FUD the ONLY chips that have the ARM core are the 4 that were based on the consoles, even the AMD page on the subject hasn't been updated since 2013, why? Because they only bought the ARM DRM for the consoles that demanded it and never bothered to do anything else with it.
So its only there if you buy one of the 4 ULV chips based on Jaguar, and even then there is no known software in the wild that can even access it. Its a leftover from their deal with the consoles and the only chips you can buy with it are ones that didn't pass muster to be included in the consoles.
Now that said I've built a couple HTPCs using the Jag and they run just fine, one is running Win 8 (the only place Metro makes sense, a 10 foot UI) and the other is running OpenELEC Linux and both run great, if all you are needing is an ULV HTPC for 1080P video or a media server you can stuff in a closet? Works good for that purpose, but the ARM chip isn't an issue.
There is actually quite a lot of us because if you were to do a blind A/B test with an FX-8 versus an i5? You wouldn't be able to tell which is which....but your wallet would know the difference.
My FX-8320E when paired with an R9 280 and 16GB of RAM plays all my games with so much bling that I have gotten killed on several occasions because I was too busy gawking at the pretty to notice the enemy coming up behind me, runs very very cool (on air the highest I have ever hit is 122F with all 8 cores slammed doing A/V work) and the whole system, with an SSD and 3TB HDD? Less than $550 after MIR.
When you add to this the fact that AMD has been opening their docs, just as the FOSS community asked them to do, giving massive amounts of code to the community with Vulkan being just one of many, no DRM chips like TPM, oh and you can get their chips for often less than a third an equivalent Intel chip? Its really not a hard choice to make.
With me it would probably be 10k to 1, and the few I do watch are fan recordings of live music. Bosnian Bill is great, I also love Techmoan and his vids on cool old tech, LGR's vids on old PC games and hardware, and listening to Bo Time Gaming scream like a girl in War Thunder when some BF109 throws some cannon shells his way.
As for Trent, Lars, and all their ilk? Sorry but its not 1975 anymore, you can't write a single song and sit on ass getting royalties for the next 20 years thinking you have it made while the record company leeches are in actuality skimming 90%+ off the top. Now songs are merely the carrot to get butts in seats for live performances as it should be, and as it was for the better part of history. You know what REALLY scares the piss out of you Trent, and why you and your buddies will mouth off but not do shit about YouTube? Its because if you wiped ALL big label music off of YouTube tomorrow the majority would not give a shit as a billion artists who AREN'T bitches would be more than happy to take those fans as they know what songs are for today and value the free advertising. It must also cause you to lose sleep at night to know that any kid can do what you do now thanks to digital recording gear being so cheap and computers being so powerful. Hell when I first started playing music the BEST you could get if you wanted to go DIY and your daddy wasn't a lawyer was a 4 track cassette that sounded only slightly better than recording on a boombox and now I have a digital 8-track that fits in my bass case and with a couple condensers hooked to it frankly gets better sounding recordings than a lot of the live albums of the 70s...cost me $126.
Just as we've seen the rise of indie gaming and indie filmmaking going DIY is becoming the better deal for more and more artists and you can whine and bitch and moan all you want but at the end of the day? If you removed every note you ever played from the web nobody would really care as there are a hell of a lot more where you came from, a lot less douchey as well.
The problem with your theory is this....All the game devs on YouTube have been making it clear if they have to support both (which both MSFT and Sony have said is a requirement) then the original is gonna be "shit mode" with crap graphics and little to no optimization. The reason why is simple...money.
Its not financially feasible to sink half the budget on the weak version and half on the good, if they are doing this they might as well stick to the PC, so the easiest and cheapest way to support both is spend all the money on the new version (as that is what everybody is gonna see in the commercials and on the back of the box) and then just lock the weak version on the lowest settings they can that will still get "kinda sorta" 30 FPS but mark my words within 6 months the framerate will take a dump on any heavy action scenes as they crank things up for the good version.
So all they have really done is kill the main reason to buy a console, the fact that you get 5 years worth of games for a single console purchase. Now you will have decent game play for a couple years at most and then either buy the new version or get screwed and have the system in the "gaming ghetto" with crap graphics and slowdowns.
Its 24nm FinFET so power should be quite low, in fact AMD has been talking up how its the lowest power mainstream gaming cards they have ever created.
The problem both AMD and Nvidia are gonna have is that games have hit the wall and its getting harder and harder to push the graphics without hitting the 100 million price tag. Sure there is VR but it still is looking like its gonna be a small niche at best, just like 3D before it, and 1080P appears to be the standard everybody is sticking with which their cards from a generation or 2 back have no issues with. Hell even the middle of the road cards have plenty of power for 1080P, my R9 280 has no trouble giving me 60 FPS plus on my flight games even with the graphics cranked so high it looks like a scene from Red Tails.
Its the same problem Intel and AMD are seeing on the CPU front, even the gamers have no reason to replace their FX-8s and i5s because games just haven't kept up and very VERY few can slam these monster chips we have enough that an upgrade would get you more than a few FPS which just doesn't make sense financially.
This is why I use Bing, I've found the SEOs don't spam the shit out of Bing so I often find what I'm looking for on the first try. at the shop I'm always looking for drivers or replacement parts and with Google? I always end up with search results obviously created with SEO spamming, pages of "driver finder" kinda adware shit or some company listing part A but not actually having said part...just more spam results.
As for TFA...would anybody REALLY be surprised if its true? We got laws being written by corps, see Monsanto and GMOs or Disney and copyrights, would it be actually shocking that a company with a highly political CEO would lean shit to go his way? We've already seen both FB and Twitter burying right wing posters and going so far as to delete stories that don't follow their agenda (see the way both buried the German migrant rape gangs stories) so would it really surprise anyone to find out our Internet searches are as rigged as our TV and radio is now?
Uhhh you can buy PCs now that will play most games at 720p if not better for less than a PS4, and certainly less than they'll be asking for a PS4 Neo. Since PCs hit the wall on both MHz and cores a few years back parts have gotten cheaper because there really is no "killer app" to move the more expensive parts.
Just type in "$400 gaming PC" into YouTube and you can find dozens of builds to pick from, both Intel and AMD, they even have parts picker links so you don't even have to know which parts to get, just click the link. Now that you can get both Windows 10 Insider Edition (with extra spying and Bing!) and SteamOS for free the cost of the OS doesn't have to enter into it, just grab the parts and game on.
That of course doesn't even figure in the insane wealth of crazy powerful used systems you can get now for dirt cheap, you can grab a C2Q or Phenom II X4 system on many CL for under $70, throw in a $100 graphics card and voila! A system that will play most mainstream games well for less than the cost of a used PS4.
There has really never been a better time to be a PC gamer, hardware is cheap, great games are so plentiful and the PC platform has so much competition you can have huge game collections for very little money, and everything is so simple a kid can throw together a system now. You can literally build a PC with only 4 parts, case with PSU, APU with heatsink, SSD...that's it, working system ready for install. Its sooo easy, sooo cheap, and HDMI means its plug and play...man I wish it would have been that easy when I first start building systems.
The problem is the latest updates to TV default to have it running as a Windows service 24/7 which is why I had my customers uninstall it, if they need remote support they can install it just long enough for me to fix the issue and then uninstall.
So yeah...this is 100% TV's fault, they are the ones that chose the boneheaded move of making their defaults "run 24/7" and obviously with THIS many reported break ins? Yeah don't give me that "reused passwords" bullshit as those passwords have been in the wild for many months yet only NOW does it happen, and happen en masse? Yeah someone found a TV exploit and pwned their asses HARD and now they are playing the time honored game of CYA. I expect them to be sued out of business any day now.
26 screws, required removing the 1.-RAM, 2.-Battery, 3.- Keyboard, 4.- Handrest/touchpad, 5.-Heatshield, before you could FINALLY get to the HDD. And many of those screws held multiple pieces such as the keyboard holding the heatshield holding the Wifi so getting everything to line up perfectly? A royal bitch.
So you can just go fuck yourself Mr armchair system builder, but that is just my opinion
Quicken, Quickbooks, Photoshop, Corel Draw, AutoCAD, hell the software that came with your grandma's camera, they all DO NOT WORK and when they find it doesn't run? They WILL bring it back.
If you want actual citations I'm happy to provide them, after all we ALREADY HAD a big Linux push....remember netbooks? You know why netbooks went windows? Because Linux netbooks suffered 400% higher returns than the same units running Windows, even though they were stuck on XP while the Linux ones had the latest versions. How many Linux units have YOU tried selling? I can tell you that I strip or throw away machines rather than put Linux on them because the same thing always occurs, 1.-They buy Linux because its cheaper,2.- Find some program they really want to run isn't supported, 3.- They return it.
So I'm sorry to burst your "its the insiders man!" bubble but I'll highlight this so you can't miss it, People don't buy OSes, they buy programs and then choose an OS that will run those programs, and all those programs? they don't run on Linux.
Oh please! I'm so sick of that "support" line of BS, especially since its been reported that they FIRED the QA and testing teams.
This is about MONEY all right, its about making money off of YOU because with windows 10 YOU ARE THE PRODUCT and the OS is merely a carrot to get to you, your data, and your eyeballs. MSFT wants endless revenue and they make more by spying on you and selling that data to advertisers who then pay them AGAIN for ads on the start screen than they ever made on the OS. with previous versions they got paid less than $100 a unit every 3 years, now? They get paid 365 days a year by advertisers for unlimited access to your information and advertising space on your PC.
I mean for fucks sake man why do you think there is more than 12 pages worth of shit you have to turn off just to get windows 10 to STFU and the vast majority of which you CANNOT turn off unless you are on enterprise...you know, the version you have to pay them yearly for? Because its about turning a one time payment into endless revenue and if that means acting like malware to get more products/users they can sell? Then they are gonna do it.
Because more and more laptops require you to tear it down to the frame just to swap the hard drive? You can thank Apple and their "thin is in"design aesthetic for this one, as many of the laptop OEMs are trying to make their laptops look as sleek and clean looking as a Macbook and the first thing to go? Easy to remove HDD access.
I had to deal with one just last week to upgrade the laptop to an SSD for a customer and you don't want to know what I had to charge him as just to get to the HDD I had remove the screen, keyboard, and case so that it was nothing more than a frame and a motherboard, its a right bitch to change drives on a lot of these new laptops.
Insightful? Really mods? Riddle me this.....how many of you know someone who actually went out and bought Windows because they LIKED it...anyone? Buelller? People buy Windows and PCs that come with Windows because they have hundreds to thousands of dollars worth of software that only run on that OS, its called the network effect and its the reason why despite Linux being free forever there are more people that pirate Windows than use Linux as a desktop.
So you might as well have typed "replace your PC with a potato! Up with vegetables!" for all the good Linux would do the majority as without the software the bought the PC to run in the first place you are offering them nothing of value and in fact are offering them nothing but frustration as they try to get their software to work or find an ersatz on Linux, which just doesn't fulfill their needs. Those few people that ONLY use a web browser, which so many here think is the majority? Would be better off with a tablet as they wouldn't have to deal with drivers or patches yet Windows PCs still number in the hundreds of millions.
This is why MSFT can get away with putting out an OS as shitty as Windows 10 and be as douchey as they want trying to shove it down people's throats because the majority have no choice but use Windows and until you can get the majority of Windows software vendors to port their proprietary software to your platform (which will happen when hell freezes over, with Linux being so openly hostile to proprietary they'll stay where they are at) its simply gonna provide no value to the vast majority of PC users, no matter how crap the MSFT alternative is. You want proof? Look at history...WinME was crap...Linux gained nothing. Vista was crap...Linux gained nothing. Windows 8 was a shitty smartphone OS designed by hipsters...Linux gained nothing. 8.1 was slightly less crap but was still shitty...you know where this is going.
More than half the MSFT OSes released the past decade has been deep fried dogshit while Linux has gotten easier to install and run than ever....and still Linux gained less than the margin for error. The reason why that is is beyond simple, its because people do not buy OSes, they buy programs and then choose an OS that will run those programs. And as long as those billions of dollars of proprietary software doesn't run on your OS? MSFT can do what it wants and the majority will stay right where they are at. This is why I predict MSFT will keep extending the "free period" of Windows 10 and keep getting more malware like in their pushing it and...nothing will happen, nobody will leave, and Win 10 will become the majority OS on the desktop just as MSFT wants. The few geeks that actually care about things like privacy and spying will have already run GWX or Never10 and will not be affected...well until the majority of hardware no longer has Windows 7 drivers, then even they will have no choice but get on Win 10, no matter how much we hate it.
No True Scotsman much? You do know that using the NTS fallacy pretty much negates your argument, as by that logic ANYBODY other than the people the person speaking chooses "don't count" hence why its a fallacy, yes?
All they will do is set their servers in Russia or Bumfuckistan or some other country that has zero fucks to give about the USA draconian copyright laws and then give Google a nice high res Goatse as a response.
These stupid copyright police need to quit trying to turn back the clock to the days before the VCR and accept the fact plenty of places in the world aren't gonna play your little reindeer games.
Yeah you kinda did. If you want to see what the Libertarian beliefs REALLY are, and not just your sugar coated "tyrue Libertarian" BS? Then look at one of the most popular libertarians ON THE PLANET...Stefan Molyneux. He is hate filled, Randian as fuck, so misogynist that even anti-feminists like myself go "dude you might want to tone that done,mmkay?" and is using cult like tactics such as telling kids to divorce their parents if they don't buy into his Randian bullshit...he calls it "defooing", look it up. He also gets millions of views per day preaching the cult of Supply Side Jesus, probably more than any other "libertarian" on the entire planet!
So sorry, you do not get to dictate what a libertarian is, anymore than a democrat can sing the virtues of the democrat party while they run the most corrupt bitch to ever seek office or the republicans can sing how great their party is when....damn did you see who they ran this year? They didn't have a single choice that wasn't batshit or a trust fund baby insider.
I hate having to say it, as I've been building and supporting Windows units since Win 3.1 but for my business customers? We're looking into Chromebooks with the Windows 7 units being kept for legacy applications and to run hardware that won't work anywhere else, just like I have several XP units out there running legacy devices like CNCs.
The reasons why are simple...they are cheap, easy to manage, and for basic office work? They have more than enough power to do the job. You can manage everything locally with Google for business and if one dies who cares? Just whip out another one from the back and they are right back where they were in a couple minutes like nothing ever happened.
MSFT is really really fucking themselves HARD with Windows 10 as they forgot the golden rule...silly rabbit, Windows is for business. They forgot those millions of small businesses are their bread and butter and by keeping control of all their phone home shit strictly for Enterprise which most of them cannot afford? They just made the competition look a HELL of a lot more attractive. Even my gamer customers are asking me about alternative like Linux and SteamOS and just keeping a Windows partition for the games that won't run as even they really don't like Windows 10. its buggy as hell, as likely to crap itself on update as a bleeding edge Linux distro, has lousy backwards compatibility and piss poor driver support.....its just not a good OS.
My guess is by 2020 Nutella will go the way of Ballmernator, they only question is whether there will be enough customers left who give a shit for the next guy to try to save the company. What they SHOULD have done is backported both DX12 and the Windows Store and made selling add-on services and features a big money maker, with their massive server network and bandwidth they could get ahead of the curve with services like Internet TV and selling online game hosting services but they went from being a bad Apple rip-off with Ballmer to being a bad Google rip-off with extra spying and Bing! with Nutella...sigh. How they went from making something as good as win 7 to such a giant fuckup of a company is beyond me.
You can make jokes but she has a point...why would I give a shit about the GPL if I'm a company if I can just take the parts I want and claim fair use? Do YOU have enough money to fight my corp, as well as all the other corps if they decide to jump on the bandwagon?
Remember boys and girls, Google is NOT a friend of the GPL, in fact they are slowly but surely pulling a EEE with Android by putting more and more critical functions behind the playwall. These megacorps give not a single fuck about your license, all they care about is what their lawyers say they can get away with...hell of a lot of GPL code that is little more than APIs, that equals a lot of code that corps can now snatch with impunity.
And if you bother to dig any deeper, rather than take these "studies" at face value (many of which are paid for by Lorillard through their "citizens for a concerned America" PAC) you'll find they ALWAYS land in one of 3 camps,
1.- Rich dumbshit with more money than sense buys a $300+ mech mod, which has warnings all over it saying how you MUST know ohms law, resistances, and the strength of the batteries you intend to use to use this product safely, then promptly buy a $20 gas station top and slap on it, thus blowing his deserving dumbass up,
2.- Cheapskate dumbshit buys a $10 knock off of a $90 unit off of Chinabuye and then is shocked! Shocked I tell you! That a cheapo Chinese Crap knock off is actually unsafe and blows up in his dumbass face,
3.- Impatient dumbshit ignores all the warnings in the brochure that came with his battery that says to ONLY use the slow trickle charger that comes with the unit, thinks "hey its USB, my fast cellphone charger is USB!"...can you see where this is going? Yep he uses the fast charger to cook the batteries and then is amazed when a device designed for a slow trickle charge becomes unstable when you use a charger that puts out 4 times the amps as what the unit was designed for.
I'm sorry but stupid is as stupid does, and if you actually buy quality units instead of fakes and follow the instructions that come in the box? Then you have NOTHING to worry about. These scare studies hold about as much truth as the ads staring doctors big tobacco used to run, because they ignore the fact that the users were either ignoring instructions, using fakes they picked up off a ChinaMart, or like the mech mod moron buying a unit designed for guys with the skill to build their own sub-ohm coils from scratch and just slapping some top he got in a gas station on it.
To use a/. car analogy it would be like blaming motorcycles for the rich kid that buys a Ninja for his first bike and wraps it around a pole at 150MPH+ or the cheapskate that buys one of those "long fong" Chinese scooters and finds out the brakes don't work going down a steep hill.
Some cloud chasers THINK** that by building their own coils and using a mech mod to get to super low ohms they can get bigger cloud banks, there is a whole scene where there is even contests to make the biggest cloud.
**.- Its bullshit, and has been bullshit for a couple of years now, because you can buy high wattage regulated mods that easily go down to as low as 0.15 ohms and which will blow out clouds so thick if you were to draw on it more than a second it would choke you out.
I personally use a 20w mini boxmod on the road and a 100w brick of a mod at home, both regulated with circuit protection, and at anything higher than 16w both will put out such huge rolling clouds that a single drag will make the air so thick you couldn't see me. Of course I still have nicotine in mine (most cloud chasers don't) so I'm not gonna crank them up to anything above 14w or so, but if I wanted just to be my own personal fog machine? all I would have to do is slap a sub-ohm tank on there with some 0 nic juice and I could completely fog out my entire house in a few drags.
So there really isn't any point in mech mods anymore except for the old guys that just like to DIY.
Wow...elitist much? There is absolutely nothing wrong with VB6, just because you have seen sloppy VB code don't mean shit as I can go over to stack overflow and find examples of shitty code in any of the new hip languages that you like.
VB6 is great for one REALLY specific job, which just happens to be a job that small to medium businesses require quite often, which is "make a quick and simply GUI to a DB" and it does that job very very well. In fact I've never seen anything else that could whip off a GUI to a DB as easily or as quickly as VB.
So instead of being elitist why not just except that every language has a place and it serves NO purpose to not open up the code, or are you just against open source in general? Because frankly I find it quite shocking that so many here would actually be against opening the source to ANY code that is now proprietary,what happened to/. being a big pro FOSS site? I really can't picture someone asking RMS if VB should be released under say the GPL he would go "Naw fuck that shit man, some things shouldn't be given to the people!" can you?
Why you would put android on a flip phone is beyond me, as you pointed out kinda defeats the purpose of having a flip phone.
Here is what I got my mom and she just loves the thing. It gets about 7-8 days on a charge, was easy for me to set up so she merely pushes "up" to call up her address book, its simple, its easy, makes good calls, pretty much everything you want in a basic flip phone.
Uhhhh actually? I can blow clouds so damned thick it looks like a scene from a Cheech and Chong flick, that is on an eLeaf 100w box mod which has full protection from shorts and overloads, even lets you charge the removable batteries in the unit. Cost me a whole...let me check...$34 with shipping. If you want one that looks like a light saber, again with all the protections and which will blow fog banks? You can get one of those for around $75. Personally I don't care for those as they get knocked over too easy as they tend to be a bit top heavy. Hell if you wanted to be an elite and show off you have more money than you know what to do with? They make units for around $150 with touchscreens built in, you can even swap wallpaper on it if you like.
The mech mods are for guys that want to build everything themselves, usually wanting to go for what I call a "batshit build" like sub 0.1 ohm or with a half a dozen coils. If I were to compare them to any niche I would compare them to the gun modding community and like that group you REALLY have to know WTF you are doing, and every forum I've ever been to actively discourages users for going to mech mods unless they have been building their own units for awhile and know resistances and ohms like second nature.
But the only "incidents" like that dumbshit that I've heard of has always been either 1.- Dumbshit buys super insane mech mod as first unit, throws on $5 tank and fucks himself up, or 2.- Cheapskate dumpshit buys from some shady as hell Chinese site and gets a knock off thrown together for 50c US which is nothing but a battery wired direct to the terminal because circuits? Those cost money. But we have seen Chinese knock offs that are dangerous in everything from batteries to baby food and we don't blame the product they are knocking off because some moron bought a fake and fucked himself up.
All the dipshit would have had to do is simply walk into his local vape shop and say "Give me something that makes big clouds" and he would have gotten a setup that would have been 100% safe and reliable, so I have a real hard time feeling bad for this fucknuts.
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FUD the ONLY chips that have the ARM core are the 4 that were based on the consoles, even the AMD page on the subject hasn't been updated since 2013, why? Because they only bought the ARM DRM for the consoles that demanded it and never bothered to do anything else with it.
So its only there if you buy one of the 4 ULV chips based on Jaguar, and even then there is no known software in the wild that can even access it. Its a leftover from their deal with the consoles and the only chips you can buy with it are ones that didn't pass muster to be included in the consoles.
Now that said I've built a couple HTPCs using the Jag and they run just fine, one is running Win 8 (the only place Metro makes sense, a 10 foot UI) and the other is running OpenELEC Linux and both run great, if all you are needing is an ULV HTPC for 1080P video or a media server you can stuff in a closet? Works good for that purpose, but the ARM chip isn't an issue.
There is actually quite a lot of us because if you were to do a blind A/B test with an FX-8 versus an i5? You wouldn't be able to tell which is which....but your wallet would know the difference.
My FX-8320E when paired with an R9 280 and 16GB of RAM plays all my games with so much bling that I have gotten killed on several occasions because I was too busy gawking at the pretty to notice the enemy coming up behind me, runs very very cool (on air the highest I have ever hit is 122F with all 8 cores slammed doing A/V work) and the whole system, with an SSD and 3TB HDD? Less than $550 after MIR.
When you add to this the fact that AMD has been opening their docs, just as the FOSS community asked them to do, giving massive amounts of code to the community with Vulkan being just one of many, no DRM chips like TPM, oh and you can get their chips for often less than a third an equivalent Intel chip? Its really not a hard choice to make.
With me it would probably be 10k to 1, and the few I do watch are fan recordings of live music. Bosnian Bill is great, I also love Techmoan and his vids on cool old tech, LGR's vids on old PC games and hardware, and listening to Bo Time Gaming scream like a girl in War Thunder when some BF109 throws some cannon shells his way.
As for Trent, Lars, and all their ilk? Sorry but its not 1975 anymore, you can't write a single song and sit on ass getting royalties for the next 20 years thinking you have it made while the record company leeches are in actuality skimming 90%+ off the top. Now songs are merely the carrot to get butts in seats for live performances as it should be, and as it was for the better part of history. You know what REALLY scares the piss out of you Trent, and why you and your buddies will mouth off but not do shit about YouTube? Its because if you wiped ALL big label music off of YouTube tomorrow the majority would not give a shit as a billion artists who AREN'T bitches would be more than happy to take those fans as they know what songs are for today and value the free advertising. It must also cause you to lose sleep at night to know that any kid can do what you do now thanks to digital recording gear being so cheap and computers being so powerful. Hell when I first started playing music the BEST you could get if you wanted to go DIY and your daddy wasn't a lawyer was a 4 track cassette that sounded only slightly better than recording on a boombox and now I have a digital 8-track that fits in my bass case and with a couple condensers hooked to it frankly gets better sounding recordings than a lot of the live albums of the 70s...cost me $126.
Just as we've seen the rise of indie gaming and indie filmmaking going DIY is becoming the better deal for more and more artists and you can whine and bitch and moan all you want but at the end of the day? If you removed every note you ever played from the web nobody would really care as there are a hell of a lot more where you came from, a lot less douchey as well.
The problem with your theory is this....All the game devs on YouTube have been making it clear if they have to support both (which both MSFT and Sony have said is a requirement) then the original is gonna be "shit mode" with crap graphics and little to no optimization. The reason why is simple...money.
Its not financially feasible to sink half the budget on the weak version and half on the good, if they are doing this they might as well stick to the PC, so the easiest and cheapest way to support both is spend all the money on the new version (as that is what everybody is gonna see in the commercials and on the back of the box) and then just lock the weak version on the lowest settings they can that will still get "kinda sorta" 30 FPS but mark my words within 6 months the framerate will take a dump on any heavy action scenes as they crank things up for the good version.
So all they have really done is kill the main reason to buy a console, the fact that you get 5 years worth of games for a single console purchase. Now you will have decent game play for a couple years at most and then either buy the new version or get screwed and have the system in the "gaming ghetto" with crap graphics and slowdowns.
Its 24nm FinFET so power should be quite low, in fact AMD has been talking up how its the lowest power mainstream gaming cards they have ever created.
The problem both AMD and Nvidia are gonna have is that games have hit the wall and its getting harder and harder to push the graphics without hitting the 100 million price tag. Sure there is VR but it still is looking like its gonna be a small niche at best, just like 3D before it, and 1080P appears to be the standard everybody is sticking with which their cards from a generation or 2 back have no issues with. Hell even the middle of the road cards have plenty of power for 1080P, my R9 280 has no trouble giving me 60 FPS plus on my flight games even with the graphics cranked so high it looks like a scene from Red Tails.
Its the same problem Intel and AMD are seeing on the CPU front, even the gamers have no reason to replace their FX-8s and i5s because games just haven't kept up and very VERY few can slam these monster chips we have enough that an upgrade would get you more than a few FPS which just doesn't make sense financially.
That is because when they write "M$" they come off as this guy and nobody is gonna take this guy seriously.
This is why I use Bing, I've found the SEOs don't spam the shit out of Bing so I often find what I'm looking for on the first try. at the shop I'm always looking for drivers or replacement parts and with Google? I always end up with search results obviously created with SEO spamming, pages of "driver finder" kinda adware shit or some company listing part A but not actually having said part...just more spam results.
As for TFA...would anybody REALLY be surprised if its true? We got laws being written by corps, see Monsanto and GMOs or Disney and copyrights, would it be actually shocking that a company with a highly political CEO would lean shit to go his way? We've already seen both FB and Twitter burying right wing posters and going so far as to delete stories that don't follow their agenda (see the way both buried the German migrant rape gangs stories) so would it really surprise anyone to find out our Internet searches are as rigged as our TV and radio is now?
Uhhh you can buy PCs now that will play most games at 720p if not better for less than a PS4, and certainly less than they'll be asking for a PS4 Neo. Since PCs hit the wall on both MHz and cores a few years back parts have gotten cheaper because there really is no "killer app" to move the more expensive parts.
Just type in "$400 gaming PC" into YouTube and you can find dozens of builds to pick from, both Intel and AMD, they even have parts picker links so you don't even have to know which parts to get, just click the link. Now that you can get both Windows 10 Insider Edition (with extra spying and Bing!) and SteamOS for free the cost of the OS doesn't have to enter into it, just grab the parts and game on.
That of course doesn't even figure in the insane wealth of crazy powerful used systems you can get now for dirt cheap, you can grab a C2Q or Phenom II X4 system on many CL for under $70, throw in a $100 graphics card and voila! A system that will play most mainstream games well for less than the cost of a used PS4.
There has really never been a better time to be a PC gamer, hardware is cheap, great games are so plentiful and the PC platform has so much competition you can have huge game collections for very little money, and everything is so simple a kid can throw together a system now. You can literally build a PC with only 4 parts, case with PSU, APU with heatsink, SSD...that's it, working system ready for install. Its sooo easy, sooo cheap, and HDMI means its plug and play...man I wish it would have been that easy when I first start building systems.
The problem is the latest updates to TV default to have it running as a Windows service 24/7 which is why I had my customers uninstall it, if they need remote support they can install it just long enough for me to fix the issue and then uninstall.
So yeah...this is 100% TV's fault, they are the ones that chose the boneheaded move of making their defaults "run 24/7" and obviously with THIS many reported break ins? Yeah don't give me that "reused passwords" bullshit as those passwords have been in the wild for many months yet only NOW does it happen, and happen en masse? Yeah someone found a TV exploit and pwned their asses HARD and now they are playing the time honored game of CYA. I expect them to be sued out of business any day now.
26 screws, required removing the 1.-RAM, 2.-Battery, 3.- Keyboard, 4.- Handrest/touchpad, 5.-Heatshield, before you could FINALLY get to the HDD. And many of those screws held multiple pieces such as the keyboard holding the heatshield holding the Wifi so getting everything to line up perfectly? A royal bitch.
So you can just go fuck yourself Mr armchair system builder, but that is just my opinion
Quicken, Quickbooks, Photoshop, Corel Draw, AutoCAD, hell the software that came with your grandma's camera, they all DO NOT WORK and when they find it doesn't run? They WILL bring it back.
If you want actual citations I'm happy to provide them, after all we ALREADY HAD a big Linux push....remember netbooks? You know why netbooks went windows? Because Linux netbooks suffered 400% higher returns than the same units running Windows, even though they were stuck on XP while the Linux ones had the latest versions. How many Linux units have YOU tried selling? I can tell you that I strip or throw away machines rather than put Linux on them because the same thing always occurs, 1.-They buy Linux because its cheaper,2.- Find some program they really want to run isn't supported, 3.- They return it.
So I'm sorry to burst your "its the insiders man!" bubble but I'll highlight this so you can't miss it, People don't buy OSes, they buy programs and then choose an OS that will run those programs, and all those programs? they don't run on Linux.
Oh please! I'm so sick of that "support" line of BS, especially since its been reported that they FIRED the QA and testing teams.
This is about MONEY all right, its about making money off of YOU because with windows 10 YOU ARE THE PRODUCT and the OS is merely a carrot to get to you, your data, and your eyeballs. MSFT wants endless revenue and they make more by spying on you and selling that data to advertisers who then pay them AGAIN for ads on the start screen than they ever made on the OS. with previous versions they got paid less than $100 a unit every 3 years, now? They get paid 365 days a year by advertisers for unlimited access to your information and advertising space on your PC.
I mean for fucks sake man why do you think there is more than 12 pages worth of shit you have to turn off just to get windows 10 to STFU and the vast majority of which you CANNOT turn off unless you are on enterprise...you know, the version you have to pay them yearly for? Because its about turning a one time payment into endless revenue and if that means acting like malware to get more products/users they can sell? Then they are gonna do it.
Because more and more laptops require you to tear it down to the frame just to swap the hard drive? You can thank Apple and their "thin is in"design aesthetic for this one, as many of the laptop OEMs are trying to make their laptops look as sleek and clean looking as a Macbook and the first thing to go? Easy to remove HDD access.
I had to deal with one just last week to upgrade the laptop to an SSD for a customer and you don't want to know what I had to charge him as just to get to the HDD I had remove the screen, keyboard, and case so that it was nothing more than a frame and a motherboard, its a right bitch to change drives on a lot of these new laptops.
Insightful? Really mods? Riddle me this.....how many of you know someone who actually went out and bought Windows because they LIKED it...anyone? Buelller? People buy Windows and PCs that come with Windows because they have hundreds to thousands of dollars worth of software that only run on that OS, its called the network effect and its the reason why despite Linux being free forever there are more people that pirate Windows than use Linux as a desktop.
So you might as well have typed "replace your PC with a potato! Up with vegetables!" for all the good Linux would do the majority as without the software the bought the PC to run in the first place you are offering them nothing of value and in fact are offering them nothing but frustration as they try to get their software to work or find an ersatz on Linux, which just doesn't fulfill their needs. Those few people that ONLY use a web browser, which so many here think is the majority? Would be better off with a tablet as they wouldn't have to deal with drivers or patches yet Windows PCs still number in the hundreds of millions.
This is why MSFT can get away with putting out an OS as shitty as Windows 10 and be as douchey as they want trying to shove it down people's throats because the majority have no choice but use Windows and until you can get the majority of Windows software vendors to port their proprietary software to your platform (which will happen when hell freezes over, with Linux being so openly hostile to proprietary they'll stay where they are at) its simply gonna provide no value to the vast majority of PC users, no matter how crap the MSFT alternative is. You want proof? Look at history...WinME was crap...Linux gained nothing. Vista was crap...Linux gained nothing. Windows 8 was a shitty smartphone OS designed by hipsters...Linux gained nothing. 8.1 was slightly less crap but was still shitty...you know where this is going.
More than half the MSFT OSes released the past decade has been deep fried dogshit while Linux has gotten easier to install and run than ever....and still Linux gained less than the margin for error. The reason why that is is beyond simple, its because people do not buy OSes, they buy programs and then choose an OS that will run those programs. And as long as those billions of dollars of proprietary software doesn't run on your OS? MSFT can do what it wants and the majority will stay right where they are at. This is why I predict MSFT will keep extending the "free period" of Windows 10 and keep getting more malware like in their pushing it and...nothing will happen, nobody will leave, and Win 10 will become the majority OS on the desktop just as MSFT wants. The few geeks that actually care about things like privacy and spying will have already run GWX or Never10 and will not be affected...well until the majority of hardware no longer has Windows 7 drivers, then even they will have no choice but get on Win 10, no matter how much we hate it.
No True Scotsman much? You do know that using the NTS fallacy pretty much negates your argument, as by that logic ANYBODY other than the people the person speaking chooses "don't count" hence why its a fallacy, yes?
All they will do is set their servers in Russia or Bumfuckistan or some other country that has zero fucks to give about the USA draconian copyright laws and then give Google a nice high res Goatse as a response.
These stupid copyright police need to quit trying to turn back the clock to the days before the VCR and accept the fact plenty of places in the world aren't gonna play your little reindeer games.
Yeah you kinda did. If you want to see what the Libertarian beliefs REALLY are, and not just your sugar coated "tyrue Libertarian" BS? Then look at one of the most popular libertarians ON THE PLANET...Stefan Molyneux. He is hate filled, Randian as fuck, so misogynist that even anti-feminists like myself go "dude you might want to tone that done,mmkay?" and is using cult like tactics such as telling kids to divorce their parents if they don't buy into his Randian bullshit...he calls it "defooing", look it up. He also gets millions of views per day preaching the cult of Supply Side Jesus, probably more than any other "libertarian" on the entire planet!
So sorry, you do not get to dictate what a libertarian is, anymore than a democrat can sing the virtues of the democrat party while they run the most corrupt bitch to ever seek office or the republicans can sing how great their party is when....damn did you see who they ran this year? They didn't have a single choice that wasn't batshit or a trust fund baby insider.
I hate having to say it, as I've been building and supporting Windows units since Win 3.1 but for my business customers? We're looking into Chromebooks with the Windows 7 units being kept for legacy applications and to run hardware that won't work anywhere else, just like I have several XP units out there running legacy devices like CNCs.
The reasons why are simple...they are cheap, easy to manage, and for basic office work? They have more than enough power to do the job. You can manage everything locally with Google for business and if one dies who cares? Just whip out another one from the back and they are right back where they were in a couple minutes like nothing ever happened.
MSFT is really really fucking themselves HARD with Windows 10 as they forgot the golden rule...silly rabbit, Windows is for business. They forgot those millions of small businesses are their bread and butter and by keeping control of all their phone home shit strictly for Enterprise which most of them cannot afford? They just made the competition look a HELL of a lot more attractive. Even my gamer customers are asking me about alternative like Linux and SteamOS and just keeping a Windows partition for the games that won't run as even they really don't like Windows 10. its buggy as hell, as likely to crap itself on update as a bleeding edge Linux distro, has lousy backwards compatibility and piss poor driver support.....its just not a good OS.
My guess is by 2020 Nutella will go the way of Ballmernator, they only question is whether there will be enough customers left who give a shit for the next guy to try to save the company. What they SHOULD have done is backported both DX12 and the Windows Store and made selling add-on services and features a big money maker, with their massive server network and bandwidth they could get ahead of the curve with services like Internet TV and selling online game hosting services but they went from being a bad Apple rip-off with Ballmer to being a bad Google rip-off with extra spying and Bing! with Nutella...sigh. How they went from making something as good as win 7 to such a giant fuckup of a company is beyond me.
You can make jokes but she has a point...why would I give a shit about the GPL if I'm a company if I can just take the parts I want and claim fair use? Do YOU have enough money to fight my corp, as well as all the other corps if they decide to jump on the bandwagon?
Remember boys and girls, Google is NOT a friend of the GPL, in fact they are slowly but surely pulling a EEE with Android by putting more and more critical functions behind the playwall. These megacorps give not a single fuck about your license, all they care about is what their lawyers say they can get away with...hell of a lot of GPL code that is little more than APIs, that equals a lot of code that corps can now snatch with impunity.
And if you bother to dig any deeper, rather than take these "studies" at face value (many of which are paid for by Lorillard through their "citizens for a concerned America" PAC) you'll find they ALWAYS land in one of 3 camps,
1.- Rich dumbshit with more money than sense buys a $300+ mech mod, which has warnings all over it saying how you MUST know ohms law, resistances, and the strength of the batteries you intend to use to use this product safely, then promptly buy a $20 gas station top and slap on it, thus blowing his deserving dumbass up,
2.- Cheapskate dumbshit buys a $10 knock off of a $90 unit off of Chinabuye and then is shocked! Shocked I tell you! That a cheapo Chinese Crap knock off is actually unsafe and blows up in his dumbass face,
3.- Impatient dumbshit ignores all the warnings in the brochure that came with his battery that says to ONLY use the slow trickle charger that comes with the unit, thinks "hey its USB, my fast cellphone charger is USB!"...can you see where this is going? Yep he uses the fast charger to cook the batteries and then is amazed when a device designed for a slow trickle charge becomes unstable when you use a charger that puts out 4 times the amps as what the unit was designed for.
I'm sorry but stupid is as stupid does, and if you actually buy quality units instead of fakes and follow the instructions that come in the box? Then you have NOTHING to worry about. These scare studies hold about as much truth as the ads staring doctors big tobacco used to run, because they ignore the fact that the users were either ignoring instructions, using fakes they picked up off a ChinaMart, or like the mech mod moron buying a unit designed for guys with the skill to build their own sub-ohm coils from scratch and just slapping some top he got in a gas station on it.
To use a /. car analogy it would be like blaming motorcycles for the rich kid that buys a Ninja for his first bike and wraps it around a pole at 150MPH+ or the cheapskate that buys one of those "long fong" Chinese scooters and finds out the brakes don't work going down a steep hill.
Yeah because that plan worked so well for MSFT in the smartphone and music player market.
Some cloud chasers THINK** that by building their own coils and using a mech mod to get to super low ohms they can get bigger cloud banks, there is a whole scene where there is even contests to make the biggest cloud.
**.- Its bullshit, and has been bullshit for a couple of years now, because you can buy high wattage regulated mods that easily go down to as low as 0.15 ohms and which will blow out clouds so thick if you were to draw on it more than a second it would choke you out.
I personally use a 20w mini boxmod on the road and a 100w brick of a mod at home, both regulated with circuit protection, and at anything higher than 16w both will put out such huge rolling clouds that a single drag will make the air so thick you couldn't see me. Of course I still have nicotine in mine (most cloud chasers don't) so I'm not gonna crank them up to anything above 14w or so, but if I wanted just to be my own personal fog machine? all I would have to do is slap a sub-ohm tank on there with some 0 nic juice and I could completely fog out my entire house in a few drags.
So there really isn't any point in mech mods anymore except for the old guys that just like to DIY.
Wow...elitist much? There is absolutely nothing wrong with VB6, just because you have seen sloppy VB code don't mean shit as I can go over to stack overflow and find examples of shitty code in any of the new hip languages that you like.
VB6 is great for one REALLY specific job, which just happens to be a job that small to medium businesses require quite often, which is "make a quick and simply GUI to a DB" and it does that job very very well. In fact I've never seen anything else that could whip off a GUI to a DB as easily or as quickly as VB.
So instead of being elitist why not just except that every language has a place and it serves NO purpose to not open up the code, or are you just against open source in general? Because frankly I find it quite shocking that so many here would actually be against opening the source to ANY code that is now proprietary,what happened to /. being a big pro FOSS site? I really can't picture someone asking RMS if VB should be released under say the GPL he would go "Naw fuck that shit man, some things shouldn't be given to the people!" can you?
Why you would put android on a flip phone is beyond me, as you pointed out kinda defeats the purpose of having a flip phone.
Here is what I got my mom and she just loves the thing. It gets about 7-8 days on a charge, was easy for me to set up so she merely pushes "up" to call up her address book, its simple, its easy, makes good calls, pretty much everything you want in a basic flip phone.
Uhhhh actually? I can blow clouds so damned thick it looks like a scene from a Cheech and Chong flick, that is on an eLeaf 100w box mod which has full protection from shorts and overloads, even lets you charge the removable batteries in the unit. Cost me a whole...let me check...$34 with shipping. If you want one that looks like a light saber, again with all the protections and which will blow fog banks? You can get one of those for around $75. Personally I don't care for those as they get knocked over too easy as they tend to be a bit top heavy. Hell if you wanted to be an elite and show off you have more money than you know what to do with? They make units for around $150 with touchscreens built in, you can even swap wallpaper on it if you like.
The mech mods are for guys that want to build everything themselves, usually wanting to go for what I call a "batshit build" like sub 0.1 ohm or with a half a dozen coils. If I were to compare them to any niche I would compare them to the gun modding community and like that group you REALLY have to know WTF you are doing, and every forum I've ever been to actively discourages users for going to mech mods unless they have been building their own units for awhile and know resistances and ohms like second nature.
But the only "incidents" like that dumbshit that I've heard of has always been either 1.- Dumbshit buys super insane mech mod as first unit, throws on $5 tank and fucks himself up, or 2.- Cheapskate dumpshit buys from some shady as hell Chinese site and gets a knock off thrown together for 50c US which is nothing but a battery wired direct to the terminal because circuits? Those cost money. But we have seen Chinese knock offs that are dangerous in everything from batteries to baby food and we don't blame the product they are knocking off because some moron bought a fake and fucked himself up.
All the dipshit would have had to do is simply walk into his local vape shop and say "Give me something that makes big clouds" and he would have gotten a setup that would have been 100% safe and reliable, so I have a real hard time feeling bad for this fucknuts.