Uhhhh...about that? Yeah you see that is how its SUPPOSED to work, in theory at least, but once you start actually digging out the really old hardware to try to test that theory? Yeah you end up like this guy right here.
Actually YOU are proving my point by automatically ASSUMING based on your beliefs, want proof?
Read the post again, can you find a single instance where it said I actually posted there? I simply pointed out how huge the divide was between the average person and the regressive left, which just FYI was coined by socialists to describe those trying to take over the democratic party in the same vein as the moral majority took over the republicans in the early 80s.
So next time instead of bringing your own biases into every conversation why don't you try actually reading what has been posted, hmm?
That hasn't been what I've been seeing, in fact I find Yahoo comments to be quite fascinating as it shows the HUGE divide between the opinion of the average Joe and the political wonks.
For those that haven't watched the sideshow lately that is Yahoo "News" let old Hairy fill you in, all the domestic stories? Have been completely taken over by a staff of the super left SJW/regressive type which is about as far from mainstream opinion as PETA and their "sea kittens" to the average person. When it came out that Trayvon Martin had posted love letters to assaulting people and had done a bunch of gangbanger poses with guns and dope? Yahoo refused to run any of that and instead ran interviews with his third grade teachers while replacing the already bullshit pic of him at 14 for one in the third grade, causing anonymous to cook up that Martin/Zimmerman meme pic. They did the same thing to Mike Brown, was quick to jump on the "poor Syrians didn do nuffins!" when the sky high rapes and assaults started pouring in, I swear its News by Tumblr blog.
So you will see a lot of backlash in their comments, NOT just to be contrary though, but to show just how out of touch the SJW/Regressive faction of the left is to the mainstream, its pretty fascinating from a cultural point of view.
That is coming with Zen which will be coming along with a new socket which will allow them to combine the APU and CPU lines along with a completely new architecture designed by the same guy who made the Athlon64
So there really is no point in releasing a new chip until the new socket boards by the OEMs are ready to go, especially not just for PCIe 3 which test after test has shown has a completely negligible effect on performance even with 3 way crossfire. The simple fact of the matter is we have yet to saturate PCIe 2 yet and with AAA titles costing so much to make AND the fact we have just started on a new console generation that came out of the gate with lower performance than midrange gaming PCs? I seriously doubt we'll see PCIe 3 used as anything but a bullet point on a box for the foreseeable future, its just not needed.
What is truly sad and pathetic is how thanks to deregulation allowing a handful of corps, all of which are either heavily tied with the US government or the defense industry, to own all of the media stations USA "news" has become that joke from the movie Airplane. You know the one where all the other news outlets report "four alarm fire rages through X" except when they get to the Soviets a guy with a gun hands the reporter the script and he reads "four alarm fire makes way for GLORIOUS new tractor factory!"? That is the "news" in the USA in a nutshell.
BTW you want an easy measuring stick on how much government dick is being sucked by a particular news org? Look up what they reported the day after Wikileaks dropped those docs showing a PMC in Afghanistan was selling little boys as rape toys to get better contracts while the US government tried to cover it up while also releasing that video of the chopper pilot laughing and joking as he blew that guy and his kids away. If they ran with the "if Assange didn't use a condom he MUST be a rapist" line? They were sucking dick as that was originally put out by a state dept talking head, if they actually talked about what was revealed? Then they might actually have a spine. The only ones I saw pass? PBS with Frontline who ran stories on both, followed by in depth hour long stories laying out the background of what happened, the rest? "Four alarm fire makes way for glorious new tractor factory!"
Anybody can spend all of 3 minutes making a free outlook account and signing up for the Windows 10 Insider program so yes Virginia Win 10 and Edge can be had for absolutely, free...just like Google's OSes and browser.
In fact one could argue there is pretty much zero difference between MSFT and Google now, as both give away their OS and then proceed to datamine the shit out of you while tying everything to their services...hmm...where have I seen that before? Why I just don't know where I could have seen such a thing.
MSE almost always scores right at the bottom of AV tests, in fact several AV tests have used MSE in the past as the lower bound for how an AV should perform. this really is not surprising since it was never designed to even be an AV, it was originally Giant Anti-spy which MSFT just bought and rebranded.
MSE is fine if all you really need is a simple file scanner, something like ClamWin but which automatically scans files instead of doing it manually, but as the AV for a system that might actually encounter real nasties? Yeah...no. Avast, Avira, or Comodo IS if you want a free AV, all of which score higher than MSE while not slowing your system to a crawl like AVG or McCrapee. I've put MSE to the test quite a few times at the shop and I can honestly say I have yet to see it stop a malware infected page whereas all of the above will kill a page load if it detects nasties.
Don't get me wrong, MSE has its uses, the system I'm typing this on has MSE, but its a gamer rig where the only browsing is done on a sandboxed browser inside a VM, but how many normal users are gonna go to all that trouble? If the only thing between you and the nasties is your AV I'd strongly suggest you pick something else, MSE just isn't up to the task. Oh and before somebody chimes in with "Then why the hell are you using it?" the answer is VERY simple..this is a gamer rig. The only files this system ever touches from the web is the occasional fix for older games so for scanning those? MSE works fine and doesn't affect my frames per second.
If any malware magically figures out how to get past my low rights mode browser AND a stripped down Windows 7 with almost no services running AND the VM its running in? Then frankly no AV in the world is gonna stop that magic bug, so I might as well use the lightest thing they make which is MSE. For my system at work as well as my family? Its Comodo and Avast.
Since you have been experimenting with this I have a question, what encoder do you use? Is there any encoders for H.265 that are user friendly, IE not just a CLI string o' doom?
Because I have users that are converting all their DVDs/BDs to their media tanks (HTPCs are rather popular here) and if this new codec can cut a couple GB off per video? That adds up pretty quickly. But my users need simple and easy, plenty of those for H.264 but I haven't seen any yet for the new codec.
"think different" is a registered trademark of Apple, "the real thing" is registered to Coke, and of course "Windows" is owned by MSFT even though its literally the most generic word you could possibly come up with. This shows the trademark system is broken no matter how you slice it.
"think different" "I'm loving it" "the real thing", all of those are trademarked and they are as generic as shit so don't be surprised when Sony ends up getting this trademark, immediately followed by suing the shit out of every lets play on YouTube.
Uhhh this is just the US government talking out its ass because without boots on the ground we have no clue what they really did and will most likely turn out to be about as "accurate" as trying to guess what happened at Chernobyl simply by detecting the cloud.
We don't know if they purposely built a small bomb (they would most likely have limited bomb quality fission material so that would make sense) or if the bomb was a partial fizzle, with it being underground all the US government can say with any real accuracy is something nuclear was set off and everything else is pulled straight from their behind.
And programmers are what? 0.002% of the population? Then have a heaping cup of STFU and stop the "Linux is ready for the desktop" bullshit which was EXACTLY what I was responding too! Did you tell HIM it was for programmers? No? That is because you are guzzling the koolaid by the gallon and don't say shit unless somebody calls you out on the BS, then you trot out the worthless anecdotes.
Meanwhile MSFT puts out an OS that is pure spyware and gets more users in a fucking week than Linux has gotten in 20 damned years, what does that tell you? It tells me that nobody will even take your shit for free if the choice is Linux or fricking malware because at least the malware is several levels more stable than your shit sandwiches!
It became "cheaper to hire from other countries" because they can dump toxic waste right into the river and put workers in sweatshops where conditions are so bad that they require suicide nets to catch falling workers. Simple as that.
Nope sorry, the problem isn't drivers its the developers and the fact that they KEEP BREAKING SHIT so it wouldn't matter if all the OEMs made drivers because even if Torvalds didn't trash them in the next kernel (which he would) you'd end up with the devs trashing the OS!
Just look at what has happened every.single.time. that Windows has given them a free shot by putting out a turd. Vista sucked ass? replace the barebones but functional ALSA with a fragile POS Puke Audio which to this very day is the most likely thing to break on any Linux update. Windows 8 had a shit UI? Well here comes KDE 4 and gnome Shell to replace two perfectly stable and functioning UIs with alpha quality shite that of course all the distros rushed to put as the default UI! Windows 10 is spyware? Well you can't go to Linux because you have SystemD trying to make an SVCHOSTS for Linux and breaking shit left right and sideways! Fuuuuuuucccckkkk!
I swear to God the worst enemy of Linux is NOT drivers, its NOT MSFT anything, its their own devs who can't just let shit get stable and have this insane need to just throw out what works and reinvent the damned wheel! Its like Linux from the top down is filled with these Bizzaro devs that go "Quick MSFT is sucking and Linux is running good! We will break drivers, crap all over the UI and Init, then users will have to work hard just to get back to half of what they had before! Users will feel leet, we will get lots of support jobs, we am brilliant!"...sigh.
You obviously haven't been keeping up with trials as the courts have ruled that..thanks to NAT...that "IP address does not equal person" which of course they will reverse when every device gets its own personal IP. This will of course also be a boon to corporate and government spies as it will be trivial to find whistleblowers and build files on anybody, simply follow them via IP.
I'm not gonna even bother with the rest because you haven't even bothered to be knowledgeable on the first point which gives me little hope with the rest, HAND.
The rotting elephant in the room is NOT the "security" of NAT, its the legal issues specifically that the *.A.A will be able to argue that "IP address equals person" thus letting them sue pretty much anybody for anything. You put up a vid of your kid dancing to a corporate media conglomerate owned song? Enjoy your lawsuit.
This of course isn't even bringing up how badly corporate has fucked IT for the last decade which means all the older networking gurus have all bailed, leaving a bunch of kids that won't know how to diagnose, much less fix shit when the inevitable IP V6 headaches hit, we have the environmental disaster as you have literally tens of millions of routers and modems that simply cannot handle IP V6 so all of that will have to be trashed, which of course adds to the cost of switching which is gonna be quite high......I'm sorry but there is a LOT of downsides and very few upsides.
Sorry, bullshit alert, 15 yard penalty. Just look at the ones that had a shitfit over a fricking dongle joke, what we have is a bunch of shrinking violets that scream "ist!" and act like spoiled 4 year olds if the world doesn't bend over backwards to acknowledge what special snowflakes they are and give them preferential treatment.
If somebody is receiving ACTUAL harassment? Then sure bust the hell out of the ones doing it, be they white/black, male/female, whatever but time and time again we dig even just a teensy bit below the surface? What you find is somebody just looking for a fight and a reason to call somebody an "ist!" and sue. My ex had one in her place of work, this is a place that was nearly 80% women BTW, with women in pretty much the entire management chain all the way up, yet this "giant stick up the ass" as my ex called her just spent her entire day looking for ANY reason to scream "ist!", especially at a male. they ended up cooking up a reason to fire her simply because she had singlehandedly ruined the work environment and caused sales to plummet because before the stick up her ass everyone didn't mind sticking around when they weren't in a hurry to make some extra cash after shift ended but as long as she was there the entire office practically ran to get away from superbitch the first second the could.
BTW if anybody wonders what happened when they fired her? You guessed it, she sued, screaming racist and misogynist and while she didn't win anything you can bet your ass it'll be a cold day in hell before they hire another one of her race, just as I'm sure all it takes is one run in with an "ist!" screamer to make sure those tech shops make damned sure not to hire another woman. Can't say as I blame 'em.
Did you bother to read TFL? They TURNED OFF CORTANA and it STILL keeps right on sending data showing that its bullshit, its keylogging. Type on the keyboard? Certain addresses are called, the same one called when you use the virtual keyboard. Turn on webcam? Different addresses, mike? Ditto. Sorry but that kind of behavior I see all the time at the shop....from malware.
Sadly we do not get to decide language, the general public does, and malware is a word used by tech but to the rest of the world? Its a virus no matter what form it takes. I wish it weren't so but we lost that fight, along with everyone from script kiddies to government cyberspies being called "hackers" a loooong time ago.
Which is what makes it a lot more dangerous. I'll just leavethesehere for your perusal. Oh and be sure to respond with a typical fanboy "but but but those don't count!" just like the Apple iHeads did when MacDefender came out and they went from "Apple doesn't get viruses" to "that doesn't count because its technically not a virus, its a trojan!" LOL.
The bloat is why I switched my customers to Comodo IS and Avast, Avast for the "little old lady" types that need lots of hand holding and Comodo IS for those that are needing a little more heavy duty protection as by default it sandboxes the browser.
What really sucks is the "TuneUp" its referring to I'm sure is the once great TuneUp Utilities which used to be my go to tool for keeping a home users system maintained, it was IMNSHO a spiritual successor to the DOS/Win9x era Norton Utilities, but AVG came along and pulled a Symantic and ruined it. It was a great little suite, would automatically clean and defrag the unit every 3 days, turn off all the extra Windows background crap when you were on battery to save power, just like Norton back in the day it just put everything in one nice neat little place and made it simple to understand for the home users.
Finally for those suggesting MSE? Yeah....no. While MSFT has gotten better their detection and blocking rates are still pretty poor, you look at any of the AV tests and you'll see Avast, Comodo, Anvir, ESET, Ad-Aware Pro and always right near the bottom? MSE. This really isn't surprising as MSFT simply bought Giant Anti-Spy which was made to compete with Malwarebytes NOT to be a full fledged AV solution.The only users I recommend MSE to are to those that already know best Internet practices and simply need an on demand scanner similar to ClamAV but which does the file scans on download, for that role? It does fine but I wouldn't want MSE to be a main defense as its scores are just too lousy.
Not the poster but it looks like Windows 10 still has the keylogger from the beta running which means ANYTHING you type, including with the virtual keyboard? Is sent home to the mothership, along with samples of your voice and your webcam. Which of course means using a MSFT account means nothing, as once you type your key and/or passwords they have them and can then sell them or do as they see fit.
Until someone shows a toll that can REALLY and truly remove the insane amount of spying, which as you can see from this partial list from MSFT is a couple exits past batshit levels? I'm advising my customers to treat Windows 10 like the only other software I deal with that phones home without user control...malware.
Did I say that NONE of them would find a use? Nope just that consumers find them to be toys which is the truth. There will always be a niche for that form factor, hell no differently than the netbooks that you can still buy today (they just don't call 'em netbooks) but Joe and Jane Average simply find mobile software lacking compared to that laptop they already have.
And we already have evidence the tablet bubble is bursting, you have sites like Tiger offering BOGO free sales trying to move the things and even Apple, whose fanboys can usually be counted on to buy the latest iShiny no matter what, has seen sales drop like a stone of the new iPad. Battery tech is stagnant so we aren't seeing better battery life if anything we are seeing the opposite as OEMs try to jam more and more cores into the things to try to make up for the fact that ARM doesn't scale. Many of the first gen tablets could get 8 hours plus because they were only a single core ARM at sub 1GHz, now you are lucky to get 3 hours on that new Samsung octocore.
And again you are ignoring the rotting elephant which is that tablet software sucks and is almost completely based around time wasting and media consumption. Just look at the top 10 Android and iOS apps, its nearly all just time killers. Well the thing with time wasters is people get bored with just being passive consumers, this is why TV watching has dropped, and on their laptop they can play time wasters AND do real work AND have access to better featured full desktop programs... it really doesn't take long before the tablet looks like a stupid cousin of the laptop they already have.
But there will always be niches, medical, warehouse inventory, anything where you have to walk around inputting data all day is a good fit for the tablet, that simply isn't the kind of thing Joe and Jane do all day. Again just look at the netbook, once upon a time they were as common as dirt and now you have only a few models being made for road warriors that need ultraportables, the same will hold true for tablets, just you watch.
Can we PLEASE stop posting yet another "PC is dying" story when its absolute horseshit? Gather round childrens, and let an old greybeard explain a few things that many seem to not know, especially retards that work in the press...
This is the most important fact that you need to know regarding PCs and sales mmkay? From 1993 to 2007 there was a bubble, no different than the dotbomb or the "houses will always go up" real estate bubble, this was NOT THE NORMAL STATE and was caused by two factors, 1.- Rapid advances in die shrinking technology, and 2.- A focus on single core computing. Now before 1993? You saw what we have now, slow and steady turnover with moderate and acceptable growth. Problem is, just as we saw too many bad companies (remember petfood online? Or CueCat?) that based their entire business model on "on the Internet" being enough to make them rich so too did you see many during the PC bubble base their whole business around infinite growth, like the bubble would never burst.
"So what about PCs in 2015, oh wise old one? And what about mobile?" I hear you ask. Its very simple young childrens, once the PC went to multicore they performance bubble burst and they went from "barely good enough for a year or two" to "insanely overpowered and good for a decade" which frankly was the default state before 1993. Before then programs didn't need a new PC every other year just to run and now? Can you name something mainstream that won't run just fine on a first gen C2Q or Phenom I X4? Hell the majority of people who aren't gaming are quite happy with a 10 year old C2D or Athlon X2 and even the gamers get along just fine on the second gen C2Q and Phenom II X4s and X6s, and those are 7 year old chips. PCs have simply gone back to being appliances that you replace when they die just like they were before the bubble when I was supporting 8 year old IBMs and Commodores locally.
Finally as for mobile? I'm gonna really piss off the fanboys but here goes mobile is in their own bubble which is about to burst so its not even gonna get half the run that PCs did in their bubble, why? Because ARM doesn't scale, it blows its power budget once you get beyond a certain speed, which is why we are now up to quads and octocores being the norm instead of climbing MHz like in the PC world. Also battery tech has been stagnant for more than a decade so adding more cores and more speed? Just gives you a device with a 15 minute battery life. I'm already starting to see this, talking to the brothers that own the phone shop down the road they are seeing more and more older phones being brought in for repair because people see no reason to upgrade as they are happy with their iPhone 4 or Galaxy II. They are also seeing a big uptick in the $100-$150 phones because nowadays that gets you a quad core with 8MP camera and a decently sized touchscreen and that is what Joe Average cares about so more and more are seeing now reason to buy $600+ phones. This goes double for tablets, which even Apple is having trouble getting folks to buy the latest iPad because people are happy with the previous model. This is also ignoring the rotting elephant in the room which is many tablets are ending up in sock drawers because the users find mobile software lacking compared to their laptops. I swear I must get dozens trying to sell me tablets really cheap each year because they just can't find a use for the things which isn't better served by their laptops, I had the same problem which is why I gave my 10 inch quad tablet to a nephew.
So no worries childrens, PCs aren't going anywhere, its simply going back to normal where you have 2 or 3 really big companies selling the boxes and parts and everybody just replaces when they die. Even the mom & pop shops that have any sense won't be going anywhere, I'm staying swamped with HTPCs, Home networking, and home theater setups and I'm predicting with all the cord cutting and everything being online that is gonna be a really big growth market for PCs in the coming years.
Now if you'll excuse me I have new games that are calling, Happy Holidays!
Oh boo bloody hoo, the servers were down for less than an hour, during the most hectic sale they have each year BTW, and all that had happened was some intern flipped the wrong switch and caused the caching server to show the details of random schmuck's Steam wallet. That's it, you couldn't spend the wallet, trade their games, or do anything else other than see what Joe Nobody had in their Steam wallet and their email address which in 2015 is plastered all over every damned place anyway.
Meanwhile all the games played just fine, the world kept spinning, and in less than an hour it was all back up and running just as pretty as you please.... you spoiled much? And just FYI you are forgetting UbiSuck and their craptastic client which you are welcome to buy from, i think this year they offered a whole...gasp! 10% off during their Xmas sale on select titles they can't give away like Watch Doges.
Excuse me if I don't panic or actually give any shits if some dude in Bavaria found out I have a whole 32c in my Steam Wallet from getting rid of those stupid Steam cards all the games seem to give you, I was too busy pounding noobs into submission to really care. You are free to buy from the half a dozen other sites, good luck with keeping all those accounts synced and up to date, not to mention the extra bullshit of having a half a dozen clients all wanting to phone home, me I'll just chalk this up to the "Steam always has a fuckup on Xmas" bug (which happens every year BTW) and go back to enjoying my new games.
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Uhhhh...about that? Yeah you see that is how its SUPPOSED to work, in theory at least, but once you start actually digging out the really old hardware to try to test that theory? Yeah you end up like this guy right here.
Actually YOU are proving my point by automatically ASSUMING based on your beliefs, want proof?
Read the post again, can you find a single instance where it said I actually posted there? I simply pointed out how huge the divide was between the average person and the regressive left, which just FYI was coined by socialists to describe those trying to take over the democratic party in the same vein as the moral majority took over the republicans in the early 80s.
So next time instead of bringing your own biases into every conversation why don't you try actually reading what has been posted, hmm?
That hasn't been what I've been seeing, in fact I find Yahoo comments to be quite fascinating as it shows the HUGE divide between the opinion of the average Joe and the political wonks.
For those that haven't watched the sideshow lately that is Yahoo "News" let old Hairy fill you in, all the domestic stories? Have been completely taken over by a staff of the super left SJW/regressive type which is about as far from mainstream opinion as PETA and their "sea kittens" to the average person. When it came out that Trayvon Martin had posted love letters to assaulting people and had done a bunch of gangbanger poses with guns and dope? Yahoo refused to run any of that and instead ran interviews with his third grade teachers while replacing the already bullshit pic of him at 14 for one in the third grade, causing anonymous to cook up that Martin/Zimmerman meme pic. They did the same thing to Mike Brown, was quick to jump on the "poor Syrians didn do nuffins!" when the sky high rapes and assaults started pouring in, I swear its News by Tumblr blog.
So you will see a lot of backlash in their comments, NOT just to be contrary though, but to show just how out of touch the SJW/Regressive faction of the left is to the mainstream, its pretty fascinating from a cultural point of view.
That is coming with Zen which will be coming along with a new socket which will allow them to combine the APU and CPU lines along with a completely new architecture designed by the same guy who made the Athlon64
So there really is no point in releasing a new chip until the new socket boards by the OEMs are ready to go, especially not just for PCIe 3 which test after test has shown has a completely negligible effect on performance even with 3 way crossfire. The simple fact of the matter is we have yet to saturate PCIe 2 yet and with AAA titles costing so much to make AND the fact we have just started on a new console generation that came out of the gate with lower performance than midrange gaming PCs? I seriously doubt we'll see PCIe 3 used as anything but a bullet point on a box for the foreseeable future, its just not needed.
What is truly sad and pathetic is how thanks to deregulation allowing a handful of corps, all of which are either heavily tied with the US government or the defense industry, to own all of the media stations USA "news" has become that joke from the movie Airplane. You know the one where all the other news outlets report "four alarm fire rages through X" except when they get to the Soviets a guy with a gun hands the reporter the script and he reads "four alarm fire makes way for GLORIOUS new tractor factory!"? That is the "news" in the USA in a nutshell.
BTW you want an easy measuring stick on how much government dick is being sucked by a particular news org? Look up what they reported the day after Wikileaks dropped those docs showing a PMC in Afghanistan was selling little boys as rape toys to get better contracts while the US government tried to cover it up while also releasing that video of the chopper pilot laughing and joking as he blew that guy and his kids away. If they ran with the "if Assange didn't use a condom he MUST be a rapist" line? They were sucking dick as that was originally put out by a state dept talking head, if they actually talked about what was revealed? Then they might actually have a spine. The only ones I saw pass? PBS with Frontline who ran stories on both, followed by in depth hour long stories laying out the background of what happened, the rest? "Four alarm fire makes way for glorious new tractor factory!"
Anybody can spend all of 3 minutes making a free outlook account and signing up for the Windows 10 Insider program so yes Virginia Win 10 and Edge can be had for absolutely, free...just like Google's OSes and browser.
In fact one could argue there is pretty much zero difference between MSFT and Google now, as both give away their OS and then proceed to datamine the shit out of you while tying everything to their services...hmm...where have I seen that before? Why I just don't know where I could have seen such a thing.
MSE almost always scores right at the bottom of AV tests, in fact several AV tests have used MSE in the past as the lower bound for how an AV should perform. this really is not surprising since it was never designed to even be an AV, it was originally Giant Anti-spy which MSFT just bought and rebranded.
MSE is fine if all you really need is a simple file scanner, something like ClamWin but which automatically scans files instead of doing it manually, but as the AV for a system that might actually encounter real nasties? Yeah...no. Avast, Avira, or Comodo IS if you want a free AV, all of which score higher than MSE while not slowing your system to a crawl like AVG or McCrapee. I've put MSE to the test quite a few times at the shop and I can honestly say I have yet to see it stop a malware infected page whereas all of the above will kill a page load if it detects nasties.
Don't get me wrong, MSE has its uses, the system I'm typing this on has MSE, but its a gamer rig where the only browsing is done on a sandboxed browser inside a VM, but how many normal users are gonna go to all that trouble? If the only thing between you and the nasties is your AV I'd strongly suggest you pick something else, MSE just isn't up to the task. Oh and before somebody chimes in with "Then why the hell are you using it?" the answer is VERY simple..this is a gamer rig. The only files this system ever touches from the web is the occasional fix for older games so for scanning those? MSE works fine and doesn't affect my frames per second.
If any malware magically figures out how to get past my low rights mode browser AND a stripped down Windows 7 with almost no services running AND the VM its running in? Then frankly no AV in the world is gonna stop that magic bug, so I might as well use the lightest thing they make which is MSE. For my system at work as well as my family? Its Comodo and Avast.
Since you have been experimenting with this I have a question, what encoder do you use? Is there any encoders for H.265 that are user friendly, IE not just a CLI string o' doom?
Because I have users that are converting all their DVDs/BDs to their media tanks (HTPCs are rather popular here) and if this new codec can cut a couple GB off per video? That adds up pretty quickly. But my users need simple and easy, plenty of those for H.264 but I haven't seen any yet for the new codec.
"think different" is a registered trademark of Apple, "the real thing" is registered to Coke, and of course "Windows" is owned by MSFT even though its literally the most generic word you could possibly come up with. This shows the trademark system is broken no matter how you slice it.
"think different" "I'm loving it" "the real thing", all of those are trademarked and they are as generic as shit so don't be surprised when Sony ends up getting this trademark, immediately followed by suing the shit out of every lets play on YouTube.
Uhhh this is just the US government talking out its ass because without boots on the ground we have no clue what they really did and will most likely turn out to be about as "accurate" as trying to guess what happened at Chernobyl simply by detecting the cloud.
We don't know if they purposely built a small bomb (they would most likely have limited bomb quality fission material so that would make sense) or if the bomb was a partial fizzle, with it being underground all the US government can say with any real accuracy is something nuclear was set off and everything else is pulled straight from their behind.
And programmers are what? 0.002% of the population? Then have a heaping cup of STFU and stop the "Linux is ready for the desktop" bullshit which was EXACTLY what I was responding too! Did you tell HIM it was for programmers? No? That is because you are guzzling the koolaid by the gallon and don't say shit unless somebody calls you out on the BS, then you trot out the worthless anecdotes.
Meanwhile MSFT puts out an OS that is pure spyware and gets more users in a fucking week than Linux has gotten in 20 damned years, what does that tell you? It tells me that nobody will even take your shit for free if the choice is Linux or fricking malware because at least the malware is several levels more stable than your shit sandwiches!
It became "cheaper to hire from other countries" because they can dump toxic waste right into the river and put workers in sweatshops where conditions are so bad that they require suicide nets to catch falling workers. Simple as that.
Nope sorry, the problem isn't drivers its the developers and the fact that they KEEP BREAKING SHIT so it wouldn't matter if all the OEMs made drivers because even if Torvalds didn't trash them in the next kernel (which he would) you'd end up with the devs trashing the OS!
Just look at what has happened every.single.time. that Windows has given them a free shot by putting out a turd. Vista sucked ass? replace the barebones but functional ALSA with a fragile POS Puke Audio which to this very day is the most likely thing to break on any Linux update. Windows 8 had a shit UI? Well here comes KDE 4 and gnome Shell to replace two perfectly stable and functioning UIs with alpha quality shite that of course all the distros rushed to put as the default UI! Windows 10 is spyware? Well you can't go to Linux because you have SystemD trying to make an SVCHOSTS for Linux and breaking shit left right and sideways! Fuuuuuuucccckkkk!
I swear to God the worst enemy of Linux is NOT drivers, its NOT MSFT anything, its their own devs who can't just let shit get stable and have this insane need to just throw out what works and reinvent the damned wheel! Its like Linux from the top down is filled with these Bizzaro devs that go "Quick MSFT is sucking and Linux is running good! We will break drivers, crap all over the UI and Init, then users will have to work hard just to get back to half of what they had before! Users will feel leet, we will get lots of support jobs, we am brilliant!"...sigh.
You obviously haven't been keeping up with trials as the courts have ruled that..thanks to NAT...that "IP address does not equal person" which of course they will reverse when every device gets its own personal IP. This will of course also be a boon to corporate and government spies as it will be trivial to find whistleblowers and build files on anybody, simply follow them via IP.
I'm not gonna even bother with the rest because you haven't even bothered to be knowledgeable on the first point which gives me little hope with the rest, HAND.
The rotting elephant in the room is NOT the "security" of NAT, its the legal issues specifically that the *.A.A will be able to argue that "IP address equals person" thus letting them sue pretty much anybody for anything. You put up a vid of your kid dancing to a corporate media conglomerate owned song? Enjoy your lawsuit.
This of course isn't even bringing up how badly corporate has fucked IT for the last decade which means all the older networking gurus have all bailed, leaving a bunch of kids that won't know how to diagnose, much less fix shit when the inevitable IP V6 headaches hit, we have the environmental disaster as you have literally tens of millions of routers and modems that simply cannot handle IP V6 so all of that will have to be trashed, which of course adds to the cost of switching which is gonna be quite high......I'm sorry but there is a LOT of downsides and very few upsides.
Sorry, bullshit alert, 15 yard penalty. Just look at the ones that had a shitfit over a fricking dongle joke, what we have is a bunch of shrinking violets that scream "ist!" and act like spoiled 4 year olds if the world doesn't bend over backwards to acknowledge what special snowflakes they are and give them preferential treatment.
If somebody is receiving ACTUAL harassment? Then sure bust the hell out of the ones doing it, be they white/black, male/female, whatever but time and time again we dig even just a teensy bit below the surface? What you find is somebody just looking for a fight and a reason to call somebody an "ist!" and sue. My ex had one in her place of work, this is a place that was nearly 80% women BTW, with women in pretty much the entire management chain all the way up, yet this "giant stick up the ass" as my ex called her just spent her entire day looking for ANY reason to scream "ist!", especially at a male. they ended up cooking up a reason to fire her simply because she had singlehandedly ruined the work environment and caused sales to plummet because before the stick up her ass everyone didn't mind sticking around when they weren't in a hurry to make some extra cash after shift ended but as long as she was there the entire office practically ran to get away from superbitch the first second the could.
BTW if anybody wonders what happened when they fired her? You guessed it, she sued, screaming racist and misogynist and while she didn't win anything you can bet your ass it'll be a cold day in hell before they hire another one of her race, just as I'm sure all it takes is one run in with an "ist!" screamer to make sure those tech shops make damned sure not to hire another woman. Can't say as I blame 'em.
Did you bother to read TFL? They TURNED OFF CORTANA and it STILL keeps right on sending data showing that its bullshit, its keylogging. Type on the keyboard? Certain addresses are called, the same one called when you use the virtual keyboard. Turn on webcam? Different addresses, mike? Ditto. Sorry but that kind of behavior I see all the time at the shop....from malware.
Sadly we do not get to decide language, the general public does, and malware is a word used by tech but to the rest of the world? Its a virus no matter what form it takes. I wish it weren't so but we lost that fight, along with everyone from script kiddies to government cyberspies being called "hackers" a loooong time ago.
Which is what makes it a lot more dangerous. I'll just leave these here for your perusal. Oh and be sure to respond with a typical fanboy "but but but those don't count!" just like the Apple iHeads did when MacDefender came out and they went from "Apple doesn't get viruses" to "that doesn't count because its technically not a virus, its a trojan!" LOL.
The bloat is why I switched my customers to Comodo IS and Avast, Avast for the "little old lady" types that need lots of hand holding and Comodo IS for those that are needing a little more heavy duty protection as by default it sandboxes the browser.
What really sucks is the "TuneUp" its referring to I'm sure is the once great TuneUp Utilities which used to be my go to tool for keeping a home users system maintained, it was IMNSHO a spiritual successor to the DOS/Win9x era Norton Utilities, but AVG came along and pulled a Symantic and ruined it. It was a great little suite, would automatically clean and defrag the unit every 3 days, turn off all the extra Windows background crap when you were on battery to save power, just like Norton back in the day it just put everything in one nice neat little place and made it simple to understand for the home users.
Finally for those suggesting MSE? Yeah....no. While MSFT has gotten better their detection and blocking rates are still pretty poor, you look at any of the AV tests and you'll see Avast, Comodo, Anvir, ESET, Ad-Aware Pro and always right near the bottom? MSE. This really isn't surprising as MSFT simply bought Giant Anti-Spy which was made to compete with Malwarebytes NOT to be a full fledged AV solution.The only users I recommend MSE to are to those that already know best Internet practices and simply need an on demand scanner similar to ClamAV but which does the file scans on download, for that role? It does fine but I wouldn't want MSE to be a main defense as its scores are just too lousy.
Not the poster but it looks like Windows 10 still has the keylogger from the beta running which means ANYTHING you type, including with the virtual keyboard? Is sent home to the mothership, along with samples of your voice and your webcam. Which of course means using a MSFT account means nothing, as once you type your key and/or passwords they have them and can then sell them or do as they see fit.
Until someone shows a toll that can REALLY and truly remove the insane amount of spying, which as you can see from this partial list from MSFT is a couple exits past batshit levels? I'm advising my customers to treat Windows 10 like the only other software I deal with that phones home without user control...malware.
Did I say that NONE of them would find a use? Nope just that consumers find them to be toys which is the truth. There will always be a niche for that form factor, hell no differently than the netbooks that you can still buy today (they just don't call 'em netbooks) but Joe and Jane Average simply find mobile software lacking compared to that laptop they already have.
And we already have evidence the tablet bubble is bursting, you have sites like Tiger offering BOGO free sales trying to move the things and even Apple, whose fanboys can usually be counted on to buy the latest iShiny no matter what, has seen sales drop like a stone of the new iPad. Battery tech is stagnant so we aren't seeing better battery life if anything we are seeing the opposite as OEMs try to jam more and more cores into the things to try to make up for the fact that ARM doesn't scale. Many of the first gen tablets could get 8 hours plus because they were only a single core ARM at sub 1GHz, now you are lucky to get 3 hours on that new Samsung octocore.
And again you are ignoring the rotting elephant which is that tablet software sucks and is almost completely based around time wasting and media consumption. Just look at the top 10 Android and iOS apps, its nearly all just time killers. Well the thing with time wasters is people get bored with just being passive consumers, this is why TV watching has dropped, and on their laptop they can play time wasters AND do real work AND have access to better featured full desktop programs... it really doesn't take long before the tablet looks like a stupid cousin of the laptop they already have.
But there will always be niches, medical, warehouse inventory, anything where you have to walk around inputting data all day is a good fit for the tablet, that simply isn't the kind of thing Joe and Jane do all day. Again just look at the netbook, once upon a time they were as common as dirt and now you have only a few models being made for road warriors that need ultraportables, the same will hold true for tablets, just you watch.
Can we PLEASE stop posting yet another "PC is dying" story when its absolute horseshit? Gather round childrens, and let an old greybeard explain a few things that many seem to not know, especially retards that work in the press...
This is the most important fact that you need to know regarding PCs and sales mmkay? From 1993 to 2007 there was a bubble, no different than the dotbomb or the "houses will always go up" real estate bubble, this was NOT THE NORMAL STATE and was caused by two factors, 1.- Rapid advances in die shrinking technology, and 2.- A focus on single core computing. Now before 1993? You saw what we have now, slow and steady turnover with moderate and acceptable growth. Problem is, just as we saw too many bad companies (remember petfood online? Or CueCat?) that based their entire business model on "on the Internet" being enough to make them rich so too did you see many during the PC bubble base their whole business around infinite growth, like the bubble would never burst.
"So what about PCs in 2015, oh wise old one? And what about mobile?" I hear you ask. Its very simple young childrens, once the PC went to multicore they performance bubble burst and they went from "barely good enough for a year or two" to "insanely overpowered and good for a decade" which frankly was the default state before 1993. Before then programs didn't need a new PC every other year just to run and now? Can you name something mainstream that won't run just fine on a first gen C2Q or Phenom I X4? Hell the majority of people who aren't gaming are quite happy with a 10 year old C2D or Athlon X2 and even the gamers get along just fine on the second gen C2Q and Phenom II X4s and X6s, and those are 7 year old chips. PCs have simply gone back to being appliances that you replace when they die just like they were before the bubble when I was supporting 8 year old IBMs and Commodores locally.
Finally as for mobile? I'm gonna really piss off the fanboys but here goes mobile is in their own bubble which is about to burst so its not even gonna get half the run that PCs did in their bubble, why? Because ARM doesn't scale, it blows its power budget once you get beyond a certain speed, which is why we are now up to quads and octocores being the norm instead of climbing MHz like in the PC world. Also battery tech has been stagnant for more than a decade so adding more cores and more speed? Just gives you a device with a 15 minute battery life. I'm already starting to see this, talking to the brothers that own the phone shop down the road they are seeing more and more older phones being brought in for repair because people see no reason to upgrade as they are happy with their iPhone 4 or Galaxy II. They are also seeing a big uptick in the $100-$150 phones because nowadays that gets you a quad core with 8MP camera and a decently sized touchscreen and that is what Joe Average cares about so more and more are seeing now reason to buy $600+ phones. This goes double for tablets, which even Apple is having trouble getting folks to buy the latest iPad because people are happy with the previous model. This is also ignoring the rotting elephant in the room which is many tablets are ending up in sock drawers because the users find mobile software lacking compared to their laptops. I swear I must get dozens trying to sell me tablets really cheap each year because they just can't find a use for the things which isn't better served by their laptops, I had the same problem which is why I gave my 10 inch quad tablet to a nephew.
So no worries childrens, PCs aren't going anywhere, its simply going back to normal where you have 2 or 3 really big companies selling the boxes and parts and everybody just replaces when they die. Even the mom & pop shops that have any sense won't be going anywhere, I'm staying swamped with HTPCs, Home networking, and home theater setups and I'm predicting with all the cord cutting and everything being online that is gonna be a really big growth market for PCs in the coming years.
Now if you'll excuse me I have new games that are calling, Happy Holidays!
Oh boo bloody hoo, the servers were down for less than an hour, during the most hectic sale they have each year BTW, and all that had happened was some intern flipped the wrong switch and caused the caching server to show the details of random schmuck's Steam wallet. That's it, you couldn't spend the wallet, trade their games, or do anything else other than see what Joe Nobody had in their Steam wallet and their email address which in 2015 is plastered all over every damned place anyway.
Meanwhile all the games played just fine, the world kept spinning, and in less than an hour it was all back up and running just as pretty as you please.... you spoiled much? And just FYI you are forgetting UbiSuck and their craptastic client which you are welcome to buy from, i think this year they offered a whole...gasp! 10% off during their Xmas sale on select titles they can't give away like Watch Doges.
Excuse me if I don't panic or actually give any shits if some dude in Bavaria found out I have a whole 32c in my Steam Wallet from getting rid of those stupid Steam cards all the games seem to give you, I was too busy pounding noobs into submission to really care. You are free to buy from the half a dozen other sites, good luck with keeping all those accounts synced and up to date, not to mention the extra bullshit of having a half a dozen clients all wanting to phone home, me I'll just chalk this up to the "Steam always has a fuckup on Xmas" bug (which happens every year BTW) and go back to enjoying my new games.