Do you not read the very site you post at? BTW you know insults are the last refuge of the small minded correct? Maybe it would help if I say showed a chart now do you see the red line that is Firefox? See which way it has been headed since 2010? Now what did I say? what were my words? i said about 2 years IIRC and voila! data backs it up. Sorry you got your perception bubble burst but there is the data in black and white. Oh and for GPL usage voila again from this very site no less.
So lets here some more insults while you ignore the data, after all, that's all you can do, right? When reality refuses to conform to your little fantasy you have nowhere else to go, right? So call me some names, won't make black into white, won't turn straw into gold., and most importantly won't keep people from abandoning FF and GPL in droves. I'm also proud to say I've gotten rid of the last FF install on my customers computers, that's another couple of thousand FF users gone right there, why? Because i got tired of listening to their complaints about its speed and how jerky it was playing videos (hint: It doesn't support H.264 which is the web now, so it slams the CPU instead of hardware accelerates) so I got rid of FF. you see that is what it means to not live in a perception bubble, it means you actually listen to the people which both Moz and FSF don't which is why they are failing. Enjoy reality!
Aww hell that ain't nuthin, come down to the delta bottoms sometime and you'll find you'll probably need a translator to understand your fellow Americans, hell I've lived here all my life and even I need a translator when I get around Yazoo MS. There you'll find that ALL adjectives are replaceable with "Iz/Be/Been" so you get sentences like "I iz be fixin ta get around ta doin what you axked, but I be busy, probably tamarraw" would be considered a perfectly acceptable and actually more understandable than most. What some people call ebonics is nothing but the lower delta bottoms natural speech and when it gets mixed in with Mexican and Creole slang good fricking luck understanding their asses.
And this is why GPL will ultimately end up in the dustbin of history. As we have seen posted here earlier both Firefox and GPL usage have been going down month after month after month, why? because the people have decided that the "freedom" that GPL V3 tries to force is not something they want, that's why. the people would rather have something that "just works" like Chrome than play "lets find a codec" like Firefox so it bombs, likewise GPL V3 simply is too nasty so companies won't touch it with a 50 foot pole, not even Google allows GPL V3 anywhere near Android or ChromeOS, its verbotten.
in the end this is what is gonna kill the GPL as freedom also means the freedom to say 'i don't want this" and the users and developers have spoken and said RAND is just fine with them as long as "it just works" with a minimum of fuss. old RMS may think he can get people to mess with broken junk like GNUSense or harp on on how even the OLPC isn't 'free enough" for him but if a program falls in the forest and nobody uses it, does it make a sound? if the numbers continue at their current rate we'll find out with Mozilla and GPL in ahhh...I'd say about 3 years, right about the time their contract with Google is up on FF search. I have a feeling by the time that rolls around both FF and GPL V3 will be as dead as all those abandoned projects on freshmeat. you may not like what they have said but the people have spoken and so have the developers and Mozilla and GPL V3 are both big "do not want".
Read the post by king neckbeard (that's his UID, not an insult BTW) and you'll see that ultimately this arguement comes down to capitalism VS communism, pure and simple. The radicals like RMS simply don't believe in ANYONE getting paid for their work with a computer, unless it is the tin cup donation model, they believe that "computers should be free man!" and therefor think that NOBODY should be able to charge them for code, or labor,. or pretty much anything to do with a computer. hell watch one of RMS' speeches the man still calls everyone "hackers" like he's at a 1975 computer hobbyists club because THAT is how he sees it, as ultimately a hobbyist tool for neckbeards.
This is why sadly there can simply be no compromise with these people, as they simply see it all as a good VS evil fight and don't care if you starve as long as THEY have "freedom". Take H.264 for example, do you have ANY idea how many millions were spent to come up with that? it is one of the most complex compression algorithms ever devised and can take insanely huge amounts of video data and compress it to managed size. Should the ones who spent millions developing it make a profit? I would say yes, because if nobody can make a dime then frankly progress grinds to a halt. look at how many bugs in your average Linux distro have been there on their bugtracker for multiple years, hell there are plenty on Ubuntu that are 6 years old now, why? because without a monetary reason nobody wants to do the crappy work so the crappy work don't get done.
The zealots can waste their mod points and the FSF and RMS can get as pissy as they want but in the end TINSTAAFL and they do NOT have the right to demand and receive others work for free. if they don't want to pay they are free not to use it but they are NOT free to simply take what they want. in the end this is again capitalism VS communism, the FSF think they should have the right to take what others have done simply because they want the world to be "free as in beer" while RAND says that as long as they aren't gouging or discriminating they are allowed to get paid for their work. Personally flawed as it is I'll take capitalism over the stagnation that is communism any day of the week.
Well if you think about it the REALLY scary question is not how well this works but whether the courts will accept it. Anybody remember bullet fingerprinting? That was where they supposedly could match a bullet to a specific batch so they could tell if a bullet came from a certain pack of shells or not? We all know now it was total bullshit and that variations even in the same lots could be pretty wide simply because the bullet manufacturers simply weren't that anal retentive about purity as long as the round went straight but that junk science put untold numbers of people in PMITA prison.
Now what if the courts accept this as evidence? Some troll could copy pasta phrases from your actual posts and stitch them together to make them say something else and if they can trip this thing all this technobabble like bullet fingerprinting sells REAL well to juries who sit around watching CSI. Frankly after false flags like fast and furious I wouldn't even trust the feds not to decide to "frame the guilty man" or decide you must be the guy so make the evidence fit. Frankly this is why shows like CSI scare me, all this technobabble sells well to juries who frankly don't understand WTF this crap is, only that it looks high tech like something from CSI therefor it MUST be true.
Actually you must not have tried Comodo CIS lately as they now don't ask the user much at all and has a "default deny" policy that covers a good 90%+ of use cases. The only false positives I've seen is my gamer relatives using trainers which considering trainers work by modding others code i don't know if that should count as a false positive or not. But I agree you shouldn't rely on ANY AV by itself, defense should be in depth which is why i give them Comodo CIS along with Comodo Dragon on Windows 7 with Comodo Time Machine. Those four work quite well together, with Win 7 blocking nasties with low rights mode, ASLR and DEP, the Dragon has SecureDNS and phishing protection and Time Machine is for PEBKAC problems. But if you look at the reviews Comodo CIS usually is in the top 5 pretty regularly which is really good for a free AV IMHO. The only one that scores higher in the freeware category is Adaware and its home use only.
I think there is like a rule that once a company gets a certain size they just HAVE to turn evil, its like the greed of that many people combined just tips the scale. Hell look at MSFT, once upon a time they were just this small software and OS company that was undercutting the competition while Kildall was the more elitist of the two, but then one day they got to a certain size and it was like the little nerds grew Snidely Whiplash mustaches and doing Dr Evil laughs. Now Google has gone from a bunch of nerds going "hey wouldn't this be cool?" to "How can we monetize this for maximum shareholder value?" and is just another nasty company. damned shame but it seems to happen to all of them eventually.
Hey thanks for the heads up, the one thing I missed when I switched from Firefox (which has gotten too bloated and slow) is my NoScript. It works perfectly in Comodo dragon BTW, and combined with Comodo Dragon's security features really works great. if you haven't tried the Dragon give it a spin, it has some really nice security options like SecureDNS for the browser only and site inspector.
But wouldn't that just butcher the flow? I mean a trivial way to do it would be to run it through a translator, say take your English, convert it to German, then have it converted back to English, and you'd have this Chingrish kinda speech that was kinda sorta similar to what you said but not. Would you really want your ideas that mangled? Hell why even post at all if nobody is gonna understand you clearly?
Yes but just like speech patterns folks got a habit of using similar phrases which I'm sure this picks up. For example I use folks where some would use people or persons, or if I think something is lame I often say it "Sucks the big wet titty" and often make reference to the south and southerners since that is my area. I'm sure if it went through every post of every place where I have the same UID (which is most of the places I hang out) it could then very easily either find my real name (Thanks to Yahoo comments using real first names and not UIDs) and any other places where I use a different UID quite trivially.
In the end we humans are creatures of habit, we easily fall into patterns and routines and if its one thing computers excel at its pattern matching so frankly this doesn't surprise me at all and given a little time to tweak it I wouldn't be surprised if they have 95%+ accuracy if given a large enough data set of a suspected poster. So you might pick up ONE of my phrases, hell maybe even two, but I seriously doubt you'd pick up enough of my mannerisms that this thing would mistake Ethanol Fueled for Hairyfeet or vice versa.
Because then you have tens of millions of users screaming "My Gmail won't load!"? lets face it folks can "spin" all they want but Google ain't THAT dumb. they have some of the best engineers of the planet. So can we all just accept that "Do no evil" is nothing more than "Think different" aka marketing bullshit and realize that Google is only gonna do what is best for Google already?
Most of us don't want to have to backup hourly because of the hot/crazy scale especially when a more modern OS can fix that even better than an SSD. Windows 7 has Superfetch which learns which applications you use and when you use them so if you have enough RAM to run CS 5 it will be waiting for you in memory and no SSD will ever beat even DDR 2 much less DDR 3 RAM for speed. I have several graphics customers and the combo of Win 7 X64 and 8Gb of RAM means they click on Photoshop and its there instantly.
As for TFA whomever invented splash screens should be shot. I already know what i launched, I fricking launched it! Get rid of your damned splash screen and if your program is THAT slow that you need a splash to let them know the app hasn't crashed and attempting to launch again? FIX YOUR CRAPPY CODE!!
Actually its more likely they simply have too many PHBs getting their two cents worth in. if you haven't read it there is a blog out there on the "evolution" of the Vista start button. When you see how many meetings and committees and bullshit went into what should have been a simple button you realize that the courts not splitting up MSFT was really a curse not a blessing. If they could have been split into OS, Business, Mobile and Gaming I bet MSFT would be doing a hell of a lot better than they are doing now. There is just too much bureaucratic BS to do things ubersleek and cutting edge.
While I agree about meeting a business need sometimes free works quite well. For example i give my SMBs Comodo Internet Security which is free for BOTH home and business use and works great. if later on they run into some situation where they actually need support Comodo will be happy to sell them support so if they have no problems then it costs nothing. I've found if you use Win 7 (with its ASLR and DEP) along with Comodo Dragon with ABP (Dragon supports Win 7 low rights mode by default) and then finally comodo Time machine so if they DO somehow manage to bork something they can just hit the rewind button, even if they screw it up so bad it won't boot? Well you end up with a machine that short of hardware failure is pretty damned hard to kill or screw up. That of course makes both my business and home users VERY happy. When you have customers that could kill a Sherman tank with a toothbrush (I swear they must have like an electromagnetic field or something the way things just die around them) then you quickly learn how to harden a system.
As for TFA as another noted maybe by being FOSS now they will have developers work on the usability, maybe have a "dummy mode" for the less skilled. because while HJT is a great tool it is NOT for the faint of heart and if you don't know what you are doing you could quickly break more than you fix. Maybe someone can tie it in with the signatures for Housecall or clamAV so it has a default nasty list?
Wow I thought we VIC-20 owners had it bad with our lousy 5Kb, man just the thought there was somebody out there that could out cheap old Jack Tramiel is kind of mind blowing in and of itself.
As for TFA just imagine hoe much insane power we would have if they still made OSes and apps like every byte counted. Not to condone piracy or anything but if one were to try out the Tiny series like Tiny XP or Tiny 7 you'd find that with careful stripping one can make a modern Windows that damned near runs on the original WinXP specs and is snappy as hell. MSFT really needs to hire that guy as his Tiny series frankly stomps both the Win Embedded and WinFLP version quite badly. i guess that little hacker knows how to slim down their OS better than they do.
Soooo...speaking the truth is bad if it doesn't fit with your perception bubble? "All go to hell except cave 76! oh and Google!~ Rah!" please. Name a single thing the guy wrote that wasn't factual. Billion dollar web advertising company? simply look up their SEC filings and it says in black and white they make more than 96% of their income from ads, and they are a multi-billion dollar company, so check there. And Google having a historyof privacyviolations? I would say that's a pretty big yes. So I'm sorry if his post breaks your perception bubble but truth is truth.
As for TFA give me a damned break, we've tried that crap over and over and over and over its sucked the big wet titty. ChromeOS is going exactly nowhere,service across the country is spotty so good luck if you have anything important due soon and your connection takes a big crapola, and finally the performance sucks. As another wrote the future is rich native apps that have the ability but not the mandatory requirement of web integration. This way you have the speed of native and can choose whether or not to use the cloud for syncing or backups or getting the latest data.
Which is why Intel should have been busted for antitrust and that trinket 1.25 billion to AMD should have been more like 11.25 billion along with seriously nasty monitoring to ensure they can't continue to do things like rigging compilers which FYI they are to this very day. How anyone can say MSFT deserved to be busted for bundling and Intel not busted when even Michael Dell admitted under oath to limiting AMD CPUs because of Intel kickbacks is beyond me. And when you can change the CPUID on a Via Nano from "Centaur Hauls" to "Genuine Intel" and have its benches jump 40%? I'm sorry but how much more proof you need that Intel is rigging the market?
The smoking gun though, the one that proves without doubt its not some "Intel is simply optimizing for their own chips" total lie is the Pentium 3. Take a benchmark from 2001, run it on both a late model P3 and the first gen P4 and you'll find the P3 (which of course later was refined and became core) stomps the P4 by almost 40%. Run the EXACT SAME TEST with the 2002 benchmark software and gasp! The P4 wins by the same amount, why? Because the Intel cripple compiler looks for the CPUID of a P4 or better and cripples the code if its anything by AMD, Via, or their very own Pentium 3, all so they can win the benches. That is why to this very day the benches tell you nothing as they are as rigged as quack.exe.
Frankly AMD would still have their fabs if their share of the market during the Athlon64 would have reflected their much better benches and performance over netburst but instead intel was able to rig the game and make buying an AMD OEM from the big 3, HP, Dell, and IBM during the netburst era for anything but the lowest Duron an impossibility. Dell even admitted they were given quotas on how many AMD CPUs they were allowed to sell! How much more proof does one need the entire market was rigged to crush a competitor. Intel continues to crush competition not with better value but with dirty tricks, see how they destroyed the Nvidia chipset business (which was a case of cutting their nose to spite their face as it made Atom netbooks practically worthless without ION) by refusing to give Nvidia access to their northbridges. Frankly Intel makes MSFT look like chiorboys.
Depends on the machine don't it? I know that on my netbook I get about 30% better battery life by using a hardware accelerated player (I usually use MPC:HC with DXVA, I'll have to see how the new VLC fares) over just letting the CPU do it. Sure modern CPUs are crazy fast but being more generalized use more power to do the job than simply using GPU shaders, at least IME and with nearly everyone being mobile I'm sure many would agree that more battery life is always a good thing on your portable.
Uhhhh...excuse me, when did it NOT have a single windows interface? At least on Windows going back as far as I can remember the thing it was a standard single windows with the file/edit/view style layout on top. Now if you want a "fancier" VLC you can always use Kantaris which is based on VLC and has more of a "One UI to rule them all" kinda thing going but I don't think I ever saw VLC with a Gimp style MDI.
He also pretty much just described my business and I've been quite happy with AMD, thanks. i believe in putting my money where my mouth is and when the Intel bribery and compiler rigging came out I quit selling Intel across the board. Sure i lost a couple of gamer customers ( but was never really happy with building PCs without OSes so some douche could spend $2k+ on a PC just to run Windows Pirate Edition) but I made up for that and more with the ordinary Joes. it don't take much word of mouth once you build a couple of sub $550 HTPC/Gamer PCs because the folks just love to show off how they can kick back on their couch and have all their DVDs ripped while being able to play Batman:AA or chat or watch Youtube on that nice 55 incher.
Frankly AMD's worst enemy is AMD though. The AM3 chips had the best bang for the buck and made them perfect for the average folks and gamers because lets face it a 3.4GHz quad with an HD4850 or HD5770 makes for a damned nice little gamer PC so what do they do? kill Thuban AND the entire AM3 line and for what? Two sockets that will be abandoned in less than 2 years, AM3+ and FM1. With AM3 even a customer on a VERY tight budget could get a dual core that often could be unlocked to a triple and then later on move to a quad or even hexacore without breaking their wallet. Now when the well runs dry for AM3 frankly I'll end up hitting secondary sources rather than go AM3+ or FM1 simply because there is no future in those sockets and the chips they do have for it are subpar, even AMD has said there is one more rev for AM3+ and Piledriver will be FM2 so they are already dead ends and are barely a year old.
Honestly the ONLY smart move AMD has made in the past couple of years is Brazos. I have sold quite a few all in ones and netbooks/laptops running both the C and E series and the performance and battery life is nice enough I sold my full size for a 12 inch EEE, it gets 6 hours running 720p on a 6 cell and that's before I use Brazos Tweaker to undervolt the chip which then gives me nearly 8 hours surfing time. Looking at the performance they probably need to leave Bulldozer and Piledriver to the servers, push a quad or even 6 core Brazos for laptops, and bring back Thuban and AM3 for the consumer desktops until they can come out with a chip that is actually better because last scores I saw had the A series losing or at best tying with Thuban while costing 40%+ more for the chips and the boards. At those prices free market or not I may end up having to go Intel simply because the bang for the buck and longevity simply isn't there anymore.
As long as I can get good affordable AM3 boards I'll stick with AMD but when they run out they had better have something closer to Athlon/Phenom in price and performance or I'll have no choice but to bail.
Let da feet help you out friend, if you want recent chips look under used on Amazon and if you want older chips, i'm talking going all the waaaay back to socket 754 and earlier then Starmicro is your friend. they have both Intel and AMD and those cheap Phenom I quads i've found make damned good cheap renderboxes or HTPCs and my office customers just love 'em, the E chips only use 65w while letting them multitask like crazy without dragging down the machines, perfect for secretaries,factory floor, or slap it with a Hyper N212 or N520 for a nice quiet HTPC that does transcoding.
That said friend take my advice, Tiger is selling the Thuban 1035t for just $130 for the retail unit. Take that HSF that comes with it, go "whoosh" right over your shoulder, hook that bad boy up with a Hyper N520 and you have a fricking monster! Just for shits and giggles since I have a killer Asrock board that OCs easily (A770DE+, great board if you have plenty of DDR 2 lying around like the 8Gb I had and has CF) and I managed to get her up to around 3.1Ghz and STILL had plenty of headroom before i thought "Why?" and dropped it to default clocks. With turbocore she'll jump up to 3.1GHz anytime I am doing anything that needs 3 cores or less and having 6 cores cranking at 2.6GHz she chews through video transcoding and disgital multitracking, and you know what my idle is? fricking room temp! No shit its room temp and tops out at 108F and that's after 3 hours of Prime95. man you slap that chip with that cooler? its a fricking sweeeeet combo man and you can't beat the price. Snatch one while you can man, snatch one while you can.
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Exactly and with AMD you can have lots o' cores cheap I love the fact my 6 core can have two work on ripping a DVD while the other 4 are gaming and my customers love being able to hook that nice cheap quad via HDMI to their widescreen and have it game while surfing or listening to music or ripping, take a $100 AMD quad and add a $50 HD4850 and you can game quite nicely.
If you want to know where AMD is fucking up its killing Thuban and AM3 when it would be trivial to keep the low to midrange market with the AM3 by having a single chip. Take a 95w Thuban like the 1035 or 1045, any that have bad cores are your Phenom X4s and X3s, and any with bad cache is your Athlon. Voila! You can crank out one chip and pretty much keep the AM3 line (which has some damned nice boards dirt cheap) while you fix the bugs with bulldozer. As it is their sockets are changing too quick, AM3+ is gonna get maybe 1 more chip, Piledriver will be FM2 thus killing FM1 which is barely a year old, right now I wouldn't touch a non AM3 AMD desktop as its like socket 423 and 939, sockets that will be here today and gone tomorrow. Their E series are great for netbooks but their A series suck too much power for not enough performance IMHO, they should roll out 4,6,and 8 core Brazos chips to again give them product while they fix the problems with BD. They should have learned with phenom I that trying to shove bad chips out the door hurts your rep too bad, better to stick with tried and true while they fix the errata.
Well actually Intel simply bribed OEMs not to sell the competition just like MSFT did with Windows. You have to remember in 2006 they were still pushing netburst aka "Big power piggie space heaters" while AMD stomped all over them in the benches. then of course there is the blatant compiler rigging going on to this very day, when you can take a Via Nano and change the CPUID from "Centaur hauls" to "Genuine Intel" and have its scores jump nearly 40% on the benches? yeah bullshit, its just another quack.exe.
Because as we are seeing now with Syria or even here in the USA with PATRIOT and NDAA it really isn't a stretch for a government to become hostile to its own people. The ability to build grass roots support is one of the ways one can actually use the power of the people against the government but if they can simply track down the ones that are uppity and make them just go "poof"? lot harder to ever cause any change.
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Do you not read the very site you post at? BTW you know insults are the last refuge of the small minded correct? Maybe it would help if I say showed a chart now do you see the red line that is Firefox? See which way it has been headed since 2010? Now what did I say? what were my words? i said about 2 years IIRC and voila! data backs it up. Sorry you got your perception bubble burst but there is the data in black and white. Oh and for GPL usage voila again from this very site no less.
So lets here some more insults while you ignore the data, after all, that's all you can do, right? When reality refuses to conform to your little fantasy you have nowhere else to go, right? So call me some names, won't make black into white, won't turn straw into gold., and most importantly won't keep people from abandoning FF and GPL in droves. I'm also proud to say I've gotten rid of the last FF install on my customers computers, that's another couple of thousand FF users gone right there, why? Because i got tired of listening to their complaints about its speed and how jerky it was playing videos (hint: It doesn't support H.264 which is the web now, so it slams the CPU instead of hardware accelerates) so I got rid of FF. you see that is what it means to not live in a perception bubble, it means you actually listen to the people which both Moz and FSF don't which is why they are failing. Enjoy reality!
Aww hell that ain't nuthin, come down to the delta bottoms sometime and you'll find you'll probably need a translator to understand your fellow Americans, hell I've lived here all my life and even I need a translator when I get around Yazoo MS. There you'll find that ALL adjectives are replaceable with "Iz/Be/Been" so you get sentences like "I iz be fixin ta get around ta doin what you axked, but I be busy, probably tamarraw" would be considered a perfectly acceptable and actually more understandable than most. What some people call ebonics is nothing but the lower delta bottoms natural speech and when it gets mixed in with Mexican and Creole slang good fricking luck understanding their asses.
Just don't go near the pole man and you'll be alright. Oh and if anything twitches KILL IT!
And this is why GPL will ultimately end up in the dustbin of history. As we have seen posted here earlier both Firefox and GPL usage have been going down month after month after month, why? because the people have decided that the "freedom" that GPL V3 tries to force is not something they want, that's why. the people would rather have something that "just works" like Chrome than play "lets find a codec" like Firefox so it bombs, likewise GPL V3 simply is too nasty so companies won't touch it with a 50 foot pole, not even Google allows GPL V3 anywhere near Android or ChromeOS, its verbotten.
in the end this is what is gonna kill the GPL as freedom also means the freedom to say 'i don't want this" and the users and developers have spoken and said RAND is just fine with them as long as "it just works" with a minimum of fuss. old RMS may think he can get people to mess with broken junk like GNUSense or harp on on how even the OLPC isn't 'free enough" for him but if a program falls in the forest and nobody uses it, does it make a sound? if the numbers continue at their current rate we'll find out with Mozilla and GPL in ahhh...I'd say about 3 years, right about the time their contract with Google is up on FF search. I have a feeling by the time that rolls around both FF and GPL V3 will be as dead as all those abandoned projects on freshmeat. you may not like what they have said but the people have spoken and so have the developers and Mozilla and GPL V3 are both big "do not want".
Read the post by king neckbeard (that's his UID, not an insult BTW) and you'll see that ultimately this arguement comes down to capitalism VS communism, pure and simple. The radicals like RMS simply don't believe in ANYONE getting paid for their work with a computer, unless it is the tin cup donation model, they believe that "computers should be free man!" and therefor think that NOBODY should be able to charge them for code, or labor,. or pretty much anything to do with a computer. hell watch one of RMS' speeches the man still calls everyone "hackers" like he's at a 1975 computer hobbyists club because THAT is how he sees it, as ultimately a hobbyist tool for neckbeards.
This is why sadly there can simply be no compromise with these people, as they simply see it all as a good VS evil fight and don't care if you starve as long as THEY have "freedom". Take H.264 for example, do you have ANY idea how many millions were spent to come up with that? it is one of the most complex compression algorithms ever devised and can take insanely huge amounts of video data and compress it to managed size. Should the ones who spent millions developing it make a profit? I would say yes, because if nobody can make a dime then frankly progress grinds to a halt. look at how many bugs in your average Linux distro have been there on their bugtracker for multiple years, hell there are plenty on Ubuntu that are 6 years old now, why? because without a monetary reason nobody wants to do the crappy work so the crappy work don't get done.
The zealots can waste their mod points and the FSF and RMS can get as pissy as they want but in the end TINSTAAFL and they do NOT have the right to demand and receive others work for free. if they don't want to pay they are free not to use it but they are NOT free to simply take what they want. in the end this is again capitalism VS communism, the FSF think they should have the right to take what others have done simply because they want the world to be "free as in beer" while RAND says that as long as they aren't gouging or discriminating they are allowed to get paid for their work. Personally flawed as it is I'll take capitalism over the stagnation that is communism any day of the week.
Well if you think about it the REALLY scary question is not how well this works but whether the courts will accept it. Anybody remember bullet fingerprinting? That was where they supposedly could match a bullet to a specific batch so they could tell if a bullet came from a certain pack of shells or not? We all know now it was total bullshit and that variations even in the same lots could be pretty wide simply because the bullet manufacturers simply weren't that anal retentive about purity as long as the round went straight but that junk science put untold numbers of people in PMITA prison.
Now what if the courts accept this as evidence? Some troll could copy pasta phrases from your actual posts and stitch them together to make them say something else and if they can trip this thing all this technobabble like bullet fingerprinting sells REAL well to juries who sit around watching CSI. Frankly after false flags like fast and furious I wouldn't even trust the feds not to decide to "frame the guilty man" or decide you must be the guy so make the evidence fit. Frankly this is why shows like CSI scare me, all this technobabble sells well to juries who frankly don't understand WTF this crap is, only that it looks high tech like something from CSI therefor it MUST be true.
Actually you must not have tried Comodo CIS lately as they now don't ask the user much at all and has a "default deny" policy that covers a good 90%+ of use cases. The only false positives I've seen is my gamer relatives using trainers which considering trainers work by modding others code i don't know if that should count as a false positive or not. But I agree you shouldn't rely on ANY AV by itself, defense should be in depth which is why i give them Comodo CIS along with Comodo Dragon on Windows 7 with Comodo Time Machine. Those four work quite well together, with Win 7 blocking nasties with low rights mode, ASLR and DEP, the Dragon has SecureDNS and phishing protection and Time Machine is for PEBKAC problems. But if you look at the reviews Comodo CIS usually is in the top 5 pretty regularly which is really good for a free AV IMHO. The only one that scores higher in the freeware category is Adaware and its home use only.
I think there is like a rule that once a company gets a certain size they just HAVE to turn evil, its like the greed of that many people combined just tips the scale. Hell look at MSFT, once upon a time they were just this small software and OS company that was undercutting the competition while Kildall was the more elitist of the two, but then one day they got to a certain size and it was like the little nerds grew Snidely Whiplash mustaches and doing Dr Evil laughs. Now Google has gone from a bunch of nerds going "hey wouldn't this be cool?" to "How can we monetize this for maximum shareholder value?" and is just another nasty company. damned shame but it seems to happen to all of them eventually.
Hey thanks for the heads up, the one thing I missed when I switched from Firefox (which has gotten too bloated and slow) is my NoScript. It works perfectly in Comodo dragon BTW, and combined with Comodo Dragon's security features really works great. if you haven't tried the Dragon give it a spin, it has some really nice security options like SecureDNS for the browser only and site inspector.
But wouldn't that just butcher the flow? I mean a trivial way to do it would be to run it through a translator, say take your English, convert it to German, then have it converted back to English, and you'd have this Chingrish kinda speech that was kinda sorta similar to what you said but not. Would you really want your ideas that mangled? Hell why even post at all if nobody is gonna understand you clearly?
Yes but just like speech patterns folks got a habit of using similar phrases which I'm sure this picks up. For example I use folks where some would use people or persons, or if I think something is lame I often say it "Sucks the big wet titty" and often make reference to the south and southerners since that is my area. I'm sure if it went through every post of every place where I have the same UID (which is most of the places I hang out) it could then very easily either find my real name (Thanks to Yahoo comments using real first names and not UIDs) and any other places where I use a different UID quite trivially.
In the end we humans are creatures of habit, we easily fall into patterns and routines and if its one thing computers excel at its pattern matching so frankly this doesn't surprise me at all and given a little time to tweak it I wouldn't be surprised if they have 95%+ accuracy if given a large enough data set of a suspected poster. So you might pick up ONE of my phrases, hell maybe even two, but I seriously doubt you'd pick up enough of my mannerisms that this thing would mistake Ethanol Fueled for Hairyfeet or vice versa.
Because then you have tens of millions of users screaming "My Gmail won't load!"? lets face it folks can "spin" all they want but Google ain't THAT dumb. they have some of the best engineers of the planet. So can we all just accept that "Do no evil" is nothing more than "Think different" aka marketing bullshit and realize that Google is only gonna do what is best for Google already?
Most of us don't want to have to backup hourly because of the hot/crazy scale especially when a more modern OS can fix that even better than an SSD. Windows 7 has Superfetch which learns which applications you use and when you use them so if you have enough RAM to run CS 5 it will be waiting for you in memory and no SSD will ever beat even DDR 2 much less DDR 3 RAM for speed. I have several graphics customers and the combo of Win 7 X64 and 8Gb of RAM means they click on Photoshop and its there instantly.
As for TFA whomever invented splash screens should be shot. I already know what i launched, I fricking launched it! Get rid of your damned splash screen and if your program is THAT slow that you need a splash to let them know the app hasn't crashed and attempting to launch again? FIX YOUR CRAPPY CODE!!
Actually its more likely they simply have too many PHBs getting their two cents worth in. if you haven't read it there is a blog out there on the "evolution" of the Vista start button. When you see how many meetings and committees and bullshit went into what should have been a simple button you realize that the courts not splitting up MSFT was really a curse not a blessing. If they could have been split into OS, Business, Mobile and Gaming I bet MSFT would be doing a hell of a lot better than they are doing now. There is just too much bureaucratic BS to do things ubersleek and cutting edge.
While I agree about meeting a business need sometimes free works quite well. For example i give my SMBs Comodo Internet Security which is free for BOTH home and business use and works great. if later on they run into some situation where they actually need support Comodo will be happy to sell them support so if they have no problems then it costs nothing. I've found if you use Win 7 (with its ASLR and DEP) along with Comodo Dragon with ABP (Dragon supports Win 7 low rights mode by default) and then finally comodo Time machine so if they DO somehow manage to bork something they can just hit the rewind button, even if they screw it up so bad it won't boot? Well you end up with a machine that short of hardware failure is pretty damned hard to kill or screw up. That of course makes both my business and home users VERY happy. When you have customers that could kill a Sherman tank with a toothbrush (I swear they must have like an electromagnetic field or something the way things just die around them) then you quickly learn how to harden a system.
As for TFA as another noted maybe by being FOSS now they will have developers work on the usability, maybe have a "dummy mode" for the less skilled. because while HJT is a great tool it is NOT for the faint of heart and if you don't know what you are doing you could quickly break more than you fix. Maybe someone can tie it in with the signatures for Housecall or clamAV so it has a default nasty list?
Wow I thought we VIC-20 owners had it bad with our lousy 5Kb, man just the thought there was somebody out there that could out cheap old Jack Tramiel is kind of mind blowing in and of itself.
As for TFA just imagine hoe much insane power we would have if they still made OSes and apps like every byte counted. Not to condone piracy or anything but if one were to try out the Tiny series like Tiny XP or Tiny 7 you'd find that with careful stripping one can make a modern Windows that damned near runs on the original WinXP specs and is snappy as hell. MSFT really needs to hire that guy as his Tiny series frankly stomps both the Win Embedded and WinFLP version quite badly. i guess that little hacker knows how to slim down their OS better than they do.
Soooo...speaking the truth is bad if it doesn't fit with your perception bubble? "All go to hell except cave 76! oh and Google!~ Rah!" please. Name a single thing the guy wrote that wasn't factual. Billion dollar web advertising company? simply look up their SEC filings and it says in black and white they make more than 96% of their income from ads, and they are a multi-billion dollar company, so check there. And Google having a history of privacy violations? I would say that's a pretty big yes. So I'm sorry if his post breaks your perception bubble but truth is truth.
As for TFA give me a damned break, we've tried that crap over and over and over and over its sucked the big wet titty. ChromeOS is going exactly nowhere,service across the country is spotty so good luck if you have anything important due soon and your connection takes a big crapola, and finally the performance sucks. As another wrote the future is rich native apps that have the ability but not the mandatory requirement of web integration. This way you have the speed of native and can choose whether or not to use the cloud for syncing or backups or getting the latest data.
Which is why Intel should have been busted for antitrust and that trinket 1.25 billion to AMD should have been more like 11.25 billion along with seriously nasty monitoring to ensure they can't continue to do things like rigging compilers which FYI they are to this very day. How anyone can say MSFT deserved to be busted for bundling and Intel not busted when even Michael Dell admitted under oath to limiting AMD CPUs because of Intel kickbacks is beyond me. And when you can change the CPUID on a Via Nano from "Centaur Hauls" to "Genuine Intel" and have its benches jump 40%? I'm sorry but how much more proof you need that Intel is rigging the market?
The smoking gun though, the one that proves without doubt its not some "Intel is simply optimizing for their own chips" total lie is the Pentium 3. Take a benchmark from 2001, run it on both a late model P3 and the first gen P4 and you'll find the P3 (which of course later was refined and became core) stomps the P4 by almost 40%. Run the EXACT SAME TEST with the 2002 benchmark software and gasp! The P4 wins by the same amount, why? Because the Intel cripple compiler looks for the CPUID of a P4 or better and cripples the code if its anything by AMD, Via, or their very own Pentium 3, all so they can win the benches. That is why to this very day the benches tell you nothing as they are as rigged as quack.exe.
Frankly AMD would still have their fabs if their share of the market during the Athlon64 would have reflected their much better benches and performance over netburst but instead intel was able to rig the game and make buying an AMD OEM from the big 3, HP, Dell, and IBM during the netburst era for anything but the lowest Duron an impossibility. Dell even admitted they were given quotas on how many AMD CPUs they were allowed to sell! How much more proof does one need the entire market was rigged to crush a competitor. Intel continues to crush competition not with better value but with dirty tricks, see how they destroyed the Nvidia chipset business (which was a case of cutting their nose to spite their face as it made Atom netbooks practically worthless without ION) by refusing to give Nvidia access to their northbridges. Frankly Intel makes MSFT look like chiorboys.
Depends on the machine don't it? I know that on my netbook I get about 30% better battery life by using a hardware accelerated player (I usually use MPC:HC with DXVA, I'll have to see how the new VLC fares) over just letting the CPU do it. Sure modern CPUs are crazy fast but being more generalized use more power to do the job than simply using GPU shaders, at least IME and with nearly everyone being mobile I'm sure many would agree that more battery life is always a good thing on your portable.
Uhhhh...excuse me, when did it NOT have a single windows interface? At least on Windows going back as far as I can remember the thing it was a standard single windows with the file/edit/view style layout on top. Now if you want a "fancier" VLC you can always use Kantaris which is based on VLC and has more of a "One UI to rule them all" kinda thing going but I don't think I ever saw VLC with a Gimp style MDI.
He also pretty much just described my business and I've been quite happy with AMD, thanks. i believe in putting my money where my mouth is and when the Intel bribery and compiler rigging came out I quit selling Intel across the board. Sure i lost a couple of gamer customers ( but was never really happy with building PCs without OSes so some douche could spend $2k+ on a PC just to run Windows Pirate Edition) but I made up for that and more with the ordinary Joes. it don't take much word of mouth once you build a couple of sub $550 HTPC/Gamer PCs because the folks just love to show off how they can kick back on their couch and have all their DVDs ripped while being able to play Batman:AA or chat or watch Youtube on that nice 55 incher.
Frankly AMD's worst enemy is AMD though. The AM3 chips had the best bang for the buck and made them perfect for the average folks and gamers because lets face it a 3.4GHz quad with an HD4850 or HD5770 makes for a damned nice little gamer PC so what do they do? kill Thuban AND the entire AM3 line and for what? Two sockets that will be abandoned in less than 2 years, AM3+ and FM1. With AM3 even a customer on a VERY tight budget could get a dual core that often could be unlocked to a triple and then later on move to a quad or even hexacore without breaking their wallet. Now when the well runs dry for AM3 frankly I'll end up hitting secondary sources rather than go AM3+ or FM1 simply because there is no future in those sockets and the chips they do have for it are subpar, even AMD has said there is one more rev for AM3+ and Piledriver will be FM2 so they are already dead ends and are barely a year old.
Honestly the ONLY smart move AMD has made in the past couple of years is Brazos. I have sold quite a few all in ones and netbooks/laptops running both the C and E series and the performance and battery life is nice enough I sold my full size for a 12 inch EEE, it gets 6 hours running 720p on a 6 cell and that's before I use Brazos Tweaker to undervolt the chip which then gives me nearly 8 hours surfing time. Looking at the performance they probably need to leave Bulldozer and Piledriver to the servers, push a quad or even 6 core Brazos for laptops, and bring back Thuban and AM3 for the consumer desktops until they can come out with a chip that is actually better because last scores I saw had the A series losing or at best tying with Thuban while costing 40%+ more for the chips and the boards. At those prices free market or not I may end up having to go Intel simply because the bang for the buck and longevity simply isn't there anymore.
As long as I can get good affordable AM3 boards I'll stick with AMD but when they run out they had better have something closer to Athlon/Phenom in price and performance or I'll have no choice but to bail.
Let da feet help you out friend, if you want recent chips look under used on Amazon and if you want older chips, i'm talking going all the waaaay back to socket 754 and earlier then Starmicro is your friend. they have both Intel and AMD and those cheap Phenom I quads i've found make damned good cheap renderboxes or HTPCs and my office customers just love 'em, the E chips only use 65w while letting them multitask like crazy without dragging down the machines, perfect for secretaries,factory floor, or slap it with a Hyper N212 or N520 for a nice quiet HTPC that does transcoding.
That said friend take my advice, Tiger is selling the Thuban 1035t for just $130 for the retail unit. Take that HSF that comes with it, go "whoosh" right over your shoulder, hook that bad boy up with a Hyper N520 and you have a fricking monster! Just for shits and giggles since I have a killer Asrock board that OCs easily (A770DE+, great board if you have plenty of DDR 2 lying around like the 8Gb I had and has CF) and I managed to get her up to around 3.1Ghz and STILL had plenty of headroom before i thought "Why?" and dropped it to default clocks. With turbocore she'll jump up to 3.1GHz anytime I am doing anything that needs 3 cores or less and having 6 cores cranking at 2.6GHz she chews through video transcoding and disgital multitracking, and you know what my idle is? fricking room temp! No shit its room temp and tops out at 108F and that's after 3 hours of Prime95. man you slap that chip with that cooler? its a fricking sweeeeet combo man and you can't beat the price. Snatch one while you can man, snatch one while you can.
Exactly and with AMD you can have lots o' cores cheap I love the fact my 6 core can have two work on ripping a DVD while the other 4 are gaming and my customers love being able to hook that nice cheap quad via HDMI to their widescreen and have it game while surfing or listening to music or ripping, take a $100 AMD quad and add a $50 HD4850 and you can game quite nicely.
If you want to know where AMD is fucking up its killing Thuban and AM3 when it would be trivial to keep the low to midrange market with the AM3 by having a single chip. Take a 95w Thuban like the 1035 or 1045, any that have bad cores are your Phenom X4s and X3s, and any with bad cache is your Athlon. Voila! You can crank out one chip and pretty much keep the AM3 line (which has some damned nice boards dirt cheap) while you fix the bugs with bulldozer. As it is their sockets are changing too quick, AM3+ is gonna get maybe 1 more chip, Piledriver will be FM2 thus killing FM1 which is barely a year old, right now I wouldn't touch a non AM3 AMD desktop as its like socket 423 and 939, sockets that will be here today and gone tomorrow. Their E series are great for netbooks but their A series suck too much power for not enough performance IMHO, they should roll out 4,6,and 8 core Brazos chips to again give them product while they fix the problems with BD. They should have learned with phenom I that trying to shove bad chips out the door hurts your rep too bad, better to stick with tried and true while they fix the errata.
Well actually Intel simply bribed OEMs not to sell the competition just like MSFT did with Windows. You have to remember in 2006 they were still pushing netburst aka "Big power piggie space heaters" while AMD stomped all over them in the benches. then of course there is the blatant compiler rigging going on to this very day, when you can take a Via Nano and change the CPUID from "Centaur hauls" to "Genuine Intel" and have its scores jump nearly 40% on the benches? yeah bullshit, its just another quack.exe.
Because as we are seeing now with Syria or even here in the USA with PATRIOT and NDAA it really isn't a stretch for a government to become hostile to its own people. The ability to build grass roots support is one of the ways one can actually use the power of the people against the government but if they can simply track down the ones that are uppity and make them just go "poof"? lot harder to ever cause any change.