Bimbo Newton Crosby, because if they are using GTK its already fucked as it won't work on Windows without installing the GTK crap which means NO libraries, NO schools, NO offices, NO places where users aren't allowed to run as admin and install whatever they want.
If they are using GTK (haven't looked at the roadmap so I don't know for sure) then I label this epic fail and a waste of time. the whole point of web based is that it will work with any modern browser and THAT'S IT. If I have to install a bunch of crap to make it work? Its not web based, its just bullshit.
Make it to where it works in a browser that has standard features like Firefox/Opera/Chrome (not counting IE as those guys tend to be pretty far behind the curve and when they do implement its the "IE version" that rarely works 100% correctly) and THEN you'll have something worth noting. But nobody is gonna let users just dump GTK on everything just so LO web edition will work. Sorry but that is just a bad idea and a hack way to do it.
Oh bullshit. You think a guy that fucks 8 year olds is gonna go "Oh well, nobody will pay me so I'll let little Suzy go" horseshit. I asked my friend from his experience busting these scum how it works and he broke it down for me and in ALL of it? Money didn't mean shit except long AFTER the fact.
1.-Child rapist meets other child rapists in backroom bulletin board. The way they have this thing set up it is damned near impossible for cops to get in BTW, as the entrance fee is video of you raping a kid with an object THEY tell you to insert in the video and you have X amount of time, not enough to Hollywood it and these freaks have all the stuff floating around the net. 2.-Rapists begin exchanging encrypted DVDs through mail. One of them digitizes the faces out if they haven't already been done. Here is where they fuck up as seeing the kid's face gets them off so they NEVER digitize over the kid's face, the most they do is have her/him wear a mask. 3.-Someone in the group uploads it to one of the backroom sites and HERE is where those that sell CP get it. There are a few that "rent" kids in third world countries for filming, but that is rare, mostly it is gotten from these backroom sites. 4.-Video then hits P2P and HERE is where the retards get it.
Notice how money didn't play shit in this exchange? According to my friend while there are sites in third world countries making money off this shit they are exploiting what is already out there and the retards almost never spend a dime, its all P2P and crap they get off back alley sites. He says he sees the same CP stuff day after day after day and some of it is as old as the 1960s, it has just been passed around and around. The few new ones they find on social retards are from the sites I mentioned above where a REAL rapist has loaded up his video for BRAGGING rights NOT for pay. For these guys its "look what I've got!" not "how much will you pay me?" which is why he said tracking these guys down is a bitch. Money leaves a pretty big trail to follow, anon uploads? Not so much.
So please spare us the same tired old meme they used for alcohol and drugs before it, as like in those cases its bullshit.
I have and its stil sloooooooooow as hell. While I give it out on new builds simply because its "free as in beer" after trying to use it for a month it pissed me off enough I went ahead and loaded the MS Office 2K7 I had sitting in a drawer, although honestly I have yet to see any version beat my beloved Office 2K. That to me was the best version ever,light and nimble. I have that one loaded onto my netbook as its light weight saves battery life.
I'm sorry but while LO has many things going for it lightweight and nimble ain't among them. I don't blame the LO guys though, they've only had a year and we are talking some seriously NASTY code. Has anyone here looked at the OO.o code? I have, wow talk about a big bloated mess! The LO guys probably need to chunk a good portion of it and go modular to fix the bloat, and that will take time. I say give them another year to two years and see where they are then. By that time we should know whether they are gonna be able to pull it off.
What has made sure the film camera is doomed is the RED because it was Hollywood, and those that were aspired to be LIKE Hollywood, that kept film alive. But with RED the amount of definition is frankly better than the old 72mm superwide they used for a brief time in the 50s.
Couple this with the fact that HD cams are dropping in price like mad, for the majority of folks the cams are ALREADY "good enough" at around 7MP and like Kodachrome you have a tech that made really pretty pictures that simply isn't used anymore. Kinda like how LPs often sound better than CDs thanks to being pretty immune to the loudness craze but nobody buys LPs so it really don't matter.
Like it or not digital is here to stay, analog is going the way of the 8 track. Folks want instant gratification and film just don't do that.
Oh it wasn't that they were hard, far from it and thanks to the frankly game breaking plasmids one could just plow through that game even on the hardest difficulty no problem. no the problem was they broke game flow and took a big poo on what COULD have been a truly great experience. For example did you ever try to just sit back in a good position and observe your enemies, like you could do in Bioshock I? What would happen is little Suzy Fudnucker on your back would start bitching her ass off that you weren't dragging her ass to the next corpse.
Now lets talk about the "bad guy" Sophia Lamb. No be honest, didn't you want to be able to just stop wherever you were, walk straight up to that bitch and ram your drill down her throat so she would just SHUT THE FUCK UP with her CONSTANT mouthing off? Ryan would pop on once in a while in the first one, mainly it was Atlas and only when he had a bit of backstory or a mission, and when the big reveal came that just made what he said all the more relevant because it ALL had double meaning. with Lamb it was just one looooong "I'm right, you're wrong, go fuck yourself Delta' rant. I had a friend who had NEVER played a bioshock game, had him play BII and in less than 4 minutes he was "How can I kill the bitch? is there a quick way to kill the bitch? maybe an off button on her big fucking mouth?"
Finally lets talk plasmids. Plasmids in the first game was unbalanced but in the second game it was just fucking unreal. my oldest just ramped up ElectroShock and stomped the game. never touched a single other plasmid, just used that single one and slaughtered everyone. Myself I found that hypo was so badly overpowered that once ramped up i just walked around with a big daddy and let them take care of everything, I could just sit in the corner. No real need to be cool and set up traps like in the first one, you were just too overpowered.
So I'd say they took a shit. it wasn't a Kane and Lynch super explosive shit, but just a big fat turd average poo. That game COULD have been fucking awesome, the little sister could have made the "moral choice" matter by ramping up every little sister kill but instead they made her random, having both the weapon and plasmids could have made for some kick ass super combos instead they made all the plasmids (except for a few "joke" plasmids like swarm and decoy) so overpowered you could literally break the game and play like you had cheats on from less than half the game in by simply focusing on one of the early plasmids, and finally instead of having the missions build into this huge overarching story like the first it ended up just a bunch of fetch quests that were more annoying than anything.
Don't get me wrong, fun could still be had, but it was 'lame horror movie MST3K' fun when it could have been 'Dark Knight this is kick fucking ass you gotta tell all your friends' fun.
Don't run niche OSes, so I'm not up on niche OS jokes either, sorry. But honestly I think threading has gotten about as far as it is gonna get on basic web tasks. I mean where are you gonna go? Put every ad in its own thread?
No I'd say the bigger idea is the one AMD is running right now with Brazos and that is treat the CPU and GPU as one unit and split the workloads to the appropriate subsection. Running video/audio? dump that into the GPU. Running a browser? that goes on the CPU.
By doing that one can really lower the power and increase battery life without "pulling an Atom" and making the machine feel like a slug. if you haven't tried the EEE 1215B yet you really should. 6 hours on a battery and still feels snappy and you can load that baby up with 8Gb of RAM and have the whole thing for $340. To me THAT right there is the future: Its small, light, cheap, gets great battery life AND still feels like you could do some actual work on the thing.
Well I have a friend that works in the state crime lab on this very subject and he says many they bust (and the prosecutors give insanely huge sentences to) are what he calls "social retards" that frankly aren't a threat to anyone, young or old. One they busted hadn't even left his home since 1997, and when touched would freak and screech like a wounded animal. they ended up having to tranq him to get him out the home. he got 65 years BTW thanks to the several thousand CP pics he had.
The way he explained it to me was that these social retards don't interact with ANYBODY if they can help it, instead they live their entire "life" if you want to call it that, on their machines looking at porn. And just like a junkie who needs a larger fix to keep his habit these retards will need worse and worse porn to keep being able to even get it up. He said the porn they find ALWAYS follows a set pattern as well. First it is straight, then straight fetish (stockings, anal, gangbang, etc) followed by trannies, then B&D/S&M, then finally bestiality and CP. He also said you will find literally pounds and pounds of porn, but its all the same shit that has been floating around the net since the days of bulletin boards.
So just from what he has seen I'd say there is your proof there are plenty that can have a fantasy and not act on it, hell you could have put "tranq boy" into a room with a naked 9 year old and he could have curled up into a ball in the corner and screeched. I agree with him that the police would be a better use if they simply got shrinks for the social retards and instead focus manpower on the scum that actually hunt kids, but sadly the prosecutors want big busts as those make big headlines and they don't get big busts when it comes to actual child rapists as it can takes sometimes years to track them down. Sadly I doubt this will ever change as nobody has the guts to say anything that could come out as "being soft on CP" so they'll just waste resources chasing retards while the real hunter scum won't get busted unless their victims come forward.
Oh I agree 100% that drones should be the ultimate goal, but we don't seem to be headed that way. we really don't have any drones, either those being shown or those being shown as being in the pipe, that could really go head to head with even an F15 much less one of the new Su series or MiGs. It really doesn't help to have 1000 drones if what it ends up is another turkey shoot.
The problem IMHO again is the goat herder issue. The drones are being designed to fly over goat herders for hours on end and drones simply aren't really being built for power and speed and combat effectiveness. We have let the MIC become this bloated pile of shit that is more concerned with filling their pockets and maximizing profits than with making sure we can rule the skies.
If it were me I'd kill the new Ford AC if it can't get done in a year, kill any new carriers, and start designing a drone carrier of the future. Also kill the F35 (any way you look at it like the F22 it is simply too expensive for too little performance) and be spending that money instead not only on the most cutting edge air superiority drones we can come up with but also work our asses off on ground to air missile defense to make sure if our enemies DO end up with much better fighters they simply won't be able to capitalize by using them to rule the skies.
But I just don't see any of this coming about, because both the USAF wants to continue like it is 1975 and because the MIC makes out hand over fist by stretching these projects out to infinity and cranking up the cost overruns. It is inefficient, wasteful, and in the end business as usual simply isn't gonna work with the battlefield of tomorrow. Again our current situation reminds me of the Axis at the start of WWII. they had gotten complacent fighting technologically inferior enemies or enemies with simply not enough resources to fight back (like the Japs in China, or the Germans with Poland and France) and all it is gonna take is a lean and mean enemy that doesn't play the game as we think it ought to be played to hand us a good old fashioned ass whooping.
Again look att WWII, specifically the start. The Wildcat couldn't turn like the Zero, and it sure as hell couldn't beat it on speed, yet we dominated them almost from the start, why? Because you had American manufacturers coming from the automobile industry building "flying trucks" that were reliable as hell and took insane amounts of punishment, and you had pilots like O' Hare and Flatley taking their own time and initiative to come up with air to air tactics that maximized our strengths and minimized the aircraft's weaknesses. We just don't think "outside the box" anymore, and ultimately i think that is gonna hurt us down the line.
Do you have ANY idea how FEW people run Gentoo? Not trying to insult here, but that is like saying "You can't run that SUV at Le Mans" well since most people aren't gonna be running at Le Mans that really isn't an apt comparison.
If you are running a niche OS that cranks out threads like no tomorrow frankly you should look at one of those Magny Cours Opterons 4 CPU slot systems. That will give you 48 cores to crank it out. Most people? total overkill.
I can tell you with nearly 30 years building and selling PCs that this is what the average person does: Facebook, flash videos, webmail, surfing, light gaming, webcams, editing pictures, music, basic stuff. And for THESE folks? Brazos is like heaven.
Hell I'd consider myself more of a hardcore guy than an average user but I found when I'm out and about and need a computer? Its NOT because I suddenly need to transcode a video! its because I need net access to download files for a customer, I need to check my webmail, I'm stuck somewhere and want to watch a movie or maybe even do a little tweaking on some songs I've been working on with Audacity. So for MY needs for a mobile device? My Brazos based EEE with ExpressGate is like paradise. If I need to do something that takes a full OS I get 6 hours on the battery and Win 7 X64 with 8Gb of RAM, and if I just need the web I get 8 hours, in a highly mobile device for $340!
So I'd say it all comes down to finding the right tool from the job, and for the masses these new APUs are where it is at. Plenty of performance in daily tasks, plenty of battery life on mobile devices, but at the same time giving a better 'feel" and performance than Atom, and of course at a low price which is REALLY appealing for the masses.
It just means that guys like you aren't the mainstream. If you want mobile I'd look at one of the nice Phenom II quad laptops (quite affordable) and on the desktop either a Thuban 6 core or maybe the new 8 core APUs. With you more threads are better so you just can't look at the mainstream offerings, they simply aren't tailored to your workload.
Oh it wasn't the shitloads of guys, done right THAT can be fun, nope it was the one two punch to the nuts of shittastic weapons and just pure boring ass monotony! It was like "turn right, there will be five to seven guys, kill guys, hope guns don't take a shit, lather rinse repeat". Just the same damned "missions" if you can call them that, hell I wouldn't say they even qualify, over and over AND over. And didn't you just fucking HATE how you could have a sweet shot lined up and it not even drop the fucker? That is the only game besides K&L II where I saw a dead solid perfect head shot be fucking pointless unless you had the "right" gun, like you are just gonna take a half a dozen slugs like that! Cover? Pointless. Weapons? Shit. Stealth? Not a fucking chance. Who thought this shit would even be mildly entertaining?
You wanna play something fun? I mean really really REALLY fun? try Just Cause II. It is about as realistic as batman VS superman in a ballet contest but that just adds to the fun. It was what Duke Nukem SHOULD have been, just balls to the walls crazy good fun! that hook shot has to be one of the coolest things ever put in a game. I mean when you can jump on the hood of your flaming car at 60MPH+, fire a hook shot into the front fork of a bike chasing you and recreate the stormtrooper tree splat from jedi, follow it by recreating the T3 truck flip by hookshotting the police car behind you into the street, jump off the car before it explodes onto a passing car, chunk the person out, run right into a police roadblock on a Golden gate style bridge but instead of stopping drive off the bridge , pull a chute out your ass, hookshot the chopper flying beside the bridge, throw the military guy out of it and THEN use said chopper for a strafing run on the bridge blockade? Now THAT is some crazy ass fun! Oh and you have over 250 MILES of places to blow up! Deserts and mountains, LA style cities and villages, all open and waiting for you to go postal! Hell I even hookshot a soldier to a chopper and used him as a screaming wrecking ball to knock guys off a tower BWA HA HA!
Why companies can put out crazy good fun times like that while others put out FC II is beyond me. hell they could have just copypasta'd new levels and weapons onto FC I (ala FEAR) and folks would have bought it and more importantly HAD FUN. If you game is about as enjoyable as an STD? maybe you should rethink what you are doing before you release!
There is ONE problem with your comparison...in Korea we had pilots straight off the Hornet and Yorktown, or right off of flying protection for the bombers against the BF109 against raw recruits. You look at the stats from MiG alley, where the Soviets put THEIR combat vets? you'll find the numbers are a hell of a lot closer.
The problem is that isn't the case anymore, our pilots have been dropping bombs from 35,000 feet onto goat herders. Meanwhile the Russians still make some bad ass pilots and with a pretty damned huge superiority in the quality of the fighter the less trained fighter is still gonna be deadly and our guys simply haven't been doing any air to air.
Finally you are missing the fatal difference between Korea and now and that is our planes are too expensive so THEY will have 50 or 60 Su or MiG to our 1 really expensive F35 turkey or aging rustbucket. We really have put all our eggs in one basket here, and if those results are accurate and the F35 is a shitpile we have nothing in the works to replace it so like the Brits with their latest fighter (which also turned out to be a turkey) we're just fucked.
If we really are gonna stick with what we've got we need to kill the F35, let the marines have Longbow Apache gunships instead of trying to keep the Harrier, and crank the living fuck out of the F teen series so that we can win by numerical superiority. Because as it is now we can't win on speed, firepower, maneuverability OR even on numerical superiority. We basically better stick to goat herders in caves friend, or we may get hurt.
From 10 feet? WTF? Who would build a weapon where if you point it straight at an enemy who is BARELY 10 feet away from you and empty an ENTIRE clip you won't get a single hit? Sure to fricking God the law of spray and pray would dictate that with 60 rounds and only 10 feet at least ONE bullet would hit, yes?
We ain't talking no trick shot here friend, picture this: You are in a street, there are two apple cart about 10 feet apart. He stands behind one apple cart, you the other. When he stands up to fire YOU stand up to fire and BOTH empty your guns. YOU get the living shit shot out of you and HE doesn't get a scratch.
As for what kind I think it was a standard Uzi but it really don't matter, I had the SAME experience with a pump action 12 gauge slug, an AK47, hell the ONLY weapon I seemed to be able to get a single hit at more than point blank was the 9mm Baretta and that wouldn't hit past 12 feet. With that game if you weren't close enough to grab their dick you weren't gonna get a hit PERIOD. Worst fucking accuracy I have ever seen and while I haven't fired an Uzi I HAVE fired a 12 gauge pump AND the 45 acp and 9mm and all of them are a hell of a lot more accurate IRL than that POS game says.
One final thing: If you think THAT is irritating DO NOT PLAY Far Cry II. Man how they could take a sweet game like Far Cry and take a big runny shit on it like that I'll never know. First they insult you by saying EVERY mission is a "secret mission" which actually means "We were too fucking lazy to make friendly AI, so everyone just attacks you on sight no matter what". Picture COD where your own teammates are also trying to frag you!
But that was just the ass gas, the real giant explosive shit they took was making every weapon as fragile as cheap dishes and making malfunctions the order of the day. Imagine you whip out your RP7 because a truck is headed towards you, you pull the trigger and the RPG falls out of the barrel spins in a circle and then blows up in YOUR face! Does that sound like fun? Oh and you can forget being stealthy like in FC I as the ONLY weapon with a scope that is silent? yeah it only has FIVE BULLETS and breaks after shooting 7, so you can't even pick up ammo on the way!
If real life was anywhere near this shitty we would still be fighting WWII thanks to dropping nothing but duds on each other. you think I'm joking but I'm sadly not, guns WILL jam with as little as 100 rounds shot through them! And give up picking up dead enemies weapons, they might as well have had the firing pins removed. you MAY get a whole clip through it before it jams, but its doubtful. What fudnucker though having to beat on the slide trying to unjam the gun while a truck is trying to run you down would be fun or exciting? i can't count the number of times I got royally pissed because I lined up a great shot (BTW the guys? Take a dozen rounds before they fall, and they have NO body armor! WTF?) only to have my gun fire one or two rounds and lock hard. In FC II that may as well be a neon sign that says "Fuck me hard I'm defenseless!"
That is why I have been saying for awhile now "ever since CPUs went dual core they have been good enough" because I've found that even though the average person is single threaded there is plenty enough going on in the background to make up for it. Updates and firewall and messenger and...you get the idea.
That is why I'm glad AMD has those Brazos chips for mobile. I don't know how many customers I've had come to me with "Can you make my netbook do (insert task)"? and have to tell them that Atom+shitty GPU equals epic fail. With first the Athlon and now the Brazos I was able to show them a product that was pretty close to Atom on price that nuked the Atom from orbit on performance. Now with Brazos it ain't even funny anymore, it behaves more like a CULV than an Atom style chip.
So I agree that threads are going nowhere but up and would just add combining the CPU and GPU was a smart move for AMD as I really think "splitting the load" will be the way of the future if not the present. folks are becoming more multimedia heavy by the day, with digicams and movies and YouTube, and by dropping the graphical load onto the GPU you end up with a netbook that still stays snappy even when running 720p video, all for $340 with 8Gb of RAM? That's just nuts.
And I'd agree about your cores comment with ONE caveat...price. If you can get more for only a few bucks, why the hell not? Whereas before my new builds for customers were usually duals and triples now they are ALL quads, why? Does everybody need a quad now? Nope it is just that the price on the quads are low enough I don't really see a point in building duals and triples anymore. Hell the spare I built dad to sit in his closet for "in case of emergency" is a quad, the whole smash was less than $340 on sale with Win 7 HP in kit form. The only duals and triples I sell anymore is upgrades for clients older machines that simply won't take a quad. If a dual is $70 but you can get a quad for $99 why bother with the dual? I have no doubt with the way AMD builds their chips we'll see the same thing soon with 8 and 10 cores.
And if we HAVE a reason? still got a scar on my head from being slammed against a cop car by a bully with a badge that said first, and I quote "I don't know which I hate worse, God damned niggers or fucking worthless hippies". My crime? Having a black person in the car makes you suspicious apparently. It didn't matter that the black in question was actually a Baptist minister that I was driving to a revival as a favor or that we hadn't done a damned thing, nope just another piggie drunk on power.
I've lived in good neighborhoods and bad, dealt with junkies and cops and you know what? i'll take the junkies over the cops ANY day of the week. junkies are frankly chickenshit and a firecracker can scare them off, but the cops I've found go out looking to start shit so they can show what a "big man" they are. And like an above poster everyone I knew from HS that decided to become a cop did it for power, that's it. No helping people, no protecting the law, they wanted the ability to crack skulls and get away with it, and you know what? they did and they do.
Maybe this video will open some eyes, but I doubt it. I've had people that were so hard on for the police they actually said I deserved what i got for having a black in the car. So much for civil rights huh?
Well that would depend on this....is your budget unlimited? Because frankly the bang for the buck has been in the AMD camp for quite some time IMHO, with Intel doing too much crippling on its lower end and when you add in the price of their boards (plus a decent GPU as Intel GPUs are shit) it just makes it that much sweeter. If you want all the features it is AMD or be ready to empty that wallet Fuzzy.
That said although I won't be having ANY Intel chips in my shop (because I don't reward criminal behavior and the bribery and compiler rigging frankly made MSFT look like choirboys by comparison and I thought MSFT should have been broken up) I would wait probably 6 months to a year before switching to Bulldozer on the desktop. The bang for the buck on the AM3 chips is just too good right now. I have been seeing Thuban 6 cores on sale for less than $130 and have been building nice quad cores for my customers and still making a decent profit for $450. It always takes AMD awhile to ramp up the chips and right now the early adopters will keep the price higher than Thuban and Deneb, which are both nice chips. You can get a nice Deneb for less than $500 for the whole smash, upgrade to Thuban later, and by the time you decide you need more cores they'll have the 16 core FX chips out. Right now the extra premium for two cores just isn't worth it.
The one place that the new chips ARE being brought into my shop, as well as my home, is the Brazos mobile chips. Man these babies are sweeeet! Truly kick ass battery life, dual core with Radeon GPU, extremely low heat, quiet as a churchmouse, I liked the ones I sold enough I retired my MSI Wind and got me an Asus EEE with Brazos. This baby holds 8Gb of RAM (which I got for $33, gotta love Newegg!) and that ExpressGate is the best thing since sliced bread IMHO. If I just wanna check my email, surf, or chat it is just 6 seconds from button push to full up and adds two hours to the already 6 hours on the battery! Its like getting TWO netbooks, a ChromeOS style AND a full Win 7 X64, all in one!
So if you want the most bang for your money and want ALL the features including ECC and virtualization Fuzzy I'd go AMD but if you were my customer I'd suggest you stick to AM3 and get either one of the Deneb or Thuban chips, depending on your budget. I'm currently running Deneb (gonna wait until the after Xmas sales to score my Thuban) and with 8Gb of RAM to feed it she'll do anything I want frankly faster than I can think of more stuff for it to do. The 95w Denebs are quite nice and don't heat your house up like the 125 watters.
As long as the game doesn't neglect single player I'd be fine with it. But if they just focus on the co-op? Look at Fear 3, co-op tastic, single player suckatude.
And while i'm in a ranting mood and I know game devs sometimes come here, i just gotta ask: what is it with putting out games that you KNOW are absolute shite on a crusty roll? Now I can understand reaching too high and ending up with a buggy game, or having quirks in a game, that's understandable, shit happens and you can't appeal to everyone. But WTF is it with the OBVIOUSLY bad nasty shit, huh? games aren't cheap to make, why would you put out something that stank like a cat that had been squished by a truck a week ago huh?
Here are three of the recent games that bugged the living shit out of me. 1.-Bioshock II. WTF? you take the WORST part of the game, hell of ANY game, the most hated of hated, the fucking lame ass escort mission, and make it the WHOLE DAMNED GAME??? WTF? I won't even mention how badly out of balance the Plasmids were. level up Hypnosis and you can just sit in the corner while the bad guys all kill each other, lame. 2.-Red Faction Guerrilla...Who in the hell thought giving you weapons with like three rounds was a good idea? Or having the dumb as stumps friendly AI charge into every damned little thing, even when you aren't even trying to start shit, and then YOU get penalized when Forest gump bites it? That game should have been named "Just stay in the fucking truck dude" as that is all you'll end up doing. 3.-Kane And Lynch II...Yeah I know everyone made fun of it, but did you TRY it? I did and there was ONE flaw, above all others, that made that game the worst of the worst...weapons. WTF? I can be 10 feet from the bad guy, empty an ENTIRE Uzi and NOT hit him? What the holy fuck? who thought having NO accuracy at all was a good idea?
So please game devs, just think before you shit, okay? Ask yourself "Is this something I myself would find enjoyable? Is this something I would like in a game? Does it actually work like its supposed to?" because I don't know about everyone else but I personally HATE seeing what could have been a truly enjoyable experience ruined like having a fat stripper at the titty bar. We ain't asking for much, AI that doesn't feel like they should all be wearing protective headgear, weapons that give a nice WHAM when you fire them, levels that are fun to explore, and NO ESCORT MISSIONS EVAR!
Never hear of this thing called Google? Excuse the fuck me if I don't have time to show you how to work it. If you can't understand how though what you want is "Red Flag Russian VS F35" and you'll find it. It was done by the AU and UK who are looking into whether to continue support of the F35, and it ain't pretty.
And frankly I don't give a flying crap when their was built, all that means is we have been sucking hind tit for a hell of a lot longer. It was pointed out the latest Su fighter (I believe Su35, not sure of the Su numbering system) is less than 10 years old and has a flyaway of less than 40 million and stomps the living shit out of anything we have.
And I looove how you have the shriveled tiny balls to call someone troll without actually providing proof a single thing they said was wrong. And how about the most important point that space is NOTHING but a vanity project and has been since it was USSR VS USA? Manned space flight into LEO is nothing but a giant fucking money sink, and with THREE wars we simply don't have the money to waste, kay?
I just love how this place has become nothing but a space and FOSSie circlejerk while ignoring there is a good portion of the planet that would like it very much if we were wiped off the face of it. hell no wonder the numbers of this place is tanking and Taco left, the level of suck is getting unreal.
I hate to break the news to ya friend, but as much as I think IE is shit (haven't let my users run it since the whole ActiveX mess) infected computers are something I have to deal with at the shop constantly and I can tell you its almost always the users fault and no amount of software can keep stupid people from being dumbasses.
Here are how I'd say a good 90%+ of Windows bugs get in: 1.- "ZOMG U got teh viruz! Run "Iz not viruz iz cleanerz!.exe" to kill teh bug ZOMG!" 2.-"want teh hot lezboz? U 2 can have teh hot lezboz! Just run "Iz not bug iz codecz.exe" and U can be watching teh hot lezboz right now!" 3.-"Want teh latest (insert Hollywood movie or song) for free? U 2 can have teh (insert Hollywood movie or song) for free! Just run "Iz not bug iz new limewirez" and U can have (insert Hollywood movie or song) right now!"
Notice how NONE of the above counted on the browser? hell noticed how none of the above even counted on the OS they were running? Good old social engineering friend, you scare them, offer them sex or something free, and their PC is yours. Hell one of my teachers used to love to tell this story about how he was taking a class on a tour of some security firm and just got tired of listening to the BOFH bullshit by the guy leading the tour. Finally he said "If you think your security is THAT hot, tell you what: you let me loose in this place for TEN MINUTES and I'll be in your system, no problem. If I fail I'll give you a $100 and buy you a steak dinner" and the guy took the bet. 8 minutes later the teacher walked up and handed him over a dozen usernames and passwords, including a couple that had full access to everything. When the guy asked "How could you do that? We make them change their passwords and use complex and blah blah blah" he just started flipping over keyboards and all over the place were sticky notes with usernames and passwords.
In the end the user is always the weakest link and is a hell of a lot easier to crack than any software or OS, so its no wonder why social engineering has gone through the roof. Hell I had an admin friend that ended up being drug before the regional head as the PHB immediately above him wanted him fired because, and I quote: "You have NO RIGHT to tell me whom I can speak to! You will let my emails from Melissa through right this minute or YOU'RE FIRED!". That's right folks, this genius was fighting for the right to infect the system and THAT is the kind of stupid you are up against. MSFT could make the most secure OS in the world but as long as the user has ANY control? Its fucked.
I have a bigger question....who cares? Have anybody seen the latest tests between the F15,F16,F18,F22,F35, and the Russian MiG29, MiG31, and the Su series? Hint: We just got our asses kicked pal! Our planes are too damned expensive (so we can field less of them, like Germany in the 40s) need too much maintenance to keep them flying (Germany again) only unlike Germany who had superior planes ours aren't even worth a shit! I love this quote about the money pit known as the F35: "Compared to the Russian Su series it isn't even a contest. it can't outrun, can't outgun, can't out maneuver the Su in a fight. in every single test the F35 came out short.".
And now the Russians are selling these bad boys to anybody with cash, and honestly? they are damned cheap. I believe it is less than 50 million fly away for the MiG and less than 40 million for the latest Su. So we WILL be facing these planes in the future, the middle east is gonna be overflowing with them. No matter how skilled our pilots are they simply can't win if their plane is underpowered, underperforming, and there isn't enough of them to go around.
We really need to quit worrying about space and fix our POS aircraft fleet ASAP. Here we are building new aircraft carriers when the only planes we have to put on them are 1970s era aircraft that will frankly be blown out of the sky if they go against anything newer. It reminds me of Japan in WWII, where they cranked out aircraft carriers only to put Kate and Zero aircraft on them that had already been so badly stomped by the Wildcat and Dauntless the planes went down so fast it became turkey shoots.
Lets face it folks, if we go up against anything more modern than goat herders hiding in caves we are getting the shit kicked out of us. We need to streamline the process, toss out the old crap, and start over. Given our limited resources man rating another rocket and worrying about "Meatbags in spaaaace!" ATM is simply foolhardy. Worry about covering your ass before you deal with the vanity projects, and that is all space is right now like it or not, its a vanity project.
Personally as long as it is opt in and up to the INDIVIDUAL parents I don't see a problem with this. I wouldn't want to tell some parent they HAVE to let their little Suzy see a cock anymore than I'd want them telling ME what kinds of games my boys are allowed to have. Every parent should have the right to decide what they think is appropriate for THEIR child and if the ISPs want to give them an easy to use option to exercise that right? As long as it isn't forced on anybody I think that's a good thing.
So then please be the first to join in on any "You can replace that Windows machine with Linux" posting on/. and point out IT IS A TOTAL LIE and by your VERY OWN WORDS Linux is NOT a usable replacement for Windows but for Macs instead!
You see it is THIS, this right here, kind of hypocrisy and bullshit that has made sure Linux stays right where it is, dead last. They say "Its a drop in replacement for Windows!" and when you point out articles like TFA that show if you drop in your system goes to shit? They say "Well duh! By drop in we meant throw out all your hardware and start over with a more expensive system just like the Apple guys do!" Well riddle me THIS friend: Then why the fuck wouldn't I just buy an Apple, where I get better quality, resale, and battery life huh? what do YOU have OTHER than "Free as in freedom, fight the power!" to offer? BTW the whole "free as in freedom" thing? Nobody gives a shit. just look at sales of the iShiny, one of the most locked down devices in history, for an example of how little folks give a shit about freedom to tinker.
So I'm sorry but your post is just another example of how when Apple and MSFT bring their A games Linux has excuses and hackey sack. Yours is a classic example of what I call "moving the goal posts" where you say "Point A is true!" and when pointed out point A is false you then go "But if you do point b-f THEN point A is true!" yeah and if Xena rode up naked on a purple pony wanting to rock my world I'd be a happy camper, doubt its gonna happen though.
Final tip: If Linux won't run on the stuff we already have money in? Nobody gives a fuck enough to go out and hunt for some niche specialty Linux vendor. That is just like "use esoteric workarounds" (which nobody on windows but the tweakers bother with) or the whole "open up bash and type" after spending three hours doing the forum dance. nobody frankly gives a shit about linux to go through all that horseshit, as the numbers plainly show. Where was Linux 5 years ago? 1%. Where was it two years ago? 1%. Where will it be in 5 years if it stays on the same path? why it don't take Kojak to solve THAT mystery friend, that would be 1%.
So in other words your answer is "Its completely fucking worthless, but vote for el presidente anyway!". Yours is the classic "pissing in the wind" strategy, and the reason old folks have clout is NOT voting, it is LOBBYING, which young folks? Don't have. Old folks can cut big fat checks to AARP and get their "voices" aka bribes heard, young folks? Not so much.
But thanjks for playing, tune in next when guys like you explain how when you are running in a hamster wheel you are actually going places!
Maybe YOU should pull your head out your ass and try learning a little history. try watching "The World At War: Japan 41-45" which just to make you happy was NOT made by the American but by the BBC, which are known for their impartiality. There you will get to see with your own two eyes Japanese training videos showing 8 and 9 year old kids being taught to use bamboo spears, which were to have grenades strapped to them.
Maybe you can read, perhaps you'd like to explain this? Look at the bottom, see the girls being trained as suicide attackers? Now what did you think we should do, hit them with flamethrowers? grind them up with the 50cals? or do you think we should have surrendered, because from your tone I have to seriously wonder if that isn't what you would have done. With just the attacks up to that point suicide attackers killed over 3000 Americans and wounded another 6000. Tell me did you think those Americans "deserved it"?
Whether you like it or not it is pretty well documented the USA was looking at 350,000 to 500,000 dead if we invaded the home islands. Would you have preferred that? Would you have cheered? Like it or not friend too damned many on BOTH sides were killed by Japanese fanaticism. Maybe this quote from the first link will help you to see clearly " Teenaged boys and girls were taught how to use grenades and spears. Civilians, including woman armed with spears, made attacks on Okinawa, 21April, and Ie Shima. 23April. Unable to provide uniforms, they were equipped with a patch. One million people on Kyushu were eligible. Chance of their survival improved after Hiroshima." Those folks lived because we dropped the bomb. If we hadn't? They'd have been given a stick, a grenade to tie to it, and been pointed AT US. Or do you think those American soldiers shouldn't have defended themselves?
Wouldn't that be OUR problem friend? Or do you live in Mrs Falbo's TinyTown, where everything is lively and gay?
And do you agree or not that simply blowing another bubble while giving carbon indulgences to the worst polluters won't do shit? at this point you HAVE to be against AGW simply because your choice is that or drop your pants and spread them cheeks because here comes Goldman Sachs!
This is like standing on the Titanic and having someone go "I know what to do! Just give me all your money or we're going down!" Now how is giving that guy ALL YOUR MONEY gonna stop the boat from sinking? Its not, he is just gonna hop in that powerboat he has sitting off to the side and power his ass away from you.
Sadly this is a classic case where doing nothing is better, simply because the something they are proposing won't do jack shit except move money from the poor and middle class to the 1%ers, no different than "bailout baby bailout!" was supposed to save our banking system and in reality they just profited their asses off while giving us the finger. Rev Al will make out like a bandit, GS will too, AGW? Won't be affected in the least, in fact if you watched the video i linked to you'll see the most likely result is CO2 going UP not down. Now you tell me friend, what good will THAT do?.
Actually I'd say it is a VERY GOOD choice, and here is why: Future proofing. How many bought Google TV only to have the media yanked out from under them? What will Roku do if the media companies do the same to them?
The nice thing about an HTPC (which if you go with the new AMD boards are quite cheap, just look up how little you can get a good barebone kit or Brazos unit for) is that if it is on the net you can watch it because unlike with those other units there is NO way to single them out as they ARE PCs, they are just hooked to an HDTV.
Now like I said for the kiddie rooms we went Nbox, as I've had nothing but great luck with those. Built like tanks, never overheat, take major abuse, have easy push buttons on front your average 4 year old can work, just a great little unit. But by building a nice affordable HTPC they not only have an easy way to watch ALL of the Netflix/Hulu content PLUS all the Windows 7 MC Internet TV content, They ALSO have a one stop....media server, jukebox, entertainment center, games machine, web surfer...it really does have a hell of a lot more uses than just hulu or netflix. My customers are now simply ripping their DVDs to their 1Tb+ HDDs so that WMC has all their content on demand, one click and you're good to go.
Between the HTPC and the Nbox for the kiddies my customers can watch a disc one time, rip it, then put it in the closest so they never have to worry about it again AND still have all the Internet content as well. I can tell you I've never had a single complaint from this setup, on the contrary I've had people that only had little netboxes like the WD (which I'm assuming the Roku is like, haven't messed with them) come to me to have their own HTPC built because you have so much more content and so many other things you can do with them. I doubt anyone would be playing Batman:AA on a Roku which is what my customer that bought the latest was doing when I popped in to hook up his new surround sound. He had everyone going "ohhh ahhh" as he kicked some Joker butt,LOL! And that unit cost less than $500 BTW, really nice little quad core.
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Bimbo Newton Crosby, because if they are using GTK its already fucked as it won't work on Windows without installing the GTK crap which means NO libraries, NO schools, NO offices, NO places where users aren't allowed to run as admin and install whatever they want.
If they are using GTK (haven't looked at the roadmap so I don't know for sure) then I label this epic fail and a waste of time. the whole point of web based is that it will work with any modern browser and THAT'S IT. If I have to install a bunch of crap to make it work? Its not web based, its just bullshit.
Make it to where it works in a browser that has standard features like Firefox/Opera/Chrome (not counting IE as those guys tend to be pretty far behind the curve and when they do implement its the "IE version" that rarely works 100% correctly) and THEN you'll have something worth noting. But nobody is gonna let users just dump GTK on everything just so LO web edition will work. Sorry but that is just a bad idea and a hack way to do it.
Oh bullshit. You think a guy that fucks 8 year olds is gonna go "Oh well, nobody will pay me so I'll let little Suzy go" horseshit. I asked my friend from his experience busting these scum how it works and he broke it down for me and in ALL of it? Money didn't mean shit except long AFTER the fact.
1.-Child rapist meets other child rapists in backroom bulletin board. The way they have this thing set up it is damned near impossible for cops to get in BTW, as the entrance fee is video of you raping a kid with an object THEY tell you to insert in the video and you have X amount of time, not enough to Hollywood it and these freaks have all the stuff floating around the net. 2.-Rapists begin exchanging encrypted DVDs through mail. One of them digitizes the faces out if they haven't already been done. Here is where they fuck up as seeing the kid's face gets them off so they NEVER digitize over the kid's face, the most they do is have her/him wear a mask. 3.-Someone in the group uploads it to one of the backroom sites and HERE is where those that sell CP get it. There are a few that "rent" kids in third world countries for filming, but that is rare, mostly it is gotten from these backroom sites. 4.-Video then hits P2P and HERE is where the retards get it.
Notice how money didn't play shit in this exchange? According to my friend while there are sites in third world countries making money off this shit they are exploiting what is already out there and the retards almost never spend a dime, its all P2P and crap they get off back alley sites. He says he sees the same CP stuff day after day after day and some of it is as old as the 1960s, it has just been passed around and around. The few new ones they find on social retards are from the sites I mentioned above where a REAL rapist has loaded up his video for BRAGGING rights NOT for pay. For these guys its "look what I've got!" not "how much will you pay me?" which is why he said tracking these guys down is a bitch. Money leaves a pretty big trail to follow, anon uploads? Not so much.
So please spare us the same tired old meme they used for alcohol and drugs before it, as like in those cases its bullshit.
I have and its stil sloooooooooow as hell. While I give it out on new builds simply because its "free as in beer" after trying to use it for a month it pissed me off enough I went ahead and loaded the MS Office 2K7 I had sitting in a drawer, although honestly I have yet to see any version beat my beloved Office 2K. That to me was the best version ever,light and nimble. I have that one loaded onto my netbook as its light weight saves battery life.
I'm sorry but while LO has many things going for it lightweight and nimble ain't among them. I don't blame the LO guys though, they've only had a year and we are talking some seriously NASTY code. Has anyone here looked at the OO.o code? I have, wow talk about a big bloated mess! The LO guys probably need to chunk a good portion of it and go modular to fix the bloat, and that will take time. I say give them another year to two years and see where they are then. By that time we should know whether they are gonna be able to pull it off.
What has made sure the film camera is doomed is the RED because it was Hollywood, and those that were aspired to be LIKE Hollywood, that kept film alive. But with RED the amount of definition is frankly better than the old 72mm superwide they used for a brief time in the 50s.
Couple this with the fact that HD cams are dropping in price like mad, for the majority of folks the cams are ALREADY "good enough" at around 7MP and like Kodachrome you have a tech that made really pretty pictures that simply isn't used anymore. Kinda like how LPs often sound better than CDs thanks to being pretty immune to the loudness craze but nobody buys LPs so it really don't matter.
Like it or not digital is here to stay, analog is going the way of the 8 track. Folks want instant gratification and film just don't do that.
Oh it wasn't that they were hard, far from it and thanks to the frankly game breaking plasmids one could just plow through that game even on the hardest difficulty no problem. no the problem was they broke game flow and took a big poo on what COULD have been a truly great experience. For example did you ever try to just sit back in a good position and observe your enemies, like you could do in Bioshock I? What would happen is little Suzy Fudnucker on your back would start bitching her ass off that you weren't dragging her ass to the next corpse.
Now lets talk about the "bad guy" Sophia Lamb. No be honest, didn't you want to be able to just stop wherever you were, walk straight up to that bitch and ram your drill down her throat so she would just SHUT THE FUCK UP with her CONSTANT mouthing off? Ryan would pop on once in a while in the first one, mainly it was Atlas and only when he had a bit of backstory or a mission, and when the big reveal came that just made what he said all the more relevant because it ALL had double meaning. with Lamb it was just one looooong "I'm right, you're wrong, go fuck yourself Delta' rant. I had a friend who had NEVER played a bioshock game, had him play BII and in less than 4 minutes he was "How can I kill the bitch? is there a quick way to kill the bitch? maybe an off button on her big fucking mouth?"
Finally lets talk plasmids. Plasmids in the first game was unbalanced but in the second game it was just fucking unreal. my oldest just ramped up ElectroShock and stomped the game. never touched a single other plasmid, just used that single one and slaughtered everyone. Myself I found that hypo was so badly overpowered that once ramped up i just walked around with a big daddy and let them take care of everything, I could just sit in the corner. No real need to be cool and set up traps like in the first one, you were just too overpowered.
So I'd say they took a shit. it wasn't a Kane and Lynch super explosive shit, but just a big fat turd average poo. That game COULD have been fucking awesome, the little sister could have made the "moral choice" matter by ramping up every little sister kill but instead they made her random, having both the weapon and plasmids could have made for some kick ass super combos instead they made all the plasmids (except for a few "joke" plasmids like swarm and decoy) so overpowered you could literally break the game and play like you had cheats on from less than half the game in by simply focusing on one of the early plasmids, and finally instead of having the missions build into this huge overarching story like the first it ended up just a bunch of fetch quests that were more annoying than anything.
Don't get me wrong, fun could still be had, but it was 'lame horror movie MST3K' fun when it could have been 'Dark Knight this is kick fucking ass you gotta tell all your friends' fun.
Don't run niche OSes, so I'm not up on niche OS jokes either, sorry. But honestly I think threading has gotten about as far as it is gonna get on basic web tasks. I mean where are you gonna go? Put every ad in its own thread?
No I'd say the bigger idea is the one AMD is running right now with Brazos and that is treat the CPU and GPU as one unit and split the workloads to the appropriate subsection. Running video/audio? dump that into the GPU. Running a browser? that goes on the CPU.
By doing that one can really lower the power and increase battery life without "pulling an Atom" and making the machine feel like a slug. if you haven't tried the EEE 1215B yet you really should. 6 hours on a battery and still feels snappy and you can load that baby up with 8Gb of RAM and have the whole thing for $340. To me THAT right there is the future: Its small, light, cheap, gets great battery life AND still feels like you could do some actual work on the thing.
Well I have a friend that works in the state crime lab on this very subject and he says many they bust (and the prosecutors give insanely huge sentences to) are what he calls "social retards" that frankly aren't a threat to anyone, young or old. One they busted hadn't even left his home since 1997, and when touched would freak and screech like a wounded animal. they ended up having to tranq him to get him out the home. he got 65 years BTW thanks to the several thousand CP pics he had.
The way he explained it to me was that these social retards don't interact with ANYBODY if they can help it, instead they live their entire "life" if you want to call it that, on their machines looking at porn. And just like a junkie who needs a larger fix to keep his habit these retards will need worse and worse porn to keep being able to even get it up. He said the porn they find ALWAYS follows a set pattern as well. First it is straight, then straight fetish (stockings, anal, gangbang, etc) followed by trannies, then B&D/S&M, then finally bestiality and CP. He also said you will find literally pounds and pounds of porn, but its all the same shit that has been floating around the net since the days of bulletin boards.
So just from what he has seen I'd say there is your proof there are plenty that can have a fantasy and not act on it, hell you could have put "tranq boy" into a room with a naked 9 year old and he could have curled up into a ball in the corner and screeched. I agree with him that the police would be a better use if they simply got shrinks for the social retards and instead focus manpower on the scum that actually hunt kids, but sadly the prosecutors want big busts as those make big headlines and they don't get big busts when it comes to actual child rapists as it can takes sometimes years to track them down. Sadly I doubt this will ever change as nobody has the guts to say anything that could come out as "being soft on CP" so they'll just waste resources chasing retards while the real hunter scum won't get busted unless their victims come forward.
Oh I agree 100% that drones should be the ultimate goal, but we don't seem to be headed that way. we really don't have any drones, either those being shown or those being shown as being in the pipe, that could really go head to head with even an F15 much less one of the new Su series or MiGs. It really doesn't help to have 1000 drones if what it ends up is another turkey shoot.
The problem IMHO again is the goat herder issue. The drones are being designed to fly over goat herders for hours on end and drones simply aren't really being built for power and speed and combat effectiveness. We have let the MIC become this bloated pile of shit that is more concerned with filling their pockets and maximizing profits than with making sure we can rule the skies.
If it were me I'd kill the new Ford AC if it can't get done in a year, kill any new carriers, and start designing a drone carrier of the future. Also kill the F35 (any way you look at it like the F22 it is simply too expensive for too little performance) and be spending that money instead not only on the most cutting edge air superiority drones we can come up with but also work our asses off on ground to air missile defense to make sure if our enemies DO end up with much better fighters they simply won't be able to capitalize by using them to rule the skies.
But I just don't see any of this coming about, because both the USAF wants to continue like it is 1975 and because the MIC makes out hand over fist by stretching these projects out to infinity and cranking up the cost overruns. It is inefficient, wasteful, and in the end business as usual simply isn't gonna work with the battlefield of tomorrow. Again our current situation reminds me of the Axis at the start of WWII. they had gotten complacent fighting technologically inferior enemies or enemies with simply not enough resources to fight back (like the Japs in China, or the Germans with Poland and France) and all it is gonna take is a lean and mean enemy that doesn't play the game as we think it ought to be played to hand us a good old fashioned ass whooping.
Again look att WWII, specifically the start. The Wildcat couldn't turn like the Zero, and it sure as hell couldn't beat it on speed, yet we dominated them almost from the start, why? Because you had American manufacturers coming from the automobile industry building "flying trucks" that were reliable as hell and took insane amounts of punishment, and you had pilots like O' Hare and Flatley taking their own time and initiative to come up with air to air tactics that maximized our strengths and minimized the aircraft's weaknesses. We just don't think "outside the box" anymore, and ultimately i think that is gonna hurt us down the line.
Do you have ANY idea how FEW people run Gentoo? Not trying to insult here, but that is like saying "You can't run that SUV at Le Mans" well since most people aren't gonna be running at Le Mans that really isn't an apt comparison.
If you are running a niche OS that cranks out threads like no tomorrow frankly you should look at one of those Magny Cours Opterons 4 CPU slot systems. That will give you 48 cores to crank it out. Most people? total overkill.
I can tell you with nearly 30 years building and selling PCs that this is what the average person does: Facebook, flash videos, webmail, surfing, light gaming, webcams, editing pictures, music, basic stuff. And for THESE folks? Brazos is like heaven.
Hell I'd consider myself more of a hardcore guy than an average user but I found when I'm out and about and need a computer? Its NOT because I suddenly need to transcode a video! its because I need net access to download files for a customer, I need to check my webmail, I'm stuck somewhere and want to watch a movie or maybe even do a little tweaking on some songs I've been working on with Audacity. So for MY needs for a mobile device? My Brazos based EEE with ExpressGate is like paradise. If I need to do something that takes a full OS I get 6 hours on the battery and Win 7 X64 with 8Gb of RAM, and if I just need the web I get 8 hours, in a highly mobile device for $340!
So I'd say it all comes down to finding the right tool from the job, and for the masses these new APUs are where it is at. Plenty of performance in daily tasks, plenty of battery life on mobile devices, but at the same time giving a better 'feel" and performance than Atom, and of course at a low price which is REALLY appealing for the masses.
It just means that guys like you aren't the mainstream. If you want mobile I'd look at one of the nice Phenom II quad laptops (quite affordable) and on the desktop either a Thuban 6 core or maybe the new 8 core APUs. With you more threads are better so you just can't look at the mainstream offerings, they simply aren't tailored to your workload.
Oh it wasn't the shitloads of guys, done right THAT can be fun, nope it was the one two punch to the nuts of shittastic weapons and just pure boring ass monotony! It was like "turn right, there will be five to seven guys, kill guys, hope guns don't take a shit, lather rinse repeat". Just the same damned "missions" if you can call them that, hell I wouldn't say they even qualify, over and over AND over. And didn't you just fucking HATE how you could have a sweet shot lined up and it not even drop the fucker? That is the only game besides K&L II where I saw a dead solid perfect head shot be fucking pointless unless you had the "right" gun, like you are just gonna take a half a dozen slugs like that! Cover? Pointless. Weapons? Shit. Stealth? Not a fucking chance. Who thought this shit would even be mildly entertaining?
You wanna play something fun? I mean really really REALLY fun? try Just Cause II. It is about as realistic as batman VS superman in a ballet contest but that just adds to the fun. It was what Duke Nukem SHOULD have been, just balls to the walls crazy good fun! that hook shot has to be one of the coolest things ever put in a game. I mean when you can jump on the hood of your flaming car at 60MPH+, fire a hook shot into the front fork of a bike chasing you and recreate the stormtrooper tree splat from jedi, follow it by recreating the T3 truck flip by hookshotting the police car behind you into the street, jump off the car before it explodes onto a passing car, chunk the person out, run right into a police roadblock on a Golden gate style bridge but instead of stopping drive off the bridge , pull a chute out your ass, hookshot the chopper flying beside the bridge, throw the military guy out of it and THEN use said chopper for a strafing run on the bridge blockade? Now THAT is some crazy ass fun! Oh and you have over 250 MILES of places to blow up! Deserts and mountains, LA style cities and villages, all open and waiting for you to go postal! Hell I even hookshot a soldier to a chopper and used him as a screaming wrecking ball to knock guys off a tower BWA HA HA!
Why companies can put out crazy good fun times like that while others put out FC II is beyond me. hell they could have just copypasta'd new levels and weapons onto FC I (ala FEAR) and folks would have bought it and more importantly HAD FUN. If you game is about as enjoyable as an STD? maybe you should rethink what you are doing before you release!
There is ONE problem with your comparison...in Korea we had pilots straight off the Hornet and Yorktown, or right off of flying protection for the bombers against the BF109 against raw recruits. You look at the stats from MiG alley, where the Soviets put THEIR combat vets? you'll find the numbers are a hell of a lot closer.
The problem is that isn't the case anymore, our pilots have been dropping bombs from 35,000 feet onto goat herders. Meanwhile the Russians still make some bad ass pilots and with a pretty damned huge superiority in the quality of the fighter the less trained fighter is still gonna be deadly and our guys simply haven't been doing any air to air.
Finally you are missing the fatal difference between Korea and now and that is our planes are too expensive so THEY will have 50 or 60 Su or MiG to our 1 really expensive F35 turkey or aging rustbucket. We really have put all our eggs in one basket here, and if those results are accurate and the F35 is a shitpile we have nothing in the works to replace it so like the Brits with their latest fighter (which also turned out to be a turkey) we're just fucked.
If we really are gonna stick with what we've got we need to kill the F35, let the marines have Longbow Apache gunships instead of trying to keep the Harrier, and crank the living fuck out of the F teen series so that we can win by numerical superiority. Because as it is now we can't win on speed, firepower, maneuverability OR even on numerical superiority. We basically better stick to goat herders in caves friend, or we may get hurt.
From 10 feet? WTF? Who would build a weapon where if you point it straight at an enemy who is BARELY 10 feet away from you and empty an ENTIRE clip you won't get a single hit? Sure to fricking God the law of spray and pray would dictate that with 60 rounds and only 10 feet at least ONE bullet would hit, yes?
We ain't talking no trick shot here friend, picture this: You are in a street, there are two apple cart about 10 feet apart. He stands behind one apple cart, you the other. When he stands up to fire YOU stand up to fire and BOTH empty your guns. YOU get the living shit shot out of you and HE doesn't get a scratch.
As for what kind I think it was a standard Uzi but it really don't matter, I had the SAME experience with a pump action 12 gauge slug, an AK47, hell the ONLY weapon I seemed to be able to get a single hit at more than point blank was the 9mm Baretta and that wouldn't hit past 12 feet. With that game if you weren't close enough to grab their dick you weren't gonna get a hit PERIOD. Worst fucking accuracy I have ever seen and while I haven't fired an Uzi I HAVE fired a 12 gauge pump AND the 45 acp and 9mm and all of them are a hell of a lot more accurate IRL than that POS game says.
One final thing: If you think THAT is irritating DO NOT PLAY Far Cry II. Man how they could take a sweet game like Far Cry and take a big runny shit on it like that I'll never know. First they insult you by saying EVERY mission is a "secret mission" which actually means "We were too fucking lazy to make friendly AI, so everyone just attacks you on sight no matter what". Picture COD where your own teammates are also trying to frag you!
But that was just the ass gas, the real giant explosive shit they took was making every weapon as fragile as cheap dishes and making malfunctions the order of the day. Imagine you whip out your RP7 because a truck is headed towards you, you pull the trigger and the RPG falls out of the barrel spins in a circle and then blows up in YOUR face! Does that sound like fun? Oh and you can forget being stealthy like in FC I as the ONLY weapon with a scope that is silent? yeah it only has FIVE BULLETS and breaks after shooting 7, so you can't even pick up ammo on the way!
If real life was anywhere near this shitty we would still be fighting WWII thanks to dropping nothing but duds on each other. you think I'm joking but I'm sadly not, guns WILL jam with as little as 100 rounds shot through them! And give up picking up dead enemies weapons, they might as well have had the firing pins removed. you MAY get a whole clip through it before it jams, but its doubtful. What fudnucker though having to beat on the slide trying to unjam the gun while a truck is trying to run you down would be fun or exciting? i can't count the number of times I got royally pissed because I lined up a great shot (BTW the guys? Take a dozen rounds before they fall, and they have NO body armor! WTF?) only to have my gun fire one or two rounds and lock hard. In FC II that may as well be a neon sign that says "Fuck me hard I'm defenseless!"
That is why I have been saying for awhile now "ever since CPUs went dual core they have been good enough" because I've found that even though the average person is single threaded there is plenty enough going on in the background to make up for it. Updates and firewall and messenger and...you get the idea.
That is why I'm glad AMD has those Brazos chips for mobile. I don't know how many customers I've had come to me with "Can you make my netbook do (insert task)"? and have to tell them that Atom+shitty GPU equals epic fail. With first the Athlon and now the Brazos I was able to show them a product that was pretty close to Atom on price that nuked the Atom from orbit on performance. Now with Brazos it ain't even funny anymore, it behaves more like a CULV than an Atom style chip.
So I agree that threads are going nowhere but up and would just add combining the CPU and GPU was a smart move for AMD as I really think "splitting the load" will be the way of the future if not the present. folks are becoming more multimedia heavy by the day, with digicams and movies and YouTube, and by dropping the graphical load onto the GPU you end up with a netbook that still stays snappy even when running 720p video, all for $340 with 8Gb of RAM? That's just nuts.
And I'd agree about your cores comment with ONE caveat...price. If you can get more for only a few bucks, why the hell not? Whereas before my new builds for customers were usually duals and triples now they are ALL quads, why? Does everybody need a quad now? Nope it is just that the price on the quads are low enough I don't really see a point in building duals and triples anymore. Hell the spare I built dad to sit in his closet for "in case of emergency" is a quad, the whole smash was less than $340 on sale with Win 7 HP in kit form. The only duals and triples I sell anymore is upgrades for clients older machines that simply won't take a quad. If a dual is $70 but you can get a quad for $99 why bother with the dual? I have no doubt with the way AMD builds their chips we'll see the same thing soon with 8 and 10 cores.
And if we HAVE a reason? still got a scar on my head from being slammed against a cop car by a bully with a badge that said first, and I quote "I don't know which I hate worse, God damned niggers or fucking worthless hippies". My crime? Having a black person in the car makes you suspicious apparently. It didn't matter that the black in question was actually a Baptist minister that I was driving to a revival as a favor or that we hadn't done a damned thing, nope just another piggie drunk on power.
I've lived in good neighborhoods and bad, dealt with junkies and cops and you know what? i'll take the junkies over the cops ANY day of the week. junkies are frankly chickenshit and a firecracker can scare them off, but the cops I've found go out looking to start shit so they can show what a "big man" they are. And like an above poster everyone I knew from HS that decided to become a cop did it for power, that's it. No helping people, no protecting the law, they wanted the ability to crack skulls and get away with it, and you know what? they did and they do.
Maybe this video will open some eyes, but I doubt it. I've had people that were so hard on for the police they actually said I deserved what i got for having a black in the car. So much for civil rights huh?
Well that would depend on this....is your budget unlimited? Because frankly the bang for the buck has been in the AMD camp for quite some time IMHO, with Intel doing too much crippling on its lower end and when you add in the price of their boards (plus a decent GPU as Intel GPUs are shit) it just makes it that much sweeter. If you want all the features it is AMD or be ready to empty that wallet Fuzzy.
That said although I won't be having ANY Intel chips in my shop (because I don't reward criminal behavior and the bribery and compiler rigging frankly made MSFT look like choirboys by comparison and I thought MSFT should have been broken up) I would wait probably 6 months to a year before switching to Bulldozer on the desktop. The bang for the buck on the AM3 chips is just too good right now. I have been seeing Thuban 6 cores on sale for less than $130 and have been building nice quad cores for my customers and still making a decent profit for $450. It always takes AMD awhile to ramp up the chips and right now the early adopters will keep the price higher than Thuban and Deneb, which are both nice chips. You can get a nice Deneb for less than $500 for the whole smash, upgrade to Thuban later, and by the time you decide you need more cores they'll have the 16 core FX chips out. Right now the extra premium for two cores just isn't worth it.
The one place that the new chips ARE being brought into my shop, as well as my home, is the Brazos mobile chips. Man these babies are sweeeet! Truly kick ass battery life, dual core with Radeon GPU, extremely low heat, quiet as a churchmouse, I liked the ones I sold enough I retired my MSI Wind and got me an Asus EEE with Brazos. This baby holds 8Gb of RAM (which I got for $33, gotta love Newegg!) and that ExpressGate is the best thing since sliced bread IMHO. If I just wanna check my email, surf, or chat it is just 6 seconds from button push to full up and adds two hours to the already 6 hours on the battery! Its like getting TWO netbooks, a ChromeOS style AND a full Win 7 X64, all in one!
So if you want the most bang for your money and want ALL the features including ECC and virtualization Fuzzy I'd go AMD but if you were my customer I'd suggest you stick to AM3 and get either one of the Deneb or Thuban chips, depending on your budget. I'm currently running Deneb (gonna wait until the after Xmas sales to score my Thuban) and with 8Gb of RAM to feed it she'll do anything I want frankly faster than I can think of more stuff for it to do. The 95w Denebs are quite nice and don't heat your house up like the 125 watters.
As long as the game doesn't neglect single player I'd be fine with it. But if they just focus on the co-op? Look at Fear 3, co-op tastic, single player suckatude.
And while i'm in a ranting mood and I know game devs sometimes come here, i just gotta ask: what is it with putting out games that you KNOW are absolute shite on a crusty roll? Now I can understand reaching too high and ending up with a buggy game, or having quirks in a game, that's understandable, shit happens and you can't appeal to everyone. But WTF is it with the OBVIOUSLY bad nasty shit, huh? games aren't cheap to make, why would you put out something that stank like a cat that had been squished by a truck a week ago huh?
Here are three of the recent games that bugged the living shit out of me. 1.-Bioshock II. WTF? you take the WORST part of the game, hell of ANY game, the most hated of hated, the fucking lame ass escort mission, and make it the WHOLE DAMNED GAME??? WTF? I won't even mention how badly out of balance the Plasmids were. level up Hypnosis and you can just sit in the corner while the bad guys all kill each other, lame. 2.-Red Faction Guerrilla...Who in the hell thought giving you weapons with like three rounds was a good idea? Or having the dumb as stumps friendly AI charge into every damned little thing, even when you aren't even trying to start shit, and then YOU get penalized when Forest gump bites it? That game should have been named "Just stay in the fucking truck dude" as that is all you'll end up doing. 3.-Kane And Lynch II...Yeah I know everyone made fun of it, but did you TRY it? I did and there was ONE flaw, above all others, that made that game the worst of the worst...weapons. WTF? I can be 10 feet from the bad guy, empty an ENTIRE Uzi and NOT hit him? What the holy fuck? who thought having NO accuracy at all was a good idea?
So please game devs, just think before you shit, okay? Ask yourself "Is this something I myself would find enjoyable? Is this something I would like in a game? Does it actually work like its supposed to?" because I don't know about everyone else but I personally HATE seeing what could have been a truly enjoyable experience ruined like having a fat stripper at the titty bar. We ain't asking for much, AI that doesn't feel like they should all be wearing protective headgear, weapons that give a nice WHAM when you fire them, levels that are fun to explore, and NO ESCORT MISSIONS EVAR!
Thank you for your time, have a nice day.
Never hear of this thing called Google? Excuse the fuck me if I don't have time to show you how to work it. If you can't understand how though what you want is "Red Flag Russian VS F35" and you'll find it. It was done by the AU and UK who are looking into whether to continue support of the F35, and it ain't pretty.
And frankly I don't give a flying crap when their was built, all that means is we have been sucking hind tit for a hell of a lot longer. It was pointed out the latest Su fighter (I believe Su35, not sure of the Su numbering system) is less than 10 years old and has a flyaway of less than 40 million and stomps the living shit out of anything we have.
And I looove how you have the shriveled tiny balls to call someone troll without actually providing proof a single thing they said was wrong. And how about the most important point that space is NOTHING but a vanity project and has been since it was USSR VS USA? Manned space flight into LEO is nothing but a giant fucking money sink, and with THREE wars we simply don't have the money to waste, kay?
I just love how this place has become nothing but a space and FOSSie circlejerk while ignoring there is a good portion of the planet that would like it very much if we were wiped off the face of it. hell no wonder the numbers of this place is tanking and Taco left, the level of suck is getting unreal.
I hate to break the news to ya friend, but as much as I think IE is shit (haven't let my users run it since the whole ActiveX mess) infected computers are something I have to deal with at the shop constantly and I can tell you its almost always the users fault and no amount of software can keep stupid people from being dumbasses.
Here are how I'd say a good 90%+ of Windows bugs get in: 1.- "ZOMG U got teh viruz! Run "Iz not viruz iz cleanerz!.exe" to kill teh bug ZOMG!" 2.-"want teh hot lezboz? U 2 can have teh hot lezboz! Just run "Iz not bug iz codecz.exe" and U can be watching teh hot lezboz right now!" 3.-"Want teh latest (insert Hollywood movie or song) for free? U 2 can have teh (insert Hollywood movie or song) for free! Just run "Iz not bug iz new limewirez" and U can have (insert Hollywood movie or song) right now!"
Notice how NONE of the above counted on the browser? hell noticed how none of the above even counted on the OS they were running? Good old social engineering friend, you scare them, offer them sex or something free, and their PC is yours. Hell one of my teachers used to love to tell this story about how he was taking a class on a tour of some security firm and just got tired of listening to the BOFH bullshit by the guy leading the tour. Finally he said "If you think your security is THAT hot, tell you what: you let me loose in this place for TEN MINUTES and I'll be in your system, no problem. If I fail I'll give you a $100 and buy you a steak dinner" and the guy took the bet. 8 minutes later the teacher walked up and handed him over a dozen usernames and passwords, including a couple that had full access to everything. When the guy asked "How could you do that? We make them change their passwords and use complex and blah blah blah" he just started flipping over keyboards and all over the place were sticky notes with usernames and passwords.
In the end the user is always the weakest link and is a hell of a lot easier to crack than any software or OS, so its no wonder why social engineering has gone through the roof. Hell I had an admin friend that ended up being drug before the regional head as the PHB immediately above him wanted him fired because, and I quote: "You have NO RIGHT to tell me whom I can speak to! You will let my emails from Melissa through right this minute or YOU'RE FIRED!". That's right folks, this genius was fighting for the right to infect the system and THAT is the kind of stupid you are up against. MSFT could make the most secure OS in the world but as long as the user has ANY control? Its fucked.
I have a bigger question....who cares? Have anybody seen the latest tests between the F15,F16,F18,F22,F35, and the Russian MiG29, MiG31, and the Su series? Hint: We just got our asses kicked pal! Our planes are too damned expensive (so we can field less of them, like Germany in the 40s) need too much maintenance to keep them flying (Germany again) only unlike Germany who had superior planes ours aren't even worth a shit! I love this quote about the money pit known as the F35: "Compared to the Russian Su series it isn't even a contest. it can't outrun, can't outgun, can't out maneuver the Su in a fight. in every single test the F35 came out short.".
And now the Russians are selling these bad boys to anybody with cash, and honestly? they are damned cheap. I believe it is less than 50 million fly away for the MiG and less than 40 million for the latest Su. So we WILL be facing these planes in the future, the middle east is gonna be overflowing with them. No matter how skilled our pilots are they simply can't win if their plane is underpowered, underperforming, and there isn't enough of them to go around.
We really need to quit worrying about space and fix our POS aircraft fleet ASAP. Here we are building new aircraft carriers when the only planes we have to put on them are 1970s era aircraft that will frankly be blown out of the sky if they go against anything newer. It reminds me of Japan in WWII, where they cranked out aircraft carriers only to put Kate and Zero aircraft on them that had already been so badly stomped by the Wildcat and Dauntless the planes went down so fast it became turkey shoots.
Lets face it folks, if we go up against anything more modern than goat herders hiding in caves we are getting the shit kicked out of us. We need to streamline the process, toss out the old crap, and start over. Given our limited resources man rating another rocket and worrying about "Meatbags in spaaaace!" ATM is simply foolhardy. Worry about covering your ass before you deal with the vanity projects, and that is all space is right now like it or not, its a vanity project.
Personally as long as it is opt in and up to the INDIVIDUAL parents I don't see a problem with this. I wouldn't want to tell some parent they HAVE to let their little Suzy see a cock anymore than I'd want them telling ME what kinds of games my boys are allowed to have. Every parent should have the right to decide what they think is appropriate for THEIR child and if the ISPs want to give them an easy to use option to exercise that right? As long as it isn't forced on anybody I think that's a good thing.
So then please be the first to join in on any "You can replace that Windows machine with Linux" posting on /. and point out IT IS A TOTAL LIE and by your VERY OWN WORDS Linux is NOT a usable replacement for Windows but for Macs instead!
You see it is THIS, this right here, kind of hypocrisy and bullshit that has made sure Linux stays right where it is, dead last. They say "Its a drop in replacement for Windows!" and when you point out articles like TFA that show if you drop in your system goes to shit? They say "Well duh! By drop in we meant throw out all your hardware and start over with a more expensive system just like the Apple guys do!" Well riddle me THIS friend: Then why the fuck wouldn't I just buy an Apple, where I get better quality, resale, and battery life huh? what do YOU have OTHER than "Free as in freedom, fight the power!" to offer? BTW the whole "free as in freedom" thing? Nobody gives a shit. just look at sales of the iShiny, one of the most locked down devices in history, for an example of how little folks give a shit about freedom to tinker.
So I'm sorry but your post is just another example of how when Apple and MSFT bring their A games Linux has excuses and hackey sack. Yours is a classic example of what I call "moving the goal posts" where you say "Point A is true!" and when pointed out point A is false you then go "But if you do point b-f THEN point A is true!" yeah and if Xena rode up naked on a purple pony wanting to rock my world I'd be a happy camper, doubt its gonna happen though.
Final tip: If Linux won't run on the stuff we already have money in? Nobody gives a fuck enough to go out and hunt for some niche specialty Linux vendor. That is just like "use esoteric workarounds" (which nobody on windows but the tweakers bother with) or the whole "open up bash and type" after spending three hours doing the forum dance. nobody frankly gives a shit about linux to go through all that horseshit, as the numbers plainly show. Where was Linux 5 years ago? 1%. Where was it two years ago? 1%. Where will it be in 5 years if it stays on the same path? why it don't take Kojak to solve THAT mystery friend, that would be 1%.
So in other words your answer is "Its completely fucking worthless, but vote for el presidente anyway!". Yours is the classic "pissing in the wind" strategy, and the reason old folks have clout is NOT voting, it is LOBBYING, which young folks? Don't have. Old folks can cut big fat checks to AARP and get their "voices" aka bribes heard, young folks? Not so much.
But thanjks for playing, tune in next when guys like you explain how when you are running in a hamster wheel you are actually going places!
Maybe YOU should pull your head out your ass and try learning a little history. try watching "The World At War: Japan 41-45" which just to make you happy was NOT made by the American but by the BBC, which are known for their impartiality. There you will get to see with your own two eyes Japanese training videos showing 8 and 9 year old kids being taught to use bamboo spears, which were to have grenades strapped to them.
Maybe you can read, perhaps you'd like to explain this? Look at the bottom, see the girls being trained as suicide attackers? Now what did you think we should do, hit them with flamethrowers? grind them up with the 50cals? or do you think we should have surrendered, because from your tone I have to seriously wonder if that isn't what you would have done. With just the attacks up to that point suicide attackers killed over 3000 Americans and wounded another 6000. Tell me did you think those Americans "deserved it"?
Whether you like it or not it is pretty well documented the USA was looking at 350,000 to 500,000 dead if we invaded the home islands. Would you have preferred that? Would you have cheered? Like it or not friend too damned many on BOTH sides were killed by Japanese fanaticism. Maybe this quote from the first link will help you to see clearly " Teenaged boys and girls were taught how to use grenades and spears. Civilians, including woman armed with spears, made attacks on Okinawa, 21April, and Ie Shima. 23April. Unable to provide uniforms, they were equipped with a patch. One million people on Kyushu were eligible. Chance of their survival improved after Hiroshima." Those folks lived because we dropped the bomb. If we hadn't? They'd have been given a stick, a grenade to tie to it, and been pointed AT US. Or do you think those American soldiers shouldn't have defended themselves?
Wouldn't that be OUR problem friend? Or do you live in Mrs Falbo's TinyTown, where everything is lively and gay?
And do you agree or not that simply blowing another bubble while giving carbon indulgences to the worst polluters won't do shit? at this point you HAVE to be against AGW simply because your choice is that or drop your pants and spread them cheeks because here comes Goldman Sachs!
This is like standing on the Titanic and having someone go "I know what to do! Just give me all your money or we're going down!" Now how is giving that guy ALL YOUR MONEY gonna stop the boat from sinking? Its not, he is just gonna hop in that powerboat he has sitting off to the side and power his ass away from you.
Sadly this is a classic case where doing nothing is better, simply because the something they are proposing won't do jack shit except move money from the poor and middle class to the 1%ers, no different than "bailout baby bailout!" was supposed to save our banking system and in reality they just profited their asses off while giving us the finger. Rev Al will make out like a bandit, GS will too, AGW? Won't be affected in the least, in fact if you watched the video i linked to you'll see the most likely result is CO2 going UP not down. Now you tell me friend, what good will THAT do?.
Actually I'd say it is a VERY GOOD choice, and here is why: Future proofing. How many bought Google TV only to have the media yanked out from under them? What will Roku do if the media companies do the same to them?
The nice thing about an HTPC (which if you go with the new AMD boards are quite cheap, just look up how little you can get a good barebone kit or Brazos unit for) is that if it is on the net you can watch it because unlike with those other units there is NO way to single them out as they ARE PCs, they are just hooked to an HDTV.
Now like I said for the kiddie rooms we went Nbox, as I've had nothing but great luck with those. Built like tanks, never overheat, take major abuse, have easy push buttons on front your average 4 year old can work, just a great little unit. But by building a nice affordable HTPC they not only have an easy way to watch ALL of the Netflix/Hulu content PLUS all the Windows 7 MC Internet TV content, They ALSO have a one stop....media server, jukebox, entertainment center, games machine, web surfer...it really does have a hell of a lot more uses than just hulu or netflix. My customers are now simply ripping their DVDs to their 1Tb+ HDDs so that WMC has all their content on demand, one click and you're good to go.
Between the HTPC and the Nbox for the kiddies my customers can watch a disc one time, rip it, then put it in the closest so they never have to worry about it again AND still have all the Internet content as well. I can tell you I've never had a single complaint from this setup, on the contrary I've had people that only had little netboxes like the WD (which I'm assuming the Roku is like, haven't messed with them) come to me to have their own HTPC built because you have so much more content and so many other things you can do with them. I doubt anyone would be playing Batman:AA on a Roku which is what my customer that bought the latest was doing when I popped in to hook up his new surround sound. He had everyone going "ohhh ahhh" as he kicked some Joker butt,LOL! And that unit cost less than $500 BTW, really nice little quad core.