I'm sorry Crosshair, you could NOT be more wrong, Romney was a classic spoiled Richie Rich fop, just like the old Python "upper class twit" sketch. Just off the top of my head, and there were DOZENS on YouTube you can pick from BTW, there was the "ugly car" story where he talked about how he "had it hard in HS and college, why i had to drive this ugly car!" and then someone showed what his "ugly car" was, it was a BRAND NEW luxury sedan straight from the showroom floor, there was the "i'm unemployed too, snicker snicker" bit, there was his wife with her "Why we were so broke in college we had to live on our stock dividends, can you believe it?" bit, hell I could spent FIVE MINUTES on YouTube and find a couple of dozen more.
Romney didn't have a prayer because he was a Grey Poupon fop, simple as that. he had been rich since the day he popped out the womb and frankly had NO CLUE on how to actually relate to anyone that didn't have a couple of million in the bank, and how could he? he had NEVER been around a poor person in his life! He was rich, his wife was rich, he went to rich schools and hung out with rich friends, he was as clueless as Bush Sr with the scanner, he simply has had maids and servants and luxury cars and summer homes his whole life and just couldn't understand why his "little stories" completely turned off the electorate.
Oh and let us not forget the man flip flopped more than a bass thrown on the bank, you could find two completely different views on ANY given subject coming from him, just depending on which way the wind blew that day. Like him or not Obama has stayed pretty much in the same middle-left area the entire time, Romney wanted the job so bad he swung WAY the hell to the right during the primary, so far right that he was unelectable, and then tried to swing back to the center after the primary was over...it just didn't work, it made him look like a two faced rich boy saying whatever you wanted to hear to get the job.
So I'm sorry Crosshair, like 'em or hate 'em the two couldn't have been more different.
You're missing the point friend, the point of these laws is NOT to actually get the info, its to give the cops an instant "throw him under the bus" button by simply saying "He didn't provide us with X, therefor he goes to the pen" and bye bye guy.
Personally I'm getting really sick and damned tired of this "for the children" crap, because I was raised to believe you did your time and that was it, these laws are designed to punish a person for life without actually sentencing them to life. Bullshit, either give them life or when they are out STFU, what you are doing here is too damned close to Big Brother police state shit and we ALL need to stand up for these guys.
Remember folks, they pass these laws by purposely picking the ones they KNOW you won't fight for, then the laws just get wider and wider, until they can use them on anybody. Big Brother and the Nanny State NEVER gets smaller, ONLY bigger, so we have to stand up now before they widen the net. As TFA points out it can be something that has NOTHING to do with children, it could be pissing on a damned bush in the wrong state, and you'll end up just like them.
Bingo, and sadly we've seen all too often guys make things over complex to give themselves some job security.
Ultimately its gonna come down to how popular Bob is versus Vanderhoth at the org, because most likely they will have to go head to head and Bob is liable to bail if pushed leaving a big mess. if it were me I'd just point out "Look, what if he has a heart attack? Or has a car wreck? Are you willing to sink the SERIOUS MONEY to bring in a team to clean this mess up when he isn't here? because that WILL happen sooner or later, nobody lives forever" and then if the board wants to stand there and let the train hit 'em, at least he did warn them.
It is THIS, this right here, that just blows my damned mind, this "ballclub mentality" when it comes to large multinational corps. name the company, Apple, Google, MSFT, and I can provide link after link of SERIOUSLY douchebag behavior from these companies, yet there is a large section of the populace that if it is "their" company will go "la la la, can't hear you!" and root for them like its the fucking Cubs, I just don't GET that.
Is it some sort of fucked up variant of buyer's remorse, where they have to root for "their" product because God forbid they made a wrong choice? hell if i know but I think it deserves further study, because how somebody can root for some faceless megacorp they don't even have stock riding on is just beyond me.
The funny part is what did the "leaders" of the GOP say after getting curbstomped? "We need to go FARTHER RIGHT, that's why we lost!" yeah, you didn't make yourselves the "white rich old men" party ENOUGH, why you only turned off the poor, blacks, and latinos, I'm sure there are other minorities you can offend!
What the fuck...you no spek the english? They DO NOT OWN the guts, its patented by several companies that are NOT Nvidia so they can't change SHIT when it comes to licensing, okay? They DO NOT OWN HDCP and it is THOSE parts being used in GP-GPU to cut down on waste and to keep from having to double the size of the die, but they DO NOT OWN this, okay? What part of DO NOT OWN is so damned hard to grasp? I don't care what fucking license you name, BSD, MPL, fucking ABCD, they CAN NOT DO IT anymore than you can make The Lion King a GPL movie because YOU DO NOT OWN IT...get it now? No own? Its licensed tech from half a dozen companies, baked into every chip.
And again WHAT FUCKING DIFFERENCE would having ALL of the code binary VS having a header and footer be GPL and the rest redacted? NOTHING, it would change NOTHING. What you would have is ugly nasty ass hacks like AMD (which I notice you won't even touch on, because guess what? Its nasty ass and sucks compared to Windows where the devs aren't douches) where it wouldn't matter if you had a new tesla board or a Geforce 6600 because it would BOTH SUCK as you'd have this huge chunk of the chip that will never ever work in the FOSS driver. And again because they weren't "100% GPL compliant" the devs would keep right on being douches, drivers still get broken, and Nvidia gains not a single sale, why the fuck should they waste all that money? To make some license nazi happy?
Watch as I make a prediction, ready? Linux gains NO SHARE even though Win 8 is more hated than Vista, because the douchenozzle devs refuse to keep breaking shit like spoiled 14 years olds and between them and the FOSSie camp, which overlaps a lot, you simply won't get the stability and solid drivers required for ANY OEM to look at you as more than a joke. BTW before you dare bring up Dell you should know they have to run their own damned repo even though they ONLY have a dozen models, because the damned drivers break otherwise (surprise surprise) and they refuse to tell you how much profit they have made on Linux sales, why? Because the cost of running their own repo kills any profit, that's why! Its strictly a PR move, designed to make the FOSSie faction STFU, which is why they bury it on a back page and try like hell to warn people away from the Linux systems!
Actually talking to some Linux admins the only reason datacenters are full of Linux? COST with a capital C, MSFT under Ballmer has made WinServer licenses this hedge maze of doom, where one can't be sure you are in compliance without a corporate lawyer, and the whole requiring users to have CALs pisses guys off. But since with servers 1.- The hardware never changes, 2.-They all run distros that stick to truly ancient kernels and have glacial update schedules, like Debian Stable or Red Hat, then 3.- They don't have the problems desktops do.
But I'm sorry that you can't hold this conversation without trying to move the goalposts but we are NOT talking about datacenters, or routers, or embedded, we are talking about desktops and in that market? Yes your product is inferior by a great lot because of the very issues I mentioned along with devs being arrogant assholes, see Torvalds flipping Nvidia for an example, and the simple fact that nobody spends money on the desktop, only server, so the quality just isn't there.
Ya know, that's the one thing I'll miss about this campaign, old Mittens and Ann talking their "folksy" stories that were so fucking 1% that they hurt. The ugly car, the "I'm unemployed too!" cracks, it was so obvious they were both born with platinum spoons in their mouths and have never had to think for a single second about budgets or money that it actually made for some good foppish humor.
There was a commercial in the 80s shown nationally that had one rich fop in a limo pull up to another fop in a limo, roll down his window and go "pardon me, but do you have any grey puopon?" and since then the brand has been tied to rich foppish snooty clueless dweebs, picture Thurston Howell the III.
While there have been rich people in the past that have truly changed history and helped the poor and middle class, Teddy busting the trusts for one, instead of saying "Yes I'm rich, I'm rich because I had advantages you didn't have, and what we should be doing is making sure that everyone has an equal shot" he gave us the ugly car speech, the 47% crack, hell go to YouTube man, when Richie Rich THOUGHT there weren't any cameras around the guy turned into Thurston Howell the third!
And if you want the poor and middle class to believe you? You DO NOT lie your damned ass off and flip flop every other second! Mitt that candidate could have ran against MA Mitt and they'd have had nothing in common! Instead of saying "I'm sorry, I know some in the party believe in this but I don't" he flip flopped on healthcare, abortion, taxes, you name it you can find two polar opposite statements both coming from the same guy's mouth.
So I have a question for you: Why in the FUCK should we trust a guy that talks like Thurston Howell, hides his money in the Caymans, gutted and outsourced companies, and who reversed his own position at least once on every damned subject?
Actually the brand really makes NO difference as they ALL have this problem, OCZ drives just seem to have it worse. I have gamer customers that are on their sixth and seventh SSDs, all different brands from Intel to Samsung to OCZ and NONE of them have any kind of warning before controller fail, just flip the switch one day and the drive is poof! Completely gone.
And of course if its under warranty you have the option of sending the dead drive with ALL your data, as you found out, and hope some asshole in whatever third world country they dispose of them in doesn't get your data off, or say fuck the warranty and just eat the cost of the drive.
This is why I tell my customers if they are going SSD to NOT put anything they care about or would care if the world saw it, not if they want to actually use that warranty because they WILL have the drive fail before it goes out, I've seen customers baby the hell out of them, even put coolers on the drive in the hope lack of heat would fix it...nope, they ALL have this bug.
/facepalm/ Did you not even read the very first sentence before you replied? which part of CAN'T DO IT is so damned hard to understand?
As for why they can't just "put those parts" into a binary...because it won't fricking work? you are talking about gutting the very HEART of the system, what would that accomplish? Would it make the devs quit acting like douches and breaking the drivers? Nope because its not GPL V3 so they wouldn't be "supporting the spirit of Open Source" and the devs would go right on being douches.
And sure AMD "just works" if you mean "Works like a card from 7 years ago" because again a HUGE section of the chip CAN NOT be accessed because UVD, which if you'll go look its actually a pretty damned big component of the APUs especially, simply can't be accessed without risking breaking HDCP and getting AMD chips blacklisted. You know what the FOSS devs are doing? You can go and look it up, its an UGLY hack that is using the shaders for hardware acceleration, like the old X19xx cards did. So you will waste MORE power on Linux than in Windows, make MORE heat, and will have a lower battery life, all because the devs won't quit being douches and breaking the damned binary drivers!
And here we go with the classic "moving the goalposts" by dropping servers into the mix. You know what every Linux advocate sounds like when they do that? Well my truck gets 20 miles to the gallon, well my car gets 34.../Linux user/ Well my rowboat gets a billion!...WHAT THE FUCK does that have to do with the conversation? Serious WHAT does servers have a damned thing to do with desktops, which was the SUBJECT?
Its actually very simple, Linux works on servers in spite of the devs not because of them, because Windows licensing is a hedgemaze of restrictions and they keep raising the costs it is CHEAPER to pay some guy 6 figures to deal with all the Linux bullshit, maybe even hire the guys that broke the subsystems to fix it. That is NOT a credit to Linux, that is just how greedy and stupid MSFT runs the WinServer division. If they were to switch to a three tier license and no user CALs? Mark my words they'd slaughter Linux, but they make so much money as it is they simply don't care, not with Ballmer wanting to be the head of Apple and caring only about phones and tablets.
so I'm sorry but not only can Nvidia NOT go GPL but the suggestion you have would fix absolutely nothing, because if anything was made perfectly clear on past statements its that the FOSSie camp in the devs will accept nothing less than 100% GPL compliance, and your idea would be like having the first and last line of a book in free print and the rest redacted. The only way they could "open" shit would be to do like AMD and just leave the most powerful parts of the chip completely black box, which would make the performance difference between a new Nvidia chip and a 4 year old one negligible, and would be completely pointless since ALL of the major parts that people actual run Nvidia cards on Linux for, the GP-GPU support, would be gone anyway.
Thanks, that makes sense. It does make me wonder how they planned to use those nukes in a tactical situation though, after all if you've hit the main targets already but the Russian tanks were rolling through the EU (a popular cold war scenario) you'd want to have the ability to target those battlefields. Maybe they figured that would be for the bombers and the subs were strictly city targets, I never did much research into sub warfare so hell if I know.
Thanks but what I want even more than mod points is for people to wake the fuck up and see that this nanny state style control NEVER gets smaller and more free, ALWAYS tougher and less free, unless you actively fight it.
Take the smokers. I warned people "They are the canaries in the coal mine, they will NOT stop with just them" but did they listen? Now you not only have cities where you can be arrested for smoking in your own home, but we have NY deciding how much soda your cup can have and states on the east coast talking about fat taxes and sugar taxes...for your own good of course, can't have you peasants making choices now can we?
And considering how the Internet is one of the last truly free places on this planet this corporate control scares the fuck out of me, it seems like a race to see who can spy on you the worst, and control you the most, and the really scary part is the winner will have lines around the block as people pay to have their control taken away!
I don't know about you but I REMEMBER the age of the black boxes in the early 80s and it was great...for the corps, they could just make you buy a new device because nothing was fixable, upgradeable, and each new version would be incompatible with the previous. But for the users it sucked big hairy balls. Now I sit here gobsmacked as these hipsters sell our future control away for shiny trinkets and a brand identity, it just blows my damned mind.
Actually they are doing it IRL too, not just cyberspace, which is why I have been saying for years "You better fight for the smokers! They are the canaries in the coal mine!" and sure enough we now have cities that make it illegal to smoke in your own home, or even on PUBLIC lands, and now we have states telling you how big a coke you can have and are talking about fat taxes and sweet taxes.
Remember friend, the whole nanny state "we know what is best for you" NEVER gets smaller and more free, ALWAYS bigger and less free. This is what pissed me off about Apple users, St. Steve could fuck them 8 ways from Sunday and they'd call him a genius for doing it, now thanks to their slavish devotion to everything with a lower case i in front of it we are ALL gonna go back to early 80s black boxes. Great job guys.
Sorry if I made it sound like a war against Apple, its not, they have EVERY right to be as big a dicks as they want with their products.
No the war should be against the BUYERS of Apple products, those hipster douches that threw money at Apple, no matter how badly they got screwed on memory, and threw even more money at Apple for locked down apps.
It is because of THEM that we are gonna end up ALL of us trapped in Apple walled gardens, because every other corp is gonna look at Apple's financials and say "Well people seem willing to pay out the ass to make them their masters, if that is what they want then by God we'll take control away from them too! Then they'll love us like they love Apple!"
Now that shit is infecting every damned device like a bad case of the clap, I mean can anybody look at MSFT's recent moves and NOT think "They are trying to be the ersatz Apple" or even Linux with Canonical, yet another going appstores and tablet UIs, everyone is going to appstores and black boxes, and we know whom to blame, all those damned hipsters that paid those insane markups and bought apps out the ass just to show they can be as hip as their hipster douchey friends.
THIS, this right here, was why everyone on the right side of the aisle did a "Anybody but Romney!" song and dance for the entire primary, as they KNEW that Mittens for so damned spoiled and THOUGHT he was clever and just wouldn't STFU and instead his "Richie Rich" persona bled on through.
I knew the man was dead in the water before the primary even ended, when he did his "I'm a normal guy!" speech when he talked about having to go through late HS and early college with "a truly ugly car" and someone said "Uhhh...that "ugly car" was a BRAND NEW LUXURY CAR that rolled straight out of daddy's plant and into your garage Mittens" and that was when I knew this guy was DOA, when even his "I'm normal!" story ends up involving luxury cars handed out by daddy? Yeah they were fucked, the LAST thing you run in a bad economy is a Grey Puopon spoiled little rich kid.
What is truly scary is...this is it folks, this is the BEST the parties have to offer. Kinda sad isn't it? Man do we need a new system, something where we can have multiple parties like they have in EU, gotta be better than this "Coke VS Pepsi" races we have here.
Has anybody actually USED both IMs here? How do they compare? because my dad and all his old buddies are on Windows messenger and if its a giant change man is my life gonna SUCK because guess who has to deal with it.
Why of why is Ballmer trying so hard to torpedo the company? Is he shorting the stock? Because he seems to be doing his damnedest to shit all over every popular property they have. If they wanted to add Skype support I can see that, even though I thought they were gonna push Skype for their business customers and maybe integrate it with the X720 or whatever its gonna be called, but why destroy something that is actually popular like Windows messenger?
Drivers? Like it or not with so many major subsystems constantly being futzed with drivers break a LOT more often on Linux than they do on Windows.
This of course makes complete sense if one takes only a second to think about it, you have multiple kernels, major changes to the subsystems, and only a limited number of devs, most of which have no ties to the hardware whose drivers they are working on. Compare this to Windows where you'll have a single kernel for the 10 year run of the OS, same subsystems, and the OEMs only have to make a single driver for that OS and its good for the life of that OS.
So...yeah, I can see why you would want to run a Windows host with multiple Linux VMs, and since MSFT has been bundling SUSE and selling licenses with WinServer for years I can see buying a slot to sell HyperV.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the whole point of a nuclear sub was second strike capability, therefor they would have to have the launch codes since the weapons would have to be able to be launched after DC and the rest of the command infrastructure was blown away.
Whether they are quote unquote allied with al Qaeda frankly isn't the point, the point is history will label the "Arab Spring" with a more appropriate label which is "Islamic Spring" as every place that has had an Islamic Spring has seen the rise of the ultra militant Islam movement and their gaining more power.
Sooner or later the west is gonna wake up and accept that Islam and the west are simply incompatible and that we should be pursuing a policy of containment just as we did with communism. As long as the "moderate Muslims" refuse to stand up to the Mullahs there is NO moderates, because by remaining silent they are actively helping the radicals become more powerful. Remember "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" and that is EXACTLY what we are seeing all over the Islamic world, the radicals are given free reign by a populace that refuses to stand up to them. Even in the west, look at how many mosques have been openly preaching hate, are the mosques empty? Do the moderates walk out when the mullahs preach "death to the west!"? Nope, they still give their money and support.
So the west doing anything to support or encourage an Islamic spring is frankly madness, because ANY government that replaces Assad will be an Islamic theocracy, with the destruction of Israel and the west as its goals.
What I love is the complete racism that this entire line of thinking implies, its "Hey we'll just rig the batteries or put a chip, those damned towelheads don't have enough sense to actually reverse engineer anything, hell they are goat herders ha ha ha!"...yeah, like they had ANY trouble reverse engineering the first stingers. Hell there is an area of Pakistan that for over a century has made their living being "the land of weapon knockoffs" and has been since the first world war.
Do they SERIOUSLY think there isn't a single engineer in that country? That when DRM that "protects" $60 games doesn't work they can protect something that could make the hacker a half a million per missile? But the ugly truth of it is this is born of racism, they think of everyone in the middle east as uneducated cave dwellers that couldn't possibly beat their cleverness. Mark my words these things won't be on the ground 6 months before the knockoffs start hitting the market. Of course I'm sure the terrorists will be grateful to have the latest in USA weapons tech, just imagine what a dozen stingers could do outside of major airports during holiday rush...they could make 9/11 look like a liquor store holdup gone bad.
Hey what is the weather like on fantasy island? Is the little midget still going "De plane!" all the time? The trusts did NOT die, they were KILLED by the power of the US government. See Teddy Roosevelt and the busting of the trusts. If he had not brought the full weight of the US government to bear they would STILL be controlling the country, and just FYI but unions didn't come about until AFTER Teddy busted the trusts and stopped them from having private armies, thus proving libertarian utopias simply don't work.
But hey, I truly hope you get everything you desire, because a little revolution now and then is ultimately good for a nation. I'm sure after the violent overthrow of the corporate masters, many of whom will be executed, things might actually be nice, hell we might even end up with a social democracy like in Iceland. Sadly most revolutions go through a period of fascism or dictatorship built around a cult of personality, but if it got rid of the lie that you can fix lack of regulation with deregulation it would probably be a small price to pay. Again see Somalia, they have cell phones, infrastructure, and NO government at all...where is that libertarian paradise? Oh right, since they have no military to defend their shores the EU is dumping toxic waste right off their shoreline, because they have no law anybody with enough money to buy a few technicals rules their own little area with an iron fist...simply boost that up by a factor of 50 and you'll see what a libertarian paradise would be like in the USA, toxic waste, foul air, and private armies controlling the peasants.
So I'm sorry friend, but the "isms" never work, not capitalism, nor communism, nor libertarianism, nor fascism, because in the end they ALL need those at the top not to be greedy douchebags, and history has shown time after time after time that is simply not the case. Without rules those who control natural monopolies will use their capital to create unnatural monopolies and stifle competition until you end up with the trusts all over again, a handful of rich old white guys sniffing their brandy while they divide up the spoils.
Welcome to the future, or as we old greybeards call it "Hey remember when everything was locked down black boxes?" because we are doomed to repeat our history. Whether we like it or not, whether we protest it or not, the big megacorps have decided the days of standards and compatibility are OVER friends, its gonna be black boxes tied to appstores. Oh its gonna be great....for them. They control the hardware, they control the software, you are just a walking wallet and every single thing can have a dollar sign attached.
And who do we have to blame for this? YOU, Apple fanboys I'm pointing a big fat finger right in your hipster faces. It is YOU that made Apple the biggest corp on the planet,even without the tax dodging, it is YOU that stood in lines like tickets to a rock concert just to get assraped on memory prices and peripherals, it is YOU that happily spent insane amounts of money in a locked down appstore. Thanks to YOU now every corp on the planet is gonna follow the Apple gameplan, so all we have is Apple and ersatz Apple, with everything locked down tighter than a nun's thighs.
So when you complain about how all your devices are throwaway black boxes and appstores please be sure to bitchslap the hipster douche sitting next to you using the iPhone, because they ARE the ones to blame for this mess. Sorry if this is a little ranty but after living through the days of proprietary power supplies and RAM I really really REALLY hoped we would see an era of standards come about, instead the iSheep are gonna fuck us all, great job guys.
The only clueless idiot is you, if you fail to learn from history. What is wealth? POWER, that is all, power in an easy to carry form. What happens with zero regulation? Those with the means to control production become richer than Gods and then use that power to consolidate even more wealth and power.
This is why we had private armies (which the same thing would happen in a 21st century libertarian state, see Blackwater) private enforcers to bash the heads of any peasants that dare strike (Pinkertons, again see Blackwater) and the trusts controlling pretty much every bit of commerce going into or out of the country.
Libertarianism doesn't work for the same reason communism doesn't work, it requires those at the top not to be greedy douchebags, which time and time again we have seen that power corrupts. All you would do is trade one master for several masters, you'd have offshoring replaced with onshoring where they would just boat in the low wage slaves to drive down the value of labor, company stores to keep the wage slaves controlled, meanwhile those at the top would live like Gods among men.
Personally I kinda wish all the right wingers would get their wish, no more help for the poor, no more social security, no more welfare, because "The tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" and I would bet my last dollar that it wouldn't last a decade before we had violent revolution. The poor outnumber you by about 10,000 to 1, like those odds? You have a country with national guard armories in every little piss ant town and it takes less than 3 hours to turn a truck into a technical. If you want to see what zero regulation looks like, see Somalia, he who has the most guns wins, and in a country as highly armed as this one it would be a bloodbath.
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I'm sorry Crosshair, you could NOT be more wrong, Romney was a classic spoiled Richie Rich fop, just like the old Python "upper class twit" sketch. Just off the top of my head, and there were DOZENS on YouTube you can pick from BTW, there was the "ugly car" story where he talked about how he "had it hard in HS and college, why i had to drive this ugly car!" and then someone showed what his "ugly car" was, it was a BRAND NEW luxury sedan straight from the showroom floor, there was the "i'm unemployed too, snicker snicker" bit, there was his wife with her "Why we were so broke in college we had to live on our stock dividends, can you believe it?" bit, hell I could spent FIVE MINUTES on YouTube and find a couple of dozen more.
Romney didn't have a prayer because he was a Grey Poupon fop, simple as that. he had been rich since the day he popped out the womb and frankly had NO CLUE on how to actually relate to anyone that didn't have a couple of million in the bank, and how could he? he had NEVER been around a poor person in his life! He was rich, his wife was rich, he went to rich schools and hung out with rich friends, he was as clueless as Bush Sr with the scanner, he simply has had maids and servants and luxury cars and summer homes his whole life and just couldn't understand why his "little stories" completely turned off the electorate.
Oh and let us not forget the man flip flopped more than a bass thrown on the bank, you could find two completely different views on ANY given subject coming from him, just depending on which way the wind blew that day. Like him or not Obama has stayed pretty much in the same middle-left area the entire time, Romney wanted the job so bad he swung WAY the hell to the right during the primary, so far right that he was unelectable, and then tried to swing back to the center after the primary was over...it just didn't work, it made him look like a two faced rich boy saying whatever you wanted to hear to get the job.
So I'm sorry Crosshair, like 'em or hate 'em the two couldn't have been more different.
You're missing the point friend, the point of these laws is NOT to actually get the info, its to give the cops an instant "throw him under the bus" button by simply saying "He didn't provide us with X, therefor he goes to the pen" and bye bye guy.
Personally I'm getting really sick and damned tired of this "for the children" crap, because I was raised to believe you did your time and that was it, these laws are designed to punish a person for life without actually sentencing them to life. Bullshit, either give them life or when they are out STFU, what you are doing here is too damned close to Big Brother police state shit and we ALL need to stand up for these guys.
Remember folks, they pass these laws by purposely picking the ones they KNOW you won't fight for, then the laws just get wider and wider, until they can use them on anybody. Big Brother and the Nanny State NEVER gets smaller, ONLY bigger, so we have to stand up now before they widen the net. As TFA points out it can be something that has NOTHING to do with children, it could be pissing on a damned bush in the wrong state, and you'll end up just like them.
Bingo, and sadly we've seen all too often guys make things over complex to give themselves some job security.
Ultimately its gonna come down to how popular Bob is versus Vanderhoth at the org, because most likely they will have to go head to head and Bob is liable to bail if pushed leaving a big mess. if it were me I'd just point out "Look, what if he has a heart attack? Or has a car wreck? Are you willing to sink the SERIOUS MONEY to bring in a team to clean this mess up when he isn't here? because that WILL happen sooner or later, nobody lives forever" and then if the board wants to stand there and let the train hit 'em, at least he did warn them.
It is THIS, this right here, that just blows my damned mind, this "ballclub mentality" when it comes to large multinational corps. name the company, Apple, Google, MSFT, and I can provide link after link of SERIOUSLY douchebag behavior from these companies, yet there is a large section of the populace that if it is "their" company will go "la la la, can't hear you!" and root for them like its the fucking Cubs, I just don't GET that.
Is it some sort of fucked up variant of buyer's remorse, where they have to root for "their" product because God forbid they made a wrong choice? hell if i know but I think it deserves further study, because how somebody can root for some faceless megacorp they don't even have stock riding on is just beyond me.
The funny part is what did the "leaders" of the GOP say after getting curbstomped? "We need to go FARTHER RIGHT, that's why we lost!" yeah, you didn't make yourselves the "white rich old men" party ENOUGH, why you only turned off the poor, blacks, and latinos, I'm sure there are other minorities you can offend!
What the fuck...you no spek the english? They DO NOT OWN the guts, its patented by several companies that are NOT Nvidia so they can't change SHIT when it comes to licensing, okay? They DO NOT OWN HDCP and it is THOSE parts being used in GP-GPU to cut down on waste and to keep from having to double the size of the die, but they DO NOT OWN this, okay? What part of DO NOT OWN is so damned hard to grasp? I don't care what fucking license you name, BSD, MPL, fucking ABCD, they CAN NOT DO IT anymore than you can make The Lion King a GPL movie because YOU DO NOT OWN IT...get it now? No own? Its licensed tech from half a dozen companies, baked into every chip.
And again WHAT FUCKING DIFFERENCE would having ALL of the code binary VS having a header and footer be GPL and the rest redacted? NOTHING, it would change NOTHING. What you would have is ugly nasty ass hacks like AMD (which I notice you won't even touch on, because guess what? Its nasty ass and sucks compared to Windows where the devs aren't douches) where it wouldn't matter if you had a new tesla board or a Geforce 6600 because it would BOTH SUCK as you'd have this huge chunk of the chip that will never ever work in the FOSS driver. And again because they weren't "100% GPL compliant" the devs would keep right on being douches, drivers still get broken, and Nvidia gains not a single sale, why the fuck should they waste all that money? To make some license nazi happy?
Watch as I make a prediction, ready? Linux gains NO SHARE even though Win 8 is more hated than Vista, because the douchenozzle devs refuse to keep breaking shit like spoiled 14 years olds and between them and the FOSSie camp, which overlaps a lot, you simply won't get the stability and solid drivers required for ANY OEM to look at you as more than a joke. BTW before you dare bring up Dell you should know they have to run their own damned repo even though they ONLY have a dozen models, because the damned drivers break otherwise (surprise surprise) and they refuse to tell you how much profit they have made on Linux sales, why? Because the cost of running their own repo kills any profit, that's why! Its strictly a PR move, designed to make the FOSSie faction STFU, which is why they bury it on a back page and try like hell to warn people away from the Linux systems!
Actually talking to some Linux admins the only reason datacenters are full of Linux? COST with a capital C, MSFT under Ballmer has made WinServer licenses this hedge maze of doom, where one can't be sure you are in compliance without a corporate lawyer, and the whole requiring users to have CALs pisses guys off. But since with servers 1.- The hardware never changes, 2.-They all run distros that stick to truly ancient kernels and have glacial update schedules, like Debian Stable or Red Hat, then 3.- They don't have the problems desktops do.
But I'm sorry that you can't hold this conversation without trying to move the goalposts but we are NOT talking about datacenters, or routers, or embedded, we are talking about desktops and in that market? Yes your product is inferior by a great lot because of the very issues I mentioned along with devs being arrogant assholes, see Torvalds flipping Nvidia for an example, and the simple fact that nobody spends money on the desktop, only server, so the quality just isn't there.
Ya know, that's the one thing I'll miss about this campaign, old Mittens and Ann talking their "folksy" stories that were so fucking 1% that they hurt. The ugly car, the "I'm unemployed too!" cracks, it was so obvious they were both born with platinum spoons in their mouths and have never had to think for a single second about budgets or money that it actually made for some good foppish humor.
There was a commercial in the 80s shown nationally that had one rich fop in a limo pull up to another fop in a limo, roll down his window and go "pardon me, but do you have any grey puopon?" and since then the brand has been tied to rich foppish snooty clueless dweebs, picture Thurston Howell the III.
While there have been rich people in the past that have truly changed history and helped the poor and middle class, Teddy busting the trusts for one, instead of saying "Yes I'm rich, I'm rich because I had advantages you didn't have, and what we should be doing is making sure that everyone has an equal shot" he gave us the ugly car speech, the 47% crack, hell go to YouTube man, when Richie Rich THOUGHT there weren't any cameras around the guy turned into Thurston Howell the third!
And if you want the poor and middle class to believe you? You DO NOT lie your damned ass off and flip flop every other second! Mitt that candidate could have ran against MA Mitt and they'd have had nothing in common! Instead of saying "I'm sorry, I know some in the party believe in this but I don't" he flip flopped on healthcare, abortion, taxes, you name it you can find two polar opposite statements both coming from the same guy's mouth.
So I have a question for you: Why in the FUCK should we trust a guy that talks like Thurston Howell, hides his money in the Caymans, gutted and outsourced companies, and who reversed his own position at least once on every damned subject?
Actually the brand really makes NO difference as they ALL have this problem, OCZ drives just seem to have it worse. I have gamer customers that are on their sixth and seventh SSDs, all different brands from Intel to Samsung to OCZ and NONE of them have any kind of warning before controller fail, just flip the switch one day and the drive is poof! Completely gone.
And of course if its under warranty you have the option of sending the dead drive with ALL your data, as you found out, and hope some asshole in whatever third world country they dispose of them in doesn't get your data off, or say fuck the warranty and just eat the cost of the drive.
This is why I tell my customers if they are going SSD to NOT put anything they care about or would care if the world saw it, not if they want to actually use that warranty because they WILL have the drive fail before it goes out, I've seen customers baby the hell out of them, even put coolers on the drive in the hope lack of heat would fix it...nope, they ALL have this bug.
/facepalm/ Did you not even read the very first sentence before you replied? which part of CAN'T DO IT is so damned hard to understand?
As for why they can't just "put those parts" into a binary...because it won't fricking work? you are talking about gutting the very HEART of the system, what would that accomplish? Would it make the devs quit acting like douches and breaking the drivers? Nope because its not GPL V3 so they wouldn't be "supporting the spirit of Open Source" and the devs would go right on being douches.
And sure AMD "just works" if you mean "Works like a card from 7 years ago" because again a HUGE section of the chip CAN NOT be accessed because UVD, which if you'll go look its actually a pretty damned big component of the APUs especially, simply can't be accessed without risking breaking HDCP and getting AMD chips blacklisted. You know what the FOSS devs are doing? You can go and look it up, its an UGLY hack that is using the shaders for hardware acceleration, like the old X19xx cards did. So you will waste MORE power on Linux than in Windows, make MORE heat, and will have a lower battery life, all because the devs won't quit being douches and breaking the damned binary drivers!
And here we go with the classic "moving the goalposts" by dropping servers into the mix. You know what every Linux advocate sounds like when they do that? Well my truck gets 20 miles to the gallon, well my car gets 34.../Linux user/ Well my rowboat gets a billion!...WHAT THE FUCK does that have to do with the conversation? Serious WHAT does servers have a damned thing to do with desktops, which was the SUBJECT?
Its actually very simple, Linux works on servers in spite of the devs not because of them, because Windows licensing is a hedgemaze of restrictions and they keep raising the costs it is CHEAPER to pay some guy 6 figures to deal with all the Linux bullshit, maybe even hire the guys that broke the subsystems to fix it. That is NOT a credit to Linux, that is just how greedy and stupid MSFT runs the WinServer division. If they were to switch to a three tier license and no user CALs? Mark my words they'd slaughter Linux, but they make so much money as it is they simply don't care, not with Ballmer wanting to be the head of Apple and caring only about phones and tablets.
so I'm sorry but not only can Nvidia NOT go GPL but the suggestion you have would fix absolutely nothing, because if anything was made perfectly clear on past statements its that the FOSSie camp in the devs will accept nothing less than 100% GPL compliance, and your idea would be like having the first and last line of a book in free print and the rest redacted. The only way they could "open" shit would be to do like AMD and just leave the most powerful parts of the chip completely black box, which would make the performance difference between a new Nvidia chip and a 4 year old one negligible, and would be completely pointless since ALL of the major parts that people actual run Nvidia cards on Linux for, the GP-GPU support, would be gone anyway.
Thanks, that makes sense. It does make me wonder how they planned to use those nukes in a tactical situation though, after all if you've hit the main targets already but the Russian tanks were rolling through the EU (a popular cold war scenario) you'd want to have the ability to target those battlefields. Maybe they figured that would be for the bombers and the subs were strictly city targets, I never did much research into sub warfare so hell if I know.
Thanks but what I want even more than mod points is for people to wake the fuck up and see that this nanny state style control NEVER gets smaller and more free, ALWAYS tougher and less free, unless you actively fight it.
Take the smokers. I warned people "They are the canaries in the coal mine, they will NOT stop with just them" but did they listen? Now you not only have cities where you can be arrested for smoking in your own home, but we have NY deciding how much soda your cup can have and states on the east coast talking about fat taxes and sugar taxes...for your own good of course, can't have you peasants making choices now can we?
And considering how the Internet is one of the last truly free places on this planet this corporate control scares the fuck out of me, it seems like a race to see who can spy on you the worst, and control you the most, and the really scary part is the winner will have lines around the block as people pay to have their control taken away!
I don't know about you but I REMEMBER the age of the black boxes in the early 80s and it was great...for the corps, they could just make you buy a new device because nothing was fixable, upgradeable, and each new version would be incompatible with the previous. But for the users it sucked big hairy balls. Now I sit here gobsmacked as these hipsters sell our future control away for shiny trinkets and a brand identity, it just blows my damned mind.
Actually they are doing it IRL too, not just cyberspace, which is why I have been saying for years "You better fight for the smokers! They are the canaries in the coal mine!" and sure enough we now have cities that make it illegal to smoke in your own home, or even on PUBLIC lands, and now we have states telling you how big a coke you can have and are talking about fat taxes and sweet taxes.
Remember friend, the whole nanny state "we know what is best for you" NEVER gets smaller and more free, ALWAYS bigger and less free. This is what pissed me off about Apple users, St. Steve could fuck them 8 ways from Sunday and they'd call him a genius for doing it, now thanks to their slavish devotion to everything with a lower case i in front of it we are ALL gonna go back to early 80s black boxes. Great job guys.
Sorry if I made it sound like a war against Apple, its not, they have EVERY right to be as big a dicks as they want with their products.
No the war should be against the BUYERS of Apple products, those hipster douches that threw money at Apple, no matter how badly they got screwed on memory, and threw even more money at Apple for locked down apps.
It is because of THEM that we are gonna end up ALL of us trapped in Apple walled gardens, because every other corp is gonna look at Apple's financials and say "Well people seem willing to pay out the ass to make them their masters, if that is what they want then by God we'll take control away from them too! Then they'll love us like they love Apple!"
Now that shit is infecting every damned device like a bad case of the clap, I mean can anybody look at MSFT's recent moves and NOT think "They are trying to be the ersatz Apple" or even Linux with Canonical, yet another going appstores and tablet UIs, everyone is going to appstores and black boxes, and we know whom to blame, all those damned hipsters that paid those insane markups and bought apps out the ass just to show they can be as hip as their hipster douchey friends.
THIS, this right here, was why everyone on the right side of the aisle did a "Anybody but Romney!" song and dance for the entire primary, as they KNEW that Mittens for so damned spoiled and THOUGHT he was clever and just wouldn't STFU and instead his "Richie Rich" persona bled on through.
I knew the man was dead in the water before the primary even ended, when he did his "I'm a normal guy!" speech when he talked about having to go through late HS and early college with "a truly ugly car" and someone said "Uhhh...that "ugly car" was a BRAND NEW LUXURY CAR that rolled straight out of daddy's plant and into your garage Mittens" and that was when I knew this guy was DOA, when even his "I'm normal!" story ends up involving luxury cars handed out by daddy? Yeah they were fucked, the LAST thing you run in a bad economy is a Grey Puopon spoiled little rich kid.
What is truly scary is...this is it folks, this is the BEST the parties have to offer. Kinda sad isn't it? Man do we need a new system, something where we can have multiple parties like they have in EU, gotta be better than this "Coke VS Pepsi" races we have here.
Has anybody actually USED both IMs here? How do they compare? because my dad and all his old buddies are on Windows messenger and if its a giant change man is my life gonna SUCK because guess who has to deal with it.
Why of why is Ballmer trying so hard to torpedo the company? Is he shorting the stock? Because he seems to be doing his damnedest to shit all over every popular property they have. If they wanted to add Skype support I can see that, even though I thought they were gonna push Skype for their business customers and maybe integrate it with the X720 or whatever its gonna be called, but why destroy something that is actually popular like Windows messenger?
Drivers? Like it or not with so many major subsystems constantly being futzed with drivers break a LOT more often on Linux than they do on Windows.
This of course makes complete sense if one takes only a second to think about it, you have multiple kernels, major changes to the subsystems, and only a limited number of devs, most of which have no ties to the hardware whose drivers they are working on. Compare this to Windows where you'll have a single kernel for the 10 year run of the OS, same subsystems, and the OEMs only have to make a single driver for that OS and its good for the life of that OS.
So...yeah, I can see why you would want to run a Windows host with multiple Linux VMs, and since MSFT has been bundling SUSE and selling licenses with WinServer for years I can see buying a slot to sell HyperV.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the whole point of a nuclear sub was second strike capability, therefor they would have to have the launch codes since the weapons would have to be able to be launched after DC and the rest of the command infrastructure was blown away.
Whether they are quote unquote allied with al Qaeda frankly isn't the point, the point is history will label the "Arab Spring" with a more appropriate label which is "Islamic Spring" as every place that has had an Islamic Spring has seen the rise of the ultra militant Islam movement and their gaining more power.
Sooner or later the west is gonna wake up and accept that Islam and the west are simply incompatible and that we should be pursuing a policy of containment just as we did with communism. As long as the "moderate Muslims" refuse to stand up to the Mullahs there is NO moderates, because by remaining silent they are actively helping the radicals become more powerful. Remember "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" and that is EXACTLY what we are seeing all over the Islamic world, the radicals are given free reign by a populace that refuses to stand up to them. Even in the west, look at how many mosques have been openly preaching hate, are the mosques empty? Do the moderates walk out when the mullahs preach "death to the west!"? Nope, they still give their money and support.
So the west doing anything to support or encourage an Islamic spring is frankly madness, because ANY government that replaces Assad will be an Islamic theocracy, with the destruction of Israel and the west as its goals.
What I love is the complete racism that this entire line of thinking implies, its "Hey we'll just rig the batteries or put a chip, those damned towelheads don't have enough sense to actually reverse engineer anything, hell they are goat herders ha ha ha!"...yeah, like they had ANY trouble reverse engineering the first stingers. Hell there is an area of Pakistan that for over a century has made their living being "the land of weapon knockoffs" and has been since the first world war.
Do they SERIOUSLY think there isn't a single engineer in that country? That when DRM that "protects" $60 games doesn't work they can protect something that could make the hacker a half a million per missile? But the ugly truth of it is this is born of racism, they think of everyone in the middle east as uneducated cave dwellers that couldn't possibly beat their cleverness. Mark my words these things won't be on the ground 6 months before the knockoffs start hitting the market. Of course I'm sure the terrorists will be grateful to have the latest in USA weapons tech, just imagine what a dozen stingers could do outside of major airports during holiday rush...they could make 9/11 look like a liquor store holdup gone bad.
Hey what is the weather like on fantasy island? Is the little midget still going "De plane!" all the time? The trusts did NOT die, they were KILLED by the power of the US government. See Teddy Roosevelt and the busting of the trusts. If he had not brought the full weight of the US government to bear they would STILL be controlling the country, and just FYI but unions didn't come about until AFTER Teddy busted the trusts and stopped them from having private armies, thus proving libertarian utopias simply don't work.
But hey, I truly hope you get everything you desire, because a little revolution now and then is ultimately good for a nation. I'm sure after the violent overthrow of the corporate masters, many of whom will be executed, things might actually be nice, hell we might even end up with a social democracy like in Iceland. Sadly most revolutions go through a period of fascism or dictatorship built around a cult of personality, but if it got rid of the lie that you can fix lack of regulation with deregulation it would probably be a small price to pay. Again see Somalia, they have cell phones, infrastructure, and NO government at all...where is that libertarian paradise? Oh right, since they have no military to defend their shores the EU is dumping toxic waste right off their shoreline, because they have no law anybody with enough money to buy a few technicals rules their own little area with an iron fist...simply boost that up by a factor of 50 and you'll see what a libertarian paradise would be like in the USA, toxic waste, foul air, and private armies controlling the peasants.
So I'm sorry friend, but the "isms" never work, not capitalism, nor communism, nor libertarianism, nor fascism, because in the end they ALL need those at the top not to be greedy douchebags, and history has shown time after time after time that is simply not the case. Without rules those who control natural monopolies will use their capital to create unnatural monopolies and stifle competition until you end up with the trusts all over again, a handful of rich old white guys sniffing their brandy while they divide up the spoils.
Welcome to the future, or as we old greybeards call it "Hey remember when everything was locked down black boxes?" because we are doomed to repeat our history. Whether we like it or not, whether we protest it or not, the big megacorps have decided the days of standards and compatibility are OVER friends, its gonna be black boxes tied to appstores. Oh its gonna be great....for them. They control the hardware, they control the software, you are just a walking wallet and every single thing can have a dollar sign attached.
And who do we have to blame for this? YOU, Apple fanboys I'm pointing a big fat finger right in your hipster faces. It is YOU that made Apple the biggest corp on the planet,even without the tax dodging, it is YOU that stood in lines like tickets to a rock concert just to get assraped on memory prices and peripherals, it is YOU that happily spent insane amounts of money in a locked down appstore. Thanks to YOU now every corp on the planet is gonna follow the Apple gameplan, so all we have is Apple and ersatz Apple, with everything locked down tighter than a nun's thighs.
So when you complain about how all your devices are throwaway black boxes and appstores please be sure to bitchslap the hipster douche sitting next to you using the iPhone, because they ARE the ones to blame for this mess. Sorry if this is a little ranty but after living through the days of proprietary power supplies and RAM I really really REALLY hoped we would see an era of standards come about, instead the iSheep are gonna fuck us all, great job guys.
The only clueless idiot is you, if you fail to learn from history. What is wealth? POWER, that is all, power in an easy to carry form. What happens with zero regulation? Those with the means to control production become richer than Gods and then use that power to consolidate even more wealth and power.
This is why we had private armies (which the same thing would happen in a 21st century libertarian state, see Blackwater) private enforcers to bash the heads of any peasants that dare strike (Pinkertons, again see Blackwater) and the trusts controlling pretty much every bit of commerce going into or out of the country.
Libertarianism doesn't work for the same reason communism doesn't work, it requires those at the top not to be greedy douchebags, which time and time again we have seen that power corrupts. All you would do is trade one master for several masters, you'd have offshoring replaced with onshoring where they would just boat in the low wage slaves to drive down the value of labor, company stores to keep the wage slaves controlled, meanwhile those at the top would live like Gods among men.
Personally I kinda wish all the right wingers would get their wish, no more help for the poor, no more social security, no more welfare, because "The tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" and I would bet my last dollar that it wouldn't last a decade before we had violent revolution. The poor outnumber you by about 10,000 to 1, like those odds? You have a country with national guard armories in every little piss ant town and it takes less than 3 hours to turn a truck into a technical. If you want to see what zero regulation looks like, see Somalia, he who has the most guns wins, and in a country as highly armed as this one it would be a bloodbath.