Bigot much? I listed several use cases that didn't have a thing to do with gaming, or do you think those taking pictures and home movies are pirates too?
And since we are jumping on the asshole train if VM users made even 5% of the population I'd be fucking amazed, it is YOU sir who are the extreme niche case which doesn't register as there are a hell of a lot more gamers (a market that has made more than Hollywood 15 years in a row) than VM users...hell probably a lot more warez hoarders than VM users.
Finally way to miss the point...WHOOSH...if you ONLY download the game when you are ready to play? You gonna be sitting there with your dick in your hand for at least a few hours every time you want to play...who wants that? I'm currently playing around 20GB worth of games...have 300GB worth installed...why? Because if I feel like a stealth game I do NOT want to play a stealth game in 3 hours, I want to play it NOW, same with FPS, same with sandbox or RTS, I don't want to wait, sometimes til the next day, when I could just "click game, start playing" and with 1TB going for $40, 2TB going for less than $60, why shouldn't I just have the games ready? I have 3TB installed and even with a pile of games and vids and music I still have over 800GB free so I don't have to give a single fuck about game size, if I wants it I gets it, period. Its a shame Steam doesn't do a hardware survey about install habits as I bet I'm faaar from alone!
DaFuq? What does anime piracy have to do with shit, you like the majority eats Pokki and watches...sheeit, can't even name any of that crap for a comparison...uhhh...Battletech?
Again look at the formats that HAVE taken off...what do they have in common? EVERYBODY CAN USE IT, sure there are tools that can use CLI, fuck I'm sure you can encode MP3s in CLI...but nobody give a fuuuck, the majority are using easy GUIs...of which jack and shit exists for WebM. Fuck even the last Handbrake I checked had HEVC support...no support for WebM.
If you want your format to take off? KISS, make sure there are easy to use tools that make it, make sure your format runs better than the other guys in most if not all use cases, and make it so the layman can take a file and with minimal effort turn it into your format...mark my words WebM ain't going nowhere, even with Google pushing it. Remember G+? Yeah that had Google pushing it too..went nowhere.
I had real hope thet with a powerhouse like Google behind it WebM would be the one to kill stupid crap like this, but oh boy is Google missing the boat.
The reason a format "takes off" is because its easy for the layman to use, they convert, create, upload videos and more and more jump on the bandwagon and pretty soon people start demanding devices support X, see MP3, DivX/Xvid, MKV containers, and now H.264/AVC in MP4 or MKV containers. Has anybody tried the WebM encoders? They STINK, its either a bunch of CLI gobbledygook or its some half assed support in some other encoder. Its also obvious that the encoders they do have out there are designed for streaming video and if you want a format to beat H.264? It had better run just as smooth on the desktop of the encoder as it does on a webpage or they just won't use it.
I had high hopes that WebM/VP9 would finally get rid of the crap and make a single easy to use standard that all could adopt but without easy to use video tools that make videos that can be used in as many places as H.264 in MP4 containers? Its just going nowhere, it'll be another Theora or Dirac.
You brought up the Steam hardware survey? You might want to look at the sizes of the latest game releases. 35GB isn't even surprising anymore, and several 50GB+ games have already been released and even on a fast connection a game that size? Gonna take awhile to download so unless you wanna have to wait hours just to play a game drives will only be going up.
That doesn't even count those that are recording pictures and videos, HD adds up ya know, and those ripping their DVD or BD collections gonna need space, hell lots of reasons for having more space and even a lot of the new laptops are sporting 750GB-1TB drives so I really don't see many being happy with only having 250GB or less, SSD or not.
Sigh...please read TF post before replying...kay? I did NOT say that SSDs were unreliable, hell I use 'em myself as boot drives (because I don't give a shit if I lose the OS, won't be my first Windows install after all) my problem is they tend to fail unexpectedly. And that test? Yeah I'm afraid that means jack and shit, after all if you had run a test on Maxtor and only ran it on 2002 and 2004 it would have shown they were very reliable, 2003 was when they had the bad batch.
Look nothing you are saying changes the fact that its NOT the flash that fails by and large ITS THE CONTROLLER and with current designs if the controller fails? You boot up and no BIOS or UEFI detection. please don't take MY word for it, Google "SSD no BIOS detection" and just replace BIOS with UEFI after the first pass and see for yourself this is NOT an isolated incident and unless you have own EEPROM reader and the skills to rebuild the array? You be fucked son.
At the end of the day the absolute worse case scenario? I spend an hour building a clean box and switch the platters long enough to get the data, i did that not too long ago for a woman who had the only copies of pics of her recently deceased nephew on a drive that fried its electronics, if that would have been SSD? It would have cost her thousands if she could have even found somebody to do it. Its 2015 man, there is no damned reason they couldn't put a backup controller that turns the drive into a WORM medium and alerts the user, no reason at all.
ROFL...needing THREE installs of the same OS along with a LiveCD just to keep a working system thanks to systemd, while the other guy has to use XP just to Google for fixes for his "modern and new" 2015 Linux install? Yep, its soo ready for the desktop ha ha ha ha! Been saying for years, if you don'
t demand better, hold asshat devs like Poettering's feet to the fire? Then you deserve the half baked mess that you get. No wonder The Hairyfeet Challenge is celebrating its eighth year unbeaten!
As for TFA....how are the MTBF for 3D NAND? Did they manage to lick the "controller fails and takes out the drive" issue? Because while the speed of SSD is great one thing that royally blows ass is how you get fuck and all for warning before they shit themselves and die. I'm sure some jackhole will pop up with some anecdote (while neglecting to mention he dropped the thing) about "his HDD just died" but since I've done more HDD replaces than many here have had home cooked meals and by and large? You get plenty of warning with HDDs. You get write errors, you get noise, stutters, they will usually give you enough time to get your data off...not SSDs, I thought Intel had the right idea by giving them a finite lifespan but on that big SSD shootout the Intel one did the "no BIOS/UEFI" brick bit just like the rest.
I mean as much money as they are spending increasing size, is it too much to ask to have a little "failover" chip that just leaves the drive in a read only state so you can get your stuff off if it shits the bed?
Now that the FOSSies aren't crapping their panties to mod me down for pointing out their emperor is bare assed I thought you might be interested to know that its NOT a "whistle the other way" deal, its very strict cross licensing. For example AMD has already stated that if you use the free drivers, which they hope to have take over from the proprietary ones? Yeah no HDMI for you EVAR! The reason why is their HDMI is connected to HDCP and HDCP is not AMD's, its Intel's. Since Intel builds non performance (read crappy) GPUs they make their HDCP a separate chip so can hand out their HDMI specs, AMD bakes theirs into the GPU proper so if they were to release the HDMI they would be giving away the HDCP code as well which they obviously cannot do.
But of course that don't change the fact that despite the FOSSie faction, and note there is a reason there are FOSSies and FOSS advocates, one is full of shit religious hypocrites, the other not, claiming they are all about GNU and "free as in freedom" the very second that "freedum" equals less performance? Their much vaunted love of GPL goes right down the shitter.
Yep and just like GWS you get the "privilege" of giving ALL your info to Google....why not let 'em read your mail and set a cam up in your bedroom while you are at it?
I don't know about everybody else but this kind of crap is why I spread out my Internet services as much as possible, email through Yahoo (my Gmail is strictly for forums), searches through Bing and maps by Google, oh and privacy badger shutting down any of the site tracking crap. I'm certainly not giving all my data to Google just for faster page loads and am glad i use Comodo Secure Chromium so that if Google bakes this in the next release it won't end up in my browser.
You have OBVIOUSLY never been there or even known anybody who lived there, otherwise you'd know that many villages are in the middle of BFN and if you are REALLY lucky? You have a bicycle...which your ass will be pedaling 6 days a week to scrape by.
So let us hear it, oh wise one....how EXACTLY is a person in BFN without a motor vehicle in an area where a single month's of Internet access can cost a year's wages gonna do research? I really wanna hear this.
You can blame a LOT of it on the caste system. I worked with a wonderful lady that left India to get away from that shit and she said there if you are from a high caste? You can walk around covered in your own shit and people have to pretend you smell like roses. If somebody from a high caste wants the job, like say teaching? You STFU and give it to them, don't matter if they know jack and shit.
She said in a lot of ways its like Jim Crow, doesn't matter what you know, whether you are smart or dumb, or how hard you work, all that matters is your caste.
Why EXACTLY is this a troll post mods? We are talking about poor people whose only access to online info is a Wikipedia under the control of scammers...I don't see how they can be seen as anything BUT innocent victims....yet we see post after post blaming them because they didn't have the wealth to do the research YOU take for granted...want to blame them for being dirty and brown while you're at it?
If anybody should be considered trolls its those jackholes that always blame the victim, which sadly we see here every.single.time. there is a post here where somebody was preyed upon by somebody else.
As for TFA...if Wikipedia has any kind of morals at all they would demand their name be taken off of Wikipedia Zero and the site shut down, since they obviously aren't willing to spend any of the millions Jimbo is constantly begging for to actually police the site, only acting AFTER the article was called out by the Indian press and judiciary.
Because if you have ever bothered going to the forums you find a LOT of Linux users are 1.- Dumpster divers, so the only license they have is now EOLed XP, or 2.- Owners of "Tigerdirect specials" kits which all come without an OS. I've spent some time on most of the major Linux forums and I guesstimate only around 25% are actually "Followers of RMS" that have the money to buy whatever they want but choose to run Linux on GNUgrounds.
Why do you think it seems like a good quarter of the Linux articles on everything from websites to YouTube are all based around a theme of "save that old junker using Linux"? Its because a lot of the users of Linux are there for free as in beer and are too afraid to go hit up TPB for the pirate edition of Windows and use it as their OS. Mark my words the numbers will start dropping when Win 10 comes out, since they can just grab TPB version of Win 7 and immediately upgrade to Win 10 for nothing.
Nooo bringing in the same bunch that wrote the credit default swaps house of bullshit makes it a scam, along with having carbon indulgences for the worst polluters like the guy that owns the coal power plants on the east coast (who has actually bragged about how it won't do shit to him) makes it nothing but a reverse robin hood.
Did you bother to actually READ any of the links, or did you just come to wave your flag? Because if you would have actually bothered to read TFL you'd have seen the people they have hired are about as honest as your average infomercial huckster.
Thank you. And you notice how many just gloss over the fact that despite all their "GNU" talk when push comes to shove they throw their convictions right out the windows for better performance?
This is why I think Linux is gonna bleed users after the Win 10 release, I have a feeling most aren't giving as shit about free as in freedom, just free as in beer and with Win 10 being the latter all those bullshitters talking FOSS and GNU are gonna quietly slink away and get their free Win 10 and see the proprietary is faster without all the BS and just not come back.
Meanwhile both companies cards work great in Windows LOL. Oh and if Torvalds wasn't such a shit coder maybe they wouldn't HAVE TO constantly futz with their drivers to fix HIS messes, think of that? I have a first year release driver for an HD4650 and its running great in Win 10, that is why having a functional driver ABI matters, its because you DO NOT NEED to beg companies to support old cards for eternity, they "just work". I mean for fucks sake I can take WinXP WDM drivers and run them in Win 7, that is fourteen years of working drivers, and you think its perfectly acceptable to take an OS that can't even run a driver from 2011 without shitting? WTF man, tell Torvalds to quit fucking shit up and come up with a driver model that is newer than the SNES!
BTW did you try the FOSS drivers? Since you seem to not realize that AMD turned support of their older cards over to the FOSS team, even hiring a couple devs to help them out and handing them the docs.
At the end of the day you simply can't gloss over the rampant hypocrisy. What did the community say? "If you just open up your docs we'll support ourselves!" well you got your wish...and you run to the locked all the fuck down nvidia when push comes to shove...so much for that belief in GNU, huh? I bet RMS sure as hell wouldn't be supporting a company that refuses to share code like Nvidia over a company that does like AMD but at the end of the day lets cut through the bull, aye? Most of you don't care about free as in freedom, all you care about is free as in beer and will happily take all the proprietary code if it don't cost ya nothing.
Spin it any way you want, you buy Nvidia and use proprietary drivers? You ARE a hypocrite so don't be tossing that "open the code" crap because AMD did and found out what I've said for years, you take free coders ya get what ya paid for LOL.
Can I LMAO at the blatant hypocrisy of the Linux crowd? All of the talking of FOSS and GNU and when push comes to shove what do they take? The proprietary locked down all to fuck nvidia drivers because wadda ya know, proprietary drivers run better.
Bitch and mod down all you want, that is EXACTLY what you are doing. AMD has opened up their drivers, Nvidia is so locked down Torvalds flipped them the bird, but guess what every forum and TFA says? Buy Nvidia. The hypocrisy is so thick and rich LOL.
Man you ain't never even dealt with thieves, have you? There was some city laptops here that was street worker ORANGE...guess what? Stupid fucking junkies stole 'em, they ended up being found in some meth dealers house a year to two later loaded with porn.
Thieves are like magpies, does it look expensive and shiny? they are gonna steal 'em, end of story.
But as others pointed out it'll be stolen so fast they'll be lucky to get a week out of 'em when there is a frankly more obvious solution...disposable tablets.
You can buy dual core tablets straight off the boat from China for like $45 and that is single unit prices, and I've seen single core ones go for $27 and again single unit prices. For what they are doing I'm sure they could buy in bulk and I wouldn't be surprised to see 7 inch single core tablets in the $14 or less range and then they can just send the data to a wireless microtower set up outside the zone and if they have to trash 'em or some get stolen...so what?
Waving around expensive tablets in THAT area of the world? Like waving fistloads of cash in the ghetto, they ain't gonna have that for very long, not long at all.
They could pay you a couple bucks and it wouldn't work down here in the southern USA as the few places that actually HAVE public transport like buses have lines that goes from the 'hood to downtown and back. Don't want to deal with junkies, fights, thieves, or go to the hood? tough luck.
This is why i want to just slap any US political hack that says "oh we'll just jack taxes and they can use public transport"...yeah don't fucking exist and I don't see YOUR ass cutting the defense budget in half to pay for one, do I?
Dude if you believe EITHER side gives a single fuck about the environment? I have some genuine Arkansas anti global warming crystals I'll be happy to sell ya, only $499.99 so act now! BTW if you actually DO give a shit about the environment? DO NOT BUY THE SCAMS, talk to somebody that actually walks the walk...Ed Begley Jr. unlike Rev Al who lives in a McMansion whose indoor basketball court uses more AC than a family home? He lives in a modest 3 bedroom, Rev Al drives a fleet of SUVs to his one man Lear jet? Begley drives an electric car to a commuter flight.But if you were to look up Begley's thoughts on the subject? You'd find an overdose of COMMON SENSE, make it easier for folks to use electric cars, promote renewables in places like AZ where solar works really well, invest in tech that will let us do more with what we have and recycle easier...its ALL common Goddamned sense!
But of course you can't become a billionaire with sensible logical approaches which is why you are getting pounded with "ZOMFG teh sky is fallin! You HAVE to do this thing (which won't do a damned thing because we filled it with more loopholes for our 1% pals than a Coke has HFCS) because we have to SAVE TEH EARF!"
Nooo they are spreading dogma and bullshit with ZERO evidence to back it up, well by that logic Windows is perfect, never gets bugs, and if you do get something its PEBKAC...what? Its just an opinion so is just as valid as the BS you are spewing, yes?
And again you ignore the rotting elephant in the room that shoots deader than Dixie any chance for ":many eyes" to be anything other than Adam riding a dinosaur levels of dogma...Heartbleed and Shellshock. if the two oldest (and thus by "many eyes" argument, most looked at) pieces of code could have major vulnerabilities for THAT LONG? I'm sorry but your entire premise is shot to shit.
Ever hear "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"? Not only are you providing ZERO evidence but just like Adam riding a dino you are ignoring a wealth of evidence that directly contradicts you assertion. So without ANY kind of evidence you are just spewing total bullshit and if you wanna play that game I'm sure i can write a couple paragraphs on why Win2K is better than modern Linux, would you like me to recite it to you?
Again you are doing nothing but parroting an "is ought" fallacy with ZERO evidence to back up your claims. By your logic because the code IS sitting on a server somewhere it OUGHT to have been vetted by now but again your fallacy ignores that 1.- the people capable of spotting low level bugs in code are paid high dollar to work on THEIR code and NOT yours, and 2.- the few people that MIGHT look at the code will have no more ability to spot a bug than my dentist.
I'm sorry but your argument has NO merit because it presents NO facts while ignoring that Shellshock and Heartbleed are perfect counterarguments for your position.
Again arguing an "is ought" fallacy, because the code IS there somebody OUGHT to have done an audit but the vast majority 1.- Wouldn't know an exploit if it was flipping them the bird, and 2.- those with both the skills AND the experience? Are too busy with their own jobs to spend endless hours looking through your code.
And again we have 100% undeniable proof that "many eyes" is complete and utter bullshit, Shellshock and Heartbleed. There you have two of the oldest (and if many eyes worked the most vetted) pieces of code in Linux and it has had major exploits FOR YEARS.
I'm sorry but "open source equals safer code" is nothing more now than religious dogma, its Adam riding a dinosaur levels of fantasy.
You are arguing a classic "is ought" fallacy, because the code IS there somebody OUGHT to have done the audit but we have 100% undeniable proof this is bullshit...Shellshock. if the Bash shell, the oldest and therefor by that argument most looked at code on the planet can have a major exploit for THAT long? Then your entire argument just falls apart.
But the rumor is it will be filled with nags complete with the background turning black and daily pop ups bitching and demanding cash.
If this is the case? then we can say Nadella has pulled his first Ballmernator, because he took the chance to get rid of pirates (which is a joke compared to their bottom line, less than 2% of their sales are upgrades and pirates aren't potential sales) and bring everyone onto Windows 10 and instead just created another Vista sized debacle.
You'd think they'd have learned after XBone but if the rumors bear out you can bet your last buck pirated Win 7 will keep climbing and Win 10 will end up the third flop in a row.
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Bigot much? I listed several use cases that didn't have a thing to do with gaming, or do you think those taking pictures and home movies are pirates too?
And since we are jumping on the asshole train if VM users made even 5% of the population I'd be fucking amazed, it is YOU sir who are the extreme niche case which doesn't register as there are a hell of a lot more gamers (a market that has made more than Hollywood 15 years in a row) than VM users...hell probably a lot more warez hoarders than VM users.
Finally way to miss the point...WHOOSH...if you ONLY download the game when you are ready to play? You gonna be sitting there with your dick in your hand for at least a few hours every time you want to play...who wants that? I'm currently playing around 20GB worth of games...have 300GB worth installed...why? Because if I feel like a stealth game I do NOT want to play a stealth game in 3 hours, I want to play it NOW, same with FPS, same with sandbox or RTS, I don't want to wait, sometimes til the next day, when I could just "click game, start playing" and with 1TB going for $40, 2TB going for less than $60, why shouldn't I just have the games ready? I have 3TB installed and even with a pile of games and vids and music I still have over 800GB free so I don't have to give a single fuck about game size, if I wants it I gets it, period. Its a shame Steam doesn't do a hardware survey about install habits as I bet I'm faaar from alone!
DaFuq? What does anime piracy have to do with shit, you like the majority eats Pokki and watches...sheeit, can't even name any of that crap for a comparison...uhhh...Battletech?
Again look at the formats that HAVE taken off...what do they have in common? EVERYBODY CAN USE IT, sure there are tools that can use CLI, fuck I'm sure you can encode MP3s in CLI...but nobody give a fuuuck, the majority are using easy GUIs...of which jack and shit exists for WebM. Fuck even the last Handbrake I checked had HEVC support...no support for WebM.
If you want your format to take off? KISS, make sure there are easy to use tools that make it, make sure your format runs better than the other guys in most if not all use cases, and make it so the layman can take a file and with minimal effort turn it into your format...mark my words WebM ain't going nowhere, even with Google pushing it. Remember G+? Yeah that had Google pushing it too..went nowhere.
I had real hope thet with a powerhouse like Google behind it WebM would be the one to kill stupid crap like this, but oh boy is Google missing the boat.
The reason a format "takes off" is because its easy for the layman to use, they convert, create, upload videos and more and more jump on the bandwagon and pretty soon people start demanding devices support X, see MP3, DivX/Xvid, MKV containers, and now H.264/AVC in MP4 or MKV containers. Has anybody tried the WebM encoders? They STINK, its either a bunch of CLI gobbledygook or its some half assed support in some other encoder. Its also obvious that the encoders they do have out there are designed for streaming video and if you want a format to beat H.264? It had better run just as smooth on the desktop of the encoder as it does on a webpage or they just won't use it.
I had high hopes that WebM/VP9 would finally get rid of the crap and make a single easy to use standard that all could adopt but without easy to use video tools that make videos that can be used in as many places as H.264 in MP4 containers? Its just going nowhere, it'll be another Theora or Dirac.
You brought up the Steam hardware survey? You might want to look at the sizes of the latest game releases. 35GB isn't even surprising anymore, and several 50GB+ games have already been released and even on a fast connection a game that size? Gonna take awhile to download so unless you wanna have to wait hours just to play a game drives will only be going up.
That doesn't even count those that are recording pictures and videos, HD adds up ya know, and those ripping their DVD or BD collections gonna need space, hell lots of reasons for having more space and even a lot of the new laptops are sporting 750GB-1TB drives so I really don't see many being happy with only having 250GB or less, SSD or not.
Sigh...please read TF post before replying...kay? I did NOT say that SSDs were unreliable, hell I use 'em myself as boot drives (because I don't give a shit if I lose the OS, won't be my first Windows install after all) my problem is they tend to fail unexpectedly. And that test? Yeah I'm afraid that means jack and shit, after all if you had run a test on Maxtor and only ran it on 2002 and 2004 it would have shown they were very reliable, 2003 was when they had the bad batch.
Look nothing you are saying changes the fact that its NOT the flash that fails by and large ITS THE CONTROLLER and with current designs if the controller fails? You boot up and no BIOS or UEFI detection. please don't take MY word for it, Google "SSD no BIOS detection" and just replace BIOS with UEFI after the first pass and see for yourself this is NOT an isolated incident and unless you have own EEPROM reader and the skills to rebuild the array? You be fucked son.
At the end of the day the absolute worse case scenario? I spend an hour building a clean box and switch the platters long enough to get the data, i did that not too long ago for a woman who had the only copies of pics of her recently deceased nephew on a drive that fried its electronics, if that would have been SSD? It would have cost her thousands if she could have even found somebody to do it. Its 2015 man, there is no damned reason they couldn't put a backup controller that turns the drive into a WORM medium and alerts the user, no reason at all.
ROFL...needing THREE installs of the same OS along with a LiveCD just to keep a working system thanks to systemd, while the other guy has to use XP just to Google for fixes for his "modern and new" 2015 Linux install? Yep, its soo ready for the desktop ha ha ha ha! Been saying for years, if you don' t demand better, hold asshat devs like Poettering's feet to the fire? Then you deserve the half baked mess that you get. No wonder The Hairyfeet Challenge is celebrating its eighth year unbeaten!
As for TFA....how are the MTBF for 3D NAND? Did they manage to lick the "controller fails and takes out the drive" issue? Because while the speed of SSD is great one thing that royally blows ass is how you get fuck and all for warning before they shit themselves and die. I'm sure some jackhole will pop up with some anecdote (while neglecting to mention he dropped the thing) about "his HDD just died" but since I've done more HDD replaces than many here have had home cooked meals and by and large? You get plenty of warning with HDDs. You get write errors, you get noise, stutters, they will usually give you enough time to get your data off...not SSDs, I thought Intel had the right idea by giving them a finite lifespan but on that big SSD shootout the Intel one did the "no BIOS/UEFI" brick bit just like the rest.
I mean as much money as they are spending increasing size, is it too much to ask to have a little "failover" chip that just leaves the drive in a read only state so you can get your stuff off if it shits the bed?
Now that the FOSSies aren't crapping their panties to mod me down for pointing out their emperor is bare assed I thought you might be interested to know that its NOT a "whistle the other way" deal, its very strict cross licensing. For example AMD has already stated that if you use the free drivers, which they hope to have take over from the proprietary ones? Yeah no HDMI for you EVAR! The reason why is their HDMI is connected to HDCP and HDCP is not AMD's, its Intel's. Since Intel builds non performance (read crappy) GPUs they make their HDCP a separate chip so can hand out their HDMI specs, AMD bakes theirs into the GPU proper so if they were to release the HDMI they would be giving away the HDCP code as well which they obviously cannot do.
But of course that don't change the fact that despite the FOSSie faction, and note there is a reason there are FOSSies and FOSS advocates, one is full of shit religious hypocrites, the other not, claiming they are all about GNU and "free as in freedom" the very second that "freedum" equals less performance? Their much vaunted love of GPL goes right down the shitter.
Yep and just like GWS you get the "privilege" of giving ALL your info to Google....why not let 'em read your mail and set a cam up in your bedroom while you are at it?
I don't know about everybody else but this kind of crap is why I spread out my Internet services as much as possible, email through Yahoo (my Gmail is strictly for forums), searches through Bing and maps by Google, oh and privacy badger shutting down any of the site tracking crap. I'm certainly not giving all my data to Google just for faster page loads and am glad i use Comodo Secure Chromium so that if Google bakes this in the next release it won't end up in my browser.
You have OBVIOUSLY never been there or even known anybody who lived there, otherwise you'd know that many villages are in the middle of BFN and if you are REALLY lucky? You have a bicycle...which your ass will be pedaling 6 days a week to scrape by.
So let us hear it, oh wise one....how EXACTLY is a person in BFN without a motor vehicle in an area where a single month's of Internet access can cost a year's wages gonna do research? I really wanna hear this.
You can blame a LOT of it on the caste system. I worked with a wonderful lady that left India to get away from that shit and she said there if you are from a high caste? You can walk around covered in your own shit and people have to pretend you smell like roses. If somebody from a high caste wants the job, like say teaching? You STFU and give it to them, don't matter if they know jack and shit.
She said in a lot of ways its like Jim Crow, doesn't matter what you know, whether you are smart or dumb, or how hard you work, all that matters is your caste.
Why EXACTLY is this a troll post mods? We are talking about poor people whose only access to online info is a Wikipedia under the control of scammers...I don't see how they can be seen as anything BUT innocent victims....yet we see post after post blaming them because they didn't have the wealth to do the research YOU take for granted...want to blame them for being dirty and brown while you're at it?
If anybody should be considered trolls its those jackholes that always blame the victim, which sadly we see here every.single.time. there is a post here where somebody was preyed upon by somebody else.
As for TFA...if Wikipedia has any kind of morals at all they would demand their name be taken off of Wikipedia Zero and the site shut down, since they obviously aren't willing to spend any of the millions Jimbo is constantly begging for to actually police the site, only acting AFTER the article was called out by the Indian press and judiciary.
Because if you have ever bothered going to the forums you find a LOT of Linux users are 1.- Dumpster divers, so the only license they have is now EOLed XP, or 2.- Owners of "Tigerdirect specials" kits which all come without an OS. I've spent some time on most of the major Linux forums and I guesstimate only around 25% are actually "Followers of RMS" that have the money to buy whatever they want but choose to run Linux on GNUgrounds.
Why do you think it seems like a good quarter of the Linux articles on everything from websites to YouTube are all based around a theme of "save that old junker using Linux"? Its because a lot of the users of Linux are there for free as in beer and are too afraid to go hit up TPB for the pirate edition of Windows and use it as their OS. Mark my words the numbers will start dropping when Win 10 comes out, since they can just grab TPB version of Win 7 and immediately upgrade to Win 10 for nothing.
Nooo bringing in the same bunch that wrote the credit default swaps house of bullshit makes it a scam, along with having carbon indulgences for the worst polluters like the guy that owns the coal power plants on the east coast (who has actually bragged about how it won't do shit to him) makes it nothing but a reverse robin hood.
Did you bother to actually READ any of the links, or did you just come to wave your flag? Because if you would have actually bothered to read TFL you'd have seen the people they have hired are about as honest as your average infomercial huckster.
Thank you. And you notice how many just gloss over the fact that despite all their "GNU" talk when push comes to shove they throw their convictions right out the windows for better performance?
This is why I think Linux is gonna bleed users after the Win 10 release, I have a feeling most aren't giving as shit about free as in freedom, just free as in beer and with Win 10 being the latter all those bullshitters talking FOSS and GNU are gonna quietly slink away and get their free Win 10 and see the proprietary is faster without all the BS and just not come back.
Meanwhile both companies cards work great in Windows LOL. Oh and if Torvalds wasn't such a shit coder maybe they wouldn't HAVE TO constantly futz with their drivers to fix HIS messes, think of that? I have a first year release driver for an HD4650 and its running great in Win 10, that is why having a functional driver ABI matters, its because you DO NOT NEED to beg companies to support old cards for eternity, they "just work". I mean for fucks sake I can take WinXP WDM drivers and run them in Win 7, that is fourteen years of working drivers, and you think its perfectly acceptable to take an OS that can't even run a driver from 2011 without shitting? WTF man, tell Torvalds to quit fucking shit up and come up with a driver model that is newer than the SNES!
BTW did you try the FOSS drivers? Since you seem to not realize that AMD turned support of their older cards over to the FOSS team, even hiring a couple devs to help them out and handing them the docs.
At the end of the day you simply can't gloss over the rampant hypocrisy. What did the community say? "If you just open up your docs we'll support ourselves!" well you got your wish...and you run to the locked all the fuck down nvidia when push comes to shove...so much for that belief in GNU, huh? I bet RMS sure as hell wouldn't be supporting a company that refuses to share code like Nvidia over a company that does like AMD but at the end of the day lets cut through the bull, aye? Most of you don't care about free as in freedom, all you care about is free as in beer and will happily take all the proprietary code if it don't cost ya nothing.
Spin it any way you want, you buy Nvidia and use proprietary drivers? You ARE a hypocrite so don't be tossing that "open the code" crap because AMD did and found out what I've said for years, you take free coders ya get what ya paid for LOL.
Can I LMAO at the blatant hypocrisy of the Linux crowd? All of the talking of FOSS and GNU and when push comes to shove what do they take? The proprietary locked down all to fuck nvidia drivers because wadda ya know, proprietary drivers run better.
Bitch and mod down all you want, that is EXACTLY what you are doing. AMD has opened up their drivers, Nvidia is so locked down Torvalds flipped them the bird, but guess what every forum and TFA says? Buy Nvidia. The hypocrisy is so thick and rich LOL.
Man you ain't never even dealt with thieves, have you? There was some city laptops here that was street worker ORANGE...guess what? Stupid fucking junkies stole 'em, they ended up being found in some meth dealers house a year to two later loaded with porn.
Thieves are like magpies, does it look expensive and shiny? they are gonna steal 'em, end of story.
But as others pointed out it'll be stolen so fast they'll be lucky to get a week out of 'em when there is a frankly more obvious solution...disposable tablets.
You can buy dual core tablets straight off the boat from China for like $45 and that is single unit prices, and I've seen single core ones go for $27 and again single unit prices. For what they are doing I'm sure they could buy in bulk and I wouldn't be surprised to see 7 inch single core tablets in the $14 or less range and then they can just send the data to a wireless microtower set up outside the zone and if they have to trash 'em or some get stolen...so what?
Waving around expensive tablets in THAT area of the world? Like waving fistloads of cash in the ghetto, they ain't gonna have that for very long, not long at all.
They could pay you a couple bucks and it wouldn't work down here in the southern USA as the few places that actually HAVE public transport like buses have lines that goes from the 'hood to downtown and back. Don't want to deal with junkies, fights, thieves, or go to the hood? tough luck.
This is why i want to just slap any US political hack that says "oh we'll just jack taxes and they can use public transport"...yeah don't fucking exist and I don't see YOUR ass cutting the defense budget in half to pay for one, do I?
Which checks would those be? The checks from Goldman Sachs for pushing the AGW reverse robin hood credit default swaps...err I mean ":carbon credits". Or would those be the checks from Al Gore who is in bed with Goldman Sachs and has set himself up to become carbon billionaire if he and GS get their giant scam that won't do shit but make them even richer made into the law?
Dude if you believe EITHER side gives a single fuck about the environment? I have some genuine Arkansas anti global warming crystals I'll be happy to sell ya, only $499.99 so act now! BTW if you actually DO give a shit about the environment? DO NOT BUY THE SCAMS, talk to somebody that actually walks the walk...Ed Begley Jr. unlike Rev Al who lives in a McMansion whose indoor basketball court uses more AC than a family home? He lives in a modest 3 bedroom, Rev Al drives a fleet of SUVs to his one man Lear jet? Begley drives an electric car to a commuter flight.But if you were to look up Begley's thoughts on the subject? You'd find an overdose of COMMON SENSE, make it easier for folks to use electric cars, promote renewables in places like AZ where solar works really well, invest in tech that will let us do more with what we have and recycle easier...its ALL common Goddamned sense!
But of course you can't become a billionaire with sensible logical approaches which is why you are getting pounded with "ZOMFG teh sky is fallin! You HAVE to do this thing (which won't do a damned thing because we filled it with more loopholes for our 1% pals than a Coke has HFCS) because we have to SAVE TEH EARF!"
Nooo they are spreading dogma and bullshit with ZERO evidence to back it up, well by that logic Windows is perfect, never gets bugs, and if you do get something its PEBKAC...what? Its just an opinion so is just as valid as the BS you are spewing, yes?
And again you ignore the rotting elephant in the room that shoots deader than Dixie any chance for ":many eyes" to be anything other than Adam riding a dinosaur levels of dogma...Heartbleed and Shellshock. if the two oldest (and thus by "many eyes" argument, most looked at) pieces of code could have major vulnerabilities for THAT LONG? I'm sorry but your entire premise is shot to shit.
Ever hear "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"? Not only are you providing ZERO evidence but just like Adam riding a dino you are ignoring a wealth of evidence that directly contradicts you assertion. So without ANY kind of evidence you are just spewing total bullshit and if you wanna play that game I'm sure i can write a couple paragraphs on why Win2K is better than modern Linux, would you like me to recite it to you?
Again you are doing nothing but parroting an "is ought" fallacy with ZERO evidence to back up your claims. By your logic because the code IS sitting on a server somewhere it OUGHT to have been vetted by now but again your fallacy ignores that 1.- the people capable of spotting low level bugs in code are paid high dollar to work on THEIR code and NOT yours, and 2.- the few people that MIGHT look at the code will have no more ability to spot a bug than my dentist.
I'm sorry but your argument has NO merit because it presents NO facts while ignoring that Shellshock and Heartbleed are perfect counterarguments for your position.
Again arguing an "is ought" fallacy, because the code IS there somebody OUGHT to have done an audit but the vast majority 1.- Wouldn't know an exploit if it was flipping them the bird, and 2.- those with both the skills AND the experience? Are too busy with their own jobs to spend endless hours looking through your code.
And again we have 100% undeniable proof that "many eyes" is complete and utter bullshit, Shellshock and Heartbleed. There you have two of the oldest (and if many eyes worked the most vetted) pieces of code in Linux and it has had major exploits FOR YEARS.
I'm sorry but "open source equals safer code" is nothing more now than religious dogma, its Adam riding a dinosaur levels of fantasy.
You are arguing a classic "is ought" fallacy, because the code IS there somebody OUGHT to have done the audit but we have 100% undeniable proof this is bullshit...Shellshock. if the Bash shell, the oldest and therefor by that argument most looked at code on the planet can have a major exploit for THAT long? Then your entire argument just falls apart.
But the rumor is it will be filled with nags complete with the background turning black and daily pop ups bitching and demanding cash.
If this is the case? then we can say Nadella has pulled his first Ballmernator, because he took the chance to get rid of pirates (which is a joke compared to their bottom line, less than 2% of their sales are upgrades and pirates aren't potential sales) and bring everyone onto Windows 10 and instead just created another Vista sized debacle.
You'd think they'd have learned after XBone but if the rumors bear out you can bet your last buck pirated Win 7 will keep climbing and Win 10 will end up the third flop in a row.