Because Firefox performance is a heaping pile of suck? I have to support everything from the latest multicores to P4 office boxes and netbooks/nettops and I had to find another browser because after FF 4 all I heard was "Can't you find anything better? This is just soooooo slow!" Hell I even heard that from my quad core customers!
Frankly after the 3.0.x branch the FF devs lost their way, they just started aping chrome UI while slowing the living hell out of the browser. I have a 1.8GHz Sempron I use both as a nettop and test bed (since it roughly has the same performance and as an Atom based nettop) and frankly even FF 3.6 is like a bad joke compared to Chromium based browsers. With FF 3.6 launching a new tab will SLAM the CPU for a good 40 seconds and if that new tab has video? Better go make a sandwich, it'll be awhile. Compare to Comodo Dragon (based on chromium) where NO tab will slam the CPU hard enough to take control away from the user, and even video plays just fine. and do NOT say the "newer versions perform better" because that is a LIE. I have FF 7 on this quad and even with 8Gb of RAM it just creeps when compared to Dragon or ANY chromium based, its just a bad joke.
so we have a pretty good reason to whine, FF is now shite on a crusty roll, Opera? Frankly I can't stand the UI and most of my users don't care for the Opera way either, so that just leaves Chromium and IE. Now I don't know about the rest of you but I'll be recommending IE when they pry my cold dead fingers off the keyboard, as I've seen far to many drive bys targeting IE to risk it, so that pretty much leaves chromium. Hey FOSS guys, think we can have a fork?
Bimbo Newton Crosby, RIM is a corpse. If this would have happened five or even three years ago? they may have had a shot. but the ship has done sailed and from the looks of it the final tally will be Apple #1 with Android trading spots with iOS from time to time, so iOS and Android own 1 and 2, and MSFT buying their way into third place but not having a prayer of taking #2 much less the coveted #1 spot.
With mobile there is always a chance of something coming from out of left field, after all who would have thought 6 years ago that Android would suddenly explode, but RIM just doesn't have it. They don't have the hardware, the designs, nor the buzz, and even the CxO types are all running around playing with their iPhones and HTC Androids, its over. I just wonder who will buy them out for the IP, MSFT or Google? Maybe Samsung?
No I personally think that it is being used as an excuse to leech money and frankly it doesn't matter WHAT the climate data says because as far as those running the AGW show are concerned its cash in time baby yeah!
For example Rev Al Gore, who has a house with an indoor basketball court and drives a fleet of SUVs is set to become a carbon billionaire, the ones who cooked up credit default swaps, aka economy killers? Yeah guess whose writing the rules for the carbon market? Those who are on the AGW bandwagon might want to watch this video to see how EASY it is to game the system. And it WILL be gamed my friend, billions are at stake!
Now watch how quickly I disappear thanks to mods by those that follow the AGW religion. For those that make fun of believers in a sky bully they certainly don't like having any of their "Gods" defamed, do they? Even though I have provided links to the evidence right there for them to see. Here is the truth of AGW: That frankly IT DOESN'T MATTER what the data says, because the leeches and vampires at the top 1% of the heap have ALREADY FIGURED OUT HOW TO PROFIT MASSIVELY so that in the end carbon will NOT go down, it'll just get moved on the books, the same way they moved money from YOUR pockets to THEIRS during the last "crisis". And folks wonder why so many don't support AGW? Could it be that the pigs have already lined up to take a chunk of your wallet while filling their sacks with gold?
Sadly Hitachi AND Samsung have BOTH been bought out, so my advice? BUY SAMSUNG DRIVES NOW!!! I've been buying up as many as I can afford and loading up my machines with Samsung drives, the warranty will be covered as part of the buyout and frankly I've never seen a Samsung drive crap out, unlike the now cheap as hell Seagates.
WD is okay but frankly their quality seems to be going down too, at least from the talks I've had with fellow shop owners. Hitachi drives are also quite good if you can find them, but the best bang for the buck are the Samsung Spinpoint and EcoDrive lines. by shopping around I've been picking up 2Tb EcoDrives for less than $80 and if I'm having a lucky day 1Tb for less than $50. These babies have 32Mb of cache and in my benchmarks kick all but the latest 7200RPM drives while running less than 89 degrees f.
So my advice is load up on Samsung (and Hitachi if you can find them) while you can before they are gone. Because it looks like in the race to the bottom we are gonna end up with really cheap but REALLY shitty drives. I don't know about you guys but I don't mind paying a little more for a drive that lasts, and I have 20Gb Samsung drives that have been horribly abused (industrial and construction work, literally caked in filth) and still kept right on humming. Hell I like the EcoDrive so much I'm even using it for my boot drive, 1Tb for $39 on sale? Couldn't pass it up and it beat the Seagate 400Gb I had previously in the benches by nearly 40 points!
I just think females have a thing for building stuff. Hell look at the Sims, it is basically AoE I without any actual battles, just the building stuff. And I swear that farmville...man females even base their PC choices around how well it will play that thing and it is NOTHING but building!
Personally I don't get it, but then again i have a penis. me give me a good Diablo clone like Torchlight or my current favorite Titan Quest Immortal throne, or give me a good FPS so I can get me some head shots. My ex GF looked at me like I was nuts when i played, but then again I'd watch her play farmville every morning and have a serious WTF? face my own self. Maybe what my eldest said when he was 7 is true, girls are just...weird is all.
Uhhh....how EXACTLY were they unethical? they PAID Apple for the rights to use several elements that Apple had in turn paid Xerox for, at the time I'm sure they thought MSFT was suckers because at the time IBM PC tech frankly sucked compared to the Motorola tech apple was using. Apple foolishly didn't see that for the masses it isn't about what's "best" its about what's "good enough" with the best price point. At the same time IBM royally fucked up by not buying an exclusive license for DOS thinking nobody would have the balls to go against big blue, besides they had the BIOS locked up....or so they thought.
IMHO you really didn't see the vicious douchebaggery from Bill & Co until the 90s, when they started fucking over companies like Drivespace and Spyglass and held the industry back for half a decade by showing screencaps of a non existent OS. For those that don't know what I'm talking about this article is quite a good read. One really has to give Gates credit, how many could control an ENTIRE industry with NOTHING but pure bullshit and giant brass balls? Takes a hell of a poker player to pull off a bluff THAT big. I sure wouldn't want to play Texas Hold 'em with the guy.
So let me see if I understand you correctly: You are saying they are "compatible" but you'll need special software to use one and none of them work on Kindle is that correct? Compatible...I don't think that words means what you think it means.
This is why I've been telling my customers to avoid the whole thing like the clap. Either they will die out like the eReader craze of the 90s (bet nobody remembers THAT huh?) or like iTunes they'll end up DRM free.
Mozilla alienated me when their constant number jumping killed the Avast secure site plugin, which is DAMN handy for average folks as it catches phishing attempts and drive bys. That when combined with the constant jumping making it impossible to test squat as far as the extensions my users need had me search for alternatives and settle on Comodo Dragon. With Dragon everything is sandboxed and I've updated it from V6 to V14 and zero problems. In fact as soon as I'm done typing this I'll be letting it update and again I expect ZERO failures of my extensions.
As for TFA I wish him luck but really wish he would come out with a Chromium extension as that is the only plugin I miss that I had on FF, everything else has switched over to Chrome/Dragon. Frankly between the constant UI changes, the constant extensions breakage, and the sluggishness that seems to get worse every version (I had to switch my XP Netbox back to 3.6 simply because it got so slow and sluggish after 4 it was unusable, while even the latest Dragon purrs) Firefox smells to me like a dying platform. They are making the same arrogant mistakes Netscape did but without the code to back it up. They don't listen to their users and that is the surest way to fall.
WTF? Why in the name of all that is good would you want to compile everything? Nothing better to do with your winter? It isn't like we don't have excess...well everything when it comes to computers. Sure i could see compiling a custom build when you have 4Mb of RAM and a 10MHz CPU, but today? that is just nuts! I can see now why you made jokes about them, geez!
As for threads? Servers will ALWAYS be heavily threaded that goes without saying. But I think unless someone trips over the holy grail we have reached pretty much the plateau when it comes to users. They simply aren't doing enough to warrant going thread crazy. I always check my users performance in Win 7 just to see if there is anything they need to increase after about a month and you know what I find? Most of the time the computer is twiddling its thumbs because they simply can't give it enough work to stress it, and that with even the low end Athlon duals and triples, they simply can't come up with enough work to stress the CPU more than a few seconds at a time. as I said I'm "Mr Multitask" and when i'm mobile I find the tasks I have rarely peg out the Brazos APU, web tasks simply aren't that heavy.
And the tasks you listed is a perfect example of why I think AMD is on the right track: Both farmville and Flash videos are GPU accelerated and since the GPU has 80 stream processors it can handle plenty while leaving the CPU to other tasks. So far the ONLY task I found that pegs the CPU for more than a few seconds is a virus scan, and even that quickly drops after about a minute.
but sure there will always be corner cases, i have a deneb quad on the desktop and would like to go to a thuban 6 core after Xmas, why? Because I like to do heavy audio and video work on the desktop and thus more cores is always better. But I sure as hell don't want to be transcoding video or trying to edit a 6 track multilayer audio recording in audacity when I'm mobile because a screen large enough to give me the detail required would make the thing weigh 20 pounds. For the tasks I DO perform when mobile, checking mail, downloading files for customers, watching videos, listening to music? brazos does it all while barely breaking a sweat and THAT is why i have been recommending them to my customers. Its the right mix of size, power, battery life, and price. I just don't see the jobs the average person does slamming even the Brazos much less the new quad mobile APU that is gonna be out in the spring.
This is a classic case of what we call "Moving the goalposts" which is frankly ALL Linux users can do. It is NO different than if I said "The Kia is a nice car" and you replied "You can't fly to Italy in a Kia!" Well WTF does THAT have to do with anything?
Here, I'll spell it out, even make it bold so its easy, kay? here goes WE ARE TALKING ABOUT USERS not, in any particular order, hackers, crackers, admins, DBA, engineers, or the guy that wants an OS on his toaster, okay? Is that REALLY so fucking hard to follow? Do you HONESTLY believe that 90% of the fucking population use IPconfig? Because if so there is some penny stocks i think you should be interested in.
As for why you should remove it? simple because if your OS WORKS then it should function without it. I could remove CLI from Windows and OSX and guess what? the users would never know the difference and it would just keep happily chugging along. do that in Linux? It shits itself and dies hard and THAT is a fact. hell most of them won't even boot with Bash gone, another fact.
If you want to use CLI? cool, I know guys that prefer bell bottoms. what do you and they have in common? Both like things that are NEVER COMING BACK IN STYLE EVAR. In fact the bell bottom guys have better odds of making a come back than Linux has on the desktop!
Just be honest with yourselves is that SOOOO much to ask for? Accept the fact that if you refuse to give the consumer what they want they WILL ignore you,simple as that. Stop all this "Linux is ready for the desktop!" horseshit, which you KNOW is horseshit BTW, because there is no way in hell the 90% are gonna back to fiddly 70s era term bullshit, stop pretending that users use start>>>run to launch programs, or that Windows USERS, not admins, not DBAs, but users, actually give a fuck or even know where the fuck the CLI is on their OS, and accept that you will ALWAYS be last place, and frankly that is where you deserve to be.
Its REALLY simple, give the people what they want and they will buy your product, you don't do that. Instead you think you can get the world to go back to 70s terms, embrace CLI "Fixes" and forum dances, 6 month deathmarches and all the included driver borkage, and frankly it makes you look more than a little insane. Want share? KILL CLI DEAD. Don't want to? Then STFU and quit pretending that your OS is gonna go anywhere but last place. because we retailers are frankly tired of your bullshit and exucuses, which is why NO major or even minor B&M will touch your product, not Best Buy, not walmart, hell not even little shops like mine, even though I could undercut the competition. Why? Because YOUR SHIT BE BROKEN and we don't want our reps ruined by selling broken shit, THAT is why!
I second the ABP and would point out it also Chromium based as well as Firefox. I have noticed since giving my users Comodo dragon with ABP that not only do they have a faster nicer web experience, thanks to no ads dragging them down, but the rates of infection have frankly dropped right off the chart.
I give MSFT credit for making Windows 7 pretty damned good about blocking bugs but the combination of Dragon sandboxing the browser with ABP getting rid of the malware laden ads it has made viruses, at least for my customers, pretty much a thing of the past. Now the only bugs I see are "Forest Gump" social engineering bugs where they wave the right cookie in front of the user and get them to bypass security FOR the malware. The worst I've seen lately is "The New Limewire" which is a bunch of malware wrapped up in a gnucleus client, nasty stuff.
As for TFA that was awfully stupid of them, not to mention more than a little pointless. I don't know if my customers are typical but many of them live in FB so tracking them would be kinda pointless. Besides if they wanted to do that why not just offer a toolbar like everybody and their dog does? From what i've seen if you are stupid enough to agree to your average toolbar EULA you've pretty much agreed to give them keys to the kingdom anyway. I mean with all the money FB generates how hard would it have been to have someone write them a FB toolbar for all the major browsers?
Sure we can and here is why: while the TECH has gotten better the DIRECTORS have not. Like I said we have ONE, count 'em ONE, director that has shown so far that he has a real grasp of the medium and what does HE say about it? That its a fad and that 60 FPS is the way to go. Don't believe me, feel free to Google Cameron on 60 FPS VS 3D and read it in his own words.
The simple fact is this friend, no matter HOW good the tech is in the end the ONLY thing the fake 3D really excels at is the classic "boo!" shit jumps out at you, and how many times is that gonna be really integral or even needed in a story? So instead you get "Dr Tongue's 3D House Of Pancakes" where they write the scenes to the tech instead of the other way around and you know what? It sucks. It sucked in the old days, it sucks now. Hell you and I both know the ONLY reason they are really pushing it is they can make more at the theater and they hope 3D will be an anti-piracy protection, even Cameron admits that.
so I'm sorry friend but its not the directors asking for this tech, its the money men. And when you are talking about art having the suits dictate the direction is a BAD idea any way you slice it. don't get mad at me if you spent crazy money on some giant 3D home cinema and are now worried your investment is gonna be a fad. hey at least it ought to have a clear picture huh?
I have a question...has anyone here actually USED a Windows 7 phone? How does it stack up against Android?
Here is what I'm looking at: I have to help my dad get a new phone and here are the requirements, it has to ONLY use Wifi for web, as data plans here suck ass, it has to be easy to get pics off via BT or USB, and it has to be relatively simple to operate and reliable. I'm drawn to the HTC Inspire as i've heard good things about those but not really brand loyal so if a WinPhone will be easier for him to use and manage (He has Windows 7 HP BTW) then I'll get that. The main thing is the Wifi only and easy to drag off pics to his desktop.
So has anybody used both? How do they stack up? all the reviews i've found were all about specs which frankly doesn't tell me squat when it comes to ease of use or whether you can tell the thing to use Wifi only. remember this is for a dad here and NOT a geek, so tweaking/hacking/jailbreaking not an issue since it will run whatever comes default. if anybody has comments, suggestions, recommendations i'm all ears as i'll be the first to admit smartphones just aren't my thing.
But I don't think what killed those formats was audio quality and the users not caring so much as the media companies took a shit on them by making them so DRM tastic that nothing was compatible and nothing worked. from what I was told (can't say first hand, avoided both formats when I heard about all the DRM) that it was a royal PITA just to rip your tunes to your drive, something most of us have been doing for over a decade and even the most clueless have been doing since WinXP.
So I would say what makes something "good enough" often comes down to ease of use and if the ease of use isn't there folks just won't bother. I hear the cat & mouse game with Blu Ray and DRM is just about over but now I simply don't care. I was excited when it first came out but when I found out about all the DRM bullshit I found upscaling DVDs were "good enough" and ease of use, which includes the ability to back up those movies so a single scratch doesn't bone the thing, trumped all.
I simply hate liars and hypocrites. How would YOU like it if I took your posts and edited them so that they mean the opposite of what you said because I was a religious zealot that refuses to accept my god is false?
The fucknuts in question actually was trying to argue that Windows users use start>>>run to launch all their programs and when pointed out that not only do users NEVER use start>>>run (hell I've never even met an admin that used start>>>run for program launching) but that as far as users are concerned there is NO CLI in Windows and I DARE anyone to prove me wrong. Do you HONESTLY think the majority of users use CLI in Windows?
But I will bet my last fucking dollar that EVERY Linux user DOES use CLI, how do I know this? it is simple, THEY HAVE NO CHOICE. They really don't. I have yet to have a single Linux user have the balls to take they Hairyfeet challenge, which is simply remove the CLI from the OS for just ONE year. That's all. If Linux can function without CLI, surely losing it a year won't be a great hardship?
But you see THERE is the lie they so desperately want to hide, THERE is the ugly truth like Dorian and the painting they try to hide from the light. The TRUTH is this: Linux will not run without CLI and all your snarky remarks, all the lies and bullshit will NOT change this simple fact. THIS is why you have no share, THIS is why you gain no traction, THIS is why the ONLY time Linux has gained ANY share was when Google simply stole it and told the community to go suck cock. What is Android? Why its all GUI, NO CLI, all clicky clicky easy, and it sells? Well surprise surprise, who would have fucking thought. Oh right, that would be me who has been saying that FOR A FUCKING DECADE NOW.
And if I gave you an Edison wax cylinder would YOU be able to read it? That kind of argument is a "if monkeys fly out yo butt" argument as if it was anything worth caring about it would have ALREADY been transferred several times to new formats!
One of my customers has some DVDs backed up. What is so special about that? Well once upon a time that data was on a Commodore 128 datasette, followed by a Commodore floppy, followed by a PC floppy, followed by a CD, followed by a DVD. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up on NAND before too awful long.
All of that was possible because copying data is easy in digital as long as you don't get TOO far behind the curve, but frankly if need be you can buy machines that will read even the old pizza sized floppies, hell there is even a tutorial on how to read core memory out there on the web.
With analog the huge initial PITA factor for converting it to digital means it simply never gets done, and since copying analog like pics is also a PITA too often you only have one or two copies if that and if a disaster comes along? Bye bye analog data. Hell I sent my customer a link to a Commodore 128 emulator so I wouldn't be surprised if when he has some free time that 25+ year old code will be running again inside a VM. That is the nice thing about digital, in the end its all ones and zeros and thus can be easily manipulated.
Actually that was the weird thing...they didn't actually fight in it! They would just build, in AoE I you could win the game without fighting anyone and THAT was what the females did, at least every female that came into the shop and bought one. They would wall off the city and build monuments, they would build priests and convert the enemy, or they would simply buy them off with trade and let them kill each other, but never did I see them fight. Weird.
The problem is the tea party is a sham. Oh sure it started out as this grass roots thing, which had some good ideas like term limits, but then the Koch bros and the "tea party express" rolled in and ran over the grass roots portion like a Mac truck. Now it is just another mouthpiece for the 1%ers.
Hell look up what the Koch bros are for, then look at the tea party platform, you'll find its pretty much point for point, and that is because the Koch bros and Tea Party Express are bankrollong to the tune of millions to make sure the tea party becomes teabaggers and so far looks like they've succeeded.
That is gonna be the problem with trying to get grass roots ANYTHING going for long enough to actually change anything, because if they can't crush it (look at how many in the MSM is lining up to call OWS every filthy name in the book) then the 1%ers will simply buy it, as the Koch bros did with the tea party. Herman Cain is a Koch bros creation BTW, follow the money, he's been bought.
Can I say a hearty "yes please!" to the whole die thing? I'm old enough to remember the last TWO times this crap went around, late 70s-mid 80s for movies and late 90s for games and you know what? It still really sucks because you get one guy, if you are lucky two, that has ANY idea what to do with it, the rest make "Dr Tongue's 3D House Of Pancakes" just like every hack has done since the first spin in the 1950s.
This of course doesn't count the fact there is a huge number of people for whom it either doesn't work or if it does it gives them a skull splitting headache. Then add in the high cost of glasses, the darker picture, and its just....its bad. We've had exactly ONE film where a director actually knew how to use it, while the others put out schlock.
So I for one hope it dies again so maybe we can come up with something better, such as 60 FPS becoming the standard or new ultra high definition cameras. Lets be honest folks, there just aren't that many places and stories where you want shit to jump out at you and that is all the fake 3D is really good at, the classic "Boo!" shit jumps out at you.
STILL to afraid to post the correct quote huh? Afraid? For those that would like to know HERE is the whole quote and I DARE anyone to prove me wrong: as far as the user is concerned there is NO CLI in Windows and ANYONE with a brain (except fucknuts here, who was trying to insist that users launch programs by using start>>>run) would know THAT IS A FACT. Try it yourself, walk up to the next dozen people you see on the street and ask them "How do you get command line in Windows?" and they'll say "What is command line?" Because UNLIKE LINUX you do NOT NEED CLI IN WINDOWS. Don't blame me YOU HAVE A BROKEN OS fucknuts, I didn't design the POS.
As for TFA, somebody forget to cut the congressman a check? This is different than Yahoo, Google, Opera, MSFT....how exactly? Hell you have FB tracking you, Google getting every search, going though your Gmails, hell they can probably tell you your favorite color and what you like to have for breakfast. So NOW they want to complain?
Either they come up with MASSIVE new legislation to protect against the huge amount of privacy violations being done by every. single. Internet. company. or they are just blowing smoke. I wouldn't be surprised if they are pissed the Amazon data isn't going through the little back room at AT&T they were so quick to give retroactive immunity to AT&T for.
Oh and a final gift for fucknuts, here is some of the companies that have abandoned Linux, maybe you have heard of a few of them? Like ASUS who has given up on your bullshit or Walmart running away from linux as fast as it can? Could it be because they don't want to run their own repos Dell has to to keep Linux from shitting itself?. You've lost, give it up. Even for free you can't give that POS away, you are even lower than JavaME. Nobody wants it, nobody runs it, hell you celebrate when you get a lousy 1% market share. Face it you couldn't give it away in a prison wrapped in pardons. Stick a fork baby, its done.
Look, Jobs was a brilliant guy but he WAS an asshole, this is pretty much common knowledge. For a good example look on YouTube for the follow up video by the guy that did the History of Apple piece. you know the one, where he did the calls "they have NO taste" bit? The producer comes on and is laughing about watching the premiere with Jobs and Jobs decides to call up gates to apologize, so what does he do? He continues to insult Gates all through the apology by saying things like "But its true Bill, you know that right? You really have NO taste whatsoever".
Now by your argument gates just had a "different vision" which one could argue was based on an engineer's perspective. Gates wanted controls to do everything, hence everything in gates' OS was menu-tastic. But Jobs hated it because that wasn't how he would do it therefor it was crap.
As for TFA? Pro guys? You need to be moving to Windows and Adobe and Avid NOW, right now, this minute. Because it is pretty damned obvious the writing is on the wall for the pro line, its toast. you simply aren't the demographic that makes them iMoney and as another pointed out they probably sell a thousand or more iMacs for every mac pro unit they move. They NEEDED you before because the whole "Movies and TV are created on Apple computers" was a selling point. it simply isn't anymore, as nobody cares. Now it is all iStuff and they can simply make a hell of a lot more money by making FCP into a high end iMovie. Nothing personal, just business.
But don't worry as I'm sure that Adobe and Avid and a bazillion other little startups will be happy to take your money and give you a product that will do what you want....on Windows. The ONLY thing Ballmer got right was his "developers developers developers" and pushing Visual Studio. That makes programs easier to write on Windows, so that is where the programs will be. I'm sure you'll adapt. hell look at it THIS way, at least you'll be able to get more hardware for your money. Final call? Pro line dead in less than 3, if it lasts THAT long.
So is that how they do it in Farmville? Honestly I don't get that fucking thing, I swear its like crack to females. I've even had women come in and base their computer on how well it would play Farmville!
I saw the same thing with the original Age Of Empires. i thought my old boss Doug was fricking nuts when he brought in a whole box of AoE discs and told me to start installing but he said "Just you watch" and put one of our all in one units in the window playing the demo of AoE. sure enough it wasn't 20 minutes before we had females coming in going "What is that? Age Of Empire?" and our sales went up 25%.
I don't know if they've figured out "the formula" for guys yet but that damned Farmville/Frontierville/Mafia Wars sure does have the females addicted. I've even been paid to make house-calls simply to get Farmville working on a system. man that thing is nuts!
Uhhhh...why? Its all ones and zeroes. You could put it in.avi or.mkv, you could store it on discs or drives or NAND, hell you could even print it as a long stream of ones and zeroes if that melts your butter.
Hell if anything I'd say film is what you have to worry about, its fragile and don't take changes in temp and humidity well and is a bitch to copy so is less likely to have multiple backups. With digital its as simple as copy or transfer to format or medium, its pretty damned easy. I know that I have had a couple of customers lose quite a lot when a fire damaged their homes but thanks to digital their family photos? NOT among the losses as they took my advice and had them all backed up to the web. It would have been a royal PITA to do that with prints and therefor didn't get done with their old photos which are now gone forever.
Nice answer fucknuts, no proof, not even any experience with the product, just "nu uh!". And this is from an idiot that doesn't even know how to quote correctly so what should anyone expect?
Now let us see what he is AFRAID TO SHOW YOU because it is the TRUTH. The CORRECT quote is "As far as the user is concerned there is NO CLI in windows" and I DARE anyone to prove me wrong. walk up to 100 people in the street and ask them "How do you call up command line in Windows" and you know what you are gonna get? "Whats a command line" Because windows DON'T NEED A SHITTY TERMINAL just to do the tasks 99.995% of the population does. Linux? Puts the terminal on the desktop, why? Because YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. Its a SERVER OS that has been BADLY hacked to pretend to be a desktop OS, but in the end? Its ALL CLI. Here fucknuts, enjoy your fail...
Isn't it sad, how like a frightened child afraid to look under the bed, you cower at the truth? if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos even though we are talking a teeny tiny subset of hardware? Oh right because Linux shits itself and dies if you use the default repos! Man that is some excellent product you got there! you think I can get better QA than the third largest OEM on the planet? What, you expect me to tell paying customers "Go to the forum, kiss some loser ass, and maybe, just maybe, in a few days someone will have mercy and give you a big pile of bullshit that may or may not make your sound work again"?
You see you whiny little delusional mama's boy, I'm your worst fucking nightmare...a retailer that still believes. I believe that the community doesn't have to take Torvalds shit sandwiches, I believe that things can be made better, I believe Linux can be something for more than douchebags like you that will happily take a cock slapping from linus as long as you can say you are sticking to "teh man". I believe that there can be Linux boxes on actual shelves and penguins on boxes. But here enjoy some of the wisdom of the great RMS and maybe you'll feel better
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Uhhh...the US gov hasn't had the ability to print money since 1913 friend. Perhaps this little ditty will enlighten you.
As for TFA? Those of us that said Bitcoin was a pyramid scheme are quite enjoying the schadenfreude.
Because Firefox performance is a heaping pile of suck? I have to support everything from the latest multicores to P4 office boxes and netbooks/nettops and I had to find another browser because after FF 4 all I heard was "Can't you find anything better? This is just soooooo slow!" Hell I even heard that from my quad core customers!
Frankly after the 3.0.x branch the FF devs lost their way, they just started aping chrome UI while slowing the living hell out of the browser. I have a 1.8GHz Sempron I use both as a nettop and test bed (since it roughly has the same performance and as an Atom based nettop) and frankly even FF 3.6 is like a bad joke compared to Chromium based browsers. With FF 3.6 launching a new tab will SLAM the CPU for a good 40 seconds and if that new tab has video? Better go make a sandwich, it'll be awhile. Compare to Comodo Dragon (based on chromium) where NO tab will slam the CPU hard enough to take control away from the user, and even video plays just fine. and do NOT say the "newer versions perform better" because that is a LIE. I have FF 7 on this quad and even with 8Gb of RAM it just creeps when compared to Dragon or ANY chromium based, its just a bad joke.
so we have a pretty good reason to whine, FF is now shite on a crusty roll, Opera? Frankly I can't stand the UI and most of my users don't care for the Opera way either, so that just leaves Chromium and IE. Now I don't know about the rest of you but I'll be recommending IE when they pry my cold dead fingers off the keyboard, as I've seen far to many drive bys targeting IE to risk it, so that pretty much leaves chromium. Hey FOSS guys, think we can have a fork?
Bimbo Newton Crosby, RIM is a corpse. If this would have happened five or even three years ago? they may have had a shot. but the ship has done sailed and from the looks of it the final tally will be Apple #1 with Android trading spots with iOS from time to time, so iOS and Android own 1 and 2, and MSFT buying their way into third place but not having a prayer of taking #2 much less the coveted #1 spot.
With mobile there is always a chance of something coming from out of left field, after all who would have thought 6 years ago that Android would suddenly explode, but RIM just doesn't have it. They don't have the hardware, the designs, nor the buzz, and even the CxO types are all running around playing with their iPhones and HTC Androids, its over. I just wonder who will buy them out for the IP, MSFT or Google? Maybe Samsung?
No I personally think that it is being used as an excuse to leech money and frankly it doesn't matter WHAT the climate data says because as far as those running the AGW show are concerned its cash in time baby yeah!
For example Rev Al Gore, who has a house with an indoor basketball court and drives a fleet of SUVs is set to become a carbon billionaire, the ones who cooked up credit default swaps, aka economy killers? Yeah guess whose writing the rules for the carbon market? Those who are on the AGW bandwagon might want to watch this video to see how EASY it is to game the system. And it WILL be gamed my friend, billions are at stake!
Now watch how quickly I disappear thanks to mods by those that follow the AGW religion. For those that make fun of believers in a sky bully they certainly don't like having any of their "Gods" defamed, do they? Even though I have provided links to the evidence right there for them to see. Here is the truth of AGW: That frankly IT DOESN'T MATTER what the data says, because the leeches and vampires at the top 1% of the heap have ALREADY FIGURED OUT HOW TO PROFIT MASSIVELY so that in the end carbon will NOT go down, it'll just get moved on the books, the same way they moved money from YOUR pockets to THEIRS during the last "crisis". And folks wonder why so many don't support AGW? Could it be that the pigs have already lined up to take a chunk of your wallet while filling their sacks with gold?
Sadly Hitachi AND Samsung have BOTH been bought out, so my advice? BUY SAMSUNG DRIVES NOW!!! I've been buying up as many as I can afford and loading up my machines with Samsung drives, the warranty will be covered as part of the buyout and frankly I've never seen a Samsung drive crap out, unlike the now cheap as hell Seagates.
WD is okay but frankly their quality seems to be going down too, at least from the talks I've had with fellow shop owners. Hitachi drives are also quite good if you can find them, but the best bang for the buck are the Samsung Spinpoint and EcoDrive lines. by shopping around I've been picking up 2Tb EcoDrives for less than $80 and if I'm having a lucky day 1Tb for less than $50. These babies have 32Mb of cache and in my benchmarks kick all but the latest 7200RPM drives while running less than 89 degrees f.
So my advice is load up on Samsung (and Hitachi if you can find them) while you can before they are gone. Because it looks like in the race to the bottom we are gonna end up with really cheap but REALLY shitty drives. I don't know about you guys but I don't mind paying a little more for a drive that lasts, and I have 20Gb Samsung drives that have been horribly abused (industrial and construction work, literally caked in filth) and still kept right on humming. Hell I like the EcoDrive so much I'm even using it for my boot drive, 1Tb for $39 on sale? Couldn't pass it up and it beat the Seagate 400Gb I had previously in the benches by nearly 40 points!
I just think females have a thing for building stuff. Hell look at the Sims, it is basically AoE I without any actual battles, just the building stuff. And I swear that farmville...man females even base their PC choices around how well it will play that thing and it is NOTHING but building!
Personally I don't get it, but then again i have a penis. me give me a good Diablo clone like Torchlight or my current favorite Titan Quest Immortal throne, or give me a good FPS so I can get me some head shots. My ex GF looked at me like I was nuts when i played, but then again I'd watch her play farmville every morning and have a serious WTF? face my own self. Maybe what my eldest said when he was 7 is true, girls are just...weird is all.
Uhhh....how EXACTLY were they unethical? they PAID Apple for the rights to use several elements that Apple had in turn paid Xerox for, at the time I'm sure they thought MSFT was suckers because at the time IBM PC tech frankly sucked compared to the Motorola tech apple was using. Apple foolishly didn't see that for the masses it isn't about what's "best" its about what's "good enough" with the best price point. At the same time IBM royally fucked up by not buying an exclusive license for DOS thinking nobody would have the balls to go against big blue, besides they had the BIOS locked up....or so they thought.
IMHO you really didn't see the vicious douchebaggery from Bill & Co until the 90s, when they started fucking over companies like Drivespace and Spyglass and held the industry back for half a decade by showing screencaps of a non existent OS. For those that don't know what I'm talking about this article is quite a good read. One really has to give Gates credit, how many could control an ENTIRE industry with NOTHING but pure bullshit and giant brass balls? Takes a hell of a poker player to pull off a bluff THAT big. I sure wouldn't want to play Texas Hold 'em with the guy.
So let me see if I understand you correctly: You are saying they are "compatible" but you'll need special software to use one and none of them work on Kindle is that correct? Compatible...I don't think that words means what you think it means.
This is why I've been telling my customers to avoid the whole thing like the clap. Either they will die out like the eReader craze of the 90s (bet nobody remembers THAT huh?) or like iTunes they'll end up DRM free.
Mozilla alienated me when their constant number jumping killed the Avast secure site plugin, which is DAMN handy for average folks as it catches phishing attempts and drive bys. That when combined with the constant jumping making it impossible to test squat as far as the extensions my users need had me search for alternatives and settle on Comodo Dragon. With Dragon everything is sandboxed and I've updated it from V6 to V14 and zero problems. In fact as soon as I'm done typing this I'll be letting it update and again I expect ZERO failures of my extensions.
As for TFA I wish him luck but really wish he would come out with a Chromium extension as that is the only plugin I miss that I had on FF, everything else has switched over to Chrome/Dragon. Frankly between the constant UI changes, the constant extensions breakage, and the sluggishness that seems to get worse every version (I had to switch my XP Netbox back to 3.6 simply because it got so slow and sluggish after 4 it was unusable, while even the latest Dragon purrs) Firefox smells to me like a dying platform. They are making the same arrogant mistakes Netscape did but without the code to back it up. They don't listen to their users and that is the surest way to fall.
WTF? Why in the name of all that is good would you want to compile everything? Nothing better to do with your winter? It isn't like we don't have excess...well everything when it comes to computers. Sure i could see compiling a custom build when you have 4Mb of RAM and a 10MHz CPU, but today? that is just nuts! I can see now why you made jokes about them, geez!
As for threads? Servers will ALWAYS be heavily threaded that goes without saying. But I think unless someone trips over the holy grail we have reached pretty much the plateau when it comes to users. They simply aren't doing enough to warrant going thread crazy. I always check my users performance in Win 7 just to see if there is anything they need to increase after about a month and you know what I find? Most of the time the computer is twiddling its thumbs because they simply can't give it enough work to stress it, and that with even the low end Athlon duals and triples, they simply can't come up with enough work to stress the CPU more than a few seconds at a time. as I said I'm "Mr Multitask" and when i'm mobile I find the tasks I have rarely peg out the Brazos APU, web tasks simply aren't that heavy.
And the tasks you listed is a perfect example of why I think AMD is on the right track: Both farmville and Flash videos are GPU accelerated and since the GPU has 80 stream processors it can handle plenty while leaving the CPU to other tasks. So far the ONLY task I found that pegs the CPU for more than a few seconds is a virus scan, and even that quickly drops after about a minute.
but sure there will always be corner cases, i have a deneb quad on the desktop and would like to go to a thuban 6 core after Xmas, why? Because I like to do heavy audio and video work on the desktop and thus more cores is always better. But I sure as hell don't want to be transcoding video or trying to edit a 6 track multilayer audio recording in audacity when I'm mobile because a screen large enough to give me the detail required would make the thing weigh 20 pounds. For the tasks I DO perform when mobile, checking mail, downloading files for customers, watching videos, listening to music? brazos does it all while barely breaking a sweat and THAT is why i have been recommending them to my customers. Its the right mix of size, power, battery life, and price. I just don't see the jobs the average person does slamming even the Brazos much less the new quad mobile APU that is gonna be out in the spring.
This is a classic case of what we call "Moving the goalposts" which is frankly ALL Linux users can do. It is NO different than if I said "The Kia is a nice car" and you replied "You can't fly to Italy in a Kia!" Well WTF does THAT have to do with anything?
Here, I'll spell it out, even make it bold so its easy, kay? here goes WE ARE TALKING ABOUT USERS not, in any particular order, hackers, crackers, admins, DBA, engineers, or the guy that wants an OS on his toaster, okay? Is that REALLY so fucking hard to follow? Do you HONESTLY believe that 90% of the fucking population use IPconfig? Because if so there is some penny stocks i think you should be interested in.
As for why you should remove it? simple because if your OS WORKS then it should function without it. I could remove CLI from Windows and OSX and guess what? the users would never know the difference and it would just keep happily chugging along. do that in Linux? It shits itself and dies hard and THAT is a fact. hell most of them won't even boot with Bash gone, another fact.
If you want to use CLI? cool, I know guys that prefer bell bottoms. what do you and they have in common? Both like things that are NEVER COMING BACK IN STYLE EVAR. In fact the bell bottom guys have better odds of making a come back than Linux has on the desktop!
Just be honest with yourselves is that SOOOO much to ask for? Accept the fact that if you refuse to give the consumer what they want they WILL ignore you,simple as that. Stop all this "Linux is ready for the desktop!" horseshit, which you KNOW is horseshit BTW, because there is no way in hell the 90% are gonna back to fiddly 70s era term bullshit, stop pretending that users use start>>>run to launch programs, or that Windows USERS, not admins, not DBAs, but users, actually give a fuck or even know where the fuck the CLI is on their OS, and accept that you will ALWAYS be last place, and frankly that is where you deserve to be.
Its REALLY simple, give the people what they want and they will buy your product, you don't do that. Instead you think you can get the world to go back to 70s terms, embrace CLI "Fixes" and forum dances, 6 month deathmarches and all the included driver borkage, and frankly it makes you look more than a little insane. Want share? KILL CLI DEAD. Don't want to? Then STFU and quit pretending that your OS is gonna go anywhere but last place. because we retailers are frankly tired of your bullshit and exucuses, which is why NO major or even minor B&M will touch your product, not Best Buy, not walmart, hell not even little shops like mine, even though I could undercut the competition. Why? Because YOUR SHIT BE BROKEN and we don't want our reps ruined by selling broken shit, THAT is why!
I second the ABP and would point out it also Chromium based as well as Firefox. I have noticed since giving my users Comodo dragon with ABP that not only do they have a faster nicer web experience, thanks to no ads dragging them down, but the rates of infection have frankly dropped right off the chart.
I give MSFT credit for making Windows 7 pretty damned good about blocking bugs but the combination of Dragon sandboxing the browser with ABP getting rid of the malware laden ads it has made viruses, at least for my customers, pretty much a thing of the past. Now the only bugs I see are "Forest Gump" social engineering bugs where they wave the right cookie in front of the user and get them to bypass security FOR the malware. The worst I've seen lately is "The New Limewire" which is a bunch of malware wrapped up in a gnucleus client, nasty stuff.
As for TFA that was awfully stupid of them, not to mention more than a little pointless. I don't know if my customers are typical but many of them live in FB so tracking them would be kinda pointless. Besides if they wanted to do that why not just offer a toolbar like everybody and their dog does? From what i've seen if you are stupid enough to agree to your average toolbar EULA you've pretty much agreed to give them keys to the kingdom anyway. I mean with all the money FB generates how hard would it have been to have someone write them a FB toolbar for all the major browsers?
Sure we can and here is why: while the TECH has gotten better the DIRECTORS have not. Like I said we have ONE, count 'em ONE, director that has shown so far that he has a real grasp of the medium and what does HE say about it? That its a fad and that 60 FPS is the way to go. Don't believe me, feel free to Google Cameron on 60 FPS VS 3D and read it in his own words.
The simple fact is this friend, no matter HOW good the tech is in the end the ONLY thing the fake 3D really excels at is the classic "boo!" shit jumps out at you, and how many times is that gonna be really integral or even needed in a story? So instead you get "Dr Tongue's 3D House Of Pancakes" where they write the scenes to the tech instead of the other way around and you know what? It sucks. It sucked in the old days, it sucks now. Hell you and I both know the ONLY reason they are really pushing it is they can make more at the theater and they hope 3D will be an anti-piracy protection, even Cameron admits that.
so I'm sorry friend but its not the directors asking for this tech, its the money men. And when you are talking about art having the suits dictate the direction is a BAD idea any way you slice it. don't get mad at me if you spent crazy money on some giant 3D home cinema and are now worried your investment is gonna be a fad. hey at least it ought to have a clear picture huh?
I have a question...has anyone here actually USED a Windows 7 phone? How does it stack up against Android?
Here is what I'm looking at: I have to help my dad get a new phone and here are the requirements, it has to ONLY use Wifi for web, as data plans here suck ass, it has to be easy to get pics off via BT or USB, and it has to be relatively simple to operate and reliable. I'm drawn to the HTC Inspire as i've heard good things about those but not really brand loyal so if a WinPhone will be easier for him to use and manage (He has Windows 7 HP BTW) then I'll get that. The main thing is the Wifi only and easy to drag off pics to his desktop.
So has anybody used both? How do they stack up? all the reviews i've found were all about specs which frankly doesn't tell me squat when it comes to ease of use or whether you can tell the thing to use Wifi only. remember this is for a dad here and NOT a geek, so tweaking/hacking/jailbreaking not an issue since it will run whatever comes default. if anybody has comments, suggestions, recommendations i'm all ears as i'll be the first to admit smartphones just aren't my thing.
But I don't think what killed those formats was audio quality and the users not caring so much as the media companies took a shit on them by making them so DRM tastic that nothing was compatible and nothing worked. from what I was told (can't say first hand, avoided both formats when I heard about all the DRM) that it was a royal PITA just to rip your tunes to your drive, something most of us have been doing for over a decade and even the most clueless have been doing since WinXP.
So I would say what makes something "good enough" often comes down to ease of use and if the ease of use isn't there folks just won't bother. I hear the cat & mouse game with Blu Ray and DRM is just about over but now I simply don't care. I was excited when it first came out but when I found out about all the DRM bullshit I found upscaling DVDs were "good enough" and ease of use, which includes the ability to back up those movies so a single scratch doesn't bone the thing, trumped all.
I simply hate liars and hypocrites. How would YOU like it if I took your posts and edited them so that they mean the opposite of what you said because I was a religious zealot that refuses to accept my god is false?
The fucknuts in question actually was trying to argue that Windows users use start>>>run to launch all their programs and when pointed out that not only do users NEVER use start>>>run (hell I've never even met an admin that used start>>>run for program launching) but that as far as users are concerned there is NO CLI in Windows and I DARE anyone to prove me wrong. Do you HONESTLY think the majority of users use CLI in Windows?
But I will bet my last fucking dollar that EVERY Linux user DOES use CLI, how do I know this? it is simple, THEY HAVE NO CHOICE. They really don't. I have yet to have a single Linux user have the balls to take they Hairyfeet challenge, which is simply remove the CLI from the OS for just ONE year. That's all. If Linux can function without CLI, surely losing it a year won't be a great hardship?
But you see THERE is the lie they so desperately want to hide, THERE is the ugly truth like Dorian and the painting they try to hide from the light. The TRUTH is this: Linux will not run without CLI and all your snarky remarks, all the lies and bullshit will NOT change this simple fact. THIS is why you have no share, THIS is why you gain no traction, THIS is why the ONLY time Linux has gained ANY share was when Google simply stole it and told the community to go suck cock. What is Android? Why its all GUI, NO CLI, all clicky clicky easy, and it sells? Well surprise surprise, who would have fucking thought. Oh right, that would be me who has been saying that FOR A FUCKING DECADE NOW.
And if I gave you an Edison wax cylinder would YOU be able to read it? That kind of argument is a "if monkeys fly out yo butt" argument as if it was anything worth caring about it would have ALREADY been transferred several times to new formats!
One of my customers has some DVDs backed up. What is so special about that? Well once upon a time that data was on a Commodore 128 datasette, followed by a Commodore floppy, followed by a PC floppy, followed by a CD, followed by a DVD. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up on NAND before too awful long.
All of that was possible because copying data is easy in digital as long as you don't get TOO far behind the curve, but frankly if need be you can buy machines that will read even the old pizza sized floppies, hell there is even a tutorial on how to read core memory out there on the web.
With analog the huge initial PITA factor for converting it to digital means it simply never gets done, and since copying analog like pics is also a PITA too often you only have one or two copies if that and if a disaster comes along? Bye bye analog data. Hell I sent my customer a link to a Commodore 128 emulator so I wouldn't be surprised if when he has some free time that 25+ year old code will be running again inside a VM. That is the nice thing about digital, in the end its all ones and zeros and thus can be easily manipulated.
Actually that was the weird thing...they didn't actually fight in it! They would just build, in AoE I you could win the game without fighting anyone and THAT was what the females did, at least every female that came into the shop and bought one. They would wall off the city and build monuments, they would build priests and convert the enemy, or they would simply buy them off with trade and let them kill each other, but never did I see them fight. Weird.
The problem is the tea party is a sham. Oh sure it started out as this grass roots thing, which had some good ideas like term limits, but then the Koch bros and the "tea party express" rolled in and ran over the grass roots portion like a Mac truck. Now it is just another mouthpiece for the 1%ers.
Hell look up what the Koch bros are for, then look at the tea party platform, you'll find its pretty much point for point, and that is because the Koch bros and Tea Party Express are bankrollong to the tune of millions to make sure the tea party becomes teabaggers and so far looks like they've succeeded.
That is gonna be the problem with trying to get grass roots ANYTHING going for long enough to actually change anything, because if they can't crush it (look at how many in the MSM is lining up to call OWS every filthy name in the book) then the 1%ers will simply buy it, as the Koch bros did with the tea party. Herman Cain is a Koch bros creation BTW, follow the money, he's been bought.
Can I say a hearty "yes please!" to the whole die thing? I'm old enough to remember the last TWO times this crap went around, late 70s-mid 80s for movies and late 90s for games and you know what? It still really sucks because you get one guy, if you are lucky two, that has ANY idea what to do with it, the rest make "Dr Tongue's 3D House Of Pancakes" just like every hack has done since the first spin in the 1950s.
This of course doesn't count the fact there is a huge number of people for whom it either doesn't work or if it does it gives them a skull splitting headache. Then add in the high cost of glasses, the darker picture, and its just....its bad. We've had exactly ONE film where a director actually knew how to use it, while the others put out schlock.
So I for one hope it dies again so maybe we can come up with something better, such as 60 FPS becoming the standard or new ultra high definition cameras. Lets be honest folks, there just aren't that many places and stories where you want shit to jump out at you and that is all the fake 3D is really good at, the classic "Boo!" shit jumps out at you.
STILL to afraid to post the correct quote huh? Afraid? For those that would like to know HERE is the whole quote and I DARE anyone to prove me wrong: as far as the user is concerned there is NO CLI in Windows and ANYONE with a brain (except fucknuts here, who was trying to insist that users launch programs by using start>>>run) would know THAT IS A FACT. Try it yourself, walk up to the next dozen people you see on the street and ask them "How do you get command line in Windows?" and they'll say "What is command line?" Because UNLIKE LINUX you do NOT NEED CLI IN WINDOWS. Don't blame me YOU HAVE A BROKEN OS fucknuts, I didn't design the POS.
As for TFA, somebody forget to cut the congressman a check? This is different than Yahoo, Google, Opera, MSFT....how exactly? Hell you have FB tracking you, Google getting every search, going though your Gmails, hell they can probably tell you your favorite color and what you like to have for breakfast. So NOW they want to complain?
Either they come up with MASSIVE new legislation to protect against the huge amount of privacy violations being done by every. single. Internet. company. or they are just blowing smoke. I wouldn't be surprised if they are pissed the Amazon data isn't going through the little back room at AT&T they were so quick to give retroactive immunity to AT&T for.
Oh and a final gift for fucknuts, here is some of the companies that have abandoned Linux, maybe you have heard of a few of them? Like ASUS who has given up on your bullshit or Walmart running away from linux as fast as it can? Could it be because they don't want to run their own repos Dell has to to keep Linux from shitting itself?. You've lost, give it up. Even for free you can't give that POS away, you are even lower than JavaME. Nobody wants it, nobody runs it, hell you celebrate when you get a lousy 1% market share. Face it you couldn't give it away in a prison wrapped in pardons. Stick a fork baby, its done.
Look, Jobs was a brilliant guy but he WAS an asshole, this is pretty much common knowledge. For a good example look on YouTube for the follow up video by the guy that did the History of Apple piece. you know the one, where he did the calls "they have NO taste" bit? The producer comes on and is laughing about watching the premiere with Jobs and Jobs decides to call up gates to apologize, so what does he do? He continues to insult Gates all through the apology by saying things like "But its true Bill, you know that right? You really have NO taste whatsoever".
Now by your argument gates just had a "different vision" which one could argue was based on an engineer's perspective. Gates wanted controls to do everything, hence everything in gates' OS was menu-tastic. But Jobs hated it because that wasn't how he would do it therefor it was crap.
As for TFA? Pro guys? You need to be moving to Windows and Adobe and Avid NOW, right now, this minute. Because it is pretty damned obvious the writing is on the wall for the pro line, its toast. you simply aren't the demographic that makes them iMoney and as another pointed out they probably sell a thousand or more iMacs for every mac pro unit they move. They NEEDED you before because the whole "Movies and TV are created on Apple computers" was a selling point. it simply isn't anymore, as nobody cares. Now it is all iStuff and they can simply make a hell of a lot more money by making FCP into a high end iMovie. Nothing personal, just business.
But don't worry as I'm sure that Adobe and Avid and a bazillion other little startups will be happy to take your money and give you a product that will do what you want....on Windows. The ONLY thing Ballmer got right was his "developers developers developers" and pushing Visual Studio. That makes programs easier to write on Windows, so that is where the programs will be. I'm sure you'll adapt. hell look at it THIS way, at least you'll be able to get more hardware for your money. Final call? Pro line dead in less than 3, if it lasts THAT long.
So is that how they do it in Farmville? Honestly I don't get that fucking thing, I swear its like crack to females. I've even had women come in and base their computer on how well it would play Farmville!
I saw the same thing with the original Age Of Empires. i thought my old boss Doug was fricking nuts when he brought in a whole box of AoE discs and told me to start installing but he said "Just you watch" and put one of our all in one units in the window playing the demo of AoE. sure enough it wasn't 20 minutes before we had females coming in going "What is that? Age Of Empire?" and our sales went up 25%.
I don't know if they've figured out "the formula" for guys yet but that damned Farmville/Frontierville/Mafia Wars sure does have the females addicted. I've even been paid to make house-calls simply to get Farmville working on a system. man that thing is nuts!
Uhhhh...why? Its all ones and zeroes. You could put it in .avi or .mkv, you could store it on discs or drives or NAND, hell you could even print it as a long stream of ones and zeroes if that melts your butter.
Hell if anything I'd say film is what you have to worry about, its fragile and don't take changes in temp and humidity well and is a bitch to copy so is less likely to have multiple backups. With digital its as simple as copy or transfer to format or medium, its pretty damned easy. I know that I have had a couple of customers lose quite a lot when a fire damaged their homes but thanks to digital their family photos? NOT among the losses as they took my advice and had them all backed up to the web. It would have been a royal PITA to do that with prints and therefor didn't get done with their old photos which are now gone forever.
Nice answer fucknuts, no proof, not even any experience with the product, just "nu uh!". And this is from an idiot that doesn't even know how to quote correctly so what should anyone expect?
Now let us see what he is AFRAID TO SHOW YOU because it is the TRUTH. The CORRECT quote is "As far as the user is concerned there is NO CLI in windows" and I DARE anyone to prove me wrong. walk up to 100 people in the street and ask them "How do you call up command line in Windows" and you know what you are gonna get? "Whats a command line" Because windows DON'T NEED A SHITTY TERMINAL just to do the tasks 99.995% of the population does. Linux? Puts the terminal on the desktop, why? Because YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. Its a SERVER OS that has been BADLY hacked to pretend to be a desktop OS, but in the end? Its ALL CLI. Here fucknuts, enjoy your fail...
Isn't it sad, how like a frightened child afraid to look under the bed, you cower at the truth? if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos even though we are talking a teeny tiny subset of hardware? Oh right because Linux shits itself and dies if you use the default repos! Man that is some excellent product you got there! you think I can get better QA than the third largest OEM on the planet? What, you expect me to tell paying customers "Go to the forum, kiss some loser ass, and maybe, just maybe, in a few days someone will have mercy and give you a big pile of bullshit that may or may not make your sound work again"?
Bleeding yet douchey? want some more? nice thing about having the truth on your side, you can keep throwing punches all day! How about how a decade old Windows beat the shit out of Linux on netbooks or how ASUS has given up on your bullshit or how about Walmart running away from linux as fast as it can? You got the crazy koolaid drunk enough to say they ALL are paid shills because they won't do your forum dance or CLI horseshit? Meanwhile your "hero" Torvalds the great says Plans? We don't need no steenkin plans!. Why don't you tell them that at work next week, see how quick you get a pink slip? More? How about you actually have the balls to celebrate getting a whole 1% market share while you are actually lower than JavaME and there is a whole website dedicated To your bullshit and excuses .
You see you whiny little delusional mama's boy, I'm your worst fucking nightmare...a retailer that still believes. I believe that the community doesn't have to take Torvalds shit sandwiches, I believe that things can be made better, I believe Linux can be something for more than douchebags like you that will happily take a cock slapping from linus as long as you can say you are sticking to "teh man". I believe that there can be Linux boxes on actual shelves and penguins on boxes. But here enjoy some of the wisdom of the great RMS and maybe you'll feel better