem because the underlying code is "broken" and pretty much needs a full rewrite. We can't really blame Oracle for this as Java was a mess when Sun had it, Oracle merely got stuck with the mess when they bought out Sun.
The thing I WILL blame Oracle for is the fact that if you update the damned software with the patch it RE-ENABLES the browser plug in unless you know to disable it, along with the usual crapware that comes with everything. Oh and I also blame the jerk that made Minecraft for bringing shitty Java back to the home users, for a good while there I had all but wiped Java out on home users systems, then that damned game came up and here we go again.
Personally I think Homeland Security should order Oracle to put out a patch that disables the browser plug in and bar them from re-enabling it when they patch as those that actually NEED Java can find out how to turn on the plug in easy enough but those that don't won't know to disable it every. single. time. they have an update.
Wow way for so many to miss the point? is there a meta WHOOSH that can cover a dozen people? the point is this is a classic case of being told to do SOMETHING even if that SOMETHING doesn't actually solve a damned thing. the reason why we are being told we MUST do this something is that leeches like Goldman Sachs and Al Gore have already set up the insider trades to make themselves more billions by reverse robin hooding the poor, yet the AGWers don't seem to give a shit because "We'll be doing SOMETHING herpa de derpa de derp!"
Like I said I'm all for SOLUTIONS THAT WORK, like getting rid of coal fired plants, huge tariffs on polluting nations, and if I come off a little coarse its because i'm fucking sick of being told "Its okay if the SOMETHING doesn't make a lick of sense or solve shit, we have to do SOMETHING because rev Al Gore is smart dammit! Herpa derpa derp" which is fucking STUPID. If I said "I can solve global warming, just pay me $100k for each American so they can have this carbon sucking rock to stick under their pillow" would you REALLY give me $100K for every American? Because that is EXACTLY what the AGWers are suggesting, buying billion dollar snake oil that even the slightest bit of common sense would see that it won't do shit!
Wow...way to miss the fucking point. Show me EXACTLY where I said they'd replace "everybody" because you know what? Never said it. What I DID say was that fewer and fewer would get a seat in this game of IQ musical chairs and the evidence very much bares that out. Look at the link above you, 1 million workers at Foxconn being replaced by machines. China pays their workers a pittance, has practically no environmental laws or worker protections yet it STILL ends up cheaper in the long run to replace them with the machine.
You have 8 billion people on the planet or so, been awhile since I looked at the figures, and by the very nature of a bell curve half of those are gonna be below average, following me so far? Now you replace those doing manual labor with machines which is increasingly becoming easy to do, I mean just look at the $22K robot in FA, you are talking nearly half the population whose labor is no longer required. We have 42,400 factories lost since 2001 and at an average per factory of lets say 1000 workers per factory counting all 3 shifts that gives you 42 MILLION workers out of a good paying job. If just half of those are permanently replaced by machines that is 21 million jobs gone forever...what do you do with those people? As we've seen with the education bubble that is getting ready to burst you can't educate your way out of this, so what do you do? Pay them to sit at home? let them starve?
Finally your farmers example simply doesn't work, all those workers on the farm ended up taking factory jobs in the big city, where are those jobs now? They don't exist. For the first time in all of human history are we actually capable of replacing the human almost completely. In my home town there used to be a factory that employed over 1800 people to make aircraft parts, know how many they employ NOW at that very same plant? Less than 30 to keep an eye on some screens because thanks to lasers that can measure cuts in the nm scale and automation the majority just aren't required.
Mark my words as all you are gonna see in the next decade is the White House continue to fudge unemployment numbers, why? The jobs that supported so many just don't exist anymore. Again look at Foxconn, China is one of the cheapest places on the planet to make anything and even THERE the corps are replacing the workers with bots as they are cheaper...what do you do with those million if the other factories follow suit? I just don't see how you can't look at the past 50 years and see what is coming, I really don't. We'll have a $15K 2 legged bot by the end of this decade that can climb ladders, work in hazard areas, and for the corps it's lack of need for medical benefits and pay will just make it a better long term investment...what then?
I just don't see how anyone can look at the big picture, see what has been going on with computers, robots, and automation for the past half century and not see the writing on the wall.
If you would have told workers in the factories in the early 1960s that we would be able to replace them with fully automated factories, where you send the raw materials in one end and out comes radios or cars or shoes? They would have choked from laughing so hard and told you to go back to watching Star Trek yet that is EXACTLY what we are seeing more and more. Look at those Hondabots they have working in Fukushima, climbs ladders, works in high radiation areas, doesn't get hazard pay and when its over they can just abandon the contaminated bots.
That is why even as a little kid I pointed out everybody got the moral of John Henry wrong, what the REAL morale was was that John Henry literally worked himself to death while the steam hammer? Ready to go and could have kept right on hammering as they took poor John Henry's body away. At the end of the day as we get smarter machines, microchips with multiple cores that can process huge amounts of data on a couple of watts worth of power, and smart computer controlled optics that can allow a computer to spot flaws on a fast moving line that no human would ever catch? The human becomes worth less and less. Again look at the auto industry, when forced to pay living wages with benefits all it took was a simple spreadsheet even when the machines were so much more costly back then to realize that the machines ended up coming out the better. Now the machines are getting cheaper by the second while things like food, rent, health insurance, workman's comp, all this is going up and up. I bet if you raised the minimum wage to a living wage every Mickey D's in this country would be nothing but a computer controlled automated assembly line within 5 years, why? The machine would be cheaper.
And THIS, this right here, is why capitalism like every other ism is doomed. You have nearly half a BILLION people in the USA counting the illegals, the average IQ is 103, yet all the jobs that would typically be open to somebody that would allow them to feed their family with the sweat of his brow just don't exist or are dying. As we go into the teens its is increasingly obvious, just look at how in 1960 the CEO made 8 to 12 times what a line worker made, now that is up to over 800%, you'll have a handful at the very top who can afford to buy the factories full of robots while the people either starve or the government simply pays them to STFU and stay out of the dwindling workforce.
Its a game of musical chairs GameboyRMH and no matter how smart we are fewer and fewer of us are gonna get a seat. I can see my own job being destroyed in less than 5 years, computers will be replaced by black boxes cranked out on automated assembly lines and just sent to an automated recycler when the unit is no longer useful. The days of fixing ANYTHING are quickly coming to an end, why? The machines can crank that shit out so much cheaper that just as we have seen in appliances it quickly becomes easier and cheaper to replace than fix. Its musical chairs and as the machines get smarter, faster, tougher and cheaper fewer and fewer of us will end up with a seat.
Riiight, Java is sooo awesome...that if you remove it and Flash you have a practically uninfectable computer. Hell I ran a PC for 4 years at the shop without even an AV, just Firefox with no Java and no Flash, thing never had so much as a close call.
I'm sorry but I don't give a rat's ass if Java as a language is so fucking good it sends 10,000 dollar hookers to blow you while you write code as that is NOT my concern. To steal a line from Tron Legacy "I stand for the users" and from a security standpoint Java has more bugs than a Bangkok whore on coupon day, its a fucking mess. it was a fucking mess when Sun had it, its a fucking mess now that Oracle owns it. The language itself may be candy and flowers but the implementation leaves a WHOLE lot to be desired. Don't take my word for it, hell don't take the word of the security researchers who've been analyzing the code I linked to, go to any security site like Securina and look at the 5 year history of Java when it comes to zero days and exploits. Check ANY security website and Java and Flash are neck and neck when it comes to zero days and malware.
At least with Flash its not like we have a choice in using it, HTML V5 is fucking BROKEN, goes through resources like a fat guy at an all you can eat buffet, can't even do 30% of the jobs Flash does, and I don't care which implementation you choose I can put it next to Flash using the same resolution and Flash will use less than half the CPU for a given file size, so at least with Flash we have NO choice until HTML V5 gets its shit together. You said it yourself we have.NET and it works just fine. While I may not like the way MSFT is going on the OS front with their "LOL What is Apple doing? Copy it and add a 20% markup LOL" attitude one thing I have ALWAYS given them credit for is making kick ass software dev tools and from what I've been told.NET is top notch.
So until Oracle can throw out the rotting corpse that is Sun's Java code and build something better I'm sorry but I'm calling a spade a spade and from a security standpoint Java is a nightmare from hell.
The problem is that 2 different security groups have been analyzing the flaws that the malware guys used for the last exploit and say it could be 2 years before a proper fix is in place because the underlying code is "a mess".
Of course any of us who had to deal with Sun's products in the past could have told them this, Sun was pretty piss poor when it came to code and security, this is why I've been saying give the LO guys at least 3 years before we start bitching simply because it'll probably take that long to clean up the mess Sun left.
The monkey in the wrench though, the fly in the ointment, the pain in the ass, is that Java usage was waaay down among consumers....until that fucking game showed up. I hope the guy who wrote Minecraft is happy because just when we had weened a lot of home users away from the tripe that is Java he had to build a hit game on it and drag us all back into the mess. I don't know which is worse, Micecraft bringing shitty Java back to the consumer desktop or that fact Java will add the browser plugin (along with crapware) every time you update the damned thing. But in any case the malware writers are gonna have a field day as all those Minecraft installs are a botnet waiting to happen and if those security researchers are right all Oracle can do is slap band aids on the mess that is Java..
Actually you are missing the even bigger change, one that I have been pointing out for years. Capitalism, just like every other ism before it, is simply doomed. I have argued for years that we are all John Henry against the steam engine and you can kill yourself just like John Henry but in the end the machine will win, it is inevitable.
Before anybody screams "Luddite!" or points out the industrial revolution I will point out that NO time in human history have we EVER been able to replace the worker entirely...until now. Before all those machines needed human hands and human brains but we have already reached the point you can take a factory that once employed 10,000 workers and replace them with a few guys to push the buttons, and now this. The machine doesn't get sick, or tired, doesn't need expensive medical insurance or workman's comp, at the end of it all we are playing IQ musical chairs and more and more simply won't have a seat when the music stops.
What do you do with all the people that don't get a seat? Do we do as we do now, and subsidize megacorps like Mickey D's and Walmart with government assistance so the workers come out "cheaper" than the machine? Look at the auto industry, workers got a union and demanded a living wage and suddenly the machines were cheaper. What do you do with all the people whose labor simply is no longer required? You'll never take someone with an IQ of 103 (the average last I checked) and make them into a rocket scientist and even if you could wave a wand and do that there simply isn't a need for that many rocket scientists.
To me the whole thing that proves capitalism in its current form is doomed is one simple fact: With our current level of tech we could wipe out half the people on this planet, poof! And not only would our quality of life not go down it would in fact go up as those that would be left would find their labor actually worth something! We are just gonna have to face the fact that there is a reason why Sci-Fi writers like Roddenberry didn't have money and capitalism being used in their futures and that is because once you reach a certain technological threshold it simply won't work. you'll have a handful that can afford to buy the factories full of robots and the rest rioting and looting to survive.
Hell I would argue that for a large part of the population we are already there, if you got rid of government assistance and made the corps pay a true living wage you'd quickly see a ton of them switching to the robots as they would be cheaper. Even in China where the pay is pathetic are they seeing more and more automation because even with the pittance they make the machines end up cheaper. We just need to face the facts folks, the robots will end up replacing all but a handful of "super brains" like Hawking and DeGrasse while the rest of us? Simply won't have a chair when the music stops.
But what good is that if its shitting resources and chugging? Again there is A REASON why damned near every game out there is powered by Unreal while ID Tech like the Cryengine is pretty much only used by the parent company, and that is because it sucks.
Having pretty lighting is worth exactly fuck and all if you chug when you try to put anything under that lighting and that is ID Tech 4 in a nutshell. Again just like the Cryengine it can make a STATIC scene that is picture postcard pretty, but have some action going on and watch it slam the living shit out of the resources. I've seen games that looked a hell of a lot better than Doom 3 that used a hell of a lot less resources to do so, of course they were all running Unreal, nobody used the ID Tech 4 because it just wasn't any good.
Of course the sad part is making this engine open source won't do squat, because we have all seen what a new open sourced engine means...another 50 CTF Q3 Arena rip offs...yay. Just what the world needs, another MP only CTF DM game...yawn. Wake me up when you get a 3D shooter that is FOSS with an actual engaging story and a decent single player, until then you can just keep the Q3 Arena clones, thanks anyway.
Actually? Intel and Samsung as they at the time had the best scores. Remember gamers want to be top of the leaderboards and OCZ is only there for price NOT raw performance and hasn't had the performance crown in quite a while. In fact last I checked the top 3 were Intel, Kingston, and Samsung, OCZ ended up something like fifth.
That one only deals with the lower courts though, Gonzales V Castle Rock is set in stone as the law of the land by the SCOTUS and they spelled it out as plain as they possibly could. The police are to serve and protect THE STATE and NOT the people, the people have to DEFEND THEMSELVES. Again I say to the gun banners...how? Are they gonna throw a rock at the meth head? Tell the rapist to be a good boy?
The entire argument of the gun banners is "the cops will protect you" and there in Castle Rock V Gonzales it says clearly in black and white they will NOT protect you, hell they don't even have to show up at all if they don't feel like it! What more proof do you fucking need? How do they expect a law abiding citizen to protect his family from scum if the cops don't even have to take their call if they don't feel like it?
The problem is NOT a case of "creating a better world for nothing" as many of us that are currently against AGW would think that would be great, wonderful, all for it. the problem that many of us have against AGW is the current "solutions" are a scam set up by the same groups that gave us credit default swaps and all the other lovely scams in the real estate bubble which We, The People, are still being handed bills for.
Take Mr "inconvenient truth" Rev Al Gore, not only has he not said a word about tariffs on China who has said they won't play the carbon game (hint, he makes crazy money there), not only has he set himself up to make billions on the carbon scam but he has the diamond plated balls to say puttering around in his Lear Jet and driving his SUV makes him "carbon neutral" because he pays HIMSELF carbon credits from his OWN COMPANY which then hands him the money back as capital gains which he doesn't have to pay taxes on! It would be like moving money from your left pocket to your right and getting a tax break for doing it!
So you want to make the world cleaner? All for it, add huge tariffs to Chinese goods, we can pick up their fricking pollution on the west coast so if you want cleaner air there is a good start, tell the NIMBYs to fuck off and start building new nuclear reactors, tell the DoD to fuck off and allow reprocessing to deal with the waste, and invest in a people's car that runs on diesel, gets at least 40MPG and costs less than 20K. Give tax breaks and a huge "cash for clunkers" to the poor to get rid of all the old used cars on the road...tada! Wow I just solved a good portion of the problems right there, aren't I a genius? Why isn't this being done? Answer is obvious, its because the scammers can't leech more money with a sensible system that actually makes things better which is why the ONLY "solution" you'll hear from the AGW is carbon credits.
Oh and FYI but what EXACTLY do you think will happen to what few American factories are left if they have zero penalty for moving to China? Duh, they'll just move where they don't pay for carbon crap and make more money! Of course Rev Al won't say shit about that, he and his buddies make mad monies on cheap Chinese labor don't cha know? What a fucking scam, and what saddens me is how many "greenies" are buying the bullshit. This will do about as much to clean up the place as throwing all your garbage in the closet. Sure you won't see it but its still there and it will get worse until it spills out all over the place.
The problem with SSDs, especially the MLC is the hot/crazy scale and I have seen this with my own eyes, I have several gamer customers that buy the top o' the line SSDs and they are already on double digits because of all the failed drives.
The problem AIN'T the cells though, its the damned controllers. I have been saying for years they need to have a simple ARM chip that kicks in when the main controller fails that makes the drive read only so you can at least get your shit off but after looking into it this is why I do NOT install SSDs as main drives and advise against using them as main drives, because when the controller fails? unless you have the skills to unsolder the chips and get the data off one chip at a time you are screwed, it won't even show up under BIOS. This also makes many of my customers leery about using the warranties because who knows what third world country they send dead drives to and since you can't nuke it who knows where your CC numbers and data would end up.
At the end of the day this is what i tell my customers: The SSD is like any other tool in that used WISELY it can be a benefit. if its in a mobile device that you back up religiously or which doesn't have any important data, like a netbook? Works great here. if its for an OS drive where you have image backups and all your important data on spinning rust? Again works great. if this is a mission critical system or is gonna have important irreplaceable things like family photos? NOT a good use, in fact it will end up biting you in the ass. The good old HDD may not be the fastest but at least you usually get plenty of warning before they fail, too many times i have seen an SSD go from 100% good to deader than Dixie overnight. NO WARNING, that is just fucked up and why I still use spinning rust in my builds.
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Please tell me you are joking. The reason why I advocate more people buy AMD is because frankly X86 has gotten so incredibly powerful on BOTH sides of the aisle that I think its more important to have competition than to win some benchmark and the difference is like going from insaneo speed to ludicrous speed.
I mean look at some of the chips both have been putting out, even 7 years ago you would have had to spend just insane amounts of money to get anywhere near this performance and now you can get these sub 20w CPUs with multiple cores and GPUs that do full 1080p? Honestly people really need to take a moment to just stop and appreciate how fucking GOOD we have it right now. Hell even the Atom chip when paired with ION made for a pretty decent HTPC that used less power than a first gen P4 doing nothing, now Intel puts out these chips that just get totally incredible amounts of IPC and at an average of only 55w? That is just crazy, hell my Pentium D used more than that just sitting on the fricking desktop doing nothing.
So I would say if anything the slowdown in PC sales and the reason i recommend AMD is because Intel upped the game so damned high that even a low end chip is like a top fuel funny car and just blows through any job your average user can come up with without breaking a sweat. If Intel wouldn't have kept raising the bar with the tick tock cycle I wouldn't be able to buy 6 core CPUs for just $100 or get my customers damned nice laptops for less than $500 delivered.
The amount of power we get today just blows my mind and if you would have told me a decade ago I'd be typing on a website while listening to music, burning a DVD and doing a transcode and NOTHING would lag? Yeah I'd tell you to go back to your Star trek fanfic but here we are, where even the lowest laptop can do 1080P and multitask like crazy and our desktops are just monsters. I predict in 3 years, maybe less, we'll see ARM peter out as they aren't able to scale the IPC while Intel will just scale down a Core2 to where it uses like 2w max and runs rings around the ARM, it'll be like having a supercomputer in your pocket, just incredible.
It doesn't change the fact that Apple and MSFT have ALWAYS seemed to have a little game called "Who can fuck the consumer worst" going between each other. Honestly I don't know WTH is going on with Apple not being investigated for iTunes since they pretty much fucking own the PMP market (last numbers I saw had it at over 90%) and almost no business will ever reach 100%. This is why the official definition includes having undue influence and control over a market which seeing how many companies roll over and play dead if faced with Apple such as Adobe bailing on Flash when Steve said no Flash, or how Opera for the first time in their history is having to use webkit and put out a lame ass Opera "skin" because they can't get their actual product on a locked down Apple controlled device, just blows my fucking mind.
But frankly this whole "RDF" idea has always just blown my fucking mind, you take 3 companies, Apple, Google, and MSFT, have them all do the exact same anti-competitive behavior and one or more of them will be lauded while the others condemned, for the same fucking shit! Apple is just as big of a monopolistic douchebag as MSFT, Google has shown "do no evil" is just "think different" in a geek friendly wrapper, yet nobody will fucking acknowledge or do a damned thing about it as long as the "right" company is doing the fucking. MSFT locks their tablet? Rightly pointed out as shitty, Apple been doing the same for years? Well that's just protecting the users! Google makes their own flavor of UEFI on "their" ChromeBooks (since you don't really control it I'd call it a rental more than a purchase) that is so fucking nasty that you can't even boot a bog standard Linux X86 distro on X86 hardware? Oh that's perfectly okay while just the thought that MSFT uses the same trick while giving you the incredibly easy option to disable? Well Whargarrbl its the end of the planet.
Don't get me wrong I think ALL of these anti-competitive lock in horseshit needs to go DIAF, I'm just sick and fucking tired of it being perfectly okay for the corp to kick you in the nuts as long as the corp is wearing the right logo on their shirt. A kick in the nuts is a kick in the nuts is a kick in the nuts, I don't give a rat's ass what logo shirt they are wearing.
Oh don't worry, they aren't gonna "step up or starve" which completely ignores the fucking fact that I just pointed out you can't educate your way out of this as those going from the graduation line to the unemployment line prove so nicely.
No what will happen is the poor will rise up and execute anybody with money unless we have our very own crazy Austrian who'll say "Its not YOUR fault there is no jobs, it is the evil OTHER that has taken your God given rights FROM you!" and he'll take Poland, in this case Poland being resource rich South America. Why do you think rabid xenophobia is being hammered more and more by the press? Because those in power realize that when the student loan followed by the massive stock market bubble burst, which will take away their ability to print money and leave them in the same boat as those now dead dictators at the start of the Arab Springs they'll have to have 1.- A scapegoat and 2.- Something that will let them manufacture jobs out of thin air. As we saw in WWII the massive mobilization of the working age males into soldiers combined with war industry can take care of the later pretty damned well.
But feel free to ignore it, just remember when you turn on the news sometime between now and 2020 and see the riots as the stock market crashes and burns to think about the words of Lenin: "A capitalist will sell you the rope that you intend to hang him with" which is why no truly capitalist country has lasted very long history wise, those at the top end up voting more and more for themselves and less and less for the poor until they get a little hair cut like they did in France a couple of centuries ago.
Its coming, can't be stopped, the bubbles are too big, too many without a job and nothing better to do than join the angry mob, you have been warned.
No matter whether you are embarrassed or impressed its just more proof that "many eyes" myth is just that, a total myth.
I'll get hate for saying it but fuck it frankly it has amazed me that myth has hung on as long as it did because it makes some pretty glaring assumptions that even a moment's thought would show just don't work and while I often don't agree with their conclusions on some issues one thing FOSS advocates usually do is follow logic to its conclusion.
The "many eyes" myth makes some pretty easy to punch through assumptions, 1.- That because something CAN happen means it HAS happened. This would be like claiming that somebody has climbed K2 wearing bunny slippers because theoretically somebody could climb K2 wearing bunny slippers. Just because something is POSSIBLE does NOT make it probable or even likely 2.- That all the projects out there, no matter how small or hidden from sight, will get the same attention. I bet every FOSS advocate on the planet has used LO/OO.o multiple times...show of hands, how many of you have actually LOOKED at the freely available source code? How many of you have submitted changes to that code? And that is one of the most popular FOSS programs on the planet, what are the odds that little subsystem hidden away in the middle of most distros has been read and edited by ANYBODY other than the guys maintaining it?
The ONLY real advantages source code brings has nothing to do with bugs, it has to do with that fact that 1.- if you have the skills and free time or 2.- Have the money to hire somebody else's free time and skills you can take a product that is EOL or doesn't run on the platform you want and make it do as you will. LO doesn't run on MIPS? You can port it or pay somebody to port it. For some reason you need Gnome 1 to run on the latest kernel? You can hire a dev team and make it so. But that doesn't magically do a damned thing about bugs, as this along with the KDELook malware or the fact that even kernel.org ended up hacked proves. Having code has its advantages but making bugs disappear? NOT one of them.
Oh and I'm sorry but the "Linus rant" was a Christian Bale douchebag rant that was completely uncalled for. The guy was working on an extremely complex subsystem with some pretty serious issues, he asks a simple question about why a value returned HAS to be X while pointing out that in the subsystem he is working on dozens of drivers do NOT return X so the application in question is gonna fucking crash anyway, and instead of taking the exact same amount of time to say "It has to be thus because" he goes superdouche. I'm sorry but I don't care if you are Bob the mailman or the fucking pope, nobody gets a license to be a douchebag and that rant was total douchebag. It was quite obvious the little prick just expects a "yes master" to anything he says, no questions asked, and when this guy dares to ask what is frankly a damned good question he gets shit on? Nope, sorry, Linus is a douchebag and deserved to be called on it.
If the other spec is based on HTML V5 video frankly I don't blame MSFT in this case as it is HORRIBLY broken. Not only can HTML V5 video not do even 30% of the roles Flash was doing frankly its performance is just piss awful, you choose any browser you want and at any resolution a Flash video at the same res will play smoother with less dropped frames and a HELL of a lot less resource usage. You can play Flash SD video smoothly on a 1.8GHz Sempron and it'll be smooth as butter, no matter how low res you make HTML V5 video its gonna be a slideshow on anything less than a dual core, its just terrible.
Frankly what we need is some little geek company to tell both groups to fuck right off and actually come up with a true Flash replacement, something that will do all the roles that Flash did like video and games and animation while using equal or lesser resources than Flash at the same resolution. Because honestly if St. Steve wouldn't have said "Down with Flash!" while quietly ignoring the fact that it allowed designers to bypass his sacred appstore? Frankly we wouldn't even be talking about replacing Flash now except for hypothetically because so far every "solution" to the Flash problem I've seen is worse than Flash across the board, CPU, bandwidth, memory, you name it it sucks worse.
Are you HONESTLY gonna compare C++ to Java when it comes to security? Really? Sure you don't want to take that back before we hand you your "I don't know WTF I'm talking about" sign?
Go to ANY security website where they rank programs, your choice, I prefer Securina but there are a couple of others out there, and compare the amount of bugs in any given period, say 3 years, between Java and C++ as well as the severity. Frankly the only program that comes anywhere close to java on sheer shitstorm scale is Adobe Reader, last I checked even Flash isn't as bad on number of "Can take over your computer" bugs. Which if you think about it makes perfect sense, nothing more dangerous than a badly written framework as by its very nature its designed to run other people's code.
Show me ONCE, just once mind you, where Homeland Security has put out an adviser recommending removal or disabling of C++, just once. Frankly C++ on its worst day isn't even in the same ballpark, hell its not even the same sport as Java, Java is a security nightmare and has been almost since the very beginning. if you don't like C++ there is a dozen other languages out there and NONE of them are as dangerous to have on your system as Java, none.
The better example anyway would be how long either FB or a real book is remembered compared to movie lines, since most people get their entertainment through movies more than books. Here let me throw out a few and I bet most of you will be able to fill in the blanks..
" I've had it with these motherfucking... "And I shall strike down with great vengeance and furious anger.." "Houston we've got.."But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question:.."
Now I bet a hell of a lot of you, even if you haven't seen the movies those lines are from in several years if at all, could fill in the blank instantly without a bit of trouble. The simple fact is most books? Don't really have great quotable parts that stick in your head and while some tweeting twittering FB shitting crap might last for a little while I bet that's not saying anything about how good or memorable the tweets are but how lame the new writers are in the post twilight era. But if you want quotable, if you want long term retention even years after it was last saw nothing comes close to a well written movie. Hell why do you think links to this site should come with warnings about how its a black hole of time suckage? Because we have all seen so many movies and shows we know all the tropes, just not the names for 'em.The truly memorable just isn't in the written word anymore, its on the screen. Game of riddles anyone?
Because you and your friends actually have to get off your asses and do something, whereas with DDOS you can just as easily use a botnet or even get stupid people to click on a link trying to win a "prize" and block the business?
I would also point out that you can be arrested for public nuisance doing what you suggest, just as the protesters that tried to block abortion clinics ended up being hauled off. Nobody is saying you can't protest but be ready to pay the penalty if you do which sadly in this day and age is usually a life of second class citizenship.
I'm sorry but you can't change a corrupt system by working within that system. the answer as to why should be obvious, the system is corrupt! By your logic if enough people played 3 card monty they'd find the lady, when IRL there is no lady to find. in the case of IP laws you have billion dollar corporations that not only offer juicy bribes but even if you manage to "throw the bums out" the "bum" just gets a cushy lobbyist job with the ones he took the bribes from thus showing the next bum the value of "playing ball" and doing what he/she is told. Its totally Kayfabe, its a total sham, and pretending you can fix a rigged game by playing it is simply insanity.
I'd urge you to watch the truth about voting but I have found those that believe in the fairy tales of occupy protests and making little banners will simply never let go of the delusion, no matter how obvious reality is on the fact it doesn't work. I'll end with this...the people that worked and slaved and sold cookies to get Obama elected, did they get their "hope and change" or did they see the vast majority of Bush's policies continued by Obama? Know why Obama signed off on all those things? because like a pro wrestler he shuts up and reads the cue card, that's why. The same people that were running the show during Bush are running the show during Obama, the same power brokers who have been there for ages. This is why protests will never work, you're protesting Ronald McDonald like he is the one who made your cheeseburger when he is just the smiling face, the real owners just use Ronald to give you someone to love/hate that isn't them.
Actually a lot of what is "lost" is actually thrown or given away so the military can blow through their budgets. Its pretty common knowledge that if you spend less you get less in next year's budget so when my grandfather was in the Air Force he was constantly bringing home nice stuff right before the fiscal year was up because they needed to "blow the budget". I know one year I saw brand new theater seats sitting out by the dumpster and when I asked my grandfather he said they had changed out the theater seats something like 5 times in 5 years because if they couldn't blow the budget any other way that was always an easy one to do.
Kinda sad but that is our bloated wasteful military for ya, its like Dilbert only with salutes...ohh and kickbacks.
Or he could have just used C++ like every other game on the planet and thus saved all those users from getting pwned.
Frankly until that damned game came out I had pretty much gotten rid of Java for my users and they didn't have a bit of trouble living without it, then along comes that damned game and suddenly they have Java again and here comes the malware. I hope whomever wrote that game learned his lesson and uses something else for his next game because the way Java sticks the plugin into the browser by default makes it too risky for home users.
If Canvas sucks as bad as HTML V5 does at replacing Flash i can think of a reason, its a pig. You name which implementation you want and we'll compare it to Flash and no matter the size HTML V5 will suck MORE CPU, MORE RAM, and in many cases where Flash will play just fine HTML V5 will stutter like watching flash over dialup.
So while I long for the day when the ONLY thing you'll need is a browser frankly HTML V5 just doesn't cut the mustard and isn't suitable for purpose yet. It sucks too many cycles, gives poor performance, doesn't do a third of what Flash does, and if St. Steve hadn't said it sucked (while the fanboys ignored the fact that Flash let devs bypass his golden calf appstore so he kinda had a conflict of interest) we honest;y wouldn't even be talking about HTML V5 video as a possible replacement for Flash, much less anything else. Its just not even alpha quality ATM, certainly not ready for the masses.
Well as I posted when the band aid patch that is now busted was put out it could take 2 years to fix the actual problem because the underlying code is "broken" and pretty much needs a full rewrite. We can't really blame Oracle for this as Java was a mess when Sun had it, Oracle merely got stuck with the mess when they bought out Sun.
The thing I WILL blame Oracle for is the fact that if you update the damned software with the patch it RE-ENABLES the browser plug in unless you know to disable it, along with the usual crapware that comes with everything. Oh and I also blame the jerk that made Minecraft for bringing shitty Java back to the home users, for a good while there I had all but wiped Java out on home users systems, then that damned game came up and here we go again.
Personally I think Homeland Security should order Oracle to put out a patch that disables the browser plug in and bar them from re-enabling it when they patch as those that actually NEED Java can find out how to turn on the plug in easy enough but those that don't won't know to disable it every. single. time. they have an update.
Wow way for so many to miss the point? is there a meta WHOOSH that can cover a dozen people? the point is this is a classic case of being told to do SOMETHING even if that SOMETHING doesn't actually solve a damned thing. the reason why we are being told we MUST do this something is that leeches like Goldman Sachs and Al Gore have already set up the insider trades to make themselves more billions by reverse robin hooding the poor, yet the AGWers don't seem to give a shit because "We'll be doing SOMETHING herpa de derpa de derp!"
Like I said I'm all for SOLUTIONS THAT WORK, like getting rid of coal fired plants, huge tariffs on polluting nations, and if I come off a little coarse its because i'm fucking sick of being told "Its okay if the SOMETHING doesn't make a lick of sense or solve shit, we have to do SOMETHING because rev Al Gore is smart dammit! Herpa derpa derp" which is fucking STUPID. If I said "I can solve global warming, just pay me $100k for each American so they can have this carbon sucking rock to stick under their pillow" would you REALLY give me $100K for every American? Because that is EXACTLY what the AGWers are suggesting, buying billion dollar snake oil that even the slightest bit of common sense would see that it won't do shit!
Wow...way to miss the fucking point. Show me EXACTLY where I said they'd replace "everybody" because you know what? Never said it. What I DID say was that fewer and fewer would get a seat in this game of IQ musical chairs and the evidence very much bares that out. Look at the link above you, 1 million workers at Foxconn being replaced by machines. China pays their workers a pittance, has practically no environmental laws or worker protections yet it STILL ends up cheaper in the long run to replace them with the machine.
You have 8 billion people on the planet or so, been awhile since I looked at the figures, and by the very nature of a bell curve half of those are gonna be below average, following me so far? Now you replace those doing manual labor with machines which is increasingly becoming easy to do, I mean just look at the $22K robot in FA, you are talking nearly half the population whose labor is no longer required. We have 42,400 factories lost since 2001 and at an average per factory of lets say 1000 workers per factory counting all 3 shifts that gives you 42 MILLION workers out of a good paying job. If just half of those are permanently replaced by machines that is 21 million jobs gone forever...what do you do with those people? As we've seen with the education bubble that is getting ready to burst you can't educate your way out of this, so what do you do? Pay them to sit at home? let them starve?
Finally your farmers example simply doesn't work, all those workers on the farm ended up taking factory jobs in the big city, where are those jobs now? They don't exist. For the first time in all of human history are we actually capable of replacing the human almost completely. In my home town there used to be a factory that employed over 1800 people to make aircraft parts, know how many they employ NOW at that very same plant? Less than 30 to keep an eye on some screens because thanks to lasers that can measure cuts in the nm scale and automation the majority just aren't required.
Mark my words as all you are gonna see in the next decade is the White House continue to fudge unemployment numbers, why? The jobs that supported so many just don't exist anymore. Again look at Foxconn, China is one of the cheapest places on the planet to make anything and even THERE the corps are replacing the workers with bots as they are cheaper...what do you do with those million if the other factories follow suit? I just don't see how you can't look at the past 50 years and see what is coming, I really don't. We'll have a $15K 2 legged bot by the end of this decade that can climb ladders, work in hazard areas, and for the corps it's lack of need for medical benefits and pay will just make it a better long term investment...what then?
I just don't see how anyone can look at the big picture, see what has been going on with computers, robots, and automation for the past half century and not see the writing on the wall.
If you would have told workers in the factories in the early 1960s that we would be able to replace them with fully automated factories, where you send the raw materials in one end and out comes radios or cars or shoes? They would have choked from laughing so hard and told you to go back to watching Star Trek yet that is EXACTLY what we are seeing more and more. Look at those Hondabots they have working in Fukushima, climbs ladders, works in high radiation areas, doesn't get hazard pay and when its over they can just abandon the contaminated bots.
That is why even as a little kid I pointed out everybody got the moral of John Henry wrong, what the REAL morale was was that John Henry literally worked himself to death while the steam hammer? Ready to go and could have kept right on hammering as they took poor John Henry's body away. At the end of the day as we get smarter machines, microchips with multiple cores that can process huge amounts of data on a couple of watts worth of power, and smart computer controlled optics that can allow a computer to spot flaws on a fast moving line that no human would ever catch? The human becomes worth less and less. Again look at the auto industry, when forced to pay living wages with benefits all it took was a simple spreadsheet even when the machines were so much more costly back then to realize that the machines ended up coming out the better. Now the machines are getting cheaper by the second while things like food, rent, health insurance, workman's comp, all this is going up and up. I bet if you raised the minimum wage to a living wage every Mickey D's in this country would be nothing but a computer controlled automated assembly line within 5 years, why? The machine would be cheaper.
And THIS, this right here, is why capitalism like every other ism is doomed. You have nearly half a BILLION people in the USA counting the illegals, the average IQ is 103, yet all the jobs that would typically be open to somebody that would allow them to feed their family with the sweat of his brow just don't exist or are dying. As we go into the teens its is increasingly obvious, just look at how in 1960 the CEO made 8 to 12 times what a line worker made, now that is up to over 800%, you'll have a handful at the very top who can afford to buy the factories full of robots while the people either starve or the government simply pays them to STFU and stay out of the dwindling workforce.
Its a game of musical chairs GameboyRMH and no matter how smart we are fewer and fewer of us are gonna get a seat. I can see my own job being destroyed in less than 5 years, computers will be replaced by black boxes cranked out on automated assembly lines and just sent to an automated recycler when the unit is no longer useful. The days of fixing ANYTHING are quickly coming to an end, why? The machines can crank that shit out so much cheaper that just as we have seen in appliances it quickly becomes easier and cheaper to replace than fix. Its musical chairs and as the machines get smarter, faster, tougher and cheaper fewer and fewer of us will end up with a seat.
Riiight, Java is sooo awesome...that if you remove it and Flash you have a practically uninfectable computer. Hell I ran a PC for 4 years at the shop without even an AV, just Firefox with no Java and no Flash, thing never had so much as a close call.
I'm sorry but I don't give a rat's ass if Java as a language is so fucking good it sends 10,000 dollar hookers to blow you while you write code as that is NOT my concern. To steal a line from Tron Legacy "I stand for the users" and from a security standpoint Java has more bugs than a Bangkok whore on coupon day, its a fucking mess. it was a fucking mess when Sun had it, its a fucking mess now that Oracle owns it. The language itself may be candy and flowers but the implementation leaves a WHOLE lot to be desired. Don't take my word for it, hell don't take the word of the security researchers who've been analyzing the code I linked to, go to any security site like Securina and look at the 5 year history of Java when it comes to zero days and exploits. Check ANY security website and Java and Flash are neck and neck when it comes to zero days and malware.
At least with Flash its not like we have a choice in using it, HTML V5 is fucking BROKEN, goes through resources like a fat guy at an all you can eat buffet, can't even do 30% of the jobs Flash does, and I don't care which implementation you choose I can put it next to Flash using the same resolution and Flash will use less than half the CPU for a given file size, so at least with Flash we have NO choice until HTML V5 gets its shit together. You said it yourself we have .NET and it works just fine. While I may not like the way MSFT is going on the OS front with their "LOL What is Apple doing? Copy it and add a 20% markup LOL" attitude one thing I have ALWAYS given them credit for is making kick ass software dev tools and from what I've been told .NET is top notch.
So until Oracle can throw out the rotting corpse that is Sun's Java code and build something better I'm sorry but I'm calling a spade a spade and from a security standpoint Java is a nightmare from hell.
Are you kidding? They'll probably just take teabagging to a whole new and even more disgusting level.
The problem is that 2 different security groups have been analyzing the flaws that the malware guys used for the last exploit and say it could be 2 years before a proper fix is in place because the underlying code is "a mess".
Of course any of us who had to deal with Sun's products in the past could have told them this, Sun was pretty piss poor when it came to code and security, this is why I've been saying give the LO guys at least 3 years before we start bitching simply because it'll probably take that long to clean up the mess Sun left.
The monkey in the wrench though, the fly in the ointment, the pain in the ass, is that Java usage was waaay down among consumers....until that fucking game showed up. I hope the guy who wrote Minecraft is happy because just when we had weened a lot of home users away from the tripe that is Java he had to build a hit game on it and drag us all back into the mess. I don't know which is worse, Micecraft bringing shitty Java back to the consumer desktop or that fact Java will add the browser plugin (along with crapware) every time you update the damned thing. But in any case the malware writers are gonna have a field day as all those Minecraft installs are a botnet waiting to happen and if those security researchers are right all Oracle can do is slap band aids on the mess that is Java..
Actually you are missing the even bigger change, one that I have been pointing out for years. Capitalism, just like every other ism before it, is simply doomed. I have argued for years that we are all John Henry against the steam engine and you can kill yourself just like John Henry but in the end the machine will win, it is inevitable.
Before anybody screams "Luddite!" or points out the industrial revolution I will point out that NO time in human history have we EVER been able to replace the worker entirely...until now. Before all those machines needed human hands and human brains but we have already reached the point you can take a factory that once employed 10,000 workers and replace them with a few guys to push the buttons, and now this. The machine doesn't get sick, or tired, doesn't need expensive medical insurance or workman's comp, at the end of it all we are playing IQ musical chairs and more and more simply won't have a seat when the music stops.
What do you do with all the people that don't get a seat? Do we do as we do now, and subsidize megacorps like Mickey D's and Walmart with government assistance so the workers come out "cheaper" than the machine? Look at the auto industry, workers got a union and demanded a living wage and suddenly the machines were cheaper. What do you do with all the people whose labor simply is no longer required? You'll never take someone with an IQ of 103 (the average last I checked) and make them into a rocket scientist and even if you could wave a wand and do that there simply isn't a need for that many rocket scientists.
To me the whole thing that proves capitalism in its current form is doomed is one simple fact: With our current level of tech we could wipe out half the people on this planet, poof! And not only would our quality of life not go down it would in fact go up as those that would be left would find their labor actually worth something! We are just gonna have to face the fact that there is a reason why Sci-Fi writers like Roddenberry didn't have money and capitalism being used in their futures and that is because once you reach a certain technological threshold it simply won't work. you'll have a handful that can afford to buy the factories full of robots and the rest rioting and looting to survive.
Hell I would argue that for a large part of the population we are already there, if you got rid of government assistance and made the corps pay a true living wage you'd quickly see a ton of them switching to the robots as they would be cheaper. Even in China where the pay is pathetic are they seeing more and more automation because even with the pittance they make the machines end up cheaper. We just need to face the facts folks, the robots will end up replacing all but a handful of "super brains" like Hawking and DeGrasse while the rest of us? Simply won't have a chair when the music stops.
But what good is that if its shitting resources and chugging? Again there is A REASON why damned near every game out there is powered by Unreal while ID Tech like the Cryengine is pretty much only used by the parent company, and that is because it sucks.
Having pretty lighting is worth exactly fuck and all if you chug when you try to put anything under that lighting and that is ID Tech 4 in a nutshell. Again just like the Cryengine it can make a STATIC scene that is picture postcard pretty, but have some action going on and watch it slam the living shit out of the resources. I've seen games that looked a hell of a lot better than Doom 3 that used a hell of a lot less resources to do so, of course they were all running Unreal, nobody used the ID Tech 4 because it just wasn't any good.
Of course the sad part is making this engine open source won't do squat, because we have all seen what a new open sourced engine means...another 50 CTF Q3 Arena rip offs...yay. Just what the world needs, another MP only CTF DM game...yawn. Wake me up when you get a 3D shooter that is FOSS with an actual engaging story and a decent single player, until then you can just keep the Q3 Arena clones, thanks anyway.
Actually? Intel and Samsung as they at the time had the best scores. Remember gamers want to be top of the leaderboards and OCZ is only there for price NOT raw performance and hasn't had the performance crown in quite a while. In fact last I checked the top 3 were Intel, Kingston, and Samsung, OCZ ended up something like fifth.
That one only deals with the lower courts though, Gonzales V Castle Rock is set in stone as the law of the land by the SCOTUS and they spelled it out as plain as they possibly could. The police are to serve and protect THE STATE and NOT the people, the people have to DEFEND THEMSELVES. Again I say to the gun banners...how? Are they gonna throw a rock at the meth head? Tell the rapist to be a good boy?
The entire argument of the gun banners is "the cops will protect you" and there in Castle Rock V Gonzales it says clearly in black and white they will NOT protect you, hell they don't even have to show up at all if they don't feel like it! What more proof do you fucking need? How do they expect a law abiding citizen to protect his family from scum if the cops don't even have to take their call if they don't feel like it?
The problem is NOT a case of "creating a better world for nothing" as many of us that are currently against AGW would think that would be great, wonderful, all for it. the problem that many of us have against AGW is the current "solutions" are a scam set up by the same groups that gave us credit default swaps and all the other lovely scams in the real estate bubble which We, The People, are still being handed bills for.
Take Mr "inconvenient truth" Rev Al Gore, not only has he not said a word about tariffs on China who has said they won't play the carbon game (hint, he makes crazy money there), not only has he set himself up to make billions on the carbon scam but he has the diamond plated balls to say puttering around in his Lear Jet and driving his SUV makes him "carbon neutral" because he pays HIMSELF carbon credits from his OWN COMPANY which then hands him the money back as capital gains which he doesn't have to pay taxes on! It would be like moving money from your left pocket to your right and getting a tax break for doing it!
So you want to make the world cleaner? All for it, add huge tariffs to Chinese goods, we can pick up their fricking pollution on the west coast so if you want cleaner air there is a good start, tell the NIMBYs to fuck off and start building new nuclear reactors, tell the DoD to fuck off and allow reprocessing to deal with the waste, and invest in a people's car that runs on diesel, gets at least 40MPG and costs less than 20K. Give tax breaks and a huge "cash for clunkers" to the poor to get rid of all the old used cars on the road...tada! Wow I just solved a good portion of the problems right there, aren't I a genius? Why isn't this being done? Answer is obvious, its because the scammers can't leech more money with a sensible system that actually makes things better which is why the ONLY "solution" you'll hear from the AGW is carbon credits.
Oh and FYI but what EXACTLY do you think will happen to what few American factories are left if they have zero penalty for moving to China? Duh, they'll just move where they don't pay for carbon crap and make more money! Of course Rev Al won't say shit about that, he and his buddies make mad monies on cheap Chinese labor don't cha know? What a fucking scam, and what saddens me is how many "greenies" are buying the bullshit. This will do about as much to clean up the place as throwing all your garbage in the closet. Sure you won't see it but its still there and it will get worse until it spills out all over the place.
The problem with SSDs, especially the MLC is the hot/crazy scale and I have seen this with my own eyes, I have several gamer customers that buy the top o' the line SSDs and they are already on double digits because of all the failed drives.
The problem AIN'T the cells though, its the damned controllers. I have been saying for years they need to have a simple ARM chip that kicks in when the main controller fails that makes the drive read only so you can at least get your shit off but after looking into it this is why I do NOT install SSDs as main drives and advise against using them as main drives, because when the controller fails? unless you have the skills to unsolder the chips and get the data off one chip at a time you are screwed, it won't even show up under BIOS. This also makes many of my customers leery about using the warranties because who knows what third world country they send dead drives to and since you can't nuke it who knows where your CC numbers and data would end up.
At the end of the day this is what i tell my customers: The SSD is like any other tool in that used WISELY it can be a benefit. if its in a mobile device that you back up religiously or which doesn't have any important data, like a netbook? Works great here. if its for an OS drive where you have image backups and all your important data on spinning rust? Again works great. if this is a mission critical system or is gonna have important irreplaceable things like family photos? NOT a good use, in fact it will end up biting you in the ass. The good old HDD may not be the fastest but at least you usually get plenty of warning before they fail, too many times i have seen an SSD go from 100% good to deader than Dixie overnight. NO WARNING, that is just fucked up and why I still use spinning rust in my builds.