They got drones and missiles that can hit you from halfway across the planet...you've got a shotgun. Yeah...good luck pal.
You know what? they wouldn't even have to waste a single missile, know why? You're a kiddie fiddler. Don't say you're not, because when they arrest you they'll grab your computer and a handful of files that were dropped..eerrrr..."found" on your PC say you are.
And that's it, you've lost your job, you need $100K+ to defend yourself, your own family turns on you, and you're all alone. Don't think it can happen? Look up the guy in FLA that spent 3 years of his life in jail because he got a corporate issued laptop with a backdoor on it that some CP guys used. It cost him everything I just listed, now you think the corporate fascist state is gonna be NICER to you?
Wake up friend, your ass can be disappeared just as easily as anybody else, they can crucify you at any moment and have the MSM happily cheering. When the big collapse comes? Sure then you can back your truck up and have it turned into a technical and join the party. Until then you STFU and keep your head down or your ass will be dropped in a hole. Know how many people are being held in CIA hell holes? Me neither, and neither does the Red Cross, Amnesty International, or anybody that doesn't have top security clearance.
Maybe you ought to take a good look at this map and think about who you are saying you have the balls to fuck with. You are the mouse, THEY are the 800 pound gorilla that can stomp you without even wasting energy. Hell Assange is known around the planet and they've pulled a Noriega on him, I'm shocked they ain't blasting "renegade" just to be extra douchebaggy about it.
Looking at shots like that I'm always amazed how anyone can truly believe there isn't life out there. Just look at how many stars you have out there, if even only 1 in 10 million have a planet in the right zone you are talking about hundreds of millions of planets!
Now whether or not one of the older civilizations have developed FTL travel and is now poking the monkeys is another debate entirely, but I don't see how anyone can look at a picture like that and believe we're the only ones looking out at pictures like that.
Because if it can't make the hash or its own files don't check it'll probably have a screaming shitfit and let the user know something is up? Look I'm no Windows 8 fan, in fact I'm quite happy that all my customers, as well as my family, are sticking with Win 7. I'll be picking me up one of those $40 Pro deals just to learn the tricks but I sure as hell ain't dealing with metro day to day, just running the CP for a month at the shop made me want to pull an Elvis on the screen.
That said I don't see any real difference between something like this and VirusTotal or how both MSE and Comodo CIS will ask to send a copy of a file its unsure of to be scanned. Its simple easier to lock something down on a remote server with no PEBKAC users running the show, or are you seriously gonna argue that grandma's Dell has better security than the MSFT security severs in Redmond?
Dude, I've been building, repairing, and selling Windows machines since 1993, so I know of which I speak, and those people? Those are MY CUSTOMERS and I happily turn off any cycle sucking bullshit, just as I turn off all the extra "bling bling" animations in Windows. You'd be surprised how many compliments of "Wow, I don't know what you did, but its sure fast and snappy now!" when all I did was kill all the cycle sucking horseshit.
So don't worry friend, because people THAT clueless? Come to me soon enough or guys like me and we kill that shit like Raid kills bugs, dead.
You're missing the point, which is to make him an example. After all if they merely wanted to off him they would be helping pack his bags to Ecuador and have a sniper waiting on him there, no muss and no fuss.
Nope the entire point is someone high up in the chain of command wants to make sure like Manning his ass suffers VERY publically, so that the next Manning to come along won't have anyone to accept the dirty laundry they have for fear of being "Another Assange".
Its called the chilling effect and works quite well and I'm sure will work in this case. After all what person is gonna be willing to say or print shit in any high profile capacity against the USA if they see Assange dragged before a kangaroo court before being dropped in a deep dark hole somewhere?
Because then the malware will simply target this just like they do other Windows components? The problem with doing it on the local machine is 1.-The malware guys will know exactly where it is, and 2.- The dancing bunnies problem where the malware writer tricks the user into bypassing the check by offering the right cookie, thus compromising the entire system and allowing the malware writer full control.
By hosting it remotely you've just bypassed both problems as the servers running this at MSFT is gonna be better protected than grandma's Dell is, and there isn't any users to trick with dancing bunnies to bypass the system. I work on Windows PCs 6 days a week and I can tell you that frankly since Vista drivebys and buffer overflows have gone WAAAY down, now its nearly all social engineering like Security Tool, "free porn" codecs, or getting the user to run some "free" program and bypass the checks, why? Because like all criminals malware writers are lazy creatures and will take the path of least resistance and that is PEBKAC in most cases.
Nobody said it had to be real, did they? that's the nice thing about the pedo card, like the red scare in the 50s someone can just claim it and that's enough to crucify you in the minds of many. All they'd have to do is hold up a laptop and say "This laptop belonged to Assange and we found kiddie porn on it ZOMFG!" and for many that would be proof enough, end of story.
Hell look at how many here are buying the rape story hook, line, and sinker even though before he left the Swedish police said there wasn't a case there? I mean you have one girl bragging she's the "GF of the Wikileaks guy!" and the other going out and buying her "rapist" breakfast while he slept the sleep of the well fucked in her bed and then waking him up to go for another round?
The simple fact is CP is one of the "magic" words that the PTB can use to pretty much insure nobody will defend the target, just like communist or terrorist were back in the day.
And if you get it pre-installed there is a checkbox in Action center that kills it, which if you are so clueless that you can't even uncheck a checkbox in a GUI? Really having a hard time feeling sorry for you.
Besides frankly the whole subject is moot anyway, you are talking about an OS that gets articles like Windows 8...yes its THAT bad and is the subject of parody before its even released so I kinda doubt its gonna be seeing much use on anything but tablets. Hell the only reason it'll be seeing ANY use on tablets is because it looks like Ballmer is gonna shit another MSFT billion down the toilet by selling their $500 iPad knockoff for $199 thus taking the Sony way to profitability.../snicker/.
Look its simple folks, anything Apple does MSFT does badly or half assed or just plain wrong under Ballmer...who doesn't know this? I mean you should have gotten the memo when Ballmer was squirting his shit brown Zune all over the place trying to ape iPod. Win 8 is so obviously a "Please God buy our tablets!" move it ain't even funny anymore, so why even care? Anyone with half a brain cell functioning is gonna stay with Win 7 anyway or at least make sure they get a "Win 8" system that is just Win 7 with a DVD in the bottom of the box that'll never get used except as a coaster.
Armstrong has already been there so it would probably be more fitting to send him to Titan or Phobos, a moon that man has never stepped upon.
Give the man credit, he did one of the great firsts in history yet was always humble and quick to give credit to everyone else that helped to make it happen, a true class act that many could learn from. RIP good sir.
Uhhh...never hear of a rendition ride friend? As you can see its common enough its had books written on the subject. Once in the air that plane would never land in Sweden, they'd get an order for extradition and good little ring kissers the plane would be diverted to the nearest US military base.
The only reason Assange isn't wearing a toe tag is they want an example, they want to make sure the next Manning that has a handful of PMC/CIA/military dirty laundry won't be able to find anyone to air that laundry for fear of getting what happens to Assange, just as Manning is being tortured with straight jackets and sleep deprivation now as a lesson to those that open their big mouths. Look at the amount of cash that has been poured through Iraq and Afghanistan, its big business friend and people have been killed for a hell of a lot less.
Ya know, I'm shocked they didn't pull the pedo card myself. Easy enough to do, a few files on one of his old PCs and its even easier to get the sheep to jump on the bandwagon.
Look, whether you like it or not war and being vicious shit stirrers for the megacorps have become pretty much the SOP for the USA since the end of WWII. Don't take MY word for it, enjoy this handy map showing all the countries to CIA or US military have targeted since WWII. Notice how there very VERY few countries that we haven't gone into and stirred up the shit? Coups against legitimate governments, starting wars, its a huge business worth tens of billions in contracts for the corps, everything from bullets to getting their bananas cheaper, its just business folks.
I just wonder how long Assange is gonna be allowed to have a pulse myself. Sure they want him alive to make an example of him, but how long will this little circus go on before they decide it'd be better just to bury him? They could probably poison him but I'd bet on the "angry lone nut" as its worked so well in the past. You could even have a nice "suicide note" with the patsy...err shooter, that blames Assange for the deaths of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, case closed. Nice and neat.
BTW people of the world? Hi, USA citizen here, don't get pissy with us, we can't do a damned thing about the CIA and the war machine anymore than you can. Every 4 years they trot out another puppet that has fuck all to do with the actual power structure to make the masses feel like they have a say, meanwhile the CIA gets paid and the heads stay for life, same with the MIC. Not a damned thing we can do about it, but with their throwing over 430% of our GDP into the market for their bankster buddies a collapse is inevitable, sorry about the death toll until the whole thing falls down, sorry.
I have, there was a BIOS update that I had to apply that gave me better support for faster RAM on my laptop. That said don't forget we are talking servers here and server BIOS is a lot more complex than your average desktop.
Thanks for proving my point, $179 VS $35, which is exactly what i was pointing out. Sure you could get a version of the Pi with a completely open FOSS chip for USB with zero bugs, one that is rock solid and tested, but you sure as hell ain't gonna buy that chip along with the rest of the BOM and be able to sell it at $35!
So if you buy something THAT cheap you just have to deal with it, it would be like buying one of those $5k Indian cars and then bitching that it don't come with power everything and cruise...well duh! Whenever your main goal is the absolute lowest price sacrifices have to be made, and in this case its taking a bottom of the line USB chip. Considering you only paid $35 for the thing I'd be happy it would work at all folks.
You know who gave the best damned speech on legalization evar? William F Buckley. Now I apologize if I don't get it word for word but it has been 35+ years since I heard him give that speech and since it was before the net I'm not gonna spend ages hunting it down, but here goes:
"If I put a bottle on the middle of a table with a skull and crossbones on it and tell you 'this is poison, it will wreck your health, your family, and finally your life' and you push me aside and drink it down? Well then you are obviously too stupid and self destructive to be here, so why should I pay billions to lock you in a cage and build fences around the bottle, all because you are too ignorant not to drink it?"
And this is why I support legalization across the board, because there is no way to babyproof the world and ultimately a man should be responsible for his own life. In most cities a 15 year old can score meth quicker than they can a beer, what does that tell you? it tells me that without legalization and regulation you have the illegal drugs easier to get that the legal ones.
In the end though this whole conversation is moot because both the D and R are bought and paid for and what they say on the trail don't mean jack shit. Remember how Obama said he wasn't gonna raid the legal pot shops in places like CA on the trail LAST time, what did he do? I believe he raided them. BOTH sides are as crooked as a snake and if you think one or the other is gonna change a damned thing I have some magic beans you might be interested in.
I wonder if they got "not sure" because there was no way to put "don't give a fuck" and that was all they had? I mean lets face it folks, you got a media shill and a business shill, neither one of them would piss on you if you were on fire unless you had donated at least $500k to their campaign, so why should we give a fuck?
You can get fucked by big business in the form of the media cartels, or you can get fucked by big business in the form of the banksters, but either way you be getting fucked.
But that is like saying "And once we grow wings we won't need airplanes!" because the simple fact is we really haven't had much luck coming up with anything since WWII.
We are still using chemical rockets which take incredible amounts of fuel to just get off this rock, I mean have you ever seen how fricking huge a Saturn V really is? And that was just to go to the moon which in space terms is practically in your living room. To build a ship using conventional rockets to just take 4 people to Jupiter and back the thing would have to be so damned huge the costs would be more than any one country or even a group of countries would be willing to pay.
So yes, if we come up with FTL or something that can push our butts that kind of distance while weighing almost nothing? Then sure we'll be out there. But the simple fact is the robot weighs very little, it doesn't need food, water, air, toilets, and oh yeah its going on a one way trip so that's half the fuel costs right there. Frankly now that the cold war is over I'd be amazed if we even go to Mars as the chemical rocket is just too damned costly and the amount of supplies you'd need to bring is just too damned huge with current tech.
Hate to be a bummer, hell I love Star trek too, but logically you just can't do it with what we've got and I've not seen any country sinking the insane amount of R&D into space required to make the next leap since the cold war ended. Not to mention I doubt any country would see it as good PR to pack up a few of their people and send them on a one way trip, which with current tech that's what it would most likely be.
And I notice no price listed but I bet it costs more than $35! With everything there is a trade off people, and to get the Pi to sell at $35 and still make a buck for the devs you've got to deal with a seriously low BOM just to make sure shipping the thing doesn't cost more than the selling price. At $35 I wouldn't be surprised if the actual BOM wasn't $18 or less, just to cover having it built and shipped.
Moral of the story? You want something bug and hassle free you have to pay more money, simple as that. I'm sure if the Pi guys set the price at $100 per unit they could have used better chips with better drivers and eliminated the hassle, but the whole point of the pi was to have a functional FOSS unit as cheaply as could be made. Well when cheap is your goal corners have to be cut folks, its just THAT simple.
Ron Paul didn't have a snowball's chance in hell, YOU know this and I know this, the MSM would have crucified him long before he became a threat to the powerful.
As for how to change it? the ONLY way would be to gut the entire election process and start over, have a set amount of time per candidate, regardless of party, and remove money completely out of the equation. this would allow multiple parties with multiple platforms, allow candidates who do more than blow corporations for cash, and give us a chance to elect actual leaders instead of shills.
But the simple fact is the way it is set up now is a multibillion dollar business and the MSM would have anybody that even suggested such a change made out to be a bigger monster than Stalin for even suggesting it. To see how badly the MSM is in bed with the corps just look at how quickly they ran over each other to paint Assange as the worst thing since Gacy, while completely fucking ignoring every. damned. bit. of the leaks and burying the story as fast as they could, why would they do that? Because the same corps that own the MSM also own parts of the defense industry and those government contracts are fat and juicy, not gonna bite the hand that feeds. Hell if Watergate was to happen today the cop that found the burglers would be labeled a pedo scumbag while Nixon would be treated as a saint for trying to save the country from (insert threat here).
Frankly all you can do is wait for the collapse, its coming, you now have 430% of GDP driven into the market by laws like 401K and 403B, look at the graphs for yourself. Notice how we were only at 125% of GDP before the big crash and 30 year depression? Yet the government had to throw over a trillion in recently just to keep the thing from falling like a house of cards. What do you think will happen when this giant Ponzi scheme collapses? You'll see Libya all over again, the rich will bail like the fall of Saigon while the military will probably fracture and turn on their masters. Won't be pretty, won't be nice, but when the entire system is so horribly corrupted and tilted towards those at the top collapse is inevitable.
Not to mention creatures like this should make one wonder....what else is out there? With sats and smartphones, airplanes buzzing around the planet and craft exploring Mars we seem to forget there is still a lot of this planet yet to explore, deep oceans and deep jungles, who knows what is living out there complete unknown to us?
Articles like this are useful if for no other reason than to take us out of our jaded mindset for a few moments to ponder all the different things yet to know, yet to be found, its worth it for that alone IMHO.
Wow, what a loooong apology for a bad design! I'll try to keep mine much shorter and less of a War & Peace treaty if that's okay.
64bit took off because it was useful in servers even WITHOUT Linux thanks to PAE, and the only choice was either 1.-Go AMD64 or 2.-Throw out every damned thing we've spent years working on for Itanic, which like netburst had great performance on paper but real world sucked. So no surprise which one the businesses went with. While I switched to XP X64 the average machine in 2008 was only getting 2Gb of RAM so no surprise MSFT didn't push it, hell Win 8 still has a 32 bit version here in 2012. Give up the "year of the Linux desktop" dude, it ain't happening. Hell Canonical is aping fricking Windows tablet strategy trying to get users, nobody wants it.
And Faildozer would have been a good design...in 1993, in 2012? Not so much. The thing you seem to be forgetting is more and more programs are using more and more FP math and what did AMD gimp? Floating point performance! What, did we go back to 1994 and I miss a memo? The big selling points right now are 1080p and multimedia which needs fricking FP!
In the end nothing is gonna change the fact that AMD has a turkey on their hands, that more than 80% of the current OSes out there running on consumers and business machines will be SERIOUSLY gimped if they take AMD, and if you buy the competition you can use ANY OS, be it any version of Windows OR Linux, without being gimped. that's the facts.
I have hundreds of SMB customers, and they are staying with Windows 7. Now do you HONESTLY think when I run out of AM3 chips I'm gonna sell them a machine that will tie a boat anchor to their OS, really? Why should I? What does the lame integer heavy half core design offer? Sure it may be good for SOME server roles, but do you think there is a large enough market of those that 1.-Run Linux on servers and 2.- willing to take the lower IPC of AMD over Intel when server budgets are usually much higher than desktops, to keep AMD afloat?
I haven't built a single Intel unit since I heard about the compiler rigging and bribery but if they haven't gotten something new out there by the time I run out of AM3s I'll have no choice. there is not a SINGLE selling point for BD on the desktop, not one. Windows 8 is a tablet OS, MSFT has done everything short of bitchslap those that aren't on a tablet trying to make that clear, nobody is gonna want to deal with MSFT appstores and constantly clunking between metro and desktop so its sales are gonna suck, you can't sell AMD on Win 7 without killing half the cores because it kills performance, and finally the cost of the 8 half core chip is on average 20%-30% more than the low end Intel quad that absolutely beats the dogshit out of it on performance.
Lets face it friend, the ONLY thing that has kept AMD afloat after the release of Core was bang for the buck and with faildozer, thanks to the crappy yields and larger dies, they now don't even have that anymore. It uses MORE power, cranks out MORE heat, gets WORSE battery life, and costs MORE than the Intel chips that curbstomp it...what's the selling point? That it runs on servers my customers aren't buying, or OSes they don't use? yep, sure that'll sell a lot of units...by the way are you interested in some magic beans?
I'd say the bigger question is this....WTF did you expect out of a $35 device? Seriously? Its $35 fricking bucks people! Sure they could have used more robust and thus less likely to fuck up chips, but it wouldn't be $35 then would it?
It looks like people are buying a $35 device and then bitching when it doesn't run like a $200+ device...well duh, really? Hell its a miracle the damned thing works as good as it does considering the BOM, so if you don't like it? Plenty of $200+ Android devices out there that doesn't have those issues..sheesh, talk about a sense of entitlement, its fricking $35!
Nice theory, you are gonna do this....how exactly? In my state we had a DINO for over a decade and when the DINO got so damned arrogant they didn't even bother to pretend anymore we replaced them with...the RINO that had been running for the past decade that is just as big a corporate shill.
The thing you seem to forget is by the time they even make it to state rep they've been whoring so damned long for cash they might as well have permanent kneepads grafted. The only way you could possibly change it is to gut and rebuild the entire election process, and considering we are talking about a multi-billion dollar business, one of the big winners of which is the MSM who will happily crucify anybody who attempts to cut off their money train? yeah...good luck with that.
Here you go friend, they haven't released Win 8 in stores yet so there isn't a page with Win 8 but most likely same rules apply. For those that don't know how downgrade rights work you MUST buy a system with Pro or Ultimate, Basic and Home don't have downgrade rights. Now that system can be retail or OEM, don't matter, just as long as its Pro or Ultimate.
That said downgrade rights are typically only good for two years after the release of the next version so if you are really worried about it and want to be ahead of the game personally I'd just pick up a copy of the Win 7 Family Pack, which can be found online for $100-$120 a box. That gives you three installs of Win 7 HP, 32bit or 64bit, which works out to around $40 an install. That way you can just ignore Win 8 completely and not give a shit, because its not like you have to activate all three keys at once. If you really need the Pro version you can always buy a couple of copies of it instead but I've found that other than AD support most of the Pro features are easily implemented with free software, such as a VirtualBox XP instead of XP Mode.
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They got drones and missiles that can hit you from halfway across the planet...you've got a shotgun. Yeah...good luck pal.
You know what? they wouldn't even have to waste a single missile, know why? You're a kiddie fiddler. Don't say you're not, because when they arrest you they'll grab your computer and a handful of files that were dropped..eerrrr..."found" on your PC say you are.
And that's it, you've lost your job, you need $100K+ to defend yourself, your own family turns on you, and you're all alone. Don't think it can happen? Look up the guy in FLA that spent 3 years of his life in jail because he got a corporate issued laptop with a backdoor on it that some CP guys used. It cost him everything I just listed, now you think the corporate fascist state is gonna be NICER to you?
Wake up friend, your ass can be disappeared just as easily as anybody else, they can crucify you at any moment and have the MSM happily cheering. When the big collapse comes? Sure then you can back your truck up and have it turned into a technical and join the party. Until then you STFU and keep your head down or your ass will be dropped in a hole. Know how many people are being held in CIA hell holes? Me neither, and neither does the Red Cross, Amnesty International, or anybody that doesn't have top security clearance.
Maybe you ought to take a good look at this map and think about who you are saying you have the balls to fuck with. You are the mouse, THEY are the 800 pound gorilla that can stomp you without even wasting energy. Hell Assange is known around the planet and they've pulled a Noriega on him, I'm shocked they ain't blasting "renegade" just to be extra douchebaggy about it.
Looking at shots like that I'm always amazed how anyone can truly believe there isn't life out there. Just look at how many stars you have out there, if even only 1 in 10 million have a planet in the right zone you are talking about hundreds of millions of planets!
Now whether or not one of the older civilizations have developed FTL travel and is now poking the monkeys is another debate entirely, but I don't see how anyone can look at a picture like that and believe we're the only ones looking out at pictures like that.
Uhhh...did you just use the exact same argument that the deniers use for why its not humans causing the change? Oh irony pie, so delicious and sweet.
Because if it can't make the hash or its own files don't check it'll probably have a screaming shitfit and let the user know something is up? Look I'm no Windows 8 fan, in fact I'm quite happy that all my customers, as well as my family, are sticking with Win 7. I'll be picking me up one of those $40 Pro deals just to learn the tricks but I sure as hell ain't dealing with metro day to day, just running the CP for a month at the shop made me want to pull an Elvis on the screen.
That said I don't see any real difference between something like this and VirusTotal or how both MSE and Comodo CIS will ask to send a copy of a file its unsure of to be scanned. Its simple easier to lock something down on a remote server with no PEBKAC users running the show, or are you seriously gonna argue that grandma's Dell has better security than the MSFT security severs in Redmond?
Dude, I've been building, repairing, and selling Windows machines since 1993, so I know of which I speak, and those people? Those are MY CUSTOMERS and I happily turn off any cycle sucking bullshit, just as I turn off all the extra "bling bling" animations in Windows. You'd be surprised how many compliments of "Wow, I don't know what you did, but its sure fast and snappy now!" when all I did was kill all the cycle sucking horseshit.
So don't worry friend, because people THAT clueless? Come to me soon enough or guys like me and we kill that shit like Raid kills bugs, dead.
You're missing the point, which is to make him an example. After all if they merely wanted to off him they would be helping pack his bags to Ecuador and have a sniper waiting on him there, no muss and no fuss.
Nope the entire point is someone high up in the chain of command wants to make sure like Manning his ass suffers VERY publically, so that the next Manning to come along won't have anyone to accept the dirty laundry they have for fear of being "Another Assange".
Its called the chilling effect and works quite well and I'm sure will work in this case. After all what person is gonna be willing to say or print shit in any high profile capacity against the USA if they see Assange dragged before a kangaroo court before being dropped in a deep dark hole somewhere?
Because then the malware will simply target this just like they do other Windows components? The problem with doing it on the local machine is 1.-The malware guys will know exactly where it is, and 2.- The dancing bunnies problem where the malware writer tricks the user into bypassing the check by offering the right cookie, thus compromising the entire system and allowing the malware writer full control.
By hosting it remotely you've just bypassed both problems as the servers running this at MSFT is gonna be better protected than grandma's Dell is, and there isn't any users to trick with dancing bunnies to bypass the system. I work on Windows PCs 6 days a week and I can tell you that frankly since Vista drivebys and buffer overflows have gone WAAAY down, now its nearly all social engineering like Security Tool, "free porn" codecs, or getting the user to run some "free" program and bypass the checks, why? Because like all criminals malware writers are lazy creatures and will take the path of least resistance and that is PEBKAC in most cases.
Nobody said it had to be real, did they? that's the nice thing about the pedo card, like the red scare in the 50s someone can just claim it and that's enough to crucify you in the minds of many. All they'd have to do is hold up a laptop and say "This laptop belonged to Assange and we found kiddie porn on it ZOMFG!" and for many that would be proof enough, end of story.
Hell look at how many here are buying the rape story hook, line, and sinker even though before he left the Swedish police said there wasn't a case there? I mean you have one girl bragging she's the "GF of the Wikileaks guy!" and the other going out and buying her "rapist" breakfast while he slept the sleep of the well fucked in her bed and then waking him up to go for another round?
The simple fact is CP is one of the "magic" words that the PTB can use to pretty much insure nobody will defend the target, just like communist or terrorist were back in the day.
And if you get it pre-installed there is a checkbox in Action center that kills it, which if you are so clueless that you can't even uncheck a checkbox in a GUI? Really having a hard time feeling sorry for you.
Besides frankly the whole subject is moot anyway, you are talking about an OS that gets articles like Windows 8...yes its THAT bad and is the subject of parody before its even released so I kinda doubt its gonna be seeing much use on anything but tablets. Hell the only reason it'll be seeing ANY use on tablets is because it looks like Ballmer is gonna shit another MSFT billion down the toilet by selling their $500 iPad knockoff for $199 thus taking the Sony way to profitability.../snicker/.
Look its simple folks, anything Apple does MSFT does badly or half assed or just plain wrong under Ballmer...who doesn't know this? I mean you should have gotten the memo when Ballmer was squirting his shit brown Zune all over the place trying to ape iPod. Win 8 is so obviously a "Please God buy our tablets!" move it ain't even funny anymore, so why even care? Anyone with half a brain cell functioning is gonna stay with Win 7 anyway or at least make sure they get a "Win 8" system that is just Win 7 with a DVD in the bottom of the box that'll never get used except as a coaster.
Armstrong has already been there so it would probably be more fitting to send him to Titan or Phobos, a moon that man has never stepped upon.
Give the man credit, he did one of the great firsts in history yet was always humble and quick to give credit to everyone else that helped to make it happen, a true class act that many could learn from. RIP good sir.
Then they'll just make all their deals in the shitter, hell I wouldn't be surprised if many of the deals aren't already being made there.
Uhhh...never hear of a rendition ride friend? As you can see its common enough its had books written on the subject. Once in the air that plane would never land in Sweden, they'd get an order for extradition and good little ring kissers the plane would be diverted to the nearest US military base.
The only reason Assange isn't wearing a toe tag is they want an example, they want to make sure the next Manning that has a handful of PMC/CIA/military dirty laundry won't be able to find anyone to air that laundry for fear of getting what happens to Assange, just as Manning is being tortured with straight jackets and sleep deprivation now as a lesson to those that open their big mouths. Look at the amount of cash that has been poured through Iraq and Afghanistan, its big business friend and people have been killed for a hell of a lot less.
Ya know, I'm shocked they didn't pull the pedo card myself. Easy enough to do, a few files on one of his old PCs and its even easier to get the sheep to jump on the bandwagon.
Look, whether you like it or not war and being vicious shit stirrers for the megacorps have become pretty much the SOP for the USA since the end of WWII. Don't take MY word for it, enjoy this handy map showing all the countries to CIA or US military have targeted since WWII. Notice how there very VERY few countries that we haven't gone into and stirred up the shit? Coups against legitimate governments, starting wars, its a huge business worth tens of billions in contracts for the corps, everything from bullets to getting their bananas cheaper, its just business folks.
I just wonder how long Assange is gonna be allowed to have a pulse myself. Sure they want him alive to make an example of him, but how long will this little circus go on before they decide it'd be better just to bury him? They could probably poison him but I'd bet on the "angry lone nut" as its worked so well in the past. You could even have a nice "suicide note" with the patsy...err shooter, that blames Assange for the deaths of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, case closed. Nice and neat.
BTW people of the world? Hi, USA citizen here, don't get pissy with us, we can't do a damned thing about the CIA and the war machine anymore than you can. Every 4 years they trot out another puppet that has fuck all to do with the actual power structure to make the masses feel like they have a say, meanwhile the CIA gets paid and the heads stay for life, same with the MIC. Not a damned thing we can do about it, but with their throwing over 430% of our GDP into the market for their bankster buddies a collapse is inevitable, sorry about the death toll until the whole thing falls down, sorry.
I have, there was a BIOS update that I had to apply that gave me better support for faster RAM on my laptop. That said don't forget we are talking servers here and server BIOS is a lot more complex than your average desktop.
Thanks for proving my point, $179 VS $35, which is exactly what i was pointing out. Sure you could get a version of the Pi with a completely open FOSS chip for USB with zero bugs, one that is rock solid and tested, but you sure as hell ain't gonna buy that chip along with the rest of the BOM and be able to sell it at $35!
So if you buy something THAT cheap you just have to deal with it, it would be like buying one of those $5k Indian cars and then bitching that it don't come with power everything and cruise...well duh! Whenever your main goal is the absolute lowest price sacrifices have to be made, and in this case its taking a bottom of the line USB chip. Considering you only paid $35 for the thing I'd be happy it would work at all folks.
You know who gave the best damned speech on legalization evar? William F Buckley. Now I apologize if I don't get it word for word but it has been 35+ years since I heard him give that speech and since it was before the net I'm not gonna spend ages hunting it down, but here goes:
"If I put a bottle on the middle of a table with a skull and crossbones on it and tell you 'this is poison, it will wreck your health, your family, and finally your life' and you push me aside and drink it down? Well then you are obviously too stupid and self destructive to be here, so why should I pay billions to lock you in a cage and build fences around the bottle, all because you are too ignorant not to drink it?"
And this is why I support legalization across the board, because there is no way to babyproof the world and ultimately a man should be responsible for his own life. In most cities a 15 year old can score meth quicker than they can a beer, what does that tell you? it tells me that without legalization and regulation you have the illegal drugs easier to get that the legal ones.
In the end though this whole conversation is moot because both the D and R are bought and paid for and what they say on the trail don't mean jack shit. Remember how Obama said he wasn't gonna raid the legal pot shops in places like CA on the trail LAST time, what did he do? I believe he raided them. BOTH sides are as crooked as a snake and if you think one or the other is gonna change a damned thing I have some magic beans you might be interested in.
I wonder if they got "not sure" because there was no way to put "don't give a fuck" and that was all they had? I mean lets face it folks, you got a media shill and a business shill, neither one of them would piss on you if you were on fire unless you had donated at least $500k to their campaign, so why should we give a fuck?
You can get fucked by big business in the form of the media cartels, or you can get fucked by big business in the form of the banksters, but either way you be getting fucked.
But that is like saying "And once we grow wings we won't need airplanes!" because the simple fact is we really haven't had much luck coming up with anything since WWII.
We are still using chemical rockets which take incredible amounts of fuel to just get off this rock, I mean have you ever seen how fricking huge a Saturn V really is? And that was just to go to the moon which in space terms is practically in your living room. To build a ship using conventional rockets to just take 4 people to Jupiter and back the thing would have to be so damned huge the costs would be more than any one country or even a group of countries would be willing to pay.
So yes, if we come up with FTL or something that can push our butts that kind of distance while weighing almost nothing? Then sure we'll be out there. But the simple fact is the robot weighs very little, it doesn't need food, water, air, toilets, and oh yeah its going on a one way trip so that's half the fuel costs right there. Frankly now that the cold war is over I'd be amazed if we even go to Mars as the chemical rocket is just too damned costly and the amount of supplies you'd need to bring is just too damned huge with current tech.
Hate to be a bummer, hell I love Star trek too, but logically you just can't do it with what we've got and I've not seen any country sinking the insane amount of R&D into space required to make the next leap since the cold war ended. Not to mention I doubt any country would see it as good PR to pack up a few of their people and send them on a one way trip, which with current tech that's what it would most likely be.
And I notice no price listed but I bet it costs more than $35! With everything there is a trade off people, and to get the Pi to sell at $35 and still make a buck for the devs you've got to deal with a seriously low BOM just to make sure shipping the thing doesn't cost more than the selling price. At $35 I wouldn't be surprised if the actual BOM wasn't $18 or less, just to cover having it built and shipped.
Moral of the story? You want something bug and hassle free you have to pay more money, simple as that. I'm sure if the Pi guys set the price at $100 per unit they could have used better chips with better drivers and eliminated the hassle, but the whole point of the pi was to have a functional FOSS unit as cheaply as could be made. Well when cheap is your goal corners have to be cut folks, its just THAT simple.
Ron Paul didn't have a snowball's chance in hell, YOU know this and I know this, the MSM would have crucified him long before he became a threat to the powerful.
As for how to change it? the ONLY way would be to gut the entire election process and start over, have a set amount of time per candidate, regardless of party, and remove money completely out of the equation. this would allow multiple parties with multiple platforms, allow candidates who do more than blow corporations for cash, and give us a chance to elect actual leaders instead of shills.
But the simple fact is the way it is set up now is a multibillion dollar business and the MSM would have anybody that even suggested such a change made out to be a bigger monster than Stalin for even suggesting it. To see how badly the MSM is in bed with the corps just look at how quickly they ran over each other to paint Assange as the worst thing since Gacy, while completely fucking ignoring every. damned. bit. of the leaks and burying the story as fast as they could, why would they do that? Because the same corps that own the MSM also own parts of the defense industry and those government contracts are fat and juicy, not gonna bite the hand that feeds. Hell if Watergate was to happen today the cop that found the burglers would be labeled a pedo scumbag while Nixon would be treated as a saint for trying to save the country from (insert threat here).
Frankly all you can do is wait for the collapse, its coming, you now have 430% of GDP driven into the market by laws like 401K and 403B, look at the graphs for yourself. Notice how we were only at 125% of GDP before the big crash and 30 year depression? Yet the government had to throw over a trillion in recently just to keep the thing from falling like a house of cards. What do you think will happen when this giant Ponzi scheme collapses? You'll see Libya all over again, the rich will bail like the fall of Saigon while the military will probably fracture and turn on their masters. Won't be pretty, won't be nice, but when the entire system is so horribly corrupted and tilted towards those at the top collapse is inevitable.
Not to mention creatures like this should make one wonder....what else is out there? With sats and smartphones, airplanes buzzing around the planet and craft exploring Mars we seem to forget there is still a lot of this planet yet to explore, deep oceans and deep jungles, who knows what is living out there complete unknown to us?
Articles like this are useful if for no other reason than to take us out of our jaded mindset for a few moments to ponder all the different things yet to know, yet to be found, its worth it for that alone IMHO.
Wow, what a loooong apology for a bad design! I'll try to keep mine much shorter and less of a War & Peace treaty if that's okay.
64bit took off because it was useful in servers even WITHOUT Linux thanks to PAE, and the only choice was either 1.-Go AMD64 or 2.-Throw out every damned thing we've spent years working on for Itanic, which like netburst had great performance on paper but real world sucked. So no surprise which one the businesses went with. While I switched to XP X64 the average machine in 2008 was only getting 2Gb of RAM so no surprise MSFT didn't push it, hell Win 8 still has a 32 bit version here in 2012. Give up the "year of the Linux desktop" dude, it ain't happening. Hell Canonical is aping fricking Windows tablet strategy trying to get users, nobody wants it.
And Faildozer would have been a good design...in 1993, in 2012? Not so much. The thing you seem to be forgetting is more and more programs are using more and more FP math and what did AMD gimp? Floating point performance! What, did we go back to 1994 and I miss a memo? The big selling points right now are 1080p and multimedia which needs fricking FP!
In the end nothing is gonna change the fact that AMD has a turkey on their hands, that more than 80% of the current OSes out there running on consumers and business machines will be SERIOUSLY gimped if they take AMD, and if you buy the competition you can use ANY OS, be it any version of Windows OR Linux, without being gimped. that's the facts.
I have hundreds of SMB customers, and they are staying with Windows 7. Now do you HONESTLY think when I run out of AM3 chips I'm gonna sell them a machine that will tie a boat anchor to their OS, really? Why should I? What does the lame integer heavy half core design offer? Sure it may be good for SOME server roles, but do you think there is a large enough market of those that 1.-Run Linux on servers and 2.- willing to take the lower IPC of AMD over Intel when server budgets are usually much higher than desktops, to keep AMD afloat?
I haven't built a single Intel unit since I heard about the compiler rigging and bribery but if they haven't gotten something new out there by the time I run out of AM3s I'll have no choice. there is not a SINGLE selling point for BD on the desktop, not one. Windows 8 is a tablet OS, MSFT has done everything short of bitchslap those that aren't on a tablet trying to make that clear, nobody is gonna want to deal with MSFT appstores and constantly clunking between metro and desktop so its sales are gonna suck, you can't sell AMD on Win 7 without killing half the cores because it kills performance, and finally the cost of the 8 half core chip is on average 20%-30% more than the low end Intel quad that absolutely beats the dogshit out of it on performance.
Lets face it friend, the ONLY thing that has kept AMD afloat after the release of Core was bang for the buck and with faildozer, thanks to the crappy yields and larger dies, they now don't even have that anymore. It uses MORE power, cranks out MORE heat, gets WORSE battery life, and costs MORE than the Intel chips that curbstomp it...what's the selling point? That it runs on servers my customers aren't buying, or OSes they don't use? yep, sure that'll sell a lot of units...by the way are you interested in some magic beans?
I'd say the bigger question is this....WTF did you expect out of a $35 device? Seriously? Its $35 fricking bucks people! Sure they could have used more robust and thus less likely to fuck up chips, but it wouldn't be $35 then would it?
It looks like people are buying a $35 device and then bitching when it doesn't run like a $200+ device...well duh, really? Hell its a miracle the damned thing works as good as it does considering the BOM, so if you don't like it? Plenty of $200+ Android devices out there that doesn't have those issues..sheesh, talk about a sense of entitlement, its fricking $35!
Nice theory, you are gonna do this....how exactly? In my state we had a DINO for over a decade and when the DINO got so damned arrogant they didn't even bother to pretend anymore we replaced them with...the RINO that had been running for the past decade that is just as big a corporate shill.
The thing you seem to forget is by the time they even make it to state rep they've been whoring so damned long for cash they might as well have permanent kneepads grafted. The only way you could possibly change it is to gut and rebuild the entire election process, and considering we are talking about a multi-billion dollar business, one of the big winners of which is the MSM who will happily crucify anybody who attempts to cut off their money train? yeah...good luck with that.
Here you go friend, they haven't released Win 8 in stores yet so there isn't a page with Win 8 but most likely same rules apply. For those that don't know how downgrade rights work you MUST buy a system with Pro or Ultimate, Basic and Home don't have downgrade rights. Now that system can be retail or OEM, don't matter, just as long as its Pro or Ultimate.
That said downgrade rights are typically only good for two years after the release of the next version so if you are really worried about it and want to be ahead of the game personally I'd just pick up a copy of the Win 7 Family Pack, which can be found online for $100-$120 a box. That gives you three installs of Win 7 HP, 32bit or 64bit, which works out to around $40 an install. That way you can just ignore Win 8 completely and not give a shit, because its not like you have to activate all three keys at once. If you really need the Pro version you can always buy a couple of copies of it instead but I've found that other than AD support most of the Pro features are easily implemented with free software, such as a VirtualBox XP instead of XP Mode.