Hell they could have added the appstore as a gadget and in the start menu and gotten many people on board, instead by being retarded and tying the thing to a whole new OS as you said they'll have to wait until the next hardware refresh and the business users look like they are gonna hang onto Win 7 like they did XP so they won't be getting them until 2019.
I have NEVER seen a company fracture their user base so badly before. At least Google has an excuse as 2.2 is so low on system reqs a lot of the cheap stuff still uses it, whereas MSFT fractured over IE, they fractured over DirectX, and now they fracture over Win 8...no wonder Forbes named Ballmer worst CEO, MSFT are their own worst enemy.
Uhhh, your magic 8 ball be broke, because if there was ever a "WTF are they thinking?" it would be WinRT. No apps, no compatibility with Windows, confusing as fuck to the consumer, and as TFA says by the time their asses got it out the door frankly the differences between ARM and X86 are all but gone.
Mark my words, the only "place" it will have is being on Woot! in a year for $99, ala the Touchpad. Why would you want this when Intel is gonna have Medifield and AMD Hondo, where you can actually keep all your Windows programs and still have good battery life? What has kept Windows tablets from selling frankly are the facts the OEMs really didn't have any good low power X86 chips to put in them, the screens cost too much, and Windows didn't do touch UI very well, well those problems are fixed now. Intel and AMD have affordable low power chips, touch screens are cheap and plentiful, and Win 8 is made for touch.
If this would have came out 3 years ago? It would have made sense, but with full Win 8 tablets about to come out its gonna be a far back fourth place, behind Apple, Google, and Win 8. If you thought WinPhone had a lack of apps just wait, WinRT is gonna be a fricking app ghost town!
If by "just works" you mean you install it on 1.- A desktop a couple of years old,so you don't have to deal with the mess that is wireless 2.- You idea of "work" only involves a browser, an IDE, and LO, 3.- you don't actually update it EVAR so you don't have to deal with "update foo broke my driver"...then yes it does work.
The problem is you just eliminated a good 85% of the planet with that list. there is a REASON why the ONLY inroads Linux has made is because of Google Android, where they took the kernel away from Torvalds, its because Torvalds and his old guard clic simply will never change the way they do things.
Heck even one of the developers of Red Hat says Torvalds "top down let the devs control everything" approach is WRONG and has made the desktop "suckage" and that if anything Linux should be copying Android in just concentrating on the kernel and let the makers of the hardware deal with the drivers, certainly more open than the way its done now and he does have some really good points to make.
Uhhh...if you already have Win 7 and its working fine, why bother "going" anywhere? My customers, family, and I are simply gonna stick with Win 7. All our software and hardware works fine, we all have relatively recent multicores, there is no point in "going" anywhere, not when Win 7 will get updates until 2020 and hopefully Ballmer's fat stupid ass will be out of the big chair before then.
So just stay where you are, it won't cost you a cent, you'll have updates for the rest of the decade and by the time Win 7 hits EOL your system will be old enough you'll need to buy a new one anyway and its easier to change software with hardware than go through the upgrade mess.
"The Shmenge Brothers" and good luck even finding a crappy youtube rip of that one anymore, the RIAA slap the shit out of anybody that dares post it, which is a damned shame as its a polka Stairway that is pretty damned funny.
Haven't figured out how the game is played yet? Nobody was allowed to buy XP when Vista was out, what they bought was "Vista with downgrade rights" that way the Balmminator could claim "Look at how many Vista copies we sold!" while everyone just shitcanned the Vista DVD and stuck with XP.
Its just a retarded marketing numbers game that Forbes worst CEO likes to play, it makes him feel all warm and fuzzy and gives him lots of bullshit numbers he can wave around while everybody else knows the score. Bullshit? Yep. Stupid? You betcha, but hey, that's the Balmminator for ya, all about the PHB marketing crap.
There is a MUCH easier way to update all your third party stuff friend, frankly there is also a much easier way to install it in the first place as well. For the initial install just go to Ninite and check what you need, oh and no toolbars or forced Chrome install either, while if you have a system you just need to check updates for use Update Checker which will scan the system and pop up the browser with a list of anything that is out of date, you can even choose to have it show you beta releases if you'd like to be cutting edge.
So there really is no point in doing things the old way friend, BTW check my previous post for a link to WSUS Offline which will let you install all the Windows patches just as easy and unattended.
The reason autopatcher stagnated is a lot of folks moved over to WSUS Offline because while it doesn't give you the little reg "tweaks' of APUP what it DOES do is give you all the SPs and patches, including MS Office and.NET, and lets you roll them into anything you want, thumbsticks, DVDs, shared drive on the network, and it'll let you cover both server and desktop versions so frankly its a lot friendlier. Since i don't work on servers much anymore mine is set up on a share drive with all the desktop OSes, even Win XP X64 which APUP never really supported well, and I can just point any new install at the share and run it.
BTW it'll install a good 90% of the patches without requiring a reboot, but if you don't want to have to mess with any reboots at all it has command line switches that will let it take care of reboots and finishing up but you have to kill UAC for the duration of the install so it'll have the permissions.
Nope I can confirm as i've seen it too. Install.NET 4, reboot, no updates. It seems to happen more with X64 than X86, but I've seen it on both. I always carry a copy of WSUS Offline with all the latest updates for whatever OS I'm gonna be working on in the thumbstick in my wallet so i was able to install them that way, but repeated checks with WU showed no updates available even though i knew there were missing patches.
Wish i could tell you the "why" but I can't, all I can tell you is that WU and.NET 4 sometimes just don't play nice.
Uhhh...look at my previous post for the links, what you want is WSUS Offline which will let you put ALL the patches, SPs, even MS Office and.NET updates, all into a single automated unattended installer, no tech know how required, enjoy.
Let old Hairy fix that problem right up...blam! there ya go, no charge. hell I'll even be nice and take care of the third party stuff most folks want...slam!. Just use these two and go make you a sammich while they run, totally unattended, no muss, no fuss, and with WSUS Offline you can even have it apply the updates for MS Office and.NET while its at it. I keep WSUS on a network drive at the shop, it has every SP and update for every version of Windows from XP - Win 7 X64, while I'm installing the OS I just tell WSUS to drop the latest patches and SP along with.NET into a folder labeled for that OS and its ready to run by the time I hear the Windows chime, couldn't be simpler. you can even have it put the updates onto a thumbstick or DVD if you need to do it somewhere where else, easy peasy friend.
Actually as someone that used Win 3.11 I resent that remark, Win 3.11 looked nice. Windows 8 is AOL 96 complete with ugly green background that nobody liked even then, thanks ever so.
Actually it appears, at least on the home front, that MSFT is sticking to the "Star Trek" rule, in that they are using one version as a beta for suckers and then what they learn from what went wrong they incorporate into a new better version, just as "even numbers good except Nemesis" with Star Trek. WinME sucked but they learned how to set up system restore, XP good (well after SP2, still had a lot of teething problems before that), Vista sucked ass but they learned how to do UAC and have a better driver model, Win 7 is great out the gate, Win 8 sucks hairy balls but will teach them what not to do with Win 9.
As for MSFT "forcing" anybody? honestly i think after Vista they just don't have the clout anymore. They just aren't the 800 pound gorilla they were under Gates and everybody knows it, look at how the OEMs threatened to revolt and they got XP licenses to sell and managed to keep it going long past Vista. I have a feeling the same is gonna happen to Win 8 and no matter how big a stiffie the thought of an appstore gives Ballmer the board isn't gonna let the OEMs start talking up making their own fork of Linux or selling Android on the desktops so they'll cave, Win 7 will stick around like XP before it, and MSFT will have to go back to the drawing board.
JUST FYI to all those out there who don't know THE FASTER IS A LIE, its a bad hack they bolted on that will cause more problems than they fix. Look up "Win 8 Hybrid boot" to see what I mean their "speed boost" is nothing but a hacked together hybrid of hibernate and sleep that keeps the OS state no matter how you shut down so clean reboots are a thing of the past, in fact you'll have to drop down to CLI and turn the damned thing off to force a clean boot on Windows 8...just stupid.
Except that price is only good until Jan 17th just as it was with Win 7, then it'll be right back to the $200. You see THIS is the bitch, you have MSFT trying to charge like its only putting out one and a half every decade but crank them out every 3 years, and its gonna fucking bomb HARD. if they had any sense they'd be selling features and offering the appstore to Win 7 for free, instead like the media cartels they are gonna try to hang onto the old business practices while trying to glom on to the next wave, retarded.
But see that's the bitch here, they are NOT boosting the exports, they are effectively blocking us from competing on their home turf. A bag of AR rice that should cost $4 there costs nearly $40 because of all the tariffs they put on it, and an item made in the USA will cost 8 to 12 times more in China than that exact same object, even if you imprt all of the materials and simply have a Chinese put it together, because while they are happy to take our money they WILL NOT allow our goods into their markets. this is why our trade is so fucked, all these countries are willing to take our money, which of course is stupid because ever since the gold standard was dropped by Nixon its just been monopoly money printed as needed, but it makes America pretty much unable to compete because we will willingly trade with those that won't allow an American good on their shelves while we allow their goods onto ours, even when we shouldn't like foods from China where their environmental laws are non-existent.
But here is a video you should find informative Crosshair, and especially look at the charts starting at around 3.35...notice the HUGE jump? this bubble is gonna make the 29 bust look like a bad weekend. they've talked about Japan and the lost decade? Historians are likely to talk about America and the lost century, if we manage to survive without breaking up like the USSR. Basically you have the retirements and the poor completely locked into the market thanks to 401k and 403b and when that bubble pops it'll be worse than the bank runs, as these people are gonna be left with NOTHING, no disability, no welfare, no retirement, it'll be like Zimbabwe where you need a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread, its gonna be ugly friend, REAL ugly.
Yeah IIRC it took years of complaints about the classic Belushi "Dueling Cockers" before that showed back on their "best of' sets because it had them singing and I guess its policy that if there is any music to just not mess with it. Kinda sad that copyrights have become such a fucking mess that many shows that had pop music of the time in them are getting butchered (WKRP, Daria) or just not shown at all. If I believed in an afterlife I'd hope that Jack Valenti is burning in hell right now, greedy fuck.
Thanks for the info, I have one or two customers that have chosen to stay with FF so the next time they complain about FF being sluggish I'll tell them to try the monkey. What finally broke me of FF was FF 6, I'd try to go watch YouTube at the shop and frankly it had become such a slideshow I was having to download the videos and play them off the hard drive. The same month it came out I had gotten AnVir Task Manager off of Giveawayoftheday and that is when i had it slapped in my face it wasn't the system getting sluggish, because AnVir gives you a resource meter in the tray and mousing over it I'd see the CPU just slammed into redline and every. single. time. it said "CPU usage 100% Firefox=" and it would be like 96,97,98% CPU was being taken by FF. That was the last straw for me.
Uhhh...you charging $45 an hour labor friend? it takes less than 4 minutes for me to change the closet bulb, and I do so about once every THREE YEARS and that is with the cheapos, if the ban hadn't gotten rid of the higher quality bulbs I doubt I'd have to change more than once a decade.
The simple fact is, and like it or not you can't make the math work, is that the LEDs simply won't ever break even in places like closets and bathrooms where the bulbs are rarely on more than 5-10 minutes max. When you figure in the cost of power, the price of the bulbs, and the lifetime of the bulb, I'm sorry but that 50c bulb ends up being the winner over your $40 LED every. single. time. This isn't some subjective thing like "Which CPU works best for me" but tables to figure TCO have existed for ages, its really not hard to do, and your math? it just don't work.
Well the nice thing about these heatpipe coolers is you really don't have to worry about orientation, at least not with the coolermasters. You can't see it in the picture but They design the base so YOU decide which way it is gonna blow, up/down or front/back. Most of the systems I build use the mTAX cases so its also front/back which is one of the reasons I stick with coolermaster, as some of the others you do get stuck on one orientation or another, but with these you bolt the base for whichever type of chip you've chosen onto the base of the HS and that way can point it anyway you like.
But you really should look at these long term, since the fans are standard, you can change bases, so frankly the HSF can last as long as you want and through as many machines as you want. Simply keep the old HSF along with the parts to switch bases and the instruction booklet and you can then just slap the old HSF on and move the coolermaster to the new unit. Simply wipe the old paste off, apply new, bolt it on, and you're back in business.
If you really want your system to shine? You really do need one of these. Frankly I have yet to see a decent stock cooler, even the best ones from Intel and AMD suck horribly compared to even the low end heatpipes. My place is kinda hot right now as I've had multiple PCs getting re-installs and my N520 has my hexacore at just 101f and its not even spun up. If you live in a hot climate the TX will definitely help drop those temps and will last you for many years, just hang onto the booklet and parts and you're golden. Enjoy.
No, just seems like they are trying to phase out older OSes faster and raise their stock price FTFY.
God what I wouldn't give to be locked in a room for an hour with Steve Ballmer, as I would give him the lecture from hell.
WTF are you doing man? The trend is for PCs to last LONGER, yet you are trying to make your fucking money by sending the clock back to 1993? WHAT THE FUCK? God a fucking chimp could make money with Windows, and you are pissing it away? Sell fucking features you retard! I shouldn't need to have Pro for XP Mode, I should be able to buy it ala carte, same with Bitlocker, same with any other damned feature! I don't care if its Basic, Home, what the fuck ever, let us buy what pieces we fricking want instead of the SKUs being forced down our throats! You wanna keep making money on an OS? Well here is your chance! Keep coming up with NEW FEATURES you can sell us and if its cool, we'll fucking buy! Hell I'll even give ya the first one for free, just to show ya I'm a nice guy. You know Windows remote assistance? Ya that's brilliant, now EXTEND it, link it to a MSFT server and give me an encrypted hash I can put on my flash stick so you have two factor authentication, and let me access my computer from anywhere! Do you know how often I've had to use third party stuff to set up this exact same thing because small businesses WANT to be able to access work from home and vice versa? You could make a fucking killing man!
If anybody from MSFT is reading this STOP IT, just stop it! You are NOT APPLE, we don't need an ersatz Apple, and it sure as fuck ain't 1993 anymore, so just stop it! You have one of the most successful brands in history, a 15 year old could make money with it, and yet you shit billions down the drain on one crazy Apple ripoff after another? STOP IT, do what you are good at, tell that R&D bunch you pay so much to be coming up with cool ideas for add ons and sell the fuck out of them. Remember what Jobs said? that "MSFT doesn't have to lose for Apple to win"? Well that works both ways! So just STOP IT already, as all you are doing is looking like fools, getting labels like "lost decade" and "worst CEO" and are dealing with flatline stocks because nobody thinks you have enough sense to compete!
Well I found it and on the few tests where the new chips win they are looking at just a few percent, maybe 7% on the tests practically design for PD.
Hmmm...less than 7% on a few cases, and even or below the margin for error on the rest...for a chip that costs $70+ more than the Phenom II X6? I think I'll pass, the Thuban is the better bang for the buck.
They have already announced we AM3+ owners will be getting one more chip, excavator, so I think I'll wait. Personally the fact they are gonna put out another AM3+ chip looks like a bad sign to me, as dual channel memory has to be a bottleneck but its like someone at AMD is saying "Look these chips just won't sell with such MOR performance if we make them buy a new board as well and the AM3+ boards are dirt cheap, best stick with it until we can get something better".
Which just proves most mainstream games aren't gonna struggle on pretty much ANY CPU made in the last 5 years short of Sempron or Celeron.
In fact just for shits and giggles I decided to see what it would take to drag down my Phenom II X6 and the only time I could really get the system to drop below 30FPS (although to be fair, with all the fireballs it may have been the HD4850 choking) was in Just Cause II when I did my own version of "cool guys don't watch explosions" by rigging an entire oil refinery with remote charges and set the whole thing off while doing the cool walk.
Frankly with the price of AAA graphics fests hitting over 100 million i have to wonder if the days of CPU and GPU slamming games are gonna be more of a rarity than the rule, because of the crazy costs associated with making them. Wasn't it one of the guys at Epic that said they made more on their iPhone game than their last AAA titles? With chips from even 5 years ago being so insanely overpowered the amount of crap you gotta put on the screen to really slam one of these chips is just nuts, and I'd hate to see the bill on the coding required to slam the latest Core i7s.
If you want gaming on the cheap you need to look at the Phenom II X6 chips, you can pick them up for like $110 and in most benches they are just a few percentage points away from the FX 8s and usually beat the FX 4s pretty handily.
Since i have two boys that also game and i wanted us to be pretty evenly matched i had to be seriously picky when it came to price, me and the oldest who play more hardcore games got X6s while the youngest who is more into MMOs took the 925 quad and paired with some HD4850s I got cheap we blow through pretty much any game we want at the monitors 1600x900 resolution with plenty of bling and nice framerates. Just Cause II, Saints Row 3, the Crysis series, Payday the Heist, everything plays nice and the systems were pretty cheap to build.
Uhhh...They don't have a Fred's where you are at? I get incandescents at Fred's, 4 for $1.10 I believe was what i paid for the last batch and I use them for just what you describe, places like the closet and bathroom where they are only gonna be on a few minutes while using the CFLs in places like the living room where the light is on longer.
I can't really tell any difference in the number of times i change them because as you noted CFLs don't do well with "flip on and off" situations either, and the bulbs are cheap enough i really don't care.
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Hell they could have added the appstore as a gadget and in the start menu and gotten many people on board, instead by being retarded and tying the thing to a whole new OS as you said they'll have to wait until the next hardware refresh and the business users look like they are gonna hang onto Win 7 like they did XP so they won't be getting them until 2019.
I have NEVER seen a company fracture their user base so badly before. At least Google has an excuse as 2.2 is so low on system reqs a lot of the cheap stuff still uses it, whereas MSFT fractured over IE, they fractured over DirectX, and now they fracture over Win 8...no wonder Forbes named Ballmer worst CEO, MSFT are their own worst enemy.
Uhhh, your magic 8 ball be broke, because if there was ever a "WTF are they thinking?" it would be WinRT. No apps, no compatibility with Windows, confusing as fuck to the consumer, and as TFA says by the time their asses got it out the door frankly the differences between ARM and X86 are all but gone.
Mark my words, the only "place" it will have is being on Woot! in a year for $99, ala the Touchpad. Why would you want this when Intel is gonna have Medifield and AMD Hondo, where you can actually keep all your Windows programs and still have good battery life? What has kept Windows tablets from selling frankly are the facts the OEMs really didn't have any good low power X86 chips to put in them, the screens cost too much, and Windows didn't do touch UI very well, well those problems are fixed now. Intel and AMD have affordable low power chips, touch screens are cheap and plentiful, and Win 8 is made for touch.
If this would have came out 3 years ago? It would have made sense, but with full Win 8 tablets about to come out its gonna be a far back fourth place, behind Apple, Google, and Win 8. If you thought WinPhone had a lack of apps just wait, WinRT is gonna be a fricking app ghost town!
If by "just works" you mean you install it on 1.- A desktop a couple of years old,so you don't have to deal with the mess that is wireless 2.- You idea of "work" only involves a browser, an IDE, and LO, 3.- you don't actually update it EVAR so you don't have to deal with "update foo broke my driver"...then yes it does work.
The problem is you just eliminated a good 85% of the planet with that list. there is a REASON why the ONLY inroads Linux has made is because of Google Android, where they took the kernel away from Torvalds, its because Torvalds and his old guard clic simply will never change the way they do things.
Heck even one of the developers of Red Hat says Torvalds "top down let the devs control everything" approach is WRONG and has made the desktop "suckage" and that if anything Linux should be copying Android in just concentrating on the kernel and let the makers of the hardware deal with the drivers, certainly more open than the way its done now and he does have some really good points to make.
Uhhh...if you already have Win 7 and its working fine, why bother "going" anywhere? My customers, family, and I are simply gonna stick with Win 7. All our software and hardware works fine, we all have relatively recent multicores, there is no point in "going" anywhere, not when Win 7 will get updates until 2020 and hopefully Ballmer's fat stupid ass will be out of the big chair before then.
So just stay where you are, it won't cost you a cent, you'll have updates for the rest of the decade and by the time Win 7 hits EOL your system will be old enough you'll need to buy a new one anyway and its easier to change software with hardware than go through the upgrade mess.
"The Shmenge Brothers" and good luck even finding a crappy youtube rip of that one anymore, the RIAA slap the shit out of anybody that dares post it, which is a damned shame as its a polka Stairway that is pretty damned funny.
Haven't figured out how the game is played yet? Nobody was allowed to buy XP when Vista was out, what they bought was "Vista with downgrade rights" that way the Balmminator could claim "Look at how many Vista copies we sold!" while everyone just shitcanned the Vista DVD and stuck with XP.
Its just a retarded marketing numbers game that Forbes worst CEO likes to play, it makes him feel all warm and fuzzy and gives him lots of bullshit numbers he can wave around while everybody else knows the score. Bullshit? Yep. Stupid? You betcha, but hey, that's the Balmminator for ya, all about the PHB marketing crap.
There is a MUCH easier way to update all your third party stuff friend, frankly there is also a much easier way to install it in the first place as well. For the initial install just go to Ninite and check what you need, oh and no toolbars or forced Chrome install either, while if you have a system you just need to check updates for use Update Checker which will scan the system and pop up the browser with a list of anything that is out of date, you can even choose to have it show you beta releases if you'd like to be cutting edge.
So there really is no point in doing things the old way friend, BTW check my previous post for a link to WSUS Offline which will let you install all the Windows patches just as easy and unattended.
The reason autopatcher stagnated is a lot of folks moved over to WSUS Offline because while it doesn't give you the little reg "tweaks' of APUP what it DOES do is give you all the SPs and patches, including MS Office and .NET, and lets you roll them into anything you want, thumbsticks, DVDs, shared drive on the network, and it'll let you cover both server and desktop versions so frankly its a lot friendlier. Since i don't work on servers much anymore mine is set up on a share drive with all the desktop OSes, even Win XP X64 which APUP never really supported well, and I can just point any new install at the share and run it.
BTW it'll install a good 90% of the patches without requiring a reboot, but if you don't want to have to mess with any reboots at all it has command line switches that will let it take care of reboots and finishing up but you have to kill UAC for the duration of the install so it'll have the permissions.
Nope I can confirm as i've seen it too. Install .NET 4, reboot, no updates. It seems to happen more with X64 than X86, but I've seen it on both. I always carry a copy of WSUS Offline with all the latest updates for whatever OS I'm gonna be working on in the thumbstick in my wallet so i was able to install them that way, but repeated checks with WU showed no updates available even though i knew there were missing patches.
Wish i could tell you the "why" but I can't, all I can tell you is that WU and .NET 4 sometimes just don't play nice.
Uhhh...look at my previous post for the links, what you want is WSUS Offline which will let you put ALL the patches, SPs, even MS Office and .NET updates, all into a single automated unattended installer, no tech know how required, enjoy.
Let old Hairy fix that problem right up...blam! there ya go, no charge. hell I'll even be nice and take care of the third party stuff most folks want...slam!. Just use these two and go make you a sammich while they run, totally unattended, no muss, no fuss, and with WSUS Offline you can even have it apply the updates for MS Office and .NET while its at it. I keep WSUS on a network drive at the shop, it has every SP and update for every version of Windows from XP - Win 7 X64, while I'm installing the OS I just tell WSUS to drop the latest patches and SP along with .NET into a folder labeled for that OS and its ready to run by the time I hear the Windows chime, couldn't be simpler. you can even have it put the updates onto a thumbstick or DVD if you need to do it somewhere where else, easy peasy friend.
Actually as someone that used Win 3.11 I resent that remark, Win 3.11 looked nice. Windows 8 is AOL 96 complete with ugly green background that nobody liked even then, thanks ever so.
Actually it appears, at least on the home front, that MSFT is sticking to the "Star Trek" rule, in that they are using one version as a beta for suckers and then what they learn from what went wrong they incorporate into a new better version, just as "even numbers good except Nemesis" with Star Trek. WinME sucked but they learned how to set up system restore, XP good (well after SP2, still had a lot of teething problems before that), Vista sucked ass but they learned how to do UAC and have a better driver model, Win 7 is great out the gate, Win 8 sucks hairy balls but will teach them what not to do with Win 9.
As for MSFT "forcing" anybody? honestly i think after Vista they just don't have the clout anymore. They just aren't the 800 pound gorilla they were under Gates and everybody knows it, look at how the OEMs threatened to revolt and they got XP licenses to sell and managed to keep it going long past Vista. I have a feeling the same is gonna happen to Win 8 and no matter how big a stiffie the thought of an appstore gives Ballmer the board isn't gonna let the OEMs start talking up making their own fork of Linux or selling Android on the desktops so they'll cave, Win 7 will stick around like XP before it, and MSFT will have to go back to the drawing board.
JUST FYI to all those out there who don't know THE FASTER IS A LIE, its a bad hack they bolted on that will cause more problems than they fix. Look up "Win 8 Hybrid boot" to see what I mean their "speed boost" is nothing but a hacked together hybrid of hibernate and sleep that keeps the OS state no matter how you shut down so clean reboots are a thing of the past, in fact you'll have to drop down to CLI and turn the damned thing off to force a clean boot on Windows 8...just stupid.
Except that price is only good until Jan 17th just as it was with Win 7, then it'll be right back to the $200. You see THIS is the bitch, you have MSFT trying to charge like its only putting out one and a half every decade but crank them out every 3 years, and its gonna fucking bomb HARD. if they had any sense they'd be selling features and offering the appstore to Win 7 for free, instead like the media cartels they are gonna try to hang onto the old business practices while trying to glom on to the next wave, retarded.
But see that's the bitch here, they are NOT boosting the exports, they are effectively blocking us from competing on their home turf. A bag of AR rice that should cost $4 there costs nearly $40 because of all the tariffs they put on it, and an item made in the USA will cost 8 to 12 times more in China than that exact same object, even if you imprt all of the materials and simply have a Chinese put it together, because while they are happy to take our money they WILL NOT allow our goods into their markets. this is why our trade is so fucked, all these countries are willing to take our money, which of course is stupid because ever since the gold standard was dropped by Nixon its just been monopoly money printed as needed, but it makes America pretty much unable to compete because we will willingly trade with those that won't allow an American good on their shelves while we allow their goods onto ours, even when we shouldn't like foods from China where their environmental laws are non-existent.
But here is a video you should find informative Crosshair, and especially look at the charts starting at around 3.35...notice the HUGE jump? this bubble is gonna make the 29 bust look like a bad weekend. they've talked about Japan and the lost decade? Historians are likely to talk about America and the lost century, if we manage to survive without breaking up like the USSR. Basically you have the retirements and the poor completely locked into the market thanks to 401k and 403b and when that bubble pops it'll be worse than the bank runs, as these people are gonna be left with NOTHING, no disability, no welfare, no retirement, it'll be like Zimbabwe where you need a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread, its gonna be ugly friend, REAL ugly.
Yeah IIRC it took years of complaints about the classic Belushi "Dueling Cockers" before that showed back on their "best of' sets because it had them singing and I guess its policy that if there is any music to just not mess with it. Kinda sad that copyrights have become such a fucking mess that many shows that had pop music of the time in them are getting butchered (WKRP, Daria) or just not shown at all. If I believed in an afterlife I'd hope that Jack Valenti is burning in hell right now, greedy fuck.
Thanks for the info, I have one or two customers that have chosen to stay with FF so the next time they complain about FF being sluggish I'll tell them to try the monkey. What finally broke me of FF was FF 6, I'd try to go watch YouTube at the shop and frankly it had become such a slideshow I was having to download the videos and play them off the hard drive. The same month it came out I had gotten AnVir Task Manager off of Giveawayoftheday and that is when i had it slapped in my face it wasn't the system getting sluggish, because AnVir gives you a resource meter in the tray and mousing over it I'd see the CPU just slammed into redline and every. single. time. it said "CPU usage 100% Firefox=" and it would be like 96,97,98% CPU was being taken by FF. That was the last straw for me.
Uhhh...you charging $45 an hour labor friend? it takes less than 4 minutes for me to change the closet bulb, and I do so about once every THREE YEARS and that is with the cheapos, if the ban hadn't gotten rid of the higher quality bulbs I doubt I'd have to change more than once a decade.
The simple fact is, and like it or not you can't make the math work, is that the LEDs simply won't ever break even in places like closets and bathrooms where the bulbs are rarely on more than 5-10 minutes max. When you figure in the cost of power, the price of the bulbs, and the lifetime of the bulb, I'm sorry but that 50c bulb ends up being the winner over your $40 LED every. single. time. This isn't some subjective thing like "Which CPU works best for me" but tables to figure TCO have existed for ages, its really not hard to do, and your math? it just don't work.
Well the nice thing about these heatpipe coolers is you really don't have to worry about orientation, at least not with the coolermasters. You can't see it in the picture but They design the base so YOU decide which way it is gonna blow, up/down or front/back. Most of the systems I build use the mTAX cases so its also front/back which is one of the reasons I stick with coolermaster, as some of the others you do get stuck on one orientation or another, but with these you bolt the base for whichever type of chip you've chosen onto the base of the HS and that way can point it anyway you like.
But you really should look at these long term, since the fans are standard, you can change bases, so frankly the HSF can last as long as you want and through as many machines as you want. Simply keep the old HSF along with the parts to switch bases and the instruction booklet and you can then just slap the old HSF on and move the coolermaster to the new unit. Simply wipe the old paste off, apply new, bolt it on, and you're back in business.
If you really want your system to shine? You really do need one of these. Frankly I have yet to see a decent stock cooler, even the best ones from Intel and AMD suck horribly compared to even the low end heatpipes. My place is kinda hot right now as I've had multiple PCs getting re-installs and my N520 has my hexacore at just 101f and its not even spun up. If you live in a hot climate the TX will definitely help drop those temps and will last you for many years, just hang onto the booklet and parts and you're golden. Enjoy.
No, just seems like they are trying to phase out older OSes faster and raise their stock price FTFY.
God what I wouldn't give to be locked in a room for an hour with Steve Ballmer, as I would give him the lecture from hell.
WTF are you doing man? The trend is for PCs to last LONGER, yet you are trying to make your fucking money by sending the clock back to 1993? WHAT THE FUCK? God a fucking chimp could make money with Windows, and you are pissing it away? Sell fucking features you retard! I shouldn't need to have Pro for XP Mode, I should be able to buy it ala carte, same with Bitlocker, same with any other damned feature! I don't care if its Basic, Home, what the fuck ever, let us buy what pieces we fricking want instead of the SKUs being forced down our throats! You wanna keep making money on an OS? Well here is your chance! Keep coming up with NEW FEATURES you can sell us and if its cool, we'll fucking buy! Hell I'll even give ya the first one for free, just to show ya I'm a nice guy. You know Windows remote assistance? Ya that's brilliant, now EXTEND it, link it to a MSFT server and give me an encrypted hash I can put on my flash stick so you have two factor authentication, and let me access my computer from anywhere! Do you know how often I've had to use third party stuff to set up this exact same thing because small businesses WANT to be able to access work from home and vice versa? You could make a fucking killing man!
If anybody from MSFT is reading this STOP IT, just stop it! You are NOT APPLE, we don't need an ersatz Apple, and it sure as fuck ain't 1993 anymore, so just stop it! You have one of the most successful brands in history, a 15 year old could make money with it, and yet you shit billions down the drain on one crazy Apple ripoff after another? STOP IT, do what you are good at, tell that R&D bunch you pay so much to be coming up with cool ideas for add ons and sell the fuck out of them. Remember what Jobs said? that "MSFT doesn't have to lose for Apple to win"? Well that works both ways! So just STOP IT already, as all you are doing is looking like fools, getting labels like "lost decade" and "worst CEO" and are dealing with flatline stocks because nobody thinks you have enough sense to compete!
Well I found it and on the few tests where the new chips win they are looking at just a few percent, maybe 7% on the tests practically design for PD.
Hmmm...less than 7% on a few cases, and even or below the margin for error on the rest...for a chip that costs $70+ more than the Phenom II X6? I think I'll pass, the Thuban is the better bang for the buck.
They have already announced we AM3+ owners will be getting one more chip, excavator, so I think I'll wait. Personally the fact they are gonna put out another AM3+ chip looks like a bad sign to me, as dual channel memory has to be a bottleneck but its like someone at AMD is saying "Look these chips just won't sell with such MOR performance if we make them buy a new board as well and the AM3+ boards are dirt cheap, best stick with it until we can get something better".
Which just proves most mainstream games aren't gonna struggle on pretty much ANY CPU made in the last 5 years short of Sempron or Celeron.
In fact just for shits and giggles I decided to see what it would take to drag down my Phenom II X6 and the only time I could really get the system to drop below 30FPS (although to be fair, with all the fireballs it may have been the HD4850 choking) was in Just Cause II when I did my own version of "cool guys don't watch explosions" by rigging an entire oil refinery with remote charges and set the whole thing off while doing the cool walk.
Frankly with the price of AAA graphics fests hitting over 100 million i have to wonder if the days of CPU and GPU slamming games are gonna be more of a rarity than the rule, because of the crazy costs associated with making them. Wasn't it one of the guys at Epic that said they made more on their iPhone game than their last AAA titles? With chips from even 5 years ago being so insanely overpowered the amount of crap you gotta put on the screen to really slam one of these chips is just nuts, and I'd hate to see the bill on the coding required to slam the latest Core i7s.
If you want gaming on the cheap you need to look at the Phenom II X6 chips, you can pick them up for like $110 and in most benches they are just a few percentage points away from the FX 8s and usually beat the FX 4s pretty handily.
Since i have two boys that also game and i wanted us to be pretty evenly matched i had to be seriously picky when it came to price, me and the oldest who play more hardcore games got X6s while the youngest who is more into MMOs took the 925 quad and paired with some HD4850s I got cheap we blow through pretty much any game we want at the monitors 1600x900 resolution with plenty of bling and nice framerates. Just Cause II, Saints Row 3, the Crysis series, Payday the Heist, everything plays nice and the systems were pretty cheap to build.
Uhhh...They don't have a Fred's where you are at? I get incandescents at Fred's, 4 for $1.10 I believe was what i paid for the last batch and I use them for just what you describe, places like the closet and bathroom where they are only gonna be on a few minutes while using the CFLs in places like the living room where the light is on longer.
I can't really tell any difference in the number of times i change them because as you noted CFLs don't do well with "flip on and off" situations either, and the bulbs are cheap enough i really don't care.