Oh please, twist history to fit your narrative much?
MSFT thought they could keep on bloating forever, when at the time they had already bloated so damned much that laptops had fans that sounded like jet engines thanks to all the shit MSFT had running. Asus and Dell got a "hell of a deal" (Because we know now Intel was product dumping trying to create a new market) on a shit ton of Intel Atom chips, slap a small screen and some solid state storage or a small hard drive and voila! A netbook, cheap as hell to make and anybody in retail would tell you cheap small and light laptops are easy to move...so what does MSFT do? Release Vista which was a giant bloated hog! You ever try to run Vista RTM on a netbook? Its actually quite funny, you can practically measure boot time in days.
So no shit they went Linux, MSFT wouldn't give 'em the normal bulk rate on XP (because MSFT wanted to push their new hotness whether people wanted it or not....gee why does that sound familiar?) and they sure as fuck wasn't gonna stick Vista on a netbook so they either bought or rolled their own Linux. When MSFT realized they couldn't force the OEMs to take a bloated corpse of an OS to install on fricking netbooks they caved and offered WinXP and voila! Within 8 months they were all running XP and MSFT made sure their next release wasn't so bloated it would run like shit on laptops and even came out with an ultra light version for netbooks.
Of course then they jacked up the price of a copy of Win 7 to kill the netbook...but that is another story. As for Windows 10 Ultimate Spyware Edition being SaaS? Wow you must not know the history of MSFT very well. You see the Ballmernator wanted MSFT to be a bad Apple ripoff and when they punt kicked him they replaced him with....a guy that wants the company to be a bad Google ripoff.
So while Ballmer tried to do everything Apple did but hamhanded and piss poor (see Zune, Kin, buying Nokia so they could make their own handsets) we now have Nutella trying to do everything Google does but hamhanded and piss poor. all the datamining shit is the same that Google is doing but unlike Google MSFT is about as subtle as a raging bull with the shits charging through Sunday Mass so its getting massive backlash. Its just SSDD with MSFT, still 2 steps behind and tripping over their own feet.
If you want to use Gecko use Palemoon, Waterfox, Icedragon, or if you want to go old school Kmeleon, not like you don't have plenty of choices there. If you want to use the Chromium engine there is a ton of those besides Chrome like Opera, SWIron, Comodo Dragon, or you can go with something different like QTWeb which is...well what it sounds like, Webkit with a QT framework.
Uhhh noooo, as the majority are worthless, as in less than 50c for a $2.50 key so its not "winning" a good 85% out of 100, in fact I really wouldn't be surprised if Vegas slots pay out more often than CS:GO slots.
And at the end of the day its just the Pachinko scam, Valve lets third parties (the ones who pay out) use their API, they set up the slots, its gambling for kids man and I seriously doubt any judge or jury will see different.
As much as I like Steam what Valve has set up is no different than the Pachinko scam the Japanese use to get around gambling laws.
Here is how it works...see if this sounds familiar (Hint its exactly how CS;GO boxes work) you 1.- Pay real money for chips (keys) to play, 2.- You win "prizes" that cannot be exchanged on site for money, 3.- You go across the street to a site that changes those prizes into cash...tada! How to get around gambling laws.
I'm sorry but what Valve and these sites have set up is the classic Pachinko scam, hell Valve even has the chest opening spin just like a slot machine. I don't see how they are not gonna get their asses handed to them in the class action that just got filed, its sooo obvious its gambling its not even funny.
Except it never fucking works because Linux is picky as fuck and the code they have is for hardware foo, rev bar firmware a and you have hardware foo, rev bar1 firmware a so it doesn't fucking work. Don't have the coding skills to be able to diagnose AND fix the fucked code? You are SOL.
Compare this to Windows...Start>accessories>System tools>System restore...tada! No horseshit required. If you have Windows 8 or better you don't even have to do that much because not only does it silently recover when a driver fails a good 85% of the time (You EVER see Linux do that?) but if it can't? A nice little wizard will pop up asking if you want to roll back drivers or do a Windows Refresh.
I'm sorry but you can make BS excuses all you want, the fact of the matter is both windows and OSX are light years ahead of Linux when it comes to UI and user friendliness. If I had to compare Linux to any version of windows? I'd say its most equal to Windows 98 or pre SP1 WinXP....20 year old OSes. Because like those ancient OSes if everything works AND you don't update or patch it? You're fine, try to use it correctly and patch and upgrade like you should? Hope you enjoy staring at a command line.
Hardware wise Windows 10 is fucking terrible, if you want examples? Plenty of nice quad core Nforce boards out there, works just fine on 7, will never run on Windows 10. The same goes for a huge chunk of Realtek and Via ethernet chips, some of which will work fine on even 8.1 but 10? Not a chance in hell.
As far as Linux goes? They can mod be down all the want but its user friendliness is a cheap coat of paint that falls off the first time it has the slightest glitch. If you don't install anything other than LO and FF and never update/upgrade it or patch it? Sure it'll be fine until it gets pwned, hell you can say the same of Windows 98 for that matter but the second things start going wrong? All that supposed progress falls off like an Econo paintjob and its right back to "open up bash and type" a bunch of bullshit that never works.
Like it or not Linux fans Windows has gotten handholding when things go wrong down to a science, its all friendly UI wizards and "push button to fix" easy. Ever since Windows 8 its had "refresh" (basically a 1 click repair reinstall) and its had system restore and driver rollback since Windows 2K, frankly 2 technologies that Linux SHOULD have had for the better part of a decade but doesn't. and don't give me that "Oh well if you just set up home on a separate partition" bullshit because no distro does it that way by default so that entire argument is moot, hell you can do the exact same thing with Windows since XP but likewise no OEM does that so it means jack and squat.
As a Linux admin friend told me, right before giving up on Linux on the desktop for a Macbook (which he loves BTW) because of the BS "Linux doesn't get better, it just gets different" and he's right, its 1 step forward and 2 steps back. Get network manager finally working well with WiFi? All the distros stick a pre alpha build of KDE 4 as the default and crap all over the OS again. KDE 4 becomes stable and nice? Here comes SystemD to crap all over everything again. And did anybody notice the devs seem to really crap on the OS whenever MSFT puts out a bad OS, you sure Elop isn't running things there? MSFT puts out bloated piggie Vista? Don't worry MSFT, Linux can top that with Puke Audio that sends Linux audio back to win98 levels for a couple of years. Windows 8 a big cellphone pile o' suck? Don't be scared MSFT because we are throwing out our DEs for alpha quality code that will take years to get us back to where we was before we started!...sigh.
Heartbleed, shellshock, or take your pick from this list of Linux malware. Here is an an excellent article on the subject with actual examples of Linux malware infections, heck even Fedora removed their "virus free" bullet point from their home page.
But you aren't allowed to speak about that because of political correctness, you quickly get screams of "dat be raciss!" but political correctness and reality are ALWAYS diametrically opposed and whether we like it or not a person with an IQ of 85 isn't capable of being an electronics engineer, no matter how much money you spend on education.
This is the rotting elephant in the room we MUST face as a society because if we continue on this path? You are gonna end up with 3 quarters of the planet literally worth nothing more than cannon fodder. We are turning Idiocracy into reality with low IQ single moms having half a dozen kids with low IQ men, this was fine in the past because you could always have them work manual labor but the simple fact is for the first time in history technology isn't creating jobs, its replacing them. What are you gonna do with 4 billion people with sub 100 IQs when all the manual labor jobs are replaced by machines, when even the fast food jobs become assembly lines and robot waiters?
Sigh....how to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps along with the follow up rebuttal that shows its actually easier than the author first thought, using NOTHING but the exact.same.tricks. used on Windows users. And please note we have already seen these kinds of tricks DO work on Linux users, the KDELook bug anyone? Or the infected Quake 3 that sat in a repo for nearly a year?
The moral of the story is this...there is no such thing as a secure OS if the user has control of the system because the user is frankly the easiest part of any system to exploit. think the PCs I see infected at the shop got that way from Windows exploits? Nope they ALL end up that way from a variation of the classic "dancing bunnies problem". You make your malware look like something the user really wants, user bypasses the security to get it, user gets pwned....what part of that required a specific OS? Oh yeah NONE because it has jack and squat to do with the OS, its exploiting the USER.
So hold on to that dream pal, the insane number of Android infections, which just FYI hit the million infected mark 3 times faster than Windows hit that milestone, has driven a stake through the lie that the Linux kernel somehow has magical anti-malware powers. You move say 10 million windows users to Linux so its a target worth hitting? it'll be pwned before the holiday weekend is over.
You aren't the only one, I've had a ton of people try to unload their tablets at the shop and the local CL is full of "em because nobody really knows what to do with it. They have their phone for when they need super portable and for everything else they have their laptop...what role is the tablet gonna fit?
I had the same problem myself, I ended up giving away my Asus quad core tablet because I really just couldn't find a good use for the thing, my netbook is just as portable as the tablet (and thanks to having an AMD APU I can just plug it into a TV via HDMI and use it for an HTPC) and when I'm on the go? I have a quad core phone in my pocket. I just couldn't find a good use case where I would need a bigger screen but not be better served by having my netbook.
At least with the 2 in 1s that Dell is switching to they make sense as its really just a Windows netbook you can pop the keyboard off of and despite what happened with netbooks last time (which I would argue they priced themselves out of the market, the first netbooks were just $250 and by the end they were $499) there is still a good size market for cheap and light laptops that people can run their full programs on. I've handled a couple of these at the shop and...they really aren't bad, they remind me of the Atom netbooks, not very fast but perfectly fine for basic tasks.
Uhhhh dude? Yeah you don't compare Ford Mustangs to Ferraris, you compare them to Comaros. The 970 is the only Nvidia card at the 480s price point so they are comparing like to like. The 1070 is nearly $130 more than the 480 so its not in the same category, so sorry your rant makes no sense.
I've been using AMD exclusively since the HD4850 and drivers haven't been an issue, just stay away from the beta drivers but that is true of pretty much every company. The new UI is quite nice, easy to set up custom profiles for specific games if you like (it makes a default profile the first time you launch a game so you simply pick the game you want under game settings, even loads the icon for each individual game which I thought was a nice touch) and all of the controls are well thought out and pretty self explanatory.
So if you want one of these cards I'd say go for it, the drivers are quite stable and I can't remember the last time I had an AMD driver issue, sadly now any issues are due to MSFT shitting out buggy patches for Windows 7. I'd get one for myself but frankly my R9 280 cranks out over 60fps (and in some cases over 100) in my games with so much purty I have to not gawk at the effects or I'll get myself killed while sitting there oohing and aahing at the particles and fire effects.
Sigh...its REALLY simple guys...Shitty CEO #1 (Ballmernator) shat all over the company trying to poorly ape Apple, shitty CEO #2 (Nutella) is shitting all over the company trying to poorly ape Google.
Maybe if we Windows users are lucky after Nutella gets his walking papers we'll get a CEO that actually listens to the fucking customers and gives us a decent OS to replace Win 7, either that or Google and Apple will end up drinking their milkshake before the 2020 cutoff date.
But from looking at the OS and every scrap of data I can about it its pretty obvious that you cannot kill the spying in Win 10, certainly not in Home/Pro which the majority will have, its just too baked in.
Oh really? Might want to check the benchmarks before you start screaming horseshit, as in many tests its not even close, we're talking 181fps for Win 10 to...wait for it...41 fps for Ubuntu.
Don't forget the modern flops, Apple laptops with bumpgate GPUs anyone? or how about Apple maps guiding people onto active airfields and into lakes? And unless they can find some killer app for it the Apple watch looks like it'll be going into the fail column as well.
They had failures with and without jobs, but Jobs was such a salesman frankly he could spin a failure into a triumph, the man really was a genius when it came to marketing.
Uhhh you haven't been keeping up with my posting history as every post is automatically downmodded by SJWs since I pointed out that BLM and several of their other sacred cows were racist.
so before you label a use as inappropriate? Maybe you ought to think there is more going on than you know about. I can write "This is a good article" on a front page story and automatically get a -2, usually followed by one or two anons calling me filthy names or saying I should die. Sorry but its SJWs, only happened after I pointed out they were full of shit, and stalking and threats to those that disagree is a classic SJW tactic.
Well lets see about that...you replaced one format that was 1.- Allowed to be installed anywhere, 2.- Was owned by a company that had no problem not only allowing it to be bundled with anything but ALSO allowed for FOSS alternatives, and 3.- Not only did video but animation and gaming.
What did you get in return? A format that 1.- Had mandatory DRM baked in, 2.- Requires a codec that is not only owned by one of the biggest patent trolls around but is openly hostile to FOSS, 3.- MPEG-LA has made it clear they will sue FOSS companies which is why all work on supporting that format has to be done outside Berne convention countries. Oh and 4.- Doesn't support half the features of the supposedly "inferior" format its replacing, because certain corps don't want any competition with their walled garden appstores.
Yeah you are better off...if you are Google, Apple, or MSFT...everybody else? Not so much.
ROFL keep drinking that koolaid SJWs, but I can provide citations showing the manipulation, the fact google's own trends does NOT support what their autocomplete is coming up with, oh and the fact that the CEO is getting paid by HRC, specifically he is owner of "the groundwork" which is a company whose goal is to put HRC in the white house.
Gee search results aren't backed up by their own trending data AND the CEO is part of a company to elect the person the results are being skewed for? Nope don't see nothing fishy here, please ignore that man behind the curtain.
Its more the fact that if you type "Hillary In" you get "Hillary India" which google's own trends show NOBODY is actually looking for whereas you type the same phrase into yahoo or Bing? You get Hillary Indictment which actually IS trending according to Google's own trends, which is what the autocomplete is SUPPOSEDLY based on..
Oh and just FYI the former CEO of Google is on the advisory committee of HRC and making something like half a million a quarter for his services. If you think a guy whose political views are well known and who is actually working for one side isn't gonna tilt things in his favor? I have a bridge you might be interested in.
BLU phones also uses stock android, all mine had OOTB was gapps and that was it, no extra OEM horseshit or shit I couldn't uninstall, just plain jane stock android. I have recommended them to several customers who have bought various models (they are built like tanks and take a LOT of abuse and I have many customers in streets and construction) and they always hand them to me to set up and in those half a dozen models? Nothing but good old plain stock android goodness.
But TFA is the exact reason why I won't touch Apple, I'm not paying a premium just to pay another premium because you have locked yourself into a walled garden. With android i can choose plenty of models from plenty of companies, at the price point and with the features I care about like MicroSD and user replaceable battery, and I can use any phones I want.
Why are you for a Soviet system that was designed to ignore reality if that reality didn't match political goals? You DO know that is the origin of political correctness, yes? It was a phrase that was come up with by the Marxists to give a name to Stalinists warping reality to fit with the whims of their dear leader that day.
Just remember political correctness equals lie because if it wasn't a lie? It wouldn't be politically correct, it would just be correct.
The great thing about having so many choices is that when a browser company says "You will do it our way, take it or leave it?" we can and obviously have just left it.
The newest tests I can find compare Linux (Ubuntu) versus Windows 8.1 but the numbers don't back up your statement. I quote "Laptop users can expect significantly less battery life using Ubuntu compared to Windows" and I found these results were the same on multiple systems according to the pages I perused.
If you truly believe your particular flavor of Linux will get better battery life than Windows 10? Feel free to run your own tests and post video of the results. After all Windows 10 Insider is free for anybody to download, so is Linux, so it will cost you nothing but a bit of time to back up your assertion with hard data.
I personally can't stand Windows 10 but I have to give credit where credit is due and MSFT has gotten much better on battery life with their last couple of releases.
I'm sorry but that article is at least partially FUD, and since part of it is FUD that makes the entire article suspect. it claims, and I quote "The Platform Security Processor (PSP) is built in on all Family 16h + systems (basically anything post-2013), and controls the main x86 core startup." "The PSP is an ARM core with TrustZone technology, built onto the main CPU die."...this is a lie.
The ONLY chips AMD manufactures that have the ARM Trustzone chip is the 4, count 'em, 4, chips built on the Jaguar architecture. If you go to AMD's own website and look up trustzone you'll find the page hasn't even been updated since 2013 and you cannot find a single bit of software in the wild even able to make use of the AMD Trustzone core, its essentially dead silicon. The reason why AMD bought and used trustzone for that particular chip and that chip only is it was a requirement by the console OEMs for the hardware DRM for the Xbone and PS4. The four chips AMD sells to the public with trustzone? Are the Jaguar chips that for one reason or another didn't pass muster for being used in the MCMs they manufacture for the consoles, therefor they sell them as cheap HTPC chips which for that limited role they work quite well.
So I'm sorry but if they can't even get that simple fact right, despite AMD having opened their docs a couple years ago and the die layouts for both the FM2+ and AM3+ chips being available for nearly 4 years? Then I'm afraid their data on Intel is equally suspect.
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Oh please, twist history to fit your narrative much?
MSFT thought they could keep on bloating forever, when at the time they had already bloated so damned much that laptops had fans that sounded like jet engines thanks to all the shit MSFT had running. Asus and Dell got a "hell of a deal" (Because we know now Intel was product dumping trying to create a new market) on a shit ton of Intel Atom chips, slap a small screen and some solid state storage or a small hard drive and voila! A netbook, cheap as hell to make and anybody in retail would tell you cheap small and light laptops are easy to move...so what does MSFT do? Release Vista which was a giant bloated hog! You ever try to run Vista RTM on a netbook? Its actually quite funny, you can practically measure boot time in days.
So no shit they went Linux, MSFT wouldn't give 'em the normal bulk rate on XP (because MSFT wanted to push their new hotness whether people wanted it or not....gee why does that sound familiar?) and they sure as fuck wasn't gonna stick Vista on a netbook so they either bought or rolled their own Linux. When MSFT realized they couldn't force the OEMs to take a bloated corpse of an OS to install on fricking netbooks they caved and offered WinXP and voila! Within 8 months they were all running XP and MSFT made sure their next release wasn't so bloated it would run like shit on laptops and even came out with an ultra light version for netbooks.
Of course then they jacked up the price of a copy of Win 7 to kill the netbook...but that is another story. As for Windows 10 Ultimate Spyware Edition being SaaS? Wow you must not know the history of MSFT very well. You see the Ballmernator wanted MSFT to be a bad Apple ripoff and when they punt kicked him they replaced him with....a guy that wants the company to be a bad Google ripoff.
So while Ballmer tried to do everything Apple did but hamhanded and piss poor (see Zune, Kin, buying Nokia so they could make their own handsets) we now have Nutella trying to do everything Google does but hamhanded and piss poor. all the datamining shit is the same that Google is doing but unlike Google MSFT is about as subtle as a raging bull with the shits charging through Sunday Mass so its getting massive backlash. Its just SSDD with MSFT, still 2 steps behind and tripping over their own feet.
If you want to use Gecko use Palemoon, Waterfox, Icedragon, or if you want to go old school Kmeleon, not like you don't have plenty of choices there. If you want to use the Chromium engine there is a ton of those besides Chrome like Opera, SWIron, Comodo Dragon, or you can go with something different like QTWeb which is...well what it sounds like, Webkit with a QT framework.
Uhhh noooo, as the majority are worthless, as in less than 50c for a $2.50 key so its not "winning" a good 85% out of 100, in fact I really wouldn't be surprised if Vegas slots pay out more often than CS:GO slots.
And at the end of the day its just the Pachinko scam, Valve lets third parties (the ones who pay out) use their API, they set up the slots, its gambling for kids man and I seriously doubt any judge or jury will see different.
As much as I like Steam what Valve has set up is no different than the Pachinko scam the Japanese use to get around gambling laws.
Here is how it works...see if this sounds familiar (Hint its exactly how CS;GO boxes work) you 1.- Pay real money for chips (keys) to play, 2.- You win "prizes" that cannot be exchanged on site for money, 3.- You go across the street to a site that changes those prizes into cash...tada! How to get around gambling laws.
I'm sorry but what Valve and these sites have set up is the classic Pachinko scam, hell Valve even has the chest opening spin just like a slot machine. I don't see how they are not gonna get their asses handed to them in the class action that just got filed, its sooo obvious its gambling its not even funny.
Except it never fucking works because Linux is picky as fuck and the code they have is for hardware foo, rev bar firmware a and you have hardware foo, rev bar1 firmware a so it doesn't fucking work. Don't have the coding skills to be able to diagnose AND fix the fucked code? You are SOL.
Compare this to Windows...Start>accessories>System tools>System restore...tada! No horseshit required. If you have Windows 8 or better you don't even have to do that much because not only does it silently recover when a driver fails a good 85% of the time (You EVER see Linux do that?) but if it can't? A nice little wizard will pop up asking if you want to roll back drivers or do a Windows Refresh.
I'm sorry but you can make BS excuses all you want, the fact of the matter is both windows and OSX are light years ahead of Linux when it comes to UI and user friendliness. If I had to compare Linux to any version of windows? I'd say its most equal to Windows 98 or pre SP1 WinXP....20 year old OSes. Because like those ancient OSes if everything works AND you don't update or patch it? You're fine, try to use it correctly and patch and upgrade like you should? Hope you enjoy staring at a command line.
Hardware wise Windows 10 is fucking terrible, if you want examples? Plenty of nice quad core Nforce boards out there, works just fine on 7, will never run on Windows 10. The same goes for a huge chunk of Realtek and Via ethernet chips, some of which will work fine on even 8.1 but 10? Not a chance in hell.
As far as Linux goes? They can mod be down all the want but its user friendliness is a cheap coat of paint that falls off the first time it has the slightest glitch. If you don't install anything other than LO and FF and never update/upgrade it or patch it? Sure it'll be fine until it gets pwned, hell you can say the same of Windows 98 for that matter but the second things start going wrong? All that supposed progress falls off like an Econo paintjob and its right back to "open up bash and type" a bunch of bullshit that never works.
Like it or not Linux fans Windows has gotten handholding when things go wrong down to a science, its all friendly UI wizards and "push button to fix" easy. Ever since Windows 8 its had "refresh" (basically a 1 click repair reinstall) and its had system restore and driver rollback since Windows 2K, frankly 2 technologies that Linux SHOULD have had for the better part of a decade but doesn't. and don't give me that "Oh well if you just set up home on a separate partition" bullshit because no distro does it that way by default so that entire argument is moot, hell you can do the exact same thing with Windows since XP but likewise no OEM does that so it means jack and squat.
As a Linux admin friend told me, right before giving up on Linux on the desktop for a Macbook (which he loves BTW) because of the BS "Linux doesn't get better, it just gets different" and he's right, its 1 step forward and 2 steps back. Get network manager finally working well with WiFi? All the distros stick a pre alpha build of KDE 4 as the default and crap all over the OS again. KDE 4 becomes stable and nice? Here comes SystemD to crap all over everything again. And did anybody notice the devs seem to really crap on the OS whenever MSFT puts out a bad OS, you sure Elop isn't running things there? MSFT puts out bloated piggie Vista? Don't worry MSFT, Linux can top that with Puke Audio that sends Linux audio back to win98 levels for a couple of years. Windows 8 a big cellphone pile o' suck? Don't be scared MSFT because we are throwing out our DEs for alpha quality code that will take years to get us back to where we was before we started!...sigh.
Heartbleed, shellshock, or take your pick from this list of Linux malware. Here is an an excellent article on the subject with actual examples of Linux malware infections, heck even Fedora removed their "virus free" bullet point from their home page.
But you aren't allowed to speak about that because of political correctness, you quickly get screams of "dat be raciss!" but political correctness and reality are ALWAYS diametrically opposed and whether we like it or not a person with an IQ of 85 isn't capable of being an electronics engineer, no matter how much money you spend on education.
This is the rotting elephant in the room we MUST face as a society because if we continue on this path? You are gonna end up with 3 quarters of the planet literally worth nothing more than cannon fodder. We are turning Idiocracy into reality with low IQ single moms having half a dozen kids with low IQ men, this was fine in the past because you could always have them work manual labor but the simple fact is for the first time in history technology isn't creating jobs, its replacing them. What are you gonna do with 4 billion people with sub 100 IQs when all the manual labor jobs are replaced by machines, when even the fast food jobs become assembly lines and robot waiters?
I use colornote myself, nothing fancy but its great with lists and quick notes which is what I am always using so it works perfect for me.
Sigh....how to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps along with the follow up rebuttal that shows its actually easier than the author first thought, using NOTHING but the exact.same.tricks. used on Windows users. And please note we have already seen these kinds of tricks DO work on Linux users, the KDELook bug anyone? Or the infected Quake 3 that sat in a repo for nearly a year?
The moral of the story is this...there is no such thing as a secure OS if the user has control of the system because the user is frankly the easiest part of any system to exploit. think the PCs I see infected at the shop got that way from Windows exploits? Nope they ALL end up that way from a variation of the classic "dancing bunnies problem". You make your malware look like something the user really wants, user bypasses the security to get it, user gets pwned....what part of that required a specific OS? Oh yeah NONE because it has jack and squat to do with the OS, its exploiting the USER.
So hold on to that dream pal, the insane number of Android infections, which just FYI hit the million infected mark 3 times faster than Windows hit that milestone, has driven a stake through the lie that the Linux kernel somehow has magical anti-malware powers. You move say 10 million windows users to Linux so its a target worth hitting? it'll be pwned before the holiday weekend is over.
You aren't the only one, I've had a ton of people try to unload their tablets at the shop and the local CL is full of "em because nobody really knows what to do with it. They have their phone for when they need super portable and for everything else they have their laptop...what role is the tablet gonna fit?
I had the same problem myself, I ended up giving away my Asus quad core tablet because I really just couldn't find a good use for the thing, my netbook is just as portable as the tablet (and thanks to having an AMD APU I can just plug it into a TV via HDMI and use it for an HTPC) and when I'm on the go? I have a quad core phone in my pocket. I just couldn't find a good use case where I would need a bigger screen but not be better served by having my netbook.
At least with the 2 in 1s that Dell is switching to they make sense as its really just a Windows netbook you can pop the keyboard off of and despite what happened with netbooks last time (which I would argue they priced themselves out of the market, the first netbooks were just $250 and by the end they were $499) there is still a good size market for cheap and light laptops that people can run their full programs on. I've handled a couple of these at the shop and...they really aren't bad, they remind me of the Atom netbooks, not very fast but perfectly fine for basic tasks.
Uhhhh dude? Yeah you don't compare Ford Mustangs to Ferraris, you compare them to Comaros. The 970 is the only Nvidia card at the 480s price point so they are comparing like to like. The 1070 is nearly $130 more than the 480 so its not in the same category, so sorry your rant makes no sense.
I've been using AMD exclusively since the HD4850 and drivers haven't been an issue, just stay away from the beta drivers but that is true of pretty much every company. The new UI is quite nice, easy to set up custom profiles for specific games if you like (it makes a default profile the first time you launch a game so you simply pick the game you want under game settings, even loads the icon for each individual game which I thought was a nice touch) and all of the controls are well thought out and pretty self explanatory.
So if you want one of these cards I'd say go for it, the drivers are quite stable and I can't remember the last time I had an AMD driver issue, sadly now any issues are due to MSFT shitting out buggy patches for Windows 7. I'd get one for myself but frankly my R9 280 cranks out over 60fps (and in some cases over 100) in my games with so much purty I have to not gawk at the effects or I'll get myself killed while sitting there oohing and aahing at the particles and fire effects.
Sigh...its REALLY simple guys...Shitty CEO #1 (Ballmernator) shat all over the company trying to poorly ape Apple, shitty CEO #2 (Nutella) is shitting all over the company trying to poorly ape Google.
Maybe if we Windows users are lucky after Nutella gets his walking papers we'll get a CEO that actually listens to the fucking customers and gives us a decent OS to replace Win 7, either that or Google and Apple will end up drinking their milkshake before the 2020 cutoff date.
But from looking at the OS and every scrap of data I can about it its pretty obvious that you cannot kill the spying in Win 10, certainly not in Home/Pro which the majority will have, its just too baked in.
Oh really? Might want to check the benchmarks before you start screaming horseshit, as in many tests its not even close, we're talking 181fps for Win 10 to...wait for it...41 fps for Ubuntu.
Don't forget the modern flops, Apple laptops with bumpgate GPUs anyone? or how about Apple maps guiding people onto active airfields and into lakes? And unless they can find some killer app for it the Apple watch looks like it'll be going into the fail column as well.
They had failures with and without jobs, but Jobs was such a salesman frankly he could spin a failure into a triumph, the man really was a genius when it came to marketing.
Uhhh you haven't been keeping up with my posting history as every post is automatically downmodded by SJWs since I pointed out that BLM and several of their other sacred cows were racist.
so before you label a use as inappropriate? Maybe you ought to think there is more going on than you know about. I can write "This is a good article" on a front page story and automatically get a -2, usually followed by one or two anons calling me filthy names or saying I should die. Sorry but its SJWs, only happened after I pointed out they were full of shit, and stalking and threats to those that disagree is a classic SJW tactic.
Well lets see about that...you replaced one format that was 1.- Allowed to be installed anywhere, 2.- Was owned by a company that had no problem not only allowing it to be bundled with anything but ALSO allowed for FOSS alternatives, and 3.- Not only did video but animation and gaming.
What did you get in return? A format that 1.- Had mandatory DRM baked in, 2.- Requires a codec that is not only owned by one of the biggest patent trolls around but is openly hostile to FOSS, 3.- MPEG-LA has made it clear they will sue FOSS companies which is why all work on supporting that format has to be done outside Berne convention countries. Oh and 4.- Doesn't support half the features of the supposedly "inferior" format its replacing, because certain corps don't want any competition with their walled garden appstores.
Yeah you are better off...if you are Google, Apple, or MSFT...everybody else? Not so much.
ROFL keep drinking that koolaid SJWs, but I can provide citations showing the manipulation, the fact google's own trends does NOT support what their autocomplete is coming up with, oh and the fact that the CEO is getting paid by HRC, specifically he is owner of "the groundwork" which is a company whose goal is to put HRC in the white house.
Gee search results aren't backed up by their own trending data AND the CEO is part of a company to elect the person the results are being skewed for? Nope don't see nothing fishy here, please ignore that man behind the curtain.
Its more the fact that if you type "Hillary In" you get "Hillary India" which google's own trends show NOBODY is actually looking for whereas you type the same phrase into yahoo or Bing? You get Hillary Indictment which actually IS trending according to Google's own trends, which is what the autocomplete is SUPPOSEDLY based on..
Oh and just FYI the former CEO of Google is on the advisory committee of HRC and making something like half a million a quarter for his services. If you think a guy whose political views are well known and who is actually working for one side isn't gonna tilt things in his favor? I have a bridge you might be interested in.
BLU phones also uses stock android, all mine had OOTB was gapps and that was it, no extra OEM horseshit or shit I couldn't uninstall, just plain jane stock android. I have recommended them to several customers who have bought various models (they are built like tanks and take a LOT of abuse and I have many customers in streets and construction) and they always hand them to me to set up and in those half a dozen models? Nothing but good old plain stock android goodness.
But TFA is the exact reason why I won't touch Apple, I'm not paying a premium just to pay another premium because you have locked yourself into a walled garden. With android i can choose plenty of models from plenty of companies, at the price point and with the features I care about like MicroSD and user replaceable battery, and I can use any phones I want.
Why are you for a Soviet system that was designed to ignore reality if that reality didn't match political goals? You DO know that is the origin of political correctness, yes? It was a phrase that was come up with by the Marxists to give a name to Stalinists warping reality to fit with the whims of their dear leader that day.
Just remember political correctness equals lie because if it wasn't a lie? It wouldn't be politically correct, it would just be correct.
Uhhh non issue? Is that why its usage numbers are now a bad joke with the numbers like the browser spiraling ever downward?
The great thing about having so many choices is that when a browser company says "You will do it our way, take it or leave it?" we can and obviously have just left it.
The newest tests I can find compare Linux (Ubuntu) versus Windows 8.1 but the numbers don't back up your statement. I quote "Laptop users can expect significantly less battery life using Ubuntu compared to Windows" and I found these results were the same on multiple systems according to the pages I perused.
If you truly believe your particular flavor of Linux will get better battery life than Windows 10? Feel free to run your own tests and post video of the results. After all Windows 10 Insider is free for anybody to download, so is Linux, so it will cost you nothing but a bit of time to back up your assertion with hard data.
I personally can't stand Windows 10 but I have to give credit where credit is due and MSFT has gotten much better on battery life with their last couple of releases.
I'm sorry but that article is at least partially FUD, and since part of it is FUD that makes the entire article suspect. it claims, and I quote "The Platform Security Processor (PSP) is built in on all Family 16h + systems (basically anything post-2013), and controls the main x86 core startup." "The PSP is an ARM core with TrustZone technology, built onto the main CPU die."...this is a lie.
The ONLY chips AMD manufactures that have the ARM Trustzone chip is the 4, count 'em, 4, chips built on the Jaguar architecture. If you go to AMD's own website and look up trustzone you'll find the page hasn't even been updated since 2013 and you cannot find a single bit of software in the wild even able to make use of the AMD Trustzone core, its essentially dead silicon. The reason why AMD bought and used trustzone for that particular chip and that chip only is it was a requirement by the console OEMs for the hardware DRM for the Xbone and PS4. The four chips AMD sells to the public with trustzone? Are the Jaguar chips that for one reason or another didn't pass muster for being used in the MCMs they manufacture for the consoles, therefor they sell them as cheap HTPC chips which for that limited role they work quite well.
So I'm sorry but if they can't even get that simple fact right, despite AMD having opened their docs a couple years ago and the die layouts for both the FM2+ and AM3+ chips being available for nearly 4 years? Then I'm afraid their data on Intel is equally suspect.