"All go to hell except cave 76!" or were you going for "U must be teh M$ Ninja!" I'm not quite clear, you should try being more concise with your trolls. As for which version is 10 new enough for you? You obviously didn't even read my post before spewing because i said quite clearly there were some improvements between 9 and 10 just not enough to make up for its hogging.You really should try reading what you are responding to, makes you look less foolish, just FYI.
Try the Dragon, its ABP also blocks those damned Hulu ads. i'll take 30 seconds of silence over their over loud screeching ads any day of the week. it also has some really nice security features like the optional "Use Secure DNS only in the browser" which blocks a LOT of malware that is hidden in ads and it blocks referrer (again optional) which helps with privacy. it also doesn't do as you pointed out FF does with all the memory hanging crap.
That's why we need more money spent on cloning tech dammit, we're out of Nazis! Everybody knows we kicked them Ruskies only because our Nazis was better than their Nazis, and now we're all out of Nazis! We'll start with a dozen copies of everyone on Operation paperclip and go from there, starting with a dozen Von Brauns, that'll show the world who leads in Nazis!
Well thanks, you'd be surprised all the different names I've heard. So far I'm supposedly shilling for MSFT, Comodo, Apple (WTF? I don't even own an iPod) and was even told that insulting IE somehow was me shilling FOR IE, still haven't figured out how that works.
As for the Dragon I tried over a dozen browsers before settling on the Dragon for my customers and its quite nice, you can use any of the Chrome extensions like Adblock and readability and it has some really nice privacy features like optional SecureDNS, phishing blocking, and a one click button to look at a site's history and see how it is rated, all optional.
And with Firefox from what I've seen it depends just as much on the CPU as anything else as its like I said not really CPU agnostic anymore. Since the compiler rigging and bribery came out I've quit selling Intel and I've found that while FF up to 3.x was pretty much CPU agnostic after V 5 its really an Intel only browser, at least on Windows. It also doesn't seem to like the lower power AMD chips much, be it Sempron or the Phenom E series or the Zacate APUs. in fact I've found i get nearly an extra hour on my Brazos netbook by simply sticking with Dragon over FF. It don't seem to matter what amount of RAM you have either, its just as sluggish on the 8Gb of RAM in the netbook as it is on the 1.5Gb of RAM on the Sempron. But when I can simply type in a textbox and with Anvir Task Manager I can watch the CPU slam in FF while I can do three times the surfing in Dragon and not hit above 70% there is something wrong there. I tried Opera (low usage but i couldn't get over the UI) to QTWeb (great for a portable browser and low usage but no ABP) and a half a dozen derivatives of Chromium but sadly FF always used the most resources, hung the most, and gave the worst experience, especially on low power chips.
Try a media tank like the WDTV or an NBox HD and your wife will change her tune REAL quick friend. Having ALL the movies and shows she likes at a press of a button, no messing around with discs? Priceless. This is why the current MPAA crap is so pathetic, as its holding back innovation. there is no damned reason why i shouldn't be able to just hop on Amazon and whip out a CC and get an.avi or.mkv file of whatever show or movie i just bought other than sheer stupidity. does it in ANY way hinder the pirates? Fuck no, they have the movie or show at release if not before in their choice of formats. Look at any torrent or emule search engine and you can have your choice in.avi or.mkv in every popular resolution from standard 700Mb DVD rips all the way up to 8Gb+ Bluray HD rips, no hassle. All you can get legit is a big pile o' DRM suck that makes you jump through hoops and won't work on a single media tank short of a full blown HTPC.
So trust me friend, try a media tank. To get your feet wet on the cheap I'd suggest an NBox HD (less than $60 most places) along with a 200Gb SATA or IDE drive with a $5 enclosure (If you're like most geeks you have some drives lying around and the enclosure is less than $10) and hook it up to the TV in the bedroom or den and watch how quickly she warms to having it all at her fingertips. Makes a great gift for older relatives too,and for those with kids they are a Godsend as you don't have to worry about little Suzy scratching her favorite Dora disc anymore.
More likely they simply had a much better invention...slaves. Same reason why all the basics were there to make steam power during the height of the Greek and Roman empires but it was only used to make parlor tricks and toys for the tables of the rich. When you have slaves to do the toting for you why bother? I wouldn't be surprised if that is why so many of our earliest leaps of technology came from desert lands like Syria and Egypt, lots of desert plus nomadic tribes equals less chance to capture slaves and a lot more work to feed the ones you have.
To me the more interesting question is 'How many times have we had to reinvent things?' because we see all these dark periods where some religion, or some plague or other disaster comes along and we end up taking these huge stumbles backwards that take centuries to recover from. for example we know now that during the height of the Roman empire they had VERY advanced mathematics, used gold sutures to help prevent infection (even if they didn't know why it worked), used lithium in the form of baths to treat the mentally ill, even had taxis that charged by the mile. Then came the rise of the Christians who promptly destroyed anything that didn't have the word Jesus on it and we were sent backwards by centuries. Not knocking the Christians as it seemed like every religion did the same thing, hell we see the Muslims trying their damnedest to do the same even today.
hell I wouldn't be surprised if the first couple of guys that came up with the wheel weren't promptly strapped to it and set on fire for being witches, would be about right considering here we are in the 21st century and we still have people killing each other over what some goat herder wrote on a piece of sheep's ass 1000+ years ago.
The problem is without source code more and more of those games simply will have NO way to ever run, so many programs and games are quickly becoming unplayable. While DOSBox can save pre-Windows sadly it doesn't work worth a shit on Win9X era games and many of those are becoming completely unusable, programs too. You'd be surprised how many of the Win9X era games and programs simply won't run on modern hardware no matter what, they used hacks, made calls they shouldn't have, try getting something like Macromedia XRes or Mechwarriors 3 or i76 to run on a modern multicore, its damned near impossible. the one game I bought from GOG I could never get to work is i76 and on their forums guys have tried all kinds of hacks only to find the code itself is using Pentium III CPU timings for certain in game events.
So without the source code what you are gonna have is a ton of programs and games that it won't matter if they ever come out of copyright or not, they'll never run on modern hardware. How many of us have working P3s anymore? the caps die, the traces go, these old boards are dying left and right and with them any chance of preserving all that history. Sad really but that's what happens when the corps overrule We, The People, the interests of the public just don't mean shit.
Except that its NOT bullshit, in fact that's why i moved my customers and family off of Firefox. I've found the newer versions of Firefox are NOT CPU agnostic and in fact really don't like AMD CPUs that much, especially the low power chips. I've also found once it takes RAM for a page it doesn't give it back, even after you close the tab, and in fact you can leave FF running 24 hours and watch as it slowly but surely sucks more and more RAM until it finally grinds the machine with swapping.
For these reasons and the constant complaints about how FF will have "senior moments" and just freeze for a few seconds, just enough to really piss my customers off, I've gotten rid of FF from my default install list in favor of Comodo Dragon. With each new FF release I try it, hoping its changed, but so far no joy. oh they made a little improvement from 9 to 10, if you call going from 100% CPU to 94% CPU improvement but when the same machine hits less than 60% under Dragon I don't really consider that much to celebrate, certainly not enough to matter. In my own tests I've found Dragon, QTWeb, Opera, any of these do better than FF when it comes to memory and CPU usage, both at startup and over time.
Now you may feel free to call me dirty names, claim I must be shilling for some nebulous corp, even though i just named three different browsers, two of which are FOSS, but the simple fact is THERE IS A REASON why Firefox has gotten such a bad rep, its because its deserved because so many of us have had bad experiences with their new direction. Personally i think its Gecko, I think they have stretched the engine beyond its limits trying to bolt more and more onto it trying to rip off Chrome and its in need of a rewrite. I've tried both ESR and Pale Moon which is FF built for speed and certain CPU flags and they both behave similar to FF which makes me think its the underlying engine.
Frankly FF was better before Chrome came along when they were originally trying to just be the best little lightweight standards compliant browser they could be, remember that? What's happening with FF after Chrome reminds me of how MSFT is crapping their pants and screwing up their OS trying to "capture the magic" of the iPad. Both companies had a few bumps but seemed to be making progress but then this new thing grabbed headlines and made them crap their pants with fear, now its a "me too, ohhh me too!" fest and it sucks. Quit trying to be Chrome Mozilla, many of us would come back if you'd just stop it. if we wanted Chrome we'd install Chrome!
Simple without anymore patches all it takes is one zero day to pwn every machine left, for an example look at the 15 or so holes found on Win2k after it was EOLed, or the 20 or so for Win9X. the black hats are practically counting the days because there is currently over 300 million XP boxes and once MSFT walks away if you don't upgrade they'll own them all.
That is why i think its sad that Linux is not going anywhere, not now, not ever. there are a LOT of working poor that could really use the better security but frankly all the normal folks were run out years ago by the "CLI is God!" sect who treats anything that makes Linux easier to use as bad and anything that makes it harder is good. look at the poster above who couldn't find a single thing to argue against my post so all they could do was go back to their standard "He must be ONE OF THEM ZOMFG!" routine. Linux has become the realm of the misfit, the loner, the maladjusted. too many of the normals are being run off by the crazies. Hell look at the one above him who is basically "Why should we give a fuck?" aka the classic 'Works for me!" bullshit. You should care because without users you don't get drivers, you don't get native software or ports, you don't get specs or new hardware, basically you are trapped into dumpster diving for shit old enough to have been reverse engineered.
In the end Linux is about to get punked about as bad as Sega did with the Saturn as i believe right before release Ballmer will simply walk up to the mike and say "Windows 8 is $50" and hand out a flyer that shows Win 8 at $50 for HP and $100 for the triple pack. At that price nobody is gonna care about 'free as in teh freedoms!" when you have to deal with broken upgrades and crappy drivers and hardware roulette, they just won't. Funny how everyone brings up Dell but NOBODY will ask Dell "What have you made on those Ubuntu sales?" because the answer is ZERO, they've LOST money every sale. they have to maintain their own distro because the crappy drivers die on upgrade, even though we are only talking about a dozen units. This is a symptom of a larger disease, the "blame everybody but Linux" disease where all you will be told is "Ur doin it wrong" and "Use distro X". Does anyone HONESTLY believe one of the largest OEMs on the planet can't even design basic hardware?
in the end the numbers don't lie, Linux is lower on adoption than JavaME, Mandriva is dead, Canonical will be next, the desktop is an unmitigated failure. When canonical dies that's it, all you will have is "Bob's distro" and while Windows and Apple get better each release linux will fall farther and farther behind. again sad but retailers like myself have been pointing this out for years. its over, its done, the fat lady is down the street having a sammich.
Not to mention everyone seems to forget Gates' main contribution was to calm a spooked market that was filled with "Is this the death of Apple?" articles that had investors spooked and developers abandoning the platform. When gates came out and said "We will have not only Office but a division working on mac products because we think it has a future" the investors said "hey, if Gates thinks there is money to be made, maybe there is" and the same thing happened with developers.
Remember folks it didn't have squat to do with the money, jobs could have pulled 150 million out of his ass. What mattered was WHERE the money was coming from and WHO was investing it. At the time Win98 was everywhere and WinNT was pretty much THE business OS, so to have its CEO say a company has a future, well that was good enough for many.
Not to mention the problem with these kinds of ideas is a simple fact one can't escape...time to market. The PC world is still kicking out some serious advances on both the CPU and the GPU and by the time this box goes from drawing board to sitting on a shelf frankly it'll be using tech 3 generations behind at a cost comparable to something MUCH newer. This is why MSFT basically took a big bath on the original Xbox and took nearly 2 years to make a dime on the X360 as they knew you had to think long term with a market like that. How many years is Valve willing to lose money on this thing?
And if its one place i'd argue DON'T need a set top box its PC gaming. PC gaming boxes have frankly never been cheaper, you can pick up a nice barebone for $300 that'll play most of the games out there or add $75 to your local mom&pop shop and they'll do it for you. Dell and HP and everybody and their dog have both gaming desktops and laptops, and thanks to Steam I haven't seen an incompatibility in ages. This is a solution in search of a problem IMHO and a BAD idea. Valve should just keep backing the money truck up to their doorstep with Steam and not even consider getting in the ring with Sony and MSFT. Just look at how much money both of those companies have lost in that arena and you can see its not a smart move.
Try the new Brazos friend, especially the E350 and E450 units, they are what Atom+ION USED to be. I have built several low power office units and HTPCs out of them and was impressed enough by the performance i sold my full size laptop for a 12 inch EEE with an E350. i get nearly 6 hours watching HD videos, never gets hot, video is smooth, hell I even play L4D and GTA:VC (I could play the newer ones but don't care for them) on it and it doesn't skip a bit. Also because AMD isn't in bed with Microsoft or trying to force you to upscale there is no artificial limits on their chips, most will run 8Gb of RAM and the lowest you'll find on max RAM is 4Gb, compare to Intel's 2Gb limit and 10 inch screen mandate. Check out Tiger and Newegg and you can find several units where all you do is slap in the HDD and RAM and you're good to go and these babies can be passively cooled and just sip power.
But what happened with Intel and Nvidia is just a classic example of what happens when a company gets too greedy. Intel couldn't stand the thought of not getting 100% of the chipset business and instead of seeing the added value having a powerful GPU could bring to a weak chip like Atom they killed the entire line and made the chip all but worthless. All my customers that bought non ION Atom units quickly returned them because they were just too damned slow, the units even under XP just felt like they were constantly dragging. I don't know how many time I had an Atom unit brought in by a customer asking "Can you make this any better?" only to have to tell them "Yeah, sell it and get an AMD because this sucks". My EEE has 8Gb of RAM and came with Win 7 HP X64 and runs that full OS as well as any desktop.
Oh a word of advice, if you do try a Brazos unit get "Brazos tweaker", its a free download from Google Codeplex and by dropping the voltage a little you can squeeze even longer battery life or get an even quieter unit. I managed to drop my EEE down 200Mhz at idle and 5% voltage under load which translates to nearly an hour on my 6 cell. really a great chip though, often cheaper than Atom alone yet gives better performance than Atom+ION, makes a great HTPC and both Tiger and the Egg have some really small passive units, just a great chip.
You are ignoring the fact this is an obvious concerted effort which distorts the very nature of things. look at blacks, if they don't dump chemicals in their hair and on their skin they aren't "good" because they don't have "good" hair and "good" skin color, and all the time this image of chocolate Barbie is being held up as the ideal. Now obviously this image is completely fabricated and is about as realistic as depicting American Indians as a bunch of white actors in face paint and I would argue more than a little racist.
So where do you draw the line? How far do you allow them to get away with it before you accept its harmful? As many black musicians have noted its not the blacks pushing the "thug life!" the gangsta, killa, and dope deala lifestyle crap, its the white record companies. I wish I could find the link again as one black musician made a great video showing stereotypes through the ages and basically they are pushing the "violent darkie" that has been used since "The Birth Of a Nation" back at the turn of the 20th century.
Like it or not there are limits to even free speech and that limit is usually drawn at where it is causing harm to others. one need only look at how many young women are killing themselves trying to look like an unattainable goal to see that it IS causing harm.
Not to mention he is counting packages which last time i checked some applications can have literally dozens of packages connected to them. That would be like counting every little piece required to make Libre Office (what is it with FOSS and shitty names? is it like a rule or something?) and counting it as a separate app.
Now I'll probably get hate for this, which will be ironic and sad since/. is supposed to be libertarian, but WTF I don't care. We ALL know why GPL is going down, its because TINSTAAFL and with GPL V3 RMS has gone so damned anti business he's scared away too many folks. I actually kinda feel sorry for RMS in this, i really do. What happened is the all to human and all too often response to trolling and that's overreaction. the TiVo guys basically went "LOL Goatse" to RMS and he went "I'll get you bastards!" and promptly shot himself in the foot in the process. Now ironically if FOSS truly WAS a community and collective effort then right about now a large group of devs, users, and businesses would get together and hash out what the problems are and fix them, basically cooperate for the betterment of all, and if RMS didn't want to participate they'd just fork which is the standard way that FOSS routes around damage.
But sadly RMS doesn't want a democracy, he wants a dictatorship. he believe this is some mythical battle of god VS evil, that he is a neckbearded Luke Skywalker. Problem is IRL communist utopias simply don't exist and most of the major projects have been actually paid for by businesses. Now RMS has made the terms of GPL so nasty companies are afraid to touch it, hell even Torvalds won't use V3 for the kernel. if that don't smack you with a cluebat i don't know what will.
No personally i hope things change, that the community routes around the damage and gets better, although I'm not holding my breath with so many "RMS is God" true believers out there. But if there is zero ways for businesses to get a ROI then they simply will stay away and surprise! That's not good for anybody. look on the desktop scene where Mandriva is DOA and Canonical won't be far behind. The simple fact is you NEED companies to pay for all the work that needs doing, without that pay you end up with the "busted shitter" problem where nobody wants to do the lousy jobs like bug fixing, QA, regression testing, writing decent docs, so they just don't get done.
As a retailer I really hope things change, i really do. You have less than a year and a half before XP is DOA and Win 8 is released in just 7 months. But its obvious that GPL V3 simply isn't the way to go from looking at the numbers. Maybe its time for a new license, one that respects your freedom to tinker while accepting that those that pay for something have a right to get paid for their labor? Something like "You are free to look at and modify the code, but if you distribute you have to pay for it"?
Not to mention that those 8 cards probably don't have as much raw pixel pushing power as a pair of SLI or CF cards from the other guys, really not that impressive. Frankly Intel should have tried to buy out Nvidia years ago, the thing that gimps their chips more than anything is the crappy IGPs, instead they shoot themselves in the face by killing the Nvidia chipset business thus making Atom completely worthless. With ION it was actually a nice little unit but with Intel IGPs Atom is horrible.
That is one place you really have to give AMD credit, they saw the direction the market was going with low power mobile devices and bought ATI which makes excellent chips and ended up with Brazos, a dual core with HD graphics that sucks less than 18w under full load. I mean sure 8 cards might be nice for a render farm, but how many are gonna be willing to pay that electric and cooling bill with the prices constantly going up?
While I appreciate the effort Intel's answer to graphics has never been very good and if they need to throw 8 fricking cards at it I don't even want to know how many watts this sucker is pulling. The future is obviously mobile and while Nvidia has tegra, AMD has brazos, what's Intel got that can compete with that level of graphics in that small a wattage envelope?
Well I do think we should be fair about these things which we sure as hell aren't ATM. You watch commercials and you get chunky guys, skinny guys, big and tall guys, hell just about any shape and color of guy that is possible. But you look at ALL the females what do you see? perfect waist, perfect hair, hell the black girls look like chocolate barbie dolls. that's not normal, that not in any way shape or form reality, this is why we have women hating themselves, its Stepford wives all the way down.
We guys just don't realize what that constant beating down can do to a woman's self esteem. I've been with my little Cherokee princess and its taken years to undo some of the damage and i'm still not close to being done. She grew up close to the rez and all she heard was how she didn't measure up, that she just wasn't as pretty or desirable as the white girls, simply because she looked Cherokee. The Cherokee woman is naturally shorter than the white, has wider hip bones and more pear shaped breasts along with the wider nose and the flat straight hair. These are simply natural features common to many of the tribes but she constantly heard, which was constantly reinforced on TV, that she simply wasn't as 'good", she didn't have the "good" hair or the "good" body shape. When I met her her self esteem was almost non existent and she had had two failed abusive marriages including the last one who had put her in ICU. She simply didn't believe she deserved to be treated like a person and the first time we got into an argument and I refused to even raise a hand to her she was so shocked she broke down crying because she automatically assumed if she didn't do to suit me she'd get the back of my hand.
So let's not just "poo poo" this out of hand, okay? we guys have every body shape known to man out there in TV AND movies while they will sometimes make fun of the fat schmuck more often than not they'll have him get a girl that is MUCH prettier than he is handsome, hell look at American Pie where the "Shemanator" ended up with the hottie. We guys have simply never had to deal with that, one of the first TV stars was Jackie Gleason for the love of Pete!
Have you ever actually TRIED that? I have, I wanted to rescue some of the really funky ass old shareware titles that are damned near impossible to play on modern Windows and give them a new lease on life. i quickly found most of these companies expect something to the tune of 300%-3000% profits or they won't give you the time of day. I wish I had saved the emails so i could post 'em, one company wanted six figures for their "very valuable IP" when we are talking about something that wasn't even up to the level of "Codename:Tenka" but was one of those 50 bazillion Wolfenstein knockoff that came out back when that old thing was a hit and everyone tried to cash in.
I bet if you were to contact Sony their asking price is right around what you would expect to pay for GTA 3 or NWN, not some nearly dead card trading game. never underestimate the incredible all consuming greed of these people. This is why I'm so against the extended copyrights we now have, thanks to the insatiable greed of the megacorps by the time most things do come out of copyright they won't exist and any source code will have been destroyed decades ago. Thanks to these greedy bastards the history of electronic gaming is gonna be more spotty and incomplete than the fossil record and that's just sad.
Nice choice in board, BAD choice in cooler. Frankly many air coolers can't beat the sealed WC units. if you find your unit getting hot look into a Hyper N520, they are less than $40 on Amazon and are so quiet you wouldn't believe it has 2 120mm fans but man does that baby drop the heat! My 1035T Thuban idles at just 70F and after 5 hours of all 6 cores full bore video transcoding I BARELY hit 120f, and less than 40 seconds after dropping the load i was back below 80f, just an incredible cooler. Works on just about every socket out there as well, so you can simply move it with you on your next build.
You are gonna love the Asrock OCing tools, they are the easiest I've ever seen and i've been building boxes since before there even was a Windows. If its anything like mine not only will it have an excellent GUI for OCing but it also allows you to automatically drop phases when idle to sip power AND lets you save multiple BIOS setting and switch on the fly at boot, its a REALLY sweet board.
a word of warning though: If you have trouble booting when you first put it together? Check your RAM timings. Sometimes Asrock boards get a little too aggressive on their RAM timings so you have to back off a bit from the defaults. But once you do that she'll purr like a big old kitty and the Asrock boards are real OCers boards, they just love to crank. With 6 cores I don't really need to OC but just for the heck of it when i first got it I decided to see what she'd do, i had gotten up to nearly 3.4GHz (from 2.6GHz default) with 3.7GHz on Turbo before i decided I didn't want to push my luck. if your chip will hit 5GHz the Asrock will get it there, enjoy!
But if they are currently Windows users that is a big change, and lets face it unity bites. A better suggestion would be Vector Linux who not only has a standard and SOHO edition but also has a "KDE Classic' which is more like WinXP than Ubuntu and would probably be easier for someone unfamiliar to Linux to pick up.
You wanna know what is sad? I ended up getting $25 worth of groceries free last year because the local grocery was gonna have to shut down because their cash registers went on the fritz. i told them "If you need them so bad why don't you just send someone down the street to pick up some cheapo calcs?' but since they were short handed the manager offered to pay me for the calcs AND give me my groceries for free if I'd go do it. They were late teens/early twenties and not a single one could count change without a machine! my oldest was like "Geez, you go get the calcs and i'll help them, otherwise by the time you get back the line will be around the block".
I think that in the nutshell is the problem...we have become too dependent on tech. I'll admit while basic maths i'm fine at i doubt seriously I could do algebra anymore as i'm used to having a calc that can solve for X. I'm just glad they have great tutors at my oldest boy's college because there was no way i could do college level trig and algebra anymore, if I ever run into a problem like that I have an ex NASA engineer i can call. You give him his classic HP with RPN and a slide rule and I doubt seriously there is anything he can't figure.
Maybe that's the answer, teach everyone how to use the cheap calcs. hell the $8 calcs now are nicer and have more functions than the $200 calcs they had when i went to HS, its just so many kids don't even know how to input the data to get the results.
Bah, all you need is go go juice and guns, didn't you people see that incredible masterpiece of modern cinema, Mad Max? Hell you got the gas you can even run a generator and play your porn...err i mean watch movies. No gas no videos for you!
but more and more people will be doing the same things in the future.
No they won't, that's the whole damned point of the cap. Instead you'll be doing like me where you HAVE to take the cableco's bundles, you HAVE to use their phone, you HAVE to watch their shows, do this? that nasty old cap just seems to go away. Don't? Well i hope you like getting cut off, or throttled, or just plain told "we don't want your business" when there aren't any alternatives in the area. Know what Cox is testing out for a cap limit on their consumer lines? 36Gb. My guess is so they don't have to bother with upgrades.
Enjoy the future, where the EU and Asia completely blow away the fat old paper tiger that was the USA whose 1%ers greed has stuck on the short bus to the info superhighway. Gotta make those quarterly earnings targets ya know.
Sadly its true, I've worked on more Vaios than I care to think about and frankly they aren't any better constructed than your average Compaq crap. if you want a good brand try Asus or Samsung, both make products with quality like the olden days of Sony. Back in the day Sony was the one to beat but the PS3 will go down as ultimately a flop and in this hard economic times a new console launch is gonna be a damned hard sell. MSFT can afford to practically give away their consoles thanks to XBL being a money making machine, Sony has no such luxury.
What I find hilarious is all these guys screaming "Sony fucked linux so fuck Sony!" when their choices are if they tell Sony to go to hell...A Microsoft console or a Microsoft PC. oh the irony is most moist and delicious! Well that is unless you REALLY like Pokemon, plumbers, and slightly effeminate guys with boomerangs, oh and a real PITA control schema that is more gimmick than anything else, then i guess you can go Nintendo who is likewise losing money hand over fist.
The only nice thing for the FOSS zealots in all this is at least AMD, which has been highly considerate of FOSS, seems to be the clear winner in all this. Again the irony is most tasty as AMD bent over backwards to give FOSS zealots everything they had asked for only to get in response 'LOL buy Nvidia". If irony was pie we'd all weigh about a thousand pounds right now. it will be quite funny to watch what happens when the zealots have a choice of Sony who fucked Linux, or MSFT who...well fucked Linux. So which do you prefer? A punch in the balls or a kick in the balls? Your choice guys.Gotta say this whole thing is LMAO funny, thanks.
So in other words 'Not our fault, blame the other guy" right? Well let me clue you in...NOBODY CARES, we really don't, if it doesn't work IT IS YOUR FAULT and we don't care about your excuses, its "broken" and we'll take it back or like Linus throw it away for something else. I wonder how long until his kid goes "Dad can't I just have Windows? It works for everybody else and its nice"?
FOSS better wake up and get their A games on or they are gonna be run over like a bug in the windshield of a Mac truck. The future is CONSUMERS in flaming 50 foot neon, this is why Apple is now the biggest company on the planet, why MSFT is better everything on Win 8, and you bring....excuses? nobody cares, and unless you want FOSS to be a niche as teeny tiny as those who will be programming for Raspberry pi you better wake up and smell the future. You think your niche is tiny now? Wait until MSFT announces Win 8 HP is $50 and the triple pack is $100, what few home users you have that aren't zealots will bail because of stupid crap like TFA.
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"All go to hell except cave 76!" or were you going for "U must be teh M$ Ninja!" I'm not quite clear, you should try being more concise with your trolls. As for which version is 10 new enough for you? You obviously didn't even read my post before spewing because i said quite clearly there were some improvements between 9 and 10 just not enough to make up for its hogging.You really should try reading what you are responding to, makes you look less foolish, just FYI.
Try the Dragon, its ABP also blocks those damned Hulu ads. i'll take 30 seconds of silence over their over loud screeching ads any day of the week. it also has some really nice security features like the optional "Use Secure DNS only in the browser" which blocks a LOT of malware that is hidden in ads and it blocks referrer (again optional) which helps with privacy. it also doesn't do as you pointed out FF does with all the memory hanging crap.
That's why we need more money spent on cloning tech dammit, we're out of Nazis! Everybody knows we kicked them Ruskies only because our Nazis was better than their Nazis, and now we're all out of Nazis! We'll start with a dozen copies of everyone on Operation paperclip and go from there, starting with a dozen Von Brauns, that'll show the world who leads in Nazis!
Well thanks, you'd be surprised all the different names I've heard. So far I'm supposedly shilling for MSFT, Comodo, Apple (WTF? I don't even own an iPod) and was even told that insulting IE somehow was me shilling FOR IE, still haven't figured out how that works.
As for the Dragon I tried over a dozen browsers before settling on the Dragon for my customers and its quite nice, you can use any of the Chrome extensions like Adblock and readability and it has some really nice privacy features like optional SecureDNS, phishing blocking, and a one click button to look at a site's history and see how it is rated, all optional.
And with Firefox from what I've seen it depends just as much on the CPU as anything else as its like I said not really CPU agnostic anymore. Since the compiler rigging and bribery came out I've quit selling Intel and I've found that while FF up to 3.x was pretty much CPU agnostic after V 5 its really an Intel only browser, at least on Windows. It also doesn't seem to like the lower power AMD chips much, be it Sempron or the Phenom E series or the Zacate APUs. in fact I've found i get nearly an extra hour on my Brazos netbook by simply sticking with Dragon over FF. It don't seem to matter what amount of RAM you have either, its just as sluggish on the 8Gb of RAM in the netbook as it is on the 1.5Gb of RAM on the Sempron. But when I can simply type in a textbox and with Anvir Task Manager I can watch the CPU slam in FF while I can do three times the surfing in Dragon and not hit above 70% there is something wrong there. I tried Opera (low usage but i couldn't get over the UI) to QTWeb (great for a portable browser and low usage but no ABP) and a half a dozen derivatives of Chromium but sadly FF always used the most resources, hung the most, and gave the worst experience, especially on low power chips.
Try a media tank like the WDTV or an NBox HD and your wife will change her tune REAL quick friend. Having ALL the movies and shows she likes at a press of a button, no messing around with discs? Priceless. This is why the current MPAA crap is so pathetic, as its holding back innovation. there is no damned reason why i shouldn't be able to just hop on Amazon and whip out a CC and get an .avi or .mkv file of whatever show or movie i just bought other than sheer stupidity. does it in ANY way hinder the pirates? Fuck no, they have the movie or show at release if not before in their choice of formats. Look at any torrent or emule search engine and you can have your choice in .avi or .mkv in every popular resolution from standard 700Mb DVD rips all the way up to 8Gb+ Bluray HD rips, no hassle. All you can get legit is a big pile o' DRM suck that makes you jump through hoops and won't work on a single media tank short of a full blown HTPC.
So trust me friend, try a media tank. To get your feet wet on the cheap I'd suggest an NBox HD (less than $60 most places) along with a 200Gb SATA or IDE drive with a $5 enclosure (If you're like most geeks you have some drives lying around and the enclosure is less than $10) and hook it up to the TV in the bedroom or den and watch how quickly she warms to having it all at her fingertips. Makes a great gift for older relatives too,and for those with kids they are a Godsend as you don't have to worry about little Suzy scratching her favorite Dora disc anymore.
More likely they simply had a much better invention...slaves. Same reason why all the basics were there to make steam power during the height of the Greek and Roman empires but it was only used to make parlor tricks and toys for the tables of the rich. When you have slaves to do the toting for you why bother? I wouldn't be surprised if that is why so many of our earliest leaps of technology came from desert lands like Syria and Egypt, lots of desert plus nomadic tribes equals less chance to capture slaves and a lot more work to feed the ones you have.
To me the more interesting question is 'How many times have we had to reinvent things?' because we see all these dark periods where some religion, or some plague or other disaster comes along and we end up taking these huge stumbles backwards that take centuries to recover from. for example we know now that during the height of the Roman empire they had VERY advanced mathematics, used gold sutures to help prevent infection (even if they didn't know why it worked), used lithium in the form of baths to treat the mentally ill, even had taxis that charged by the mile. Then came the rise of the Christians who promptly destroyed anything that didn't have the word Jesus on it and we were sent backwards by centuries. Not knocking the Christians as it seemed like every religion did the same thing, hell we see the Muslims trying their damnedest to do the same even today.
hell I wouldn't be surprised if the first couple of guys that came up with the wheel weren't promptly strapped to it and set on fire for being witches, would be about right considering here we are in the 21st century and we still have people killing each other over what some goat herder wrote on a piece of sheep's ass 1000+ years ago.
The problem is without source code more and more of those games simply will have NO way to ever run, so many programs and games are quickly becoming unplayable. While DOSBox can save pre-Windows sadly it doesn't work worth a shit on Win9X era games and many of those are becoming completely unusable, programs too. You'd be surprised how many of the Win9X era games and programs simply won't run on modern hardware no matter what, they used hacks, made calls they shouldn't have, try getting something like Macromedia XRes or Mechwarriors 3 or i76 to run on a modern multicore, its damned near impossible. the one game I bought from GOG I could never get to work is i76 and on their forums guys have tried all kinds of hacks only to find the code itself is using Pentium III CPU timings for certain in game events.
So without the source code what you are gonna have is a ton of programs and games that it won't matter if they ever come out of copyright or not, they'll never run on modern hardware. How many of us have working P3s anymore? the caps die, the traces go, these old boards are dying left and right and with them any chance of preserving all that history. Sad really but that's what happens when the corps overrule We, The People, the interests of the public just don't mean shit.
Except that its NOT bullshit, in fact that's why i moved my customers and family off of Firefox. I've found the newer versions of Firefox are NOT CPU agnostic and in fact really don't like AMD CPUs that much, especially the low power chips. I've also found once it takes RAM for a page it doesn't give it back, even after you close the tab, and in fact you can leave FF running 24 hours and watch as it slowly but surely sucks more and more RAM until it finally grinds the machine with swapping.
For these reasons and the constant complaints about how FF will have "senior moments" and just freeze for a few seconds, just enough to really piss my customers off, I've gotten rid of FF from my default install list in favor of Comodo Dragon. With each new FF release I try it, hoping its changed, but so far no joy. oh they made a little improvement from 9 to 10, if you call going from 100% CPU to 94% CPU improvement but when the same machine hits less than 60% under Dragon I don't really consider that much to celebrate, certainly not enough to matter. In my own tests I've found Dragon, QTWeb, Opera, any of these do better than FF when it comes to memory and CPU usage, both at startup and over time.
Now you may feel free to call me dirty names, claim I must be shilling for some nebulous corp, even though i just named three different browsers, two of which are FOSS, but the simple fact is THERE IS A REASON why Firefox has gotten such a bad rep, its because its deserved because so many of us have had bad experiences with their new direction. Personally i think its Gecko, I think they have stretched the engine beyond its limits trying to bolt more and more onto it trying to rip off Chrome and its in need of a rewrite. I've tried both ESR and Pale Moon which is FF built for speed and certain CPU flags and they both behave similar to FF which makes me think its the underlying engine.
Frankly FF was better before Chrome came along when they were originally trying to just be the best little lightweight standards compliant browser they could be, remember that? What's happening with FF after Chrome reminds me of how MSFT is crapping their pants and screwing up their OS trying to "capture the magic" of the iPad. Both companies had a few bumps but seemed to be making progress but then this new thing grabbed headlines and made them crap their pants with fear, now its a "me too, ohhh me too!" fest and it sucks. Quit trying to be Chrome Mozilla, many of us would come back if you'd just stop it. if we wanted Chrome we'd install Chrome!
Simple without anymore patches all it takes is one zero day to pwn every machine left, for an example look at the 15 or so holes found on Win2k after it was EOLed, or the 20 or so for Win9X. the black hats are practically counting the days because there is currently over 300 million XP boxes and once MSFT walks away if you don't upgrade they'll own them all.
That is why i think its sad that Linux is not going anywhere, not now, not ever. there are a LOT of working poor that could really use the better security but frankly all the normal folks were run out years ago by the "CLI is God!" sect who treats anything that makes Linux easier to use as bad and anything that makes it harder is good. look at the poster above who couldn't find a single thing to argue against my post so all they could do was go back to their standard "He must be ONE OF THEM ZOMFG!" routine. Linux has become the realm of the misfit, the loner, the maladjusted. too many of the normals are being run off by the crazies. Hell look at the one above him who is basically "Why should we give a fuck?" aka the classic 'Works for me!" bullshit. You should care because without users you don't get drivers, you don't get native software or ports, you don't get specs or new hardware, basically you are trapped into dumpster diving for shit old enough to have been reverse engineered.
In the end Linux is about to get punked about as bad as Sega did with the Saturn as i believe right before release Ballmer will simply walk up to the mike and say "Windows 8 is $50" and hand out a flyer that shows Win 8 at $50 for HP and $100 for the triple pack. At that price nobody is gonna care about 'free as in teh freedoms!" when you have to deal with broken upgrades and crappy drivers and hardware roulette, they just won't. Funny how everyone brings up Dell but NOBODY will ask Dell "What have you made on those Ubuntu sales?" because the answer is ZERO, they've LOST money every sale. they have to maintain their own distro because the crappy drivers die on upgrade, even though we are only talking about a dozen units. This is a symptom of a larger disease, the "blame everybody but Linux" disease where all you will be told is "Ur doin it wrong" and "Use distro X". Does anyone HONESTLY believe one of the largest OEMs on the planet can't even design basic hardware?
in the end the numbers don't lie, Linux is lower on adoption than JavaME, Mandriva is dead, Canonical will be next, the desktop is an unmitigated failure. When canonical dies that's it, all you will have is "Bob's distro" and while Windows and Apple get better each release linux will fall farther and farther behind. again sad but retailers like myself have been pointing this out for years. its over, its done, the fat lady is down the street having a sammich.
Not to mention everyone seems to forget Gates' main contribution was to calm a spooked market that was filled with "Is this the death of Apple?" articles that had investors spooked and developers abandoning the platform. When gates came out and said "We will have not only Office but a division working on mac products because we think it has a future" the investors said "hey, if Gates thinks there is money to be made, maybe there is" and the same thing happened with developers.
Remember folks it didn't have squat to do with the money, jobs could have pulled 150 million out of his ass. What mattered was WHERE the money was coming from and WHO was investing it. At the time Win98 was everywhere and WinNT was pretty much THE business OS, so to have its CEO say a company has a future, well that was good enough for many.
Not to mention the problem with these kinds of ideas is a simple fact one can't escape...time to market. The PC world is still kicking out some serious advances on both the CPU and the GPU and by the time this box goes from drawing board to sitting on a shelf frankly it'll be using tech 3 generations behind at a cost comparable to something MUCH newer. This is why MSFT basically took a big bath on the original Xbox and took nearly 2 years to make a dime on the X360 as they knew you had to think long term with a market like that. How many years is Valve willing to lose money on this thing?
And if its one place i'd argue DON'T need a set top box its PC gaming. PC gaming boxes have frankly never been cheaper, you can pick up a nice barebone for $300 that'll play most of the games out there or add $75 to your local mom&pop shop and they'll do it for you. Dell and HP and everybody and their dog have both gaming desktops and laptops, and thanks to Steam I haven't seen an incompatibility in ages. This is a solution in search of a problem IMHO and a BAD idea. Valve should just keep backing the money truck up to their doorstep with Steam and not even consider getting in the ring with Sony and MSFT. Just look at how much money both of those companies have lost in that arena and you can see its not a smart move.
Try the new Brazos friend, especially the E350 and E450 units, they are what Atom+ION USED to be. I have built several low power office units and HTPCs out of them and was impressed enough by the performance i sold my full size laptop for a 12 inch EEE with an E350. i get nearly 6 hours watching HD videos, never gets hot, video is smooth, hell I even play L4D and GTA:VC (I could play the newer ones but don't care for them) on it and it doesn't skip a bit. Also because AMD isn't in bed with Microsoft or trying to force you to upscale there is no artificial limits on their chips, most will run 8Gb of RAM and the lowest you'll find on max RAM is 4Gb, compare to Intel's 2Gb limit and 10 inch screen mandate. Check out Tiger and Newegg and you can find several units where all you do is slap in the HDD and RAM and you're good to go and these babies can be passively cooled and just sip power.
But what happened with Intel and Nvidia is just a classic example of what happens when a company gets too greedy. Intel couldn't stand the thought of not getting 100% of the chipset business and instead of seeing the added value having a powerful GPU could bring to a weak chip like Atom they killed the entire line and made the chip all but worthless. All my customers that bought non ION Atom units quickly returned them because they were just too damned slow, the units even under XP just felt like they were constantly dragging. I don't know how many time I had an Atom unit brought in by a customer asking "Can you make this any better?" only to have to tell them "Yeah, sell it and get an AMD because this sucks". My EEE has 8Gb of RAM and came with Win 7 HP X64 and runs that full OS as well as any desktop.
Oh a word of advice, if you do try a Brazos unit get "Brazos tweaker", its a free download from Google Codeplex and by dropping the voltage a little you can squeeze even longer battery life or get an even quieter unit. I managed to drop my EEE down 200Mhz at idle and 5% voltage under load which translates to nearly an hour on my 6 cell. really a great chip though, often cheaper than Atom alone yet gives better performance than Atom+ION, makes a great HTPC and both Tiger and the Egg have some really small passive units, just a great chip.
You are ignoring the fact this is an obvious concerted effort which distorts the very nature of things. look at blacks, if they don't dump chemicals in their hair and on their skin they aren't "good" because they don't have "good" hair and "good" skin color, and all the time this image of chocolate Barbie is being held up as the ideal. Now obviously this image is completely fabricated and is about as realistic as depicting American Indians as a bunch of white actors in face paint and I would argue more than a little racist.
So where do you draw the line? How far do you allow them to get away with it before you accept its harmful? As many black musicians have noted its not the blacks pushing the "thug life!" the gangsta, killa, and dope deala lifestyle crap, its the white record companies. I wish I could find the link again as one black musician made a great video showing stereotypes through the ages and basically they are pushing the "violent darkie" that has been used since "The Birth Of a Nation" back at the turn of the 20th century.
Like it or not there are limits to even free speech and that limit is usually drawn at where it is causing harm to others. one need only look at how many young women are killing themselves trying to look like an unattainable goal to see that it IS causing harm.
Not to mention he is counting packages which last time i checked some applications can have literally dozens of packages connected to them. That would be like counting every little piece required to make Libre Office (what is it with FOSS and shitty names? is it like a rule or something?) and counting it as a separate app.
Now I'll probably get hate for this, which will be ironic and sad since /. is supposed to be libertarian, but WTF I don't care. We ALL know why GPL is going down, its because TINSTAAFL and with GPL V3 RMS has gone so damned anti business he's scared away too many folks. I actually kinda feel sorry for RMS in this, i really do. What happened is the all to human and all too often response to trolling and that's overreaction. the TiVo guys basically went "LOL Goatse" to RMS and he went "I'll get you bastards!" and promptly shot himself in the foot in the process. Now ironically if FOSS truly WAS a community and collective effort then right about now a large group of devs, users, and businesses would get together and hash out what the problems are and fix them, basically cooperate for the betterment of all, and if RMS didn't want to participate they'd just fork which is the standard way that FOSS routes around damage.
But sadly RMS doesn't want a democracy, he wants a dictatorship. he believe this is some mythical battle of god VS evil, that he is a neckbearded Luke Skywalker. Problem is IRL communist utopias simply don't exist and most of the major projects have been actually paid for by businesses. Now RMS has made the terms of GPL so nasty companies are afraid to touch it, hell even Torvalds won't use V3 for the kernel. if that don't smack you with a cluebat i don't know what will.
No personally i hope things change, that the community routes around the damage and gets better, although I'm not holding my breath with so many "RMS is God" true believers out there. But if there is zero ways for businesses to get a ROI then they simply will stay away and surprise! That's not good for anybody. look on the desktop scene where Mandriva is DOA and Canonical won't be far behind. The simple fact is you NEED companies to pay for all the work that needs doing, without that pay you end up with the "busted shitter" problem where nobody wants to do the lousy jobs like bug fixing, QA, regression testing, writing decent docs, so they just don't get done.
As a retailer I really hope things change, i really do. You have less than a year and a half before XP is DOA and Win 8 is released in just 7 months. But its obvious that GPL V3 simply isn't the way to go from looking at the numbers. Maybe its time for a new license, one that respects your freedom to tinker while accepting that those that pay for something have a right to get paid for their labor? Something like "You are free to look at and modify the code, but if you distribute you have to pay for it"?
Not to mention that those 8 cards probably don't have as much raw pixel pushing power as a pair of SLI or CF cards from the other guys, really not that impressive. Frankly Intel should have tried to buy out Nvidia years ago, the thing that gimps their chips more than anything is the crappy IGPs, instead they shoot themselves in the face by killing the Nvidia chipset business thus making Atom completely worthless. With ION it was actually a nice little unit but with Intel IGPs Atom is horrible.
That is one place you really have to give AMD credit, they saw the direction the market was going with low power mobile devices and bought ATI which makes excellent chips and ended up with Brazos, a dual core with HD graphics that sucks less than 18w under full load. I mean sure 8 cards might be nice for a render farm, but how many are gonna be willing to pay that electric and cooling bill with the prices constantly going up?
While I appreciate the effort Intel's answer to graphics has never been very good and if they need to throw 8 fricking cards at it I don't even want to know how many watts this sucker is pulling. The future is obviously mobile and while Nvidia has tegra, AMD has brazos, what's Intel got that can compete with that level of graphics in that small a wattage envelope?
Well I do think we should be fair about these things which we sure as hell aren't ATM. You watch commercials and you get chunky guys, skinny guys, big and tall guys, hell just about any shape and color of guy that is possible. But you look at ALL the females what do you see? perfect waist, perfect hair, hell the black girls look like chocolate barbie dolls. that's not normal, that not in any way shape or form reality, this is why we have women hating themselves, its Stepford wives all the way down.
We guys just don't realize what that constant beating down can do to a woman's self esteem. I've been with my little Cherokee princess and its taken years to undo some of the damage and i'm still not close to being done. She grew up close to the rez and all she heard was how she didn't measure up, that she just wasn't as pretty or desirable as the white girls, simply because she looked Cherokee. The Cherokee woman is naturally shorter than the white, has wider hip bones and more pear shaped breasts along with the wider nose and the flat straight hair. These are simply natural features common to many of the tribes but she constantly heard, which was constantly reinforced on TV, that she simply wasn't as 'good", she didn't have the "good" hair or the "good" body shape. When I met her her self esteem was almost non existent and she had had two failed abusive marriages including the last one who had put her in ICU. She simply didn't believe she deserved to be treated like a person and the first time we got into an argument and I refused to even raise a hand to her she was so shocked she broke down crying because she automatically assumed if she didn't do to suit me she'd get the back of my hand.
So let's not just "poo poo" this out of hand, okay? we guys have every body shape known to man out there in TV AND movies while they will sometimes make fun of the fat schmuck more often than not they'll have him get a girl that is MUCH prettier than he is handsome, hell look at American Pie where the "Shemanator" ended up with the hottie. We guys have simply never had to deal with that, one of the first TV stars was Jackie Gleason for the love of Pete!
Have you ever actually TRIED that? I have, I wanted to rescue some of the really funky ass old shareware titles that are damned near impossible to play on modern Windows and give them a new lease on life. i quickly found most of these companies expect something to the tune of 300%-3000% profits or they won't give you the time of day. I wish I had saved the emails so i could post 'em, one company wanted six figures for their "very valuable IP" when we are talking about something that wasn't even up to the level of "Codename:Tenka" but was one of those 50 bazillion Wolfenstein knockoff that came out back when that old thing was a hit and everyone tried to cash in.
I bet if you were to contact Sony their asking price is right around what you would expect to pay for GTA 3 or NWN, not some nearly dead card trading game. never underestimate the incredible all consuming greed of these people. This is why I'm so against the extended copyrights we now have, thanks to the insatiable greed of the megacorps by the time most things do come out of copyright they won't exist and any source code will have been destroyed decades ago. Thanks to these greedy bastards the history of electronic gaming is gonna be more spotty and incomplete than the fossil record and that's just sad.
Nice choice in board, BAD choice in cooler. Frankly many air coolers can't beat the sealed WC units. if you find your unit getting hot look into a Hyper N520, they are less than $40 on Amazon and are so quiet you wouldn't believe it has 2 120mm fans but man does that baby drop the heat! My 1035T Thuban idles at just 70F and after 5 hours of all 6 cores full bore video transcoding I BARELY hit 120f, and less than 40 seconds after dropping the load i was back below 80f, just an incredible cooler. Works on just about every socket out there as well, so you can simply move it with you on your next build.
You are gonna love the Asrock OCing tools, they are the easiest I've ever seen and i've been building boxes since before there even was a Windows. If its anything like mine not only will it have an excellent GUI for OCing but it also allows you to automatically drop phases when idle to sip power AND lets you save multiple BIOS setting and switch on the fly at boot, its a REALLY sweet board.
a word of warning though: If you have trouble booting when you first put it together? Check your RAM timings. Sometimes Asrock boards get a little too aggressive on their RAM timings so you have to back off a bit from the defaults. But once you do that she'll purr like a big old kitty and the Asrock boards are real OCers boards, they just love to crank. With 6 cores I don't really need to OC but just for the heck of it when i first got it I decided to see what she'd do, i had gotten up to nearly 3.4GHz (from 2.6GHz default) with 3.7GHz on Turbo before i decided I didn't want to push my luck. if your chip will hit 5GHz the Asrock will get it there, enjoy!
But if they are currently Windows users that is a big change, and lets face it unity bites. A better suggestion would be Vector Linux who not only has a standard and SOHO edition but also has a "KDE Classic' which is more like WinXP than Ubuntu and would probably be easier for someone unfamiliar to Linux to pick up.
You wanna know what is sad? I ended up getting $25 worth of groceries free last year because the local grocery was gonna have to shut down because their cash registers went on the fritz. i told them "If you need them so bad why don't you just send someone down the street to pick up some cheapo calcs?' but since they were short handed the manager offered to pay me for the calcs AND give me my groceries for free if I'd go do it. They were late teens/early twenties and not a single one could count change without a machine! my oldest was like "Geez, you go get the calcs and i'll help them, otherwise by the time you get back the line will be around the block".
I think that in the nutshell is the problem...we have become too dependent on tech. I'll admit while basic maths i'm fine at i doubt seriously I could do algebra anymore as i'm used to having a calc that can solve for X. I'm just glad they have great tutors at my oldest boy's college because there was no way i could do college level trig and algebra anymore, if I ever run into a problem like that I have an ex NASA engineer i can call. You give him his classic HP with RPN and a slide rule and I doubt seriously there is anything he can't figure.
Maybe that's the answer, teach everyone how to use the cheap calcs. hell the $8 calcs now are nicer and have more functions than the $200 calcs they had when i went to HS, its just so many kids don't even know how to input the data to get the results.
Bah, all you need is go go juice and guns, didn't you people see that incredible masterpiece of modern cinema, Mad Max? Hell you got the gas you can even run a generator and play your porn...err i mean watch movies. No gas no videos for you!
but more and more people will be doing the same things in the future.
No they won't, that's the whole damned point of the cap. Instead you'll be doing like me where you HAVE to take the cableco's bundles, you HAVE to use their phone, you HAVE to watch their shows, do this? that nasty old cap just seems to go away. Don't? Well i hope you like getting cut off, or throttled, or just plain told "we don't want your business" when there aren't any alternatives in the area. Know what Cox is testing out for a cap limit on their consumer lines? 36Gb. My guess is so they don't have to bother with upgrades.
Enjoy the future, where the EU and Asia completely blow away the fat old paper tiger that was the USA whose 1%ers greed has stuck on the short bus to the info superhighway. Gotta make those quarterly earnings targets ya know.
Sadly its true, I've worked on more Vaios than I care to think about and frankly they aren't any better constructed than your average Compaq crap. if you want a good brand try Asus or Samsung, both make products with quality like the olden days of Sony. Back in the day Sony was the one to beat but the PS3 will go down as ultimately a flop and in this hard economic times a new console launch is gonna be a damned hard sell. MSFT can afford to practically give away their consoles thanks to XBL being a money making machine, Sony has no such luxury.
What I find hilarious is all these guys screaming "Sony fucked linux so fuck Sony!" when their choices are if they tell Sony to go to hell...A Microsoft console or a Microsoft PC. oh the irony is most moist and delicious! Well that is unless you REALLY like Pokemon, plumbers, and slightly effeminate guys with boomerangs, oh and a real PITA control schema that is more gimmick than anything else, then i guess you can go Nintendo who is likewise losing money hand over fist.
The only nice thing for the FOSS zealots in all this is at least AMD, which has been highly considerate of FOSS, seems to be the clear winner in all this. Again the irony is most tasty as AMD bent over backwards to give FOSS zealots everything they had asked for only to get in response 'LOL buy Nvidia". If irony was pie we'd all weigh about a thousand pounds right now. it will be quite funny to watch what happens when the zealots have a choice of Sony who fucked Linux, or MSFT who...well fucked Linux. So which do you prefer? A punch in the balls or a kick in the balls? Your choice guys.Gotta say this whole thing is LMAO funny, thanks.
So in other words 'Not our fault, blame the other guy" right? Well let me clue you in...NOBODY CARES, we really don't, if it doesn't work IT IS YOUR FAULT and we don't care about your excuses, its "broken" and we'll take it back or like Linus throw it away for something else. I wonder how long until his kid goes "Dad can't I just have Windows? It works for everybody else and its nice"?
FOSS better wake up and get their A games on or they are gonna be run over like a bug in the windshield of a Mac truck. The future is CONSUMERS in flaming 50 foot neon, this is why Apple is now the biggest company on the planet, why MSFT is better everything on Win 8, and you bring....excuses? nobody cares, and unless you want FOSS to be a niche as teeny tiny as those who will be programming for Raspberry pi you better wake up and smell the future. You think your niche is tiny now? Wait until MSFT announces Win 8 HP is $50 and the triple pack is $100, what few home users you have that aren't zealots will bail because of stupid crap like TFA.