While its true that SJWs pretty much ruin everything they touch in the case of Patreon there are just as many using it for good things. For example there are several reviewers of niche movies/TV/Music where you can "buy" an episode and choose the topic of that episode (as long as it falls into the niche) and dedicate it to someone, E.G. Todd In The Shadows has a show called "One Hit Wonderland" where you can choose any one hit band from the past 40 years if you wish to buy an episode. I have seen similar things done with reviews of games like World of Planes/Tanks/Warships where the buyer can choose which vehicle is under review next. Some of these reviewers also sell game time, where the person buying can be in the next review by joining up with the reviewer in game.
In these "works for hire" I see no issue as everybody gets the content for free, the one paying the money simply gets to choose the topic and be mentioned or appear in the video. Watching a few of these other than the person being mentioned in the front you'd be hard pressed to tell this from any of their other content so if it helps them continue to make entertaining videos we can all watch for free? I say go for it, especially when you can use it to help those that could really use it, like Chuck at SFDebris whose wife has a serious mental illness which requires him to be a stay at home dad.
The problem with the GPL is the ONLY way to actually make enough money to keep your doors open (and feel free to try to prove me wrong with a single example, you can't) is through the "blessed trinity" which is 1.- Sell hardware, 2.- Sell support or services, and 3.-E-Begging.
So what is wrong with that? Simple the vast majority of software doesn't fall into those niches and thus there will never be a GPL equivalent. For a perfect example just look at how ID has given some of the most powerful game engines ever made yet you can't name a single player GPL game with the quality of Far Cry 1 or Bioshock, which are over a decade old, reason? Games don't fall into the blessed trinity so all you get are a billion piss poor Q3 Arena ripoffs because those are so simple any kid can whip one off in a couple months. This is why despite 20 years the best answer to Photoshop is the Gimp, which isn't anywhere near the same league, why you have no GPL small business software that comes even close to Quickbooks despite it being out there for ages, they simply do not fall under the trinity and so will never get made.
This is the problem with rigid dogma, it frequently ignores reality and becomes the classic "is ought" problem, saying their "ought" to be GPL for all forms of software while ignoring reality which "is" that someone devoting their full time to a software project needs to be able to eat and have a home. If you simply removed the "free to redistribute" clause this problem would not exist, after all we have seen that this works in the world of video games where many games let you modify the games and distribute those modifications (and some like ID let you have the code) but you cannot distribute the game itself, allowing the developers to get paid for their labor and make more games.
Of course I'm sure I will get nothing but hate for daring to say programmers should be able to make a living (and I notice RMS never says anybody else should give their work away for free, I bet he has no qualms with paying his doctor for the years of hard work he put in learning his craft while ignoring programmers often spend as many years learning theirs) but when you look at the GPL? It simply insures that many forms of software will simply never come to be, the license is too narrow to allow one to make a living unless you can do so through the trinity.
Have you looked at any of the BLU phones? I picked up one (the Studio Mini LTE) after a customer was raving about his and I have to say I'm VERY happy it it. Its a quad core with a GB of RAM, 4GB storage with a MicroSD slot, gets great battery life, easy to root, just a real sweetheart of a phone.
The nice thing is they have a ton to choose from so you can just pick the features and price point you want. Want Windows instead of Android? They got that. More storage? Octacore? yep. Hell they even have a $60 entry smartphone and a $20 dumbphone for those that don't want a lot of bells and whistles. The only downside is since they are a relatively new company there isn't any mods that I have been able to find yet, but considering its low price and easy of rooting I have no doubt they'll be coming. All in all I'm quite happy with my BLU...You're my boy BLU!
They won't care because of one simple fact, a little rule I pointed out years ago which has always proven to be true, lets call it "The Hairyfeet Rule of Open".
The Hairyfeet Rule of Open....If the only selling point you have is that you are "open" by some arbitrary definition of the word? Then YOU WILL FAIL because being open in and of itself is simply not a big enough selling point for the vast majority to care about.
We have seen this rule played out dozens of times, from "open" phones to "open" tablets, from "open" GPUs to "open" CPUs, if your ONLY selling point, the only thing you have going for you is "open"? Its over, hit the lights on your way out. Mark my words they will run out of funding and close down within a couple years because they will not be able to generate enough interest to keep going because you have to have something, anything, other than just "open". Be it faster, easier to use, more power saving, its gotta have something other than just open or its screwed.
Sorry friend but you've been bamboozled as it would take SEVENTEEN YEARS to save enough power to make up the price difference between an AMD and an Intel and that is with picking the 125w on the AMD side. Now are you seriously gonna argue you are keeping your chip for nearly 20 years?
I can back this up using kill-a-watt and the excellent board monitoring in my Asus my FX8320 (a "95w" part which I have yet to see go above 60w) uses between 8w-16w on basic tasks like youtube and surfing and right now I'm slamming 3 cores to 100% converting a video to MP4, power usage Johnny? that would be...drumroll...37.19w. So.....yeah, kinda bullshit about the power draw. Its really simple, Intel bases their numbers on "theoretical load" which of course in practice you will never hit, while AMD runs a load of different software on their chips to come up with a worst case scenario draw and bases their numbers on that. They also give higher numbers on their black chips figuring you might OC the shit out of it to allow plenty of headroom but I have yet to see an AMD get even close to the TDP and I've run everything from 939 Athlon to the latest FX and AM1 in the shop. Highest I have ever seen was 68w for an OCed Phenom II X6 with all 6 cores slamming.
Remember to always look at the site you are getting your "news" from without adblock at least once to see where their bread is buttered, are they taking ad revenue from a certain company? This is why you can't believe a damned thing Tom's Hardware says for instance, as even when their own reviewer admitted that "for most games being released today quad cores are a minimum" they recommended an Intel dual core over a cheaper AMD hexacore and then you turn off adblock and wadda ya know, the page is filled with ads for Intel i5s. Hmmm, biased much?
A better choice for an HTPC would be the AMD Athlon 5350. Its only $49, has a max TDP of only 25w, and it has enough GPU power to run Battlefield 4 so it has more than enough GPU to perform any task you'd want an HTPC to do. The AMD drivers come with a set of codecs so pretty much any video will be hardware accelerated, great for HTPCs which is why I've been using these a LOT in the shop. Cheap, low heat, great graphics, whats not to like?
Linux support for the AMD APUs has been getting pretty damned good lately (thanks to AMD opening their docs and hiring devs) so the Linux guys can pair that chip with a copy of OpenELEC and make themselves an insanely cheap HTPC, we're talking sub $150 if you hit the sales. Personally I like to use Windows 8 on 'em, as IMNSHO the only place the Metro UI works really well is as a 10 foot UI, just pair it with this remote keyboard and voila! Badass HTPC that can even do light gaming for crazy cheap.
As for TFA? Costs $540 and is less powerful than cheaper previous releases.....sounds like a pass. Of course the elephant in the room for both AMD and Intel is their chips became too powerful years ago and with the exception of a teeny tiny niche that uses every cycle on their PC the chips are just too powerful compared with the work the average user has for 'em to do. To use a/. car analogy its like selling everybody funny cars just to go to the store, then being surprised they aren't all lining up to buy the new funny cars with JATO boosters.
Hell even the gamers don't have to buy like they once did, I used to have to buy every other year, now? The PC I replaced was over 6 years old and was still playing games just fine, only reason I replaced it was the oldest needed a PC so I figured I'd use it as an excuse to pass down my Phenom II X6 and grab myself an FX8320E...fricking kicks ass BTW, paired with an R9 280 it plays everything I want in glorious 1080P....but so does my X6, since the oldest has the exact same GPU and his games are just as smooth and look just as good as mine does!
You look at what the AVERAGE, not hardcore gamer, does with their PC? They play casual games like FB games, watch videos, check email....shit that a Pentium dual laptop from 2008 has NO problems doing. Hell even the Intel shrinks for power savings really aren't that big a draw for most because at the shop I've found the average user is away from the plug for a max of 3 hours, a feat my 2011 AMD netbook has zero problems pulling off with a 4 year old battery!
This is why I have no problems staying an AMD shop despite AMD staying at 28nm, because even at 28nm they are still vastly overpowered compared to what the average user does (especially when you look at non riggedbenchmarks) because once we went multicore chips went from "good enough" to so insanely powerful it isn't even funny.
Hell if I could still get the boards cheap I would probably have no problem selling Phenom I quads, just as I have no problem selling those cheap Athlon quads now for everything from office boxes to HTPCs, they are just more powerful than anything the average person does by a pretty large measure.
Yeah....tell that to the owner of that sleek new phone when it dies after 30 minutes because H.26X sucked its battery like a fucking vampire why don't ya?
This is why I've been saying we do NOT need to kills flash for H.264, and sure as fuck not for H.265 because they both suck hairy nuts when it comes to how much power they waste for a given video! If you don't believe me? Encode the same video twice, do one in H.264 and the other in VP8 or VP9, run 'em both while having the PC on a kill-a-watt and look for yourself. the H.264 only APPEARS to work well to the end user because its crapping all over the GPU but all those GPU cycles don't grow on trees, they lead to lousy battery life, increased heat as well, and when so many are using phones and tablets that run on ever thinner batteries? I'm sorry but that shit just doesn't cut it! And try loading a page with HTML V5 H.264 vids and look at the power suckage, again worse in every way than Flash with VP8/9.
Lets face it folks, H.26X is just not a good format, its patent encumbered up the ass, sucks more CPU and GPU than competing formats, its just not the best choice when we have multiple free alternatives that if the resources were instead devoted to making them better would end up with a much better experience for everybody....but then we'd be ignoring the rotting elephant in the room, which is that Apple,Google, and MSFT all WANT a format that is encumbered up the ass, it makes a really nice high barrier for entry that gives them the market to themselves.
And I just fucking showed you that argument makes you and most Linux users hypocrites or did you not even bother reading my post before you shat yours out? "Yeah what is the GPU that every.fricking.Linux.article. advises people to use? Nvidia which don't give you the code, never will give you the code, yet its always the best driver of the lot!"
Your argument DOES NOT HOLD WATER on multiple levels, 1.- Most Linux advocates recommend Nvidia, which is a binary, and 2.- When you are at 1.6% nobody is gonna support you so you ain't getting shit anyway LOL!
BTW you DO realize that you just admitted your OS is NOT based on sound design principles but on religion, yes? Because that is EXACTLY what the argument you just put forth states, that when given a choice of having a functional OS or trying to push a failed driver model which you THINK might kinda sorta (but as Nvidia shows is bullshit) push your "philosophy"? The acceptable choice is a broken OS...and you wonder why Linux has been out for 22 fucking years and has YET to even get a shitastic 2%?
Isn't it sad that Linux is getting ROFLstomped by both Windows 8 (the most hated Windows since ME) and Windows 10 ( a fricking beta that isn't even RTM yet) as well as fricking "other"?
Of course shit like this is EXACTLY why the Hairyfeet challenge has lasted 8 years and why every other FOSS OS has a stable driver ABI including BSD and Android, because if you don't? You get shit drivers and updates break drivers, simple as that. I mean what did you THINK would happen? How many kernel devs are devoted full time to drivers? 30? 40? lets be generous as hell and say 200. So you have 200 devs and over 100,000 drivers with hundreds more coming every.single.quarter. and because there is no stable ABI all it takes is a pointer change in the right spot and thousands of those drivers are now worthless, they DO NOT WORK.
It don't take Hawking to do the math folks, Torvalds and his "let the devs handle it" is a classical mythical man month situation that will never ever improve, it just can't because you will NEVER 1.- Have enough devs with low level driver experience that are, 2.- intimately familiar enough with the hardware to make more than generic (at best) drivers even if you give them the code, 3.- Nor enough hours to go through the tens of thousands of drivers when a major change causes breakage and finally 4.- No way will they have access to all that hardware to test.
Of course all that goes away with an ABI, which is why Apple (OSX and iOS),BSD,Haiku, Windows, hell even OS/2 Warp has a fricking ABI folks! And the one argument they always bring up, the "they won't give us the code precious" BS? Yeah what is the GPU that every.fricking.Linux.article. advises people to use? Nvidia which don't give you the code, never will give you the code, yet its always the best driver of the lot!
Its been 22 damned years folks, and Linux is lower than "other"...doesn'ty that tell you something? And you can't even bring up android as Google fricking HAS an ABI for Android! If Torvalds model worked then others would have adopted it...they haven't, not even the other FOSS OSes. Its time to face the facts, which is the kernel devs should be focused on the kernel and the ones that actually make the hardware should be focused on the drivers! But that isn't gonna happen if they have to rewrite the damned things yearly because of Torvalds fiddling, not when a driver written for Vista will run in Windows 10. You can't dictate terms when your OS is at 1.6% and trying to has kept the OS dead last for 22 years, isn't it about time to stop sticking with a failed model?
The reason people hate the "new" Google is because they actually liked the OLD Google, that is pre IPO.
The old Google was like this mad scientist company full of engineers just throwing out all these cool ideas and seeing what people liked, the "new" Google cares only about the stock price and I have zero doubt is no longer being run by engineers but by MBAs (Masters of Being Assholes) who show each other PPTs and say things like "our data shows that the crucial 19-35 demographic currently enjoys X", see how they tried to ram G+ down our throats because their data showed kids like Facebook. The old Google would have never done that, hell you used to have to fight for an INVITE to get to play with the newest Google stuff and people did, because it was nearly always cool and innovative takes on some idea, now its just another Charmin, a large corp cranking out products based on marketing data and that makes a lot of us sad pandas:-(
Oh please quit with that "artists" bullshit, it has been shown time and time again to be right up there with "job creators" on the horseshit meter!
Why not tell that to meatloaf who had to file bankruptcy in the 80s because the record company had the 50 foot brass balls to say Bat Out Of Hell I, an album that to this day holds the record for longest time on the top 200, didn't make a dime and so owed him NOTHING. Tell that to Cheap Trick who is STILL suing last I checked because the record company said "Hey downloads didn't exist when you recorded your albums...sucks to be you bitches!" and thus for every iTunes sale they get NOTHING. The exact same is true for movies and TV, which is where the phrase Hollywood Accounting comes from. Tell that to Don Dokken, whose first Dokken album (which he recorded on his own dime) sold nearly a quarter million only to get told by the record company "that's great now you only owe us half a million dollars for 'promotional expenses', tough break" and thus gave the band NOTHING.
The current copyright system HARMS the artist, as it allows rich old white fucks to become the eternal gatekeepers by making endless bank on back catalogs which the artists don't see a fucking cent of in a good 90% of the cases. Oh and you might want to ask the Stones how much they get on all their classic albums, which with current copyright laws won't go into public domain until after your grandkids are dead...did you say "not a single cent"? Then you are correct because according to Keith Richards they haven't gotten a penny from their 60s albums since the mid 70s...wanna guess where all those profits from all those classic albums went? If you said "the pockets of rich old white fucks that didn't have shit to do with actually creating it" then you are actually learning, congrats.
The vast majority don't use LO, they use MSO, and they don't call it "Wintel" for nothing. I really don't see MSFT adding this anytime soon, remember they fucked Windows Vista simply because Intel picked up the phone and said "Our shitty 9xx chipsets can't do DX9 and we have a warehouse full to move" which gave us "Vista Capable" so I have zero doubt if MSFT were to start talking up GPU acceleration on MSO Intel would pick up the phone and that would be that.
Of course the fact that they have been adding speed ups to LO since 2013 and it hasn't helped their sales any should be all the proof you need that LO isn't going to influence anybody's hardware choices. Don't get me wrong, I give it out to home users in my standard install, no point spending the $$$ on MSO when LO does the job just fine for the home users.....but the home users will never be doing enough to actually need GPU assistance so other than a "that's neat" factor it really isn't gonna help their bottom line any.
" I was amazed at the high level of service and the extent of the support structure as long as the Apple in question is no more than a couple years old" FTFY. Try getting a first or second gen Macbook Air serviced and see what you get told.
Say what you want about PCs but if you have say a Dell or HP and take it to a company backed service center they'll work on it, they don't care if its a dozen years old. You can sink $3k-$4k on a top of the line Apple and in 5 or 6 years give it up chuck, you're gonna have to find some dude that does nothing but buy dead Apple units off of ebay to service your system because Apple won't touch 'em. Found this out the hard way with a networking customer who had several very expensive Macbooks, after he had to drive halfway across the state a half a dozen times to get 'em serviced by some dude because Apple wouldn't support them anymore? I wish I could say I got him to switch to PC but no, now he just takes these very expensive units and tosses them in the garbage when they reach 5 years old and gets more. Never underestimate how much money rich people can waste.
So cultist, good to know. Would you like to blather on about the Rpi now? or maybe about the "soon to be as open as a TiVo" Android OS?
Ya know what is sad? Its the fact nobody can even talk about fucking DESKTOPS here without some FOSSies trying to move the goalposts, why do they feel they have to do that? Oh yeah just like Scientology they are a teeny tiny itsy bitsy minority, so small that most OS statistics now list Linux under "other" along with other hobbyist desktops like ReactOS and Haiku. Meanwhile the Hairyfeet Challenge is proudly celebrating 8 years of Linux not being able to pass simple tests like "can it update without shitting on its own drivers" and in its current direction I have ZERO doubt that if you are here in 12 years you can help me celebrate 20 years of Linux failure!
BTW be sure to get a little party hat and blow a noisemaker in celebration of the Hairyfeet Challenge lasting so long, after all it was guys like you making excuses and moving the goalposts that have let Linux devs get away with such sub par shite for so long so the challenge couldn't have lasted as long as it has without guys like you, thanks.
No he isn't, because if you think a group so fucking hate filled that you can play Stormfront or SJW and have a seriously hard time telling an SJW post from the Neo-Nazi thinks they are "doing good" instead of just picking a group to hate? Well then I have a bridge you might be interested in. I used to think the stereotype of SJWs being self hating beta CIS males was likewise bullshit until we had article after article like this one where a white male liberal professor calls for the extermination of all white males. BTW notice how he doesn't say white females, that is because to bigoted fucks like him white females are to be given as prizes to black males for "historical oppression". He even says "At least a white woman can have sex with a black man and make a brown baby but what can a white male do? He's good for nothing. "
So...yeah, sometimes stereotypes are true and SJWs being whipped, self hating, prideless, spineless little bigots as pointed out by many gamergate supporters? Kinda on the nose.
As for TFA? No wonder this company didn't survive, not when the women were writing ads like "Altair and Imsai mothers deserve beautiful 8K babies" and picking caps based on whether or not they would clash with the board...DaFuq? Its a 1970s chipboard going in a big fugly white box, why not tell me what its gonna do for my system instead of me thinking about babies for no damned reason, and why would I give a wet fart about whether the caps clash or not when its going in a big fugly box with no windows? From the sounds of it they were trying for a "form over function" a good 25 years before PCs would have glass sides so anybody would care about that shit. Hell look at their "PC" design, green or orange with a fricking racing stripe and only a power and reset at a time when nearly everything was done with dip switches....why would somebody in the late 70s want to severely limit their inputs (and from the looks of the prices pay a good 20%+ extra) just to get a system with a racing stripe and color coordinated motherboards? Remember at the time the PC buyers were tinkerers with soldering irons, personal computers weren't even in your average office at that time.
If I took anything away from TFA its not that IBM killed 'em, it was that they were trying to be hipster a good 30 years before that was a thing and without Steve Jobs ability to get people pumped about buying extremely limited systems compared to the competition. And before any Apple fans breakout the pitchforks? Woz has written several times about how many times he was frustrated over hardware design choices being made NOT for what would be the best choice for the user but by Jobs pursuit of style, the most memorable was the Apple you had to drop on the table to reseat the chips because Jobs didn't like fans. of course Jobs had his incredible salesmanship to keep him going until tech caught up with his taste in design, this bunch had "8K babies"...groan.
Sigh...you forgot routers and watches, why don't you throw those in as well?
This is why we love to make fun of you FOSSies so damned much, not only can you not follow a conversation (We are talking about the desktop and laptops sparky, NOT your toaster, not your Rpi toy nobody gives a fuck about, and not your shitty email server, mmmkay?) but you keep bringing up form factors nobody outside of a teeny tiny niche gives two wet shits about. Think anybody outside of server admins give a fuck about servers? The Rpi sold to...what? 0.03% of the population? yet what does damned near every single person in the developed world have? A PC...running Windows. Man that HAS to fucking BURN, don't it?
Of course we know what you are REALLY doing, its no different than when you talk to a Scientologist about Clambake or Xenu and suddenly they try to switch the topic to NarcAnon, its called "moving the goalposts" and is not only so obvious Ray Charles could see through it but it makes you look either moronic (in that you can't follow a simple conversation) or a cultist (in that you know you can't win the argument so you try to switch the topic to an argument you think you can win)...so which are you? Cultist or moron?
Most of us have no problems with ads IF they went back to being as they were back in the day which if why I have no problem with Adblock's "acceptable ads" because its pretty much how it was back before ads became giant tracking flash ridden malware. As long as its 1.- Limited to text and jpeg, 2.- Links are clearly labeled, 3.- NO tracking 4.- NO sound blasting, and 5.- NO malware carrying flash and java.
There is a reason the Internet existed for so many years without ad blockers, its because the ads used to not be giant intrusive bandwidth sucking malware vectors, if it was to go back to that again? I have a feeling many here would soon find little reason to block ads. The websites brought it upon themselves when they brought in the third party ad companies and started letting them shit their malware and trackers all over the page. if you care so little for your viewers that you would risk their PCs, why should they give a piss about you?
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And yet Windows 10 on release day will have more users than Linux has gotten in 22 fricking years LOL.
BTW you are simply trading one master for another, as Google is in the process of pulling a EEE on Android, they have also cut off the funding they were giving to AOSP and if you bother to look online their OEM contracts make MSFT contracts of the 90s look like the GPL. And funny that so many talk about how "open" Google is yet I can take any bog standard Windows laptop right off the shelf at Walmart and be dual booting anything from BSD to Haiku in under 10 minutesyet on the exact same hardware thanks to Google DRM a ChromeOS "laptop" can ONLY boot a handful of Linux distros that have been specially modified to run on ChromeOS hardware (even though its made from standard laptop parts) and even then ONLY if you put in a page and a half of CLI bullshit AND completely wipe ChromeOS, no dual booting allowed...yet MSFT is supposed to be the "DRM happy" company and Google "open"...DaFuq?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Google should give the guy that wrote "don't be evil" a fucking BMWer as so many otherwise logical geeks have bought that bullshit hook, line, and sinker, that it makes Apple's hipster marketing look as amateur as New Coke. "Think Different" ain't got shit on them, no siree bob!
Which makes these companies run by idiots IMHO. I may be pushing 50 now but even when i was in my 20s I always tried to get the older guys on my team because the old guys knew how to roll with the changes and adapt. Which only makes sense, the old guys when I was in my 20s had gone from punch cards and paper tape to tape decks to the first HDDs, from time sharing to micro computers to desktops, from ASM to Fortran to Basic so they knew about change and were able to adapt.
Compare this to the young ones where as long as nothing went wrong they were fine but heaven forbid something out of left field went wrong as they just sat there with their thumbs up their ass with no idea how to proceed. When you have had to deal with multiple OSes and form factors you learn the steps wrt basic troubleshooting and how to work their way through a problem logically. It reminds me of a story one of my colleagues used to tell about being sent down to figure out why the "new hot shot" hadn't gotten the server back up, he gets in there and the kid has got the thing practically torn down looking for blown caps or burnt traces as he was sure there HAD to be a hardware problem...there was a hardware problem alright, somebody had knocked out the power cord to the UPS.
Are their clueless old guys? Sure but you should have those weeded out before it even gets to the one on one interviews, and if this woman had a good enough resume they called her in not twice, not thrice, but FOUR times only to reject her when they saw her? Yeah it really wouldn't be surprising if it was strictly based on age. What somebody needs to do is turn in identical resumes and send two people in, one young and one old, and have them give as close to identical answers as possible and see what happens. If they hire the 25 year old and reject the 45 year old with the same identical resumes and answers? Well it would be damned hard for them to argue anything but age discrimination.
Or trying to treat a serious hangover with tylenol. A doctor friend of mine says tylenol needs to have a skull and crossbones on it thanks to how many die of liver shutdown because they got drunk and then tried to get rid of the hangover with some extra strength tylenol.
Uhhh Windows has had Remote Desktop Protocol for fourteen years now and we haven't been seeing any "strangers take over ur puter ZOMFG!" going on now have we?
Lets be clear all this is doing is taking the RDP that has been there since WinXP and saving to file instead of sending to another PC, that's it, that is all its doing. RDP has been around for ages, is solid, and nobody has been complaining about it, in fact many shops like mine use it every day to help customers via remote assistance.
So I really don't see how taking a fourteen year old protocol and giving it a save to file option is gonna magically make computers into two way TVs ala 1984.
The problem with both is that 1.- Stealth is stupid, and 2.- You give up a lot of flight performance for something that does not work, see rule #1. The problem with stealth is they really have to "tune" the design for specific radar wavelengths so how to defeat it is obvious, just use wavelengths the stealth isn't tuned to. That is how the soldier in Kosovo was able to shoot down the F-117, just futzed with radar wavelengths until it showed up on the screen.
Meh at the end of the day we just need to face the fact that the years of Maverick flying by the seat of his pants is over, its a drone world now. The drone can take Gs no human can survive and every single plane we've had since the 70s have had to have limiters because the planes can take more than the pilots can, and if the drone gets shot down so what? Crank 'em out like cheap radios. the era of the pilot is over and the J-31 and F35 are just money pits to keep the Top Gun fantasy alive.
Well I'm afraid I do not know a term that infers a higher level than batshit when it comes to a group. Even in SJW circles there is batshit and there is supreme high batshit, but I really have no term that can be prefixed to SJW to reflect that...any ideas?
Thanks, I so rarely get to use this in a sentence...WHOOSH, way to miss the point!
The point was, which I thought I had made clear, is that the gaming companies will go where the players are and if they can build ONE version that will let their product be bought by ALL, or build TWO versions to accomplish the same task...which do YOU think they will pick? BTW the DX09 modes didn't start getting dropped until XP had dropped below 10% of the Steam survey and the reason why is obvious, when a game costs tens of millions to make are you really gonna risk removing 20% or more of the potential buyers from owning your game? Of course not!
If you look at the numbers currently 90.65% of PC gamers is on either Windows 7 or 8/8.1, now compare this to Windows 10, which despite MSFT handing it to anybody that will take it AND gamers typically being early adopters is sitting at...1.10%. Cue WB cartoon "waah wahhhh". Now you may be of the belief that at release day all those tens of millions of gamers will switch (I'm betting they won't, Win 10 has too much baggage) but do you REALLY think a dev working on a game now will risk making their game a DX12 exclusive? Remember a game can take up to 3 years in the pipe, would they really risk their company in the hopes than Win 10 doesn't end up Windows 8 SE?
If even 10% of the games released in the next 24 months not paid for by MSFT are DX12 exclusive it'll be a miracle, more likely Windows 10 won't be the second coming MSFT is hoping for and just like with DX11 the devs won't risk making exclusives until the previous OSes are down to single digits. Considering that Windows 7 is at nearly 50% and the amount of sheer hatred I've seen from 7 users wrt 10? Yeah no devs with any sense are gonna risk it, it'd be suicide.
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While its true that SJWs pretty much ruin everything they touch in the case of Patreon there are just as many using it for good things. For example there are several reviewers of niche movies/TV/Music where you can "buy" an episode and choose the topic of that episode (as long as it falls into the niche) and dedicate it to someone, E.G. Todd In The Shadows has a show called "One Hit Wonderland" where you can choose any one hit band from the past 40 years if you wish to buy an episode. I have seen similar things done with reviews of games like World of Planes/Tanks/Warships where the buyer can choose which vehicle is under review next. Some of these reviewers also sell game time, where the person buying can be in the next review by joining up with the reviewer in game.
In these "works for hire" I see no issue as everybody gets the content for free, the one paying the money simply gets to choose the topic and be mentioned or appear in the video. Watching a few of these other than the person being mentioned in the front you'd be hard pressed to tell this from any of their other content so if it helps them continue to make entertaining videos we can all watch for free? I say go for it, especially when you can use it to help those that could really use it, like Chuck at SFDebris whose wife has a serious mental illness which requires him to be a stay at home dad.
The problem with the GPL is the ONLY way to actually make enough money to keep your doors open (and feel free to try to prove me wrong with a single example, you can't) is through the "blessed trinity" which is 1.- Sell hardware, 2.- Sell support or services, and 3.-E-Begging.
So what is wrong with that? Simple the vast majority of software doesn't fall into those niches and thus there will never be a GPL equivalent. For a perfect example just look at how ID has given some of the most powerful game engines ever made yet you can't name a single player GPL game with the quality of Far Cry 1 or Bioshock, which are over a decade old, reason? Games don't fall into the blessed trinity so all you get are a billion piss poor Q3 Arena ripoffs because those are so simple any kid can whip one off in a couple months. This is why despite 20 years the best answer to Photoshop is the Gimp, which isn't anywhere near the same league, why you have no GPL small business software that comes even close to Quickbooks despite it being out there for ages, they simply do not fall under the trinity and so will never get made.
This is the problem with rigid dogma, it frequently ignores reality and becomes the classic "is ought" problem, saying their "ought" to be GPL for all forms of software while ignoring reality which "is" that someone devoting their full time to a software project needs to be able to eat and have a home. If you simply removed the "free to redistribute" clause this problem would not exist, after all we have seen that this works in the world of video games where many games let you modify the games and distribute those modifications (and some like ID let you have the code) but you cannot distribute the game itself, allowing the developers to get paid for their labor and make more games.
Of course I'm sure I will get nothing but hate for daring to say programmers should be able to make a living (and I notice RMS never says anybody else should give their work away for free, I bet he has no qualms with paying his doctor for the years of hard work he put in learning his craft while ignoring programmers often spend as many years learning theirs) but when you look at the GPL? It simply insures that many forms of software will simply never come to be, the license is too narrow to allow one to make a living unless you can do so through the trinity.
Have you looked at any of the BLU phones? I picked up one (the Studio Mini LTE) after a customer was raving about his and I have to say I'm VERY happy it it. Its a quad core with a GB of RAM, 4GB storage with a MicroSD slot, gets great battery life, easy to root, just a real sweetheart of a phone.
The nice thing is they have a ton to choose from so you can just pick the features and price point you want. Want Windows instead of Android? They got that. More storage? Octacore? yep. Hell they even have a $60 entry smartphone and a $20 dumbphone for those that don't want a lot of bells and whistles. The only downside is since they are a relatively new company there isn't any mods that I have been able to find yet, but considering its low price and easy of rooting I have no doubt they'll be coming. All in all I'm quite happy with my BLU...You're my boy BLU!
They won't care because of one simple fact, a little rule I pointed out years ago which has always proven to be true, lets call it "The Hairyfeet Rule of Open".
The Hairyfeet Rule of Open....If the only selling point you have is that you are "open" by some arbitrary definition of the word? Then YOU WILL FAIL because being open in and of itself is simply not a big enough selling point for the vast majority to care about.
We have seen this rule played out dozens of times, from "open" phones to "open" tablets, from "open" GPUs to "open" CPUs, if your ONLY selling point, the only thing you have going for you is "open"? Its over, hit the lights on your way out. Mark my words they will run out of funding and close down within a couple years because they will not be able to generate enough interest to keep going because you have to have something, anything, other than just "open". Be it faster, easier to use, more power saving, its gotta have something other than just open or its screwed.
Sorry friend but you've been bamboozled as it would take SEVENTEEN YEARS to save enough power to make up the price difference between an AMD and an Intel and that is with picking the 125w on the AMD side. Now are you seriously gonna argue you are keeping your chip for nearly 20 years?
I can back this up using kill-a-watt and the excellent board monitoring in my Asus my FX8320 (a "95w" part which I have yet to see go above 60w) uses between 8w-16w on basic tasks like youtube and surfing and right now I'm slamming 3 cores to 100% converting a video to MP4, power usage Johnny? that would be...drumroll...37.19w. So .....yeah, kinda bullshit about the power draw. Its really simple, Intel bases their numbers on "theoretical load" which of course in practice you will never hit, while AMD runs a load of different software on their chips to come up with a worst case scenario draw and bases their numbers on that. They also give higher numbers on their black chips figuring you might OC the shit out of it to allow plenty of headroom but I have yet to see an AMD get even close to the TDP and I've run everything from 939 Athlon to the latest FX and AM1 in the shop. Highest I have ever seen was 68w for an OCed Phenom II X6 with all 6 cores slamming.
Remember to always look at the site you are getting your "news" from without adblock at least once to see where their bread is buttered, are they taking ad revenue from a certain company? This is why you can't believe a damned thing Tom's Hardware says for instance, as even when their own reviewer admitted that "for most games being released today quad cores are a minimum" they recommended an Intel dual core over a cheaper AMD hexacore and then you turn off adblock and wadda ya know, the page is filled with ads for Intel i5s. Hmmm, biased much?
A better choice for an HTPC would be the AMD Athlon 5350. Its only $49, has a max TDP of only 25w, and it has enough GPU power to run Battlefield 4 so it has more than enough GPU to perform any task you'd want an HTPC to do. The AMD drivers come with a set of codecs so pretty much any video will be hardware accelerated, great for HTPCs which is why I've been using these a LOT in the shop. Cheap, low heat, great graphics, whats not to like?
Linux support for the AMD APUs has been getting pretty damned good lately (thanks to AMD opening their docs and hiring devs) so the Linux guys can pair that chip with a copy of OpenELEC and make themselves an insanely cheap HTPC, we're talking sub $150 if you hit the sales. Personally I like to use Windows 8 on 'em, as IMNSHO the only place the Metro UI works really well is as a 10 foot UI, just pair it with this remote keyboard and voila! Badass HTPC that can even do light gaming for crazy cheap.
As for TFA? Costs $540 and is less powerful than cheaper previous releases.....sounds like a pass. Of course the elephant in the room for both AMD and Intel is their chips became too powerful years ago and with the exception of a teeny tiny niche that uses every cycle on their PC the chips are just too powerful compared with the work the average user has for 'em to do. To use a /. car analogy its like selling everybody funny cars just to go to the store, then being surprised they aren't all lining up to buy the new funny cars with JATO boosters.
Hell even the gamers don't have to buy like they once did, I used to have to buy every other year, now? The PC I replaced was over 6 years old and was still playing games just fine, only reason I replaced it was the oldest needed a PC so I figured I'd use it as an excuse to pass down my Phenom II X6 and grab myself an FX8320E...fricking kicks ass BTW, paired with an R9 280 it plays everything I want in glorious 1080P....but so does my X6, since the oldest has the exact same GPU and his games are just as smooth and look just as good as mine does!
You look at what the AVERAGE, not hardcore gamer, does with their PC? They play casual games like FB games, watch videos, check email....shit that a Pentium dual laptop from 2008 has NO problems doing. Hell even the Intel shrinks for power savings really aren't that big a draw for most because at the shop I've found the average user is away from the plug for a max of 3 hours, a feat my 2011 AMD netbook has zero problems pulling off with a 4 year old battery!
This is why I have no problems staying an AMD shop despite AMD staying at 28nm, because even at 28nm they are still vastly overpowered compared to what the average user does (especially when you look at non rigged benchmarks) because once we went multicore chips went from "good enough" to so insanely powerful it isn't even funny.
Hell if I could still get the boards cheap I would probably have no problem selling Phenom I quads, just as I have no problem selling those cheap Athlon quads now for everything from office boxes to HTPCs, they are just more powerful than anything the average person does by a pretty large measure.
Yeah....tell that to the owner of that sleek new phone when it dies after 30 minutes because H.26X sucked its battery like a fucking vampire why don't ya?
This is why I've been saying we do NOT need to kills flash for H.264, and sure as fuck not for H.265 because they both suck hairy nuts when it comes to how much power they waste for a given video! If you don't believe me? Encode the same video twice, do one in H.264 and the other in VP8 or VP9, run 'em both while having the PC on a kill-a-watt and look for yourself. the H.264 only APPEARS to work well to the end user because its crapping all over the GPU but all those GPU cycles don't grow on trees, they lead to lousy battery life, increased heat as well, and when so many are using phones and tablets that run on ever thinner batteries? I'm sorry but that shit just doesn't cut it! And try loading a page with HTML V5 H.264 vids and look at the power suckage, again worse in every way than Flash with VP8/9.
Lets face it folks, H.26X is just not a good format, its patent encumbered up the ass, sucks more CPU and GPU than competing formats, its just not the best choice when we have multiple free alternatives that if the resources were instead devoted to making them better would end up with a much better experience for everybody....but then we'd be ignoring the rotting elephant in the room, which is that Apple,Google, and MSFT all WANT a format that is encumbered up the ass, it makes a really nice high barrier for entry that gives them the market to themselves.
And I just fucking showed you that argument makes you and most Linux users hypocrites or did you not even bother reading my post before you shat yours out? "Yeah what is the GPU that every.fricking.Linux.article. advises people to use? Nvidia which don't give you the code, never will give you the code, yet its always the best driver of the lot!"
Your argument DOES NOT HOLD WATER on multiple levels, 1.- Most Linux advocates recommend Nvidia, which is a binary, and 2.- When you are at 1.6% nobody is gonna support you so you ain't getting shit anyway LOL!
BTW you DO realize that you just admitted your OS is NOT based on sound design principles but on religion, yes? Because that is EXACTLY what the argument you just put forth states, that when given a choice of having a functional OS or trying to push a failed driver model which you THINK might kinda sorta (but as Nvidia shows is bullshit) push your "philosophy"? The acceptable choice is a broken OS...and you wonder why Linux has been out for 22 fucking years and has YET to even get a shitastic 2%?
Isn't it sad that Linux is getting ROFLstomped by both Windows 8 (the most hated Windows since ME) and Windows 10 ( a fricking beta that isn't even RTM yet) as well as fricking "other"?
Of course shit like this is EXACTLY why the Hairyfeet challenge has lasted 8 years and why every other FOSS OS has a stable driver ABI including BSD and Android, because if you don't? You get shit drivers and updates break drivers, simple as that. I mean what did you THINK would happen? How many kernel devs are devoted full time to drivers? 30? 40? lets be generous as hell and say 200. So you have 200 devs and over 100,000 drivers with hundreds more coming every.single.quarter. and because there is no stable ABI all it takes is a pointer change in the right spot and thousands of those drivers are now worthless, they DO NOT WORK.
It don't take Hawking to do the math folks, Torvalds and his "let the devs handle it" is a classical mythical man month situation that will never ever improve, it just can't because you will NEVER 1.- Have enough devs with low level driver experience that are, 2.- intimately familiar enough with the hardware to make more than generic (at best) drivers even if you give them the code, 3.- Nor enough hours to go through the tens of thousands of drivers when a major change causes breakage and finally 4.- No way will they have access to all that hardware to test.
Of course all that goes away with an ABI, which is why Apple (OSX and iOS),BSD,Haiku, Windows, hell even OS/2 Warp has a fricking ABI folks! And the one argument they always bring up, the "they won't give us the code precious" BS? Yeah what is the GPU that every.fricking.Linux.article. advises people to use? Nvidia which don't give you the code, never will give you the code, yet its always the best driver of the lot!
Its been 22 damned years folks, and Linux is lower than "other"...doesn'ty that tell you something? And you can't even bring up android as Google fricking HAS an ABI for Android! If Torvalds model worked then others would have adopted it...they haven't, not even the other FOSS OSes. Its time to face the facts, which is the kernel devs should be focused on the kernel and the ones that actually make the hardware should be focused on the drivers! But that isn't gonna happen if they have to rewrite the damned things yearly because of Torvalds fiddling, not when a driver written for Vista will run in Windows 10. You can't dictate terms when your OS is at 1.6% and trying to has kept the OS dead last for 22 years, isn't it about time to stop sticking with a failed model?
The reason people hate the "new" Google is because they actually liked the OLD Google, that is pre IPO.
The old Google was like this mad scientist company full of engineers just throwing out all these cool ideas and seeing what people liked, the "new" Google cares only about the stock price and I have zero doubt is no longer being run by engineers but by MBAs (Masters of Being Assholes) who show each other PPTs and say things like "our data shows that the crucial 19-35 demographic currently enjoys X", see how they tried to ram G+ down our throats because their data showed kids like Facebook. The old Google would have never done that, hell you used to have to fight for an INVITE to get to play with the newest Google stuff and people did, because it was nearly always cool and innovative takes on some idea, now its just another Charmin, a large corp cranking out products based on marketing data and that makes a lot of us sad pandas :-(
Oh please quit with that "artists" bullshit, it has been shown time and time again to be right up there with "job creators" on the horseshit meter!
Why not tell that to meatloaf who had to file bankruptcy in the 80s because the record company had the 50 foot brass balls to say Bat Out Of Hell I, an album that to this day holds the record for longest time on the top 200, didn't make a dime and so owed him NOTHING. Tell that to Cheap Trick who is STILL suing last I checked because the record company said "Hey downloads didn't exist when you recorded your albums...sucks to be you bitches!" and thus for every iTunes sale they get NOTHING. The exact same is true for movies and TV, which is where the phrase Hollywood Accounting comes from. Tell that to Don Dokken, whose first Dokken album (which he recorded on his own dime) sold nearly a quarter million only to get told by the record company "that's great now you only owe us half a million dollars for 'promotional expenses', tough break" and thus gave the band NOTHING.
The current copyright system HARMS the artist, as it allows rich old white fucks to become the eternal gatekeepers by making endless bank on back catalogs which the artists don't see a fucking cent of in a good 90% of the cases. Oh and you might want to ask the Stones how much they get on all their classic albums, which with current copyright laws won't go into public domain until after your grandkids are dead...did you say "not a single cent"? Then you are correct because according to Keith Richards they haven't gotten a penny from their 60s albums since the mid 70s...wanna guess where all those profits from all those classic albums went? If you said "the pockets of rich old white fucks that didn't have shit to do with actually creating it" then you are actually learning, congrats.
The vast majority don't use LO, they use MSO, and they don't call it "Wintel" for nothing. I really don't see MSFT adding this anytime soon, remember they fucked Windows Vista simply because Intel picked up the phone and said "Our shitty 9xx chipsets can't do DX9 and we have a warehouse full to move" which gave us "Vista Capable" so I have zero doubt if MSFT were to start talking up GPU acceleration on MSO Intel would pick up the phone and that would be that.
Of course the fact that they have been adding speed ups to LO since 2013 and it hasn't helped their sales any should be all the proof you need that LO isn't going to influence anybody's hardware choices. Don't get me wrong, I give it out to home users in my standard install, no point spending the $$$ on MSO when LO does the job just fine for the home users.....but the home users will never be doing enough to actually need GPU assistance so other than a "that's neat" factor it really isn't gonna help their bottom line any.
" I was amazed at the high level of service and the extent of the support structure as long as the Apple in question is no more than a couple years old" FTFY. Try getting a first or second gen Macbook Air serviced and see what you get told.
Say what you want about PCs but if you have say a Dell or HP and take it to a company backed service center they'll work on it, they don't care if its a dozen years old. You can sink $3k-$4k on a top of the line Apple and in 5 or 6 years give it up chuck, you're gonna have to find some dude that does nothing but buy dead Apple units off of ebay to service your system because Apple won't touch 'em. Found this out the hard way with a networking customer who had several very expensive Macbooks, after he had to drive halfway across the state a half a dozen times to get 'em serviced by some dude because Apple wouldn't support them anymore? I wish I could say I got him to switch to PC but no, now he just takes these very expensive units and tosses them in the garbage when they reach 5 years old and gets more. Never underestimate how much money rich people can waste.
Hi sexconker, might as well use your ID since you already forgot to check the anon box once already so everybody knows its you dumbass.
So cultist, good to know. Would you like to blather on about the Rpi now? or maybe about the "soon to be as open as a TiVo" Android OS?
Ya know what is sad? Its the fact nobody can even talk about fucking DESKTOPS here without some FOSSies trying to move the goalposts, why do they feel they have to do that? Oh yeah just like Scientology they are a teeny tiny itsy bitsy minority, so small that most OS statistics now list Linux under "other" along with other hobbyist desktops like ReactOS and Haiku. Meanwhile the Hairyfeet Challenge is proudly celebrating 8 years of Linux not being able to pass simple tests like "can it update without shitting on its own drivers" and in its current direction I have ZERO doubt that if you are here in 12 years you can help me celebrate 20 years of Linux failure!
BTW be sure to get a little party hat and blow a noisemaker in celebration of the Hairyfeet Challenge lasting so long, after all it was guys like you making excuses and moving the goalposts that have let Linux devs get away with such sub par shite for so long so the challenge couldn't have lasted as long as it has without guys like you, thanks.
No he isn't, because if you think a group so fucking hate filled that you can play Stormfront or SJW and have a seriously hard time telling an SJW post from the Neo-Nazi thinks they are "doing good" instead of just picking a group to hate? Well then I have a bridge you might be interested in. I used to think the stereotype of SJWs being self hating beta CIS males was likewise bullshit until we had article after article like this one where a white male liberal professor calls for the extermination of all white males. BTW notice how he doesn't say white females, that is because to bigoted fucks like him white females are to be given as prizes to black males for "historical oppression". He even says "At least a white woman can have sex with a black man and make a brown baby but what can a white male do? He's good for nothing. " So...yeah, sometimes stereotypes are true and SJWs being whipped, self hating, prideless, spineless little bigots as pointed out by many gamergate supporters? Kinda on the nose.
As for TFA? No wonder this company didn't survive, not when the women were writing ads like "Altair and Imsai mothers deserve beautiful 8K babies" and picking caps based on whether or not they would clash with the board...DaFuq? Its a 1970s chipboard going in a big fugly white box, why not tell me what its gonna do for my system instead of me thinking about babies for no damned reason, and why would I give a wet fart about whether the caps clash or not when its going in a big fugly box with no windows? From the sounds of it they were trying for a "form over function" a good 25 years before PCs would have glass sides so anybody would care about that shit. Hell look at their "PC" design, green or orange with a fricking racing stripe and only a power and reset at a time when nearly everything was done with dip switches....why would somebody in the late 70s want to severely limit their inputs (and from the looks of the prices pay a good 20%+ extra) just to get a system with a racing stripe and color coordinated motherboards? Remember at the time the PC buyers were tinkerers with soldering irons, personal computers weren't even in your average office at that time.
If I took anything away from TFA its not that IBM killed 'em, it was that they were trying to be hipster a good 30 years before that was a thing and without Steve Jobs ability to get people pumped about buying extremely limited systems compared to the competition. And before any Apple fans breakout the pitchforks? Woz has written several times about how many times he was frustrated over hardware design choices being made NOT for what would be the best choice for the user but by Jobs pursuit of style, the most memorable was the Apple you had to drop on the table to reseat the chips because Jobs didn't like fans. of course Jobs had his incredible salesmanship to keep him going until tech caught up with his taste in design, this bunch had "8K babies"...groan.
Sigh...you forgot routers and watches, why don't you throw those in as well?
This is why we love to make fun of you FOSSies so damned much, not only can you not follow a conversation (We are talking about the desktop and laptops sparky, NOT your toaster, not your Rpi toy nobody gives a fuck about, and not your shitty email server, mmmkay?) but you keep bringing up form factors nobody outside of a teeny tiny niche gives two wet shits about. Think anybody outside of server admins give a fuck about servers? The Rpi sold to...what? 0.03% of the population? yet what does damned near every single person in the developed world have? A PC...running Windows. Man that HAS to fucking BURN, don't it?
Of course we know what you are REALLY doing, its no different than when you talk to a Scientologist about Clambake or Xenu and suddenly they try to switch the topic to NarcAnon, its called "moving the goalposts" and is not only so obvious Ray Charles could see through it but it makes you look either moronic (in that you can't follow a simple conversation) or a cultist (in that you know you can't win the argument so you try to switch the topic to an argument you think you can win)...so which are you? Cultist or moron?
Most of us have no problems with ads IF they went back to being as they were back in the day which if why I have no problem with Adblock's "acceptable ads" because its pretty much how it was back before ads became giant tracking flash ridden malware. As long as its 1.- Limited to text and jpeg, 2.- Links are clearly labeled, 3.- NO tracking 4.- NO sound blasting, and 5.- NO malware carrying flash and java.
There is a reason the Internet existed for so many years without ad blockers, its because the ads used to not be giant intrusive bandwidth sucking malware vectors, if it was to go back to that again? I have a feeling many here would soon find little reason to block ads. The websites brought it upon themselves when they brought in the third party ad companies and started letting them shit their malware and trackers all over the page. if you care so little for your viewers that you would risk their PCs, why should they give a piss about you?
And yet Windows 10 on release day will have more users than Linux has gotten in 22 fricking years LOL.
BTW you are simply trading one master for another, as Google is in the process of pulling a EEE on Android, they have also cut off the funding they were giving to AOSP and if you bother to look online their OEM contracts make MSFT contracts of the 90s look like the GPL. And funny that so many talk about how "open" Google is yet I can take any bog standard Windows laptop right off the shelf at Walmart and be dual booting anything from BSD to Haiku in under 10 minutesyet on the exact same hardware thanks to Google DRM a ChromeOS "laptop" can ONLY boot a handful of Linux distros that have been specially modified to run on ChromeOS hardware (even though its made from standard laptop parts) and even then ONLY if you put in a page and a half of CLI bullshit AND completely wipe ChromeOS, no dual booting allowed...yet MSFT is supposed to be the "DRM happy" company and Google "open"...DaFuq?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Google should give the guy that wrote "don't be evil" a fucking BMWer as so many otherwise logical geeks have bought that bullshit hook, line, and sinker, that it makes Apple's hipster marketing look as amateur as New Coke. "Think Different" ain't got shit on them, no siree bob!
Which makes these companies run by idiots IMHO. I may be pushing 50 now but even when i was in my 20s I always tried to get the older guys on my team because the old guys knew how to roll with the changes and adapt. Which only makes sense, the old guys when I was in my 20s had gone from punch cards and paper tape to tape decks to the first HDDs, from time sharing to micro computers to desktops, from ASM to Fortran to Basic so they knew about change and were able to adapt.
Compare this to the young ones where as long as nothing went wrong they were fine but heaven forbid something out of left field went wrong as they just sat there with their thumbs up their ass with no idea how to proceed. When you have had to deal with multiple OSes and form factors you learn the steps wrt basic troubleshooting and how to work their way through a problem logically. It reminds me of a story one of my colleagues used to tell about being sent down to figure out why the "new hot shot" hadn't gotten the server back up, he gets in there and the kid has got the thing practically torn down looking for blown caps or burnt traces as he was sure there HAD to be a hardware problem...there was a hardware problem alright, somebody had knocked out the power cord to the UPS.
Are their clueless old guys? Sure but you should have those weeded out before it even gets to the one on one interviews, and if this woman had a good enough resume they called her in not twice, not thrice, but FOUR times only to reject her when they saw her? Yeah it really wouldn't be surprising if it was strictly based on age. What somebody needs to do is turn in identical resumes and send two people in, one young and one old, and have them give as close to identical answers as possible and see what happens. If they hire the 25 year old and reject the 45 year old with the same identical resumes and answers? Well it would be damned hard for them to argue anything but age discrimination.
Or trying to treat a serious hangover with tylenol. A doctor friend of mine says tylenol needs to have a skull and crossbones on it thanks to how many die of liver shutdown because they got drunk and then tried to get rid of the hangover with some extra strength tylenol.
Uhhh Windows has had Remote Desktop Protocol for fourteen years now and we haven't been seeing any "strangers take over ur puter ZOMFG!" going on now have we?
Lets be clear all this is doing is taking the RDP that has been there since WinXP and saving to file instead of sending to another PC, that's it, that is all its doing. RDP has been around for ages, is solid, and nobody has been complaining about it, in fact many shops like mine use it every day to help customers via remote assistance .
So I really don't see how taking a fourteen year old protocol and giving it a save to file option is gonna magically make computers into two way TVs ala 1984.
Meh at the end of the day we just need to face the fact that the years of Maverick flying by the seat of his pants is over, its a drone world now. The drone can take Gs no human can survive and every single plane we've had since the 70s have had to have limiters because the planes can take more than the pilots can, and if the drone gets shot down so what? Crank 'em out like cheap radios. the era of the pilot is over and the J-31 and F35 are just money pits to keep the Top Gun fantasy alive.
Well I'm afraid I do not know a term that infers a higher level than batshit when it comes to a group. Even in SJW circles there is batshit and there is supreme high batshit, but I really have no term that can be prefixed to SJW to reflect that...any ideas?
Thanks, I so rarely get to use this in a sentence...WHOOSH, way to miss the point!
The point was, which I thought I had made clear, is that the gaming companies will go where the players are and if they can build ONE version that will let their product be bought by ALL, or build TWO versions to accomplish the same task...which do YOU think they will pick? BTW the DX09 modes didn't start getting dropped until XP had dropped below 10% of the Steam survey and the reason why is obvious, when a game costs tens of millions to make are you really gonna risk removing 20% or more of the potential buyers from owning your game? Of course not!
If you look at the numbers currently 90.65% of PC gamers is on either Windows 7 or 8/8.1, now compare this to Windows 10, which despite MSFT handing it to anybody that will take it AND gamers typically being early adopters is sitting at...1.10%. Cue WB cartoon "waah wahhhh". Now you may be of the belief that at release day all those tens of millions of gamers will switch (I'm betting they won't, Win 10 has too much baggage) but do you REALLY think a dev working on a game now will risk making their game a DX12 exclusive? Remember a game can take up to 3 years in the pipe, would they really risk their company in the hopes than Win 10 doesn't end up Windows 8 SE?
If even 10% of the games released in the next 24 months not paid for by MSFT are DX12 exclusive it'll be a miracle, more likely Windows 10 won't be the second coming MSFT is hoping for and just like with DX11 the devs won't risk making exclusives until the previous OSes are down to single digits. Considering that Windows 7 is at nearly 50% and the amount of sheer hatred I've seen from 7 users wrt 10? Yeah no devs with any sense are gonna risk it, it'd be suicide.