Thanks. These ACs are a perfect example of why they are afraid to take the challenge, because they will find out the truth which is update a Mac? Everything WORKS, update Windows? Everything WORKS, update Linux? Uh ohh their OS made a stinky.
The sad truth is the last version of Windows Linux could compete with? Windows ME, as every version since could update without crapping itself. I have heard they same is true of Apple since OSX, updates just work, Linux? Has a driver model older than Win9x and the challenge just shows without any BS or trickery that Linux cannot even update itself without breaking which is honestly a worse indictment of their OS than anything I could ever say.
Uhh yeah..about that? those are like the button at a stoplight, makes ya feel good but don't do shit...didn't ya get the memo? Unless you set up a hardware router with IP based blocking and block a shitload of IP addresses then everything you do is getting sent to the mothership whether you like it or not.
You didn't think you'd get anything "free" from MSFT, did you? Hell its the most expensive version of Windows EVAR as not only do you trade a legit key from a non spyware version of Windows but you ALSO give them your data for sale, so you get to double pay for that "free" OS...hell of a scam,huh?
Just FYI I have never posted AC in my life and have said repeatedly that AC posting should be banned since its just flinging shit, no dialog can be had with an AC.
So don't worry if I think you actually blather something noteworthy? I'll be happy to address it, but so far all I see is memes, like "Anything with a kernel counts as a desktop", "If Linux runs on a router that makes it popular", just the same dumb shit anecdotes and memes. Well i don't waste time with memes, if you wanna post that shit go to Reddit, the soon to be owner of/.
BTW if you bother reading any article here in the past 2 years? You'll see the majority of posts are ACs because the quality has gone to shit, its 4chan with advert articles, so you really shouldn't be surprised when 80% of the responses to your posts are ACs, that is the same percentage everybody gets.
If Japan hadn't attacked the USA then Germany and Japan could have easily won, simple as that. Look at the state of america's weapons at that point, our "premier" fighter was the Buffalo, our "tanks" were M2A4s, most of our ships were WWI vintage, and the American populace was by a pretty large margin isolationist.
I would argue that it was the USA getting involved that 1.- took a LOT of pressure off the USSR (nearly all their support vehicles were quickly supplied by the USA, so many that they used Studebaker trucks as offensive weapons with the Katusha simply because they had so many) and 2.- gave the allies an almost endless supply of resources and weapons, which Germany and Japan just couldn't compete with. If Japan hadn't attacked the USA we probably would have stayed out of the war and the isolationists would have demanded we stick with "cash and carry" which would have put serious strain on the resources of the UK and USSR.
Could they have won without us? Possibly as Hitler was nothing if not a shitty strategist but it could have easily lasted into the 1950s and if the Germans would have been able to capture the southern oil fields of the Caucus region the USSR would have simply run out of gas. Ironically Japan really had no reason to attack as the resources they most desired was controlled by the Dutch and Brits and with them occupied in Europe they probably could have captured them without the USA getting involved. Pearl Harbor was a strategic blunder that even Yamamoto thought would bite them in the ass, saying "I can run wild for six months ⦠after that, I have no expectation of success".
So I would argue the key event was getting the USA committed to the fight, if that wouldn't have happened? It is quite possible their lead in tech would have been so great by the time the USA felt threatened it would have been too late.
That just shows Wesley Crusher has never played sjw or stormfront where they place a hate filled screed and YOU get to try to guess whether the vile bile being spewed is by an SJW or a member of Stormfront. If you score better than 50%? You are great at the game as the average SJW post is nearly impossible to tell apart from a neo-nazi (or in the case of Jews they may be one and the same, as SJWs hate Jews for some reason) because they are both spewing hate filled racist shit, the ONLY difference is who the racism is for and who its against.
If you don't believe SJWs are real and nasty creatures? Go spend a little time talking to them, gamer-ghazi is a good place to start, and see how long you can go before somebody starts calling you an "ist!" and screaming for your death....."SJWs, what happens when millennials treat WPP like slavery and start throwing snack packs like 4 year olds"
Social Justice Warriors, deciding who counts based on progressive stack, Social Justice Warriors, if you don't think like us we are on the attack!
We are narcissists and Captain Planeteers, with our heads firmly up our rears, we think the world is black and white, and if you have a vag then you're always right!
SJWs are to activism what Heaven's Gate cult is to your local foodbank, want a perfect example of how SJWs work? Look at the "feminist" who pulled the fire alarm on a MRM meeting and stood outside with a bullhorn screaming "rapists!" at the top of her lungs. They aren't activists, they are thugs who silence all opposing viewpoints by any means necessary, and if that means destroying the Hugo awards if they can't give it to a "Sci-Fi" story about a trans person overcoming oppression or the like? Well they will look at what they have destroyed, call it a victory, and look for something else to wreck.
Welcome to the millennials folks, this is what you get when you take middle class white kids and raise them on a steady diet of self hatred and political correctness, lovely huh?
Don't worry they'll tell you to "run it in a VM" thus proving its not about providing a functional equivalent but pushing an agenda because if you have to 1.- Buy the OS, 2.- Buy the software, just to 3.- Set up an entire host OS just so you can run the software you need in the first fucking place? Well then UR DOIN IT WRONG as your OS is offering the user absolutely nothing.
Why the fuck would they deal with all those extra layers of crap just to run the Windows in a VM when they could just skip the VM and run the damned software natively? Linux isn't saving you a cent (in fact unless you pirate you'll spend more as OEM Windows cannot be legally used in a VM, so you'll need full retail) and it certainly isn't saving you time and effort, so WTF is the point of throwing Linux in there? Sadly you talk to them the answer usually ends up "but but...you'll be running Linux!" which just shows they are just wanting to wave their flag and what is best for the user? Really does not matter as long as the answer ends up Linux.
Audacity is a joke compared to Sonor, I've yet to see anything for video on Linux that compares to Vegas,Gimp is a bad joke compared to Corel much less Photoshop, LO may be fine for basic tasks but once it gets complex LO puts out word salad, thousands of dollars in games don't work, not to mention Linux drivers for graphics are still deep fried shit, hell I could go on all day.
Linux fans has this kind of OS blindness, its like the FOSS advocate says "I have a browser and LO and Gimp therefor that is all everyone else needs" when in reality there is nothing an average Linux desktop distro does that can't be done on a phone or tablet thus making your OS...really kinda irrelevant which the flatline desktop numbers show. If all you need is a browser, LO, and Gimp? Get a tablet, you are just wasting power on a PC that you frankly do not need, for everybody else? We have thousands invested in software your OS does not run, so it might as well not even exist.
I'm sorry but if your mate refuses to have sex with you AND refuses to discuss it? Then the relationship is over, you need to tell them this is unacceptable and if they refuse to meet you halfway then separate and call it a day.
So you are a corporate socialist that hates the free market then?
Because what we saw with Brandon Eich was a classical case of the free market in action and is a perfect example of how a free market is SUPPOSED to work. People did not like Eich and since they did not own the company they used their free market power of the wallet by 1.- Refusing to install FF, in fact many uninstalled it who was using it, and 2.- They asked others not to do so and put up banners on their sites boycotting FF. This is how you are SUPPOSED to affect a company, not with bomb threats or snack pack throwers standing outside the building having baby fits, but by using the power of the wallet and the power of the square to avoid their products and urging others to do the same.
And for all the right wingers that cry for Eich, saying he wasn't ousted for "not being progressive"? I hate to burst your bubble but he was fired for refusing to do his job simple as that. What IS the job of a CEO? Well a very large part of it is to be "the face of the company" and to deal with the press and issues in the press that are affecting your company's image...what did Eich do? Say "I don't want to talk about it" like a little spineless coward and hid while the opposition could say anything they wanted and build up steam for the boycott because he refused to do his job and fight back! If he would have said "these are my beliefs, this is what I support and what I do not and why" and actually started a dialog? He probably could have diffused the entire thing, remember he had an entire PR team at Moz to help him craft his side, while the other side simply were speaking their minds, so he had a pretty big advantage.
So people used the power of the free market to affect change while an incompetent CEO sat in his chair and sulked until he had the chair taken away from him...yep, in this case the free market worked as intended.
Rubbers aren't force fields, plenty of STDs that can kill you just as dead as AIDS (such as HPV which gives you cancer for just one example) can still be caught even if you wear a rubber.
Uhhh I have NOLF 1&2 and Psyconauts and had no problem playing them on my HD7750 so I don't see why they would have a problem now, in fact I had more of a problem getting past the ancient DRM of NOLF 1 which doesn't run on 64bit (and which has a 16 bit installer) than I did running the actual game.
What killed the FPS genre for me was the way devs either focus on gimmicks (I call it the "gravity gun effect") or they focus exclusively on the online portion which tends to attract foul mouthed "dudebros" which just kill the immersion for me as I seriously doubt on a modern battlefield you hear a lot of "suck this you nigger faggot!" being yelled across the front lines. For a perfect example of the first look at Bioshock: Infinite which had an okay story (except the ending which could be summed up as "selfish bitch wants to go to France and kills two cities in the attempt") but the game mechanics suuuuuucked, because all they wanted you to use was the damned Skyhook. Don't want the skyhook? Tough shit, we have gimped the range on all the weapons and powers so you have no choice but use the damned thing! For an example of the latter? Pretty much everything designed to appeal to the CoD crowd.
So I ended up going to third person online games like War Thunder and World Of Warships, where the communities aren't filled with foul mouthed kids and you are actually rewarded for trying to PTFO and play as a team. When a new FPS game comes out I'm all open to new games but time after time I'm finding they fall into the traps listed above which I find frankly irritating as hell, so until they come out with a new SP focused FPS that isn't based on a gimmick? I'll be staying in third person land.
If you believe what you are saying? Then step right up and take the Hairyfeet Challenge, which for 8 years has been teaching Linux fanmboys their OS is built on a shite driver schema!
Take ANY mainstream consumer oriented (not LTS, because even Ubuntu advises against mainstream users using LTS) from FIVE years ago, this simulates a 5 year typical lifecycle. This BTW is less than HALF a windows support cycle, so I'm cutting linux a break. Lets say you use Ubuntu, that would be Ubuntu 9.10 and can be downloaded from their archive. Install it on ANY PC, desktop or laptop (NOT VM as that isn't real hardware and comes with special drivers) that has a wireless card. Wireless is required because more and more mainstream users are ditching wires and nobody wants a laptop that doesn't have wireless, do they?
During this phase you are the system builder so CLI (which is usually required because Linux driver support is poor) IS ALLOWED. Once its installed you are no longer the system builder but THE USER, so like a windows user you are ONLY allowed to use the GUI. You then get to "enjoy the freedom" of using nothing but the GUI (because if you can't even update the thing without CLI you're no match for windows are you) of updating to current...with Ubuntu that is NINE RELEASES, just FYI. You will film this and post it to youtube or twitch or the vid host of your choice, you only have to upload the final install process of each release and a pic of the device manager showing working hardware complete with wireless showing WPA V2 connection, but the complete video should be hosted on dropbox to prove you aren't faking it.
BTW in case it isn't clear working hardware means WORKING HARDWARE, it does NOT mean wireless that can't use WPA, it does NOT mean a PC with no sound or VESA video, it means FULLY WORKING HARDWARE and again if you are unclear please see the highlighted areas as completing the challenge REQUIRES vids of the final install of each upgrade (last I checked that would be NINE for Ubuntu, and around SEVEN for most others, be sure to have room on your SD Card!) along with a 5 minute video of the end of each install showing that upon completion you could go to hardware manager and had 100% functional hardware with NO FUTZING. After all if you have to futz with the thing just to have functional drivers it isn't on the same level as Windows now is it? BTW the first Windows that passed the challenge was Win2K (RTM to EOL with ZERO failed drivers, 10 years of support) WinXP (14 years, ZERO fails) and both Vista and 7 can go from RTM to current with ZERO failures. So lets see them snappies, otherwise you are just throwing yet more anecdotal bullshit, which if you want bullshit see "many eyes" which gave us such well vetted code the world lost billions on heartbleed and will probably lose billions more on stopping the current BASHing...what quality!
I feel the same about my R9 280 which according to TFA is better than this card, has a GB more RAM and cost $30 less so I really have to wonder what the market for this thing is.
I mean sure there are always gonna be guys loyal to the brand that will buy it no matter what but most mainstream gamers I've dealt with? Just looking for the most bang for the buck and if they keep that price point the R9 280 is just a better buy, they really need to drop the price by $30-$40 so that it comes in below the 280 to make it a better deal.
Nobody gives a single fuck about your copyrights since they broke the constitution which mandated reasonable time limits which instead got replaced by "forever minus a single day" by the fucking house of mouse. Everytime it looks like early Disney will leave copyright? Here comes another extension and wadda ya know, some of the early cartoons will leave copyright in 2018 so here comes Disney to stick a copyright extension into TPP right on time.
When your law is so fucking corrupt that one can even predict when the bribery will start? Its no longer a law, its a fucking joke. Congress has turned copyright law into the "Mickey Forever" laws so why the fuck should we care if a corrupt law bought with bribes is broken?
And this affects you....how exactly? Its still a 1.2Ghz quad core with a Gb of RAM, so apps load quickly and the OS is responsive, so if you are looking for a gaming system may I suggest a DS or Vita?
They probably didn't have to pay them anything, its just common sense.
1.-You use tool Y, you write applications in tool Y, save important work in tool Y, and are easily able to find workers that are skilled in tool Y. 2.- You then switch to tool X to "save money" but like most bean counters they only look at the initial cost of X and never calculate the transition costs that switching to Y will cost the company, namely that it will 3.- cost money to have somebody rewrite all those applications (because as we have seen here numerous times LO and MSO are "compatible" only at the most superficial level, try loading a complex Excel sheet with VBA or a huge document with annotations, headers, footers,etc into LO and see how little it resembles the original, likewise with LO to MSO), 4.- you've tied a boat anchor to your workers as all their experience in Y is worth nothing so they may as well be HS kids off the street, so when you figure in the cost of the above? You end up with losing money by switching to the "free" product.
This is why I don't carry Linux at the shop and will in fact strip a perfectly running machine rather than putting Linux on it, because the Linux mythical man month "let the kernel devs handle it" mess of a driver subsystem means that if my customer owns the PC just 3 years thanks to drivers breaking on forced upgrades (which are required for security patches) the system would cost them more than if I had simply installed Windows as the $35 an hour I charge to fix the system when the drivers break makes Linux more expensive.
And no Linux advocates the average user does NOT want to keep a second system around (usually Windows) to Google for fixes to the first, play "hunt the forum for a solution" nor spend hours in the 1970s GUI known as Bash trying to work around the fact that Linux doesn't have simple tools that allow rollback of drivers nor a system restore, both of which Windows has had since 2000. All they want is a system that will work for the lifetime of the hardware and as my little challenge has shown conclusively while you can take every version of Windows from 2K up from RTM to currently without the drivers breaking sadly the same is not true of Linux.
Does this make LO or Linux bad tools? Not if used correctly, such as giving LO to home users that do not require compatibility nor are using complex layout wrt LO or using Linux in a server role which the vast majority of development in Linux is dedicated to, its only when you try to shoehorn the tool into a role that its ill equipped to handle that you end up with problems like in TFA.
Here ya go, the BLU Studio Mini LTE. Its $100 for a quad core with a GB of RAM and Android KitKat (comes with Jellybean but KitKat is ready for download when you fire it up) and if you want a bigger screen they have a 6 inch for $132 but as you can see they have all price points and both Windows and Android.
I've had the BLU Studio Mini LTE for about 3 months now and I love it, its fast and responsive, gets decent battery life, has a nice clear screen,comes with a rubberized case and screen protector, all in all its a really solid phone for $100 and since it supports so many carriers if I get tired of Ting? I can just pop in a new sim and go somewhere else.
Nothing wrong with AMD's Windows drivers, they run great. I've been selling AMD GPUs (as well as running them myself) since the X1650 and there was only a couple drivers in all those years that were buggy which was a lot less than the buggy Nvidia drivers I saw at the shop.
It was ATI, not AMD, that was deep fried doo doo when it came to writing drivers, within 6 months of AMD taking over? The drivers were better.
Thanks for showing everyone that you are nothing but a religious nutter, as you simply cannot do anything but throw insults because the facts are against you because if your OS can't even update itself? Then its not an OS, its a joke. Oh and allow me to LMFAO at how you try to cop an elitist attitude when I created iron clad proof that your OS can't even perform the most basic of functions, you might as well say "It sucks nuts but that is good...because....Linux party!"/waves little penguin flag impotently while everyone laughs at you/ ROFL!
Get ready for some FACTS Sparky....FACT your OS driver model DOES NOT WORK, as even drivers controlled by the devs? Shit all over themselves, in fact the entire "let the devs handle it" argument has been pointed out repeatedly to be a classic mythical man month scenario but the devs are too vain and guys like you too busy guzzling the koolaid to understand it...FACT, The last Windows version Linux could compete against?" Windows ME...how long ago was that? 2000? Because Windows 2K actually PASSES the challenge, in fact it can go from RTM to EOL without shitting itself (which is about 8 years longer than any Linux "user friendly" distro can do), XP can go RTM to EOL which is FOURTEEN YEARS, twelve years longer than Linux, and Vista through 8.1 can go from RTM to current.
So you keep right on living in crazy land, where having a flatline for 22 years is considered a "success", where guys like you are so foolish to think Android is FOSS while they quietly released bog standard laptops that are so locked down they can't even run an OS without a bootloader hack or even run dual boot, meanwhile I'll keep printing the challenge to show people your emperor not only has no clothes but has shat down both legs and is playing with it like a chimp. And guys like you wonder why your kind have become the Buttof jokes?
Does everybody see NOW why ACs are worthless? they are apparently too fucking stupid to readheadlines and certainly are too retarded to actually use a search engine because if they could do more than pick their own noses they would have seen that you can't turn off Windows 10 spying as the "privacy settings" are the equivalent of the button on a street light, something designed to make the user think he has control when its just bullshit.
You are making a RELIGIOUS argument for an Operating System, if you are willing to concede that your OS is designed based NOT on what is the technical best design but what is gonna push your religious and/or political beliefs? I'll be happy to agree that your OS is designed NOT on best practices (which just FYI but every other OS up to and INCLUDING other FOSS OSes like BSD follow, just FYI) but on politics.
And Operating System designed to push politics over design...and ya wonder why you've been stuck at 2% for 22 years?
I'll pass, even though I have all AMD hardware. Its just not worth giving up my privacy and having Big Brother MSFT snoop through everything I do just to have DX12. I love gaming but not enough to let MSFT stick a webcam over my shoulder, thx anyway.
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Thanks. These ACs are a perfect example of why they are afraid to take the challenge, because they will find out the truth which is update a Mac? Everything WORKS, update Windows? Everything WORKS, update Linux? Uh ohh their OS made a stinky.
The sad truth is the last version of Windows Linux could compete with? Windows ME, as every version since could update without crapping itself. I have heard they same is true of Apple since OSX, updates just work, Linux? Has a driver model older than Win9x and the challenge just shows without any BS or trickery that Linux cannot even update itself without breaking which is honestly a worse indictment of their OS than anything I could ever say.
Uhh yeah..about that? those are like the button at a stoplight, makes ya feel good but don't do shit...didn't ya get the memo? Unless you set up a hardware router with IP based blocking and block a shitload of IP addresses then everything you do is getting sent to the mothership whether you like it or not.
You didn't think you'd get anything "free" from MSFT, did you? Hell its the most expensive version of Windows EVAR as not only do you trade a legit key from a non spyware version of Windows but you ALSO give them your data for sale, so you get to double pay for that "free" OS...hell of a scam,huh?
Just FYI I have never posted AC in my life and have said repeatedly that AC posting should be banned since its just flinging shit, no dialog can be had with an AC.
So don't worry if I think you actually blather something noteworthy? I'll be happy to address it, but so far all I see is memes, like "Anything with a kernel counts as a desktop", "If Linux runs on a router that makes it popular", just the same dumb shit anecdotes and memes. Well i don't waste time with memes, if you wanna post that shit go to Reddit, the soon to be owner of /.
BTW if you bother reading any article here in the past 2 years? You'll see the majority of posts are ACs because the quality has gone to shit, its 4chan with advert articles, so you really shouldn't be surprised when 80% of the responses to your posts are ACs, that is the same percentage everybody gets.
If Japan hadn't attacked the USA then Germany and Japan could have easily won, simple as that. Look at the state of america's weapons at that point, our "premier" fighter was the Buffalo, our "tanks" were M2A4s, most of our ships were WWI vintage, and the American populace was by a pretty large margin isolationist.
I would argue that it was the USA getting involved that 1.- took a LOT of pressure off the USSR (nearly all their support vehicles were quickly supplied by the USA, so many that they used Studebaker trucks as offensive weapons with the Katusha simply because they had so many) and 2.- gave the allies an almost endless supply of resources and weapons, which Germany and Japan just couldn't compete with. If Japan hadn't attacked the USA we probably would have stayed out of the war and the isolationists would have demanded we stick with "cash and carry" which would have put serious strain on the resources of the UK and USSR.
Could they have won without us? Possibly as Hitler was nothing if not a shitty strategist but it could have easily lasted into the 1950s and if the Germans would have been able to capture the southern oil fields of the Caucus region the USSR would have simply run out of gas. Ironically Japan really had no reason to attack as the resources they most desired was controlled by the Dutch and Brits and with them occupied in Europe they probably could have captured them without the USA getting involved. Pearl Harbor was a strategic blunder that even Yamamoto thought would bite them in the ass, saying "I can run wild for six months ⦠after that, I have no expectation of success".
So I would argue the key event was getting the USA committed to the fight, if that wouldn't have happened? It is quite possible their lead in tech would have been so great by the time the USA felt threatened it would have been too late.
That just shows Wesley Crusher has never played sjw or stormfront where they place a hate filled screed and YOU get to try to guess whether the vile bile being spewed is by an SJW or a member of Stormfront. If you score better than 50%? You are great at the game as the average SJW post is nearly impossible to tell apart from a neo-nazi (or in the case of Jews they may be one and the same, as SJWs hate Jews for some reason) because they are both spewing hate filled racist shit, the ONLY difference is who the racism is for and who its against.
If you don't believe SJWs are real and nasty creatures? Go spend a little time talking to them, gamer-ghazi is a good place to start, and see how long you can go before somebody starts calling you an "ist!" and screaming for your death....."SJWs, what happens when millennials treat WPP like slavery and start throwing snack packs like 4 year olds"
Social Justice Warriors, deciding who counts based on progressive stack, Social Justice Warriors, if you don't think like us we are on the attack!
We are narcissists and Captain Planeteers, with our heads firmly up our rears, we think the world is black and white, and if you have a vag then you're always right!
SJWs are to activism what Heaven's Gate cult is to your local foodbank, want a perfect example of how SJWs work? Look at the "feminist" who pulled the fire alarm on a MRM meeting and stood outside with a bullhorn screaming "rapists!" at the top of her lungs. They aren't activists, they are thugs who silence all opposing viewpoints by any means necessary, and if that means destroying the Hugo awards if they can't give it to a "Sci-Fi" story about a trans person overcoming oppression or the like? Well they will look at what they have destroyed, call it a victory, and look for something else to wreck.
Welcome to the millennials folks, this is what you get when you take middle class white kids and raise them on a steady diet of self hatred and political correctness, lovely huh?
Don't worry they'll tell you to "run it in a VM" thus proving its not about providing a functional equivalent but pushing an agenda because if you have to 1.- Buy the OS, 2.- Buy the software, just to 3.- Set up an entire host OS just so you can run the software you need in the first fucking place? Well then UR DOIN IT WRONG as your OS is offering the user absolutely nothing.
Why the fuck would they deal with all those extra layers of crap just to run the Windows in a VM when they could just skip the VM and run the damned software natively? Linux isn't saving you a cent (in fact unless you pirate you'll spend more as OEM Windows cannot be legally used in a VM, so you'll need full retail) and it certainly isn't saving you time and effort, so WTF is the point of throwing Linux in there? Sadly you talk to them the answer usually ends up "but but...you'll be running Linux!" which just shows they are just wanting to wave their flag and what is best for the user? Really does not matter as long as the answer ends up Linux.
Audacity is a joke compared to Sonor, I've yet to see anything for video on Linux that compares to Vegas,Gimp is a bad joke compared to Corel much less Photoshop, LO may be fine for basic tasks but once it gets complex LO puts out word salad, thousands of dollars in games don't work, not to mention Linux drivers for graphics are still deep fried shit, hell I could go on all day.
Linux fans has this kind of OS blindness, its like the FOSS advocate says "I have a browser and LO and Gimp therefor that is all everyone else needs" when in reality there is nothing an average Linux desktop distro does that can't be done on a phone or tablet thus making your OS...really kinda irrelevant which the flatline desktop numbers show. If all you need is a browser, LO, and Gimp? Get a tablet, you are just wasting power on a PC that you frankly do not need, for everybody else? We have thousands invested in software your OS does not run, so it might as well not even exist.
"What gives you the right to extend the definition of marriage?" Said those against interracial marriage in the early 60s.
I'm sorry but if your mate refuses to have sex with you AND refuses to discuss it? Then the relationship is over, you need to tell them this is unacceptable and if they refuse to meet you halfway then separate and call it a day.
So you are a corporate socialist that hates the free market then?
Because what we saw with Brandon Eich was a classical case of the free market in action and is a perfect example of how a free market is SUPPOSED to work. People did not like Eich and since they did not own the company they used their free market power of the wallet by 1.- Refusing to install FF, in fact many uninstalled it who was using it, and 2.- They asked others not to do so and put up banners on their sites boycotting FF. This is how you are SUPPOSED to affect a company, not with bomb threats or snack pack throwers standing outside the building having baby fits, but by using the power of the wallet and the power of the square to avoid their products and urging others to do the same.
And for all the right wingers that cry for Eich, saying he wasn't ousted for "not being progressive"? I hate to burst your bubble but he was fired for refusing to do his job simple as that. What IS the job of a CEO? Well a very large part of it is to be "the face of the company" and to deal with the press and issues in the press that are affecting your company's image...what did Eich do? Say "I don't want to talk about it" like a little spineless coward and hid while the opposition could say anything they wanted and build up steam for the boycott because he refused to do his job and fight back! If he would have said "these are my beliefs, this is what I support and what I do not and why" and actually started a dialog? He probably could have diffused the entire thing, remember he had an entire PR team at Moz to help him craft his side, while the other side simply were speaking their minds, so he had a pretty big advantage.
So people used the power of the free market to affect change while an incompetent CEO sat in his chair and sulked until he had the chair taken away from him...yep, in this case the free market worked as intended.
Rubbers aren't force fields, plenty of STDs that can kill you just as dead as AIDS (such as HPV which gives you cancer for just one example) can still be caught even if you wear a rubber.
Uhhh I have NOLF 1&2 and Psyconauts and had no problem playing them on my HD7750 so I don't see why they would have a problem now, in fact I had more of a problem getting past the ancient DRM of NOLF 1 which doesn't run on 64bit (and which has a 16 bit installer) than I did running the actual game.
What killed the FPS genre for me was the way devs either focus on gimmicks (I call it the "gravity gun effect") or they focus exclusively on the online portion which tends to attract foul mouthed "dudebros" which just kill the immersion for me as I seriously doubt on a modern battlefield you hear a lot of "suck this you nigger faggot!" being yelled across the front lines. For a perfect example of the first look at Bioshock: Infinite which had an okay story (except the ending which could be summed up as "selfish bitch wants to go to France and kills two cities in the attempt") but the game mechanics suuuuuucked, because all they wanted you to use was the damned Skyhook. Don't want the skyhook? Tough shit, we have gimped the range on all the weapons and powers so you have no choice but use the damned thing! For an example of the latter? Pretty much everything designed to appeal to the CoD crowd.
So I ended up going to third person online games like War Thunder and World Of Warships, where the communities aren't filled with foul mouthed kids and you are actually rewarded for trying to PTFO and play as a team. When a new FPS game comes out I'm all open to new games but time after time I'm finding they fall into the traps listed above which I find frankly irritating as hell, so until they come out with a new SP focused FPS that isn't based on a gimmick? I'll be staying in third person land.
If you believe what you are saying? Then step right up and take the Hairyfeet Challenge, which for 8 years has been teaching Linux fanmboys their OS is built on a shite driver schema!
Take ANY mainstream consumer oriented (not LTS, because even Ubuntu advises against mainstream users using LTS) from FIVE years ago, this simulates a 5 year typical lifecycle. This BTW is less than HALF a windows support cycle, so I'm cutting linux a break. Lets say you use Ubuntu, that would be Ubuntu 9.10 and can be downloaded from their archive. Install it on ANY PC, desktop or laptop (NOT VM as that isn't real hardware and comes with special drivers) that has a wireless card. Wireless is required because more and more mainstream users are ditching wires and nobody wants a laptop that doesn't have wireless, do they?
During this phase you are the system builder so CLI (which is usually required because Linux driver support is poor) IS ALLOWED. Once its installed you are no longer the system builder but THE USER, so like a windows user you are ONLY allowed to use the GUI. You then get to "enjoy the freedom" of using nothing but the GUI (because if you can't even update the thing without CLI you're no match for windows are you) of updating to current...with Ubuntu that is NINE RELEASES, just FYI. You will film this and post it to youtube or twitch or the vid host of your choice, you only have to upload the final install process of each release and a pic of the device manager showing working hardware complete with wireless showing WPA V2 connection, but the complete video should be hosted on dropbox to prove you aren't faking it.
BTW in case it isn't clear working hardware means WORKING HARDWARE, it does NOT mean wireless that can't use WPA, it does NOT mean a PC with no sound or VESA video, it means FULLY WORKING HARDWARE and again if you are unclear please see the highlighted areas as completing the challenge REQUIRES vids of the final install of each upgrade (last I checked that would be NINE for Ubuntu, and around SEVEN for most others, be sure to have room on your SD Card!) along with a 5 minute video of the end of each install showing that upon completion you could go to hardware manager and had 100% functional hardware with NO FUTZING. After all if you have to futz with the thing just to have functional drivers it isn't on the same level as Windows now is it? BTW the first Windows that passed the challenge was Win2K (RTM to EOL with ZERO failed drivers, 10 years of support) WinXP (14 years, ZERO fails) and both Vista and 7 can go from RTM to current with ZERO failures. So lets see them snappies, otherwise you are just throwing yet more anecdotal bullshit, which if you want bullshit see "many eyes" which gave us such well vetted code the world lost billions on heartbleed and will probably lose billions more on stopping the current BASHing...what quality!
I feel the same about my R9 280 which according to TFA is better than this card, has a GB more RAM and cost $30 less so I really have to wonder what the market for this thing is.
I mean sure there are always gonna be guys loyal to the brand that will buy it no matter what but most mainstream gamers I've dealt with? Just looking for the most bang for the buck and if they keep that price point the R9 280 is just a better buy, they really need to drop the price by $30-$40 so that it comes in below the 280 to make it a better deal.
Nobody gives a single fuck about your copyrights since they broke the constitution which mandated reasonable time limits which instead got replaced by "forever minus a single day" by the fucking house of mouse. Everytime it looks like early Disney will leave copyright? Here comes another extension and wadda ya know, some of the early cartoons will leave copyright in 2018 so here comes Disney to stick a copyright extension into TPP right on time.
When your law is so fucking corrupt that one can even predict when the bribery will start? Its no longer a law, its a fucking joke. Congress has turned copyright law into the "Mickey Forever" laws so why the fuck should we care if a corrupt law bought with bribes is broken?
And this affects you....how exactly? Its still a 1.2Ghz quad core with a Gb of RAM, so apps load quickly and the OS is responsive, so if you are looking for a gaming system may I suggest a DS or Vita?
They probably didn't have to pay them anything, its just common sense.
1.-You use tool Y, you write applications in tool Y, save important work in tool Y, and are easily able to find workers that are skilled in tool Y. 2.- You then switch to tool X to "save money" but like most bean counters they only look at the initial cost of X and never calculate the transition costs that switching to Y will cost the company, namely that it will 3.- cost money to have somebody rewrite all those applications (because as we have seen here numerous times LO and MSO are "compatible" only at the most superficial level, try loading a complex Excel sheet with VBA or a huge document with annotations, headers, footers,etc into LO and see how little it resembles the original, likewise with LO to MSO), 4.- you've tied a boat anchor to your workers as all their experience in Y is worth nothing so they may as well be HS kids off the street, so when you figure in the cost of the above? You end up with losing money by switching to the "free" product.
This is why I don't carry Linux at the shop and will in fact strip a perfectly running machine rather than putting Linux on it, because the Linux mythical man month "let the kernel devs handle it" mess of a driver subsystem means that if my customer owns the PC just 3 years thanks to drivers breaking on forced upgrades (which are required for security patches) the system would cost them more than if I had simply installed Windows as the $35 an hour I charge to fix the system when the drivers break makes Linux more expensive.
And no Linux advocates the average user does NOT want to keep a second system around (usually Windows) to Google for fixes to the first, play "hunt the forum for a solution" nor spend hours in the 1970s GUI known as Bash trying to work around the fact that Linux doesn't have simple tools that allow rollback of drivers nor a system restore, both of which Windows has had since 2000. All they want is a system that will work for the lifetime of the hardware and as my little challenge has shown conclusively while you can take every version of Windows from 2K up from RTM to currently without the drivers breaking sadly the same is not true of Linux.
Does this make LO or Linux bad tools? Not if used correctly, such as giving LO to home users that do not require compatibility nor are using complex layout wrt LO or using Linux in a server role which the vast majority of development in Linux is dedicated to, its only when you try to shoehorn the tool into a role that its ill equipped to handle that you end up with problems like in TFA.
Here ya go, the BLU Studio Mini LTE. Its $100 for a quad core with a GB of RAM and Android KitKat (comes with Jellybean but KitKat is ready for download when you fire it up) and if you want a bigger screen they have a 6 inch for $132 but as you can see they have all price points and both Windows and Android.
I've had the BLU Studio Mini LTE for about 3 months now and I love it, its fast and responsive, gets decent battery life, has a nice clear screen,comes with a rubberized case and screen protector, all in all its a really solid phone for $100 and since it supports so many carriers if I get tired of Ting? I can just pop in a new sim and go somewhere else.
Nothing wrong with AMD's Windows drivers, they run great. I've been selling AMD GPUs (as well as running them myself) since the X1650 and there was only a couple drivers in all those years that were buggy which was a lot less than the buggy Nvidia drivers I saw at the shop.
It was ATI, not AMD, that was deep fried doo doo when it came to writing drivers, within 6 months of AMD taking over? The drivers were better.
Thanks for showing everyone that you are nothing but a religious nutter, as you simply cannot do anything but throw insults because the facts are against you because if your OS can't even update itself? Then its not an OS, its a joke. Oh and allow me to LMFAO at how you try to cop an elitist attitude when I created iron clad proof that your OS can't even perform the most basic of functions, you might as well say "It sucks nuts but that is good...because....Linux party!" /waves little penguin flag impotently while everyone laughs at you/ ROFL!
Get ready for some FACTS Sparky....FACT your OS driver model DOES NOT WORK, as even drivers controlled by the devs? Shit all over themselves, in fact the entire "let the devs handle it" argument has been pointed out repeatedly to be a classic mythical man month scenario but the devs are too vain and guys like you too busy guzzling the koolaid to understand it...FACT, The last Windows version Linux could compete against?" Windows ME...how long ago was that? 2000? Because Windows 2K actually PASSES the challenge, in fact it can go from RTM to EOL without shitting itself (which is about 8 years longer than any Linux "user friendly" distro can do), XP can go RTM to EOL which is FOURTEEN YEARS, twelve years longer than Linux, and Vista through 8.1 can go from RTM to current.
So you keep right on living in crazy land, where having a flatline for 22 years is considered a "success", where guys like you are so foolish to think Android is FOSS while they quietly released bog standard laptops that are so locked down they can't even run an OS without a bootloader hack or even run dual boot, meanwhile I'll keep printing the challenge to show people your emperor not only has no clothes but has shat down both legs and is playing with it like a chimp. And guys like you wonder why your kind have become the Butt of jokes?
Does everybody see NOW why ACs are worthless? they are apparently too fucking stupid to read headlines and certainly are too retarded to actually use a search engine because if they could do more than pick their own noses they would have seen that you can't turn off Windows 10 spying as the "privacy settings" are the equivalent of the button on a street light, something designed to make the user think he has control when its just bullshit.
You are making a RELIGIOUS argument for an Operating System, if you are willing to concede that your OS is designed based NOT on what is the technical best design but what is gonna push your religious and/or political beliefs? I'll be happy to agree that your OS is designed NOT on best practices (which just FYI but every other OS up to and INCLUDING other FOSS OSes like BSD follow, just FYI) but on politics.
And Operating System designed to push politics over design...and ya wonder why you've been stuck at 2% for 22 years?
I'll pass, even though I have all AMD hardware. Its just not worth giving up my privacy and having Big Brother MSFT snoop through everything I do just to have DX12. I love gaming but not enough to let MSFT stick a webcam over my shoulder, thx anyway.