Yep they apparently didn't learn from history and went and created the F-111 all over again, a plane that was supposed to "do it all" and ended up sucking at everything.
And is anybody else getting the feeling we are becoming the Germans in WWII? While everybody else is building on top of already proven designs and ending up with planes they can afford to make en masse we are going the "wonder weapon" route, sinking our fortune into these techno turkeys that are supposed to just dominate but always end up 1.- Costing so much you can't afford to build them in large numbers, 2.- Have constant issues cutting down on available flight time, 3.- Expensive as hell to maintain, and 4.- Cost of replacement so high that both training and combat time is cut way down for fear of losing them.
From the looks of it while our actually useful planes get ancient with no real replacements in sight all the USAF wants is future air museum pieces that are really cool to look at but too costly to use, that is if the thing isn't broken down and will actually be able to fly when they need it.
Blame the environmentalists, its the shitty solder. Got a customer who is an engineer, I fix his PCs, he fixes my electronics and you have no idea how many times he has popped the back off a device of mine just to find tin whiskers.
So IMHO its a perfect example of how the "we have to DO something!" mentality nearly always leads to failure, as they got rid of lead in solder to "protect the environment!"....only to end up creating fricking mountains of e-waste because gear that before would easily last a decade is now lucky if it lasts 3 years thanks to all the shit solder shorting everything out.
DirectX became a "thing" because of "The Lion King" on PC. A lot of the OEMs sold a shitload of units with the Lion King game preloaded, IIRC it was Xmas season 94. All these kids came down on Xmas morning to play...only to find out the game didn't work on like 90% of the hardware out there. Of course nobody blamed the shitty programmers for only supporting a couple of chips, nope they blamed Windows 3.1 and MSFT and had a royal stinking shitfit, even ended up on the nightly news, kinda a "MSFT is the Grinch that crapped on Xmas" angle.
Well if there was one thing that MSFT under Billy didn't like? It was bad press, so next thing you know they announce "Direct3D" and "DirectDraw" to solve this very problem of every game needing drivers for every bit of kit. Later on they combined the different APIs into what is now called DirectX.
I would say not only that but people that are into watches? These things are about as appealing as ass cancer. You talk to people that actually spend real money on a watch? They will talk your ears off about Swiss movements and dial faces and all the beautiful craftsmanship and details....you are NEVER gonna get that level of detail and care in what is essentially a little computer strapped to your wrist, you just aren't. Great watches are really these things out of time, with their little gears and springs, you can almost picture some watchmaker with an eyepiece working on this delicate little instrument, you just aren't gonna get that kinda vibe from a circuit board and an LCD panel, you just aren't.
Hell even the geeks I talked to that like watches didn't want these things, they want a Nixie watch like the woz has or one of those cool LED watches from the 70s, so I have no clue who they expected to buy these.
Cyanogen is all but dead friend. I know I'll get shit but you want a tablet YOU control? Get one of those Windows 10 tablets, nice thing about those is since its a desktop OS you can run something like ShutUp10 and run a nice light third party firewall to make sure nothing gets out that YOU don't approve of. You can also replace all the default apps with any programs you normally use on a desktop, replace the browser with Pale Moon or Comodo Dragon, replace the trial of office 365 with LibreOffice, etc.They have them starting at $47 on Amazon for the 7 inch models but personally I'd spend a little more and get one of the 2GB models because you can never have too much RAM.
I'm just glad I hung onto my little netbook, I can run any OS from BSD to XP on it, was easily upgraded to 8GB of RAM, thanks to the AMD APU I can use it as a 1080P HTPC and even after 5 years I still get nearly 3 and a half hours on a battery. Now I just need to get off my behind and upgrade the HDD with an SSD, its a bit of a PITA to do with one of those EEEs but I've seen vids of the performance gains you get on one when you do it so its worth the hassle.
I use Comodo Dragon, its pretty nice actually, I use Comodo' servers with it and combined with privacy badger it keeps the nasties and trackers at bay.
If it makes Windows solid, with no crashes and spyware? Sure bring it on, can't be any worse than what Google and Apple are doing.
And if you are saying this "cuz Linux" I honestly do not care, Linux can DIAF because for 20+ damned years we have watched the Linux community fuck themselves up and shoot themselves in the face over and over AND OVER with one dumb as fuck move after another. I swear after dealing with Linux for the better part of a decade I am now sure its run from bizzaroland, where the devs go "quick things am starting to get stable and users am happy! We must rip out major subsystem so the OS is sent backwards half a decade and will take years just to get back to where it was, then users will feel they am 'leet' if they can just get the thing to run! Aren't we am smart?"
So at this point I have zero fucks to give, if Billy came back and put out an OS that run was well as XP X64 or Win 7 X64? He could be as big a douchenozzle as he wanted, I have zero doubt you'd have hundreds of millions lining up to sing his praises after 3 stinkers in a row. Again couldn't be any worse than Google with their rigging search results to support their political investments and putting more and more APIs behind the Playwall or Apple hiring companies to make its products that treat workers so badly they had to put suicide nets outside the factories to keep visitors from being hit by falling workers.
As much as I think Win 10 is a spyware ridden joke OS I really don't see how anybody can blame MSFT for this.
I mean can you even imagine being handed a bunch of tech just a couple of hours before the game, trying to make it all play nice with a flaky Internet connection you have NO control over and then if that wasn't bad enough to have it taken away at the end of the game so you have to start all over the next time? That is a fricking IT nightmare from hell and whomever at the NFL thought that was the way to go? Needs a really good firing.
Especially since its bullshit as the Wikileaks email drop shows Tim Kaine getting the VP was a quid pro quo for him stepping down as DNC chair so she could put her pal Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the seat which helped her control the primary.
That is one thing I have to give HRC redit for, she is an evil manipulated power hungry greedy bitch but she does think ahead and play the long game, reminds me of Francis Underwood in HOC.
Ya know what? Lets just ignore the spying for a moment, all the nasty hidden shit that requires 41 pages of switches, GPOs, and reg hacks to get rid of not to mention that most of which will ONLY work on Win 10 Enterprise, AKA "the one you have to rent for all eternity", lets just pretend all of that doesn't exist,mmmkay?
What I want to know is this.....WHAT MORON THOUGHT BSODs NEEDED TO MAKE A COMEBACK!?
When people came to me to get rid of Windows 8 it was strictly because of the UI and when I showed most of them classic shell? They were happy, but Windows 10? People are coming to me saying "OMFG this thing just keeps crashing GET THIS THING OFF MY PC!!!", I swear I haven't seen so many hangs, crashes, and outright BSODs since Windows 95! I know 90s nostalgia is a thing but I seriously doubt anybody was saying "Ya know what I miss? I miss my PC just throwing a BSOD at random intervals"
Can we get Bill Gates back PLEASE? They replaced a moron whose idea of running the company was "Hey lets just ape Apple without knowing why people like Apple" with a complete dipshit who thinks moving the company forward is "hey lets just ape Google without knowing why people like Google, oh and lets take out flagship product and make it so fucking buggy and crashy it gives people Windows 3.1 flashbacks, yeah thats the ticket"....Say what you will about Bill Gates, he may have been a douchebag but he was a douchebag that had focus, and he sure as hell didn't put out 3 stinkers in a row!
Riiight, you DO know we've been having to cripple our planes for damned near a half a century...right? You see starting waaay back with the F-14 our planes could take more g-forces than the pilots and this issue has been coming up in flight since the 1930s which is why the Stuka had automatic flaps, so the plane would pull out of a dive if the pilot blacked out. the plane would be fine of course but the pilot? Snooze city. This is why its stupid to continue making piloted aircraft, our tech is so far beyond what a puny meatsack can take its not even funny.
And lets be honest the ONLY thing the F-35 is good for is making defense contractors a shitload of cash, its been nothing but a giant fucking dud. Its ironic as we've become the Axis in WWII, ignoring tried and true weapons systems like the F-15, F-16, and F-18 for "wonder weapons" that just like the ones in WWII are too expensive, unreliable, and spend more time in the shop than they do in the field. Oh and if you want "stealth" which has been proven to be easily defeated simply by changing the bands used by the radar? Look up "F-15 Stealth Eagle" which you can buy last I checked FOUR of them for every one of the techno turkey, and unlike the techno turkey the F-15 actually flies and doesn't have everything from the oxygen system to the software crapping out every other week.
As for the Russians bombing ISIS? Frankly after the Wikileaks drop showing just how fucking corrupt so many in the current administration is and how in bed Hillary is with Saudi Arabia and Qatar? I would want a second opinion if they told me it was raining, I sure as fuck ain't gonna believe a word they say about Russia with Shillary going "Ignore the corruption behind the curtain, its all Russia's fault I'm a scheming witch!".
Lying under oath to congress, destroying evidence after being issued a subpoena, lying to the FBI...those 3 alone are worth 20 years according to FBI statutes and we haven't even talked about what was revealed in the emails like the pay to play or the "FOB" deals in Haiti which could easily have gotten her on the RICO act and frankly they have gotten mobsters on conspiracy with less.
If the Guccifer 2 rumor is true and a week before the election he is gonna drop a hidden cam vid of Hillary calling a black female staffer a "stupid n*gger bitch"? I'd be happy to take those odds, you could make a killing!
And for anybody that doubts she would say that? Read what Billy's former secret service said about Hillary, her calling them something like that would probably be considered a nice day as according to them she treated everyone that worked for her like slaves and talked to them about as well.
It just shows how truly fucked up and corrupted this country is when so many get called right wingers for NOT wanting to go to war without concrete evidence from reputable sources just because the war mongers have a D instead of an R, and as far as the FBI is concerned? After their very own head got in front of congress and admitted under oath that Hillary was guilty of at least a dozen crimes, any one of which at the very least would warrant stripping of security status and at worst were worth a MINIMUM of 5-10 years a pop and he STILL refused to press any charges or bring it before a jury for the people to decide? If the FBI told me it was raining I'd want a second opinion, they are about as untrustworthy as the CIA at this point.
Did you not even bother to watch, or are you to busy slurping the koolaid? Because it clearly shows Google's own trending stats show their excuse is a lie because the terms they are offering up which according to them is based on trending stats? DOESN'T FUCKING TREND AT ALL!
When you have 3 search engines, one of which is run by a guy who is working for the Hillary campaign, which just FYI he has admitted is 100% true, and 2 out of 3 give results that are based on what is trending and the other ONLY gives results that are pro Hillary? I'm sorry but you have to be a fucking retard not to see the corruption there, its literally a case of "who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?"
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity," which anyone who has been watching Yahoo flounder the past few years will tell you that when it comes to such a poorly run company? Hanlon's razor definitely applies.
I just wonder if Verizon is gonna do the smart thing and bail out of the deal, apparently there is wording in the contract that if material issues come to light that Yahoo didn't disclose (like a half a billion emails hacked or handing everything over to the NSA) Verizon has the right to bail without penalty. If anybody at Verizon has any sense at all? They will go "whew dodged a bullet" and say bye bye to Yahoo which after the latest stink probably isn't even worth a half a billion and that would strictly be for patents and datamining, the rest of the company including their email I wouldn't give a plug nickel for.
The problem is the industry took the numbers of PC that were sold during a bubble and based their businesses around those inflated numbers.
For those that may be too young to remember from around 93- 05 there was a PC bubble caused by what was later called "the Mhz Wars". Now people didn't WANT to replace their expensive PCs every other year but because the speed of the CPU was jumping so rapidly and it was so easy to take advantage of MHz jumps a PC sold the year before would struggle to run the latest software and one that was 2 years old would probably find several programs it simply could not run. Before the bubble most PCs were treated more like appliances where you simply did not replace before the other one died but one simply could not do that during the bubble because of how quickly that PC owner would find their PC incapable of running the software they would find on store shelves.
But all bubbles eventually pop and in the case of PCs it was when both AMD and Intel ran into a thermal wall and switched from more MHz to more cores, which is a hell of a lot harder to program for than just taking advantage of increased MHz. Now even 10 year old C2D and Phenom X2s are more than capable of basic web and office tasks and even gamers don't have to replace every year and a half like they did during the MHz wars because paired with a decent mainstream GPU an Intel C2Q or AMD Phenom II can easily play the latest and greatest at 1080P.
So it isn't a "slump" or even a downturn, its just the market returning to the norms that existed before the MHz wars, but just as those speculating during the housing bubble thought numbers would only go up so too did these PC OEMs look at the bubble numbers and thought it would never end. But this isn't "the death of the PC", in fact I'd argue most have more computers in the home now than they did during the bubble, they just don't replace them until the previous model dies.
Uhhh...because then you have "hanging chads" and "didn't stay within the lines"? With a machine doing the actual printing you don't have those issues because every print out stays true to the form.
And the "reset" was an official simply walking by the machine and pushing a button, 30 seconds max. I really don't know how more simple you could possibly make it. All in all I cannot say anything bad about the way we have it set up, it was fast, easy, they had helpers for the disabled, nobody was sent away if they went to the wrong place, it was a truly pleasant experience despite the nasty weather.
Why not have the best of both? That is what we have in my home state, the "electronic voting machine" is really nothing more than a screen and a glorified printer. When you are done making your choices it shows you a list of what you have chosen and says "If this is what you voted choose yes, if not choose no" and if you choose yes it prints it all out in nice human readable text and you drop it in the ballot box while the voting official resets the machine for the next person, easy peasy.
I really have to hand it to my local election officials, they have voting as smooth as a well oiled machine. When I was waiting in line last election there was a couple of people that had shown up to the wrong precinct,did they force them to go drive to the right one? Nope they just pulled them aside and got on the phone and had it all worked out in under 5 minutes and then gave them the next open machine so they wouldn't have to go to the back of the line, even had coffee and donuts. It was a very pleasant experience, despite the cold rain outside, just lovely.
I say a MUCH better solution would be to force the OS and handset OEMs to completely open the drivers and OSes so they can continue to be supported.
Lets face it most of the phones made in the last couple of years could last a long time IF their operating systems could be upgraded...but they can't, and since no security patches will be coming to those systems its into the trash they go. Even most cheap phones today have quad cores with a Gb of RAM so running a newer version of Android wouldn't be an issue but the vast majority? Will never see any updates and you can't even download a ROM because its not one of the handful of big name phones that the modding community supports.
I know that there are several phones I had in the past I would have happily held onto longer if only I could get an updated OS but with so much malware targeting smartphones these days? Its just not wise to keep an out of date phone. If the drivers had to be open, so it would be trivial to support and people knew they could keep their phone and just get the new OS if they wanted? I have a feeling a lot of these phones wouldn't be ending up in a junk drawer or a landfill.
Well that was one I never heard of and I thought I'd heard of most, hmm learn something new every day. the only thing I could think of WRT Intel isn't really a "chip mod" so much as a socket swap.
She is either grossly negligent (which is all that is required for criminal charges) or she is retarded and therefor not qualified to be POTUS...which position are you taking?
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Yep they apparently didn't learn from history and went and created the F-111 all over again, a plane that was supposed to "do it all" and ended up sucking at everything.
And is anybody else getting the feeling we are becoming the Germans in WWII? While everybody else is building on top of already proven designs and ending up with planes they can afford to make en masse we are going the "wonder weapon" route, sinking our fortune into these techno turkeys that are supposed to just dominate but always end up 1.- Costing so much you can't afford to build them in large numbers, 2.- Have constant issues cutting down on available flight time, 3.- Expensive as hell to maintain, and 4.- Cost of replacement so high that both training and combat time is cut way down for fear of losing them.
From the looks of it while our actually useful planes get ancient with no real replacements in sight all the USAF wants is future air museum pieces that are really cool to look at but too costly to use, that is if the thing isn't broken down and will actually be able to fly when they need it.
Are you STILL bitching about a driver that takes all of seven steps to install in Linux and doesn't even need Bash? Give me a fricking break.
Blame the environmentalists, its the shitty solder. Got a customer who is an engineer, I fix his PCs, he fixes my electronics and you have no idea how many times he has popped the back off a device of mine just to find tin whiskers.
So IMHO its a perfect example of how the "we have to DO something!" mentality nearly always leads to failure, as they got rid of lead in solder to "protect the environment!"....only to end up creating fricking mountains of e-waste because gear that before would easily last a decade is now lucky if it lasts 3 years thanks to all the shit solder shorting everything out.
Oh lord the puppies don't remember their history!
DirectX became a "thing" because of "The Lion King" on PC. A lot of the OEMs sold a shitload of units with the Lion King game preloaded, IIRC it was Xmas season 94. All these kids came down on Xmas morning to play...only to find out the game didn't work on like 90% of the hardware out there. Of course nobody blamed the shitty programmers for only supporting a couple of chips, nope they blamed Windows 3.1 and MSFT and had a royal stinking shitfit, even ended up on the nightly news, kinda a "MSFT is the Grinch that crapped on Xmas" angle.
Well if there was one thing that MSFT under Billy didn't like? It was bad press, so next thing you know they announce "Direct3D" and "DirectDraw" to solve this very problem of every game needing drivers for every bit of kit. Later on they combined the different APIs into what is now called DirectX.
I would say not only that but people that are into watches? These things are about as appealing as ass cancer. You talk to people that actually spend real money on a watch? They will talk your ears off about Swiss movements and dial faces and all the beautiful craftsmanship and details....you are NEVER gonna get that level of detail and care in what is essentially a little computer strapped to your wrist, you just aren't. Great watches are really these things out of time, with their little gears and springs, you can almost picture some watchmaker with an eyepiece working on this delicate little instrument, you just aren't gonna get that kinda vibe from a circuit board and an LCD panel, you just aren't.
Hell even the geeks I talked to that like watches didn't want these things, they want a Nixie watch like the woz has or one of those cool LED watches from the 70s, so I have no clue who they expected to buy these.
Cyanogen is all but dead friend. I know I'll get shit but you want a tablet YOU control? Get one of those Windows 10 tablets, nice thing about those is since its a desktop OS you can run something like ShutUp10 and run a nice light third party firewall to make sure nothing gets out that YOU don't approve of. You can also replace all the default apps with any programs you normally use on a desktop, replace the browser with Pale Moon or Comodo Dragon, replace the trial of office 365 with LibreOffice, etc.They have them starting at $47 on Amazon for the 7 inch models but personally I'd spend a little more and get one of the 2GB models because you can never have too much RAM.
I'm just glad I hung onto my little netbook, I can run any OS from BSD to XP on it, was easily upgraded to 8GB of RAM, thanks to the AMD APU I can use it as a 1080P HTPC and even after 5 years I still get nearly 3 and a half hours on a battery. Now I just need to get off my behind and upgrade the HDD with an SSD, its a bit of a PITA to do with one of those EEEs but I've seen vids of the performance gains you get on one when you do it so its worth the hassle.
I use Comodo Dragon, its pretty nice actually, I use Comodo' servers with it and combined with privacy badger it keeps the nasties and trackers at bay.
If it makes Windows solid, with no crashes and spyware? Sure bring it on, can't be any worse than what Google and Apple are doing.
And if you are saying this "cuz Linux" I honestly do not care, Linux can DIAF because for 20+ damned years we have watched the Linux community fuck themselves up and shoot themselves in the face over and over AND OVER with one dumb as fuck move after another. I swear after dealing with Linux for the better part of a decade I am now sure its run from bizzaroland, where the devs go "quick things am starting to get stable and users am happy! We must rip out major subsystem so the OS is sent backwards half a decade and will take years just to get back to where it was, then users will feel they am 'leet' if they can just get the thing to run! Aren't we am smart?"
So at this point I have zero fucks to give, if Billy came back and put out an OS that run was well as XP X64 or Win 7 X64? He could be as big a douchenozzle as he wanted, I have zero doubt you'd have hundreds of millions lining up to sing his praises after 3 stinkers in a row. Again couldn't be any worse than Google with their rigging search results to support their political investments and putting more and more APIs behind the Playwall or Apple hiring companies to make its products that treat workers so badly they had to put suicide nets outside the factories to keep visitors from being hit by falling workers.
As much as I think Win 10 is a spyware ridden joke OS I really don't see how anybody can blame MSFT for this.
I mean can you even imagine being handed a bunch of tech just a couple of hours before the game, trying to make it all play nice with a flaky Internet connection you have NO control over and then if that wasn't bad enough to have it taken away at the end of the game so you have to start all over the next time? That is a fricking IT nightmare from hell and whomever at the NFL thought that was the way to go? Needs a really good firing.
Especially since its bullshit as the Wikileaks email drop shows Tim Kaine getting the VP was a quid pro quo for him stepping down as DNC chair so she could put her pal Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the seat which helped her control the primary.
That is one thing I have to give HRC redit for, she is an evil manipulated power hungry greedy bitch but she does think ahead and play the long game, reminds me of Francis Underwood in HOC.
Ya know what? Lets just ignore the spying for a moment, all the nasty hidden shit that requires 41 pages of switches, GPOs, and reg hacks to get rid of not to mention that most of which will ONLY work on Win 10 Enterprise, AKA "the one you have to rent for all eternity", lets just pretend all of that doesn't exist,mmmkay?
What I want to know is this.....WHAT MORON THOUGHT BSODs NEEDED TO MAKE A COMEBACK!?
When people came to me to get rid of Windows 8 it was strictly because of the UI and when I showed most of them classic shell? They were happy, but Windows 10? People are coming to me saying "OMFG this thing just keeps crashing GET THIS THING OFF MY PC!!!", I swear I haven't seen so many hangs, crashes, and outright BSODs since Windows 95! I know 90s nostalgia is a thing but I seriously doubt anybody was saying "Ya know what I miss? I miss my PC just throwing a BSOD at random intervals"
Can we get Bill Gates back PLEASE? They replaced a moron whose idea of running the company was "Hey lets just ape Apple without knowing why people like Apple" with a complete dipshit who thinks moving the company forward is "hey lets just ape Google without knowing why people like Google, oh and lets take out flagship product and make it so fucking buggy and crashy it gives people Windows 3.1 flashbacks, yeah thats the ticket"....Say what you will about Bill Gates, he may have been a douchebag but he was a douchebag that had focus, and he sure as hell didn't put out 3 stinkers in a row!
Well considering we have commissioner of the board of elections in NYC admitting to voter fraud on hidden cam and even the Washington Times saying vote fraud is all too real maybe he is onto something?
Riiight, you DO know we've been having to cripple our planes for damned near a half a century...right? You see starting waaay back with the F-14 our planes could take more g-forces than the pilots and this issue has been coming up in flight since the 1930s which is why the Stuka had automatic flaps, so the plane would pull out of a dive if the pilot blacked out. the plane would be fine of course but the pilot? Snooze city. This is why its stupid to continue making piloted aircraft, our tech is so far beyond what a puny meatsack can take its not even funny.
And lets be honest the ONLY thing the F-35 is good for is making defense contractors a shitload of cash, its been nothing but a giant fucking dud. Its ironic as we've become the Axis in WWII, ignoring tried and true weapons systems like the F-15, F-16, and F-18 for "wonder weapons" that just like the ones in WWII are too expensive, unreliable, and spend more time in the shop than they do in the field. Oh and if you want "stealth" which has been proven to be easily defeated simply by changing the bands used by the radar? Look up "F-15 Stealth Eagle" which you can buy last I checked FOUR of them for every one of the techno turkey, and unlike the techno turkey the F-15 actually flies and doesn't have everything from the oxygen system to the software crapping out every other week.
As for the Russians bombing ISIS? Frankly after the Wikileaks drop showing just how fucking corrupt so many in the current administration is and how in bed Hillary is with Saudi Arabia and Qatar? I would want a second opinion if they told me it was raining, I sure as fuck ain't gonna believe a word they say about Russia with Shillary going "Ignore the corruption behind the curtain, its all Russia's fault I'm a scheming witch!".
Lying under oath to congress, destroying evidence after being issued a subpoena, lying to the FBI...those 3 alone are worth 20 years according to FBI statutes and we haven't even talked about what was revealed in the emails like the pay to play or the "FOB" deals in Haiti which could easily have gotten her on the RICO act and frankly they have gotten mobsters on conspiracy with less.
If the Guccifer 2 rumor is true and a week before the election he is gonna drop a hidden cam vid of Hillary calling a black female staffer a "stupid n*gger bitch"? I'd be happy to take those odds, you could make a killing!
And for anybody that doubts she would say that? Read what Billy's former secret service said about Hillary, her calling them something like that would probably be considered a nice day as according to them she treated everyone that worked for her like slaves and talked to them about as well.
It just shows how truly fucked up and corrupted this country is when so many get called right wingers for NOT wanting to go to war without concrete evidence from reputable sources just because the war mongers have a D instead of an R, and as far as the FBI is concerned? After their very own head got in front of congress and admitted under oath that Hillary was guilty of at least a dozen crimes, any one of which at the very least would warrant stripping of security status and at worst were worth a MINIMUM of 5-10 years a pop and he STILL refused to press any charges or bring it before a jury for the people to decide? If the FBI told me it was raining I'd want a second opinion, they are about as untrustworthy as the CIA at this point.
Did you not even bother to watch, or are you to busy slurping the koolaid? Because it clearly shows Google's own trending stats show their excuse is a lie because the terms they are offering up which according to them is based on trending stats? DOESN'T FUCKING TREND AT ALL!
When you have 3 search engines, one of which is run by a guy who is working for the Hillary campaign, which just FYI he has admitted is 100% true, and 2 out of 3 give results that are based on what is trending and the other ONLY gives results that are pro Hillary? I'm sorry but you have to be a fucking retard not to see the corruption there, its literally a case of "who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?"
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity," which anyone who has been watching Yahoo flounder the past few years will tell you that when it comes to such a poorly run company? Hanlon's razor definitely applies.
I just wonder if Verizon is gonna do the smart thing and bail out of the deal, apparently there is wording in the contract that if material issues come to light that Yahoo didn't disclose (like a half a billion emails hacked or handing everything over to the NSA) Verizon has the right to bail without penalty. If anybody at Verizon has any sense at all? They will go "whew dodged a bullet" and say bye bye to Yahoo which after the latest stink probably isn't even worth a half a billion and that would strictly be for patents and datamining, the rest of the company including their email I wouldn't give a plug nickel for.
The problem is the industry took the numbers of PC that were sold during a bubble and based their businesses around those inflated numbers.
For those that may be too young to remember from around 93- 05 there was a PC bubble caused by what was later called "the Mhz Wars". Now people didn't WANT to replace their expensive PCs every other year but because the speed of the CPU was jumping so rapidly and it was so easy to take advantage of MHz jumps a PC sold the year before would struggle to run the latest software and one that was 2 years old would probably find several programs it simply could not run. Before the bubble most PCs were treated more like appliances where you simply did not replace before the other one died but one simply could not do that during the bubble because of how quickly that PC owner would find their PC incapable of running the software they would find on store shelves.
But all bubbles eventually pop and in the case of PCs it was when both AMD and Intel ran into a thermal wall and switched from more MHz to more cores, which is a hell of a lot harder to program for than just taking advantage of increased MHz. Now even 10 year old C2D and Phenom X2s are more than capable of basic web and office tasks and even gamers don't have to replace every year and a half like they did during the MHz wars because paired with a decent mainstream GPU an Intel C2Q or AMD Phenom II can easily play the latest and greatest at 1080P.
So it isn't a "slump" or even a downturn, its just the market returning to the norms that existed before the MHz wars, but just as those speculating during the housing bubble thought numbers would only go up so too did these PC OEMs look at the bubble numbers and thought it would never end. But this isn't "the death of the PC", in fact I'd argue most have more computers in the home now than they did during the bubble, they just don't replace them until the previous model dies.
Riiight, will those "facts" include the fact that Google was caught rigging search results to be Pro Clinton? Or how about the fact that Eric Schmidt is working for the Clinton Campaign? How about the fact that Google has a meeting a week with the Obama administration?
Uhhh...because then you have "hanging chads" and "didn't stay within the lines"? With a machine doing the actual printing you don't have those issues because every print out stays true to the form.
And the "reset" was an official simply walking by the machine and pushing a button, 30 seconds max. I really don't know how more simple you could possibly make it. All in all I cannot say anything bad about the way we have it set up, it was fast, easy, they had helpers for the disabled, nobody was sent away if they went to the wrong place, it was a truly pleasant experience despite the nasty weather.
Why not have the best of both? That is what we have in my home state, the "electronic voting machine" is really nothing more than a screen and a glorified printer. When you are done making your choices it shows you a list of what you have chosen and says "If this is what you voted choose yes, if not choose no" and if you choose yes it prints it all out in nice human readable text and you drop it in the ballot box while the voting official resets the machine for the next person, easy peasy.
I really have to hand it to my local election officials, they have voting as smooth as a well oiled machine. When I was waiting in line last election there was a couple of people that had shown up to the wrong precinct,did they force them to go drive to the right one? Nope they just pulled them aside and got on the phone and had it all worked out in under 5 minutes and then gave them the next open machine so they wouldn't have to go to the back of the line, even had coffee and donuts. It was a very pleasant experience, despite the cold rain outside, just lovely.
I say a MUCH better solution would be to force the OS and handset OEMs to completely open the drivers and OSes so they can continue to be supported.
Lets face it most of the phones made in the last couple of years could last a long time IF their operating systems could be upgraded...but they can't, and since no security patches will be coming to those systems its into the trash they go. Even most cheap phones today have quad cores with a Gb of RAM so running a newer version of Android wouldn't be an issue but the vast majority? Will never see any updates and you can't even download a ROM because its not one of the handful of big name phones that the modding community supports.
I know that there are several phones I had in the past I would have happily held onto longer if only I could get an updated OS but with so much malware targeting smartphones these days? Its just not wise to keep an out of date phone. If the drivers had to be open, so it would be trivial to support and people knew they could keep their phone and just get the new OS if they wanted? I have a feeling a lot of these phones wouldn't be ending up in a junk drawer or a landfill.
Well that was one I never heard of and I thought I'd heard of most, hmm learn something new every day. the only thing I could think of WRT Intel isn't really a "chip mod" so much as a socket swap.
She is either grossly negligent (which is all that is required for criminal charges) or she is retarded and therefor not qualified to be POTUS...which position are you taking?