Are you refuting that HTML V5 drains battery, runs slow and eats up precious RAM on the phones that support it? FTFY
And on the desktop frankly HTML V5 is WAY worse than flash, i have a 1.8GHz Sempron I use as a nettop here at the shop and I can watch SD flash all day no problem, while HTML V5 is a slideshow and completely unwatchable.
Whether you wish to accept it or not HTML V5 isn't a "magic bullet" and things like video, web animations, and interactive content are frankly gonna suck RAM I don't give a damned WHAT format you use. Oh and let us not forget that for many jobs such as animations frankly HTML V5 doesn't have anything that qualifies as more than beta software, it also requires much more work to do the same things that would be trivial in flash.
Personally I wish they'd BOTH die, as while its obvious that thanks to the will of Jobs flash on mobile won't be going anywhere frankly HTML has been stretched and twisted so far beyond what it was originally designed to do it ain't even funny. what we need is a new format, designed from the ground up to be light, both on size and bandwidth, to be easily secured, and that is TRULY open, no relying on patented up the ass formats like H.26x to watch videos.
sadly what we'll get instead is most likely a DRMed up the butt format based around H.265 that will kill any competition for the big three and will probably have a nice dose of planned obsolescence as well. want to play the latest content? Sorry but your iPad 6 doesn't support superduper (TM) protected path, time to buy a new one! Ugh, the next couple of years are gonna be a mess, i just know it.
Because the ONLY browser that actually works is Safari, therefor still in the walled garden? Apple has always been about hardware and lock in, the appstore is a nice extra cash cow but still nothing compared to their hardware business.
so as long as it gives Apple control of the platform, and with Android and IE lagging so far behind HTML V5 does give Apple more control, then there is no reason why they wouldn't support it. on the other hand flash allowed people to bypass Apple completely and that same app that ran in flash on iOS would run on Windows and even linux, not good for Apple lock in.
The problems with your argument are thus: PCs passed good enough and went into insanely overpowered for most consumers over a half a decade ago, and with a recession nobody is gonna go out and replace functioning units unless they have to, and finally MSFT has been charging ass raping prices with regards to upgrade versions of Windows so it isn't as simple as you make it out to be.
If MSFT would have kept the Win 7 HP for $50, Pro and Family Pack for $100 deal? I'd be right there with ya pal. I have personally put Win 7 HP on a 1.8GHz Sempron with a gig and a half of RAM and it ran great so it isn't like you need new hardware, but at over $100 a pop for the Win 7 HP upgrade and $140 a pop for Win 7 pro its just too damned high.
so while i've been switching my XP customers to Comodo Dragon like the rest i can understand why so many are still on XP, MSFT is pricing the upgrades too high (probably to appease their OEM partners) and with money tight even many businesses are not getting rid of hardware until it dies. while XP usage is indeed dropping frankly I wouldn't be surprised to see XP still at 20% or better when MSFT pulls the plug in Apr 2014, I know that Sempron I tried Win 7 on will be running XP simply because I can't justify spending a hundred bucks plus for a Win 7 Home license for it.
Uhhh...that is because it wasn't an Adobe product then, it was Macromedia flash. Macromedia could actually make non bloated programs, i have a customer that is just now switching to Corel from Macromedia XRes because of how well that program handled even large pictures without sucking down memory like a drunk at a free bar.
Expecting Adobe not to be bloaty is like bitching because Symantec turned Norton into a beached whale of crap, some companies just can't do thin and light and Adobe is one of them. I fear what will come next as I truly think MPEG-LA is gonna cook up a DRM-paloza with H.265 but I'll be the first to admit flash was bloaty.
But to be fair? I can play flash SD videos without skipping on the 1.8GHz Sempron I use as a nettop here at the shop, and its only got an Nvidia Vanta GPU so its not GPU acceleration that allows it to play. Ever try HTML V5 on anything less than a multicore? its a slideshow, completely worthless. of course i don't think the switch had a damned thing to do with bloat and instead was Jobs making damned sure the only apps that would run on iOS came through the appstore, but whatever.
I just love how everyone just takes Jobs at his word when anyone with half a brain knew what the whole flash thing was REALLY about...control. With flash you can bypass the appstore which is something Jobs sure as hell wasn't gonna tolerate. The simple fact is trying to build the same things you can in flash in HTML V5 is a royal PITA if it'll even work at all and more importantly it makes it easy for publishers to simply use the appstore thus making sure Apple gets their cut.
While I never was a big fan of Apple I have to give Jobs credit, the man really could sell bullshit as truth. if MSFT would have pulled the same stunt there would have been pitchforks but Steve with his RDF was able to sell it to the masses almost without question and I find that fascinating.
Final verdict? When flash is dead web video will be locked down with H.265 DRM and it'll be the big three splitting the pie, Apple, Google who will have to lock down Android to have support for the DRM but since they made sure not to allow any GPL V3 into Android won't be a problem, and MSFT. I never thought I would see the day that FOSS guys would be cheering their own execution but hey, shit happens. Hope you like not having web video in FOSS, but if you think MPEG-LA is gonna play nice? I have some magic beans you might be interested in.
Uhhh...sorry about what happened to you but if you never bothered to call the cops once you were away from him? Then i'm sorry but that shouldn't be treated as a crime because you've turned it into a he said/she said and let any evidence there was a crime be destroyed.
I'm sorry but for every actual rape out there there have been probably three where a woman tried to use that as a way to punish a man for some perceived wrong, from cheating to divorce and YOU KNOW THIS which is why we don't just take any woman's word for it weeks after the fact, we need evidence. Not only did she NOT call the police when she was away from him, not only did she buy him breakfast, she continued to sleep with him no less than 4 more times after that!
So I'd have to say if ANY woman considers that or actually DATING THEIR RAPIST as appropriate behavior? Well then they need to be in therapy. But I have a pretty hard time expecting a guy to know that she was unhappy much less that she thought it was rape when she brings him breakfast and hops right back into bed with him. I would also hope you noted that NONE OF THIS HAPPENED until the women found out about each other weeks later. If I was on the jury i'd automatically think both thought they had a relationship with him and when they found out he was sleeping around decided to punish him.
Uhhh...I wasn't talking about MSFT friends, I was talking about RIM. if you want me to talk about MSFT fine, Jobs hit it on the head years ago, they have NO taste at all, none. they should have hired some world class designers and then left them alone to cook up truly great products but instead just put out fugly products or worse, in the case of Zune and Kin bought someone else's fugly products and stuck a MSFT label on them.
The problem with MSFT is Ballmer is a truly piss poor CEO who refuses to listen to anybody else and who has run off all the old guard that knew WTF they were doing like Ozzie and Allchin. What he SHOULD have done is actually gone back in the companies history and used their previous strategy, which is having a workstation OS for businesses while having a more bling bling flashy OS for the consumers. Then they should have spun off the mobile division so they wouldn't be forced to constantly try to tie into the legacy Windows and office brands and instead been able to focus solely on a "it just works" mantra of making all of their properties, Windows, X360, mobile, Skype, have it all work as seamless as possible.
So I wasn't talking about MSFT, who are suffering from a shitty CEO who has a serious case of the "me too!" copycat syndrome, but of RIM who never bothered to really try to expand beyond their core business user market and are now paying the price.
Yep, you replaced a program that the owner didn't mind if you made a FOSS version with one controlled by patent trolls and which is in bed with MSFT and Apple, two companies with a LONG history of locking down and not playing nice...congrats.
Mark my words FOSS lovers, you are gonna look back one day soon and go "WTF was we thinking?" because MPEG-LA will end up royally fucking you over. H.265 is coming and guess what? To replace platforms like Flash and Silverlight its gonna be a DRM delight and YOU won't be able to play the content. Nobody is gonna make FOSS DRM and with Apple and MSFT behind H.26x you're gonna get royally buttfucked. Adobe never said boo, let you bundle flash with any distro royalty free, even left the Gnash guys alone, you think MPEG-LA is gonna be that nice? BWA HA HA HA HA, they are patent trolls!
So congrats to the whiners that have wanted flash to die because the Linux version was buggy, just remember when web video becomes as locked down as the iPhone whose fault it is, which would be YOU! You should have refused to abandon flash until a FOSS codec like WebM or Theora was chosen as the minimum for HTML V5 but you didn't, instead you are gonna hand the entire web over to Apple, MSFT, and Google who will end up locking down Android so they can play H.265. After all they can afford to pay the $699 license fee, you can't. Boy did y'all get scammed!
Actually the reason RIM is gonna end up toast is the same reason we have seen tons of other companies go from being the big cheese to just another small fry, hell its the same reason we are seeing MSFT throw the Hail Mary of the century with Win 8 in Oct, and that is they didn't see the disruptive shift in the market coming and instead of innovating they sat on their laurels.
There is no reason that Blackberry couldn't have branched out, they could have had sleek elite lines like Apple and entry lines like Android, but like many corps they got fat and sat on their asses and the world passed them by. Seriously how many times have we seen this play out? RIM, Palm, the above mentioned MSFT, Nokia, these corps become the king of their respective hills and instead of staying hungry and growing they plop down and just count the money...right up to the point the Mac truck that is the changing tech scene runs their asses smooth over.
if you want to sit on your ass? tech is NOT the market you want to be in. just look at how much things have changed in the last decade, the end of the MHZ wars and the rise of multicores in the PC market, the death of the dumbphone for smartphones, netbooks and tablets appearing out of thin air, if you try to set on your ass in the tech world somebody will come along and kick you right in the ass, simple as that. RIM had a sweet thing going with business users but instead of doing the smart thing which would have been branching out into new markets, developing new exciting designs, and trying to stay ahead of the curve, they basically pulled a Palm and just rehashed what they had. Bad move RIM and now it looks like you're toast.
Well we DO seem to have extinction level events, several of which are believed to be asteroids, and there is Apophis which may come close enough in 2029 to get pulled in for a hit in 2036. And that is what we know about, no telling what we don't.
Now am I saying the odds or good, or even better than hitting the powerball? nope, but it doesn't hurt to know more about what is out there and frankly space science has been so damned gutted the past few years if we can get some new birds up there scanning the skies by saying "ZOMFG we may need Bruce Willis and a crazy Russian ZOMFG!" then frankly I'm for it. Just imagine what we'll learn about what is out there even if it isn't gonna hit us? We may find asteroids that are good sources of raw materials, hell with space exploration frankly you'll never know what you are gonna find until you do it.
So sign me up, seems a better use of money than pissing another trillion down the drain blowing some country up so we can hand out no bid contracts just to rebuild it again.
There is an easy exercise you can use to show folks why metro is gonna blow friend, just do this: Imagine trying to create in Photoshop with a Metro UI, or Solidworks, or Quickbooks, or Audacity, or Vegas, hell even MSFT isn't gonna use Metro for Office, why? because for creation and editing metro SUCKS, that's why.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Metro is a tweeting twitting FB shitting cellphone OS. that is fine if all you want to do is tweet twits and FB shit, but honestly, how many hours of the day do YOU spend doing that kind of cell phone style social crap on a desktop?
Thank you, feel free to use it anywhere and everywhere they talk about that damned cell phone wannabe OS.
What REALLY pisses me off is, if people REALLY wanted their desktop to be a tweeting twitting FB shitting cell phone they already have gadgets for that in Windows 7. With desktop gadgets you can have social media coming out your ass, every tweeting twit, every irritating Farmville addict you know bugging the piss out of you? it can ALL BE YOURS right now this minute in win 7 but guess what? People aren't downloading those things because its a giant DO NOT WANT.
let me leave you with frankly the most insightful thing i have heard about Metro, which came from of all people a LOL named Mrs Pipkin that was visiting the shop while her daughter picked out a new desktop. she said "Why that's a nice looking cell phone picture, is that Android? i heard that's quite nice...what do you mean Windows? Windows What? Why that's just stupid! Why would I want a cell phone on my computer?" and out of that sweet little old lady's mouth came purest truth, WTF would you want a cell phone on your computer for?.
Yeah but you see, here's the thing...we're weirdos. We really are, we have about as much in common with the common user as we do with a three headed monkey martian.
You see working in the shop all day really lets me get in the trenches with the common folks so I can see how THEY do things and you know what? i'd say about 75% of them don't even use tabs at all. i know right? But its true, i have sat there and watched as they simply go to site A followed by site B followed by site C and if they want to look at something again they use the back button. hell most of them use yahoo mail and don't even know that search box at the top will let them search the web, I swear you do not know how many times I've seen them leave yahoo mail just to go to Google to search, and when i show them they can search from yahoo mail they are always like "Wow, you can do that? i thought that just searched the mail"/facepalm/
So believe me, while i know that someone like say YOU or ME can slam a chip, hell the reason I built this hexa instead of just keeping my quad was that i like to do A/V editing and transcoding and that can slam a CPU and with the hexa i can split off 4 cores to do the job while still leaving 2 cores for gaming or whatever i want to do that sadly is NOT what the majority do. the majority are frankly my dad to the core, they have an IM window open, they use one browser window at a time, they go to FB, they watch Youtube. Hell its taken me three damn years to get my dad to understand he doesn't have to open a new browser window just to get a new webpage for the love of Pete.
While there will ALWAYS be a niche that needs moar power, be it guys that have 50 tabs open, gamers, guys running heavy programs like Solidworks or Photoshop, most folks simply aren't like that and for those folks frankly PCs passed good enough when we went dual core and into insanely overpowered when cheap quads hit the market. And while I agree frankly web pages suck ass now (go to web.archive.org sometime and see what the web SHOULD be, many of those late 90s sites were slim as hell while having great navigation and plenty of content) the reason people can surf these sites now even on a shitty tablet is they really don't look at more than one thing at a time, they just don't.
This is why the late George Carlin was right, Language matters and we ALL must be on our guard to keep those that want to warp and twist us from using language to take away our ability to fight back with reason.
Its like how they changed "bible in the classroom" into intelligent design, shell shock into post traumatic stress disorder (which still sounds like PMS more than battlefield trauma to me) or how they took an easy to understand word like rapist and replaced it with sex offender which frankly can mean just about any damned thing just depending on the state you are in.
That is why you are right and we have to point out these "weasel words" as i call them, because they are nothing more than attempts to twist language to make an issue harder to understand or harder to argue against.
And let me finish by saying thank whatever deity you believe in for home schooling, because I have met some of the kids my oldest would have graduated with if he and his brother wouldn't have been taken out of school by us and....damn, these kids are lucky if they can count their damned change while my oldest is on the dean's list and kicking ass through pre-med.
Uhhh...one of them went out and bought him breakfast while his ass slept the sleep of the well fucked in her bed. Sorry for my being crude folks but think about that JUST for a second, will ya? Your RAPIST is sleeping soundly in YOUR BED and you....buy him breakfast?
I'm sorry but I am smelling big heaping loads of bullshit. He royally pissed off someone in those leaks, and now they are gonna do whatever they have to to make sure his ass gets hung out to dry. all these saying "Well nobody is gonna use Wikileaks anyway herp derp" seem to be missing the fucking point which is HE IS TO BE AN EXAMPLE to make damned sure nobody else has the balls to stand up to those that sit on the thrones of power. Frankly I'm surprised he hasn't "had a car accident" and probably the only reason he hasn't is someone is pissed enough they don't just want him gone, they want to make sure nobody is stupid enough to ever publish jack shit they don't want published again.
Ya know, maybe someone that has kept up with the Ubuntu forums can explain that to me, because i just don't get it. I mean every damned thing I see nowadays is widescreen, so why put the fricking bar vertical? Now don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against dock style launchers, in fact on all my Windows machines i have Rocketdock set to autohide at the bottom of my desktop with about 15 programs and folders so I DO get docks, i just don't get WTF they were thinking by making it ONLY vertical.
Actually if you'll look closer at that list PlusFiveTroll you'll see that includes ALL versions, both Home AND Pro. they changed giving separate support dates after the living shitfit they got when they tried to extend WinXP Pro and leave support for Home the same so now all versions get an equal amount of support.
so that is 2014 for all version of XP, 2017 for all versions of Vista, and 2020 for all versions of Win 7. Hopefully by the time 2020 has rolled around either Ballmer and Sinofsky will be fired and they can bring in someone like Allchin or Ozzie back to right the ship, or the corps will get tired of their bullshit and throw support behind something like reactOS. I would have said that would never happen but now that Valve is gonna have a Steambox, who knows? A DX11 capable OS without MSFT trying to push an agenda I'm sure would be most welcome at most corps and I know many users that would be happy if "innovation" on the GUI stopped with Win 7 and instead of Metro BS they would instead concentrate on simply making 7 even faster.
Well part of your problem is the browsers friend, safari bites, Chrome has too much phone home crap, and FF is a memory piggy. If you want to keep gecko I'd suggest replacing it with Pale Moon which is optimized for more current CPUs such as yours, Chrome should be replaced with Comodo Dragon and for webkit I'd go with QTWeb which has built in ABP, but on the first two first thing I'd do is install ABP, as i bet half your problem is those damned bloated ass web ads slowing you down.
Because I can tell you that with that ancient Sempron I can get up to 14 or 15 tabs in Dragon or QTWeb without any real dragging, around 9 for Pale Moon, whereas FF would start sucking at barely 6. On my home machine which i'm on now, which is an AMD Phenom II X6 with 8Gb of RAM frankly I can pile on the tabs for as long as i want in Dragon or QTWeb, again without any real stutter or jerking.
You just have to remember you can take the fastest machine on the planet and pile on those damned blinking flashing web ads and make it feel like a 486 running Win98, the code they use for those things are just bloated as hell. Not to mention I can tell you that infected ads are probably the number 2 source of infected PCs, just under the "ZOMFG U got teh viruz! Quick run this Security tool to clean it ZOMFG!" infections.
That is why I don't even bother with laptops, instead I tell them if it is out of warranty i'll help them secure a new or refurb at the lowest price and convert their old HDD into a USB drive so they not only don't lose their stuff but afterwards have a nice portable backup system.
sadly though most laptops are just designed for the dump. I have a nice Athlon MSI Wind sitting in my closet now I need to see if my engineering buddy can fix, a relative rocked on the power cord and managed to short the power jack. I just don't have the hands for working with solder or replacing caps and while I'd love to have another netbook if my buddy can't fix it? you're right its just not worth the effort, not when i can get an Atom dual for $160.
From what I understand they can't dump you for pre-existing conditions but they CAN use all the classic loopholes that they have before. Watch "Sicko" sometime and see how many damned ways insurance companies have come up with not paying out, frankly it'll shock you. they make sure there is so damned much fine print and weasel wording in their policies that unless you are a lawyer good damned luck figuring out WTF constitutes non compliance.
And as another pointed out the tax is actually MUCH lower than what the insurance companies charge, especially if you have been ill or had any real medical problems in the past decade so unless you are getting it from your employer (which more and more employers are dropping health benefits precisely because of the ever rising costs) then you are better off paying the tax.
They can waste points and mod me down but I'll say it again, Obama is a shitty POTUS and needs to go. if he would have actually stood up, demanded a single payer option along with caps on big pharma price gouging like many in the EU enjoy? I would be ALL FOR THIS and would be championing it everywhere, but he didn't. he waffled, caved, and outright lied to us (remember how he said ALL the negotiations would be transparent and then had them behind closed doors?) so ultimately the big insurance and pharma will make out like bandits, healthy people will pay the tax, nothing changes except more of your money will end up with big pharma and insurance without your say.
Shit, mod the parent up to 11, because if I was to pin every damned thing to the taskbar? I'd need a 70 inch screen bare minimum. Not only do i use the pics and docs folders in the start menu, i have a half a dozen programs pinned there that I use often, including 2 Popsel buttons which are like the best thing evar. With the popsels i have a red&black A/V icon along with a blue and yellow util which when i click on them gives me ALL my audio video programs and utilities, man if i had to pin those? Hell I even have all my share drives under the util popsel.
So I don't know where they get their info from, maybe the old folks home, but I have a grand total of 5 icons in my taskbar and two of those are defaults, the Explorer and WMP, the other 3 are two browsers and a burner. And I can tell you from working all day with average folks that the taskbar? don't get used at all, in fact many don't even have it on in Win 7, they just dump every damned thing onto the desktop, icons, folders, you name it it ALL goes on the desktop. I swear i've seen some of them where you can't even see the backgrounds for the amount of shit they pile on the desktop.But even those folks when they want to find something hit the start and go to all programs, so i just don't see what users supposedly aren't ever using start.
Personally i think its that old saying about lies and statistics because MSFT don't have the balls to just come out and say "Look we just wanna sell cell phones okay? We are gonna give you a shitty cell phone OS so we can trick devs into working on the WinPhone, so here ya go, its the supergigantic smartphone that you don't want and we don't care, because dammit we just want to be Apple!" although frankly I'd have more respect for them if they did just be honest.
Not to mention in the end it all comes down to control, and without caps on big pharma and big insurance they are gonna make out like Gods. want proof? then next time you have a chance to speak to a politician make this "modest proposal".
"I will offer you an ironclad contract that if I get ANY illness that can be directly tied to my lifestyle I will ONLY get morphine for treatment, which is cheap, and in return you drop your control taxes on me completely, such as your sin taxes and insurance taxes, deal?"
Watch how quick they hem and haw and try to get the fuck away from you because THEY KNOW it doesn't have a damned thing to do with healthcare or costs, it has to do with CONTROL, they believe they are smarter than you, you filthy dirty peasant, and their friends in big pharma and big insurance deserve your money more than you do. so I urge everyone to speak with your senator or congressman when they come around and make this modest proposal. Have someone film it with their cell phone and post it to the web. because i bet you won't get a single straight answer, just BS and walking away because they simply have NO answer beyond they need to control you and give your money to their "friends" big pharma and big insurance.
Well to be fair I had a great place to learn, as not only was Doug married but I was the only single guy in a popular regional college band so I usually ended up with plenty of females to talk to. That can be a curse as well as a blessing, as the band wives knew i would NEVER disrespect anybody's marriage by hitting on a married woman so guess who usually ended up stuck in the second van with the wives? It did give me some valuable lessons, such as when a group of women have their cycles sync up the best thing to do is say they ALWAYS look pretty and have plenty of chocolate on hand;-)
But even now barely a month after me and my last one broke up I've had three acting flirty with me at the shop, two of which keep coming up with excuses to call or come by to ask me questions, as well as a couple online that are being flirty by email. I make it clear to my customers I don't mind answering questions by email so i get a lot of "Hey I'm so and so's (insert sister, cousin, BFF) and would you mind talking me through this? I'm stuck" and since i again make sure they know "Hey don't feel bad, these things just go wonky sometimes" I always end up with "BTW what does your (insert wife, GF) think of you talking to strange girls?" and when i tell them I recently broke up with my GF here comes the flirty emails.
what can I say, maybe i'm just too damned sexy. of course every time I say that my youngest squirts whatever he is drinking out his nose and then has to ROFL until he is choking for air, but what does he know?;-)
Dude WTF browser are you using? I always eat my own dog food so I use the same that i give my customers which is Comodo Dragon with adblock plus and frankly I have NO PROBLEM surfing here at the shop on this 1.8GHz Sempron from 2004, the only change I did to it was max it out to 2Gb of RAM and even then it was only because i got a dead box with a spare stick in it, it was surfing just fine on the 1.25Gb it came with. I even watch SD video on it but with only an old Nvidia vanta card it naturally can't do HD, one of these days i'll have to decide between that Geforce 7600GS and the Radeon X1950 I have sitting in a box in the back and upgrade the GPU but frankly i'm not in a hurry.
So maybe its just your browser or OS friend, as i still sell refurbed P4s and for the things folks want to do, IM, FB, YouTube SD video, they work just fine with the dragon and ABP. Because I can tell you that most of the people I've sold multicores to really aren't stressing anything, in fact the only customer I have actually had to upgrade after selling a multicore to was a customer than bought a Phenom I triple that is an ex NASA engineer and got into using Solidworks, which once I upgraded his GPU to something that Solidworks would offload to (A Radeon HD4670 I believe, got it on one of the sales for something like $30) his Phenom I has been purring like a kitten.
Of course i wouldn't wish IE or ANY browser without ABP onto my worst enemy, so maybe that is your problem. But looking at the CPU meter typing this while playing an SD video in the background I'm only hitting around 65% CPU on the Sempron, which if that ancient chip can do it ANY chip can. One of these days I'm really gonna have to sit down and decide if I want to spend the $20 to upgrade it to an Athlon mobile or just change out the box for that Athlon X2 I have in the closet, but if it ain't broke, why fix it?
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Are you refuting that HTML V5 drains battery, runs slow and eats up precious RAM on the phones that support it? FTFY
And on the desktop frankly HTML V5 is WAY worse than flash, i have a 1.8GHz Sempron I use as a nettop here at the shop and I can watch SD flash all day no problem, while HTML V5 is a slideshow and completely unwatchable.
Whether you wish to accept it or not HTML V5 isn't a "magic bullet" and things like video, web animations, and interactive content are frankly gonna suck RAM I don't give a damned WHAT format you use. Oh and let us not forget that for many jobs such as animations frankly HTML V5 doesn't have anything that qualifies as more than beta software, it also requires much more work to do the same things that would be trivial in flash.
Personally I wish they'd BOTH die, as while its obvious that thanks to the will of Jobs flash on mobile won't be going anywhere frankly HTML has been stretched and twisted so far beyond what it was originally designed to do it ain't even funny. what we need is a new format, designed from the ground up to be light, both on size and bandwidth, to be easily secured, and that is TRULY open, no relying on patented up the ass formats like H.26x to watch videos.
sadly what we'll get instead is most likely a DRMed up the butt format based around H.265 that will kill any competition for the big three and will probably have a nice dose of planned obsolescence as well. want to play the latest content? Sorry but your iPad 6 doesn't support superduper (TM) protected path, time to buy a new one! Ugh, the next couple of years are gonna be a mess, i just know it.
Because the ONLY browser that actually works is Safari, therefor still in the walled garden? Apple has always been about hardware and lock in, the appstore is a nice extra cash cow but still nothing compared to their hardware business.
so as long as it gives Apple control of the platform, and with Android and IE lagging so far behind HTML V5 does give Apple more control, then there is no reason why they wouldn't support it. on the other hand flash allowed people to bypass Apple completely and that same app that ran in flash on iOS would run on Windows and even linux, not good for Apple lock in.
The problems with your argument are thus: PCs passed good enough and went into insanely overpowered for most consumers over a half a decade ago, and with a recession nobody is gonna go out and replace functioning units unless they have to, and finally MSFT has been charging ass raping prices with regards to upgrade versions of Windows so it isn't as simple as you make it out to be.
If MSFT would have kept the Win 7 HP for $50, Pro and Family Pack for $100 deal? I'd be right there with ya pal. I have personally put Win 7 HP on a 1.8GHz Sempron with a gig and a half of RAM and it ran great so it isn't like you need new hardware, but at over $100 a pop for the Win 7 HP upgrade and $140 a pop for Win 7 pro its just too damned high.
so while i've been switching my XP customers to Comodo Dragon like the rest i can understand why so many are still on XP, MSFT is pricing the upgrades too high (probably to appease their OEM partners) and with money tight even many businesses are not getting rid of hardware until it dies. while XP usage is indeed dropping frankly I wouldn't be surprised to see XP still at 20% or better when MSFT pulls the plug in Apr 2014, I know that Sempron I tried Win 7 on will be running XP simply because I can't justify spending a hundred bucks plus for a Win 7 Home license for it.
Uhhh...that is because it wasn't an Adobe product then, it was Macromedia flash. Macromedia could actually make non bloated programs, i have a customer that is just now switching to Corel from Macromedia XRes because of how well that program handled even large pictures without sucking down memory like a drunk at a free bar.
Expecting Adobe not to be bloaty is like bitching because Symantec turned Norton into a beached whale of crap, some companies just can't do thin and light and Adobe is one of them. I fear what will come next as I truly think MPEG-LA is gonna cook up a DRM-paloza with H.265 but I'll be the first to admit flash was bloaty.
But to be fair? I can play flash SD videos without skipping on the 1.8GHz Sempron I use as a nettop here at the shop, and its only got an Nvidia Vanta GPU so its not GPU acceleration that allows it to play. Ever try HTML V5 on anything less than a multicore? its a slideshow, completely worthless. of course i don't think the switch had a damned thing to do with bloat and instead was Jobs making damned sure the only apps that would run on iOS came through the appstore, but whatever.
It is when you are looking at mobile caps and ass raping per Mb charges friend.
I just love how everyone just takes Jobs at his word when anyone with half a brain knew what the whole flash thing was REALLY about...control. With flash you can bypass the appstore which is something Jobs sure as hell wasn't gonna tolerate. The simple fact is trying to build the same things you can in flash in HTML V5 is a royal PITA if it'll even work at all and more importantly it makes it easy for publishers to simply use the appstore thus making sure Apple gets their cut.
While I never was a big fan of Apple I have to give Jobs credit, the man really could sell bullshit as truth. if MSFT would have pulled the same stunt there would have been pitchforks but Steve with his RDF was able to sell it to the masses almost without question and I find that fascinating.
Final verdict? When flash is dead web video will be locked down with H.265 DRM and it'll be the big three splitting the pie, Apple, Google who will have to lock down Android to have support for the DRM but since they made sure not to allow any GPL V3 into Android won't be a problem, and MSFT. I never thought I would see the day that FOSS guys would be cheering their own execution but hey, shit happens. Hope you like not having web video in FOSS, but if you think MPEG-LA is gonna play nice? I have some magic beans you might be interested in.
Uhhh...sorry about what happened to you but if you never bothered to call the cops once you were away from him? Then i'm sorry but that shouldn't be treated as a crime because you've turned it into a he said/she said and let any evidence there was a crime be destroyed.
I'm sorry but for every actual rape out there there have been probably three where a woman tried to use that as a way to punish a man for some perceived wrong, from cheating to divorce and YOU KNOW THIS which is why we don't just take any woman's word for it weeks after the fact, we need evidence. Not only did she NOT call the police when she was away from him, not only did she buy him breakfast, she continued to sleep with him no less than 4 more times after that!
So I'd have to say if ANY woman considers that or actually DATING THEIR RAPIST as appropriate behavior? Well then they need to be in therapy. But I have a pretty hard time expecting a guy to know that she was unhappy much less that she thought it was rape when she brings him breakfast and hops right back into bed with him. I would also hope you noted that NONE OF THIS HAPPENED until the women found out about each other weeks later. If I was on the jury i'd automatically think both thought they had a relationship with him and when they found out he was sleeping around decided to punish him.
Uhhh...I wasn't talking about MSFT friends, I was talking about RIM. if you want me to talk about MSFT fine, Jobs hit it on the head years ago, they have NO taste at all, none. they should have hired some world class designers and then left them alone to cook up truly great products but instead just put out fugly products or worse, in the case of Zune and Kin bought someone else's fugly products and stuck a MSFT label on them.
The problem with MSFT is Ballmer is a truly piss poor CEO who refuses to listen to anybody else and who has run off all the old guard that knew WTF they were doing like Ozzie and Allchin. What he SHOULD have done is actually gone back in the companies history and used their previous strategy, which is having a workstation OS for businesses while having a more bling bling flashy OS for the consumers. Then they should have spun off the mobile division so they wouldn't be forced to constantly try to tie into the legacy Windows and office brands and instead been able to focus solely on a "it just works" mantra of making all of their properties, Windows, X360, mobile, Skype, have it all work as seamless as possible.
So I wasn't talking about MSFT, who are suffering from a shitty CEO who has a serious case of the "me too!" copycat syndrome, but of RIM who never bothered to really try to expand beyond their core business user market and are now paying the price.
Yep, you replaced a program that the owner didn't mind if you made a FOSS version with one controlled by patent trolls and which is in bed with MSFT and Apple, two companies with a LONG history of locking down and not playing nice...congrats.
Mark my words FOSS lovers, you are gonna look back one day soon and go "WTF was we thinking?" because MPEG-LA will end up royally fucking you over. H.265 is coming and guess what? To replace platforms like Flash and Silverlight its gonna be a DRM delight and YOU won't be able to play the content. Nobody is gonna make FOSS DRM and with Apple and MSFT behind H.26x you're gonna get royally buttfucked. Adobe never said boo, let you bundle flash with any distro royalty free, even left the Gnash guys alone, you think MPEG-LA is gonna be that nice? BWA HA HA HA HA, they are patent trolls!
So congrats to the whiners that have wanted flash to die because the Linux version was buggy, just remember when web video becomes as locked down as the iPhone whose fault it is, which would be YOU! You should have refused to abandon flash until a FOSS codec like WebM or Theora was chosen as the minimum for HTML V5 but you didn't, instead you are gonna hand the entire web over to Apple, MSFT, and Google who will end up locking down Android so they can play H.265. After all they can afford to pay the $699 license fee, you can't. Boy did y'all get scammed!
Actually the reason RIM is gonna end up toast is the same reason we have seen tons of other companies go from being the big cheese to just another small fry, hell its the same reason we are seeing MSFT throw the Hail Mary of the century with Win 8 in Oct, and that is they didn't see the disruptive shift in the market coming and instead of innovating they sat on their laurels.
There is no reason that Blackberry couldn't have branched out, they could have had sleek elite lines like Apple and entry lines like Android, but like many corps they got fat and sat on their asses and the world passed them by. Seriously how many times have we seen this play out? RIM, Palm, the above mentioned MSFT, Nokia, these corps become the king of their respective hills and instead of staying hungry and growing they plop down and just count the money...right up to the point the Mac truck that is the changing tech scene runs their asses smooth over.
if you want to sit on your ass? tech is NOT the market you want to be in. just look at how much things have changed in the last decade, the end of the MHZ wars and the rise of multicores in the PC market, the death of the dumbphone for smartphones, netbooks and tablets appearing out of thin air, if you try to set on your ass in the tech world somebody will come along and kick you right in the ass, simple as that. RIM had a sweet thing going with business users but instead of doing the smart thing which would have been branching out into new markets, developing new exciting designs, and trying to stay ahead of the curve, they basically pulled a Palm and just rehashed what they had. Bad move RIM and now it looks like you're toast.
Well we DO seem to have extinction level events, several of which are believed to be asteroids, and there is Apophis which may come close enough in 2029 to get pulled in for a hit in 2036. And that is what we know about, no telling what we don't.
Now am I saying the odds or good, or even better than hitting the powerball? nope, but it doesn't hurt to know more about what is out there and frankly space science has been so damned gutted the past few years if we can get some new birds up there scanning the skies by saying "ZOMFG we may need Bruce Willis and a crazy Russian ZOMFG!" then frankly I'm for it. Just imagine what we'll learn about what is out there even if it isn't gonna hit us? We may find asteroids that are good sources of raw materials, hell with space exploration frankly you'll never know what you are gonna find until you do it.
So sign me up, seems a better use of money than pissing another trillion down the drain blowing some country up so we can hand out no bid contracts just to rebuild it again.
There is an easy exercise you can use to show folks why metro is gonna blow friend, just do this: Imagine trying to create in Photoshop with a Metro UI, or Solidworks, or Quickbooks, or Audacity, or Vegas, hell even MSFT isn't gonna use Metro for Office, why? because for creation and editing metro SUCKS, that's why.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Metro is a tweeting twitting FB shitting cellphone OS. that is fine if all you want to do is tweet twits and FB shit, but honestly, how many hours of the day do YOU spend doing that kind of cell phone style social crap on a desktop?
Thank you, feel free to use it anywhere and everywhere they talk about that damned cell phone wannabe OS.
What REALLY pisses me off is, if people REALLY wanted their desktop to be a tweeting twitting FB shitting cell phone they already have gadgets for that in Windows 7. With desktop gadgets you can have social media coming out your ass, every tweeting twit, every irritating Farmville addict you know bugging the piss out of you? it can ALL BE YOURS right now this minute in win 7 but guess what? People aren't downloading those things because its a giant DO NOT WANT.
let me leave you with frankly the most insightful thing i have heard about Metro, which came from of all people a LOL named Mrs Pipkin that was visiting the shop while her daughter picked out a new desktop. she said "Why that's a nice looking cell phone picture, is that Android? i heard that's quite nice...what do you mean Windows? Windows What? Why that's just stupid! Why would I want a cell phone on my computer?" and out of that sweet little old lady's mouth came purest truth, WTF would you want a cell phone on your computer for?.
Yeah but you see, here's the thing...we're weirdos. We really are, we have about as much in common with the common user as we do with a three headed monkey martian.
You see working in the shop all day really lets me get in the trenches with the common folks so I can see how THEY do things and you know what? i'd say about 75% of them don't even use tabs at all. i know right? But its true, i have sat there and watched as they simply go to site A followed by site B followed by site C and if they want to look at something again they use the back button. hell most of them use yahoo mail and don't even know that search box at the top will let them search the web, I swear you do not know how many times I've seen them leave yahoo mail just to go to Google to search, and when i show them they can search from yahoo mail they are always like "Wow, you can do that? i thought that just searched the mail" /facepalm/
So believe me, while i know that someone like say YOU or ME can slam a chip, hell the reason I built this hexa instead of just keeping my quad was that i like to do A/V editing and transcoding and that can slam a CPU and with the hexa i can split off 4 cores to do the job while still leaving 2 cores for gaming or whatever i want to do that sadly is NOT what the majority do. the majority are frankly my dad to the core, they have an IM window open, they use one browser window at a time, they go to FB, they watch Youtube. Hell its taken me three damn years to get my dad to understand he doesn't have to open a new browser window just to get a new webpage for the love of Pete.
While there will ALWAYS be a niche that needs moar power, be it guys that have 50 tabs open, gamers, guys running heavy programs like Solidworks or Photoshop, most folks simply aren't like that and for those folks frankly PCs passed good enough when we went dual core and into insanely overpowered when cheap quads hit the market. And while I agree frankly web pages suck ass now (go to web.archive.org sometime and see what the web SHOULD be, many of those late 90s sites were slim as hell while having great navigation and plenty of content) the reason people can surf these sites now even on a shitty tablet is they really don't look at more than one thing at a time, they just don't.
This is why the late George Carlin was right, Language matters and we ALL must be on our guard to keep those that want to warp and twist us from using language to take away our ability to fight back with reason.
Its like how they changed "bible in the classroom" into intelligent design, shell shock into post traumatic stress disorder (which still sounds like PMS more than battlefield trauma to me) or how they took an easy to understand word like rapist and replaced it with sex offender which frankly can mean just about any damned thing just depending on the state you are in.
That is why you are right and we have to point out these "weasel words" as i call them, because they are nothing more than attempts to twist language to make an issue harder to understand or harder to argue against.
And let me finish by saying thank whatever deity you believe in for home schooling, because I have met some of the kids my oldest would have graduated with if he and his brother wouldn't have been taken out of school by us and....damn, these kids are lucky if they can count their damned change while my oldest is on the dean's list and kicking ass through pre-med.
Uhhh...one of them went out and bought him breakfast while his ass slept the sleep of the well fucked in her bed. Sorry for my being crude folks but think about that JUST for a second, will ya? Your RAPIST is sleeping soundly in YOUR BED and you....buy him breakfast?
I'm sorry but I am smelling big heaping loads of bullshit. He royally pissed off someone in those leaks, and now they are gonna do whatever they have to to make sure his ass gets hung out to dry. all these saying "Well nobody is gonna use Wikileaks anyway herp derp" seem to be missing the fucking point which is HE IS TO BE AN EXAMPLE to make damned sure nobody else has the balls to stand up to those that sit on the thrones of power. Frankly I'm surprised he hasn't "had a car accident" and probably the only reason he hasn't is someone is pissed enough they don't just want him gone, they want to make sure nobody is stupid enough to ever publish jack shit they don't want published again.
Ya know, maybe someone that has kept up with the Ubuntu forums can explain that to me, because i just don't get it. I mean every damned thing I see nowadays is widescreen, so why put the fricking bar vertical? Now don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against dock style launchers, in fact on all my Windows machines i have Rocketdock set to autohide at the bottom of my desktop with about 15 programs and folders so I DO get docks, i just don't get WTF they were thinking by making it ONLY vertical.
Actually if you'll look closer at that list PlusFiveTroll you'll see that includes ALL versions, both Home AND Pro. they changed giving separate support dates after the living shitfit they got when they tried to extend WinXP Pro and leave support for Home the same so now all versions get an equal amount of support.
so that is 2014 for all version of XP, 2017 for all versions of Vista, and 2020 for all versions of Win 7. Hopefully by the time 2020 has rolled around either Ballmer and Sinofsky will be fired and they can bring in someone like Allchin or Ozzie back to right the ship, or the corps will get tired of their bullshit and throw support behind something like reactOS. I would have said that would never happen but now that Valve is gonna have a Steambox, who knows? A DX11 capable OS without MSFT trying to push an agenda I'm sure would be most welcome at most corps and I know many users that would be happy if "innovation" on the GUI stopped with Win 7 and instead of Metro BS they would instead concentrate on simply making 7 even faster.
Well part of your problem is the browsers friend, safari bites, Chrome has too much phone home crap, and FF is a memory piggy. If you want to keep gecko I'd suggest replacing it with Pale Moon which is optimized for more current CPUs such as yours, Chrome should be replaced with Comodo Dragon and for webkit I'd go with QTWeb which has built in ABP, but on the first two first thing I'd do is install ABP, as i bet half your problem is those damned bloated ass web ads slowing you down.
Because I can tell you that with that ancient Sempron I can get up to 14 or 15 tabs in Dragon or QTWeb without any real dragging, around 9 for Pale Moon, whereas FF would start sucking at barely 6. On my home machine which i'm on now, which is an AMD Phenom II X6 with 8Gb of RAM frankly I can pile on the tabs for as long as i want in Dragon or QTWeb, again without any real stutter or jerking.
You just have to remember you can take the fastest machine on the planet and pile on those damned blinking flashing web ads and make it feel like a 486 running Win98, the code they use for those things are just bloated as hell. Not to mention I can tell you that infected ads are probably the number 2 source of infected PCs, just under the "ZOMFG U got teh viruz! Quick run this Security tool to clean it ZOMFG!" infections.
That is why I don't even bother with laptops, instead I tell them if it is out of warranty i'll help them secure a new or refurb at the lowest price and convert their old HDD into a USB drive so they not only don't lose their stuff but afterwards have a nice portable backup system.
sadly though most laptops are just designed for the dump. I have a nice Athlon MSI Wind sitting in my closet now I need to see if my engineering buddy can fix, a relative rocked on the power cord and managed to short the power jack. I just don't have the hands for working with solder or replacing caps and while I'd love to have another netbook if my buddy can't fix it? you're right its just not worth the effort, not when i can get an Atom dual for $160.
From what I understand they can't dump you for pre-existing conditions but they CAN use all the classic loopholes that they have before. Watch "Sicko" sometime and see how many damned ways insurance companies have come up with not paying out, frankly it'll shock you. they make sure there is so damned much fine print and weasel wording in their policies that unless you are a lawyer good damned luck figuring out WTF constitutes non compliance.
And as another pointed out the tax is actually MUCH lower than what the insurance companies charge, especially if you have been ill or had any real medical problems in the past decade so unless you are getting it from your employer (which more and more employers are dropping health benefits precisely because of the ever rising costs) then you are better off paying the tax.
They can waste points and mod me down but I'll say it again, Obama is a shitty POTUS and needs to go. if he would have actually stood up, demanded a single payer option along with caps on big pharma price gouging like many in the EU enjoy? I would be ALL FOR THIS and would be championing it everywhere, but he didn't. he waffled, caved, and outright lied to us (remember how he said ALL the negotiations would be transparent and then had them behind closed doors?) so ultimately the big insurance and pharma will make out like bandits, healthy people will pay the tax, nothing changes except more of your money will end up with big pharma and insurance without your say.
Shit, mod the parent up to 11, because if I was to pin every damned thing to the taskbar? I'd need a 70 inch screen bare minimum. Not only do i use the pics and docs folders in the start menu, i have a half a dozen programs pinned there that I use often, including 2 Popsel buttons which are like the best thing evar. With the popsels i have a red&black A/V icon along with a blue and yellow util which when i click on them gives me ALL my audio video programs and utilities, man if i had to pin those? Hell I even have all my share drives under the util popsel.
So I don't know where they get their info from, maybe the old folks home, but I have a grand total of 5 icons in my taskbar and two of those are defaults, the Explorer and WMP, the other 3 are two browsers and a burner. And I can tell you from working all day with average folks that the taskbar? don't get used at all, in fact many don't even have it on in Win 7, they just dump every damned thing onto the desktop, icons, folders, you name it it ALL goes on the desktop. I swear i've seen some of them where you can't even see the backgrounds for the amount of shit they pile on the desktop.But even those folks when they want to find something hit the start and go to all programs, so i just don't see what users supposedly aren't ever using start.
Personally i think its that old saying about lies and statistics because MSFT don't have the balls to just come out and say "Look we just wanna sell cell phones okay? We are gonna give you a shitty cell phone OS so we can trick devs into working on the WinPhone, so here ya go, its the supergigantic smartphone that you don't want and we don't care, because dammit we just want to be Apple!" although frankly I'd have more respect for them if they did just be honest.
Not to mention in the end it all comes down to control, and without caps on big pharma and big insurance they are gonna make out like Gods. want proof? then next time you have a chance to speak to a politician make this "modest proposal".
"I will offer you an ironclad contract that if I get ANY illness that can be directly tied to my lifestyle I will ONLY get morphine for treatment, which is cheap, and in return you drop your control taxes on me completely, such as your sin taxes and insurance taxes, deal?"
Watch how quick they hem and haw and try to get the fuck away from you because THEY KNOW it doesn't have a damned thing to do with healthcare or costs, it has to do with CONTROL, they believe they are smarter than you, you filthy dirty peasant, and their friends in big pharma and big insurance deserve your money more than you do. so I urge everyone to speak with your senator or congressman when they come around and make this modest proposal. Have someone film it with their cell phone and post it to the web. because i bet you won't get a single straight answer, just BS and walking away because they simply have NO answer beyond they need to control you and give your money to their "friends" big pharma and big insurance.
Well to be fair I had a great place to learn, as not only was Doug married but I was the only single guy in a popular regional college band so I usually ended up with plenty of females to talk to. That can be a curse as well as a blessing, as the band wives knew i would NEVER disrespect anybody's marriage by hitting on a married woman so guess who usually ended up stuck in the second van with the wives? It did give me some valuable lessons, such as when a group of women have their cycles sync up the best thing to do is say they ALWAYS look pretty and have plenty of chocolate on hand ;-)
But even now barely a month after me and my last one broke up I've had three acting flirty with me at the shop, two of which keep coming up with excuses to call or come by to ask me questions, as well as a couple online that are being flirty by email. I make it clear to my customers I don't mind answering questions by email so i get a lot of "Hey I'm so and so's (insert sister, cousin, BFF) and would you mind talking me through this? I'm stuck" and since i again make sure they know "Hey don't feel bad, these things just go wonky sometimes" I always end up with "BTW what does your (insert wife, GF) think of you talking to strange girls?" and when i tell them I recently broke up with my GF here comes the flirty emails.
what can I say, maybe i'm just too damned sexy. of course every time I say that my youngest squirts whatever he is drinking out his nose and then has to ROFL until he is choking for air, but what does he know? ;-)
Dude WTF browser are you using? I always eat my own dog food so I use the same that i give my customers which is Comodo Dragon with adblock plus and frankly I have NO PROBLEM surfing here at the shop on this 1.8GHz Sempron from 2004, the only change I did to it was max it out to 2Gb of RAM and even then it was only because i got a dead box with a spare stick in it, it was surfing just fine on the 1.25Gb it came with. I even watch SD video on it but with only an old Nvidia vanta card it naturally can't do HD, one of these days i'll have to decide between that Geforce 7600GS and the Radeon X1950 I have sitting in a box in the back and upgrade the GPU but frankly i'm not in a hurry.
So maybe its just your browser or OS friend, as i still sell refurbed P4s and for the things folks want to do, IM, FB, YouTube SD video, they work just fine with the dragon and ABP. Because I can tell you that most of the people I've sold multicores to really aren't stressing anything, in fact the only customer I have actually had to upgrade after selling a multicore to was a customer than bought a Phenom I triple that is an ex NASA engineer and got into using Solidworks, which once I upgraded his GPU to something that Solidworks would offload to (A Radeon HD4670 I believe, got it on one of the sales for something like $30) his Phenom I has been purring like a kitten.
Of course i wouldn't wish IE or ANY browser without ABP onto my worst enemy, so maybe that is your problem. But looking at the CPU meter typing this while playing an SD video in the background I'm only hitting around 65% CPU on the Sempron, which if that ancient chip can do it ANY chip can. One of these days I'm really gonna have to sit down and decide if I want to spend the $20 to upgrade it to an Athlon mobile or just change out the box for that Athlon X2 I have in the closet, but if it ain't broke, why fix it?