Uhhh they already did that over a year ago and sadly Linux users showed how much they really cared about "free as in freedom" when AMD's sales didn't go up a single percent and every Linux forum (including here) kept right on going "herp derp buy Nvidia".
They can scream and gnash their teeth and mod me down all they want but truth is truth and if Linux users actually paid more than lip service to "free as in freedom" then we'd see every Linux article saying "buy AMD" as AMD has gone above and beyond to give to the FOSS community, from GPUOpen to Vulkan, from ACL to basing their own compiler on GCC and contributing to FOSS projects, what did it get them? Precisely NOTHING.
Is it any wonder why companies don't want to spend the money to support Linux with drivers? All they have to do is take one look at how little it got AMD to realize its just throwing away money, it brings them nothing in return, not sales, not even good will of the community, nothing.
Actually its about AMD CPU buyers not following through to their GPU line as much as they did in the past.
Frankly this is quite understandable as they have had issues keeping the most popular products on shelves and Nvidia has had some really nice GPUs for reasonable prices as of late, and as me and the other poster noted many of the AMD CPU owners are happy with what they have and bought for the "bang for the buck" so you can easily see those customers choosing Nvidia if the price/performance leans a little more to team green.
Personally I'm quite happy with my AMD R9 280 as my games are getting high framerates with lots of bling and if I run into a game that requires more? Well this board has triple Crossfire and you can get R9 280s quite cheaply on eBay, a lot cheaper than having to buy a new card that would equal CFed R9 280s.I personally like having all AMD but I could easily see going for something like the 1060 if I was building a new budget gaming console, as I said Nvidia has had some really good chips at reasonable prices as of late.
I am curious to see if the sales will pick up right before release because if they do as they always have done the last gen chips will be selling at fire sale prices. Right before the FX line dropped you could grab a $175 Phenom II X6 for just $100 and the Phenom II X4s could be had for as low as $50, it was a great time if you wanted to build an insanely cheap gaming system.
Personally I'll be sitting this one out barring my current system dying because...well frankly an FX-8320E with 8 cores at 4.1 GHz (4.5Ghz if I want to OC) is already super overkill for the tasks I have for it to do, I really don't see coming up with enough work to keep a 16 thread CPU fed honestly. People can say bad things about the FX chips all they want but every real world task I've thrown at it has shown it to be beefy as hell, all my games run over 60FPS with many topping 100FPS, video transcodes and editing even with huge 1080P game capture footage is nothing, hell even doing multitrack audio DSP renders just doesn't bog this chip down.
So if they do like they did last time and have FX-8s for $100, FX-6s for $75, and FX-4s for $50? I could see those wanting a super cheap gaming or workstation PC snatching them up while the grabbing is good, the money you save can go into more RAM and a better GPU which will make a bigger difference in today's triple A games more than an extra 8 threads will anyway. Add in the fact that AM3+ gaming boards are really cheap right now? It'll be a no brainer, I seriously doubt we'll see games needing more than 6 cores anytime soon, most are just now beginning to demand a quad.
So are you gonna ban the BLM leaders that advocated killing cops and spewed racist bile against whites? How about Leslie Jones who advocated her followers attack several people and "fuck their shit up" as well as saying several times she would "stomp a white bitch" both of which is against their TOS and supposed anti-hate rules?
Can't have your cake and eat it too, either the rules apply to everyone or its just more bullshit designed to silence one side over another and push a particular political narrative.
" The level of wealth we enjoy today is due to our exporting misery onto the third world for the profits of a few at the top and cheap stuff for the first world"...FTFY.
See Chinese cancer cities,African kids sucking plastic smoke scraping our e-waste, boats filled with toxic waste sunk off the coast of Somalia, etc. Really easy to "enjoy this level of wealth" when you make all the actual costs of it someone else's problem. But hey its just poor people, who cares if they get cancer and have to live in our filth...right?
So your vaunted "source" means absolutely nothing, its classic security by obscurity. wanna guess how much of your average Linux distro is actually vetted, as reported a couple years back by a scan of github access by a security firm? Less than 2%, that is all, the other 98% hadn't been touched by anybody but the authors who could have put any malware they wanted into it and you wouldn't know anymore than if you were on windows or OSX.
BTW I'll be happy to smack you with some citations if you'd like, from the KDELook bug that was hosted on all the major KDE repos for over a year to the Quake 3 malware that was hosted on all of the major repos for a year and a half, just ask. Thanks to Android we now have undeniable proof that Linux security is nothing but security by obscurity, and that if a malware vendor wants to own Linux? It gets pwned just as hard.
I have the perfect comeback to those ignorant fucks..."Are YOU gonna accept responsibility and pay for any and all damages if your site serves malware? No? Then you are knowingly aiding and abetting malware vendors, kindly fuck off".
If they want to be treated like legitimate businesses? Then they have to accept the responsibility legitimate businesses have. If a business doesn't secure their premises and cause harm to their patrons? They are responsible for the clean up, look at the mounds of money TJ Maxx and Target had to pay for their lack of security, but these websites want us to treat them as legitimate businesses show the same lack of responsibility as some fly by night topsite? Sorry can't have your cake and eat it too, either you have the same responsibilities as a real business or you don't deserve any more consideration than a cracksite or any other dodgy place on the wild web.
I doubt anybody will remember that episode of the new Twilight Zone but Ron Glass made a slick as hell demon against Sherman Hemsley's potential victim...RIP Mr Glass, thanks for all the great entertainment.
To answer your question the political agenda of the SPLC is simple,it is to promotethemselves so they can get more money.
After all if they don't have a new "bogeyman of the day" to shill for the press, why the press won't write about them anymore, and gasp! They might not be able to get those big fat donation checks anymore! You see the flaw in your logic is assuming its automatically a black/white issue and that one has to be beholden to a single political party, when looking at your typical SPLC list its pretty obvious they hate all religions and religious groups equally but their biggest goal is to label damned near every assembly of more than 4 people as a "hate group" so they have someone new to shill to the press because in the end? Their biggest desire isn't the favor of a political party, its good old fashioned money money money.
What is wrong with Bannon? So far the only argument I've seen is the left wing media classic "he is an "ist" and a bad bad man!" in this case an anti-semite over of all things an article 1.- He didn't write, 2.- That was written by a pro Israel Jew, 3.- Which called a Jewish man on the left a "renegade Jew" (the writer of the article says if he had it do over again he would have used traitor) for supporting policies that helped Iran and Hamas, both sworn enemies of Israel.
So I'm sorry but if that is the best they can come up with? Its just more SJW shit, instead of debating the policies just call someone an "ist" and think you can silence them with name calling. We saw this all through the election with the MSM quick to call anybody who didn't support HRC an "ist" and called Trump an "ist" multiple times while completely ignoring how HRC said black teens were "super predators" who should be "brought to heel" like dogs and pushed through 3 strike laws that were specifically targeted at blacks, for example how you'd get a strike for crack but not for powder coke. Anybody wanna bet if it was someone on the right who had said and done those things we'd have heard a dozen times a day how much of an "ist" they were?
About your sig? Sorry but sadly SJWs are veryveryreal and while its true the world would be MUCH better off if we could just line them up and have them all shot (which would probably please them as most are beta whites and thus you would have less "white privilege" in the world) we can at least take comfort in the fact that being betas most of them will not get the opportunity to breed and thus will die out.
Uhhh the US taxpayers paid to the tune of 200 billion for a nationwide upgrade to our intertubes during Clinton and all we got for that money was a low res Goatse from the big corps.
This is why we should give them 90 days to either provide what we paid for, give us back every cent with interest, or we nationalize the whole thing and open it up to competition like we did when we first broke up Ma Bell. If they want exclusives in an area? Let them run 100mbps FIOS to the door and we'll be happy to give them a 15 years exclusivity deal but as it is now? They owe us a shitload of money and we should demand we get what we paid for!
It especially makes no sense with Windows 10. After all with previous versions it cost $100 minimum for a copy but now you can get Windows 10 insider for free so this OS actually costs more than the cheapest version of Windows....I really don't see who the target audience is for this. If a user likes Windows 10 they aren't gonna suddenly want to pay $15 for a Linux look alike and if they like Windows 10 but don't have the money for a copy they can just take the free Insider version, and Linux users certainly aren't gonna pay $15 just to have their Linux look like an OS they don't like so who are they selling this to?
At least with Xandros you could see what market they were targeting as not only did it have a Windows look alike desktop as one of the three choices on install (the others were KDE 3 and OSX) but they paid MSFT for access to the Exchange and Windows Server code so they offered one click support for Exchange and Windows Domain log in,so at least you could see what they were charging for, but this? It looks like the same ho hum programs every other distro on the planet offers, just with a Windows skin on the desktop.
They should have gotten some games with source code, after all there have been several bundles in the last couple years that offered source and frankly would have been a better fit. eBooks on Lego? What does that have to do with freedom or the EFF?
And that is because under Nutella the source of revenue isn't the software, its YOU. The fact they can get users to pay them money to hand over all their data to the TLAs and every advertising corp with a big checkbook? Is just a bonus.
Uhhh its the UK, they can easily get on the horn to the USA and go "Hey yanks, mind selling us some of those new Tomahawks you just came out with? Oh and you have a deal on the last generation Tomahawks? Well throw in some of those too, kthxbye".
MSFT quit trying to poorly ape Apple when they got rid of the sweaty monkey and instead are trying to poorly ape Google, complete with all their spying, under Nutella?
Ever since Nutella took over MSFT has been opening up their software and tools because now you are the product just as you are with Google. This means if Google or Torvalds or anybody else wants to use.NET go right ahead, no nasty contracts anymore because their money isn't coming from software but from your data instead. Whether you consider this an improvement or not is up to you but with the majority of Americans happy to hand their data and every detail of their personal lives to companies like FB? It appears like it or not that is the future of software.
So you are against the free market then? Because from what I can tell the GOP position is that you shouldn't be forced to pay for things you do not support or which is against your religion. After all if this test is as cheap and effective as they say? Plenty of charities supporting that part of the world, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is just one that comes to mind.
Yeah uhhh...there is a problem with your rant and its the simple fact that Windows Defender doesn't work worth a shit at least not in the real world with real bugs.
Allow me to introduce myself...Hi! I'm the resident PC shop guy, its my job to clean up the messes that Joe and Sally Average get themselves into. I'm popular enough I don't advertise anymore and just get customers by word of mouth so I must be doing something right and Windows Defender? Yeah its a POS. I've had customers come to me with just about every free and paid AV there is out there and WD? Those PCs are always the worst infected by a country mile. Sure it uses less resources, I'd argue because it doesn't do much of anything it really doesn't need lots of resources in the first place. Sure its better than nothing but that ain't saying much.
From what I've seen at the shop? The best paid are Eset and Bitdefender, the best free are Avast, Comodo, and Adaware. With those AVs you hardly find anything and what you do find is usually pretty benign stuff like PUPs whereas with WD? Those are the ones I see the "This PC is locked by the FBI" bug, the Security Tool 201x bug, all the real nasty shit just seems to blow right through it. Makes me think its like Norton was back in the day, remember that? In case you don't back when Norton was hot shit all the bug writers tested against Norton because they knew it was included by default with a lot of OEMs so if your bug could bypass Norton? That opened up a LOT of systems you could infect. I bet the same is true for WD, bug writers test against WD because they know its the default on Win 10 and lazy users won't change defaults so there ya go, lots of targets.
So I really wouldn't use WD or MSE on anything that you actually worried about getting infected. Sure it has its uses, I have it on my gamer rig but that is really nothing more than a box that plays Steam games so its really there just for peace of mind more than anything, the quad beside it I actually use for surfing? That has Comodo IS on it.
Sorry about the lateness, I was on vacation...well no shit its buggy, its fucking Linux, what do you expect? damned near EVERY driver in Linux is buggy, they have buggy wifi, buggy sound, buggy networking, that is why you should buy a laptop specifically made for Linux if you want to run Linux because anything else? Is hit or miss.
The moral of the story? If you buy a Windows laptop then RUN WINDOWS ON IT which I have zero doubt Windows 7 will run just fine on that laptop, which by the time its EOL in 2020 that laptop will be too damned old to do shit with anyway, or even better just get one of those $199 Windows 10 2-in-1 laptops which will curbstomp a system that old by a country mile, hell I pick up $50 laptops off of CL that beat the snot out of that thing, let it go already and get something this century.
I can back this up, one of the things everyone asks me to do at the shop is "can you get rid of that Chrome thing? IDK what happened but now it keeps launching instead of (insert FF, Opera, Comodo, etc) and IDK how to make it go away" because every piece of "freeware" is shoving chrome even when those freeware programs are updated.
And I'm sorry Chrome fanboys but I shat on MSFT when they tried shoving IE everywhere, I shat on Sun/Oracle when they were shoving Java everywhere, and now I think Google is slimy for using the exact same tactics as the spyware companies by shoving their product into third party programs that have shit to do with browsing.
To steal a line from Mel Brooks "bullshit bullshit aaaannnnnddddd bullshit!"
If you wanna know why the jobs left and will never come back? here ya go. The Ayn Rand bullshit has NEVER worked and we have proof because we already tried it it was called "the age of the robber barons" and is why we have superfund sites now.
If I can dump my toxins out the backdoor and you have to pay to dispose of yours? I win, simple as that. The incredible greed of the corps have reached a point that even THAT is not enough as they are now automating factories even in China where they pay joke wages and take a couple decades off their lives with toxins because Wong Fong actually wants a dollar a day and that dollar could help pay for another Rolls for the CEO.
So nobody gives a rat's ass about tax BS and regs but the little guy, the corps have been dodging them for years, see Apple who pays less in taxes than the guy that sweeps their floors or how Halliburton was able to just walk away from 2 superfund sites simply by cutting a couple checks to Bush's CREP. If YOU wanna live in a cancer city? Go right ahead, I'm sure we can set up a Patreon to buy you and your family a one way ticket to a nice toxic waste dump in China, but those "omegerd regs" you are bitching about are there PRECISELY because we saw what happened without them, thousands of acres of places that will kill your ass very dead that will take trillions of dollars (that of course the corps aren't paying) to clean up, if they can be cleaned at all. Most of them will simply be fenced off and allowed to rot, our own little Chernobyls leaking toxic garbage.
BTW have you ever seen what happens to one of these places, or how much it costs? I have as a local factory was declared toxic after they abandoned it in the 80s (and of course they had it owned by a shell corp so they didn't have to pay the cleanup natch), it required guys in moonsuits to take it apart and ship even the dirt it sat on to be carried off in sealed trucks to a desert toxic burial site at an insane cost to the state thanks to it being saturated with 4 different cancer causing chemicals and covered in asbestos, not to mention the incredible healthcare costs of all those that got sick and died because they worked in there including my grandmother. I figure the feds and the state probably ended up on the hook for a good 50-60 million minimum for just that one little factory but luckily thanks to the lack of "ehmygerd regs" at the time the corp of course was able to take the profits they made from it and not give back a cent to clean their mess which I'm sure gives you a warm fuzzy feeling.
Sorry for the lateness, was on vacation. As for parts? I buy new and on eBay new parts are often higher than just buying from Amazon or Newegg. Now if we are talking used? Then sure agree 100% but when it comes to new not only are they higher but you have sellers trying to pass off used as new which just won't do in one of my builds.
Not to mention they are allowing tons and tons of fakes and shoddy merchandise to be sold with pretty much ZERO vetting. I have seen in just my shopping there fake flash cards and sticks, shoddily rebuilt laptop batteries being sold as new product, fake mikes/guitars/amps, products that could easily not just rip someone off but seriously maim or kill. You look and there are dozens of complaints and...Amazon don't do shit apparently.
So I'm sorry fanboys but I like Amazon, have bought thousands of dollars in gear from Amazon (NEVER from their third parties) and the computer I'm typing this on was 100% built from parts I got from them but since they have allowed third parties? They have become a real minefield with tons of shoddy shit that I doubt even eBay would allow. I can easily see how someone who didn't know that you can't trust the fact that you are on a site that clearly says "Amazon" does NOT mean you are actually buying from Amazon could get a seriously dangerous product thinking they were buying the real deal. Hell you can't even go by price because tons of them are trying to pass the fakes off as real and thus charge real prices for them!
So this is 100% Amazon's fault. They opened the floodgates to the scammers, even allow the scammers to use their warehouses and distribution, and get a cut of every fake and shoddy product sold, so I don't see how they can argue they are not responsible when they are the ones that allowed the scammers to flourish and aided them in every step along the way.
There is a problem with your logic and it is thus....what are you gonna do with all those billions you no longer need? they aren't gonna quietly go commit suicide so you can live your fat spoiled life ya know. The vast majority of the population cannot be trained to be rocket scientists and with all these technologies frankly we wouldn't need them if they could, so what EXACTLY are you gonna do with them all?
Because frankly we have already seen what happens when governments don't have a plan to deal with large masses of unemployed, they were called the "Arab Springs". When a person has no future? There is really nothing you can threaten them with, even death means little which makes them ripe for radicalization. And don't think because you live in the USA or the west it won't happen to you, because the governments of the west can't keep printing money forever, especially with the corps bailing to countries where they can pollute and poison to their hearts content, and all of the bleeding hearts opening the borders to millions of unemployable uneducated refugees that expect to live well on handouts and are ready to riot if they don't get them? Just gonna speed up the downfall.
So this isn't what we have seen before, before all those machines still needed men to run them but those days are well and truly over. Today one could easily build a system where a product is never touched by a single human in the entire process, from the mining to the manufacture to the warehousing to the delivery, but who is gonna pay for the finished product? What are you gonna do with those millions living on hand outs when the hand outs stop because the 1% toddled off to tax shelter countries and nobody else has any capital?
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Uhhh they already did that over a year ago and sadly Linux users showed how much they really cared about "free as in freedom" when AMD's sales didn't go up a single percent and every Linux forum (including here) kept right on going "herp derp buy Nvidia".
They can scream and gnash their teeth and mod me down all they want but truth is truth and if Linux users actually paid more than lip service to "free as in freedom" then we'd see every Linux article saying "buy AMD" as AMD has gone above and beyond to give to the FOSS community, from GPUOpen to Vulkan, from ACL to basing their own compiler on GCC and contributing to FOSS projects, what did it get them? Precisely NOTHING.
Is it any wonder why companies don't want to spend the money to support Linux with drivers? All they have to do is take one look at how little it got AMD to realize its just throwing away money, it brings them nothing in return, not sales, not even good will of the community, nothing.
Actually its about AMD CPU buyers not following through to their GPU line as much as they did in the past.
Frankly this is quite understandable as they have had issues keeping the most popular products on shelves and Nvidia has had some really nice GPUs for reasonable prices as of late, and as me and the other poster noted many of the AMD CPU owners are happy with what they have and bought for the "bang for the buck" so you can easily see those customers choosing Nvidia if the price/performance leans a little more to team green.
Personally I'm quite happy with my AMD R9 280 as my games are getting high framerates with lots of bling and if I run into a game that requires more? Well this board has triple Crossfire and you can get R9 280s quite cheaply on eBay, a lot cheaper than having to buy a new card that would equal CFed R9 280s.I personally like having all AMD but I could easily see going for something like the 1060 if I was building a new budget gaming console, as I said Nvidia has had some really good chips at reasonable prices as of late.
I am curious to see if the sales will pick up right before release because if they do as they always have done the last gen chips will be selling at fire sale prices. Right before the FX line dropped you could grab a $175 Phenom II X6 for just $100 and the Phenom II X4s could be had for as low as $50, it was a great time if you wanted to build an insanely cheap gaming system.
Personally I'll be sitting this one out barring my current system dying because...well frankly an FX-8320E with 8 cores at 4.1 GHz (4.5Ghz if I want to OC) is already super overkill for the tasks I have for it to do, I really don't see coming up with enough work to keep a 16 thread CPU fed honestly. People can say bad things about the FX chips all they want but every real world task I've thrown at it has shown it to be beefy as hell, all my games run over 60FPS with many topping 100FPS, video transcodes and editing even with huge 1080P game capture footage is nothing, hell even doing multitrack audio DSP renders just doesn't bog this chip down.
So if they do like they did last time and have FX-8s for $100, FX-6s for $75, and FX-4s for $50? I could see those wanting a super cheap gaming or workstation PC snatching them up while the grabbing is good, the money you save can go into more RAM and a better GPU which will make a bigger difference in today's triple A games more than an extra 8 threads will anyway. Add in the fact that AM3+ gaming boards are really cheap right now? It'll be a no brainer, I seriously doubt we'll see games needing more than 6 cores anytime soon, most are just now beginning to demand a quad.
So are you gonna ban the BLM leaders that advocated killing cops and spewed racist bile against whites? How about Leslie Jones who advocated her followers attack several people and "fuck their shit up" as well as saying several times she would "stomp a white bitch" both of which is against their TOS and supposed anti-hate rules?
Can't have your cake and eat it too, either the rules apply to everyone or its just more bullshit designed to silence one side over another and push a particular political narrative.
" The level of wealth we enjoy today is due to our exporting misery onto the third world for the profits of a few at the top and cheap stuff for the first world"...FTFY.
See Chinese cancer cities,African kids sucking plastic smoke scraping our e-waste, boats filled with toxic waste sunk off the coast of Somalia, etc. Really easy to "enjoy this level of wealth" when you make all the actual costs of it someone else's problem. But hey its just poor people, who cares if they get cancer and have to live in our filth...right?
Sigh....how to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps using the same tricks malware uses, BTW wanna guess what kernel hosts the OS that has surpassed Windows in infections and has for over 5 years? That's right sparky LINUX.
So your vaunted "source" means absolutely nothing, its classic security by obscurity. wanna guess how much of your average Linux distro is actually vetted, as reported a couple years back by a scan of github access by a security firm? Less than 2%, that is all, the other 98% hadn't been touched by anybody but the authors who could have put any malware they wanted into it and you wouldn't know anymore than if you were on windows or OSX.
BTW I'll be happy to smack you with some citations if you'd like, from the KDELook bug that was hosted on all the major KDE repos for over a year to the Quake 3 malware that was hosted on all of the major repos for a year and a half, just ask. Thanks to Android we now have undeniable proof that Linux security is nothing but security by obscurity, and that if a malware vendor wants to own Linux? It gets pwned just as hard.
I have the perfect comeback to those ignorant fucks..."Are YOU gonna accept responsibility and pay for any and all damages if your site serves malware? No? Then you are knowingly aiding and abetting malware vendors, kindly fuck off".
If they want to be treated like legitimate businesses? Then they have to accept the responsibility legitimate businesses have. If a business doesn't secure their premises and cause harm to their patrons? They are responsible for the clean up, look at the mounds of money TJ Maxx and Target had to pay for their lack of security, but these websites want us to treat them as legitimate businesses show the same lack of responsibility as some fly by night topsite? Sorry can't have your cake and eat it too, either you have the same responsibilities as a real business or you don't deserve any more consideration than a cracksite or any other dodgy place on the wild web.
I doubt anybody will remember that episode of the new Twilight Zone but Ron Glass made a slick as hell demon against Sherman Hemsley's potential victim...RIP Mr Glass, thanks for all the great entertainment.
To answer your question the political agenda of the SPLC is simple,it is to promote themselves so they can get more money.
After all if they don't have a new "bogeyman of the day" to shill for the press, why the press won't write about them anymore, and gasp! They might not be able to get those big fat donation checks anymore! You see the flaw in your logic is assuming its automatically a black/white issue and that one has to be beholden to a single political party, when looking at your typical SPLC list its pretty obvious they hate all religions and religious groups equally but their biggest goal is to label damned near every assembly of more than 4 people as a "hate group" so they have someone new to shill to the press because in the end? Their biggest desire isn't the favor of a political party, its good old fashioned money money money.
What is wrong with Bannon? So far the only argument I've seen is the left wing media classic "he is an "ist" and a bad bad man!" in this case an anti-semite over of all things an article 1.- He didn't write, 2.- That was written by a pro Israel Jew, 3.- Which called a Jewish man on the left a "renegade Jew" (the writer of the article says if he had it do over again he would have used traitor) for supporting policies that helped Iran and Hamas, both sworn enemies of Israel.
So I'm sorry but if that is the best they can come up with? Its just more SJW shit, instead of debating the policies just call someone an "ist" and think you can silence them with name calling. We saw this all through the election with the MSM quick to call anybody who didn't support HRC an "ist" and called Trump an "ist" multiple times while completely ignoring how HRC said black teens were "super predators" who should be "brought to heel" like dogs and pushed through 3 strike laws that were specifically targeted at blacks, for example how you'd get a strike for crack but not for powder coke. Anybody wanna bet if it was someone on the right who had said and done those things we'd have heard a dozen times a day how much of an "ist" they were?
About your sig? Sorry but sadly SJWs are very very real and while its true the world would be MUCH better off if we could just line them up and have them all shot (which would probably please them as most are beta whites and thus you would have less "white privilege" in the world) we can at least take comfort in the fact that being betas most of them will not get the opportunity to breed and thus will die out.
Uhhh the US taxpayers paid to the tune of 200 billion for a nationwide upgrade to our intertubes during Clinton and all we got for that money was a low res Goatse from the big corps.
This is why we should give them 90 days to either provide what we paid for, give us back every cent with interest, or we nationalize the whole thing and open it up to competition like we did when we first broke up Ma Bell. If they want exclusives in an area? Let them run 100mbps FIOS to the door and we'll be happy to give them a 15 years exclusivity deal but as it is now? They owe us a shitload of money and we should demand we get what we paid for!
It especially makes no sense with Windows 10. After all with previous versions it cost $100 minimum for a copy but now you can get Windows 10 insider for free so this OS actually costs more than the cheapest version of Windows....I really don't see who the target audience is for this. If a user likes Windows 10 they aren't gonna suddenly want to pay $15 for a Linux look alike and if they like Windows 10 but don't have the money for a copy they can just take the free Insider version, and Linux users certainly aren't gonna pay $15 just to have their Linux look like an OS they don't like so who are they selling this to?
At least with Xandros you could see what market they were targeting as not only did it have a Windows look alike desktop as one of the three choices on install (the others were KDE 3 and OSX) but they paid MSFT for access to the Exchange and Windows Server code so they offered one click support for Exchange and Windows Domain log in,so at least you could see what they were charging for, but this? It looks like the same ho hum programs every other distro on the planet offers, just with a Windows skin on the desktop.
They should have gotten some games with source code, after all there have been several bundles in the last couple years that offered source and frankly would have been a better fit. eBooks on Lego? What does that have to do with freedom or the EFF?
And that is because under Nutella the source of revenue isn't the software, its YOU. The fact they can get users to pay them money to hand over all their data to the TLAs and every advertising corp with a big checkbook? Is just a bonus.
Uhhh its the UK, they can easily get on the horn to the USA and go "Hey yanks, mind selling us some of those new Tomahawks you just came out with? Oh and you have a deal on the last generation Tomahawks? Well throw in some of those too, kthxbye".
MSFT quit trying to poorly ape Apple when they got rid of the sweaty monkey and instead are trying to poorly ape Google, complete with all their spying, under Nutella?
Ever since Nutella took over MSFT has been opening up their software and tools because now you are the product just as you are with Google. This means if Google or Torvalds or anybody else wants to use .NET go right ahead, no nasty contracts anymore because their money isn't coming from software but from your data instead. Whether you consider this an improvement or not is up to you but with the majority of Americans happy to hand their data and every detail of their personal lives to companies like FB? It appears like it or not that is the future of software.
So you are against the free market then? Because from what I can tell the GOP position is that you shouldn't be forced to pay for things you do not support or which is against your religion. After all if this test is as cheap and effective as they say? Plenty of charities supporting that part of the world, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is just one that comes to mind.
Yeah uhhh...there is a problem with your rant and its the simple fact that Windows Defender doesn't work worth a shit at least not in the real world with real bugs.
Allow me to introduce myself...Hi! I'm the resident PC shop guy, its my job to clean up the messes that Joe and Sally Average get themselves into. I'm popular enough I don't advertise anymore and just get customers by word of mouth so I must be doing something right and Windows Defender? Yeah its a POS. I've had customers come to me with just about every free and paid AV there is out there and WD? Those PCs are always the worst infected by a country mile. Sure it uses less resources, I'd argue because it doesn't do much of anything it really doesn't need lots of resources in the first place. Sure its better than nothing but that ain't saying much.
From what I've seen at the shop? The best paid are Eset and Bitdefender, the best free are Avast, Comodo, and Adaware. With those AVs you hardly find anything and what you do find is usually pretty benign stuff like PUPs whereas with WD? Those are the ones I see the "This PC is locked by the FBI" bug, the Security Tool 201x bug, all the real nasty shit just seems to blow right through it. Makes me think its like Norton was back in the day, remember that? In case you don't back when Norton was hot shit all the bug writers tested against Norton because they knew it was included by default with a lot of OEMs so if your bug could bypass Norton? That opened up a LOT of systems you could infect. I bet the same is true for WD, bug writers test against WD because they know its the default on Win 10 and lazy users won't change defaults so there ya go, lots of targets.
So I really wouldn't use WD or MSE on anything that you actually worried about getting infected. Sure it has its uses, I have it on my gamer rig but that is really nothing more than a box that plays Steam games so its really there just for peace of mind more than anything, the quad beside it I actually use for surfing? That has Comodo IS on it.
Sorry about the lateness, I was on vacation...well no shit its buggy, its fucking Linux, what do you expect? damned near EVERY driver in Linux is buggy, they have buggy wifi, buggy sound, buggy networking, that is why you should buy a laptop specifically made for Linux if you want to run Linux because anything else? Is hit or miss.
The moral of the story? If you buy a Windows laptop then RUN WINDOWS ON IT which I have zero doubt Windows 7 will run just fine on that laptop, which by the time its EOL in 2020 that laptop will be too damned old to do shit with anyway, or even better just get one of those $199 Windows 10 2-in-1 laptops which will curbstomp a system that old by a country mile, hell I pick up $50 laptops off of CL that beat the snot out of that thing, let it go already and get something this century.
I can back this up, one of the things everyone asks me to do at the shop is "can you get rid of that Chrome thing? IDK what happened but now it keeps launching instead of (insert FF, Opera, Comodo, etc) and IDK how to make it go away" because every piece of "freeware" is shoving chrome even when those freeware programs are updated.
And I'm sorry Chrome fanboys but I shat on MSFT when they tried shoving IE everywhere, I shat on Sun/Oracle when they were shoving Java everywhere, and now I think Google is slimy for using the exact same tactics as the spyware companies by shoving their product into third party programs that have shit to do with browsing.
To steal a line from Mel Brooks "bullshit bullshit aaaannnnnddddd bullshit!"
If you wanna know why the jobs left and will never come back? here ya go. The Ayn Rand bullshit has NEVER worked and we have proof because we already tried it it was called "the age of the robber barons" and is why we have superfund sites now.
If I can dump my toxins out the backdoor and you have to pay to dispose of yours? I win, simple as that. The incredible greed of the corps have reached a point that even THAT is not enough as they are now automating factories even in China where they pay joke wages and take a couple decades off their lives with toxins because Wong Fong actually wants a dollar a day and that dollar could help pay for another Rolls for the CEO.
So nobody gives a rat's ass about tax BS and regs but the little guy, the corps have been dodging them for years, see Apple who pays less in taxes than the guy that sweeps their floors or how Halliburton was able to just walk away from 2 superfund sites simply by cutting a couple checks to Bush's CREP. If YOU wanna live in a cancer city? Go right ahead, I'm sure we can set up a Patreon to buy you and your family a one way ticket to a nice toxic waste dump in China, but those "omegerd regs" you are bitching about are there PRECISELY because we saw what happened without them, thousands of acres of places that will kill your ass very dead that will take trillions of dollars (that of course the corps aren't paying) to clean up, if they can be cleaned at all. Most of them will simply be fenced off and allowed to rot, our own little Chernobyls leaking toxic garbage.
BTW have you ever seen what happens to one of these places, or how much it costs? I have as a local factory was declared toxic after they abandoned it in the 80s (and of course they had it owned by a shell corp so they didn't have to pay the cleanup natch), it required guys in moonsuits to take it apart and ship even the dirt it sat on to be carried off in sealed trucks to a desert toxic burial site at an insane cost to the state thanks to it being saturated with 4 different cancer causing chemicals and covered in asbestos, not to mention the incredible healthcare costs of all those that got sick and died because they worked in there including my grandmother. I figure the feds and the state probably ended up on the hook for a good 50-60 million minimum for just that one little factory but luckily thanks to the lack of "ehmygerd regs" at the time the corp of course was able to take the profits they made from it and not give back a cent to clean their mess which I'm sure gives you a warm fuzzy feeling.
Sorry for the lateness, was on vacation. As for parts? I buy new and on eBay new parts are often higher than just buying from Amazon or Newegg. Now if we are talking used? Then sure agree 100% but when it comes to new not only are they higher but you have sellers trying to pass off used as new which just won't do in one of my builds.
Not to mention they are allowing tons and tons of fakes and shoddy merchandise to be sold with pretty much ZERO vetting. I have seen in just my shopping there fake flash cards and sticks, shoddily rebuilt laptop batteries being sold as new product, fake mikes/guitars/amps, products that could easily not just rip someone off but seriously maim or kill. You look and there are dozens of complaints and...Amazon don't do shit apparently.
So I'm sorry fanboys but I like Amazon, have bought thousands of dollars in gear from Amazon (NEVER from their third parties) and the computer I'm typing this on was 100% built from parts I got from them but since they have allowed third parties? They have become a real minefield with tons of shoddy shit that I doubt even eBay would allow. I can easily see how someone who didn't know that you can't trust the fact that you are on a site that clearly says "Amazon" does NOT mean you are actually buying from Amazon could get a seriously dangerous product thinking they were buying the real deal. Hell you can't even go by price because tons of them are trying to pass the fakes off as real and thus charge real prices for them!
So this is 100% Amazon's fault. They opened the floodgates to the scammers, even allow the scammers to use their warehouses and distribution, and get a cut of every fake and shoddy product sold, so I don't see how they can argue they are not responsible when they are the ones that allowed the scammers to flourish and aided them in every step along the way.
There is a problem with your logic and it is thus....what are you gonna do with all those billions you no longer need? they aren't gonna quietly go commit suicide so you can live your fat spoiled life ya know. The vast majority of the population cannot be trained to be rocket scientists and with all these technologies frankly we wouldn't need them if they could, so what EXACTLY are you gonna do with them all?
Because frankly we have already seen what happens when governments don't have a plan to deal with large masses of unemployed, they were called the "Arab Springs". When a person has no future? There is really nothing you can threaten them with, even death means little which makes them ripe for radicalization. And don't think because you live in the USA or the west it won't happen to you, because the governments of the west can't keep printing money forever, especially with the corps bailing to countries where they can pollute and poison to their hearts content, and all of the bleeding hearts opening the borders to millions of unemployable uneducated refugees that expect to live well on handouts and are ready to riot if they don't get them? Just gonna speed up the downfall.
So this isn't what we have seen before, before all those machines still needed men to run them but those days are well and truly over. Today one could easily build a system where a product is never touched by a single human in the entire process, from the mining to the manufacture to the warehousing to the delivery, but who is gonna pay for the finished product? What are you gonna do with those millions living on hand outs when the hand outs stop because the 1% toddled off to tax shelter countries and nobody else has any capital?