Oh what a classic FOSSie reaction, just like the moonies or any other religion, at the sight of anything wrong instead of asking logical questions like "Why is it doing that" you start drooling and foaming at the mouth and screaming shill like a redneck screaming nigger. How typical and sad.
And since I just pointed out that since it calls the WMP API it should work fine on all current Windows OSes from WinXP up that shouldn't be a problem,strike one, and if Linux or OSX wants H.264 support on Firefox they can look at the code and adapt it themselves. or better yet Firefox could drop their NIH bad attitude and just support whatever the OS supports by calling whatever native player they have, or even call VLC since it runs on all and plays all. Strike two FOSSIe
And nobody gives a shit if the code you are gonna release a year from now is great if your current code is shit which makes strike three and you're out! The current version is what is being passed out to millions and its crap, as I pointed out the memory usage after a half day is just pathetic.
On this standard nettop with NO plugins save for ABP and NoScript after a half day of real world usage, 5 to 6 tabs and watching around 3 videos an hour I find that FF slowly but surely refuses to give memory back. It is bad enough that sites recommend the "trim_on_minimize" trick which you know something is wrong when you are recommending browser hacks simply because once a tab takes memory FF refuses to give it back when the tab closes, but after 10-12 hours of usage FF has managed to blow through the entire 1.5Gb of RAM all by itself and start hitting the swap which slams the CPU at 100% and practically shuts down the machine. So just like the old 2.x.x crap it is shutdown and relaunch just to get FF to give back memory, that sucks!
So you scream shill and troll all you want little FOSSie, stick your head in the sand and convince yourself there is nothing bad here. meanwhile everyone and their dog are switching to Chrome, even average Joe users are bringing their machines to me and I find Chrome on the desktop because in their words "Firefox is slow" "Firefox is sluggish" "Firefox made the whole machine act slower" etc.
So if FF don't fix the problems with the release of FF 4 and instead just worry about the bullet points I'll be switching all my customers over to one of the Chromium based, probably Comodo Dragon. So if you don't want to accept there is a reason why Chrome based have jumped up and grabbed huge numbers that is your business, but if FF doesn't want to end up with numbers as low as Seamonkey (BTW did you notice Flock dropped Gecko and went Webkit? Why? Because it gave them "better performance" their words) they might want to worry less about bullet points and more about their memory usage and CPU slamming.
If that were true, then why are China and India spending billions of dollars creating CPUs on the Chinese side and Aerospace industries on the Indian side? It is simple they are nationalists and we are idiots for refusing to learn from them.
It is like Lenin said "A capitalist will gladly sell you the rope you hang him with" and while they are using the capital they get from us to invest in their OWN people we are offshoring everything that isn't nailed down. If China and India declared us "persona non grata" and refused to trade with us, would we even be able to function? Maybe in the long term but not without a severe depression probably lasting a couple of decades because as that one tea partier all by himself held up on his little sign "we don't make anything here anymore".
So you can't simply say it is because their standards of living are lower because they are spending significantly more to build these things in house rather than buy COTS from us. Why is that? Because they want your money gringo, but they don't want your products for any price. They know that if they decide to give us the finger THEY will have their own chips, planes, tanks, etc and it will ALL be made there whereas we are soon approaching the point where even the military will have "Made in China" stamped on the back. It is stupid and it WILL bite us in the ass!
Not to mention they were nice enough to release an H.264 plugin for Firefox thus freeing Mozilla from any licensing issues. It supposedly only works native in Windows 7 since Win 7 comes with H.264 support built in, but since it is simply calling the WMP API if you have an H.264 DShow codec installed (personally I like Klite Mega on XP, Vista codec pack for Vista and 7 Codec pack for 7 along with 64 bit MP Classic) it should work just fine.
I think the bigger problem for Firefox isn't IE but Chrome which they keep trying to rip off but failing. I don't run Beta so I can't talk about FF 4 but the last 2 releases of the 3.6.x line have totally sucked. After a half day's usage the thing is blowing through memory like a Vegas hooker through coke, so bad I have to shut it down and restart even with trim_on_minimize enabled.
Of course on Vista and Windows 7 I can't even recommend it anymore, it simply isn't as secure as Chrome and IE since they refuse to support low rights mode thus making their browser the least secure of the bunch. I can't hand my customers a browser that runs at higher privileges when interacting with the source of just about every nasty they get exposed to, it is just a bad idea.
So I'd say Mozilla needs to quit worrying about bullet points and start worrying about their code. The more features of Chrome and IE they tack on the more Gecko begins to fall apart IMHO, and while adding sandboxing for plugins (aka Chrome) is a good idea the Gecko engine doesn't seem to work well with it and refuses to release memory after say watching a flash video. The future is mobile, with green computing not far behind so now is NOT the time to just "throw more memory/cycles at it" if you want to be on people's laptops/netbooks/nettops/MIDs.
When you blow through a gig and a half of RAM and slam the CPU almost on every page load on a nettop after running barely half a day? Yeah you might want to look into that guys. It has gotten bad enough that I've had to switch to a Chromium based just to be able to watch videos or have more than two tabs on my nettop. Having to shut down FF every couple of hours and relaunch just to get memory back was something I thought we had left behind with FF 2.x.x.
I hate to say it as usually it is a bad idea, but maybe it is time for a rewrite? Maybe a low rights, sandboxed and tab isolated FF simply isn't possible with the current Gecko code. If so they need to be quietly rewriting FF in the background while updating FF 4 to give them something to ship. Just a thought but I need to support everything from netbooks to quad core gaming PCs and right now FF just isn't cutting it on the lower end machines, at least IME.
What I find funny is how nobody, not a single person, has pointed out the hypocrisy! When India and China refuse to buy overseas products and instead just do it in house it is all hunky dory, but when anyone here in the USA simply holds up a sign that says "we don't make anything here anymore" we hear screams of "Isolationist!" like that makes you a member of the fucking Klan or something!
We better wake the fuck up and take a lesson from our Chinese and Indian "friends" because the lesson is they don't want you around oh sure they'll be happy to take YOUR money stupid gringo, but they sure as hell don't want their money going to buy your products! hear that giant sucking sound? That is less than $1 out of every 4 that leaves the country EVER coming back!
So while I have no doubt they'll iron out the bugs and make a chip that does what they want it to if we don't wake the fuck up and get nationalist and I mean TODAY it won't matter because we simply won't have a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out of. The corps have sold us out, we are at 22%! unemployment and rising daily and look up how many of our population is now trapped in the "service industry" aka McJobs.
Our brilliant leaders tell us to pile ever more crushing debt getting ever more degrees (what is it now, that $40k+ BS degree is the new HS diploma?) while the white collar jobs follow the blue overseas, the hypocrisy has to end and we better learn what China and India (who is spending billions building an aerospace industry so they don't have to even buy military gear, sadly one of the last things Americans build that's top notch, from America) have been trying to teach us with their actions which is nationalism = good and globalism = you're fucked raw!
Exactly! Glad to see some else gets it! Imagine how many jobs that employ millions now in reality won't be needed in just a few short years or really aren't required now if it weren't for "make work" benefits that allow corps to pay below a living wage and let Uncle Sam make up the rest.
For some examples: Is there ANY reason to have people working at your average fast food joint? Not really, as assembly manufacturing can easily do this work. You push buttons on a screen to choose your selection and it is processed and drops into a slot in front of you. The machine will never get your order wrong, never gets confused or tired, never needs a break. You can even have self diagnostics call a CO when parts begin to wear out so you need less than 3 workers to service an entire area so what happens to those millions now out of work?
What about truck driving? I would argue with a combination of onboard maps and GPS, radar and industrial computers this too will be a job that can be better done by the machine. The machine will never fall asleep at the wheel, will be safer with hazardous loads, never be fatigued or daydream or make mistakes. So what do you do with those millions of workers?
We are already at the point where there is an ever shrinking list of "jobs where you don't need to be a nuclear physicist but can't be done better by machines" and every. single. year. that list will be shrinking like musical chairs. you can force industry not to automate, in essence turning it into "make work" but its wasteful, you can have the "let them eat cake" attitude the USA seems to have adopted which may end in disaster like the middle east if this depression (and I would argue for the vast majority it IS a depression) doesn't end quickly and bring jobs I simply don't see coming, or we can find a new way.
Frankly I don't see any other way. The fewer ones working aren't gonna want to pay ever higher taxes to keep millions that will never work fed and housed, short of make work there are very few jobs the person of average IQ can be trained to do, and the machines ultimately make a better and more consistent product. Soon you won't even need fruit pickers and farm hands because a tracked bot could "see" the fruit and compare it to a chart and pick at perfect ripeness, no need for a human being.
There is a good reason why folks in Star Trek weren't waving around money, it is because there simply wasn't any way to keep that mindset when labor isn't required for most activities. I would say we are getting close to that tipping point, the question is will we find a new way like civilized beings or will we watch the world burn under massive riots of unemployed workers. I simply see no other way it can go, as labor from the masses simply won't be required.
Sorry but that is a fallacy, like saying if all those that lose in musical chairs would take dancing lessons there would be no losers even though with each round there are less chairs to go around.
It is really simple, but kinda scary, so please follow along. You have half the population at IQ x, lets say 105 which IIRC is about average. Now those people in the past could have worked at a factory and fed their kids but the jobs they can be trained for are better done by machine and each year the amount of jobs that fall under "doesn't need to be a brain surgeon but is better done by a human" will be less and less.
Meanwhile you are crushing them under ever larger piles of educational debt (what is it now, that a BS degree is the new HS diploma?) that they will simply never be able to pay off, as students loans can't even be gotten rid of with bankruptcy. So what now? Every single year the number that IQ x is required will only go up and the simple fact is you can't turn an average person into a nuclear physicist. So what now?
The answer is capitalism comes to an end one way or another because you can't base your society on trading labor for money if labor isn't required, and I'd argue that the reason we have so much unemployment and underemployment is simply that, their labor is no longer required. How many fast food jobs could be done just as well by the machine? Most of them frankly, it takes no real skill to put together a Big Mac and drop it in front of someone.
Meanwhile the eternal greed of the corps will demand ever worse benefits and worse pay for the workers because the machines could do it better and would in fact be cheaper if you didn't allow corps to pay less than a living wage and have Uncle Sam make up the difference in benefits. That in a nutshell is "make work" and I'd argue that if it weren't for Uncle Sam adding to the ever increasing debt to make up for the wages the workers aren't getting paid much of those service industry jobs would already be replaced by machines.
Why do the Chinese have jobs? Because lack of regulation on pollution and cheap costs of living make them cheaper than the machine. But what happens when they are not? same thing that is happening here and I would argue is destined to happen everywhere: Ever increasing masses that will NEVER be qualified for the ever dwindling "jobs not done by machines" niche, with no money, no way to take care of themselves, and nothing to lose. Look at the middle east, that really ain't a good way to run a country. How many factory jobs are now done by the machine? What do you do with those millions of displaced workers who aren't qualified for anything else? I would argue that the service industry will be next for the revolution of automation, and that industry is the last refuge for large masses of the population. What happens then?
Well I'm not the GP but I'd say it is a classic example of the two companies. On the one hand you have Apple where if you are not pretty close to current you are SOL, as Apple dumps tech pretty fast and if you ain't onboard their hardware upgrade schedule you just aren't doing things "The Apple Way",
Whereas with MSFT they release a bog standard update that'll work on all the WinPhone hardware but the OEMs are fucking things up with their incomplete or incompatible crap, kinda like how for years the OEM would set autoupdating in Windows to OFF and then fill the machine with OEM bloatware like all that "HP experience" crap.
So it sounds like business as usual, with Apple only loving the new tech and MSFT having more trouble from the OEMs than they deal with from the customers.
But I would argue we are progressing just as rapidly but the reason they aren't becoming obsolete quicker is we've run out of common programs that push the tech so PCs are "good enough" for most folks even if they are 7 or 8 years old.
I mean for the average Joe that is just watching Youtube and looking at his email a 2.2Ghz P4 with a boost to 1Gb of RAM is frankly overkill. The CPU is sitting idle most of the time. But that doesn't change the fact that my sub $100 GPU has more memory and speed than my first 4 PCs put together and that isn't even counting my $600 MOR quad with 8Gb of RAM and a TB of HDD that frankly would have cost more than a house just 10 years ago.
Personally I'm glad things have slowed a bit as far as the upgrade treadmill as it gets more power in the hands of people for cheaper and lets us keep things for longer reducing waste. I figure I can probably get close to a decade out of this quad with this much RAM before I have to start looking at some 24 core monster as we still haven't figured out what to do with what we've got, even gaming is just now starting to really use dual cores.
As for TFA while ID4 was probably about as bad as one could get, lets not forget the runners up. There is the CSI shows with their "magic" PCs that can produce parts of a person's face that wasn't even recorded in the original film or zoom into license plates from 3 miles away off of some shitty 7/11 security camera, The Lawnmower Man where one could become a God just by using VR tech and saying cyber a lot oh and don't forget Robocop 3 where multibillion dollar weapons droids can be hacked using nothing but a kid's laptop by the 8 year old kid who owned said laptop in less than 20 seconds.
You're welcome, I just try to warn folks as most of the new machines are X64 and I've found out the hard way after having to clean broken SecuROM and Safedisc installs.
Sadly the best protection you can give yourself besides the weekly backup (which if you'd like a free program I'd recommend Paragon Backup and Recovery Free as it has many of the normally pay features like Bootable restore CD and differential disc imaging) and making a restore point before an install is to go to GameCopyWorld and get the NoCD and use it immediately after installing the game but before launching it as I've found that will keep most Safedisc and SecuROM installs from activating and boning the machine.
Which of course just proves that once again the legit customer gets bullshit and hoop jumping, while the pirate gets a lower resource and less buggy game that "just works". But if you take my advice you'll find you can install any older game hassle free. I have games from as new as this year to as old as 1997, and all "just work" thanks to a little forethought.
I'd say that the advantages of x64 computing, not only the extra RAM but having the larger math registers which makes programs like transcoding faster, are well worth the extra work. I've been x64 since XP X64 right up to Win 7 X64, and I'd never want to go back to x86. It is just sad that it isn't the programs that need the extra work and caution, it is the shitty DRM with all the Ring 0 horseshit. I swear I've seen malware that is nicer to the system than some of those SecuROM versions. Good luck and happy 64 bit computing!
Actually capitalism is nearing its end, whether the 1%ers like it or not, simply because technology kills capitalism dead in the long run, there is simply no escaping that fact. I'm sure some will say "capitalism and tech go great together!" but this ignores a simple truth: The entire premise of capitalism is trading labor for capital but what happens when that labor is no longer valuable?
I'd say probably half the USA population isn't qualified and will never be for anything that can't be done better by a machine, and each year the musical chairs that is "jobs not able to be done better by machine" will shrink smaller and smaller. So we either come up with "make work" to give an excuse to cut these people a check, have massive unemployment and underemployment which will eventually lead to a tipping point and massive civil unrest, or we find a new way (perhaps resource based) to do things.
After all who thinks it would be hard to automate a McDonald's? The service industry will be the next to go and for many that is all that is left. So the 1%ers better enjoy their time in the sun, because those peasants won't just go quietly starve to death. Technology makes the worker pointless, and by sticking with capitalism you just make sure that now unemployed worker won't have any way to take care of themselves. Like delivering mail on horseback the capitalist way of trading labor for money is simply a dead end.
As for TFA it is a perfect example, an attempt for the old money buggy whip manufacturers to hang onto their business model in the face of technology. Whatever idiot thought the USA could survive as an "IP based economy" really should be shot, as you are trying to force scarcity into a medium where none exists. They spend ever more money on ever more draconian laws to prop up a dying business model. Countries like China aren't gonna give a shit about your "IP based economy" when they can keep their money and just make copies, so you get a "giant sucking sound" where all the money goes out and never comes back.
So until they wake up and smell the fail and start working on new business strategies that take the abundance and ease of propagation into effect they are just wasting their money. More and more of the population simply doesn't play your reindeer games anymore, so what are you gonna do? unplug the planet?
Well if it isn't little poor wittle Petey, aka the HOPES guy, aka the legend in his own mind. Did you program the space shuttle in your badly written Delphi as well? Hell you make VB coders look like kernel developers Petey, that is why everyone made fun of your "apps" on Ars. Any apps in the app store? Oh thats right Apple takes fart apps but not "batshit crazy" apps, sorry Petey.
And I guess you're afraid to touch any of my comments that are attached to current stories huh? Must make you awful sad at how many laughed their asses off at your little HOPES rants last time, but that's what you get when you tie your crazy to a tech older than an 8-track and just about as useful. You really should talk to Twitter, he does it SOOOO much better than you do, pretty sad to be third rate even as a troll.
The simple fact is this: no matter how many times Petey says "1+1 = 3" the math simply proves you wrong and THAT is why all you can do is throw insults. You have 190,000 to 340,000 infected websites at this very moment and that list will change by the thousands per minute as sites are cleaned, new sites are infected, new vulnerabilities found, etc. Now for his HOPES file to actually be a REAL protection and not just a woobie? It will have to dynamically scale and keep up with that ever changing list of infections. Now even if he had twenty fingers and subscribed to every security list on the planet his HOPES file will ALWAYS BE OUT OF DATE and behind the curve. Always.
So please, keep posting APK, I do so enjoy pointingoutthe totaluber fail of your magical woobie so. I also personally consider it a public service to point people to solutionsthat actuallywork instead of relying on magical woobies and anecdotes. And of course bitch slapping your around is also quite fun!
Simple if the court rules the lawsuit was in any way frivolous the one that brought the case before the court owes triple what was in the pot to the other side PLUS court fees. Knowing you were gonna get buried in debt forever if you treated the courts like a lotto would shut that down pretty damned quick, while still leaving court a legitimate option for the poor to seek redress.
Because as it is now the court is a weapon of the wealthy against the poor. Hell just look at TFL to that criminal case I sited, where the guy is rotting in jail for 18 years for daring to grab a gun when someone kicks down his door in the middle of the night with no identification, and who then proceed to ventilate the guy. Now you and I know any decent lawyer would have gotten that thrown out, but where he lives a "public pretender" is just that, a joke used to fool the poor into thinking the courts aren't rigged in favor of money.
So while I'm sure that in the end there would be bugs to work out it would at least level the playing field so the side with wealth, be it the corp or the state, wouldn't be able to just bury the other side in motions or experts.
I bet five will get you ten they were using shitty Ring 0 DRM that was written for x86. You actually got lucky as I have seen Ring 0 x86 crap install into x64 and the the uninstaller WILL NOT UNINSTALL no matter what you do and the Ring 0 crap since it can't read 64 bit code will cause the whole system to become as unstable as Win9x as it assumes you're a pirate and tries to constantly rescan.
For a perfect example that you can point to when someone says "the DRM isn't obtrusive, it doesn't hurt legit customers, blah blah blah" I'd suggest you watch this video (warning language NSFW, but when you see why he is POed you'll understand) and bookmark it to answer the pro DRM crowd. Also take note and point out the literally dozens of games boxed behind him lining the shelves which he points out many no longer work thanks to DRM.
So consider yourself lucky Jitterman, as you'd be amazed how many customers CD/DVD burners I've had to throw away thanks to DRM throwing them into PIO mode and burning the motors, or how many times a customer has had to pay me because "I think I have a virus" which turns out to be shitty DRM that is as nasty as any badly written malware and can take a rock solid XP or Windows 7 system and bring it to its knees. I'd also suggest frequent backups as well as system restore points before any game install if you are running x64, since as I said many x86 Ring 0 DRM crap WILL install itself onto x64 without warning or user interaction and proceed to make an unholy mess of your system.
But yet again the legit customer gets burned, the pirate has a game that "just works" and runs better than the legit version with fewer bugs and errors as well as needing fewer resources. Sad isn't it?
You know I've actually thought awhile about this and think I have a solution: There should be a fund that BOTH sides have to place all the money they intend to spend on a case and then the money is split evenly between both sides for lawyer fees.
That way if two Apple size megacorps want to fight it out? Go nuts, you both pile in the $$$ and go WMD with the lawyers, but it wouldn't allow money to crush the little guy because BOTH sides would have equal funding and thus equal chance to decent consul.
Because as it is the megacorp can just keep a superlawyer on retainer and bury the little guy in motions and expert witnesses that he simply can't afford to match. It would be like taking your HS football team and putting them against the Denver Broncos, it ain't the HS team doesn't have heart, it is simply the experience and skill that the money can buy crushing the little guy.
I don't see why this wouldn't work in criminal as well, maybe it would keep miscarriages of justice like this* (please donate if you can, I have) from happening to the little guy.
*-For those guys here running blogs and websites please put a link to Free Tracy and spread the word. getting 18 years for being shot in your home and being too poor to fight back after they nearly kill you is just bullshit!
You DO realize there is a reason why people use phrases like "freetard" and completely ignore everything you say when you insist on acting like a loonie yes?
Repeat after me: Microsoft is NOT Sauron, and Redmond is NOT in Mordor...see how easy that was? I mean do you really want to come off in conversations as this guy after you've gone to all the trouble to actually type a thoughtful reply?
Now as for your replay simply realize you now have NO RIGHT to complain when companies refuse to give you specs or drivers since you have just admitted the Linux community doesn't "vote with their dollars" but instead strictly based on convenience, which if that is all you wanted, why not run Windows where all the games are?
It is really simple: if a company does everything the community asks and you still refuse to buy even after they went to all the trouble and expense to do what you asked, why bother? They can stick with Windows and have ZERO hoop jumping as well as writing a single driver that'll work for a decade without fiddling. And why should Nvidia give you source or specs if you'll buy from them even when they ignore your philosophy? Answer: they shouldn't as the increased costs don't return increased sales. It really is business 101 friend and a good reason why so few bother with Linux support, the effort just doesn't see returns worth bothering with.
But if that is true AC then that means this is just yet another example of when the pirate game is the better version as yet again the badly designed DRM bites the customer in the ass. I've had to go and download the cracked version of games I bought and paid for because the DRM was such a PITA I spent more time fighting it than I did the bad guys.
The problem is these damned games companies seem to be forgetting we are the ones that pay them and that they DO have competition in the form of piracy. If I feel mistreated and ripped off after I give you my money and your shitty DRM causes me nothing but grief, why would I not just pirate the next version and save myself some grief?
To use the famous/. car analogy: If I have two car lots and one offers me a car for x dollars and proceeds to kick the shit out of me when I pay while the lot across the street may have cars of dubious origin but not only don't charge me, but treats me well? Wouldn't be a hard choice for most folks.
These companies either need to go the Good Old Games approach and offer us DRM free with rewards for buying, like how GOG gives you extras like soundtracks and strategy guides, or just agree to go with Steam with NO extra DRM bullshit. Because not only is this DRM a PITA but as a repairman I can tell you SecuROM and the others Can and DO cause system instability and a host of other problems including but not limited to burnt DVD/CD drives. For example certain versions of that crap WILL happily install x86 Ring 0 DRM into a 64 bit OS and then not only screw shit up since you have an x86 driver in Win X64, but then the uninstaller doesn't work and you get the "fun" of either dual booting and cleaning it out from the other OS or a couple of hours in safe mode editing the registry and removing files.
Question: What EXACTLY is the point of this ever faster JavaScript race for anyway?
While I agree with you on privacy (Using Comodo Dragon which is based on Chromium 8) I'm just not getting the "Warp JavaScript" thing since Chromium already loads as fast as my cable will go so is this some "blacker than black" kind of thing or what? Seriously the thing loads as fast as I can click at this point I don't think most of us are gonna notice the 1/50th of a millisecond faster page loading, are we?
Maybe I'm just weird or something but instead of faster I'd like BETTER. Better memory management, less CPU usage, While I give them credit for being better at it than FF (FF 3.6.15 is now unusable on my nettop because of all the memory suckage after a couple of hours of browsing) if they want to improve the browser that would seem like the place to start and not trying to squeeze a few tenths of a second.When I compare the memory usage its just...wow. Try the about:memory trick in Chrome/Chromium to run tests yourself. With just 5/. pages open and NO ADS we are talking over 200Mb of memory! For 5 pages of just text?
Maybe it is just me, but I'd personally rather have the pages use less memory than load 1/10 of a second faster. I don't want to fall into the "When I was your age" bit but c'mon! 40Mb a page of text with no ads? Am i the only one that thinks that's a little steep?
Isn't the AMD driver thing the fault of the community itself since AMD did what you told them to do? I mean how many times have we heard "If you'll just release the specs we'll take care of the rest" well guess what? They didexactlythat.
So you just gotta love the hypocrisy here. you tell companies to open the specs, you say you'll support them if they'll support FOSS, and what happens? Nearly every post that has ANYTHING to do with Linux and GPUs has post after post saying "You should buy Nvidia" the company that doesn't open shit.
So I'd say the ball is in your court now. If AMD drivers tank you only have yourselves to blame, if AMD doesn't see any increased sales and therefor stops supporting FOSS because everyone on the forums say buy Nvidia again your fault, why the hell should ANY company support you if that is the thanks they get?
As for TFA the fact that it has activation means it'll be DOA on Linux, the thought of activation or lack of source code will turn off too many true believers, which ironically probably all have Nvidia cards running closed source drivers.
Have you tried one of the Chromium based browsers? I found Chrome sluggish on my nettop (1.8GHz Sempron, 1.5Gb of RAM) and didn't like the phone home crap so I tried just about all of them and found Comodo Dragon to be the best IMHO. It has nice security features (such as SSL segregation and the choice of using their secure DNS), works with all the Chrome extensions like Adblock and ForecastFox (yeah I know, but that's what they call it) and if it runs good on my nettop then you KNOW it'll run good on just about anything, as a powerhouse it ain't. And as for as stability goes its been rock solid.
Now while I'm glad you think the new Firefox is the bee's knees I have to support a WILDLY diverse group of machines, from nettops and netbooks to old P4s and new hotness. So to me a good solid experience no matter what the hardware counts, and as someone who remembers the bad old days of FF 2.x I REALLY don't want to go back to having to kill my browser every time it starts sucking up the RAM.
Using this nettop running bog standard WinXP SP3 as a testbed I've found after about a half a day of surfing, never more than 6 tabs open and never more than one video site at a time, FF will begin to seriously suck RAM, even if Trim_on_minimize is on and you close out all the other tabs. It is JUST like what we'd have in 2.x where once a tab took memory it just didn't give it back. I can't be sure but I think their plugin sandbox doesn't give back memory claimed by a plugin, like say a flash vid.
Now compare to the Dragon, where it doesn't matter how long the browser runs a page will take between 14-25Mb of RAM depending on content, period. Close a tab? memory comes back. Now if it is just the "whiz bang" new UI that is doing it then FF needs a way to go "classic mode" but I seriously think they've pushed Gecko farther than it was meant to go. You've basically shoehorned multithreading onto a single threaded app with the sandbox for plugins and I think it is leaking memory.
But whatever the case, if I wanted Chrome I'd run it, and why not just have those new features as recommended extensions or plugins? Wasn't that the point of splitting off the suite? To have a nice light browser that you could customize your way and I could customize it mine? So why the extra bloat? I just think Firefox should concentrate on being the best FF they can be and stop trying to match Google bullet point to bullet point. Because in the end they will simply lose, as Webkit was simply designed more modular than Gecko and you can't keep bolting on the whiz bang without ending up in a bloated memory leaking mess, ala 2.x
Then they find out all the booty requires Games For Windows Live and they dump it overboard and break out the oars because the wind just ain't fast enough to get them away from the stench of failure, wafting like a bad chili fart in the ocean breeze.
Read between the lines friend, they aren't using the Ham frequencies for emergency responders they are selling it to commercial interests which means this little congress piggy went "How much money will you give me? really? Yes boss, we'll sell you that frequency and fuck them Ham guys!"
Sadly when just about anything gets brought before congress it was written by the lobbyist who paid senator/congressman piggy off. Hell these scumbags would sell the gold fillings out of their mama's teeth if the price was right! So I'm sorry Ham guys, but unless you can cut a better check than whatever corporate interest just bought congressman Porky you're screwed. Good luck Ham guys, you're gonna need it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one! I've had arguments here with guys saying "Oh they're not ripping off Chrome!" when I said from watching FF lately it smells like cargo cult usability which is EXACTLY what you are describing, where they've ripped off the superficial stuff but not the underlying functionality which I'd argue they simply can't because Gecko simply wasn't built for it.
For example I bet if you were to go over the MozDev blogs before Chrome you wouldn't see squat written about plugin sandboxing, maybe as a long term possibility, but nothing definite, same with JavaScript benchmarks and radical speedups.
But when Chrome came out with those they said "Me too!" only the problem was Gecko can't really do that without a rebuild so you have what I'm experiencing now where using the EXACT same extensions I have in Chrome FF will begin sucking RAM like a drunk sucking MD20/20 and after using a half a dozen tabs for half a day even with trim_on_minimize FF will suck up nearly the entire 1.5Gb of RAM on my nettop while flash runs like crap sandboxed, while Chrome has NO problems on the same machine doing the same tasks.
I'd say the FF devs really need to watch this "me too" Chrome ripping, because if they don't it'll bite them in the ass. If I wanted Chrome there is Chrome,Chromium,Comodo Dragon,SWIron, etc and all of them run better than FF aping Chrome. So instead of trying to match Chrome on every bullet point, why not just be the best FF you can be? Work on making the extensions framework even better (because lets face it, it is the extensions that keep folks on FF) while lowering memory and CPU usage and keeping things tight and unbloated. Quit adding crap to the main browser and leave them as extensions/plugins like your original mission statement to make a low resource fast browser with easy customizing. Let Chrome be Chrome, you be the best FF you can be. Is that really so hard?
Oh please, are you forgetting that first prize is $10,000 so it would be stupid to risk losing $10k just to get an average Macbook?
The simple fact is with DEP, ASLR, and file and registry virtualization combined with low rights IE Windows 7 is hard to crack so they went for the easier target which ATM is Mac OSX.
Now once Lion comes out and they get a solid ASLR as well that might be a different story, but at this stage of the game the OSX machine is the easier target. trying reading the post from last year's winner, he says the same thing. The new Windows is hard, there are flaws in the current OSX that make it an easier target to pwn.
Thanks you! Man that dude had me scared for a minute! No more AMD would mean the end of little mom & Pop shops, as it is the AMD machines that let us build a nice quad for under $500 and still make a profit.
As for TFA another "instant on" will be just another bullet point nobody actually uses just like the one in ASUS boards. I have sold plenty of those, nobody uses them. Why? Because there is ALWAYS one app they need which the "instant on" don't have. Be it messenger, or iTunes, or something, but they soon learn it isn't worth messing with if "my app" doesn't work. I liked the way my dad put it when I showed him how to use the instant on in his new board..."Will it run MSN messenger?" "no, then what the hell good is that?" because to dad if he couldn't talk to his friends with messenger while he checked his mail there just wasn't any point.
So nice try HP, kinda pointless, but if it makes you happy! Personally I hope WinPhone 7 and WebOS BOTH carve out a niche, because the more competition the better, but personally I'm betting it'll be a two horse ace between iOS and Droid with MSFT getting a corporate niche, probably the one now held by RIM.
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I know what you are trying to say friend, but if you have worked corporate you know what you are saying is what we call "sane reasonable talk" which frankly don't belong in corporate, sorry.
You see there you have people with the purse string but NO damned common sense, and all too often they get to call the shots. Hell one of my local hospitals has the big hulking POS mainframe they pay the only old guy that knows how to run the thing crazy money to keep up. Why don't they move to something sensible, that would be easy to upkeep? Because the board that holds the purse strings is old and to them "big equals powerful" and that old mainframe sure is a big fucker!
Man I wish things were like what you describe, but having worked corporate I had to get out because the "Dilbertisms" were driving me insane. They would get sold on some "whizz bang" new idea and go in whole hog, and then guess what would happen when shit hit the fan?
As a final thought let me give you an example of why corporate and common sense don't go together. I had done some work for this place but it was obvious they would need at least a part time if not full time guy, so I suggested not one but two different guys. They weren't cheap but they'd keep the place running like a Swiss watch. So what happened? The bean counter didn't like the price and decided "he knew a guy" which was some third cousin that "knew computers" or some crap. So what do I find when I'm called back two years later?
The guy had tossed out my standard desktops because they were "slow junk" in his words (bog standard MOR office machines in reality) and had filled the offices with home built gamer rigs which of course had not a single part matching between them (give up imaging those shitters) and when me and my bud get to the network closet he had canceled the network contract and replaced EVERYTHING with HOME ROUTERS and had gotten a separate ISP every single time they needed more bandwidth. we are talking over a half a dozen ISP running through Linksys shit.
So in the end, instead of logic and reason dictating that a decent network manager with experience would help the company, they decided that IT should be practically free and caused the whole office to have to be shitcanned. Did they go out of business? No they just passed on the price for that complete fuckup, and probably gave themselves bonuses for "the hardship" of doing without for two weeks.
If you would have told them about cloud computing instead of talking sense like you they would have 1.-thrown everything on a server 3x more expensive and 2.- would have blamed the whole thing on "the cloud" when it naturally failed. Sadly the common sense just rarely exists in corporate, Dilbert rules the day. That is why I had to quit, I make less money working in my little shop but the sheer stupidity doesn't give me migraines anymore and people actually listen to me instead of all this waste and ignorance.
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Oh what a classic FOSSie reaction, just like the moonies or any other religion, at the sight of anything wrong instead of asking logical questions like "Why is it doing that" you start drooling and foaming at the mouth and screaming shill like a redneck screaming nigger. How typical and sad.
And since I just pointed out that since it calls the WMP API it should work fine on all current Windows OSes from WinXP up that shouldn't be a problem,strike one, and if Linux or OSX wants H.264 support on Firefox they can look at the code and adapt it themselves. or better yet Firefox could drop their NIH bad attitude and just support whatever the OS supports by calling whatever native player they have, or even call VLC since it runs on all and plays all. Strike two FOSSIe
And nobody gives a shit if the code you are gonna release a year from now is great if your current code is shit which makes strike three and you're out! The current version is what is being passed out to millions and its crap, as I pointed out the memory usage after a half day is just pathetic.
On this standard nettop with NO plugins save for ABP and NoScript after a half day of real world usage, 5 to 6 tabs and watching around 3 videos an hour I find that FF slowly but surely refuses to give memory back. It is bad enough that sites recommend the "trim_on_minimize" trick which you know something is wrong when you are recommending browser hacks simply because once a tab takes memory FF refuses to give it back when the tab closes, but after 10-12 hours of usage FF has managed to blow through the entire 1.5Gb of RAM all by itself and start hitting the swap which slams the CPU at 100% and practically shuts down the machine. So just like the old 2.x.x crap it is shutdown and relaunch just to get FF to give back memory, that sucks!
So you scream shill and troll all you want little FOSSie, stick your head in the sand and convince yourself there is nothing bad here. meanwhile everyone and their dog are switching to Chrome, even average Joe users are bringing their machines to me and I find Chrome on the desktop because in their words "Firefox is slow" "Firefox is sluggish" "Firefox made the whole machine act slower" etc.
So if FF don't fix the problems with the release of FF 4 and instead just worry about the bullet points I'll be switching all my customers over to one of the Chromium based, probably Comodo Dragon. So if you don't want to accept there is a reason why Chrome based have jumped up and grabbed huge numbers that is your business, but if FF doesn't want to end up with numbers as low as Seamonkey (BTW did you notice Flock dropped Gecko and went Webkit? Why? Because it gave them "better performance" their words) they might want to worry less about bullet points and more about their memory usage and CPU slamming.
If that were true, then why are China and India spending billions of dollars creating CPUs on the Chinese side and Aerospace industries on the Indian side? It is simple they are nationalists and we are idiots for refusing to learn from them.
It is like Lenin said "A capitalist will gladly sell you the rope you hang him with" and while they are using the capital they get from us to invest in their OWN people we are offshoring everything that isn't nailed down. If China and India declared us "persona non grata" and refused to trade with us, would we even be able to function? Maybe in the long term but not without a severe depression probably lasting a couple of decades because as that one tea partier all by himself held up on his little sign "we don't make anything here anymore".
So you can't simply say it is because their standards of living are lower because they are spending significantly more to build these things in house rather than buy COTS from us. Why is that? Because they want your money gringo, but they don't want your products for any price. They know that if they decide to give us the finger THEY will have their own chips, planes, tanks, etc and it will ALL be made there whereas we are soon approaching the point where even the military will have "Made in China" stamped on the back. It is stupid and it WILL bite us in the ass!
Not to mention they were nice enough to release an H.264 plugin for Firefox thus freeing Mozilla from any licensing issues. It supposedly only works native in Windows 7 since Win 7 comes with H.264 support built in, but since it is simply calling the WMP API if you have an H.264 DShow codec installed (personally I like Klite Mega on XP, Vista codec pack for Vista and 7 Codec pack for 7 along with 64 bit MP Classic) it should work just fine.
I think the bigger problem for Firefox isn't IE but Chrome which they keep trying to rip off but failing. I don't run Beta so I can't talk about FF 4 but the last 2 releases of the 3.6.x line have totally sucked. After a half day's usage the thing is blowing through memory like a Vegas hooker through coke, so bad I have to shut it down and restart even with trim_on_minimize enabled.
Of course on Vista and Windows 7 I can't even recommend it anymore, it simply isn't as secure as Chrome and IE since they refuse to support low rights mode thus making their browser the least secure of the bunch. I can't hand my customers a browser that runs at higher privileges when interacting with the source of just about every nasty they get exposed to, it is just a bad idea.
So I'd say Mozilla needs to quit worrying about bullet points and start worrying about their code. The more features of Chrome and IE they tack on the more Gecko begins to fall apart IMHO, and while adding sandboxing for plugins (aka Chrome) is a good idea the Gecko engine doesn't seem to work well with it and refuses to release memory after say watching a flash video. The future is mobile, with green computing not far behind so now is NOT the time to just "throw more memory/cycles at it" if you want to be on people's laptops/netbooks/nettops/MIDs.
When you blow through a gig and a half of RAM and slam the CPU almost on every page load on a nettop after running barely half a day? Yeah you might want to look into that guys. It has gotten bad enough that I've had to switch to a Chromium based just to be able to watch videos or have more than two tabs on my nettop. Having to shut down FF every couple of hours and relaunch just to get memory back was something I thought we had left behind with FF 2.x.x.
I hate to say it as usually it is a bad idea, but maybe it is time for a rewrite? Maybe a low rights, sandboxed and tab isolated FF simply isn't possible with the current Gecko code. If so they need to be quietly rewriting FF in the background while updating FF 4 to give them something to ship. Just a thought but I need to support everything from netbooks to quad core gaming PCs and right now FF just isn't cutting it on the lower end machines, at least IME.
What I find funny is how nobody, not a single person, has pointed out the hypocrisy! When India and China refuse to buy overseas products and instead just do it in house it is all hunky dory, but when anyone here in the USA simply holds up a sign that says "we don't make anything here anymore" we hear screams of "Isolationist!" like that makes you a member of the fucking Klan or something!
We better wake the fuck up and take a lesson from our Chinese and Indian "friends" because the lesson is they don't want you around oh sure they'll be happy to take YOUR money stupid gringo, but they sure as hell don't want their money going to buy your products! hear that giant sucking sound? That is less than $1 out of every 4 that leaves the country EVER coming back!
So while I have no doubt they'll iron out the bugs and make a chip that does what they want it to if we don't wake the fuck up and get nationalist and I mean TODAY it won't matter because we simply won't have a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out of. The corps have sold us out, we are at 22%! unemployment and rising daily and look up how many of our population is now trapped in the "service industry" aka McJobs.
Our brilliant leaders tell us to pile ever more crushing debt getting ever more degrees (what is it now, that $40k+ BS degree is the new HS diploma?) while the white collar jobs follow the blue overseas, the hypocrisy has to end and we better learn what China and India (who is spending billions building an aerospace industry so they don't have to even buy military gear, sadly one of the last things Americans build that's top notch, from America) have been trying to teach us with their actions which is nationalism = good and globalism = you're fucked raw!
Exactly! Glad to see some else gets it! Imagine how many jobs that employ millions now in reality won't be needed in just a few short years or really aren't required now if it weren't for "make work" benefits that allow corps to pay below a living wage and let Uncle Sam make up the rest.
For some examples: Is there ANY reason to have people working at your average fast food joint? Not really, as assembly manufacturing can easily do this work. You push buttons on a screen to choose your selection and it is processed and drops into a slot in front of you. The machine will never get your order wrong, never gets confused or tired, never needs a break. You can even have self diagnostics call a CO when parts begin to wear out so you need less than 3 workers to service an entire area so what happens to those millions now out of work?
What about truck driving? I would argue with a combination of onboard maps and GPS, radar and industrial computers this too will be a job that can be better done by the machine. The machine will never fall asleep at the wheel, will be safer with hazardous loads, never be fatigued or daydream or make mistakes. So what do you do with those millions of workers?
We are already at the point where there is an ever shrinking list of "jobs where you don't need to be a nuclear physicist but can't be done better by machines" and every. single. year. that list will be shrinking like musical chairs. you can force industry not to automate, in essence turning it into "make work" but its wasteful, you can have the "let them eat cake" attitude the USA seems to have adopted which may end in disaster like the middle east if this depression (and I would argue for the vast majority it IS a depression) doesn't end quickly and bring jobs I simply don't see coming, or we can find a new way.
Frankly I don't see any other way. The fewer ones working aren't gonna want to pay ever higher taxes to keep millions that will never work fed and housed, short of make work there are very few jobs the person of average IQ can be trained to do, and the machines ultimately make a better and more consistent product. Soon you won't even need fruit pickers and farm hands because a tracked bot could "see" the fruit and compare it to a chart and pick at perfect ripeness, no need for a human being.
There is a good reason why folks in Star Trek weren't waving around money, it is because there simply wasn't any way to keep that mindset when labor isn't required for most activities. I would say we are getting close to that tipping point, the question is will we find a new way like civilized beings or will we watch the world burn under massive riots of unemployed workers. I simply see no other way it can go, as labor from the masses simply won't be required.
Sorry but that is a fallacy, like saying if all those that lose in musical chairs would take dancing lessons there would be no losers even though with each round there are less chairs to go around.
It is really simple, but kinda scary, so please follow along. You have half the population at IQ x, lets say 105 which IIRC is about average. Now those people in the past could have worked at a factory and fed their kids but the jobs they can be trained for are better done by machine and each year the amount of jobs that fall under "doesn't need to be a brain surgeon but is better done by a human" will be less and less.
Meanwhile you are crushing them under ever larger piles of educational debt (what is it now, that a BS degree is the new HS diploma?) that they will simply never be able to pay off, as students loans can't even be gotten rid of with bankruptcy. So what now? Every single year the number that IQ x is required will only go up and the simple fact is you can't turn an average person into a nuclear physicist. So what now?
The answer is capitalism comes to an end one way or another because you can't base your society on trading labor for money if labor isn't required, and I'd argue that the reason we have so much unemployment and underemployment is simply that, their labor is no longer required. How many fast food jobs could be done just as well by the machine? Most of them frankly, it takes no real skill to put together a Big Mac and drop it in front of someone.
Meanwhile the eternal greed of the corps will demand ever worse benefits and worse pay for the workers because the machines could do it better and would in fact be cheaper if you didn't allow corps to pay less than a living wage and have Uncle Sam make up the difference in benefits. That in a nutshell is "make work" and I'd argue that if it weren't for Uncle Sam adding to the ever increasing debt to make up for the wages the workers aren't getting paid much of those service industry jobs would already be replaced by machines.
Why do the Chinese have jobs? Because lack of regulation on pollution and cheap costs of living make them cheaper than the machine. But what happens when they are not? same thing that is happening here and I would argue is destined to happen everywhere: Ever increasing masses that will NEVER be qualified for the ever dwindling "jobs not done by machines" niche, with no money, no way to take care of themselves, and nothing to lose. Look at the middle east, that really ain't a good way to run a country. How many factory jobs are now done by the machine? What do you do with those millions of displaced workers who aren't qualified for anything else? I would argue that the service industry will be next for the revolution of automation, and that industry is the last refuge for large masses of the population. What happens then?
Well I'm not the GP but I'd say it is a classic example of the two companies. On the one hand you have Apple where if you are not pretty close to current you are SOL, as Apple dumps tech pretty fast and if you ain't onboard their hardware upgrade schedule you just aren't doing things "The Apple Way",
Whereas with MSFT they release a bog standard update that'll work on all the WinPhone hardware but the OEMs are fucking things up with their incomplete or incompatible crap, kinda like how for years the OEM would set autoupdating in Windows to OFF and then fill the machine with OEM bloatware like all that "HP experience" crap.
So it sounds like business as usual, with Apple only loving the new tech and MSFT having more trouble from the OEMs than they deal with from the customers.
But I would argue we are progressing just as rapidly but the reason they aren't becoming obsolete quicker is we've run out of common programs that push the tech so PCs are "good enough" for most folks even if they are 7 or 8 years old.
I mean for the average Joe that is just watching Youtube and looking at his email a 2.2Ghz P4 with a boost to 1Gb of RAM is frankly overkill. The CPU is sitting idle most of the time. But that doesn't change the fact that my sub $100 GPU has more memory and speed than my first 4 PCs put together and that isn't even counting my $600 MOR quad with 8Gb of RAM and a TB of HDD that frankly would have cost more than a house just 10 years ago.
Personally I'm glad things have slowed a bit as far as the upgrade treadmill as it gets more power in the hands of people for cheaper and lets us keep things for longer reducing waste. I figure I can probably get close to a decade out of this quad with this much RAM before I have to start looking at some 24 core monster as we still haven't figured out what to do with what we've got, even gaming is just now starting to really use dual cores.
As for TFA while ID4 was probably about as bad as one could get, lets not forget the runners up. There is the CSI shows with their "magic" PCs that can produce parts of a person's face that wasn't even recorded in the original film or zoom into license plates from 3 miles away off of some shitty 7/11 security camera, The Lawnmower Man where one could become a God just by using VR tech and saying cyber a lot oh and don't forget Robocop 3 where multibillion dollar weapons droids can be hacked using nothing but a kid's laptop by the 8 year old kid who owned said laptop in less than 20 seconds.
You're welcome, I just try to warn folks as most of the new machines are X64 and I've found out the hard way after having to clean broken SecuROM and Safedisc installs.
Sadly the best protection you can give yourself besides the weekly backup (which if you'd like a free program I'd recommend Paragon Backup and Recovery Free as it has many of the normally pay features like Bootable restore CD and differential disc imaging) and making a restore point before an install is to go to GameCopyWorld and get the NoCD and use it immediately after installing the game but before launching it as I've found that will keep most Safedisc and SecuROM installs from activating and boning the machine.
Which of course just proves that once again the legit customer gets bullshit and hoop jumping, while the pirate gets a lower resource and less buggy game that "just works". But if you take my advice you'll find you can install any older game hassle free. I have games from as new as this year to as old as 1997, and all "just work" thanks to a little forethought.
I'd say that the advantages of x64 computing, not only the extra RAM but having the larger math registers which makes programs like transcoding faster, are well worth the extra work. I've been x64 since XP X64 right up to Win 7 X64, and I'd never want to go back to x86. It is just sad that it isn't the programs that need the extra work and caution, it is the shitty DRM with all the Ring 0 horseshit. I swear I've seen malware that is nicer to the system than some of those SecuROM versions. Good luck and happy 64 bit computing!
Actually capitalism is nearing its end, whether the 1%ers like it or not, simply because technology kills capitalism dead in the long run, there is simply no escaping that fact. I'm sure some will say "capitalism and tech go great together!" but this ignores a simple truth: The entire premise of capitalism is trading labor for capital but what happens when that labor is no longer valuable?
I'd say probably half the USA population isn't qualified and will never be for anything that can't be done better by a machine, and each year the musical chairs that is "jobs not able to be done better by machine" will shrink smaller and smaller. So we either come up with "make work" to give an excuse to cut these people a check, have massive unemployment and underemployment which will eventually lead to a tipping point and massive civil unrest, or we find a new way (perhaps resource based) to do things.
After all who thinks it would be hard to automate a McDonald's? The service industry will be the next to go and for many that is all that is left. So the 1%ers better enjoy their time in the sun, because those peasants won't just go quietly starve to death. Technology makes the worker pointless, and by sticking with capitalism you just make sure that now unemployed worker won't have any way to take care of themselves. Like delivering mail on horseback the capitalist way of trading labor for money is simply a dead end.
As for TFA it is a perfect example, an attempt for the old money buggy whip manufacturers to hang onto their business model in the face of technology. Whatever idiot thought the USA could survive as an "IP based economy" really should be shot, as you are trying to force scarcity into a medium where none exists. They spend ever more money on ever more draconian laws to prop up a dying business model. Countries like China aren't gonna give a shit about your "IP based economy" when they can keep their money and just make copies, so you get a "giant sucking sound" where all the money goes out and never comes back.
So until they wake up and smell the fail and start working on new business strategies that take the abundance and ease of propagation into effect they are just wasting their money. More and more of the population simply doesn't play your reindeer games anymore, so what are you gonna do? unplug the planet?
Well if it isn't little poor wittle Petey, aka the HOPES guy, aka the legend in his own mind. Did you program the space shuttle in your badly written Delphi as well? Hell you make VB coders look like kernel developers Petey, that is why everyone made fun of your "apps" on Ars. Any apps in the app store? Oh thats right Apple takes fart apps but not "batshit crazy" apps, sorry Petey.
And I guess you're afraid to touch any of my comments that are attached to current stories huh? Must make you awful sad at how many laughed their asses off at your little HOPES rants last time, but that's what you get when you tie your crazy to a tech older than an 8-track and just about as useful. You really should talk to Twitter, he does it SOOOO much better than you do, pretty sad to be third rate even as a troll.
The simple fact is this: no matter how many times Petey says "1+1 = 3" the math simply proves you wrong and THAT is why all you can do is throw insults. You have 190,000 to 340,000 infected websites at this very moment and that list will change by the thousands per minute as sites are cleaned, new sites are infected, new vulnerabilities found, etc. Now for his HOPES file to actually be a REAL protection and not just a woobie? It will have to dynamically scale and keep up with that ever changing list of infections. Now even if he had twenty fingers and subscribed to every security list on the planet his HOPES file will ALWAYS BE OUT OF DATE and behind the curve. Always.
So please, keep posting APK, I do so enjoy pointing out the total uber fail of your magical woobie so. I also personally consider it a public service to point people to solutions that actually work instead of relying on magical woobies and anecdotes. And of course bitch slapping your around is also quite fun!
Simple if the court rules the lawsuit was in any way frivolous the one that brought the case before the court owes triple what was in the pot to the other side PLUS court fees. Knowing you were gonna get buried in debt forever if you treated the courts like a lotto would shut that down pretty damned quick, while still leaving court a legitimate option for the poor to seek redress.
Because as it is now the court is a weapon of the wealthy against the poor. Hell just look at TFL to that criminal case I sited, where the guy is rotting in jail for 18 years for daring to grab a gun when someone kicks down his door in the middle of the night with no identification, and who then proceed to ventilate the guy. Now you and I know any decent lawyer would have gotten that thrown out, but where he lives a "public pretender" is just that, a joke used to fool the poor into thinking the courts aren't rigged in favor of money.
So while I'm sure that in the end there would be bugs to work out it would at least level the playing field so the side with wealth, be it the corp or the state, wouldn't be able to just bury the other side in motions or experts.
I bet five will get you ten they were using shitty Ring 0 DRM that was written for x86. You actually got lucky as I have seen Ring 0 x86 crap install into x64 and the the uninstaller WILL NOT UNINSTALL no matter what you do and the Ring 0 crap since it can't read 64 bit code will cause the whole system to become as unstable as Win9x as it assumes you're a pirate and tries to constantly rescan.
For a perfect example that you can point to when someone says "the DRM isn't obtrusive, it doesn't hurt legit customers, blah blah blah" I'd suggest you watch this video (warning language NSFW, but when you see why he is POed you'll understand) and bookmark it to answer the pro DRM crowd. Also take note and point out the literally dozens of games boxed behind him lining the shelves which he points out many no longer work thanks to DRM.
So consider yourself lucky Jitterman, as you'd be amazed how many customers CD/DVD burners I've had to throw away thanks to DRM throwing them into PIO mode and burning the motors, or how many times a customer has had to pay me because "I think I have a virus" which turns out to be shitty DRM that is as nasty as any badly written malware and can take a rock solid XP or Windows 7 system and bring it to its knees. I'd also suggest frequent backups as well as system restore points before any game install if you are running x64, since as I said many x86 Ring 0 DRM crap WILL install itself onto x64 without warning or user interaction and proceed to make an unholy mess of your system.
But yet again the legit customer gets burned, the pirate has a game that "just works" and runs better than the legit version with fewer bugs and errors as well as needing fewer resources. Sad isn't it?
You know I've actually thought awhile about this and think I have a solution: There should be a fund that BOTH sides have to place all the money they intend to spend on a case and then the money is split evenly between both sides for lawyer fees.
That way if two Apple size megacorps want to fight it out? Go nuts, you both pile in the $$$ and go WMD with the lawyers, but it wouldn't allow money to crush the little guy because BOTH sides would have equal funding and thus equal chance to decent consul.
Because as it is the megacorp can just keep a superlawyer on retainer and bury the little guy in motions and expert witnesses that he simply can't afford to match. It would be like taking your HS football team and putting them against the Denver Broncos, it ain't the HS team doesn't have heart, it is simply the experience and skill that the money can buy crushing the little guy.
I don't see why this wouldn't work in criminal as well, maybe it would keep miscarriages of justice like this* (please donate if you can, I have) from happening to the little guy.
*-For those guys here running blogs and websites please put a link to Free Tracy and spread the word. getting 18 years for being shot in your home and being too poor to fight back after they nearly kill you is just bullshit!
You DO realize there is a reason why people use phrases like "freetard" and completely ignore everything you say when you insist on acting like a loonie yes?
Repeat after me: Microsoft is NOT Sauron, and Redmond is NOT in Mordor...see how easy that was? I mean do you really want to come off in conversations as this guy after you've gone to all the trouble to actually type a thoughtful reply?
Now as for your replay simply realize you now have NO RIGHT to complain when companies refuse to give you specs or drivers since you have just admitted the Linux community doesn't "vote with their dollars" but instead strictly based on convenience, which if that is all you wanted, why not run Windows where all the games are?
It is really simple: if a company does everything the community asks and you still refuse to buy even after they went to all the trouble and expense to do what you asked, why bother? They can stick with Windows and have ZERO hoop jumping as well as writing a single driver that'll work for a decade without fiddling. And why should Nvidia give you source or specs if you'll buy from them even when they ignore your philosophy? Answer: they shouldn't as the increased costs don't return increased sales. It really is business 101 friend and a good reason why so few bother with Linux support, the effort just doesn't see returns worth bothering with.
But if that is true AC then that means this is just yet another example of when the pirate game is the better version as yet again the badly designed DRM bites the customer in the ass. I've had to go and download the cracked version of games I bought and paid for because the DRM was such a PITA I spent more time fighting it than I did the bad guys.
The problem is these damned games companies seem to be forgetting we are the ones that pay them and that they DO have competition in the form of piracy. If I feel mistreated and ripped off after I give you my money and your shitty DRM causes me nothing but grief, why would I not just pirate the next version and save myself some grief?
To use the famous /. car analogy: If I have two car lots and one offers me a car for x dollars and proceeds to kick the shit out of me when I pay while the lot across the street may have cars of dubious origin but not only don't charge me, but treats me well? Wouldn't be a hard choice for most folks.
These companies either need to go the Good Old Games approach and offer us DRM free with rewards for buying, like how GOG gives you extras like soundtracks and strategy guides, or just agree to go with Steam with NO extra DRM bullshit. Because not only is this DRM a PITA but as a repairman I can tell you SecuROM and the others Can and DO cause system instability and a host of other problems including but not limited to burnt DVD/CD drives. For example certain versions of that crap WILL happily install x86 Ring 0 DRM into a 64 bit OS and then not only screw shit up since you have an x86 driver in Win X64, but then the uninstaller doesn't work and you get the "fun" of either dual booting and cleaning it out from the other OS or a couple of hours in safe mode editing the registry and removing files.
TL:DR? Pirate version good, legit version shit.
Question: What EXACTLY is the point of this ever faster JavaScript race for anyway?
While I agree with you on privacy (Using Comodo Dragon which is based on Chromium 8) I'm just not getting the "Warp JavaScript" thing since Chromium already loads as fast as my cable will go so is this some "blacker than black" kind of thing or what? Seriously the thing loads as fast as I can click at this point I don't think most of us are gonna notice the 1/50th of a millisecond faster page loading, are we?
Maybe I'm just weird or something but instead of faster I'd like BETTER. Better memory management, less CPU usage, While I give them credit for being better at it than FF (FF 3.6.15 is now unusable on my nettop because of all the memory suckage after a couple of hours of browsing) if they want to improve the browser that would seem like the place to start and not trying to squeeze a few tenths of a second.When I compare the memory usage its just...wow. Try the about:memory trick in Chrome/Chromium to run tests yourself. With just 5 /. pages open and NO ADS we are talking over 200Mb of memory! For 5 pages of just text?
Maybe it is just me, but I'd personally rather have the pages use less memory than load 1/10 of a second faster. I don't want to fall into the "When I was your age" bit but c'mon! 40Mb a page of text with no ads? Am i the only one that thinks that's a little steep?
Isn't the AMD driver thing the fault of the community itself since AMD did what you told them to do? I mean how many times have we heard "If you'll just release the specs we'll take care of the rest" well guess what? They did exactly that.
So you just gotta love the hypocrisy here. you tell companies to open the specs, you say you'll support them if they'll support FOSS, and what happens? Nearly every post that has ANYTHING to do with Linux and GPUs has post after post saying "You should buy Nvidia" the company that doesn't open shit.
So I'd say the ball is in your court now. If AMD drivers tank you only have yourselves to blame, if AMD doesn't see any increased sales and therefor stops supporting FOSS because everyone on the forums say buy Nvidia again your fault, why the hell should ANY company support you if that is the thanks they get?
As for TFA the fact that it has activation means it'll be DOA on Linux, the thought of activation or lack of source code will turn off too many true believers, which ironically probably all have Nvidia cards running closed source drivers.
Have you tried one of the Chromium based browsers? I found Chrome sluggish on my nettop (1.8GHz Sempron, 1.5Gb of RAM) and didn't like the phone home crap so I tried just about all of them and found Comodo Dragon to be the best IMHO. It has nice security features (such as SSL segregation and the choice of using their secure DNS), works with all the Chrome extensions like Adblock and ForecastFox (yeah I know, but that's what they call it) and if it runs good on my nettop then you KNOW it'll run good on just about anything, as a powerhouse it ain't. And as for as stability goes its been rock solid.
Now while I'm glad you think the new Firefox is the bee's knees I have to support a WILDLY diverse group of machines, from nettops and netbooks to old P4s and new hotness. So to me a good solid experience no matter what the hardware counts, and as someone who remembers the bad old days of FF 2.x I REALLY don't want to go back to having to kill my browser every time it starts sucking up the RAM.
Using this nettop running bog standard WinXP SP3 as a testbed I've found after about a half a day of surfing, never more than 6 tabs open and never more than one video site at a time, FF will begin to seriously suck RAM, even if Trim_on_minimize is on and you close out all the other tabs. It is JUST like what we'd have in 2.x where once a tab took memory it just didn't give it back. I can't be sure but I think their plugin sandbox doesn't give back memory claimed by a plugin, like say a flash vid.
Now compare to the Dragon, where it doesn't matter how long the browser runs a page will take between 14-25Mb of RAM depending on content, period. Close a tab? memory comes back. Now if it is just the "whiz bang" new UI that is doing it then FF needs a way to go "classic mode" but I seriously think they've pushed Gecko farther than it was meant to go. You've basically shoehorned multithreading onto a single threaded app with the sandbox for plugins and I think it is leaking memory.
But whatever the case, if I wanted Chrome I'd run it, and why not just have those new features as recommended extensions or plugins? Wasn't that the point of splitting off the suite? To have a nice light browser that you could customize your way and I could customize it mine? So why the extra bloat? I just think Firefox should concentrate on being the best FF they can be and stop trying to match Google bullet point to bullet point. Because in the end they will simply lose, as Webkit was simply designed more modular than Gecko and you can't keep bolting on the whiz bang without ending up in a bloated memory leaking mess, ala 2.x
Then they find out all the booty requires Games For Windows Live and they dump it overboard and break out the oars because the wind just ain't fast enough to get them away from the stench of failure, wafting like a bad chili fart in the ocean breeze.
Read between the lines friend, they aren't using the Ham frequencies for emergency responders they are selling it to commercial interests which means this little congress piggy went "How much money will you give me? really? Yes boss, we'll sell you that frequency and fuck them Ham guys!"
Sadly when just about anything gets brought before congress it was written by the lobbyist who paid senator/congressman piggy off. Hell these scumbags would sell the gold fillings out of their mama's teeth if the price was right! So I'm sorry Ham guys, but unless you can cut a better check than whatever corporate interest just bought congressman Porky you're screwed. Good luck Ham guys, you're gonna need it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one! I've had arguments here with guys saying "Oh they're not ripping off Chrome!" when I said from watching FF lately it smells like cargo cult usability which is EXACTLY what you are describing, where they've ripped off the superficial stuff but not the underlying functionality which I'd argue they simply can't because Gecko simply wasn't built for it.
For example I bet if you were to go over the MozDev blogs before Chrome you wouldn't see squat written about plugin sandboxing, maybe as a long term possibility, but nothing definite, same with JavaScript benchmarks and radical speedups.
But when Chrome came out with those they said "Me too!" only the problem was Gecko can't really do that without a rebuild so you have what I'm experiencing now where using the EXACT same extensions I have in Chrome FF will begin sucking RAM like a drunk sucking MD20/20 and after using a half a dozen tabs for half a day even with trim_on_minimize FF will suck up nearly the entire 1.5Gb of RAM on my nettop while flash runs like crap sandboxed, while Chrome has NO problems on the same machine doing the same tasks.
I'd say the FF devs really need to watch this "me too" Chrome ripping, because if they don't it'll bite them in the ass. If I wanted Chrome there is Chrome,Chromium,Comodo Dragon,SWIron, etc and all of them run better than FF aping Chrome. So instead of trying to match Chrome on every bullet point, why not just be the best FF you can be? Work on making the extensions framework even better (because lets face it, it is the extensions that keep folks on FF) while lowering memory and CPU usage and keeping things tight and unbloated. Quit adding crap to the main browser and leave them as extensions/plugins like your original mission statement to make a low resource fast browser with easy customizing. Let Chrome be Chrome, you be the best FF you can be. Is that really so hard?
Oh please, are you forgetting that first prize is $10,000 so it would be stupid to risk losing $10k just to get an average Macbook?
The simple fact is with DEP, ASLR, and file and registry virtualization combined with low rights IE Windows 7 is hard to crack so they went for the easier target which ATM is Mac OSX.
Now once Lion comes out and they get a solid ASLR as well that might be a different story, but at this stage of the game the OSX machine is the easier target. trying reading the post from last year's winner, he says the same thing. The new Windows is hard, there are flaws in the current OSX that make it an easier target to pwn.
Thanks you! Man that dude had me scared for a minute! No more AMD would mean the end of little mom & Pop shops, as it is the AMD machines that let us build a nice quad for under $500 and still make a profit.
As for TFA another "instant on" will be just another bullet point nobody actually uses just like the one in ASUS boards. I have sold plenty of those, nobody uses them. Why? Because there is ALWAYS one app they need which the "instant on" don't have. Be it messenger, or iTunes, or something, but they soon learn it isn't worth messing with if "my app" doesn't work. I liked the way my dad put it when I showed him how to use the instant on in his new board..."Will it run MSN messenger?" "no, then what the hell good is that?" because to dad if he couldn't talk to his friends with messenger while he checked his mail there just wasn't any point.
So nice try HP, kinda pointless, but if it makes you happy! Personally I hope WinPhone 7 and WebOS BOTH carve out a niche, because the more competition the better, but personally I'm betting it'll be a two horse ace between iOS and Droid with MSFT getting a corporate niche, probably the one now held by RIM.
I know what you are trying to say friend, but if you have worked corporate you know what you are saying is what we call "sane reasonable talk" which frankly don't belong in corporate, sorry.
You see there you have people with the purse string but NO damned common sense, and all too often they get to call the shots. Hell one of my local hospitals has the big hulking POS mainframe they pay the only old guy that knows how to run the thing crazy money to keep up. Why don't they move to something sensible, that would be easy to upkeep? Because the board that holds the purse strings is old and to them "big equals powerful" and that old mainframe sure is a big fucker!
Man I wish things were like what you describe, but having worked corporate I had to get out because the "Dilbertisms" were driving me insane. They would get sold on some "whizz bang" new idea and go in whole hog, and then guess what would happen when shit hit the fan?
As a final thought let me give you an example of why corporate and common sense don't go together. I had done some work for this place but it was obvious they would need at least a part time if not full time guy, so I suggested not one but two different guys. They weren't cheap but they'd keep the place running like a Swiss watch. So what happened? The bean counter didn't like the price and decided "he knew a guy" which was some third cousin that "knew computers" or some crap. So what do I find when I'm called back two years later?
The guy had tossed out my standard desktops because they were "slow junk" in his words (bog standard MOR office machines in reality) and had filled the offices with home built gamer rigs which of course had not a single part matching between them (give up imaging those shitters) and when me and my bud get to the network closet he had canceled the network contract and replaced EVERYTHING with HOME ROUTERS and had gotten a separate ISP every single time they needed more bandwidth. we are talking over a half a dozen ISP running through Linksys shit.
So in the end, instead of logic and reason dictating that a decent network manager with experience would help the company, they decided that IT should be practically free and caused the whole office to have to be shitcanned. Did they go out of business? No they just passed on the price for that complete fuckup, and probably gave themselves bonuses for "the hardship" of doing without for two weeks.
If you would have told them about cloud computing instead of talking sense like you they would have 1.-thrown everything on a server 3x more expensive and 2.- would have blamed the whole thing on "the cloud" when it naturally failed. Sadly the common sense just rarely exists in corporate, Dilbert rules the day. That is why I had to quit, I make less money working in my little shop but the sheer stupidity doesn't give me migraines anymore and people actually listen to me instead of all this waste and ignorance.