What he is talking about is DIVX (all caps), named to make people think of the OTHER DivX , which was an attempt at "DRM in a box" that went over about as well as a loud ripping fart in an elevator.
I predict other than the *philes (the same folks that bought Beta, Laserdisc, and anything else that claimed to be "better" than the rest) 4K is gonna flop as bad as 3D TV, the reasons why are numerous, 1.- DVD is "good enough" for the majority, which is why after all these years BD is still not a blip compared to the massive DVD install base, 2.- The bandwidth in the USA to stream 4K without getting capped? EXTREMELY rare, most folks would be lucky to be able to watch 2 vids before they get capped, 3.- The not insignificant investment from users that really like what 1080p looks like now, and 4.- The fact it won't work with anything they already have, thus causing the "I gotta buy the Beatles albums again" syndrome which in a "jobless recovery" isn't gonna fly.
Considering the majority of PCs still don't come with BD? I'm really not worried about 4K DRM, it'll be another WMA, only bitch is the wasted die space used by your GPU and/or board for this shit you'll never use. Damn, now I'm gonna have to grab that R9 270x before they have time to add that shit.
Uhhhh...yeah dude? The post he is referring to used "compartmentalized", "intrinsic" and "homogeneous" in less than 3 sentences....normal folks and IT guys? yeah they don't talk like that. So the poster is either 1.- A shill, or 2.- Works in PR or marketing, because those guys DO talk like that.
Frankly I was shocked he didn't roll out "synergy" but I think they wised onto it thanks to Dilbert ragging on it so many times.
If you have already swallowed the Apple BS so much that you REQUIRE everything from iTunes to Apple formats and iWhatever support? Then go ahead and go full Cult 'o Mac and buy a damned Macbook already!
As I tell every customer that asks about Apple anything? Be ready to go full Apple or go home. iTunes for Windows sucks, it has ALWAYS sucked, it always WILL suck, so if you are gonna go retard? Go full retard, just buy a damned macbook and stop trying to make that shitastic software work on Windows. Fuck I've seen DOS games that work better on Windows 7 than fricking iTunes, that POS software is either gimped on purpose (to again push the full Cult 'o Mac) or they hired the absolute cheapest third world rent-a-coders they possibly could to work on the Windows version. Either way it blows ass, it always has, always will. So stop coming up with more and more excuses that will require that shitfart iTunes and just go full Cult o' Mac already!
What I find ironic as hell is the war hawks pushing this crap do not realize they are causing the US military to fall into the same trap the axis did in WWII. Spend all your money on "wonder weapons" that cost so much only a handful can be built and are so prone to breakdown and malfunction that only a small percentage of that small handful will be available at any 1 time, meanwhile any potential enemy can go pick up a fleet of Russian fourth and fifth gen planes for the cost of one of ours.
I don't care how "high tech" you make the F35 if you put 1 F35 against 20+ MiG29 or SU35? Its going down. As Stalin is reported to have said "Quantity has a quality all its own".
And BOTH sides get royally fucked to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars because America has NO limits on how much drug companies can charge and NO law stating the government should be required to buy any and all drugs that the state makes a requirement.
Before everybody here breaks their arms clapping? Might want to remember you are handing big pharma, one of the biggest sources of bribery we have in the USA, a mandated right to print money. If you want the children across the country to be forced to get these shots? Then DEMAND that the state have the patents NOT big pharma.
Oh and FYI for those that don't know when things do go wrong and some kid gets sick (as there is NO DRUG that is 100% safe, even aspirin kills a small percentage of users each year) guess who picks up the tab? Its YOU, as the big pharma lobby got a bill passed in the 90s requiring the government (aka YOU) to pick up the tab and absolve them of any and all responsibility. Must be nice to be able to privatize all the profits while wiping away any liabilities, huh?
Uhhhh....its the same thing Google does with ChromeOS only unlike ChromeOS its OPTIONAL and can be turned off. I seriously doubt it will even be on by default for any SKU other than Windows Enterprise as it would mean a ton of headaches for any OEM that sold a PC with this on thanks to the increased support calls.
Don't you just love how whatever MSFT does its automatically evil, even when its just copying Slashdot darling Google? It doesn't matter that Nadella is nothing like Gates or Ballmer, that one of the first things he did was open up.NET (as many devs had asked for) and bring their open source back into the fold so it wouldn't be treated like an afterthought, got rid of Metro for everything other than phones/tablets (again just like so many of us asked for) and then to top it all off have Windows 10 be free for a year to make up for Windows Mist8ke...what happened to letting the new guy have a chance before tarring and feathering?
This CEO change so far looks to be as big a direction shift for MSFT as bringing Jobs back was for Apple, as he doesn't seem to give a shit about planting Winflags on everything (like Ballmer) or treating FOSS like the plague and fucking users in favor of getting snugly with the OEMs (ala Gates) but actually seems to be LISTENING TO THE USERS and giving us what we ask for...shouldn't we at least give the guy one OS launch to see what he's gonna do?
Dude you might want to look up "Intel SSD killswitch" as you do NOT want an Intel SSD, as instead of doing the logical solution if one finds failing sectors (which would be alert the user and turn it into a WORM drive so they can get their data off) Intel SSDs throw a killswitch and on next boot your drive and all your data is trashed as Intel's killswitch kills the drive....no matter how many good sectors you have left!
I would take the cheapest OCZ or Kingston before I would EVER touch an Intel SSD, that killswitch shows they have not a single fuck to give about the customers, its all about killing the drive the second the sectors start going, probably to increase sales. Anyway you slice it its seriously douchebag behavior and NOT a position you want to support with your wallet!
Allow me to LMAO heartily. Once again proving that hypocrisy is something they fail to grasp the meaning of, for all their talk of "FOSS this" and "four freedoms" that when the rubber meets the road? The Linux community will happily fuck the company that open sources their code for the one that has given Linus himself so much shit thanks to their "proprietary or die" stance he flipped them the bird.
Thank you once again from the bottom of my black little heart Linux community for proving that your bullshit is exactly that...absolute bullshit. Oh and for proving what I said all along, that companies should NOT waste their time opening up their code and helping your devs, as at the end of the day you will have not one single fuck to give if a proprietary solution will give you an extra 10%. So much for that "we support those that support us" horseshit, huh? I bet any company that was thinking of FOSSing their drivers took one look at AMDs sales (that went exact fuck nowhere) and said "lets not waste our time"...LOL. Keep being yourselves Linux community, its just soooo damned entertaining!
I can back this up, as I have a couple of "gamer" customers (which you can replace "gamer" with "must spend stupid amounts of money trying to stay atop the leaderboards") and when they brought in these new "top o' the line" SSDs I ran a few informal tests, boot times, game load times, basic shit....honestly you couldn't tell without a stopwatch, the new ones were so close to the 2 year old SSD I have in the shop it wasn't even funny.
I have to wonder if we are getting to the point the drive speed just isn't a factor, that the other components like CPU, GPU, and RAM will be bottlenecking before the drive, because no matter how faster you get the data off the drive you still gotta process it.
Show me a hardware site where over 80% (Tom's over 90%, Anand over 95%) of their advert budget isn't paid for by Intel? You could have all you wanted. the bias is so bad on tom's now that for their "best gaming" CPU lineup the writer admitted that most new games require at least a quad core to run and then scored the Pentium dual and i3 (which even Intel fans make fun of) higher than an FX6 that was cheaper!
But since your lousy net connection can't run video (and you obviously missed TFL) I'll be happy to provide a source that nobody would accuse of bias provided by another in this thread..here you go, enjoy. And wadda ya know, when compiled with GCC instead of ICC or MCC (they call it "Wintel" for a reason guys) the exact same chips that sites like Tom's were saying get "curbstomped" by an i3 or low end i5 are trading blows with the i7....is it magic? Is the coders of GCC just soooo fucking good that they can squeeze an extra 40% performance out of an AMD chip with only a compiler? Nope its what happens when you take market rigging out of the equation.
Again I don't give a fuck if you are a raging Intel fanboi, this ought to PISS YOU OFF as market rigging ONLY benefits the company doing the rigging, it leads to higher prices, less competition, and worse selection. If the market rigging were removed from the equation Intel's scores would go down, people would see a 5-10% difference costing 200%+ in cost and not buy Intel, then Intel would have to lower their prices to make their chips a better value for the consumer...a win for the market, a win for the consumer, and a win for YOU as your new Intel chip would be much cheaper than what you are paying now.
Or are you such an Intel fanboy you consider it a tithe to pay more than a market fair price for your processors?
I would say even the scorpion king looked better than rubber neo vs plastic smith clones in Matrix II, that wasn't even cartoon, it looked like something off of robot chicken lol.
As for the trailer? Everybody just has to face reality and reality is 1.- The 2 new "next gen" consoles are AMD netbook APUs with GPUs that would run around $130-$150 USD, the fanboys can scream and gnash their teeth but anybody that looks at the AMD whitepapers on the jaguar arch will see its not even on the level of the Athlon wrt most functions, much less an FX or i5/i7, 2.- The Steam hardware survey gives those designing on the PC side a good idea where the "sweet spot" to get the most customers will be and last I checked that is GPUs in the $100-$150 range and quad core CPUs, and 3.- With current technology the only way you would even get close to that is a pair of XFire or SLI'd top o' the line cards and even then I doubt you'd even hit 30 fps.
So unless they come up with a way to make technology such as ray tracing and the rendering of tens of millions to hundreds of millions of polygons a LOT cheaper? Yeah you aren't gonna see anything like that, I don't care if your PC cost more than a new car. It certainly isn't gonna even be in the same ballpark with a PS4 or XB1 which is the platform that will be the primary focus of the devs, no way in hell.
Does it make calls? No? Then what the fuck does it do that the smartphone I already have to carry already does? I bet you can't think of a damned thing...and THAT is the problem in a nutshell. Every other Apple hit? Were things that people were already using that had bad UIs, MP3 players had menupaloza, tablets had itty bitty desktops and right and left clicks, phones had awful screens and bad apps, its the same story across the board.....until you get to the iWatch which has ZERO reason to exist as it does nothing that the phone you already have to carry already does and it doesn't make calls so it can't replace the phone...lame.
Its a bad idea, full stop. Its a watch that requires a phone to be of any real value....at a time when most under 30 look upon a watch as a throwback to the days of disco.
Both of my boys are in their early 20s, neither have owned a watch...why? Because they have been surrounded by things with clocks built in since birth, that's why. I work less than a mile from the local college so I work around college kids all day...damned near zero watches, why? They already have a smartphone AND a tablet AND a laptop AND a clock in their cars....WTF they need a watch for? Hell I'm nearly 50 and haven't worn a watch in over a decade, the wife is 7 years older than me and doesn't even own one, that is what the phone in her pocket is for.
It just shows IMHO that Apple has run out of ideas as all the previous hits of the past decade plus, iPhone,iPad,iPod,etc were all things that people already used and had uses for that had bad UIs, the watch? The few people I know who refuse to let go of their watches are traditionalists that value things like Swiss movements and have NO desire to add high tech crap to their wrist, the rest? Well as one group of college kids in the shop said when the first talk of iWatches came up "If I have to have my phone...what do I need the watch for?". I couldn't think of an answer then other than "to give something for Apple to sell to hardcore fanboys" and I still can't come up with anything else, as for an ever growing segment of the population a watch belongs next to a rotary phone in the dustbin of history.
Look at the circletimessquare account history....its a corp account designed to derail threads, the current clients appear to be Monsanto and any of the oil corps. It goes dead for months,then the "poster" cops a superior attitude and spams if any of the above are the headline (at last count "he" is up to nearly a dozen on this thread) while at almost the same instant a wall of ACs join in to heckle anybody that disagrees.
You might want to look up "how corporations control social media" and you'll see its following the plan to the letter, have 1 account to speak "from authority" on the subject while a wall of ACs parrot agreement while heckling those that disagree, thus causing the majority to go along for fear of being the minority. Its classic psychology 101 stuff.
Show me a single instance, just one, of those "thousands of years of engineered crops" involving crossbreeding plants with sealife or insects...just one mind you...if you can't? I call bullshit.
That is because Phoronix tests are compiled with GCC, the benchmarks used on the gaming sites (which just FYI Cinebench just got caught cheating, 30% bonus hit for any AMD chip over Intel thanks to the flags they used on the ICC) is using the Intel Crippled Compiler which has been designed from the very first release to DISABLE any and all SSE functions on any non pushed Intel chip. They have been doing this since 2005, have admitted they are doing it, and still no sanctions by DoJ. Again the DoJ proves they are absolutely worthless and might as well not exist, as they have been bought off since the MSFT trial ended in 03.
BTW before any of the fanboys chime in with their "herpa derp, Intel knows how to compile better for their own chips, derpa de do" I have 2 words for you.....Pentium III. When the ICC was released every benchmark was showing the P3 curbstomp the P4 by as much as 35%, ICC gets released, Intel throws money at benchmark sites to use ICC and...wadda ya know, P3 is suddenly losing to the exact same chips they beat a year before isn't that amazing? You can also go buy yourself ANY Via CPU, change the CPUID from "Centaur Hauls" to "Genuine Intel" and.......gasp! Suddenly the exact same chip scores nearly 40% higher than the previous run, all thanks to the magical CPUID!
The fact that GCC magically puts out code that paints a VERY different picture ought to give you a clue guys, its hilarious that you scream when companies like Comcast manipulate your Internet to push you to use their services yet here is a company that has gone on the record stating flat footed they are manipulating the market which not only kills competition but makes YOU pay higher chip prices (as if the benches weren't rigged Intel's actual performance numbers wouldn't be high enough to justify the cost and they would have to lower prices, a win for the consumer) and what do you do? Defend the corp raping your wallet.
Rigged markets are bad for everybody BUT the corp doing the rigging, its bad for competition, bad for consumers, and bad for the market as a whole. I don't care which chip you like the fact that a corp is getting away with such blatant rigging? Ought to piss you off!
If you are like sadly many others going by the benchmarks please note that even Intel admits they rigged the benchmarks and when you use actual programs instead of the rigged benchmarks? You'll find that AMD chips are trading blows with chips that cost 3 times as much while the actual power they use is low enough it would take 18 years for you to come out ahead on power savings. Sorry for two of the links being from one site but Tek Syndicate is one of the few hardware sites that isn't getting the majority of their ad revenue from Intel.
If anybody still doubts that the US DoJ is nothing but a toothless joke? Intel should be all the proof you need. Here you have a company that admits flat out they are rigging the tests every major website uses to judge performance, was allowed to pay off its rival after several CEOs got on the stand and admitted Intel was bribing their companies, used their leverage in one market (CPUs) to wipe out a competitor in another market (chipsets) while memo were leaked talking about how they were gonna "cut their throats" and they STILL didn't get fucking busted? If the MSFT antitrust were to happen today I have no doubt Gates could walk right into the deposition room and take a big dump on the table as his response and the DoJ would be lining up to offer him TP!
So don't buy the bullshit, or "tests" done by sites where the majority of their advertising budget is filled by Intel, get an AMD and see for yourself. Here in the shop I've had just about every Intel and AMD chip come through the door and on everything but the over $600 chips? You are seeing MAYBE mid single digits difference, with everything under $400 a chip trading blows back and forth....except of course on price, where it will cost on average double to trade blows with the AMD chip. Sadly the rigging doesn't just extend to benches though, you go to sites like Tom's and Anand's and you'll see writer admit that most of the new games coming down the pipe require quad cores to even play....and then push an Intel Pentium dual core over even a hexacore in the same price bracket. Of course when you turn off adblock you'll see why, as the page is covered with ads for Intel boards and chips. Never in all my years in computing have I ever seen one company be so damned blatant in their market manipulation and not even get so much as a slap on the wrist for it, I only hope the EU investigation has more teeth and hits them with enough fines that Intel will finally have to play on a level field which they have not done since the day the P4 was released!
The pacing and editing was terrible, as well as the writing for Dr Doom. With every bad guy in the GOOD Marvel movies you felt like you knew why they did what they did and why they would do it that way, whereas Dr Doom was just "yeah...he's evil, just roll with it". They couldn't just let moments happen or tension build, it was like the director had ADHD and couldn't stand letting the camera linger.
I didn't get it, it was a perfectly ok film. It wasn't Captain America or Iron Man 1 great but it sure as hell ain't Fantastic Four terrible, it was pretty much just an "I watched an ok superhero flick" for me...maybe THAT is why its hated? Because it didn't turn out to be the epic that the uber fanboys wanted?
He didn't write the rule you idiot, their prophet did and in case you haven't bothered to read the book or even learn a damned thing other than SJW political correctness (surprise surprise) they take what Mohammed said AS LAW, so yes Virginia a rule written by the prophet DOES take precedence over whatever bullshit your PC friends are shoveling.
In case you can actually read (that is if your PC beliefs don't make anything that isn't dogma verbotten) perhaps you should try educating yourself before you open you mouth, hmm? BTW you won't hear any of the "religion of peace" pushers mention this because it is holy to lie to non Muslims as long as it furthers the political goals of Sharia and Islam.
I'm so damned tired of people not understanding how to read the Koran. Their prophet saw that with the other religions they would have conflicting passages so he wrote in a "fix" for this issue. Quite simply he wrote "If a passage comes later it supersedes the passages that came before" and by doing so fixed the issue of conflicting passages (because one had to have been wrote later than the other) in a single sentence.
By using the rule guess what you find? All the "religion of peace" passages are replaced by "jihad jihad jihad" written by the blind mullah in the 1700s, sorry I can't remember his name right off the bat. You cannot judge the Koran by the same rules you judge any other religion because they do not have the supersedes rule so with them you have to take the entire book as a whole, with the supersedes rule all conflicts are removed and whomever wrote the latest Hadiths overrules those that came before, simple as that.
Insightful? Really mods? As someone whose father in law has it let me clue you in on something pal, they can literally feel their minds going and can't put their fingers on WHAT is going wrong, just that something IS going wrong. Result? Either they cry as another guy said or even more likely they get ANGRY and stay that way for the rest of their days.
Picture a wounded animal, snapping at those around it because it is in pain and cannot help itself...THAT sounds like fun to you? I know you are probably basing it on vids of Douglas Adams.....DON'T DO THAT, Adams had a VERY rare form that attacks the back of the brain instead of the front and center, that is extremely rare, for the other 99.9995% it attacks the front and center and while you may end up as nothing but a quietly laying lump that takes a very loooong time to get there and for the rest? You are dangerous (because you refuse to accept you can't do the things you always did), mad (because you know you aren't right but cannot create the words to express it which is frustrating as hell), and you often refuse to have a damned thing to do and will outright attack those that try to help you like your family because you cannot recognize them no more except for a vague feeling that leaves you uneasy...and THAT sounds like its "not bad" on the inside?
Personally I'd rather eat a damned bullet than end up like that, at least it would be over quickly.
This is why I tell folks unless they are doing something where they have to have a mobile computer? Buy a desktop, hell even if they have to have a mobile computer they are often better off buying a cheap desktop AND cheap laptop than trying to do it all on a laptop because of the compromises required for the insane "thin is in" trend we are getting pushed by the OEMs.
Remove the crazy low temps that mobile devices have to hit? You can have a computer that can play Titanfall on an APU that costs just $36 bucks shipped. Spend an extra $16 for the 5350? You can run just about any game out there on low, which means in the real world you can do every task your average user does in a day, from MSO to 1080P video, and have a nice experience doing so. Of course that is what happens when you remove the insane-o temp barriers the mobile devices have, you remove the boat anchor and let the chips really stretch their legs.
But the dirty little secret in the PC biz is as I've been saying for years, which the numbers back up is that for Joe and Jane Average? That first gen C2D or Turion X2 laptop is more than good enough for what they do,surf the web, play FB games, check webmail, we've had multicores for a decade now so more and more are finding they just don't need to replace until the unit wears out. Even Apple's much discussed and lampooned "gotta have the new model!" fanboys seem to be thinning out as they find their last gen Macbooks and iPads do everything they want them to do.
To use a car analogy its like having a Ferrari to drive to the store while the car lot brags " Come buy the new Ferrari, with 20% better gas mileage and 15% more speed!"...we already got more than we need now for the tasks at hand, thx anyway.
What common sense? Largest mass murder by individuals in USA? Didn't involve any guns, they used box cutters, care to ban those? Second biggest maybe? Nope diesel and fertilizer...care to ban those?
Ya know why I personally think gun banners are hypocrites? Because they sit there and go "wahh drug laws do not work, legalize pot because the drug laws cost us billion for nothing waah" and then turn right the fuck around and do the exact same stupid shit with regards to fucking guns!
In case nobody bothered to fricking tell you we have this thing called a border? Go down to it and you can buy anything from sex slaves (bigger than a load of guns) to a fricking truckload of any drug you want (bigger than a load of guns) and if you pay a little extra? They deliver to your door! So how in the hell do you think you are gonna keep a load of guns, which can easily fit into a fricking foot locker, out when you can't do a damned thing about the slave or drug trafficking trades NOW?
Now here is the kicker, pay REAL close attention now, okay? You see criminals do not follow your laws....which is why they are called fucking criminals and not go-go dancers! I know, what a concept! SO just like the stupid drug laws they will NOT affect those that do not give a rat's ass about your laws like...drumroll, criminals that want to commit violent crimes, but will only affect those that want to legally own a gun thus making it EASIER for the very same criminals to prey upon them since hey, no worries about them defending themselves huh?
Finally here is some food for thought.....did you know when you support gun restrictions and bans YOU sir are supporting racism? Well guess what, you certainly are! Feel free to look up "Fear of an Armed Negro" on YouTube which traces the gun laws and gun bans back to the very first ones...wanna guess why they were passed? If you say "To keep them uppity niggers from fighting back" then you win a prize! Why do you think one of the first guns demonized was the "Saturday Night Special"? It was because they was cheap yet well made self defense weapons which appealed to blacks! Please feel free to watch, they have interviews, even quotes from the ones that wrote the actual gun laws where they don't even pussyfoot around the issue, they make it clear in their own words that yep, them uppity Negroes ain't staying on the back of the bus, better make sure they can't defend themselves if we decide to open a can on them!
So as you can see, multiple reasons why all these anti-gun laws? Are stupid, pointless, a waste of resources, and more than a little, hell more than a LOT, racist. This isn't even bringing into account the logical arguments, like you can build weapons that will kill more in any household with things you can find around the kitchen, the knowledge to do so can be downloaded in a couple seconds with a Google search, hell if you want to build a lethal weapon that fires projectiles again simple Google search will show you how to build several designs that don't need anything you can't get in a hardware store, from crossbows to coilguns,and finally you don't even need store bought bullets to make a weapon as its not like lead is hard to get and a wide range of substances have more explosive potential than gunpowder!
So no matter which way you want to slice it, gun bans? Fucking stupid.
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Sigh...Linux has more vulnerabilities than Windows by 3 to 1 in 2014, Windows beats iOS, OSX, and Linux in least number of vulnerabilities in 2014, and how to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps targeting the same weakness that more than 90% of malware target, the user...HAND.
What he is talking about is DIVX (all caps), named to make people think of the OTHER DivX , which was an attempt at "DRM in a box" that went over about as well as a loud ripping fart in an elevator.
I predict other than the *philes (the same folks that bought Beta, Laserdisc, and anything else that claimed to be "better" than the rest) 4K is gonna flop as bad as 3D TV, the reasons why are numerous, 1.- DVD is "good enough" for the majority, which is why after all these years BD is still not a blip compared to the massive DVD install base, 2.- The bandwidth in the USA to stream 4K without getting capped? EXTREMELY rare, most folks would be lucky to be able to watch 2 vids before they get capped, 3.- The not insignificant investment from users that really like what 1080p looks like now, and 4.- The fact it won't work with anything they already have, thus causing the "I gotta buy the Beatles albums again" syndrome which in a "jobless recovery" isn't gonna fly.
Considering the majority of PCs still don't come with BD? I'm really not worried about 4K DRM, it'll be another WMA, only bitch is the wasted die space used by your GPU and/or board for this shit you'll never use. Damn, now I'm gonna have to grab that R9 270x before they have time to add that shit.
Uhhhh...yeah dude? The post he is referring to used "compartmentalized", "intrinsic" and "homogeneous" in less than 3 sentences....normal folks and IT guys? yeah they don't talk like that. So the poster is either 1.- A shill, or 2.- Works in PR or marketing, because those guys DO talk like that.
Frankly I was shocked he didn't roll out "synergy" but I think they wised onto it thanks to Dilbert ragging on it so many times.
If you have already swallowed the Apple BS so much that you REQUIRE everything from iTunes to Apple formats and iWhatever support? Then go ahead and go full Cult 'o Mac and buy a damned Macbook already!
As I tell every customer that asks about Apple anything? Be ready to go full Apple or go home. iTunes for Windows sucks, it has ALWAYS sucked, it always WILL suck, so if you are gonna go retard? Go full retard, just buy a damned macbook and stop trying to make that shitastic software work on Windows. Fuck I've seen DOS games that work better on Windows 7 than fricking iTunes, that POS software is either gimped on purpose (to again push the full Cult 'o Mac) or they hired the absolute cheapest third world rent-a-coders they possibly could to work on the Windows version. Either way it blows ass, it always has, always will. So stop coming up with more and more excuses that will require that shitfart iTunes and just go full Cult o' Mac already!
What I find ironic as hell is the war hawks pushing this crap do not realize they are causing the US military to fall into the same trap the axis did in WWII. Spend all your money on "wonder weapons" that cost so much only a handful can be built and are so prone to breakdown and malfunction that only a small percentage of that small handful will be available at any 1 time, meanwhile any potential enemy can go pick up a fleet of Russian fourth and fifth gen planes for the cost of one of ours.
I don't care how "high tech" you make the F35 if you put 1 F35 against 20+ MiG29 or SU35? Its going down. As Stalin is reported to have said "Quantity has a quality all its own".
And BOTH sides get royally fucked to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars because America has NO limits on how much drug companies can charge and NO law stating the government should be required to buy any and all drugs that the state makes a requirement.
Before everybody here breaks their arms clapping? Might want to remember you are handing big pharma, one of the biggest sources of bribery we have in the USA, a mandated right to print money. If you want the children across the country to be forced to get these shots? Then DEMAND that the state have the patents NOT big pharma.
Oh and FYI for those that don't know when things do go wrong and some kid gets sick (as there is NO DRUG that is 100% safe, even aspirin kills a small percentage of users each year) guess who picks up the tab? Its YOU, as the big pharma lobby got a bill passed in the 90s requiring the government (aka YOU) to pick up the tab and absolve them of any and all responsibility. Must be nice to be able to privatize all the profits while wiping away any liabilities, huh?
Uhhhh....its the same thing Google does with ChromeOS only unlike ChromeOS its OPTIONAL and can be turned off. I seriously doubt it will even be on by default for any SKU other than Windows Enterprise as it would mean a ton of headaches for any OEM that sold a PC with this on thanks to the increased support calls.
Don't you just love how whatever MSFT does its automatically evil, even when its just copying Slashdot darling Google? It doesn't matter that Nadella is nothing like Gates or Ballmer, that one of the first things he did was open up .NET (as many devs had asked for) and bring their open source back into the fold so it wouldn't be treated like an afterthought, got rid of Metro for everything other than phones/tablets (again just like so many of us asked for) and then to top it all off have Windows 10 be free for a year to make up for Windows Mist8ke...what happened to letting the new guy have a chance before tarring and feathering?
This CEO change so far looks to be as big a direction shift for MSFT as bringing Jobs back was for Apple, as he doesn't seem to give a shit about planting Winflags on everything (like Ballmer) or treating FOSS like the plague and fucking users in favor of getting snugly with the OEMs (ala Gates) but actually seems to be LISTENING TO THE USERS and giving us what we ask for...shouldn't we at least give the guy one OS launch to see what he's gonna do?
Dude you might want to look up "Intel SSD killswitch" as you do NOT want an Intel SSD, as instead of doing the logical solution if one finds failing sectors (which would be alert the user and turn it into a WORM drive so they can get their data off) Intel SSDs throw a killswitch and on next boot your drive and all your data is trashed as Intel's killswitch kills the drive....no matter how many good sectors you have left!
I would take the cheapest OCZ or Kingston before I would EVER touch an Intel SSD, that killswitch shows they have not a single fuck to give about the customers, its all about killing the drive the second the sectors start going, probably to increase sales. Anyway you slice it its seriously douchebag behavior and NOT a position you want to support with your wallet!
Allow me to LMAO heartily. Once again proving that hypocrisy is something they fail to grasp the meaning of, for all their talk of "FOSS this" and "four freedoms" that when the rubber meets the road? The Linux community will happily fuck the company that open sources their code for the one that has given Linus himself so much shit thanks to their "proprietary or die" stance he flipped them the bird.
Thank you once again from the bottom of my black little heart Linux community for proving that your bullshit is exactly that...absolute bullshit. Oh and for proving what I said all along, that companies should NOT waste their time opening up their code and helping your devs, as at the end of the day you will have not one single fuck to give if a proprietary solution will give you an extra 10%. So much for that "we support those that support us" horseshit, huh? I bet any company that was thinking of FOSSing their drivers took one look at AMDs sales (that went exact fuck nowhere) and said "lets not waste our time"...LOL. Keep being yourselves Linux community, its just soooo damned entertaining!
I can back this up, as I have a couple of "gamer" customers (which you can replace "gamer" with "must spend stupid amounts of money trying to stay atop the leaderboards") and when they brought in these new "top o' the line" SSDs I ran a few informal tests, boot times, game load times, basic shit....honestly you couldn't tell without a stopwatch, the new ones were so close to the 2 year old SSD I have in the shop it wasn't even funny.
I have to wonder if we are getting to the point the drive speed just isn't a factor, that the other components like CPU, GPU, and RAM will be bottlenecking before the drive, because no matter how faster you get the data off the drive you still gotta process it.
Show me a hardware site where over 80% (Tom's over 90%, Anand over 95%) of their advert budget isn't paid for by Intel? You could have all you wanted. the bias is so bad on tom's now that for their "best gaming" CPU lineup the writer admitted that most new games require at least a quad core to run and then scored the Pentium dual and i3 (which even Intel fans make fun of) higher than an FX6 that was cheaper!
But since your lousy net connection can't run video (and you obviously missed TFL) I'll be happy to provide a source that nobody would accuse of bias provided by another in this thread..here you go, enjoy. And wadda ya know, when compiled with GCC instead of ICC or MCC (they call it "Wintel" for a reason guys) the exact same chips that sites like Tom's were saying get "curbstomped" by an i3 or low end i5 are trading blows with the i7....is it magic? Is the coders of GCC just soooo fucking good that they can squeeze an extra 40% performance out of an AMD chip with only a compiler? Nope its what happens when you take market rigging out of the equation.
Again I don't give a fuck if you are a raging Intel fanboi, this ought to PISS YOU OFF as market rigging ONLY benefits the company doing the rigging, it leads to higher prices, less competition, and worse selection. If the market rigging were removed from the equation Intel's scores would go down, people would see a 5-10% difference costing 200%+ in cost and not buy Intel, then Intel would have to lower their prices to make their chips a better value for the consumer...a win for the market, a win for the consumer, and a win for YOU as your new Intel chip would be much cheaper than what you are paying now.
Or are you such an Intel fanboy you consider it a tithe to pay more than a market fair price for your processors?
I would say even the scorpion king looked better than rubber neo vs plastic smith clones in Matrix II, that wasn't even cartoon, it looked like something off of robot chicken lol.
As for the trailer? Everybody just has to face reality and reality is 1.- The 2 new "next gen" consoles are AMD netbook APUs with GPUs that would run around $130-$150 USD, the fanboys can scream and gnash their teeth but anybody that looks at the AMD whitepapers on the jaguar arch will see its not even on the level of the Athlon wrt most functions, much less an FX or i5/i7, 2.- The Steam hardware survey gives those designing on the PC side a good idea where the "sweet spot" to get the most customers will be and last I checked that is GPUs in the $100-$150 range and quad core CPUs, and 3.- With current technology the only way you would even get close to that is a pair of XFire or SLI'd top o' the line cards and even then I doubt you'd even hit 30 fps.
So unless they come up with a way to make technology such as ray tracing and the rendering of tens of millions to hundreds of millions of polygons a LOT cheaper? Yeah you aren't gonna see anything like that, I don't care if your PC cost more than a new car. It certainly isn't gonna even be in the same ballpark with a PS4 or XB1 which is the platform that will be the primary focus of the devs, no way in hell.
Does it make calls? No? Then what the fuck does it do that the smartphone I already have to carry already does? I bet you can't think of a damned thing...and THAT is the problem in a nutshell. Every other Apple hit? Were things that people were already using that had bad UIs, MP3 players had menupaloza, tablets had itty bitty desktops and right and left clicks, phones had awful screens and bad apps, its the same story across the board.....until you get to the iWatch which has ZERO reason to exist as it does nothing that the phone you already have to carry already does and it doesn't make calls so it can't replace the phone...lame.
Its a bad idea, full stop. Its a watch that requires a phone to be of any real value....at a time when most under 30 look upon a watch as a throwback to the days of disco.
Both of my boys are in their early 20s, neither have owned a watch...why? Because they have been surrounded by things with clocks built in since birth, that's why. I work less than a mile from the local college so I work around college kids all day...damned near zero watches, why? They already have a smartphone AND a tablet AND a laptop AND a clock in their cars....WTF they need a watch for? Hell I'm nearly 50 and haven't worn a watch in over a decade, the wife is 7 years older than me and doesn't even own one, that is what the phone in her pocket is for.
It just shows IMHO that Apple has run out of ideas as all the previous hits of the past decade plus, iPhone,iPad,iPod,etc were all things that people already used and had uses for that had bad UIs, the watch? The few people I know who refuse to let go of their watches are traditionalists that value things like Swiss movements and have NO desire to add high tech crap to their wrist, the rest? Well as one group of college kids in the shop said when the first talk of iWatches came up "If I have to have my phone...what do I need the watch for?". I couldn't think of an answer then other than "to give something for Apple to sell to hardcore fanboys" and I still can't come up with anything else, as for an ever growing segment of the population a watch belongs next to a rotary phone in the dustbin of history.
Look at the circletimessquare account history....its a corp account designed to derail threads, the current clients appear to be Monsanto and any of the oil corps. It goes dead for months,then the "poster" cops a superior attitude and spams if any of the above are the headline (at last count "he" is up to nearly a dozen on this thread) while at almost the same instant a wall of ACs join in to heckle anybody that disagrees.
You might want to look up "how corporations control social media" and you'll see its following the plan to the letter, have 1 account to speak "from authority" on the subject while a wall of ACs parrot agreement while heckling those that disagree, thus causing the majority to go along for fear of being the minority. Its classic psychology 101 stuff.
Show me a single instance, just one, of those "thousands of years of engineered crops" involving crossbreeding plants with sealife or insects...just one mind you...if you can't? I call bullshit.
That is because Phoronix tests are compiled with GCC, the benchmarks used on the gaming sites (which just FYI Cinebench just got caught cheating, 30% bonus hit for any AMD chip over Intel thanks to the flags they used on the ICC) is using the Intel Crippled Compiler which has been designed from the very first release to DISABLE any and all SSE functions on any non pushed Intel chip. They have been doing this since 2005, have admitted they are doing it, and still no sanctions by DoJ. Again the DoJ proves they are absolutely worthless and might as well not exist, as they have been bought off since the MSFT trial ended in 03.
BTW before any of the fanboys chime in with their "herpa derp, Intel knows how to compile better for their own chips, derpa de do" I have 2 words for you.....Pentium III. When the ICC was released every benchmark was showing the P3 curbstomp the P4 by as much as 35%, ICC gets released, Intel throws money at benchmark sites to use ICC and...wadda ya know, P3 is suddenly losing to the exact same chips they beat a year before isn't that amazing? You can also go buy yourself ANY Via CPU, change the CPUID from "Centaur Hauls" to "Genuine Intel" and .......gasp! Suddenly the exact same chip scores nearly 40% higher than the previous run, all thanks to the magical CPUID!
The fact that GCC magically puts out code that paints a VERY different picture ought to give you a clue guys, its hilarious that you scream when companies like Comcast manipulate your Internet to push you to use their services yet here is a company that has gone on the record stating flat footed they are manipulating the market which not only kills competition but makes YOU pay higher chip prices (as if the benches weren't rigged Intel's actual performance numbers wouldn't be high enough to justify the cost and they would have to lower prices, a win for the consumer) and what do you do? Defend the corp raping your wallet.
Rigged markets are bad for everybody BUT the corp doing the rigging, its bad for competition, bad for consumers, and bad for the market as a whole. I don't care which chip you like the fact that a corp is getting away with such blatant rigging? Ought to piss you off!
If you are like sadly many others going by the benchmarks please note that even Intel admits they rigged the benchmarks and when you use actual programs instead of the rigged benchmarks? You'll find that AMD chips are trading blows with chips that cost 3 times as much while the actual power they use is low enough it would take 18 years for you to come out ahead on power savings. Sorry for two of the links being from one site but Tek Syndicate is one of the few hardware sites that isn't getting the majority of their ad revenue from Intel.
If anybody still doubts that the US DoJ is nothing but a toothless joke? Intel should be all the proof you need. Here you have a company that admits flat out they are rigging the tests every major website uses to judge performance, was allowed to pay off its rival after several CEOs got on the stand and admitted Intel was bribing their companies, used their leverage in one market (CPUs) to wipe out a competitor in another market (chipsets) while memo were leaked talking about how they were gonna "cut their throats" and they STILL didn't get fucking busted? If the MSFT antitrust were to happen today I have no doubt Gates could walk right into the deposition room and take a big dump on the table as his response and the DoJ would be lining up to offer him TP!
So don't buy the bullshit, or "tests" done by sites where the majority of their advertising budget is filled by Intel, get an AMD and see for yourself. Here in the shop I've had just about every Intel and AMD chip come through the door and on everything but the over $600 chips? You are seeing MAYBE mid single digits difference, with everything under $400 a chip trading blows back and forth....except of course on price, where it will cost on average double to trade blows with the AMD chip. Sadly the rigging doesn't just extend to benches though, you go to sites like Tom's and Anand's and you'll see writer admit that most of the new games coming down the pipe require quad cores to even play....and then push an Intel Pentium dual core over even a hexacore in the same price bracket. Of course when you turn off adblock you'll see why, as the page is covered with ads for Intel boards and chips. Never in all my years in computing have I ever seen one company be so damned blatant in their market manipulation and not even get so much as a slap on the wrist for it, I only hope the EU investigation has more teeth and hits them with enough fines that Intel will finally have to play on a level field which they have not done since the day the P4 was released!
The pacing and editing was terrible, as well as the writing for Dr Doom. With every bad guy in the GOOD Marvel movies you felt like you knew why they did what they did and why they would do it that way, whereas Dr Doom was just "yeah...he's evil, just roll with it". They couldn't just let moments happen or tension build, it was like the director had ADHD and couldn't stand letting the camera linger.
I didn't get it, it was a perfectly ok film. It wasn't Captain America or Iron Man 1 great but it sure as hell ain't Fantastic Four terrible, it was pretty much just an "I watched an ok superhero flick" for me...maybe THAT is why its hated? Because it didn't turn out to be the epic that the uber fanboys wanted?
He didn't write the rule you idiot, their prophet did and in case you haven't bothered to read the book or even learn a damned thing other than SJW political correctness (surprise surprise) they take what Mohammed said AS LAW, so yes Virginia a rule written by the prophet DOES take precedence over whatever bullshit your PC friends are shoveling.
In case you can actually read (that is if your PC beliefs don't make anything that isn't dogma verbotten) perhaps you should try educating yourself before you open you mouth, hmm? BTW you won't hear any of the "religion of peace" pushers mention this because it is holy to lie to non Muslims as long as it furthers the political goals of Sharia and Islam.
I'm so damned tired of people not understanding how to read the Koran. Their prophet saw that with the other religions they would have conflicting passages so he wrote in a "fix" for this issue. Quite simply he wrote "If a passage comes later it supersedes the passages that came before" and by doing so fixed the issue of conflicting passages (because one had to have been wrote later than the other) in a single sentence.
By using the rule guess what you find? All the "religion of peace" passages are replaced by "jihad jihad jihad" written by the blind mullah in the 1700s, sorry I can't remember his name right off the bat. You cannot judge the Koran by the same rules you judge any other religion because they do not have the supersedes rule so with them you have to take the entire book as a whole, with the supersedes rule all conflicts are removed and whomever wrote the latest Hadiths overrules those that came before, simple as that.
Insightful? Really mods? As someone whose father in law has it let me clue you in on something pal, they can literally feel their minds going and can't put their fingers on WHAT is going wrong, just that something IS going wrong. Result? Either they cry as another guy said or even more likely they get ANGRY and stay that way for the rest of their days.
Picture a wounded animal, snapping at those around it because it is in pain and cannot help itself...THAT sounds like fun to you? I know you are probably basing it on vids of Douglas Adams.....DON'T DO THAT, Adams had a VERY rare form that attacks the back of the brain instead of the front and center, that is extremely rare, for the other 99.9995% it attacks the front and center and while you may end up as nothing but a quietly laying lump that takes a very loooong time to get there and for the rest? You are dangerous (because you refuse to accept you can't do the things you always did), mad (because you know you aren't right but cannot create the words to express it which is frustrating as hell), and you often refuse to have a damned thing to do and will outright attack those that try to help you like your family because you cannot recognize them no more except for a vague feeling that leaves you uneasy...and THAT sounds like its "not bad" on the inside?
Personally I'd rather eat a damned bullet than end up like that, at least it would be over quickly.
This is why I tell folks unless they are doing something where they have to have a mobile computer? Buy a desktop, hell even if they have to have a mobile computer they are often better off buying a cheap desktop AND cheap laptop than trying to do it all on a laptop because of the compromises required for the insane "thin is in" trend we are getting pushed by the OEMs.
Remove the crazy low temps that mobile devices have to hit? You can have a computer that can play Titanfall on an APU that costs just $36 bucks shipped. Spend an extra $16 for the 5350? You can run just about any game out there on low, which means in the real world you can do every task your average user does in a day, from MSO to 1080P video, and have a nice experience doing so. Of course that is what happens when you remove the insane-o temp barriers the mobile devices have, you remove the boat anchor and let the chips really stretch their legs.
But the dirty little secret in the PC biz is as I've been saying for years, which the numbers back up is that for Joe and Jane Average? That first gen C2D or Turion X2 laptop is more than good enough for what they do,surf the web, play FB games, check webmail, we've had multicores for a decade now so more and more are finding they just don't need to replace until the unit wears out. Even Apple's much discussed and lampooned "gotta have the new model!" fanboys seem to be thinning out as they find their last gen Macbooks and iPads do everything they want them to do.
To use a car analogy its like having a Ferrari to drive to the store while the car lot brags " Come buy the new Ferrari, with 20% better gas mileage and 15% more speed!"...we already got more than we need now for the tasks at hand, thx anyway.
What common sense? Largest mass murder by individuals in USA? Didn't involve any guns, they used box cutters, care to ban those? Second biggest maybe? Nope diesel and fertilizer...care to ban those?
Ya know why I personally think gun banners are hypocrites? Because they sit there and go "wahh drug laws do not work, legalize pot because the drug laws cost us billion for nothing waah" and then turn right the fuck around and do the exact same stupid shit with regards to fucking guns!
In case nobody bothered to fricking tell you we have this thing called a border? Go down to it and you can buy anything from sex slaves (bigger than a load of guns) to a fricking truckload of any drug you want (bigger than a load of guns) and if you pay a little extra? They deliver to your door! So how in the hell do you think you are gonna keep a load of guns, which can easily fit into a fricking foot locker, out when you can't do a damned thing about the slave or drug trafficking trades NOW?
Now here is the kicker, pay REAL close attention now, okay? You see criminals do not follow your laws....which is why they are called fucking criminals and not go-go dancers! I know, what a concept! SO just like the stupid drug laws they will NOT affect those that do not give a rat's ass about your laws like...drumroll, criminals that want to commit violent crimes, but will only affect those that want to legally own a gun thus making it EASIER for the very same criminals to prey upon them since hey, no worries about them defending themselves huh?
Finally here is some food for thought.....did you know when you support gun restrictions and bans YOU sir are supporting racism? Well guess what, you certainly are! Feel free to look up "Fear of an Armed Negro" on YouTube which traces the gun laws and gun bans back to the very first ones...wanna guess why they were passed? If you say "To keep them uppity niggers from fighting back" then you win a prize! Why do you think one of the first guns demonized was the "Saturday Night Special"? It was because they was cheap yet well made self defense weapons which appealed to blacks! Please feel free to watch, they have interviews, even quotes from the ones that wrote the actual gun laws where they don't even pussyfoot around the issue, they make it clear in their own words that yep, them uppity Negroes ain't staying on the back of the bus, better make sure they can't defend themselves if we decide to open a can on them!
So as you can see, multiple reasons why all these anti-gun laws? Are stupid, pointless, a waste of resources, and more than a little, hell more than a LOT, racist. This isn't even bringing into account the logical arguments, like you can build weapons that will kill more in any household with things you can find around the kitchen, the knowledge to do so can be downloaded in a couple seconds with a Google search, hell if you want to build a lethal weapon that fires projectiles again simple Google search will show you how to build several designs that don't need anything you can't get in a hardware store, from crossbows to coilguns,and finally you don't even need store bought bullets to make a weapon as its not like lead is hard to get and a wide range of substances have more explosive potential than gunpowder!
So no matter which way you want to slice it, gun bans? Fucking stupid.