Ya know, we all make fun of them when they do obvious dumbshit like this, but how much of this is typical corporate CYA that always happens when somebody fucks up? I mean they ignored the guys learning to fly a plane and not land it which now looks pretty fucking stupid but at that time, when the only thing any terrorist had ever done with a plane was demand it take him to Cuba? Compared to what they had on their plates it probably wasn't seen as a big whoop.
Well now here we are, and after millions spent in investigation on how they could have missed 9/11 i have no problem thinking they may go completely overboard in the other direction in a classic case of CYA. Again while not condoning this obvious dumbshit maneuver given the circumstances you can see why it happens, nobody wants to be labeled the next guy that "ZOMFG you fucked up and let them attack us you monster!" so here we go.
The fact that simply viewing the state alters the state is the most interesting part to me, because that means what we know about the natural world is gonna have to be shitcanned once we find out how everything is connected at the quantum level. This kind of effects bugged Einstein so much he came up with his famous "God does not play dice" quote because all that he took as fact when reduced to the quantum state basically got a "LOL Goatse" because those rules simply didn't apply. The fact that the observer, supposedly completely disconnected from the actual event, can affect the event simply by observing the event? Now THAT is interesting.
As for TFA the problem is he is trying to predict something when our current understanding of it is frankly still quite primitive. it would be like saying "Can we build a device that will reach the moon and send data back" in 1919, yes we could, just not with the state of technology that existed then. Who knows how many discoveries that will change the world and our understanding of how things work will be found in the next 20 years. Can we build one NOW? Nope, we are still too primitive when it comes to understanding how things work at that level. But when I was a kid the thought that a PC would reach 1GHz and still be affordable to the masses would have been laugh worthy, hell a Mb of RAM would cost you more than your house. But things change and now computers a thousand times more powerful than the Crays we used to drool over can be bought at the local best buy with a paper route. Trying to predict what the next breakthrough is gonna be AND whether or not that will allow a quantum computer a million times faster than anything we currently have while fitting in a watch? Frankly we just don't know and won't know until we get there.
Really? Because I have the ancient MS Office 2K and it reads docX just fine with the converter pack which is free. hell I can even save in DocX if I wanted, but I prefer plain old.doc which seems to work on every version I've encountered. I even had to deal with a 6.5Mb doc that had headers, footers, tables and graphs, and we had MS Office 2K, 2K3, 2K7, and the one for the Mac at the time, 2K6 i think. the ONLY one that couldn't deal with it was the guy running OO.o 2.0 which turned it into word salad and totally trashed the fonts. Luckily one of us had a copy of 2K3 we won at a technet and didn't need so we just handed him that.
Don't get me wrong I give the LO guys credit, considering what a creaky mess they got from Sun they've made leaps and bounds and I still hand it out as the baseline functionality on new boxes, but when it comes to doc they still got some work. ODF is fine if you are ONLY gonna be using it internally but like it or not.doc is the format everyone uses. I've found that the LO docs just don't play nice with MS Office and vice versa and when you get your grade dinged because the teacher opens your LO doc and gets word salad or you send in a resume and it gets tossed because of formatting being wonked suddenly that MS Office Student copy don't look so bad. Oh and before someone uses the "Just send PDF" meme PDF is for PRINTING and most places will file 13 if you send PDF. The software the HR depts use doesn't parse PDF and teachers want to be able to write notes in the doc which cuts PDF right out.
Sorry but while LO still goes on every machine so they can at least view docs and its fine for home users that are just gonna print little Billy's report I've found things get nasty real quick if you have to do any interacting with the outside world. I'm sure with the extra help the LO guys will fix the problem, its just gonna take them some time.
Well there is that and it would need a lot more love to their replacement for Excel and Access. you'd be amazed how many companies have these huge applications built out of Excel and Access. Would it have been smarter to hire actual coders? of course but companies are conservative and "if it ain't broke" is law, at least in these parts.
Just tell me they are recoding the thing to get rid of Java please? Its irritating as hell it wants to install a program with a history of exploits that frankly nobody uses on the desktop anymore. Its just not smart to stick on Java if you don't have to, especially for only a single program. Java may be big in the server space but frankly it and.NET are dead on the desktop, at least around here. Hell you can't even run their version of Access without Java can you?
Well we try to be civil and be respectful of others, that's probably why many celebs like it when they visit here. I ran into Malcom McDowell in the river market, I said "Hey liked you in Time after Time and Clockwork orange, great work" and that was that. nobody hit him up for autographs, everybody just left him alone. Hell I had lunch with Clinton back when he was the gov and at the time I was a big hairy biker type. It was over a Xmas holiday and i spotted the gov coming out of a shop and said "Merry Xmas Gov!" and he said "How am I doing?" and I said "great except for the roads up north, you can bury a cow in the potholes up there" and he said "hey i'm gonna grab a burger, why don't i buy you lunch and you tell me which roads are in bad shape, i don't get a chance to head up that way often" so I sat down and had a burger with the gov. Sure enough not two weeks later he has a little ceremony for some massive road construction connecting north to south and its still going onto this very day. By the time its all finished we should have an excellent 4 lane with plenty of exits connecting north and south so you can stay on the freeway and get anywhere in the state.
So I'd say it all comes down to being respectful of others personal space and treating folks like folks. You give folks basic respect here you get it back and I don't care if you are the king of Siam as long as you don't act like a dick you can shop and hang out like anybody else and nobody will bother you. Over the years i've met a ton of celebs back when i worked in the capitol, musicians and actors, even got to play the 12 string bass owned by the bass player for Cinderella who showed me how to play Shake Me on a 12 string. Of course I don't have any pictures because we all take each other's words, it would have been rude to get in their faces like that and that kind of stuff just isn't done. I just wish i could find a copy of the 1986 MTV music awards because they have a great shot of me besides David Lee Roth as he gave out a video award, Dave points at me, I give a little "Whazzup" wave, its cute.
But do we allow them to destroy it for the rest of us? It won't take very many total douchebag moments for the public to decide that having public libraries is no more desirable than having public bathhouses and then its good bye funding and hello private libraries where you have to show you've paid your access membership fee to get in.
Again maybe its a southern thing, as I've been poor before, lived on the wrong side of the tracks, but ya know what? We policed our own and the douchebags got their asses stomped a few times they learned to quit that shit or hitch a ride the fuck out of there. If nobody enforces basic decency then there simply won't be any, assholes will keep right on pushing until nobody uses the place but the assholes. All it will take is a couple of times of scumbags whipping it out right in front of kids and everybody to whack off to some gangbang porn, and you KNOW this will happen, that library has practically sent out a welcome mat for the douchebags, then the place will be cut off of funding if not plain shut down and EVERYONE loses. I hope that librarian has another job lined up, because she is gonna need one. Because if she think screaming "free speech!" is gonna make real life trolls give a flying fuck about her and her job boy is she in for a wakeup call!
Actually you can get rid of a LOT of piracy, at least in the west, but they don't want to hear the answer. Are you ready? Charge a price that the consumers find acceptable instead of throwing them over a barrel and assraping them! I know, its a concept, so bare with me for a moment okay?
In PC sales and repair you see a LOT of piracy, people pick up computers from CL, from friends, and the one thing they all have in common is priated Windows. one of the reasons so many Windows zombie networks exist is the pirates simply disable Windows Update so they don't have to worry about WGA. But then a funny thing happened, suddenly I started seeing all these legal Windows 7 machines, how could this be? Simple MSFT was selling Win 7 HP for $50 and at that price the pirates considered it less hassle to buy than to pirate. MSFT quits selling it for $50 and BAM! Right back to seeing Win 7 Ultimate with updates disabled. Thanks Ballmer you sweaty idiot.
And now I'm starting to see the same thing happening in video games, guys whose computers were filled with Razr1911.NFOs are suddenly having all these legitimate games, so what changed? A little thing known as Steam and a concept known as the Steam Sale. With the Steam sale they offer games at a price the gamers can actually afford so shock! gasp! they actually buy. Hell over the Xmas Steam sale I probably blew a good $200 on me and my boys. Could I have pirated every one of those games? trivially. So why didn't I? Because Steam not only had it cheap but I get MP and matchmaking with achievements, I get built in chat that makes it easy to set up a battle with my buds, in short they gave me MORE VALUE and since they weren't trying to assrape me I bought, simple as that.
So they could end piracy tomorrow, you know this, I know this, and THEY know this, but you see thanks to the corruption of Wall Street smart business decisions are no longer rewarded, a company must have endless growth of iMoney proportions thanks to the day traders or their stocks takes a nosedive. Hell look at how MSFT had one of the biggest quarters in the company's entire history and the stock didn't move an inch, why? Because they can't do that plus 40% next quarter and if you ain't iMoney you ain't shit. So to keep their stock from being shat upon they have to press everything including price to the limit, gotta make the quarterly earnings.
We are gonna have to get together and say in one voice "Enough is enough, no more stupid laws! You compete or fucking die already!" and then maybe they'll tell the day traders to fuck off and actually compete again. this is one subject where the Occupy and the teabaggers can agree, the one subject where we geeks and the normals can agree, as NOBODY likes more jack booted corporate ass kissing bullshit. So lets slam the living fuck out of congress every time they so much as look at another SOPA/PIPA, lets demand from our newspapers that Chris Dodd be investigated since its obvious the corps are protecting a dirty ex congressman, and lets make sure every politician knows support for more corporate kissing bullshit is the kiss of death to their career in politics. See how they like being unemployed. We can do it folks if we stand as one, we can rally the troops, we can stop the bullshit. Its time those that talk about a free market put up or shut up, either these megacorps compete or they go under, simple as that. I think when they are forced to compete we'll see the end of the $60 games and $50 worth of DLC just to get the complete game, compete or die!
While i'm sure that is true to a point, everyone seems to forget just how fricking fast we jumped on computing power. When i first started toying with computers in the early 80s we measured memory in bytes and the multimillion dollar supercomputers had less computing power than that $8 calculator at Fred's. In just 30 years we went from computers measured in single digit MHz cost nearly as much as a car to being able to build a DIY PC for $1000 that could run every single major OS of the last 20 years at the same time. Hell just look at the beginning of this century, where we had just broken the GHz barrier and having 512Mb of RAM meant you had some cash to blow. Who would have thought then that just 12 years later we'd be looking at machines with dozens of CPUs and huge pools of RAM and hundreds of specialized graphical cores we could run our own code on?
The sat phone system IIRC was designed in the mid 80s and put up in the early 90s correct? i can see them simply not seeing the huge leaps that we would make nor would the tech of the time have been able to process crypto hard enough not to be at risk from these modern monsters. If we keep leaping ahead with regards to computing power as we have been these past 15 years I don't even want to think about how big and complex an encryption system you'll need to protect yourself from what the average geek will have sitting on his desk in 2030.
Ultimately it comes down sadly to two things we seem to be lacking, and that is common courtesy and thoughts for others besides oneself. it wasn't as if anybody was running this guy off, or even making him quit, all that was asked of him was that he switch to a machine in a less highly trafficked area. to me this screams of real life trolling, I can imagine the guy wearing a real life trollface and smirking as the speakers blared 'Suck my fucking cock you filthy fucking whore!"
Maybe there is something to be said for the "baser" way we do things in the south because if someone would have pulled that shit in my local library i can't imagine that guy sitting there more than two minutes before some guy yanked him up out of his seat and said 'WTF is wrong with you? you wanna look at that shit use that machine in the corner, there is fucking kids standing right over there man have some fucking sense!" and that would have been the end of that. if the troll would have called the cops the cops would have told him "Well there are kids just over there and frankly you ought to be thanking the guy that you aren't looking at an indecency to minors charge so i'd suggest you STFU and show some common sense next time".
Sadly we are having to have these kinds of confrontations more often because too many just don't show even the tiniest bit of common sense or common courtesy anymore. Frankly they act little better than animals and for a society to function basic ground rules have to be obeyed in public places. Just as one wouldn't expect to wear a "All niggers must fucking hang" T-Shirt in a public place without starting a confrontation so too should this troll have expected that blasting hardcore porn in the middle of a high traffic area would cause some problems. Honestly i wouldn't be surprised if that was his intention all along, to either take a shot at the lawsuit lotto or to simply be a douchebag. I don't know if its all the GMO food, the plastic in the drinks, or what, but I've noticed lately a hell of a lot more cases of people starting shit in public, even when it gains them nothing or even harms them, just for the sake of starting shit. Its almost like the common sense gene has been bred out of these people.
Actually there would be an easy way to fix it, in both criminal and civil, but it would take away power from the uberrich so it'd never fly. Simply have both side pay into a common fund which is split equally to pay for the two sides lawyers. no paying anything other than one half of the fund. this would discourage using "dream team" lawyers because by spending that outrageous amount you would also be giving the other side an equal amount. As it is now both the rich and the state can use virtually unlimited funds to SLAPP away any threat to their power by simply dragging the case out until the poorer side goes broke. Sadly this goes on all to often and I've seen it first hand when a friend with a small business was royally fucked by quite obviously illegal tactics by an ISP who said "Just try and sue us". His lawyer told him "Sure you'll win, no doubt there, but by the time they are done dragging this through the system you'll be looking at the better part of a decade and close to a million dollars in legal fees over the length of the case" so he just walked away. If both sides had to pay into a fund that was split equally then dragging it out would give no advantage since you would be increasing the opponents resources as well. But as I said that would mean the 1% would actually have to argue cases on their merits and we can't have that now can we?
If its anything like HTML V5 the "standard" will be fucking useless. Instead of having a brain and setting a free codec as a bare minimum, such as Vorbis or WebM, to where anybody could degrade to that and be assured that the content would play, instead they just left it a generic "video" tag and ended up with Apple being able to slam through H.264 which while it is very obviously the most technologically superior codec, its holding group might a well have as a motto "Pay your $699 license fee, you cocksmoking teabaggers!" so you can give up anybody other than the big three (Apple,Google,MSFT) using it.
Basically it looks like we are headed right back to the bad old days of "you must use X browser" only it'll be the software patent trolls and lack of any real standards instead of the OS companies shoving it this time. Either way its gonna suck and frankly I wouldn't be surprised if everyone not falling all over the iShiny simply stayed with flash. At least Adobe doesn't sue your ass if you include flash support in your OS or device whereas MPEG-LA made it clear if Moz or anybody wants to support H.264 they better pay their license fee. How long until MPG 2 and 3 are out of patents? Maybe we should just say fuck it and bypass the whole mess.
yes because i'm sure that "Airtight 26, choke the bitch" will give those children a good lesson on how babies are made and how women should be treated. I'm sure the part where they jam the shit covered dick down her throat while holding her nose until she pukes will be MOST enlightening. Seriously you haven't seen what passes for mainstream porn since Ginger Lynn was starring in the movies as the teen babe have you? I bet my last buck that any douchebag that frankly cares so little about his fellow library patrons is watching the nastiest shit he can find, just sitting there with a real live trollface enjoying the looks on patrons faces when they hear shit like "Choke on my cock you fucking whore!" blaring out the speakers.
That's why I didn't say contact the companies because that won't help with PPT math, they'll just file 13 it and pretend it never existed, won't affect their PPT math in the slightest. No what we need is the EFF to set up a site to combat PPT math where those of us boycotting can sign up so that when some megacorp pulls out some PPT math the EFF can say "Members of congress the gentleman is ignoring the fact that his DRM has caused enough trouble for consumers that many of them are boycotting their products. here is a list with but a small sample of those that have pledged to NEVER buy a single product from this company".
I would also suggest everyone have this video bookmarked (warning language NSFW) so that when a shill pops up and says "They are only protecting their IP, this doesn't hurt the consumers!" we can all paste the video and rub their noses in it as it is a textbook example of a legal customer getting punched in the balls by DRM. If you watch the video he has to crack his brand new retail game simply to make it run because otherwise the DRM won't let him actually play the game. And thanks to not being allowed to return an open box, even if the product is defective, in most stores that leaves us trapped in a catch 22 where we can't play the game we legally bought without breaking DMCA and becoming criminals.
Thank you. I just find it amazing so many supposedly smart geeks just swallow pure propaganda hook line and sinker. Frankly I had a grandfather that fought in Europe from D-Day plus 4 until he had a wall dropped on him by a Werewulf squad 6 days before the end of the war. this man actually liberated one of the camps and he said everyone from the generals on down was simply shocked because they all believed that the Nazis had sent the Jews east, so this wasn't some "Lets go save the Jews!" thing because they didn't get wind of what was happening in the camps until late 44, after we had already been ass deep for 5 years.
And the Russian record clearly show Stalin thought FDR was a fool and used him as such, he knew that he could get pretty much anything he wanted from FDR and did. Even Truman when he was brought in was appalled at the deals FDR had cut with Stalin. Honestly if the history books weren't propaganda they would show FDR as a warmonger who got Americans killed in a war they had consistently voted against for years by pushing Japan into a corner and bitchslapping them until they had to attack to save face. Look up the tighten the noose quote, that is a quote from FDR and in the rest of the quote he was worried that getting Japan to attack wouldn't be enough to get him in Europe and he was worried Germany would stay out of it even though we had been supplying Britain despite the American people demanding neutrality and we were actively hunting U-Boats which made us an active combatant, again despite resolutions passed by the American people. he even rammed through lend lease when most of congress was out, again sound familiar?
In the end what we are talking about isn't hindsight, what we are talking about is democracy being subverted and the will of the people ignored by a president than wanted a war at all costs. Frankly FDR should rank right up there with Dubya on the shitty POTUS scale ignoring the people, starting wars the people didn't want, suspending liberties, hell Dubya was just following the FDR playbook.
Noooo...I mean there are hacked Steam.executables out there that will let you use pretty much any Steam game offline forever. As i understand it you can't currently leave Steam in offline mode forever, after something like 30 days it'll want to connect and won't let you go back to offline mode until you do. But there are hacked copies of both the.exes and the whole games themselves that will work just like any hacked game, it just calls a phony Steam that returns the correct value and quits. If you don't believe me look for some of the Valve games on P2P like L4D, HL2, they even have one that has all of the HL1 games plus all the mods all packaged together and it uses a hacked Steam client.
so while i don't use these things because frankly Valve and those publishers using Steam price the games aggressively enough that it isn't worth the effort, its nice to know that if steam went tits up tomorrow i could have all my games permanently in about 20 minutes, big whoop. The Steam hacks are just as simple as the old.exe swaps back in the day, simply drop in folder and launch game. Easy peasy.
And showing kids porn is also quite illegal, which if the librarian has already been warned about that guy watching porn in a high traffic area and some kids end up being shown porn not only will she go to jail but the parents will be able to sue their asses off. your freedom ends when it infringes others rights and we have plenty of legal precedent that you can't show porn to minors, no matter how much you claim free speech. if that city has a brain they'll fire that librarian and tell the next one that next time somebody wants to do that put them in a corner or tell them to use the free wifi in a non high traffic area.
But if it is anything like the main PCs in my local library frankly there is NO way to walk past without getting an eye full unless they use the one reference system in the corner. this doesn't have a damned thing to do with censorship anymore than telling someone not to scream "fuck off!" in your face over and over would be blocking his free speech. its called common courtesy which obviously nobody bothered to teach them folks on the west coast. Down here in the south someone would have just pulled the guy aside and said 'Hey man kids are walking right past there, just go look at the machine in the corner okay? Or use the free Wifi and pick some place that ain't smack dab in the middle right across from where the kids section is dude" and that would have been the end of that.
Personally I think its kind of sad that I even have to explain this, that we have become such a "me me me!" society that having thoughts about the feelings of those around you are so fucking alien i actually have to even explain this. For all the talk about how "backwards" we here in the south are at least we try not be be assholes and respect those around us. Its called civility and respect, something frankly we should have more of. the person didn't even ask him to stop, just move to one of the machines that wasn't in the middle of a high traffic area. is that REALLY so much to ask? I can't wait to see how that librarian reacts to her 'free speech!" stance when she gets a contributing charge because showing porn to kids is illegal you know.
Well I don't know what the numbers would be on the nightlies but I can tell you based on releases what i saw. 3 was good, better than 2 and the memory usage was improving, 3.5 got a little slower but not bad, 3.6 got a little slower and draggier still, 4 took a serious nosedive especially on HDD usage, 5 and 6 similar but they both used more CPU, 7 thrashed like mad, 8 wasn't much better, 9 lowered the thrashing by about 5-8% and 9 was same as 8 and 10 lowered again another few percent so that now with 10 it takes about 90% CPU on launch instead of 100% CPU like I saw with 5/6/7 but the longer I run it the draggier it gets. Pretty much watching an SD video is only possible on the nettop with FF if there isn't anything else running and its still jerky and without launching anything fancy or letting SD videos play (If I want to watch them in FF I use downloadhelper and watch them on the desktop) then I can get between 4-6 hours but after that it'll begin to affect the system, with the mouse starting to drag and jerk and the whole thing starts getting unresponsive.
Hell if I know why it does what it does, like I said I've tried killing extensions, removing my security password for the password DB, both regular and optimized versions like Pale moon, no dice. All I know is FF is using on average a good 20%+ more resources than Dragon and when you are talking about a low power system that 20% can mean the difference between a responsive system and one you have to ctrl-shft-esc out of to regain control. After the sale I'm gonna try the ESR, see if it helps.
I do the same friend, haven't had a Ubisoft game since either Riddick or the first far Cry, can't remember which came later. the problem with just voting with your wallet in this case is what i call "PPT Math" which they use to get ever more draconian laws. you see they'll just break out a PPT and tell the congress critters they are buying "If you see here we sold X amount on consoles, and since there is Y amount of PC gamers that play this particular genre then logically we should have had X+Y sales but since we didn't it MUST be those evil pirates stealing our precious!" and they get worse laws that fuck us ALL over.
For a great example of PPT math see the media companies who despite posting record profits year after year (while fucking the artist with Hollywood accounting so they don't have to share any with the scum that actually made the things) whip out a PPT that says "If you see here it shows they stole elevnty bazillion from us so we'd have had a super duper super cereal year if it weren't for those ebil pirates ZOMG!" and we get all these lovely laws like DMCA, ACTA, and their attempting to ram SOPA/PIPA which I'm sure they'll get after the election.
No what we need is for the EFF to set up some web pages where those of us not buying nor pirating from companies we find odious can sign so that the EFF can hand it to congress critters when these corps try to use PPT math to get us screwed. Because as it is now its a "heads i win, tails you lose" situation for these assholes.
And yet again the pirated version is the superior version. Is it any wonder why we get PC gamers posting rants when they get fucked out of their money? Personally all i use anymore is Steam and GOG and if a game says it uses third party anything its buh bye, no thanks. BTW if any Steam guys are reading this? you REALLY need an icon so when I'm looking at a long list of games, like during one of your sales, i can see which are only Steam and which have extra crap. And before anybody says 'ZOMG Steam IS DRM" yeah yeah to serve man is a cookbook. Steam DRM is also the most trivial to bypass there is, the net is full of Steam hacks, so if Valve ever goes under it won't take me 3 minutes to have my games hacked.
But I think we need a new tag for douchebag DRM, probably called "Hey its Ubisoft" as when it comes to treating customers like shit and giving them the finger while they take their money NOBODY innovates like Ubisoft, they are at the absolute bleeding edge when it comes to active douchebaggery, from DRM that burned drives to always on crap that we see gives them a way to give everyone who was stupid enough to buy from them an electronic Goatse, nobody but nobody leads in the area of digital douchebag behavior like Ubisoft, nobody.
Oh I'll tell you something about the ME that'll scare your ass white APK, I live next to a conservative college where many of the "men behind the throne" go to lecture and because my bud is an engineer there that helps with the robotics designs I've been to a few of those lectures and got to talk to the real power players about the ME. you wanna know what our ENTIRE ME policy is based on? ready for this?.....Jesus won't come back. I swear to fucking God, these guys are basing the ME policy of one of the most powerful nuclear armed countries on a prediction written on a sheep's ass 1800 years ago about how some 2000 year dead guy won't have a place to park his fluffy cloud if there ain't a Jew to valet park his ass.
They can make all these bogeyman stories about the Muslims and Sharia but when push comes to shove our right wing is just as damned batshit religious as theirs, only we have a hell of a lot more dangerous weaponry.
Oh and as for the "pro pedo" guy? Actually if you would have read the book (I actually did read part of it I found online) the majority of his book is teaching pedos how to NOT TOUCH KIDS by using non pedo sources for fantasy and by writing out their thoughts. Basically it was like an AA for pedos but since with our right wing anything other than "kill yourself" is automatically labeled pro he's rotting in prison. But frankly it shouldn't matter WHAT he wrote as its WORDS ON A PAGE. We allow the little red book and Mein Kampf and those books killed millions, because we USED to know freedom of ideas is one of the cornerstones of democracy. now we have the feds demanding lists from libraries of anyone who has checked out "The catcher in the rye" so those people can be put on a watchlist.
I do agree with you though the most powerful weapon out there wielded by the enemies of the people isn't the bomb but propaganda. By simply sticking the right label on you with their MSM they can turn the world against you, have them screaming for your blood, look at the guy they blamed for the bomb at the Olympics that turned out to be an innocent man, they nearly destroyed him and he has PTSD to this very day thanks to a year and a half of constant attacks. Look at that poor bastard in FLA that got an infected laptop from work that had a CP virus on it, he lost his job, his wife divorced him and took his children, His friends all abandoned him and he spent over 2 years in PMITA prison when just 15 minutes of forensic investigation would have cleared him but nobody gave a fuck if they had the RIGHT guy, just that they had SOME guy. Even though this mild mannered schmuck had never had so much as a speeding ticket all it took was someone to point a finger and say "pervert!" to completely destroy a life that had taken him nearly 30 years to build.
this shit is getting scary friend, damned scary. You watch, soon they will have Nancy Grace and the talking heads spewing how the tools we geeks use "is helping pedo ZOMFG!" and simply possessing them will end up being outlawed. It is getting to the point that anyone who doesn't agree with El Presidente and isn't willing to have a camera on them 24/7 is an enemy and a threat. Its gonna be Nixon all over again, only this time they'll be smart enough not to get their hands dirty directly and instead will use the MSM to be their attack dogs.
Trusted repos like the one that was serving a malware ridden Quake 3 for over a year? THOSE repos? Or how about how this pwnage or how MySQL was serving malware how about that? Being open doesn't give you any magical protection friend, you can be pwned just as easily, hell I'd be amazed if even 10% of the code in your distro has been looked at by any eyes other than the ones that actually wrote the code. Quick can you tell me what calls the Synaptic package manager is using? Hell look at how much dead cruft was just sitting in OO.o and that is one of the if not THE most popular program in Linux distros! if that one was a creaky mess just waiting for pwnage what makes you think anything else in the stack is in better shape? The simple fact is malware writers are criminals and criminals are lazy. If Linux every gains closer to 10% as Apple did you'll be serving malware before you can say RMS friend, count on it. Its just right now you have security through obscurity, same as i don't see any OS/2 viruses showing up on Securina.
Are you REALLY this clueless? Or are you being obtuse just so you can troll? Okay let me spell it out so you can understand, the bootloader hack lets you load a hacked version of Windows that will PASS WGA, so that pirates can pass out fake Windows as legit, since the user isn't gonna examine the bootloader MSFT has pretty much given up on Windows 7 because there is no way to tell pirated from real for the average Joe. As for WinTab? do I REALLY have to spell it out? i guess so, its called "app market" which with a hacked bootloader you could just take any app and clone it. Take a look for Android games and apps on any P2P, they have cloned the living shit out of every single one. you can have Angry Bird or Plants VS Zombies in under 3 minutes. as we saw with the X360 hack once the OS is pwned that's it, piracy WILL explode, so locking down the very first stage is critical if they want to have even a prayer of stopping it.
But you know this don't you? Surely the GNUlaid hasn't blinded you THIS much, has it? If it has you do make a perfect example of why nobody takes FOSS seriously, because you'll completely ignore anything that doesn't fit into your perception bubble. Funny that your type often make fun of Apple and the RDF when yours is 50 times more powerful, only it isn't pro Linux, its anti corporations. But I hate to break the news to ya but most of us can't squat on a major college campus and act like this and get away with it. The simple fact is your leader is like the republicans, longing for a time that never really existed and certainly isn't coming back. hell the man still addresses audiences as "hackers" like he's at a 1974 meeting of the local computer club. But nowadays a single console can cost easily several hundred million in R&D and its 100% legal to simply clone your code and take it. Don't put the code out there for anyone to see if you don't want to lose control. You watch, once Sony has a clone up of BusyBox under BSD those supporting BusyBox with funds will walk away.
Then please tell everyone who says that "Linux is ready for the desktop!" shit to STFU, will you? Oh and tried Debian, puked on wireless, next? Sadly you are using a classic meme called use distro X. Oh and stable ABI? Your argument has its own meme too. BTW, just FYI, but the ONLY thing you will find written against a stable ABI is a RELIGIOUS RANT by one of the kernel devs that goes so far as to say 'I hope that those that have non free drivers have their systems broken often!" now does that sound like an OS developer, or someone punishing the unbelievers of their God? sounds like the latter to me.
But you can't eat your cake and have it too, if you truly don't care then state right here that Linux isn't ready for the masses and i'll be happy to link to your post when we get the annual "Year of the Linux desktop!" meme.
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Ya know, we all make fun of them when they do obvious dumbshit like this, but how much of this is typical corporate CYA that always happens when somebody fucks up? I mean they ignored the guys learning to fly a plane and not land it which now looks pretty fucking stupid but at that time, when the only thing any terrorist had ever done with a plane was demand it take him to Cuba? Compared to what they had on their plates it probably wasn't seen as a big whoop.
Well now here we are, and after millions spent in investigation on how they could have missed 9/11 i have no problem thinking they may go completely overboard in the other direction in a classic case of CYA. Again while not condoning this obvious dumbshit maneuver given the circumstances you can see why it happens, nobody wants to be labeled the next guy that "ZOMFG you fucked up and let them attack us you monster!" so here we go.
The fact that simply viewing the state alters the state is the most interesting part to me, because that means what we know about the natural world is gonna have to be shitcanned once we find out how everything is connected at the quantum level. This kind of effects bugged Einstein so much he came up with his famous "God does not play dice" quote because all that he took as fact when reduced to the quantum state basically got a "LOL Goatse" because those rules simply didn't apply. The fact that the observer, supposedly completely disconnected from the actual event, can affect the event simply by observing the event? Now THAT is interesting.
As for TFA the problem is he is trying to predict something when our current understanding of it is frankly still quite primitive. it would be like saying "Can we build a device that will reach the moon and send data back" in 1919, yes we could, just not with the state of technology that existed then. Who knows how many discoveries that will change the world and our understanding of how things work will be found in the next 20 years. Can we build one NOW? Nope, we are still too primitive when it comes to understanding how things work at that level. But when I was a kid the thought that a PC would reach 1GHz and still be affordable to the masses would have been laugh worthy, hell a Mb of RAM would cost you more than your house. But things change and now computers a thousand times more powerful than the Crays we used to drool over can be bought at the local best buy with a paper route. Trying to predict what the next breakthrough is gonna be AND whether or not that will allow a quantum computer a million times faster than anything we currently have while fitting in a watch? Frankly we just don't know and won't know until we get there.
Really? Because I have the ancient MS Office 2K and it reads docX just fine with the converter pack which is free. hell I can even save in DocX if I wanted, but I prefer plain old .doc which seems to work on every version I've encountered. I even had to deal with a 6.5Mb doc that had headers, footers, tables and graphs, and we had MS Office 2K, 2K3, 2K7, and the one for the Mac at the time, 2K6 i think. the ONLY one that couldn't deal with it was the guy running OO.o 2.0 which turned it into word salad and totally trashed the fonts. Luckily one of us had a copy of 2K3 we won at a technet and didn't need so we just handed him that.
Don't get me wrong I give the LO guys credit, considering what a creaky mess they got from Sun they've made leaps and bounds and I still hand it out as the baseline functionality on new boxes, but when it comes to doc they still got some work. ODF is fine if you are ONLY gonna be using it internally but like it or not .doc is the format everyone uses. I've found that the LO docs just don't play nice with MS Office and vice versa and when you get your grade dinged because the teacher opens your LO doc and gets word salad or you send in a resume and it gets tossed because of formatting being wonked suddenly that MS Office Student copy don't look so bad. Oh and before someone uses the "Just send PDF" meme PDF is for PRINTING and most places will file 13 if you send PDF. The software the HR depts use doesn't parse PDF and teachers want to be able to write notes in the doc which cuts PDF right out.
Sorry but while LO still goes on every machine so they can at least view docs and its fine for home users that are just gonna print little Billy's report I've found things get nasty real quick if you have to do any interacting with the outside world. I'm sure with the extra help the LO guys will fix the problem, its just gonna take them some time.
Well there is that and it would need a lot more love to their replacement for Excel and Access. you'd be amazed how many companies have these huge applications built out of Excel and Access. Would it have been smarter to hire actual coders? of course but companies are conservative and "if it ain't broke" is law, at least in these parts.
Just tell me they are recoding the thing to get rid of Java please? Its irritating as hell it wants to install a program with a history of exploits that frankly nobody uses on the desktop anymore. Its just not smart to stick on Java if you don't have to, especially for only a single program. Java may be big in the server space but frankly it and .NET are dead on the desktop, at least around here. Hell you can't even run their version of Access without Java can you?
Well we try to be civil and be respectful of others, that's probably why many celebs like it when they visit here. I ran into Malcom McDowell in the river market, I said "Hey liked you in Time after Time and Clockwork orange, great work" and that was that. nobody hit him up for autographs, everybody just left him alone. Hell I had lunch with Clinton back when he was the gov and at the time I was a big hairy biker type. It was over a Xmas holiday and i spotted the gov coming out of a shop and said "Merry Xmas Gov!" and he said "How am I doing?" and I said "great except for the roads up north, you can bury a cow in the potholes up there" and he said "hey i'm gonna grab a burger, why don't i buy you lunch and you tell me which roads are in bad shape, i don't get a chance to head up that way often" so I sat down and had a burger with the gov. Sure enough not two weeks later he has a little ceremony for some massive road construction connecting north to south and its still going onto this very day. By the time its all finished we should have an excellent 4 lane with plenty of exits connecting north and south so you can stay on the freeway and get anywhere in the state.
So I'd say it all comes down to being respectful of others personal space and treating folks like folks. You give folks basic respect here you get it back and I don't care if you are the king of Siam as long as you don't act like a dick you can shop and hang out like anybody else and nobody will bother you. Over the years i've met a ton of celebs back when i worked in the capitol, musicians and actors, even got to play the 12 string bass owned by the bass player for Cinderella who showed me how to play Shake Me on a 12 string. Of course I don't have any pictures because we all take each other's words, it would have been rude to get in their faces like that and that kind of stuff just isn't done. I just wish i could find a copy of the 1986 MTV music awards because they have a great shot of me besides David Lee Roth as he gave out a video award, Dave points at me, I give a little "Whazzup" wave, its cute.
But do we allow them to destroy it for the rest of us? It won't take very many total douchebag moments for the public to decide that having public libraries is no more desirable than having public bathhouses and then its good bye funding and hello private libraries where you have to show you've paid your access membership fee to get in.
Again maybe its a southern thing, as I've been poor before, lived on the wrong side of the tracks, but ya know what? We policed our own and the douchebags got their asses stomped a few times they learned to quit that shit or hitch a ride the fuck out of there. If nobody enforces basic decency then there simply won't be any, assholes will keep right on pushing until nobody uses the place but the assholes. All it will take is a couple of times of scumbags whipping it out right in front of kids and everybody to whack off to some gangbang porn, and you KNOW this will happen, that library has practically sent out a welcome mat for the douchebags, then the place will be cut off of funding if not plain shut down and EVERYONE loses. I hope that librarian has another job lined up, because she is gonna need one. Because if she think screaming "free speech!" is gonna make real life trolls give a flying fuck about her and her job boy is she in for a wakeup call!
Actually you can get rid of a LOT of piracy, at least in the west, but they don't want to hear the answer. Are you ready? Charge a price that the consumers find acceptable instead of throwing them over a barrel and assraping them! I know, its a concept, so bare with me for a moment okay?
In PC sales and repair you see a LOT of piracy, people pick up computers from CL, from friends, and the one thing they all have in common is priated Windows. one of the reasons so many Windows zombie networks exist is the pirates simply disable Windows Update so they don't have to worry about WGA. But then a funny thing happened, suddenly I started seeing all these legal Windows 7 machines, how could this be? Simple MSFT was selling Win 7 HP for $50 and at that price the pirates considered it less hassle to buy than to pirate. MSFT quits selling it for $50 and BAM! Right back to seeing Win 7 Ultimate with updates disabled. Thanks Ballmer you sweaty idiot.
And now I'm starting to see the same thing happening in video games, guys whose computers were filled with Razr1911 .NFOs are suddenly having all these legitimate games, so what changed? A little thing known as Steam and a concept known as the Steam Sale. With the Steam sale they offer games at a price the gamers can actually afford so shock! gasp! they actually buy. Hell over the Xmas Steam sale I probably blew a good $200 on me and my boys. Could I have pirated every one of those games? trivially. So why didn't I? Because Steam not only had it cheap but I get MP and matchmaking with achievements, I get built in chat that makes it easy to set up a battle with my buds, in short they gave me MORE VALUE and since they weren't trying to assrape me I bought, simple as that.
So they could end piracy tomorrow, you know this, I know this, and THEY know this, but you see thanks to the corruption of Wall Street smart business decisions are no longer rewarded, a company must have endless growth of iMoney proportions thanks to the day traders or their stocks takes a nosedive. Hell look at how MSFT had one of the biggest quarters in the company's entire history and the stock didn't move an inch, why? Because they can't do that plus 40% next quarter and if you ain't iMoney you ain't shit. So to keep their stock from being shat upon they have to press everything including price to the limit, gotta make the quarterly earnings.
We are gonna have to get together and say in one voice "Enough is enough, no more stupid laws! You compete or fucking die already!" and then maybe they'll tell the day traders to fuck off and actually compete again. this is one subject where the Occupy and the teabaggers can agree, the one subject where we geeks and the normals can agree, as NOBODY likes more jack booted corporate ass kissing bullshit. So lets slam the living fuck out of congress every time they so much as look at another SOPA/PIPA, lets demand from our newspapers that Chris Dodd be investigated since its obvious the corps are protecting a dirty ex congressman, and lets make sure every politician knows support for more corporate kissing bullshit is the kiss of death to their career in politics. See how they like being unemployed. We can do it folks if we stand as one, we can rally the troops, we can stop the bullshit. Its time those that talk about a free market put up or shut up, either these megacorps compete or they go under, simple as that. I think when they are forced to compete we'll see the end of the $60 games and $50 worth of DLC just to get the complete game, compete or die!
While i'm sure that is true to a point, everyone seems to forget just how fricking fast we jumped on computing power. When i first started toying with computers in the early 80s we measured memory in bytes and the multimillion dollar supercomputers had less computing power than that $8 calculator at Fred's. In just 30 years we went from computers measured in single digit MHz cost nearly as much as a car to being able to build a DIY PC for $1000 that could run every single major OS of the last 20 years at the same time. Hell just look at the beginning of this century, where we had just broken the GHz barrier and having 512Mb of RAM meant you had some cash to blow. Who would have thought then that just 12 years later we'd be looking at machines with dozens of CPUs and huge pools of RAM and hundreds of specialized graphical cores we could run our own code on?
The sat phone system IIRC was designed in the mid 80s and put up in the early 90s correct? i can see them simply not seeing the huge leaps that we would make nor would the tech of the time have been able to process crypto hard enough not to be at risk from these modern monsters. If we keep leaping ahead with regards to computing power as we have been these past 15 years I don't even want to think about how big and complex an encryption system you'll need to protect yourself from what the average geek will have sitting on his desk in 2030.
So no different than what we had over a dozen years ago with pointcast then?
Ultimately it comes down sadly to two things we seem to be lacking, and that is common courtesy and thoughts for others besides oneself. it wasn't as if anybody was running this guy off, or even making him quit, all that was asked of him was that he switch to a machine in a less highly trafficked area. to me this screams of real life trolling, I can imagine the guy wearing a real life trollface and smirking as the speakers blared 'Suck my fucking cock you filthy fucking whore!"
Maybe there is something to be said for the "baser" way we do things in the south because if someone would have pulled that shit in my local library i can't imagine that guy sitting there more than two minutes before some guy yanked him up out of his seat and said 'WTF is wrong with you? you wanna look at that shit use that machine in the corner, there is fucking kids standing right over there man have some fucking sense!" and that would have been the end of that. if the troll would have called the cops the cops would have told him "Well there are kids just over there and frankly you ought to be thanking the guy that you aren't looking at an indecency to minors charge so i'd suggest you STFU and show some common sense next time".
Sadly we are having to have these kinds of confrontations more often because too many just don't show even the tiniest bit of common sense or common courtesy anymore. Frankly they act little better than animals and for a society to function basic ground rules have to be obeyed in public places. Just as one wouldn't expect to wear a "All niggers must fucking hang" T-Shirt in a public place without starting a confrontation so too should this troll have expected that blasting hardcore porn in the middle of a high traffic area would cause some problems. Honestly i wouldn't be surprised if that was his intention all along, to either take a shot at the lawsuit lotto or to simply be a douchebag. I don't know if its all the GMO food, the plastic in the drinks, or what, but I've noticed lately a hell of a lot more cases of people starting shit in public, even when it gains them nothing or even harms them, just for the sake of starting shit. Its almost like the common sense gene has been bred out of these people.
Actually there would be an easy way to fix it, in both criminal and civil, but it would take away power from the uberrich so it'd never fly. Simply have both side pay into a common fund which is split equally to pay for the two sides lawyers. no paying anything other than one half of the fund. this would discourage using "dream team" lawyers because by spending that outrageous amount you would also be giving the other side an equal amount. As it is now both the rich and the state can use virtually unlimited funds to SLAPP away any threat to their power by simply dragging the case out until the poorer side goes broke. Sadly this goes on all to often and I've seen it first hand when a friend with a small business was royally fucked by quite obviously illegal tactics by an ISP who said "Just try and sue us". His lawyer told him "Sure you'll win, no doubt there, but by the time they are done dragging this through the system you'll be looking at the better part of a decade and close to a million dollars in legal fees over the length of the case" so he just walked away. If both sides had to pay into a fund that was split equally then dragging it out would give no advantage since you would be increasing the opponents resources as well. But as I said that would mean the 1% would actually have to argue cases on their merits and we can't have that now can we?
If its anything like HTML V5 the "standard" will be fucking useless. Instead of having a brain and setting a free codec as a bare minimum, such as Vorbis or WebM, to where anybody could degrade to that and be assured that the content would play, instead they just left it a generic "video" tag and ended up with Apple being able to slam through H.264 which while it is very obviously the most technologically superior codec, its holding group might a well have as a motto "Pay your $699 license fee, you cocksmoking teabaggers!" so you can give up anybody other than the big three (Apple,Google,MSFT) using it.
Basically it looks like we are headed right back to the bad old days of "you must use X browser" only it'll be the software patent trolls and lack of any real standards instead of the OS companies shoving it this time. Either way its gonna suck and frankly I wouldn't be surprised if everyone not falling all over the iShiny simply stayed with flash. At least Adobe doesn't sue your ass if you include flash support in your OS or device whereas MPEG-LA made it clear if Moz or anybody wants to support H.264 they better pay their license fee. How long until MPG 2 and 3 are out of patents? Maybe we should just say fuck it and bypass the whole mess.
yes because i'm sure that "Airtight 26, choke the bitch" will give those children a good lesson on how babies are made and how women should be treated. I'm sure the part where they jam the shit covered dick down her throat while holding her nose until she pukes will be MOST enlightening. Seriously you haven't seen what passes for mainstream porn since Ginger Lynn was starring in the movies as the teen babe have you? I bet my last buck that any douchebag that frankly cares so little about his fellow library patrons is watching the nastiest shit he can find, just sitting there with a real live trollface enjoying the looks on patrons faces when they hear shit like "Choke on my cock you fucking whore!" blaring out the speakers.
That's why I didn't say contact the companies because that won't help with PPT math, they'll just file 13 it and pretend it never existed, won't affect their PPT math in the slightest. No what we need is the EFF to set up a site to combat PPT math where those of us boycotting can sign up so that when some megacorp pulls out some PPT math the EFF can say "Members of congress the gentleman is ignoring the fact that his DRM has caused enough trouble for consumers that many of them are boycotting their products. here is a list with but a small sample of those that have pledged to NEVER buy a single product from this company".
I would also suggest everyone have this video bookmarked (warning language NSFW) so that when a shill pops up and says "They are only protecting their IP, this doesn't hurt the consumers!" we can all paste the video and rub their noses in it as it is a textbook example of a legal customer getting punched in the balls by DRM. If you watch the video he has to crack his brand new retail game simply to make it run because otherwise the DRM won't let him actually play the game. And thanks to not being allowed to return an open box, even if the product is defective, in most stores that leaves us trapped in a catch 22 where we can't play the game we legally bought without breaking DMCA and becoming criminals.
Thank you. I just find it amazing so many supposedly smart geeks just swallow pure propaganda hook line and sinker. Frankly I had a grandfather that fought in Europe from D-Day plus 4 until he had a wall dropped on him by a Werewulf squad 6 days before the end of the war. this man actually liberated one of the camps and he said everyone from the generals on down was simply shocked because they all believed that the Nazis had sent the Jews east, so this wasn't some "Lets go save the Jews!" thing because they didn't get wind of what was happening in the camps until late 44, after we had already been ass deep for 5 years.
And the Russian record clearly show Stalin thought FDR was a fool and used him as such, he knew that he could get pretty much anything he wanted from FDR and did. Even Truman when he was brought in was appalled at the deals FDR had cut with Stalin. Honestly if the history books weren't propaganda they would show FDR as a warmonger who got Americans killed in a war they had consistently voted against for years by pushing Japan into a corner and bitchslapping them until they had to attack to save face. Look up the tighten the noose quote, that is a quote from FDR and in the rest of the quote he was worried that getting Japan to attack wouldn't be enough to get him in Europe and he was worried Germany would stay out of it even though we had been supplying Britain despite the American people demanding neutrality and we were actively hunting U-Boats which made us an active combatant, again despite resolutions passed by the American people. he even rammed through lend lease when most of congress was out, again sound familiar?
In the end what we are talking about isn't hindsight, what we are talking about is democracy being subverted and the will of the people ignored by a president than wanted a war at all costs. Frankly FDR should rank right up there with Dubya on the shitty POTUS scale ignoring the people, starting wars the people didn't want, suspending liberties, hell Dubya was just following the FDR playbook.
Noooo...I mean there are hacked Steam .executables out there that will let you use pretty much any Steam game offline forever. As i understand it you can't currently leave Steam in offline mode forever, after something like 30 days it'll want to connect and won't let you go back to offline mode until you do. But there are hacked copies of both the .exes and the whole games themselves that will work just like any hacked game, it just calls a phony Steam that returns the correct value and quits. If you don't believe me look for some of the Valve games on P2P like L4D, HL2, they even have one that has all of the HL1 games plus all the mods all packaged together and it uses a hacked Steam client.
so while i don't use these things because frankly Valve and those publishers using Steam price the games aggressively enough that it isn't worth the effort, its nice to know that if steam went tits up tomorrow i could have all my games permanently in about 20 minutes, big whoop. The Steam hacks are just as simple as the old .exe swaps back in the day, simply drop in folder and launch game. Easy peasy.
And showing kids porn is also quite illegal, which if the librarian has already been warned about that guy watching porn in a high traffic area and some kids end up being shown porn not only will she go to jail but the parents will be able to sue their asses off. your freedom ends when it infringes others rights and we have plenty of legal precedent that you can't show porn to minors, no matter how much you claim free speech. if that city has a brain they'll fire that librarian and tell the next one that next time somebody wants to do that put them in a corner or tell them to use the free wifi in a non high traffic area.
But if it is anything like the main PCs in my local library frankly there is NO way to walk past without getting an eye full unless they use the one reference system in the corner. this doesn't have a damned thing to do with censorship anymore than telling someone not to scream "fuck off!" in your face over and over would be blocking his free speech. its called common courtesy which obviously nobody bothered to teach them folks on the west coast. Down here in the south someone would have just pulled the guy aside and said 'Hey man kids are walking right past there, just go look at the machine in the corner okay? Or use the free Wifi and pick some place that ain't smack dab in the middle right across from where the kids section is dude" and that would have been the end of that.
Personally I think its kind of sad that I even have to explain this, that we have become such a "me me me!" society that having thoughts about the feelings of those around you are so fucking alien i actually have to even explain this. For all the talk about how "backwards" we here in the south are at least we try not be be assholes and respect those around us. Its called civility and respect, something frankly we should have more of. the person didn't even ask him to stop, just move to one of the machines that wasn't in the middle of a high traffic area. is that REALLY so much to ask? I can't wait to see how that librarian reacts to her 'free speech!" stance when she gets a contributing charge because showing porn to kids is illegal you know.
Well I don't know what the numbers would be on the nightlies but I can tell you based on releases what i saw. 3 was good, better than 2 and the memory usage was improving, 3.5 got a little slower but not bad, 3.6 got a little slower and draggier still, 4 took a serious nosedive especially on HDD usage, 5 and 6 similar but they both used more CPU, 7 thrashed like mad, 8 wasn't much better, 9 lowered the thrashing by about 5-8% and 9 was same as 8 and 10 lowered again another few percent so that now with 10 it takes about 90% CPU on launch instead of 100% CPU like I saw with 5/6/7 but the longer I run it the draggier it gets. Pretty much watching an SD video is only possible on the nettop with FF if there isn't anything else running and its still jerky and without launching anything fancy or letting SD videos play (If I want to watch them in FF I use downloadhelper and watch them on the desktop) then I can get between 4-6 hours but after that it'll begin to affect the system, with the mouse starting to drag and jerk and the whole thing starts getting unresponsive.
Hell if I know why it does what it does, like I said I've tried killing extensions, removing my security password for the password DB, both regular and optimized versions like Pale moon, no dice. All I know is FF is using on average a good 20%+ more resources than Dragon and when you are talking about a low power system that 20% can mean the difference between a responsive system and one you have to ctrl-shft-esc out of to regain control. After the sale I'm gonna try the ESR, see if it helps.
I do the same friend, haven't had a Ubisoft game since either Riddick or the first far Cry, can't remember which came later. the problem with just voting with your wallet in this case is what i call "PPT Math" which they use to get ever more draconian laws. you see they'll just break out a PPT and tell the congress critters they are buying "If you see here we sold X amount on consoles, and since there is Y amount of PC gamers that play this particular genre then logically we should have had X+Y sales but since we didn't it MUST be those evil pirates stealing our precious!" and they get worse laws that fuck us ALL over.
For a great example of PPT math see the media companies who despite posting record profits year after year (while fucking the artist with Hollywood accounting so they don't have to share any with the scum that actually made the things) whip out a PPT that says "If you see here it shows they stole elevnty bazillion from us so we'd have had a super duper super cereal year if it weren't for those ebil pirates ZOMG!" and we get all these lovely laws like DMCA, ACTA, and their attempting to ram SOPA/PIPA which I'm sure they'll get after the election.
No what we need is for the EFF to set up some web pages where those of us not buying nor pirating from companies we find odious can sign so that the EFF can hand it to congress critters when these corps try to use PPT math to get us screwed. Because as it is now its a "heads i win, tails you lose" situation for these assholes.
And yet again the pirated version is the superior version. Is it any wonder why we get PC gamers posting rants when they get fucked out of their money? Personally all i use anymore is Steam and GOG and if a game says it uses third party anything its buh bye, no thanks. BTW if any Steam guys are reading this? you REALLY need an icon so when I'm looking at a long list of games, like during one of your sales, i can see which are only Steam and which have extra crap. And before anybody says 'ZOMG Steam IS DRM" yeah yeah to serve man is a cookbook. Steam DRM is also the most trivial to bypass there is, the net is full of Steam hacks, so if Valve ever goes under it won't take me 3 minutes to have my games hacked.
But I think we need a new tag for douchebag DRM, probably called "Hey its Ubisoft" as when it comes to treating customers like shit and giving them the finger while they take their money NOBODY innovates like Ubisoft, they are at the absolute bleeding edge when it comes to active douchebaggery, from DRM that burned drives to always on crap that we see gives them a way to give everyone who was stupid enough to buy from them an electronic Goatse, nobody but nobody leads in the area of digital douchebag behavior like Ubisoft, nobody.
Oh I'll tell you something about the ME that'll scare your ass white APK, I live next to a conservative college where many of the "men behind the throne" go to lecture and because my bud is an engineer there that helps with the robotics designs I've been to a few of those lectures and got to talk to the real power players about the ME. you wanna know what our ENTIRE ME policy is based on? ready for this?.....Jesus won't come back. I swear to fucking God, these guys are basing the ME policy of one of the most powerful nuclear armed countries on a prediction written on a sheep's ass 1800 years ago about how some 2000 year dead guy won't have a place to park his fluffy cloud if there ain't a Jew to valet park his ass. They can make all these bogeyman stories about the Muslims and Sharia but when push comes to shove our right wing is just as damned batshit religious as theirs, only we have a hell of a lot more dangerous weaponry.
Oh and as for the "pro pedo" guy? Actually if you would have read the book (I actually did read part of it I found online) the majority of his book is teaching pedos how to NOT TOUCH KIDS by using non pedo sources for fantasy and by writing out their thoughts. Basically it was like an AA for pedos but since with our right wing anything other than "kill yourself" is automatically labeled pro he's rotting in prison. But frankly it shouldn't matter WHAT he wrote as its WORDS ON A PAGE. We allow the little red book and Mein Kampf and those books killed millions, because we USED to know freedom of ideas is one of the cornerstones of democracy. now we have the feds demanding lists from libraries of anyone who has checked out "The catcher in the rye" so those people can be put on a watchlist.
I do agree with you though the most powerful weapon out there wielded by the enemies of the people isn't the bomb but propaganda. By simply sticking the right label on you with their MSM they can turn the world against you, have them screaming for your blood, look at the guy they blamed for the bomb at the Olympics that turned out to be an innocent man, they nearly destroyed him and he has PTSD to this very day thanks to a year and a half of constant attacks. Look at that poor bastard in FLA that got an infected laptop from work that had a CP virus on it, he lost his job, his wife divorced him and took his children, His friends all abandoned him and he spent over 2 years in PMITA prison when just 15 minutes of forensic investigation would have cleared him but nobody gave a fuck if they had the RIGHT guy, just that they had SOME guy. Even though this mild mannered schmuck had never had so much as a speeding ticket all it took was someone to point a finger and say "pervert!" to completely destroy a life that had taken him nearly 30 years to build.
this shit is getting scary friend, damned scary. You watch, soon they will have Nancy Grace and the talking heads spewing how the tools we geeks use "is helping pedo ZOMFG!" and simply possessing them will end up being outlawed. It is getting to the point that anyone who doesn't agree with El Presidente and isn't willing to have a camera on them 24/7 is an enemy and a threat. Its gonna be Nixon all over again, only this time they'll be smart enough not to get their hands dirty directly and instead will use the MSM to be their attack dogs.
Trusted repos like the one that was serving a malware ridden Quake 3 for over a year? THOSE repos? Or how about how this pwnage or how MySQL was serving malware how about that? Being open doesn't give you any magical protection friend, you can be pwned just as easily, hell I'd be amazed if even 10% of the code in your distro has been looked at by any eyes other than the ones that actually wrote the code. Quick can you tell me what calls the Synaptic package manager is using? Hell look at how much dead cruft was just sitting in OO.o and that is one of the if not THE most popular program in Linux distros! if that one was a creaky mess just waiting for pwnage what makes you think anything else in the stack is in better shape? The simple fact is malware writers are criminals and criminals are lazy. If Linux every gains closer to 10% as Apple did you'll be serving malware before you can say RMS friend, count on it. Its just right now you have security through obscurity, same as i don't see any OS/2 viruses showing up on Securina.
Are you REALLY this clueless? Or are you being obtuse just so you can troll? Okay let me spell it out so you can understand, the bootloader hack lets you load a hacked version of Windows that will PASS WGA, so that pirates can pass out fake Windows as legit, since the user isn't gonna examine the bootloader MSFT has pretty much given up on Windows 7 because there is no way to tell pirated from real for the average Joe. As for WinTab? do I REALLY have to spell it out? i guess so, its called "app market" which with a hacked bootloader you could just take any app and clone it. Take a look for Android games and apps on any P2P, they have cloned the living shit out of every single one. you can have Angry Bird or Plants VS Zombies in under 3 minutes. as we saw with the X360 hack once the OS is pwned that's it, piracy WILL explode, so locking down the very first stage is critical if they want to have even a prayer of stopping it.
But you know this don't you? Surely the GNUlaid hasn't blinded you THIS much, has it? If it has you do make a perfect example of why nobody takes FOSS seriously, because you'll completely ignore anything that doesn't fit into your perception bubble. Funny that your type often make fun of Apple and the RDF when yours is 50 times more powerful, only it isn't pro Linux, its anti corporations. But I hate to break the news to ya but most of us can't squat on a major college campus and act like this and get away with it. The simple fact is your leader is like the republicans, longing for a time that never really existed and certainly isn't coming back. hell the man still addresses audiences as "hackers" like he's at a 1974 meeting of the local computer club. But nowadays a single console can cost easily several hundred million in R&D and its 100% legal to simply clone your code and take it. Don't put the code out there for anyone to see if you don't want to lose control. You watch, once Sony has a clone up of BusyBox under BSD those supporting BusyBox with funds will walk away.
Then please tell everyone who says that "Linux is ready for the desktop!" shit to STFU, will you? Oh and tried Debian, puked on wireless, next? Sadly you are using a classic meme called use distro X. Oh and stable ABI? Your argument has its own meme too. BTW, just FYI, but the ONLY thing you will find written against a stable ABI is a RELIGIOUS RANT by one of the kernel devs that goes so far as to say 'I hope that those that have non free drivers have their systems broken often!" now does that sound like an OS developer, or someone punishing the unbelievers of their God? sounds like the latter to me.
But you can't eat your cake and have it too, if you truly don't care then state right here that Linux isn't ready for the masses and i'll be happy to link to your post when we get the annual "Year of the Linux desktop!" meme.