Well this is why I've never actually blocked anybody, hell until recently I had no idea about this whole "friend/foe" crap because honestly the thought never even crossed my mind that there would be a reason to label someone a "foe" simply because I didn't agree with their post.
I'm getting ready to move but once I'm settled in I'll be happy to try it with SUSE if you like but I hate to break the news to ya....its gonna fail. The problem is Torvalds driver model which worked fine in 1993 when every Linux driver could fit on a floppy simply does NOT scale to handle the literally tens of thousands of drivers that are now required of a modern OS. Look at this SUSE chart and compare it to Windows. Now if I take the oldest currently supported Windows OS, Vista, I can take the RTM and patch it to current and will have NO drivers break, for SUSE to do the same thing (thanks to how short the average Linux support cycle is) you would have to start with SUSE 10 and go aaaalll the way through to SUSE 12, that is NINE releases that you would have to upgrade to. I bet my last dollar that if I try this? Its gonna break, because Torvalds driver model is just too brittle to handle that many changes.
Its a thousand times worse with something like Ubuntu, which ironically is called the "user friendly" Linux as you would have to go from 6.10 to 15.04 because remember Canonical says that LTS is NOT for consumers but for business, which means consumers is expected to go through FOURTEEN upgrades in just the time Vista has been on the market! Even if you ignore Canonical and go LTS you are still looking a four upgrades which I can tell you from actually trying it what you'll get at the end is a broken mess!
If people want to call me names, or cyberstalk me like the "fat fuck" troll did? Go right ahead, but I made the Hairyfeet Challenge for a reason and that reason was simple...create a completely 100% bias free objective test to see if Linux can be a functional desktop when compared to Windows and I'm sorry but...it just can't and it all comes down to Torvalds refusing to let go of a broken driver model because...reasons. I mean anybody can do this test, you yourself can complete it within a few hours using any old box or laptop lying around or grabbed for a few bucks off of CL and all it asks of Linux frankly should be things that should be able to be taken for granted, like "if I keep this thing updated with the latest security patches will it remain functional?" and the answer is a big fat nope.
So if I made you think, or look at something from a different view, even if you thought I was full of shit? I'm glad. Sadly as I learned recently from coming into contact with some SJWs the younger generation really doesn't value speech or interaction with others of differing views, they want an echo chamber that reinforces their narrow views. Me personally I'd rather spend 10 hours arguing politics in a room with neo-nazis, black panthers, and bible thumpers than 10 minutes trapped in a room with an SJW, as at least the above groups don't try to take away anybody's right to disagree.
Because you would have nothing but groupthink as well as groups targeting individuals?
Not to toot my own horn but many of my posts are modded up, I guess because there are plenty of folks that appreciate somebody that doesn't pull their punches or sugarcoat their words in bullshit. I sit in my little shop, run tests, talk to folks, and report what I see trending around me. So why would your system be a problem? Because a certain faction here fucking HATES me, hatred to the point I was cyberstalked for over a year by one member of this faction who must have spent a good 12 hours a day doing nothing but searching the net for every place I posted just so he could spam "die you fat fucker die" over and over and over.
So what you would have is one group saying "We do not like this person, lets erase him" and then it wouldn't matter what this person posted large numbers would mark him troll and block him, which by your system would allow them to erase this person from the place. At least here we have metamods that tend to undo some, not all, of obvious modding based on the person not the content, but if they implemented your system all they would have to do is keep pounding and they could just wipe any person they didn't like from sight, not something you want to hand out to just anybody.
Come to think of it, one of the new sites I have been hanging out at tried something similar. Instead of the usual karma what they have is a points system. You make a popular post? You get points. You start at I think 25 and max out at 50, but where they screwed up was trying out this idea that every downmod would cost not only the modder a point but the one that was downmodded as well, and that once you went below a certain threshold your posts were automatically placed at zero and you didn't get any mod points.....can you guess what went wrong?
What went wrong was a radical SJW then joined the site and tried to make it an SJW haven. I know that the name SJW is sometimes thrown around without care, but in this case? We are talking about a white beta male that advocated the extermination of the white race and that only whites should be charged with hate crimes because of "historical racism" so...yeah classic SJW. He then took a page out of the classic Slashdot "Mikey(insert number)" playbook and made a shitload of accounts, posted just enough positive copypasta in each account to get them modded high enough to get mod points then proceeded to modbomb like there was no tomorrow. Things quickly soured there, some of the most popular posters ended up bailing, until finally the mods caught on and shut down his sockpuppet army and took away his rights to mod.
So the moral of the story? The reason why "great ideas" like yours haven't been tried is because you are not looking at it from the POV of an attacker. You ALWAYS have to look at these things from the angle of "If I wanted to wreck the site, how can I use this to my advantage?". Too many times you look at things like this and assume the users have the best intentions while forgetting there are probably just as many seriously unbalanced douchebags as there is legit users out there, so you have to plan accordingly.
The "mobile boom" has also brought with it extremely stingy data caps with heavy overage fees...is MSFT gonna make a deal with all the major carriers so that these mandatory Windows Updates don't assrape folks' wallets? Didn't think so which is why I'm advising customers to take a "wait and see" when it comes to Win 10.
I would argue that TFA just shows MSFT is still out of touch when it comes to its customers and the current trends in tech, otherwise Windows would automatically detect 3G/4G connections and disable WU while asking the user if they wished to use WU over their mobile connection.
If it ends up like DX11 no worries then, as nearly all new games also have a DX09 mode, often by default.
When is MSFT gonna learn tying DX versions to only the latest and greatest does nothing but kill its adoption by the gaming companies? If they made DX12 a Win 7 through 10 deal we'd see a ton of games coming out for it, instead the devs will just take a look at the Steam hardware survey, see a huge userbase of Windows 7 and 8.1 gamers and say "its not worth building 2 versions, not when DX11 works on everybody" and that will be that.
Sigh....right click on the computer icon>choose "manage">choose "services"> disable Windows Update Service...tada! You can even control it via Task Scheduler if you want to check on certain days or times.
Personally I'm waiting until WSUS Offline has Windows 10 support before I think about switching, I have Win 10 on an SSD so I can just pop it in but so far? I'd say its a big "meh" when it comes to the desktop when compared to Windows 7. On laptops, especially those still using HDDs? Its under the hood speed ups make it worth checking out but on a desktop with SSD? It has more irritations like Cortana and the fugly as fuck settings/control panel mess while not really offering any "Wow I have to have that" moments....and who in the fuck thought that those fonts and icons were the way to go? The faded fugly explorer, icons that look worse than KDE 1, I'm telling my customers to wait and see because right now? Really not impressed.
What I think is hilarious is Neil has been in studios all his life yet can't seem to grasp how (and more importantly WHY) digital studios work the way they do.
For those that have never recorded music? Its REALLY simple to explain why you use 192k in the studio and not on the finished product...ready? The music in the studio AIN'T FINISHED YET, its really THAT easy folks! When you are recording you are gonna be adding effects, EQ, layering multiple tracks, that extra headroom helps when it comes to adding these things without raising the noise floor, once the mastering is done? Its done and you don't need that extra headroom because there is nothing to be added later, you already know where the noise floor is and have dealt with it, its done folks!
And audio ain't like video folks, where they could add infrared and ultraviolet and you'd just never know it was there,because of the way AD/DA converters work all that no longer needed bandwidth you are adding to those tracks? Unless you bought pro studio monitors its gonna get translated as hiss, WITH pro studio monitors? You'll have paid $$$$ to hear the sounds of...silence. Because again the increased bandwidth is not there to give the 1% of the planet with super hearing a few extra high notes, its to lower the noise floor to give you room to work.
What makes me LMAO is the last report I saw on the Chinese F35 ripoff says it actually flies very well since they didn't have to cater to the damned marines wanting the stupid thing to be VTOL, maybe we should just outsource our fricking fighter production to them? It'd probably be a hell of a lot cheaper and i don't see it being any crappier than the F35 is now;-)
As for TFA? Not gonna happen and not because of the "big bad US gubment" but because most companies don't sell when they are on an upswing and that is what Micron has been as of late. They crank out a LOT of NAND Flash and between SSDs and mobile devices that is a very good market to be in, and of course there is no such thing as too much RAM and with the default RAM amounts steadily climbing in everything across the board...why in the world would they want to sell? The business they are in is growing steadily, they seem to be having no problems with cost,labor, or supplies, there really is no reason to cash out at this point.
It has nothing to do with cops, it has to do with POLITICS. Why do you think we have a border you could literally drive a nuke through, chunks of our cities becoming war zones and all we see on TV is debates over a 150 year old flag and whether gays marrying will shake up the country? Its because those topics are "safe", they won't expose any skeletons, its lets the politicians stump for or against without risking anything. They like stories like Wu because it gives you frankly a wealth of "first world problem" topics that are trivial and which won't cause a politician to risk anything. Congressman Porkus risks nothing if he comes out one way or another on feminism or a 150 year old flag, unlike risking votes and/or lobbyist money if we were to get on "real" issues. And what prosecutor is gonna wanna touch Wu? Why that might get me labeled an "ist" like sexist, transphobe, fuck that shit! Cops aren't gonna waste time if the prosecutor won't run with it and no prosecutor is gonna risk being called an "ist" in 2015, its political suicide and most prosecutors use that job as a stepping stone to higher office.
As for the media? As I said show me ONE, just one, 100% unbiased look at gamergate, with both sides treated as human beings instead of trying to demonize one or the other...you can't, because we don't have news orgs, we have political orgs. You will never get a left site like MSNBC (or NBC,CBS,ABC) to run a story that goes against the left political stance, anymore than you'll get Fox news to run a story that goes against the right political stance. It doesn't matter what the facts are if they came from Breitbart, or if they lean towards individuals being responsible for their own actions if you are a left site, just as nobody on the right is gonna care what the facts are if they came from HuffPo and lean towards a "stop stomping the poor" narrative.
So it really has nothing to do with gamergate, it has to do with pushing "news" that helps reinforce your political stance while still being "safe" compared to real "this could cost me votes" issues. As Jessie Ventura said "politics has become pro wrestling, you say all these nasty things about your opponent on camera and when the camera stops you and he go out to lunch and laugh about it with the lobbyists".
We should know one way or another within the next 18 months as the CEO recently revealed we are giving Windows 10 away because of Windows Phone, specifically to build a huge install base to get devs developing universal binaries which work on both desktop and phone.
Now do I personally think this will work? Bwa ha ha...fuck no, not a chance in hell and here is why....Windows App Store sucks monkey nuts, too much nickel and dime garbage apps and outright fakes and stolen apps (look up something like VLC and look at how many fakers with the VLC icon show up), even if they fix that? Windows users have made it clear that a phone appstore on the desktop is a DO NOT WANT and they are quite happy getting their programs they way they do now, from the Internet at large. Windows users are set in their ways, we are happy with the way things worked before and tend to get pissy if you try to change our workflow (for obvious reasons, you are fucking up our workflow with crap we don't want, go away) so I have a feeling programs like classic shell are gonna fucking blow up as people take one look at the mish mash between Win 7 and Win 8 and go "Uhhh can I make it just act like Win 7, please?".
And finally...the big rotting elephant in the room, a lesson the CEO seems not to have grasped from the Windows 8 debacle.....yeah Nadella? This is your customer here, been using MSFT since fucking DOS so let me clue you in on a little secret okay? Now listen close, this is important....you see desktops and laptops? They are big screened devices that you hold VERTICALLY and which have keyboards and mice as input devices, compare this to phones and tablets which you hold HORIZONTALLY and the input device is your finger....see the problem now? A GUI that works well in one form factor? Gonna be a big pile of ass and fail in the other, and nobody is gonna give a shit if your "universal app" runs on both their phone and their desktop if the UI is broken on one of the two or they have to constantly shift between two GUIs!
As much as I hate Apple they DO get this, which is why you have OSX and iOS and you don't see them pushing iOS on the desktop, same with Google and Android/ChromeOS. So just look at your competitors and realize what you are gonna try? Ain't gonna work. you tried putting cellphone UIs on the desktop, now you are gonna try bringing the desktop to the phone...yeah, no, its gonna suck. Hire some killer app devs to make exclusives for your phone if you wanna push it, but universal binaries? Just not gonna work.
I take it you have never played some of the more popular FPS titles? You'll quickly learn the average 15 year old has two favorite words, nigger and faggot, which they love to repeat more than a parrot saying "polly want a cracker" in those old cartoons.
Uhhh there isn't an investigation because it doesn't support the political narrative? Its no different than how when a black teen recently committed an armed robbery and was shot running at the cop with a loaded stolen firearm you'll get protesters saying the cop should have just stood there and "black lives matter" signs and tons of press coverage, but when Baltimore reaches triple digit body counts of blacks slaughtering blacks? It'll barely get a peep on the local news.
The reason why is simple, one lets you push a political narrative, blacks are always victims, more gun control, etc while the other? Does not. If Wu is being targeted? You can push stories on transgender issues, sexism, cyberbullying, violence in the media, you can probably get several weeks worth of angles out of that one which will also touch on political hot buttons that politicians can use one way or another...if Wu is just another narcissist hypocrite looking for attention and $$$? You won't even get 2 stories out of that one.
Ever since the birth of CNN and 24 hour news its all become about narratives and themes, see ANY of the MSM looking at both sides of gamergate? Even attempting to be objective? Of course not, because sensationalism and political narratives that result in "us VS them" sell, the other is just the facts, boring. And like it or not there really isn't any objective reporting anymore, every news org is either hard left or hard right and if you are hard left you certainly aren't gonna run a story showing a "champion of feminism" is actually a scammer, not only will that not follow the narrative but it might help "the other side" and we just can't have that.
I really wish it weren't so, because even though I'm pretty far to the left I want to be given the evidence and be allowed to make up my own mind like a big boy, but all we get today from the MSM (and sadly the feds, just look at how little was done when it comes to things which goes against the political narrative, from the fake yellowcake papers to fast & furious) is propaganda for one side or the other. All we can do as thinking adults is do as much research as possible from a variety of sources and make up our own minds.
Uhhh cabbies have to have decent insurance, pass tests, and frankly are on average a hell of a lot more experienced than "Bob in his Malibu".
I don't know about everybody else but I'm personally sick of these libertarian "Hey we'll make an app and bypass consumer protection laws, we can make money just proves how bad the ebil gubment is" bullshit. So far I have yet to see any of this "sharing/disrupting" businesses that doesn't boil down to "Bypass consumer protection laws, fuck the workers, profit" douchebaggery. In every case, be it bypassing consumer protections or fucking over the workers by ignoring minimum wage or overtime laws all these new startups do is the same kind of Gordon Gecko "fuck everybody but those at the top" horseshit that has frankly run this country into the ground.
I personally hope the lot of these "new way" douchebags get shut down and hopefully some of them do time, as all they are doing is giving the finger to the last century of consumer and worker protections so they can stuff that money in their pockets.
Then don't turn it off, but DO measure how much your GPU is sucking when you run an HTML V5 video and then compare it to a Flash video...go on, I'll wait.....what's that? Its sucking a good 2 to 3 times what Flash does on the exact.same.video? Ding ding ding, we have a winnar! Or in this case LOSER.
Do you think that GPU cycles grow on trees? That HTML V5 magically avoids the second law of thermodynamics? News Flash TANSTAAFL and all hardware acceleration is doing is covering how much power HTML V5 is pissing down a rathole to do less than what Flash did before it. in an increasingly mobile world that means shitastic battery life, increased failures from heat cycling, and for what? What does the consumer actually gain? Not a damned thing because it wasn't written by or for the consumer, it was written for Apple who was pissed that they couldn't control flash gaming on the iStuff!
I'm sorry but once Apple and MSFT jumped in they shat all over the spec and now its ruined, it COULD have been great, with multiple FOSS codecs as a baseline and then adding any patented video crap you wanted on top, but instead what we got was a format that is worse in every way than what came before...is it better on resources? NO. Can it do everything the previous format could? NO. Can you make a 100% unencumbered version**, as Adobe allowed with Gnash? NOT A CHANCE IN HELL. So I'm sorry but its crap, its the corps ramming through a wish list and sadly too many devs worship the iCrap too much to even speak up and say shit and it WILL bite us all in the ass if allowed to become the standard!
**.-For those that are shocked the "token Windows guy" would actually care about open web standards? You really shouldn't be as this old greybeard is old enough to remember what a shitfest the web was when they tried to lock everything behind paywalls with RMV/RMA and WMV/WMA. Kiddies here may not remember but there was a time when even watching a simple video was a serious crapshoot because you may not be running the "correct version" of whatever proprietary codec AND browser the site expected, why? Our good old friend Mr DRM, that is why. And the "correct version" could be several versions of both the codec and browser behind (because the site hadn't updated) and of course you couldn't have multiple versions, why you might be a pirate trying to get around our lovely DRM! So even watching a simple video or listening to an audio clip became a tapdance through a minefield of shit. Now I don't know about the rest of you but I REALLY don't want to go back to a DRM clusterfuck of a WWW, but you know damned well that APPL,GOOG, and MSFT would sure as hell like that, as it lets them split the pie three ways and makes a hella expensive barrier to entry.
So any way you slice it? HTML V5 sucks. It sucks on resources, it sucks when comparing feature for feature, and it sucks big hairy balls when it comes to patents and DRM. If you wanna replace Flash? Fine then do it with something BETTER, not with something worse.
Maybe if HTML V5 didn't suck donkey balls Flash would be easier to kill.
HTML V5 is a classic case of "We need to replace X with something" without ever bothering to find out if that something is BETTER than what its replacing! HTML V5, despite being in development for how many years now? Still can't do even half of what Flash can, no animations so all your flash games are right out, its a GIANT resource hog, if you don't believe me just turn off hardware acceleration (which they use to cover how much of a pig it really is) and see how badly it slurps up RAM and CPU. With Flash a 2004 Sempron has no trouble playing 720P at 30FPS, with HTML V5 without a GPU cooking in the background to cover for it anything less than a C2Q is gonna feel like a slideshow and if your mobile doesn't have hardware acceleration? Forget it, its unusable. And this is ignoring the rotting elephant in the room, that Apple and MSFT have loaded the spec with DRM and H.264, the most patent encumbered video format in history...and we want THIS to be a web "standard"? Well I hope you Linux users didn't actually want to be able to watch video in the future.
Does Flash need replacing? Absolutely as I really don't see Adobe managing to fix the numerous issues with the format, but we need to replace it with something better in every way than Flash and so far HTML V5 seems more like a love letter to hardware OEMs and DRM loving corps than it does an actual replacement. When comparing features and performance its not even a side grade its really a downgrade as it can't do as much as the previous format, sucks more resources than the previous format, and has serious patent issues...and this is an "improvement"?
What I thought was hilarious (sorry I can't find a link ATM, it was several years ago I read this and my Google-Foo sucks) was when they did DNA testing to show their claim to the land.....and found more than 90% of the Israelis were 100% of European origin. That makes them no different than the Brits in India or the Dutch in Africa, a colonial conqueror.
And AIPAC can label anybody that says anything against their policies an anti-semite all they want, 5 minutes of watching the behavior of their "security forces" and their policies wrt settlements and its pretty easy to see that Israel 2015 is South Africa 1970,same methods of intimidation and brutality, same disregard for the lives and property of the natives, etc. Its ironic that 70 years after the liberation of the camps and they have gone from being the oppressed to being the oppressors, guess some just never learn from the mistakes of history.
As for Iran? Considering that a former POTUS labeled them an "Axis of Evil" and several prominent neo-cons have stated repeatedly their destruction is part of their plans for the ME, along with a history of the USA actively destroying governments including installing the Shah after murdering their democratically elected president? I'd want a nuke too, pretty much the only way you can insure the USA won't try to pull a "regime change" on your country. Look at the history of CIA involvement in the region post WWII and there isn't a single country there besides Israel that hasn't had repeated attacks by the US government, and Saddam proved that kissing Uncle Sam's booty doesn't gain you any loyalty.
Israel will always have the USA as its attack dog thanks to "When the Jews return to Zion" causing every ultra right winger to fear their deity won't have a place to park his fluffy cloud and without the USSR to balance things out all the other countries in the ME are truly alone. This is why I really don't blame countries like India, Pakistan, and Iran getting or trying to get nukes, all one has to do is look at the history of false flags, CIA coups and outright lies from the US government to realize that the only guarantee of not getting your country bombed into the stone age by the world's largest carrier fleet is to have a nuke.
Should have did like I did and grab a cheapo SSD to test Win 10 on. I fired it up, played with it for a few hours and then found out one of my favorite games don't work (War Thunder, no sound, a common issue with certain gaming boards it turns out) so all I had to do was pop off the side and swap SSDs. I was back up and running inside of 5 minutes like it never happened and once they have the game updated so it works with Win 10 I can always pop it back in, no risk.
I'm sorry but that is NOT insightful, its bullshit and here is why...
The reason why a voter's vote is worth exactly nothing does NOT have anything to do with what party they vote for, hell every single voter could draw a name out of a hat or switch parties every election and their votes still would not matter since the largest form of corruption is Regulatory capture which the voter cannot in any way, shape, or form affect by voting. The reason why is obvious, why would the congressman give a single fuck if you "vote the bum out" when they have already been promised a fat cushy salary with the corp he took a bribe from when he loses?
Let us cut through the bullshit folks, for anybody to say the American voter has ANY say in this corrupted oligarchy is like telling an employee the only way to get their pay is to "win" it by playing 3 card monty with the local street hustler and then telling them when they don't get paid "you should have kept your eye on the lady". Your vote does not matter as the game is already rigged long before the first opportunity to vote even comes up. The "choices" you are given will have all proven their ability to "play ball" with the 1%, even if in doing so they damage the welfare of this country and in return they will be given a cushy job in the private sector by those that they really served while they were in there. Do you honestly think corps like Halliburton and Monsanto give a single fuck if you choose a D or an R? Of course not because they will simply make sure this person plays ball or the leadership puts someone in the correct committee that affects them that will.
Why do you think that it doesn't seem to matter who the POTUS is or who is in the house and senate, we still get more and more fascist policies, more and more breaks for the rich on the backs of the poor and middle class and more wasted defense spending on obvious failures like the F35? Its because the same handful of ubercorps and super rich individuals still call the shots whether its a D or an R on the door. As the late great Bill Hicks pointed out "I think the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs, well I think the puppet on the right has MY interests at heart...hey wait a minute, there is one guy working both puppets!"
Uhhhh you DO know there are 4K monitors with displayport, yes? If you are plugging in a PC I'd suggest sticking with monitors, I've set up plenty of HTPCs for customers and frankly I've yet to see a TV that a monitor at the same res didn't look and/or perform better.
Uhhh and how many of the average users that will end up buying these laptops will know the archaic terminal commands required to pull this off?
The FOSS fans can get pissy all they want but this is SUPPOSED to be a user friendly OS and when the simple changes require a fucking terminal and knowledge of a bunch of CLI? I'm sorry but your OS has FAILED to perform its designated task, which is to be "user friendly". this is why Like it or Not Linux was, is, and always shall be a server OS with just a very thin veneer of pretense at being a desktop.
CLI is a server admin tool, an ancient GUI from the 1970s that is not intuitive, discoverable and requires rote memorization to perform even basic tasks. Server admins prefer it because it is really good at 2 tasks, 1.- Scripting and 2.- repeatedly performing the same tasks thousands of times...guess what your average user has pretty much no need of? If you said scripting and performing the exact same task the same way thousands of times, why you'd be right!
MSFT,GOOG,and APPL has spent hundreds of millions (in the case of GOOG the last figure I saw was over 1.2 billion per year on Android and ChomeOS) to make OSes that are intuitive, discoverable, and easy to pick up. Linux? I'm sorry but after 10 years of dealing with Linux I can state that Linux is the bad knock off you get from China Mart, your "AirPhone 5S" or "Wii Wii" in that on the surface it looks very similar, in fact a fresh install will leave the user hard pressed to tell if its the "real thing" or not...but let that user actually use the thing for awhile, or God forbid update the thing? they quickly find out its not in the same league. This is why I have zero doubt that in 12 years the "Hairyfeet Challenge" will celebrate 20 years of no "user friendly" Linux passing, even though its really just a test of the most basic functionality like "update the OS without crapping on the drivers", but even these simple tests strip away the veneer and show Linux' true colors.
So if you want a web server or to build a render farm? Then by all means use Linux, as a server OS its great at those tasks, but as a desktop? I'm sorry but its simply not able to compete with a modern desktop in 2015, and I have zero doubt the reason they are using it in India is simply because trialware companies (which actually makes putting Windows on a laptop in the west a money earner instead of a cost) simply don't want to give any money to get users that per capita make so little compared to the west so in this particular use case it was cheaper to use any of the free OSes. In a way similar to how they sell FreeDOS systems in China because they know the piracy is so high the OS will simply be replaced by a pirated Windows....hmm, I wonder how many of these will be running Windows within days of leaving the store? If its less than 80% I'll be really surprised.
What is it with them and the anti-semitism anyway? The amount of pure racist shit was just nuts but they were so openly "fuck the jews, holocaust denial" that they really do come off as a new sect of Stormfront. I could at least understand how racist towards blacks that they are (as it seems one VERY white section of SJW that believe anything a black can do to a white is justified, I even read an article being pushed on places like HuffPo pushing to ban hate crime laws NOT because adding time based on thoughts is wrong but because a group of blacks that dosed a 14 year old in gas and lit him on fire while saying "burn a YT for Treyvon!" might be charged with a hate crime without giving them the "historical racism" excuse) but where in the fuck did this extreme hatred for Jews come from?
The problem is like every cause its been taken over by the whack-a-doodles. Look at how MADD went from "We think you should call a cab when you've been drinking so you don't hurt anybody" (sensible and logical) to "Our ultimate goal is prohibition" (whack-a-doodle) or how PETA went from "We think food animals should be treated humanely" (sensible and logical) to "We'll call fish sea kittens and argue that germs should have the same rights as people!" (whack-a-doodle).
For those that think gamergate is about misogyny, or that social justice hasn't been taken over by the whack-a-doodles? I invite you to play a little game called "stormfront or social justice" where they simply remove the group being targeted and you have to choose whether it was written by a SJW or by a white supremacist. Congrats if you get even 50% correct because THAT is how whack-a-doodle the so called social justice "movement" has become, complete with calls for this or that group to be exterminated, this or that group should have their rights taken away, shit that would have sounded right at home at any Klan rally simply by changing the group.
So I'm sorry but "social justice" as a concept has been taken over, the sensible ones have been run out of the tent by ultra left wing racists that have total control of the platform.
Interesting? For a "works for me!" anecdote? Really mods, DaFuq? What is your experience with SSDs, 1? 2 maybe?
Well I have to have dealt with hundreds in the last couple years at the shop and its pretty damned obvious they still haven't fixed the driver controllers as they are still a complete and total CRAPSHOOT. Get a good one? Congrats you will get to write several times what the drive is rated for, you lucky dog! Get a bad one? Well I hope you didn't want that data because you will just flip the switch and the drive will be gone with zero warning, it won't even show up in BIOS/UEFI and the you will NEVER EVER get that data back!
Say what you will about spinning rust but I haven't had a single drive fail that didn't give SOME kind of warning before dying, be it delayed write failures, be it SMART, at least you got some kind of warning...SSDs? Fuck you, no warning. And has ANYBODY here had one actually fail into "read only" as the manufacturers use to tout? Anybody? Because I have yet to see that happen even once, instead the controller goes and your memories are gone FOR-EV-ER. Again at least with spinning rust you can grab another of the same model and build a clean box and do a platter swap, has anybody here actually been able to recover data from a failed SSD? I bet we won't find a single person.
So do I avoid SSDs? Nope have 'em in both my office box and my gamer box at home....as OS drives ONLY, why? Because I don't give a single fuck if I lose the OS, that's why! But all these people putting SSDs into laptops which they put all their pics and docs on? Well I just hope you have daily backups to the cloud, because the first time you flip that switch and find all your pics, including those of some now deceased relative you can never replace, is gone for good? Yeah I bet you won't be singing the praises of consumer SSDs anymore!
Android emulation would be suicide and here is why....OS/2.
IBM sold OS/2 as "A better Windows than Windows" and what happened? Devs said "Why develop programs for OS/2 when I can just write a Windows program and it'll run on both?" and what IBM ended up with is a limited subset of Windows programs able to run and ZERO support from developers for their OS. So to the consumer you had Windows...or a bad Windows ersatz that could run SOME but not all so why take the chance the program you want may or may not run well when you could just get the real thing?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if the ONLY thing you have to offer is some nebulous idea of "freedom" based on whatever criteria YOU decide is important? You are gonna fucking lose, just look at how flatline Linux is on the desktop. You HAVE to have exclusives, things that the users can ONLY get from you that the user can actually see and measure, be it a ton of exclusive software like Windows on the desktop, a walled ecosystem that makes everything 1 button simple like OSX/iOS, or units at every price point under the sun like Google. If all you have to sell is "it has a form of freedom...oh yeah and can run SOME Google apps" then why would I as the consumer take your product when I can get the Google units for cheaper AND have 100% playstore compatibility?
Why was this marked troll? Anybody who has actually watched any of the "behind the scenes" stuff on Lucas knows 1-3 might as well have been parody as it was done by someone who no longer understood his own films and was as clueless as any ad exec!
I mean you thought the ALIENS in Crystal Skull was bad? Lucas wanted to make the movie in a Haunted House, like a 1940s slapstick! Picture Indy with a bumbling black sidekick doing the "lawdy I sees a spook!" bit and that is about the level we are talking here. I'm sure you can find Spielberg talking about it on YouTube, and just look at his face when he mentions it, its that "DaFuq was he thinking?" look times ten.
Look I really REALLY liked classic Lucas, hell I even enjoyed Howard The Duck for its 80s cheesy goodness but lets face facts folks....too many years with too much money just killed whatever creative spark the man had. Seriously watch the behind the scenes stuff on the prequels, the man just didn't have what it takes to cook up good sci-fi by that point and it showed. You don't have to watch Mr Plinkett to see that damned near every shot in that movie was just plain bad, bad dialog, bad blocking, too much filler in the background, bad script, I'm sorry but the talent that came up with 4-6? Just wasn't there anymore.
The nicest thing I can say about FF is that it opened the floodgates, before Firefox/Phoenix/Mozilla Suite you had crappy IE, broken NS, and adware Opera.
Today there is Comodo Dragon (what I use, better security features and no phone home to Google) Chromium, SWIron, and Opera which my oldest boy swears is the greatest thing ever (hates the new version, went back to using presto) and on the gecko side there is PaleMoon (the other browser I use, I prefer the UI over IceDragon and it seems snappier), SeaMonkey, IceDragon, if you need really low resource there is always Kmeleon which runs really well even on a P3 running Win98SE and if you want to avoid BOTH the Chromium and Gecko engines you can go with QTWeb which is just what it says on the tin, a cross platform browser that uses Webkit and the QT framework...quite nice actually and of course Safari if you are into Apple.
I was using FF before it was called Firefox, and the Suite before that and....yeah, its just not very nice now. The UI feels like a bad Chrome ripoff and it still has "senior moments" where the entire UI can just "hang" for several seconds, which when you have 8 fricking cores and 16GB of RAM? is just inexcusable. I don't know what went wrong with Moz, but for the past few years they seem to have gone out of their way to just ruin the browser, do they no longer care? Has the UI team been taken over by Google? All I know is If I wanted Chrome I'd use Chrome and the current FF feels like a really bad Chrome knockoff, its the "Hipad" that looks kinda sorta like the real thing but once you use it? Yeah its just a knock off.
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Well this is why I've never actually blocked anybody, hell until recently I had no idea about this whole "friend/foe" crap because honestly the thought never even crossed my mind that there would be a reason to label someone a "foe" simply because I didn't agree with their post.
I'm getting ready to move but once I'm settled in I'll be happy to try it with SUSE if you like but I hate to break the news to ya....its gonna fail. The problem is Torvalds driver model which worked fine in 1993 when every Linux driver could fit on a floppy simply does NOT scale to handle the literally tens of thousands of drivers that are now required of a modern OS. Look at this SUSE chart and compare it to Windows. Now if I take the oldest currently supported Windows OS, Vista, I can take the RTM and patch it to current and will have NO drivers break, for SUSE to do the same thing (thanks to how short the average Linux support cycle is) you would have to start with SUSE 10 and go aaaalll the way through to SUSE 12, that is NINE releases that you would have to upgrade to. I bet my last dollar that if I try this? Its gonna break, because Torvalds driver model is just too brittle to handle that many changes.
Its a thousand times worse with something like Ubuntu, which ironically is called the "user friendly" Linux as you would have to go from 6.10 to 15.04 because remember Canonical says that LTS is NOT for consumers but for business, which means consumers is expected to go through FOURTEEN upgrades in just the time Vista has been on the market! Even if you ignore Canonical and go LTS you are still looking a four upgrades which I can tell you from actually trying it what you'll get at the end is a broken mess!
If people want to call me names, or cyberstalk me like the "fat fuck" troll did? Go right ahead, but I made the Hairyfeet Challenge for a reason and that reason was simple...create a completely 100% bias free objective test to see if Linux can be a functional desktop when compared to Windows and I'm sorry but...it just can't and it all comes down to Torvalds refusing to let go of a broken driver model because...reasons. I mean anybody can do this test, you yourself can complete it within a few hours using any old box or laptop lying around or grabbed for a few bucks off of CL and all it asks of Linux frankly should be things that should be able to be taken for granted, like "if I keep this thing updated with the latest security patches will it remain functional?" and the answer is a big fat nope.
So if I made you think, or look at something from a different view, even if you thought I was full of shit? I'm glad. Sadly as I learned recently from coming into contact with some SJWs the younger generation really doesn't value speech or interaction with others of differing views, they want an echo chamber that reinforces their narrow views. Me personally I'd rather spend 10 hours arguing politics in a room with neo-nazis, black panthers, and bible thumpers than 10 minutes trapped in a room with an SJW, as at least the above groups don't try to take away anybody's right to disagree.
Because you would have nothing but groupthink as well as groups targeting individuals?
Not to toot my own horn but many of my posts are modded up, I guess because there are plenty of folks that appreciate somebody that doesn't pull their punches or sugarcoat their words in bullshit. I sit in my little shop, run tests, talk to folks, and report what I see trending around me. So why would your system be a problem? Because a certain faction here fucking HATES me, hatred to the point I was cyberstalked for over a year by one member of this faction who must have spent a good 12 hours a day doing nothing but searching the net for every place I posted just so he could spam "die you fat fucker die" over and over and over.
So what you would have is one group saying "We do not like this person, lets erase him" and then it wouldn't matter what this person posted large numbers would mark him troll and block him, which by your system would allow them to erase this person from the place. At least here we have metamods that tend to undo some, not all, of obvious modding based on the person not the content, but if they implemented your system all they would have to do is keep pounding and they could just wipe any person they didn't like from sight, not something you want to hand out to just anybody.
Come to think of it, one of the new sites I have been hanging out at tried something similar. Instead of the usual karma what they have is a points system. You make a popular post? You get points. You start at I think 25 and max out at 50, but where they screwed up was trying out this idea that every downmod would cost not only the modder a point but the one that was downmodded as well, and that once you went below a certain threshold your posts were automatically placed at zero and you didn't get any mod points.....can you guess what went wrong?
What went wrong was a radical SJW then joined the site and tried to make it an SJW haven. I know that the name SJW is sometimes thrown around without care, but in this case? We are talking about a white beta male that advocated the extermination of the white race and that only whites should be charged with hate crimes because of "historical racism" so...yeah classic SJW. He then took a page out of the classic Slashdot "Mikey(insert number)" playbook and made a shitload of accounts, posted just enough positive copypasta in each account to get them modded high enough to get mod points then proceeded to modbomb like there was no tomorrow. Things quickly soured there, some of the most popular posters ended up bailing, until finally the mods caught on and shut down his sockpuppet army and took away his rights to mod.
So the moral of the story? The reason why "great ideas" like yours haven't been tried is because you are not looking at it from the POV of an attacker. You ALWAYS have to look at these things from the angle of "If I wanted to wreck the site, how can I use this to my advantage?". Too many times you look at things like this and assume the users have the best intentions while forgetting there are probably just as many seriously unbalanced douchebags as there is legit users out there, so you have to plan accordingly.
The "mobile boom" has also brought with it extremely stingy data caps with heavy overage fees...is MSFT gonna make a deal with all the major carriers so that these mandatory Windows Updates don't assrape folks' wallets? Didn't think so which is why I'm advising customers to take a "wait and see" when it comes to Win 10.
I would argue that TFA just shows MSFT is still out of touch when it comes to its customers and the current trends in tech, otherwise Windows would automatically detect 3G/4G connections and disable WU while asking the user if they wished to use WU over their mobile connection.
If it ends up like DX11 no worries then, as nearly all new games also have a DX09 mode, often by default.
When is MSFT gonna learn tying DX versions to only the latest and greatest does nothing but kill its adoption by the gaming companies? If they made DX12 a Win 7 through 10 deal we'd see a ton of games coming out for it, instead the devs will just take a look at the Steam hardware survey, see a huge userbase of Windows 7 and 8.1 gamers and say "its not worth building 2 versions, not when DX11 works on everybody" and that will be that.
Sigh....right click on the computer icon>choose "manage">choose "services"> disable Windows Update Service...tada! You can even control it via Task Scheduler if you want to check on certain days or times.
Personally I'm waiting until WSUS Offline has Windows 10 support before I think about switching, I have Win 10 on an SSD so I can just pop it in but so far? I'd say its a big "meh" when it comes to the desktop when compared to Windows 7. On laptops, especially those still using HDDs? Its under the hood speed ups make it worth checking out but on a desktop with SSD? It has more irritations like Cortana and the fugly as fuck settings/control panel mess while not really offering any "Wow I have to have that" moments....and who in the fuck thought that those fonts and icons were the way to go? The faded fugly explorer, icons that look worse than KDE 1, I'm telling my customers to wait and see because right now? Really not impressed.
What I think is hilarious is Neil has been in studios all his life yet can't seem to grasp how (and more importantly WHY) digital studios work the way they do.
For those that have never recorded music? Its REALLY simple to explain why you use 192k in the studio and not on the finished product...ready? The music in the studio AIN'T FINISHED YET, its really THAT easy folks! When you are recording you are gonna be adding effects, EQ, layering multiple tracks, that extra headroom helps when it comes to adding these things without raising the noise floor, once the mastering is done? Its done and you don't need that extra headroom because there is nothing to be added later, you already know where the noise floor is and have dealt with it, its done folks!
And audio ain't like video folks, where they could add infrared and ultraviolet and you'd just never know it was there,because of the way AD/DA converters work all that no longer needed bandwidth you are adding to those tracks? Unless you bought pro studio monitors its gonna get translated as hiss, WITH pro studio monitors? You'll have paid $$$$ to hear the sounds of...silence. Because again the increased bandwidth is not there to give the 1% of the planet with super hearing a few extra high notes, its to lower the noise floor to give you room to work.
What makes me LMAO is the last report I saw on the Chinese F35 ripoff says it actually flies very well since they didn't have to cater to the damned marines wanting the stupid thing to be VTOL, maybe we should just outsource our fricking fighter production to them? It'd probably be a hell of a lot cheaper and i don't see it being any crappier than the F35 is now ;-)
As for TFA? Not gonna happen and not because of the "big bad US gubment" but because most companies don't sell when they are on an upswing and that is what Micron has been as of late. They crank out a LOT of NAND Flash and between SSDs and mobile devices that is a very good market to be in, and of course there is no such thing as too much RAM and with the default RAM amounts steadily climbing in everything across the board...why in the world would they want to sell? The business they are in is growing steadily, they seem to be having no problems with cost,labor, or supplies, there really is no reason to cash out at this point.
It has nothing to do with cops, it has to do with POLITICS. Why do you think we have a border you could literally drive a nuke through, chunks of our cities becoming war zones and all we see on TV is debates over a 150 year old flag and whether gays marrying will shake up the country? Its because those topics are "safe", they won't expose any skeletons, its lets the politicians stump for or against without risking anything. They like stories like Wu because it gives you frankly a wealth of "first world problem" topics that are trivial and which won't cause a politician to risk anything. Congressman Porkus risks nothing if he comes out one way or another on feminism or a 150 year old flag, unlike risking votes and/or lobbyist money if we were to get on "real" issues. And what prosecutor is gonna wanna touch Wu? Why that might get me labeled an "ist" like sexist, transphobe, fuck that shit! Cops aren't gonna waste time if the prosecutor won't run with it and no prosecutor is gonna risk being called an "ist" in 2015, its political suicide and most prosecutors use that job as a stepping stone to higher office.
As for the media? As I said show me ONE, just one, 100% unbiased look at gamergate, with both sides treated as human beings instead of trying to demonize one or the other...you can't, because we don't have news orgs, we have political orgs. You will never get a left site like MSNBC (or NBC,CBS,ABC) to run a story that goes against the left political stance, anymore than you'll get Fox news to run a story that goes against the right political stance. It doesn't matter what the facts are if they came from Breitbart, or if they lean towards individuals being responsible for their own actions if you are a left site, just as nobody on the right is gonna care what the facts are if they came from HuffPo and lean towards a "stop stomping the poor" narrative.
So it really has nothing to do with gamergate, it has to do with pushing "news" that helps reinforce your political stance while still being "safe" compared to real "this could cost me votes" issues. As Jessie Ventura said "politics has become pro wrestling, you say all these nasty things about your opponent on camera and when the camera stops you and he go out to lunch and laugh about it with the lobbyists".
We should know one way or another within the next 18 months as the CEO recently revealed we are giving Windows 10 away because of Windows Phone, specifically to build a huge install base to get devs developing universal binaries which work on both desktop and phone.
Now do I personally think this will work? Bwa ha ha...fuck no, not a chance in hell and here is why....Windows App Store sucks monkey nuts, too much nickel and dime garbage apps and outright fakes and stolen apps (look up something like VLC and look at how many fakers with the VLC icon show up), even if they fix that? Windows users have made it clear that a phone appstore on the desktop is a DO NOT WANT and they are quite happy getting their programs they way they do now, from the Internet at large. Windows users are set in their ways, we are happy with the way things worked before and tend to get pissy if you try to change our workflow (for obvious reasons, you are fucking up our workflow with crap we don't want, go away) so I have a feeling programs like classic shell are gonna fucking blow up as people take one look at the mish mash between Win 7 and Win 8 and go "Uhhh can I make it just act like Win 7, please?".
And finally...the big rotting elephant in the room, a lesson the CEO seems not to have grasped from the Windows 8 debacle.....yeah Nadella? This is your customer here, been using MSFT since fucking DOS so let me clue you in on a little secret okay? Now listen close, this is important....you see desktops and laptops? They are big screened devices that you hold VERTICALLY and which have keyboards and mice as input devices, compare this to phones and tablets which you hold HORIZONTALLY and the input device is your finger....see the problem now? A GUI that works well in one form factor? Gonna be a big pile of ass and fail in the other, and nobody is gonna give a shit if your "universal app" runs on both their phone and their desktop if the UI is broken on one of the two or they have to constantly shift between two GUIs!
As much as I hate Apple they DO get this, which is why you have OSX and iOS and you don't see them pushing iOS on the desktop, same with Google and Android/ChromeOS. So just look at your competitors and realize what you are gonna try? Ain't gonna work. you tried putting cellphone UIs on the desktop, now you are gonna try bringing the desktop to the phone...yeah, no, its gonna suck. Hire some killer app devs to make exclusives for your phone if you wanna push it, but universal binaries? Just not gonna work.
I take it you have never played some of the more popular FPS titles? You'll quickly learn the average 15 year old has two favorite words, nigger and faggot, which they love to repeat more than a parrot saying "polly want a cracker" in those old cartoons.
Uhhh there isn't an investigation because it doesn't support the political narrative? Its no different than how when a black teen recently committed an armed robbery and was shot running at the cop with a loaded stolen firearm you'll get protesters saying the cop should have just stood there and "black lives matter" signs and tons of press coverage, but when Baltimore reaches triple digit body counts of blacks slaughtering blacks? It'll barely get a peep on the local news.
The reason why is simple, one lets you push a political narrative, blacks are always victims, more gun control, etc while the other? Does not. If Wu is being targeted? You can push stories on transgender issues, sexism, cyberbullying, violence in the media, you can probably get several weeks worth of angles out of that one which will also touch on political hot buttons that politicians can use one way or another...if Wu is just another narcissist hypocrite looking for attention and $$$? You won't even get 2 stories out of that one.
Ever since the birth of CNN and 24 hour news its all become about narratives and themes, see ANY of the MSM looking at both sides of gamergate? Even attempting to be objective? Of course not, because sensationalism and political narratives that result in "us VS them" sell, the other is just the facts, boring. And like it or not there really isn't any objective reporting anymore, every news org is either hard left or hard right and if you are hard left you certainly aren't gonna run a story showing a "champion of feminism" is actually a scammer, not only will that not follow the narrative but it might help "the other side" and we just can't have that.
I really wish it weren't so, because even though I'm pretty far to the left I want to be given the evidence and be allowed to make up my own mind like a big boy, but all we get today from the MSM (and sadly the feds, just look at how little was done when it comes to things which goes against the political narrative, from the fake yellowcake papers to fast & furious) is propaganda for one side or the other. All we can do as thinking adults is do as much research as possible from a variety of sources and make up our own minds.
Uhhh cabbies have to have decent insurance, pass tests, and frankly are on average a hell of a lot more experienced than "Bob in his Malibu".
I don't know about everybody else but I'm personally sick of these libertarian "Hey we'll make an app and bypass consumer protection laws, we can make money just proves how bad the ebil gubment is" bullshit. So far I have yet to see any of this "sharing/disrupting" businesses that doesn't boil down to "Bypass consumer protection laws, fuck the workers, profit" douchebaggery. In every case, be it bypassing consumer protections or fucking over the workers by ignoring minimum wage or overtime laws all these new startups do is the same kind of Gordon Gecko "fuck everybody but those at the top" horseshit that has frankly run this country into the ground.
I personally hope the lot of these "new way" douchebags get shut down and hopefully some of them do time, as all they are doing is giving the finger to the last century of consumer and worker protections so they can stuff that money in their pockets.
Then don't turn it off, but DO measure how much your GPU is sucking when you run an HTML V5 video and then compare it to a Flash video...go on, I'll wait.....what's that? Its sucking a good 2 to 3 times what Flash does on the exact.same.video? Ding ding ding, we have a winnar! Or in this case LOSER.
Do you think that GPU cycles grow on trees? That HTML V5 magically avoids the second law of thermodynamics? News Flash TANSTAAFL and all hardware acceleration is doing is covering how much power HTML V5 is pissing down a rathole to do less than what Flash did before it. in an increasingly mobile world that means shitastic battery life, increased failures from heat cycling, and for what? What does the consumer actually gain? Not a damned thing because it wasn't written by or for the consumer, it was written for Apple who was pissed that they couldn't control flash gaming on the iStuff!
I'm sorry but once Apple and MSFT jumped in they shat all over the spec and now its ruined, it COULD have been great, with multiple FOSS codecs as a baseline and then adding any patented video crap you wanted on top, but instead what we got was a format that is worse in every way than what came before...is it better on resources? NO. Can it do everything the previous format could? NO. Can you make a 100% unencumbered version**, as Adobe allowed with Gnash? NOT A CHANCE IN HELL. So I'm sorry but its crap, its the corps ramming through a wish list and sadly too many devs worship the iCrap too much to even speak up and say shit and it WILL bite us all in the ass if allowed to become the standard!
**.-For those that are shocked the "token Windows guy" would actually care about open web standards? You really shouldn't be as this old greybeard is old enough to remember what a shitfest the web was when they tried to lock everything behind paywalls with RMV/RMA and WMV/WMA. Kiddies here may not remember but there was a time when even watching a simple video was a serious crapshoot because you may not be running the "correct version" of whatever proprietary codec AND browser the site expected, why? Our good old friend Mr DRM, that is why. And the "correct version" could be several versions of both the codec and browser behind (because the site hadn't updated) and of course you couldn't have multiple versions, why you might be a pirate trying to get around our lovely DRM! So even watching a simple video or listening to an audio clip became a tapdance through a minefield of shit. Now I don't know about the rest of you but I REALLY don't want to go back to a DRM clusterfuck of a WWW, but you know damned well that APPL,GOOG, and MSFT would sure as hell like that, as it lets them split the pie three ways and makes a hella expensive barrier to entry.
So any way you slice it? HTML V5 sucks. It sucks on resources, it sucks when comparing feature for feature, and it sucks big hairy balls when it comes to patents and DRM. If you wanna replace Flash? Fine then do it with something BETTER, not with something worse.
Maybe if HTML V5 didn't suck donkey balls Flash would be easier to kill.
HTML V5 is a classic case of "We need to replace X with something" without ever bothering to find out if that something is BETTER than what its replacing! HTML V5, despite being in development for how many years now? Still can't do even half of what Flash can, no animations so all your flash games are right out, its a GIANT resource hog, if you don't believe me just turn off hardware acceleration (which they use to cover how much of a pig it really is) and see how badly it slurps up RAM and CPU. With Flash a 2004 Sempron has no trouble playing 720P at 30FPS, with HTML V5 without a GPU cooking in the background to cover for it anything less than a C2Q is gonna feel like a slideshow and if your mobile doesn't have hardware acceleration? Forget it, its unusable. And this is ignoring the rotting elephant in the room, that Apple and MSFT have loaded the spec with DRM and H.264, the most patent encumbered video format in history...and we want THIS to be a web "standard"? Well I hope you Linux users didn't actually want to be able to watch video in the future.
Does Flash need replacing? Absolutely as I really don't see Adobe managing to fix the numerous issues with the format, but we need to replace it with something better in every way than Flash and so far HTML V5 seems more like a love letter to hardware OEMs and DRM loving corps than it does an actual replacement. When comparing features and performance its not even a side grade its really a downgrade as it can't do as much as the previous format, sucks more resources than the previous format, and has serious patent issues...and this is an "improvement"?
What I thought was hilarious (sorry I can't find a link ATM, it was several years ago I read this and my Google-Foo sucks) was when they did DNA testing to show their claim to the land.....and found more than 90% of the Israelis were 100% of European origin. That makes them no different than the Brits in India or the Dutch in Africa, a colonial conqueror.
And AIPAC can label anybody that says anything against their policies an anti-semite all they want, 5 minutes of watching the behavior of their "security forces" and their policies wrt settlements and its pretty easy to see that Israel 2015 is South Africa 1970,same methods of intimidation and brutality, same disregard for the lives and property of the natives, etc. Its ironic that 70 years after the liberation of the camps and they have gone from being the oppressed to being the oppressors, guess some just never learn from the mistakes of history.
As for Iran? Considering that a former POTUS labeled them an "Axis of Evil" and several prominent neo-cons have stated repeatedly their destruction is part of their plans for the ME, along with a history of the USA actively destroying governments including installing the Shah after murdering their democratically elected president? I'd want a nuke too, pretty much the only way you can insure the USA won't try to pull a "regime change" on your country. Look at the history of CIA involvement in the region post WWII and there isn't a single country there besides Israel that hasn't had repeated attacks by the US government, and Saddam proved that kissing Uncle Sam's booty doesn't gain you any loyalty.
Israel will always have the USA as its attack dog thanks to "When the Jews return to Zion" causing every ultra right winger to fear their deity won't have a place to park his fluffy cloud and without the USSR to balance things out all the other countries in the ME are truly alone. This is why I really don't blame countries like India, Pakistan, and Iran getting or trying to get nukes, all one has to do is look at the history of false flags, CIA coups and outright lies from the US government to realize that the only guarantee of not getting your country bombed into the stone age by the world's largest carrier fleet is to have a nuke.
Should have did like I did and grab a cheapo SSD to test Win 10 on. I fired it up, played with it for a few hours and then found out one of my favorite games don't work (War Thunder, no sound, a common issue with certain gaming boards it turns out) so all I had to do was pop off the side and swap SSDs. I was back up and running inside of 5 minutes like it never happened and once they have the game updated so it works with Win 10 I can always pop it back in, no risk.
I'm sorry but that is NOT insightful, its bullshit and here is why...
The reason why a voter's vote is worth exactly nothing does NOT have anything to do with what party they vote for, hell every single voter could draw a name out of a hat or switch parties every election and their votes still would not matter since the largest form of corruption is Regulatory capture which the voter cannot in any way, shape, or form affect by voting. The reason why is obvious, why would the congressman give a single fuck if you "vote the bum out" when they have already been promised a fat cushy salary with the corp he took a bribe from when he loses?
Let us cut through the bullshit folks, for anybody to say the American voter has ANY say in this corrupted oligarchy is like telling an employee the only way to get their pay is to "win" it by playing 3 card monty with the local street hustler and then telling them when they don't get paid "you should have kept your eye on the lady". Your vote does not matter as the game is already rigged long before the first opportunity to vote even comes up. The "choices" you are given will have all proven their ability to "play ball" with the 1%, even if in doing so they damage the welfare of this country and in return they will be given a cushy job in the private sector by those that they really served while they were in there. Do you honestly think corps like Halliburton and Monsanto give a single fuck if you choose a D or an R? Of course not because they will simply make sure this person plays ball or the leadership puts someone in the correct committee that affects them that will.
Why do you think that it doesn't seem to matter who the POTUS is or who is in the house and senate, we still get more and more fascist policies, more and more breaks for the rich on the backs of the poor and middle class and more wasted defense spending on obvious failures like the F35? Its because the same handful of ubercorps and super rich individuals still call the shots whether its a D or an R on the door. As the late great Bill Hicks pointed out "I think the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs, well I think the puppet on the right has MY interests at heart...hey wait a minute, there is one guy working both puppets!"
Uhhhh you DO know there are 4K monitors with displayport, yes? If you are plugging in a PC I'd suggest sticking with monitors, I've set up plenty of HTPCs for customers and frankly I've yet to see a TV that a monitor at the same res didn't look and/or perform better.
Uhhh and how many of the average users that will end up buying these laptops will know the archaic terminal commands required to pull this off?
The FOSS fans can get pissy all they want but this is SUPPOSED to be a user friendly OS and when the simple changes require a fucking terminal and knowledge of a bunch of CLI? I'm sorry but your OS has FAILED to perform its designated task, which is to be "user friendly". this is why Like it or Not Linux was, is, and always shall be a server OS with just a very thin veneer of pretense at being a desktop.
CLI is a server admin tool, an ancient GUI from the 1970s that is not intuitive, discoverable and requires rote memorization to perform even basic tasks. Server admins prefer it because it is really good at 2 tasks, 1.- Scripting and 2.- repeatedly performing the same tasks thousands of times...guess what your average user has pretty much no need of? If you said scripting and performing the exact same task the same way thousands of times, why you'd be right!
MSFT,GOOG,and APPL has spent hundreds of millions (in the case of GOOG the last figure I saw was over 1.2 billion per year on Android and ChomeOS) to make OSes that are intuitive, discoverable, and easy to pick up. Linux? I'm sorry but after 10 years of dealing with Linux I can state that Linux is the bad knock off you get from China Mart, your "AirPhone 5S" or "Wii Wii" in that on the surface it looks very similar, in fact a fresh install will leave the user hard pressed to tell if its the "real thing" or not...but let that user actually use the thing for awhile, or God forbid update the thing? they quickly find out its not in the same league. This is why I have zero doubt that in 12 years the "Hairyfeet Challenge" will celebrate 20 years of no "user friendly" Linux passing, even though its really just a test of the most basic functionality like "update the OS without crapping on the drivers", but even these simple tests strip away the veneer and show Linux' true colors.
So if you want a web server or to build a render farm? Then by all means use Linux, as a server OS its great at those tasks, but as a desktop? I'm sorry but its simply not able to compete with a modern desktop in 2015, and I have zero doubt the reason they are using it in India is simply because trialware companies (which actually makes putting Windows on a laptop in the west a money earner instead of a cost) simply don't want to give any money to get users that per capita make so little compared to the west so in this particular use case it was cheaper to use any of the free OSes. In a way similar to how they sell FreeDOS systems in China because they know the piracy is so high the OS will simply be replaced by a pirated Windows....hmm, I wonder how many of these will be running Windows within days of leaving the store? If its less than 80% I'll be really surprised.
What is it with them and the anti-semitism anyway? The amount of pure racist shit was just nuts but they were so openly "fuck the jews, holocaust denial" that they really do come off as a new sect of Stormfront. I could at least understand how racist towards blacks that they are (as it seems one VERY white section of SJW that believe anything a black can do to a white is justified, I even read an article being pushed on places like HuffPo pushing to ban hate crime laws NOT because adding time based on thoughts is wrong but because a group of blacks that dosed a 14 year old in gas and lit him on fire while saying "burn a YT for Treyvon!" might be charged with a hate crime without giving them the "historical racism" excuse) but where in the fuck did this extreme hatred for Jews come from?
The problem is like every cause its been taken over by the whack-a-doodles. Look at how MADD went from "We think you should call a cab when you've been drinking so you don't hurt anybody" (sensible and logical) to "Our ultimate goal is prohibition" (whack-a-doodle) or how PETA went from "We think food animals should be treated humanely" (sensible and logical) to "We'll call fish sea kittens and argue that germs should have the same rights as people!" (whack-a-doodle).
For those that think gamergate is about misogyny, or that social justice hasn't been taken over by the whack-a-doodles? I invite you to play a little game called "stormfront or social justice" where they simply remove the group being targeted and you have to choose whether it was written by a SJW or by a white supremacist. Congrats if you get even 50% correct because THAT is how whack-a-doodle the so called social justice "movement" has become, complete with calls for this or that group to be exterminated, this or that group should have their rights taken away, shit that would have sounded right at home at any Klan rally simply by changing the group.
So I'm sorry but "social justice" as a concept has been taken over, the sensible ones have been run out of the tent by ultra left wing racists that have total control of the platform.
Interesting? For a "works for me!" anecdote? Really mods, DaFuq? What is your experience with SSDs, 1? 2 maybe?
Well I have to have dealt with hundreds in the last couple years at the shop and its pretty damned obvious they still haven't fixed the driver controllers as they are still a complete and total CRAPSHOOT. Get a good one? Congrats you will get to write several times what the drive is rated for, you lucky dog! Get a bad one? Well I hope you didn't want that data because you will just flip the switch and the drive will be gone with zero warning, it won't even show up in BIOS/UEFI and the you will NEVER EVER get that data back!
Say what you will about spinning rust but I haven't had a single drive fail that didn't give SOME kind of warning before dying, be it delayed write failures, be it SMART, at least you got some kind of warning...SSDs? Fuck you, no warning. And has ANYBODY here had one actually fail into "read only" as the manufacturers use to tout? Anybody? Because I have yet to see that happen even once, instead the controller goes and your memories are gone FOR-EV-ER. Again at least with spinning rust you can grab another of the same model and build a clean box and do a platter swap, has anybody here actually been able to recover data from a failed SSD? I bet we won't find a single person.
So do I avoid SSDs? Nope have 'em in both my office box and my gamer box at home....as OS drives ONLY, why? Because I don't give a single fuck if I lose the OS, that's why! But all these people putting SSDs into laptops which they put all their pics and docs on? Well I just hope you have daily backups to the cloud, because the first time you flip that switch and find all your pics, including those of some now deceased relative you can never replace, is gone for good? Yeah I bet you won't be singing the praises of consumer SSDs anymore!
Android emulation would be suicide and here is why....OS/2.
IBM sold OS/2 as "A better Windows than Windows" and what happened? Devs said "Why develop programs for OS/2 when I can just write a Windows program and it'll run on both?" and what IBM ended up with is a limited subset of Windows programs able to run and ZERO support from developers for their OS. So to the consumer you had Windows...or a bad Windows ersatz that could run SOME but not all so why take the chance the program you want may or may not run well when you could just get the real thing?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if the ONLY thing you have to offer is some nebulous idea of "freedom" based on whatever criteria YOU decide is important? You are gonna fucking lose, just look at how flatline Linux is on the desktop. You HAVE to have exclusives, things that the users can ONLY get from you that the user can actually see and measure, be it a ton of exclusive software like Windows on the desktop, a walled ecosystem that makes everything 1 button simple like OSX/iOS, or units at every price point under the sun like Google. If all you have to sell is "it has a form of freedom...oh yeah and can run SOME Google apps" then why would I as the consumer take your product when I can get the Google units for cheaper AND have 100% playstore compatibility?
Why was this marked troll? Anybody who has actually watched any of the "behind the scenes" stuff on Lucas knows 1-3 might as well have been parody as it was done by someone who no longer understood his own films and was as clueless as any ad exec!
I mean you thought the ALIENS in Crystal Skull was bad? Lucas wanted to make the movie in a Haunted House, like a 1940s slapstick! Picture Indy with a bumbling black sidekick doing the "lawdy I sees a spook!" bit and that is about the level we are talking here. I'm sure you can find Spielberg talking about it on YouTube, and just look at his face when he mentions it, its that "DaFuq was he thinking?" look times ten.
Look I really REALLY liked classic Lucas, hell I even enjoyed Howard The Duck for its 80s cheesy goodness but lets face facts folks....too many years with too much money just killed whatever creative spark the man had. Seriously watch the behind the scenes stuff on the prequels, the man just didn't have what it takes to cook up good sci-fi by that point and it showed. You don't have to watch Mr Plinkett to see that damned near every shot in that movie was just plain bad, bad dialog, bad blocking, too much filler in the background, bad script, I'm sorry but the talent that came up with 4-6? Just wasn't there anymore.
The nicest thing I can say about FF is that it opened the floodgates, before Firefox/Phoenix/Mozilla Suite you had crappy IE, broken NS, and adware Opera.
Today there is Comodo Dragon (what I use, better security features and no phone home to Google) Chromium, SWIron, and Opera which my oldest boy swears is the greatest thing ever (hates the new version, went back to using presto) and on the gecko side there is PaleMoon (the other browser I use, I prefer the UI over IceDragon and it seems snappier), SeaMonkey, IceDragon, if you need really low resource there is always Kmeleon which runs really well even on a P3 running Win98SE and if you want to avoid BOTH the Chromium and Gecko engines you can go with QTWeb which is just what it says on the tin, a cross platform browser that uses Webkit and the QT framework...quite nice actually and of course Safari if you are into Apple.
I was using FF before it was called Firefox, and the Suite before that and....yeah, its just not very nice now. The UI feels like a bad Chrome ripoff and it still has "senior moments" where the entire UI can just "hang" for several seconds, which when you have 8 fricking cores and 16GB of RAM? is just inexcusable. I don't know what went wrong with Moz, but for the past few years they seem to have gone out of their way to just ruin the browser, do they no longer care? Has the UI team been taken over by Google? All I know is If I wanted Chrome I'd use Chrome and the current FF feels like a really bad Chrome knockoff, its the "Hipad" that looks kinda sorta like the real thing but once you use it? Yeah its just a knock off.