He is probably talking about the public ed which I have to say depending on the area can be just okay or downright shite on a shingle. I ended up yanking my two boys out of public and going home school because not only was the public school a *football school* but probably one of the most bigoted places I had the misfortune to step foot in. The final straw was when a teacher decided to bring her bible INTO CLASS and instead on teaching English gave an hour long speech on "idolaters and sodomites" while my two boys, one Catholic and one gay, were in class.
We would have sued but my sister was in the final stage of cancer and frankly there was just too much stress to deal with their bullshit at the same time. So I told them where they could shove their bibles and went home school. Now the oldest is a Sophomore pred med and the youngest is deciding whether to go computer generated artworks or pursue his love of cooking and become a chef.
*-for those not in the USA a football school is where the entire school is based around...surprise...football. In a football school the books can be 20 years old and the computers worse than what you would dumpster dive, but the training gear would make most AA college programs green with envy and the footballers can pretty much do any damned thing they please and walk away from it. I myself didn't have to go to class for my last 4 years as the coach found me reading Asimov in detention on my first day of HS (The other coach said "Anyone not ready to give me 20 laps can get out of my gym"...so I left. I though I would die laughing when the principal put us in study hall/detention and told the coach "you NEVER tell them they can leave EVAR!") and drug me from class to class and got the teachers to sign off on giving me straight As without showing up, and in return I spent the time teaching my own class where I taught footballers how to spell flower and stood so they could pass the minimum skills test and keep playing. I swear everything was spelled phonetically by those guys, like floer for flower and stud for stood. But as long as they got to play the coach was happy and the classes were so dumbed down I was bored to tears anyway in school, so it all worked out just fine.
Actually my KVM supports 2048 by 15something and the monitor is only 1600x900 (nice pair of Dells one at work and one at home, great picture, got them brand new for free as a thank you from a very satisfied customer whom I had helped by letting make payments on his office setup when he first started his business.) so the picture quality is just fine, thanks. And have you ever priced a 4 port KVM switch for DVI? The words "highway robbery" come to mind, I call them completely full of shit myself. since the monitor we are talking about not only runs two boxes pretty much 24/7 but also hooks up to customers machines so I don't need to fire up that old CRT space heater in the corner? No thanks friend.
So I don't know where you got your info on but unless the KVM was some $20 CCC POS I don't see why you'd think it would be blurry. Either something supports native resolution or it don't, and when not fixing boxes I fire up FPSes and blast away and the only blurry vision I get is from these old eyes from sniping too long. But I don't see how anyone survives without KVM switches anymore as I've been using them on all my machines since the late 90s and they are handy as hell. If one of my neighbors were to show up at my apt with their tower going "Please help, something is wrong" I can have them plop it down by my PC desk and in less than 3 minutes I'm watching the boot screen. no muss no fuss and NO blurry picture, at least on the 100s of boxes and laptops I've plugged into the things.
As for TFA this is just damned smart business and if it were Apple or Google doing this the fanbois would be lining up to defend it. How much has MSFT spent on buying up patents this decade? How much have they spent on the patents they've filed? all this does is allow them to get a ROI and I would point out unlike certain OTHER companies...cough cough Apple cough...MSFT has been pretty damned good about giving RAND access to just about everything they've ever done. Don't forget that before they sued they offered TomTom the SAME RAND they offered every flash OEM and got the finger in return.
So don't get pissy that the "free as in beer" standing on a corner with a tin cup business model keeps you from paying RAND licenses, it isn't the job of MSFT or any other corp to prop up your failed business model, which I would argue the deaths or dying spasms of companies like Sun, Novell, and Mandriva shows this is the case. Oh and Proptip: Linux DOES infringe on MSFT patents, because it would be mathematically impossible for it NOT to with the sheer number of patents MSFT has, just as AMD infriges on Intel and vice versa. What are you gonna do, come up with a totally convoluted and ass backwards way for 2+2=4 to keep from infringing? Better start ripping all those video codecs out while you are at it, because with over 2000 patents MPEG-LA pretty much owns video compression/decompression.
In the end it isn't MSFT's fault you don't have the money to buy patents like everyone else, it isn't MSFT's fault you want to give your product away for free. The MSFT patents are filed in black and white for all to see at the patent office, feel free to try to rewrite your entire OS to avoid them. Good luck with that BTW.
Oh and a final bit of food for thought...you are worried about the old dog when it is the young wolves you need to worry about. As in TFA you can do a RAND license agreement and send MSFT on its way, while whom you can't pull that off with is the shitload of patent trolls buying patents like they are going out of style that will want everything including the office furniture, since the only money they make is by bleeding companies. Between that and TiVo showing the corps of the world how to turn Linux into a proprietary OS by simply adding code signing or eFuses? You got bigger things to worry about than MSFT setting up RAND licensing deals with headset makers.
Honestly, and I hate to do this since I haven't agreed to a damned thing they have done since the sweaty monkey took over, I think MSFT may be right on BOTH WebGL and OpenCL when it comes to security and here is why:
What is the most buggy driver on the average Windows system? Why that would be the graphics driver. Which driver is the LEAST likely to be updated? Again that would be the graphics driver. Which piece of hardware gets the least security checks because it would slow it down? Which piece of hardware thanks to the unified driver arch can take down tens of thousands of machines with a single buffer overflow? I think you get the idea.
ActiveX was a seriously Forest Gump level of stupid and this? Right up there alongside it. This is an idea which will have little to NO benefit for end users, increased risks of infection, and for what? So some browser can go wobbly windows like the average Linux distro? Yeah that's worth the huge increased risk.
Thanks to DXVA and H.26x support on even the low end GPUs released today there is already a trivial way to accelerate video. All this will do is give Windows and Linux users something in common, a nice single target for malware writers. It is a DUMB idea, greatly increases risk for the end users and for what? So you can run a game in a browser? The Asian MMOs have been doing that for ages by having plug ins and a mix of native and web code, and frankly the security there isn't very great there either.
So if someone can explain how having a device with a super fast CPU of its own, at least 256Mb of super fast RAM of its own, and with the most buggy and least likely to be updated drivers access to running untested or vetted third party code off the net I'm listening. Oh and with today's firmware it would probably be pretty trivial to flash in a loader that makes sure the payload is loaded upon startup. Nice for the malware writers, not really seeing a point for my end users here.
Would you support the middle east countries if they refused to sell us oil unless we allowed Sharia to be taught in our schools? After all they don't believe in separation of church and state and would consider it discrimination, so we should just comply, yes?
As much as I think the great firewall of China sucks it isn't the USA's job to tell others how to live and if the Chinese don't want it? Let them rise up and do something about it. Last I saw on it the people for the most part had bought it as a block on porn and the average Chinese was pretty complaisant about it.
So if you don't want to buy Chinese products because you don't support their policies? Good for you and I'm glad you are able to live without most electronics, same if you wish to do without products by any company that does business with China. But butting in and telling other countries how they should live has been the source of one clusterfuck after another when it comes to the USA, and I think frankly both we here in the USA and those in others countries would be much better off if we were to STFU and worry about our own affairs instead of every else's.
And that is why you'll soon see "made in Malaysia" stamped on everything, as the corps can always find SOMEONE to abuse. Who knows in 40 years this country may be so bankrupt both morally and financially that you'll see the government happy to let the CEOs create more superfund sites just to have less than 50% unemployment.
Since this is the day after Independence Day maybe a little wisdom from one of our Founding Fathers is in order: "Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains." which is of course why the corp owned MSM says nationalism is "bad" because giving a shit about your own country might cause the CEOs to not make 500 times the workers.
But how is this ANY different? Google may not be "out to destroy Java or steal it away" but that will be the end result as like MSFT in the 90s Google is the 800 pound gorilla and nobody is gonna wanna write to the Java standard when Google has teh hotness.
And as for the avoiding licensing again how is this ANY different? While I agree software patents need to DIAF the license on Java is pretty clear about when you need to pay up and when you don't. don't like it? Well as you pointed out there are plenty of languages out there from.NET to Lua with all kinds of licenses.
In the end I just don't see the difference except what may/may not be in Google's "heart" for want of a better word. Will anybody license or use Java if Google wins? Doubtful, just as if MSFT would have won we'd be writing to MS Java right now. But whether you call it Embrace, Extend, Extinguish or not is irrelevant as the end result is the same...everyone using the Google standard while Java rots because everyone wants on the Google gravytrain just as they wanted on the Windows bandwagon in the 90s.
You make the jokes but this is something I've been curious about...doesn't digital cables have to deal with interference like regular cables? Oh I'm sure monster cables are bullshit but I have noticed that if you go too cheap on musical instrument cables the crosstalk gets pretty nasty.
So does having a thicker wire help block interference at all with digital cables? Hell I've never been big on digital video (I still hook my my LCD monitor with VGA so I can keep my KVM switch) and logically it would seem as long as the 1s and 0s get there all would be gravy, but on longer runs it just makes me wonder if thicker would be better. Also what is up with HDMI and sound?
I've had to deal with several customers who bought the ultra cheap HDMI cables and we never could get sound through the things but my mid priced Monoprice cables worked just fine. Are they cheaping out on the wiring? Not bothering to hook something up inside? I've never split the things open to try to figure it out but it is irritating to hook up the HDMI cable and get zipola out to the TV. Maybe someone here that knows more about HDMI and cable runs could enlighten me.
Exactly! Look for an example to Mr "inconvenient truth" himself, the Rev Al Gore of the church of global warming. While he is ALL FOR slapping the USA and the west with a carbon credits scam, because of course he and his friends farting around in the Lear jets * have set themselves to be carbon billionaires off the scam, you haven't seen him come out demanding blocking of Chinese imports, nor those of other polluting third world countries, NOT ONCE, why? Because he and his friend make MONIES off of that silly!
Do we need to cut down on pollution? Sure we do, as we all live in a fishbowl. A good place to start would be to stop allowing companies to enjoy the American system while using tricks like the double dutch to get out of paying taxes. Halliburton wants to Inc in Dubai? Then let them move, CEO and all. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Tax the shit out of imports being brought in from countries that have shit regulations, and instead of building the F35 and new aircraft carriers when we outnumber the entire planet on those already by a huge number (what are we up to now, 11? What is this WWII?) and park half the ones we do have and use that plan the military was testing of using shipboard nuclear reactors to make biodiesel and jet fuel from reclaiming carbon from sea water.
*-which Rev Al has the carbon soaked balls to say is "carbon neutral because he pays himself credits from his own company which is like moving money from your left to right pocket and calling it "wealth redistribution" and demanding a tax break
And if they were robbing and raping before they "changed their ways" then the ONLY reason they are still here is LUCK, nothing more. I actually got to watch a guy like that die once, and if big Ron the bouncer would have refused to take him down? I'd have been more than happy to kill his dumb ass, would have slept damned good that night too, just as big Ron did.
I was playing in the house band of a little place called the C&C, just your average little C&W bar, nothing fancy. it was me, big Ron, and the old man that owned the bar (Jim I think? God its been years) and while the rest of the band had gone because the C&C closed from Tues-Thurs I had stayed behind to pack up some of my gear so I could play a place on Weds.
So this guy walks through the door and Jim says 'Sorry pal, you are about 30 minutes too late, we are shutting down" and this guy pulls a knife like out of crocodile dundee and says something like "you muthas gonna get on the floor and give me all your money". Now this was a big place so there was plenty of room between Mr dipshit and us, and we just look at each other and big Ron reaches around the edge of the bar and plops a.357 on the table and says "uhhh...no we're not. What is gonna happen is you're gonna drop the pig sticker and march your ass right back out that door" so what does Mr dipshit do? keep walking while slinging threats. At about 40 yards big Ron points the.357 and says "one more step and you ain't gonna be walking out of here, I ain't fucking around" and sure enough Mr dipshit keeps on coming. Big Ron ended up putting three rounds into his gut before he went down, the guy coughed twice while STILL spitting out threats along with the blood and promptly kicked the bucket.
Turned out not only was Mr dipshit amped on crank, but he had just got out after turning his GF's face into hamburger and was wanted for robbing a guy where he had stabbed him after he got the money just to be a prick I suppose. The cops took our statements and I had to go to a little hearing thing over it but it was pretty open and shut and it was pretty clear this asshole was one guy the cops were happy to have no longer among the living. The one I talked to said he had a rap sheet to the floor and most of it violent. Would it have bothered me to have been the one with the.357? considering the size of the knife and the fact it didn't bother me to see the asshole go probably not. Some guys are just like mad dogs and if they straighten their lives out? How nice for them, but I sure as fuck ain't gonna be his carving board in the off chance he may feel bad about it 10 years down the road.
As for TFA, how bad is the costs of getting it from the bottom of the ocean gonna be compared to just starting back up the mines we have for those metal here in the USA? Because IIRC we have mines for those metals in NM but they were shut down simply because we couldn't compete with the prices the Chinese gave for it, and since the Chinese aren't sharing anymore it sounds like as good a reason as any to fire them back up. So I guess it will come down to how deep this is and if the deep sea dredging of these materials is less than or equal to firing up the mines in NM.
Really? Then please explain how this is ANY different than the whole MS Java thing of the 90s. Look I think software patents are patently stupid as you are basically patenting algorithms but I have yet to hear how this is ANY different except that to fanbois it is "M$=boo and Google = yay!". Taking Java and making an incompatible version and ultimately hurting Java as everyone will write to the bigger companies "standard" over Java? Big check.
Hell they can call it Devilik, they can call it Pepperoni pizza for all that matters because in the end it is the SAME THING. You take Java and then alter it to fit the Google Devilik "standard" and tada! Java ends up dumped as everyone writes to the bigger company's version. Where did we see this before? Oh right MS Java before the courts laid the smackdown.
So while I personally wish software patents would DIAF as I believe they are not only killing innovation in this country they are also helping to contribute to that "giant sucking sound" that is ever more jobs going overseas to countries that don't play these crazy reindeer games it still doesn't change the fact that other than giving it a name that doesn't sound like Java it is the SAME SHIT that MSFT pulled in the 90s. I guess if old Bill would have called it a Capuchin it would have been cool? The only difference I can see is the rampant fanboi-ism of anything and everything Google.
Funny how it looks like Brin will succeed where old Bill failed and make an incompatible Java controlled by Google. While I'm glad there is one less software patent in the world hypocrisy isn't cool, so lets call a spade a spade shall we? this is the SSDD.
Actually I think you are partially correct and partially incorrect. while I believe that indie is the way to go (after seeing what kind of "contracts" the labels offer new bands I'm going DIY myself, digital recording and cheap powerful computers for editing make it pretty painless) I think it won't be standard CGI as much as game engines and machinima leading the way.
Look up the video "Escape from City 17" for a video that sadly is better IMHO than a lot of the Hollywood crap, with decent looking effects that I could easily see making grade B movies affordable. Lets be honest McGrew if the story is good you won't care about CGI as long as it isn't so cheesy it distracts from the story. With today's game engines that is quickly becoming the case, and as soon as the next gen consoles hit the streets so that the *&^%*&^% game companies will update their engines the graphics will only get more realistic and lush.
So I'd say the future is integrating game tech into the TV and movie realms, just as we musicians have integrated PCs and digital recording into our trick bags. it is pretty obvious TV is ruled by shitty reality shows, simply because they are dirt cheap. I think Joss Whedon had it right when he said quirky offbeat TV will go to a "buy our shit" model, where you will by T-Shirts and mugs ( and like above credits) to pay for production and if you like the output buy the DVD to help ensure more episodes are made.
Personally I'm ALL for this idea, as it lets us the viewers decide if there are gonna be more Firefly or Faith TVS or whatever. And the really nice part is the ever improving game engines will make it so that it will come down to storytelling again, not which SFX house did the latest boom fest. Sure there will always be AAA money fests, like I doubt anyone would have been able to film LOTR without an assload of money, but there is no reason why good stories can't be told with current tech at a small fraction of the cost. And that means more new ideas, more new storytellers, and more choices for all. Sounds good to me.
Actually Sumatra is pretty nice. it is fast, low resource, haven't done any side by side but so far looking at a ton of PDF that I have they look the same as they did in Foxit so I assume they are rendering correctly.
So if you want to give Sumatra a spin the easiest way is to use Ninite which turns 'clicky clicky next next next" into click and run. They also have tons of nice software from CCleaner to Glary Utilities and all of it TOOLBAR FREE without having to worry about checkboxes hidden on page 5.
as for TFA good luck, with the big complicated security mess that is PDFs? They are gonna need it. Personally I don't think having everyone with the same default PDF engine would be all that smart as it gives a common denominator for the bad guys to target. But then again I still think H.264 sucks compared to flash performance on older machines so what do I know.
Sorry but other than the initial setup I don't actually work on those, as I've found the surest way to have your time sucked up is to work on family PCs, and my time is a minimum $35 an hour.
No Bing after spending many years doing corporate "hired gun" work I now work on SOHOs, SMBs, and some consumer boxes. I have worked on ministers and deacons boxes, chamber of commerce boxes, cops and construction firms. One of the nice things about running a little PC shop is you get all kinds through the door, from the pious to the profane. I've actually had to give a HDD upgrade to a baptist minister because his PC was overloaded with shemale porn (why shemales? Who knows) or the secretary for the head of the chamber of commerce who insisted on having her BF's ass all over the thing, from the screensaver to her slideshow wallpapers (and trust me Bing his ass was NOT in the kind of shape one should have been taking pics, much less using them as wallpapers) and one big muckety muck at the local Church of Christ that my boss at the time just looooved to slip onto my desk for shits and giggles first thing in the morning, as he would ALWAYS end up with some bug revolving around Latino gay porn so I'd launch the thing and end up staring at a bunch of oiled up latin guys. Gee thanks Doug, could you not have waited until AFTER I had my breakfast?
Here is what I found in my own little informal research having to fix these things, although unlike the guys I knew at Worst Buy I did NOT go looking for porn and tunes to snatch, this is just what I saw thanks to being told to backup before a nuking or because they'd get the codec porn bug. What I found is this...reality porn like reality TV is quite popular, as in all that "hidden cam" style fake crap, those in power tended to have more kinky wares than Joe Average, with shemales and gangbangs being popular, there are waaaay too many women that film themselves with their toys that really shouldn't, and the most pious usually had the biggest collections compared to Joe Blow.
Of course this is my own findings from my own shop in my own area, but I bet here on/. we have a bunch of PC repair guys with plenty of stories like mine. So come on/. give it up: What kind of things did YOU find working on the pious and the muckety mucks?
I would add that rotaries expect at least a little bit of courtesy and common sense, two thing which sadly can be lacking over here. Hell in my area I dread 4 way stops as there are too many people who have NO CLUE how to use one, so you sit there while everyone else looks to each other trying to figure which will go first followed by all trying to go at the same time...arrrgh!
Like it or not I've found what works best by and large is the classic streetlight. Even the most clueless knows green means go, red means stop, and having a big light overhead lets everyone know ehen to blast their horn at the bimbo texting at the light instead of paying attention. If the roundabout works great in the UK? I'm happy for you. But I just don't see the thing becoming anything but a mess when we have so many that can't even use a four way correctly.
Yeah with all the hacks going on I'd say this isn't really a shock, as I put in my earlier comment I wouldn't be surprised if someone got bit by that porn bug going around and the script kiddie saw what he had and decided to get some LULZ.
I'd say a bigger question, which I know is OT but I haven't seen it asked anywhere so far, is who did Strauss-Kahn piss off so bad they are going so full out to get the guy? First you had the maid, which it turned out had called someone right after the "rape" wanting to know how much they thought she could squeeze out of the guy if she got him busted. Now that of course the prosecutor is running away from that after finding out not only about the call but the fact her life has been pretty much one big scam after another, now we have some French writer saying he attempted to rape her in 2002, which it is gonna be awful hard to defend yourself against something that supposedly happened 9 years ago.
This was a guy that looked like he'd be the next president of France, so who did he piss off? Whose toes did he step on to have such a giant bullseye painted on his ass? It is starting to look like, at least to me, he stepped on some powerful toes and now they are making sure his ass won't be elected dog catcher. He was the head of the IMF, did he threaten the petrodollar?
Do you drive a Ferrari to go to the corner store? Why not, after all it is MUCH better engineered than a Honda! And bass amps? WTF? With bass you have VERY low frequencies that are frankly a royal bitch to reproduce without distortion, especially 5 strings so my amp is nearly $2000. Would I have bought a cheaper one if it didn't muddy up on the low A note? yes but since it wasn't suitable for purpose I had to go with the more expensive.
And it is THAT, that right there, where you are fucking up. Did you catch it? Suitable for purpose. These folks aren't watching 1080p video, hell they ain't even watching 720 or even 480. They aren't wanting to, in no particular order...watch movies, listen to their album collections, do video conferencing, or play FPS games. So WTF would they need with some over engineered device with power blowing out its ass, when ALL THEY WANT is to check their email and read a book?
And this is why I'll be getting me and my GF each one. I have NO desire for an "app store", nor do I want to watch movies or play games on the thing because I have a desktop AND a laptop for that. All I want is a little basic tablet, with plenty of battery and easy to slip in a jacket pocket, so I can check my email or catch up on some light reading while I'm waiting in line somewhere.
So look Mr "Macs for All" (Nice ID BTW, enjoy that nice markup on X86?) if the latest iShiny floats your boat, although what you are even reading about Android if you are a Mac head I don't know, then I'm happy for you. I hear Ferrari is a nice ride but I don't think it is worth the price premium either.
But what you are suggesting is everyone needs a Ferrari when for many folks that Honda does them just fine. If we aren't gonna be showing off our little status symbol, or trying to set some speed record, what do we need the Ferrari for? Answer: We don't as it would be a waste of money and power that would just sit there unused. You don't NEED a multicore to check your email, nor do you need a hot graphics chip to read a book. The Cruz tabs read most of the major book formats and they hook up easily to Wifi so we can check our email.
Since that is ALL we want to do with the thing, why should we buy Apple? So Steve can earn another yacht? It would be like suggesting my dad needs a Magny Cours to serve files in a 5 man office. Its wasteful, its pointless, and frankly the difference will NEVER be felt for the simple jobs required of them. for many of us a tablet is just a litttle niche product to do a little niche job, not the second coming of iJesus.
Well as we saw here a few days ago there IS a pretty nasty porn bug going around ATM. Would it surprise me that somebody high up at Fox was looking for some fresh whacking material and got infected? Or that when they saw what data they had some script kiddie decided to go for the LULZ? Let me think......nope, wouldn't surprise me a bit. If anything working on PCs belonging to those in all walks of life I've found that that rail on about family values usually have the largest porn collections.
So I really wouldn't be surprised if they put out a "hacker group" story to cover up somebody in their org with keys to the kingdom looking at teh titties (or penis if they have a wide stance like Larry Craig) and got pwned. You'd be surprised how many PCs I've seen that the infections could be traced back to porn, hell people STILL fall for that "You need a codec to watch the hot action! Just run this Iz_Not_Bug_Iz_Codec.exe to see all the hot banging!" and how many years has that lame one been floating around?
And once upon a time nobody would have thought about having a database in anything but DBASE, or using a browser that wasn't Netscape...your point?
If something falls out of favor or doesn't become a hit, even if people are using it, Google WILL pull the plug. As a business this is probably a damned smart move, they probably have someone crunching the numbers and making sure they get X ROI for each project they keep, and that is their right to do as they will.
But don't pretend that the folks using those services Google shitcanned weren't affected, as they were. I had several favorite little clips that I would link to that were hosted on Google video, now those are gone so anybody who comes up on one of those past posts isn't gonna know WTF the post was about. The other guy was using their 411 and Wave. Is it gonna end our worlds that they are gone? No but it certainly doesn't make the day brighter by having a service we were using just disappear one day.
And don't forget that once upon a time it was Yahoo everywhere, hell I still see more folks set to the Yahoo Portal than I do the Google search page around here. Just because something is popular, even insanely popular right now doesn't mean it can't disappear tomorrow. Just ask all those folks who had Geocities pages.
Is it exposing CC data? If not I really don't see what the big whoop is as it isn't like Hulu is offering porn, right? Who cares if someone else knew you watched NCIS or some dumb reality show? Sure having fucked up code is never a good thing, but it isn't like a Sony "whoops we lost your CC numbers LOL!" level of fuckup is it?
Skimming TFA it looks more like they simply saw someone else's viewing history but TFA is kinda light on details besides "No CC numbers exposed!" so maybe someone who had it happen can clue us in...anything worth getting your panties in a wad over?
Well I'd say it is that and also for those that don't feel like spending iOS money on an iPad there are tons of CCC (Cheapo Chinese crap) pads running 2.0 that are a lot cheaper than the Galaxy.
I have sold quite a few lately of the $150 Cruz tablets which are running 2.0 I believe. For most here I'm sure they'd go "800Mhz? poo poo, 256Mb of RAM? Poo poo" but for the target demographic, which is women with kids, and the target usage, which is reading a book or checking their email while their kids play on the swings? Works like a charm, gets great battery life, fits easily in their purse.
So I have to wonder how many don't think they'll play with a tablet enough to justify iPad pricing and are just getting a CCC? Because after watching my customers play with the things I'm seriously thinking about picking up a couple of them for me and my GF. Sure it isn't gonna beat an iPad or run the newer Android, but so what? It would give me and Brenda an easy way to check our email when we are out somewhere and give me something to do when stuck at the doctor's office.
Honeycomb devices may be nice but I doubt I'll play with a pad long enough to find the cost appealing for one, not when I can get one of the cheap 2.0 pads for around $100.
Yeah but most developers I've seen usually have REALLY nice kits as nobody wants to compile on a P4, so we are talking minimum quad core with a whole pile of RAM and usually a nice GPU to boot.
But that kind of still misses my point as we are talking about ARM here, which correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't ARM's big selling point its reduced instructions? So why can't someone do JIT translation of the ARM instructions for X86?
Because it just seems to me a chip primarily designed for cell phones should be able to be emulated with even a low end quad and not have to chug which is what others here are saying the SDK does. I mean if surely my low end system has an AMD quad and an ATI GPU with 800 streams processors then the average Dev box is probably several orders of magnitude higher, so what's the problem? It seems like it would be easier here than the consoles as one isn't having to try to reverse engineer a DRM schema and both the X86 and ARM instruction set are pretty well documented.
You are like those full retards that think the moon landing was faked, you realize this right? Where is your proof? CITATION PLEASE or go back to blowing Linus and the gang. Because unless MSFT suddenly moved their HQ to the middle of AR without telling anyone (and since it has been over 100 all week with a heat index of 106+ it sure as fuck ain't WA) then you are once again showing what a pathetic little cunt you are.
Where is your response to the links? To the retailers leaving in droves? To Linus himself? Can you not read, is that it? Is words on a page that say something other than "herp derp deh lunix is teh roxorz LOL!" more than your teeny tiny mind able to comprehend? I've actually written articles on what retailers need to sell your product, where's yours? Where have you contributed ANYTHING but mindless Linus blowing, ehh?
Kill yourself. Make this world a better place. You are alone because nobody wants you, it isn't gonna get any better, tomorrow your life will be just as empty as it is right now....kill yourself. Will your worldly goods (although what they'll want with a cardboard box and a tux blankie is beyond me) to the Linux foundation and walk in front of that train. You know you want to, you know the loneliness is eating you alive...kill yourself.
Me I have to get the beef ready for the BBQ, my sweet little half Cherokee GF has as usual invited every kinfolk she has and good BBQ takes tim to do it right. Of course you wouldn't know of such things, having never know a woman's touch or had anything other than MickeyD's. How sad, such a sad and pitiful little creature. I find that....delightful. Make the world a better place, remove yourself from it.Oh and in case you need the links again so you can cry before you get the rope, and for the elucidation of others (I know its a big word, look it up) I'll be happy to paste the paragraphs that makes you so mad, just as a special gift for the holidays.
Isn't it sad, how like a frightened child afraid to look under the bed, you cower at the truth? if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos even though we are talking a teeny tiny subset of hardware? Oh right because Linux shits itself and dies if you use the default repos! Man that is some excellent product you got there! you think I can get better QA than the third largest OEM on the planet? What, you expect me to tell paying customers "Go to the forum, kiss some loser ass, and maybe, just maybe, in a few days someone will have mercy and give you a big pile of bullshit that may or may not make your sound work again"?
But then how do other emulators do it? We have emulators for everything from the old 2600 and C64 right up to the Nintendo DS and PS2 and from what I've seen they are quite speedy even on an early dual core CPU. Is ARM so complex that it simply can't be emulated? I thought ARM was a much simpler arch than x86.
Maybe the Google guys should hire some of the game emulator guys or at least have them give some pointers as I doubt the average cellphone ARM CPU is much more complex than emulating the entire PS2.
HAY GUYZ, its Alex again, the full retard that even after being given example after example after example of why retailers like me refuse to carry his product, or how even Torvalds the great says Plans? We don't need no steenkin plans! written in nice little words small enough for his little mind to understand all he can do is clutch his Tux blankie and go "Waah! He won't drink the kooliad! Waaah, he won't accept fucked up drivers and give them to his customers! Waahhh he must part of the global conspiracy!
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But what can you expect from a koolaid drinking freetard, that has completely accepted the "shit sandwich" design, as in "Here is a shit sandwich and since its free you have NO RIGHT to complain about the smell! Or the taste! Errr..or the fact that its a shit sandwich!" This is why there is a whole website dedicated To his bullshit and excuses and those like them. He reminds me of a small child that sticks his fingers in his ears and goes "La la la I can't hear you" as everytime this little Lintard troll shows up following me I post link after link proving my point and ALL he can say is that I must secretly be getting giant checks from MSFT. This is why even Penny Arcade writes cartoons about him and his pals.
Want to know why retailers won't carry your product, even though it is "free" and would save us licensing fees? Feel free to look at the above links, or Lintards like Alex who REALLY doesn't help your case any with their "La la la everything works and ur a shill!" kiddie bullshit. No go compile something sonny the men are trying to talk here
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He is probably talking about the public ed which I have to say depending on the area can be just okay or downright shite on a shingle. I ended up yanking my two boys out of public and going home school because not only was the public school a *football school* but probably one of the most bigoted places I had the misfortune to step foot in. The final straw was when a teacher decided to bring her bible INTO CLASS and instead on teaching English gave an hour long speech on "idolaters and sodomites" while my two boys, one Catholic and one gay, were in class.
We would have sued but my sister was in the final stage of cancer and frankly there was just too much stress to deal with their bullshit at the same time. So I told them where they could shove their bibles and went home school. Now the oldest is a Sophomore pred med and the youngest is deciding whether to go computer generated artworks or pursue his love of cooking and become a chef.
*-for those not in the USA a football school is where the entire school is based around...surprise...football. In a football school the books can be 20 years old and the computers worse than what you would dumpster dive, but the training gear would make most AA college programs green with envy and the footballers can pretty much do any damned thing they please and walk away from it. I myself didn't have to go to class for my last 4 years as the coach found me reading Asimov in detention on my first day of HS (The other coach said "Anyone not ready to give me 20 laps can get out of my gym"...so I left. I though I would die laughing when the principal put us in study hall/detention and told the coach "you NEVER tell them they can leave EVAR!") and drug me from class to class and got the teachers to sign off on giving me straight As without showing up, and in return I spent the time teaching my own class where I taught footballers how to spell flower and stood so they could pass the minimum skills test and keep playing. I swear everything was spelled phonetically by those guys, like floer for flower and stud for stood. But as long as they got to play the coach was happy and the classes were so dumbed down I was bored to tears anyway in school, so it all worked out just fine.
Actually my KVM supports 2048 by 15something and the monitor is only 1600x900 (nice pair of Dells one at work and one at home, great picture, got them brand new for free as a thank you from a very satisfied customer whom I had helped by letting make payments on his office setup when he first started his business.) so the picture quality is just fine, thanks. And have you ever priced a 4 port KVM switch for DVI? The words "highway robbery" come to mind, I call them completely full of shit myself. since the monitor we are talking about not only runs two boxes pretty much 24/7 but also hooks up to customers machines so I don't need to fire up that old CRT space heater in the corner? No thanks friend.
So I don't know where you got your info on but unless the KVM was some $20 CCC POS I don't see why you'd think it would be blurry. Either something supports native resolution or it don't, and when not fixing boxes I fire up FPSes and blast away and the only blurry vision I get is from these old eyes from sniping too long. But I don't see how anyone survives without KVM switches anymore as I've been using them on all my machines since the late 90s and they are handy as hell. If one of my neighbors were to show up at my apt with their tower going "Please help, something is wrong" I can have them plop it down by my PC desk and in less than 3 minutes I'm watching the boot screen. no muss no fuss and NO blurry picture, at least on the 100s of boxes and laptops I've plugged into the things.
So he's a republican?
As for TFA this is just damned smart business and if it were Apple or Google doing this the fanbois would be lining up to defend it. How much has MSFT spent on buying up patents this decade? How much have they spent on the patents they've filed? all this does is allow them to get a ROI and I would point out unlike certain OTHER companies...cough cough Apple cough...MSFT has been pretty damned good about giving RAND access to just about everything they've ever done. Don't forget that before they sued they offered TomTom the SAME RAND they offered every flash OEM and got the finger in return.
So don't get pissy that the "free as in beer" standing on a corner with a tin cup business model keeps you from paying RAND licenses, it isn't the job of MSFT or any other corp to prop up your failed business model, which I would argue the deaths or dying spasms of companies like Sun, Novell, and Mandriva shows this is the case. Oh and Proptip: Linux DOES infringe on MSFT patents, because it would be mathematically impossible for it NOT to with the sheer number of patents MSFT has, just as AMD infriges on Intel and vice versa. What are you gonna do, come up with a totally convoluted and ass backwards way for 2+2=4 to keep from infringing? Better start ripping all those video codecs out while you are at it, because with over 2000 patents MPEG-LA pretty much owns video compression/decompression.
In the end it isn't MSFT's fault you don't have the money to buy patents like everyone else, it isn't MSFT's fault you want to give your product away for free. The MSFT patents are filed in black and white for all to see at the patent office, feel free to try to rewrite your entire OS to avoid them. Good luck with that BTW.
Oh and a final bit of food for thought...you are worried about the old dog when it is the young wolves you need to worry about. As in TFA you can do a RAND license agreement and send MSFT on its way, while whom you can't pull that off with is the shitload of patent trolls buying patents like they are going out of style that will want everything including the office furniture, since the only money they make is by bleeding companies. Between that and TiVo showing the corps of the world how to turn Linux into a proprietary OS by simply adding code signing or eFuses? You got bigger things to worry about than MSFT setting up RAND licensing deals with headset makers.
Honestly, and I hate to do this since I haven't agreed to a damned thing they have done since the sweaty monkey took over, I think MSFT may be right on BOTH WebGL and OpenCL when it comes to security and here is why:
What is the most buggy driver on the average Windows system? Why that would be the graphics driver. Which driver is the LEAST likely to be updated? Again that would be the graphics driver. Which piece of hardware gets the least security checks because it would slow it down? Which piece of hardware thanks to the unified driver arch can take down tens of thousands of machines with a single buffer overflow? I think you get the idea.
ActiveX was a seriously Forest Gump level of stupid and this? Right up there alongside it. This is an idea which will have little to NO benefit for end users, increased risks of infection, and for what? So some browser can go wobbly windows like the average Linux distro? Yeah that's worth the huge increased risk.
Thanks to DXVA and H.26x support on even the low end GPUs released today there is already a trivial way to accelerate video. All this will do is give Windows and Linux users something in common, a nice single target for malware writers. It is a DUMB idea, greatly increases risk for the end users and for what? So you can run a game in a browser? The Asian MMOs have been doing that for ages by having plug ins and a mix of native and web code, and frankly the security there isn't very great there either.
So if someone can explain how having a device with a super fast CPU of its own, at least 256Mb of super fast RAM of its own, and with the most buggy and least likely to be updated drivers access to running untested or vetted third party code off the net I'm listening. Oh and with today's firmware it would probably be pretty trivial to flash in a loader that makes sure the payload is loaded upon startup. Nice for the malware writers, not really seeing a point for my end users here.
Would you support the middle east countries if they refused to sell us oil unless we allowed Sharia to be taught in our schools? After all they don't believe in separation of church and state and would consider it discrimination, so we should just comply, yes?
As much as I think the great firewall of China sucks it isn't the USA's job to tell others how to live and if the Chinese don't want it? Let them rise up and do something about it. Last I saw on it the people for the most part had bought it as a block on porn and the average Chinese was pretty complaisant about it.
So if you don't want to buy Chinese products because you don't support their policies? Good for you and I'm glad you are able to live without most electronics, same if you wish to do without products by any company that does business with China. But butting in and telling other countries how they should live has been the source of one clusterfuck after another when it comes to the USA, and I think frankly both we here in the USA and those in others countries would be much better off if we were to STFU and worry about our own affairs instead of every else's.
And that is why you'll soon see "made in Malaysia" stamped on everything, as the corps can always find SOMEONE to abuse. Who knows in 40 years this country may be so bankrupt both morally and financially that you'll see the government happy to let the CEOs create more superfund sites just to have less than 50% unemployment.
Since this is the day after Independence Day maybe a little wisdom from one of our Founding Fathers is in order: "Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains." which is of course why the corp owned MSM says nationalism is "bad" because giving a shit about your own country might cause the CEOs to not make 500 times the workers.
But how is this ANY different? Google may not be "out to destroy Java or steal it away" but that will be the end result as like MSFT in the 90s Google is the 800 pound gorilla and nobody is gonna wanna write to the Java standard when Google has teh hotness.
And as for the avoiding licensing again how is this ANY different? While I agree software patents need to DIAF the license on Java is pretty clear about when you need to pay up and when you don't. don't like it? Well as you pointed out there are plenty of languages out there from .NET to Lua with all kinds of licenses.
In the end I just don't see the difference except what may/may not be in Google's "heart" for want of a better word. Will anybody license or use Java if Google wins? Doubtful, just as if MSFT would have won we'd be writing to MS Java right now. But whether you call it Embrace, Extend, Extinguish or not is irrelevant as the end result is the same...everyone using the Google standard while Java rots because everyone wants on the Google gravytrain just as they wanted on the Windows bandwagon in the 90s.
You make the jokes but this is something I've been curious about...doesn't digital cables have to deal with interference like regular cables? Oh I'm sure monster cables are bullshit but I have noticed that if you go too cheap on musical instrument cables the crosstalk gets pretty nasty.
So does having a thicker wire help block interference at all with digital cables? Hell I've never been big on digital video (I still hook my my LCD monitor with VGA so I can keep my KVM switch) and logically it would seem as long as the 1s and 0s get there all would be gravy, but on longer runs it just makes me wonder if thicker would be better. Also what is up with HDMI and sound?
I've had to deal with several customers who bought the ultra cheap HDMI cables and we never could get sound through the things but my mid priced Monoprice cables worked just fine. Are they cheaping out on the wiring? Not bothering to hook something up inside? I've never split the things open to try to figure it out but it is irritating to hook up the HDMI cable and get zipola out to the TV. Maybe someone here that knows more about HDMI and cable runs could enlighten me.
Exactly! Look for an example to Mr "inconvenient truth" himself, the Rev Al Gore of the church of global warming. While he is ALL FOR slapping the USA and the west with a carbon credits scam, because of course he and his friends farting around in the Lear jets * have set themselves to be carbon billionaires off the scam, you haven't seen him come out demanding blocking of Chinese imports, nor those of other polluting third world countries, NOT ONCE, why? Because he and his friend make MONIES off of that silly!
Do we need to cut down on pollution? Sure we do, as we all live in a fishbowl. A good place to start would be to stop allowing companies to enjoy the American system while using tricks like the double dutch to get out of paying taxes. Halliburton wants to Inc in Dubai? Then let them move, CEO and all. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Tax the shit out of imports being brought in from countries that have shit regulations, and instead of building the F35 and new aircraft carriers when we outnumber the entire planet on those already by a huge number (what are we up to now, 11? What is this WWII?) and park half the ones we do have and use that plan the military was testing of using shipboard nuclear reactors to make biodiesel and jet fuel from reclaiming carbon from sea water.
*-which Rev Al has the carbon soaked balls to say is "carbon neutral because he pays himself credits from his own company which is like moving money from your left to right pocket and calling it "wealth redistribution" and demanding a tax break
And if they were robbing and raping before they "changed their ways" then the ONLY reason they are still here is LUCK, nothing more. I actually got to watch a guy like that die once, and if big Ron the bouncer would have refused to take him down? I'd have been more than happy to kill his dumb ass, would have slept damned good that night too, just as big Ron did.
I was playing in the house band of a little place called the C&C, just your average little C&W bar, nothing fancy. it was me, big Ron, and the old man that owned the bar (Jim I think? God its been years) and while the rest of the band had gone because the C&C closed from Tues-Thurs I had stayed behind to pack up some of my gear so I could play a place on Weds.
So this guy walks through the door and Jim says 'Sorry pal, you are about 30 minutes too late, we are shutting down" and this guy pulls a knife like out of crocodile dundee and says something like "you muthas gonna get on the floor and give me all your money". Now this was a big place so there was plenty of room between Mr dipshit and us, and we just look at each other and big Ron reaches around the edge of the bar and plops a .357 on the table and says "uhhh...no we're not. What is gonna happen is you're gonna drop the pig sticker and march your ass right back out that door" so what does Mr dipshit do? keep walking while slinging threats. At about 40 yards big Ron points the .357 and says "one more step and you ain't gonna be walking out of here, I ain't fucking around" and sure enough Mr dipshit keeps on coming. Big Ron ended up putting three rounds into his gut before he went down, the guy coughed twice while STILL spitting out threats along with the blood and promptly kicked the bucket.
Turned out not only was Mr dipshit amped on crank, but he had just got out after turning his GF's face into hamburger and was wanted for robbing a guy where he had stabbed him after he got the money just to be a prick I suppose. The cops took our statements and I had to go to a little hearing thing over it but it was pretty open and shut and it was pretty clear this asshole was one guy the cops were happy to have no longer among the living. The one I talked to said he had a rap sheet to the floor and most of it violent. Would it have bothered me to have been the one with the .357? considering the size of the knife and the fact it didn't bother me to see the asshole go probably not. Some guys are just like mad dogs and if they straighten their lives out? How nice for them, but I sure as fuck ain't gonna be his carving board in the off chance he may feel bad about it 10 years down the road.
As for TFA, how bad is the costs of getting it from the bottom of the ocean gonna be compared to just starting back up the mines we have for those metal here in the USA? Because IIRC we have mines for those metals in NM but they were shut down simply because we couldn't compete with the prices the Chinese gave for it, and since the Chinese aren't sharing anymore it sounds like as good a reason as any to fire them back up. So I guess it will come down to how deep this is and if the deep sea dredging of these materials is less than or equal to firing up the mines in NM.
Really? Then please explain how this is ANY different than the whole MS Java thing of the 90s. Look I think software patents are patently stupid as you are basically patenting algorithms but I have yet to hear how this is ANY different except that to fanbois it is "M$=boo and Google = yay!". Taking Java and making an incompatible version and ultimately hurting Java as everyone will write to the bigger companies "standard" over Java? Big check.
Hell they can call it Devilik, they can call it Pepperoni pizza for all that matters because in the end it is the SAME THING. You take Java and then alter it to fit the Google Devilik "standard" and tada! Java ends up dumped as everyone writes to the bigger company's version. Where did we see this before? Oh right MS Java before the courts laid the smackdown.
So while I personally wish software patents would DIAF as I believe they are not only killing innovation in this country they are also helping to contribute to that "giant sucking sound" that is ever more jobs going overseas to countries that don't play these crazy reindeer games it still doesn't change the fact that other than giving it a name that doesn't sound like Java it is the SAME SHIT that MSFT pulled in the 90s. I guess if old Bill would have called it a Capuchin it would have been cool? The only difference I can see is the rampant fanboi-ism of anything and everything Google.
Funny how it looks like Brin will succeed where old Bill failed and make an incompatible Java controlled by Google. While I'm glad there is one less software patent in the world hypocrisy isn't cool, so lets call a spade a spade shall we? this is the SSDD.
Actually I think you are partially correct and partially incorrect. while I believe that indie is the way to go (after seeing what kind of "contracts" the labels offer new bands I'm going DIY myself, digital recording and cheap powerful computers for editing make it pretty painless) I think it won't be standard CGI as much as game engines and machinima leading the way.
Look up the video "Escape from City 17" for a video that sadly is better IMHO than a lot of the Hollywood crap, with decent looking effects that I could easily see making grade B movies affordable. Lets be honest McGrew if the story is good you won't care about CGI as long as it isn't so cheesy it distracts from the story. With today's game engines that is quickly becoming the case, and as soon as the next gen consoles hit the streets so that the *&^%*&^% game companies will update their engines the graphics will only get more realistic and lush.
So I'd say the future is integrating game tech into the TV and movie realms, just as we musicians have integrated PCs and digital recording into our trick bags. it is pretty obvious TV is ruled by shitty reality shows, simply because they are dirt cheap. I think Joss Whedon had it right when he said quirky offbeat TV will go to a "buy our shit" model, where you will by T-Shirts and mugs ( and like above credits) to pay for production and if you like the output buy the DVD to help ensure more episodes are made.
Personally I'm ALL for this idea, as it lets us the viewers decide if there are gonna be more Firefly or Faith TVS or whatever. And the really nice part is the ever improving game engines will make it so that it will come down to storytelling again, not which SFX house did the latest boom fest. Sure there will always be AAA money fests, like I doubt anyone would have been able to film LOTR without an assload of money, but there is no reason why good stories can't be told with current tech at a small fraction of the cost. And that means more new ideas, more new storytellers, and more choices for all. Sounds good to me.
Actually Sumatra is pretty nice. it is fast, low resource, haven't done any side by side but so far looking at a ton of PDF that I have they look the same as they did in Foxit so I assume they are rendering correctly.
So if you want to give Sumatra a spin the easiest way is to use Ninite which turns 'clicky clicky next next next" into click and run. They also have tons of nice software from CCleaner to Glary Utilities and all of it TOOLBAR FREE without having to worry about checkboxes hidden on page 5.
as for TFA good luck, with the big complicated security mess that is PDFs? They are gonna need it. Personally I don't think having everyone with the same default PDF engine would be all that smart as it gives a common denominator for the bad guys to target. But then again I still think H.264 sucks compared to flash performance on older machines so what do I know.
Sorry but other than the initial setup I don't actually work on those, as I've found the surest way to have your time sucked up is to work on family PCs, and my time is a minimum $35 an hour.
No Bing after spending many years doing corporate "hired gun" work I now work on SOHOs, SMBs, and some consumer boxes. I have worked on ministers and deacons boxes, chamber of commerce boxes, cops and construction firms. One of the nice things about running a little PC shop is you get all kinds through the door, from the pious to the profane. I've actually had to give a HDD upgrade to a baptist minister because his PC was overloaded with shemale porn (why shemales? Who knows) or the secretary for the head of the chamber of commerce who insisted on having her BF's ass all over the thing, from the screensaver to her slideshow wallpapers (and trust me Bing his ass was NOT in the kind of shape one should have been taking pics, much less using them as wallpapers) and one big muckety muck at the local Church of Christ that my boss at the time just looooved to slip onto my desk for shits and giggles first thing in the morning, as he would ALWAYS end up with some bug revolving around Latino gay porn so I'd launch the thing and end up staring at a bunch of oiled up latin guys. Gee thanks Doug, could you not have waited until AFTER I had my breakfast?
Here is what I found in my own little informal research having to fix these things, although unlike the guys I knew at Worst Buy I did NOT go looking for porn and tunes to snatch, this is just what I saw thanks to being told to backup before a nuking or because they'd get the codec porn bug. What I found is this...reality porn like reality TV is quite popular, as in all that "hidden cam" style fake crap, those in power tended to have more kinky wares than Joe Average, with shemales and gangbangs being popular, there are waaaay too many women that film themselves with their toys that really shouldn't, and the most pious usually had the biggest collections compared to Joe Blow.
Of course this is my own findings from my own shop in my own area, but I bet here on /. we have a bunch of PC repair guys with plenty of stories like mine. So come on /. give it up: What kind of things did YOU find working on the pious and the muckety mucks?
I would add that rotaries expect at least a little bit of courtesy and common sense, two thing which sadly can be lacking over here. Hell in my area I dread 4 way stops as there are too many people who have NO CLUE how to use one, so you sit there while everyone else looks to each other trying to figure which will go first followed by all trying to go at the same time...arrrgh!
Like it or not I've found what works best by and large is the classic streetlight. Even the most clueless knows green means go, red means stop, and having a big light overhead lets everyone know ehen to blast their horn at the bimbo texting at the light instead of paying attention. If the roundabout works great in the UK? I'm happy for you. But I just don't see the thing becoming anything but a mess when we have so many that can't even use a four way correctly.
Yeah with all the hacks going on I'd say this isn't really a shock, as I put in my earlier comment I wouldn't be surprised if someone got bit by that porn bug going around and the script kiddie saw what he had and decided to get some LULZ.
I'd say a bigger question, which I know is OT but I haven't seen it asked anywhere so far, is who did Strauss-Kahn piss off so bad they are going so full out to get the guy? First you had the maid, which it turned out had called someone right after the "rape" wanting to know how much they thought she could squeeze out of the guy if she got him busted. Now that of course the prosecutor is running away from that after finding out not only about the call but the fact her life has been pretty much one big scam after another, now we have some French writer saying he attempted to rape her in 2002, which it is gonna be awful hard to defend yourself against something that supposedly happened 9 years ago.
This was a guy that looked like he'd be the next president of France, so who did he piss off? Whose toes did he step on to have such a giant bullseye painted on his ass? It is starting to look like, at least to me, he stepped on some powerful toes and now they are making sure his ass won't be elected dog catcher. He was the head of the IMF, did he threaten the petrodollar?
Do you drive a Ferrari to go to the corner store? Why not, after all it is MUCH better engineered than a Honda! And bass amps? WTF? With bass you have VERY low frequencies that are frankly a royal bitch to reproduce without distortion, especially 5 strings so my amp is nearly $2000. Would I have bought a cheaper one if it didn't muddy up on the low A note? yes but since it wasn't suitable for purpose I had to go with the more expensive.
And it is THAT, that right there, where you are fucking up. Did you catch it? Suitable for purpose. These folks aren't watching 1080p video, hell they ain't even watching 720 or even 480. They aren't wanting to, in no particular order...watch movies, listen to their album collections, do video conferencing, or play FPS games. So WTF would they need with some over engineered device with power blowing out its ass, when ALL THEY WANT is to check their email and read a book?
And this is why I'll be getting me and my GF each one. I have NO desire for an "app store", nor do I want to watch movies or play games on the thing because I have a desktop AND a laptop for that. All I want is a little basic tablet, with plenty of battery and easy to slip in a jacket pocket, so I can check my email or catch up on some light reading while I'm waiting in line somewhere.
So look Mr "Macs for All" (Nice ID BTW, enjoy that nice markup on X86?) if the latest iShiny floats your boat, although what you are even reading about Android if you are a Mac head I don't know, then I'm happy for you. I hear Ferrari is a nice ride but I don't think it is worth the price premium either.
But what you are suggesting is everyone needs a Ferrari when for many folks that Honda does them just fine. If we aren't gonna be showing off our little status symbol, or trying to set some speed record, what do we need the Ferrari for? Answer: We don't as it would be a waste of money and power that would just sit there unused. You don't NEED a multicore to check your email, nor do you need a hot graphics chip to read a book. The Cruz tabs read most of the major book formats and they hook up easily to Wifi so we can check our email.
Since that is ALL we want to do with the thing, why should we buy Apple? So Steve can earn another yacht? It would be like suggesting my dad needs a Magny Cours to serve files in a 5 man office. Its wasteful, its pointless, and frankly the difference will NEVER be felt for the simple jobs required of them. for many of us a tablet is just a litttle niche product to do a little niche job, not the second coming of iJesus.
Well as we saw here a few days ago there IS a pretty nasty porn bug going around ATM. Would it surprise me that somebody high up at Fox was looking for some fresh whacking material and got infected? Or that when they saw what data they had some script kiddie decided to go for the LULZ? Let me think......nope, wouldn't surprise me a bit. If anything working on PCs belonging to those in all walks of life I've found that that rail on about family values usually have the largest porn collections.
So I really wouldn't be surprised if they put out a "hacker group" story to cover up somebody in their org with keys to the kingdom looking at teh titties (or penis if they have a wide stance like Larry Craig) and got pwned. You'd be surprised how many PCs I've seen that the infections could be traced back to porn, hell people STILL fall for that "You need a codec to watch the hot action! Just run this Iz_Not_Bug_Iz_Codec.exe to see all the hot banging!" and how many years has that lame one been floating around?
And once upon a time nobody would have thought about having a database in anything but DBASE, or using a browser that wasn't Netscape...your point?
If something falls out of favor or doesn't become a hit, even if people are using it, Google WILL pull the plug. As a business this is probably a damned smart move, they probably have someone crunching the numbers and making sure they get X ROI for each project they keep, and that is their right to do as they will.
But don't pretend that the folks using those services Google shitcanned weren't affected, as they were. I had several favorite little clips that I would link to that were hosted on Google video, now those are gone so anybody who comes up on one of those past posts isn't gonna know WTF the post was about. The other guy was using their 411 and Wave. Is it gonna end our worlds that they are gone? No but it certainly doesn't make the day brighter by having a service we were using just disappear one day.
And don't forget that once upon a time it was Yahoo everywhere, hell I still see more folks set to the Yahoo Portal than I do the Google search page around here. Just because something is popular, even insanely popular right now doesn't mean it can't disappear tomorrow. Just ask all those folks who had Geocities pages.
Is it exposing CC data? If not I really don't see what the big whoop is as it isn't like Hulu is offering porn, right? Who cares if someone else knew you watched NCIS or some dumb reality show? Sure having fucked up code is never a good thing, but it isn't like a Sony "whoops we lost your CC numbers LOL!" level of fuckup is it?
Skimming TFA it looks more like they simply saw someone else's viewing history but TFA is kinda light on details besides "No CC numbers exposed!" so maybe someone who had it happen can clue us in...anything worth getting your panties in a wad over?
Well I'd say it is that and also for those that don't feel like spending iOS money on an iPad there are tons of CCC (Cheapo Chinese crap) pads running 2.0 that are a lot cheaper than the Galaxy.
I have sold quite a few lately of the $150 Cruz tablets which are running 2.0 I believe. For most here I'm sure they'd go "800Mhz? poo poo, 256Mb of RAM? Poo poo" but for the target demographic, which is women with kids, and the target usage, which is reading a book or checking their email while their kids play on the swings? Works like a charm, gets great battery life, fits easily in their purse.
So I have to wonder how many don't think they'll play with a tablet enough to justify iPad pricing and are just getting a CCC? Because after watching my customers play with the things I'm seriously thinking about picking up a couple of them for me and my GF. Sure it isn't gonna beat an iPad or run the newer Android, but so what? It would give me and Brenda an easy way to check our email when we are out somewhere and give me something to do when stuck at the doctor's office.
Honeycomb devices may be nice but I doubt I'll play with a pad long enough to find the cost appealing for one, not when I can get one of the cheap 2.0 pads for around $100.
Yeah but most developers I've seen usually have REALLY nice kits as nobody wants to compile on a P4, so we are talking minimum quad core with a whole pile of RAM and usually a nice GPU to boot.
But that kind of still misses my point as we are talking about ARM here, which correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't ARM's big selling point its reduced instructions? So why can't someone do JIT translation of the ARM instructions for X86?
Because it just seems to me a chip primarily designed for cell phones should be able to be emulated with even a low end quad and not have to chug which is what others here are saying the SDK does. I mean if surely my low end system has an AMD quad and an ATI GPU with 800 streams processors then the average Dev box is probably several orders of magnitude higher, so what's the problem? It seems like it would be easier here than the consoles as one isn't having to try to reverse engineer a DRM schema and both the X86 and ARM instruction set are pretty well documented.
You are like those full retards that think the moon landing was faked, you realize this right? Where is your proof? CITATION PLEASE or go back to blowing Linus and the gang. Because unless MSFT suddenly moved their HQ to the middle of AR without telling anyone (and since it has been over 100 all week with a heat index of 106+ it sure as fuck ain't WA) then you are once again showing what a pathetic little cunt you are.
Where is your response to the links? To the retailers leaving in droves? To Linus himself? Can you not read, is that it? Is words on a page that say something other than "herp derp deh lunix is teh roxorz LOL!" more than your teeny tiny mind able to comprehend? I've actually written articles on what retailers need to sell your product, where's yours? Where have you contributed ANYTHING but mindless Linus blowing, ehh?
Kill yourself. Make this world a better place. You are alone because nobody wants you, it isn't gonna get any better, tomorrow your life will be just as empty as it is right now....kill yourself. Will your worldly goods (although what they'll want with a cardboard box and a tux blankie is beyond me) to the Linux foundation and walk in front of that train. You know you want to, you know the loneliness is eating you alive...kill yourself.
Me I have to get the beef ready for the BBQ, my sweet little half Cherokee GF has as usual invited every kinfolk she has and good BBQ takes tim to do it right. Of course you wouldn't know of such things, having never know a woman's touch or had anything other than MickeyD's. How sad, such a sad and pitiful little creature. I find that....delightful. Make the world a better place, remove yourself from it.Oh and in case you need the links again so you can cry before you get the rope, and for the elucidation of others (I know its a big word, look it up) I'll be happy to paste the paragraphs that makes you so mad, just as a special gift for the holidays.
Isn't it sad, how like a frightened child afraid to look under the bed, you cower at the truth? if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos even though we are talking a teeny tiny subset of hardware? Oh right because Linux shits itself and dies if you use the default repos! Man that is some excellent product you got there! you think I can get better QA than the third largest OEM on the planet? What, you expect me to tell paying customers "Go to the forum, kiss some loser ass, and maybe, just maybe, in a few days someone will have mercy and give you a big pile of bullshit that may or may not make your sound work again"?
Bleeding yet douchey? want some more? nice thing about having the truth on your side, you can keep throwing punches all day! How about how a decade old Windows beat the shit out of Linux on netbooks or how ASUS has given up on your bullshit or how about Walmart running away from linux as fast as it can? You got the crazy koolaid drunk enough to say they ALL are paid shills because they won't do your forum dance or CLI horseshit? Meanwhile your "hero" Torvalds the great says Plans? We don't need no steenkin plans!. Why don't you tell them that at work next week, see how quick you get a pink slip? More? How about you actually have the balls to celebrate getting a whole 1% market share while you are actually lower than JavaME and there is a whole website dedicated To your bullshit and
But then how do other emulators do it? We have emulators for everything from the old 2600 and C64 right up to the Nintendo DS and PS2 and from what I've seen they are quite speedy even on an early dual core CPU. Is ARM so complex that it simply can't be emulated? I thought ARM was a much simpler arch than x86.
Maybe the Google guys should hire some of the game emulator guys or at least have them give some pointers as I doubt the average cellphone ARM CPU is much more complex than emulating the entire PS2.
HAY GUYZ, its Alex again, the full retard that even after being given example after example after example of why retailers like me refuse to carry his product, or how even Torvalds the great says Plans? We don't need no steenkin plans! written in nice little words small enough for his little mind to understand all he can do is clutch his Tux blankie and go "Waah! He won't drink the kooliad! Waaah, he won't accept fucked up drivers and give them to his customers! Waahhh he must part of the global conspiracy!
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But what can you expect from a koolaid drinking freetard, that has completely accepted the "shit sandwich" design, as in "Here is a shit sandwich and since its free you have NO RIGHT to complain about the smell! Or the taste! Errr..or the fact that its a shit sandwich!" This is why there is a whole website dedicated To his bullshit and excuses and those like them. He reminds me of a small child that sticks his fingers in his ears and goes "La la la I can't hear you" as everytime this little Lintard troll shows up following me I post link after link proving my point and ALL he can say is that I must secretly be getting giant checks from MSFT. This is why even Penny Arcade writes cartoons about him and his pals.
Want to know why retailers won't carry your product, even though it is "free" and would save us licensing fees? Feel free to look at the above links, or Lintards like Alex who REALLY doesn't help your case any with their "La la la everything works and ur a shill!" kiddie bullshit. No go compile something sonny the men are trying to talk here