Bimbo Newton Crosby, its the same song and dance we've gotten a million times before and while it gives the PHBs the warm fuzzies everyone else? yeah kinda sucks donkey nuts.
We do seem doomed to repeat cycles faster in the tech sector than we are in other areas, at least music usually takes 20 years before they go "retro" but with tech it seems like every 5 years ago someone "discovers" what we found was a failwhale last dozen times so they think that 'hey the tech is better now, we'll be able to pull it off!"...uhhh...nope, no you won't, because its a stupid idea when you are dealing with multiple chips and designs because what you get is....Windows 8, an OS designed for least common denominator between cell phone and desktop...ugh.
Thin client to cloud computing, write once to single platform, its all the same bullshit in a different wrapper and it still stinks. its always designed by committee, least common denominator garbage that just works half ass, is a pain in the ass to write and support, and for the users? Ugh its like a stale mickey D burger, the stuff wasn't great to begin with but now its just garbage.
That's like saying "Well it runs great on Linux"...uhhh...and? its a totally different beast and since the majority is NOT using FF on a smartphone that isn't what we should be looking at but the Windows desktop where most of their users lie, and in that arena they suck, I'm sorry but they do. take any tool that will give you a CPU and RAM meter in the tray, I use AnVir Task Manager but there are plenty of others, put the same bookmarks into both FF and any Chromium based and do your own shootout. In my own tests FF and its variants ranked consistently at the bottom, with Opera and the Chromiums always at the top.
The scary part though Crosshair is what is gonna happen to all those nukes and other seriously nasty weapons when the whole thing falls down, it'll be the stuff of nightmares.
And not meaning to Godwin but there really is only one example I know of that had a highly militarized nation basically come unglued and they turned into the bad guys and cost millions upon millions of lives. With the USSR you had a bunch of little countries that had existed for centuries and were simply forced into one blob by Stalin, whereas with the USA its just one country, easily swayed by jingoism and flag waving, with a shitload of hardware and firepower.
So what worries me is that we'll get some fascist el presidente type and South America will become our Poland. Lets face it it really wouldn't be hard to spin all the drug and gang violence and commies like Chavez into a bogeyman for the people to get behind taking over Mexico and then South America "for their own good" and the cutting off of supplies in retaliation would mean things would have to be made in the USA, along with wars meaning lots of factories cranking out bombers to bullets. Don't forget until 42 the Germans inside the country were generally doing well, lots of jobs, lots of "We're winning!" propaganda to make them feel good, until Stalingrad it looked like it was gonna be a cakewalk.
So that is what gives me the worries, that we may end up doing the same kind of nasty shit we condemned others for in WWII because nothing like having to build more weapons and sending the men off to war to stimulate a dead economy. Hell we're even ripping off their bad design choices, such as the Germans building a handful of really high tech fussy as hell designs while the allies cranked out cheap and reliable.
Maybe the wrong GPU to go with the CPU? I scored him an HD4850 when they were on sale for $40 new and it just chews through Solidworks like it was nothing, although to be fair the HD4650 he had before it didn't do too shabby either, but he wanted to move that to his bedroom system for movie watching so this let him get a serious kick in the pants on the office box and a nice boost in the bedroom box.
But then again SW has always been a "fussy" piece of software for want of a better term so maybe its just acting up. I swear certain pieces of software, SW, Quickbooks, Quicken, can be just as fussy as can be when it comes to what it likes and what it don't when it comes to CPU/GPU/OS/RAM and so on. Seriously picky.
Dude when it comes to chips its all about "What was your last job?" and helping design the Apple A6 which was wildly popular and a damned nice chip? I think he deserves to be called the Apple guy as i bet if you looked at the numbers Apple probably moved more A6 than AMD moved Athlon64.
Also AMD needs all the positive buzz they can get and having a guy that worked on such a wildly popular chip generates positive buzz for AMD which frankly AMD really needs. Every time I've pointed out on forums they hired the guy that did the A6 I always get a variant of "Oh wow, really? that's a good chip, I hope he can do something that good for AMD" and since we really need AMD to be competitive generating a little positive buzz for AMD is a good thing.
Even after the faildozer mess I'm still building AM3+ desktops and E350 SOHO/HTPC units, and selling E350/450 and Liano quads on the mobile side. I haven't forgotten the compiler rigging and OEM bribery which frankly should have gotten an antitrust investigation so as long as AMD has something, hell anything, that gives a good bang for the buck I'll be selling them. Even my own family is all AMD, between us we have 6 AMD desktops and netbooks, so its not like I don't hope they get better ya know.
I'm not the guy you asked but I'll give 'em to ya Woofy...here is a review of FX 8150 VS i5 2500K that gves the tale of the tape with the numbers you ask for on page 2. i linked to the conclusion because its title sums it all up nicely...why so bad? And the answer they give is pretty obvious, not really better than the X6, sucks more power, lousy single core performance, and the prices are noncompetitive against the i5 2500k.
Its damned sad but in this case the numbers don't lie, they use real world tasks for their benches and the 8150 was found to be lacking, with the currently being sold for $89-$119 Thubans matching or even in a few cases beating FX 8150 while having a third of the price knocked off. So if you want AMD on the desktop the answer is Thuban, on the laptop liano, and the tablet netbook market bobcat... pretty much anything BUT the Bulldozers.
Again the i5 2500K curbstomps it, is within $30-$45 in most real world prices, and you seem to ignore IT HAS 4 THREADS so its not like we are talking single VS multicore as with the i5 you can multitask your ass off and STILL have great single core IPC.
Look I get why you are trying to defend a bad design, nobody likes to think they picked a shitty product, I get that. And if you are trying to support competition fine, I understand, I only build AM3+ on the desktop and have been selling Bobcat and Liano over Intel in mobile wherever possible, but it don't make shit into cotton candy and Bulldozer is a bad design anyway you slice it. Hell do I REALLY need to post the scathing reviews talking about how the price is wrong, performance worse than Thuban in many places, sucks too much juice and is too hot, because all you have to do is ask and I'll be happy to wallpaper the page with bad reviews.
There is a damn good reason why everyone compares faildozer to netburst, and that is because in both cases the company focused too much on one area and ended up with a bad design. With Intel it was all about the MHz, they thought they could ramp up high enough to make up for the shitty arch, and with AMD they thought they could throw more cores and speed at the problem to make up for shitty IPC and only having one FP unit per 2 cores. In both cases? It really doesn't work dude, and this is from someone whose sold nothing but AMD for several years and who just got done building yet another Thuban for a customer. Hell I don't even own a single Intel chip, my nettop is a Sempron, my netbook E350, and my family has 2 quad Phenom IIs, a triple Athlon and a pair of X6s, one for me and one for the oldest. So don't say I'm not an AMD fan but a bad chip is a bad chip no matter who makes it and faildozer? Great on servers, lousy on desktops.
Dude...seriously man WTF. I get you are happy and I hate to shit on your parade and all but not only is the FX8150 priced within $30 of the Core i5 2500K which just slaughters it, but in many benches the Thuban X6 is close or beating it on a core by core basis...wanna know how much on average I been paying for Thuban X6 chips? Guess...nope, try $89-$109 depending on who is having the sale this week. hell there have been several times where I've been able to pick up the X6 units for less than the X4 and that is because thuban was getting nearly 100% yields whereas FX yields are poor. i mean think about it...bad core? You turn off 2 and you have a Phenom X4, 3 bad cores you have a Phenom X3, bad cache you had an Athlon X4, its easy peasy to get nearly 100% yield out of the Thubans which drove costs WAAAY down.
So I'm sorry dude but faildozer is just that, a giant fail, and ramping up the clocks on a shitty chip just makes for a very hot and wastful shitty chip. Again its the Netburst strategy all over again and its why AMD has been nosediving, people just don't want a hot power hogging chip when for a lousy $30 more they can get damned near double the performance.
For that to be true MSFT would have had to plan that 1.- Nobody would buy WinPhone...okay I see that one, 2.- Nokia would leave them with a product to sell in that gap...which if they wouldn't buy WinPhone on Nokia a change of brand name sure as hell isn't gonna help move units, and 3.- The gap wouldn't just be absorbed by Google, with the CCC Android 2.x phones taking the low end while the more expensive Android and Apple units take the high.
So you see this is the problem I have when people describe Bill Gates kind of evil moves at MSFT....Ballmer just ain't that smart. I mean who was on stage bragging about his squirting Zune and not getting why he was being laughed at? Who spent a fuckton of money on products like Zune, Kin, Sidekick, etc, with no real plan on how to monetize the purchases? Who fucked over what few loyal WinPhone customers they had by not giving them Win 8 on their Win 7 phones and thus burnt the brand with many a customer? Who was fucking retarded enough to let IE get horribly fragmented in the vain hope that they could pretend its 2003 and they can actually get people to upgrade the OS just for a new version of IE?
Hell I could write a post the length of a Harry Potter book just pointing out the fucking DUMB moves that has gone on under Ballmer, his mobile "strategy" is a trainwreck, he is taking a shit on one of the few remaining cash cows MSFT has in order to push Windows onto...ARM? WTF? Are you shitting me? WTH would ANYBODY want Windows on a chip that...won't actually run Windows programs? Why, because they think the Win 3.x color scheme of Metro is just too damned sexy?
Actually I think one could argue that Nokia and MSFT are the same company, its just that MSFT has...for the moment at least..a couple of cash cows to keep its head above the water ATM but the simple fact is both companies seem directionless, completely devoid of any real innovation inside, waited until the market was already in the middle of a huge shift before simply reacting with half assed products, and both are acting like they have no real competition when in reality they have to bring their AAA game or get curbstomped which even Ray Charles could see the latter is exactly what is happening.
Uhhh...I have a customer that designs robotics in the latest Solidworks on a Phenom I X3 and he's quite happy with it. The parts in those designs are pretty damned intricate, tons of gears and bolts and chips and it renders just fine.
So while i'm sure that a faster chip could maybe shave a little time off the full renders its not like any AMD or Intel multicore can't do these tasks.
That's why you should always check Amazon and Tiger as well as the egg, if one don't have it the other two probably will. If you still need some Amazon has the 6272 for $520 which for a 16 core ain't bad. But I don't understand why they had to lower projections when they have had trouble keeping enough chips in the channel. Did they think they could make 3 times more than they could? Did GloFlo screw them again? Who knows.
Haven't been keepin up with the drama at AMD have you? I wish I'd have thought to save the bookmark as my Google Fu sucketh but on one of the AMD forums one of the engineers that USED to work at AMD (so if you want to call him disgruntled okay, but he really sounded more frustrated) talked all about how they got rid of ALL the guys that worked at Cryix, that worked on the Athlon64, they just culled all the guys that actually knew how to design chips and what did they replace them with? Computer layouts which according to this engineer (which since i'm not an engineer I'm just gonna have to take his word for it) which adds 20%+ to the power sucking and 20% die size while not gaining on the performance because the computer doesn't know how all the parts interact with each other.
So while I agree they need to fire the consultants, along with the moron that pissed on the FX name by tying it to the half ass bulldozer chip, if the engineer was telling the truth all the great guys were cut ages ago. They need to cull the guys that are just cashing a check and hire some engineers that have real knowledge and experience with hand designing chips and let them really cook up something good.
Actually I'd say the problem is too LITTLE SKUs as they are pushing a chip designed for servers onto the desktop where.....it just doesn't work. remember the WinChip? That is pretty much Bulldozer in a nutshell. If you weren't playing games or multimedia WinChip was great and could be had for cheap, but home users DO play games and multimedia.
They should have kept thuban until they had another desktop chip, as it was "good enough" while being cheap thanks to the high tields. Now though all the can really sell is Liano and fool some people with FX and hope that'll get 'em through until the new Apple chip designer they hired can come up with something good. But the numbers show that enough people have seen the benches to know if they have thuban or even Deneb they are better just staying where they are at than buying the latest chips. Makes a good server chip from what I hear.
Well if you throw enough resources at a problem? I'm sure you'll find something it'll run great on. problem is the market seems to be moving AWAY from the big power hogging ultima systems and towards low power computing which FF? Really REALLY blows at.
Again I REALLY wish it wasn't so, I was a FF fan going back to the Moz suite, and I still try each new release and the forks. Its just....its just NOT good. Each release sucks more resources, has more senior moments, its just not good.
And WHY are they so down? One word....FAILDOZER!!!
Even guys like me that support competition and thought Intel should have been busted for the bribery and compiler rigging have been avoiding Faildozer and why? Because its a bad design, its a server chip designed for integer workloads when consumer workloads are heavy floating point, gets beat in many benches by Thuban, the chip they canceled which just FYI was still selling well and more importantly was getting nearly 100% yields oh and just to add the salt to the wound they didn't bother to tell Microsoft what they were up to so the Windows scheduler ties a boat anchor to its already pitiful performance in all MSFT OSes except...Win 8, the Star Trek 5 of OSes.
Let us hope to all that is good that they don't end up tits up, because Intel already has high prices and without AMD they would go insane on the prices. personally i'll keep building AM3+ and selling E450s and Liano on netbooks and laptops but faildozer is just an awful chip. I hope the former Apple chip designer they got comes out with a worthy replacement for Thuban, instead of just trying to crank up the clocks on a bad design. Hmmm...where did we see that before? Oh yeah...it was called Netburst, only AMD can't afford to bribe OEMs into taking it.
Oh and just FYI but there is still hundreds of millions of X86 units sold a year so its STILL a good market where good money can be made, but AMD needs either the performance or at LEAST the bang for the buck, instead AMD has a design that is too hot, costs too much to make so they have to price it noncompetitive, and has poor yields and lousy performance. If your product is bad? Nobody buys, at least not enough to make money, simple as that.
Like I said, you own the primary process? You control the election. What amazes me is that so few realize that you have the ENTIRE MEDIA IN THE USA is owned by just a handful, less than the amount of people in your average Mickey D's on a weeknight!
I mean how can anyone with 2 functioning braincells think its anything but fixed? Again watch the video on voting, he says it better than i ever could. you have a handful of oligarchs at the top, old money with their fingers in all the pies and who own the media, that make damned sure the ONLY two that will EVAR get to the ballot will be both bought and paid for. Why do you think that every media pundit treats any third party candidate as a pariah? Because The Ds and Rs are all on the payroll and follow the corporate line.
So I hope many do as I'm gonna do and just not bother anymore, all you do by voting is give your sanction to a corrupt third world joke of a political process. the ballots may as well have only two choices 'Push here to say how much you love the system!" and "Show your anger for those in power...by voting to support the system!" because that's all you'll ever get, its fixed, been fixed for decades, its 3 card monty only the public just refuses to accept the fact they'll never win the game when the only winning move? Not to play at all.
Again its completely impossible to change a corrupt system by following the rules set up by that corrupt system, as they'll simply change the rules until they get the outcome they want. The debt will continue to spiral, we'll keep getting into wars we don't want, and trillions will be given to the MIC and the friends of the elite, there is no difference in the two sides its just phony differences to give the masses something to argue, that's all.
Have you NEVER worked on PCs evar? Or even watched the Black hat conference? Hell I just had to clean one last week where the BIOS was hacked and gave the malware writer control over the entire network, its not like Bootloader hacks and BIOS hacks are rare ya know. Hell type in "BIOS malware" or "UEFI malware" into any search engine you get over 5 million hits!
And then there is the issue of piracy because if you can hack the bootloader then any check will fail, as they can just use the bootloader hack to present the system as a legitimate OEM. Have you never tried the "Win 7 SP1 all versions 32bit" or 64 bit discs? hell they even change the wallpaper to reflect what board it is along with using an OEM sig to match! Passes WGA no problem, updates no problem, I could put a legit Win 7 and the bootloader hacked one side by side and I doubt seriously even a MSFT rep could tell the difference.
So while the fanboys can waste modpoints because I dare to point out the emperor has no clothes the fact is the LF just started waving their willie in the wind and the courts will gladly hand MSFT the ability to cut it off. Secureboot is the ONLY way found so far to have even a chance of stopping the pirates, its the ONLY way so far of doing anything about BIOS infection and boothacking, and the LF just sided with the pirates and fucked it all up. I wouldn't be surprised if MSFT revokes their key before launch just to keep all the pirates from having a field day and again I don't blame them, its their product and they have the right to get paid for it just as Linux fans have the right to give their work away for free.
And the fucking sad part is ALL IT WOULD TAKE to get Linux to work without being douchebags and siding with the pirates is tell Torvalds to stop being a dick about the kernel. I mean here it is nearly 2013 and he just shits out new kernel revs like its his personal playtoy without a care in the world, when if he would simply save up the changes and release one every other year they could be signed for the distros and all would be good. But no, being allowed to change shit whenever he feels like it is apparently Torvald's right, just as banning Linux keys is MSFT's right.
Which brings it all down to the free market as it should be. If enough Linux users buy machines from AMD with the Open Source Coreboot then others will see supporting you is porfitable and will do the same. Wanna guess the odds of that? I'm guessing about the same as me winning 3 powerball drawings in a row while singing during a lightning storm, in other words zipola. Instead they'll be like the asshole a few months ago that bought a Windows machine only to whine when newegg wouldn't take it back after they put Linux on it. Why should anyone care when you won't even buy from vendors like System76 that support you, instead opting for the Windows Tax break?
You reap what you sow, you pay what you owe, and their bootloader hack will have to go, end of story.
Hi Mrs AC, can't waste the 3 seconds to make an account? And where did you see me plug ANYTHING? In fact I gave a HUGE list of choices, all of which run better than Firefox since V7, Chrome, Chromium, QTWeb, SWIron, Dragon, Safari, opera.
But if you want to pretend needing a fricking multicore for a browser is "competitive" why you go right on ahead and think that Mrs AC, meanwhile look at the numbers and you'll see month after month after month FF usage is going DOWN and not up or even holding.
You see Mrs AC that is the nice thing about having choice, if something goes off the rails and doesn't listen to the people they go somewhere else. Gnome shell for Mate, Vista for XP and then 7, FF for Chrome, if you don't listen to your users they go somewhere else. But enjoy your delusions Mrs AC, whatever makes you happy.
But you are assuming that they simply don't understand instead of understand and want to give the government a loophole which will all the rulings that seem to go out of their way to let the government ignore even the flimsy rules they have left? is probably not the right call.
I know all about the saying about malice and stupidity, but when you are dealing with a government that seems to be "Yay jackboots and spying!" no matter who sits in the big chair its probably safer just to assume malice until proven otherwise, that way you'll be more right than wrong.
Yes but by then setting it up with a hack that will let ANYTHING run with that key they just rendered themselves another Grokster. remember the courts have already ruled that you don't just have to have the possibility somebody will use it for good, you also have to show some common sense. And YOU KNOW that not 5 days after this key is published with their workaround it'll be tied to a copy of "Windows 8 all version pre-activated" on TPB, after all the LF just gave the pirates a new bootloader hack for free.
So I'm sorry gameboy but this WILL be banhammered, and if Ubuntu or Red hat publishes their keys (which both have said they won't) then they'll be banhammered too. The whole point of this was to end the flood of pirated Windows and the LF by making a way you could run anything with their key just sided with the pirates. it would be NO different if MSFT sold you a VLK for your org and you promptly published it onto the web. when getting that key I'm sure MSFT told them what security precautions they had to take with that key and this "hack" I'm sure is a breach of contract.
So if all but Ubuntu and RH get banned because of this shit, instead of just showing some fucking common sense and telling Torvalds to not shit out new kernels every other week? then frankly they deserve to be banned for being so fucking stupid and arrogant. I mean WTF did they think would happen when you publish a key with code that allows ANYTHING to run with it? shit the pirates don't even have to work on Win 8 now, the LF did the heavy lifting. Great going morons, this is why we can't have nice things.
THIS, this right here. People scream that I must be hating on FOSS when I point out Mozilla has gone off the rails (even though the browser i recommend for security features, Comodo Dragon, is based on Chromium) but the simple fact is they had a mission statement, which they used to get us all off the Mozilla Suite, which ever since Chrome started getting users they seem to have thrown right out the window. Remember what that statement was? "To make the best small fast and light browser that is standards compliant we can" and ever since Chrome showed up its just come unglued.
Look I was on FF before it was even called FF, The Moz Suite before that going back to the first betas, so its not like I did not like the product or didn't stick with it through the bad times like the train wreck that was 2.x.x but lets be honest folks...right up to V4 you could see progress with every. single. release. Sure they had bugs and memory issues but with each release you could see that slowly but surely things were getting better every time and you honestly looked forward to the next release because you just KNEW it would be better, with less bugs and cool new features, it was just great.
But since then its just taken a nosedive, especially for those of us that like to use low power devices to save electricity like nettops and netbooks Take for example the 1.8GHz Sempron I use as a nettop here at the shop. With Dragon or any of the Chromium based i can have multiple tabs, listen to music, even do full screen SD video without GPU acceleration and the system still is great...Firefox? Open it slams the CPU to 100%, new tab 100%, hell even scrolling through my fricking bookmarks pegs the CPU.
In the end I think I know what the problem is...its Gecko. That engine simply wasn't designed to support all the whiz bang like fluffy is talking about and it shows in the performance. Instead of focusing on giving the engine the capability they bolted it on so they could go "Me too!" with Chrome features yet the truly important security features like Low Rights mode, which has been out since 07? They don't have.
So we just have to be honest and call a spade a spade. while I try every new release on my nettop and my netbook, as well as the spinoffs like Pale Moon and IceDragon at the end of the day? Firefox just isn't a good browser anymore guys, they have lost their way. It sucks too many resources, supports too much bling and UI crap while not supporting good security practices like least permissions, they just keep bolting more and more shit onto the aging gecko engine while not fixing the problems like CPU spiking, memory creep, or general lack of responsiveness.
Its a damned shame but at least we have a wealth of choices, for guys that need cross platform there is QTWeb and Chromium which both run on anything, there is the Chromium variants like Dragon, SWIron, Chrome and Chromium, there is the one offs like Opera and Safari, hell there is even Kmeleoon and Kmeleon CCF-ME for those still running old Win9X and Win2K boxes and we really need to thank Mozilla for that as they blazed the trail, its just a damned shame they lost themselves along the way.
Why did this guy get marked troll? If you believe voting is any more real than pro wrestling I have some magic beans you might be interested in. Want proof? As much as I think the guy is snooker loopy on a lot of thing Alex Jones has the proof in video on his website. When the Ron Paul supporters asked to be heard according to the RNCs own rules they held a vote to change those rules and someone managed to get their cell camera to where you can see the teleprompter and the teleprompter had the results of the vote before the vote had been cast thus showing the whole process fake.
The "choices" you WILL get, no matter what you do, will be corporate approved shill A or B, that's it. Go to YouTube and watch the videos of those that actually counted the ballots in CN and NH where they say "The numbers for our district and what the RNC claimed are not even close" as Mittens was doing poorly in those states so they just gave him magical free votes. Remember if you control the primary outcome then it doesn't matter what happens in the general election, since both sides are "your guy" so its heads you win tails they lose. They control the primary process, they control the debates, they make sure only shills get the two slots so who gives a shit which shill gets it? A shill is a shill is a shill and as long as he'll cash the checks and give them the laws the corps don't give a rat's ass.
In the end I urge everyone to watch this video about voting as while i don't agree with the libertarians on much, being more of a socialist myself, i have to agree with this libertarian on this issue, its pointless. you can't change a corrupt institution by using the rules set forth by that corrupt institution, because as with Paul they'll just change the rules and there is nothing you can do about it.
Personally I say grab every damned dime you can and wait for the collapse, which now is pretty much inevitable. Here is another video by the same guy where he simply gives you the numbers and lets you decide. Look at the hockey stick chart in the middle of the video, in 1929 when the stock market collapsed we had 125% of GDP in the market and that took us to 1953 to fully recover to pre crash levels. How much do we have in now? Over 400% of GDP and rising which means when this bubble pops it'll make 1929 look like a minor glitch.
You have one party that is tax slightly and spend heavily, another that is give tax breaks and spend MORE heavily, nothing you can say or do will change the direction we are heading, a collapse is inevitable. Grab what you can, take care of your own, its all you can really do. On the bright side when the whole thing collapses hopefully we can start over and have a true democracy instead of the corporate sham we've had for half a century. Ike warned us the MIC would be just the start and he was right, now the corps own the whole show and its pro wrestling to entertain the public and keep their minds off what is really happening.
Sorry for the length but this is a subject I feel strongly about and I'll just end with the wisdom of George Carlin "Know why they call it The American Dream? Because you have to be asleep to believe in it".
But I would argue that those things were already on life support if not already bleeding out. Know what the number 1 web page that is most likely to be seen by me as a home page is? Yahoo web portal, why? Because people use it as a replacement for their paper, radio, and for some even TV. It has all the latest headlines, radio stations, and videos of all the latest news and events on that single page so what we geeks think of as cluttered makes those that used to use print media happy.
I'm sorry but bullshit. I can take a low power nettop or netbook and use the browser of YOUR choice and HTML V5 will still suck more balls than a bangkok whore. In fact I'll be happy to take the Pepsi challenge and put HTML V5 against flash with no GPU accelerated SD video and record the results, HTML V5 is a fucking piggie and the web is full of complaints just like mine. if you think it works its because you are running it on a high power multicore or have GPU acceleration for H.264 as HTML V5 is just a badly coded mess.
And to me the worst fucking part is the whole switch didn't happen because anybody gave a rat's ass about performance or security, its because Steve Jobs wanted more control of his fucking appstore and knew HTML V5 wasn't in any way, shape, or form a competitor of native apps while flash would have allowed some people to just bypass the fucking appstore for gaming.
Yeah sorry, but HTML V5 is about as appealing as deep fried tampons.
I've run into a couple of places with that requirement and its always shitty lecture videos somebody recorded in Real format and is too fucking lazy to transcode.
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Bimbo Newton Crosby, its the same song and dance we've gotten a million times before and while it gives the PHBs the warm fuzzies everyone else? yeah kinda sucks donkey nuts.
We do seem doomed to repeat cycles faster in the tech sector than we are in other areas, at least music usually takes 20 years before they go "retro" but with tech it seems like every 5 years ago someone "discovers" what we found was a failwhale last dozen times so they think that 'hey the tech is better now, we'll be able to pull it off!"...uhhh...nope, no you won't, because its a stupid idea when you are dealing with multiple chips and designs because what you get is....Windows 8, an OS designed for least common denominator between cell phone and desktop...ugh.
Thin client to cloud computing, write once to single platform, its all the same bullshit in a different wrapper and it still stinks. its always designed by committee, least common denominator garbage that just works half ass, is a pain in the ass to write and support, and for the users? Ugh its like a stale mickey D burger, the stuff wasn't great to begin with but now its just garbage.
That's like saying "Well it runs great on Linux"...uhhh...and? its a totally different beast and since the majority is NOT using FF on a smartphone that isn't what we should be looking at but the Windows desktop where most of their users lie, and in that arena they suck, I'm sorry but they do. take any tool that will give you a CPU and RAM meter in the tray, I use AnVir Task Manager but there are plenty of others, put the same bookmarks into both FF and any Chromium based and do your own shootout. In my own tests FF and its variants ranked consistently at the bottom, with Opera and the Chromiums always at the top.
The scary part though Crosshair is what is gonna happen to all those nukes and other seriously nasty weapons when the whole thing falls down, it'll be the stuff of nightmares.
And not meaning to Godwin but there really is only one example I know of that had a highly militarized nation basically come unglued and they turned into the bad guys and cost millions upon millions of lives. With the USSR you had a bunch of little countries that had existed for centuries and were simply forced into one blob by Stalin, whereas with the USA its just one country, easily swayed by jingoism and flag waving, with a shitload of hardware and firepower.
So what worries me is that we'll get some fascist el presidente type and South America will become our Poland. Lets face it it really wouldn't be hard to spin all the drug and gang violence and commies like Chavez into a bogeyman for the people to get behind taking over Mexico and then South America "for their own good" and the cutting off of supplies in retaliation would mean things would have to be made in the USA, along with wars meaning lots of factories cranking out bombers to bullets. Don't forget until 42 the Germans inside the country were generally doing well, lots of jobs, lots of "We're winning!" propaganda to make them feel good, until Stalingrad it looked like it was gonna be a cakewalk.
So that is what gives me the worries, that we may end up doing the same kind of nasty shit we condemned others for in WWII because nothing like having to build more weapons and sending the men off to war to stimulate a dead economy. Hell we're even ripping off their bad design choices, such as the Germans building a handful of really high tech fussy as hell designs while the allies cranked out cheap and reliable.
Maybe the wrong GPU to go with the CPU? I scored him an HD4850 when they were on sale for $40 new and it just chews through Solidworks like it was nothing, although to be fair the HD4650 he had before it didn't do too shabby either, but he wanted to move that to his bedroom system for movie watching so this let him get a serious kick in the pants on the office box and a nice boost in the bedroom box.
But then again SW has always been a "fussy" piece of software for want of a better term so maybe its just acting up. I swear certain pieces of software, SW, Quickbooks, Quicken, can be just as fussy as can be when it comes to what it likes and what it don't when it comes to CPU/GPU/OS/RAM and so on. Seriously picky.
Dude when it comes to chips its all about "What was your last job?" and helping design the Apple A6 which was wildly popular and a damned nice chip? I think he deserves to be called the Apple guy as i bet if you looked at the numbers Apple probably moved more A6 than AMD moved Athlon64.
Also AMD needs all the positive buzz they can get and having a guy that worked on such a wildly popular chip generates positive buzz for AMD which frankly AMD really needs. Every time I've pointed out on forums they hired the guy that did the A6 I always get a variant of "Oh wow, really? that's a good chip, I hope he can do something that good for AMD" and since we really need AMD to be competitive generating a little positive buzz for AMD is a good thing.
Even after the faildozer mess I'm still building AM3+ desktops and E350 SOHO/HTPC units, and selling E350/450 and Liano quads on the mobile side. I haven't forgotten the compiler rigging and OEM bribery which frankly should have gotten an antitrust investigation so as long as AMD has something, hell anything, that gives a good bang for the buck I'll be selling them. Even my own family is all AMD, between us we have 6 AMD desktops and netbooks, so its not like I don't hope they get better ya know.
I'm not the guy you asked but I'll give 'em to ya Woofy...here is a review of FX 8150 VS i5 2500K that gves the tale of the tape with the numbers you ask for on page 2. i linked to the conclusion because its title sums it all up nicely...why so bad? And the answer they give is pretty obvious, not really better than the X6, sucks more power, lousy single core performance, and the prices are noncompetitive against the i5 2500k.
Its damned sad but in this case the numbers don't lie, they use real world tasks for their benches and the 8150 was found to be lacking, with the currently being sold for $89-$119 Thubans matching or even in a few cases beating FX 8150 while having a third of the price knocked off. So if you want AMD on the desktop the answer is Thuban, on the laptop liano, and the tablet netbook market bobcat... pretty much anything BUT the Bulldozers.
Again the i5 2500K curbstomps it, is within $30-$45 in most real world prices, and you seem to ignore IT HAS 4 THREADS so its not like we are talking single VS multicore as with the i5 you can multitask your ass off and STILL have great single core IPC.
Look I get why you are trying to defend a bad design, nobody likes to think they picked a shitty product, I get that. And if you are trying to support competition fine, I understand, I only build AM3+ on the desktop and have been selling Bobcat and Liano over Intel in mobile wherever possible, but it don't make shit into cotton candy and Bulldozer is a bad design anyway you slice it. Hell do I REALLY need to post the scathing reviews talking about how the price is wrong, performance worse than Thuban in many places, sucks too much juice and is too hot, because all you have to do is ask and I'll be happy to wallpaper the page with bad reviews.
There is a damn good reason why everyone compares faildozer to netburst, and that is because in both cases the company focused too much on one area and ended up with a bad design. With Intel it was all about the MHz, they thought they could ramp up high enough to make up for the shitty arch, and with AMD they thought they could throw more cores and speed at the problem to make up for shitty IPC and only having one FP unit per 2 cores. In both cases? It really doesn't work dude, and this is from someone whose sold nothing but AMD for several years and who just got done building yet another Thuban for a customer. Hell I don't even own a single Intel chip, my nettop is a Sempron, my netbook E350, and my family has 2 quad Phenom IIs, a triple Athlon and a pair of X6s, one for me and one for the oldest. So don't say I'm not an AMD fan but a bad chip is a bad chip no matter who makes it and faildozer? Great on servers, lousy on desktops.
Dude...seriously man WTF. I get you are happy and I hate to shit on your parade and all but not only is the FX8150 priced within $30 of the Core i5 2500K which just slaughters it, but in many benches the Thuban X6 is close or beating it on a core by core basis...wanna know how much on average I been paying for Thuban X6 chips? Guess...nope, try $89-$109 depending on who is having the sale this week. hell there have been several times where I've been able to pick up the X6 units for less than the X4 and that is because thuban was getting nearly 100% yields whereas FX yields are poor. i mean think about it...bad core? You turn off 2 and you have a Phenom X4, 3 bad cores you have a Phenom X3, bad cache you had an Athlon X4, its easy peasy to get nearly 100% yield out of the Thubans which drove costs WAAAY down.
So I'm sorry dude but faildozer is just that, a giant fail, and ramping up the clocks on a shitty chip just makes for a very hot and wastful shitty chip. Again its the Netburst strategy all over again and its why AMD has been nosediving, people just don't want a hot power hogging chip when for a lousy $30 more they can get damned near double the performance.
For that to be true MSFT would have had to plan that 1.- Nobody would buy WinPhone...okay I see that one, 2.- Nokia would leave them with a product to sell in that gap...which if they wouldn't buy WinPhone on Nokia a change of brand name sure as hell isn't gonna help move units, and 3.- The gap wouldn't just be absorbed by Google, with the CCC Android 2.x phones taking the low end while the more expensive Android and Apple units take the high.
So you see this is the problem I have when people describe Bill Gates kind of evil moves at MSFT....Ballmer just ain't that smart. I mean who was on stage bragging about his squirting Zune and not getting why he was being laughed at? Who spent a fuckton of money on products like Zune, Kin, Sidekick, etc, with no real plan on how to monetize the purchases? Who fucked over what few loyal WinPhone customers they had by not giving them Win 8 on their Win 7 phones and thus burnt the brand with many a customer? Who was fucking retarded enough to let IE get horribly fragmented in the vain hope that they could pretend its 2003 and they can actually get people to upgrade the OS just for a new version of IE?
Hell I could write a post the length of a Harry Potter book just pointing out the fucking DUMB moves that has gone on under Ballmer, his mobile "strategy" is a trainwreck, he is taking a shit on one of the few remaining cash cows MSFT has in order to push Windows onto...ARM? WTF? Are you shitting me? WTH would ANYBODY want Windows on a chip that...won't actually run Windows programs? Why, because they think the Win 3.x color scheme of Metro is just too damned sexy?
Actually I think one could argue that Nokia and MSFT are the same company, its just that MSFT has...for the moment at least..a couple of cash cows to keep its head above the water ATM but the simple fact is both companies seem directionless, completely devoid of any real innovation inside, waited until the market was already in the middle of a huge shift before simply reacting with half assed products, and both are acting like they have no real competition when in reality they have to bring their AAA game or get curbstomped which even Ray Charles could see the latter is exactly what is happening.
Uhhh...I have a customer that designs robotics in the latest Solidworks on a Phenom I X3 and he's quite happy with it. The parts in those designs are pretty damned intricate, tons of gears and bolts and chips and it renders just fine.
So while i'm sure that a faster chip could maybe shave a little time off the full renders its not like any AMD or Intel multicore can't do these tasks.
That's why you should always check Amazon and Tiger as well as the egg, if one don't have it the other two probably will. If you still need some Amazon has the 6272 for $520 which for a 16 core ain't bad. But I don't understand why they had to lower projections when they have had trouble keeping enough chips in the channel. Did they think they could make 3 times more than they could? Did GloFlo screw them again? Who knows.
Haven't been keepin up with the drama at AMD have you? I wish I'd have thought to save the bookmark as my Google Fu sucketh but on one of the AMD forums one of the engineers that USED to work at AMD (so if you want to call him disgruntled okay, but he really sounded more frustrated) talked all about how they got rid of ALL the guys that worked at Cryix, that worked on the Athlon64, they just culled all the guys that actually knew how to design chips and what did they replace them with? Computer layouts which according to this engineer (which since i'm not an engineer I'm just gonna have to take his word for it) which adds 20%+ to the power sucking and 20% die size while not gaining on the performance because the computer doesn't know how all the parts interact with each other.
So while I agree they need to fire the consultants, along with the moron that pissed on the FX name by tying it to the half ass bulldozer chip, if the engineer was telling the truth all the great guys were cut ages ago. They need to cull the guys that are just cashing a check and hire some engineers that have real knowledge and experience with hand designing chips and let them really cook up something good.
Actually I'd say the problem is too LITTLE SKUs as they are pushing a chip designed for servers onto the desktop where.....it just doesn't work. remember the WinChip? That is pretty much Bulldozer in a nutshell. If you weren't playing games or multimedia WinChip was great and could be had for cheap, but home users DO play games and multimedia.
They should have kept thuban until they had another desktop chip, as it was "good enough" while being cheap thanks to the high tields. Now though all the can really sell is Liano and fool some people with FX and hope that'll get 'em through until the new Apple chip designer they hired can come up with something good. But the numbers show that enough people have seen the benches to know if they have thuban or even Deneb they are better just staying where they are at than buying the latest chips. Makes a good server chip from what I hear.
Well if you throw enough resources at a problem? I'm sure you'll find something it'll run great on. problem is the market seems to be moving AWAY from the big power hogging ultima systems and towards low power computing which FF? Really REALLY blows at.
Again I REALLY wish it wasn't so, I was a FF fan going back to the Moz suite, and I still try each new release and the forks. Its just....its just NOT good. Each release sucks more resources, has more senior moments, its just not good.
And WHY are they so down? One word....FAILDOZER!!!
Even guys like me that support competition and thought Intel should have been busted for the bribery and compiler rigging have been avoiding Faildozer and why? Because its a bad design, its a server chip designed for integer workloads when consumer workloads are heavy floating point, gets beat in many benches by Thuban, the chip they canceled which just FYI was still selling well and more importantly was getting nearly 100% yields oh and just to add the salt to the wound they didn't bother to tell Microsoft what they were up to so the Windows scheduler ties a boat anchor to its already pitiful performance in all MSFT OSes except...Win 8, the Star Trek 5 of OSes.
Let us hope to all that is good that they don't end up tits up, because Intel already has high prices and without AMD they would go insane on the prices. personally i'll keep building AM3+ and selling E450s and Liano on netbooks and laptops but faildozer is just an awful chip. I hope the former Apple chip designer they got comes out with a worthy replacement for Thuban, instead of just trying to crank up the clocks on a bad design. Hmmm...where did we see that before? Oh yeah...it was called Netburst, only AMD can't afford to bribe OEMs into taking it.
Oh and just FYI but there is still hundreds of millions of X86 units sold a year so its STILL a good market where good money can be made, but AMD needs either the performance or at LEAST the bang for the buck, instead AMD has a design that is too hot, costs too much to make so they have to price it noncompetitive, and has poor yields and lousy performance. If your product is bad? Nobody buys, at least not enough to make money, simple as that.
Like I said, you own the primary process? You control the election. What amazes me is that so few realize that you have the ENTIRE MEDIA IN THE USA is owned by just a handful, less than the amount of people in your average Mickey D's on a weeknight!
I mean how can anyone with 2 functioning braincells think its anything but fixed? Again watch the video on voting, he says it better than i ever could. you have a handful of oligarchs at the top, old money with their fingers in all the pies and who own the media, that make damned sure the ONLY two that will EVAR get to the ballot will be both bought and paid for. Why do you think that every media pundit treats any third party candidate as a pariah? Because The Ds and Rs are all on the payroll and follow the corporate line.
So I hope many do as I'm gonna do and just not bother anymore, all you do by voting is give your sanction to a corrupt third world joke of a political process. the ballots may as well have only two choices 'Push here to say how much you love the system!" and "Show your anger for those in power...by voting to support the system!" because that's all you'll ever get, its fixed, been fixed for decades, its 3 card monty only the public just refuses to accept the fact they'll never win the game when the only winning move? Not to play at all.
Again its completely impossible to change a corrupt system by following the rules set up by that corrupt system, as they'll simply change the rules until they get the outcome they want. The debt will continue to spiral, we'll keep getting into wars we don't want, and trillions will be given to the MIC and the friends of the elite, there is no difference in the two sides its just phony differences to give the masses something to argue, that's all.
Have you NEVER worked on PCs evar? Or even watched the Black hat conference? Hell I just had to clean one last week where the BIOS was hacked and gave the malware writer control over the entire network, its not like Bootloader hacks and BIOS hacks are rare ya know. Hell type in "BIOS malware" or "UEFI malware" into any search engine you get over 5 million hits!
And then there is the issue of piracy because if you can hack the bootloader then any check will fail, as they can just use the bootloader hack to present the system as a legitimate OEM. Have you never tried the "Win 7 SP1 all versions 32bit" or 64 bit discs? hell they even change the wallpaper to reflect what board it is along with using an OEM sig to match! Passes WGA no problem, updates no problem, I could put a legit Win 7 and the bootloader hacked one side by side and I doubt seriously even a MSFT rep could tell the difference.
So while the fanboys can waste modpoints because I dare to point out the emperor has no clothes the fact is the LF just started waving their willie in the wind and the courts will gladly hand MSFT the ability to cut it off. Secureboot is the ONLY way found so far to have even a chance of stopping the pirates, its the ONLY way so far of doing anything about BIOS infection and boothacking, and the LF just sided with the pirates and fucked it all up. I wouldn't be surprised if MSFT revokes their key before launch just to keep all the pirates from having a field day and again I don't blame them, its their product and they have the right to get paid for it just as Linux fans have the right to give their work away for free.
And the fucking sad part is ALL IT WOULD TAKE to get Linux to work without being douchebags and siding with the pirates is tell Torvalds to stop being a dick about the kernel. I mean here it is nearly 2013 and he just shits out new kernel revs like its his personal playtoy without a care in the world, when if he would simply save up the changes and release one every other year they could be signed for the distros and all would be good. But no, being allowed to change shit whenever he feels like it is apparently Torvald's right, just as banning Linux keys is MSFT's right.
Which brings it all down to the free market as it should be. If enough Linux users buy machines from AMD with the Open Source Coreboot then others will see supporting you is porfitable and will do the same. Wanna guess the odds of that? I'm guessing about the same as me winning 3 powerball drawings in a row while singing during a lightning storm, in other words zipola. Instead they'll be like the asshole a few months ago that bought a Windows machine only to whine when newegg wouldn't take it back after they put Linux on it. Why should anyone care when you won't even buy from vendors like System76 that support you, instead opting for the Windows Tax break?
You reap what you sow, you pay what you owe, and their bootloader hack will have to go, end of story.
Hi Mrs AC, can't waste the 3 seconds to make an account? And where did you see me plug ANYTHING? In fact I gave a HUGE list of choices, all of which run better than Firefox since V7, Chrome, Chromium, QTWeb, SWIron, Dragon, Safari, opera.
But if you want to pretend needing a fricking multicore for a browser is "competitive" why you go right on ahead and think that Mrs AC, meanwhile look at the numbers and you'll see month after month after month FF usage is going DOWN and not up or even holding.
You see Mrs AC that is the nice thing about having choice, if something goes off the rails and doesn't listen to the people they go somewhere else. Gnome shell for Mate, Vista for XP and then 7, FF for Chrome, if you don't listen to your users they go somewhere else. But enjoy your delusions Mrs AC, whatever makes you happy.
But you are assuming that they simply don't understand instead of understand and want to give the government a loophole which will all the rulings that seem to go out of their way to let the government ignore even the flimsy rules they have left? is probably not the right call.
I know all about the saying about malice and stupidity, but when you are dealing with a government that seems to be "Yay jackboots and spying!" no matter who sits in the big chair its probably safer just to assume malice until proven otherwise, that way you'll be more right than wrong.
Yes but by then setting it up with a hack that will let ANYTHING run with that key they just rendered themselves another Grokster. remember the courts have already ruled that you don't just have to have the possibility somebody will use it for good, you also have to show some common sense. And YOU KNOW that not 5 days after this key is published with their workaround it'll be tied to a copy of "Windows 8 all version pre-activated" on TPB, after all the LF just gave the pirates a new bootloader hack for free.
So I'm sorry gameboy but this WILL be banhammered, and if Ubuntu or Red hat publishes their keys (which both have said they won't) then they'll be banhammered too. The whole point of this was to end the flood of pirated Windows and the LF by making a way you could run anything with their key just sided with the pirates. it would be NO different if MSFT sold you a VLK for your org and you promptly published it onto the web. when getting that key I'm sure MSFT told them what security precautions they had to take with that key and this "hack" I'm sure is a breach of contract.
So if all but Ubuntu and RH get banned because of this shit, instead of just showing some fucking common sense and telling Torvalds to not shit out new kernels every other week? then frankly they deserve to be banned for being so fucking stupid and arrogant. I mean WTF did they think would happen when you publish a key with code that allows ANYTHING to run with it? shit the pirates don't even have to work on Win 8 now, the LF did the heavy lifting. Great going morons, this is why we can't have nice things.
THIS, this right here. People scream that I must be hating on FOSS when I point out Mozilla has gone off the rails (even though the browser i recommend for security features, Comodo Dragon, is based on Chromium) but the simple fact is they had a mission statement, which they used to get us all off the Mozilla Suite, which ever since Chrome started getting users they seem to have thrown right out the window. Remember what that statement was? "To make the best small fast and light browser that is standards compliant we can" and ever since Chrome showed up its just come unglued.
Look I was on FF before it was even called FF, The Moz Suite before that going back to the first betas, so its not like I did not like the product or didn't stick with it through the bad times like the train wreck that was 2.x.x but lets be honest folks...right up to V4 you could see progress with every. single. release. Sure they had bugs and memory issues but with each release you could see that slowly but surely things were getting better every time and you honestly looked forward to the next release because you just KNEW it would be better, with less bugs and cool new features, it was just great.
But since then its just taken a nosedive, especially for those of us that like to use low power devices to save electricity like nettops and netbooks Take for example the 1.8GHz Sempron I use as a nettop here at the shop. With Dragon or any of the Chromium based i can have multiple tabs, listen to music, even do full screen SD video without GPU acceleration and the system still is great...Firefox? Open it slams the CPU to 100%, new tab 100%, hell even scrolling through my fricking bookmarks pegs the CPU.
In the end I think I know what the problem is...its Gecko. That engine simply wasn't designed to support all the whiz bang like fluffy is talking about and it shows in the performance. Instead of focusing on giving the engine the capability they bolted it on so they could go "Me too!" with Chrome features yet the truly important security features like Low Rights mode, which has been out since 07? They don't have.
So we just have to be honest and call a spade a spade. while I try every new release on my nettop and my netbook, as well as the spinoffs like Pale Moon and IceDragon at the end of the day? Firefox just isn't a good browser anymore guys, they have lost their way. It sucks too many resources, supports too much bling and UI crap while not supporting good security practices like least permissions, they just keep bolting more and more shit onto the aging gecko engine while not fixing the problems like CPU spiking, memory creep, or general lack of responsiveness.
Its a damned shame but at least we have a wealth of choices, for guys that need cross platform there is QTWeb and Chromium which both run on anything, there is the Chromium variants like Dragon, SWIron, Chrome and Chromium, there is the one offs like Opera and Safari, hell there is even Kmeleoon and Kmeleon CCF-ME for those still running old Win9X and Win2K boxes and we really need to thank Mozilla for that as they blazed the trail, its just a damned shame they lost themselves along the way.
Why did this guy get marked troll? If you believe voting is any more real than pro wrestling I have some magic beans you might be interested in. Want proof? As much as I think the guy is snooker loopy on a lot of thing Alex Jones has the proof in video on his website. When the Ron Paul supporters asked to be heard according to the RNCs own rules they held a vote to change those rules and someone managed to get their cell camera to where you can see the teleprompter and the teleprompter had the results of the vote before the vote had been cast thus showing the whole process fake.
The "choices" you WILL get, no matter what you do, will be corporate approved shill A or B, that's it. Go to YouTube and watch the videos of those that actually counted the ballots in CN and NH where they say "The numbers for our district and what the RNC claimed are not even close" as Mittens was doing poorly in those states so they just gave him magical free votes. Remember if you control the primary outcome then it doesn't matter what happens in the general election, since both sides are "your guy" so its heads you win tails they lose. They control the primary process, they control the debates, they make sure only shills get the two slots so who gives a shit which shill gets it? A shill is a shill is a shill and as long as he'll cash the checks and give them the laws the corps don't give a rat's ass.
In the end I urge everyone to watch this video about voting as while i don't agree with the libertarians on much, being more of a socialist myself, i have to agree with this libertarian on this issue, its pointless. you can't change a corrupt institution by using the rules set forth by that corrupt institution, because as with Paul they'll just change the rules and there is nothing you can do about it.
Personally I say grab every damned dime you can and wait for the collapse, which now is pretty much inevitable. Here is another video by the same guy where he simply gives you the numbers and lets you decide. Look at the hockey stick chart in the middle of the video, in 1929 when the stock market collapsed we had 125% of GDP in the market and that took us to 1953 to fully recover to pre crash levels. How much do we have in now? Over 400% of GDP and rising which means when this bubble pops it'll make 1929 look like a minor glitch.
You have one party that is tax slightly and spend heavily, another that is give tax breaks and spend MORE heavily, nothing you can say or do will change the direction we are heading, a collapse is inevitable. Grab what you can, take care of your own, its all you can really do. On the bright side when the whole thing collapses hopefully we can start over and have a true democracy instead of the corporate sham we've had for half a century. Ike warned us the MIC would be just the start and he was right, now the corps own the whole show and its pro wrestling to entertain the public and keep their minds off what is really happening.
Sorry for the length but this is a subject I feel strongly about and I'll just end with the wisdom of George Carlin "Know why they call it The American Dream? Because you have to be asleep to believe in it".
But I would argue that those things were already on life support if not already bleeding out. Know what the number 1 web page that is most likely to be seen by me as a home page is? Yahoo web portal, why? Because people use it as a replacement for their paper, radio, and for some even TV. It has all the latest headlines, radio stations, and videos of all the latest news and events on that single page so what we geeks think of as cluttered makes those that used to use print media happy.
I'm sorry but bullshit. I can take a low power nettop or netbook and use the browser of YOUR choice and HTML V5 will still suck more balls than a bangkok whore. In fact I'll be happy to take the Pepsi challenge and put HTML V5 against flash with no GPU accelerated SD video and record the results, HTML V5 is a fucking piggie and the web is full of complaints just like mine. if you think it works its because you are running it on a high power multicore or have GPU acceleration for H.264 as HTML V5 is just a badly coded mess.
And to me the worst fucking part is the whole switch didn't happen because anybody gave a rat's ass about performance or security, its because Steve Jobs wanted more control of his fucking appstore and knew HTML V5 wasn't in any way, shape, or form a competitor of native apps while flash would have allowed some people to just bypass the fucking appstore for gaming.
Yeah sorry, but HTML V5 is about as appealing as deep fried tampons.
I've run into a couple of places with that requirement and its always shitty lecture videos somebody recorded in Real format and is too fucking lazy to transcode.