The problem is they are reading the data incorrectly, they are taking data from a BUBBLE and trying to claim that was the norm when in reality it was no different than the housing bubble, an anomaly that did not reflect the actual state of the market.
You see the bubble was caused by the "MHz wars" where a PC from a couple year, hell even a year ago at the start of the bubble, simply would not be able to run the latest software because of the insanely quick jumps in MHz. In just one 4 year period during the MHz wars my personal PC went from 400Mhz to 2GHz, 5 times the power in just that small amount of time! The consumer didn't WANT to replace their PCs that often but they did not have a choice because this years software simply ran like ass on last year's machine and probably wouldn't run at all on a PC two years old.
Now compare this to today, what mainstream software is there out there that won't run on a C2D or Phenom II X2 from 2008? I have a C2Q Media Center PC I use at the shop as my desktop and to do analog to digital video conversion...its got 4 cores, 8Gb of RAM, and a 2TB drive...why would I need to replace it? Even video gaming isn't immune to this as there are plenty of videos (and I have plenty of customers who can back this up) of playing the latest and greatest mainstream games on C2Qs and Phenom II X4s and they play at 1080P just fine, no issues.
The simple fact is even grandma has the equivalent of a fire breathing funny car for a PC which is spending a good 90% of its time in idle, so what would be the point of replacing it? Before my father passed away last year I looked into replacing his office PC, it was a 2.3Ghz Phenom I quad and I had a batch of newer systems in, surely he needs more power running his office than a PC from 2006, right? After collecting data for 3 months I found in reality most of the cores were parked most of the time and the system never got above 50% utilization...replacement simply was not needed.
The only reason you are seeing replacement in the ARM space is they are in the middle of their own MHz bubble which I would argue is already coming to an end as they too hit the thermal wall and users find they can't "feel" any difference between that quad core tablet or phone they got 3 years ago and the new octocores sitting on shelves. Bubbles pop folks, what we are seeing is NOT the "end of the PC" but it simply going back to being replaced only when it fails and I have a feeling we will be seeing the popping of the ARM bubble soon and it would have probably already popped if the industry wasn't forcing upgrades by refusing to support their older products.
Were there any Intel processors you could re-enable features on? The only chips I can recall that you could do that were the old AMD Barton core Durons were you could roll the dice and re-enable the cache with a pencil trace and of course the socket AM2/AM2+ Athlon and Phenom X2/X3s that you could re-enable the disabled core and see if they were any good or not.
I'm not saying that there wasn't ever any Intel chips that were moddable but I honestly can't remember any.
Anyone who doesn't believe that the media and this administration is corrupt after the head of the FBI admitted under oath that Hillary Clinton committed multiple crimes, from storing classified information on an unsecured private server to destroying evidence (both digitally and physically) and lying repeatedly under oath...but the big issue we are supposed to care about is Trump and Billy Bush comparing who gets the most groupies? Well I have a bridge you might be interested in.
Sigh. We old greybeards know that one of the great truths is "everything old is new again" and all we have here is the millennials discovering their own versions of ELIZA and the stuff we were doing way back in the 70s. We had movies of machines becoming intelligent, we had people looking at what was in reality very simplistic programs and proclaiming them AI, its just the kids aren't old enough to have experienced any of this so they think they have found something profound...everything old is new again.
More like because in these days of Alice Through The Looking Glass political correctness actually increasing police in an area of high crime would be called racism?
So they either try to do things in secret like the above or more likely what is happening in just about every major city in the country you let the inner city become a slaughterhouse thanks to Ferguson effect making more and more cops simply unwilling to do their jobs for fear of being accused of racism. Sadly we can look to the UK to see where this leads where one of the largest pedo rings in history operated without fear because the cops were afraid of being called racist if they stopped them.
Think Chicago hitting over 500 murders in a single year was a big deal? Wait until next year when I have no doubt it will double, why? Because cops simply will not go into those neighborhoods and the criminals know it so its a free for all. They have already seen with Darren Wilson it doesn't matter if everything from eye witnesses to forensics shows you were being attacked by someone that had just pulled a robbery, all the MSM cares about is race so their only logical move is to leave the inner cities to the criminals.
But don't worry, I'm sure the stink this program is causing will insure Baltimore PD will not do anything in the future, well other than send the meat wagon to pick up the bodies that is.
Funny enough tons of legit companies use BT every day, they just have no need for BT the company. You look at just about every open world or MMO or FTP game and they are using BT to distribute their updates and patches but there is no need for BT the company for that, just the protocol.
So I'd say its yet another case of trying to make money off a name when there really was no business model to go with it, like when they tried to turn napster into a DRMed up the ass music rental service. Nobody wants yet another rental service, companies aren't gonna license their DRM when they can just sell their wares on iTunes and Amazon, there is really no point in this company existing which I predict they won't by the end of the year. Oh well I'm sure the ex-CEOs made out nicely on that sweet VC money.
Except this is another example of how since the IPO they have become just another bloated shitty tech company.
Before the IPO Google was this great mad scientist of a company, throwing out all these wild ideas and new products and just letting the market see what stuck. I remember before Gmail many said having email as conversations was seriously stupid, that nobody would want to give up the letter formatting they were used to, but Google did it anyway...but that was then, this is now.
Sadly Google now seems no different than Apple and MSFT, more worried about keeping their position and buying lobbyists to get laws written for them than they are just doing what made Google great which was letting all these smart people come up with cool ideas and seeing what stuck. Maybe its inevitable, once a company grows beyond a certain size or goes public it has to become just another douchebag corp, but its still a shame that Google went from an almost Willy Wonka level of new and strange ideas to rigging search results to protect their political investment.
Oh and before anybody claims its being hypocritical since the video is on YouTube? Yeah...they demonitized the video so they took the ad revenue on a million hit video and kept it, thus punishing those who dare speak against them...but hey they didn't BAN it right?
This is coming from someone who will never own any iCrap but it wasn't "fashion sense" so much as "how can I reach my goal with as few steps as possible?" that made Steve the big bux.
I mean we HAD smartphones, we HAD MP3 players, hell I had one of the early ones (A Rio IIRC) and you know what the first thing you noticed once you started messing with them? How many damned submenus you had on these things, even to do the simplest of tasks. I will keep my 4Gb Sandisk M260 forever simply because of how rugged and reliable it is but if I simply want to change the EQ on it? Its like 6 menus you have to drill down just to get to something as simple as the EQ.
What Jobs was brilliant at was finding things that already existed but had sucky interfaces and saying "Okay how do I make this simple and intuitive to use?" which you'd think would be simple and obvious but it isn't...look at the UI mess that is Windows 10 for what happens when you get it wrong. So like him or hate him you just have to give credit where credit is due and the man was an expert at cutting bullshit out of UIs and making devices that were intuitive.
Sigh....because the board of directors at MSFT are a bunch of morons that are a half a decade behind the curve?
They let a CEO whose idea of innovation was "hey lets just copy Apple!" go only to....replace him with a CEO whose idea of innovation is "hey lets just copy Google!" with both not having a single fucking clue as to what made Apple and Google successful in their particular niches and even more importantly what made MSFT successful in its niche.
So instead of what we should be seeing, which is MSFT focusing on their core strengths and making Windows more desirable and useful in more application we now have our third Windows stinkbomb in a row, where not a week goes by where we aren't hearing of horrible crashes and BSODs like its fucking 1993 all over again and what is MSFT doing? Adding more spyware to their OS while trying to badly ape Google cloud which we all know will end up failing and costing the company billions....sigh.
Can we get Bill back PLEASE? Getting Steve back sure did wonders for Apple and Bill and Steve may have been assholes but they were assholes with a focus and direction, the Ballmernator and Nutella aren't even entertainingly bad, they are just sad like a cheap Chinese knockoff of an iPhone.
Uhhhh dude? Yeah did you not see where this C64 is? Wanna guess what the main vehicle was before the wall fell in that area of the world? A little hunk of shit known as the Trabant which was a 2 stroke smoke generator.
Remember friend it was an area controlled by Soviet Russia, where soot generates YOU!
Depends on whether they use the age reversing tech, see young Arnie in Terminator: Gensys or the young Bridges in Tron:Legacy.
These are some strange times we live in man, we got Elvis on tour with the TCB band via video, you have holograms bringing Ronnie James Dio and Tupac back from the grave, and you can have a 70 year old and his 28 year old self in the same scene interacting. Hell give it a couple more years and I really wouldn't be surprised if they put out a new movie with Marilyn Monroe or James Dean as that seems to be the direction we are headed.
So you are literally arguing that command prompts are magic? Or are you arguing that you cannot read?
Because you don't HAVE to use the GUI if you do not want to, you can just run the scripts straight from the folder and simply throw away the GUI if you want as all it is doing is simply editing a script called "update" that is in the parent folder right next to the GUI. Throw away the GUI and run the script, which again you can just open in any editor and guess what? It does exactly what the GUI does, installs the updates with the conditional flags you chose. The options you choose? Again all just basic scripts with easy to read descriptors like "install DotNET" "InstallOfficeUpdates" and "MakeLogFile" and anyone who can read even the most basic script can read these quite easily as they are all laid out in classic "if this then that" script language with no attempts at any obfuscation.
So I'm sorry but now you are either just trying to sling FUD or you honestly do not understand how virii work and think computers are magical black boxes that some boogeyman can wave a wand and create a bug. Scripting is something anyone with any kind of IT knowledge or support background is not gonna have any trouble reading, the websites being called to download the updates are the Windows Update site owned by MSFT so unless MSFT gets their own update servers pwned there is no issue there, and once you have downloaded the updates no network or third party programs or even the GUI itself is required as it is simply manually installing Windows Updates from a command line.
Does this count the huge numbers that took the free upgrade, found they didn't like it (or just wanted to lock in the upgrade) and then went back? Does this count units sold to stores but not through to end users?
This is why I don't buy the numbers put out by companies, there is just too many ways they can manipulate the data to make it look bigger than the actual figures indicate.
Uhhhh...can you read? Because that is really all you have to be able to do to check WSUS Offline since the GUI is really just a front end for some scripts which are in a folder appropriately labeled "cmd" so you can just open them in the text editor of your choice and see what its doing.
It also doesn't try to obfuscate in ANY way what it is doing or who it is calling if you are using the Offline Generator to generate an Offline Update client (it currently supports Vista-10 including the server variants, VERY handy to have) so when you launch it you get a standard command prompt where you can simply look at the screen and see its just calling the MSFT update servers and downloading the updates straight from the source.
Let me give you my personal assurance, I've been using WSUS Offline for so long I still have the DVD with the WSUS Offline for Windows 2K Pro and not once has there ever been an issue with any kind of spyware, malware, or even Windows Update issues because this doesn't use the WU client and just installs them manually via script. I can't even count how many clients I've used it on, easily in the thousands, and its one of those tools I'll always keep on my network share, its head and shoulders better than dealing with WU.
The Convenience Rollup is kept on my keyring USB stick as its just soooo much easier than dealing with a system that may not have had a patch on it in years.
And as far as these new crap "mega updates"? Just turn off Windows Update and use WSUS Offline which last I checked is doing just as you described and grabbing the manual security updates, only you get them nicely bundled with a script that will install them all (and do any reboots required) and shut down the system, hassle free. I highly recommend it.
How is this any different from Whedon forming a super PAC and using his Hollywood connections to shill for it?
Lets be honest folks, there really isn't an upside this round. On the one hand you have the most corrupt politician this side of Richard Nixon that has promised more wars and to flood this country with refugees ala Germany (didn't work out so great for them, did it?) and on the other hand you have a reality TV star that spends his time tweeting memes...ugh.
Uhhhh a couple times a month? I have something like 60+ indie games and I have ONLY bought about 1 in 5 indie HBs, hell the one they have RIGHT NOW is a indie Gamemaker Pro bundle as you can see here so I'd say its a hell of a lot.
Brother. Had our Brother printer for a couple years now and it never says a word about ink carts no matter whether they are generics or Brother. Crazy cheap on the ink as well, IIRC we paid a grand total of $12 on Amazon for 6 complete sets of CMYK with $4 to ship, that much will easily last us for months so if this printer buys the farm? I'll get another Brother.
NO PATCHES ARE NEEDED, what is so hard to understand? Or do you think black helicopters are gonna sneak in to your house and attack your unpatched system?
I went out of my way to TRY to get an RTM Win 7 system infected...we're talking topsites, crack sites, porn sites, your "watch the latest movies now!" sites, malware infested sites all and...nothing. Zip zero nada squat. So why should I give a shit if Win 7 or 8.1 goes EOL, which again I'm betting Nutella will be FIRED before that date rolls around?
If you want to take the Goatse pose so MSFT can fist you? That is your choice, but if they want MY data? PAY ME. MSFT don't give shit away for free and neither do I, and the same goes to Google and Yahoo, want that data? Cut me a check. Privacy badger makes sure nobody gets shit I don't get paid for and I don't give a rat's ass what MSFT says
As for the new CPUs? I don't use APUs and I haven't seen a single program yet that even requires advanced CPU instructions that are only supported on Win 7, much less 8.1 or 10 so again I smell bullshit. Remember they said the same about DirectX, everyone would have to switch to Vista because of DirectX, remember? what happened? developers saw they would be cutting more than half the market out so other than MSFT's own Halo everyone kept right on supporting DX9 until Win 7 came out and was popular.
Ultimately I believe the market will back me up and come 2020 MSFT will just have to start popping that snooze alarm on Win 7 because Win 10, like Win 8 before it, simply isn't gonna be popular enough to take the majority slot. Its too buggy, too ugly, and even grandma's know its malware infested. Hell I have made more uninstalling Win 10 on new systems than I did on Win 8 and that is saying something. But history I believe will put Win 10 into the same "wow that was shit" camp that Vista and 8 are in and once Nutella is shown the door they will have no choice but to make a decent OS, that or give the money back to the shareholders and call it a day because everyone will have left for Google or Apple. Hell its gotten so bad I've seen Win 10 tablets for $60 at Fred's, they just can't give the things away because nobody wants win 10.
Indie games and Humble Bundles. There are plenty of Indie games that don't have shit for reviews until they are included in a bundle because they simply got lost in a crowd. With these changes even if the majority says its a really fun game their opinion won't count if it was part of a Humble Bundle which is just bullshit, especially when a lot of indie games get shit on at release because of bugs that may have been fixed ages ago so those old reviews no longer reflect the current game.
If they want to do this with rinky dink sites or keys coming straight from the devs? Well and good but the HBs are pretty damned well known and hugely popular so I don't think they should be affected by this rule as it kills a lot of legit reviews from counting.
And for anybody that says "it shouldn't count because the HBs are cheap" well why stop there? Why not ban those reviews from Steam sales counting in the overall score and only count those that paid full price?
Haven't been keeping up with current events, have you? YouTube is demonitizing (thus killing) channels that don't meet their vague as all hell "guidelines" that include "political or controversial content". Wanna guess what is happening?
Well those "#killallmen" "DieCISScum" and "lets kill whitie" channels? They are all fine, none of them are being affected no matter how racist and sexist they are, but any that call them out on their bullshit or point out SJW insanity like Trigglypuff? Well I hope you didn't need that channel for anything,they have even shut down a channel multiple times that does nothing but host news broadcasts of crimes from around the USA because it makes the BLM movement look like shit by showing who they are protesting for.
I think what this latest scandal proves is our science industry is no more trustworthy than our politicians as they are just as easily (and cheaply) bribed.
And what good did they do? Is the world really gonna miss another 30 bad Quake III Arena CTF/DM knock offs?
To me the ID Tech engines being GPLed was a perfect example of how the "blessed trinity" of GPL, selling support, selling hardware, or eBegging, simply do not work for the vast majority of software and thus under GPL they simply would not exist. These engines have been GPLed for years....so where is the GPLed game on the level of Bioshock? Hell can you show me one even up to the level of Far Cry which was released in 2003?
They don't exist because of the simple fact that the blessed trinity does not work for the majority of software and therefor wouldn't exist because the trinity wouldn't allow them to be funded. this is why you have no GPLed programs that can compete on features and UI with the version of Photoshop from a decade ago, or a Quicken/Quickbooks replacement that can even do a twentieth of what they can, why your camera software and screen capture software is so primitive and buggy, its because these and literally thousands of other pieces of software one can take for granted on proprietary systems simply cannot exist under GPL because of the trinity model simply not working out of the server and embedded space.
So you can give up on getting anything the quality of a triple A title, despite the game engines being handed over for free, and Linux desktops will always be far behind the curve compared to Apple and MSFT, the blessed trinity simply will not allow the funding of these to occur so all you get is a billion cheap Q III knock offs because all they have to do is reskin it and make some maps...its sad but as long as the majority of software cannot be written under GPL and still allow the devs to pay their bills? Its simply never gonna get any better.
This is why I've argued for years that "the source is free, distribution is not" should be the de facto model for software, but its been made abundantly clear that the community doesn't care how poor a quality or lack of variety they get in software as long as they don't have to pay for it, but what has it gotten you? MSFT puts out 3 stinkers in a row and you gain not a single point and the quality of software isn't any better or any closer to feature parity than it was a decade ago. And it will stay this way as long as the GPL insures that the majority of software simply cannot be written while keeping the devs from starving.
Sigh....let me spell it out FUCK WINDOWS 10, its nothing but spyware.
Stick with Windows 7 or 8.1, your choice. 8.1 gets updates until 2023 (if you really care about that sort of thing, I've found if you have the browser sandboxed and ads blocked patches are pointless as no bug is gonna get anywhere, I have even gone out of my way to try to infect a newly installed RTM Win 7 without a single patch installed...nothing) and by that time Nutella will be history and hopefully the next guy will actually right the ship.
And if you have to have Win 10? Wait 6 months and get the pirate version, AKA the "Gamer Edition". There is already a Gamer edition of 8.1 out there that strips out the appstore and other crap and it flies, there really is no point in Windows 10, its a POS. Oh and if you want to know WHY its a POS? Look up Barnacles Nerdgasm's "I was fired" video on YouTube, he was part of the QA team and he talks about how the ENTIRE Windows QA and tester teams were FIRED...why did they do that? Because YOU Mr Sucker who uses Windows 10 are the alpha tester!
MSFT has made it clear the only version they give a fuck about is Win 10 Enterprise, the one you have to rent. Windows 10 Home is the alpha, with no way to even postpone all the buggy code they puke on it, Windows 10 Pro is the beta, still buggy as fuck but at least they can delay long enough for the Home users to get shat all over and see which bits get cleaned off, and Win 10 Enterprise is the actual OS, where you have the same level of control and quality they had on previous releases.
So the choice is clear....either you pay $7 a month for eternity for Win 10 Enterprise or you stick with a previous version, I myself as well as my customers will be doing the latter and counting the days until Nutella gets his walking papers. Oh and nobody will ever give a shit about Ubuntu as their programs won't run on it and mark my words, HTML V5 will have enough baked in DRM that nobody will be able to watch shit on Linux which I predict will be relegated to crap like the R-Pi as Secureboot and the new AMD and Intel APUs having proprietary features like HDCP baked into the core of the chip will make Linux go back another decade.
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The problem is they are reading the data incorrectly, they are taking data from a BUBBLE and trying to claim that was the norm when in reality it was no different than the housing bubble, an anomaly that did not reflect the actual state of the market.
You see the bubble was caused by the "MHz wars" where a PC from a couple year, hell even a year ago at the start of the bubble, simply would not be able to run the latest software because of the insanely quick jumps in MHz. In just one 4 year period during the MHz wars my personal PC went from 400Mhz to 2GHz, 5 times the power in just that small amount of time! The consumer didn't WANT to replace their PCs that often but they did not have a choice because this years software simply ran like ass on last year's machine and probably wouldn't run at all on a PC two years old.
Now compare this to today, what mainstream software is there out there that won't run on a C2D or Phenom II X2 from 2008? I have a C2Q Media Center PC I use at the shop as my desktop and to do analog to digital video conversion...its got 4 cores, 8Gb of RAM, and a 2TB drive...why would I need to replace it? Even video gaming isn't immune to this as there are plenty of videos (and I have plenty of customers who can back this up) of playing the latest and greatest mainstream games on C2Qs and Phenom II X4s and they play at 1080P just fine, no issues.
The simple fact is even grandma has the equivalent of a fire breathing funny car for a PC which is spending a good 90% of its time in idle, so what would be the point of replacing it? Before my father passed away last year I looked into replacing his office PC, it was a 2.3Ghz Phenom I quad and I had a batch of newer systems in, surely he needs more power running his office than a PC from 2006, right? After collecting data for 3 months I found in reality most of the cores were parked most of the time and the system never got above 50% utilization...replacement simply was not needed.
The only reason you are seeing replacement in the ARM space is they are in the middle of their own MHz bubble which I would argue is already coming to an end as they too hit the thermal wall and users find they can't "feel" any difference between that quad core tablet or phone they got 3 years ago and the new octocores sitting on shelves. Bubbles pop folks, what we are seeing is NOT the "end of the PC" but it simply going back to being replaced only when it fails and I have a feeling we will be seeing the popping of the ARM bubble soon and it would have probably already popped if the industry wasn't forcing upgrades by refusing to support their older products.
Were there any Intel processors you could re-enable features on? The only chips I can recall that you could do that were the old AMD Barton core Durons were you could roll the dice and re-enable the cache with a pencil trace and of course the socket AM2/AM2+ Athlon and Phenom X2/X3s that you could re-enable the disabled core and see if they were any good or not.
I'm not saying that there wasn't ever any Intel chips that were moddable but I honestly can't remember any.
Anyone who doesn't believe that the media and this administration is corrupt after the head of the FBI admitted under oath that Hillary Clinton committed multiple crimes, from storing classified information on an unsecured private server to destroying evidence (both digitally and physically) and lying repeatedly under oath...but the big issue we are supposed to care about is Trump and Billy Bush comparing who gets the most groupies? Well I have a bridge you might be interested in.
Sigh. We old greybeards know that one of the great truths is "everything old is new again" and all we have here is the millennials discovering their own versions of ELIZA and the stuff we were doing way back in the 70s. We had movies of machines becoming intelligent, we had people looking at what was in reality very simplistic programs and proclaiming them AI, its just the kids aren't old enough to have experienced any of this so they think they have found something profound...everything old is new again.
Considering the SX had a 16 bit bus compared to the DX's 32 bit I really do not see how drilling a hole would magically change that.
More like because in these days of Alice Through The Looking Glass political correctness actually increasing police in an area of high crime would be called racism?
So they either try to do things in secret like the above or more likely what is happening in just about every major city in the country you let the inner city become a slaughterhouse thanks to Ferguson effect making more and more cops simply unwilling to do their jobs for fear of being accused of racism. Sadly we can look to the UK to see where this leads where one of the largest pedo rings in history operated without fear because the cops were afraid of being called racist if they stopped them.
Think Chicago hitting over 500 murders in a single year was a big deal? Wait until next year when I have no doubt it will double, why? Because cops simply will not go into those neighborhoods and the criminals know it so its a free for all. They have already seen with Darren Wilson it doesn't matter if everything from eye witnesses to forensics shows you were being attacked by someone that had just pulled a robbery, all the MSM cares about is race so their only logical move is to leave the inner cities to the criminals.
But don't worry, I'm sure the stink this program is causing will insure Baltimore PD will not do anything in the future, well other than send the meat wagon to pick up the bodies that is.
Funny enough tons of legit companies use BT every day, they just have no need for BT the company. You look at just about every open world or MMO or FTP game and they are using BT to distribute their updates and patches but there is no need for BT the company for that, just the protocol.
So I'd say its yet another case of trying to make money off a name when there really was no business model to go with it, like when they tried to turn napster into a DRMed up the ass music rental service. Nobody wants yet another rental service, companies aren't gonna license their DRM when they can just sell their wares on iTunes and Amazon, there is really no point in this company existing which I predict they won't by the end of the year. Oh well I'm sure the ex-CEOs made out nicely on that sweet VC money.
Except this is another example of how since the IPO they have become just another bloated shitty tech company.
Before the IPO Google was this great mad scientist of a company, throwing out all these wild ideas and new products and just letting the market see what stuck. I remember before Gmail many said having email as conversations was seriously stupid, that nobody would want to give up the letter formatting they were used to, but Google did it anyway...but that was then, this is now.
Sadly Google now seems no different than Apple and MSFT, more worried about keeping their position and buying lobbyists to get laws written for them than they are just doing what made Google great which was letting all these smart people come up with cool ideas and seeing what stuck. Maybe its inevitable, once a company grows beyond a certain size or goes public it has to become just another douchebag corp, but its still a shame that Google went from an almost Willy Wonka level of new and strange ideas to rigging search results to protect their political investment.
Oh and before anybody claims its being hypocritical since the video is on YouTube? Yeah...they demonitized the video so they took the ad revenue on a million hit video and kept it, thus punishing those who dare speak against them...but hey they didn't BAN it right?
This is coming from someone who will never own any iCrap but it wasn't "fashion sense" so much as "how can I reach my goal with as few steps as possible?" that made Steve the big bux.
I mean we HAD smartphones, we HAD MP3 players, hell I had one of the early ones (A Rio IIRC) and you know what the first thing you noticed once you started messing with them? How many damned submenus you had on these things, even to do the simplest of tasks. I will keep my 4Gb Sandisk M260 forever simply because of how rugged and reliable it is but if I simply want to change the EQ on it? Its like 6 menus you have to drill down just to get to something as simple as the EQ.
What Jobs was brilliant at was finding things that already existed but had sucky interfaces and saying "Okay how do I make this simple and intuitive to use?" which you'd think would be simple and obvious but it isn't...look at the UI mess that is Windows 10 for what happens when you get it wrong. So like him or hate him you just have to give credit where credit is due and the man was an expert at cutting bullshit out of UIs and making devices that were intuitive.
Sigh....because the board of directors at MSFT are a bunch of morons that are a half a decade behind the curve?
They let a CEO whose idea of innovation was "hey lets just copy Apple!" go only to....replace him with a CEO whose idea of innovation is "hey lets just copy Google!" with both not having a single fucking clue as to what made Apple and Google successful in their particular niches and even more importantly what made MSFT successful in its niche.
So instead of what we should be seeing, which is MSFT focusing on their core strengths and making Windows more desirable and useful in more application we now have our third Windows stinkbomb in a row, where not a week goes by where we aren't hearing of horrible crashes and BSODs like its fucking 1993 all over again and what is MSFT doing? Adding more spyware to their OS while trying to badly ape Google cloud which we all know will end up failing and costing the company billions....sigh.
Can we get Bill back PLEASE? Getting Steve back sure did wonders for Apple and Bill and Steve may have been assholes but they were assholes with a focus and direction, the Ballmernator and Nutella aren't even entertainingly bad, they are just sad like a cheap Chinese knockoff of an iPhone.
Uhhhh dude? Yeah did you not see where this C64 is? Wanna guess what the main vehicle was before the wall fell in that area of the world? A little hunk of shit known as the Trabant which was a 2 stroke smoke generator.
Remember friend it was an area controlled by Soviet Russia, where soot generates YOU!
Depends on whether they use the age reversing tech, see young Arnie in Terminator: Gensys or the young Bridges in Tron:Legacy.
These are some strange times we live in man, we got Elvis on tour with the TCB band via video, you have holograms bringing Ronnie James Dio and Tupac back from the grave, and you can have a 70 year old and his 28 year old self in the same scene interacting. Hell give it a couple more years and I really wouldn't be surprised if they put out a new movie with Marilyn Monroe or James Dean as that seems to be the direction we are headed.
So you are literally arguing that command prompts are magic? Or are you arguing that you cannot read?
Because you don't HAVE to use the GUI if you do not want to, you can just run the scripts straight from the folder and simply throw away the GUI if you want as all it is doing is simply editing a script called "update" that is in the parent folder right next to the GUI. Throw away the GUI and run the script, which again you can just open in any editor and guess what? It does exactly what the GUI does, installs the updates with the conditional flags you chose. The options you choose? Again all just basic scripts with easy to read descriptors like "install DotNET" "InstallOfficeUpdates" and "MakeLogFile" and anyone who can read even the most basic script can read these quite easily as they are all laid out in classic "if this then that" script language with no attempts at any obfuscation.
So I'm sorry but now you are either just trying to sling FUD or you honestly do not understand how virii work and think computers are magical black boxes that some boogeyman can wave a wand and create a bug. Scripting is something anyone with any kind of IT knowledge or support background is not gonna have any trouble reading, the websites being called to download the updates are the Windows Update site owned by MSFT so unless MSFT gets their own update servers pwned there is no issue there, and once you have downloaded the updates no network or third party programs or even the GUI itself is required as it is simply manually installing Windows Updates from a command line.
Does this count the huge numbers that took the free upgrade, found they didn't like it (or just wanted to lock in the upgrade) and then went back? Does this count units sold to stores but not through to end users?
This is why I don't buy the numbers put out by companies, there is just too many ways they can manipulate the data to make it look bigger than the actual figures indicate.
Uhhhh...can you read? Because that is really all you have to be able to do to check WSUS Offline since the GUI is really just a front end for some scripts which are in a folder appropriately labeled "cmd" so you can just open them in the text editor of your choice and see what its doing.
It also doesn't try to obfuscate in ANY way what it is doing or who it is calling if you are using the Offline Generator to generate an Offline Update client (it currently supports Vista-10 including the server variants, VERY handy to have) so when you launch it you get a standard command prompt where you can simply look at the screen and see its just calling the MSFT update servers and downloading the updates straight from the source.
Let me give you my personal assurance, I've been using WSUS Offline for so long I still have the DVD with the WSUS Offline for Windows 2K Pro and not once has there ever been an issue with any kind of spyware, malware, or even Windows Update issues because this doesn't use the WU client and just installs them manually via script. I can't even count how many clients I've used it on, easily in the thousands, and its one of those tools I'll always keep on my network share, its head and shoulders better than dealing with WU.
The Convenience Rollup is kept on my keyring USB stick as its just soooo much easier than dealing with a system that may not have had a patch on it in years.
And as far as these new crap "mega updates"? Just turn off Windows Update and use WSUS Offline which last I checked is doing just as you described and grabbing the manual security updates, only you get them nicely bundled with a script that will install them all (and do any reboots required) and shut down the system, hassle free. I highly recommend it.
How is this any different from Whedon forming a super PAC and using his Hollywood connections to shill for it?
Lets be honest folks, there really isn't an upside this round. On the one hand you have the most corrupt politician this side of Richard Nixon that has promised more wars and to flood this country with refugees ala Germany (didn't work out so great for them, did it?) and on the other hand you have a reality TV star that spends his time tweeting memes...ugh.
Uhhhh a couple times a month? I have something like 60+ indie games and I have ONLY bought about 1 in 5 indie HBs, hell the one they have RIGHT NOW is a indie Gamemaker Pro bundle as you can see here so I'd say its a hell of a lot.
Brother. Had our Brother printer for a couple years now and it never says a word about ink carts no matter whether they are generics or Brother. Crazy cheap on the ink as well, IIRC we paid a grand total of $12 on Amazon for 6 complete sets of CMYK with $4 to ship, that much will easily last us for months so if this printer buys the farm? I'll get another Brother.
NO PATCHES ARE NEEDED, what is so hard to understand? Or do you think black helicopters are gonna sneak in to your house and attack your unpatched system?
I went out of my way to TRY to get an RTM Win 7 system infected...we're talking topsites, crack sites, porn sites, your "watch the latest movies now!" sites, malware infested sites all and...nothing. Zip zero nada squat. So why should I give a shit if Win 7 or 8.1 goes EOL, which again I'm betting Nutella will be FIRED before that date rolls around?
If you want to take the Goatse pose so MSFT can fist you? That is your choice, but if they want MY data? PAY ME. MSFT don't give shit away for free and neither do I, and the same goes to Google and Yahoo, want that data? Cut me a check. Privacy badger makes sure nobody gets shit I don't get paid for and I don't give a rat's ass what MSFT says
As for the new CPUs? I don't use APUs and I haven't seen a single program yet that even requires advanced CPU instructions that are only supported on Win 7, much less 8.1 or 10 so again I smell bullshit. Remember they said the same about DirectX, everyone would have to switch to Vista because of DirectX, remember? what happened? developers saw they would be cutting more than half the market out so other than MSFT's own Halo everyone kept right on supporting DX9 until Win 7 came out and was popular.
Ultimately I believe the market will back me up and come 2020 MSFT will just have to start popping that snooze alarm on Win 7 because Win 10, like Win 8 before it, simply isn't gonna be popular enough to take the majority slot. Its too buggy, too ugly, and even grandma's know its malware infested. Hell I have made more uninstalling Win 10 on new systems than I did on Win 8 and that is saying something. But history I believe will put Win 10 into the same "wow that was shit" camp that Vista and 8 are in and once Nutella is shown the door they will have no choice but to make a decent OS, that or give the money back to the shareholders and call it a day because everyone will have left for Google or Apple. Hell its gotten so bad I've seen Win 10 tablets for $60 at Fred's, they just can't give the things away because nobody wants win 10.
Indie games and Humble Bundles. There are plenty of Indie games that don't have shit for reviews until they are included in a bundle because they simply got lost in a crowd. With these changes even if the majority says its a really fun game their opinion won't count if it was part of a Humble Bundle which is just bullshit, especially when a lot of indie games get shit on at release because of bugs that may have been fixed ages ago so those old reviews no longer reflect the current game.
If they want to do this with rinky dink sites or keys coming straight from the devs? Well and good but the HBs are pretty damned well known and hugely popular so I don't think they should be affected by this rule as it kills a lot of legit reviews from counting.
And for anybody that says "it shouldn't count because the HBs are cheap" well why stop there? Why not ban those reviews from Steam sales counting in the overall score and only count those that paid full price?
Haven't been keeping up with current events, have you? YouTube is demonitizing (thus killing) channels that don't meet their vague as all hell "guidelines" that include "political or controversial content". Wanna guess what is happening?
Well those "#killallmen" "DieCISScum" and "lets kill whitie" channels? They are all fine, none of them are being affected no matter how racist and sexist they are, but any that call them out on their bullshit or point out SJW insanity like Trigglypuff? Well I hope you didn't need that channel for anything,they have even shut down a channel multiple times that does nothing but host news broadcasts of crimes from around the USA because it makes the BLM movement look like shit by showing who they are protesting for.
Considering the fact that the head of Google is the CTO of the Clinton campaign should not make this surprising to anyone, but between this and Google manipulating search results to aid Clinton they are about as fair and balanced as Jezebel or Twitter.
Challenge accepted! Is 10 independent studies enough to win, or do you require more?
I think what this latest scandal proves is our science industry is no more trustworthy than our politicians as they are just as easily (and cheaply) bribed.
And what good did they do? Is the world really gonna miss another 30 bad Quake III Arena CTF/DM knock offs?
To me the ID Tech engines being GPLed was a perfect example of how the "blessed trinity" of GPL, selling support, selling hardware, or eBegging, simply do not work for the vast majority of software and thus under GPL they simply would not exist. These engines have been GPLed for years....so where is the GPLed game on the level of Bioshock? Hell can you show me one even up to the level of Far Cry which was released in 2003?
They don't exist because of the simple fact that the blessed trinity does not work for the majority of software and therefor wouldn't exist because the trinity wouldn't allow them to be funded. this is why you have no GPLed programs that can compete on features and UI with the version of Photoshop from a decade ago, or a Quicken/Quickbooks replacement that can even do a twentieth of what they can, why your camera software and screen capture software is so primitive and buggy, its because these and literally thousands of other pieces of software one can take for granted on proprietary systems simply cannot exist under GPL because of the trinity model simply not working out of the server and embedded space.
So you can give up on getting anything the quality of a triple A title, despite the game engines being handed over for free, and Linux desktops will always be far behind the curve compared to Apple and MSFT, the blessed trinity simply will not allow the funding of these to occur so all you get is a billion cheap Q III knock offs because all they have to do is reskin it and make some maps...its sad but as long as the majority of software cannot be written under GPL and still allow the devs to pay their bills? Its simply never gonna get any better.
This is why I've argued for years that "the source is free, distribution is not" should be the de facto model for software, but its been made abundantly clear that the community doesn't care how poor a quality or lack of variety they get in software as long as they don't have to pay for it, but what has it gotten you? MSFT puts out 3 stinkers in a row and you gain not a single point and the quality of software isn't any better or any closer to feature parity than it was a decade ago. And it will stay this way as long as the GPL insures that the majority of software simply cannot be written while keeping the devs from starving.
Sigh....let me spell it out FUCK WINDOWS 10, its nothing but spyware.
Stick with Windows 7 or 8.1, your choice. 8.1 gets updates until 2023 (if you really care about that sort of thing, I've found if you have the browser sandboxed and ads blocked patches are pointless as no bug is gonna get anywhere, I have even gone out of my way to try to infect a newly installed RTM Win 7 without a single patch installed...nothing) and by that time Nutella will be history and hopefully the next guy will actually right the ship.
And if you have to have Win 10? Wait 6 months and get the pirate version, AKA the "Gamer Edition". There is already a Gamer edition of 8.1 out there that strips out the appstore and other crap and it flies, there really is no point in Windows 10, its a POS. Oh and if you want to know WHY its a POS? Look up Barnacles Nerdgasm's "I was fired" video on YouTube, he was part of the QA team and he talks about how the ENTIRE Windows QA and tester teams were FIRED...why did they do that? Because YOU Mr Sucker who uses Windows 10 are the alpha tester!
MSFT has made it clear the only version they give a fuck about is Win 10 Enterprise, the one you have to rent. Windows 10 Home is the alpha, with no way to even postpone all the buggy code they puke on it, Windows 10 Pro is the beta, still buggy as fuck but at least they can delay long enough for the Home users to get shat all over and see which bits get cleaned off, and Win 10 Enterprise is the actual OS, where you have the same level of control and quality they had on previous releases.
So the choice is clear....either you pay $7 a month for eternity for Win 10 Enterprise or you stick with a previous version, I myself as well as my customers will be doing the latter and counting the days until Nutella gets his walking papers. Oh and nobody will ever give a shit about Ubuntu as their programs won't run on it and mark my words, HTML V5 will have enough baked in DRM that nobody will be able to watch shit on Linux which I predict will be relegated to crap like the R-Pi as Secureboot and the new AMD and Intel APUs having proprietary features like HDCP baked into the core of the chip will make Linux go back another decade.