Uhhh it was one of those little 4 foot above ground jobs, so I really don't think there was enough water there to keep him from frying his ass. Also remember the TV SET, a tube type no less, which I have zero doubt if one went in the other would too...those have capacitors with some pretty high voltages in it.
In the end it doesn't change the point, which was the dumbfuck in the link took a highly specialized pro vape mod that had some serious wattage and which required actual knowledge to use properly and promptly slapped a $20 gas station top on it and surprise surprise, he fucked himself up...duh. If played Russian Roulette with an automatic...would we blame the manufacturer? Same applies here.
Not to mention all reports so far put Zen at least 40% faster than their fastest Vishera chips, that puts it squarely in Ivy Bridge territory if not better which if they keep their prices close to what they are now? We're talking 8 cores/16 threads for less than $300, those are gonna sell like hotcakes.
As for TFA? Honestly I don't think its gonna help ARM much at all, and here is why...dark silicon. With phones and tablets being made so thin frankly your average ARM chip can't really even stretch their legs now because it would cause battery life to be measured in minutes and any power gains they get by going to the smaller process? The OEMs will just fuck them out of by making the devices thinner and the batteries smaller, hamstringing the chips yet again. We probably won't get to see what these chips can actually do until they start getting put in those "Android desktops" you see coming out of China and since those usually stay one or two chips behind? It'll probably be awhile.
Its a shame really, as I'm sure there are a lot of guys just like me that would be happy to tell the OEMs to stick their ultra thin designs in return for more battery and better heat dissipation so we could get the most of these quad and octocore ARM chips but as long as the OEMs are all trying to copy iCrap? Its just not gonna happen.
If a moron built his own 22 pistol and it blew up in his face....would you blame firearms?
Because that is EXACTLY what this fucknuts did, he bought a VERY expensive and VERY specialized MECHANICAL MOD. For those that do not know a "mech mod" is a very specialized piece of kit really only used by a handful that consider themselves "pro vapors" as it has NO protection or overload circuits, its just a battery and a trigger. this means you HAVE TO know Ohms law like the back of your hand, know the battery output down to the.0 wattage, I know guys that have been vaping a decade that won't touch mech mods because of how much time you have to invest in them to keep them from being seriously dangerous....can we ALL guess where this is going?
If you said "rich dipshit with more money than brains and who doesn't know Ohm's law from a seatbelt law buys a $300+ mech mod, throws a $20 gas station top on it and blows his dumbass up"? Then you win a cookie. I mean for fuck's sake guys, we've seen morons take a glock and promptly shoot themselves in the foot, hell I've even seen video of a future Darwin award winner that has a fucking 110v POWER STRIP floating on a donut in a pool to power a portable TV...do we blame these objects for the fucking idiots that don't know how to use them properly?
If you buy a normal vaping device, not some crazy mech mod or $5 Chinese special? Then you have absolutely ZERO to worry about as they all have overload and short circuit protection, hell I'm looking at a 40 watter right now I have to take to the local vape shop to get a seal replaced on because the rubber grommet got a teeny tiny bit worn down with all the tanks I've swapped on the thing and just that little bit of wear was enough for the unit to shut down with a "short circuit protection" error code. this is why I have ZERO worries about any of my units blowing up in my face, no matter what tank i throw on it as even the $30 basic box mods have automatic adjustment for ohms and will not allow the unit to fire if you put a top on that is too high or too low ohms for it to fire safely.
What we have in the article you cited is no different than a rich dipshit that buys a Kawasaki Ninja was his first bike and promptly fucks himself up or kills himself, he bought the vaping equivalent of a dragster without even knowing where the gas goes in the fucking thing.
I'm telling ya its the drivers. If it came with Win 8? It'll run fine, if it came with Win 7, even if the hardware is a monster? Its a crapshoot and will often run like shit.
Like everything else in Win 10 driver compatibility is half baked and buggy as fuck, but since its using 8.1 as the base those drivers work.
BTW FWIW the boxes I used? All WELL beyond the minimums, one C2D, the rest were all quads, and all had 4GB of RAM and at least decent iGPUs, 2 of which had Geforce 210s. All ran like shit, most would never connect to a network. All work fine on Win 7-8.1.
It doesn't have anything to do with that (although IE/Edge DOES bite) but the fact that everybody ran those "ZOMFG FF is DYING y'all!" articles which I have zero doubt caused many to run it just because they don't like the idea of a webkit only world.
Informative? Really mods? I'm sorry to burst your bubble but on both OpenGL and Vulkan Linux loses to Windows. This makes sense as more than 95% of the budget on Linux is spent on server development and servers? Really don't have much of a need for 3D acceleration.
Wish it weren't so but you are throwing away a good chunk of your hardware performance if you choose Linux for gaming.
Yeah MSFT has been shitting the bed with regularity as of late,.NET, Silverlight,Playsforsure, if you use a "next gen" MSFT product in your business you are locking yourself into a dead end path that won't be supported for shit and will die sooner rather than later. Google has been doing the same with many of their products but at least with Google nobody was actually trying to build products using the Google services they shitcanned.
BTW am I the only one starting to smell the stench of death wafting from MSFT? From practically begging users to take their new OS for free (and failing spectacularly from the latest figures I saw) to killing the XB1 before it even came out by crippling it to shoehorn the Kinect and bragging about its DRM and its ability to do TV...the whole company just feels like a rudderless ship, just desperately throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks. I mean you got the XB1 being such a bomb they will probably never make a dime on the thing (as they have to keep cutting prices to keep from getting curbstomped by the PS4), you got Win 10 which looks like their third bomb in a row (and the begging and dirty tricks trying to push it just makes them look pathetic) and you have Google Docs and business services cutting into their bread and butter and Chromebooks eating their lunch in the classroom, their mobile division is DOA....is there ANY place where they are actually winning? Any place they are getting solid growth?
I'm predicting before win 7 hits EOL you'll see Nadella "pursuing other interests" ala Ballmer but the question will be...will anybody even care by then? Or will it just be that "legacy OS" you run your old programs on, just like XP is now running in the backroom of many places just running some old program...if they don't find something that actually gets their users to care I don't see good things in MSFT's future.
Sorry bullshit alert. I have several win 7 boxes at the shop (including one I intend to keep as my netbox) and not a single one will work with Windows 10 unless you consider a PC without Internet access to be "working".
The Vista machines? I have found to be even worse, you have to remember that Nforce boards were REAL popular during the Vista/ early Win 7 boxes and the reasons why are obvious...really decent iGPUs, one vendor to provide everything, not bad on power usage, and guess what will never ever run on windows 10? If you said Nforce boards Ethernet? You sir win a cookie. BTW the same is true of many of the older Realtek and Via networking chips as well, they work just fine in Win 7/8.1 but even if you attempt to use compatibility mode in Win 10? You are never gonna get Internet again on that system.
I have attempted the "free upgrade" on I don't know how many systems (so the user could take advantage of the free upgrade later if they so chose) and I learned something important when it comes to windows 10...if the system didn't come with Windows 8? Yeah its a fucking crapshoot at best, and a VERY large chunk of Vista/7 era wireless and wired networking will never ever in a million fucking years work with that OS, you are just wasting your time.
Just one more reason windows 10 is a piss poor OS, I don't know how many times I have laughed about being able to use older drivers without issue on newer versions of Windows, but just like every other damned thing they have done since windows mist8ke they apparently fucked that shit up as well...sigh. Is it too late to get the Ballmernator back?
Riiiight, what do you THINK he is gonna say? "Yeah we are sucking up your data and BTW Metro is shit, I'll see myself out as I don't need this job, thx" dumbass? That is like asking SJWs if they are racist or asking a neocon if they are for corporate welfare, all that robot is gonna do is preach the party line.
You obviously haven't been keeping up what is happening on the Libertarian front, like how the fiscal conservatives got ran out their party by the bible thumping neocons and the liberals are being run out of their party by the islam loving white hating SJWs so too is the Libertarians being taken over by the whack-a-doodles.
If you want to see what is going on in the Libertarian front? Go to YouTube and look up Stephen Molynut and his buddies, they get millions of views pushing this very fucked up weird mix of Libertarianism and...well cult like behavior on the level of Scientology, complete with the divorcing of families that don't follow their batshit ways.
As for TFA? Its Wendy's, nothing of value will be lost. Maybe they can invent some robots to eat the crap they serve and it'll come full circle.
According to my cop customers they would rather have 10 potheads rather than one drunk on the road for one simple reason...stoners tend to drive too slow and speed is what kills.
I've gotten to hear what a single drunk can do on the road...it ain't pretty as they tend to fly low and with their slow reaction time? Its a bloodbath waiting to happen. The potheads? They tend to find them doing 35 in a 55 and are too paranoid about their driving to do any stunts or try to outrun the cops like the drunks will often do.
So if given the choice? I'd rather be a little late to an appointment because some pothead was driving slow than see some drunk weaving all over the road at 90 MPH + heading my way.
Informative? Really mods? you DO know they didn't start shoving that telemetry shit until AFTER Windows 10 flatlined, yes? And that its dead simple to remove the telemetry from Win 7/8/8.1 and can be done with a simple batch file, yes? And that with Windows 10 its impossible to get it to stop leaking data, that even the pirates have failed to be able to strip enough from that Bonzi Buddy of an OS to get it to STFU, you DO know this...yes?
As for the other poster who called this koolaid drinker I'm responding to a shill? Look at the posting history before throwing around shill, as this one is obviously just a raging fanboy, no different than that Appletard I ran into here that still swears that "Apples don't get viruses" because his definition of a virus is so fucking narrow that no malware written past 1992 would pass, or the FOSSie that swears Linux is growing on the desktop and then when you provide the latest desktop stats starts talking about routers....he has guzzled the koolaid, can't admit he's been buttfucked by spyware, so will furiously wave his little winflag until his wrists break.
The difference between a shill and a fanboy is a BIG fucking difference and why shill shouldn't be thrown around lightly, shills are professionals sent to signaljam communication channels with propaganda, fanboys are just flag wavers for certain products. if you have trouble spotting the difference? Go look up the articles from this site that were tearing into the Metro UI when Win 8 was first shat out and you'll find plenty of actual shill posts. For those that are too lazy shills 1.- Either have new accounts or old accounts that are ONLY used when a company they are shilling for has an article and the rest of the time are dormant, 2.- They stay on message in every post, no talk of anything other than the positives of brand X or the negatives of brand Y, 3.- They almost always tend to slip into "buzzword bingo" because middle management likes them to push the latest company horseshit so you see words and phrases nobody uses outside the boardroom like "vertical integration", "product synergy", and "positive user experience" so it ends up reading like a PPT.
With on average 64Mb of super slow SDRAM feeding that data to an on average 4200 RPM or if you were lucky a 5400 RPM HDD with no memory buffer? I find that awful hard to believe, especially since the Pi is using much faster DDR and NAND flash, not to mention the ARM is literally 4 times faster with much more advanced instruction sets compared to a Winchip or a Cyrix.
Frankly you find better systems in dumpsters than what they are talking about here, I mean they are talking the K6 and the winchip.
So I want to know...is there ANYBODY here that is actually running the latest Debian on a fricking Winchip? Or a Cyrix? C'mon guys lets get real, just because the last version could theoretically run doesn't mean just booting the damned thing wouldn't be like watching paint dry. Seriously guys the fastest chip I could find on that list is the 550Mhz K6-3, the rest are 266Mhz and below...is there anybody who wants to run the latest Debian on something that fricking slow? We're talking 66Mhz-100Mhz bus speeds here, a Raspberry Pi would smoke these things like an i7 and one of those $50 quad ARM Android boxes would be like a top fuel funny car compared to these things.
I'm all for saving older systems from the dump to help the environment but there comes a point where you just need to let it go, and I would say the Winchip and K6-3 are well past that point. You'd be better off replacing it with an ARM chip that would give you much higher IPC at a much much lower draw than any of these old things.
Yeah I miss old Twitter, now there was a truly world class troll of epicness!
I remember feeling so special when I was one of the few he chose for his "knock off" accounts, where he would try to come up with a knock off name and post trolls to try to "prove" the real person was a shill or troll. For McGrew there was McGrow, for me he had hairytoes, you weren't considered one of the top dogs at/. unless Twitter made a knock off of your account!
Now its all the same political puke, no talk about actual tech, no talk about real geeky stuff like CPUs or file systems, nope just the same little political flag waving horseshit that is no different than what you get on HuffyPo or Faux.
But its nice to hear someone enjoys them, thanks. I'm still just the same old big biker looking PC shop guy I've always been, a little more grey in the beard, a little rounder in the middle thanks to the wife's cooking, but otherwise just the same old hairy,still building boxes and pointing out dumb shit.
Insightful? Really mods? Let me asking you a simple question....which do you think is more expensive in the developing world, an 8GB USB stick or 4GB+ of bandwidth to download all the stuff they didn't include in the.ISO?
I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a 4GB drive in stores, even the bargain stores like Big Lots have 8Gb sticks now for under $5 so having a 2GB limit is really dumb.
I'd say a standard DVD should be the limit simply because 1.- USB sticks below 8GB are getting harder and harder to find and 2.- DVD burners have been pretty much standard issue for so long in desktops that they are pretty much ubiquitous.
Bullshit. I remember there being a time when you could have a 300 post discussion here when a new file system came out when everybody would be comparing and arguing the various pros and cons of the new file system when compared to what was already out, now?
"I'm for propaganda puppet liberal you republitard!" "Well I'm for propaganda puppet conservative so you must be stupid!" "You're both nigger faggots!"....THAT is about the intellectual level of discussion we get these days sadly.
Hell even our trolls were world class back then, anybody remember the FOSSie troll Twitter? Now THERE was a world class nutjob, why he could do a "six degrees" and link anything and everything on the planet to Bill Gates in under 5 moves!
Except that means exactly jack and shit thanks to trolls, there is even an article on Wikileaks called "confessions of a child pornographer" where he brags about using viruses to infect random guys that go to one of his legit porn sites and filling their PCs with CP and having them connect to known FBI honeypots because he thinks its funny to have the cops chasing their tails and figures the more time they waste going after his fakes the less time they have to go after his legitimate customers.
According to my buddy at the state crime lab the whole charade is just that, a bullshit waste of time, which is why he is trying to get transferred out. He says he can't even remember the last time they actually caught a predator online (those they catch when someone the scumbag molests comes forward) but instead all they ever catch is porn addicts which could easily be treated with a little therapy but instead they have to pretend they are dangerous because...well the prosecutor wants to get a shot at congress or the governors chair in a couple years.
So hundreds of millions are spent, the actual predators get to sit back and laugh about it because they keep their stash on an encrypted server in bumfuckistan and just access it via VPN, and you get to pay millions to keep some losers that haven't left their basements in years in solitary because they couldn't get it up anymore after watching a billion hours of porn without watching the sickest shit they could find, but hey, the prosecutor can say he's "tough on crime" and will get that shot at the big chair where he can clean up off the backroom deals....welcome to reality where its ALL politics..and then folks wonder why guys who take the job spend all of 6 months and then start looking for the exit.
There is also Comodo IceDragon which I've found is good for your social media types, with its "post to Facebook" integration and its SiteInspector malware scanner. You can remove either if you wish but I've found its a great drag and drop for social media users, just slap in ABP and call it a day.
As for Thunderbird? It doesn't "need" anything and that is the problem as far as Mozilla is concerned. Its a flatline market as the vast majority are using webmail now so there simply is no growth there. Its a mature product for an aging market (I've found the average age for my customers using a dedicated email client is late 40s to mid 50s) and as these customers die out its usage will slowly drop until there are nobody left. I'm sure the Tbird users will get mad at me but hey, I agree it sucks, but kids will be kids and they use webmail. Hell a lot of my early 20s customers don't even use fricking Webmail, its ALL done on fucking social media like Facebook. Is that super stupid? Yep but they give exactly zero shits about privacy and that is where their friends are so that is all they give a fuck about. They just live on that shit, if you've ever had to deal with one of their phones or tablets you know what I'm talking about, you unlock it and you are just assaulted with social media, its all tweets and status updates and I swear it feels like dealing with a PC infected with malware...and they LIKE that shit.
So as much as I think Tbird is a nice client I really do not see how anybody is gonna get more adopters for dedicated email, not with the way kids communicate today. All Tbird will probably need is a maintainer and with Moz bleeding to death from its own dumb moves they just don't have the dough to spare.
Quran 4:89: They (infidels) desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.
Quran 8:12: Instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers;
Quran 2:191: kill the disbelievers wherever we find them
Quran 22:19-22: for them (the unbelievers) garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods.
Quran 8:12: Your Lord inspired the angels with the message: I will terrorize the unbelievers. Therefore smite them on their necks and every joint and incapacitate them. Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes.
Quran 8:7: Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: Wipe the infidels out to the last.
Quran 8:59: The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them. They are your enemy and Allah's enemy.
Quran 8:60: Prepare against them whatever arms and cavalry you can muster that you may strike terror in the enemies of Allah, and others besides them not known to you.
Quran 9.29 Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
Quran 47:4: Strike off the heads of the disbelievers and, after making a wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives.
Sorry but it sounds like they are following their book quite closely. Oh and before some SJWs pull the bullshit "Christians have bad passages in their books too" strawman? Yeah the Brussels attacks killed more than Christian extremists have killed in the west in THIRTY YEARS. One single attack racked up a bigger bodycount than jesus freaks could get in 30 years. the simple fact of the matter is the other religions? Grew the fuck up, Islam didn't. When was the last time you saw a stoning outside a Jewish temple? Seen any thieves hands chopped off outside your local baptists church?
You are taking a culture that is living like its 1216 and trying to accept them into 2016 and its never gonna work, all you will get is more terror attacks. Oh and don't bother with the tired "the majority is peaceful" because a silent majority DOES NOT MATTER. The Germans were mostly peaceful, the NSDAP killed 60 million plus. The majority of Russians are really nice, the USSR still racked up nearly 100 million dead. North Korea, Cambodia, we have literally thousands of years of history showing that the majority DOES NOT MATTER if they are not willing to put their asses on the line and actively turn on a dangerous minority.
When was the last time you saw a Muslim community calling for a Mosque to be closed for calling for jihad? the last time you saw a Muslim community call for a Mullah to be arrested for inciting viol,ence? I rest my case.
LOL if announcing they have 1.5 BILLION in SoCs already called for in the game console market (which just FYI gives them a complete monopoly, as Sony,MSFT and Nintendo will ALL be running AMD APUs exclusively) along with a new deal that will most likely give them a big fat chunk of the growing Chinese server market, not to mention all the critics singing the praises of the new Fury GPUs...if THAT is "failing"? Can I have some of what you are smoking?
Hell having a lock on the console market alone will pretty much hand them the PC gaming market (as every console port will already be optimized for their chips), their new APUs are already VERY attractive price wise and Zen is reported to be at least 40% faster than the fastest current chips in their line up which will make them attractive for laptops, and with this deal they will not only get a good chunk of the server market in China but will also have a second company paying for the R&D...AMD is about to be in a VERY good place and their CEO should be commended for cutting such beneficial deals.
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Uhhh it was one of those little 4 foot above ground jobs, so I really don't think there was enough water there to keep him from frying his ass. Also remember the TV SET, a tube type no less, which I have zero doubt if one went in the other would too...those have capacitors with some pretty high voltages in it.
In the end it doesn't change the point, which was the dumbfuck in the link took a highly specialized pro vape mod that had some serious wattage and which required actual knowledge to use properly and promptly slapped a $20 gas station top on it and surprise surprise, he fucked himself up...duh. If played Russian Roulette with an automatic...would we blame the manufacturer? Same applies here.
Not to mention all reports so far put Zen at least 40% faster than their fastest Vishera chips, that puts it squarely in Ivy Bridge territory if not better which if they keep their prices close to what they are now? We're talking 8 cores/16 threads for less than $300, those are gonna sell like hotcakes.
As for TFA? Honestly I don't think its gonna help ARM much at all, and here is why...dark silicon. With phones and tablets being made so thin frankly your average ARM chip can't really even stretch their legs now because it would cause battery life to be measured in minutes and any power gains they get by going to the smaller process? The OEMs will just fuck them out of by making the devices thinner and the batteries smaller, hamstringing the chips yet again. We probably won't get to see what these chips can actually do until they start getting put in those "Android desktops" you see coming out of China and since those usually stay one or two chips behind? It'll probably be awhile.
Its a shame really, as I'm sure there are a lot of guys just like me that would be happy to tell the OEMs to stick their ultra thin designs in return for more battery and better heat dissipation so we could get the most of these quad and octocore ARM chips but as long as the OEMs are all trying to copy iCrap? Its just not gonna happen.
If a moron built his own 22 pistol and it blew up in his face....would you blame firearms?
Because that is EXACTLY what this fucknuts did, he bought a VERY expensive and VERY specialized MECHANICAL MOD. For those that do not know a "mech mod" is a very specialized piece of kit really only used by a handful that consider themselves "pro vapors" as it has NO protection or overload circuits, its just a battery and a trigger. this means you HAVE TO know Ohms law like the back of your hand, know the battery output down to the .0 wattage, I know guys that have been vaping a decade that won't touch mech mods because of how much time you have to invest in them to keep them from being seriously dangerous....can we ALL guess where this is going?
If you said "rich dipshit with more money than brains and who doesn't know Ohm's law from a seatbelt law buys a $300+ mech mod, throws a $20 gas station top on it and blows his dumbass up"? Then you win a cookie. I mean for fuck's sake guys, we've seen morons take a glock and promptly shoot themselves in the foot, hell I've even seen video of a future Darwin award winner that has a fucking 110v POWER STRIP floating on a donut in a pool to power a portable TV...do we blame these objects for the fucking idiots that don't know how to use them properly?
If you buy a normal vaping device, not some crazy mech mod or $5 Chinese special? Then you have absolutely ZERO to worry about as they all have overload and short circuit protection, hell I'm looking at a 40 watter right now I have to take to the local vape shop to get a seal replaced on because the rubber grommet got a teeny tiny bit worn down with all the tanks I've swapped on the thing and just that little bit of wear was enough for the unit to shut down with a "short circuit protection" error code. this is why I have ZERO worries about any of my units blowing up in my face, no matter what tank i throw on it as even the $30 basic box mods have automatic adjustment for ohms and will not allow the unit to fire if you put a top on that is too high or too low ohms for it to fire safely.
What we have in the article you cited is no different than a rich dipshit that buys a Kawasaki Ninja was his first bike and promptly fucks himself up or kills himself, he bought the vaping equivalent of a dragster without even knowing where the gas goes in the fucking thing.
Challenge accepted and please not that in pretty much every measure the PC is curbstomping the Mac on performance.
I'm telling ya its the drivers. If it came with Win 8? It'll run fine, if it came with Win 7, even if the hardware is a monster? Its a crapshoot and will often run like shit.
Like everything else in Win 10 driver compatibility is half baked and buggy as fuck, but since its using 8.1 as the base those drivers work.
BTW FWIW the boxes I used? All WELL beyond the minimums, one C2D, the rest were all quads, and all had 4GB of RAM and at least decent iGPUs, 2 of which had Geforce 210s. All ran like shit, most would never connect to a network. All work fine on Win 7-8.1.
ROFL guess what? Games run far worse on SteamOS than Windows so I guess their business model don't mean shit,huh?
It doesn't have anything to do with that (although IE/Edge DOES bite) but the fact that everybody ran those "ZOMFG FF is DYING y'all!" articles which I have zero doubt caused many to run it just because they don't like the idea of a webkit only world.
Informative? Really mods? I'm sorry to burst your bubble but on both OpenGL and Vulkan Linux loses to Windows. This makes sense as more than 95% of the budget on Linux is spent on server development and servers? Really don't have much of a need for 3D acceleration.
Wish it weren't so but you are throwing away a good chunk of your hardware performance if you choose Linux for gaming.
Yeah MSFT has been shitting the bed with regularity as of late, .NET, Silverlight,Playsforsure, if you use a "next gen" MSFT product in your business you are locking yourself into a dead end path that won't be supported for shit and will die sooner rather than later. Google has been doing the same with many of their products but at least with Google nobody was actually trying to build products using the Google services they shitcanned.
BTW am I the only one starting to smell the stench of death wafting from MSFT? From practically begging users to take their new OS for free (and failing spectacularly from the latest figures I saw) to killing the XB1 before it even came out by crippling it to shoehorn the Kinect and bragging about its DRM and its ability to do TV...the whole company just feels like a rudderless ship, just desperately throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks. I mean you got the XB1 being such a bomb they will probably never make a dime on the thing (as they have to keep cutting prices to keep from getting curbstomped by the PS4), you got Win 10 which looks like their third bomb in a row (and the begging and dirty tricks trying to push it just makes them look pathetic) and you have Google Docs and business services cutting into their bread and butter and Chromebooks eating their lunch in the classroom, their mobile division is DOA....is there ANY place where they are actually winning? Any place they are getting solid growth?
I'm predicting before win 7 hits EOL you'll see Nadella "pursuing other interests" ala Ballmer but the question will be...will anybody even care by then? Or will it just be that "legacy OS" you run your old programs on, just like XP is now running in the backroom of many places just running some old program...if they don't find something that actually gets their users to care I don't see good things in MSFT's future.
Sorry bullshit alert. I have several win 7 boxes at the shop (including one I intend to keep as my netbox) and not a single one will work with Windows 10 unless you consider a PC without Internet access to be "working".
The Vista machines? I have found to be even worse, you have to remember that Nforce boards were REAL popular during the Vista/ early Win 7 boxes and the reasons why are obvious...really decent iGPUs, one vendor to provide everything, not bad on power usage, and guess what will never ever run on windows 10? If you said Nforce boards Ethernet? You sir win a cookie. BTW the same is true of many of the older Realtek and Via networking chips as well, they work just fine in Win 7/8.1 but even if you attempt to use compatibility mode in Win 10? You are never gonna get Internet again on that system.
I have attempted the "free upgrade" on I don't know how many systems (so the user could take advantage of the free upgrade later if they so chose) and I learned something important when it comes to windows 10...if the system didn't come with Windows 8? Yeah its a fucking crapshoot at best, and a VERY large chunk of Vista/7 era wireless and wired networking will never ever in a million fucking years work with that OS, you are just wasting your time.
Just one more reason windows 10 is a piss poor OS, I don't know how many times I have laughed about being able to use older drivers without issue on newer versions of Windows, but just like every other damned thing they have done since windows mist8ke they apparently fucked that shit up as well...sigh. Is it too late to get the Ballmernator back?
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You obviously haven't been keeping up what is happening on the Libertarian front, like how the fiscal conservatives got ran out their party by the bible thumping neocons and the liberals are being run out of their party by the islam loving white hating SJWs so too is the Libertarians being taken over by the whack-a-doodles.
If you want to see what is going on in the Libertarian front? Go to YouTube and look up Stephen Molynut and his buddies, they get millions of views pushing this very fucked up weird mix of Libertarianism and...well cult like behavior on the level of Scientology, complete with the divorcing of families that don't follow their batshit ways.
As for TFA? Its Wendy's, nothing of value will be lost. Maybe they can invent some robots to eat the crap they serve and it'll come full circle.
According to my cop customers they would rather have 10 potheads rather than one drunk on the road for one simple reason...stoners tend to drive too slow and speed is what kills. I've gotten to hear what a single drunk can do on the road...it ain't pretty as they tend to fly low and with their slow reaction time? Its a bloodbath waiting to happen. The potheads? They tend to find them doing 35 in a 55 and are too paranoid about their driving to do any stunts or try to outrun the cops like the drunks will often do.
So if given the choice? I'd rather be a little late to an appointment because some pothead was driving slow than see some drunk weaving all over the road at 90 MPH + heading my way.
Informative? Really mods? you DO know they didn't start shoving that telemetry shit until AFTER Windows 10 flatlined, yes? And that its dead simple to remove the telemetry from Win 7/8/8.1 and can be done with a simple batch file, yes? And that with Windows 10 its impossible to get it to stop leaking data, that even the pirates have failed to be able to strip enough from that Bonzi Buddy of an OS to get it to STFU, you DO know this...yes?
As for the other poster who called this koolaid drinker I'm responding to a shill? Look at the posting history before throwing around shill, as this one is obviously just a raging fanboy, no different than that Appletard I ran into here that still swears that "Apples don't get viruses" because his definition of a virus is so fucking narrow that no malware written past 1992 would pass, or the FOSSie that swears Linux is growing on the desktop and then when you provide the latest desktop stats starts talking about routers....he has guzzled the koolaid, can't admit he's been buttfucked by spyware, so will furiously wave his little winflag until his wrists break.
The difference between a shill and a fanboy is a BIG fucking difference and why shill shouldn't be thrown around lightly, shills are professionals sent to signaljam communication channels with propaganda, fanboys are just flag wavers for certain products. if you have trouble spotting the difference? Go look up the articles from this site that were tearing into the Metro UI when Win 8 was first shat out and you'll find plenty of actual shill posts. For those that are too lazy shills 1.- Either have new accounts or old accounts that are ONLY used when a company they are shilling for has an article and the rest of the time are dormant, 2.- They stay on message in every post, no talk of anything other than the positives of brand X or the negatives of brand Y, 3.- They almost always tend to slip into "buzzword bingo" because middle management likes them to push the latest company horseshit so you see words and phrases nobody uses outside the boardroom like "vertical integration", "product synergy", and "positive user experience" so it ends up reading like a PPT.
Do those encrypt the folders and files from the user? UWP does so you are comparing apples and handcuffs.
With on average 64Mb of super slow SDRAM feeding that data to an on average 4200 RPM or if you were lucky a 5400 RPM HDD with no memory buffer? I find that awful hard to believe, especially since the Pi is using much faster DDR and NAND flash, not to mention the ARM is literally 4 times faster with much more advanced instruction sets compared to a Winchip or a Cyrix.
Frankly you find better systems in dumpsters than what they are talking about here, I mean they are talking the K6 and the winchip.
So I want to know...is there ANYBODY here that is actually running the latest Debian on a fricking Winchip? Or a Cyrix? C'mon guys lets get real, just because the last version could theoretically run doesn't mean just booting the damned thing wouldn't be like watching paint dry. Seriously guys the fastest chip I could find on that list is the 550Mhz K6-3, the rest are 266Mhz and below...is there anybody who wants to run the latest Debian on something that fricking slow? We're talking 66Mhz-100Mhz bus speeds here, a Raspberry Pi would smoke these things like an i7 and one of those $50 quad ARM Android boxes would be like a top fuel funny car compared to these things.
I'm all for saving older systems from the dump to help the environment but there comes a point where you just need to let it go, and I would say the Winchip and K6-3 are well past that point. You'd be better off replacing it with an ARM chip that would give you much higher IPC at a much much lower draw than any of these old things.
Yeah I miss old Twitter, now there was a truly world class troll of epicness!
I remember feeling so special when I was one of the few he chose for his "knock off" accounts, where he would try to come up with a knock off name and post trolls to try to "prove" the real person was a shill or troll. For McGrew there was McGrow, for me he had hairytoes, you weren't considered one of the top dogs at /. unless Twitter made a knock off of your account!
Now its all the same political puke, no talk about actual tech, no talk about real geeky stuff like CPUs or file systems, nope just the same little political flag waving horseshit that is no different than what you get on HuffyPo or Faux.
But its nice to hear someone enjoys them, thanks. I'm still just the same old big biker looking PC shop guy I've always been, a little more grey in the beard, a little rounder in the middle thanks to the wife's cooking, but otherwise just the same old hairy,still building boxes and pointing out dumb shit.
Insightful? Really mods? Let me asking you a simple question....which do you think is more expensive in the developing world, an 8GB USB stick or 4GB+ of bandwidth to download all the stuff they didn't include in the .ISO?
I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a 4GB drive in stores, even the bargain stores like Big Lots have 8Gb sticks now for under $5 so having a 2GB limit is really dumb.
I'd say a standard DVD should be the limit simply because 1.- USB sticks below 8GB are getting harder and harder to find and 2.- DVD burners have been pretty much standard issue for so long in desktops that they are pretty much ubiquitous.
Bullshit. I remember there being a time when you could have a 300 post discussion here when a new file system came out when everybody would be comparing and arguing the various pros and cons of the new file system when compared to what was already out, now?
"I'm for propaganda puppet liberal you republitard!" "Well I'm for propaganda puppet conservative so you must be stupid!" "You're both nigger faggots!"....THAT is about the intellectual level of discussion we get these days sadly.
Hell even our trolls were world class back then, anybody remember the FOSSie troll Twitter? Now THERE was a world class nutjob, why he could do a "six degrees" and link anything and everything on the planet to Bill Gates in under 5 moves!
Except that means exactly jack and shit thanks to trolls, there is even an article on Wikileaks called "confessions of a child pornographer" where he brags about using viruses to infect random guys that go to one of his legit porn sites and filling their PCs with CP and having them connect to known FBI honeypots because he thinks its funny to have the cops chasing their tails and figures the more time they waste going after his fakes the less time they have to go after his legitimate customers.
According to my buddy at the state crime lab the whole charade is just that, a bullshit waste of time, which is why he is trying to get transferred out. He says he can't even remember the last time they actually caught a predator online (those they catch when someone the scumbag molests comes forward) but instead all they ever catch is porn addicts which could easily be treated with a little therapy but instead they have to pretend they are dangerous because...well the prosecutor wants to get a shot at congress or the governors chair in a couple years.
So hundreds of millions are spent, the actual predators get to sit back and laugh about it because they keep their stash on an encrypted server in bumfuckistan and just access it via VPN, and you get to pay millions to keep some losers that haven't left their basements in years in solitary because they couldn't get it up anymore after watching a billion hours of porn without watching the sickest shit they could find, but hey, the prosecutor can say he's "tough on crime" and will get that shot at the big chair where he can clean up off the backroom deals....welcome to reality where its ALL politics..and then folks wonder why guys who take the job spend all of 6 months and then start looking for the exit.
There is also Comodo IceDragon which I've found is good for your social media types, with its "post to Facebook" integration and its SiteInspector malware scanner. You can remove either if you wish but I've found its a great drag and drop for social media users, just slap in ABP and call it a day.
As for Thunderbird? It doesn't "need" anything and that is the problem as far as Mozilla is concerned. Its a flatline market as the vast majority are using webmail now so there simply is no growth there. Its a mature product for an aging market (I've found the average age for my customers using a dedicated email client is late 40s to mid 50s) and as these customers die out its usage will slowly drop until there are nobody left. I'm sure the Tbird users will get mad at me but hey, I agree it sucks, but kids will be kids and they use webmail. Hell a lot of my early 20s customers don't even use fricking Webmail, its ALL done on fucking social media like Facebook. Is that super stupid? Yep but they give exactly zero shits about privacy and that is where their friends are so that is all they give a fuck about. They just live on that shit, if you've ever had to deal with one of their phones or tablets you know what I'm talking about, you unlock it and you are just assaulted with social media, its all tweets and status updates and I swear it feels like dealing with a PC infected with malware...and they LIKE that shit.
So as much as I think Tbird is a nice client I really do not see how anybody is gonna get more adopters for dedicated email, not with the way kids communicate today. All Tbird will probably need is a maintainer and with Moz bleeding to death from its own dumb moves they just don't have the dough to spare.
Quran 4:89: They (infidels) desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.
Quran 8:12: Instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers;
Quran 2:191: kill the disbelievers wherever we find them
Quran 22:19-22: for them (the unbelievers) garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods.
Quran 8:12: Your Lord inspired the angels with the message: I will terrorize the unbelievers. Therefore smite them on their necks and every joint and incapacitate them. Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes.
Quran 8:7: Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: Wipe the infidels out to the last.
Quran 8:59: The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them. They are your enemy and Allah's enemy.
Quran 8:60: Prepare against them whatever arms and cavalry you can muster that you may strike terror in the enemies of Allah, and others besides them not known to you.
Quran 9.29 Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
Quran 47:4: Strike off the heads of the disbelievers and, after making a wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives.
Sorry but it sounds like they are following their book quite closely. Oh and before some SJWs pull the bullshit "Christians have bad passages in their books too" strawman? Yeah the Brussels attacks killed more than Christian extremists have killed in the west in THIRTY YEARS. One single attack racked up a bigger bodycount than jesus freaks could get in 30 years. the simple fact of the matter is the other religions? Grew the fuck up, Islam didn't. When was the last time you saw a stoning outside a Jewish temple? Seen any thieves hands chopped off outside your local baptists church?
You are taking a culture that is living like its 1216 and trying to accept them into 2016 and its never gonna work, all you will get is more terror attacks. Oh and don't bother with the tired "the majority is peaceful" because a silent majority DOES NOT MATTER. The Germans were mostly peaceful, the NSDAP killed 60 million plus. The majority of Russians are really nice, the USSR still racked up nearly 100 million dead. North Korea, Cambodia, we have literally thousands of years of history showing that the majority DOES NOT MATTER if they are not willing to put their asses on the line and actively turn on a dangerous minority.
When was the last time you saw a Muslim community calling for a Mosque to be closed for calling for jihad? the last time you saw a Muslim community call for a Mullah to be arrested for inciting viol,ence? I rest my case.
LOL if announcing they have 1.5 BILLION in SoCs already called for in the game console market (which just FYI gives them a complete monopoly, as Sony,MSFT and Nintendo will ALL be running AMD APUs exclusively) along with a new deal that will most likely give them a big fat chunk of the growing Chinese server market, not to mention all the critics singing the praises of the new Fury GPUs...if THAT is "failing"? Can I have some of what you are smoking?
Hell having a lock on the console market alone will pretty much hand them the PC gaming market (as every console port will already be optimized for their chips), their new APUs are already VERY attractive price wise and Zen is reported to be at least 40% faster than the fastest current chips in their line up which will make them attractive for laptops, and with this deal they will not only get a good chunk of the server market in China but will also have a second company paying for the R&D...AMD is about to be in a VERY good place and their CEO should be commended for cutting such beneficial deals.