Actually I had that explained to me once by a shrink. he said "Most shrinks go into their profession to find out what is wrong with them, and then to help others second" which i had to say....really made sense. of course this shrink was actually one of the most honest and bullshit free individuals i had ever met so candy coating things just didn't happen around this guy.
As for TFA to steal a line from Mel Brooks "bullshit, bullshit...AAAANNND bullshit". A person can frankly overdo ANYTHING, be it food, drink, drugs,etc but in the end it isn't the THING that is the problem, its the PERSON. I'll never forget the words of a monk I saw in a documentary that spent all his nights in junkie town. he said "every person you ever meet that is an addict has ONE thing, one thing above all else, that is eating at them. if you find out what that one thing is and help them deal with it? then you have a shot" and i have found that to be VERY true. Its not the things that are the problem, its those that use a thing as an excuse to hide from real life that is the problem.
Hey APK, there is actually an easy fix for the MSE bug, I've run into that one myself quite a few times. if MSE gets a bad update instead of doing the smart thing and dumping it and starting over it will often load a bad update which will cause the thing to crap itself. Dumb i know, but that's what it does. Use Revo to uninstall it in moderate mode so it can clear out the leftover files and reg entries than just go to ninite.com and use their automated installer for MSE. it fixes it right up.
Although more and more often I'm just giving them Comodo when they have a problem with MSE because while MSE works great on downloaded files it don't do jack shit about drive bys as it does not do a "scan before load" on web pages. You have to remember that MSE was NOT an antivirus, it was originally Giant antispy that MSFT just bought. It is the lowest resource but it also does the least, so its a trade off. And yes Comodo will occasionally flag a small dev program falsely but honestly? I'd rather they make little mistakes than like AVG flagging critical system files make big ones. the Comodo guys are pretty good about getting a false positive unflagged and they update every 4 hours so it propagates through the system pretty quickly.
So just do that little trick, you can download revo from ninite so it won't take but a couple of minutes and his MSE will be right as rain. Its stupid, you shouldn't have to do that, but welcome to MSE, where dumbshit happens.
And THIS is why I don't do corporate anymore. the frustration of all the damned PHB dumb as fuck slow the whole company down bullshit had me so damned stressed out I looked like death and my boys actually staged a sort of intervention for me. They sat me down and said "We lost our parents, we can't lose you too. We don't care about the money but each day you look worse, just stop" and I have to say getting away from that retarded bullshit was the best thing that ever happened to me.
The only place i use MSE is on my netbook and my gamer PC, because those frankly aren't going anywhere nasty. the netbook is only going to OEMs to download drivers in the field and the gamer PC is..well playing games, so all it is doing is scanning downloaded files and for that one task it works well enough. the problem with MSE is it does NOT do scan before load on web pages so it won't do jack about drive bys so on customer's machines or the box in the shop where I do web surfing it is Comodo all the way.
And don't even get me started on pound foolish, that was what caused me the most stress running corporate. I have seen time and time again a whole business brought to its knees because some damned bean counter forced them to run truly ancient crap while trying to load the latest software AND some crappy norton or mcCrappy AV on top. I have seen workers spend a good 20 minutes plus every damned day just bullshitting as they wait for the machines to get to a "usable state". I would then watch as they'd launch their apps and then go back to bullshitting because they knew it'd take a good 4 or 5 minutes for the damned AV to let the crap load.
That is why I don't even mess with anything less than a dual with 4Gb of RAM for a new build, most of them being triples or quads. there is just no reason why with hardware being so cheap to hamstring a business with some damned POS P4 dragging ass all damned day. As you said with Win 7 preloading apps there is no reason in hell to have to bullshit for half a damned hour while you wait for shit to load! its a waste and I've seen places with 300 employees doing this same ritual, think about how many wasted hours they had on the clock for a year! That's why i just can't do corporate anymore, I just can't deal with illogical bullshit and that is corp in a nutshell, totally illogical bullshit.
I don't normally answer ACs but apparently you don't watch the detective shows. CSI Miami is the worst for this one, where Horatio will spot a clue in a corner and make one of his little sarcastic comments while bagging it which depending on the station you may not be able to see thanks to the BIG ASS LOGO that blocks it. USA is the worst in this regard as they will sometimes take the entire bottom 20% of the screen when they are plugging one of their shows.
So don't call someone a liar unless you actually watch the programs, otherwise it just makes you look like a douche.
Nice to see I'm not the only one that hates those God damned overlays. I have seen several mystery shows over at my parents where that damned thing hid an important clue which made the whole fucking show pointless! There they are pointing and talking about something that I'm fucking having to guess at because some big ass logo is blocking a huge chunk of the bottom right corner. it is so bad on some channels i actually have to warn my older customers about LCD burn in because if they have one or two channels they watch that damned logo is on there so damned much the thing will burn right into the set...fuck you! damned advert bullshit!
This is why I can't say a damned word about anyone just pirating a show because i have no doubt they'll ruin the web TV soon just as badly as they ruin regular and cable. First regular was okay, then it became so many ads you couldn't build any tension or follow the story so you moved to cable, then cable became all overlays and even more ads than some OTA programming so we went to the web, now i have no doubt they'll shit ads all over the web as well. its like these ass clowns just won't be happy until every show is so fucking ruined by ads nobody will watch the thing. this is one of the reasons i have started watching web originals, as i can actually get a STORY, imagine that, a story without constant fucking stupid as hell dumb shit ads playing over and over AND OVER until you want to puke!
This is why i think words like "sheeple" or "corporate lemmings" is perfectly legitimate in certain contexts. because if an idea is bad and many do it...it is STILL A BAD IDEA and having many morons follow that bad idea doesn't magically make it good! I have dealt with Comodo Enterprise for some of my SMB customers and frankly it has everything except the crazy support costs, and unlike those other AVs you can actually get shit done while its running without it feeling like its tied a damned boat anchor around your machine.
I have always believed in using what you recommend and I've been running Comodo for a couple of years now with ZERO hassles or bullshit, hell I even have it on my kid's gamer boxes. When i went to show them how to turn off services in Comodo for when they game they said "What for? We just tell Comodo we want to run it and that's it" which frankly blew my mind because if there is one thing an AV will usually do its slow the hell out of gaming but nope, even with games it just didn't bog down their systems.
Contrast this with norton and mcAfee where I have yet to see it on a system that didn't feel like the entire system was running in slo mo. This is why I have been handing out Comodo to all my business customers and have started handing out to home users as well, because what damned good is an AV if it makes the whole system a royal PITA to use? To me the ultimate AV should ask you as few questions as possible and should only bother you when it has something important it needs your attention for and that's Comodo in a nutshell. the only time I hear from it is if it has blocked a site for having a malicious script or if i launch a program for the first time it asks whether or not I'd like it sandboxed, that's it. I just tell it what i want the default behavior to be for that program and it never asks again, it just does what its told.
How anyone can put up with a boat anchor AV is beyond me, I set up a test bed and tried all the different AVs simply because the AV I had been using (AVG) had become bloated and felt like a boat anchor. If you can't use the damned machine, what good is having it clean?
Well I read it and it sounded like what you would be handed during your average corp powerpoint. heavy on buzzword, light on actual detail, in fact the only real "advantage' that i could gather from TFA is that they made the racks two inches wider...ummm...okay? that still really doesn't explain why designing and building your own hardware is gonna be better than COTS that has the economies of scale that Intel and AMD have in the server arena.
TFA is really light on any meat and explanations on how this approach gives a better ROI than simply having the companies bid for the work, so I'm gonna have to go with the other guy and say its a slashadvert.
That was IV, where he and nuke had the big battle on the moon. TFA does bring up an interesting question though, who has jurisdiction to what if there even is any jurisdiction to and when is it space junk and when is it some 'priceless historical monument'. Because if in the future countries like China and Russia build bases on the moon eventually this is gonna come up. What if the rovers were left on a site with plenty of H3 which future groups wish to mine? While this isn't something we needed to have worked out at the time as more and more stuff gets put up there there really needs to be some ground rules laid out, at least before the first base begins building.
Damn, that has GOT to suck. I wonder why they don't go with Comodo? Last I checked their prices are better on server AV than McCrappy (and unlike most their client is free for business and personal use) and it just don't bog down the system like Norton and McAfee do. It also has really nice sandboxing and scan before load on web pages which helps with the drive bys. i have some customers that are still using Pentium Ds in their office and it doesn't even lug on those ancient chips and on the newer cores it is just not noticeable.
Well thanks for the info, just one more reason for me to steer my customers away from those two products. As far as i'm concerned Norton and McAfee are worse than many bugs as at least the bugs don't make a modern system feel like a 486DX running win98. last I had to deal with Norton in business was a couple of years back but when i'd log into their machines to work on them Norton would bog the machine down so much you'd just want to pull the plug, it felt like Xp was running on a Pentium 2 instead of the Core2duos these machines had. just sad how many cycles these things can piss down a rathole.
I bet since they are pushing Google+ it isn't offering many if any FB widgets are they? As i said you can tie yahoo and FB together so if one uses FB a lot (as many of my customers and family do) then that's a no brainer. And what other widgets would she want that yahoo doesn't already have? games..got it, local news and sports? ditto. business? weather? hell even horoscopes if you are into that sort of thing? yep yep and uh huh.
The simple fact is from what i've seen most users ARE NOT GEEKS therefor they don't need nor desire a bunch of external widgets. and if you already have your friends and family sending mail to your yahoo account you are either gonna have to send your yahoo mail to your gmail, or give them your new gmail address instead, again for no benefit. your final comments about google spam filtering is again subjective as most regular users simply aren't getting any spam in either email. hell i use email a hell of a lot and i honestly can't remember the last time i saw spam in my inbox, the only non family mail being sales fliers that i signed up for and want. And the only time I have to worry about a regular email getting flagged as spam is I have one little old lady customer that CAN'T SEEM TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO TYPE WITHOUT EVERYTHING BEING IN CAPS so i can't really blame yahoo for flagging her as spam, its her horrible writing style that is causing it.
so I just don't see anything compelling enough to bother recommending one over the other. yahoo gives you 73 different widgets to choose from if the 26 default widgets isn't enough and they cover everything from chat to fantasy football. i just can't think of any use case where any of my customers would need more services for a start page than what yahoo already offers, sorry.
The funny thing to me is that more and more of even my older customers are just saying 'fuck this!" and doing all their TV watching over the net. All this stupid shit does is give folks one more reason to avoid regular TV. I know that even though I have basic cable (its cheaper where I'm at to get the bundle) I haven't even bothered plugging in my cap card so I can watch it because I can watch anything I want to on the net. if they have a commercial i can just pop over to something else while the BS plays (with the sound off in the mixer) and pop back over when its passed.
I don't know if dish is the same as i've never had it but i know that the one time i used the cable for TV it bugged the living piss out of me, because it seemed like every 5 minutes there was another damned commercial. give up having any tension in the story because they'd cut the thing up with so many commercials that it just sucked. No wonder more and more are getting away from traditional TV. Anybody remember the old days when they use to sell cable as "less commercials and more shows!" than regular TV? man are those days over.
No shit, I don't know how many times i have had people bring in a machine and complains "Its so slow it has GOT to be a virus" and I find they are right...its a virus called norton or McCrappy. It never fails to amaze me how bad some of these AVs get when it comes to hogging, especially on laptops. I'll give them Avast or Comodo or if they REALLY know what they are doing MSE, but Horton and mcCrap are just fucking terrible! I have been told their enterprise version, at least with Norton, isn't like that so i have to say WTF? why can't you do that with the consumer version?
But the bitch is it isn't the PC bugs I've seen much of lately, win 7 and a decent AV have that problem pretty well handled, its the mobile scams. If you want to know more check my journal entry here but please folks, remember that many haven't got the exp we have so warn them about the phone scams, because the amount of variants i've seen in just the last week tell me this one is gonna spread and be nasty as all hell.
Am I the ONLY one here who thinks "My CleanPC" is just the most perfect target EVAR for every Anon and troll here? I mean how delicious and moist would be the irony of MyCleanPC getting trashed with the whole page replaced by Goatse or animated GIFs of dogs taking a shit? it would be so damned funny! C'mon Anon guys, this bozo is practically bitch slapping you with his balls, get to smashing!
As for TFA the simple fact that they are letting them patent math, aka software, is simply crazy in and of itself. I mean how can that one screaming about how it MUST be a 'process' explain the H.26x patents? What is compression and decompression but math? The whole system has gotten so nasty no damned wonder more and more are simply doing business in China, at least there one can come up with something without tap-dancing through a patent minefield.
Steam engines for one? look up the history of the steam engine and you'll see there is about a 25 year gap in progress and that was because of the steam engine patents. It even says in the wiki "He adopted the epicyclic sun and planet gear system suggested by an employee William Murdoch, only later reverting, once the patent rights had expired, to the more familiar crank seen on most engines today."
so there is one right there, and an old one at that. I'm sure that others can come up with newer ones but this is the first one that popped to my head that directly matched your challenge.
How do you explain MPEG-LA and H.26x then? that is ALL using math for compression or decompression of a file, yet they've managed to get over 2000+ patents filed on various parts of H.26x. if they were for how a chip can do these calcs efficiently then i'd agree, but as it is no matter how you compress or decompress a video you will most likely step in the H.26x minefield.
Well the problem with GMOs which if you've seen anything about it is they use the "shotgun method" where literally they'll shoot a chunk of DNA into another plant and there is a LOT of trial and error and "leftover DNA" that is injected but supposedly inert. Frankly we have no damned clue what several generations of the shotgun method is gonna produce or what kind of mutations will occur, and so far we have only seen roundup resistance cross over into grasses but seriously...can we REALLY afford the risk with something like kudzu?
Believe me friend, i live in the south and that shit is literally like a cancer. it gets into an area and that shit spreads everywhere. i have seen huge abandoned buildings buried in the shit, cars, fields, trees, it just chokes out everything else, hell even weeds don't have a chance when kudzu moves in. And as i said the poisonous snakes like copperheads and moccasins just love the shit as it creates tons of cool wet dark areas where they can hide and often mice and rabbits will use it so they have plenty of food, so clearing that shit out is not only hard as hell but VERY dangerous, short of killing it with fire or dumping herbicides by the ton. Some have been using goats but goats aren't immune to snakes and I have seen some shit your pants scary snakes pulled out of that shit, just two years ago a local farmer pulled out an 18 foot moccasin which had ventured away from the kudzu to go after his chickens.
so until I see some real studies done in controlled conditions exposing kudzu to GMOs i just wouldn't take the chance. look at the map on Wikipedia and see how far that shit has spread and then realize it was originally only planted in OK during the dustbowl, its now in damned near a full third of the country. With something like kudzu we really can't afford an "oops" because of how big of a menace it is. it destroys pipes and sewer lines, chokes out local plant life and becomes snake city, its REALLY nasty.
Sorry if i got your panties in a wad but I wasn't going with groupthink, i was simply describing what it sounds like to me as a musician that has been playing for 30+ years now. To me tubes DO have a 'warm" sound whereas the solid state amps have a "harsh" tone. Sorry if my not getting all technobabble pissed you off friend, but that is how it sounds to me. if you don't believe me you are welcome to fire up any decent Fender tuber, say a Bassman or Concert or Champ and see for yourself, the midrange has a nice fat sound that just sounds sterile in a solid state. i have heard a few solid state guitar amps that can do a decent clean but frankly even their cleans don't sound fat and funky like the tubes, at least not to my ears.
To my ears the solid state guitar amps sound like they are slightly..well compressed for want of a better word, like there is something "missing" in the sound. I don't know if its oversat or not as i can still hear it even on lower volumes. Funnily enough i prefer solid state bass (with a decent amp of course) because with bass i want the tone as "clean" as possible and to me even the most clean tube has a little "fuzzy buzzy' to it on the lower tones, especially on 5 string. Again if my lack of technobabble on those terms pisses you off sorry, that's just how i hear it.
EXACTLY! You nailed it friend! look at AoE I and the ways the girls played it, it struck me as model building more than a game in the classic sense. hell they didn't even seem slightly interested in "winning' which if it was just a different strategy as the other poster suggested then the end goal of the game should have been the same but it wasn't.
And take what i do in Just Cause II. that game has missions and goals but i frankly don't give a shit about any of them, i could just spend hours on that game playing "Last Action Hero" and coming up with the absolute most crazy shit i can possibly come up with in game, like racing along the freeway in a sportscar with guns on it just doing the most insane jumps and bad guy battles across 4 lane highways you have ever seen. Does the game give me points for this? Some other measure of progress? nope other than the Steam achievements which i earned ages ago it don't give me shit...and i honestly DO NOT CARE. because to me its just too damned much fun to turn off the in game music and have some heavy metal blasting while I make the cab scenes in die hard III look like driving miss Daisy.
So I don't even know if Wright is right in that we need a different classification for these things because, ultimately, what is the REAL point of every game in history? TO HAVE FUN. and THAT is what is the true heart of it for me, if I am truly having fun i honestly don't give a shit if it can be listed as a classical game or not, if I'm controlling it and its on my screen and I'm laughing and playing and having a ball that to me is what makes it a game.
Well I just use the 10k number as a starting point, as I said one could sell it and use a cash for clunkers (or offer special government financing for the poor to get the hogs off the road) that would bring a 15k car into the realm of even those on minimum wage. the point is not so much the exact price point but getting truly green cars into the hands of the masses and getting away from 'rich people green toys" which as we can see by the numbers of many of those cars other than the hipsters nobody wants them. After all if I'm making a half a million a year am i really gonna give a shit if gas is $4 a gallon?
But notice how i got modded down for pissing on a sacred cow, the electric car. i do hope you agree that that tech is a dead end with current tech. the best numbers I've seen put the batteries for those at 12 grand A PIECE and since most cars on a used car lot are between 5 and 12 years old (and most studies I've seen put the lifespan of the batteries at 7 years max, more like 5 in some place like the south with the hot summers or ND with the crazy winters) then in all likelihood these cars will NEVER in up on used car lots, they'll go straight to the dump instead. There just isn't a way to make the math work when a single battery costs 12k and the average used car is between 4k and 8k, it just doesn't make sense to replace the batteries out of warranty.
so let the "greenies" mod me down for taking a big whiz on their sacred cow but you can't make black into white, straw into gold, or make math that just doesn't work work, you just can't do it. What are you gonna do, have the government give away free batteries for 20+ years? We know how to make VERY clean and efficient diesel cars NOW, this can be done with current tech with no major hurdles. those same vehicles can also run on biofuels so you could theoretically (if you can bring enough of that carbon converting algae plants online for instance) get this country completely off gas without destroying the economy or forcing everyone to live in Megacity 1. if they are serious about wanting change and AGW then you'd think they'd be behind something that could actually be built as opposed to sacred cows that end up only rich people toys, wouldn't you?
But WHY would you consider this an accomplishment? this is what i don't get with the other guy pushing iGoogle, WHAT EXACTLY does she gain? Did her Yahoo Mail not work? Was there a problem? This whole line of argument is starting to smell like "All go to hell except Cave 76!" or treating corps like ballclubs you root for. if her Yahoo worked for her, why consider it "better" to put her on something different, just because it is owned by Google?
So far I have seen NO compelling reason or function that would cause me to recommend one over the other and it seems like the only answer being given is "because its Google" but since i don't treat corps like ballclubs i don't give a crap about whether its Google or not, all i care about is "does it work?" and for my GF and many many others when it comes to the yahoo portal and email that answer is "yes it works just great and does what we want".
So tell me friend, or better yet sell it to me, what great advantage did switching her from Yahoo mail to Gmail accomplish? To the other poster give me a reason why I should switch BOTH her email AND her portal over to Google, what does she gain from all that work? i don't care if its made by Google, that is NOT a reason in and of itself. So sell me, pretend i'm the customer, give me the reasons why Google products are better.
It is simple, all empires must fall. looking at history i believe there is a pattern there that simply can't be altered, which is first grow and innovate, then the ultra rich use their power to consolidate, then they try to stifle and crush those that could compete, which thanks to the stagnation allows others in other places to rise and the empire falls.
Look at how the USA got to where it is, by "stealing" the ideas of Europe which had become buried under patents, innovating, and coming with new and fresh ideas and ways of doing things. And now the east is doing the same exact thing to us because our rich have consolidated as much as they can and now are using patents and copyrights to lock up as much for themselves. Again with this comes stagnation until it finally all just falls to crap. Hell we went from a manufacturing powerhouse to "lawsuit land" in less than 50 years.
It seems we are forever doomed to repeat history, because the rich and powerful simply don't see we ALL stand on the shoulders of giants, that is how new ways of doing are born. No idea is truly just born of the ether, all are influenced by those around them and their betters in their field. You mark my words, what you will see now is ever deeper stagnation as more and more toll booths and roadblocks are put up by those that wish to own a market and would rather crush an enemy than compete while the east will learn from our ideas and make them better.
Look at the Chinese gov owned loongson chip company, they are mixing hardware x86 emulation into a MIPS chip, that is new and different but of course since that's all patented and copyrighted up the ass here you could never do that on American soil. Now imagine say doing that with ARM, having a specialized emulation chip that would allow some X86 to run while turning itself off when X86 was not required. or hell build some more simplistic X86 chips like Atom and bobcat that could be switched on and off on the fly with a quad ARM and a decent GPU...all on one die and able to communicate VERY fast with each other because they were all part of the same silicon. wouldn't that be awesome? Can't build that here though. in the future i bet you'll hear that more and more, "couldn't build THAT in the USA!" and that is why we will lose to the east. the IP laws here encourage not innovation but stagnation.
Lets see YOU sir figure up an IP V6 address map for...lets say a 40 person small business, in your head. the problem with IP V6 is that while it is easily MACHINE readable it is sure as fuck not easily HUMAN readable. study after study have shown we humans work best with small patterns that have an easy to follow syntax. Ever notice how many people when giving you a phone number have the same cadence when reading it to you? its dot, dot dot duh, dot dot duh, dot dot duh duh. That is just how the human brain works friend.
I can tell you that when the big switch happens, at least in the flyover states, its gonna be a big fucking mess. Can you HONESTLY say that if someone showed you a pile of IP V6 addresses and said "One of these has a problem in either the address or the subnet" you could just pick it out on the fly? But I bet even your average teen wouldn't have a problem spotting the 184 address in a pile of 192 addresses because it would stick out like a sore thumb.
If they wanted more numbers they should have added more numbers. hell you want to throw in letters? Sure I'd say adding a letter to the front of each group of numbers would have been perfectly fine. but throwing in hex was a BAD move because most normal people, hell most geeks, can't just auto convert hex in their head or spot patterns easily in hex, its just not how we work.
One thing is for sure, they fail at security when it comes to this thing when you consider they have already had to disable the Chrome extension because it leaked its private cert. While i prefer yahoo for my email...geez, you think they would have done a little beta testing before passing this thing out. Hell according to CNet the ToS is a fricking placeholder!
But just because YOU think it sucks doesn't mean other people feel the same. look at the Sims, i have NO fucking clue why but women just love that damned thing and funnily enough Age of Empires I of all games. My former boss showed me how you could bring in the females just by putting AoE I on the boxes in the window but when i watched them play...Did you know many women do NOT play that game like a guy does? i saw many build a big wall around their place and if any bad guys attacked they would just use priests to turn the bad guys on each other and then would just spend their time building stuff.
So maybe Minecraft is like that, who gives a shit about playing it the 'right" way when there are better things to do. I know I have a game (Just Cause II) where i never even fuck with the missions because i'm too busy doing crazy shit and blowing stuff up to care. I mean I'm using the grapple to tie the biker cops chasing me to trees like jedi and jumping out of flaming choppers and hijacking planes by riding them like a bronco, why would i care about your stupid mission?
In the end what matters is you are having FUN with a capital F, which sadly so damned many games seem to forget. Like Yahtzee at Zero punctuation said "its a sightseeing tour" where they take you from one set piece to another being led by the nose, fuck that. So I give the Minecraft guys credit (along with some of the other great indies like Torchlight series and Grimlock) because they remember that at the end of the day it doesn't matter what the "rules' or "goals" are, what matters is "Are You having FUN?" and from all the stuff being cooked up in MC I'd say that answer is a giant FUCK YES!
Why? What does it offer that Yahoo doesn't? my GF loves her yahoo Portal because even when she is staying with me its set to her home town (she had to move an hour and a half away to take care of her dad after a heart attack) so that she gets all her local headlines, it has her games and her email, like I said to her and many like her it has replaced the morning paper.
So I don't even see a point in trying iGoogle and frankly after their changes in their privacy terms (and the whole pushing of more social crap) I'm frankly leery of using Google any more than I have to. besides it isn't like my GF would ever give up her FB for Google+ and with Yahoo it seems to play nice with FB (you can even log in with FB if you like) and between those two sites she is happy. And if there is one thing I have learned friend its that when your woman is happy? Do NOT rock the boat!
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Actually I had that explained to me once by a shrink. he said "Most shrinks go into their profession to find out what is wrong with them, and then to help others second" which i had to say....really made sense. of course this shrink was actually one of the most honest and bullshit free individuals i had ever met so candy coating things just didn't happen around this guy.
As for TFA to steal a line from Mel Brooks "bullshit, bullshit...AAAANNND bullshit". A person can frankly overdo ANYTHING, be it food, drink, drugs,etc but in the end it isn't the THING that is the problem, its the PERSON. I'll never forget the words of a monk I saw in a documentary that spent all his nights in junkie town. he said "every person you ever meet that is an addict has ONE thing, one thing above all else, that is eating at them. if you find out what that one thing is and help them deal with it? then you have a shot" and i have found that to be VERY true. Its not the things that are the problem, its those that use a thing as an excuse to hide from real life that is the problem.
Hey APK, there is actually an easy fix for the MSE bug, I've run into that one myself quite a few times. if MSE gets a bad update instead of doing the smart thing and dumping it and starting over it will often load a bad update which will cause the thing to crap itself. Dumb i know, but that's what it does. Use Revo to uninstall it in moderate mode so it can clear out the leftover files and reg entries than just go to ninite.com and use their automated installer for MSE. it fixes it right up.
Although more and more often I'm just giving them Comodo when they have a problem with MSE because while MSE works great on downloaded files it don't do jack shit about drive bys as it does not do a "scan before load" on web pages. You have to remember that MSE was NOT an antivirus, it was originally Giant antispy that MSFT just bought. It is the lowest resource but it also does the least, so its a trade off. And yes Comodo will occasionally flag a small dev program falsely but honestly? I'd rather they make little mistakes than like AVG flagging critical system files make big ones. the Comodo guys are pretty good about getting a false positive unflagged and they update every 4 hours so it propagates through the system pretty quickly.
So just do that little trick, you can download revo from ninite so it won't take but a couple of minutes and his MSE will be right as rain. Its stupid, you shouldn't have to do that, but welcome to MSE, where dumbshit happens.
And THIS is why I don't do corporate anymore. the frustration of all the damned PHB dumb as fuck slow the whole company down bullshit had me so damned stressed out I looked like death and my boys actually staged a sort of intervention for me. They sat me down and said "We lost our parents, we can't lose you too. We don't care about the money but each day you look worse, just stop" and I have to say getting away from that retarded bullshit was the best thing that ever happened to me.
The only place i use MSE is on my netbook and my gamer PC, because those frankly aren't going anywhere nasty. the netbook is only going to OEMs to download drivers in the field and the gamer PC is..well playing games, so all it is doing is scanning downloaded files and for that one task it works well enough. the problem with MSE is it does NOT do scan before load on web pages so it won't do jack about drive bys so on customer's machines or the box in the shop where I do web surfing it is Comodo all the way.
And don't even get me started on pound foolish, that was what caused me the most stress running corporate. I have seen time and time again a whole business brought to its knees because some damned bean counter forced them to run truly ancient crap while trying to load the latest software AND some crappy norton or mcCrappy AV on top. I have seen workers spend a good 20 minutes plus every damned day just bullshitting as they wait for the machines to get to a "usable state". I would then watch as they'd launch their apps and then go back to bullshitting because they knew it'd take a good 4 or 5 minutes for the damned AV to let the crap load.
That is why I don't even mess with anything less than a dual with 4Gb of RAM for a new build, most of them being triples or quads. there is just no reason why with hardware being so cheap to hamstring a business with some damned POS P4 dragging ass all damned day. As you said with Win 7 preloading apps there is no reason in hell to have to bullshit for half a damned hour while you wait for shit to load! its a waste and I've seen places with 300 employees doing this same ritual, think about how many wasted hours they had on the clock for a year! That's why i just can't do corporate anymore, I just can't deal with illogical bullshit and that is corp in a nutshell, totally illogical bullshit.
I don't normally answer ACs but apparently you don't watch the detective shows. CSI Miami is the worst for this one, where Horatio will spot a clue in a corner and make one of his little sarcastic comments while bagging it which depending on the station you may not be able to see thanks to the BIG ASS LOGO that blocks it. USA is the worst in this regard as they will sometimes take the entire bottom 20% of the screen when they are plugging one of their shows.
So don't call someone a liar unless you actually watch the programs, otherwise it just makes you look like a douche.
Nice to see I'm not the only one that hates those God damned overlays. I have seen several mystery shows over at my parents where that damned thing hid an important clue which made the whole fucking show pointless! There they are pointing and talking about something that I'm fucking having to guess at because some big ass logo is blocking a huge chunk of the bottom right corner. it is so bad on some channels i actually have to warn my older customers about LCD burn in because if they have one or two channels they watch that damned logo is on there so damned much the thing will burn right into the set...fuck you! damned advert bullshit!
This is why I can't say a damned word about anyone just pirating a show because i have no doubt they'll ruin the web TV soon just as badly as they ruin regular and cable. First regular was okay, then it became so many ads you couldn't build any tension or follow the story so you moved to cable, then cable became all overlays and even more ads than some OTA programming so we went to the web, now i have no doubt they'll shit ads all over the web as well. its like these ass clowns just won't be happy until every show is so fucking ruined by ads nobody will watch the thing. this is one of the reasons i have started watching web originals, as i can actually get a STORY, imagine that, a story without constant fucking stupid as hell dumb shit ads playing over and over AND OVER until you want to puke!
This is why i think words like "sheeple" or "corporate lemmings" is perfectly legitimate in certain contexts. because if an idea is bad and many do it...it is STILL A BAD IDEA and having many morons follow that bad idea doesn't magically make it good! I have dealt with Comodo Enterprise for some of my SMB customers and frankly it has everything except the crazy support costs, and unlike those other AVs you can actually get shit done while its running without it feeling like its tied a damned boat anchor around your machine.
I have always believed in using what you recommend and I've been running Comodo for a couple of years now with ZERO hassles or bullshit, hell I even have it on my kid's gamer boxes. When i went to show them how to turn off services in Comodo for when they game they said "What for? We just tell Comodo we want to run it and that's it" which frankly blew my mind because if there is one thing an AV will usually do its slow the hell out of gaming but nope, even with games it just didn't bog down their systems.
Contrast this with norton and mcAfee where I have yet to see it on a system that didn't feel like the entire system was running in slo mo. This is why I have been handing out Comodo to all my business customers and have started handing out to home users as well, because what damned good is an AV if it makes the whole system a royal PITA to use? To me the ultimate AV should ask you as few questions as possible and should only bother you when it has something important it needs your attention for and that's Comodo in a nutshell. the only time I hear from it is if it has blocked a site for having a malicious script or if i launch a program for the first time it asks whether or not I'd like it sandboxed, that's it. I just tell it what i want the default behavior to be for that program and it never asks again, it just does what its told.
How anyone can put up with a boat anchor AV is beyond me, I set up a test bed and tried all the different AVs simply because the AV I had been using (AVG) had become bloated and felt like a boat anchor. If you can't use the damned machine, what good is having it clean?
Well I read it and it sounded like what you would be handed during your average corp powerpoint. heavy on buzzword, light on actual detail, in fact the only real "advantage' that i could gather from TFA is that they made the racks two inches wider...ummm...okay? that still really doesn't explain why designing and building your own hardware is gonna be better than COTS that has the economies of scale that Intel and AMD have in the server arena.
TFA is really light on any meat and explanations on how this approach gives a better ROI than simply having the companies bid for the work, so I'm gonna have to go with the other guy and say its a slashadvert.
That was IV, where he and nuke had the big battle on the moon. TFA does bring up an interesting question though, who has jurisdiction to what if there even is any jurisdiction to and when is it space junk and when is it some 'priceless historical monument'. Because if in the future countries like China and Russia build bases on the moon eventually this is gonna come up. What if the rovers were left on a site with plenty of H3 which future groups wish to mine? While this isn't something we needed to have worked out at the time as more and more stuff gets put up there there really needs to be some ground rules laid out, at least before the first base begins building.
Damn, that has GOT to suck. I wonder why they don't go with Comodo? Last I checked their prices are better on server AV than McCrappy (and unlike most their client is free for business and personal use) and it just don't bog down the system like Norton and McAfee do. It also has really nice sandboxing and scan before load on web pages which helps with the drive bys. i have some customers that are still using Pentium Ds in their office and it doesn't even lug on those ancient chips and on the newer cores it is just not noticeable.
Well thanks for the info, just one more reason for me to steer my customers away from those two products. As far as i'm concerned Norton and McAfee are worse than many bugs as at least the bugs don't make a modern system feel like a 486DX running win98. last I had to deal with Norton in business was a couple of years back but when i'd log into their machines to work on them Norton would bog the machine down so much you'd just want to pull the plug, it felt like Xp was running on a Pentium 2 instead of the Core2duos these machines had. just sad how many cycles these things can piss down a rathole.
I bet since they are pushing Google+ it isn't offering many if any FB widgets are they? As i said you can tie yahoo and FB together so if one uses FB a lot (as many of my customers and family do) then that's a no brainer. And what other widgets would she want that yahoo doesn't already have? games..got it, local news and sports? ditto. business? weather? hell even horoscopes if you are into that sort of thing? yep yep and uh huh.
The simple fact is from what i've seen most users ARE NOT GEEKS therefor they don't need nor desire a bunch of external widgets. and if you already have your friends and family sending mail to your yahoo account you are either gonna have to send your yahoo mail to your gmail, or give them your new gmail address instead, again for no benefit. your final comments about google spam filtering is again subjective as most regular users simply aren't getting any spam in either email. hell i use email a hell of a lot and i honestly can't remember the last time i saw spam in my inbox, the only non family mail being sales fliers that i signed up for and want. And the only time I have to worry about a regular email getting flagged as spam is I have one little old lady customer that CAN'T SEEM TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO TYPE WITHOUT EVERYTHING BEING IN CAPS so i can't really blame yahoo for flagging her as spam, its her horrible writing style that is causing it.
so I just don't see anything compelling enough to bother recommending one over the other. yahoo gives you 73 different widgets to choose from if the 26 default widgets isn't enough and they cover everything from chat to fantasy football. i just can't think of any use case where any of my customers would need more services for a start page than what yahoo already offers, sorry.
The funny thing to me is that more and more of even my older customers are just saying 'fuck this!" and doing all their TV watching over the net. All this stupid shit does is give folks one more reason to avoid regular TV. I know that even though I have basic cable (its cheaper where I'm at to get the bundle) I haven't even bothered plugging in my cap card so I can watch it because I can watch anything I want to on the net. if they have a commercial i can just pop over to something else while the BS plays (with the sound off in the mixer) and pop back over when its passed.
I don't know if dish is the same as i've never had it but i know that the one time i used the cable for TV it bugged the living piss out of me, because it seemed like every 5 minutes there was another damned commercial. give up having any tension in the story because they'd cut the thing up with so many commercials that it just sucked. No wonder more and more are getting away from traditional TV. Anybody remember the old days when they use to sell cable as "less commercials and more shows!" than regular TV? man are those days over.
No shit, I don't know how many times i have had people bring in a machine and complains "Its so slow it has GOT to be a virus" and I find they are right...its a virus called norton or McCrappy. It never fails to amaze me how bad some of these AVs get when it comes to hogging, especially on laptops. I'll give them Avast or Comodo or if they REALLY know what they are doing MSE, but Horton and mcCrap are just fucking terrible! I have been told their enterprise version, at least with Norton, isn't like that so i have to say WTF? why can't you do that with the consumer version?
But the bitch is it isn't the PC bugs I've seen much of lately, win 7 and a decent AV have that problem pretty well handled, its the mobile scams. If you want to know more check my journal entry here but please folks, remember that many haven't got the exp we have so warn them about the phone scams, because the amount of variants i've seen in just the last week tell me this one is gonna spread and be nasty as all hell.
Am I the ONLY one here who thinks "My CleanPC" is just the most perfect target EVAR for every Anon and troll here? I mean how delicious and moist would be the irony of MyCleanPC getting trashed with the whole page replaced by Goatse or animated GIFs of dogs taking a shit? it would be so damned funny! C'mon Anon guys, this bozo is practically bitch slapping you with his balls, get to smashing!
As for TFA the simple fact that they are letting them patent math, aka software, is simply crazy in and of itself. I mean how can that one screaming about how it MUST be a 'process' explain the H.26x patents? What is compression and decompression but math? The whole system has gotten so nasty no damned wonder more and more are simply doing business in China, at least there one can come up with something without tap-dancing through a patent minefield.
Steam engines for one? look up the history of the steam engine and you'll see there is about a 25 year gap in progress and that was because of the steam engine patents. It even says in the wiki "He adopted the epicyclic sun and planet gear system suggested by an employee William Murdoch, only later reverting, once the patent rights had expired, to the more familiar crank seen on most engines today."
so there is one right there, and an old one at that. I'm sure that others can come up with newer ones but this is the first one that popped to my head that directly matched your challenge.
How do you explain MPEG-LA and H.26x then? that is ALL using math for compression or decompression of a file, yet they've managed to get over 2000+ patents filed on various parts of H.26x. if they were for how a chip can do these calcs efficiently then i'd agree, but as it is no matter how you compress or decompress a video you will most likely step in the H.26x minefield.
Well the problem with GMOs which if you've seen anything about it is they use the "shotgun method" where literally they'll shoot a chunk of DNA into another plant and there is a LOT of trial and error and "leftover DNA" that is injected but supposedly inert. Frankly we have no damned clue what several generations of the shotgun method is gonna produce or what kind of mutations will occur, and so far we have only seen roundup resistance cross over into grasses but seriously...can we REALLY afford the risk with something like kudzu?
Believe me friend, i live in the south and that shit is literally like a cancer. it gets into an area and that shit spreads everywhere. i have seen huge abandoned buildings buried in the shit, cars, fields, trees, it just chokes out everything else, hell even weeds don't have a chance when kudzu moves in. And as i said the poisonous snakes like copperheads and moccasins just love the shit as it creates tons of cool wet dark areas where they can hide and often mice and rabbits will use it so they have plenty of food, so clearing that shit out is not only hard as hell but VERY dangerous, short of killing it with fire or dumping herbicides by the ton. Some have been using goats but goats aren't immune to snakes and I have seen some shit your pants scary snakes pulled out of that shit, just two years ago a local farmer pulled out an 18 foot moccasin which had ventured away from the kudzu to go after his chickens.
so until I see some real studies done in controlled conditions exposing kudzu to GMOs i just wouldn't take the chance. look at the map on Wikipedia and see how far that shit has spread and then realize it was originally only planted in OK during the dustbowl, its now in damned near a full third of the country. With something like kudzu we really can't afford an "oops" because of how big of a menace it is. it destroys pipes and sewer lines, chokes out local plant life and becomes snake city, its REALLY nasty.
Sorry if i got your panties in a wad but I wasn't going with groupthink, i was simply describing what it sounds like to me as a musician that has been playing for 30+ years now. To me tubes DO have a 'warm" sound whereas the solid state amps have a "harsh" tone. Sorry if my not getting all technobabble pissed you off friend, but that is how it sounds to me. if you don't believe me you are welcome to fire up any decent Fender tuber, say a Bassman or Concert or Champ and see for yourself, the midrange has a nice fat sound that just sounds sterile in a solid state. i have heard a few solid state guitar amps that can do a decent clean but frankly even their cleans don't sound fat and funky like the tubes, at least not to my ears.
To my ears the solid state guitar amps sound like they are slightly..well compressed for want of a better word, like there is something "missing" in the sound. I don't know if its oversat or not as i can still hear it even on lower volumes. Funnily enough i prefer solid state bass (with a decent amp of course) because with bass i want the tone as "clean" as possible and to me even the most clean tube has a little "fuzzy buzzy' to it on the lower tones, especially on 5 string. Again if my lack of technobabble on those terms pisses you off sorry, that's just how i hear it.
EXACTLY! You nailed it friend! look at AoE I and the ways the girls played it, it struck me as model building more than a game in the classic sense. hell they didn't even seem slightly interested in "winning' which if it was just a different strategy as the other poster suggested then the end goal of the game should have been the same but it wasn't.
And take what i do in Just Cause II. that game has missions and goals but i frankly don't give a shit about any of them, i could just spend hours on that game playing "Last Action Hero" and coming up with the absolute most crazy shit i can possibly come up with in game, like racing along the freeway in a sportscar with guns on it just doing the most insane jumps and bad guy battles across 4 lane highways you have ever seen. Does the game give me points for this? Some other measure of progress? nope other than the Steam achievements which i earned ages ago it don't give me shit...and i honestly DO NOT CARE. because to me its just too damned much fun to turn off the in game music and have some heavy metal blasting while I make the cab scenes in die hard III look like driving miss Daisy.
So I don't even know if Wright is right in that we need a different classification for these things because, ultimately, what is the REAL point of every game in history? TO HAVE FUN. and THAT is what is the true heart of it for me, if I am truly having fun i honestly don't give a shit if it can be listed as a classical game or not, if I'm controlling it and its on my screen and I'm laughing and playing and having a ball that to me is what makes it a game.
Well I just use the 10k number as a starting point, as I said one could sell it and use a cash for clunkers (or offer special government financing for the poor to get the hogs off the road) that would bring a 15k car into the realm of even those on minimum wage. the point is not so much the exact price point but getting truly green cars into the hands of the masses and getting away from 'rich people green toys" which as we can see by the numbers of many of those cars other than the hipsters nobody wants them. After all if I'm making a half a million a year am i really gonna give a shit if gas is $4 a gallon?
But notice how i got modded down for pissing on a sacred cow, the electric car. i do hope you agree that that tech is a dead end with current tech. the best numbers I've seen put the batteries for those at 12 grand A PIECE and since most cars on a used car lot are between 5 and 12 years old (and most studies I've seen put the lifespan of the batteries at 7 years max, more like 5 in some place like the south with the hot summers or ND with the crazy winters) then in all likelihood these cars will NEVER in up on used car lots, they'll go straight to the dump instead. There just isn't a way to make the math work when a single battery costs 12k and the average used car is between 4k and 8k, it just doesn't make sense to replace the batteries out of warranty.
so let the "greenies" mod me down for taking a big whiz on their sacred cow but you can't make black into white, straw into gold, or make math that just doesn't work work, you just can't do it. What are you gonna do, have the government give away free batteries for 20+ years? We know how to make VERY clean and efficient diesel cars NOW, this can be done with current tech with no major hurdles. those same vehicles can also run on biofuels so you could theoretically (if you can bring enough of that carbon converting algae plants online for instance) get this country completely off gas without destroying the economy or forcing everyone to live in Megacity 1. if they are serious about wanting change and AGW then you'd think they'd be behind something that could actually be built as opposed to sacred cows that end up only rich people toys, wouldn't you?
But WHY would you consider this an accomplishment? this is what i don't get with the other guy pushing iGoogle, WHAT EXACTLY does she gain? Did her Yahoo Mail not work? Was there a problem? This whole line of argument is starting to smell like "All go to hell except Cave 76!" or treating corps like ballclubs you root for. if her Yahoo worked for her, why consider it "better" to put her on something different, just because it is owned by Google?
So far I have seen NO compelling reason or function that would cause me to recommend one over the other and it seems like the only answer being given is "because its Google" but since i don't treat corps like ballclubs i don't give a crap about whether its Google or not, all i care about is "does it work?" and for my GF and many many others when it comes to the yahoo portal and email that answer is "yes it works just great and does what we want".
So tell me friend, or better yet sell it to me, what great advantage did switching her from Yahoo mail to Gmail accomplish? To the other poster give me a reason why I should switch BOTH her email AND her portal over to Google, what does she gain from all that work? i don't care if its made by Google, that is NOT a reason in and of itself. So sell me, pretend i'm the customer, give me the reasons why Google products are better.
It is simple, all empires must fall. looking at history i believe there is a pattern there that simply can't be altered, which is first grow and innovate, then the ultra rich use their power to consolidate, then they try to stifle and crush those that could compete, which thanks to the stagnation allows others in other places to rise and the empire falls.
Look at how the USA got to where it is, by "stealing" the ideas of Europe which had become buried under patents, innovating, and coming with new and fresh ideas and ways of doing things. And now the east is doing the same exact thing to us because our rich have consolidated as much as they can and now are using patents and copyrights to lock up as much for themselves. Again with this comes stagnation until it finally all just falls to crap. Hell we went from a manufacturing powerhouse to "lawsuit land" in less than 50 years.
It seems we are forever doomed to repeat history, because the rich and powerful simply don't see we ALL stand on the shoulders of giants, that is how new ways of doing are born. No idea is truly just born of the ether, all are influenced by those around them and their betters in their field. You mark my words, what you will see now is ever deeper stagnation as more and more toll booths and roadblocks are put up by those that wish to own a market and would rather crush an enemy than compete while the east will learn from our ideas and make them better.
Look at the Chinese gov owned loongson chip company, they are mixing hardware x86 emulation into a MIPS chip, that is new and different but of course since that's all patented and copyrighted up the ass here you could never do that on American soil. Now imagine say doing that with ARM, having a specialized emulation chip that would allow some X86 to run while turning itself off when X86 was not required. or hell build some more simplistic X86 chips like Atom and bobcat that could be switched on and off on the fly with a quad ARM and a decent GPU...all on one die and able to communicate VERY fast with each other because they were all part of the same silicon. wouldn't that be awesome? Can't build that here though. in the future i bet you'll hear that more and more, "couldn't build THAT in the USA!" and that is why we will lose to the east. the IP laws here encourage not innovation but stagnation.
Lets see YOU sir figure up an IP V6 address map for...lets say a 40 person small business, in your head. the problem with IP V6 is that while it is easily MACHINE readable it is sure as fuck not easily HUMAN readable. study after study have shown we humans work best with small patterns that have an easy to follow syntax. Ever notice how many people when giving you a phone number have the same cadence when reading it to you? its dot, dot dot duh, dot dot duh, dot dot duh duh. That is just how the human brain works friend.
I can tell you that when the big switch happens, at least in the flyover states, its gonna be a big fucking mess. Can you HONESTLY say that if someone showed you a pile of IP V6 addresses and said "One of these has a problem in either the address or the subnet" you could just pick it out on the fly? But I bet even your average teen wouldn't have a problem spotting the 184 address in a pile of 192 addresses because it would stick out like a sore thumb.
If they wanted more numbers they should have added more numbers. hell you want to throw in letters? Sure I'd say adding a letter to the front of each group of numbers would have been perfectly fine. but throwing in hex was a BAD move because most normal people, hell most geeks, can't just auto convert hex in their head or spot patterns easily in hex, its just not how we work.
One thing is for sure, they fail at security when it comes to this thing when you consider they have already had to disable the Chrome extension because it leaked its private cert. While i prefer yahoo for my email...geez, you think they would have done a little beta testing before passing this thing out. Hell according to CNet the ToS is a fricking placeholder!
But just because YOU think it sucks doesn't mean other people feel the same. look at the Sims, i have NO fucking clue why but women just love that damned thing and funnily enough Age of Empires I of all games. My former boss showed me how you could bring in the females just by putting AoE I on the boxes in the window but when i watched them play...Did you know many women do NOT play that game like a guy does? i saw many build a big wall around their place and if any bad guys attacked they would just use priests to turn the bad guys on each other and then would just spend their time building stuff.
So maybe Minecraft is like that, who gives a shit about playing it the 'right" way when there are better things to do. I know I have a game (Just Cause II) where i never even fuck with the missions because i'm too busy doing crazy shit and blowing stuff up to care. I mean I'm using the grapple to tie the biker cops chasing me to trees like jedi and jumping out of flaming choppers and hijacking planes by riding them like a bronco, why would i care about your stupid mission?
In the end what matters is you are having FUN with a capital F, which sadly so damned many games seem to forget. Like Yahtzee at Zero punctuation said "its a sightseeing tour" where they take you from one set piece to another being led by the nose, fuck that. So I give the Minecraft guys credit (along with some of the other great indies like Torchlight series and Grimlock) because they remember that at the end of the day it doesn't matter what the "rules' or "goals" are, what matters is "Are You having FUN?" and from all the stuff being cooked up in MC I'd say that answer is a giant FUCK YES!
Why? What does it offer that Yahoo doesn't? my GF loves her yahoo Portal because even when she is staying with me its set to her home town (she had to move an hour and a half away to take care of her dad after a heart attack) so that she gets all her local headlines, it has her games and her email, like I said to her and many like her it has replaced the morning paper.
So I don't even see a point in trying iGoogle and frankly after their changes in their privacy terms (and the whole pushing of more social crap) I'm frankly leery of using Google any more than I have to. besides it isn't like my GF would ever give up her FB for Google+ and with Yahoo it seems to play nice with FB (you can even log in with FB if you like) and between those two sites she is happy. And if there is one thing I have learned friend its that when your woman is happy? Do NOT rock the boat!