You are most welcome. many of us in the south grow the three sisters and the nice thing is that you can do many variations, like replacing half the bean plants with tomato. They grow really great together and when planting season is over they leave the soil better than they found it, great for beginners as well.
After all the three sisters have been planted together for centuries for how well they work in harmony and the beans adding nitrogen to the soil and the squash keeping the roots cool and moist with their leaves would be useful in a Martian greenhouse. Seems like the most logical choice while providing a nice variety to the Martian farmers.
You are bitching about 160Mb...in 2015? Really? WTF kinda low rent mickey mouse hardware you running that you can even fricking NOTICE 160Mb of RAM? For fucks sake simply reading this used more than 160Mb of RAM! And why in the hell are you even launching the control center enough to know this? BTW have you bothered to see how much the Nvidia Control Panel uses?
If the most you can find to bitch about is how the control panel uses less MB than a smartphone UI from 2007? I think you are making my case more than you are your own. And sorry but "just take my word for it" isn't good enough, lets see them screencaps from YOUR system. Otherwise I'm sure I can grab random screencaps from Nvidia errors all over the web, that don't prove shit.
Except as TFS points out they are killing the plug in framework thus making their transformation into a shitty ersatz Chrome complete.
If you wish to keep your extensions I suggest you migrate to either Pale Moon or Comodo Icedragon as both of those have forked away and will be keeping the extension framework. The main difference is that Icedragon has the new style UI, Pale Moon has kept the original FF UI, so you can simply pick which UI suits you best and call it a day.
Been AMD/ATI exclusive since the X1650 Pro and I only had a single driver that was flaky and that was 14.4 and even on it gaming was fine, it merely had issues providing video acceleration through third party programs like VLC..
So perhaps you could give us a list of what issues you've been having and on what AMD/ATI hardware? Because I know I see a hell of a lot more crap drivers dealing with nvidia hardware at the shop, frustrating enough to me that for the only time in history me and Linus Torvalds agree on something so I look forward to hearing about your issues, perhaps you could provide a couple screencaps?
BTW I thought/. was all gung ho FOSS, so what happened? Is it not the FOSS community that has been saying for years "just give us the specs and open the code and the kernel devs will handle it"? Is that not EXACTLY what AMD did, in fact hiring guys to work on the FOSS driver to get it up to speed quicker? I have to find it frankly baffling how many here are supposedly all for the four freedoms yet when the rubber meets the road will go with Nvidia, a company that constantly tries to force proprietary solutions like CUDA over FOSS solutions like OpenCL, a company that has made it clear they are not gonna open squat over a company that has been providing docs and specs and opening their code since 2012...wth people? Is this bizzaro world, where support for FOSS equals supporting the proprietary choice?
Cases like this is what small claims court was designed for. It costs very little to file, you don't need a lawyer, and because its capped at 5K in most places often the corp will just pay up instead of spending the money to argue the case. Its one of the few places where the legal system actually gives an advantage to the little guy and it sounds like where these cases need to be.
Not to mention not only do trucks get less stringent emissions standards in the USA by being listed as work vehicles but many of these have parts that are interchangeable for sometimes better than half a decade. F150,F350, Ranger, you can buy a half a dozen of 'em that are years apart and if one breaks down? Use it for parts for the others.
So it makes sense they are buying trucks from the southern USA, they are plentiful, probably cheaper than anyplace else (in my area you can get damned nice running trucks for $3k-$5k all day long) and if they stick with one or two makes they can keep 'em on the road by using a couple for parts.
Because the telemetry is encrypted so I have NO idea what the 10% or whatever is sending? It could be sending my CC numbers, my browsing history, access to my cam and mike, I have no idea WHAT is being sent, only that I, the person that paid over a fricking grand for the system, have no control over it.
Yet isn't it funny that when you use code compiled with GCC instead of ICC you get these results? This is why you can't base shit on a single or even couple game benchmarks anymore, there is just too many ways to grossly affect the outcome. If you gave me the code to a popular game and let me control the compiler? I have ZERO doubt that I could make a 2003 Sempron beat an i7, its all about making sure the code supports the advanced features of the chip you want to win, while ignoring those features in the chip you want to lose, easy peasy. And that isn't even addressing just shitstain code written by a "works for me!" dev that doesn't est shit on anything but their own rig, which I really get the feeling is Wargaming in a nutshell.
And just for the record I play their World Of Warships as does my wife and despite her being on a Phenom II 925 from 6 years ago? Plays great with high framerates. BTW just FYI the biggest booster you can give to that game? Put it on an SSD as its code is really poorly optimized and even on the fastest HDD it'll lag, like Tera its shit code and "Hey my chip plays really shit code slightly faster!" is really not a selling point in my book.
THIS, this right here, is the problem with their entire argument. When you are dealing with a movie that is already getting bad buzz, which is gonna be assraped by most of the critics (PG-13? For a send up of 80s action tropes? DaFuq?) then you can safely bet the vast majority would never pay to see it and merely downloaded the torrent to see just how big a trainwreck it was.
Its like the first Wolverine or Trank's Fantastic Four, would I have ever paid a single cent to see either one? Oh fuck no, they are fucking garbage! But if I gave enough of a fuck I could see downloading it just to gawk at it like driving past a horrible wreck and conversely if a movie is really good having some rip ain't gonna affect it, IIRC there was a decent rip of the first Avengers and Winter Soldier a week or so after they hit theaters, didn't keep them from making mountains of cash did it?
So I don't see this affecting sales one bit, they had already screwed that pooch when they made a homage to 80s action a PG-13 to try to bring in the kiddies.
I personally really don't see the point of OCing anymore, I really don't. back when I had the Celeron 300, the one that would OC to 450Mhz? yes that made sense to try because we only had a single core and your CPU was being made obsolete almost before you got it out the box. I remember going from 400Mhz to 1200Mhz in like a 3 year period, it was insane.
But now what is the point? My AMD FX-8320E can easily have the base clocked cranked up to around 4.5Ghz-4.6Ghz.....and? What program am I gonna use that I'm really gonna feel that difference? Hell the stock is 3.2Ghz with a 4Ghz turbo and with 8 cores its not like I'm having to sit around waiting for tasks to complete like I was in the old single core days so all I'd be doing is blowing through power to shave a few seconds off a render, so what? I have yet to find a game or program that my chip can't just blow through and I have zero doubt that the same is true for every Intel made in the last 7+ years!
So there is really only 2 groups I can see where this might be a selling point...no scratch that as I was gonna say the first would be those doing heavy simulations like wave simulations or big engineering projects but those guys aren't running low price CPUs, they are running dual Xeon workstations, so I guess that just leaves the "gotta have a big ePeen!" types that don't know shit about CPU arches and think cranking an i3 is gonna somehow make them competitive with an i7, so for them...yay I guess?
Uhhh you don't have any family or friends with a smartphone? Your kid cannot wait 3 days for some stupid steam item?
And people wonder why suckers are getting scammed, see the perfect example of a spoiled impatient user above. As for why? because email is EASY TO COMPROMISE dumbass, its a HELL of a lot harder to snatch your phone throug the Internet.
Citation? The Browsers are FOSS as is LO, the AV has a license for free or small business use, so care to name what license you speak of oh insightful one, or are you just talking out your rectum?
And there is always PC Decrapifier for those PCs that come with "restore partitions" filled with crap, so I really don't get the big deal either.
Of course this is one more reason to go to your local system builder, the only software I install other than Windows is freeware that people can use like a full AV, Libre Office, Pale Moon and Comodo Dragon browsers with Adblock Plus,all spyware free.
What you want is a socket AM1, I use them for all kinds of jobs where you want low power but still need decent performance. you can get a Sempron quad for $33 that maxes out at 25w (and this really means max, according to kill-a-watt these things are sub 10w most of the time) and for that, the board, and a couple GB of RAM you can easily get it for less than $100.
Sure its not as cheap as the Pi but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, they even do 1080P over HDMI quite well for those that want a low power HTPC, hell you can even play games like Counter Strike Global Offensive if you want, so its got more than enough power to be a torrent box. I've sold quite a few to be office PCs,media tanks,you can make great backup/file servers out of 'em, just versatile as hell little chips.
News Flash R&D? It costs TONS of money, money AMD simply couldn't make because Intel bribed all the major OEMs to not take AMD chips. People here keep bringing up that 2 billion "settlement" which was frankly wrong in the first place because what Intel did was a criminal offense not a civil one, but riddle me this...how much money did Intel make from 2000-2008 when it was settled? anyone want to bet that 2 billion wasn't even a full year's profit? 6 months? How is AMD supposed to pay for the R&D to stay competitive when Intel is allowed to profit from bribery and market rigging?
For there to be equal footing then Intel should have lost every dime it made when it was doing illegal activity otherwise all you have done is made crime profitable for that company, sadly because of intense lobbying after the MSFT case to pull the teeth of government regulators that is EXACTLY what we got, a company that got to profit from blatant criminal acts.
Well lucky for me and my customers I didn't see that one thanks to GWX Control Panel which I HIGHLY recommend, it allows you to set customers updates back to automatic without worry about getting "Win 10'd" as it kills Windows upgrades dead WITHOUT touching the critical security patches that aren't backdoor attempts at "Win 10'ing" the system.
BTW for those that need a very easy and simple way to remove all that backported telemetry shit (funny they can't backport DX12 but they can all the Win 10 spyware) here is a handy.BAT file that wiull scan for any of the telemetry or Win 10 shit and remove it. Its updated every month to keep up with the MSFT bullshit parade so just grab a new copy about a week after patch Tuesday and you're golden.
Its fucking sad that they took what COULD have been a good OS and filled it so damned full of malware that we have to treat Windows Update as a malware vector and I really hope they get sued for this shit. I can't believe I'm saying this but....can we have Ballmer back? At least all he was doing was trying to (poorly) ape Apple and with something like Classic Shell it was easy enough to just remove the candyfloss, but I have yet to see anybody be able to show with a traffic analysis a way to 100% kill the spyware in Windows 10. Its so nasty I'm having to...gag, wretch...recommend Windows 8 as at least you can get it cheap, upgrade to 8.1, then get the GUI back with Classic Shell and use the.BAT to kill the spying, with Windows 10 its so baked in I seriously doubt anybody is gonna be able to wrench it out and leave a functional OS.
Yeah they are a company out of Miami, been making phones for the past few years. they were originally for the Latin market only and then branched out, good phones if you ask me.
I don't know if this place has good prices or not, you could probably do better, but to just give you a rough look here is a company selling BLU phones in Australia and it looks like they have most if not all the models. The one I got is the studio mini LTE and I just love the thing, decent battery life, nice bright screen, quad with plenty of memory, just an all around good phone.
Actually last numbers I saw had Yahoo mail beating Google mail by a pretty large margin, sadly only stats I can find not behind a paywall are for cellphone usage and naturally that is controlled by Gmail and Safari.
Have you looked at BLU phones? they have both Windows and Android and I just love my Android phone I got from BLU, good camera, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage with MicroSD slot, nice clear screen, quad core,no extra carrier crap and the phone with a protective cover and screen protector cost just $109 USD. Its probably as close as you'll get to running stock Android without buying a Cyanogen phone and despite my being pretty rough on phones? It just keeps on chugging.
So I don't know how AU prices would be but I do know they sell worldwide and have phones going from $50 USD to $300+ USD so they should have something in your price range no matter what...oh yeah and dual SIMs so it'll work just about anywhere, nice.
But does it have jack squat to do with overseas manufacturing? I would argue no, the death of surplus stores is because the younger generation has been raised to think of electronics as disposable and the vast majority simply see no value in these things.
And before somebody chimes in with that "but but makers" BS? At its very best, hell double the numbers actually involved even, it still isn't a tenth of the ones doing this kinda stuff in the 70s and 80s. My generation grew up with Radio Shack electronic kits, grew up with OSes that required you to learn how the chips worked to get the most by PEEKing and POKEing our way around, the past 2 generations? Have grown up with disposable electronics that are little more than black boxes, from PDAs to phones.
So I'm sorry but surplus electronics died because the culture shifted from a "how does this work, can I fix it or make it do cool stuff?" to "I'll just buy a new one" and sadly I don't see the former ever coming back, best you will get is a pale shell of it with the maker scene.
If you are wanting to run Windows 7 from a VM? Get a copy of "Windows 7 Tiny", it runs all the software Windows 7 runs while taking less than a GB installed and uses less than 150Mb running the desktop, great for a VM. Its also great for those that need Windows but have older or weaker hardware, just for shits and giggles I tried it on a Sempron 1.8Ghz from 2003 and it ran faster than Puppy Linux, felt like it was on an SSD instead of an 80GB HDD it ran so fast.
Afraid not, a traffic analysis of Windows 10 shows that not only is it sending data when you turn on your cam, or talk on your mike, but apparently they left the keylogger on from the beta so you might as well have somebody from MSFT standing behind you with a camera and notepad. Care to try again AC?
Here ya go, just use this simple windows OS update blocker, no need to even install, just run it, and you too will never see Windows OS upgrade infections again...oh and you're welcome, old Hairy is glad to help;-)
Sorry but that is BULLSHIT as I've had to clean several Windows 10 update infections off of users PCs and guess what? There was NO cancel, you could upgrade now, or upgrade later, but if you got it completely downloaded you got NO choice when it come to just saying "do not want".
I only see that type of behavior on one other type of software...malware. I will now be disabling auto-updates and advising my customers to do the same and will instead be providing links to either WSUS Offline or Autopatcher. Its fucking disgusting that they would shove their shit into a system the OS requires to stay updated and I hope they are sued.
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You are most welcome. many of us in the south grow the three sisters and the nice thing is that you can do many variations, like replacing half the bean plants with tomato. They grow really great together and when planting season is over they leave the soil better than they found it, great for beginners as well.
After all the three sisters have been planted together for centuries for how well they work in harmony and the beans adding nitrogen to the soil and the squash keeping the roots cool and moist with their leaves would be useful in a Martian greenhouse. Seems like the most logical choice while providing a nice variety to the Martian farmers.
You are bitching about 160Mb...in 2015? Really? WTF kinda low rent mickey mouse hardware you running that you can even fricking NOTICE 160Mb of RAM? For fucks sake simply reading this used more than 160Mb of RAM! And why in the hell are you even launching the control center enough to know this? BTW have you bothered to see how much the Nvidia Control Panel uses?
If the most you can find to bitch about is how the control panel uses less MB than a smartphone UI from 2007? I think you are making my case more than you are your own. And sorry but "just take my word for it" isn't good enough, lets see them screencaps from YOUR system. Otherwise I'm sure I can grab random screencaps from Nvidia errors all over the web, that don't prove shit.
Except as TFS points out they are killing the plug in framework thus making their transformation into a shitty ersatz Chrome complete.
If you wish to keep your extensions I suggest you migrate to either Pale Moon or Comodo Icedragon as both of those have forked away and will be keeping the extension framework. The main difference is that Icedragon has the new style UI, Pale Moon has kept the original FF UI, so you can simply pick which UI suits you best and call it a day.
Been AMD/ATI exclusive since the X1650 Pro and I only had a single driver that was flaky and that was 14.4 and even on it gaming was fine, it merely had issues providing video acceleration through third party programs like VLC..
So perhaps you could give us a list of what issues you've been having and on what AMD/ATI hardware? Because I know I see a hell of a lot more crap drivers dealing with nvidia hardware at the shop, frustrating enough to me that for the only time in history me and Linus Torvalds agree on something so I look forward to hearing about your issues, perhaps you could provide a couple screencaps?
BTW I thought /. was all gung ho FOSS, so what happened? Is it not the FOSS community that has been saying for years "just give us the specs and open the code and the kernel devs will handle it"? Is that not EXACTLY what AMD did, in fact hiring guys to work on the FOSS driver to get it up to speed quicker? I have to find it frankly baffling how many here are supposedly all for the four freedoms yet when the rubber meets the road will go with Nvidia, a company that constantly tries to force proprietary solutions like CUDA over FOSS solutions like OpenCL, a company that has made it clear they are not gonna open squat over a company that has been providing docs and specs and opening their code since 2012...wth people? Is this bizzaro world, where support for FOSS equals supporting the proprietary choice?
Cases like this is what small claims court was designed for. It costs very little to file, you don't need a lawyer, and because its capped at 5K in most places often the corp will just pay up instead of spending the money to argue the case. Its one of the few places where the legal system actually gives an advantage to the little guy and it sounds like where these cases need to be.
Not to mention not only do trucks get less stringent emissions standards in the USA by being listed as work vehicles but many of these have parts that are interchangeable for sometimes better than half a decade. F150,F350, Ranger, you can buy a half a dozen of 'em that are years apart and if one breaks down? Use it for parts for the others.
So it makes sense they are buying trucks from the southern USA, they are plentiful, probably cheaper than anyplace else (in my area you can get damned nice running trucks for $3k-$5k all day long) and if they stick with one or two makes they can keep 'em on the road by using a couple for parts.
Because the telemetry is encrypted so I have NO idea what the 10% or whatever is sending? It could be sending my CC numbers, my browsing history, access to my cam and mike, I have no idea WHAT is being sent, only that I, the person that paid over a fricking grand for the system, have no control over it.
Yet isn't it funny that when you use code compiled with GCC instead of ICC you get these results? This is why you can't base shit on a single or even couple game benchmarks anymore, there is just too many ways to grossly affect the outcome. If you gave me the code to a popular game and let me control the compiler? I have ZERO doubt that I could make a 2003 Sempron beat an i7, its all about making sure the code supports the advanced features of the chip you want to win, while ignoring those features in the chip you want to lose, easy peasy. And that isn't even addressing just shitstain code written by a "works for me!" dev that doesn't est shit on anything but their own rig, which I really get the feeling is Wargaming in a nutshell.
And just for the record I play their World Of Warships as does my wife and despite her being on a Phenom II 925 from 6 years ago? Plays great with high framerates. BTW just FYI the biggest booster you can give to that game? Put it on an SSD as its code is really poorly optimized and even on the fastest HDD it'll lag, like Tera its shit code and "Hey my chip plays really shit code slightly faster!" is really not a selling point in my book.
THIS, this right here, is the problem with their entire argument. When you are dealing with a movie that is already getting bad buzz, which is gonna be assraped by most of the critics (PG-13? For a send up of 80s action tropes? DaFuq?) then you can safely bet the vast majority would never pay to see it and merely downloaded the torrent to see just how big a trainwreck it was.
Its like the first Wolverine or Trank's Fantastic Four, would I have ever paid a single cent to see either one? Oh fuck no, they are fucking garbage! But if I gave enough of a fuck I could see downloading it just to gawk at it like driving past a horrible wreck and conversely if a movie is really good having some rip ain't gonna affect it, IIRC there was a decent rip of the first Avengers and Winter Soldier a week or so after they hit theaters, didn't keep them from making mountains of cash did it?
So I don't see this affecting sales one bit, they had already screwed that pooch when they made a homage to 80s action a PG-13 to try to bring in the kiddies.
I personally really don't see the point of OCing anymore, I really don't. back when I had the Celeron 300, the one that would OC to 450Mhz? yes that made sense to try because we only had a single core and your CPU was being made obsolete almost before you got it out the box. I remember going from 400Mhz to 1200Mhz in like a 3 year period, it was insane.
But now what is the point? My AMD FX-8320E can easily have the base clocked cranked up to around 4.5Ghz-4.6Ghz.....and? What program am I gonna use that I'm really gonna feel that difference? Hell the stock is 3.2Ghz with a 4Ghz turbo and with 8 cores its not like I'm having to sit around waiting for tasks to complete like I was in the old single core days so all I'd be doing is blowing through power to shave a few seconds off a render, so what? I have yet to find a game or program that my chip can't just blow through and I have zero doubt that the same is true for every Intel made in the last 7+ years!
So there is really only 2 groups I can see where this might be a selling point...no scratch that as I was gonna say the first would be those doing heavy simulations like wave simulations or big engineering projects but those guys aren't running low price CPUs, they are running dual Xeon workstations, so I guess that just leaves the "gotta have a big ePeen!" types that don't know shit about CPU arches and think cranking an i3 is gonna somehow make them competitive with an i7, so for them...yay I guess?
Uhhh you don't have any family or friends with a smartphone? Your kid cannot wait 3 days for some stupid steam item?
And people wonder why suckers are getting scammed, see the perfect example of a spoiled impatient user above. As for why? because email is EASY TO COMPROMISE dumbass, its a HELL of a lot harder to snatch your phone throug the Internet.
Citation? The Browsers are FOSS as is LO, the AV has a license for free or small business use, so care to name what license you speak of oh insightful one, or are you just talking out your rectum?
And there is always PC Decrapifier for those PCs that come with "restore partitions" filled with crap, so I really don't get the big deal either.
Of course this is one more reason to go to your local system builder, the only software I install other than Windows is freeware that people can use like a full AV, Libre Office, Pale Moon and Comodo Dragon browsers with Adblock Plus,all spyware free.
What you want is a socket AM1, I use them for all kinds of jobs where you want low power but still need decent performance. you can get a Sempron quad for $33 that maxes out at 25w (and this really means max, according to kill-a-watt these things are sub 10w most of the time) and for that, the board, and a couple GB of RAM you can easily get it for less than $100.
Sure its not as cheap as the Pi but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, they even do 1080P over HDMI quite well for those that want a low power HTPC, hell you can even play games like Counter Strike Global Offensive if you want, so its got more than enough power to be a torrent box. I've sold quite a few to be office PCs,media tanks,you can make great backup/file servers out of 'em, just versatile as hell little chips.
Insightful? Really mods? How are you supposed to capitalize on that lead when the competition bribes the OEMs not to use your chips no matter how much lead you have?
News Flash R&D? It costs TONS of money, money AMD simply couldn't make because Intel bribed all the major OEMs to not take AMD chips. People here keep bringing up that 2 billion "settlement" which was frankly wrong in the first place because what Intel did was a criminal offense not a civil one, but riddle me this...how much money did Intel make from 2000-2008 when it was settled? anyone want to bet that 2 billion wasn't even a full year's profit? 6 months? How is AMD supposed to pay for the R&D to stay competitive when Intel is allowed to profit from bribery and market rigging?
For there to be equal footing then Intel should have lost every dime it made when it was doing illegal activity otherwise all you have done is made crime profitable for that company, sadly because of intense lobbying after the MSFT case to pull the teeth of government regulators that is EXACTLY what we got, a company that got to profit from blatant criminal acts.
Well lucky for me and my customers I didn't see that one thanks to GWX Control Panel which I HIGHLY recommend, it allows you to set customers updates back to automatic without worry about getting "Win 10'd" as it kills Windows upgrades dead WITHOUT touching the critical security patches that aren't backdoor attempts at "Win 10'ing" the system.
BTW for those that need a very easy and simple way to remove all that backported telemetry shit (funny they can't backport DX12 but they can all the Win 10 spyware) here is a handy .BAT file that wiull scan for any of the telemetry or Win 10 shit and remove it. Its updated every month to keep up with the MSFT bullshit parade so just grab a new copy about a week after patch Tuesday and you're golden.
Its fucking sad that they took what COULD have been a good OS and filled it so damned full of malware that we have to treat Windows Update as a malware vector and I really hope they get sued for this shit. I can't believe I'm saying this but....can we have Ballmer back? At least all he was doing was trying to (poorly) ape Apple and with something like Classic Shell it was easy enough to just remove the candyfloss, but I have yet to see anybody be able to show with a traffic analysis a way to 100% kill the spyware in Windows 10. Its so nasty I'm having to...gag, wretch...recommend Windows 8 as at least you can get it cheap, upgrade to 8.1, then get the GUI back with Classic Shell and use the .BAT to kill the spying, with Windows 10 its so baked in I seriously doubt anybody is gonna be able to wrench it out and leave a functional OS.
Yeah they are a company out of Miami, been making phones for the past few years. they were originally for the Latin market only and then branched out, good phones if you ask me.
I don't know if this place has good prices or not, you could probably do better, but to just give you a rough look here is a company selling BLU phones in Australia and it looks like they have most if not all the models. The one I got is the studio mini LTE and I just love the thing, decent battery life, nice bright screen, quad with plenty of memory, just an all around good phone.
Actually last numbers I saw had Yahoo mail beating Google mail by a pretty large margin, sadly only stats I can find not behind a paywall are for cellphone usage and naturally that is controlled by Gmail and Safari.
Have you looked at BLU phones? they have both Windows and Android and I just love my Android phone I got from BLU, good camera, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage with MicroSD slot, nice clear screen, quad core,no extra carrier crap and the phone with a protective cover and screen protector cost just $109 USD. Its probably as close as you'll get to running stock Android without buying a Cyanogen phone and despite my being pretty rough on phones? It just keeps on chugging.
So I don't know how AU prices would be but I do know they sell worldwide and have phones going from $50 USD to $300+ USD so they should have something in your price range no matter what...oh yeah and dual SIMs so it'll work just about anywhere, nice.
But does it have jack squat to do with overseas manufacturing? I would argue no, the death of surplus stores is because the younger generation has been raised to think of electronics as disposable and the vast majority simply see no value in these things.
And before somebody chimes in with that "but but makers" BS? At its very best, hell double the numbers actually involved even, it still isn't a tenth of the ones doing this kinda stuff in the 70s and 80s. My generation grew up with Radio Shack electronic kits, grew up with OSes that required you to learn how the chips worked to get the most by PEEKing and POKEing our way around, the past 2 generations? Have grown up with disposable electronics that are little more than black boxes, from PDAs to phones.
So I'm sorry but surplus electronics died because the culture shifted from a "how does this work, can I fix it or make it do cool stuff?" to "I'll just buy a new one" and sadly I don't see the former ever coming back, best you will get is a pale shell of it with the maker scene.
If you are wanting to run Windows 7 from a VM? Get a copy of "Windows 7 Tiny", it runs all the software Windows 7 runs while taking less than a GB installed and uses less than 150Mb running the desktop, great for a VM. Its also great for those that need Windows but have older or weaker hardware, just for shits and giggles I tried it on a Sempron 1.8Ghz from 2003 and it ran faster than Puppy Linux, felt like it was on an SSD instead of an 80GB HDD it ran so fast.
Afraid not, a traffic analysis of Windows 10 shows that not only is it sending data when you turn on your cam, or talk on your mike, but apparently they left the keylogger on from the beta so you might as well have somebody from MSFT standing behind you with a camera and notepad. Care to try again AC?
Here ya go, just use this simple windows OS update blocker, no need to even install, just run it, and you too will never see Windows OS upgrade infections again...oh and you're welcome, old Hairy is glad to help ;-)
Sorry but that is BULLSHIT as I've had to clean several Windows 10 update infections off of users PCs and guess what? There was NO cancel, you could upgrade now, or upgrade later, but if you got it completely downloaded you got NO choice when it come to just saying "do not want".
I only see that type of behavior on one other type of software...malware. I will now be disabling auto-updates and advising my customers to do the same and will instead be providing links to either WSUS Offline or Autopatcher. Its fucking disgusting that they would shove their shit into a system the OS requires to stay updated and I hope they are sued.