Not to be harsh but my nettop in the shop is maxed at 2gb and runs just fine...of course I'm running Comodo Dragon now instead of FF because after V5 it got to be too big of a memory and CPU hog for anything less than a dual core.
Seriously if you need 4Gb+ and a 64bit OS to use a fricking browser? And what's worse is you consider that normal? Then maybe the problem isn't the system, its the program. Its a browser not Far Cry II folks.
Its slamming the CPU friend, use something like AnVir Task Manager where you can have a little CPU and memory gauge in the taskbar and see for yourself. I was driven nuts by those "senior moments" as I called it but then by chance giveaway of the day gave away AnVir and the next time I saw FF have a senior moment i looked at the taskbar and found it had slammed the CPU into the red. They have a trial version so its not like you have to pay for it and I bet my last dollar its slamming the hell out of your CPU.
That's why I spent about a month trying different browsers, Safari and Opera and SWIron and Chrome and Kmeleon and settled on Comodo Dragon. Out of all the different ones i tested it seemed to work best for me across multiple systems while still having the features i wanted like Adblock Plus.
So get AnVir or any other taskbar CPU monitor and next time it hangs look at the gauge and see what it says, if its hanging the CPU try some different browsers and see what works best for you. Because i don't know about you but those senior moments drove me up a damned wall, it always felt like someone holding up a stop sign every so many minutes and taking me out of my groove, really irritating.
The problem isn't the chips, its the boards. Most boards today have only 2 slots, 4 if you are lucky. That means for a DDR2 board you are maxed at 4-8Gb of RAM (4Gb chips are nearly a hundred a pop for DDR2 so not practical) and with DDR3 you are talking 8Gb-16Gb (again the 8Gb sticks are too high to be practical) so you just aren't gonna be able to stuff that much RAM.
And an even better question is...Why the fuck should I have to? Its a damned browser, not Crysis 2. if your ass is leaking memory so bad i need a shitton of memory just to deal with the thing? Then go back to the drawing board because your browser sucks.
I'm typing this on a 1.8GHz Sempron I keep at the shop for a nettop, its got 2Gb of RAM and with a half a dozen tabs open in Comodo Dragon and a couple of programs running in the background I have nearly half my memory left. I have left this running for a week with more than a half a dozen tabs open and what happened? it was using the same amount of memory as I left. I have done the same to FF overnight and found the machine to be slapping the shit out of the paging file the next day as FF usage slowly but surely climbs over time.
So if you need a server board with 32Gb of RAM to do any real work in your browser? then people need to move to a browser that doesn't go through memory like a drunk goes through a free minibar, because a browser frankly shouldn't be sucking down RAM like that.
Block his products, let him sell to the Chinese. I understand EXACTLY what you are saying, you don't give a shit how many people you poison as long as the attic guy keeps his business. Well fuck him, move his ass next to the factory making the panels and after his wife has cancer and his kids are choking on asthma he'll give a shit about environmental laws instead of where he can get the cheapest widget.
Funny you should bring up the USSR because that is EXACTLY where we are heading, only placing the $ instead of the hammer and sickle on the door. Know that 4 of the top 20 most polluted places on earth are in the former USSR? How about the fact that those at the top of the chain lived like kings there, while the poor lived like dirt....sound familiar?
If you think Chinese goods are fine and dandy, that all that matters is the bottom line? MOVE, don't let the door hit you on the way out. I have no intention of this country going back to the 1800s, with factory towns controlled by the corps that kept people enslaved, that created the superfund sites we have now, that has left places more deadly than walking around a minefield...fuck that and fuck any business that doesn't care about the people they kill with toxins, only their bottom line.
Actually that too depends on where you live. Where I live in the middle of the deep south you only see that among the teens, once you hit your 20s its kisses on the cheek and hand holding but no kissing on the lips. Its probably because we southerners tend to want to be social without being overboard and overly PDAs make people uncomfortable so they simply aren't done. Even with the teens if its more than a quick smooch its frowned upon.
The nice thing about browsers friend? Is you do have choices. I personally prefer the Comodo Dragon, which is based on Chromium and doesn't have all the Google phone home junk. For those that wish to try it here you go. And for those that prefer the Gecko engine or have FF extensions you are loathe to let go of? Well guess what, the Comodo guys just came out with their own version of FF called IceDragon, try it here.
Oh and since we get lets of calls of shilling here just FYI, don't know anybody at Comodo, never worked at Comodo or got so much as a bumper sticker from Comodo, just a guy that used their free antivirus and decided to see what other free stuff they had and found a ton of cool free software being offered.
But that's the nice thing we have now folks, we have a wealth of choice. Don't like either of those? There is SWIron, Kmeleon, Safari, Opera, hell I could make a list half a page long just of browsers. If you don't like the way the FF devs are doing things, and personally I think trying to throw another mobile OS into an already crowded as hell field is just nuts, then vote with your feet and choose one of the multitude of different browsers out there. Hell they are free, try a dozen and see which one fits you best.
Actually I don't think that is what happened with gay people at all. I live in a small church college town in the middle of the bible belt, where you'd think it would be VERY far right on the issue of gays, buts its not, why? Because gay people quit hiding and instead of getting in everyone's face like the extremists simply chose to live their lives, no different than anyone else.
Now nobody says a word about the gal working at the cigarette shop, or the guy that works at the deli,or the dozens of others, they are simply open and make no bones about it one way or another. Its a lot easier to hate some group if you've never (to your knowledge) had any contact with them, its a lot harder when you know you are talking about that nice young man that cuts your hair or the girl waiting on you at your favorite diner.
You don't know how right you are friend. I mean if you were a company looking at using and contributing to an Open Source project so you could use the code in some hardware you were working on wouldn't you think twice after RMS named a company by name with an attack clause in the new GPL? I know I would, it makes him look like he is using the license to settle personal scores, which I'd argue he is. Considering how many nasty things he's had to say about Google I wouldn't be surprised if GPL V4 has an "Anti-Androidization" clause in it.
But that is the problem with zealotry in a nutshell, its "You are with me or against me" with no middle ground. Removing the middle ground of ND and NC will simply make that many more shy away from using a CC license and letting us enjoy their work because they won't want to see that work sold or even twisted, like the girl that had her picture taken for a car ad and ended up in magazines half the world away in ads that made her sound like a hooker.
Isn't it funny though how you can change one or two words, here and there, and TFA sounds like a pro corporate speech? I always found it amusing that zealots on either side of a debate use similar enough language that all it would take is a few alterations to turn one into the other, kinda like how you can take all the anti-BSD posts about "stealing" and "theft" and with just a few words make it into a pro *.A.A speech. I always found that kinda interesting, although when you point that out oh boy do the zealots get mad!
Yes you do sound fanboyish, just FYI. Having less choice may seem like a positive to you, but its a negative to the rest of us. You can do the same thing with a PC BTW, its called "buy the same laptop" although frankly I've yanked drives out of Dells and slapped them in Samsungs, all it took was about 20 minutes to remove the old drivers and install the new, followed by a 5 minute call to MSFT to re-activate. Despite all the "ZOMFG M$ won't let you re-activate ZOMFG" FUD we have seen in many places I have honestly never had a problem with them and a re-activation, just 5 minutes and you're good to go.
Although I really don't know how many "settings" your average user even has anymore, most of my customers only care about their bookmarks and any pics and docs on the drive. For the bookmarks I have them on Comodo Dragon (or if you like the Firefox way of doing things they have IceDragon) with Comodo set to back up their bookmarks to their Gmail, easy peasy. And as far as trialware? Dude if you are actually manually uninstalling ANY of it ur doin it wrong, that's what PC Decrapifier if for. Simply check the boxes of anything you don't want, trialware or not, hit the next button and there is no step 3, its all automatic. For pics and docs I carry USB drive enclosures, not only do they get their data but it makes a handy backup unit and you can buy enclosures all day long for less than $6
That said if paying the "Apple Tax" for less powerful hardware at more expensive prices does it for you? I'm happy for you, I really am. I support everyone from college students to grandmas, backhoe operators to bank managers, and the nice thing about the Windows PC landscape is there is a perfect model for every single one of them.
Where is the Apple equivalent of my netbook, where I can run all my X86 software on a unit just 12 inches and 2 pounds that gets 6 hours plus battery life? That's right, it doesn't exist, instead they'll try to offer me an iPad that doesn't do what I want at a higher price...no thanks. With Windows I can find a unit for nearly any job or price point, upgrade it any way I want, and unless they are literally spilling cokes down the damned things they'll last for years. BTW if you have a relative THAT destructive? Far cheaper to slap them on refurb netbooks and have their data in the cloud, hell you can buy 7 or 8 netbooks for the price of a single macbook and then they can just toss or give them away on freecycle.
Its called "contact the artist" because, despite the fact that you and others try to make this an either/or its really not. I mean if I publish a picture of me and my boys at the beach under an NC license and you want to use it in some little project, even one that you may make a couple of bucks off of? Then I'm sure that if you contacted me I'd have no problem, and it would take you maybe a few minutes to whip off an email and a few minutes to read my reply. hell I'd even give you my number and we could hash the whole thing out and that would be that.
On the other hand if you anted to use that image in something I find patently offensive, like say a pro racism ad? Then YES you will NOT be using it, in that case it would again take less than 5 minutes to find that out and you can move on.
But quit with the red herring that is comparing it to BSD and GPL, that is like saying you don't need musicians or artists, you can just have a computer spit out notes in the western scale or random color splotches. Unlike software which is often MEANT to be broken up, added to, and tweaked to serve a function art is there to be treated as a specific work. You might as well say all software should be in PD because if there is ANY restrictions then that might stifle you.
Well if you don't like it you are free to buy different art from one of a bazillion places that sell art or make your own, just as if you disagree with the GPL or BSD you are free to write your own software or have it written for you. What you are wanting isn't a division, its a subtraction. You want to make it so anything that I can create can be taken, twisted up, and then still claim it was mine, just as if you stuck my family on a white power flyer. No thank you sir, all that would happen is that many like me wouldn't release a single thing under a free license....but I get the feeling that's kinda the point.
And why shouldn't they be pissed? Look at that story a couple of weeks back about that model who allowed herself to be photographed for a car ad (Volvo I believe) and the next thing she knows is her picture is showing up on other ads making her sound like a call girl.
There is a good reason why so many support NC, because that way if a corp wants to use their image they have to contact them and get permission or get sued.
I don't know about everyone else, but just the fact that we can argue about what these licenses mean over 200+ posts tells me they are written too damned ambiguous and seriously need a rewrite.
Free Trade is a lie. Its a lie because countries like China can use slaves and criminals, can dump toxic waste out the back door (fully 20% of China's farmland would now be considered a superfund site if in the USA) and they tariff the living shit out of our stuff going in, yet we are just supposed to take it and smile? Screw that, we need to be as nationalistic as China and India, protect our own, and only trade with countries that have similar environmental and worker protections. Otherwise all we are doing is exporting our waste and misery.
So frankly I feel not the tiniest bit of sympathy for your attic fan creator, he should have to live next to the factory that is making those panels. If he leaves the country we should slap him with tariffs no different than they do to us, period. As it is we're the HS football team playing the Broncos and the Broncos have already bought off the refs just to be safe.
The only way to compete with countries like India and China with "free trade" would be to turn the USA into just as big a polluted hellhole as those countries. That might be fine for those in the high rises drinking purified water and organically grown food, but I like not having my water filled with toxins and my kids not needing gas masks to breathe outside, thanks.
Actually I believe it's gonna get worse before it gets better and we can blame Wall Street and Washington for the mess. Look at the graphics in the video, see how much money has been pumped into the market by Washington. Why is that bad? Simple because when you have THAT much money chasing so few stocks the stock itself no longer is a representation of the perceived value of the company but what the stock itself is worth and this rewards short term thinking, even when it ultimately kills the company.
For a couple of examples Westinghouse and Circuit City, in both cases the CEOs gutted the companies, selling anything worth a nickel in the case of Westinghouse and firing all the top sales employees in Circuit city's case. Did they get punished by the market for obviously taking a match to their companies? Nope the stock went UP because their short term numbers went up. It would be like burning down your factory and then the stock goes up because "Hey their expenses are waaay down!". We've seen it time and time again, CEO comes in, guts the company, stock goes up, CEO cashes out, stock falls through the floor and the employees and anyone left holding that stock is fucked, while the CEO and friends already cashed out and have moved on, probably while being praised for their "cost cutting initiative".
So sadly we'll be seeing a lot more MBAs...Master of Being Assholes, run these companies into the ground, because for those at the top its a viable profit strategy, its only those on the bottom that get fucked.
Same here, I always call it like I see it and have as many that hate many as like me but it all evens out in the wash and my karma stays excellent, even when I had that crazy last year that would mod down everything I posted the next day as well as follow any posting I made anywhere on the net with "Die you fat fucker die". So if I can have excellent karma then the noh8rz guy must be just flaming for the fun of flaming instead of merely speaking his mind. I really have to give/. credit for that, there are many here that support free speech, even when they disagree with you. Thumbs up for that.
As for the OEMs? they got big and fat and spoiled by the MHz wars, MSFT too, where they could just slap a chip in a box or laptop and people would buy because their year and a half old machine was already horribly outclassed. That just isn't the case anymore, I have many customers on 5 and 6 year old multicores that are just as happy with the unit today as they were when they bought it so simply slapping chips in systems isn't gonna cut it.
They need to innovate, show people what they can actually DO with these new systems, such as how I show my customers how they can have an HTPC that sips power and feeds media to anywhere in the house, or they need to accept the market is mature and learn to get by on less, its just that simple. Because as it is now a good 85%+ of the people out there will be perfectly happy with a first gen Phenom quad or even a Core Duo, because they are so overpowered compared to the work they have for the machine it'll have tons of cycles to spare.
Bit of advice? Try Asus, I've been getting quite a few from them for customers and the amount of trialware was very low, just your standard MS Office trial and the option of having a Norton trial if you wanted it. If you didn't you simply said no at first start and voila! No Norton.
BTW once you have the PC set up the way you want it, which I suggest using WSUS Offline for the patches and Ninite for the third party stuff like Flash? Well once its set up all nice and clean and fresh smelling you can just use Comodo Time Machine to make it pretty much unfuckable. Just lock the first snapshot (so you have your own version of a factory restore) and set it to take a snapshot daily and tada! Even if they manage to make the machine unbootable you can have it back up in under 20 minutes by phone, all they have to do is hit the Home key when they see the clock (right after BIOS) and then pick which snapshot they want to go back to, couldn't be easier.
I agree about the trialware infections though, last time I had to deal with a factory reset on a Dell mini I wouldn't to pull my fricking hair out! We're talking an Atom single with 1Gb of RAM and they had something like NINE things running at startup! What a fricking mess, but once I had him all nice and ready to go CTM means I won't have to deal with that crap again, its a life saver if you have to deal with clueless people. But I've tried dealing with ARM friend and you do NOT want to go there. What you end up with is pissed off people because they can't run their dumbass Windows programs, it wouldn't matter if you sold them a dual core netbook for $40 they would still be pissed that it couldn't run whatever crapware program they wanted.
The problem with Drake's is as I told the other guy, it automatically assumes you are dealing with weak hairless monkeys which most likely would NOT be a preferable form, we're too soft. Look at the creatures that live near the steam vents, something like that could be happily living under the ice on Europa right now. We're not gonna sit down and have a conversation with it but that doesn't mean it isn't alive, just as those creatures by the vents gobbling methane are alive.
And if you had read in of the other posts by the guy I was responding to you'd know he is a "God and Guns" type that will jump through frankly insane logic hoops trying to "prove" that what some 1800+ year dead goat herder wrote about some 2000+ year old dead guy that frankly we have no real proof even lived that its not even funny.
Look if you want to believe some old white guy sat on a fluffy cloud, waved a magic wand and created living beings out of nothing but dirt and his awesomeness that is your business friend. I just think we have a hell of a lot more evidence that live evolved over billions of years, with starts, stops, and dead ends, including quite a few dead ends in our own family tree, than to believe in a sky bully. Especially the one the "God and Guns" type believe in, where he rewards the rich for being douchbags while spits on the poor for not being big enough douchebags to become independently wealthy.
Every time I hear a G&G bible thumper all I can think of is Supply Side Jesus which is about as much to do as the character in the bible as I have to do with a T-101.
Actually it was because they were using Intel kickbacks to win the price wars.
The problem they found once the price wars were over was that both Intel and AMD in their race to outdo each other went right past "good enough" and straight into "insanely overpowered" for everyone except the top 6% or so of heavy PC power users and there just aren't enough of them to sustain a market.
The OEMs and MSFT got spoiled by the crazy turnover rate of the MHz wars, simple as that. Until the rise of multicores it was practically pointless to even try to upgrade your PC as changes were coming so fast and speeds were jumping so quickly that a 2 year old PC would be struggling badly to run the latest software, much less play games or do any other heavy lifting. In one 5 year period I went from a 300MHz to a 2200MHz and my RAM went from 64Mb to 2Gb...those are pretty damned big jumps folks. There wouldn't have even been a point in trying to stretch the life of those machines a little longer because they were so quickly outclassed.
Now compare that to the PCs I was selling 5 years ago, which were Phenom I X3s and X4s along with Intel Core Duos...is there anything your average office worker or home user does that wouldn't run just fine on a Phenom X3? Hell I have an engineer friend running Solidworks on a Phenom X3 and is quite happy with it. The machines I built 4 and 5 years ago can be easily and simply upgraded with just a RAM stick and the multicores will happily do any job they have with cycles left over. Hell if you wanted to game you were looking at a full PC changeout every 2 years, now I'm happily playing on a Phenom II X6 and the only reason i bothered upgrading from the quad was it was on sale and let me give the quad to my youngest who is happily gaming on it this very minute according to Steam.
The bullshit the press is spewing of "Tablets are gonna replace the desktop ZOMFG! Look at the numbers ZOMFG!" is a classic example of "correlation doesn't equal causation" because as someone in the trenches I can tell you PCs aren't going away, in fact most folks have never owned so many PCs...and that is the problem the OEMs have. There hasn't been a "killer app" to require a major upgrade, hell even gaming works great on a 4 year old C2D or Phenom II X3, so people are simply keeping what they got because they are so overpowered. Hell my EEE netbook cost like $350 over a year ago and the thing plays L4D and many other mainstream games just fine...on a $350 netbook!
So the OEMs are either gonna have to accept its a mature market, where like dishwashers people don't replace until they fail, or they are gonna have to make new markets to sell to. I personally have been making good money selling Mini-HTPCs. People like being able to have a box that has all their music and movies, can stream it to anywhere they are in the house, or they can watch them hassle free on their widescreen TV with one of those Lenovo keyboard mini remotes.
But as long as they think they can just slap the latest chip in a box or laptop and it'll magically sell of the shelves they are gonna be hurting, because the average user is not gonna see the websites load any faster on the latest monster than they are that first gen Core Duo, nor are their office programs, their video games, or anything else they use gonna run with enough of a difference in speed to justify spending all that money and going through all the hassle of transferring their stuff. The tablet? They use that as an eBook reader and to look up on IMDB what the name of the actor is in the show they are watching, different use case.
Oh Lord...one of those that believes what some 1800 year dead goat herder wrote about some 2000+ year dead guy, right? Its called LIGHTNING friend, and its already shown that complex chemicals form when you zap base chemicals repeatedly, enjoy the wiki article about the experiements done a half a century ago.
As for why it didn't "instantly come to life"? That takes about a half a billion years or so, and needless to say nobody is gonna run an experiment for a half a billion years.
But you go back to believing a white man sits on a cloud, banged some girl down here, and made a "half God" ala Hercules, because that is so much more believable than natural evolution.
Life as WE know it...FTFY. As we have seen with worms living next to volcanic vents, creatures eating methane, frankly what can survive in places we'd consider hell is just amazing.
Again that does NOT mean they are cruising around a cornfield in Alabama fucking with farmer Joe, but to say that none of those stars, even the ones on the edges, have even a chance at some sort of life? I find that awful hard to believe.
I hope you consider HIV and having an asshole more stretched out than a gay porn star is "Irrelevant" to you, as well as your family begging for aid because your ass won't be seeing daylight for awhile...if ever.
And I wonder how many millions more said "Always online? Fuck that noise" and went elsewhere? I know that I can only speak for myself, my friends, and my family and we all just went over to Steam and picked up Torchlight II (Not only is it only $20 but you get Torchlight I for pre-ordering) instead of dealing with the bullshit.
As long as we have choices? I have no problem with companies being douchebags because the douchebaggery will come around and bite them in the ass. Look at how EA is on the selling block and Activision is talking restructuring, why? Got to be too big of a douchebag and ran off their customers, that's why.
So as long as I can buy or build my own machine that does what I want? Then go ahead and be a giant douchebag Mr Corp, I'll take my business elsewhere. The threat that Mr Doctorow is pointing out is when ALL the companies decide to be douchebags. Look at desktops, for the vast majority if Win 8 don't bomb you are gonna have the "choice" of an Apple walled garden..or a MSFT walled garden. Too many companies aren't even competing with each other anymore, as we saw in that article a couple of weeks back how Apple and MSFT have signed cross licensing agreements up the ass so they are now buddy buddy.
It is THAT which we have to watch out for, the day when your choice is black box A or black box B which can be killed at the whim of the OEM and which is completely worthless without the OEMs blessings.
Thanks for the link. My grandfather was one of the grunts that helped liberate one of the smaller camps in WWII, the stories he told, of the smell, the bodies piled like cordwood, not being able to tell male from female because they were all walking skeletons...damn. You can see why the fascist playbook video is so damned scary, as it really wouldn't take much to turn those black camps we have in far off places like Pakistan into something like that.
Because you can have the basic send files locked down as read only and unable to be modified by the user, this makes it a hell of a lot harder to crack, you'll have to find a buffer overflow or some other system crashing crack to get around it which thanks to DEP and ASLR is a lot harder than it ever was.
Whereas if you have the files themselves locally then by extension they HAVE to have read/write access or else they will quickly become as useless as that 6 year old 30 day trial of Norton that grandpa thinks is "protecting his machine" which just FYI I get a couple of those a month, people thinking that as long as they have ANY kind of security on a machine its fine, no matter if it hasn't been updated since Bush's first term.
Its simply easier to make something that only reads and lock it down than it is to make something read/write and lock it down, that's security 101. By having the read only files hashed with a salt short of taking control of the entire system and replacing all the files required to alter it at boot (no small task) it should be extremely hard to crack a system that is read only, but I come across infected machines with supposedly functional AVs all the time. How do they do it? By changing a couple of settings that are user writeable at boot, that's how.
You ain't never been to prison, have you bubba? How long can you fight with broken bones? I ask that because I knew a guitarist, used to play the most beautiful songs...he can't play no more because he did 3 years on a pot charge and had to keep fighting after he had already broken his knuckles to keep the rapists off him. I have a cousin doing life for drugs in Texas, he has more broken bones than your average boxer and he's just 36.
No friend, solitary is what they'd do if they wanted to be nice or gave a shit, more likely they'd throw you in general pop and make bets on how long you can last. The average person here? Probably wouldn't make a week, and that's if they don't decide to have one of the lifers shiv you or throw you off a tier.
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Not to be harsh but my nettop in the shop is maxed at 2gb and runs just fine...of course I'm running Comodo Dragon now instead of FF because after V5 it got to be too big of a memory and CPU hog for anything less than a dual core.
Seriously if you need 4Gb+ and a 64bit OS to use a fricking browser? And what's worse is you consider that normal? Then maybe the problem isn't the system, its the program. Its a browser not Far Cry II folks.
Its slamming the CPU friend, use something like AnVir Task Manager where you can have a little CPU and memory gauge in the taskbar and see for yourself. I was driven nuts by those "senior moments" as I called it but then by chance giveaway of the day gave away AnVir and the next time I saw FF have a senior moment i looked at the taskbar and found it had slammed the CPU into the red. They have a trial version so its not like you have to pay for it and I bet my last dollar its slamming the hell out of your CPU.
That's why I spent about a month trying different browsers, Safari and Opera and SWIron and Chrome and Kmeleon and settled on Comodo Dragon. Out of all the different ones i tested it seemed to work best for me across multiple systems while still having the features i wanted like Adblock Plus.
So get AnVir or any other taskbar CPU monitor and next time it hangs look at the gauge and see what it says, if its hanging the CPU try some different browsers and see what works best for you. Because i don't know about you but those senior moments drove me up a damned wall, it always felt like someone holding up a stop sign every so many minutes and taking me out of my groove, really irritating.
The problem isn't the chips, its the boards. Most boards today have only 2 slots, 4 if you are lucky. That means for a DDR2 board you are maxed at 4-8Gb of RAM (4Gb chips are nearly a hundred a pop for DDR2 so not practical) and with DDR3 you are talking 8Gb-16Gb (again the 8Gb sticks are too high to be practical) so you just aren't gonna be able to stuff that much RAM.
And an even better question is...Why the fuck should I have to? Its a damned browser, not Crysis 2. if your ass is leaking memory so bad i need a shitton of memory just to deal with the thing? Then go back to the drawing board because your browser sucks.
I'm typing this on a 1.8GHz Sempron I keep at the shop for a nettop, its got 2Gb of RAM and with a half a dozen tabs open in Comodo Dragon and a couple of programs running in the background I have nearly half my memory left. I have left this running for a week with more than a half a dozen tabs open and what happened? it was using the same amount of memory as I left. I have done the same to FF overnight and found the machine to be slapping the shit out of the paging file the next day as FF usage slowly but surely climbs over time.
So if you need a server board with 32Gb of RAM to do any real work in your browser? then people need to move to a browser that doesn't go through memory like a drunk goes through a free minibar, because a browser frankly shouldn't be sucking down RAM like that.
Block his products, let him sell to the Chinese. I understand EXACTLY what you are saying, you don't give a shit how many people you poison as long as the attic guy keeps his business. Well fuck him, move his ass next to the factory making the panels and after his wife has cancer and his kids are choking on asthma he'll give a shit about environmental laws instead of where he can get the cheapest widget.
Funny you should bring up the USSR because that is EXACTLY where we are heading, only placing the $ instead of the hammer and sickle on the door. Know that 4 of the top 20 most polluted places on earth are in the former USSR? How about the fact that those at the top of the chain lived like kings there, while the poor lived like dirt....sound familiar?
If you think Chinese goods are fine and dandy, that all that matters is the bottom line? MOVE, don't let the door hit you on the way out. I have no intention of this country going back to the 1800s, with factory towns controlled by the corps that kept people enslaved, that created the superfund sites we have now, that has left places more deadly than walking around a minefield...fuck that and fuck any business that doesn't care about the people they kill with toxins, only their bottom line.
Actually that too depends on where you live. Where I live in the middle of the deep south you only see that among the teens, once you hit your 20s its kisses on the cheek and hand holding but no kissing on the lips. Its probably because we southerners tend to want to be social without being overboard and overly PDAs make people uncomfortable so they simply aren't done. Even with the teens if its more than a quick smooch its frowned upon.
The nice thing about browsers friend? Is you do have choices. I personally prefer the Comodo Dragon, which is based on Chromium and doesn't have all the Google phone home junk. For those that wish to try it here you go. And for those that prefer the Gecko engine or have FF extensions you are loathe to let go of? Well guess what, the Comodo guys just came out with their own version of FF called IceDragon, try it here.
Oh and since we get lets of calls of shilling here just FYI, don't know anybody at Comodo, never worked at Comodo or got so much as a bumper sticker from Comodo, just a guy that used their free antivirus and decided to see what other free stuff they had and found a ton of cool free software being offered.
But that's the nice thing we have now folks, we have a wealth of choice. Don't like either of those? There is SWIron, Kmeleon, Safari, Opera, hell I could make a list half a page long just of browsers. If you don't like the way the FF devs are doing things, and personally I think trying to throw another mobile OS into an already crowded as hell field is just nuts, then vote with your feet and choose one of the multitude of different browsers out there. Hell they are free, try a dozen and see which one fits you best.
Actually I don't think that is what happened with gay people at all. I live in a small church college town in the middle of the bible belt, where you'd think it would be VERY far right on the issue of gays, buts its not, why? Because gay people quit hiding and instead of getting in everyone's face like the extremists simply chose to live their lives, no different than anyone else.
Now nobody says a word about the gal working at the cigarette shop, or the guy that works at the deli,or the dozens of others, they are simply open and make no bones about it one way or another. Its a lot easier to hate some group if you've never (to your knowledge) had any contact with them, its a lot harder when you know you are talking about that nice young man that cuts your hair or the girl waiting on you at your favorite diner.
You don't know how right you are friend. I mean if you were a company looking at using and contributing to an Open Source project so you could use the code in some hardware you were working on wouldn't you think twice after RMS named a company by name with an attack clause in the new GPL? I know I would, it makes him look like he is using the license to settle personal scores, which I'd argue he is. Considering how many nasty things he's had to say about Google I wouldn't be surprised if GPL V4 has an "Anti-Androidization" clause in it.
But that is the problem with zealotry in a nutshell, its "You are with me or against me" with no middle ground. Removing the middle ground of ND and NC will simply make that many more shy away from using a CC license and letting us enjoy their work because they won't want to see that work sold or even twisted, like the girl that had her picture taken for a car ad and ended up in magazines half the world away in ads that made her sound like a hooker.
Isn't it funny though how you can change one or two words, here and there, and TFA sounds like a pro corporate speech? I always found it amusing that zealots on either side of a debate use similar enough language that all it would take is a few alterations to turn one into the other, kinda like how you can take all the anti-BSD posts about "stealing" and "theft" and with just a few words make it into a pro *.A.A speech. I always found that kinda interesting, although when you point that out oh boy do the zealots get mad!
Yes you do sound fanboyish, just FYI. Having less choice may seem like a positive to you, but its a negative to the rest of us. You can do the same thing with a PC BTW, its called "buy the same laptop" although frankly I've yanked drives out of Dells and slapped them in Samsungs, all it took was about 20 minutes to remove the old drivers and install the new, followed by a 5 minute call to MSFT to re-activate. Despite all the "ZOMFG M$ won't let you re-activate ZOMFG" FUD we have seen in many places I have honestly never had a problem with them and a re-activation, just 5 minutes and you're good to go.
Although I really don't know how many "settings" your average user even has anymore, most of my customers only care about their bookmarks and any pics and docs on the drive. For the bookmarks I have them on Comodo Dragon (or if you like the Firefox way of doing things they have IceDragon) with Comodo set to back up their bookmarks to their Gmail, easy peasy. And as far as trialware? Dude if you are actually manually uninstalling ANY of it ur doin it wrong, that's what PC Decrapifier if for. Simply check the boxes of anything you don't want, trialware or not, hit the next button and there is no step 3, its all automatic. For pics and docs I carry USB drive enclosures, not only do they get their data but it makes a handy backup unit and you can buy enclosures all day long for less than $6
That said if paying the "Apple Tax" for less powerful hardware at more expensive prices does it for you? I'm happy for you, I really am. I support everyone from college students to grandmas, backhoe operators to bank managers, and the nice thing about the Windows PC landscape is there is a perfect model for every single one of them.
Where is the Apple equivalent of my netbook, where I can run all my X86 software on a unit just 12 inches and 2 pounds that gets 6 hours plus battery life? That's right, it doesn't exist, instead they'll try to offer me an iPad that doesn't do what I want at a higher price...no thanks. With Windows I can find a unit for nearly any job or price point, upgrade it any way I want, and unless they are literally spilling cokes down the damned things they'll last for years. BTW if you have a relative THAT destructive? Far cheaper to slap them on refurb netbooks and have their data in the cloud, hell you can buy 7 or 8 netbooks for the price of a single macbook and then they can just toss or give them away on freecycle.
Its called "contact the artist" because, despite the fact that you and others try to make this an either/or its really not. I mean if I publish a picture of me and my boys at the beach under an NC license and you want to use it in some little project, even one that you may make a couple of bucks off of? Then I'm sure that if you contacted me I'd have no problem, and it would take you maybe a few minutes to whip off an email and a few minutes to read my reply. hell I'd even give you my number and we could hash the whole thing out and that would be that.
On the other hand if you anted to use that image in something I find patently offensive, like say a pro racism ad? Then YES you will NOT be using it, in that case it would again take less than 5 minutes to find that out and you can move on.
But quit with the red herring that is comparing it to BSD and GPL, that is like saying you don't need musicians or artists, you can just have a computer spit out notes in the western scale or random color splotches. Unlike software which is often MEANT to be broken up, added to, and tweaked to serve a function art is there to be treated as a specific work. You might as well say all software should be in PD because if there is ANY restrictions then that might stifle you.
Well if you don't like it you are free to buy different art from one of a bazillion places that sell art or make your own, just as if you disagree with the GPL or BSD you are free to write your own software or have it written for you. What you are wanting isn't a division, its a subtraction. You want to make it so anything that I can create can be taken, twisted up, and then still claim it was mine, just as if you stuck my family on a white power flyer. No thank you sir, all that would happen is that many like me wouldn't release a single thing under a free license....but I get the feeling that's kinda the point.
And why shouldn't they be pissed? Look at that story a couple of weeks back about that model who allowed herself to be photographed for a car ad (Volvo I believe) and the next thing she knows is her picture is showing up on other ads making her sound like a call girl.
There is a good reason why so many support NC, because that way if a corp wants to use their image they have to contact them and get permission or get sued.
I don't know about everyone else, but just the fact that we can argue about what these licenses mean over 200+ posts tells me they are written too damned ambiguous and seriously need a rewrite.
Free Trade is a lie. Its a lie because countries like China can use slaves and criminals, can dump toxic waste out the back door (fully 20% of China's farmland would now be considered a superfund site if in the USA) and they tariff the living shit out of our stuff going in, yet we are just supposed to take it and smile? Screw that, we need to be as nationalistic as China and India, protect our own, and only trade with countries that have similar environmental and worker protections. Otherwise all we are doing is exporting our waste and misery.
So frankly I feel not the tiniest bit of sympathy for your attic fan creator, he should have to live next to the factory that is making those panels. If he leaves the country we should slap him with tariffs no different than they do to us, period. As it is we're the HS football team playing the Broncos and the Broncos have already bought off the refs just to be safe.
The only way to compete with countries like India and China with "free trade" would be to turn the USA into just as big a polluted hellhole as those countries. That might be fine for those in the high rises drinking purified water and organically grown food, but I like not having my water filled with toxins and my kids not needing gas masks to breathe outside, thanks.
Actually I believe it's gonna get worse before it gets better and we can blame Wall Street and Washington for the mess. Look at the graphics in the video, see how much money has been pumped into the market by Washington. Why is that bad? Simple because when you have THAT much money chasing so few stocks the stock itself no longer is a representation of the perceived value of the company but what the stock itself is worth and this rewards short term thinking, even when it ultimately kills the company.
For a couple of examples Westinghouse and Circuit City, in both cases the CEOs gutted the companies, selling anything worth a nickel in the case of Westinghouse and firing all the top sales employees in Circuit city's case. Did they get punished by the market for obviously taking a match to their companies? Nope the stock went UP because their short term numbers went up. It would be like burning down your factory and then the stock goes up because "Hey their expenses are waaay down!". We've seen it time and time again, CEO comes in, guts the company, stock goes up, CEO cashes out, stock falls through the floor and the employees and anyone left holding that stock is fucked, while the CEO and friends already cashed out and have moved on, probably while being praised for their "cost cutting initiative".
So sadly we'll be seeing a lot more MBAs...Master of Being Assholes, run these companies into the ground, because for those at the top its a viable profit strategy, its only those on the bottom that get fucked.
Same here, I always call it like I see it and have as many that hate many as like me but it all evens out in the wash and my karma stays excellent, even when I had that crazy last year that would mod down everything I posted the next day as well as follow any posting I made anywhere on the net with "Die you fat fucker die". So if I can have excellent karma then the noh8rz guy must be just flaming for the fun of flaming instead of merely speaking his mind. I really have to give /. credit for that, there are many here that support free speech, even when they disagree with you. Thumbs up for that.
As for the OEMs? they got big and fat and spoiled by the MHz wars, MSFT too, where they could just slap a chip in a box or laptop and people would buy because their year and a half old machine was already horribly outclassed. That just isn't the case anymore, I have many customers on 5 and 6 year old multicores that are just as happy with the unit today as they were when they bought it so simply slapping chips in systems isn't gonna cut it.
They need to innovate, show people what they can actually DO with these new systems, such as how I show my customers how they can have an HTPC that sips power and feeds media to anywhere in the house, or they need to accept the market is mature and learn to get by on less, its just that simple. Because as it is now a good 85%+ of the people out there will be perfectly happy with a first gen Phenom quad or even a Core Duo, because they are so overpowered compared to the work they have for the machine it'll have tons of cycles to spare.
Bit of advice? Try Asus, I've been getting quite a few from them for customers and the amount of trialware was very low, just your standard MS Office trial and the option of having a Norton trial if you wanted it. If you didn't you simply said no at first start and voila! No Norton.
BTW once you have the PC set up the way you want it, which I suggest using WSUS Offline for the patches and Ninite for the third party stuff like Flash? Well once its set up all nice and clean and fresh smelling you can just use Comodo Time Machine to make it pretty much unfuckable. Just lock the first snapshot (so you have your own version of a factory restore) and set it to take a snapshot daily and tada! Even if they manage to make the machine unbootable you can have it back up in under 20 minutes by phone, all they have to do is hit the Home key when they see the clock (right after BIOS) and then pick which snapshot they want to go back to, couldn't be easier.
I agree about the trialware infections though, last time I had to deal with a factory reset on a Dell mini I wouldn't to pull my fricking hair out! We're talking an Atom single with 1Gb of RAM and they had something like NINE things running at startup! What a fricking mess, but once I had him all nice and ready to go CTM means I won't have to deal with that crap again, its a life saver if you have to deal with clueless people. But I've tried dealing with ARM friend and you do NOT want to go there. What you end up with is pissed off people because they can't run their dumbass Windows programs, it wouldn't matter if you sold them a dual core netbook for $40 they would still be pissed that it couldn't run whatever crapware program they wanted.
The problem with Drake's is as I told the other guy, it automatically assumes you are dealing with weak hairless monkeys which most likely would NOT be a preferable form, we're too soft. Look at the creatures that live near the steam vents, something like that could be happily living under the ice on Europa right now. We're not gonna sit down and have a conversation with it but that doesn't mean it isn't alive, just as those creatures by the vents gobbling methane are alive.
And if you had read in of the other posts by the guy I was responding to you'd know he is a "God and Guns" type that will jump through frankly insane logic hoops trying to "prove" that what some 1800+ year dead goat herder wrote about some 2000+ year old dead guy that frankly we have no real proof even lived that its not even funny.
Look if you want to believe some old white guy sat on a fluffy cloud, waved a magic wand and created living beings out of nothing but dirt and his awesomeness that is your business friend. I just think we have a hell of a lot more evidence that live evolved over billions of years, with starts, stops, and dead ends, including quite a few dead ends in our own family tree, than to believe in a sky bully. Especially the one the "God and Guns" type believe in, where he rewards the rich for being douchbags while spits on the poor for not being big enough douchebags to become independently wealthy.
Every time I hear a G&G bible thumper all I can think of is Supply Side Jesus which is about as much to do as the character in the bible as I have to do with a T-101.
Actually it was because they were using Intel kickbacks to win the price wars.
The problem they found once the price wars were over was that both Intel and AMD in their race to outdo each other went right past "good enough" and straight into "insanely overpowered" for everyone except the top 6% or so of heavy PC power users and there just aren't enough of them to sustain a market.
The OEMs and MSFT got spoiled by the crazy turnover rate of the MHz wars, simple as that. Until the rise of multicores it was practically pointless to even try to upgrade your PC as changes were coming so fast and speeds were jumping so quickly that a 2 year old PC would be struggling badly to run the latest software, much less play games or do any other heavy lifting. In one 5 year period I went from a 300MHz to a 2200MHz and my RAM went from 64Mb to 2Gb...those are pretty damned big jumps folks. There wouldn't have even been a point in trying to stretch the life of those machines a little longer because they were so quickly outclassed.
Now compare that to the PCs I was selling 5 years ago, which were Phenom I X3s and X4s along with Intel Core Duos...is there anything your average office worker or home user does that wouldn't run just fine on a Phenom X3? Hell I have an engineer friend running Solidworks on a Phenom X3 and is quite happy with it. The machines I built 4 and 5 years ago can be easily and simply upgraded with just a RAM stick and the multicores will happily do any job they have with cycles left over. Hell if you wanted to game you were looking at a full PC changeout every 2 years, now I'm happily playing on a Phenom II X6 and the only reason i bothered upgrading from the quad was it was on sale and let me give the quad to my youngest who is happily gaming on it this very minute according to Steam.
The bullshit the press is spewing of "Tablets are gonna replace the desktop ZOMFG! Look at the numbers ZOMFG!" is a classic example of "correlation doesn't equal causation" because as someone in the trenches I can tell you PCs aren't going away, in fact most folks have never owned so many PCs...and that is the problem the OEMs have. There hasn't been a "killer app" to require a major upgrade, hell even gaming works great on a 4 year old C2D or Phenom II X3, so people are simply keeping what they got because they are so overpowered. Hell my EEE netbook cost like $350 over a year ago and the thing plays L4D and many other mainstream games just fine...on a $350 netbook!
So the OEMs are either gonna have to accept its a mature market, where like dishwashers people don't replace until they fail, or they are gonna have to make new markets to sell to. I personally have been making good money selling Mini-HTPCs. People like being able to have a box that has all their music and movies, can stream it to anywhere they are in the house, or they can watch them hassle free on their widescreen TV with one of those Lenovo keyboard mini remotes.
But as long as they think they can just slap the latest chip in a box or laptop and it'll magically sell of the shelves they are gonna be hurting, because the average user is not gonna see the websites load any faster on the latest monster than they are that first gen Core Duo, nor are their office programs, their video games, or anything else they use gonna run with enough of a difference in speed to justify spending all that money and going through all the hassle of transferring their stuff. The tablet? They use that as an eBook reader and to look up on IMDB what the name of the actor is in the show they are watching, different use case.
Oh Lord...one of those that believes what some 1800 year dead goat herder wrote about some 2000+ year dead guy, right? Its called LIGHTNING friend, and its already shown that complex chemicals form when you zap base chemicals repeatedly, enjoy the wiki article about the experiements done a half a century ago.
As for why it didn't "instantly come to life"? That takes about a half a billion years or so, and needless to say nobody is gonna run an experiment for a half a billion years.
But you go back to believing a white man sits on a cloud, banged some girl down here, and made a "half God" ala Hercules, because that is so much more believable than natural evolution.
Life as WE know it...FTFY. As we have seen with worms living next to volcanic vents, creatures eating methane, frankly what can survive in places we'd consider hell is just amazing.
Again that does NOT mean they are cruising around a cornfield in Alabama fucking with farmer Joe, but to say that none of those stars, even the ones on the edges, have even a chance at some sort of life? I find that awful hard to believe.
I hope you consider HIV and having an asshole more stretched out than a gay porn star is "Irrelevant" to you, as well as your family begging for aid because your ass won't be seeing daylight for awhile...if ever.
And I wonder how many millions more said "Always online? Fuck that noise" and went elsewhere? I know that I can only speak for myself, my friends, and my family and we all just went over to Steam and picked up Torchlight II (Not only is it only $20 but you get Torchlight I for pre-ordering) instead of dealing with the bullshit.
As long as we have choices? I have no problem with companies being douchebags because the douchebaggery will come around and bite them in the ass. Look at how EA is on the selling block and Activision is talking restructuring, why? Got to be too big of a douchebag and ran off their customers, that's why.
So as long as I can buy or build my own machine that does what I want? Then go ahead and be a giant douchebag Mr Corp, I'll take my business elsewhere. The threat that Mr Doctorow is pointing out is when ALL the companies decide to be douchebags. Look at desktops, for the vast majority if Win 8 don't bomb you are gonna have the "choice" of an Apple walled garden..or a MSFT walled garden. Too many companies aren't even competing with each other anymore, as we saw in that article a couple of weeks back how Apple and MSFT have signed cross licensing agreements up the ass so they are now buddy buddy.
It is THAT which we have to watch out for, the day when your choice is black box A or black box B which can be killed at the whim of the OEM and which is completely worthless without the OEMs blessings.
Thanks for the link. My grandfather was one of the grunts that helped liberate one of the smaller camps in WWII, the stories he told, of the smell, the bodies piled like cordwood, not being able to tell male from female because they were all walking skeletons...damn. You can see why the fascist playbook video is so damned scary, as it really wouldn't take much to turn those black camps we have in far off places like Pakistan into something like that.
Because you can have the basic send files locked down as read only and unable to be modified by the user, this makes it a hell of a lot harder to crack, you'll have to find a buffer overflow or some other system crashing crack to get around it which thanks to DEP and ASLR is a lot harder than it ever was.
Whereas if you have the files themselves locally then by extension they HAVE to have read/write access or else they will quickly become as useless as that 6 year old 30 day trial of Norton that grandpa thinks is "protecting his machine" which just FYI I get a couple of those a month, people thinking that as long as they have ANY kind of security on a machine its fine, no matter if it hasn't been updated since Bush's first term.
Its simply easier to make something that only reads and lock it down than it is to make something read/write and lock it down, that's security 101. By having the read only files hashed with a salt short of taking control of the entire system and replacing all the files required to alter it at boot (no small task) it should be extremely hard to crack a system that is read only, but I come across infected machines with supposedly functional AVs all the time. How do they do it? By changing a couple of settings that are user writeable at boot, that's how.
You ain't never been to prison, have you bubba? How long can you fight with broken bones? I ask that because I knew a guitarist, used to play the most beautiful songs...he can't play no more because he did 3 years on a pot charge and had to keep fighting after he had already broken his knuckles to keep the rapists off him. I have a cousin doing life for drugs in Texas, he has more broken bones than your average boxer and he's just 36.
No friend, solitary is what they'd do if they wanted to be nice or gave a shit, more likely they'd throw you in general pop and make bets on how long you can last. The average person here? Probably wouldn't make a week, and that's if they don't decide to have one of the lifers shiv you or throw you off a tier.